Both naturally occurring traits in an organism. For some, being gay is as natural as having melanin.
I don't think you have any empathy for gay people. Your religion and other social constructs set up a system by which gay people are disproportionately abused to the point where they have a ridiculously high suicide rate in youth and young adulthood. To go around and deny them the love and positive relationships which make them truly happy is obscene and is denying them a chance at a "better life".
What the fuck is this shit? I've seen it floating around Facebook a bunch recently and I don't get it. How can you love and accept your friends if you completely disagree with their lifestyle? How is this not still bigotry? I don't get it.
Then maybe God shouldn't make people in such a way that they cannot follow his intentions.
Disagreeing with my friend over whether the Fast and Furious franchise is good or whether gun control laws need to be more restrictive is not the fucking same as someone disagreeing with an innate part of me, my very existence, and seeking a loving relationship.
"I disagree with your existence and think you should live and die alone and unloved." Sounds like love if you ask me. I regularly tell my friends and family I disagree with their existence; I feel it really cements a bond of love and respect.
Stop making this damn distinction between who we are and what we "do," as if the two can be separated. They fucking can't be. So having different brain chemistry versus an outward difference of appearance means that we get the distinction of having a "choice" over being who we are? "But I never said you had a choice!" you'll shout. Too bad that's a natural byproduct of separating orientation from what people "do," which makes the "do" part a conscious action that must be chosen to be made.
That's great but it's coming right after they lost a battle that's been going on for decades. Clearly there's some hidden meaning behind those words.
Not that I can speak on their behalf, but my takeaway is that the difference is that, while both are innate qualities of a person, race is strictly a state of being while homosexuality is a state of being AND a set of behaviors amd choices and actions that are made (that can thus be disagreed with.)
Are they though? If I ask a black person to stop being black, they obviously cannot. If I tell a gay person to stop being gay- I am telling you- they obviously cannot. Both are organic mechanisms that naturally occur given coded genes and environment. Further applied to us, black people are only black because we invented skin color differentiation, and homosexual life expression is labelled as such because we made more arbitrary selections.
As a former Christian, I would advise you to spend less time reiterating God's views on sin and sinners that all LGBT people have heard countless times, sometimes while being emotionally or physically abused by people of faith, and instead focus on being a source of positivity, support, and love in the lives of people you think need God's love. You will not only reflect well on God and Christianity by doing so, and fulfill His commands on how to act as His embodiment in the world, you better leave open the chance for dialogue.
That is something nice to read, at least.
Uh... nope. Being more likely to be religious does not directly cause nor correlate to holding bigoted views; one is not more inclined to believe homosexuality is a sin by their brain chemistry. The fuck are you even arguing? It's utter nonsense. You're making a fallacious leap from "more likely to be religious" (which itself is a baseless presumption) to "can't help but think homosexuality is a sin" so you can set up a false equivalence between being unable to help themselves believing homosexuality is a sin to actually being gay, and quite hinestly, it's ludicrous. All homosexuals are inclined (by nature, whatever its mechanism) to one specific unavoidable behavior, but the diversity of views among those who hold faith on homosexuaity (and other issues) make your comparison a complete farce. There are branches of Christianity that welcome LGBT people among them, even into the clergy, but being inclined to faith necessitates a bigoted view that can't be helped?
There have been so many things in the bible that have been retroactively updated to today's society or personally interpreted, I don't see why this is any different.
Well, God spoke through a donkey to Balaam, so it's worth a shot
edit: sry about the doublepost
Well, God spoke through a donkey to Balaam, so it's worth a shot
edit: sry about the doublepost
Well, God spoke through a donkey to Balaam, so it's worth a shot
edit: sry about the doublepost
What the fuck is this shit? I've seen it floating around Facebook a bunch recently and I don't get it. How can you love and accept your friends if you completely disagree with their lifestyle? How is this not still bigotry? I don't get it.