Christie wrote:Stating opinions and forcing one's beliefs upon someone else are two different things all together & I effectively did neither. I was, in fact, pointing out that very thing. Still, the first statement refers to
opinions and could be paraphrased as "Those who do not fit into the target audience can only spout meaningless words regarding the media in question" which could logically be applied to
anything; which it isn't, thankfully, because it's nonsense.
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Aineo wrote:I don't have the authority to tell gays what to do. My responsibility is to live the gospel, correct the misconceptions of professed Christians, which at times includes gays who profess to be Christians.
I take it then that Christians can 'force' religious views onto
other Christians if slight differences occur?
I wonder if you read what I post or if you are simply posting sophomoric hubris. I posted that Christians do not have the right to force their morality and beliefs on non-Christians. Also your attempt to paraphrase my post demonstrates that you are not interested in finding out what I believe, which I have made clear on this thread.
Irrelevant not in terms of change so much as moral interpretation. Again I'll attempt to express it in a different way; surely, (you will notice that I use the word 'surely' a lot - for it adopts a more free and open-to-change tone - as opposed to your default routine of making blunt, vague & often insulting remarks) even in biblical terms, it's not the becoming gay that is right or wrong but how you choose to deal with it? Understood? As for the second sentence I never said otherwise. The concept of 'gay life' is an interesting one though; I've never quite grasped it. It's one of these terms that angsty 'gothic' homosexual acquaintances tend to throw up whenever they want a bit of sympathy and attention. As far as I'm aware there's no such thing.
Yes, I notice you use the word “surely” a lot, but “surely” does not mean what you think it does.
sure·ly
adv.
1. With confidence; unhesitatingly.
2. Undoubtedly; certainly: You surely can't be serious.
3. Without fail: Slowly but surely spring returns.
surely
adv : definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting]
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=surely
As to what is relevant where morals are concerned, this depends on each individuals criteria for what is and is not moral.
As to who is forcing their opinions on a others, here is what you posted on another thread:
Narky_McDark wrote:The American Psychiatric Association is supposed to be an organization of scientists, now if political activism is the basis for making a scientific decision the organization that craters to activists looses it right to be called scientific.
You could look at it like that I suppose... political pressure effecting & using scientific evidence in a false way. Although since you can't really 'twist' evidence to mean something that it doesn't (because evidence is evidence and can mean several things and determining WHICH of those requires yet more evidence), then if political pressure were to effect the results of a study or what have you to come up differently then it would have to be simple
lying. You could also interpret that as politics pressurising science to look into things it hadn't looked into before, something which might previously have been taken for red. Same with women's suffridge again: the general assumption was that women's minds were too emotionally unstable to handle politics. The political pressure of the time would have made science look into this more deeply and they would have found that it was not actually true as such.
http://www.jesus-christ-forums.com/home/viewtopic ... ght=#65972
The APA totally ignored over 1000 studies published over a 30 year period. Did you take the time to listen to this:
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You might also educate yourself by reading "Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth". There is no similarity between women's sufferage and gay unions.