Reply #26: "Homosexuality is contagious" [View All]

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I once disarmed a friend of mine with the following:

Friend: I just have a problem with a gay teacher for my son.
Me: ...
Friend: I don't know, I just worry that maybe a gay teacher would convince him he to be gay or something.
Me: What is it with Republicans and trickle down theories? Reagan told you that making the rich people richer will trickle down to the not-so-rich, and now you're convinced that gay works the same way. "If my kid meets an authority figure who's gay, the gayness might trickle down to him!"
Friend: ...

This is not to mention that the argument is grounded absolutely in the fact that one's child is so weak-willed in their heterosexuality that argumentation and propaganda could "remove it". I can't speak for anybody else, but I'm pretty strongly hetero, and no fucking debate club tactic can change that. But that's me - I'm stubborn.

Also, as related to "Homosexuality is inherently evil.":

That's basically my point: fundies, by definition, believe in the absolute truth of the Bible. Therefore, if homosexuality is inherantly evil AND God created mankind, there's a severe theological problem that stems from homosexuality being inherant to creation. Why would God choose to create evil?

The Bible says that Satan originated evil. If homosexuality is both genetically inherant and inherantly evil, that's a problem because man is God's creation, not Satan's. It's a paradox of their beliefs. And that's why I think they *HAVE TO*, for the sanctity of their own religion, believe that what is inherantly evil be a choice by people, not something that God forces on some, because that means God is not just, righteous, infalliable or loving toward his creation.

As someone else pointed out upthread, the real problems start if and when the "gay gene" is identified. I've long hoped for that because I thought it might actually shut some of these asshats up, but since my little revelation, I've had this terrible feeling that they'll use this as leverage to advocate gay death squads ("Kill the satan spawn!") or simply refuse to accept the science (and perhaps move toward condemnation of ALL science).

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