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Originally Posted by SAAN
as to why you are always defending it as some sort of normal behavior and try to put down others who disagree and have their own opinions.
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It is "normal" that is the thing. It might be a MINORITY but that does not mean it is not "normal". What I fear is at play here is a bad use of the word "normal" contrary to what it actually means. Color blindness for example is a minority feature in our species too. But it is very much "normal".
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Originally Posted by jeffbase40
So they resort to claiming that we are closet gays as a last effort of desperation to make us look bad. They have done it to me over and over and seeing it played out here to other Christians really exposes their phoniness.
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Except I for one have never done that. Which is why you ignore MY posts on the topic. You can moan about the people who act poorly, allowing you to wholly ignore the ones who act maturely like myself.
What I have done is point out time and time again you lack ANY argument against the morality of homosexuality, and you simply outright invent or misrepresent statistics to pretend they support your case when they do not.
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Originally Posted by jeffbase40
Like I've said before, I only started raising a voice of protest when the gay community started going after Christians and attacking religious freedom.
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The issue there is most of the examples of this you have found are NOT attacks on religious freedom, but you pretend they are. What they HAVE been is attempts to stop religious people using their religion to make themselves exempt from the laws and morality that everyone else has to follow.
And that has been the trademark of the majority of your diatribes on the subject of homosexuality. You want special privilege as a theist to be made exempt from the rules the rest of society have to follow.
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Originally Posted by jeffbase40
I can't be a wedding cake baker or photographer.
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Yes you can, so long as you do not use your religion as an excuse not to follow the laws every other baker has to follow. Which is EXACTLY what you want to do.
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Originally Posted by jeffbase40
And the law is wrong when it forces people to VIOLATE their religious beliefs.
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The law is not wrong when it establishes a law everyone has to follow, and no one can claim exemption by hiding behind their religion. Your religious beliefs have NOTHING to do with public law.
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Originally Posted by jeffbase40
The Constitution plainly says no law shall be created to keep someone from exercising their religion yet that's exactly what your side has done here.
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Except no, that is not what has happened at all. You simply do not understand what religious freedom even means. It certainly does not mean what you pretend it does.
You are not been forced to violate your religious beliefs. You are being forced to follow secular laws that are BLIND to your religious beliefs.
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Originally Posted by jeffbase40
A lifestyle choice is not a product of equality.
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And religious is your life style choice.
Sexuality however does not appear to be one. Either a lifestyle, or a choice.
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