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When is the last time you actually saw a gay couple "flaunting" their relationship in public? What were they doing--holding hands? How many straight couples do you see holding hands, hugging, or even kissing in public. Do you believe they should not "flaunt" their relationships in such a way? Would you consider kissing your partner at the airport (or either gender) "flaunting" a relationship?
The vast majority of gay people don't do anything to "flaunt" their relationship in public, while the majority of heterosexual couples DO. You'll need to find another "argument" if you're going to talk about "hypocrits".
The sign in question was put up by one particular group--"they" (gay people as a whole) did not get together and vote to put it up; it is not "wanting to have it both ways". What "they" want more than anything else is to end the double standard, where straight people can literally make out in public and have it go unnoticed, while a gay couple is said to be "throwing it in people's faces" if they even hug or hold hands.
I could NOT have said this better!! Amen! I always wondered that Fran; why people take the Bible literally in some ways but not others!!! Times have changed, people have changed. All of your verses made such valid points!! Thanks girl!
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Do you follow EVERY law of Leviticus, such as these?
20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Cursing your parents, just once, should result in the death Penalty?
19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Apparently planting butterbeans and sweet potatoes in the same garden is a SIN! As is wearing two kinds of cloth at the same time! Do you follow this verse of Leviticus? It is no less "sacred" than what you quoted, after all!
19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
SHAVING IS A SIN!!! Do you follow this verse to the letter, jo282271?
This is just a tiny part of the Bible that is ignored, even by so-called "Biblically-living people". Do you consider EVERY verse of the Bible, or just the ones you pick and choose?
Is there that much of a need for these signs in the Carolina's? I do interpret the message as meaning well to the gay person. I just wonder did the group that placed them, feel the climate towards gays warranted the signs.
Actually, the signs were probably put in GSO because the populace would not be too inclined to object to them. The basic Quaker influence, Friends, in a number of the definitions, tends to be the rule of thumb for this area. This Quaker influence was the reason that the first sit-in happened in GSO, it was the southern city, in which, the protesters had the greatest chance of living through the protest. For a southern city, Greensboro is pretty open-minded. (might have something to do with it also being a well-educated city).
Bigotry is basically intolerance of beliefs that differ from one's own. The billboard seems to imply that those who adhere to religious beliefs concerning homosexuality are "bigots". But isn't that fairly hypocritical? Shouldn't the group be a bit more tolerant of those whose religiously view homosexuality as sin? After all if the group views homosexuality as "ok" then shouldn't it also be acceptable for someone else to view homosexuality as "not ok"? Seems like the group is imposing a double standard.
I do not think so! People have been hiding their petty bigotries behind a mask of their religion for centuries, it is time for it to stop.
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never cease to amaze me!! :)
