How can people say homosexuality doesn't hurt anyone

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And the nytimes and Washington Post are not biased? Really? Family Research Center wants to preserve the family to benefit society that is not “hate.” LGBT groups see the family as an oppressive unit because it does not fit their ideas. What LGBT group truly cares about the children? They are harming the development of children in order to make the “couple” feel better
They can preserve families without lying about LGBT people, equating them with pedophiles or promoting reparative therapy in the mistaken belief that gay people must change their sexual orientation. Also:
Children of same-sex couples fare better when it comes to physical health and social well-being than children in the general population, according to researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
“It’s often suggested that children with same-sex parents have poorer outcomes because they’re missing a parent of a particular sex. But research my colleagues and I published in the journal BMC Public Health shows this isn’t the case,” lead researcher Simon Crouch wrote on the Conversation.
Crouch and his team surveyed 315 same-sex parents with a total of 500 children across Australia. About 80 percent of the kids had female parents and about 18 percent had male parents, the study states.
Children from same-sex families scored about 6 percent higher on general health and family cohesion, even when controlling for socio-demographic factors such as parents’ education and household income, Crouch wrote. However, on most health measures, including emotional behavior and physical functioning, there was no difference compared with children from the general population.
washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/07/children-of-same-sex-couples-are-happier-and-healthier-than-peers-research-shows/
 
First of all, sperm doesn’t cause AIDS (or any other STD). The only possible “illness” that can be caused by sperm is an allergic reaction, which can happen to anyone who is allergic, anywhere. The disease is not caused by merely coming into contact with sperm.

Second of all, the Church is not an all-or-nothing organization. We are not told to denigrate those organizations who do good will – we are told to criticize their actions which are not done with good will. Similarly, one should not insult a person – they should evaluate that person’s actions. I criticize the actions that are sinful by the HRC, et. al. just as I criticize the hateful actions of the FRC and the Westboro Baptist Church. But I also recognize the wonderful work the gay community does in establishing AIDS prevention, research, and treatment programs as well as homeless shelters for LGBT youth kicked out of their homes.
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They can preserve families without lying about LGBT people, equating them with pedophiles or promoting reparative therapy in the mistaken belief that gay people must change their sexual orientation. Also:

washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/07/children-of-same-sex-couples-are-happier-and-healthier-than-peers-research-shows/
They do not have to change their sexual orientation, they just have to not engage in homosexual sex.

If the survey got the parents responses, why on earth would a parent say that their kid has problems? Also the parents might not be aware of the problems Because the kid might not want to hurt their feelings by complaining
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The FRC has consistently misrepresented and/or made up statistics to try to portray homosexuals as child molesters and threats to children. This is a direct quote from one of the organization’s pamphlets:

Or from one of the directors of the FRC:

Or from Tony Perkins, speaking as the head of the FRC:

This is a hate group, plain and simple. They attempt to incite violence and hatred against homosexuals by issuing calumnous statements and putting out fake research or misrepresenting the results of actual research. No one should give them any credibility whatsoever.
How do you know that some of their statistics are made up?
 
I don’t have an article handy, but I’m a scholar of ancient philosophy. I can tell you that Plato said homosexual sex is “against nature”, and he thought rulers should gradually establish taboos surrounding it. (That was quite prophetic of him.) Plato had various views about same-sex intimacy throughout his career, and he certainly had a lot of sympathy for other men who found males attractive – Plato probably had some SSA himself, and Socrates was VERY fond of beautiful young men, though also VERY chaste.

Aristotle developed the first developmental theory of homosexual attraction. I forget what it was, but – when I heard it – it sounded just like something out of a 1880s psychology book.

When they said it was “unnatural”, they meant that it did not accord with any plausible notion of human flourishing, and they probably also meant that “there was no proper end (telos) to the act”. In their experience, same-sex *sexual *relationships were generally far too focused on pleasure – or at least, that’s how Plato and Aristotle talked about it. Part of the problem, here, was that many of these relationships were pederastic, and thus exploitative in a particularly troubling way.
Oh wow. Thank you for the information. Would it be reasonable to conclude that ancient Greek society was as divided over this issue as our current society is?
 
