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Discussion: I Don't Agree With Homosexuality
Member Since: 1/1/2013
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Originally posted by Team_Avatar
So I've kept my mouth shut on most of this discussion, but this SERIOUSLY went way too far over the line.
I cannot for the life of me understand how someone from a community that promotes acceptance, and tolerance and understanding, would be so damn rude against an entire group of people.
Excuse me, religion is not just for dumb hicks who bed their sisters. I myself am religious, and I am a freaking premed ChemBe engineer at Johns Hopkins, so don't generalize all religious people as people who are just not as enlightened as you, atheists. In my IB TOK class, we engaged in several discussions on the nature of religion, and I've taken philosophy classes that debated the very merit of religion. I've engaged academically with the notion, but ultimately I still believe in my religion. It's atheists like you who bully religious people just as much as the fanatical religious people used to bully you for your sexuality. The sheer hypocrisy of your actions speak for themselves. I've had several friends who've been atheist - one of my closest friends in high school was staunchly atheist - yet she respected my religious beliefs as I respected her decision to not have the same belief system as myself.
Religion is how I turn for guidance and hope, and support. Its my support system when I'm on my own or upset, and with all the messed up stuff in this world - school shootings, terrorist attacks, hate crimes - I have to believe that all of this is for a reason. Religion is how I get through the day.
So how DARE you judge me for that? I don't take kindly to people who mock my religion and question my intelligence?
That's my 0.02
PS. Also not homophobic. I'm an active ally on my campus, and one of my closest friends is gay so YES people - you can be religious and not a homophobe or be anti-homosexuality.
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You assume way too much in your post and I didn't judge anything nor generalize a religion or the people who believe in it. You are offended/feel attacked way too fast, but that's also very common in religion. You can say and feel whatever you want if you offend others, but if someone else is critical of religion all hell breaks loose. It's just a FACT that religion has always been used to keep people dumb/uneducated, I didn't say nowadays every religious person is being kept dumb/uneducated to the same degree... I honestly feel that the indoctrination with religion that starts from the moment you are born prevents religious people from seeing certain truths and the more religious and fanatic you are, the more you will follow the dogmas they were taught. Religion is the cause of over 80% of the wars in this world, I don't wish hate on anyway and I accept if people want to be religious, but they should keep it to themselves and not force it on others. Too bad most religious people do wish ill on gay people.
As you indicate yourself, you only use religion to make certain things easier to accept, you don't follow all the rules..
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Member Since: 12/11/2008
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Whoever says homosexuality is an option is just stupid and ignorant. If I had to choose, I would be straight, not gay.  Seriously, whoever said that, shut the **** up.
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Member Since: 4/17/2012
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It grinds my gears when people say it's a lifestyle, as if we choose to be gay.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I don't have time to read through all of this, but regardless of religion, regardless of how you were raised, if you disagree with homosexuality, you are homophobic. #EndThread #GaysBadYouMad #StayPressedStr8s
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Member Since: 8/22/2011
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Originally posted by Cherry
Homosexuality violates my religious views so I actually do not agree with it. It's a life choice that I don't partake in and would rather others not, but I can only live my own life.
I don't think of myself as a homophobe. I'm not scared of gay people and I don't hate them either. I love everyone!
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You should know that homosexuality is NOT a choice...
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Member Since: 1/4/2014
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Originally posted by Team_Avatar
PS. Also not homophobic. I'm an active ally on my campus, and one of my closest friends is gay so YES people - you can be religious and not a homophobe or be anti-homosexuality.
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Guess I'll be seeing you at the next pride rally then?
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Roberto
Whoever says homosexuality is an option is just stupid and ignorant. If I had to choose, I would be straight, not gay. Seriously, whoever said that, shut the **** up. |
Ikr. I don't get how is it hard to understand that you don't choose your sexuality. If I like the same gender, why do I have to FORCE myself into liking theopposite gender (which is not possible in my case). doesn't the church preach accepting what God has given us? Those who say that they are attracted to the same gender, but convinced themselves into being with the opposie gender. Aren't they still gay? Gays who are pretending to be straight. And then, they will condemn the homosexuals for not doing the same sad and horrible thing. In the end, they're still homosexuals, no matter how they lived their lives.
I believe that sexuality isn't defined by who you have sex with, but it is from who you TRULY long to share intimacy. I can only wish that I can actually CHOOSE to be straight.
