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I was making an example and stating that we have the constitution and dont let what happened in Sweden happen here. The constitution is suppose to prevent somehting ike that. This is the artical about it. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/jul/04070505.html I have to say that what he said goes with waht i was saying about God wanting to keep His people pure and following him. When they starded to do what the others cultures did, they turned away from God and caused others to follow them. Creating, as the pastor said "a cancerous tumour in the body of" of the Hebrew society.

But what my point was, a pastor should not be arrested for citing the Bible.

and what religion tells you to murder people, please give me a better example then that. Murder is murder, words are words. Words dont kill, only stupid people who act apon those words. Murder is wrong no matter what way you look at it. Any statement has the potential be taken negitively by one person or another. And what ever happened to freedom of speech and freedom of the press? So is that to be broken now? This man was speeking. Is he not allowed to have his opinion while others are against him are?
 
Sure my example was taking the extreme case, but the point still stands. What if your religion required you to break any other law? Which laws is it ok to break?

For instance would it be ok in america to say "company x is run by homosexual y, who is abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumour in the body of society, dont buy their products". I mean, it is excercising religion, but at the same time is slander.. I wonder if anything like this has come up in court before?

Seriously freedom of speach has been limited for a long time everywhere.

Also (not knowing sweedish hatespeach laws) I bet that it is just as illegal to call christianity a "horrible cancerous tumour" so those others against him might have to be careful too..

Actually the more I think about it, the less sympathy I feel for the dude..

Have a nice day.
 
Personally, I do not really care if someone I know is gay or not. As long as they don't do all of that "Gay Pride" stuff, y'know? I'm personally against homosexuality myself (I'm a Christian, its wrong, blah-blah-blah), but if you are in love with the same gender, I wouldn't be stopping you from doing anything. As long as I do not know the full details, I'm perfectly fine; even though I may disapprove of your ways, I wouldn't be up in your face about it.

Erm.. you are being 'up in my face'. What the hell's wrong with being proud of who you are, especially in a culture where "gay" is used as an insult?

[I'm not slamming the use of the word gay as homophobic mind, that's stupid in itself - I've never heard anyone start banging on about disability rights when someone calls something lame]
 
I think it depends how 'proud' you are. I'm all for equal rights but I don't attend Straight Pride Day. I realise that most such events and behaviour are an effort to try and get more ignorant people to accept homosexuality, but it creates a stigma for itself in the minds of those who have already accepted sexuality as something that doesn't have to define you as a person.
 
Yeah, personally I think it's all a load of cunt, it's not pride, it's "hang-out-with-loads-of-gays-and-take-drugs-and-get-pissed day" tbh. There's a hell of a lot to be said for that though.

I just don't see the problem with having one, much like I don't see the problem with having a straight pride day (let's do it monk). I think everyone should pretty much be allowed to express themselves as they please, as long as they're not you know, expressing themselves through the mediums of rape and murder.
Though there's a lot to be said for them too.
 
This thread is too one-sided (who could have guessed?). Time to shake things up!

In response to the original post: you're saying that homosexuality is natural because fucking elephants do it? Are we elephants? Elephants also happen to coat their bodies with their own feces, is that OK?

My whole biz with gay is that basic human anatomy is proof that it is unnatural. Sperm is received in a woman's uterus for reproductive purposes, that's a fact. That's why being sexually attracted to anything else is seen as a perversion. And that's where the 'if you can marry a person of your same sex, whats next, a dog or a tree?' argument comes into play. Ovaries are not located inside a man's rectum. Legal jargon doesn't enter into it. This is also why homophobia will never be on the same level as racism; it's perfectly natural to be black or white, but perfectly unnatural to be gay. If you want to act like an elephant, be my guest.

15 years until gay is accepted by everyone? Sorry to say, but gays will always have to struggle. Everyone young accepts homosexuality, and that's OK. It may seem like your generation will usher in a new era, but that isn't always the case. People change, and change isn't always a bad thing. There's a saying (i think Churchill said it), "if you aren't liberal at 15, you have no heart, and if you aren't conservative at 30, you have no brain".

