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Originally Posted by martinguerre
i say this then. You're quite mistaken. The queer community i'm a part of does not engage in public nudity, or purposefully confrontational sexual practices. Here in Minneapolis, the 3rd largets Pride gathering in the nation, i didn't see anything that i wouldn't see at a public beach. Do some queer communities do those things? Yes. But that's a total non-sequiter to this discussion.
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No, it's quite pertinent, since you say that ALL christian communities should abide by X rules and interpretations. As you are saying to me that it is quite wrong of me to say that ALL homosexuals engage in this public display of nudity (which I am not saying ALL are doing, just SOME) then you have to also accept that SOME fundamentalist Christian ministries feel that this type of camp is fair game for them to place their children. If one side its true, the the converse of it must also be true for other people.
It's your lack of trying to be understanding and accepting that some other faiths feel that this is part and parcel of their belief system.
You keep trying to filter my words through a "homosexual hatred" filter when there is no such malice on my part. All that I'm saying is what I've always been saying, if you want someone to accept you as you are, then you are required to accept someone as they are. That is not conditional, it's not "on the condition that they don't do X." If you make it conditional, which is what I keep hearing from your words, you are in my book no different than those people who are being intolerant towards your sexual orientation.
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Originally Posted by martinguerre
Your response on the word lifestyle doesn't leave anything more for discussion. If you're not willing to consider the implications of using terminology that has widely come to imply a set of homophobic arguments, then we've nothing left to say in the matter.
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Language is a living and breathing entity no different than others. I do not hear anyone in my company of homosexual friends tell me that "lifestyle" is a bad word. It maybe in your community but it is not in mine. Maybe it's because at one point in time it was a "bad word" here, but again, words can easily be diffused and changed as they always have.
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