How do you know that some of their statistics are made up?
For someone who claims to have had SSA, do you recognize yourself in the kinds of things that the Family Research Council says? When you had SSA, did you consider yourself a threat to children and a possible pedophile? If not, you should recognize that they purposely spread lies about LGBT people and not put your trust in them.
 
Better to check the background of “researchers” like Simon Crouch, lead researcher of the study cited in your above link.

From Crisis Magazine, The Latest Sham Science on Gay Parenting.
Some casual Googling reveals that Crouch is also “a gay dad with twins” who writes and blogs frequently about gay parenting from an advocate’s point of view. (“The heteronormative world begins its gender distinctions before birth. ‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ is the first question most women are asked when they announce that they are pregnant.”) Further snooping turned up what, to **this non-social scientist at least, looked a lot like an effort by the researcher to game the results of the research. **
Here is the link to Crouch’s blogspot, GayDads Australia.

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For someone who claims to have had SSA, do you recognize yourself in the kinds of things that the Family Research Council says? When you had SSA, did you consider yourself a threat to children and a possible pedophile? If not, you should recognize that the kind of lying that they do and not put your trust in them.
I do not live in the homosexual community, and I do not watch porn or engage in lustful things that others do. I try to stay away from it as far as possible. Unfortunately, not everyone does that. I have heard some pretty terrible things about the starters of the homosexual movement. I am not saying every person with SSA is a pedophile but the demolition of morals is part of the agenda. I do not know about pedophilia specifically so I can not comment. But just remember even if it isn’t, things like being celibate and keeping God’s laws are definitely not the intention of the LGBT agenda.
 
Better to check the background of “researchers” like Simon Crouch, lead researcher of the study cited in your above link.

From Crisis Magazine, The Latest Sham Science on Gay Parenting.

Here is the link to Crouch’s blogspot, GayDads Australia.

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Why do you think that the work of a gay researcher is unreliable and automatically biased? Would a heterosexual researcher who says that only heterosexual people make good parents be more reliable and be unbiased? Wouldn’t a heterosexual researcher who made such a claim about heterosexual parents be biased because he’s heterosexual? No one, of course, would make such a ridiculous claim.
 
I do not live in the homosexual community, and I do not watch porn or engage in lustful things that others do. I try to stay away from it as far as possible. Unfortunately, not everyone does that. I have heard some pretty terrible things about the starters of the homosexual movement. I am not saying every person with SSA is a pedophile but the demolition of morals is part of the agenda. I do not know about pedophilia specifically so I can not comment. But just remember even if it isn’t, things like being celibate and keeping God’s laws are definitely not the intention of the LGBT agenda.
What makes you think that all LGBT people watch porn, do lustful things and have an agenda to demolish morals? I’ve been in a committed and monogamous relationship for almost 18 years, believe in God, go to church with my partner every Sunday, attend Bible study once a week and consider myself to be a moral person.
 
Why do you think that the work of a gay researcher is unreliable and automatically biased? Would a heterosexual researcher who says that only heterosexual people make good parents be more reliable and be unbiased? Wouldn’t a heterosexual researcher who made such a claim about heterosexual parents be biased because he’s heterosexual? No one, of course, would make such a ridiculous claim.
In either situation a child does not have a father or a mother. What about the children with two parents of the same sex (I.e. Two men) who are longing to have a mother like their friends at school do? We should not try to bring this on purpose. Also, lesbian mothers probably won’t know how to protect their daughters from getting in trouble with boys
 
In either situation a child does not have a father or a mother. What about the children with two parents of the same sex (I.e. Two men) who are longing to have a mother like their friends at school do? We should not try to bring this on purpose. Also, lesbian mothers probably won’t know how to protect their daughters from getting in trouble with boys
Of course, having two dads or two moms is still better than just having one parent in their lives like lots of children of divorced heterosexual parents.
 
