Warbler said:
Bingowings said:This branch of the gaybate came from Warb equating his choice of religion with my allocated sexual preference.
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what the heck is gaybate? Why are you blaming me for all this stuff with Jetrell Fo?
I didn't equate my choice of being a Christian to you being gay. I equated you mocking my Christianity to if I were to mock you being gay. Regardless of whether or not homosexuality is a choice, I do believe that a person mocking homosexuality would hurt your feelings simularly to how someone mocking Christianity hurts mine. I made clear that don't care if being a gay is a choice or if it is predermined. I don't care if it is genetic or not. I don't understand why it so important whether or not it is a choice or predermined. Either way, I have no problem with you living your live that way. I have made clear that you should be free to do so. Time and time again I have stuck up for gay rights. I am sorry you think that me being Christian and thinking homosexuality is a sin(but one that is between you and God) means I am a bigoted homophobe. Don't know what else to say.
You equated my homosexuality with your Christianity when you asked me if I would be hurt if you called my homosexuality stupid in the same way that I expressed certain flavours of Christianity as being stupid (namely Biblical Literalists something which you assert you aren't).
You are, I notice from your foxy sig message, also not the sort of Christian who takes Mathew 7:3 seriously so if you can edit that out of your religious chain of reference why be so clinging about the Old Testament and Acts (the biblical reference not sexy acts)?
'Gaybate' - debate about homosexuality It's an on the fly compound word which would take most people a few seconds to decode even without the context.
The lifestyle vs allocation debate is important because it explains the nuance between say... being of African heritage and being a painted minstrel.
One is the way you are and one is a choice.
I didn't chose, I can't chose not to be the way I am.
I can't help it if your God doesn't approve of my sexuality (which isn't homophobia because He isn't scared of me he just doesn't approve of what I'm hoping to do again, at least once in a while, some day, perhaps) but seeing as he isn't my God it only becomes an issue when people who are devotes of the said invisible personage campaign against people like myself.
If they stopped doing that I would be perfectly happy to live with your God's frowny face should my ship come in and I have some form of sexual experience.
But seeing as both instances are almost as unlikely as each other I can't really see a way out of this situation. Can you?