[quote author=Grungefuttock link=topic=21236.msg509814#msg509814 date=1204885404]
[quote author=Mr Moominpoops link=topic=21236.msg509747#msg509747 date=1204853961]
Oi kambrrshi! What a splendid thread!
Firstly, I'd like to disagree with Oncy. I can't find the original post but at one point he stated that there's a big difference between Ali's post and that of some other more high profile posters. I disagree. In fact, in his case (Ali) the curse of moronity has at least brought with it the gift of plain speaking. People who spout nonsense about the effect watching men kiss may have on children are subjecting us all to the most insidious and Daily Mailish crap of all. If you percieve men kissing as having a negative effect on children then what you're saying is that their behavious is very bad indeed - what else can you really mean if you think it damages our kids?
Hold the front page! The majority of members of the major religions don't think homosexual behaviour is morally acceptable! Whether you agree with them or not, it's scarcely a surprise. Entitled as you are to your opposite opinion, you're no more so than a Christian or Muslim is to his.
Secondly, everyone knows there's no basis for saying it 'turns kids gay'. You're gay or you're not (unless you're lucky enough to be bisexual). The only reason one could come to the conclusion that it does is if you yourself have felt strange yearnings, sparked by one man's affection for another. That's your own business, but just because you're (or have been) sexually confused doesn't mean that a young heterosexual man or a boy would be equally susceptible.
People are obviously very one-dimensional on your planet. Whether or not it's usual, whatever it does or doesn't say about the person's fundamental sexual orientation, adopting a gay lifestyle absolutely can be a choice - cf.(again) David Bowie in his early adulthood, to take just the most high profile example I can think of.
Thirdly, religion is something you choose to have. It's nothing at all like race or sexual orientation. Because it's a choice it's not unreasonable for people who have made the opposite choice to think your choice is really fucking stupid. If they thought you'd made a good choice, they'd make the same one. And here's a newsflash on religion - it's one of the main reasons why strangers still pick up weapons, even in the 21st freakin century, and kill each other.
There have been times, for various reasons, when I've wished it was as simple as that. Holding to what one thinks is right is by no means always easy. The "choice" you dismiss so glibly is as much and as little a choice as falling in love - in many ways it chooses you, not the other way round. And here's the Stop Press - religion is far and away the main reason, even in the 21st freaking century, why strangers give their time, their money and their lives to help each other too.
Lastly, Anita isn't boring.
Absolutely not.
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Very well said.
I do not believe in a religion, but believe in freedom of choice.
When did it become so fashionable for atheists to bash religion and religious people?
There is so much irony in this thread.