Your arguments on Christian's view on marriage says 'I don't understand Christianity'. I'm not going to explain it - i learned my lesson of trying to explain religion to the obviously non-religious years ago - but i will mention that Christianity isn't the only religion against homosexuality. Every major religion is. But hey, it's Christianity, and let's bash them at every opportunity! That's what's popular these days!

The population argument is ridiculous, agreed.

I'd also say that if gays kept their sex lives to themselves, people wouldn't have as much of problem with it. Instead, they march in the streets when they don't have to, which makes people think the only reason they're gay is for shock value and attention.

Equal rights for gays? It's not that simple. Most people who cry 'equal rights' aren't interested in equal rights at all. People cry equal rights one minute and then demonize Christianity the next, or turn a blind eye on racism directed at white people. When you tell a soldier that he has to share a shower with a gay person, are you at all concerned about his or her right to a unit with high morale? Morale, which could mean life or death on the battlefield? Are you at all concerned with the mothers and fathers who live their whole lives expecting natural families and natural children, only to have their hearts broken when their son or daughter comes home gay one day due to outside influences? It's very easy to say that you'll be happy and accepting if your kid comes home gay when you don't have kids of your own. When you have a child, you're views may change.

Now, being pokemon fans, you're most likely in the 13-18 demographic, and your entire world is black and white in that stage; everything George Bush does is evil, everything Michael Moore says is good, and anyone who is against gays simply hates them (i've experienced this already on here; that 'i could be banned' is under my name simply because i'm not liberal). It's sad that I even have to make this disclaimer, but I have many gay friends who I love dearly, and who love me back, even though we argue about it all the time. If you're going to respond, than actually respond; i really don't want to hear any of that 'LoL u jus hate gay peepz' or 'LoL go read ur bible' crap. The only reason i typed this up is to promote discussion amongst what is a predictably one-sided thread.
 
Are you at all concerned with the mothers and fathers who live their whole lives expecting natural families and natural children, only to have their hearts broken when their son or daughter comes home gay one day due to outside influences?

No, I'm really fucking not. Outside influences? Please.
You don't "come home gay one day", it's a long and painful realisation drawn out over a period of years.
And I'll put a question to you: what about the gay boy or girl who has to face telling their parents, knowing that their parents will be disappointed, upset, and possibly even angry with an insintric part of them that helps to make them who they are?

Like it or not (you evidently don't), gays have a culture, hence the gay scene, gay bars, and gay pride. Whether your sexuality should or shouldn't be something who defines who you are is another matter entirely.
 
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Originally Posted by Fat Deck Knight
The pro-gay lobby gives us wonderful phrases like "AIDS doesn't discriminate" despite the fact that, per the link in my first series of posts, Male-to-male sexual contact is larger than the next largest cause (injection needles) by over 250%. They are the people who get a judicial fiat through the Massachusetts Supreme Court and then push their propaganda through the public schools (while public school officials assert that Massachusetts parents have no domain over what the school teaches their children.)

m0nkfish said:
What's your point? This has nothing to do with marriage. Gay marriage will neither encourage nor discourage homosexuality. The only way STIs will be affected is by the reduction of promiscuity through marriage.

Actually it will encourage homosexuality by preventing it as a viable and morally acceptable alternative to heterosexual relationships. It will turn a lot of those "bi and questioning types" to engage in homosexual behavior. You have made a ridiculous assertion that if Behavior A is considered acceptable and morrally right where previous it was shunned, that more people will not try Behavior A.

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Originally Posted by Fat Deck Knight
Funny, I just found this. https://www.massresistance.org/docs/...107/index.html

It is well established that homosexual activities are dangerous, but of course, some groups help kids hook up.

m0nkfish said:
Stop being an ignorant bigot. Homosexual activities are not dangerous. Irresponsible teenagers who have unprotected sex are dangerous - the more they are educated and supported, the more responsible they will be.

So what you're saying is male-to-male sexual contact (an activity belonging exclusively to homosexuals) is not dangerous. You also have made the compelling argument that I'm an ignorant bigot. Nevermind that supposed "safe sex seminars" have caused more teenage promiscuity even if they have marginally reduced teen pregnancy.

