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I ask myself this question everytime he says this type of crap. He doesn't seem to be worth remembering beyond reading the inane tweets.
Which makes me think: Why the hell hasn't there a gay super hero?
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Ooh really? Which ones? Any that have been made into movies/TV shows?
There was a push recently. Marvel had a gay wedding between Northstar and his boyfriend, and DC's recent reboot has Green Lantern Alan Scott as a young gay man. Plus the new Batwoman a few years back was always a lesbian, Renee Montoya is as well (and had a fairly serious portrayal of workplace and family discrimination in Gotham Central).
No big A-listers yet, but it's not nothing.
Alan Scott is the most recent gay superhero; he's the original Green Lantern. Also, Barbara Kane (Batwoman) is a lesbian.
In Ultimate X-Men, Colossus is gay, as is Northstar from Alpha Flight.
Montoya? Awesome. One more reason to love BTAS.
He is my favorite actor simply for all the crazy stuff he does when not too busy acting.
It is the EXACT definition of bigotry and your repeated, bizzare insistance it isn't will not change that fact.
Well before he was "outed" but there it is.
So it's not like making Batman gay or something.
In exactly the same way that saying, "Very few natural redheads are Asian-American" is factual, saying, "A vast majority of denominations of Christianity specifically outline a doctrine which is anti-gay" is also factual, and not, in fact, bigotry.
Except not at all because A: you're not quantifying it with a ngative trait and B: you're not make it an absolute which is exactly what's happening in the thread and in the LGBT community.
Change that example to "natural red-heads are all thieves" and the metaphor will match.
Isn't he busy being broken up about Kristen Stewart right now?
No it isn't.
Labeling all members of a group with a hateful trait, in this case "homophobes"" when it's not true and wishing they were all dead which YOU YOURSELF did a few pages ago very much is.
Extending it to "all Christians are anti gay" is an unfair generalization and approaches bigotry in some cases.
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Yup, I agree.
Nope, that's exactly bigotry. I think the weird disconnect is it's only bigotry if you use "anti gay" as something bad tho. So it's bigotry if we say it but just wishful thinking if, say, someone from Westboro Baptist said it.
Feel free to loath any homophobe you want but that's not even vaguely what we're discussing here.
Any groups that aren't anti-gay aren't bring talked about, pretty convenient.
Oh you.
And yet
I think christians are a little sensitive on this and need to get over it, but there's a lot of wrong flying around too.
Well, that's what I'm trying to convey. You can't label Christians as a homophobic group anymore. There's a very notable percentage, even if it's a still an over all minority, of individual Christians, entire churches and whole denominations that openly accept homosexuals and don't even vaguely consider it a sin. Hell, there's even a black sheep Catholic church in my city that felt the same way although they did eventually get the smackdown from the local bishop or whatever and had to do the acceptance on the down low.
Seriously, I'm not trying to be a dick about this and I can totally see where you're coming from and all but there are some really nice folks out there now and there's getting to be more of them every day. I just want people to be able to realize that it is actually getting better.
What up with dat. Anyone know?
There is always the fact that you can say "No, sis. Sorry." and not meet with her or 'chat' with her. I never apologize to my friends or family for my beliefs.
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Catholics are Christians.
Most of what's up with dat is hundreds of years of protestant/catholic warfare for the True Church.
Basically, regardless of how similar two people are to one another, they will stab each other in the eye over any difference.
You are trying to be disingenuous. Really really hard.
When I point out the very small number of sects who do not, in fact, promote anti-gay nonsense, and thus conclude that Christianity is overwhelmingly anti-gay, you come right back and say
"You said all Christians are bigots!"
It's not even possible to take that away from what i said.
This bullshit narrative where contemporary American Christians are somehow being oppressed or victimized is 100% constructed garbage. A cynical political ploy to silence liberals, who themselves are allergic to being accused of intolerance.
The more you engage in this, the less I am willing to believe your claims that you are one of the good Christians and not part of the shitty majority.
If you want to be counted among the good guys, you should really stop parroting the party line of the bad guys.
And that's really all I have to say on that. If you feel like I am a bigot, fine. I really don't give any fucks how you think of me.
Dood, I am not even vaguely a Christian. I don;t know how you got that. No way, no how. I was an athiest at 11 and have never seen any reason to change and boy howdy do I love to take it up the ass.
And yeah, no, Christianity is not being oprressed or victimized. It's certainly being challenged, even from within, and thank goodness for that.
And if you didn't give a fuck you wouldn't be responding plus you'd be a huge asshole to everyone ever and you most certainly aren't.
See, that's what I always thought too but the quite insistant denial of that from concerned parties has always kind of shocked me.
Because what I am reading here is more in the exception-which-proves-the-rule territory
perhaps you find it offensive for some of us to call out Christians on this hypocrisy; perhaps some of us find it offensive for someone to stand here and say "not ALL Christians hate The Gays et al...just the majority" and not expect to be treated like a bit of a pedant
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I assumed you are Christian because I have never seen a non-Christian so eager to defend the faith from stereotypes that are only mostly-true but not completely true all of the time.
I am not an atheist, but actually a deist. Like most deists I'm culturally Christian, non-religious, and feel like Christ was pretty close to right about everything* but his followers are almost perfect in their ability to get everything wrong ever.
-edit- * in terms of morality of course, not theology
All gays have great fashion sense.
All Jews are good with money.
All Scotsman are cheap with money.
Somehow those aren't okay to say, but All Christians hate the gays is?
Fucking please, people.
Many Christians are anti gay bigots, not all and blaming every Christian for it is intellectually lazy and dishonest.
Maybe we can lay that to rest.
Better yet, bury the religious discussion in a ditch and fill it in, since it is the #1 foremost cause of LGBT threads being drug off topic and locked.
It's happened to probably 5 or 6 past threads and it starts basically like this.