Why is homosexuality the only thing RW "Christians" care about?

[Rocknrule]

They sure as hell don't have a problem with "thou shalt not kill" (except when unborn fetuses are involved). The Bible says eating seafood is a sin, but that doesn't stop them from having big expensive lobster dinners at GOP fundraisers. They steal elections, covet the whole world and its freedoms and oil, worship Bush and money before God, and use God's name to further their unChristian causes. Yet at the slightest hint of man-on-man action (except Bush open-mouth kissing Lieberman or going on a man-date with a Saudi prince) they shit bricks. What causes them to get the impression that homosexuality is the only thing that repulses God? Is it just to hide their narrow bigotry?

[liberalpress]

1. Two things, actually

"Homos and Mexicans" At last that's what one of them told me.

[etherealtruth]

3. let's make it 3 things

A womans (lack of) the right to choose is pretty high on their list.

[movonne]

2. Because their churches tell them so...and we know how much money

bush gave the churches...and bush wants it as a political gain from the churches..but they don't care that we went to war on a lie and kill all we want too, and the churches finds this just fine...we live in a very sick country right now and we must get this country back and soon.

[FiveGoodMen]

14. Exactly.

Most people -- and I'm talking about my whole extended family here, so I see it up close all the time -- just believe whatever the designated authority figure tells them to. For these wingnuts, that's the serpent in the front of the church. They'll get upset about whatever he -- it's pretty much always a he -- gets upset about.

I don't see these folks having minds, wills, or opinions of their own at all. They are just proxy hate-machines for every little Falwell/Robertson/Hitler wannabe in the country.

That's what makes the snakes in the pulpits so dangerous: they each wield the power of several hundred or several thousand 'Americans'.

[WestSeattle2]

16. sounds like talk radio.......

[XemaSab]

4. Because they're perverted closet cases?

Only perverts are THAT interested in other people's sex lives.

[neoblues]

10. They must be feeling guilty...

otherwise, methinks they protesteth too much.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Men in robes wouldn't do that, would they? nt

[JohnnyRingo]

5. It isn't enough for them to believe there's a place in heaven for them

by practicing hetrosexuality and....
They want to take everyone else too...so they can nag and preach to us throughout eternity.

There's no way i want to spend forever with Pat Robertson.

[cushla_machree]

6. Its religion

Whatever the popular religion is, seeks to control the public.

Right now, the big threats the church feels are abortion, woman, and those gays. they've always had those under wraps, the whole cultureal revolution of the 60s set them back a bit.

[salvorhardin]

7. You're forgetting the Evil Atheist Conspiracy

I know, we're just a tiny division of the Secular Humanist Agenda so we don't get a lot of recognition but you might know us from one of our more popular products -- The War On Christmas. We're trying to rebrand it for the Easter holidays this year but we haven't been getting the market traction we'd hoped for.

[Elnendil Taramon]

8. Alot of humanity is made up of..

hypocrites. I see it alot, people will say something, but then they'll just say the opposite. I see it at my school and in politics.

Like that one guy who used a Ten Commandment against a man, then he bashed his dad.

Alot of Christians are just not getting into the actual meaning of the holy idea. Most of them throw out words, and yet, keep the actual rest alone, just to strengthen the idealism of that idea. Lets use your example of Homosexuality. Alot of Right Wingers say how Liberals, just like you and me, are homosexual lovers. But, oh how hypocricy's gun turns when alot of them just love girl on girl action. Homosexual means "Same Sex". I dont see how lesbians are an exception.

[EST]

9. It's not.

Almost everybody has the notion that, if you would just run your life the way I tell you, it would work, instead of Being so f**ked up.
Even when we figure it out that we are really jacking up our own lives by trying to run every one else's and start minding our own business, we still can't resist giving the benefit of our precious advice.

There are some people who have this disease in spades and aren't introspective enough to get it and input some correction.
These are called republicans.
Their controlling personalities and egos drive them into their own not so private bubbles and the philosophies behind right wing whackiness appeals to them.

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. Very Simple Answer - most people are not gay

It's the only "sin" that 90-95%(?) are not really tempted by.

