Quite so, CJ Morgan. For a true word spoken in jest...

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zahira, life must be very difficult with so many conflicting aspects.

Even die hard fundamentalists like boaz have rejected many of the more violent, archaic bits of the bible, on various grounds, such as the Old Testament being a different kettle of fish to the NT, or the laws of Leviticus being a specific set of rules for a specific people.

It sounds like contortionist apologetics for the brutal bits to the rest of us, but at least they reject the savagery of murdering homosexuals, killing witches and sacrificing animals.

So to recap: zahira therefore thinks it's okay to stone people to death for certain things and murder people for sexual habits, reckons we need to hunt down witches then kill them, and to top it off, reckons animal sacrifice is the done thing.

These are the arguments of primitive savagery. I'm quite shocked to think people still believe that in this day in age, though it's nice to know your discrimination comes from a pretty ignorant foundation.

The reality is that there is no discrimination. There is no homophobia. There is no such thing as sexual preference. There is no such thing as a homosexual.

There are just a lot of people in emotional pain. Some people dull their pain with alcohol, some with drugs, some with eating disorders, some with religion, some with work, some with play. Some people try and avoid facing their pain by getting involved in relationships that can never bring them the peace they seek. Some people try to find solace in unnatural sexual behaviour. Some people combine two or more behaviours in the quest for relief from their pain.

When they are challenged they begin to rationalise their behaviour. Like the alcoholic who says he just likes the taste of drink or the company of his mates. Like the drug addict who says it is only ‘recreational’. Like the religious person who says it is what ‘God’ wants.

People who use dysfunctional relationships and unnatural sexual behaviour to avoid their pain will try and rationalise it in many ways. They become very aggressive when their rationalisations do not stand up to critical analysis. They seek to attack and hurt those who threaten to expose the underlying pain from which they are trying to escape.

They hope to bolster the weight of their rationalisations by getting together to form ‘gay communities’ and they manufacture a ‘gay culture’. With the strength of numbers they can bully and intimidate the rest of society into believing that their own explanations for their neurotic behaviour are actually based on sound argument and scientific fact.

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They can even bully and intimidate some naïve politicians. They clamour for their relationships and their sexual behaviour to be recognised as equal in integrity to the relationships of men and women who are genuinely together because they love each other and who express that love by natural sexual union.

Now they have lobbied to the point where they want the Australian taxpayer to be a party to their self-deception and give them money from the public purse to help bolster what becomes a bigger lie every day. It is like heroin addicts expecting the government to fund their addiction.

There is no point in continuing this thread. The guy who wrote the original article is just misguided. There is no discrimination.

There is no phanto. Just a pain.

Phanto. Are you speaking from personal experience? As it sounds like it!