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Member Since: 1/5/2014
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Ultimately, it's all down to us whether we ACCEPT (not agree with) it or not because I have heard both sides of this story in different churches. One says it's okay and the other says it's terribly wrong. I think it's kind of like how some religions believe in monogamy and some encourage men to have multiple wives and families (provided, of course, that they can support them). At the end of the day, it's the values and beliefs you were raised with that make up your outlook in all these little 'debates' we insist on having. (Which, in my opinion is not at all necessary. I mean, come on! Ppl are committing thousands of crimes a day, starving and dying of thirst all around the world and you think THIS is a major issue?) You can't DISAGREE with homosexuality, just like I can't disagree with the fact that we are human beings. Either accept it or not, just frigging respect the fact that other people have their own rights to their opinion and stop preaching about how unholy it is when God himself has said that each one of us have and will sin. It's his right and his right alone to judge us, condemn us or forgive us. Let the one who has never sinned cast the first stone or sth to that effect 
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Member Since: 11/27/2010
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If you don't agree with or ACCEPT homosexuals then you are a homophobe. It's cut and dry. People like to say out of one side of their mouths they don't agree with homosexuals but somehow they aren't homophobes. It's not even another person's place to accept or not accept whether or not you are gay. There is nothing to agree with. It just is. Let people be who they are and you be who you are.
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Member Since: 1/3/2014
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Those who disagree with homosexuality are usually religious, and I disagree with religion, as it is a choice if not indoctrination to be religious unlike homosexuality, which is something many people struggle with because it is considered to be wrong and unnatural according to religious fanatics, as if the religion they are a part of is some sort of natural, earthly thing, which it's not. With that said, the only reason anybody would agree with something as natural as homosexuality is because something as unnatural as religion has brainwashed them. #poordat
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Member Since: 12/31/2010
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Originally posted by 4AM.
I don't agree with enchiladas
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Serves you right for shading such an iconic food tbh
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Cherry
Homosexuality violates my religious views so I actually do not agree with it. It's a life choice that I don't partake in and would rather others not, but I can only live my own life.
I don't think of myself as a homophobe. I'm not scared of gay people and I don't hate them either. I love everyone!
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by BGKC
Those who disagree with homosexuality are usually religious, and I disagree with religion, as it is a choice if not indoctrination to be religious unlike homosexuality, which is something many people struggle with because it is considered to be wrong and unnatural according to religious fanatics, as if the religion they are a part of is some sort of natural, earthly thing, which it's not. With that said, the only reason anybody would agree with something as natural as homosexuality is because something as unnatural as religion has brainwashed them. #poordat
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spill IT
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Cherry
Homosexuality violates my religious views so I actually do not agree with it. It's a life choice that I don't partake in and would rather others not, but I can only live my own life.
I don't think of myself as a homophobe. I'm not scared of gay people and I don't hate them either. I love everyone!
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I don't know why you were banned..and i'm HOPING it's not for this post.
If so, this is living proof that different forms of opinions on an INDIVIDUALS lifestyle cannot be taken into account or respected.
To the gay community, if you want Christians and different opinions to respect you, then ****ING RESPECT them. You pull **** like this and then whine saying "No one respects us". OBVIOUSLY, this person and others have affected you SO MUCH that you completely silence what they have to say instead of respecting them! But then turn around and expect EVERYBODY on earth to do you different..for you.
Pathetic.
You can't even have a mature discussion on WHY they believe so BECAUSE IT HURTS YOUR FEELINGS SO ****ING BAD.
grow some.
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Member Since: 2/2/2014
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Nowadays people don't let others have opinions if it against what they believe in. Even tho I actually do not agree with homosexuality Its probably because of the society i was born in. Im not a homophone or anything and i have a gay friend and i know that its not a choice. I love and support everyone tbh. Glad to see that new rights for gay people are coming out.
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Member Since: 8/4/2012
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Honestly, I don't accept it because of the Holy Bible.
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Member Since: 8/4/2012
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Originally posted by Roberto
Whoever says homosexuality is an option is just stupid and ignorant. If I had to choose, I would be straight, not gay. Seriously, whoever said that, shut the **** up. |
You can be drawn to the same sex. Or sometimes you can choose to be attractive to the same sex. But you can't be born gay. That is stupid too me.
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Member Since: 9/25/2011
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Originally posted by ririfan21
Honestly, I don't accept it because of the Holy Bible.
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Then I hope you don't eat shellfish, have a tattoo, or wear polyester, the Bible forbids that too.
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