The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157281   Message #3711306
Posted By: Steve Shaw
23-May-15 - 07:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: All changed, changed utterly.
Subject: RE: BS: All changed, changed utterly.
If it's true that there is nothing immoral about heterosexual sex, as long as it is consensual and non-exploitative, then there is equally nothing immoral about gay sex on that same basis. This really can't be a matter of anyone's opinion. That is not a absolutist position. It isn't ordinary, decent, non-religious people who have made sex a "moral issue". It's religion. The people (usually men in frocks, fer chrissake) who have turned ordinary sex into a moral issue are guilty of the worst kind of authoritarian, control-freakery extremism. Actually, they are perverts. The fact that you see this stuff as a matter of opinion betrays the fact that you've been suckered into that way of thinking by your religion. The way of thinking that makes normal, happy, guilt-free sex all the more difficult for ordinary people to enjoy and celebrate. Organised religion is out to control our lives. It serves no other purpose. Today, organised religion has had its grip loosened just a little bit in Ireland. Let's fight for more of that, instead of pretending that aspects of people's honest and upright private lives can ever be a matter of anyone's opinion.