You can’t be fearful of homosexuals but you can be fearful or repulsed by homosexual behaviour.

How could you tell that such feelings are decreasing without some physiological data? It is not a question of what they do in response to those feelings but whether or not those feelings are as valid as any other feelings that are found in human nature. All feelings are valid.

Many people may have those feelings but still choose to support same-sex marriage. Many people may have those feelings but they are too afraid to express them. Many people have them but suppress them.

The numbers will not go up and down any more than the numbers of people who have claustrophobia will go up and down. You cannot control those feelings only the way you behave in relation to those feelings.

It is pointless to say ‘they are people’. Murderers are people too so should we be uncritical of their behaviour?

Hi McReal,

"The proportion of people that are fearful of or irrational about homosexuals is progressively decreasing. They're people."

Do you mean that the people who are fearful etc. are people ? or the people that they are fearful about are people ? Or that the proportion of people who are perfectly rational about homosexuals is increasing, which says what, either way ?

It's so irritating when the English language is so imprecise, isn't it ?

Joe

Yuyutsu: What I cannot understand is, why the cowardly archbishop agreed to appear and grovel before the committee. Even if he was brought in chains he should have spat in their face.

So what you are advocating is that the archbishop should have adopted bullying as per the Left-wing lynch mob that trashed Senator Cory Bernardi’s electoral office on 18 March 2016.

Dear Raycom,

No, I do not advocate anything like it. I find the attempted analogy very strange.

As the leader of his flock, the archbishop should not allow his faith to be humiliated by responding to the committee's summons. He should have ignored them completely.

IF however, he was physically dragged and brought before them in chains because he refused to willingly appear before them (and obviously the brats you refer to did not experience anything remotely similar), then he should spit in their face, clearly demonstrating to his flock that the only one to be feared is God, not the secular authorities.

Loudmouth, I mean homosexuals are people. and Yes, I think the proportion of people who are rational about homosexuality is increasing.

Apart from their sexuality, and perceptions of what they might get up to, homosexuals are no different to you and I. They deserve to be understood for the reality that they do not choose their sexuality. Expecting them to not be sexual, or to not nuture, is unreasonable.

phanto, to somewhat conflate homosexuals with murders is pretty weird.

There are plenty of heterosexual people who like anal sex, and there are plenty of homosexuals who don't.

Dear Yuyutsu,

Perhaps I misunderstood your previous post.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Religious laws have no legal status in this
country. There is but one law that we are all
supposed to abide by and if an archbishop
or anybody else breaks the law - they must be
held accountable.