Ok, I'm really hoping that bit was a joke. :P
Well, I actually think that if you have gay friends, that's something to be admired. Not many people can...you know...well I know I would have trouble being friends with someone whose way of life or whatever was so against what I believe.
I don't think it's a disease. But there was this big argument about what constitutes a disease. A disease is actually any deviation from a 'normal' state, but I don't believe homosexuality is abnormal.
Iron, just curious, what would you do if you had a gay child?
Also, have you ever actually met a gay person and talked to them properly?
P.S. I liked your post on climate change.
Of course not...and if I was, I'd be highly unlikely to bring it up on a public forum.
What I'm saying is that I think that part of the reasons there's such problems with priests and abuse, not only in the Catholic Church but also the Greek Orthodox, is because the priests have repressed...
My opinion of you, Iron, has rocketed several notches. :) I'm not so Narcissistic to assume that this would mean a great deal to you, but it does make me realise that some of the assumptions I made about you were unfair.
Yeah. I know. I didn't say it was rendered completely, irrefutably invalid. I said it was rendered invalid by that particular argument, which could, in turn, be rendered invalid by something else...it's the same as how some people see evolution as invalidating the concept of a higher...
Very true. People who use the Bible as a 'weapon' against gays fail to realise that they pick and choose, a point which is elegantly explained in this hilarious video about Proposition 8 (Californian movement to ban gay marriage).
"Prop 8 - The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly...