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I posed a hypothetical question. No slander at all from me. I began the question with the word, "IF".

It's the same question if the words, "Matthew Shephard" is replaced that with "If a homosexual guy has AIDS..."

I think given the discussion it's a relevant question. Care to respond?

I don't approve of homosexuality.   For that, you resort to name calling. 

Back to you.

All though some may simply want to "change" laws and in some states that is the case, it is actually about whether some laws are constitutional to start with. DOMA specifically excluded gay couples from certain federal benefits and Prop 8 in California specifically excluded gay couples from marriage and the privileges and benefits tied to civil marriage in that state. It is a "game" and  people have been had because by creating laws that specifically exclude, the issue has been given two paths to the Supreme Court on very specific constitutional grounds. One that will affect federal law and one that will affect state laws and constitutions.

Be careful what you ask for will be the moral of this story.

Hi Captain, nice to hear from you too. I do not think the gay community (who cares about the activists - same for the Churches’ equivalent) hates god per se ... they hate the 'religions and Churches' that promotes jihad on their way of life (right, wrong or otherwise) ... which seems reasonable. It doesn't matter if an evolutionary path is a dead end or not ... just one of millions who never made it ... but they all had their chance at survival and failed. Darwinism for lack of a better word doesn't pick the winners; they pick themselves through the trials and tribulations of survival in the natural world. We now have the technology to allow 'losers' a chance at survival which is not absolute Darwinism at all (whatever that is).

Good job derailing the thread by bringing that subject up but since you got such a good memory if you want to continue that debate then move it to another thread.  Just how long did you have that video bookmarked?

This is a joke, right?  Remember my words on hypocrisy?  Our last discussion on Atheism and Religion you specifically linked up an article on Homosexuality and genetics and now you're dodging this by telling me you don't know anything about that in an Atheist context after previously discussing it under that subject. https://forums.joeuser.com/408056/page/2/#replies  As for the God made them that way let me clarify.  There are numerous variables that lead to homosexuality like Bisphenol A (BPA) or hormonal imbalances while still in the womb such as WW2 babies from pregnant mothers directly exposed to the war over a long period of time.  Those causes are man made.  Also the scientist who did the genetic research is gay himself at a politically charged time so the jury may or may not still be out on that one.  http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/major-producers-to-ditch-bpa-from-packaging-2121837.html

Understand this, homosexuality is behavioral.  If you are in fact genetically predisposed to it then that is no different from being genetically predisposed to alcoholism, another behaviorism.  One does not make you entitled to the behavior of drinking alcohol and the other does not entitle to redefine marriage.

Ok time to play pseudo devil's advocate.  From an atheist point of view the best interest in the state and humanity is not to have gay couples because they would ultimately weaken and cripple the human resource element through abnormal (non)procreation and be forced to resort to extreme medical measures in a hopeful attempt to stabilize itself.  Couples serve to provide for the state and gay couples cannot procreate.  If they somehow manage to do so then they are doing the state a long term disservice by propagating the gay gene making far greater problems for the state, an evolutionary dead end.  Another key problem is the effects of society when the family is redefined.  For many years I myself have seen households where the father is replaced by the state under the welfare system in the USA.  The destructive effects done to the black demographic is particularly negative.  Do we really want to do try another social experiment to redefine marriage and the family on a mass scale?  Complete madness.

The Christian point of view states that all people are children of God and that makes them sacred and valuable regardless of sexual orientation.

Here's to making your point! 

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/homosexual-protesters-call-cardinal-arch-bigot-for-opposing-same-sex-marr?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1426490d38-LifeSite

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, February 13, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – As parishioners gathered for Sunday Mass, a radical group of homosexual activists protested outside Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral, calling Francis Cardinal George the city’s “arch-bigot” for defending marriage.

Carrying placards and spouting slogans on the sidewalk as worshipers entered the sanctuary, members of the Gay Liberation Network instructed Catholics to"give up hate for Lent."

Lula; disagreement breeds arguments which breeds grudges and end up becoming feuds … I am not going to participate in your feud of homosexual bigotry. Until you are made to understand that homosexuals are people too … you will never be qualified to call yourself one (a person). Your unjust hatred is clear even if your reasons aren’t. When you hate a people as you do … not because of whom they are … but just because you don’t like what they do … well what name would you put in here because it just seems obvious to me? Everything is about you, always just about you, so you can add selfish pride here too. You just don’t get it … how many homosexual Christians there are … to you, it’s just another convenient group to hate. Just ask yourself the difference between what your bible has to say on the subject … and what your Catholicism says … I think it should become apparent at least to another human being anyway.

You hold yourself aloft from the rest of society because you of course have all the answers that have eluded the rest of mankind from the dawn of time.  You have nothing but excuses for the atrocities committed in your GOD’S NAME and by your church, and you have nothing besides condemnation for anything man made or any mortal cause for that matter … because you just know better. You are biased beyond any reasonable need and everything you try to bend to support the impossible is just another sign of your insecurity, your insanity and your betrayal of our living species.