I also like the ad hominem attack. Kudos.

This has absolutely no relevance and your integrity is weakened by even mentioning it. 'Fisting' is neither dangerous nor exclusively homosexual.

It isn't about the activity it is about the fact that homosexual activists think it a neccesary public service.

From the article:

On March 25, a statewide conference, called "Teach-Out," was sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

Among the goals were to build more Gay/Straight Alliances in Massachusetts and expand homosexual teaching into the lower grades. Scores of gay-friendly teachers and administrators attended. They received state "professional development credits."

Teenagers and children as young as 12 were encouraged to come from around the state, and many were bussed in from their home districts. Homosexual activists from across the country were also there.

Expanding homosexual teaching in public schools at state-sponsored events, a lofty goal indeed.

And here is an article on just how much gays value marriage: They want the right to no-fault divorce. They consider it a horrible abuse of civil rights if, once married in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts they do not have the freedom to disavow that marriage in Rhode Island (and presumably, any other state.) In short, they want to treat marriage with the same flippancy that too many heterosexuals do.

Homosexuals already have equal protection under the law. They can marry any person of the opposite gender that they please aside from their immediate family. Homosexual marriages are demonstrably inferior because they lack two things: sexual complimentarity and procreative ability. Two homosexuals can never form a full union with each other because even they know their acts are purely for their own pleasure. Recognizing such arrangements gives nothing back to society and gives the public O-K to engage in risky abnormal behaviors. A Homosexual marriage is only about the vanity of two adults. Homosexual couples with children is an extreme outlier among homosexual relationships which is precisely why I would only allow a civil union policy to cover statutes regarding life protection and post-mortem financial concerns.

Big Bayou said:
How can anyone have a debate with you when you flame others for making sweeping generalizations about your sources (www.catholic.com being the most questionable) and then turn around and make ridiculous generalizations about pro-gay establishments in the same paragraph? All of your hateful, misinformed posts do this and frankly I had to stop myself from reading them before I stabbed my monitor. It's utter hypocrisy.

Basically your posts are supported by your extremely skewed personally beliefs and by such a large number of far-biased sources that they need to be taken with a Mansa Musa sized reserve of salt grains. Good grief.

Prove my views are "hateful, misinformed, and extremely skewed." What you're actually saying is "I disagree with you, therefore you are wrong."

If you all want to argue that if you don't support gay marriage you're a bigot, fine. In the meantime you are arguing the source, not the substance. Given that the source cites other sources for reference, I'm inclined to believe you don't have an argument to counter the substance.

m0nkfish said:
Coming from a Christian I find it hilarious that you are complaining of a group of people "indoctrinating children". The indoctrination of ignorance and prejudice against homosexuality at an early age is a much more dangerous one.

Homosexuality destroys lives. Christianity saves them. Homosexuals have greatly shortened lifespans, Christians have longer than average ones. You're more upset about supposed "indocrination and ignorance" which you appear to define as "opposition to changing state and federal laws to accomodate unions that offer nothing but negative effects to the community." What has homosexuality brought to society m0nkfish, other than the rampant spread of AIDS and other venereal diseases? Has the open acceptance that screwing with whoever you please brought anything valuable? Has self-identifying oneself by the urge they have to screw a certain gender of other people contributed anything to society?

I'd much rather be indoctrinated to love and support my fellow man and country than to be indoctrinated to believe having homosexual relations are morally acceptable and equivalent in value to heterosexual ones. The former indoctrination has kept American society at the top of the hill for centuries, the latter is a new invention making apologetics for the bad behaviors of human beings.

I realise that most such events and behaviour are an effort to try and get more ignorant people to accept homosexuality, but it creates a stigma for itself in the minds of those who have already accepted sexuality as something that doesn't have to define you as a person.

