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One of the many pastors who attended the march, who preferred not to disclose his name, similarly suggested that “the gay lifestyle is not gay. It’s filled with drug abuse, and violence, and sadness, and unhappiness.” He expects that there will eventually be a backlash against “the gay agenda.”

"We cannot change what the Bible defines.” She actually suggested that she would be okay with civil unions for same-sex couples, but she was also concerned that children would read books and learn that same-sex marriage is okay, even though it’s against their families’ beliefs: “Civil unions? What you do is your business, but what you teach my children is a whole different thing.” She added that if she learned that her own children were gay, she would be “disappointed,” and that it would “break her heart” if they got married, because she believes that acting on homosexuality is a sin.

A.J. from New Jersey said that he believes God might flood the world like he did in the times of Noah as punishment for society’s sexual sins: “My rabbi in Brooklyn said that 20 years after the United States legitimizes same-sex marriage and different sexual sins, then the entire country will go into disarray.”

Emily came from Jersey City, New Jersey because she believes that “homosexual marriage” is “completely immoral and wrong.” She doesn’t want the kids she’ll eventually have to live through this because “you want your society to be the way you are.”

Elsa brought her whole family, “nature doesn’t agree” with homosexuality, which is why there are “wards full of HIV-positive people and people dying of serious diseases.”

Morter posted:

UuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUGHHH!

I don't loving get this logic at all! I'm not asking for it to be explained, I just don't get how blind you have to be to understand that there are too many people not living the way as "God intended" for reasons beyond their control. Has God abandoned them? Should they not live a holy life if they have been forsaken by only having one parent (or maybe neither)? Is gay marriage being legal the one thing that will disable everyone's natural instinct to reproduce??

I'm really not anti-theistic, but this is pure insanity that lends itself to a lack of critical thinking--as well as lack of basic human empathy--promoted by the same herd-like mentality that makes people hoop and holler when someone behind a podium says "Jesus Saves".

Sorry for getting worked up.

joat mon posted:

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5515276/

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"And fisting!" Donoghue said. "Do you know what fisting is?"

former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee posted:

I'm also convinced that if we reject his hand of blessing, we will feel his hand of judgment.

Morter posted:

Is gay marriage being legal the one thing that will disable everyone's natural instinct to reproduce??

hangedman1984 posted:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thank you, I needed a good laugh

The Dark One posted:

former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee posted:

I'm also convinced that if we reject his hand of blessing, we will feel his hand of judgment.

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A.J. from New Jersey said that he believes God might flood the world like he did in the times of Noah as punishment for society’s sexual sins:

Morter posted:

Is gay marriage being legal the one thing that will disable everyone's natural instinct to reproduce??

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One of the many pastors who attended the march, who preferred not to disclose his name, similarly suggested that “the gay lifestyle is not gay. It’s filled with drug abuse, and violence, and sadness, and unhappiness.” He expects that there will eventually be a backlash against “the gay agenda.”

VitalSigns posted:

Yes. I've said it before and I will say it again. Being gay is awesome, and being straight obviously sucks poo poo or you wouldn't need to make people do it.

Sorry breeders, once your son realizes he can have two hot boys before brunch and then drink martinis the rest of the afternoon, he's going to compare that to changing diapers and come over to our side.

SubponticatePoster posted:

Man where are these sex ed classes? Because you can't even mention gay sex in schools here or ya get fired.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Seriously, from what I remember of Sex Ed back in the early 90s it was all about AIDs awareness and proper birth control. Apparently we really missed out.

MaxxBot posted:

This must be some bizarre type of coping mechanism like that "revolt is coming" poo poo on freep.

teacup posted:

I almost wonder when they'll come around and start supporting gay marriage, if it's as much of a fad as they say then surely when it's all popular no one will like it anymore because it won't be edgy anymore to be gay, right guys!?

hangedman1984 posted:

You were lucky, we got pics of diseased genitalia and were told abstinence was the only way to avoid it.

Freudian posted:

In England we got the same pictures and were told that this is why you use condoms. And that the only safe sex is masturbation.

I think we've hit a culture difference.

Reveilled posted:

This, combined with Exodus 21:22-25 :

Party Plane Jones posted:

Wasn't there a movement back in the mid-80s/90s to change the wording of those lines so that they were regarded as more anti-abortion than they used to? I swear I read an article somebody posted here.

hangedman1984 posted:

You were lucky, we got pics of diseased genitalia and were told abstinence was the only way to avoid it.

Grundulum posted:

Aren't you an NC goon? That'd explain a lot there.

Icon Of Sin posted:

Sounds like something out of the Conservapedia thread. That's still going though, as insane as the characters involved are (Andy Schafly and the real winter of insanity bingo, user:Conservative)

zachol posted:

What's really weird is that in like 5th grade or something there was a girl who had been talking about how some nuns (???) at her church were teaching a group of girls about various forms of birth control, and they'd brought a sponge to show around.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

I can't help being born straight, dude, quit hatin'.

