Good riddance
Bigot, homophobe and arch-conservative, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, has shuffled off this mortal coil at last. What a shame there isn't a hell for him to go to. This is, after all, the man who founded the Moral Majority; who warned that the Teletubby Tinkie-Winkie was part of a homosexual propaganda campaign on the basis that he was purple and had a triangular antenna; who said that "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals... AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."Falwell was also a racist: a segregationist Baptist preacher, who opposed interracial marriage and used the Bible to justify his position. In 1958, Falwell gave a sermon on segregation, stating that. "The true Negro does not want integration...He realizes his potential is far better among his own race... It will destroy our race eventually......It boils down to whether we are going to take God's Word as final." Admittedly as racism became less popular, he - publicly at least - changed his stance on segregation.
What a charming piece of work. Definitely someone that the world is better off without, I reckon.
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maybe now i can use that title for one on eddie...
[though "boned" is tempting]
Okay, so, I didn't chose to be gay. Why would I chose a life that makes me a second class citizen in the eyes of Australia's politicians, for starters, and that provides bigots with an excuse to beat the shit out of me (as has happened on more than one occasion)?
Sure, you might want to argue that I 'chose' to act on my sexual orientation; that I could instead ensure that I don't sin by denying, repressing and locking down my innate desire to love and be loved by another man.
To which I would respond: is not one of the central teachings of your religion that 'God is love'?
If so, then to know God, we must know love; and were I to shut myself away from the possibility of love, then I would be denying God.
That said, I don't believe in yours or any other deity, but I do believe this: assuming, for the sake of argument that there is a God, then She made me as I am, my sexuality included.
And finally, if you're going to maintain the belief that homosexuality is a sin because to 'lie with another man as with a woman is abomination', then you'd better start paying attention to the rest of Liviticus as well: or are you uncomfortable with the idea of stoning to death children who disrespect their parents, and burning prostitutes alive?
awesome!
[jealous]