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Apple Shares 'Pride' Video Featuring Preparation for San Francisco Pride Parade
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Yeah, but you have to understand that what you just said is like saying "I could get fired from my workplace at an elementary school for being a pedophile." Not equating being gay with being a pedophile. If you think that you've missed the point. It's that your sexual orientation undermines the entire organization's belief, code of ethics, and their standing within their community. It goes against everything they are striving for. If you can't abide by their ethics, then you have no business working there as they are a religious organization. Why would you want to work for a group that is actively working against what you believe is right?
I still don't know why government is involved in marriage at all. I've previously proposed what is probably the best solution: Bring marriage back as a religious institution only, and the government will only recognize everyone as partners. Everyone gets the same healthcare and tax benefits, but religious connotations (marriage and the ceremony, traditions, beliefs behind it) are left to churches. That way gays can go to their gay churches (my wife's gay uncle goes to a gay church so they exist) and people who believe otherwise can wash their hands of it because their country isn't condoning gay marriage, just benefits which aren't tied to any one religious persuasion. Just like drunks, those who commit adultery, and liers (which is a sin just like everything else) still get benefits from the government. You wouldn't say that the government is actively supporting those sins because they get benefits and tax breaks like everyone else. Let the gays sin, and leave it up to them and God. And I know for a fact that the issue most Christians have with gay marriage is that it's called "marriage", which they believe is a religious ceremony that is described in the Bible as between a man and a woman. At least at the church I go to we are taught to love all sinners because we all sin and have our own temptations. But no sin is condoned, we can only help each other to be better people.
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Agree with you 100%
Hypocritical
-If Tim is gay - coming out should be his decision and he should not be coerced to come out because of others' expectation.
-He may have deep personal reasons for not wanting to disclose his sexuality - thats fine; ultimately it is his life and thus his decision.
-He can remain silent on his personal life without being a hypocrite, not all gays run around mincing and screaming in hot pants and pink T's!
Heresy! Let's have a cultural split, spend a few hundred years hating each other, and then slaughter each other by the thousands!You do know he's white with black spots right? Pink is absurd...
Not here to argue with you; I was simply responding to correct your assertion that Christians face no opposition. That's all.
Gay people aren't going against their natural desires. The only thing they're going against is outmoded belief systems like yours. They are attracted to the same sex. It's natural.
They aren't going to hell and the majority aren't worried that you believe in it because that's absolutely ******* insane. Of all of gods inventions.. Eternal punishment for anyone who doesnt follow his strict, unwavering and often perculiar (to a specific time and place) rules? Feeling the love there.
What happens to the billions of people throughout history who've never come into contact with christianity at all?
No way, because that implies that religion "owns" marriage in the US, the that the US Gov needs to "back off their turf".
In the US, marriage is a *strictly secular* institution. Getting married by a priest or rabbi or whatever has absolutely NO legal standing if you don't have a marriage license/cert from your state.
Marriage belongs to ALL people of ALL races, religions, and sexual orientations in the US. If religious people want a special "no gays allowed" marriage club, then THEY can come up with their own name (holy matrimony or something) for their legally-meaningless ceremony.
Trust me God does provide. I'm not living in any sort of mansion or driving a fancy car (or any car for that matter). I take the city bus every day as many do. I had to save for a year for my MBP (2011) and I'm still on an iPhone 4S after jumping from the 3G. I popped an SSD in my MBP to make it last longer cause I can't afford a new one every iteration. I'm saving money by living with roomates. The little I have God has provided. And I'm thankful to Him for it. To be a Christian doesn't mean living "off the grid" in a forest going au natural.
*sigh*
Some people just don't get it.
Pride is not so much about the 'gay' issues anymore as it is about Equality and Inclusion for ALL.
Pride is about self pride and being happy with who YOU are.
As has been mentioned previously, there are usually more 'straight' people involved in pride than 'gay' people.
It's a Celebration, it's fun, it sends a positive message!
For those who don't like it: Get Over It. Pride isn't going away anytime soon.
Go Apple!
Some people just don't get it.
Pride is not so much about the 'gay' issues anymore as it is about Equality and Inclusion for ALL.
Pride is about self pride and being happy with who YOU are.
As has been mentioned previously, there are usually more 'straight' people involved in pride than 'gay' people.
It's a Celebration, it's fun, it sends a positive message!
For those who don't like it: Get Over It. Pride isn't going away anytime soon.
Go Apple!
That doesn't make any sense. You're saying you CAN choose to be aroused/attracted to other men/women and be homosexual, but you can't choose to be heterosexual? So, all homosexuals are actually heterosexuals who have chosen (and somehow managed to) focus their sexual desire towards their own gender?? Huh..what!?
Is this the same loving Jesus and God that sends tornados and hurricanes to wipe out areas of supposed sinners?
Religion isn't a choice, you are taught to be religious from birth. By the time they have grown up, all concepts in a religious person's mind lead back to this notion of 'everything having to be controlled and created by a magical invisible man'.
This way of thinking makes absolutely no sense to me, as I wasn't indoctrinated in this way. My understanding of nature is based on what I can actually work out from studying nature, and everything I see contradicts the god concept.
It would be utterly impossible for me to choose to believe a religion was true, just as it would be impossible for an adult to choose to believe Santa Claus was real.
It just makes no logical sense without at least a little brainwashing to fix the idea of god in your head from an early age.
I tried not to jump in but this post is so absurd and it is the perfect picture of people claiming Biblical "truths" that are made up. I can't call you a liar unless you say you have read the Bible. You either have read the Bible and know these are lies you are spewing, or you have not read the Bible and are repeating someone elses falsehoods. I will assume the latter.
One more comment/analogy... If the sky is blue and you say it is green, i don't care. It is blue and has been since the beginning of time (as far as we know). You can call it green, it doesnt affect me. You say i have to call it green, then it does affect me. Marriage is betwwen a female and a male and it has been sine the beginnning of time ( as far as we know it ). You can call a union between a man and man a marriage and i don't care. If you say we ALL need to call it a marriage, then it does affect me. No one forces anything on you, but the agenda of the gay community is to force it on everyone else and not stop until we all confirm them.
The "little you have"...my god, what a narrow perspective you have. Compared to 99% of the world's population you are a very rich man. Too bad God doesn't provide as well for everyone as he has you...you must be highly regarded in his eyes.
I guess when you live surrounded by wealth and opulence all your life, it's easy to spout religious platitudes and feel good about yourself without actually having to suffer at all for it.
Natural disasters are a result of our world climate being uneven due to the events of Noah's Flood (Genesis 6-9)
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