Your problem is that you start with the assumption that people who don't accept homosexuality as morally valid are ignorant. I believe the reverse: People who accept homosexuality as morally valid are willfully ignorant of the damage it causes. Your thirst for "curing ignorance" can never be quenched until you force every single person to change their beliefs to match yours. It is readily apparent your preferred method for "education" is calling them ignorant bigots. Furthermore, Homosexuals are entirely about "having something that defines you as a person." The man in the kindergarten propaganda vid basically said that not being openly homosexual would be akin to playing soccer without his right shin. Self-identifying by sexuality is what the entire gay movement is all about. It isn't enough that they realize they have these destructive tendencies, they must announce it to the world and make it part of their identity. Not happy to be John Smith, they feel they must be John Smith, homosexual. They relish in the fact they have an aberrant attraction to people of the same gender.

Fact is, Gays hate Christians because they know we are right and they hate we aren't buying into their garbage. They fake hate crimes against themselves trying to blame Christians for bigotry in order to ram their agenda through.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n17_v50/ai_21129275

At Eastern New Mexico University, threatening posters started appearing around campus last September. "Are you sick of queers polluting this great land with there [sic] filth?" asked the error-ridden fliers. "I thought so. Want to do something? Join the Fist of God. With his might, we can ride [sic] the world of there [sic] sickness. Ask around. We'll find you." The poster identified eight people on campus as homosexual and concluded: "Take us seriously, or we'll begin executing one queer a week following this list."

The four men and four women listed soon received threatening e-mail messages and letters. Shortly after the posters appeared, the person whose name topped the list, a lesbian teaching assistant named Miranda Prather, was attacked in her home. She told police a masked assailant had slashed her cheek with a kitchen knife.

In the ensuing investigation, police examined surveillance footage of a nearby laundromat where the threatening fliers had been posted. Their search was ultimately successful, and they were able to identify the culprit as . . . Miranda Prather. Later, they found a knife in Miss Prather's apartment that matched the wounds in her cheek.

Tolerance. When the hate that homosexual activists think is there actually isn't, they do all sorts of horrendous things to prove "the hate is real!" The homosexual lobby has proven itself untrustworthy. They will sacrifice everything for their cause, no matter who gets hurt or what they have to say. Gay marriage is just one of the many issues these despicable folks support.
 
I'm really sorry Deck Knight, but Hrothgar has outcrazied you. Your only value, novelty, is destroyed by comparison.
 
I think it depends how 'proud' you are. I'm all for equal rights but I don't attend Straight Pride Day. I realise that most such events and behaviour are an effort to try and get more ignorant people to accept homosexuality, but it creates a stigma for itself in the minds of those who have already accepted sexuality as something that doesn't have to define you as a person.

Quote from the simpsons...

We're Here! We're Queer! Get used to it!

Lisa: We ARE used to it >_>

Given the discussion in this thread, apparently not. Anyway, I thought I'd just inject a little humor here.

In response to the original post: you're saying that homosexuality is natural because fucking elephants do it? Are we elephants? Elephants also happen to coat their bodies with their own feces, is that OK?

And humans make and sell jewlery out of elephant feces.


Considering that Elephant Dung isn't that bad, I don't see a problem with that. Compare this to humans who kill animals, and use the fat from inside of the skin of dead animals and rub it all over themselves. AKA: Whale Blubber soap.

My whole biz with gay is that basic human anatomy is proof that it is unnatural.
*Snip the rest of his argument*
But you missed one fatal point: we need a solid definition of "unnatural" before you can continue your argument. Very clearly, homosexual behavior occurs in nature. Elephants, monkies, Chimps (our closest relative) and more all have homosexual behavior. Further, the similarities between mamals is outstanding.

I'd also say that if gays kept their sex lives to themselves, people wouldn't have as much of problem with it. Instead, they march in the streets when they don't have to, which makes people think the only reason they're gay is for shock value and attention.
See Civil Rights movement. If black people just kept to their segregated corner of society, then no one would of had a problem with it.

Equal rights for gays? It's not that simple. Most people who cry 'equal rights' aren't interested in equal rights at all. People cry equal rights one minute and then demonize Christianity the next, or turn a blind eye on racism directed at white people.
While there are stupid people who argue like that, you cannot deny that Christians have the upper hand in the US. Similarly, white people have a clear advantage over minorities. There has never been a non-Christian president in the entire history of the United States of America.

