Did student know this was a Gay Cake?

[Ceallaigh]

I understand why you might feel that way but In this context I disagree.

That's because you don't accept that it's all about God and not about you.

I don't think any God is responsible for Christian views on homosexuality and therefore I feel free blame you for your own actions.

God is totally the reason for Christian views on homosexuality, fornication, adultery, lasciviousness, lewd behaviour, inappropriate content, carnality etc. Someday you'll be standing before God and then you can try telling him how he's supposed to run things.

I didn't disagree with you on that point, it means that because people think it does. I disagreed that symbols can be "stolen".

Whatever else you try calling it, it will probably be a synonym for the word "stolen" which can be used several different ways.

 

[SilverBear]

Play with semantics all you want. That doesn't change the fact that the rainbow is now predominantly the symbol for LGBTQQIP2SAA+. And LGBTQQIP2SAA+ does not fit in with Christianity.

The rainbow flag was initially created to represent inclusion and harmony and peace. I can see why some Christian groups would reject it.

 

[Ceallaigh]

My wife and I were at the grocery store yesterday and I saw a rainbow cake in the bakery. It was only 5 colors but still had the effect that the liberals and their agendas planed. I immediately felt the urge to get divorced and start randomly kissing men with unkempt beards. My wife saw the warning signs and immediately got me out and set me in front of the TV and had me watch the 1984 Red Dawn five times. Crisis avoided.

I like how folks seem to think LGBTQQIP2SAA+ is only supposed to be about the "G". With LGBTQQIP2SAA+ your option of combinations to choose from is virtually limitless.

 

[Ceallaigh]

Fun fact, but the Pride Flag actually isn't a complete rainbow and only has six colors.

 

[variant]

That's because you don't accept that it's all about God and not about you.

Given that I'm not a believer it should be unsurprising that I'm not all about God.

But another way to phrase that is that I am responsible, and take responsibility for my own viewpoint and actions.

God is totally the reason for Christian views on homosexuality

God or someone who wrote something in a book 2000 years ago.

, fornication, adultery, lasciviousness, lewd behaviour, inappropriate content, carnality etc. Someday you'll be standing before God and then you can try telling him how he's supposed to run things.

I have no fear because to me any Gods that actually exist are much better than those that you might imagine, and I fear no judgement of a sentient creature that would be my intellectual superior by leaps and bounds, meaning it would probably be nicer and more gracious for any of my failings than I am.

You are ultimately the judge of what you think is true, such a fact is inescapable. So, don't speak to me as if you aren't involved, it's insulting to us both.

But you're right, I would love to have a discussion about this with a creature responsible for all of this and why things are the way they are. I have no doubt that it would be more enlightening than talking to the people who proport to speak on it's behalf.

If you find yourself in a similar situation I think it'll be more interesting for it to explain to you what you're wrong about.

I expect to be wrong about things given my status as a mere person.

Whatever else you try calling it, it will probably be a synonym for the word "stolen" which can be used several different ways.

I have said my piece on that, I don't see how it is worth further argument.

 

[variant]

The rainbow flag was initially created to represent inclusion and harmony and peace. I can see why some Christian groups would reject it.

It's because it's gay.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I like how folks seem to think LGBTQQIP2SAA+ is only supposed to be about the "G". With LGBTQQIP2SAA+ your option of combinations to choose from is virtually limitless.

I'm old, when I was growing up there was only the "G". I suppose there could have been B or QQ, not T, technically already L, not sure of the others.

 

[Diamond7]

since when do they get to determine what colors the rest of us can wear?

The order they are in and the colors means that you support their cause. We can not do that as Christians. I have bought some of that stuff though. It is pretty and very inexpensive. But I put it in the back yard and not out front where people can see it.

 

[variant]

I'm old, when I was growing up there was only the "G". I suppose there could have been B or QQ, not T, technically already L, not sure of the others.

I, like most, tire generally of the acronym trying to be so specific.

To me I just say Gay, and use it as an inclusive term all on it's own.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I, like most, tire generally of the acronym trying to be so specific.

To me I just say Gay, and use it as an inclusive term all on it's own.

I was starting to tire with the first Q and accurately predicted if they continued it would just be used mocking.

 

[variant]

I was starting to tire with the first Q and accurately predicted if they continued it would just be used mocking.

I think the mocking is well deserved at this point.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I think the mocking is well deserved at this point.

This is the cake.

 

[variant]

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This is the cake.

I say go ahead and do it. It looks delicious doesn't it?

The red velvet also looks quite good, but I'm not sure what those do to your sexuality.

And now I'm hungry for cake....

 

[dzheremi]

Could be worse. Could be red velvet! What a totally pointless cake that is.

 

[Nithavela]

I always found rainbow cake to be a complete letdown. It looks so colorful and then the different colored parts don't even taste different, but all just like normal sponge cake.

If you give me a cake that has yellow, orange, red, green and blue layers, it better taste like lemon, carrot, cherry, mint and blueberry.

 

[Whyayeman]

Before the rainbow flag was appropriated by this particular string of letters it had already been appropriated by another; CND (the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament).

I am pretty siure it had 'belonged' to other groups before CND. This thread is a bit foolish, like the school who could take it seriously enough to expel a girl. If there were other, actual serious misbehaviours then there was no need for the pretext.

 

[DaisyDay]

The rainbow color pattern has been stolen, appropriated, taken over et al etc as the symbol for LGBTQQIP2SAA+ Pride. And everyone knows it, yet some pretend that's not the case.

Can't the rainbow be shared?

 

[Ceallaigh]

You can somewhat but you weren't if you feel that Christians should "own" the rainbow symbol

That never crossed my mind.

and it's meaning by right of divine provenance (which is fine by me that you feel that way). I simply disagree that you can own a symbol like a rainbow, there's no enforcement mechanism on who owns what symbol other than how people think and interpret symbols which is why the Nazi's could successfully repurpose the symbol of life into a representation of their viscous ideology.

Symbols mean what people think they mean. You can't "own" their meaning and thus you can't steal it, you can merely convince people in one way or another to change their mind about what they think symbols mean.

But overall, my point to your point is that the stolen idea always requires an attached idea of ownership.

You sound like Mr. Spock who doesn't understand the nuances of language.

 

[Ceallaigh]

Can't the rainbow be shared?

Probably about as much as the swastika can be shared now.

For thousands of years the swastika was an innocuous symbol that was shared by many, until it was stolen to symbolize only one thing in particular.

 

[Ceallaigh]

Before the rainbow flag was appropriated by this particular string of letters it had already been appropriated by another; CND (the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament).

I am pretty siure it had 'belonged' to other groups before CND. This thread is a bit foolish, like the school who could take it seriously enough to expel a girl. If there were other, actual serious misbehaviours then there was no need for the pretext.

The girl was already on the brink of expulsion for other unrelated problems/issues.