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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by martinguerre
i greatly appriciate the clarification post. and let me again assure you, i don't think you're one of the haters. I've met plenty of them in my life. I'm trying to get ordained as a Baptist minister. Believe me when i say, i've met the real bigots and haters. I'm making issue about some of the rhetoric not becuase it's the worst in the world, but because it has room for improvement.
and i understand your approach...but this is why i don't share it. the issue with living a life of example is that it may not be, at times, enough.
if i "tolerate" homophobes, will i be tolerated? Keeping in mind that until a few years ago adult, consensual homosexual sex was illegal in most parts of the nation. keeping in mind that anti-queer violence was widley practiced by the police as well as citizens in most parts of the country....
toleration without some baseline of moral imperatives is not a workable solution.
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If it was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me. Jesus lived his life with tolerance and acceptance. You claim your faith is based on his teachings, well that's the foundation.
This is why I equate you to the same track but on the opposite end as those fundamentalists that you deplore. You aren't living by the example that Christ says. You are willing to cast stones when you yourself are equally guilty of the same intolerance you expect from them.
You have two forces that are both using the bible to support their beliefs. You say confront and repent. What do you think the homophobes are doing? The believe the same thing so they are confronting and repenting as well.
In my opinion this is equal to force meeting force, and from my interpretations of the teachings of Christ, it then means to turn the other cheek and live by example.
If I recall correctly Jesus did not confront many people. He confronted the pharisees, he confronted the merchants at the temple, and he confronted his disciples.
I understand where you are coming from, being an asian minority in the 70s was not really all that easy. But let me ask you to stop, read what I just wrote especially the bold part and reflect on it. Because that is the crux of what you and I are talking about.
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