It is the burden of being in the majority. Nonetheless, gays have the burden of being a hated minority, which arguably is far worse.

When you tell a soldier that he has to share a shower with a gay person, are you at all concerned about his or her right to a unit with high morale? Morale, which could mean life or death on the battlefield? Are you at all concerned with the mothers and fathers who live their whole lives expecting natural families and natural children, only to have their hearts broken when their son or daughter comes home gay one day due to outside influences?
Proof please. Current evidence points that gays are born gay. Not genetically, but as I pointed out in an earlier post, homosexuality is hardwired into the brain. Thats something you can't exactly change with outside influences.

Further, there are two parallel sets of evidence pointing that the root of homosexuaity are instead caused before someone is born, literally. Either through genetics, or through chemcial imbalances in the mother's womb. See one of my earlier posts for details

It's very easy to say that you'll be happy and accepting if your kid comes home gay when you don't have kids of your own. When you have a child, you're views may change.

Now, being pokemon fans, you're most likely in the 13-18 demographic, and your entire world is black and white in that stage; everything George Bush does is evil, everything Michael Moore says is good, and anyone who is against gays simply hates them (i've experienced this already on here; that 'i could be banned' is under my name simply because i'm not liberal). It's sad that I even have to make this disclaimer, but I have many gay friends who I love dearly, and who love me back, even though we argue about it all the time. If you're going to respond, than actually respond; i really don't want to hear any of that 'LoL u jus hate gay peepz' or 'LoL go read ur bible' crap. The only reason i typed this up is to promote discussion amongst what is a predictably one-sided thread.
Lol. U jus hate gay peepz. :-) *nudge nudge*

More seriously, if people think that George Bush's plan for the sub-prime morgage crisis is evil, then they're an idiot. He's crapping up pretty badly in office, but at least he is doing one thing in... erm... the right direction >_> (arguably too little, too late. But it should help)
 
Source:

http://paulrobertson.net/This___Tha...uality/body_biblical_law___homosexuality.html

A few choice extracts.

The most commonly-raised objection I hear to same-sex marriage is that it contradicts Biblical Law.

With all due respect, I have a problem with this view, because it bypasses the very foundations of Christianity.

If you’re a Christian, then the word of Jesus is the only law that you need. Everything else in the Bible is, yes, complementary, but nonetheless secondary to whatever Jesus said, because everything else in the Bible was written by prophets or scribes - human beings having visions or witnessing supernatural events - whereas Jesus is supernatural in and of himself: the one and only true Son of God. This is no small point. Jesus was fundamentally divine. Whereas everyone else writing in the Bible - Moses, Leviticus, John the Baptist, Saint Paul, etc., etc. - is not.

So what does Jesus have to say about being gay?

Well to start with, we have to understand that it’s not what you or I would say about being gay. Because you and I are human. Jesus is not.

We must try to remember that Christianity is prefaced by the Old Testament, but it is not the Old Testament itself. The Old Testament ends with the arrival of Jesus. It is Jesus’ life, and example, and teachings, that are paramount to a modern Christian. throughout the Gospels Jesus forgives, heals and breaks bread with people at every conceivable social level - Pharisees and prostitutes, thieves and civic leaders, deacons and drunken bums. In fact, many times he goes out of his way to find the most vilified person in town and spend the night at that person’s house, as a way of challenging the prevailing social prejudices. Imagine! Jesus doesn’t just visit some skid row flophouse to say hello and hand out soup; he actually spends the night there, and talks to these people, and makes them feel - perhaps because he knows they are? - important. He never meets a person so wretched or reviled that he cannot instantly forgive him and love him. It’s a remarkable life, and a remarkable demonstration for others of how to live. It is, in every sense, awesome

On to the crux of the matter.

The Bible says very little, if anything, about homosexuality. Most of it has been incorrectly translated or interpreted in order to insert a condemnation.

