Maybe someday, adults will be mature enough and won’t shove into other people’s faces their sexual preferences.
Mature enough? Shoving sexual preferences into other people's faces? Do you really mean that? Or do you mean it
only as it applies to homosexuals? Our society is literally bursting from the seams with
heterosexual sexual preferences plastered all over everything - it's literally
everywhere, every media source, half the ads and billboards, you can't get away from it. Yet if any speck of homosexual preference is spotted, people get all upset about it. Do you see the double standard?
Two guys kiss on a TV program, and you get angry letter writing campaigns and angry petitions and boycotts from "righteous people doing Jesus's work" (funny, Jesus never advocated hating entire groups of people)... meanwhile, how many
overtly heterosexual kisses and heterosexual couples were on TV that day? And where is the outrage against
that? Try to convince me that this is about
anybody showing their preferences for what gender they prefer.
Nobody gives an f**** what you do on your bed and in your private life. What’s all this pride thing exactly for?
Clearly you're wrong, when 14 states have had
laws making various forms of sexual conduct
illegal as recently as 2003, and they had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the Supreme Court to get those laws struck off the books. And there are lots of fundamentalist types still screaming that they have a god-given right to treat gay people more poorly than straight people (funny, I thought Jesus's message was, "be kind to everybody and help others", not "go forth and hate and mistreat people in my name"). Plenty of people do apparently give a f*** what you do on your bed and in your private life. You don't feel that because you're not in their crosshairs.
I don’t see straight people shouting “Pride for straight people”, nor making straight male parades or whatever.
Oh come on, pretty much every sporting event is a straight male parade. You don't really need to have parades for the
majority group, they get better stuff and more recognition
all the time (it's like people arguing against "Black History Month" by saying "when is White History Month?" - but White History Month is
every month, they just don't call it that). We have things like Gay Pride parades and Black Lives Matter and the MeToo movement because there are still an alarming number of people in this country who think that gays and blacks and women aren't
really equals to straight white males, and thus it's okay to be mean to them, take advantage of them, and treat them as less than human. Gay Pride isn't about "shoving their sexual preferences in your face" - you really can't make that argument
until you are required by law to attend the parade and all traces of overt heterosexuality (e.g. every image of a scantily clad woman selling you something) are removed from public display (I wouldn't advocate that, just don't get your knickers in a twist when you see an advertisement with two men holding hands, and we'll call it even), and "Black Lives Matter" doesn't mean "
Only Black Lives Matter", it means, "Black Lives Matter
Too" - too many black people are still getting pulled over for "driving while black", and too many are getting shot by police (apparently police can take a white mass murderer armed with multiple guns into custody, after the white guy has shot a dozen people to death, but they'll shoot a black teenager to death 10 seconds after rolling up on a scene because "he might have a gun", and when it turns out he doesn't, they try to hide that fact). When we finally get to the point where large swaths of the majority groups
stop trying so hard to take advantage of, hurt, and discriminate against the minority groups, then we won't need parades and movements to show solidarity with the minority groups.
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As for shoving it in people’s faces, how about this analogy: man I’m so sick of those Christians constantly pushing their religion down my throat, talking about their religious beliefs all the time and shoving it in my face by wearing crosses around their necks and putting crosses on the tops of buildings designed specifically to promote their way of life. Nobody cares what they do in their private lives, what’s all this proclamation for anyway? Why do they have public holidays and entire festive seasons for their beliefs, singing carols about it and having parades? You don’t see atheists insisting on public holidays and parades! How can I protect my children from Christianity when they insist on flaunting it in front of everyone, to the point of wearing symbols of it as jewelry!
I regret that I can only give you one
like for this. The same people who would be aghast that you are mocking them in this way, have no qualms about treating other groups exactly this way.
Particularly ironic because so many of the people doing this are "doing it in Christ's name", yet Jesus never said, "go forth and punish entire groups of people in my name". His message, as I recall, was much more about
being kind to everyone. They'll selectively quote parts of the Old Testament to support their position, yet, funny, they don't call themselves OldTestament-ians, they call themselves Christians. It'd be neat if they started acting more like Jesus. Until then, they just look like a group using religion as an excuse to justify the bad behavior they already wanted to do.
