Monday, November 10, 2003
Telegraph | News | Bishop's anti-gay comments spark legal investigation
It's official. You can now be accused of a hate crime for holding orthodox Christian beliefs. [Anglican] Bishop Foster's anti-gay comment: He suggested that reorientation was possible and should be sought if the person wished it. The response: This man is speaking evil. Never mind that Courage has a fair number of people with same-sex attractions who would agree with the reverend. Never mind that he was speaking of the results of his research. If the research you do doesn't conform to the majority opinion, the message seems to be that you should just ignore your research.
There was a similar article in the Columbia paper recently where a researcher found that people who freely sought out reorientation were usually able to accomplish it over the course of several years. The response of the LGBT group on campus was that those people must never have been homosexual to start with, otherwise it would have been impossible. It seems to me as if the data is being sheared to fit the preconception here.
I mean, do whatever you want, but don't arrest people that disagree with you. That's dangerous. Hmm. I only hope they don't come after me next. Though I suppose Catholicism started out as an illegal religion, still is an illegal religion in many places, and will be a more illegal religion in the future. Might be a good thing.
It's official. You can now be accused of a hate crime for holding orthodox Christian beliefs. [Anglican] Bishop Foster's anti-gay comment: He suggested that reorientation was possible and should be sought if the person wished it. The response: This man is speaking evil. Never mind that Courage has a fair number of people with same-sex attractions who would agree with the reverend. Never mind that he was speaking of the results of his research. If the research you do doesn't conform to the majority opinion, the message seems to be that you should just ignore your research.
There was a similar article in the Columbia paper recently where a researcher found that people who freely sought out reorientation were usually able to accomplish it over the course of several years. The response of the LGBT group on campus was that those people must never have been homosexual to start with, otherwise it would have been impossible. It seems to me as if the data is being sheared to fit the preconception here.
I mean, do whatever you want, but don't arrest people that disagree with you. That's dangerous. Hmm. I only hope they don't come after me next. Though I suppose Catholicism started out as an illegal religion, still is an illegal religion in many places, and will be a more illegal religion in the future. Might be a good thing.