The most obvious example is that in both classical Hebrew and Greek there was no word for homosexual. In any instance, then - such as Paul's letters - in which modern translations of the Bible use "homosexual" explicitly, the word is standing in for something else. Yet Biblical mistranslation is only a small part of a larger problem. The historical discussion of the Bible's stance on homosexuality reveals, in fact, a complex web of distortion and abuse of doctrine by those in power.

Sodom and Gomorrah:

As an example of an even bigger stretch, take Sodom and Gomorrah. "Bring them out to us, so that we may know them" (Gen. 19:5). No Jewish scholars before the first Christian century taught that the sin of Sodom was sexual. Nowhere in the Bible's many references to Sodom, from Deuteronomy 29:22 to Matthew 10:14, is homosexuality mentioned as a reason for that city’s destruction. Instead, Sodom is cited as an example of the sins of injustice, idolatry, and, most importantly, lack of hospitality to strangers. The specific sin committed was not homosexuality, but rather the attempted rape of protected guests, a heinous abuse of trust.

A portion of the verses read:

But the youth, looking upon him, loved him and began to beseech him that he might be with him. And going out of the tomb they came into the house of the youth, for he was rich. And after six days, Jesus told him what to do and in the evening the youth came to him, wearing a linen cloth over nakedness. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the Kingdom of God. And thence arising, he returned to the other side of the Jordan.

This passage does not mean that Jesus was gay, but a careless reader might so interpret it. The homophobic leaders of Nicea could not risk that, so they chose to alter the Bible accordingly.

The rest of the source you can read yourself. I found another link by a scholar regarding this topic a while ago, if I can find it again I will add this too to the discussion.
 
I'm also dumbfounded by the lack of intellect many Christians have concerning this issue. All this hate shit against innocent people isn't right :|
 
It is well established that homosexual activities are dangerous, but of course, some groups help kids hook up.
Deck Knight, most of your evidence as noted by this thread, is correlation, not causation.

Gays have a reason to be depressed when people look down upon them and their behavior. Period. This explains depression and suicide. And unless you have a causational evidence that gayness causes depression and suicide, then this argument is similarly valid.

The reason why most people cannot take this point you made seriously is because your "evidence" is a well known logical fallacy published in Freshman Level English, Philosophy, and Psychology books, and in High School Statistics books. It is not EVIDENCE that homosexual behavior is dangerous until you conduct a scientific experiment.

Scientific Experiments, as opposed to surveys, prove causation. This is a difficult claim to make. You must first get someone who is probably bisexual, observe his behavior for several weeks, have him conduct homosexual behavior and then observe his behavior again. That is essentially what you'd have to do to prove causation. No experiment I know of actually has done this (Another issue is morality of scientific experiments... but that is another topic)

Some funny correlations / causation topics.

1. Shaving is correlated to heart attacks.
2. Ice Cream sales are correlated to drownings at beaches.
3. Liberal States get hit by more Hurricanes.

Explanations:
1. Testosterone causes hair to grow, and thus people tend to shave more often. However, high levels of testosterone also cause more heart attacks.
2. People don't go to beaches in the winter, nor do people buy ice cream in the winter. These two are totally unrelated.
3. Liberal states are on the coastline. Conservative states tend to not even have a chance of getting hit with a hurricane.

In fact, I can take any graph and correlate two subjects and come up with the funniest arguments ever. FSMism makes the claim that as pirates declined, global warming goes up. And it is true, there are fewer pirates today, and the global tempurature is going up. However, it would be a logical fallacy to conclude that pirates prevent global warming.

I'm also dumbfounded by the lack of intellect many Christians have concerning this issue. All this hate shit against innocent people isn't right :|
As a Catholic, I'm dumbfounded that you bring religion into this and stereotype on my beliefs and religion.
 
As a Catholic, I'm dumbfounded that you bring religion into this and stereotype on my beliefs and religion.
I said many, not all. And also concerning only those who are outwardly homophobic.:justin:

And I'm mentioning religion because it's also mentioned in the first post:justin::justin::justin:
 
Deck Knight said:
Prove my views are "hateful, misinformed, and extremely skewed."

