Enlightening Facts About Gay and Transgender People

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Interesting facts here about gay and trans folks. http://listverse.com/2016/06/16/10-enlightening-facts-about-gay-and-trans-people/

Within the last few decades, public acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans relationships and marriages has steadily increased, from abysmal levels in the 1970s (with a 1973 poll revealing 70 percent of the American public holding the opinion that gay relationships “are always wrong”) to an outright majority today.

However, it would be impossible to deny that these are still dangerous times in which to be gay or trans, as recent events have shown us that anti-LGBT hate is still very alive. Since people tend to hate what they fear and fear what they do not understand, we thought it might be helpful to put forth some interesting and perhaps underrecognized facts about the LGBT community.
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I don't understand the link between horses and the gay and transgender people referenced in this thread. Perhaps I am reading things incorrectly, but considering the massacre at Orlando, the subject matter seems flippant at best.
 

If people don't like the thread topic, they can always move on to other threads....no need to force a reply, especially a sarcastic one, on any subject.
 
mitchezz said:
Agreed. The title of the thread could not have been more self explanatory.
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Well, I wasn't going to comment, but I thought the title of the thread was more than a little off-putting. Most of us do not need "enlightened" about our LGBT friends/coworkers/family members. Last I checked, they were all people.

And no, I did not follow the link. I never do.
 
Hmmm. If no one needed reminding that those of us who identify as other than heterosexual are people just like any one else, then the violence and prejudice experienced by the LGBT community would not exist. Sadly, it does.
 
Sure Ruthanne. I was responding to comments about us not needing to be enlightened about LGBT people. After the Orlando massacre, some extremist Christians praised what had happened. This means people still need to be enlightened about peeps who aren't heterosexual.
 
Shalimar said:
Sure Ruthanne. I was responding to comments about us not needing to be enlightened about LGBT people. After the Orlando massacre, some extremist Christians praised what had happened. This means people still need to be enlightened about peeps who aren't heterosexual.
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Do you mean they praised the massacre?
 
Shalimar said:
Also, some extremist so called Christian pastors etc glorified the events of the massacre in Orlando. We are a long way from being enlightened around this issue.
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I haven't been following this story closely Shalimar, but I just searched what you were talking about. There was one Christian pastor that came up right away, can't believe these people even exist, he was even on video praising the killings. I won't link to or repeat what he was saying, it's too hateful and offensive to be shared here. Trash like that should be eliminated, not forwarded IMO.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I haven't been following this story closely Shalimar, but I just searched what you were talking about. There was one Christian pastor that came up right away, can't believe these people even exist, he was even on video praising the killings. I won't link to or repeat what he was saying, it's too hateful and offensive to be shared here. Trash like that should be eliminated, not forwarded IMO.
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that "Christian pastor" must have missed the parts about "judge not" and letting him "who is without sin cast the first stone." Anyone who would praise the killings is no Christian.
 
I hear you, SB. Scary to think such vitriol is being spread from a pulpit in the 21st century. Still, it is good to be aware of what lurks in the cellars of some people's minds. That way we can move to combat the hatred before it spreads.
 
Shalimar said:
Also, some extremist so called Christian pastors etc glorified the events of the massacre in Orlando. We are a long way from being enlightened around this issue.
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Well, you are taking an extreme case and applying it to everybody. There are about 320,000 Christian churches in the United States, so it's pretty easy to find the occasional idiot in the pulpit. No amount of "enlightenment" will ever cure their own distorted beliefs. Personally I'd say as a nation, in my life time, we have come a long way in our attitudes toward the LGBT community. I was raised in a little backwater village in Appalachia where it was considered a "mixed marriage" if a Baptist married a Methodist..... But I do appreciate your concerns that your fight is not totally over. It probably never will be.
 
I once read some government persons statement that when you contact your elected official via a letter or an email or a phone call, the general thinking is that one call represents not one person, but ten others of like mind who don't bother making a call. Given that as a possibility, that would mean that there are potentially 10 other pastors with the same attitude who are speaking to their own congregations. So while most of us are accepting of homosexual people, that doesn't mean that everyone is.
 
Of course not all Christian pastors are so hateful and extreme, and not all Muslim imams either. I heard that killing of gays was suggested by this one though, before the killings took place in that nightclub. In either case, it's disturbing that religious beliefs are driving these intense negative attitudes toward people which often are the encouragement for physical violence.

 
Anyone can use the name "Christian". This pastor may call himself by that name, but he is not ordained by God! I know who the pastor is and what he said. I do not identify with him or anyone who agrees with him. He is NOT a true representative of Christianity when he made the statement that God has given up on the gay community.

The God I worship does not "give up" on anyone. I disagree with anyone who would say such a thing.

It (love) is not rude, it is not self-seeking, is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.…(1 Cor.13:5)
but (God) is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. (2 Pet:9)
Supply the needs of the saints. Extend hospitality to strangers. (rom 12:13)

There is every reason from scripture to be kind and understanding to ALL.
I am Southern Baptist conservative, but my feeling is, let's show the love of Jesus to everyone, showing no partiality, and have the first priority of getting them into the kingdom of God, then let God minister to them. Show love, compassion, hospitality, and friendliness, then maybe they will listen to your message of the gospel.

Just in case you question my motives, yes, I have invited gays to my church.
 
Shalimar said:
I hear you, SB. Scary to think such vitriol is being spread from a pulpit in the 21st century. Still, it is good to be aware of what lurks in the cellars of some people's minds. That way we can move to combat the hatred before it spreads.
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Not just from the Pulpit...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-politician-slammed-tweet-sent-florida-shooting-174431571.html

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The office of Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican and evangelical Christian, on Sunday deleted a tweet many saw as offensive and insensitive that was sent out shortly after the deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Florida.
"Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows," read the Bible verse Patrick sent out on his official Twitter account a few hours after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history that left at least 50 dead. [nL1N194041]
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Wow QS, a public official is permitted to use his office as a vehicle to promote hatred/violence against a visible minority? I guess I don't completely understand American legalities around free speech. Is it ok to promote domestic terrorism under the guise of religion, providing it is Christian?
 
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