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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:05 PM
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Well... Not Very Christian Of Them...




These are anti-Michael Jackson protesters.
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:07 PM
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1. So, homosexual = phedophile to them?
That is more than a little extreme.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:11 PM
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7. that's what cathoLic church defenders say
when it comes to the cLergy abuse.

uncLe-inLaw jackie: "y'see, the probLem isn't that there are pedophiLes in the cLergy, it's that there are homosexuaLs in the cLergy, and THAT'S what we need to fix."

i speak onLy for the boston arch-diocese - i have no idea if this is/was the taLking point eLsewhere too, but it Looks it.
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SnohoDem Donating Member (915 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 10:00 PM
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23. New Mexico had hetero pedophiles
Archbishop Richard Sanchez, I think. It's been a long time since that scandal broke.

Yeah, that was him. He's mentioned in passing here:

http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special16/articles/0619obrien-sheehan19.html

I don't remember them mentioning sexual orientation in NM.

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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 10:02 PM
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25. yes, i remember that... and that story was buried very quickly
:eyes:

church always gets a free pass
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SnohoDem Donating Member (915 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 10:15 PM
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26. I guess abusing women and girls is okay
:mad:

Nobody cares until there's a homosexual component? It's like the game is rigged.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 04:29 AM
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30. As usual, both sides are partially wrong
Tied up in their own agenda pushing.

The fact is that the vast majority of cases involved post-pubescent boys, and thus it is not pedophilia but ephibophilia. The incidence of pedophilia among the Catholic clergy is pretty much exactly that among other denominations.

This is why some claim that it's a gay issue - but guess what, I've never raped a 15 year-old boy. In fact (shock horror) I've never had sex with anybody below the legal age of consent.

To my mind, a good start would be for the Pope to depose a significant portion of the N. American Episcopate. A very large number have been tainted with this scandal, and still seem to be doing little about it.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:07 PM
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2. hot damn
my translation of the bible doesn't have a single mention of America in it. weird. :shrug:
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Lucky Luciano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:11 PM
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8. On another board
there was an extreme right wing lady defending her indefnesible position about gay marriage etc. "I hate the sin, but not the sinner" and so much other horsecrap (including that her deceased brother was gay and she loved him).

She continuously brought up pedophilia in her arguments against gay marriage. I am not sure of the connection - even when it was pointed out to her that most pedophiles are actually hetero when not with children.
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GOPBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 05:44 AM
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31. LOL!
Thanks for that! That made me laugh. :-)
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:08 PM
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3. They better check those Scripture verses again
John 3:16 definitely does not say anything about gays or pedophiles. Or even Michael Jackson.

Stupid FReeper morans...

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Indiana_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:09 PM
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4. That just makes me so mad!
Edited on Wed Jun-08-05 09:11 PM by Indiana_Dem
They actually want to go back to the Old Testament and execute (kill) everyone who doesn't go by Old Testament laws! They are totally disregarding the New Testament! If they get away with it, we'll all be dead (including themselves)! Do they really know what they're doing????!!!!!
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Lucky Luciano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:12 PM
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9. If they want to go back to the Old Testament,
I sure hope they are keeping kosher....if not...then sucks to be them in their fantasy afterlife!
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 06:24 AM
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32. If I recall correctly
many of the fundies won't defend the Old Testament, saying it has too many contradictions, and that they only go by the New Testament. So, I guess the story is, if they need some obscure phrase to justify their complete prejudices and intolerances, it's all right for them to dig through the old books to find something to justify it. Only they don't reference it for any other reason, and they can ignore anything that doesn't agree with their point of view. Nice.

I know, I know, This has been gone over so many times that we're all getting whiplash from their total and complete lack of constancy, and it's one thing to use that against them in an argument, but then they can't even show a normal amount of logic in their point of view on anything--it's all at an emotional level, and nothing further.