OK

Hateful

Deck Knight said:
Well I suppose grown men fucking each other in the streets doesn't impact anyone's life. Would you like to live in a country where people fuck in the streets on a daily basis though? Would you like that to be your neighborhood, where men could be fucking in broad daylight, possibly in front of children?

Deck Knight said:
You can be naive and pretend they are on the whole just like the rest of us

Deck Knight said:
They are never content with just marriage, they always want to stuff their homosexuality further down our throats.

Misinformed

Deck Knight said:
Homosexuals by their behaviors do not value a healthy definition of marriage, as summarized above being unconditional, exclusive, and permanent

Deck Knight said:
Perhaps it is the fact sex with random strangers is a halmark of their behavior

Deck Knight said:
all the behaviors that go along with homosexuality are antithetical to a healthy marriage

Deck Knight said:
This is the same twisted logic that says because 1% of abortions cause rape, all abortion should be legal.

Deck Knight said:
Sex with multiple partners is the general rule regarding homosexuals

Deck Knight said:
The Folsom Street Fair is a representative example of how gay men view fidelity

Deck Knight said:
It is well established that homosexual activities are dangerous

Deck Knight said:
heterosexuals have fewer promiscuous tendencies than homosexuals, even if homosexual marriage prevented promiscuity at the exact same rate more homosexual marriages would end in divorce over infidelity

Deck Knight said:
Nevermind that supposed "safe sex seminars" have caused more teenage promiscuity even if they have marginally reduced teen pregnancy.

Deck Knight said:
They relish in the fact they have an aberrant attraction to people of the same gender.

Extremely skewed

Deck Knight said:
The fact is that the gay lifestyle ... is base and animalstic.

Deck Knight said:
Fact is, this depravity is part and parcel to the gay community.

Deck Knight said:
The point is that these people are slowly destroying themselves

Deck Knight said:
Homosexuality destroys lives. Christianity saves them.
 
Deck Knight said:
I'd much rather be indoctrinated to love and support my fellow man and country than to be indoctrinated to believe having homosexual relations are morally acceptable and equivalent in value to heterosexual ones.

i believe i found the most bullshit sentence in this whole thread
 
They are Christians in the sense that Arians, Manicheans, Cathars and Mormons are Christian.

I'm interested. This is actually the first time someone has openly called me not a Christian because I'm a Catholic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Catholsism and Eastern Orthodox composed the original church. Historically speaking, we were either the first faith, or the second (if you are Eastern Orthodox... the Western Church split from the Easterns. If you are Roman Catholic, the perspective is of course that Eastern Orthodox split from us :-) ), so I find it hard to imagine why we aren't considered Christian.

Now in your example, there are numerous differences and "levels" or "circles" of Christianity in my eye. I can go ahead and say Protistants aren't Christian and that only Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are christian, but that wouldn't get me anywhere. More realistically, I can note that there are similarities between faiths in terms of history and dogmas.

Starting at the largest circle that I can think of, I can begin by saying a Christian is anyone who accepts Christ and follows the teachings of Jesus, and believes in the only God of Abraham. This puts everyone nearly in the same catagory except manicheans (although it does include Muslims in one sense, but I don't believe Muslims are insulted if I were to tell them that they aren't Christian)

I can narrow the definition of Christians by looking in a historical context by saying that those who accept the First Council of Nicea and thus accept the Nicene Creed is Christian, and that seems to be the best way. Historically, it is easy to verify who accepts the Nicene Creed, and this puts Arians, Cathars and Mormons in a different catagory.

This is also similar to the concept of the Trinity, which is accepted by those who attended the Council of Nicea, thus from a spiritual point of view, those who accept the Trinity, three persons one God, would also be considered Christian. This is almost the same catagory as those who accept the Nicene Creed, and I can't think of a denomination that accepts the Nicene Creed but are nontrinitarian. Anglicans and Protistants accept this and every other Ecumenical council.

So from what context do you claim a denomination to be Christian or not? Historically speaking, there are enough differences between Catholics and the other groups you mentioned, particularly the Nicene Creed and nontrinitarianism.
 
