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Old 01-07-2014, 03:32 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Being black is not normal in Korea. It is very normal in Nigeria. Somehow normal in America.
Normal in the world, generally.
It's not "normal" in the US or in Britain either. Being a boxer is even LESS "normal." So I guess it's perfectly OK to say that Evander Holyfield is extremely abnormal.
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Old 01-07-2014, 03:33 PM
 
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Being gay isn't normal.
Not to you but it is to a gay person. Just as being straight is not normal to them but it is to you. See how easy that is? You don't even have to have an argument or controversy, the facts stare you right in the face.
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Old 01-07-2014, 03:34 PM
 
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You're lying. As is whichever "ex-gay" / fundamentalist Christian propaganda site that has brainwashed you into believing that.


Stating facts and statistics is not Christian propaganda, it's an inconvenient truth.
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Old 01-07-2014, 03:36 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Stating facts and statistics is not Christian propaganda, it's an inconvenient truth.
Go on then. Provide some, instead of just spewing generalizations.
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Old 01-07-2014, 03:36 PM
 
Location: New York
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Default a thought crime

His opinion is a thought crime, he is on big brother. let's get him! By making the witch-hunt public it will act as very effective social engineering. We have almost engineered the entire American public to believe that homosexuality is normal, with just a little more social engineering we will get to the goal of total subversion by sexual degeneracy.

Everyone should be sure to enforce all thought crimes in accordance with the ruling class line "homosexuality is normal".
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Holy crap, he has an opinion. Let's get the witchhunt started.
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Old 01-07-2014, 03:37 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Nobody is attacking this cretin's free speech rights (or Phil Robertson's). They are merely saying he's an ignorant pig, which is within their own free speech rights.

Anything people say can be called an "opinion", including "Hitler had the right idea." The notion that we can't judge people by their opinions is infantile.
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Old 01-07-2014, 03:37 PM
 
Location: Wilsonville, OR
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Gays have the highest risk for depression, STDs, promiscuity, AIDS, and drug use. It's not in the populations best interest to promote that life-style. Religion has nothing to do with it, nor does believing in a young earth.
Such a lifestyle has nothing to do with being a homosexual. This is a classic example of correlation not equaling causation. Even if what you said is true, it is incorrect to imply that this is somehow simply the result of being a homosexual, and leaving it at that. More likely, years of being treated like second class citizens, being unloved or even completely rejected by one's parents and possibly disowned and forced into homelessness, being subject to gratuitous acts of violence, being denied basic human rights and being told that they are evil and flawed and that there is something inherently wrong with their very self - are the true causes of such behavior. People can only handle so much before they break completely.

If people would stop treating completely innocent, regular-ass human beings like they are monsters hell-bent on the destruction of everything good and decent and start treating them with love, empathy and compassion and you will see an end to this kind of self-destructive behavior. It is such a simple thing to do, and yet so many cannot (or will not) bring themselves to behave in a kind and humane manner toward their fellows. Shameful.

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Old 01-07-2014, 03:41 PM
 
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If no one EVER did ANYTHING that was't NORMAL, we'd still all be living in caves and many of us would be, at the very least, bisexual.
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Old 01-07-2014, 03:47 PM
 
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Such a lifestyle has nothing to do with being a homosexual. This is a classic example of correlation not equaling causation. Even if what you said is true, it is incorrect to imply that this is somehow simply the result of being a homosexual, and leaving it at that. More likely, years of being treated like second class citizens, being unloved or even completely rejected by one's parents and possibly disowned and forced into homelessness, being subject to gratuitous acts of violence, being denied basic human rights and being told that they are evil and flawed and that there is something inherently wrong with their very self - are the true causes of such behavior. People can only handle so much before they break completely.

Stop treating completely innocent, regular-ass people like they are complete monsters hell-bent on the destruction of everything good and decent and start treating them with love, empathy and compassion and you will see an end to this kind of self-destructive behavior.
I agree, a lot of homosexuals are mistreated. However, a lot of their problems are as a result of their choices, just like every body else.

I'm saying, it's not wise to promote this lifestyle and exalt it above others, and give it a special pass or protection. It's an unhealthy lifestyle mentally and physically, no matter what the cause, and maniacal celebration and defense of it is just getting old.
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Old 01-07-2014, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Wilsonville, OR
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I agree, a lot of homosexuals are mistreated. However, a lot of their problems are as a result of their choices, just like every body else.

I'm saying, it's not wise to promote this lifestyle and exalt it above others, and give it a special pass or protection. It's an unhealthy lifestyle mentally and physically, no matter what the cause, and maniacal celebration and defense of it is just getting old.
What is this "lifestyle" you speak of? In the absence of any wanton mistreatment, the "homosexual lifestyle" is no different from anyone else's. They get up, go to work, come home, go to the grocery store, pick up their kids from school if they have any. They date, they love, they play, they do everything that any other person does. The only difference is they are sexually attracted to members of the same sex.
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