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*NOT an anti-Christian comment*
'Gay groups have reacted furiously to a decision by the usually liberal Los Angeles Times to carry an advert describing homosexuality as a curable disease. The $50,000 ad was placed by a group called Exodus, which claims to have been "curing" homosexuals since 1976. It features the tesitmony of 36-year old Randy Thomas, who says that he is no longer gay after undergoing radical Christian therapy. The paper's decision to accept the advert has been denounced as "a spit in the faces of gays" by angry readers. '
Well, you can guess my feelings about that. Anyway,
'The track record of Exodus is not entirely successful. The group's two founders had to renounce their own teachings after falling in love and moving in together
(The Week)
I re-iterate that this is not anti-Christian or whatever. I just found it as a funny example of humans and the strange things that happen around us.
'Gay groups have reacted furiously to a decision by the usually liberal Los Angeles Times to carry an advert describing homosexuality as a curable disease. The $50,000 ad was placed by a group called Exodus, which claims to have been "curing" homosexuals since 1976. It features the tesitmony of 36-year old Randy Thomas, who says that he is no longer gay after undergoing radical Christian therapy. The paper's decision to accept the advert has been denounced as "a spit in the faces of gays" by angry readers. '
Well, you can guess my feelings about that. Anyway,
'The track record of Exodus is not entirely successful. The group's two founders had to renounce their own teachings after falling in love and moving in together
(The Week)
I re-iterate that this is not anti-Christian or whatever. I just found it as a funny example of humans and the strange things that happen around us.
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Yes, homosexuality is another way of thinking. But that's not what you said earlier. You suggested that is was a disease, ie. something inflictied upon 'normal people'. I'm all for free thinking, but those two comments were retarded. If you prefer to think of normal as 'what most people think' then go ahead. I'm just saying that your point of view as expressed earlier was worded to be quite offensive.
Okay, for the third time, it isn't my point of view.
Got that yet?
It was a point of view that could be used in this discussion, not once did I say 'I think...'. I was merely offering it as a discussion point.
And no, it isn't retarded at all to think of homosexuality as a 'disease of the brain', there's plenty of evidence to support it if you'd care to go and talk to some professional psychologists.
It just isn't a view I agree with.
Got that yet?
It was a point of view that could be used in this discussion, not once did I say 'I think...'. I was merely offering it as a discussion point.
And no, it isn't retarded at all to think of homosexuality as a 'disease of the brain', there's plenty of evidence to support it if you'd care to go and talk to some professional psychologists.
It just isn't a view I agree with.
gamesfreak wrote:
> Men are born to be attracted to women, and visa versa. To be
> attracted to the same sex has surely got to be some sort of mental
> thing, correct?
Not at all. You say we've been put on this planet to reproduce, that's a very Christian way of thinking. I wasn't put on this planet for any reason other than that of my parents having sex, therefore I don't have any role to fulfull. Whether or not I choose to have sex with men or woman is my own decision, not a mental illness as you so succinctly claim. There is no 'normal' as you put it, only what society deems to be normal.
Just because I have a dick, doesn't mean I was born to reproduce.
> Men are born to be attracted to women, and visa versa. To be
> attracted to the same sex has surely got to be some sort of mental
> thing, correct?
Not at all. You say we've been put on this planet to reproduce, that's a very Christian way of thinking. I wasn't put on this planet for any reason other than that of my parents having sex, therefore I don't have any role to fulfull. Whether or not I choose to have sex with men or woman is my own decision, not a mental illness as you so succinctly claim. There is no 'normal' as you put it, only what society deems to be normal.
Just because I have a dick, doesn't mean I was born to reproduce.
I would have thought it was the other way around. Christians aren't going to beleive our aim is continuation of the species, they think it's some higher purpose crap that God has planned for us.
If you support evolution then whatever we are now, we evolved from a species that did live only for self preservation and reproduction.
If you support evolution then whatever we are now, we evolved from a species that did live only for self preservation and reproduction.
Hmph.
I was talking to a friend about this last night.
Like I said below, I was probably a bit passive by declaring it a "disease". It isn't an inflicted disease, it's surely got to be some sort of mental thing.
And Snuggly, I know we don't have to reproduce, but we have the ability to do it, right?
I know this might sound a tad, well, excessive, but I've always believed that we are always looking for a potential mate, like the basics of animals, to put it lightly.
To be attracted to the same sex is a different concept, you have have the right mentality for it, that's what I think anyway. I'm not saying that "gay people are not normal", It's more of a change in mentality.
I was talking to a friend about this last night.
Like I said below, I was probably a bit passive by declaring it a "disease". It isn't an inflicted disease, it's surely got to be some sort of mental thing.
And Snuggly, I know we don't have to reproduce, but we have the ability to do it, right?
I know this might sound a tad, well, excessive, but I've always believed that we are always looking for a potential mate, like the basics of animals, to put it lightly.
To be attracted to the same sex is a different concept, you have have the right mentality for it, that's what I think anyway. I'm not saying that "gay people are not normal", It's more of a change in mentality.
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