Pah said:
And some know otherwise. The fact of living in the United States is that it is the majority of the members of the Supreme Court, interpretating precedent, who have the final say.
That litnay was a strawman/red herring the first time we heard it. Rights become freedoms in line with the principle of reciposity.Our society recognizes behaviors within an acceptible range (specified by constitutional, secular law). I'm sure that all Christian behaviors are acceptible including those of the homosexual Christian. But please remember that a freedom practised by a few is more a privilege than a universal American freedom. It's not a freedom until all have it.An unequivicable yes to both querstions
Good post Pah,
Victor said:
Do you feel punished Maize?
~Victor
Maize has answered this question for herself, Victor, but it greatly saddened me when I saw it today.
I am really surprised that you should ask it. If I was homosexual, right now, I think I would be one of the most angry people in the World. As a Christian, we are all children of God; we all have (depending from which part of the world we come from) different hardships to go through in life. We accept those.
I think that the ethiopian child born in misery, to an undernourished Mother, with little chance of making it to adulthood has a 'burden' put upon him/her - but he/she
probably doesn't realize it. That's not an excuse; what I think that means is, that we, who come from nice warm homes, have a duty to help the poor, the sick, the hungry. It
ought to be a natural response in us to help these people.
It doesn't happen theough, does it ? - Oh yes, we dig our hands in our pockets, with regularity, and then look away from the TV screen when they pan in on these people next time - besides, it's someone else's problem (we have done our bit, and given money to charity). OK, so the rescue system doesn't work properly, for a variety of reasons, but at least we try.
Next to our own comfy plush homes (I know that isn't everyone in the West, but there should be no excuse to be needy - we technically have a welfare state that should take care of this, in toto) ; sure we have our own crosses to bear, we live in a pressurized society, where stress and consumer needs are our problems.
How would you feel, had you been born, with a 'difference' from others - such as homosexuality ? how would you feel, surrounded by heterosexuals, all telling you that you are a pervert, that you are distgusting, that you should be denied the only type of love that you can feel ? - relegated to loneliness, to being treated as someone to avoid, refused the same legal protection that would be afforded to every Heterosexual if you enter into a 'sinful' relationship with another of your kind ?
I am not aiming this all specifically at you Victor - you are the poor butt of this, because you posed a question to Maize the answer to which I would have thought anyone (especially a Christian) would have realized what the only reply could be; this is aimed at every single anty Gay person. Put yourself in their shoes, and think how you would feel, Please.