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Then stop promoting your own personal morality.
I'm not sure what this has to do with anything.
However, you'll be interested to know that women have three things that men can't imitate at all.
Ah, yes - just like "LittleNipper" means only an aggressive and badly-trained lapdog, I suppose.
Seriously, you believe yourself to be the voice of God? The Metatron?No, Little Nipper is His MASTER's Voice.
No, I've always have stated that homosexual sex is evil. The person trapped in that sin is loved by GOD, but the sin is not. Show me in the Bible where the statement is heretical. I didn't squirm an inch.
Oh and to be on topic ... my personal obsession with homosexuality is an obsession with the threads on the topic. I have a great kid, she's not straight. She's not a lot of things, she's not rebellious, she's not obnoxious, she's not mean, she's not disobedient. (hmm.. she's occasionally obnoxious.. but she generally reserves it for the privacy of the family home)
She needs, like all other people, to be relatively safe as she ventures out into the world away from the shelter of a fanatically supportive family. For every kid like her who has parents who really truly don't care what gender she is attracted to there are probably a dozen kids who don't know if their parents will support them, or know for sure they won't. For every kid ensconced in the safety of a Christian church that cherishes them and teaches them Christ will never abandon them, that God loves them exactly as he made them there are hundreds who hear the exact opposite. For that reason I have to be the pain in the tush who stands on the soap box and insists that those people who trash gays do not represent all of us -- so I'll be the annoying middle class white Christian lady liberal who nips at the heals of those who insist on posting what amounts to hate threads.
Oh and to be on topic ... my personal obsession with homosexuality is an obsession with the threads on the topic. I have a great kid, she's not straight. She's not a lot of things, she's not rebellious, she's not obnoxious, she's not mean, she's not disobedient. (hmm.. she's occasionally obnoxious.. but she generally reserves it for the privacy of the family home)
She needs, like all other people, to be relatively safe as she ventures out into the world away from the shelter of a fanatically supportive family. For every kid like her who has parents who really truly don't care what gender she is attracted to there are probably a dozen kids who don't know if their parents will support them, or know for sure they won't. For every kid ensconced in the safety of a Christian church that cherishes them and teaches them Christ will never abandon them, that God loves them exactly as he made them there are hundreds who hear the exact opposite. For that reason I have to be the pain in the tush who stands on the soap box and insists that those people who trash gays do not represent all of us -- so I'll be the annoying middle class white Christian lady liberal who nips at the heals of those who insist on posting what amounts to hate threads.
Ohhhhh, I want muffins.
There's been research done to show that kids who grow up in same sex parent households are just as well adjusted as kids with heterosexual parents. So how exactly does sexual orientation equate with good parenting?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141198,00.html
yeah lets use one of the most bias groups ever to exist, come on at least pick a source that doesn't lie about gay people"The survey revealed a high rate of legal divorce among homosexual couples in Sweden. Gay male couples were 50% more likely to divorce within an eight-year period than were heterosexuals; and lesbian couples were 167% more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples."
"According to IMAPP: "Even among childless households, same-sex male partnerships experienced almost a 50% higher likelihood (1.49 times as likely) of divorce during the study period, while childless lesbian couples were three times as likely (200% higher likelihood) to break up as a married couple without children."
http://www.narth.com/docs/sweden.html
seems that you don't like hearing the honest truthNo, she's serving me cow dung(which is what meadow muffins are) lol
evidence please that it is unfair, you keep saying this but you give no support.Yes there may be a few well adjusted kids. But it is still unfair to them that they do not have a mother(or father for lesbian parents).
nice empty rhetoric, but still just empty. as i have asked many times before, which is better no parents that love you, or parents that do that happen to be gay?True love involves sacrifice, and if they truely loved the child they would give them that opporotunity. I find it selfish for someone to deprive a child of that.
love and caring is more important than kinship, or do you consider adopted kids unloved because the people that love them are not kin?Kin is more important than sexual orientation.
Oh really?
(link removed because my posts are under 50; see PetersKeys' post above for the full link)
"The survey revealed a high rate of legal divorce among homosexual couples in Sweden. Gay male couples were 50% more likely to divorce within an eight-year period than were heterosexuals; and lesbian couples were 167% more likely to divorce than heterosexual couples."
(other link removed ... man that's annoying)
No, she's serving me cow dung(which is what meadow muffins are) lol
Yes there may be a few well adjusted kids. But it is still unfair to them that they do not have a mother(or father for lesbian parents). True love involves sacrifice, and if they truely loved the child they would give them that opporotunity. I find it selfish for someone to deprive a child of that. Kin is more important than sexual orientation.
