(June 13, 2015 at 3:26 am)Stimbo Wrote: No, that's a deflection. All I want to know is how you feel about one particular demographic being subject to an added layer of the same restrictions that you said you wouldn't tolerate if they were applied to you. I'm not the least bit interested in your religion's opinion of what its god allegedly thinks.
However, in order for the (rather nonsensical) statement that a person's "nature towards the same sex [is] unnatural" to be true, there would have to be no examples of same-sex interaction elsewhere in nature. Thus even a single such example would falsify the proposition. Guess what..?
A homosexual would be asked of the same as a smoker, or someone who drinks a lot, or someone that is prone to violence. Or even if it were a heterosexual couple that lived together but weren't married. They would be required to be married before getting baptized. Of course it makes sense from your point of view that you don't care what "my god" says is right and wrong, but if someone did believe in that god and believed in the bible they would have the same requirements that anyone would have. And if they refused, they just couldn't get baptized. They would have to accept that despite their inclinations, there must be something wrong with them from gods perspective so they would have to shun them. Or they could figure, why would god deny me something that is natural to me and other nature? Maybe god is full of it and so is this religion? Again, that would be their prerogative. I personally can't speak for someone in that situation because I have never had to deal with that, so I just don't know how they feel.