I'm interested. This is actually the first time someone has openly called me not a Christian because I'm a Catholic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Catholsism and Eastern Orthodox composed the original church. Historically speaking, we were either the first faith, or the second (if you are Eastern Orthodox... the Western Church split from the Easterns. If you are Roman Catholic, the perspective is of course that Eastern Orthodox split from us :-) ), so I find it hard to imagine why we aren't considered Christian.

Now in your example, there are numerous differences and "levels" or "circles" of Christianity in my eye. I can go ahead and say Protistants aren't Christian and that only Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are christian, but that wouldn't get me anywhere. More realistically, I can note that there are similarities between faiths in terms of history and dogmas.

Starting at the largest circle that I can think of, I can begin by saying a Christian is anyone who accepts Christ and follows the teachings of Jesus, and believes in the only God of Abraham. This puts everyone nearly in the same catagory except manicheans (although it does include Muslims in one sense, but I don't believe Muslims are insulted if I were to tell them that they aren't Christian)

I can narrow the definition of Christians by looking in a historical context by saying that those who accept the First Council of Nicea and thus accept the Nicene Creed is Christian, and that seems to be the best way. Historically, it is easy to verify who accepts the Nicene Creed, and this puts Arians, Cathars and Mormons in a different catagory.

This is also similar to the concept of the Trinity, which is accepted by those who attended the Council of Nicea, thus from a spiritual point of view, those who accept the Trinity, three persons one God, would also be considered Christian. This is almost the same catagory as those who accept the Nicene Creed, and I can't think of a denomination that doesn't do that. Anglicans and Protistants accept this and every other Ecumenical council.

So from what context do you claim a denomination to be Christian or not? Historically speaking, there are enough differences between Catholics and the other groups you mentioned, particularly the Nicene Creed and nontrinitarianism.

This is all well and good, but Catholics believe in false doctrine. That is, they believe that "tradition" has equal weight with God-given Scripture, they believe that works can save (when it is clear from the Bible that only faith can save), and they believe in a false hierarchy whereby the Pope declares Christian verities. Put simply, the Catholics are heretical and only to be called Christian by those too charitable and intellectually dishonest to acknowledge its inauthenticity. I may also add that Catholicism possesses shades of paganism: worship of Mary is idolatry and profoundly unchristian.
 
This is all well and good, but Catholics believe in false doctrine. That is, they believe that "tradition" has equal weight with God-given Scripture, they believe that works can save (when it is clear from the Bible that only faith can save), and they believe in a false hierarchy whereby the Pope declares Christian verities. Put simply, the Catholics are heretical and only to be called Christian by those too charitable and intellectually dishonest to acknowledge its inauthenticity.
I assume you speak of Papal infallability here, which has historically only been used once on whether or not Mary was assumed into heaven (that is, assumed by God into heaven. Mary could never go to heaven on her own will). Eastern Orthodox agree with the Church here, as do other denominations ( Believe Episcopal, but I'm not 100% sure).

I may also add that Catholicism possesses shades of paganism: worship of Mary is idolatry and profoundly unchristian.
This is a frequent myth that I hear about. No one in the Catholic church worships Mary. The viewpoint of the Church on Mary is, and always has been, that she is the mother of Jesus and thus should be honored as such. Through prayer, we honor Mary as the mother of Jesus, but we never "worship" Mary as we do God. Mary is, and always was purely human.

Of course, she is probably the most blessed human because she was chosen by God to bear Jesus.

Considering that this is an issue of the Catholic Faith, I find it appropriate to note Catholic.com as a citation.
http://www.catholic.com/library/Saint_Worship.asp

Wikipedia also notes the view of the Catholic Church correctly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_Virgin_Mary#Accusations_of_idolatry

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EDIT: Anyway. I can just go up and say those Faiths that disagree with various Catholic dogma aren't Christian. Say... the Assumption of Mary (which limits the definition to Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal and Roman Catholics), or any other random Dogma that some denominations accept and others don't. I understand that people disagree with Christian Dogma, and I believe that your beliefs should be in sync with your Church.

If these Catholic Dogma are the reasons why you think Catholics aren't Christian, then I'd just say I disagree with whatever definition you have of Christian :-p
 
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