guns vs. homos

Why is it that American Christians insist homosexuals must stop their buggering because of STD risk/deaths, yet insist on everyone keeping a small armory of guns despite all the shootings?

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
Why is it that American Christians insist homosexuals must stop their buggering because of STD risk/deaths, yet insist on everyone keeping a small armory of guns despite all the shootings?

I don't know that most American Christians wish to see a totalitarian world in which the secrets of the bedroomReveal Hidden Content become beholden to public review and/or acceptance.
The underlying issue, in my view, is that the populace in general ought to be able to make up their own minds collectively for what will be considered acceptable behavior.
What people do in the privacy of their homes is not the issue.
That those private activities have become the focal point of acceptable behavior is, in some views, unacceptable.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
I don't know that most American Christians wish to see a totalitarian world in which the secrets of the bedroom[hidden]the bathroom, the living room, the couch[/hidden] become beholden to public review and/or acceptance.
The underlying issue, in my view, is that the populace in general ought to be able to make up their own minds collectively for what will ...[text shortened]... e activities have become the focal point of acceptable behavior is, in some views, unacceptable.

what do you mean by 'focal point of acceptable behavior'?

Originally posted by stellspalfie
what do you mean by 'focal point of acceptable behavior'?

That how one conducts oneself in private is the measure of one's status in the community.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
That how one conducts oneself in private is the measure of one's status in the community.

how so?

Originally posted by karoly aczel
how so?

How so, what?

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
How so, what?

As a matter of interest, does the way your homosexual friends conduct themselves in private affect your measure of their status in the community?

Originally posted by FMF
As a matter of interest, does the way your homosexual friends conduct themselves in private affect your measure of their status in the community?

One, I don't know (nor do I want to know) what they (or anyone else, for that matter) do/does in the privacy of their own homes.
Two, if they're getting any type of solace in this life, I'm in support.
Three, what I consider the 'musts' of life among other people is probably pretty close to what others consider in the same light, i.e., live a quiet life of peace with as many people as possible and all that entails.
Four, I only hate the Irish.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
One, I don't know (nor do I want to know) what they (or anyone else, for that matter) do/does in the privacy of their own homes.
Two, if they're getting any type of solace in this life, I'm in support.
Three, what I consider the 'musts' of life among other people is probably pretty close to what others consider in the same light, i.e., live a quiet life of peace with as many people as possible and all that entails.
Four, I only hate the Irish.

So for you, personally, a person's homosexuality is not a measure of their status in the community?

Originally posted by FMF
So for you, personally, a person's homosexuality is not a measure of their status in the community?

Are they Irish?

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Are they Irish?

It's a genuine question. Philosophically speaking, and perhaps an active citizen, are you sympathetic to efforts to mitigate any prejudice or judgmentalism - by which I mean attitudes that might have a detrimental effect on homosexuals' 'status in the community' - arising from what they do in the privacy of their own homes?

Originally posted by FMF
It's a genuine question. Philosophically speaking, and perhaps an active citizen, are you sympathetic to efforts to mitigate any prejudice or judgmentalism - by which I mean attitudes that might have a detrimental effect on homosexuals' 'status in the community' - arising from what they do in the privacy of their own homes?

I genuinely couldn't care less what people do under their own wills.
I simply consider it an unacceptable affront to privacy (and personal morality) to bestow status of any kind upon a person or group of people on the basis of what they do in private.

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
Why is it that American Christians insist homosexuals must stop their buggering because of STD risk/deaths, yet insist on everyone keeping a small armory of guns despite all the shootings?

I know, right? Go figure.

BTW, I'm not sufficiently convinced this is solely a 'Christian' thing. More of a 'redneck' thing. And by 'redneck', I mean uneducated, politically conservative Americans who don't mind their party bosses keeping them under their thumb with their platform politics.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
I genuinely couldn't care less what people do under their own wills.
I simply consider it an unacceptable affront to privacy (and personal morality) to bestow status of any kind upon a person or group of people on the basis of what they do in private.

Yes, I get that you are saying you don't care about what people do in private. And I am not asking about the bestowing of some enhanced status on homosexuals on account of their private sexual activities. If you look again, you'll see I have not been asking you about those things.

Instead, I am asking you if you are the sort of person who would speak in defence of homosexuals' privacy and their right to live a quiet life of peace when you encounter fellow community members who seek to publicly degrade or defame the status of homosexuals in the community on the basis of what those homosexuals do in private?

Originally posted by Suzianne
I mean uneducated, politically conservative Americans who don't mind their party bosses keeping them under their thumb with their platform politics.

I have met plenty of educated conservative Americans who fiercely defend their right to own guns and who disapprove of homosexuality. Haven't you?