RE: The Problem with Christians
April 21, 2016 at 2:05 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2016 at 2:06 am by AJW333.)
(April 20, 2016 at 10:13 am)Esquilax Wrote:Nope. I simply think that without the lobbying from a 3% minority group, the designation of homosexuality as disordered would have remained.Quote:No, because the APA appears to have caved in to intense lobbying from homosexual activism.
So, again, when an organization produces a result that comports with what you already believe, then it's an accurate result, but when they produce one that disagrees with you, it's not a good result. Is your metric for acceptable citations seriously how much it aligns with what you want to be true?
(April 20, 2016 at 10:13 am)Esquilax Wrote:I never said that all violence is carried out by the irreligious. I would hold to the view that most violence is carried out by them because serious Christians know that they are not supposed to act in this way.Quote:Your bigotry against Christians is quite evident here. In Australia, there has been no such "war" against transsexuals. If there is any aggression towards them, it is most likely going to come from the irreligious .
Shall I give you a piece of advice, mate? Don't try to tell an Australian, what Australia is like. Because I'm going to be able to correct you: now, Australia might be better, in that there isn't a concerted, government based effort to discriminate against the trans community state by state, but that doesn't mean my country is free of cultural memes or ideas of acceptable treatment that negatively affect trans people, and those are promulgated, in large part, by your religion. I'm looking at a study right now, because unlike you I actually research my shit before I make wild, random claims: trans people still experience the highest rates of discrimination and abuse among LGBTQI peeps in Australia: fully half have experienced verbal abuse, a third threats of physical abuse, with half again reporting sexual assault. Your claim that all of this comes from the irreligious is completely baseless, especially in light of the already established fact that anti-trans and LGB bigotry tends to scale with religious fundamentalism.
Do you have any figures supporting your view that the Church is responsible for violence against the LGBT community? What research can you produce showing that the Church is conducting a "war" against such people? I did find an interesting article on violence against the transgendered but it made no mention of the Church. It looked at secular institutions and their role in sins of commission and omission.