Posted on 07/06/2015 3:53:06 PM PDT by NYer
Catholic ping!
fear of being made fun of as out of step etc...
Nothing new.
I’m pro their conversion from their perverted life style and back to what God intended.
A lot of people have gay friends or gay family members so they see it more as a civil rights issue than a moral issue.
No in the butt.
I’m not. Homos are the modern-day black rats of Calcutta, spreading disease - physical, mental and spiritual.
Straights that are pro gay are probably opposed to any limits on their own sexuality.
They’re probably pro abortion, pro divorce, pro cohabitation, pro extramarital sex, etc.
It just follows from this. And if they feel inclined to act on same sex feelings, they don’t feel the inhibiting influence of traditional morality here, either. I think that explains why it seems there’s more gay people these days.
In short, you nailed it.
“Why are so many straight people pro gay”.
They are either closet homosexuals themselves or atheists that could care less about any morality talk. With homosexuals it’s all about sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, and more sex. This ridiculous “LoveWins” nonsense after the fake marriage ruling should have been “SodomyWins”. There is nothing about “love” when a man sodomizes another man, OR WOMAN! There is nothing about “love” when a woman straps on a rubber dildo and pretends to have intercourse with another. This is deviate sexual behavior. And the Supreme Court legalizing perversion does not mean it’s still not perverted sex.
Uh ... Not sure how to respond.
Right now, this is a herd phenomenon. It's a bandwagon that people all over the country are getting on because everybody else is. Deep psychological explanations based on the specifics of the moment really don't work. At another time, people would be embracing a different movement or phenomenon, just because it was popular.
Just like junior high school cliques.
The triumph of political correctness and militant gays leveraging the federal courts
In the case of Catholics, who rely on their priest to tell them what the bible says, and few of them bother to attend religious services, so wouldn't know even if their priest did repeat the clear scriptures that people who commit homosexual sins are an abomination of God and those who agree with them and keep company with homosexuals are judged the same, especially if they claim to be believers!
For certain, most evangelical Protestants know those verses in both the Old and New Testaments (in Jesus' own words as well) and also know the penalty for those sins. Our pastors (real evangelical Protestants), if they avoid teaching biblical principles, need to find other day jobs.
I don't know what is expected from Catholic leaders but I do know many tended to look the other way on homosexual priests who molested young teen boys, which God not only considers an abomination but the case of the leaders, God says it would be better not to have been born.
Pretty clear association of sin and really bad punishment.
What a load. Straight people who support gays just might love their family member WHO WAS BORN THAT WAY.
Yea that’s it Catholic doctrine is responsible. Because the entire continent of Europe was gay prior to Martin Luther inventing Protestantism when he began espousing heresy throughout Germany. Crawl back in your hole.
I agree. Americans are big hearted and wish to be inclusive and welcome. As a result, Americans have difficulty with excluding disease, vice and error.
I like how in the frontier days in 1850’s Kansas the locals would hang anyone caught stealing horses or picking fights while drunk. Tough sheriffs with quick punishment need to return.
An excellent essay.
Deeply insightful.
I can cut through all that chatter and give you the short~n`sweet:
There are two types of straights that are accepting of phags; those who never come into contact with them and those who are constantly around them.
Those are never come into contact with them don’t care because it’s no sweat off their brow.
Those who are constantly around them are more accepting because it’s the path of least resistance when you’re around hyper-neurotic people.
If wearing purple socks meant approbation from friends, family, coworkers, but most of all the media, you would see purple socks worn by multitudes.
We have many maladies affecting individual and collective psyches but the greatest is still one of the oldest: an external locus of control that drives people at a primal, instinctive herd level to seek acceptance and approval.
In an era of plentiful food, clean water, warmth, shelter, etc. all of the basic needs in Maslow’s hierarchy are satisfied, leaving more time for and focus on gratification of the ego.
There is a small percentage of the ‘politically correct’ who know full well that they are cynically embracing this or that cause because they view it as a means to an end: a job, tenure, public office, etc.
The much larger percentage are those who would advocate - as vociferously as necessary - the purchasing and wearing of the proverbial purple socks - simply because they see others doing the same. If homosexuality were inherently good, natural, productive, beneficial etc. then it would not need pride movements, legal representation, attacks on faith and institutions thereof, etc. It would also not require the combined might of the courts, the media, etc.
It’s also a demonstration of how formal education can be corrupted to teach the antitheses of history, health, etc.
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