Posted on 04/14/2018 5:17:57 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
Lost his mind , lost his life.
I beg to differ.
They have no more rights today than they ever had.
They suffer fewer acts of discrimination now than ever before and they have more political power than they merit by their number.
This is so sad. Unrepentant sin over a lifetime caused his tragic end. Living a lifetime of lies and deceit caused this tragedy. Prayers for the people he left behind.
Exactly. The guy was nutty, but all we can do is pray for him, since we, unlike Francis, believe that eternity is eternity and the soul is immortal and in this flesh we will rise again.
So what was the real reason he killed himself? Someone like that has got to have done a lot of bad things in his time.
That would not surprise me at all.
They don't have any more moral rights. The way I interpret it, in biblical times, they had a right not to be abused and every right a righteous person had. They were stoned to death, when caught/exposed, but that was their legal system aligned to the moral law. And stoning applied to other sinners, adultery, grave disobedience by their young, probably other cases. Some of it seems primitive to me, a woman sexually attacked in a field, if she yelled it was her attacker; otherwise they both were stoned, I think it required two witnesses. And the tests the priests used to determine some crimes. But God was all powerful then as now.
But evidently this gay lawyer committed suicide by self-immolation because of his environmental activism, not gay rights. In a Brooklyn park. I guess I'm not going looking for just what he was upset with the environment. If it isn't a hoax, if he'd have asked Alexa about chemtrails, he would have gotten the conspiracy answer until amazon and/or apple intervened and changed it.
Do we apply a numbers test to political power (although I do agree with you but so do other groups)? The Amish have religious rights and exemptions because of their beliefs. Their numbers are small as a percentage of the general population.
But your points are valid; I suppose it depends on TPTB or how you look at things.
Nicely put.
I hate suicide.
“We can only hope that he has started a Progressive fad.”
It’s the new prog Tide Pod Challenge!
Seems like a queer thing to do. The question is, “ Can a burning faggot in Brooklyn cause a tornado in Texas?”
Thanks. It is simply a perfect murder set up.
Almost too stupidly obvious to be a LAW AND ORDER episode!
Even too dumb for a LAW AND ORDER script.
>>Like speed, insanity kills.<<
Speaking of Speed, I wonder how much drugs played in this and similar insanity.
Burning oneself to protest global warming, plus being homosexual is queer enough. But my money is still on drug abuse.
What a sick world we’re plugged into.
Well, that's, umm, the original definition after all.
Looking through responses. Liked #12, and your third line especially.
I had the same surreal sense.
They no longer have equal rights; they have special privileges.
Maybe, in his mind, he knew sin equals pollution, and wrote the truth in his final moments.
I take no pleasure in this.
Having said that, he devoted himself to championing something that is morally and mentally perverse; I suspect it helped him along the way toward this end.
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