Posted on 05/02/2006 1:10:54 PM PDT by meandog
Hyperbole.
In your socially liberal little pink world, verbal criticism is equivalent to stoning.
Your words illustrate the grave inability to think and reason rationally, merely spout emotional claptrap.
Unbelievable.
You're telling people who do not accept homosexuality with aplomb that WE are in effect, sinning, by saying anything against it. In order to be internally consistent with your so-called philosophy of life, you should never, ever disagree with or crticize anyone. But you do - with social conservatives. Because we criticize the promotion of immorality.
Hmmm. We can't criticize, but you can. See the hypocrisy?
Not at all. There are people who are advocating the casting of their offspring out of their lives. Care to defend that "rationally"? I hope I never get to the level of "rationality" where I would cast my little boy out of my life if he grew up and told me he was gay.
If homosexuals had the same attitude and didn't shove the gay agenda down everyone's throats via judicial fiat, bias laws, school indoctrination, gay pride parades, and so on, no one would know or care what they do.
Unfortunately, they have no wish to keep it private. Maybe some do, but enough don't so that the activists and their supporters are rapidly trying to change the world into one that suits them.
Care to share when and where this was, exactly?
Dr. Keyes hasn't done any "townhall discussions" in Iowa since his daughter "came out".
I didn't say you were "sinning." I didn't say you have to accept anything you don't want to accept. And I certainly didn't say that you should never disagree with or criticize anyone.
I never said any of those things, so your logic -- such as it is, is faulty. (That is constructive criticism, by the way).
What I did say is that folks should be free to live their lives the best they can. That includes dealing with being gay, having a gay child or dealing with gay folks in general.
LOL
thank you for your candid answer.
Totally agree with your #185 response. I'm not sure why people don't keep that part of their life private.
It is my deep belief that true happiness cannot be found in immorality. And moral character is the first essential in a person, so a parent who ignores that does not love his child.
But again, I never advocated cutting all ties, though I think there is a time and place for that in adult parent/child relationships. I also think there is an issue with weakening the values of the entire family. Like it or not, the moral sense of the entire family is weakened by just acting like it doesn't matter. Essentially that's the minimum of what everyone is praising: Ignore it.
I'm generally impressed with Keyes, but he's made some statements I don't accept. Still, I would be careful to avoid painting what happened with his daughter with too broad a brush.
"Besides, they're 5% or less of the population according to census records."
At least we'd win San Francisco in a landslide : )
The Democrats aren't going to legalize gay marriage on a national level. Some of the biggest homophobes in the country are Bush haters. I just think there are more important things in government to do than draft a Protection of Marriage Amendment. In case you haven't noticed, gas prices are double what they were 5 years ago. Not to mention all the kook regimes in the world are picking now to flex their pitiful muscles.
If homosexuals had the same attitude and didn't shove the gay agenda down everyone's throats via judicial fiat, bias laws, school indoctrination, gay pride parades, and so on, no one would know or care what they do.
Unfortunately, they have no wish to keep it private. Maybe some do, but enough don't so that the activists and their supporters are rapidly trying to change the world into one that suits them.
It's my understanding that these are primarily "big city" events and issues based on local community standards. Are there a gay pride parades in NYC and SF -- yep, because they are part of the community.
A lot of them unfortunately are, and they're pretty vocal about it. Fortunately, there's always the "abuse" button.
I'll bet you scare small children.
TULIP
p.s.
One of America's greatest screenwriters grew up in a strict Calvinist household. He didn't see a movie until he was a teenager.
The irony of that last statement goes right over your head.
Do you consider homosexuals and sinners your enemy? Or do you just condemn them?
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