Oh wow. Thank you for the information. Would it be reasonable to conclude that ancient Greek society was as divided over this issue as our current society is?
Hmmmm. Maybe not. There was mythology around it that made it controversial to question same-sex love. If you spoke against the Sacred Band of Thebes in Athens, people would look at you like you were nuts. And if you questioned pederastic relationships, people would be scandalized. But if you suggested such relationships should be CHASTE, you would get a hearing – from some people.

The philosophers were more like prohibitionists in the 1850s – they were on the cutting edge, but they were largely rejected. But NOT because people thought homosexual sex was natural. Passive partners in gay sex were thought of as less than human, in some ways – as effeminate. The love between man and man (or rather, man and boy) was romanticized, but there was a flavor of “sour grapes” behind discussions about the actual SEX involved. The common story was that this sex involved a man using a boy as a woman.

Throughout the ancient period, the VISUAL appeal of the male form was romanticized, but gay sex was very rarely praised in any way, shape or form. Then again, straight sex wasn’t really romanticized either. Romanticizing sex is a modern thing – and, I daresay, only something that would happen after we’d forgotten what love really is.
 
What makes you think that all LGBT people watch porn, do lustful things and have an agenda to demolish morals? I’ve been in a committed and monogamous relationship for almost 18 years, go to church with my partner every Sunday, attend Bible study once a week and consider myself to be a moral person.
Sorry I was talking about some people I knew. You can not deny the overall agenda that is pushed by Hollywood is not happy with morals. Not every person with SSA agrees or promotes this agenda.

Turn to Genesis. No matter what version of a bible you have it will tell you God commanded Adam and Eve to become one flesh and procreate. If you keep reading on in Genesis, Sodom and Gomorrha got burned down to the ground because the whole town refused to obey God’s gift of sexuality and decided their way was better. This rebellion lead to many crimes which God’s justice could not just sit around and watch.

Being with another man is not God’s plan for you. This relationship is not moral in God’s eyes as it does not fit His plan for humans and their sexuality. Please do not turn your back on God who loves you. I am also worried that this might lead to other sins like envy, hate, etc. like other sins of lust do. I am not trying to condemn you I am genuinely concerned.
 
Why do you think that the work of a gay researcher is unreliable and automatically biased? Would a heterosexual researcher who says that only heterosexual people make good parents be more reliable and be unbiased? Wouldn’t a heterosexual researcher who made such a claim about heterosexual parents be biased because he’s heterosexual? No one, of course, would make such a ridiculous claim.
Because gay people have an invested interest in making their unions accepted in modern society, while straight people have no such interest of their own. In other words, LGBT supporters have a MUCH bigger motivation to lie. Gay marriage being legalized would change the lives of many gay people, but it would not directly effect the lives of people like me. One side has everything to lose and everything to gain, the other has nothing to lose and nothing to gain. One side is comprised mostly of atheists who think that morality is a mere social construct, the other side is mostly comprised of Christians who highly value morality and God’s 8th commandment, “Thou shalt not lie.” Who is more likely to lie? You tell me…👍
 
Why do you think that the work of a gay researcher is unreliable and automatically biased? Would a heterosexual researcher who says that only heterosexual people make good parents be more reliable and be unbiased? Wouldn’t a heterosexual researcher who made such a claim about heterosexual parents be biased because he’s heterosexual? No one, of course, would make such a ridiculous claim.
A gay researcher’s work is not automatically biased. However, Crouch, an openly homosexual male raising twin boys with his partner, spearheaded this research, and based on his own words here, Is it a Boy or a Girl?, his bias comes across clearly.

Further, there are good reasons to believe the research is unreliable, conducted to reach findings on same sex parenting with the best spin.
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If someone gleefully listed off all the bad consequences of YOUR sins, it would **** you off and make you stop wanting to listen to them. .
The penitent and the unrepentant are not equal. Stop pretending that they are.
 
This is an unsupported assertion. Where are your facts to back it up?

I happen to fully agree with Church teaching of this topic. This post does nothing to support or defend those teachings. In fact, it appears to be anti-evangelistic, driving a wedge between the truth and those who desperately need to hear it.
What truth would that be?
 
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