I've tried arguing points with my best friend, but the decibel level increases each and every time, and I end up getting out of the conversation instead of wasting my time.
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usedtobesick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:09 PM
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5. aren't these the nut cases from
Kansas? I think it is the same group that picketed my son's school this year. Not Christian at all, no matter what they think they are...
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:10 PM
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6. Simple- there ain't a damn thing Christian about them.
:grr:

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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:14 PM
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10. Christians That Need To Cherry Pick Stuff Out Of The Old Testament
because Christ didn't say anything in his ministry that would imply hating gay people.
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BamaLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:16 PM
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11. My Thoughts On Homosexuality
Being gay is not a biological abnormality, nor is it a perversion of sexual feelings. Being gay is not a sexual matter, but rather a matter of the heart. People know they are gay before they've even had homosexual sex. The biological abnormality argument against homosexuality forces the teleological view of sex to be accepted. This means that ALL sexual relations that occur for any reason other than procreation are wrong. Masturbation? WRONG if you think the purpose of sex is procreation. Oral sex? WRONG AGAIN.

Religiously I think homosexuality is just as much a sin as EVERY OTHER sin. Engage in premartial sex? You're in the same boat as homosexuals...I'm not trying to convict anyone and say oh you shouldn't have premarital sex. Hell, many would be convicted. My point is that if you are so utterly offended by homosexuality and yet ignore millions of your own sins and transgressions, then that it not walking in the path of Christ. I don't mind homosexuality, I don't think it's any great blight...I think it's love. And if you'd like to love someone, please do.

-- From a straight, white, Christian, 17 year old male in rural Alabama
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:18 PM
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12. Fred Phelps to the rescue!
Er, wait, that doesnt sound quite right!

This does sound like his work, though, it just reeks of ignorance.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:26 PM
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13. That Leviticus verse says BOTH people involved in the "abomination"
should be put to death.


stewpid bastids
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faithnotgreed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:26 PM
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14. well theres a good reason for that: they arent
i dont like to say that about anyone but the more i hear about "white Christians" the more i want to only say

well youre half right....

Christ does not hate. period. and He wouldnt support any executing part either
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:29 PM
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15. How about Leviticus 20:9 20:2
20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

20:2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

I'm not sure Leviticus applies these days, more like guidlines for when it was written to keep worse stuff from happening.
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:29 PM
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16. Like you are shocked....
this is the norm from the fundy wackjobs.
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:29 PM
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17. HA! They only want the "homosexual pedophiles" executed.
Guess the old man on little girl stuff is ok with 'em.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:32 PM
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18. Let them kill us with their own two hands. Remember the overriding rule:
THALT SHALT NOT KILL


I've a lot of other bibble quotes they wouldn't like to read either.

I love it how they pick and choose some quotes and then blindly ignore the others. Instead of looking at the whole text and denounging it as the sloppily written piece of two-faced facetious cow dung that it trult is.
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Duncan Grant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:33 PM
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19. The dangers of an overly-clinched sphincter: Shit for Brains
Who needs hate-crimes legislation? (blink, blink)
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:41 PM
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20. I didn't know Pope Benedict was in California!
Where are his frocks?
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:47 PM
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21. I will become religious only when...
...the mighty Hand of God visibly swoops down from the sky and smotes these hypocrites in the most gory, Old-Testament-esque way imaginable.

Not before.

"Dear Lord, protect us from Your followers!"
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 09:58 PM
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22. What sweet, loving Christians- a living testament to Jesus' teachings.
Yes, the subject line was dripping in sarcasm.

Here is the internet rock these vermin hide under:
<http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/index.html>

Here is their current picket schedule:
<http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/Picket_Information.html>


And here is how they are raising their children:






Look how they send their children out on the streets:



These people just leave me speechless... and very sad. I can not imagine raiing children in such an environment of hate. The damage being done to these children is emotional and mental abuse at it's worst. These children may never recover and be free of this.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 10:16 PM
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27. That's Child Abuse! Brainwashing!
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-05 10:02 PM
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24. I just looked in Leviticus
As far as I can tell, there's nothing in there about homosexual pedophiles. Which version are they reading, anyway?
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 04:09 AM
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29. I don't either.
But I do vaguely remember something about keeping a kosher kitchen. How many of them do you think eat pork, shellfish or mix dairy products w/ their beef?
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-05 03:55 AM
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28. Homo sex is a sin?
But apparently being a complete moron isn't...

what a shame.:shrug:
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