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Why is Pink News giving space to a bigot?
Feb. 5th, 2012 02:40 pmPink News has decided to publish an article by a homophobe apologist. And this irritates me, yes yes it does.
Yet again we have religious homophobes trying to justify their bigotry because it comes from a holy book. And Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet jumps through hoops to tell us GBLT folk why we should be accepting of bigotry and why we shouldn’t treat bigots like bigots.
People who want to conform to the Bible should not be condemned as homophobic anymore than critics of religion might be labelled theophobic.
Bullshit. People who are homophobic should be condemned as homophobic. I don’t give a fuck WHY they are homophobic. Someone who views me as a lesser person is a homophobe. Someone who thinks I don’t deserve the same rights and respect, someone who has a low opinion of me just because of who I am – they are a homophobe and not only should they be condemned by anyone who DOESN’T condemn them is also a homophobe.
However, just because I maintain that homosexuality is wrong doesn’t mean I have to go beating the drum about it anymore than I might regularly preach against adultery.
And you think you deserve respect for this, bigot? You think I am a lesser person, that my love is wrong – but that’s ok because you don’t beat the drum about it? You compare my love, my being, my identity with cheating on someone, with betraying someone and you think it’s ok because you don’t’ make a big deal of your prejudice?
there are times when public statements are deemed necessary, such as when same-sex marriages began to become legalised.
Oh so good little bigot you will not wave your hatred flag around except when we try to get equality and justice. So you’ll keep quiet about your hatred so long as we keep in our proper place. You’ll just have to pipe up if we get above ourselves and presume to be equal to your straightness?
when governments were voting with their feet to recognise same-sex marriages, it was only to be expected that moralists and religious leaders would speak out against.
You mean, when we are starting to be treated more like real people, the bigots just can’t stand that and have to speak up and put us back in our place.
A fundamental principle in Judaism, sadly lost on too many extremists today, is to condemn the action, never the person.
Spare me this lie. At least the “extremists” are honest. I am gay. I don’t do gay. You’re condemning me, you’re just putting pretty words around it to try and justify your bigotry. Be honest, stop trying to put a cloak of respectability on your hate.
signed by dozens of leading Orthodox Rabbis across the Jewish world, making perfectly clear the traditional Jewish viewpoint on homosexuality, while also reassuring gay people that they are always welcome into Synagogues and communities.
You mean we can hang around so long as we recognise our place as beneath you and lesser to you. Or we submit to torturous ex-gay conversion. But hey, you made a statement saying that we’re welcome – so it’s ok that we’re lesser, condemned and shamed and not allowed equal rights.
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Yet again we have religious homophobes trying to justify their bigotry because it comes from a holy book. And Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet jumps through hoops to tell us GBLT folk why we should be accepting of bigotry and why we shouldn’t treat bigots like bigots.
People who want to conform to the Bible should not be condemned as homophobic anymore than critics of religion might be labelled theophobic.
Bullshit. People who are homophobic should be condemned as homophobic. I don’t give a fuck WHY they are homophobic. Someone who views me as a lesser person is a homophobe. Someone who thinks I don’t deserve the same rights and respect, someone who has a low opinion of me just because of who I am – they are a homophobe and not only should they be condemned by anyone who DOESN’T condemn them is also a homophobe.
However, just because I maintain that homosexuality is wrong doesn’t mean I have to go beating the drum about it anymore than I might regularly preach against adultery.
And you think you deserve respect for this, bigot? You think I am a lesser person, that my love is wrong – but that’s ok because you don’t beat the drum about it? You compare my love, my being, my identity with cheating on someone, with betraying someone and you think it’s ok because you don’t’ make a big deal of your prejudice?
there are times when public statements are deemed necessary, such as when same-sex marriages began to become legalised.
Oh so good little bigot you will not wave your hatred flag around except when we try to get equality and justice. So you’ll keep quiet about your hatred so long as we keep in our proper place. You’ll just have to pipe up if we get above ourselves and presume to be equal to your straightness?
when governments were voting with their feet to recognise same-sex marriages, it was only to be expected that moralists and religious leaders would speak out against.
You mean, when we are starting to be treated more like real people, the bigots just can’t stand that and have to speak up and put us back in our place.
A fundamental principle in Judaism, sadly lost on too many extremists today, is to condemn the action, never the person.
Spare me this lie. At least the “extremists” are honest. I am gay. I don’t do gay. You’re condemning me, you’re just putting pretty words around it to try and justify your bigotry. Be honest, stop trying to put a cloak of respectability on your hate.
signed by dozens of leading Orthodox Rabbis across the Jewish world, making perfectly clear the traditional Jewish viewpoint on homosexuality, while also reassuring gay people that they are always welcome into Synagogues and communities.
You mean we can hang around so long as we recognise our place as beneath you and lesser to you. Or we submit to torturous ex-gay conversion. But hey, you made a statement saying that we’re welcome – so it’s ok that we’re lesser, condemned and shamed and not allowed equal rights.
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