tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post5956257607062696050..comments2024-02-17T00:26:27.920-08:00Comments on Deep Thoughts: High school principal outs a lesbian studentMojoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541458916641472505noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-80439741951841835412008-08-26T13:18:00.000-07:002008-08-26T13:18:00.000-07:00Mojoey...it was PRECISELY a gay rights issue...if ...Mojoey...<BR/>it was PRECISELY a gay rights issue...if only tangentally.<BR/><BR/>The scripture the kid referenced is documented. The link I gave under the other blogg subject, that discusses scholarly consideration of Jesus' possible homosexuality addresses that scripture in some detail.<BR/><BR/>Interestingly: 51% of Xtians say that if jesus WERE homosexual, it wouldn't change their faith. 49% said it would (see same link). Almost half would abandon their faith if Jesus were in fact gay. Think about that!!<BR/><BR/>If the kid is, as he said " Challenging" peoples beliefs in what they think they know, their knowledge of this debated perspective should be challenged and elevated in discourse. <BR/><BR/>If just ONE Xtian thinks "Hmmm...maybe I'm making too much of this gay thing, what would Jesus have said?", then the in your face approach was worth 10,000 hurt feelings.<BR/><BR/>IMO anyway.<BR/><BR/>Well..i guess we whipped this to death, eh? <BR/>regards,<BR/>HumpDromedary Humphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14165566701791663057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-79828953076325336112008-08-26T13:00:00.000-07:002008-08-26T13:00:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dromedary Humphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14165566701791663057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-10415005723172523862008-08-25T20:34:00.000-07:002008-08-25T20:34:00.000-07:00Humb - was the Jesus is gay thing a gay rights iss...Humb - was the Jesus is gay thing a gay rights issue? I totally missed that give the organizer was just trying to piss people off for the shock value and had no deeper content intended. <BR/><BR/>You can go on thinking there was some bigger message, but the reality was the kid behind it just wanted to see his name in the papers.Mojoeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06541458916641472505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-27106398811399991522008-08-25T16:29:00.000-07:002008-08-25T16:29:00.000-07:00Mojoey said: "I am again reminded that gay rights ...Mojoey said:<BR/> "I am again reminded that gay rights is an atheist issue. Each attack on a gay person is driven by Christian theocratic tenancies. We must push back."<BR/><BR/>And yet in another breath/ and another thread you "don't understand" the gay jesus poster as being part and parcel to that "push back". <BR/><BR/>Perhaps you mean we should only "gently nudge" back?... and not push back too hard, lest we as atheists, the presumably enlightened leaders against bigotry, be deemed just to darn insensitive, too darn radical?<BR/><BR/>The Catholic Church, the self proclaimed keepers of the flame of human dignity, "nudged" but never "pushed back" against the Nazi "final solution". Perhaps if they had been less genteel and more "in their face", a few million lives would have been saved. <BR/><BR/>30 centuries of theistically inspired bigotry have run their course. Yet we still worry about the bigot's "sensitivities". <BR/><BR/>I smell hypocracy. Oh wait..no, its dinner!! Later ;)Dromedary Humphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14165566701791663057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-62882278852102716332008-08-24T21:36:00.000-07:002008-08-24T21:36:00.000-07:00I am from the Florida panhandle, which is where Po...I am from the Florida panhandle, which is where Ponce de Leon and many towns just like it are. This why I am FROM the panhandle...the thinking of almost every person who lives there closely resembles the people in this article. It is Southern Baptist country. And Church of God. And Holiness, Pentecostal, ad nauseum.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Mojoey, for bringing this story to my attention. I hadn't read this before, and, like you, find it amazingly disturbing that the Principal wasn't fired. I hope that the young woman in question has the gumption to file a civil rights suit against the state and school board for this travesty.<BR/><BR/>Peace.Just Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07319327357369809578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-31924601616266358052008-08-24T14:14:00.000-07:002008-08-24T14:14:00.000-07:00Davis should have been fired; that he wasn't was p...Davis should have been fired; that he wasn't was probably a sop to the community. <BR/><BR/>Considering an article I read in the Times about a Florida teacher trying to teach evolution to a bunch of students, well, let's just say that Davis being demoted was a little more than I would have expected.<BR/><BR/>Some people get confused with "religious fundamentalist dogma" and The Constitution of the United States. It's a pity, but it's oh so prevalent.<BR/><BR/>Carolyn AnnAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00333372966116029977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-76076544254427922622008-08-24T10:25:00.000-07:002008-08-24T10:25:00.000-07:00It is a sad state of affairs when our PUBLICLY PAI...It is a sad state of affairs when our PUBLICLY PAID SERVANTS get to determine how people should live according to their own personal beliefs. This "nutjob" Davies not only should have been removed as principle, he should have been banned from the public school system and sent to some type of "acceptance" academy. I wonder if he has ever been ridiculed or felt fearful of personal harm due to how he looks or who he loves?<BR/><BR/>The religious right calls homosexuality an abomination....from my standpoint, the religious right is the abomination.<BR/><BR/>Just as they hate "fags", prior to the social movement to accept those with differing sexual orientations, the so called religious right was founded upon maintain segregation, because of their hate of people of color.<BR/><BR/>One common thread in the religious right. Hate!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939571.post-10532978923581687512008-08-24T09:26:00.000-07:002008-08-24T09:26:00.000-07:00mojoey:In reference to one of your previous posts ...mojoey:<BR/><BR/>In reference to one of your previous posts and my comments about "nutjobs". According to my definition, Davies is one of the "nutjobs" to whom I was referring. Or are we using different dictionaries?<BR/><BR/>Don't get me wrong, your posts are excellant, but I don't think we are going to get anwhere until we put the "lunatic fringe" in their place. If we don't, we're letting them carry their "nutcaseflag" in the parade, and we are following them.antonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02909850387414677663noreply@blogger.com