He was born this way, BIGOT...
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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Your response echoes Jesus’s perfect response to the adulteress whom he saved from stoning: he did not condemn her, but he told her the truth that she sinned and to sin no more.
And you did something that Jesus also did during that incident: he didn’t cast a stone at the woman’s accusers.
So many Christians and non-Christians like to condemn other Christians for speaking out against sin. Little do they acknowledge that Jesus had done no such thing.
You are exactly right. I am not going to be mean or purposely rude to someone that is gay or whom I suspect is gay but I’m not going to associate on a personal level either. That’s not homophobia but simply distancing myself from sinners and sin. God destroyed the whole world and two cities because of this behavior. Then Jesus states in St. Matthew 5:17 that he did not come to destroy the law or the prophets but to fulfill a prophecy. No where in the Bible is this behavior excused or condoned by God so I’m not going to excuse it or condone it either.
Faggies want their disgusting behavior celebrated, like always.
He was born this way, BIGOT...
Now it is not that anyone is calling for a revival of stoning pits, or any extreme reaction to those "coming out."
But why, one might ask, with perfect good will, should those who engage in very "controversial," at least. behavior, not have the self-respect--as well as respect for the sensibilities of others--to keep it to themselves? Why this endless, "in your face," exhibitionism?
Queers need not go back in the closet.
Queers need to crawl into concrete quarantine bunkers
I suspect his "two year hiatus" to explore this issue consisted of half an hour of thumbing through the Bible, a few hours of looking at pro-Sodomite websites, and then 1.99 years of smoking his bong pipe.
“The Growing up Queer study found that 16% of young people who identify as LGBTIQ have attempted suicide and 33% have self-harmed.”
People who suffer from mental illness tend to do these things.... Homosexuality and all the other disorders around it are mental illness folks.
Can we change the word to something like homodislikea or perhaps homodisgustia? I’m not afraid of homos, so it’s not a phobia.
Actually, what Christianity needs to do is turn away from sin.
Paul wrote in Romans the following:
“Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise, also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was their due.”
Paul’s stand on homosexuality and lesbianism is very clear. The Christian cannot repudiate divine teaching without spurning God. In these times, that is what some people want them to do. What was true in Paul’s day, is equally all the more true today. A sin - and the nature of the sin - can never canceled. Some things in the world are what they are. People can elect to turn against God if they want but they cannot erase a word of what is written about that which He finds abhorrent.
“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.”
That seems to suggest the homos themselves are anti-homo, since they’re the ones hurting themselves so much.
I was going to start a “Sloth Pride” rally, but it was too much work so I gave up.
homonausea.
No … the rest of the world needs to rid itself of Christophobia.
“homonausea”
That’s getting a bit closer to reality. Thanks. I’ll use it.
Since when did disagreeing with something make it a phobia?
Christian do not fear homosexuals. They just recognize it is a perversion and a sin against God’s Word.
I’m going to join Procrastinator’s Anonymous...
...tomorrow.
We do not have an irrational "fear" of homosexuality or homosexuals, which is what the coined term "homophobia" would mean.
Most of us do not care what homosexuals do in their own private lives, but we refuse to sanction their behaviors, which many of us believe are psychologically abnormal.
We refuse to "celebrate" homosexuality as a lifestyle, despite how "hip" it's portrayed in popular culture.
20 years ago, homosexuals were on the fringes of society. Cultural conservatives were slammed for pointing out "slippery slopes" in accepting their behavior.
30 years ago, homosexuality was not mentioned in routine parlance. One didn't see homosexual references in popular culture; you would be discharged from the military, as homosexual behavior (even if you didn't "tell" about it) was considered a UCMJ offense. It was also considered a liability in terms of a security clearance.
Any longer than that, homosexuality was considered deviant and grossly unnatural. Nothing has changed in the past few decades, other than the constant reminder in pop culture and in media that gays are now considered "cool." No thank you, I'm not sold.
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