Where does the persecution of gay people come from?

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Many of the posts in this thread already do not reflect Jesus’ command that we love one another.

Unfortunately it’s like that with every thread about gay people on here.

It saddens me greatly.
 
You should see how people react on other threads about certain sins and nobody bothers saying anything.
 
I have no idea what you’re talking about.

If something is going on in another thread that you think is amiss, feel free to post there your concern about it.

Also, the fact that something is going on about another sin or in another thread has nothing to do with what is going on here.
 
Again: I have no idea what you are talking about.

I have no idea why you would be directing it to me.

And whatever is going on in another thread about who knows what, has nothing to do with the fact that some people are being un-Christian in this one.
Nor does it make it “okay”.
 
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Attitudes don’t change by themselves. The media is marketing attitudes. What was once “stay out of my bedroom” and “respect my personal privacy” has changed because some people have abandoned their personal privacy. If the media decides a gay person is worthy of mentioning, that is meant to normalize homosexual behavior. I could care less if half my neighbors are gay. What I find to be totally wrong is an out athlete appearing on CNN and telling everyone watching to “Stop being homophobic” multiple times. Is 5 year old Billy homophobic? Is the 80 year old woman sitting in a wheelchair hooked up to an oxygen tank homophobic? Can I instantly tell if the guy standing in line in front of me is gay? No. Of course not.

In the 1970s and 80s, I worked with gay people. We all got along. I didn’t think for one moment about what they did on their free time. But now, the media shoves it in your face.

People forget that all illnesses had experts to study them. And why would they lie when they reported that being gay was a mental health issue? Prior to 1973, that was based on studying gay people. Any harm that gay people suffered before that date was wrong. Just wrong. Today, I strongly object to any comparison between the lives of gay people and ‘people of color.’ It’s a false comparison. The gay media, and the mainstream media, will talk about one gay man in a small country somewhere but ‘persons of color’ are killing each other for various reasons every day. They get little coverage and little relief.

If anyone wants to know what happened in 1973, get this:

 
They shouldn’t be persecuted like anyone else because of the dignity all humans have. However homosexual actions are considered sinful at least in the Catholic Church.
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Heterosexuals shouldn’t be persecuted because all people have dignity. However, adultery, fornication, masturbation, pornography, and lustful thoughts are considered sinful at least in the Catholic Church.

See how that sounds funny?
 
Not really. I meant that homosexuality shouldn’t be supported in the way the media does. It is hard for me to convey all my thoughts in a post and sometimes I put a bunch of sentences that aren’t necessarily related. I didn’t mean it was right to be persecuted because of sin.
 
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Heterosexuals shouldn’t be persecuted because all people have dignity. However, adultery, fornication, masturbation, pornography, and lustful thoughts are considered sinful at least in the Catholic Church.

See how that sounds funny?
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The analogy would be, instead: Pornographers, porn actors and their clients shouldn’t be persecuted because all people have dignity. Pornography itself, however, is considered objectively sinful by the Catholic Church.

Pornography shouldn’t be a protected action even though some argue it harms no one when it is produced, sold and viewed by customers in private. That isn’t true, however. It is harmful to the persons who engage in it, whether they believe it or not. The tendency to want to look at pornography is by no means rare, but in spite of its prevalence the desire to make and view pornography is a disordered desire and does not deserve protection.

That does not mean that there are not laws intended to stop pornography that do more harm than good or that are unjustly draconian. It only means that it is not any kind of “persecution” or a trampling of civil rights to use civil law to discourage this activity as much as possible. It is an objective evil; there should be no right to do it.
 
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Also because people are arguing for no reason when the OP doesn’t even bother to participate. Bigoted isn’t a nice word to use and I wouldn’t try to go own the spiritual high horse. Plus I used the term homosexual acts not homosexual by itself.
 
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Not the same at all.

“Pornographers” defines those who engage in pornographic acts.

“Homosexuals” refers to those with the homosexual inclination, whether or not they are sexually active in ANY way.
 
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