Oh and to be on topic ... my personal obsession with homosexuality is an obsession with the threads on the topic. I have a great kid, she's not straight. She's not a lot of things, she's not rebellious, she's not obnoxious, she's not mean, she's not disobedient. (hmm.. she's occasionally obnoxious.. but she generally reserves it for the privacy of the family home)
She needs, like all other people, to be relatively safe as she ventures out into the world away from the shelter of a fanatically supportive family. For every kid like her who has parents who really truly don't care what gender she is attracted to there are probably a dozen kids who don't know if their parents will support them, or know for sure they won't. For every kid ensconced in the safety of a Christian church that cherishes them and teaches them Christ will never abandon them, that God loves them exactly as he made them there are hundreds who hear the exact opposite. For that reason I have to be the pain in the tush who stands on the soap box and insists that those people who trash gays do not represent all of us -- so I'll be the annoying middle class white Christian lady liberal who nips at the heals of those who insist on posting what amounts to hate threads.
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:34-35I don't. I promote GOD's WORD and not my own. It's not even a matter of reading into the Bible. It is there clearly for anyone to read.
Fox and Narth versus the American Psychological Association for the lose!
Fox's is anecdotal -- "Look, this couple and this couple divorced! Never mind the thousands still married, many among whom have been together for years or even decades, without even having the benefits and protections affored married couples -- how many heterosexual couples can make a similar claim?" Odd the perspectives Fox chooses... And as to the NARTH, despite the myriad ways I could explain their statistics away even if they ARE accurate (might you not rush into an ill-conceived marriage if you thought this might be the ONLY WEEK IN YOUR LIFE you'd be permitted to do so?) but really, I'm not going to take seriously anything from a source whose open and stated purpose (and fiscal future) depends on making people think they shouldn't be gay. It would be like believing Pizza Hut if they claimed that people who eat pizza are 138% more likely to get promoted than people who don't.
At any rate, the "same-sex divorce" statistics have no bearing on queer people's capacity for parenting in general -- it isn't as if adoption agencies are going to grant children to couples (of any sex) who have been married a few months and are already on the rocks, nor is it probable that at any point in the brief, heated, tempestuous marriages questionably described by these articles they thought about getting a kid. Point being, I would hope that any adoption agency would evaluate any potential parents on the same strict standards for stability and security, among others, regardless of their orientation -- whatever the statistics, assuming adoption agencies can be bothered to scrutinize applicants more thoroughly than "Straight - okay; gay - no way," there's no reason same-sex parents should be blanketly barred from adoption.
What makes it unfair to a child not to have a mother and father? That's as baseless and unfounded as me saying it's unfair for a child not to have two mothers so ONLY lesbians should raise kids. The gender of two parents isn't important as long as they provide a loving, stable home (which not all will manage to do, of course, even given careful adoption agencies, any more than all heterosexuals will be able to do -- but the point is not proving that same-sex couples make IDEAL parents, just that they don't mess it up any more than straight couples... which I've yet to see evidence that they do.)
"You can safely conclude you have created God in your own image when it turns out that He hates all the same people you do" - Anne LamottNo, Little Nipper is His MASTER's Voice.
The gender IS important because of maternal instinct, there are things only a mother can give, and things only a father can give. A child whos been adopted by 2 gay men is going to lack the mothering and nuturing qualitys that only a mother can give. Also breastfeeding is important also to the development of the child since formula too early can cause problems. I don't have a problem with someone who has gay sexual urges to adopt a child, as long as he gives up that lifestyle and gets married to a woman he loves. Its possible for someone who has a gay sexual orientation to fall in love with a woman and that effort should be made for the child and the wellbeing of himself.
I've met guys who have tried to "change" by marrying a woman, and even having a couple of kids. Inevitably, the woman wasn't satisfied, because her husband wasn't interested, he had to admit that he was still gay, and they ended up getting a divorce.
and that is you WIN WIN solution????
The answer is simple. It's a distraction.
If so-called Christians can bring attention to something like homosexuality, then maybe people won't see what Christianity is guilty of.
Is it surprising that you never see Christians accuse divorce of destroying families even though it directly affects families?
Because Christians are most guilty of divorce and then remarriage.
People don't like to bring attention to that. After all, divorce isn't bad. Not at all. If we say it is, that'll turn people away. We need to pick something that's easy to not like and concentrate on that.
The fact is, all sins are equal in the eyes of God but if there was a sin God didn't care about, it would probably be homosexuality.
Has no consequences, has nothing really connected too it. Most homosexual people live strong fulfilling lives and have deep intimate and spiritual connections with their partner the same which you would find in a heterosexual relationship, maybe even moreso. They aren't sex obsessed, they don't hate kids and they don't think that God somehow messed up on their gender.
They're just attracted to the same sex. Let's say there is some kind of scale. You have a person whose only "sin", their whole life, is being homosexual.
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