Pedophilia - The Next Taboo To Fall?

[Cow Poke]

Its this part, thanks for the clarification though. As for the source of that accusation look here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_recruitment

OK, so I've heard the term "recruit", regarding homosexuals, but I just assumed - silly me - that this referred to the fact that homosexuals cannot procreate, hence any "offspring" would have to come from outside of their 'marriage'. I think it's a bit much to freak over that term, but... understood.

[Cow Poke]

Eh, we all make mistakes. I'm the only one here who's completely perfect and cool as as cucumber.

I'm cool as a cucumber in the hot Texas sun worried he might be picked before his time and turned into a pickle!

[Leonhard]

I'm cool as a cucumber in the hot Texas sun worried he might be picked before his time and turned into a pickle!

Mmmm, pickled cucumbers. Something you and Denmark have a common fondness for.

[Cow Poke]

Mmmm, pickled cucumbers. Something you and Denmark have a common fondness for.

And those danish sugar cookies!!!

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Those things are HIGHLY ADDICTIVE!!!!

[Leonhard]

I didn't know you had those!

[Cow Poke]

I didn't know you had those!

Growing up, I always thought some day I'd want to go to Denmark to see....

A) How you guys make such wonderful cookies
2) how you guys raise those canned pigs

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[seer]

I didn't know you had those!

Yeah, every Christmas we are deluged with those cookies! I eat myself sick!

[Leonhard]

2) how you guys raise those canned pigs

Probably from this pig breed that the farmers breed when the danish flag was outlawed by the German.



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[Leonhard]

Above is also why I'm sympathetic to the Southerns who can't display the confederate flags as much anymore. Even though I don't like the flag, I like even less other busybuddies telling you not to flag it.

[Cow Poke]

Above is also why I'm sympathetic to the Southerns who can't display the confederate flags as much anymore. Even though I don't like the flag, I like even less other busybuddies telling you not to flag it.

Yeah!

[Bill the Cat]

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[Cow Poke]

Yeah, every Christmas we are deluged with those cookies! I eat myself sick!

Especially the ones with the crystal meth crystalized sugar on top!

[Leonhard]

Especially the ones with the crystal meth crystalized sugar on top!

The ones on the right?

[Cow Poke]

The ones on the right?

Yeah, or these.... I'm particularly fond of those two in the middle!

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[Starlight]

I believe homosexuality is a sin. (not just having homosexual thoughts or tendencies, but acting on them)

I've got no issue with this, in the sense that if all you mean by this is that you think God's against it, then fine.

I regard that irrelevant to me in the same sort of sense as if someone said to me "I don't think God wants me to eat pork, so I'm not going to eat pork because of it," I would shrug and move on. Ideally it shouldn't impact my life or anybody else's in any meaningful way. If they start saying that God's telling them to fly planes into buildings, that's another matter entirely.

So if you want to believe God is telling you not to get same-sex married, fine by me. I might question whether your interpretation of the bible is particularly good interpretation, but at the end of the day I'm not going to be worried too much if even if I think you've butchered the text and come up with a completely implausible interpretation.

It's only when people start saying things like "you know what, not only am I not going to get same-sex married because I think God doesn't like it, I'm going to force everybody else not to do it either, regardless of their religion or lack of it. I'm going to enforce my religious views on those atheists. I'm also going to enforce it on the Hindus, Buddhists, and Jews down the street, and also on those other Christians who's denomination thinks same-sex marriage is okay." When people start trying to force others to follow their religion, we start to have problems.

When two homosexuals commit to "marriage", how can that NOT be considered by Christians to be a declaration of intent to continue in sin.

I guess those Christians who think gay sex is sinful would think that. Those Christians that don't, presumably wouldn't.

Why, on God's green earth, would I want children raised in that kind of environment?

You're going to have to explain this one to me. Most Christians generally think that even saved Christians are fairly sinful and sin every day. So all children, even those being raised in the absolute best Christian families have parents who sin regularly, and live in an environment where sin regularly happens.

Young children generally don't have much of an idea about sex or understanding that their parents have it, so any 'sinful' same-sex sex that their parents are engaging in is not going to be something that is known to the kids or going to affect their lives in any way shape or form. I guess by the time they reach their teens they'll have a general awareness of it (although most kids in my observation actively try to not think about it). But I'm not clear on how you think that will affect them at that point. We all, I'm sure, could point to various less-than-perfections in our own parents. Personally I think I had one of the best childhoods possible, and when I would meet my friends' parents I was always a little surprised at how good my own parents were by comparison, and if I could copy my own parents and upbringing to every child on earth then I absolutely would because I think the world would be a much better place for it... but even I could point out plenty of flaws in my excellent parents who are still together and I still have a great relationship with both of them.

So let's imagine that a teenage christian child decided the fact that their same-sex parents were having sex was a sin and was thus a flaw in their otherwise good parents. How bad a thing is that really? It seems a lot better than a flaw like "my father is an alcoholic" or "my father has a temper and occasionally beats my mum in front of me". Those sort of flaws/sins obviously have a bad effect on the child. In what way does the child coming to perceive the parents as flawed/sinful due to their same-sex relationship affect the child? Does it affect them merely "spiritually" - but how? Because if they view homosexuality as a sin, then they'll form the view that their parents are sinning and not right with God, like they might if their parents were atheists, but it clearly hasn't affected the child's own spiritual life given they've come to hold evangelical Christian views. If the child doesn't view homosexuality as a sin, which seems more likely since the same-sex parents are more likely to attend a liberal denomination than a conservative one, then where's the problem? The child in this instance isn't going to perceive their parents as sinful by virtue of their same-sex marriage, so aren't even going to mentally register it as a thing they should be concerned about. Does the 'problem' at this point boil down to the fact that they're likely to be attending a liberal church and not an evangelical one? And that liberal churches are 'bad'?