Focus on the Family on how to prevent gayness

[Asher]

They're an organization with employees.

Very elaborate to keep a joke going for so long...with so many supporters...

[Dis]

Originally posted by Asher
They're an organization with employees.

Very elaborate to keep a joke going for so long...with so many supporters...

the current republican administration is doing it.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Az
Ummmf, yeah baby, diversify my tolerance.

Hold on sweety, let me crank up the gaydar jammer in order to keep unsuspecting family people completely in the dark about our illicit satanic lust. Wait, what's that? Oh no it's a homosexuality detection expert from the Family Research Council. Curses, foiled again!

[Last Conformist]

All homophobes should be assraped. By horses.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
All homophobes should be assraped. By horses.

How is this different from the statement "All homophobes should be assraped. By horses."? Fighting bigotry and intolerance with bigotry and intolerance is hardly the right way.

[Last Conformist]

What on earth makes you think (i) that that was a serious comment, and (ii) that it was meant to fight bigotry and intolerance?

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
What on earth makes you think (i) that that was a serious comment,

The lack of a clue, that it was not serious.

and (ii) that it was meant to fight bigotry and intolerance?

I wasn't sure, so gave you the benefit of the doubt. But if it is not meant to fight bigotry and intolerance, it is just a bigotry and intolerance of its own.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


Some of it makes sense to me, especially the statement that boys without a male role model in their lives are going to find things more difficult in finding their own male role.

Accounts for all those flaming gay boyz 'n the hood gangsta queens from single parent families.


Drive by criticisms of out of date streetwear can be so hurtful, can't they ?

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph


The lack of a clue, that it was not serious.

One might've thought that anyone who gives a flying **** about my opinions would've seen enough of my posting style by now to tell that wasn't serious.

I wasn't sure, so gave you the benefit of the doubt. But if it is not meant to fight bigotry and intolerance, it is just a bigotry and intolerance of its own.

Please tell me how it's bigotted. As for tolerance, I never claimed to be a particularly tolerant sort. Tolerance isn't a good in itself - it matters a great deal what you're tolerant about.

You did not answer the question, BTW; "giving someone the benefit of the doubt" doesn't mean anything in context.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
One might've thought that anyone who gives a flying **** about my opinions would've seen enough of my posting style by now to tell that wasn't serious.

Yes, that pretty much explains why I missed your humor.

Please tell me how it's bigotted. As for tolerance, I never claimed to be a particularly tolerant sort. Tolerance isn't a good in itself - it matters a great deal what you're tolerant about.

I tell you a short story from my youth. Once upon a time I wanted to become a knight in shiny armor, ridding the world from evil and making it a better place. And I was very upset about radicals, skinheads and neonazis, who were demonstrating, beating up people with different opinions and spraying swastikas and fascist slogans. In my rightful anger I loudly stated "Why don't we take some kilometers of barbed wire, set up a camp for that scum and give them a shovel and let them do something useful for a change". An elder, who had heard my outburst of rage, looked at me amused and said: "And this makes you different from them how?" I think he taught me a thing or two in this day.

You did not answer the question, BTW; "giving someone the benefit of the doubt" doesn't mean anything in context.

I did. I wrote "I wasn't sure (...if it was meant to fight bigotry and intolerance...), but I gave your the benefit of the doubt.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph

I tell you a short story from my youth. Once upon a time I wanted to become a knight in shiny armor, ridding the world from evil and making it a better place. And I was very upset about radicals, skinheads and neonazis, who were demonstrating, beating up people with different opinions and spraying swastikas and fascist slogans. In my rightful anger I loudly stated "Why don't we take some kilometers of barbed wire, set up a camp for that scum and give them a shovel and let them do something useful for a change". An elder, who had heard my outburst of rage, looked at me amused and said: "And this makes you different from them how?" I think he taught me a thing or two in this day.

If being intolerant of anything makes me no better than nazis, I have no wish to be better than nazis.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander


Sure. There are probably even bodybuilders who are not a$$holes as well.

Endangered species, almost extinct.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
If being intolerant of anything makes me no better than nazis, I have no wish to be better than nazis.

It is not a tolerance thing. Even after this I am still not tolerant toward neonazis. I just understood, that fighting them with their own means (i.e. by building concentration camps) does not make me any better than them. If I want to fight them effectively without giving up my moral highground, I have to look for better means. Not physically harming these people, but fighting their ideology.

Just like your statement about assraping homophobes, which does not help the cause of homosexuals.

But knowing your "posting style" by now, I am pretty sure, that you wouldn't give a rodents rear about this.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
So they are being successful; it's just that what they call "success" is what we would call "monstrous psychological harm."

Just like all religion

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov Actually, no, it doesn't work

...and all but 2 admitted to still being gay.

It worked for two people out of 116. I didn't say it was necessarily effective.