Hi everyone. I haven’t posted in a while because there hasn’t been much to post, but there is now.
Question: what do you have to say about gay people before conservatives stop defending you?
Answer: it has to be worse than calling them worse than animals and calling for them to be executed.
In the wake of the news that Nike has dumped Manny Pacquiao over his horrible comments (which I strongly support), Life Site News has launched this petition in favour of him.
The message explaining the petition reads:
Manny Pacquiao is under vicious attack simply for pointing out that men and women complement one another.
Uh, no, he’s not. He’s under attack for saying:
It's just common sense. Have you seen any animal having male-to-male or female-to-female relations? [...] If you have male-to-male or female-to-female (relationships), then people are worse than animals.
And he’s also under attack for posting the Leviticus death penalty verse. So, LifeSiteNews, it’s a little more complicated than that.
They continue:
A trained boxer knows how to find his opponent’s weakness and to strike at just the right moment to knock him down. What eight-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has done to his opponent’s in the ring — time and again — he did to gay “marriage” this week. But now he is getting pummelled by the anti-family mainstream media, and by the same LGBT-activist buillies who preach "tolerance," but cannot a tolerate a viewpoint that is different than their's [sic].
It pisses me off that because we talk about tolerance, we’re expected to respond to hatred by being ultra-nice. To hell with that. I’ll give the respect that you give me. I’m not going to fall for that one-way respect crap, where religious conservatives can say horrible things about LGBT people, but the second they push back, they’re the aggressors. And of course, none of the reaction comes anywhere close to intolerance. As I wrote here:
I'm tired of having the meaning of tolerance dictated to me by the right. Tolerance means that I don't ban you from saying what you just said. That's it. I do not owe your sick beliefs one iota of respect.
And as I wrote about criticism of Indiana’s RFRA:
Criticism, no matter how intense and fierce, even if it is overblown and irrational, is not intolerance. One only crosses the line into intolerance when they become coercive, when they coerce their target into doing what they want. This means that the target is no longer left with a choice about what to do. Mere speech never (or very, very rarely) constitutes intolerance, bcause mere speech can never (or very, very rarely) stop someone from doing what they want to do.
They then deny that he said what he said:
The media misquoted Pacquiao as having said that homosexuals were “worse than animals,” whereas what he really said was that “man,” as in “humanity,” is “worse than animals” for not realizing, as the animals do, that men and women complement each other.
But in his apology, he admitted to saying it:
“I'm sorry for hurting people by comparing homosexuals to animals. Please forgive me for those I've hurt. I still stand on my belief that I'm against same-sex marriage because of what the Bible says, but I'm not condemning LGBT. I love you all with the love of the Lord. God Bless you all and I'm praying for you,” he posted on Instagram on Tuesday.
Finally:
Christians and other people of good will need to stand with Pacquiao in support of natural marriage. Help us send him a message encouraging him to stay strong in his pro-family beliefs!
I think I’ll stay well clear of anything to do with “family values” after that.
The message to Pacquiao tells him:
I want to express my support for your courageous stance in support of natural marriage. I stand by you in recognizing what common sense and every high school biology text book states, namely, that male and female complement each other biologically.
I condemn the unfair attacks against you, driven by the anti-family mainstream media. It is not "homophobic" to warn people against the harms that occur when we use our bodies in ways that go against the laws of God and of nature. On the contrary, we must continue to love homosexuals with "the love of the Lord" - which means we must continue to courageously speak the truth in charity.
In it, we see the Christianist delusion that what’s best for LGBT people is to tell them how horrible they are.
Incidentally, if you want to see how animals can act, watch these dolphins (and by the way, don’t take them out of the water, like those stupid tourists in Argentina):