Fundimentalist idiots are suing for the right to be bigots.
I find bigotry and intollerance of any kind to be repulsive. Racism, sexism, homophobia. It's all the same, and one is no different than the other. In my mind, bigotry is bigotry is bigotry. So this story got my blood boiling.
Okay. I equate this with racism. Why? Because all bigots are cut from the same cloth. These are people who need someone, anyone, to hate, to attack, to discriminate against. If racism were still acceptable, black Americans would be their target of choice. If anti-Semitism were, they'd be going after Jews. Since homophobia is the last socially-acceptable form of bigotry, it's where they've turned their hatred.
Plus, their is the fact that such serious homophobia is nothing more than repressed homosexuality anyway.
However, this comment in particular drew my attention, and is what prompted this entry.
If these idiots and brainwashed sheep want to ignore the mountains of evidence showing that sexual orientation is, at least partially, determined before birth, I can't help them. They are using the same approach they use on the Bible. Ignoring everything that they find 'inconvienient' (such as all that 'Love thy Neighbor', 'Turn the Other Cheek' stuff Jesus spoke of) and only using what best reinforces their bigotry.
However, that comment makes the idea of them winning almost ammusing.
What they convieniantly ignore, in the argument that sexual orientation is a 'choice', is the fact that Christianity, like all religions, is a 'choice' too. No one is born into a religion, you have to CHOOSE to follow it. So, if a 'choice', like sexual orientation, cannot be protected, neither can be religion.
If they succeed in their attempt, if they remove discrimination protection from gay and lesbian individuals, then what other people, those like me who believe in equality, need to do is turn their arguments against them, and seek to remove protections from religions like Christianity, on the grounds that religion cannot be protected because it's a choice. Just to make a statement.
Somehow, I think you'll have the Fundies screaming to try to stop it, to protect their own choice, while attempting to destroy anothers choice.
It'll reveal the Fundimentalist Christians as the two-faced hypocrites we already know they are.
Okay. I equate this with racism. Why? Because all bigots are cut from the same cloth. These are people who need someone, anyone, to hate, to attack, to discriminate against. If racism were still acceptable, black Americans would be their target of choice. If anti-Semitism were, they'd be going after Jews. Since homophobia is the last socially-acceptable form of bigotry, it's where they've turned their hatred.
Plus, their is the fact that such serious homophobia is nothing more than repressed homosexuality anyway.
However, this comment in particular drew my attention, and is what prompted this entry.
But he draws a distinction that infuriates gay rights activists when he argues that sexual orientation is different — a lifestyle choice, not an inborn trait.
If these idiots and brainwashed sheep want to ignore the mountains of evidence showing that sexual orientation is, at least partially, determined before birth, I can't help them. They are using the same approach they use on the Bible. Ignoring everything that they find 'inconvienient' (such as all that 'Love thy Neighbor', 'Turn the Other Cheek' stuff Jesus spoke of) and only using what best reinforces their bigotry.
However, that comment makes the idea of them winning almost ammusing.
What they convieniantly ignore, in the argument that sexual orientation is a 'choice', is the fact that Christianity, like all religions, is a 'choice' too. No one is born into a religion, you have to CHOOSE to follow it. So, if a 'choice', like sexual orientation, cannot be protected, neither can be religion.
If they succeed in their attempt, if they remove discrimination protection from gay and lesbian individuals, then what other people, those like me who believe in equality, need to do is turn their arguments against them, and seek to remove protections from religions like Christianity, on the grounds that religion cannot be protected because it's a choice. Just to make a statement.
Somehow, I think you'll have the Fundies screaming to try to stop it, to protect their own choice, while attempting to destroy anothers choice.
It'll reveal the Fundimentalist Christians as the two-faced hypocrites we already know they are.
posted by Obsidian at 12:11 PM
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