11-12-2016, 03:27 PM
I know your questions were rhetorical, Duchess, and I've asked myself the same ones many times.
I think it's probably a matter of fear of that which differs from oneself + societal conditioning when it comes to those who STILL wish to deny the legitimacy of love and marriage between people of the same sex in this country.
While I don't doubt many Christians are sincere when they claim the Bible drives their resistance to equal rights for gays, that's likely based on conditioning of society by religious and political leadership, in my opinion. Same sex intimacy isn't condemned in versions of the Bible any more than eating pork, adultery, drunkenness, and a host of other common human behaviors today which don't disqualify people from equal rights. And homosexual marriage isn't addressed at all in the Bible.
I remember having a lot of fun going round and round with Dick a few years ago about his contention that God and Jesus prohibited gay marriage. Good times.
Anyway, even knowing the GOP's prevailing desire to suppress women's reproductive choices and gays' rights to be treated equally under the law, I was kinda surprised when I read the RNC 2016 draft platform. It included a point supporting gay conversion therapy for minors.
A couple of days later, I saw RNC chairman Reince Priebus (who I'm betting will be appointed Trump's Chief of Staff) on Meet the Press and was glad to see Chuck Todd ask him how comfortable he was with that platform point.
Reince got real defensive real quick and said, “That’s out – There’s an amendment on that issue. It has been taken out. It’s not in the final platform.”
(Ref: Video of interview excerpt here: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com...n_platform )
I'm glad it was taken out, but it's disappointing to me that the leaders of a major political party in the USA in the year 2016 had gay conversion therapy on their minds at all whilst drafting their priorities for the country.
I think it's probably a matter of fear of that which differs from oneself + societal conditioning when it comes to those who STILL wish to deny the legitimacy of love and marriage between people of the same sex in this country.
While I don't doubt many Christians are sincere when they claim the Bible drives their resistance to equal rights for gays, that's likely based on conditioning of society by religious and political leadership, in my opinion. Same sex intimacy isn't condemned in versions of the Bible any more than eating pork, adultery, drunkenness, and a host of other common human behaviors today which don't disqualify people from equal rights. And homosexual marriage isn't addressed at all in the Bible.
I remember having a lot of fun going round and round with Dick a few years ago about his contention that God and Jesus prohibited gay marriage. Good times.
Anyway, even knowing the GOP's prevailing desire to suppress women's reproductive choices and gays' rights to be treated equally under the law, I was kinda surprised when I read the RNC 2016 draft platform. It included a point supporting gay conversion therapy for minors.
A couple of days later, I saw RNC chairman Reince Priebus (who I'm betting will be appointed Trump's Chief of Staff) on Meet the Press and was glad to see Chuck Todd ask him how comfortable he was with that platform point.
Reince got real defensive real quick and said, “That’s out – There’s an amendment on that issue. It has been taken out. It’s not in the final platform.”
(Ref: Video of interview excerpt here: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com...n_platform )
I'm glad it was taken out, but it's disappointing to me that the leaders of a major political party in the USA in the year 2016 had gay conversion therapy on their minds at all whilst drafting their priorities for the country.