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Christians on the other hand demand gay people commit to lives of celibacy to avoid ....
And that is their prerogative. A church is not a coercive, authoritarian organization unless you live in a theocracy. You choose Christianity or you don't. Pretty simple. Nobody is forcing you to choose it. And if you do choose it, you are presumably choosing it because you believe in it. If you join simply to try to change it, then you didn't believe in it in the first place and you should find something that you do believe in.
It's no different than any other religion. It would be kind of stupid to convert to Islam if you believed homosexuality is fine, right? After all, in hardcore Muslim countries, you'd be stoned to death for it. With Christianity, all they (at least some of them) do is ask you to not practice it. So you have your freedom. You can not practice it or you can choose to find another faith that believes in homosexuality (as some Christian faiths do). How many "flavors" of Christianity are there? Surely you can find one that believes as you do if you are really dead set on being a Christian.
That is quite the leap! Do you hate Atheists so much that you are willing to ascribe such nasty motives to them?
I don't hate atheists, I just disagree with some of their tactics.
If they don't believe in a God, that's their choice. It has no affect on me, so I find nothing upsetting at all about their lack of faith. It's just some of these bizarre things that they want to do that I find odd.
In a truly free nation, the citizens of that nation would not criminalize anything unless it inhibited the liberty and freedom of others. Consenting adults would be free to choose to do as they wish. At the same time, consenting adults would also be free to choose NOT to do as they wish (including all the BS social programs the progressives have jammed down our throats).
Beyond that, a true Christian will not back down from his/her beliefs on what is good and what is sin, but neither would they force their beliefs on others. A cornerstone to Christianity is the idea of CHOOSING good or evil. It's kind of hard to choose something when it is forced in the first place.
Agree. I want them to legalize pot because I just think it is stupid to keep it illegal when so many people have been doing it for decades anyways, and there has not been an issue. But, I do with they would keep the pot smokers in certain places and restrict where the smoking is done like they do with cigarettes and beer, because people like me find it stinks pretty bad.
I don't hate atheists, I just disagree with some of their tactics.
If they don't believe in a God, that's their choice. It has no affect on me, so I find nothing upsetting at all about their lack of faith. It's just some of these bizarre things that they want to do that I find odd.
I have never heard what you are describing. It might some fringe SJW belief because it's definitely not mainstream, even among gays or atheists. I have heard the accusations that homosexuals "recruit" but that usually comes from family organizations like the one Bryan Fischer is the head of.
Who woulda guessed a couple of decades ago that THIS would be the topic with the most bipartisan agreement?
Absolutely. When I first started teaching in 1999, if somebody would have asked me "will may marriage be legal in the United States in 2017?", I would have said no way. For all the nastiness we have in the partisanship of the United States, I take a lot of hope from how the right has changed on this issue.
As a Christian, I have no desire for it to be criminalized. Gay people are gay, and gay adults should be able to sleep with any other adult they want, marry and adopt children. Most Christians under 50 I know feel the same.
I do know that it's the desire of many atheists to force young people into homosexual relationships in order to shame them into feelings of guilt for ever thinking negatively about gay people. It's outrageous they want to do it.
Double ditto. You can't allow some evangelicals to be the representatives of Christianity, Republicans or Conservatives. They aren't except in their own minds.
Exactly. And I only know one who is anti-homosexuality and it turns out his son is gay, so he may have had a change of heart on this.
I pray he's had a change of heart, for the sake of his son.
Probably a manifestation of some sort of
instinct.
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What makes you think this?
