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Atheists & Agnostics

jeff47

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3. For some, it excuses their bigotry.

Reply to nil desperandum (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 13, 2015, 08:48 AM

Apr 2015

If it's a choice, then being bigoted against that choice doesn't make you a bad person. You're just trying to help people make the good choice.

Others are desperately trying to convince themselves that it is a choice, and to stop thinking about that really hot guy they just met.

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N.J. Catholic high school teacher who spewed anti-gay rhetoric on Facebook reinstated after uproar [View all] trotsky Apr 2015 OP

Choice nil desperandum Apr 2015 #1

Best response I've heard to someone who claims being gay is a "choice..." trotsky Apr 2015 #2

Nice response nil desperandum Apr 2015 #4

For some, it excuses their bigotry. jeff47 Apr 2015 #3

apparently the faith-heads think that gay sex is incredibly hot RussBLib Apr 2015 #6

well since you have attacked catholicism here Warren Stupidity Apr 2015 #5

Your logic is sound, Warren. trotsky Apr 2015 #7

I'm sorry, I think if she can't keep her bigotry to herself mountain grammy Apr 2015 #8

Unfortunately that's part of the problem. trotsky Apr 2015 #9

Of course she is, which is why I gave up on religion years ago mountain grammy Apr 2015 #10