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MarkCharles

(2,261 posts)
5. +1000 Couldn't have said it better! Thanks for helping...
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 01:27 PM
Feb 2012

someone locked in religious doctrine learn what the open-minded, scientific approach would be to this phenomenon and quite common human and animal experience we call "gay".

One would expect people of the Jewish faith, leaders of that faith, to have learned more from the experience of the 20th century and the treatment of Jews and homosexuals in Europe for too too many years. But no, that faith, like so many others, insists upon a perpetuation of a myth regarding gay people, rather than an open-minded approach and a philosophy of acceptance and rational understanding.

Once again, anywhere on Earth, these religions want to... MarkCharles Feb 2012 #1
Impressive rant, MarkCharles, a shame it's so misplaced. Kurmudgeon Feb 2012 #2
No, you really can blame religion izquierdista Feb 2012 #3
+1000 Couldn't have said it better! Thanks for helping... MarkCharles Feb 2012 #5
You may, that doesn't mean you should. Prejudice is prejudice, no matter who you are aiming at. Kurmudgeon Feb 2012 #6
Falwell was a 'Levitican'?? izquierdista Feb 2012 #7
And yet, I'm against people like Falwell because I am religious. Kurmudgeon Feb 2012 #28
who are you to decide who is and who is not christian? La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2012 #8
If someone calls themselves LaLionessPriyanka and says/does things you wouldn't, I should judge you? Kurmudgeon Feb 2012 #27
Prejudice against prejudice is a bad thing? MNBrewer Feb 2012 #11
some Christian groups really try to live up to Christ's teachings and not judge people dickthegrouch Feb 2012 #14
If you paint them all the same, it just makes it easier for the wrong to hide. Kurmudgeon Feb 2012 #29
when you understand why it is that you dismiss all the other possible gods, except the one(s) you stockholmer Feb 2012 #26
Wasn't it Jonathan Edwards One_Life_To_Give Feb 2012 #20
Science has been around longer than the Reformation izquierdista Feb 2012 #22
But it was the start of the end of Calvanism One_Life_To_Give Feb 2012 #23
Nope mojowork_n Feb 2012 #24
mark charles said most and not all La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2012 #9
Thank you, I did, indeed!!! MOST religions, and the largest... MarkCharles Feb 2012 #10
This 'theapy' is common to Christian sects as well, the President and his wife and other Bluenorthwest Feb 2012 #15
I reserve the right to comment at a later date. William769 Feb 2012 #4
On all sides... MNBrewer Feb 2012 #12
Oy vey. William769 Feb 2012 #13
Wow. Bluenorthwest Feb 2012 #16
CORRECT Skittles Feb 2012 #17
instead of "curing teh gay" Skittles Feb 2012 #18
hmph chervilant Feb 2012 #19
Completely agree. closeupready Feb 2012 #21
I feel so very sad for what he went through. The Doctor. Feb 2012 #25
Great article. Jamastiene Feb 2012 #30
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