Tricks Tricks:
Are you drawing a parallel between homosexuality and pedophilia?
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Of course. Heterosexuality and pedophilia are also parallel. The argument has been made and I've embraced it that people have sexual orientations and preferences and that there's no cure or treatment for such things. That said, a pedophiliac is forever a pedophiliac and the best we can hope for from them is that they never act on their impulses. The ones who do act on those impulses necessarily need to be segregated from society for the safety and well being of children.
Tricks Tricks:
So you don't want people being intimate before marriage, that's fair.
I didn't say that. What I said is that I don't want an adulterous relationship being given the same respect and recognition as a committed marriage. Meaning Charlie Sheen's fling with some random hooker is not a relationship on par with my marriage of near 28 years.
Tricks Tricks:
Do you have a fundamental issue with homosexuals in general?
Ah, we get to the heart of the matter.
I initially wrote a long response to you and then I realized that you're probably not going to read it as I wrote it so I'll keep it simple:
When a Western society strays from its moral compass it declines. And what follows it has never been a good thing.
Rome devolved and degenerated and what followed was a millennium of darkness.
France devolved into debauchery and corruption at the end of the 1700's and they've never come back from it. The weakened republic embraced the libertine and was unable to withstand Napoleon.
Weimar Germany practically bathed itself in debauchery and so weakened itself that it was helpless to stop Hitler.
The US is embracing the effeminate and if we continue on we will be unable to withstand what comes next.
It's just how things work.
While this may offend your enlightened 21st Century sensibilities the fact remains that plenty of Europeans, Canadians, and Americans are flocking to Islam and ISIS because they are looking to strength and they are looking for a validation of masculinity as opposed to the condemnation of masculinity that is currently popular in our collective Western culture. People outside of our culture readily see this and they capitalize on it and they count on it to make us weak.
Personally, I'm happy I don't have children because I don't need to worry what will happen to them after my time here is done.
That's because I am certain that whatever comes next is going to be hell on earth.