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  Do you oppose Gay marriage?

  by LittleToe in

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  inspired by this thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/107010/1.ashx.

  personally i'm hetero, though a few of my gay friends would like me to be gay .

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  The thread asked a question as to how you feel about gay marriage and I spoke my most honest feelings based on what my faith say's. But you people get so critical towards those who choose to follow what the bible teaches us.

  
  

  
  oldflame: I have no problem with people who take a religious view and oppose homosexuality. I do have a problem with folks who have such views and then try to force them on the whole of society via the government. The bible certainly tells you to oppose evil, but nowhere in the bible does it suggest using government to force those views on other people (at least in the new testament). Just show me one passage where Jesus says "use government and throw people in jail or force them at gunpoint, if necessary, to agree with us."

  I support government intervention to prevent and punish harm to individuals, but government shouldn't be in the business of punishing or prohibiting activities that consenting adults engage in.
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  Do you oppose Gay marriage?

  by LittleToe in

  1. watchtower
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  inspired by this thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/107010/1.ashx.

  personally i'm hetero, though a few of my gay friends would like me to be gay .

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  jstalin

  No.
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  how to behave in judical committee? pls help

  by albertjw in

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  i am new here, excuse my english.

  it seems that some of you are serving or have been serving as elders and have judical committee experience (stillajwexelder for example).

  i want to know how i must behave in jc meeting to avoid disfellowshipping.

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  I find it sad that human sexuality is degraded and made to feel dirty by a bunch of extremely old men in Brooklyn.
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  Living

  by joelbear in

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  there is only one law, love your neighbor as yourself.. very simple words that get buried under lots of gobbledegook.

  we strain to rid ourselves of the guilt of the shoulds that were cast upon us throughout our life.. we run our lives based on these shoulds and apply these shoulds to others.. there are two parts to the law.

  love your neighbor gets most of the attention.

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  I agree! The golden rule is the simplest and most powerful moral guide out there!
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  My TV Has Demons

  by Undecided in

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  recently my tv will turn itself on ocassionally.

  my wife said it has changed channels while she was watching it.

  the remote was not out in the open, but was in the arm of my recliner.

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  They're heeeeerrrrrreeeeee!
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  Do you support gay marriage?

  by chappy in

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  is your belief moral, social or practical?

  would you feel the same way if there were absolutely no religious influence on the matter pro or con?.

  regardless of your belief, does every adult have a fundimental right to marry anyone of his or her choosing, regardless of gender?.

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  I encourage you to read "Death of the West", the author knows what he is talking about.

  [off topic]I have read and understand Buchanan's views, because I used to share them. But then I realized that Buchanan and isolationists like him want to limit personal freedom in a large number of ways. He hates free trade, he dislikes non-european immigration, and he's threatened by societal change. Not to mention how he would get into every American's bedroom to regulate what goes on, if he could.

  I hate to admit it, but I shared these views when I was younger. However, we're all entitled to change, and I seriously considered what my underlying beliefs are. I asked myself if they were based on logic or emotion. Buchanan's views are based on fear and emotion. My views are based on the very logical case to be made by the theory of natural rights. Buchanan thinks natural rights only apply to white americans and europeans.[/off topic]
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  Do you support gay marriage?

  by chappy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is your belief moral, social or practical?

  would you feel the same way if there were absolutely no religious influence on the matter pro or con?.

  regardless of your belief, does every adult have a fundimental right to marry anyone of his or her choosing, regardless of gender?.

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  If gay marriage is the norm, and becomes popular, the birth rate will decline, because men cannot produce children and women need men (for the time being) to produce children.

  Also, the secualrization of the West ;result in fewer children being born.

  This confuses correlation and causation.

  Gay marriage will not result in a lower birth rate. Legalized gay marriage will not turn anyone gay who is no already.

  In addition, secularization isn't to blame for lower birth rates. Abortion, birth control, increased wealth, and changing attitudes about marriage are changing birth rate demographics. Japan has seen the same reduction of birth rates and they are essentially an atheist society, and always have been.
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  Elders sting operation on myspace

  by troubled mind in

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  a certain young person told me last night a jw friend of his from n.y. received an elder visit .

  the suspect was told that the elders had been lurking about on myspace and had caught several young ones with accounts there .

  they told this person's account was benign yet was counseled it was bad association to be on myspace.

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  A certain young person told me last night a JW friend of his from N.Y. received an Elder visit .

  Were they wearing brown?
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  Married to it JW

  by mydiscounts in

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  my personal experience is being married to a man who grew up in a very bad situation at home with jw being very strict.

  this has damaged his mind to a point where he believes what ever they tell him, he is the kind of guy who will not got to a meeting for a year and his first day back his hand is up in a watchtower study.. he then wants to try that s^%$ on my children and then we are in a fight, i am afraid i am just married too it being that i lost my dad early in life not to death but he just left and i grew up with out him in my life i feel bad spliting up.

  my youngest son tells me all the time how much he hates his father, i hate to say deep inside if i were him i would also hate my husband.

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  I'm sorry about your situation. I can't really offer any concrete advice, other than do what's best for the kids.
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  Why I'll never see 'Brokeback Mountain'

  by yaddayadda in

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  yep, i'm 'homophobic' and damn proud of it!

  http://www.rense.com/general69/prop.htm

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  jstalin

  So if we accept the fact that airplanes fly and we use condoms in our lives, obviously we should never be grossed out by two guys sucking each other off or pounding each other in the ass? People who dont embrace the gay lifestyle as being the greatest thing since sliced bread are now as bad as racist KKK folks 30 years ago? I will accept it as natural when two same sex partners concieve. I refused to watch an email that was sent to me of a woman performing a sexual act with a horse. Does that make me close minded because that grosses me out. Does that make me as ignorant as a KKK member 30 years ago? You guys sound worse than the Watchtower pushing its agendas and thoughts as the only right way a person can believe!

  Clearly you missed my point. I don't give a rat's ass if you think guys having sex is gross. I do give a rat's ass when you, and others, use the completely intellectually void argument that homosexuality is "unnatural" to justify social policy. You can be as closed-minded as you like, by all means, but don't try and use that closed-mindedness to use the government to tell me what I can and cannot do in my bedroom.

  And, by the way, what exactly is the "gay lifestyle?" I get up in the morning, drive to work, eat lunch, go home, read the newspaper, then go to bed. Wow... that's quite the lifestyle.