Which is often how it goes, as far as I can see - it's rather hard to remain bigoted about it when it's your own son or sibling (or parent) who is gay. Or pretends to be, either way.
Time and again my experience and that of many others has been that many people are indifferent to the problems of others as long as they remain the problems of OTHERS. Once it affects someone they know or, worse, themselves, they have a supposed sudden humanist epiphany that is really just enlightened self interest. That is shameful enough for anyone, but since Christ was the first to state the Golden Rule actively rather than passively it is particularly inexcusable in Christians. The revealing part of it is usually that they remain as indifferent as ever to problems they believe (rightly or not) still do not affect them.
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This message last edited by Joel on 15/10/2012 at 11:06:47 PM
A Bible belt conservative spent a year pretending to be gay
- 14/10/2012 12:25:34 PM
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OK, I thought that was cool. Put his money where his mouth is, so to speak. *NM*
- 14/10/2012 12:37:55 PM
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Plenty of the comments are really disheartening
- 14/10/2012 07:23:42 PM
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There was one that I thought pretty good:
- 15/10/2012 10:57:42 PM
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I have to agree with that one. Most people come out in order to be more honest with their family.
- 16/10/2012 02:39:46 AM
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"The vast majority of conservative Christians are not hateful bigots at all."
- 15/10/2012 10:55:34 PM
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He does say his mother came around in the end.
- 15/10/2012 10:57:50 PM
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"All politics is local."
- 15/10/2012 11:04:41 PM
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Maybe most conservative christians...
- 15/10/2012 11:44:13 PM
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Sorry, that is just an attempted role-reversal; objecting to hatred is not the "real hatred."
- 16/10/2012 01:26:39 AM
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In addition, the bible doesn't forbid it. The bible is not a monolithic work, but an anthology.
- 16/10/2012 02:32:59 AM
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What I said is correct.
- 16/10/2012 05:49:13 PM
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Dude, the "You're intolerant of intolerance!" argument is so played out
- 16/10/2012 08:34:35 PM
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I think he has a good point. It just shouldn't be generalized so far as he is doing.
- 16/10/2012 09:23:13 PM
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Wrong. I am talking about labels and what they are used for.
- 16/10/2012 10:42:11 PM
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And on the other hand, various "logical justifications" tend to boil down to one thing:
- 16/10/2012 11:01:50 PM
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I actually DO believe that anti-gay-marriage people eat babies ;-) *NM*
- 16/10/2012 11:32:35 PM
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We use "bigot" like Christians use "sinner."
- 16/10/2012 09:12:39 PM
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You can't just assume someone has the motivation you want them to have.
- 16/10/2012 11:08:09 PM
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For me it is as simple as looking into my own heart, several years back.
- 17/10/2012 04:51:13 AM
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