The Religious Rights’ Unreal Understanding of Homosexuality

[canis_lupus]

You can always count on WorldNetDaily to express such an unreal understanding on homosexuality. WND produces two articles about an antigay administrator at the University of Toledo who was suspended for writing an antigay column. Time permits me to discuss only a few points.

First, whatever the legal or constitutional issues involved (whether this is a private school not bound by the First Amendment or a state school that is), it was lame to punish this woman for writing the column. There is plenty wrong with what this woman wrote; and the best way to counter that is to criticize her with more speech, exactly what I’m doing.

Here is one of the offending paragraphs, illustrating her poor argumentation:

“As a black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo’s Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual lifestyle are ‘civil rights victims.’ Here’s why. I cannot wake up tomorrow and not be a black woman. I am genetically and biologically a black woman and very pleased to be so as my Creator intended. Daily, thousands of homosexuals make a life decision to leave the gay lifestyle evidenced by the growing population of PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex Gays) and Exodus International just to name a few.

Homosexuals are civil rights victims. Homosexuals historically have been subject to sodomy laws which led to imprisonment or worse, being banned from government jobs, institutionalization with a whole slew of sadistic treatments like electroshock therapy, reputation ruining, all which have led to at worst suicides like that of World War II hero Alan Turing. In short, if mistreatment is a criterion for being a civil rights victim, homosexuals easily pass that test.

http://positiveliberty.com/2008/05/the-religious-rights-unreal-understanding-of-homosexuality.html

[Beregond2]

1. As soon as anyone

uses the word "lifestyle," I know they are a bigot. There is no "gay lifestyle." There is only who and what we are.

[Jamastiene]

3. I always tell them that I shop at the same grocery stores they do,

wear the same kinds of clothes they do, work at the same places they do, and put my pants on one leg at the time just like they do. That usually leaves them speechless.

[closeupready]

2. She's basically saying that its better gays should endure lifelong loneliness than

find another gay person to live their lives with - unless they decide to "go straight" and maybe even marry an opposite gender individual. Because if they can make that switch, that's worthy of applause. :eyes:

How hateful and ignorant and bigoted do you have to be to espouse such complete BULLSHIT? :mad:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. i wonder if she think that if she could wake up white tomorrow, there should be a moral imperative

to do so. i mean if society could surgically make blacks white, should they? is there something inherently holy about white? is black only acceptable because its genetic.