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Wayward5oul -> RE: Gay Man Sues Bible Publishers (7/13/2015 7:14:31 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
Both have their origins in the same place of religious belief.
I have never considered religion to be a reason for someone to be against pedophilia. Homosexuality, yes. Pedophilia, no. Can I see religious tenets used as an argument against pedophilia? Absolutely. Does that mean that it started with a religious tenant, that until it was acknowledged as wrong by religion then it was considered okay? I haven't researched that specifically, but I doubt it.
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I was making the point to Get Steel that he cannot dismiss something simply because origin is in religious belief without saying that anything beginning from those beliefs are not automatically to be dismissed.
I do agree that something cannot be dismissed just because it does have origin in religion. If that were the case, I would be dismissed a lot, even more than I am now. [;)]
I just think that pedophilia is widely abhorred for reasons that, for many people, have nothing to do with religion, enough that it can be considered independently of religion. Whereas homosexuality cannot. Almost universally, objections against homosexuality are based in religion.
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If we say opposition to gay marriage is no longer valid because it began with a religious prohibition, then everything which began with a religious prohibition must be abandoned.
I agree. I just don't think that pedophilia was an accurate example. And having had to deal with it in my own family (let me be clear, I was not one of his victims) it was something that I could not stop myself from responding to.
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I have solved this by putting him on hide to avoid these tendencies of mine.
I put several people on hide a couple of months ago, but the conversations got so hard to follow sometimes that I went ahead and un-hid all but two. And I am reconsidering re-hiding one more.
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