the crap I have to listen to on the radio- watch out for those gayfolk!

The BBQ Pit
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I am sitting here in my arm chair because I broke my ankle and it is hard for me to move. even If I could move I am not sure I could reach the radio to tun it off,

My room mate has it turned to what sounds like a Christian radio station. And the Topic is How to Cure Homosexuality?

Excuse me? Cure Homosexuality? I was not aware it was a disease. Apperantly according to the speaker, All homosexuals become that way because they did not get approval acceptance and affection if they were children. ANd also If a gay man had a true masculine influence when he was a child he would not be attraced to men, same theory for women.

There are actually people calling into the show saying things like “My sister has this disease” Like its the mumps or something.
And please please please for the love of all that is holy keep your kids away from the homosexuals because they might “catch it” Its bad enough that the media makes homosexuality look like something that is normal, but to have actual real live gay people around might be dangerous! They teetered dangerously close to implying that homosexuals are all child molestors.

Now I am aware that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but to me the whole radio program is rediculous. I refuse to believe that The people I know that are homosexual are that way because they have some disease in the head. Does it even matter if they are gay, I am sure that The gay people I know are not thinking straight people are diseased in the head for being straight( maybe)

They also said that Christians who do n ot have a problem with
homosexuals are not Christian. So what people who do not hate homosexuals can’t be Christians?
The mind boggles
This just makes me sad :frowning:

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Achoo, achoo, <sniffle>, pardon me, but I seem to be coming down with homosexuality. I have this urge to…redecorate…and…you’ll be swell, you’ll be great, you’ll have the whole world on a plate! Starting here, starting now, honey, everything’s coming up roses…. Oops, sorry, I seem to have a swollen Merman, too.

Really, what do these born-again rubes think they’re going to catch from gay folks? Good taste in clothes and furnishings? An interest in musical theater? Decent muscle tone?

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Well it’s all fine and dandy if you’re a man, gobear. I, for one, do not want to catch a case of flannel-lined jeans.

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Or butch haircuts! UGH!!!

:wink:

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Pay close attention to the businesses that are advertising on this “show” and never, ever patronize them again. For best results, contact said businesses and let them know you find the drivel they are supporting to be offensive, ignorant, and hateful and as a result you are boycotting them for life.

And what’s the deal with your roommate? Please tell me you’ve called him on his choice in programming…

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Let me tell you a story.

Once upon a time a man was driving down I-10 between Lake Charles and Beaumont when a gang of robbers carjacked him, beat him senseless, and left him for dead by the side of the road.

A Baptist minister drove by and saw the man spralwed out on the side of the road. The minister figured the man had been drinking and it would be wrong to help a sinner, so he drove on by.

Then, the county sheriff, riding in his squad car, saw the man lying by the side of the road. He was on hbis way to bust up a domestic call, but the sheriff made a mental note to arrest the man for loitering if hewere still there when the sheriff returned.

Then a gay man on his way to Key West drove by in a stunningly restored 1967 cherry-red Chevrolet convertible. The gay guy stopped the car, picked up the man, bound his wounds, and then drove him to a fabulous little bed and breakfast, where he put the man to bed between cool Mikasa sheets.

The gay man paid the innkeeper to take care of the injured man, and if any money were owed when the gay guy came back from his trip, he would pay the bill in full.

Now which one of these men was truly the injured man’s neighbor? Go thou and do likewise.

Y’know, I think I have a passing familiarity with the Gospels, and nowhere in them can I find Jesus urging his followers to persecute people. I missed the passage where Jesus told His followers to preach hate and foment bigotry against the despised. Even if the fundies beleive that being gay is sinful, they still have no license to tell lies and create hostility against gay people. Jesus told His disciples to love God with all their heart, mind, and soul, and to love their neighbors as themselves. I’m sure our fundie Dopers will chime in that they “love gay people too much to lie to them. so they must Preach the Truth in Love,” which is just weaselspeak for “we want to air our prejudices without getting busted for rank hypocrisy.”

