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| Seen here: God punishing those who actually deserve it |
Lucky for us people who argue that people who are black are either not even a blip on our radar, or have been shamed into changing there tune (looking at you Mormons). For the bigot of the 21st century however there is a more acceptable group to hate. LGBT rights have been moving forward a little slower then the other civil rights movements that came about in the 60s and 70s but its hard to ignore the progress. Whether its the obvious of getting Homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses, or the more recent elections where Maine, Maryland, and Washington legalized same-sex marriage by popular vote rather then by court order. With all this in mind there is a trend I have noticed a little bit more often then I would like to admit, people who say that they don't hate gay people, just the "sin" of homosexuality.
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| The new beacon of Progress |
What does it mean to hate the sin but not the sinner? Well the explanation I have been given means that as Christians they must love all but they must not condone the sin they commit. And from the outside that is kind of a nice idea, hey you know I may not agree with what you do but as a person I love you all the same. But lets really look at what they are saying in terms of our topic. What is being said is that I may not like that you love another member of the same sex but I still love you the person. Despite how much religion has made us try and deny this our sexuality is a major part of who we are. Its not something to be disgusted by or to be ashamed of, embrace it. That all being said a major part of being gay much in the same way it is in a straight relationship is having sex. What you are really saying is that I don't mind that you are gay but I would really like it if you didn't have sex with another man or if you are a lesbian another woman. Its a special kind of bigotry, a bigotry that is candy coated in fake kindness. Don't be fooled by this kind of argument it sounds like its coming from a reasonable person, trust me its not. I might even call it unfortunate if the people weren't contemptible humans.
It has been told to me that in the case of Women's Rights or African-Americans Rights, that you can't change them because they were born that way they deserve the full rights of being an American. But gay people don't get special treatment because of there choice or lifestyle. I won't get into the science of homosexuality, or even the fact that love by its nature does not discriminate. I think anyone with half a brain can look past the stupidity of this argument. Do you understand what you are saying when you make a claim like that. What you are saying is that you have such a hatred for your fellow human that you are willing to look past the fact that as a fellow human they deserve the same treatment as everyone else because you don't like there lifestyle. And you want to create laws that make the government force your narrow minded view of the world on everyone, which for me is always hilarious coming from the small government folks.
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| Hypocrites in 1776 Hypocrites now |
You might be asking why do you even care Nick, you aren't gay this doesn't effect you. You are right but that doesn't change the fact that I don't want to see any kind person be denied basic human rights. Also I have never be a fan of people hiding there hatred in bullshit kindness. The next time someone tells you that they only hate homosexuality not the person themselves you have my permission to tell them to piss off or any variation be it angrier or nicer of that phrase. Because we can not move towards progress when we still allow this kind of bullshit arguments to maintain a hold in our national dialect.
Till next time
