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May 11, '12, 6:18 am
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"If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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May 11, '12, 6:27 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
Then why dont we all stop having children? If all people are sinne  rs.
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May 11, '12, 6:30 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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No one has "gay" people. That is a political term.
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May 11, '12, 7:45 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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No one has "gay" people. That is a political term.
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And, no one "has" people; people (children, spouses, siblings, parents, friends) are gifts on loan to us from God.
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
Huh? What is the context of this absurd statement?
If I were to take a shot in the dark, I would guess whoever made the statement meant it to be ironic, to make a point about "being gay" not being a choice. The statement is too bizarre to be effective though, in my opinion.
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May 11, '12, 8:26 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
I am not at all offended by gay people, and I doubt many others are, either.
I just reject the premise that who one enjoys sexuality with is a category entitling one to special rights.
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May 11, '12, 8:39 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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Im not offended by "gay people"
However I'm offended by people who label others only by their sexual activities(which in the case of homosexual acts are disordered activities).
The People with homosexual tendencies are themselves more than the sum of their acts and have an inherent human dignity just from being(not from acting). As such I respect them on that basis while disapproving of certain acts they may or may not commit.
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May 11, '12, 8:40 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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Originally Posted by Aelred Minor
Huh? What is the context of this absurd statement?
If I were to take a shot in the dark, I would guess whoever made the statement meant it to be ironic, to make a point about "being gay" not being a choice. The statement is too bizarre to be effective though, in my opinion.
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I agree, I don't exactly know what to make of it. Same sex attraction is not a choice, to act on such where the end is a homosexual act IS a choice. Same sex attraction is nothing to be offended by, homosexual acts are unacceptable. Its just that simple yet people who push messages like the one in question seem to want to muck it up to generate and perpetuate confusion.
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May 11, '12, 8:41 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
How profound, kind of along the lines of "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"
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May 11, '12, 8:51 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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I agree, I don't exactly know what to make of it. Same sex attraction is not a choice, to act on such where the end is a homosexual act IS a choice. Same sex attraction is nothing to be offended by, homosexual acts are unacceptable. Its just that simple yet people who push messages like the one in question seem to want to muck it up to generate and perpetuate confusion.
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 Jesus loves the sinner but hates the sin. We all are asked to over come are personal struggle with sin. The problem is main stream america doesn't want to think ANYTHING is a sin. 
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May 11, '12, 9:09 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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Then why dont we all stop having children? If all people are sinne rs. |
Given the state of the world today, though things are getting better, maybe yours is a good idea! But still, why do we have such a prejudice about what amounts to a condition as distinct from a choice?
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May 11, '12, 9:17 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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No one has "gay" people. That is a political term.
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Parents have children and some of them, about 3.5%, are gay. How is that political?
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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And, no one "has" people; people (children, spouses, siblings, parents, friends) are gifts on loan to us from God.
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Don't you commonly say "I have/have not a fathe, mother, brother, sister child?" Why would you evade the question by false piety?
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May 11, '12, 9:20 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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I am not at all offended by gay people, and I doubt many others are, either.
I just reject the premise that who one enjoys sexuality with is a category entitling one to special rights.
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For instance, straight heterosexual Christians?
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May 11, '12, 9:20 am
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Re: "If straight Christians are so offended by Gay people, why don't they just stop having them?"
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When did you stop beating your wife? Is this the same argument?
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