[theHandpuppet]

13. I've never thought of it that way

But by golly, I think you may be on to something.

[ldf]

21. yeah, right.

either you don't have a clue about human sexuality, or you just don't get out much.

there are a LOT of bisexuals out there, that, although you can't classify them as gay, they sure are tempted. big time. i know from experience.

and now we homos are rubbing it in their faces by being PROUD of it!

and that, i think, is the problem with those bible thumping fire and brimstone preaching gay haters.

they're "straight". but they got the itch, and CAN'T STAND IT, OR the thought of that hot man on man sex that we are just lovin' so much.

it disgusts them so much that can't HELP but get a woodie, just thinkin' about it.

and it is always the men, obsessing about us guys. never the women... THAT shows what hypocrits they are.

pathetic shits.

:grr:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. I think you're both right

90%-95% can CLAIM that they're not even tempted, but an unknown percentage of them actually ARE.

[QC]

22. DING DING DING DING!!! WE HAVE A WINNER!

It's easy to abstain from "sins" that do not interest one.

If the fundamentalist churches ever decided to come out against, say, divorce, they would alienate too many of their members. Same if they had too much to say about greed. Homosexuality is the 'safe sin' for them.

[kansasblue]

15. commits adultery against her

Jesus had little to say about homosexuality. He did say this about divorce:

Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her

and Moses was directed from God 'Thou Shall not commit adultery'

I don't here pastor yelling at half there congregation which is divorced. Shopping kart beliefs. The just grab the beliefs that are easy. The found one this don't have to worry about. The aren't gay. Let's enforce this one.



2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 3 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" 4 They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away." 5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' 7 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder." 10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

[meow2u3]

27. Jesus had no need to mention homosexuality

That's because homosexuality was already forbidden by Jewish law.

[YouthInAsia]

17. Cuz most of those who vehemently oppose homosexuality

simply cannot come to terms with their OWN homosexuality.

[YouthInAsia]

18. Here's a good blog about this exact topic:

http://comearmageddon.blogspot.com/2006/01/homophobiapeople-are-people-so-why.html

[Proud_Democratt]

19. Homophobe RW Christians

It makes you wonder why Christ hung around 12 guys. Maybe he was gay. Maybe that is one of the reasons he was crucified.

[newyawker99]

25. Hi Proud_Democratt!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Proud_Democratt]

30. Thanks

:)

[troubleinwinter]

20. Because

they need their hate.

[Swamp Rat]

23. Because it is sooo hard for them to come out of the closet.

:)

[NMMNG]

24. They are fixated on sex

Nearly everything they march in the streets about is sex related. Gays in general, gay-marriage, gay adoption, abortion, "abstinence only" sex education, sex in the movies/tv, sexual content in books assigned to kids in schools, and so on. They want all mention of sex wiped out of society for everyone, and for the sex act to be relegated to a purely procreative function--a mere biological behavior.

[meow2u3]

28. That's where the fundies are tempted

Either that, or they're using exaggerated outrage over what they see as sexual misconduct to cover up their own sexual proclivities, such as sex with unwilling victims or illegal partners (kids, relatives, etc.).

[NMMNG]

31. I'm sure

Do you ever notice that it is the ones who shout loudest about "sexual sin" and "moral purity" that end up getting arrested for sex crimes?

[stepnw1f]

29. Because they are Attempting to Oppress Their Own Sexual Tendencies

Not joking. I do believe the far right hate who they are and need to control other's sexuality in order to prevent others from being what they themselves are too scared to be themsleves. Like a jealous onlooker at a dance, they themselves are to coward-like to be a part of, so they chose to crash the party.


I tip my hat to all courageous openly gay men and women for for putting up with us hetero assholes. Thanks for keeping it real! People are opening up.... keep up the fight, because you are winning now.

[Proud_Democratt]

32. Maybe...

because they are unsure about Jesus's sexual orientation??????? If he was heterosexual....Mary Magdelene was his mate. There is no passage in the Bible that states that she was a prostitute....it's only an ASSumption!