Comments on: Rights Group Slams Mormon Attack Ad

By: Tiredofit

Tiredofit — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:05:36 +0000

How often do you hear of christians being beaten or murdered by homosexuals? Never, in my 43 years on this earth. And yet, gays are beaten and murdered far too often in the name of religion. Mormons and the pseudo-religious ilk have some nerve being “afraid of the gay violent mobs” when it’s their preachings and teachings that cause the majority of gay bashings. Please, quit whining and grow some gonads. If you’re going to preach hate, then you need to stand up and face the consequences.

By: blacksteel

blacksteel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:40:28 +0000

LOrion said: “blacksteel..nothing inconsistent..He was FIRED!”

Yes, but why did he sign that vicious NY Times ad if he supports civil unions and is “shifting on gay marriage”? That’s the inconsistency. No explanation is given for it.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:38:24 +0000

Time to drop Religion and step away from the Hate. More human beings have been KILLED,HATED,SEGREGATED and DESTROYED in the name of religion,then by any other means.Read and learn about our worlds history.Mythology/religion is bad for the human race.FEAR of dying is their stronghold.Live,love and laugh. Religion is a power tool to keep the people weak, ignorant and creating more soldiers. We are all Equal, we all bleed and we all will die some day. Time to wipe away the lies and start living people.

By: LOrion

LOrion — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:00:54 +0000

blacksteel..nothing inconsistent..He was FIRED! for voicing a 21st Century view of the world. He also believes in Global Warming! and thinks that everyone should received Govt supported birth control! Can You Imagine! For that he was fired.
As for the Mormon’s…It is not ‘Mormons’ who are all against SSM it is the Mormon ELDERS who demanded that their followers support Prop H8. It is the Mormon Cultish following who did so…however, many did not. Just as American Catholics rarely follow the bigotry of Papa Ratzi.

By: LOrion

LOrion — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:52:33 +0000

FINYF…slight revision, please, thats GLBTQA’s…you do have ALLIES….lots of them.

By: blacksteel

blacksteel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:44:08 +0000

A curious inconsistency in need of an explanation: Richard Cizik, who signed the NY Times ad, is also in the news for resigning from the National Association of Evangelicals after a radio interview in which he voiced support for same-sex civil unions and said he is ’shifting’ on gay marriage.

http://www.365gay.com/news/top-evangelical-resigns-after-backing-gay-unions/

By: TANK

TANK — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:47:17 +0000

What you’re doing is giving the hardliner fundamentalists a reasonable face (the so-called moderate religionists). You both refer to the bible as a source of authority, just differently. And by doing that, you continue to validate and affirm its authority, which emboldens the fundamentalists…you may not be an active player in homophobia–you can even condemn it and provide a non-homophobic (desperate move, really) rendering of the bible…but you’re still relying on the bible as a moral authority. That act translates to helping them use it to affrim their bigotry while sidelining your “true” interpretation as a mere theological squabble…of minor importance. You can’t dismantle sexism by being a sexist… You have no power, and you’re not going to get it. You don’t get to pick and choose.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:44:29 +0000

LOrion bravo, its true that true Christians are few in number and we must not be complacent any longer the entire world if falling apart while we sit around doing everything but helping the world.

By: Mark Spalding

Mark Spalding — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:20:36 +0000

I find it laughable that the Mormon Church, which avows every man the right to free agency, and which itself withstood vehement intolerance for many years, is now a perpetrator of intolerance itself. I remember, as a younger man, being counseled that “there is no such thing as homosexuality, only homosexual behavior,” a platitude which made about as much sense as “there is no such thing as adultery, only adulterous behaviour.” How many Mormon lives has the Church shattered, and now it seeks to take that battle out into the non-Mormon world and to shatter non-Mormon lives as well. It strikes me as somewhat ironic that an organization which itself redefined marriage in the 19th century should now be defining marriage in the 21st century. How short are the memories of zealots.

By: Ginelle

Ginelle — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:11:41 +0000

It is damn time some of these religious groups were called onto the carpet for their very obvious and blatant bigotry and their ongoing persistent messages of hate towards homosexuals. The legal union of two people, regardless of their gender, is a civil rights issue and has absolutely nothing to do with the church whatsoever, unless the couple so chooses to seek out the blessing of the church community as well. Over the years how many hundreds of thousands of heterosexual couples have sought out and been recognized in a civil marriage held down at the local city or town hall? And they are still legally recognized in the community as being a married couple. So if the Mormon Church wants to whine and cry because they feel they are being singled out, it is because they are getting what they asked for, not from the homosexual community, but from some of their own people who are sick and tired of being lied to, people who realize on their own what the church and how the church is treating other people.