What you do not seem to understand is that there is no place in your fabled heaven for real people, even so you seem to care little if any for those who have to live on this imperfect world. As far as I am concerned, you can take your perfect human rule book , your perfect human (godly) laws, your perfect human interpretations from your perfect human fables and your perfect human religious leadership and stick them where the sun doesn’t shine … because that is where all that kind of shit belongs. Simply, if there really were a true and just god who actually needed people like you to be his human representatives … well then you can stick him in there too because I have no use for such human mockery.

You Lula are a hater because that is all you know how to be. As far as I can see you hate EVERYONE outside your inner circle of religious haters and you have no concern or compassion for the truth of anything ... only for what someone else crammed inside your head for you … your imagination … upon which you base your whole life … and you would foist that folly on everyone else on earth under penalty of eternal damnation. You are as ethically and intellectually dishonest as a person can become. And I suppose Rightwinger is a hater for about the same reasons as pointed out in reply #85.

Lula, you said a practicing Christian could not practice homosexuality and I provided just ONE example. But this is typical of you for evading an honest answer like always. Maybe you can explain what it was they were practicing when they weren’t ‘porking’ your own children? You might also try to explain who they were trying to fool ... the RCC Inc., themselves or maybe your one GOD? Save your prayers for the needy and the misinformed and the monsters protected by your benevolent Church.

You are not trying to make the case that the religious folk are guiltless in their zeal to crush and condemn homosexuals for the past 1500 years … are you? You cannot possible see their lifelong persecution as the benign will of the one god … can you? It just sucks when people fight back for what THEY believe in and considering that they have never been offered any quarter, any justice or any appeal cannot be left out of the arguement … but they are the hateful ones, go figure.

I'm so happy to hear you dropped the bottle, good for you.

My point about genetic/hereditary predisposition for behavior being used as a basis for human rights was that if you want to use that then it applies equally to every other condition.  For example people who are vulnerable to alcoholism such as myself.  See where this is going?  When one person makes the argument then so will others.  It's a very bad direction to take.  By emphasizing the difference between the two, you have supported my point.

No that is not what I said.  I was arguing homosexuality from an Atheist's side or at least the one from smug college professors self proclaimed expert Atheists.  After arguing it from both opposite viewpoints I was still not be able to justify homosexuality from either of them.  Look, it's from my experience using biblical wisdom won't get you very far with Atheists so I chose to argue Atheism with Atheists instead in hopes to communicate.

Why are you aggressively trying to steer this conversation to an Atheism + religion argument in a thread about homosexuality anyway?  Does thou zealotry extend to derail thy thread onward to further?  If you really want to go there that badly then make a new thread and we'll go into Socrates, Plato, Justin, Aquinas and all the rest to your hearts content. Did anyone bring up that subject?  Posting that video in response to my presence here was very off topic if that was not the case.  The only reason I linked to your previous comments on the other thread was because there you linked to an article on homosexuality genetics and all under an Atheism subject thread but here you tell me the opposite in the form of a question.  It appeared hypocritical.

Lots of vague statements there.  Crimes against humanity, I'm just speechless.  Unless you're talking within the subject of homosexuality then that would be off topic and for another thread.  As tempted as I am to make a rebuttal to that statement, I'll abide by the code of conduct on JoeUser.

Now back on topic, the Pope has already addressed the homosexuality issue in writing but of course since you know Catholicism so well I'm sure you already read it and knew that.

RightWinger from OP: “What they do is between them and the God to whom they so cavalierly flip the finger.” “…do atheists ever attack any other religions besides Christianity?” or “They can say the most ignorant, vile, hateful, despicable things about Jesus Christ and the faith He founded,”

My point being is that it is amazing to me how I as an atheist am expected to subjugate myself to the terms and phraseology of the Christian folk who KNOW only the counter arguments or at a minimum are unwilling to listen to (or even acknowledge) our views even when it just concerns us. How many pages have been expended on JU where religious folk demand the sole right to define even the basic term ATHEIST for us … with a complete disregard for the obvious? You yourself still do not seem to understand that there are no atheist philosophies or teachings that I am aware of. ATHEISM IS A DISBELIEF IN THE (provable) EXISTANCE OF YOUR ONE (any) GOD ... and is applicable to the more than 10,000 other gods that preceded him throughout our history. But somehow this is only perceived today as an ‘ATTACK’ on Christendom … it just doesn’t compute. We all are ATHEISTS (you and I included) … I just happen to believe in one less god than you do is all … as we hold all the other religions and their constructs in the same light of atheistic disregard. But every faith seems unable or unwilling to turn their inspections internally … why is that??? How can this be if it is really the truth of things we are searching for? Religious folk don't seem to be looking for anything because they have been TOLD there is nothing else to be found or discovered of value.

Truth be told, the article you quoted contained this statement from you; “Point is until Atheists openly admit Atheism is faith based they are living under an arrogant delusion which ironically is what many hypocritically accuse the theists. The truth would shatter their egos.” You (looking at your other posts) often refer to the religion of atheism and the clip (post 82) was a slap at that concept. That is why I asked you personally; “What is the religion of atheism?” … and you have yet to answer … you just keep on using the terminology??? Lula actually got this one right (by accident for sure, #91) even if she worded it wrong. But you made no attempt yourself.