CAN therapy
make gay people straight?
Therapies that claim to
make gay people straight are hateful and dangerous, but banning them won't win over their supporters
The Catholic church is actively working to
make gay people and their relationships less equal, have less power and influence.
«The synod voted against conversion therapy, which purports to
make gay people straight.
I make gay people, then I have my dingbats, uh, followers oppress them.
Gay people do nt
make gay people, straight people do.
The majority of the electorate simply do not share their views so try as they might every time, someone running on the platform to outlaw abortion or
make gay people bad, etc. will just not win in the general election, period.
I've been guilty of saying things that might
make a gay person uncomfortable to be open.
Str8 couples
make Gays people, no matter how righteous they think they are.
Not exact matches
On Tuesday, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed legislation known as HB 1523,
making it legal for businesses and religious organizations to deny services to lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
people in that state.
The only surprise risk factor when it comes to demographics is being anything other than heterosexual, though sadly this still
makes sense given that most
gay or bisexual
people will be in the minority at work and may worry about discrimination.
According to a 2014 survey by the NCTE and the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, about one - fifth of all transgender adults are veterans,
making transgender
people approximately twice as likely as others to serve in the military, The Washington Post reported.
The
gay affinity will
make a difference only if
people like the product and think it's equal to what they've been drinking.
Pamela Post, head of original programming at Viacom - owned Logo, which
makes content for lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender viewers, praised Caitlyn Jenner as humanizing transgender
people and
making it more possible to air series like Becoming Us on mainstream television.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, a transgender author who teaches at Barnard College in New York, said in an email that she fears conservatives will now seek to «isolate and marginalize transgender
people» and
make them feel separated from the broader
gay rights movement.
The platform us Parkland Students have established is to be shared with every
person, black or white,
gay or straight, religious or not, who has experienced gun violence, and hand in hand, side by side, We Will
Make This Change Together.
«The platform us Parkland Students have established is to be shared with every
person, black or white,
gay or straight, religious or not, who has experienced gun violence, and hand in hand, side by side, We Will
Make This Change Together,» she also wrote on Twitter.
You've
made it clear that you wouldn't turn away
gay people from your church, for instance.
There's a portrayal in the media which
makes gays and lesbians look «funny» and «different» from «normal
people.»
Gay people should be able to choose whomever they want to
make end of life decisions for them.
@HS Well, you don't have enough functioning gray matter to figure out that the
people who support
gay marriage aren't all
gay, You've
made that false assumption twice in this little subthread already.
And yes, I venture to say the straight
people usually
make the
gays feel uneasy, because they're threatened for some reason.
He and his followers at the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas,
made a name for themselves in the 1990s by protesting at the funerals of
gay people who died of AIDS and, more recently, by protesting at the funerals of military officers.
Not that I am saying
gay people are drug users or gamblers, but those
people also feel compelled to gamble or use drugs because the life they have witnessed, does that
make it right?
For straight
people — what if suddenly everyone assumed you were
gay until you corrected them, then
made a big deal about you «coming out» or flaunting your sexuality?
Fishon you
make sense and I get where you are coming from on this issue — I held your exact same views for at least 10 years... I even debated
gay people about it being a «choice».
The fact that most times
people can't tell who's
gay just
makes people feel more paranoid and fearful (those
gays are everywhere — it's all part of their conspiracy) so they're even more hateful.
What if everywhere you looked, there were
gay people and images of
gay people, and the only straight characters in ads, TV and movies were there solely to point out and
make a big deal of their sexuality?
So are you trying to
make an intelligent argument for
gay marriage advocacy or just trying to prove a billion and a half
people wrong and anger them in the process?
He
made certain that you
people hated
gays, but said nothing whatsoever about the criminality of slavery.
«Let's not try and
make me out to be some evil
person and I hate
gays because I don't hate anybody.
Some of the friends and supporters of the
gay movement are
made nervous by the emphasis on reaching out to young
people.
Left - leaning
people are becoming one - issue voters over
gay marriage in the same way that right - leaning
people make abortion a litmus test.
Those
Gay people will destroy family value; spread diseases; make your kids gay; and bankrupt our count
Gay people will destroy family value; spread diseases;
make your kids
gay; and bankrupt our count
gay; and bankrupt our country.
All they're doing is
making people feel guilty for their biology, not unlike «pray away the
gay»
People today are so preoccupied with
making it illegal to even roll your eye's at the thought of
gay marriage meanwhile over the last 10 years the powers that be have removed some of the most basic human rights that even Muslim countries have!
Your reference to
gay people and women who have had an abortion kind of
makes it sound like you are one of the «Christian» masses that blindly follow your «Church».
so basically you say you do not embrace
gays or muslims or
people who have abortions, which
makes you a bigot.
We have
gay people in our church who do not
make an issue of their sexuality and there is no problem.
Because the majority of
people disagree, or are opposed to
gays having marital rights, doesn't
make it «right».
The way some went on it
made it seem
gay people are troglodytes roaming the world devouring everyone and everything in some ritualistic acts.
Some behaviour you might find anywhere:
making jokes about
gay people, using words like «
gay» pejoratively and treating us with suspicion.
You see, I am not a big fan of religion, but I would never try to ban it because that would
make me a jerk just like all the religious
people who want to ban
gay marriage.
After decades of hearing messages from high church officials that lesbian and
gay people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to
make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.
Gay people (and straight, for that matter) can «choose» TP quash their natural inclinations, but that doesn't make one any less gay, or any less straig
Gay people (and straight, for that matter) can «choose» TP quash their natural inclinations, but that doesn't
make one any less
gay, or any less straig
gay, or any less straight.
«I was attacking the argument that
gay people must be discriminated against — and anti-bullying programs that address anti-
gay bullying should be blocked (or exceptions should be
made for bullying «motivated by faith»)-- because it says right there in the Bible that being
gay is wrong.»
I guess my point is that while some
people are born
gay, others are not, and it is doing a disservice
people to say you are either born that way or not, just like saying everyone is
making a choice.
Same goes for theologies that suggest the poor are poor because of their sins, that if only the sick had more faith or gave more money they would be healed, that the tsunami or the earthquake or the flood that devastated a community was clearly the result of God's wrath on its
gay inhabitants, that we can stop rape by teaching women to cover up better, that sex before marriage
makes a
person «broken» and «unwanted.»
The Patheos site does not show replies... somehow, my inbox shows that you are asking Gary to
make a scriptural case for one of two items: — that God
makes people gay; and / or — that God blesses homosexual behavior.
Gay people can choose how we live, however, and the majority of us
make all of the same lifestyle choices that everyone else does, including the religioun we might select, the value we place on family, our work, or hobbies, and our political beliefs.