The Pride thread 🌈

[Twizzle]

You don't think the church ever helped to hide homosexuals and keep them safe 50yrs ago?

hide them maybe, but not to keep them safe, more like out of sight

 

[hindy111]

hide them maybe, but not to keep them safe, more like out of sight

Sure but I doubt the bashed them or killed them either.

 

[the phantom menace]

Jesus walked the Earth over 2000 years ago. You make out that a few decades is a long time. Less then 1%

I don't think Jesus had any problems with the gays, who existed for centuries (in Ancient Greece and Rome) before he did?

But the various knob-ends who decided to write a book 200 years later and make a non-inclusive religion out of it all have a lot to answer for, imo.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

hide them maybe, but not to keep them safe, more like out of sight

They definitely kept them safe from the justice system.

 

[IFR33K]

Ever so slowly, the religious types are realising that "the gays" actually aren't anything to be scared of... decades behind everyone else, lol.

relax dud and keep your pants on. It’s only a blessing, everybody deserves a blessing if they want one.

 

[IFR33K]

I don't think Jesus had any problems with the gays, who existed for centuries (in Ancient Greece and Rome) before he did?

But the various knob-ends who decided to write a book 200 years later and make a non-inclusive religion out of it all have a lot to answer for, imo.

How about governments that frowned upon homosexuality? Do they have anything to answer for?

 

[Incorrect]

How about governments that frowned upon homosexuality? Do they have anything to answer for?

I'll answer that on phantom's behalf. And the answer is - only if they were Liberal governments....

 

[the phantom menace]

relax dud and keep your pants on. It’s only a blessing, everybody deserves a blessing if they want one.

Maybe you missed the words "Ever so slowly..."?

 

[the phantom menace]

How about governments that frowned upon homosexuality? Do they have anything to answer for?

Yes... but weren't they also several centuries after and following the footsteps of these initial religious types I'm talking about?

 

[the phantom menace]

I'll answer that on phantom's behalf. And the answer is - only if they were Liberal governments....

Lol.

Little known fact, the Liberals raised the first bill to start the process to make homosexuality legal - albeit from federal opposition (John Gorton 1973), passed by members of all parties on a conscience vote - but to little effect because in practice it was the state laws that had to be repealed one by one.

So credit where it's due

 

[Gronk]

Western society took a backward step overnight. Other countries won’t follow, but it will legitimise and give momentum to a topic that should be left alone. It will cause more division and hurt to people who already find it hard to cope in a world where they are different.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If gender only exists in our heads, does the government (and the rest of society) have any business recognising it? Sex is the scientific, objective category that matters.

 

[Twizzle]

Sex is the scientific, objective category that matters.

*gender

 

[Poupou Escobar]

*gender

It’s irrelevant

 

[Avenger]

Western society took a backward step overnight. Other countries won’t follow, but it will legitimise and give momentum to a topic that should be left alone. It will cause more division and hurt to people who already find it hard to cope in a world where they are different.

Typical post from you. I disagree.

 

[Gronk]

Typical post from you. I disagree.

Typical post from you. I disagree.

 

[Avenger]

Typical post from you. I disagree.

We live in a democracy. Unfortunately for you I’m in the overwhelming majority. By means keep blowing that rainbow trumpet in your echo chamber.

 

[Gronk]

We live in a democracy. Unfortunately for you I’m in the overwhelming majority. By means keep blowing that rainbow trumpet in your echo chamber.

Who says you are the overwhelming majority ? On what basis do you say this ?

The overwhelming majority mood in the SSM debate in this country was - leave LGBTQI+ people alone.