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The funny thing is, I have no reason to pretend to be attracted to both sexes. I live in Texas of all places, so there's clearly no benefit to having a non-straight orientation.Oh, didn't you get the memo? You don't exist at all. You just pretend to. Like virtual particles.
The funny thing is, I have no reason to pretend to be attracted to both sexes. I live in Texas of all places, so there's clearly no benefit to having a non-straight orientation.
Again Polycarp1, you are not concerned that so many anti Christians applaud your brand of Christianity?
I'd like an answer.
Originally Posted by Polycarp_fan
Sounds very Jerry Falwell. To me. What an accurate perspective he had.
You ASSUME too much PC_F. I live in Australia ...have for the past 28 years. While I know who Jerry Falwell is/was I otherwise have no idea what you're talking about.
Originally Posted by Polycarp_fan You believe what you write? The standard atheist, liberal, progressive, gay, lesbian or common anti-Christian, denigrate Christians as easily as you have just done, all of the time. These people are not here seeking reasons to convert. They are seeking a pound of flesh in the time honored way.
Gobble-de-[wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth].
I have no idea what you're talking about or where you're coming from.
I DO feel, however, that you (your posts) display the symptoms of OC (obsessive/compulsive) and also exhibit a great deal of paranoia.
Maybe there's a tad of persecution complex in there as well, not too sure about that one.
Originally Posted by Polycarp_fan It's my thread and it would instantly do away with ALL of the strife between Christians and GLBT's, IF Christians would do as Jesus says and leave people alone that refuse the Gospel. Jesus wasn't a universalist. No matter how hard you try to repaint Him.
I have a friend from Lebanon. He's a Muslim. He sees no reason to convert to Christianity although he does believe that Jesus was a good man.
He refuses the Gospel because he sees no need for it.
As I say, he's a Muslim. He, like the homosexual, is condemned to your version of hell, isn't he, PC_F?
You know, God gave you a HUGE burden of attempting to steer people away from the VERY cruel and insane punisment that He set up for them in the very beginning, PC_F.
You hear that? God set up (your version of) hell SPECIFICALLY to punish people!
Even before He created the first person He knew that MANY would be destined for this place! And yet He still created them.
Do you ever ask God why He felt it necessary to torment (torture?) people for all eternity and then give YOU the responsibility of trying to prevent this from happening to people by quoting a few ambiguous texts from the Bible?
Do you ever feel utterly stupid for believing as you do?
Originally Posted by Polycarp_fan Well, we know what He taught about marriage being a man and a woman now don't "we?"
Hmmm . . .obsessive/compulsive.
Yet again you refer to something that has already been disputed many times previously. Why do you keep doing this? Jesus didn't teach any such thing. He simply directed the Pharisees to words from the Torah.
Originally Posted by Polycarp_fan
You think? How judgmental is that?
Gobble-de-[wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]. Ditto. (Gobble-de-[wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth], that is).
PC_F ...please answer this question once and for all. What PRECISELY is it that bothers you so much about two people of the same gender wanting to couple up?
I just don't understand why such a trivial thing would bother you so much to the extent that you feel that such a thing will be responsible for destroying life as we know it. [/quite]
In your morality it is a trivial thing. It's not surprising that the Christian perspective holds no value to you.
THIS has become a crusade to you ...'crusader' complex, perhaps.
More pop psychology? This is JUST a debate pal.
So, what's the problem?
Shattered lives are a problem to me and the shattered person. Also, honesty is important to me. There is not one shred of scripture promoting gay culture or same-gender sex acts to be engaged in by believers. Also, I want GLBT's, if they claim to be Christians, to stop harrassing and labeling Bible-affirming Christians as wrong about homosexuality. They can find their own liberal/progressive Churches to peddle their brand of theology. No need for schism to come into our Churches.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Honestly, I doubt that. No matter what tactic or technique you employ, I will never support the licentiousness you have no problem with.
Many sincere Christians and quite a few non-Christians of good will tend to agree with me.
Anti-Christians, few as they are outside your perception of the world, do not appreciate my standing for the Gospel.
And my "brand" of Christianity had been around several hundred years before yours was thought of, thank you.
It's only been in the last 30 years or so that "Christian" has become a pejorative,
. . . because it's only been in that period that the loudest, most newsworthy people claiming to be Christians have been people preaching an exclusivist, legalistic, graceless doctrine seemingly more concerned with condemning sinners than in leading anyone to Christ and His lvoe.
As long as our tax dollars are spent in schools to allow for agendas against christianity and saying if we dont like it send our kids somewhere else - but refusing to allow our tax dollars to follow us - then we will speak out.I have no issues with the religious right not interacting with gays. Keep in mind that attempting to pass legislation to curb gay rights, and attempting to keep out legislation that will bring equality to gay rights, is interaction with the gay community. So if your decision to pretend I, being a gay male, don't exist gives me the equality I desire, then I'm happy to win your avoidance.
As it stands, the religious right is obsessed with gays. They simply cannot get enough of sticking their noses into my business. It's such a severe amount of interaction that I fear from my life from these supposed Christians. I'm a member of a group called Pink Pistols, I advocate gun rights along side gay rights, and I pack a 9mm to protect me from Christians whose sense of helping me 'see the light' is to bash my skull in. So if the religious right chooses not to interact with gays, then I'll be safer, I wouldn't have a reason to arm myself.
