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Opposition to abortion is already considered a bar to high office, at least in the minds of most US Senators. Opposition to "gay rights" is really just a complementary litmus test.
1 posted on 07/14/2007 12:24:51 PM PDT by madprof98
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Why is it not permissible to criticize homosexuality?

Here’s what gets me — There is a lot of talk in recent years about “safe sex” and criticism of heterosexuals who are promiscuous and spread sexually transmitted diseases. They are spreading diseases and having unplanned pregnancies, and are criticized for doing so. Random heterosexual sexual behavior can have bad consequences.

Why then, can’t we criticize the homosexual behaviors that spread diseases and have bad consequences? Why can’t we talk about certain dangers of homosexual behavior, just as we’re allowed to speak about certain dangers of certain heterosexual behavior?

I think there is a double standard involved, and we’re not supposed to criticize anything related to homosexuality, even if it has to do with dangers to their health. Instead of focusing on risky behaviors, all too often the homosexual community lashes out at people like Ronald Reagan who allegedly didn’t do enough to fight AIDS.


2 posted on 07/14/2007 12:45:14 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

This seems to be getting awfully close to a religious test, especially when the paper he wrote that is being used in the litmus test was written for his Methodist denomination.

3 posted on 07/14/2007 12:51:37 PM PDT by seowulf
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Holsinger also wrote a white paper for the denomination 16 years ago on [...] the biological complementarity of the human sexes. [...] "Over the last 20 years, a clearer understanding of these issues has been achieved."

We've learned that the human sexes aren't actually complementary?

4 posted on 07/14/2007 12:58:16 PM PDT by Murray the R
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I hate to say this, but I hope Bush pulls the nomination. The United Methodist Church needs him to stay on the Judicial Council. We are just starting to turn back the tide, and he is a reliably sane vote.


6 posted on 07/14/2007 1:06:03 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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RFK Jr. also called anyone who questioned the scientific theories of man made global warming a “traitor” to the US government (there is no other kind of treason).

The Stalinists on the Left are getting ready to criminalize political dissent.


9 posted on 07/14/2007 1:08:19 PM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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Thay, thouldn’t that be thibboleth?


10 posted on 07/14/2007 1:08:51 PM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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The problem is that we don’t have any politicians who are willing to stand up and fight this garbage head on. That’s the problem. The only way this will become a litmus test is if we LET IT.


17 posted on 07/14/2007 1:15:29 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (Thompson / Hunter in 2008)
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19 posted on 07/14/2007 1:55:18 PM PDT by Gritty (These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own-GK Chesterton)
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The early church did not shy away from proclaiming a biblical sexual ethic in the midst of a promiscuous and perverted culture, but we don't have evidence to suggest that licentious Romans said, "See how these Christians hate homosexual behavior." Instead, non-Christians reportedly said, "Look how they love one another."

Roman homosexuality wasn't about love; it was about dominance. The homo-eroticism to which Paul referred in Romans was Greek in character.

27 posted on 07/14/2007 7:52:18 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Duncan Hunter for President)
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28 posted on 07/14/2007 7:55:52 PM PDT by narses ("Freedom is about authority." - Rudolph Giuliani)
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I said years ago the leftist death culture was giving up on abortion (having seen their defeat coming) and was pushing the "homosexual agenda."

They'll see defeat on this, too. The more they force the issue, the more the truth will, shall we say, "come out of the closet."

30 posted on 07/14/2007 10:40:51 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Life is an episode of Green Acres. THEN you die.)
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"Homosexual Rights in Iran"

In the end, the west may fall, and Christianity may fall...but the gay mafia will not prevail. In attacking Christianity, they've made a target of the only religion on earth that would patiently tolerate their evil waiting for them to repent and be saved.
32 posted on 07/14/2007 10:48:44 PM PDT by Old_Mil (Duncan Hunter in 2008! A Veteran, A Patriot, A Reagan Republican... http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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40 posted on 07/15/2007 10:02:15 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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The Bush administration didn't exactly rush to Holsinger's defense.

This Administration makes Chamberlain look like Churchill.

59 posted on 09/04/2007 4:25:56 PM PDT by montag813
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The Gay Shibboleth?

Set that to music and I'll bet it's a real toe-tapper.

73 posted on 09/06/2007 10:03:16 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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It’s just getting harder and harder to find a church that disapproves of homosexuality.


77 posted on 09/06/2007 10:24:20 AM PDT by MHT
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‘Opposition to abortion is already considered a bar to high office, at least in the minds of most US Senators. Opposition to “gay rights” is really just a complementary litmus test.’

I don’t think so. Half of the population of the United States might desire to have an abortion, or at least the availability of it (women).

Less than five percent of the population sees the same gender as they are and thinks ‘sex’ or ‘love’.


78 posted on 09/06/2007 10:27:21 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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Only in the minds of the media. If a Republican candidate came out and said that he finds homosexual behavior to be wrong, unnatural, and disordered, but that he understands that many peoeple are afflicted with homosexual desires and he sympathizes with their plight, every pro-homo GOP vote he lost would be made up with two anti-homo blue-collar and minority democrat votes.


79 posted on 09/06/2007 10:28:43 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans who support Rudy owe Bill Clinton an apology.)
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Should that bar him from serving (as President Bush desires) as U.S. surgeon general?

No. In fact his willingness to speak truthfully regardless of political pressure is hugely in his favor from where I sit.

91 posted on 09/07/2007 1:16:35 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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