Re: How Should We Respond to Homo***uality?

On Mar 31, 6:41 pm, the suspect Matthew Johnson
<matthew_mem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> This is like saying, "everyone who has doubts about whether or not he
> should purchase a timeshare, should attend one of those free
> high-pressures sales presentations".
Poor analogy, as usual.

There's a big difference between a high-pressure timeshare
presentation and a GLBT-friendly church. In the former, someone is
trying to sell you something; the latter Christians (who happen to
have a different ***ual orientation) are wor****ping at a church. One
doesn't normally attend a sales presentation to get to know the sales
people.

> >When one gets to know these wonderful (often better people than
> >straights)
>
> Wow! Such obvious bias and prejudice! Yet you would have us believe
> they are "often better"?

Indeed, I've found them often better in terms of intelligence,
creativity, compassion and caring. My opinions are based on years of
personally associating with GLBT and straight folks. Whereas, your's
isn't.

> >folks he or she would be hard pressed to maintain their negative
> >opinions of gays and lesbians.
>
> Whereas if they believe they are all like you, they will keep their
> negative opinions?

People's opinions don't bother me and negative ones are almost always
based on ignorance.

> >To anyone who still thinks being gay is a choice: do you honestly
> >think someone would voluntarily subject him or herself to potential
> >taunting, ostracizing, discrimination, verbal or physical violence,
> >even murder?
>
> Yes. People make even stranger and more mysterious choices.

The differences being: 1) ***ual orientation is not a choice. Anyone
who believes otherwise has not read up on the science of ***ual
orientation that states it usually has genetic, hormonal and
environmental causes. 2) Being gay doesn't have the negative
consequences of consuming too much alcohol, abusing drugs, stealing,
etc. Indeed, any negative consequences to being gay come from
homophobes and those who have misguided beliefs (such as you).

> Besides: astrology doesn't make sense, yet you believe in that. So
> your plea here is all the more unconvincing.

Ah, still dredging up astrology. I'll repeat: my investigations into
astrology have proven to my satisfaction that it's valid. There are
just too many characteristics that astrology is right on concerning
people's personalities, character, etc for it to be coincidental.
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