I'm Christian unless you're gay. (Article)

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Social pretense is the enemy here, religion was never thought to be real by any of the people in history. It has always been a conspiracy against minorities and in order to be a perfect system it must begin in childhood which gives it the opportunity to ruin a person's entire life. Better to do without it than to keep it around. Atheism lets everyone be, it is more personal and family oriented than religions and doesn't perpetuate pain the way religion does. As a parent would you want your children to face the potential for a life of pain, or would you want them to be enlightened and ready in no abstract way for the life that awaits them. I would find it unacceptable for my children to be filtered out of society.

Hmm I don't agree with that because my religion doesn't cause me pain nor do I go around acting holier then though like most fundies when I say I am a secular christian I mean I keep my faith to myself it is both a culture and family thing but you don't see me making any posts about my faith the way Ragtime does

Seconded.
Not that I want to beat up on Ragtime, as he's free to express his opinions. Even though I don't agree with him much of the time.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Me either

clearly you're joking.

They're too feel-good.

If the second article is in fact a true account of events, then I'm glad. But my criticism that the articles are too feel-good stems in part from the fact that, based on personal experience and observation, these kinds of situations often don't end happily, like they did in the articles.

I believe I made mention a while back of a friend of mine who was disowned (college tuition revoked by his parents, among other things) because he came out to them as gay. He is far from the only person I've encountered who has had things like this happen to him within his family.

Can you imagine never seeing your family again for something like this? Your family, with whom you might frequently disagree but to whom you still feel that strong sense of familial love and attachment that you can't help but feel?

And your family would be far from the last people who ostracize you for being who you are.

It happens all the time in the United States. And while I believe that the intentions of Mr. Pearce are good, I doubt that his article will have any measurable impact on the beliefs and behaviors of the people who are the source of the ills about which he writes.

What about it? And why would it concern me anyway?