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Thread #125426   Message #2818784
Posted By: Lox
22-Jan-10 - 03:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Et tu smedley?

As long as the assertion is made that that any demographic deserves to have their civil rights curtailed I will counter it.

If someone posts figures in relation to that debate I will examine them and interpret them or contest them as appropriate, lest they be misunderstood and misapplied.

You may not feel any further need to participate. Noone has to if they don't want to.

But I do not wish to allow scapegoating to go unchecked.

I know I can't convince Ake or GfS of my view, but I can give them a robust response when they try to scapegoat others.

So far, their positions have been pretty comprehensively demolished.

Keiths figures seemed to have been posted in an attempt add credence to the homophobic argument, and he seemed unwilling to agree that they did not in fact serve that purpose unless deliberately and selectively interpreted.

In the end, he had to admit that they did not support a homophobic view.

I'm sick of this argument too, but I'm not going to let the scapegoaters go unchecked.

if people don't enjoy it they don't have to read it.