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Originally Posted by Sea Demon
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*cough*Sub's Christian*cough*
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So what if Subman's a Christian. What an absolute lame comment. Do you suppose only Christian's oppose homosexual "marriage"? If so, I don't think you get out much. BTW, how do they treat homosexual's in that backwards country you came from? How do the Mullah's treat homosexuals there? I got news for you, homosexuals, even without marriage here, live in heaven compared to that place |
In the United States, Christians are typically the ones who view homosexuals as the enemy and deny them their rights. That's my point. Some Christians like them, but not many do.
My nephew goes to a church in a small Missouri town, the First Baptist Church to be exact. The pastor there commonly gets riled when it comes to the topic of homosexuals, and he has even had entire sermons about homosexuality. He says that they are all unclean and are enemies of God, which is justification for why they should be denied their rights and why they should be destroyed.
Now with that said, neither one of our countries seems to be much different. That's how it started with Iran and their killings of homosexuals and it's turning out much the same way for the United States (although the US government hasn't allowed citizens to kill homosexuals wherever they may be found).
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Originally Posted by Sea Demon
...I see you defend so heartily and quite often.
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Well what do you expect? I lived there for well over 30 years, more than half my life and put my life on the line for the country against the Iraqis. I'm not suddenly going to disown it and asking me to is just going to make me tell you to feck off. Iran is going through a period much like the United States was during the 1950s and 1960s, when it was perfectly legal to have segregation and when whites killing a black person were typically just given a slap on the wrist whilst blacks killing a white person were given either life in prison or the death sentence.
Your government, just 40 years ago, let police dogs maul protesters and sprayed them with powerful jets of water from fire hoses. Your government enforced segregation in the population and often denied black children the right to a fair education.
And come 40 years from now, when I'm probably dead and buried, Iran will hopefully have changed. The government and mullahs are the ones who dislike gays, Jews, and such, but the people themselves typically don't mind them.
Nobody can be certain what Iran's future will hold, but I have faith in the country and in the hearts of the people. I hope the future will bring better for her because I don't want to find out someday that the things I did for my homeland as did many other Iranians were all in vain. If it was in vain... then I won't go on living. The disappointment of it would be titanically extreme, not only in myself but in my people. So much... and all for nothing...