“Love thy neighbor” isn’t that difficult a commandment to understand–it means to smile at others, be friendly, to welcome them as friends, to feed and clothe them if need be. It does not mean to tell lies, to cause harm, to create a dangerous atmosphere of hate.

But then I’m a gay man, and thus too evil and stupid to understand the clear sense of God’s Word.

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Oh, and no offense to those with butch haircuts. But it would look so awful on me. And I like my hair like it is (well, maybe a bit shorter, like a longish bob). I like being girly.

gobear, that is beautiful.

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Actually, I remember seeing a 60 Minutes segment about a group of fundies who were trying to “cure” homosexuals, and the unfortunate results when gay church members got caught up in such bullshit. It was pretty sad.

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I dug the “gay samaritan” parable, Gobear, and I love the word “weaselspeak.” That sums those people up perfectly.

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I have got to start hanging out with gay people more often. I need all of those.

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According to one Christian poster on another MB, it is possible to open one’s home to the demonic influence of homosexuality if one does not stay in the proper prayerful communion with God. Of course, that sounds all spiritual and stuff but when I rephrased it as “monsters fly around and can get in your house and make you gay” it revealed him for the superstitious bigot he was :rolleyes:

Amazing how tantalizing these fundies make homosexuality out to be, isn’t it?

Not that it isn’t, right gobear? :slight_smile:

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Gobear, I’m going to be doing a workshop with the teenagers at my former church on peer pressure. If it’ll fit, would you mind if I used your parable? If it won’t, would you mind if I used it at some later time?

CJ

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Sometime in the mid-nineties (I don’t know if I still have the magazine), Spin ran an article about a fundie retreat designed to cure homosexuality. The participants all seemed to be adults who attended of their own volition.

While there was plenty cringe-worthy stuff (ie the whole premise of the retreat, and someone telling a group of women that “gay men make great husbands because they don’t feel lust for the female form”), there was one bright spot. The reporter noted that for most of the participants, it was their first time to openly interact with other gay people. The reporter added that although all the talk was about finding heterosexual partners, all the pairing off, talking, laughing, etc, was done in same-sex couples. “People were falling in love.”

I always think of that article with a smile whenever I hear about someone claiming Jesus can make people straight.

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Just as well you came back with an apology because I was booking my flight to come over and make you look at my home done buzz cut.

If you laughed I was going to rub your cheek with the top of my head and give you the nastiest stubble burn ever :wink:

We have fundies here in oz but they don’t get nearly as much attention and certainly do not hold much power. I guess adding thank God at the end of that statement would be tasteless wouldn’t it?

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Strangely enough, for some people it really is hard to understand. It’s beyond their comprehension. I actually had one person tell me once (lizard boy, to be precise) that his incredibly fundamentalist church taught that “love thy neighbor” was more figurative than literal. (Weird how many other parts of the bible were absolutely to be taken literally.) The leaps in logic that some people use to get around that simplest of commands are astoundingly balletic.

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Um, there was meant to be a Guinastasia in my post somewhere… Must be Satan trying to make me look a fool, yeah, that’s it. Naughty Satan, as if it isn’t bad enough that he forces me to find women attractive.

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I’m sorry, Thylacine. I know, right after I pressed “submit”, I thought-d’uh, I should have clarified!

Although sometimes I’m tempted to shave it all off and get a wig, because my own hair is so pathetic.

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I’m with you on the good taste and muscle-tone, but musical theatre is so lame.

Except, of course, for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And Jesus Christ Superstar… oh, and Man of La Mancha… And Fiddler on the Roof… and… :eek:

Oh my God, I think I’m coming down with a case of homosexuality.

(Or would that be “going down”?)

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Interesting coincidence – this was just posted to TotalFark:

My apologies for the crude attempt at duplicating FARK formatting. (At least the spelling errors are intact…)

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So like, is there a Gay Vaccine available?

:smiley:
But seriously, I still don’t get why people CARE so much about who is gay and who isn’t. I mean, even if you do think it’s a sin, it’s not affecting you, unless it’s your spouse or whatever. So what is the big facking deal?