FYI, fpb is a fairly well-known as a troll, at least in the circles where I hang out. But I'll answer anyway, in lieu of feeding him.
In the Bible, Jesus stressed the importance of marriage and opposed fornication. The logical solution, to me at least, would be to support marriage equality.
I find fpb's notions of gender to be essentialist to the point of surrealism, and more than a bit creepy in his objectification of women. Though I might be letting what I know of him from other things he's said prejudice me.
What I find especially offensive about his post is the notion that LGBT people's quest to be treated as equal under the law (what he calls "pushing an agenda of disguised hate") is somehow equivalent to the physical violence that we have to worry about every day. I have never once heard of someone murdered for saying that LGBT people should stay in the closet.
(I don't identify as Christian anymore, but I was raised Episcopalian, btw.)
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Date: 2011-10-19 12:30 pm (UTC)In the Bible, Jesus stressed the importance of marriage and opposed fornication. The logical solution, to me at least, would be to support marriage equality.
I find fpb's notions of gender to be essentialist to the point of surrealism, and more than a bit creepy in his objectification of women. Though I might be letting what I know of him from other things he's said prejudice me.
What I find especially offensive about his post is the notion that LGBT people's quest to be treated as equal under the law (what he calls "pushing an agenda of disguised hate") is somehow equivalent to the physical violence that we have to worry about every day. I have never once heard of someone murdered for saying that LGBT people should stay in the closet.
(I don't identify as Christian anymore, but I was raised Episcopalian, btw.)