I agree, and likewise

If we allow the PERSONAL choice of a musician to play non secular music, we should daggon well allow their choice to play secular,,,


or we are applying a discriminatory double standard

Not the same thing at all so no point made here.

Irrelevant to the subject matter.

We can take it to the religious thread though and discuss the reason.

If we are going to allow hetero children and teens to express their relationship publically we need to do the same for the homosexual.

If the reasons for not allowing it are religious then we need to take religion out of the public realm because it cannot show equality.

You are expressing yourself as freely as any other 'HUMAN BEING'!!!

But equality as a simple HUMAN BEING isn't good enough for you.

In addition to equal rights as a 'HUMAN BEING', you insist most unreasonably that special rights be given to this inexistent hybrid 'christian HUMAN BEING' class, which somehow YOU claim is special and superior to 'HUMAN BEINGS', or should have the same rights as HUMAN BEINGS !!!

Well heck msharmony', HUMAN BEINGS WOULDN'T BE EQUAL ANYMORE!!!

There would be this special meat grade of 'christian HUMAN BEINGS' that would be somehow MORE EQUAL!!!

As you wrote yourself, satisfy yourself with 'express myself as freely as anyone else ,,,:)', which includes the fact for everyone not to impose his or her individual or personal 'RELIGIOUS DOGMA' on anyone else!!!

You are NOT a christian - HUMAN BEING. If you insist on being that on your own personal, individual and PRIVATE time, so be it!

But int he PUBLIC DOMAIN, you are a HUMAN BEING like everyone else, nothing more, nothing less,

... expressing yourself as freely as any other HUMAN BEING!!!

End of the hypocritical discourse: the fall and expiration of the christian fundamentalist double standard.

Dragoness,

just noticed your 'Blue god badge'.

SOOOO à propos!!!

christians are no more a hybrid than a homosexual,, we love who we love and we cant help it,,,right?

how we XPRESS our love is censored for some and not others,,,an unconstitutional double standard....

msharmony, you are a smart and articulated person, not a doubt about that. And I wouldn't consider insulting you in a hundred years. But I am frustrated at your lack of intellectual collaboration here.

How is it that on this specific 'simple' point, there is no intelligent exchange to be had with you?

You know better than to confuse the dogma of christianity, or the god you cherish, as though it were a fundamental and universal feature of human beings!!! Substitute god for Elvis, and that should do the trick for you. NOT UNIVERSAL. I don't love god, and I am no less a human being for it.

Homosexuality however IS fundamental. It doesn't matter what the dogma says! What Elvis says! Or what the god YOU love says!!!

Homosexuals, like heterosexuals, like women, like men, like black people, like white people, like tall people, like small people, are fundamental and universal aspects of being human beings.

People can have their 15th century opinion about that reality, like some still believe the earth is flat, and others still worship the earth as the center of the universe,

... but if no one was christian on the planet, WE WOULD STILL BE HUMAN BEINGS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT (i mean that litterally)!!! And there would be the exact same proportion of hetero, homo and trans genre sexual beings as we witness today!!!

That is the difference, regardless of religious prejudice and discrimination, we are sexual beings covering all the specter of HUMAN BEING sexuality, and we are also spiritual HUMAN BEINGS,

... BUT WE ARE NOT CHRISTIAN HUMAN BEINGS!!!

Spirituality is common to all human beings, CHRISTIANITY ISN'T!!!

If it weren't for the superiority complex of this dogma of yours , you would be running circles around this simple concept.

The intellectual, spiritual, legal and social consensus on this question has been settled moons ago msharmony. 'flathearters' will not carry the day on this one. Better move on, and do the Jesus thing: '... love ALL your neighbors as yourslef!!! ...' That means accepting and loving homosexuals as they are!!!

I stand corrected,, for the sake of intellectual argument,,, I would like my right to express my SPIRITUALITY to be protected like anyone elses right to express their SEXUALITY since it is all a part of self expression,,,

is this still going on.....

the girl wished to take her girlfriend to the prom, big whoop. Let her...

I'm sure those of you who are straight and christian, would not have been told you can't bring your atheist bf to the prom. They wouldn't have canceled the prom due to a religious person wishing to bring a non religious date to the prom, but they did cancel it because she wished to bring her girlfriend to the prom.

Sooo..you do have the same rights as everyone else, and now her classmates are ticked off at her because she got the prom cancelled.

I really don't see how religion has anything to do with this arguement. It's a silly arguement over something that should not have happened. She should just have bought 2 tickets and arrived at the prom with her date.

Does anyone realize that we are the first civilization in the history of the world that tries to " normalize " homosexual activity??

I have nothing against homosexuals ( my half brother is gay so don't even bother going there ), it's just an observation.

Homosexuality has existed for centuries, it wsnt really till christianity and the more modern religions like islam and such, that we tried to stop it. (Notice I did not single out christianity)

Before the newer religions came, people didn't care about men sleeping with men, in fact in greek history it was quite common.

I am gay, I feel just as normal as everyone else, I just happen to be attracted to men.

religion came into play because of my point of view that my spirituality is as much a part of me as my sexuality. I did not oppose the girl taking her date to the prom and only pointed out that perhaps this would set a precedent for others, INCLUDING christians, to have freedom of expression at school functions...