RE: Being gay is a fetish.
April 23, 2015 at 3:50 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2015 at 4:03 pm by Hatshepsut.)
(April 23, 2015 at 3:26 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Um no, the false claim of "I am not a bigot but I simply disagree" and your last line in your post gives it away.
A perfect example of the Multiculturalist tactics I spoke of, if less blatant than "homophobe." And possibly advanced without a complete reading of the post.
I don't keep myself in a state of willful ignorance regarding gay rights movements, same-sex attraction as a physiological and psychological phenomenon, or the fact that our world is changing. I don't agree with Mezmo!'s "traditional" points of view either. I'm willing to refrain from smearing him with the label of "bigot" for holding them, however. Name-calling now substitutes for genuine argument to such an extent that meaningful discussions can no longer be held. Those who want our social clock to stay set at 1953 are about to be outvoted and lose their battle, a welcome development to me. But it's easier to call them "ignorant retards" than to explore why they held those views or why they were once a majority.
(April 23, 2015 at 3:39 pm)Mezmo! Wrote: Or if you provide two distinct services one secular and the other religious, why is wrong to provide funding to the secular service so long as provision of the secular service is not contingent upon the religious one?
Because it's hard to keep the books separate. Alongside dietary education we might not require is the "sermon before soup" ditty. The VA will pay for veterans to enter Salvation Army rehabs even though religious instruction is part and parcel to the program there, with all residents required to comply with chapel attendance and so on. I can understand this to some extent. The Salvation Army costs less than $3000 for six months where a 14-day hospital-based program easily runs sixty grand. I went through the Salvation Army and found it a loving, quality environment so I'm biased in their favor as well. Still these VA payments represent federal subsidy of a clearly religious program. I'm no lawyer, but I'd guess that's unconstitutional.