Originally posted by Lestov16
I don't know who those other people are, but due to the specific circumstances of this terrorist attack, a comparison of Islamic to Christian homophobia is applicable. Islamic terrorist attacks against a marathon or skyscrapers is clearly meant to be against the West at large, but this one was specifically targeted at gays, which means the subject of religious based homophobia, including that of Christianity must be brought up.Quite simply, you're lumping me into all the liberal extremists you've talked to beforehand rather than objectively looking at the circumstances of this instance. IOW, other liberals have cried wolf, but this time I'm telling the truth.
Religious based homophobia must be examined after this. The Kim Davises of the world should view this as a massive reality check of the dangers of dogmatic intolerance.
Then open a separate thread to discuss the issue. For f*ck's sake, this is a tragedy where ppl died and your first response was to try and lump Catholics and Muslims together as if somehow our religion was somehow to blame for all this wholesale. WTH is wrong with you?
And the saying: "there's always this one guy" doesn't "lump you in" with the other unrelated actions of other "liberal extremists" (and I don't even know where I stated that this behavior is distinctive of "liberal extremists"😉. On the contrary, it "lumps in" your -actions- (and only your actions, not who you are as a person) together -specifically-. W/c is actually the opposite of what you did and what you are trying to imply as to what I'm doing.
And FYI, my country has one of the highest % of Catholics in the world (and so does Brazil and Mexico) but you should know that we have events here that actually celebrate the LGBT community and AFAIK there hasn't been any news of us having anti-LGBT killing sprees (I will agree that there are some crazies here and there, but that is true for every country) and we also don't have laws that would condemn or kill anyone for being gay. So maybe you should try and be more specific to geography/culture/politics so that the innocent don't get lumped in with the guilty party?