Originally posted by JimL
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So perhaps what they really mean when they say things like "without Christian moral teachings, everyone would be doing terrible things" what they really mean is "I, personally, have a strong desire to do terrible things, and currently the only thing that's holding me back is telling myself and everyone else really loudly about how Christian moral teachings stop me from doing these things I really really want to do." It's like the old "we can't have gay marriage because then everyone would get gay married" objection... it says quite a lot about the person making it, and it also involves them projecting their own state of mind onto everyone else and assuming that everyone is exactly like them.
I recall a commentator making a similar observation about Mike Huckabee's recent comment that if transgender rights had existed at his own high-school he would have abused the system in order to get into the girls' bathroom and ogle the girls. Huckabee's implicit assumption was that everyone else is as much a lying pervert as he himself is, and that it therefore proves that transgender people's preferences shouldn't be respected. Instead, people's responses to Huckabee's comments were along the lines of "well, that tells us quite a lot about Mike Huckabee's moral character, doesn't it?"
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