Originally Posted By RoadTrip ^^^ Oops... Make that Anakin, not Luke. I'm mixing up my saber masters...
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy gadzuux, I wasn't laughin' at your post, sorry...I was laughin' in response to Trippy's humor in this WE thread and wanted to add somethin' light-hearted myself, lol. 0
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy It's okay Trippy...hard to think clearly when you're turned on, eh? lol ;-P
Originally Posted By cstephens JazzCat wrote: > I could have stated my point and then contact Admin to ask that no more posts be allowed. And as far as I can tell, that would have done absolutely nothing. On some boards, the thread starter has control of when the thread stops, which I think is absolutely ridiculous. From all the time I've spent on the boards, threads are only closed for admin purposes. That you don't want others to continue posting their opinions doesn't count as an admin purpose. /cs
Originally Posted By JazzCat Yes, about 1 1/2 years ago I started a topic on Community where tensions arose. I asked that the topic be closed because it had gotten out of hand and Admin did close it.
Originally Posted By ecdc So far I'm still waiting for a single example of how Christians have been discriminated against. All we've heard is that Christians don't like certain things (ie, gay marriage) and since people have the utter gall to disagree with them or not let them have their way, they throw a hissy fit and call it discrimination. As I said before, if your definition of discrimination is not getting your own way, or having people disagree with you when you want to restrict the rights of others, you need a serious wake up call. I'll also reiterate that it doesn't surprise me a bit that these are usually the same people who are the most callous and indifferent to real discrimination.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy <<So far I'm still waiting for a single example of how Christians have been discriminated against.>> Christians are under constant attack from the left.. because the left thinks Christians are going to take their gay rights away or some other nonsense. Christians are not down with killing babies 8 months along either while many on the left say it's a womans right to kill her child at any point until birth. Every secular, liberal, socialist failied idea the left are in love with gets challenged by the people who read the bible and are Christian. So the left attacks them any chance they get. The NY Times writes pieces blasting Christians all the time. Many on the left are openly hostile to any Chrisitan because a christian isn't going to say it's OK to be a slut or its OK to teach your kid how to smoke crack like many liberal parents are OK with. Christians know that being lazy isn't an excuse to get a handout. The libs hate that also.. So they bash the Christian.... the left always tears down people that they don't agree with because they can't argue their point to a level that people will vote for their stupid ideas. Christians make moral judegements on people sometimes.. and the left hate that. The point of this topic is that these very people get all bent out of shape at the first bath house and aids reference, yet they take glee in bashing fat people and anyone of faith. It's why they lose and it's why in the last election people said the left had no moral values so they didn't get the vote.... remember. Keep bashing the church, god and Christianity. It put Bush back in the whitehouse and it's going to put another Repub in the Whitehouse in 08.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I hear you, ecdc, although if you're referring to JazzCat I think that's a bit harsh. S/he has already said s/he is okay with gay people. I think JC used the phrase "various ways of life" and some people read that as a buzz word for homosexuality - not surprising since many people DO use that and similar phrases as a buzzword for homosexuality - but that may not be what JC intended. But although it may not apply to JC, your last paragraph is almost as good as Bill Maher's comments, ecdc. Well said indeed.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy JazzCAt is OK with gay people. I think everyone is OK with gay people on here. The point is that gay people have no problem attacking Christians but go crazy when anyone even suggests what they do is not perfectly fine and normal. (Thats my take on it ). The only people attacking Christians and making jokes are people on the left. Yet these same people fly the pathetic "PC flag" when anyone makes a crack about Muslims, blacks, gays, mexicans, or cross dressers. Why are people on the left stupid according to me?? Because they attack the very people in this country who make up the vast majority of the population... christians and people who are overwieght. Then when they lose elections and their gay marriage ideas gets crushed at the polls they blame the voting machines and call everyone a bunch of bigots. If only they would listen.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <The point is that gay people have no problem attacking Christians but go crazy when anyone even suggests what they do is not perfectly fine and normal. (Thats my take on it ).> Think you could get out a broader brush, there, Beau? "Gay people" have no problem attacking Christians? You might be surprised how widely the two groups overlap. And yes, if one of my Christian brothers suggests that what I do is not fine and normal, I will set him straight (as it were). <The only people attacking Christians and making jokes are people on the left.> This from the guy who attacked liberal Christians as not "real" Christians. Ya' oughta take that log out of your own eye, Beau, to paraphrase a certain book.
Originally Posted By ecdc "Christians are under constant attack from the left.. because the left thinks Christians are going to take their gay rights away or some other nonsense." Just waiting for an example, Beau, not broad accusations you can't back up. Name an instance where a Christian wasn't allowed to practice their religion, go to church, vote, marry who they like, etc., because of "libs."
Originally Posted By ecdc "I hear you, ecdc, although if you're referring to JazzCat I think that's a bit harsh." I should've clarified - I'm not referring to Jazzcat. "But although it may not apply to JC, your last paragraph is almost as good as Bill Maher's comments, ecdc. Well said indeed." Thanks!
Originally Posted By gadzuux I'm hoping that some of our resident catholic posters (including the newly minted ones) will respond to the pope's comments - to wit ... "diabolical", "evil", "senseless cult of Satan", "mindless", "dishonest", "frivolous", "immorality", "selfishness" and of course "filth". And all of this in one single utterance, and on easter weekend while performing the stations of the cross. Is this considered responsible stewardship of the catholic faith and mother church? Or is it your garden variety hate speech and rabble rousing?
Originally Posted By wahooskipper gadzuux...do you have text of this in its entirety or are you taking words out of context?
Originally Posted By gadzuux No, I don't have the text in it's entirety, just a news story from a website that's "less than appropriate" to provide a link to. Let me poke around and see if I can find more.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Here's the link and the byline. There's nothing untoward at this site. There's more at the link about the pope and his views that I didn't transpose over to LP. <a href="http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/04/041406pope.htm" target="_blank">http://www.365gay.com/Newscon0 6/04/041406pope.htm</a> Pope Uses Easter To Attack Gay Families by Malcolm Thornberry, 365Gay.com European Bureau Chief April 14, 2006 - 5:00 pm ET
Originally Posted By cstephens gadzuux wrote: > Actually, if you ask them nicely, they'll usually close it. I would be disappointed to discover that the admins of this site would agree to close a thread simply at the whim of the thread starter. JazzCat wrote: > Yes, about 1 1/2 years ago I started a topic on Community where tensions arose. I asked that the topic be closed because it had gotten out of hand and Admin did close it. But if the discussion got out of hand, that's definitely a good reason for closing a thread. I don't see that this thread has gotten out of hand, so I see no justification for closing it. /cs
