So I saw this billboard the other day......

[Codewiz]

I am ORIGINALLY from Spartanburg, SC. Never heard of this church......


Ok that pisses me off that the Beacon Drive-In owners helped support this crap. Best food in town but screw it. I don't want my money paying for this.

 

[wvtalbot]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Why does it matter if it's choice or genetic anyway? Are people just hoping it's a choice so they can be justified in hating the gay and lesbian population?

Some people just need someone to hate, the same type of people who hate the gay and lesbian population hated african americans 30 years ago, now that that is socially unacceptable they attack someone else.

 

[boggsie]

Originally posted by: HBalzer

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: boggsie

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: spidey07
So?

They're trying to help people.

I'd say the comparable equivelent is a billboard saying "Are you white and don't want to be?" sponsored by the NAACP.

But that opens up another can of worms, where people make unfounded arguments about how race can't be chosen, but orientation can.

That isn't necessarily a good comparative analogy.

Is there any evidence which indicates that sexual orientation is purely genetic in nature?

What are your grounds for believing that it is a concious decision?

Honestly, I find it hard to believe it's genetic!

Perhaps, perhaps not. Even if we agree that it is not genetic in nature, that does not conclude that all cases of sexual orientation are the result of a concious decision to be hetero- or homo-sexual. How one acts upon those impulses or desires is certainly a concious decision, but suggesting that the orientation, in and of itself, is the result of a concious decision is quite a stretch, IMHO.

 

[HBalzer]

Originally posted by: boggsie

Originally posted by: HBalzer

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: boggsie

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: spidey07
So?

They're trying to help people.

I'd say the comparable equivelent is a billboard saying "Are you white and don't want to be?" sponsored by the NAACP.

But that opens up another can of worms, where people make unfounded arguments about how race can't be chosen, but orientation can.

That isn't necessarily a good comparative analogy.

Is there any evidence which indicates that sexual orientation is purely genetic in nature?

What are your grounds for believing that it is a concious decision?

Honestly, I find it hard to believe it's genetic!

Perhaps, perhaps not. Even if we agree that it is not genetic in nature, that does not conclude that all cases of sexual orientation are the result of a concious decision to be hetero- or homo-sexual. How one acts upon those impulses or desires is certainly a concious decision, but suggesting that the orientation, in and of itself, is the result of a concious decision is quite a stretch, IMHO.

I don?t think it is a conscious decision. I am interested in things that may have sparked it? I don?t hate gay people I am just a thinker and whenever I ask someone who is gay they say God made me that way! Which leaves me with nothing.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: spidey07
So?

They're trying to help people.

No, they're not.

 

[steelels1]

Originally posted by: myusername
got some stencils and some spraypaint?

this isn't as clean, but you could do it quicker than you can say "PoPo" 😀

Awesome. If we ever get billboards like that in my town I'm so doing that.

Too bad they don't have a helpline or something listed, or I'd be having some fun right now. "HALP!!! I'VE GOT TEH GHEYYYY!!!!"

And in all seriousness - I thought Exodus International/NARTH/etc's "reparative" therapy was proved to be bunk like 30 years ago. Sad to see they're still at it. Hope not too many people are still falling for this crap and messing themselves up even more.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
This won't end well I'm sure.....

Only in SC I'm sad to say.

Don't be sorry. It's a great state.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

there was a similar one here in Kansas

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Pablo

Originally posted by: MisterJackson

Originally posted by: Pablo

Originally posted by: MisterJackson

Originally posted by: wvtalbot

Originally posted by: Ryan

Originally posted by: spidey07So?
They're trying to help people.

I'd say the comparable equivelent is a billboard saying "Are you white and don't want to be?" sponsored by the NAACP. But that opens up another can of worms, where people make unfounded arguments about how race can't be chosen, but orientation can.

Do you honestly think anybody would want to be gay in SC?

In the city I live in there is no hostility towards gay people, at least not on an open public level. There appears to be a large gay community in this area.
Why do you ASSUME because it's in the south, that hatred towards homosexuals will automatically be the case?

He's ASSUMING that we drag gay guys out into the streets and beat them and tell them to go back where they came from. And they're wrong. We only do that to black people.

Sheesh, what's next, assuming we beat our women too? BTW, did you get your Klan robes back from the cleaners yet? Mine aren't done.

You know why they're not done? Them chinese bought out the place.

I do believe thats a classic example of someone try to own, getting owned. :laugh:

 

[boggsie]

Originally posted by: steelels1

Originally posted by: myusername
got some stencils and some spraypaint?

this isn't as clean, but you could do it quicker than you can say "PoPo" 😀

Awesome. If we ever get billboards like that in my town I'm so doing that.

Too bad they don't have a helpline or something listed, or I'd be having some fun right now. "HALP!!! I'VE GOT TEH GHEYYYY!!!!"

And in all seriousness - I thought Exodus International/NARTH/etc's "reparative" therapy was proved to be bunk like 30 years ago. Sad to see they're still at it. Hope not too many people are still falling for this crap and messing themselves up even more.

I have acquaintances who seemed to view their desire to engage in homosexual behavior, in a way similar to the way some drug addicts seem to view their addiction; as something they have, but they aren't really sure why the have it, they don't want it because they have concluded that it is ultimately a destructive behavior. In the case of these men, the ministries of Exodus and NARTH have been, in their own eyes, a wonderful blessing.

I don't pretend to understand either behavior, nor do I pretend to be able to speak to what is in any other persons mind ... sometimes I have a difficult enough time expressing my own thoughts and perceptions.