After his rant on black women, I'm honestly not surprised in the least that he's homophobic as well. He's just ignorant, period.
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Originally posted by BeYonceTX
Im not homophobic i have more than a few gay family members.im all for the gays and there rights but marriage is crossing the line.sorry my opinion.
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How can you claim to not be homophobic and then say that having a basic civil right is crossing the line? That's like saying "oh I'm not racist, I just think allowing interracial marriage is crossing the line". Which btw, lots of white people who harbor racist views always use the "I have black friends, so I can't be racist" excuse so many times that it has become a punchline in of itself. You're essentially doing the same thing here.
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Originally posted by unbothered
Not everyone believes in gay marriage. I hate how if you don't, you're considered homophobic or anti-gay.
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I've yet to hear one argument against gay marriage that had any grain of logic to it
Most arguments against it are based on religious beliefs, which pretty much renders said argument null. When any one person can come up with a really good reason for being opposed to gay marriage, then I'll respect that position and not consider the person intolerant for holding it.
And as for people who keep arguing that homosexuality is a sin because it's in the Bible, let me all remind you that:
A) That book has more contradictions than a Britney stan.
B) Damn near everything people do today is a sin in that book. Even the most mundane of things (like the shellfish example that was just brought up.)
C) It also condones things that most people with a conscience abhor today.
Not to mention that sinning is a choice. Homosexuality on the other hand, is as much a choice as skin or eye color is. It's something you're
born with. You
cannot help it no matter what you do. Gay people have been discriminated against for
ages. They've endured forcing themselves into sham marriages for their own protection as well as in an attempt to force themselves to be straight, being committed to mental institutions, being assaulted, locked up or KILLED because of their orientation, ostracism from their own families and communities, among many other horrible things, and in a lot of parts of the world today they still do. Who in their right mind would actually
want to subject themselves to all of this? Isn't pretty ****ing clear at this point that this isn't at all a choice when one looks at the crazy amount of bigotry they have to deal with? Not to mention that homosexuality is found in the animal kingdom as well. People need to accept that God clearly doesn't disapprove of homosexuality if he allows people and animals to be born with it.