hey guys, remember when ednksu had matured and overcome his anger problems and quit being an ignorant bad person on the board...?
yeah - me neither..
there is a difference between being stupidly (on my part) angry and unfairly blaming a student athlete/young man for actions and saying that a gay person is on the same level as a pedophile and using an archaic, unqualified, translation of the bible to espouse hate and intolerance. Hating someone because of their basic humanity should be shouted down from all directions at all times. That isn't unjustified anger, that is righteous condemnation.
PW didn't espouse any hatred. He didn't say the dude should burn in hell. He didn't say the dude should be kept from making his choice. He simply personally disagreed with the dude's choice. You may disagree with PW, half of the country may disagree with PW, but disagreement is not hatred. The words "bigot" and "hatred" get thrown around far too easily these days. Of the two of you, you were the one who displayed anger. You verbally berated PW for merely daring to hold an opinion other than your own.
Also, as for his temptation comparison.. He wasn't comparing gays to pedophiles. He also included extra-marital sex in that comparison. Do you actually think he views those three things as comparable? He was talking about temptation itself. He chose his examples of temptation pretty poorly, granted.
You're just about as wrong as he is.
When you refer to your God as "The" God and use that as a justification for why you are right, your views are mumped up and intolerant. When you make a comparison of homosexuality and pedophilia it shows you have hate in your heart. The comparison he is attempting to make isn't about temptation like you sneak a snickers on an off day of your diet. The temptation as he uses it, is turning away from what he believes is God's word and giving into the lusts and gratifications that only carnal evils can provide. Once again, a hateful position of gays. Don't try and impose your secular definitions on VERY specific words being used here. People are gay, in my opinion, because of nature and nurture, but to me that is still their humanity. It is not a choice to give into demonic lustful desires. Pedophilia is not a temptation of flesh, its a sign of someone with deep psychological issues who abuses the most vulnerable people in the world.
He can hold his opinion, but it should be recognized for what it is. A hate agenda which seeks to marginalize a large portion of the country. Put to full use that mindset has been used to justify segregation and chattel slavery. I'm not angry about it because he has not attacked any of my gay friends. But I will not stand idly by and let hate and bigotry go unchallenged. Once again, that isn't anger, that is standing up for what is right, what Jesus actually preached, and saying no, not today. Today that stone should not be cast.
