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Sean Faircloth:
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I've seen men killing men over women. I've seen women killing women over men. When will the killing stop and the loving begin?
He's either extremely naive, or deliberately set himself the task of scaremongering.
I'd like to point out that the massive influx of homosexuals he sees have always been there, the only difference is that unlike his native country we don't discriminate against them to the point where they are in fear of their lives and must hide in shadows.
Wouldn't it be a outrageously funny if it turned out that Jesus never married because he was gay, and that his disciples (all men) were really his harem? All that talk about marriage was just a major smoke screen. I'm sure that stone tablet is just out there waiting to be found.
Homosexuality was such an epidemic and insidious thing in biblical times that the religious dedicated large passages to vilifying them.
The irony is, that despite rampant religious anti-homosexual scare-mongering there are more people living now in just one of the world's largest cities than inhabited the entire planet in biblical times. Somehow I don't think the human race is doomed.
Permalink Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:40:00 UTC | #53438