Grundulum posted:

Aren't you an NC goon? That'd explain a lot there.

Reveilled posted:

I believe these are the passages generally used to support that:


Man did not become a living soul until the breath of life was given to him. Fetuses don't breathe.


In this passage, the being which God is restoring to life, is not alive until it breathes again for the first time.

This, combined with Exodus 21:22-25 :


Seem clearly to indicate that fetuses in the bible are not considered people. Causing a miscarriage carries a fine, causing the woman to die carries punishment of death. Kidnapping someone is punishable by death. Hitting your parents is punishable by death. Hell, simply cursing your parents is punishable by death. Causing a miscarriage, though? Just a fine.

Jeremiah 1:5 posted:

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

hangedman1984 posted:

Worse, Georgia

Party Plane Jones posted:

Found it:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/03/22/mischief-follows-in-partisan-bible-translations/

Freudian posted:

In England we got the same pictures and were told that this is why you use condoms. And that the only safe sex is masturbation.

I think we've hit a culture difference.

Kugyou no Tenshi posted:

Same here. They paid lip service to condoms, but there were no demonstrations on how to use them and they were very clear that condoms could break and then you would get all those nasty diseases they showed you. There was never even the mention that you can only catch an STI from someone who already has one, which would have been a great way to lead into "don't go without protection just because they say they're clean" and "get tested" - a lot of my classmates finished middle school health class fully believing that sex could, like, create chlamydia. Did your teacher tell you about Gay Bowel, too?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Here are some more quotes from yesterday


http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/06/19/3450806/10-failures-from-the-washington-times-insert-promoting-the-march-for-marriage/

FlamingLiberal posted:

Someone needs to show that one woman the myriad of gay animals in nature; her head will probably explode instantly

FourLeaf posted:

I was really surprised by how many Hispanic people there were in attendance, and how some of the speeches (maybe all? I didn't watch the whole thing) were in Spanish or translated into Spanish. Are conservatives trying to change course on the anti-immigrant rhetoric? It's a bit late for that!

Morter posted:

I know this post is some-pages old but I just found out this rather bothersome fact about the rally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMYjUAbzaRY

New York Senator urges church pastors and community leaders to send all their followers and participants to a super cool and ultra vague washington DC trip. The two and a half minute PSA literally does not mention anything marriage or gay related.

That is so blatantly conman that if I were a church-goer, I would stop trusting whatever church attempted to cart me off like lamb to the slaughter. Pun intended.

Rick Santorum when asked about supporting the nomination of the judge who went on to overturn PA's ban on gay marriage posted:

We're all entitled to a mistake.

Kugyou no Tenshi posted:

Same here. They paid lip service to condoms, but there were no demonstrations on how to use them and they were very clear that condoms could break and then you would get all those nasty diseases they showed you. There was never even the mention that you can only catch an STI from someone who already has one, which would have been a great way to lead into "don't go without protection just because they say they're clean" and "get tested" - a lot of my classmates finished middle school health class fully believing that sex could, like, create chlamydia. Did your teacher tell you about Gay Bowel, too?

Kugyou no Tenshi posted:

Same here. They paid lip service to condoms, but there were no demonstrations on how to use them and they were very clear that condoms could break and then you would get all those nasty diseases they showed you. There was never even the mention that you can only catch an STI from someone who already has one, which would have been a great way to lead into "don't go without protection just because they say they're clean" and "get tested" - a lot of my classmates finished middle school health class fully believing that sex could, like, create chlamydia. Did your teacher tell you about Gay Bowel, too?

Twelve by Pies posted:

I'm from Virginia and they pretty much did the same thing for us when I took sex ed in the early 90s, basically told us condoms were completely unreliable and that the AIDS virus was smaller than the holes in a condom so even if you wore one you'd still get AIDS, so you'd better not have sex before you get married. I don't think gays were mentioned at all though.

VitalSigns posted:

Ew keep it in the bedroom.

Twelve by Pies posted:

I'm from Virginia and they pretty much did the same thing for us when I took sex ed in the early 90s, basically told us condoms were completely unreliable and that the AIDS virus was smaller than the holes in a condom so even if you wore one you'd still get AIDS, so you'd better not have sex before you get married. I don't think gays were mentioned at all though.

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Not for the first time, but holy poo poo am I glad I grew up in godless secular New England during the early 90s. I mean I think they did pay lip service to waiting being preferable, but they at least did tell us how to use birth control and didn't lie about where STDs came from or anything. Goddamn.

Chris James 2 posted:

Also Orlando's mayor, in 2 days at the city council meeting, will ask for support in filing an amicus brief supporting the lawsuits filed against Florida's gay marriage ban.