There is no agenda against Christianity, school is there to teach math, English, history, science, health and physical education and only valid peer accepted data from each of the above. If you do not teach your kids true science they will never go to college or make it in the world.As long as our tax dollars are spent in schools to allow for agendas against christianity and saying if we dont like it send our kids somewhere else - but refusing to allow our tax dollars to follow us - then we will speak out.
You already failed to show how creationism is in any way a valid theory and deserves to be taught in science class over a comparative religion class you just completely glossed over that.Youve seen in this thread they want our money but not our voices and it wont be both ways.
As long as our tax dollars are spent in schools to allow for agendas against christianity and saying if we don't like it send our kids somewhere else - but refusing to allow our tax dollars to follow us - then we will speak out.
You've seen in this thread they want our money but not our voices and it wont be both ways. Now agree and fight for our right to send out kids to the schools of our choice using our money then hey do what you want in your own schools.
Fact if one wants your rights in schools because of your taxes the one cannot also take mine and tell me to shut up and that its not my business.I'm sorry, I don't see the correlation between a school voucher program and my rights. I was replying to the original topic of this thread about whether the religious right should ignore gays. My response was that yes, they should, and give us our equal rights.
Now, equal rights has nothing to do with school vouchers. I have no opinion on school vouchers because there are pros and cons both ways. On the one hand school vouchers gives the possibility of taking children out of failing schools, but at the same time it deprives those schools of valuable funds they could use to improve themselves. At the same time, it also turns school choice into a politics decision and can potentially force the government, by way of the voucher program, to advance a religion via religious schools, unless there's a way of limiting which schools can benefit from the voucher program.
So I don't really have an opinion formed on this because I don't know all the facts. But, as it stands, if you're not referring to a voucher program, you have the right to send your kids wherever you want, you just gotta pay the price of those schools who think like you do.
As long as our tax dollars are spent in schools to allow for agendas against christianity and saying if we dont like it send our kids somewhere else - but refusing to allow our tax dollars to follow us - then we will speak out.
Youve seen in this thread they want our money but not our voices and it wont be both ways. Now agree and fight for our right to send out kids to the schools of our choice using our money then hey do what you want in your own schools.
Why do you believe that your rights need to extend into my church or be forced on my kids? Thats not equal.Good thing our voice includes those of us that want equal rights for the gay community...so really, "they" can have it both ways. =)
There is not an agenda AGAINST christianity. there is an agenda FOR equal rights, however.
Fact if one wants your rights in schools because of your taxes the one cannot also take mine and tell me to shut up and that its not my business.
Why do you believe that your rights need to extend into my church or be forced on my kids? Thats not equal.
We understand what will happen ultimately and we arent going to allow it.
I've always wondered the same; I think they're only allowed to marry if they marry one of the opposite of the gender behavior they exhibit; but then again, there might not be any laws or rules pertaining to it.
Bunk. I'm as conservative a Christian that has ever stood up against the bullies here, and a transexual is thought of by every Christian I have ever interacted with (which is many hundreds) as a very disturbed person that is handled with the utmost respect and compassion.
Gays, Lesbians and of course "Bi-Sexuals" are a very different kind of issue.
While it is good that you have "compassion" for "disturbed" transsexuals, your post does not answer geekgirlkelli's question about the intersex. Unless it is the same answer that she has gotten from other Conservative Christians -- a refusal to accept that the intersexed exist.
From Merriam-Webster Online:
Main Entry:trans·sex·u·alVariant(s):also tran·sex·u·al \(ˌtran(t)s-ˈsek-sh(ə-)wəl, -shəl\ Function:noun Date:1957 : a person who strongly identifies with the opposite sex and may seek to live as a member of this sex especially by undergoing surgery and hormone therapy to obtain the necessary physical appearance (as by changing the external sex organs) 
 transsexual adjective
 trans·sex·u·al·ismalso tran·sex·u·al·ism \-sh(ə-)wə-ˌli-zəm, -shə-ˌli-\ noun
 trans·sex·u·al·i·tyalso tran·sex·u·al·i·ty \-ˌsek-shə-ˈwa-lə-tē\ noun
Main Entry:in·ter·sexPronunciation: \ˈin-tər-ˌseks\ Function:noun Etymology:International Scientific VocabularyDate:1910 : an intersexual individual
Main Entry:in·ter·sex·u·alPronunciation: \ˌin-tər-ˈsek-shə-wəl, -shwəl, -shəl\ Function:adjective Etymology:International Scientific VocabularyDate:circa 1866 1 : existing between sexes <intersexual hostility> 2 : intermediate in sexual characters between a typical male and a typical female
 in·ter·sex·u·al·i·ty\-ˌsek-shə-ˈwa-lə-tē\ noun
 in·ter·sex·u·al·ly\-ˈsek-shə-wə-lē, -shwə-lē, -shə-lē\ adverb
The most common form of intersexual person is the classic hermaphrodite, born with some sexual organs of both sexes, but there are also those whose external organs appear to be normal but they have internal organs for both sexes or for the opposite sex, and there are genetically intersexed individuals, such as XXY's whose bodies look like girls, despite having a Y chromosome and X's who develop as boys despite the lack of a Y chromosome. In both cases, their further development during puberty are different from the devlopment of "normal" boys and girls.
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