Quote Originally Posted by ICantSpellDawg View Post
The faith views homosexuality as abomination.
But did the Israelites? Did Paul? What about Jesus?

I know my words mean little to you, but you should be wary of Catholic doctrine. Even at its best, it has been written and conceived by humans with human frailties and human biases of the times. Even the Catholic church recognizes it, and they get together every couple hundred years and arbitrarily change it up. Remember, when the church takes a position on something regarding homosexuality, that position is not grounded in the words of Christ.

I don't disagree with scriptures interpretation of homosexuality personally, an neither did most people for most of history. If people are changing their minds on that, let them, but I'm not, and therefore why would I allow an unspecial relationship to receive my consent to be considered special? Your logic is flawed. You require me to passively ignore or positively affirm something which is abomination and I won't do it. Let people live the way they'd like and meet their maker with it on their conscience, I'm not going to hunt them down or bully them, but that doesn't mean I'm going to change my opinions on their actions because people, whose opinions I don't highly value, shame me to.
I do not require anything of you. I once expected that Christians would adhere to the traditional boundaries between church and state, but that was a long time ago. At this point, I'm just expressing my frustration with reality. There is something very un-American about the Vatican, Billy Graham, and the Mormon church coming together to pass constitutional amendments to keep a minority disenfranchised - or really anything at all. It is creepy and just not the role that religion should play in civil society.

People who dress up like stuffed animals or have sex with toasters may feel compelled to do it in their private lives and I don't think that it should cause them to be fired unless it negatively affects their job, but the activity is ludicrous. If people want to do weird stuff to themselves or one another, make them close the blinds and don't send in the vice police. Just because we let things happen because they, arguably, don't hurt anyone else doesn't mean we are required to celebrate it. You are barking up the wrong tree with this one and I hope that you change targets to a more worthy cause.
A lot of things Christians believe and do could objectively be described as weird and ludicrous. I do not know how any Christian with any knowledge at all about the early years of the religion could be so secure in his normalcy. It wasn't all that long ago that Christians were be fed to the lions as cultists. I think a little perspective is in order. Homosexuality has been naturally occurring in humans long before Christianity came into existence.

I, for one, find it refreshing to see that you've picked sides and look forward to your descent into all-encompassing PC rhetoric.
My side was chosen for me. The reaction to the normalization of homosexuality across the spectrum of Christian denominations has been illuminating. I once thought that Christianity was about love, but it is clear that it is all about hate, ignorance, and fear of the unknown.

You're morality comes from somewhere
Human empathy?


Quote Originally Posted by PVC
Don't equate me with TuffStuff, we are not the same, we do not hold the same beliefs of objectives.
Understood.