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To: Bosco
he believes it promotes hatred of gays.

That's like accusing a mirror of promoting ugliness. The "hatred," which is really nothing more than rejection, is the result of homosexuality's abhorrent practices, not any "promotion" on the part of religion. Yes, religions, including Christianity, tend to reject homosexuality, but because it is a sin, not out of sadism.

And in the end (!), if the pressure against homosexuality causes a person to reassess his commitment to that abominable lifestyle and seek redemption, then the pressure saved him from the fruits of his sin.

And that is the ultimate in compassion, not the enabling mentality that permits a person to destroy himself.

15 posted on 11/11/2006 1:31:20 PM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

he believes it promotes hatred of gays.
That's like accusing a mirror of promoting ugliness. The "hatred," which is really nothing more than rejection, is the result of homosexuality's abhorrent practices, not any "promotion" on the part of religion. Yes, religions, including Christianity, tend to reject homosexuality, but because it is a sin, not out of sadism.

And in the end (!), if the pressure against homosexuality causes a person to reassess his commitment to that abominable lifestyle and seek redemption, then the pressure saved him from the fruits of his sin.

And that is the ultimate in compassion, not the enabling mentality that permits a person to destroy himself.




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23 posted on 11/11/2006 1:34:18 PM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: IronJack
That's like accusing a mirror of promoting ugliness

Homosexuality is hatred of one's very self, a hatred so deep that it one seeks to be the opposite of what he is.

39 posted on 11/11/2006 1:39:18 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (This tagline has been suspended or banned.)
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To: IronJack; little jeremiah
And that is the ultimate in compassion, not the enabling mentality that permits a person to destroy himself.

1,000 Dittos. That's absolutely IT in a nutshell.

210 posted on 11/12/2006 2:49:59 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (C'mon and dance with me!)
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To: IronJack

BTTT


216 posted on 11/12/2006 7:26:56 PM PST by I got the rope
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