People who oppose gay marriage are like Christians who used the Bible to support apartheid and slavery, says bishop (considered, USA)
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Originally Posted by northnut
So when you hit puberty, you chose to be attracted to the opposite sex. You chose this. It wasn't something that you couldn't control, you could control it. So you could've gone either way, you could've just as easily have chosen to be gay, right?
Do you mean to tell me that people don't have control. Again, wow. So, when people encourage me to take control of my life, what are they telling me exactly?
Do you mean to tell me that people don't have control. Again, wow. So, when people encourage me to take control of my life, what are they telling me exactly?
You have control of your ACTIONS, but not your ATTRACTIONS.
I would say the poor mother who cannot afford to feed another mouth, or diaper another kid would think it is a good idea. My Mom was such, because of religion and the church, she had seven kids and was dirt poor, lived in a shanty with an outhouse and picked cotton, tomatoes and what ever else was being grown in the valley of California in the 50's and watched my step dad drink every cent she made. If abortion had have been an option for her and not a sin, she would have had fewer children that would have had a better life. Not everyone can afford to have big families and if they can, they should be adopting those poor children already languishing in foster homes, not having more. Think about the children that are already unwanted and need a home before worrying about abortion. When there are no more children in need of a family that can care for them, then we may need to worry about increasing our population. As of now, there is really no need to breed like sex crazed rabbits and dogs, is there?
My mom kept having kids because the church forbid abortion and birth control. Sure, she never should have had me, nor several of my siblings. We had a misirable life, rarely enough to eat, no television till 1965 and no washer till then. Prior to that, she washed clothes by hand and heated the water on a wood stove. She was not on welfare, had too much dignity for that. She not only had seven kids, she also lost 4 more to miscarriages and all of this from the age of 17 till she had a tubal ligation at 31. She sacrificed her body, her health and the health of her children that were alive. She did not want to just keep having babies, but the church said to reproduce. Just because you cannot have kids, does not mean that other women should just pop them out. What are your plans for the unwanted kids in need of being adopted or fostered, Janelle? Do you have room for a few in your home? Take care of the ones we already have before worrying about those not born yet.
I agree with you in retrospect your mother should have had an abortion.
People can't think for themselves and make their own choices. Interesting. And here all this time, I believed they could.
The guy who believes something because his parents believed it, because their parents believed it, because their parents believed it, is lecturing us on independent thought.
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