Comments on: Hallelujah, I’m a fag! /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:00:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Ian /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545#comment-25384 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:00:34 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=32545#comment-25384 GodBless59 quotes Leviticus 18 as saying male homosexuality is an abomination.

But Leviticus 11 also says eating prawns is an abomination, and Leviticus 19:27 and 21:5 forbid cutting off your beard. I see no reason (apart from prejudice) to pick one law to be enforced and ignore the others.

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By: David Skidmore /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545#comment-24963 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:57:46 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=32545#comment-24963 At Castro Street Fair back in 2000, I remember a drag queen saying to the crowd “…and they come here with their tired, old placards that say ‘God Hates Fags’. How lame is that? Why don’t they say something that would really offend us like ‘Those Pants Make You Look Fat’. That would really hurt.”

Satire is often the best way to deal with these people as the Rally for Sanity in the US the other day demonstrated (pun intended).

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By: Damien Stephens /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545#comment-24945 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:28:25 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=32545#comment-24945 This has proven quite the conundrum for the US Supreme Court.

I tend to feel there’s a difference between exercising one’s democratic right to peacefully protest and hijacking The First Amendment to disseminate hatred and bigotry.

Isn’t it enough that we live as a marginalised community and face discrimination our whole lives? And now our funerals – where our loved ones are grieving – are also fair game? Surely everyone’s entitled to a dignified funeral.

GLBTI ‘agendas’ are typically peaceful protests which don’t adversely affect others – and we’re usually only calling for acceptance and change for a better, more progressive and loving world. Gay rights are human rights, after all.

Inflicting grief and trauma on the (heterosexual) families of the deceased should not be part of someone’s democratic right. If it is, then it needs to change. I guess that’s why it’s been challenging for the Supreme Court.

I’m sorry, these hypocritical idiots make me so mad. They’ve been on my radar for a while now. They claim to be ‘Christians’ and yet this would have to be one of the most heinous acts I have ever heard of. They are insane, clearly. But they still do a lot of damage.

GodBless59 – I think I just felt some fire and brimstone shoot out my ass.

Everyone else – good points. Cheers for your posts.

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By: GodBless59 /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545#comment-24932 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:33:05 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=32545#comment-24932 Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Whatever you think, you cannot change God’s Word regarding homosexuality and will one day have to pay the price regarding what He has written. Homosexuals can still be saved by Jesus Christ. God Bless you.

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By: Michael /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545#comment-24900 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:31:52 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=32545#comment-24900 Its democracy we don’t like it but it has to exist. I won’t put on here what I would like to do because it would only be hateful, but they are offensive, rude and violate people at their lowest point in life, when someone has passed.

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By: Asquith /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545#comment-24896 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:01:00 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=32545#comment-24896 Thats a good point Nick and logically the answer to your question would be “No”.

They still suck though :oP

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By: Nick /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545#comment-24889 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:57:56 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=32545#comment-24889 Whilst I agree these Christian extremists are way out of line, one must still consider The First Amendment, which provides everyone with the right to freedom of speech. Similar laws have allowed us to peacefully protest for many LBGT agendas in this country. We may disagree with what these protestors are doing, however they are exercising their democratic right. Is it so different…..?

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By: adam m /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545#comment-24879 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:24:36 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=32545#comment-24879 AMEN!! This is an all time low for these freaks!!

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By: Asquith /opinion/soapbox-opinion/hallelujah-i%e2%80%99m-a-fag/32545#comment-24873 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:27:46 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=32545#comment-24873 Oh These people are freaks, I remember them being in the spotlight of fame before but the members of this church are mainly Fred Phelps family members so basically the church will continue forever as the adults will bully all this crap into the kids making them the new members etc.

youtube “Shirley Phelps-Roper” the interviews of her are so warped, and also check out:

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