Because what you believe is part of a much larger system that wields power. That power affects people. Its voice joins the chorus of many who believe as you do, and that voice harms the gay community through dehumanizing messages. Additionally, you identify as Christian. I too am Christian, so what you say as a Christian reflects on the rest of the body — including me. That’s how the body of Christ works.
Yeah? Go ask your pastor if Mormons are Christians.
I don't have to wait for your response, because I know what it will be.
You don’t have to change your beliefs. I don’t care if you believe that robots are stealing your luggage at the airport. But when someone comes out and states publicly (with some credibility behind it) that they believe you’re “wrong” because of who you are, it stings, doesn’t it?
G'head. If you didn't believe I was wrong, you'd be a member of the CoJCoLDS.
My only objection is that you seem to want to force me to change my beliefs...or rather, you want to force the CoJCoLDS to change its doctrine and practices to approve and accept you WITHIN our doctrine and practices, even though you don't share them.
You know, like the government did when they didn't like us being polygamists?
You don't think we are right? Fine. You don't believe we are right. No problem. Just don't tell me that I HAVE to change everything I believe in order to approve of you, even though you will never approve of me, or believe as I do. You simply do not have that authority, or that right.
Remember, I'm not demanding that you (general you...just to prevent another bit of silliness) change YOUR beliefs and actions to accomodate my beliefs.
Ever since I called you out, your posts have become terse, strained, and outraged. Imagine how it must feel to be told that who you are is sin.
I have become terse, strained and outraged for two reasons; one of which actually has no connection to you specifically, or to this topic, except tangentially.
I am 'terse, strained and outraged" because you are DEMANDING that I change EVERYTHING I believe in to accommodate you and your beliefs, when you do not believe as I do, and when you belittle, insult and denigrate me because I believe differently. EVEN though I have made it very clear that I accept gay married couples as who they are, do not discriminate against them in any way, and frankly, never have.
You INSIST that we change our beliefs so that gay married couples may be 'sealed' in our Temples, when there aren't any gay married couples who would want to do that and when I can pretty much guarantee you that I would be asked NOT to take communion in your church, unless your church is a whale of a lot more inclusive than the vast majority of evangelical or orthodox Christian churches. It would require a change of doctrine for us that would change everything about our beliefs. It would destroy them. You say you know about the LDS...how is it that you don't know THAT?
Believe as you want. But the moment you bray your beliefs in public, they become the public’s affair and subject to critique.
"Critique?" Fine.
Calling me prejudiced, with a 'sense of entitlement,' and what next, 'white supremacist?" Others have called me that for the crime of disagreeing with them politically. You have called me names. I haven't done that to you. YOU have told me that I am, basically, evil incarnate for believing differently from you. I have not done that to you.
but I have noticed that many of you don't seem to understand that double standards aren't really good things. You object strenuously because I say that...if one is LDS, then homosexual sex is sinful. You think that is horrible.
But you have no problems at all calling me every horrible name under the heavens. "Entitled,' "discriminatory" "Brayer" "dehumanizer,' discriminatory...what next?