Reproduction decision usually have more than one issue, so no, I do not agree. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
433 — alcontali
A phobia is an irrational fear. The disapproval of a practice is not a phobia. Terms like Islamophobia and Homophobia are more often used in rhetoric and sophistry to defend those groups. — Drazjan
alcontali — alcontali
That gentleman headed up a whole university department and is an expert demographer. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Should secular law do something against the religions that preach and teach poor morals and laws that are the opposite of the better secular law we live by? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Do you have better statistics to refute him? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
A phobia is an irrational fear. The disapproval of a practice is not a phobia. Terms like Islamophobia and Homophobia are more often used in rhetoric and sophistry to defend those groups.
— Drazjan
If not fear, what motivates homophobes to discriminate against gays without a just cause to the point of wanting to deny them a lifelong loving relationship?
Or do you think homophobes have a just cause to put sex above love? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Mind you, when education goes up, beliefs go down. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
You see, the very first thing to understand about knowledge, is that it does not matter who says it. — alcontali
I think the state should lay out in a book what is right and what is wrong and make it required reading regardless of the views of the student and his family. That sounds like a great idea. — Hanover
However, today we see branded as irrational anyone who does not condone homosexual practices — Drazjan
However, today we see branded as irrational anyone who does not condone homosexual practices
— Drazjan
Not so.
We brand them as immoral and bigots as they discriminate without a just cause.
Irrational might apply but a persons morals, to me, are more important than if he is rational or not. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
I was being sarcastic. But, should it have been for real, I get to be the decider of right and wrong.A good beginning that. Let's be led by the best while showing why we reject the worst — Gnostic Christian Bishop
It is so. And you have been doing up until this post. — Drazjan
I was being sarcastic. But, should it have been for real, I get to be the decider of right and wrong. — Hanover
If onl;y sarcastic, then you do not live by the Golden Rule and do not care that your friends are being led astray by immoral ideologies.
You might want to get more moral. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
that the state should be in charge of dictating morality. — Hanover
The objection is in trying to enforce morality on the public. — Hanover
It's the very reason we don't have a state run religion. — Hanover
Your personal belief that the Golden Rule is the sole correct moral ideology seems awful Christian of you. — Hanover
You say after a character assassination while having nothing to refute anything. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
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