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You seemed to be disagreeing with me and that's what I was discussing. If you agree that the laws Russia and Uganda passed are wrong then I'm with you there. That's what the subject of the thread is about. You didn't seem to be critiquing them and instead offered defense of the idea that people shouldn't say things like that in public. In order not to be misunderstood it might be best to put up a disclaimer like "though I think these laws are horrible violations of free speech and freedom of action I as a conservative Christian still think people shouldn't say things like that in public ... it just shouldn't be illegal" or something to that effect.
There is already a word for a person attracted to the same sex - homosexual. I assumed you were using that term homphillia to give a different shade of meaning so I looked it up in the dictionary. Couldn't find it in any mainstream dictionary the only place that had it was the Urban Dictionary. It said the word meant friendship / friendlyness with homosexuals. The term pedophile has a long history of meaning a person sexually attracted to children despite the fact that it's etymology isn't so restricted. Homophillia is a different matter all together. It's not even a commonly used word.
No why would I? If a person finds themselves attracted to children or dead people they have every right to note that fact. It might actually be good to have that information in certain circumstances. You did say you reject laws that make it illegal to say your are gay in public though right?
The whole point of this thread is to discuss those laws. You had yet to call for them to be overturned and instead made arguments against gay rights. If you want to talk about a different topic that's cool but don't be surprised if people assume you are talking about the actual topic of discussion.
Hilarious. All you have is the Bible, but you think I'm the one who lacks coherency and real arguments.Even if you hadn't written it, your lack of coherent reasoning and any real arguments would indicate that you are
Indeed. I don't know why some homophobes are so obsessed with the sexual aspect of homosexuality. You'd think they would want to ignore it.
Your condescension is truly immature, but I concede that my decision to share my hopes that MrLuther is young was condescending as well and therefore immature. My apologies for making a post that consisted only of that statement and did not contribute to the discussion. Apart from that, I disagree with your assessment and am impelled to wonder how much you have actually read. Rule of thumb for forums: respond based on the content, not the poster's demographics. I have a hard time taking your advice for a "kid" seriously when you have nothing to say to MrLuther's uncalled for use of "Valleyspeak" to imitate me in multiple threads, which I suspect is also based on demographics and was the reason for my last few posts. There was certainly nothing immature in my past posts that warranted degrading tactics such as that. I find it interesting that calling MrLuther out on this led to someone else behaving in a similar manner.
. But as I said, in global terms, bigots are losing this war by far, and I can count myself lucky I come from a part of the world where things aren't perfect, but we're at worst tolerated .
