Recently, on a major Christian message board with 20.000 visitors weekly, I ran into two statements criticising the LGBT+ community and laws protecting their rights.
Here's the first one, 1):
It's a citation from Naturalnews, see The all-out assault on conservative thought has just begun , saying (among other things) “Biden firmly supports the Equality Act, which would outlaw discrimination against LGBT people. […], laws like this have been weaponized to punish Christians for refusing to celebrate same-sex weddings.”
This citation did not receive the slightest amount of criticism. Neither by the one who quoted it, not by anyone else on this board. Only agreement there.
And here comes the second, 2):
A special contributor linked homosexuality to the mark of the beast in writing about the UN development goals that, according to her, foster the advancement of the rule of the beast from Revelation 13:15-17. These goals promoted “an agenda that must be adhered to. For example - transgenderism for children, homosexuality, pedophilia, and abortion [...]” she said.
Yet, the people from the LGBT+ community can’t reply there.
LGBT+ people as well as any (other) non-believers or non-conventional people are transferred to an invisible subsection where they have posting privileges. However, in the main section they are no longer permitted to post once it is discovered that they are LGBT+, non-believing or other. This is the moment when they are separated into the hidden subsection.
In another major Christian board, which is even bigger in size, opinions that support being gay are banned.
Lack of free speech is what I consider to be the reason of why fake news are thriving in the first board where the quotes happened.
My opinion to 1)
The mentioned passage is fake news, as I see it. Naturalnews, as well as the poster in the Christian board, did not substanciate their claim giving sources.
Instead, to the best of my knowledge Christians may have been punished for not doing business to the LGBT+ people the way they would do to any other people. As opposed to being punished for reasons of not celebrating something.
In my opinion, Christians should be less opinionated against free speech in an attempt to get fake news in their communities challenged.
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Concerning 2),
associating homosexuality with the beast in Revelation 13:15-17 is grossly defamatory, as I see it. Homosexuality, in the eyes of the author, is merely seen as a tool of the evil rather than being part of the identity of many people.
Yet no chance for them to reply there.
Combining lack of free speech and defamatory content about the LGBT+ community is bullying, in my opinion.
The author did not explain what the UN have to do with pedophilia, either, as formulating a reproach of this dimension took her the length of one word only. Moreover, the author did not specify in which way homosexuality can be a part of a threatening agenda.
Making unsubstantiated accusations is disrespectful behavior, as I see it.
Furthermore, when they use the term of pedophilia for just anything… they don’t have vocabulary left when it comes to the real child abuse.
This is at least how I see the situation.
Thomas
Here's the first one, 1):
It's a citation from Naturalnews, see The all-out assault on conservative thought has just begun , saying (among other things) “Biden firmly supports the Equality Act, which would outlaw discrimination against LGBT people. […], laws like this have been weaponized to punish Christians for refusing to celebrate same-sex weddings.”
This citation did not receive the slightest amount of criticism. Neither by the one who quoted it, not by anyone else on this board. Only agreement there.
And here comes the second, 2):
A special contributor linked homosexuality to the mark of the beast in writing about the UN development goals that, according to her, foster the advancement of the rule of the beast from Revelation 13:15-17. These goals promoted “an agenda that must be adhered to. For example - transgenderism for children, homosexuality, pedophilia, and abortion [...]” she said.
Yet, the people from the LGBT+ community can’t reply there.
LGBT+ people as well as any (other) non-believers or non-conventional people are transferred to an invisible subsection where they have posting privileges. However, in the main section they are no longer permitted to post once it is discovered that they are LGBT+, non-believing or other. This is the moment when they are separated into the hidden subsection.
In another major Christian board, which is even bigger in size, opinions that support being gay are banned.
Lack of free speech is what I consider to be the reason of why fake news are thriving in the first board where the quotes happened.
My opinion to 1)
The mentioned passage is fake news, as I see it. Naturalnews, as well as the poster in the Christian board, did not substanciate their claim giving sources.
Instead, to the best of my knowledge Christians may have been punished for not doing business to the LGBT+ people the way they would do to any other people. As opposed to being punished for reasons of not celebrating something.
In my opinion, Christians should be less opinionated against free speech in an attempt to get fake news in their communities challenged.
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Concerning 2),
associating homosexuality with the beast in Revelation 13:15-17 is grossly defamatory, as I see it. Homosexuality, in the eyes of the author, is merely seen as a tool of the evil rather than being part of the identity of many people.
Yet no chance for them to reply there.
Combining lack of free speech and defamatory content about the LGBT+ community is bullying, in my opinion.
The author did not explain what the UN have to do with pedophilia, either, as formulating a reproach of this dimension took her the length of one word only. Moreover, the author did not specify in which way homosexuality can be a part of a threatening agenda.
Making unsubstantiated accusations is disrespectful behavior, as I see it.
Furthermore, when they use the term of pedophilia for just anything… they don’t have vocabulary left when it comes to the real child abuse.
This is at least how I see the situation.
Thomas