Hate the sin, not the sinner.
The problem of religion with gays is primarily a practical issue of health and society - butt sex (regardless of the sex of the receiver) is unhygienic and can easily spread diseases, plus it leads to an easy way to have sex with multiple partners with no "accidents".
Which is why there's still a massive AIDS problem.
We can discuss the multitude of gay clergymen. Saint John Henry Newman was one of England's most famous Catholics and quite clearly a homosexual.
That's heavily up for debate
If you go to african countries where homosexuality is a ticket to being murdered or sentenced to death, you'll see many men holding hands in the street.
While I understood it theoretically, it wasn't until the last few years where I made a friend who fitted the mold of that kind of friendship. You will never know what true friendship is until you experience it. A brother, a best friend and a homie all in one. We even have a similar pic from when he had to move back home (other side of the world) mid covid. I'd post it to add to the wholesomeness but you know, doxing.
I know it's big in Saudi Arabia to hold hands, and there was that time Bush was holding a Saudi princes hand.
I'll note neither Pope Francis nor the Dalai Lama, both current religious leaders it is nearly obligatory to admire in liberal circles, have actually endorsed homosexual conduct, because the tenets of the religions they lead do not allow that. As they say, love the sinner, not the sin.
What they usually do. Completely fail to understand it and then try to talk past it. Meanwhile, the actual message has wormed its way into their brains, to do its slow work. StoneToss knows how to meme.
I didn't realise it was on Wikipedia. I had be going by A N Wilson in God's Funeral and The Victorians on the matter. Then again, despite my Catholicism, I suffer an old Anglican, Charles Kingsley view on matters who also believed Newman to be a homosexual.
Small sidestep that builds on your original point. I read a really good theory that the reason there is a pedo problem in the church is because those men were gay (who already have problems with being pedos) in a time where it was extremely shameful, gay feelings were misunderstood AND religiosity was still strong (but waning) and embraced 'praying the gay away' so that they could still observe 'hate the sin, not the sinner'. Then pedos gonna pedo and here we are. Its also entirely possible that this as been a thing for hundreds of years and we just never knew (gays in the church, praying the gay away).
Yes very sad, it was a nice tradition.
give it another go. (I am stilling Kekking at them trying to play off not knowing why the Tranny is balding)
"Nuance is impossible" wisdom for the ages, as they justify raping a comic with a treatise in the bubble, by saying it needs nuance.
Nuance is a lefty word that means doublethink."Nuance is impossible" wisdom for the ages, as they justify raping a comic with a treatise in the bubble, by saying it needs nuance.
Roughly 70% of deaths caused by dog attacks are by pitbulls. Dogs rescued from dogfighting shelters not being adopted or being put down are the rule, not the exception. And to top it all off, I've personally not once heard headlines reading "dog rescued from dogfighting ring kills adoptive owner," but I have read articles reading things such as "woman attacked by own pitbull while having a seizure."
