I had to come back at this.
You accuse me of looking down my nose at you, when you've been arrogantly speaking as the font of all truth all night!
My religious beliefs teach me not to discriminate against gay people. I don't approve of their lifestyle, but I also do not refuse a job to a gay man UNLESS his gayness affects the kind of job he's given.
You think an ambassador shouldn't be gay. Fine. I say it doesn't matter until his gayness affects his job.
Four pitiful little anecdotes from a conservative group's story does not consititute "causing problems" for the U.S. in Romania.
It just doesn't.
I've never looked down my nose at you, my dear. Nor have I spoke to you with the apparent tone of disdain with which you address me. I am not the truth of all night. Christ is. My suggestion was that you go back and reread some of the catechism.
My religious beliefs teach me not to discriminate against gay people. I don't approve of their lifestyle, but I also do not refuse a job to a gay man UNLESS his gayness affects the kind of job he's given.
I can't stop people from holding jobs. I am arguing that as the leader of the free world, Bush has a standard to uphold. He could have chosen someone who to represent our country that had more respectibility than to bring his lover on his ambassador trips--but he doesn't appear to see anything wrong with it. Fine. I merely say to you that Bush's base is not as solid as you may think.
You think an ambassador shouldn't be gay. Fine. I say it doesn't matter until his gayness affects his job.
Never said it affected his job. I said he's just one more step in the normalizing of homsexual behavior--legitimized and advocated by a republican president.
Four pitiful little anecdotes from a conservative group's story does not consititute "causing problems" for the U.S. in Romania. It just doesn't.
I'll continue to bang the pans for concrete moral truths and standards based on Judeo-Christianity to anyone who'll listen.