Rahvin writes
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This is how gay people feel when Christians start talking about homosexuality being a sin. They remember all of the violence and hatred.
I don't think someone like iano will ever understand this. It's hard for them to understand especially when they've never been on the receiving end of hate.
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So let's take something else you could never choose - blood type. Let's say some imaginary group has the belief that a specific blood type is sinful, and that blood type happens to be yours. They say "we don't hate you, we only want you to stop having that blood type, because it is sinful." Let's say that this group not only shuns you for your "unwillingness" to change your blood type, but some more extreme members of the group have killed people with your blood type for no other reason. Every day you hear on the news about people with your blood type being discriminated against, and in you own town you know that if anyone finds out about your blood type, you could be beaten, raped, or worse. Your rights are restricted - you are only allowed to marry people of the same blood type, and this is called "fair" because the rules apply to everyone - you simply have a specific set of people you are allowed to marry. never mind if you fall in love with someone with a different blood type. You keep your blood type secret, hoping to avoid all of the unfair treatment, and secretly ashamed of the fact that you can't change your blood type - it's part of who and what you are.
Or you could use a much better example like left-handedness. For literally thousands of years, left-handed people were viewed as abnormal and downright sinful. Children that happened to be left-handed were systematically disciplined and beatened to "cure" them of left-handedness.
I have an asian friend who told me that when he was little in his home country his teacher beat his left hand so hard that he couldn't use it at all. He was forced to start writing with his right hand. Nowadays, he writes with his right hand, but he does everything else with his left hand. This was in a catholic school.
Catholicism in many parts of the world still teaches that left-handedness is a sin. If you live in an Islamic country and you're left-handed, god help you.
You should ask iano if he is left handed or right handed. Ask him when he decided to be either. Ask him what he would think if someone else's religion begins to preach that which ever handed he is is a sin. Ask him how he would feel if his friends who happen to be left-handed or right-handed frequently get beaten because of it.
With that said, I honestly don't know how someone who could claim to believe in Christ go around spreading hate speech like iano.
Edited by teen4christ, : No reason given.
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Date: March 30, 2008
Time: 11:00 AM
Where: Westboro Baptist Church, Topeka, KS
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