Part I
Minority groups are a legal definition, and there has been no court in America that has recognized homosexuals as a distinct minority group like women and racial minorities.
No. They are not a “legal definition”. You’re mistaken.
Ummmmmmmmmm you need to do the work before you make the assertion:
“A minority is a sociological group that does not make up a politically dominant voting majority of the total population of a given society. A sociological minority is not necessarily a numerical minority — it may include any group that is subnormal with respect to a dominant group in terms of social status, education, employment, wealth and political power.”
Google “minority group”.
Even still, it is illegal to discriminate against homosexuals in hiring and firing in the work force, and rightfully so. What people chose do in their private lives is none of our business.
But so many self-proclaimed “Christians”
make it their business. Why do you suppose?
The agenda lies in the fact that I am not asked to “tolerate” homosexuality
.
You bet you’re not asked to “tolerate” it. One tolerates an errant child. Right now I’m “tolerating” your mostly-bigoted retorts. Please note the difference.
I’m asked to embrace it and see homosexual unions has holy in the eyes of God, despite what the word of God and Christian tradition have always taught. I cannot do that.
You are free to believe anything you like. You simply cannot force that belief to the detriment of a
minority group. And
who is asking you to “embrace” homosexuality or see it as holy? No one, that’s who. I think traditional (if not most) Christianity is poppycock but I’m not going to make a case for it on this board.
Tell me. Have homosexuals even been told to ride in the back of the bus, or say, drink from gay water fountains, or not given the right to vote? This comparison is off, by a country mile. Was being black ever declared a mental illness? No.
Why would you draw similarities to gay rights to that of the black civil rights movement or any other plight of an historical minority group fighting for its rights? Gay people are not black people (unless they’re gay and black). Each minority group has suffered in its own singular way by those who feel threatened by its very existence. You’d think you’d get this. You, of all the posters I’ve read here, seem brighter than that. I could go on and on about bullying, name-calling, and beatings but what’s the point?
You and those like you want to disallow gay people the same rights and life of normality you have under our Constitution as if it weren’t going to be noticed. Well it
is being noticed. And change is coming fast. No more estrangement of gay teens to the point of suicide.
Go to YouTube and type in “It gets better”. You’ll educate yourself.
I could care less about what they do in the privacy of their homes and in their private lives. If thats all they asked of us, I’m fine with that. But its not.
No?
Oh foolish me. I forgot about those long tables at the entrances to American high schools where the demon homosexual enlisters wait to sign up the wayward homosexual.
Woops sorry. I’ve confused them with the American military.
If Levitcal laws are all we had, you would be right. But Paul makes it clear (1 Corinthians 6:9, Romans 1) that homosexuality is wrong. Unless one wants to try to make the scriptures say something that they want. In the last days, many will gather around them a great number of teachers and say what their itching ears want to hear, deviations from the word of God. Its ok to be gay, God blesses your gay union!
And you mean to tell me that all the regulations in the New Testament are valid in today’s context?? Paul, in more elevated Christian circles, is suspected of being a closeted homosexual himself.
Oh damn it all. I just read “last days”. There goes my confidence in your intellect. Again. No common ground. Do you believe in the boogeyman too?
But I do think you need to learn a little about Lewis, Tolkien, comic books, nukes, and sci fi. Studying a little about the military and how aircraft works might do you some good, too. Throw in some knowledge of England and I think you might be getting somewhere…
I was trying to think about what I should tell him, how I should put it, and Kate (who never wanted to leave the Anglican church!) said, “tell him we’ll see him this Sunday!” 
