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Related: About this forumToles Rant:This debate seems ancient already
By Tom Toles
Gays are just like you and me. Except you and me are not alike. End of story. Gays are different, just the same way everybody is different. Who knew?
Nobody knew. Because gays were hiding. Why were they hiding? Because we were living in the olden days when we could get away with naked persecution, so to speak. People didnt want to think about gay people having sex. Well, guess what? Most people dont want to think about YOU having sex either. They didnt make that into a rule that you cant get married. Gays decided that they didnt want to hide anymore and then we all got to see what non-hiding gays AMONGST US would be like. Results in. They are people! Is there anyone left who doesnt know an openly gay person?
And?
Its all over but the shouting, but boy are we good at shouting. Oh my God how we will hear the wailing and lamentations about yet ANOTHER rule in the Bible turning out to be anachronistic. Did we HAVE to stop stoning non-virgins to death? Jeepers, where IS our moral rigor these days? And then it will fade away along with all the other awkward biblical ideas that clergy routinely skate around. The evils of money, say. But meanwhile, in this ongoing election season, well see if the conservatives have found a mileage-worthy gotcha on a president for saying something that will soon enough be a universal opinion. The future will win, but maybe not by November.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tom-toles/post/friday-rant-this-debate-seems-ancient-already-edition/2012/05/10/gIQAFrjsFU_blog.html
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Toles Rant:This debate seems ancient already (Original Post)
n2doc
May 2012
OP
I know I really hated it when they said we couldn't stone the non-virgins anymore...
beyurslf
May 2012
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. OMG! They're People! & 'They' act like People...
N-o-o-o!
beyurslf
(6,755 posts)2. I know I really hated it when they said we couldn't stone the non-virgins anymore...
At least, until I started fornicating around town. Then I just kinda glad.