Remember, this guy is blogging for Hardball on MSNBC's website. And he reports for MSNBC every day.
Bias? What media bias?
(And yes, I know the headline doesn't match, sorry. If I had used the proper headline nobody would have recognized the point of the post, so I changed it. There's only so much you can do with 100 characters.)
The website gives Shuster's email as DShuster@msnbc.com, but that's the "dump box" for the little people. His true email address, which he actually reads and uses for his daily work, is david.shuster@msnbc.com.
Stoning...
Let's start with him. Smarmy arse snot.
It is a choice, period. Having said that, I will leave them alone with their choice and they should leave me alone with it also.
How does this statement keep gettng repeated without any proof to support it? It assumes no difference between those that are supposedly "wired" and those that are led into a bad choice and, of course, does not allow for the reality of so many who have tried homosexuality and then left it behind. The number of those who are "wired" is not established at any such percentage by any proof that anyone ever cites who asserts this claim which proof will stand up to examination.
No, the question being addressed is whether a basic building block of society must be fundamentally altered because it is deemed by a few people to be unfair. It has nothing whatsoever to do with hatred toward anyone's lifestyle.
Dems are historically illiterate. The Republican Party has its roots in the Abolition movement, and the Abolition movement has its roots in the church.
The Dems, on the other hand, historically are the party of slavery, and the Ku Klux Klan, and Jim Crow racial repression, and continue to be the party of ethnic division, while the Republicans continue to be where they always were, the party of color-blind citizenship.
They are called Democrats.
Heterosexuals, homosexuals -- Last I checked, there's no sign hanging around their neck. They choose who they wish to have relationships with. That's a choice.
We choose not to legalize their relationships with the term 'marriage.' Life sucks, move on to something else.. The continued whining makes bigger and bigger backlashes.
How many times do we have to hear this claim that the Bible only speaks to homosexuality in the Old Testament? Check out Romans 1.
On the question of choice, it must be noted that all sex but rape is voluntary and thus every sexual act involves a conscious choice. A person's inclination toward a form of sexual conduct may not, for any number of reasons, be consciously chosen, but the mere existence of desire does not justify the act. To accept otherwise would be to validate adultery and pedophilia. Society has the right to require people to suppress harmful desires, even if it is difficult for them to do so.
It is something wired into the genes of approximately 3 or 4 percent of the human population in every single culture on the planet.
There is plenty of evidence that homosexuality is not innate. There is a very considerable body of testimony from tens of thousands of men and women who once lived as homosexuals. These ex-"gays" have renounced their former lifestyles and many have become heterosexual in self-identification and desire, while others have stopped at the point of comfort with their own gender and freedom from same-sex desires.
The "gay" movement's challenge to former homosexuals to, in essence, prove they aren't still innately "gay" is the height of absurdity since homosexual immutability was never proven in the first place.
Why is the question of immutability so important? Because if homosexuality is not innate, it must be acquired. And if it can be acquired, we dare not allow homosexuality to be legitimized to our children. If there remains any shadow of doubt as to the cause of homosexuality, we must err on the side of protecting our children. Indeed we must actively discourage them from viewing homosexuality as safe and normal, when in fact it is demonstrably neither safe nor normal. It bears noting here that normalcy is functioning according to nature or design. Normalcy is not based on popular opinion.
But speciousness is the measure of the day and fools people -- tickles their ears.
Didn't he once work for Fox News Channel?
I think he was involved in a "parking lot incident" a few years ago. Might have been covering Florida 2000.
Didn't see him after that.
Keep it up, Schuster. Liberals equating butt-piracy with slavery is waking up a whole lot of blacks.
This guy has the Old Testament. If he had considered what is said in the New, he may have been slower to speak. The Bible, in full context, stands alone with no crutch.
i am guessing that this guy hasn't a clue what the difference is between the old testament and the new testament, yet he perseveres in quoting scripture, out of context. i too would like to see society move forward, just as jesus christ moved us from the law of the old testament to the "love thy neighbor as thyself" of the new testament. (note to schuster: the last quote is correct. it does not say, "love thy neighbor by endorsing big gov't" in the bible)
As far as I know we've never stoned people in America.
We've hanged, shot and electrocuted them, not to mention today's lethal injection.
Going back to colonial days, we occasionally burned people alive or and pressed them to death.
But I am unaware of any stonings.