(April 16, 2016 at 3:37 pm)abaris Wrote:(April 16, 2016 at 3:24 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: To be fair, while I don't think C_L would be so small-minded, I'd venture to say that 90% of the people behind these anti-trans "bathroom laws" would also prohibit homosexuals from using those rooms, too. They have a hard-core cabal of propagandists who dedicate their lives to disseminating false information (and fear) to their Christian flocks, in order to advance a Christian agenda while pretending it is an attack on Christians by the "gay agenda":
No, CL is just your average woman. To tell the truth, I have my prejudices too. Many of them, as it is, and I hate myself for it. I just try to jump over my own shadow all the time, since I'm also into constantly trying to inform myself on different opinions and the current state of science.
To my shame I have to admit that my antigay bigotry only ended when I realized my best friend to be gay. He fessed up in a drunken moment, but I never was the same after that.
It is no shame to be ignorant. We are all ignorant of many things, and all of us are influenced by what author Daniel Quinn called "the voice of Mother Culture", telling us what we should think about things. The only shame in ignorance is to continue in that ignorance after you have had a chance to learn to know/do better.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
