Posted on 05/25/2016 12:11:55 PM PDT by NetAddicted
When Australia's most successful Olympian, Ian Thorpe, came out as gay in an interview with Sir Michael Parkinson in July 2014, he was inundated with messages of support.
At the time, some posed the question: does this even count as news? Is homosexuality today not a simple biographical detail rather than a sensational scandal?
And yet, it is significant that on the same night that Thorpe came out, Australian Rules Football commentator Brian Taylor used a homophobic slur on air, referring to Geelong player Harry Taylor as a "big poofter."
The two events accentuated perfectly why it remains the case, especially in the ultra-masculine world of sports, that a young gay athlete may feel scared to come out to themselves and their family, much less the fickle media and ambivalent public.
A culture of homophobia still permeates many sections of society. A Western Sydney University study has suggested that the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) community face higher rates of suicide and self-harm than the hetero-normative mainstream. The Growing up Queer study found that 16% of young people who identify as LGBTIQ have attempted suicide and 33% have self-harmed.
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Who's worshiping Paul? He refused worship when it was offered, yanno. (See Acts 10)
Just note, in the section quoted he was speaking as an apostle of Christ. Apostle = messenger.
Diss the messenger, and you diss his principal.
I explain to them, as I do to everyone else when asked about it, that their personal choices really don’t affect me all that much. My concern is for their eternal souls, and the Bible says they are in grave danger.
As to their lifestyle on a personal level, I say it is none of my business; but don’t expect me to not to be disturbed by it or to teach my kids that it is OK....
I don’t know any “flaming” queers, or in-your-face-militants. They seem to be willing to keep their lifestyle to themselves.
Bookmarking. I am going to look up this prescient being, Lester Roloff.
What about Islam?
What’s the difference between gay and queer?
I’m not positive, but queer used to be an attack against homosexuality, but faggots decided they liked being queer. Now, we’ve got gender queer, which means everything you can imagine.
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