huntmaster said:
smalls--
I am really not as unpersonable as I may seeem---its just been a long day of work and school and dealing with musclebrains on a thread that asked for oppinions---I gave mine and it turned into "hey buddy you are stepping on my feet and grinding."
Your poor little Biblical literalist. It'd all be fine if you didn't have to deal with me after a hard day of school and work. You think you got problems! I spend a fair portion of nearly every day listening to young people who are miserable and often suicidal because they have to spend their lives among people who want to deprive them of life's most beautiful experience. How do you think *I* feel after a hard day of work, coming on here and reading your "opinions"? Huh?
Yeah, to tell someone that the way they love is sinful -- and love is the most fundamental pleasure and world-making experience of life -- is "stepping on my feet." Why do you think you should be able to state an opinion that condemns people for the way they love and not produce a reaction? And please don't pull out your silly rhetorical flim-flam about loving the sinner. I'm well aware of the consequences, in your world, of sin...which, in my case and in the case of five percent of the population, is equal to love. Sorry, folks! For some people, the cost of love is....hell! But we loooooove YOU, even if we don't want you to LOVE anyone yourself!
I think it really goes something like this: "The way you love is a sin. I hate your sin. But, because Jesus told me I should, I love YOU. Nevertheless, the way you love is, like all unrepented sin, going to cost you eternally. Nothing personal. I didn't make the rules. God did. And the rules are in the Bible -- well, they are in the Bible *I* read. Of course, I ignore many of the sillier Levitican rules myself, because, well, you know, they, um...they're, um, culture-bound to their time and we're wiser now, but, um, of course, this one about sodomy and shit is still valid...because, um, God told me so in a personal conversation."
I'll repeat myself. Gay people want the freedom to love without fear and recrimination. You want to regulate people's freedom to love. and you have the balls to say you're doing it on God's behalf.