Did y'all miss me? Reverend Red Mage has returned!
2007-03-20 03:44:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My account was deactivated for some reason. I appealed to Customer Care and got it reactivated.
I'm still wary of those guys, though.
2007-03-20 03:54:27 · update #1
Justified? Or just plain prejudiced?
In the words of Leonard Pitts, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist (also a Christian man, btw):
"Attitudes or opinions like the general's usually involve..."frantically pointing to an obscure Old Testament passage as his or her authority for the immorality of homosexuality. Thing is, the Old Testament also requires the death penalty for disrespectful children, forbids the eating of meat cooked rare, and obligates the man who rapes a virgin to buy her from her father and marry her. I've seen no groundswell of support for those commands."
Pitts continues:
"Morality, it has always seemed to me, has less to do with commonalities of existence than with how you treat other people. Do you lie to or about them? Do you steal from them? Do you cheat them? Do you walk by their suffering, oblivious? Do you, except in self-defense, harm them physically or mentally? The answers to those questions, I think, define morality more exactly than whether you're sharing a bed with someone who has the same sexual equipment you do."
"And how moral is it for the chairman of the joint chiefs to insult soldiers who are still in harm's way, soldiers who have been wounded, soldiers who have died, because they do not love as he would choose? The answer in two words: not very."
2007-03-20 04:13:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I support the responses given by Gittit and Yourdays. General Pace may have exercised his position to convey his moral convictions about homosexuality in the Armed Forces, but he is right.
I put 20 years in the Army and did not have to contend with such a problem--thankfully. On the other hand, I'm sure there were some homosexuals serving when I was in, but the mission came first, not sexual preference.
Furthermore, they are not Gay; they're homosexuals. Being gay means to be happy and content in life.
2007-03-20 04:07:21 · answer #2 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think of a few individuals are perplexed right here. usual %. did no longer exhibit a political opinion. He expressed a private, ethical opinion. it is the unconventional left this is making an attempt to politicize the remark. the final did no longer say he became attempting to alter the present "do no longer ask, do no longer tell" coverage related to homosexuals in the protection tension. He purely stated that he in my opinion seen the habit immoral. maximum individuals consider that place, by using ways. usual %. should not be censured, disciplined, or derided for expressing his own opinion.
2016-12-15 04:28:37 · answer #3 · answered by trip 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
General Pace lives in lala land. The gays are there, they always have been, and he's an idiot to pretend it's a problem, cause it's not. I was in the army one term.
Welcome back! Where ya been? Anyplace exciting?
2007-03-20 03:48:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's called freedom of speech, if Gen. Pace or anyone else for that fact made a statement of opinion against the morals of. or beliefs of the Christian Church, he would have been in all the papers as a hero. I believe the media is bias.
2007-03-20 03:59:53 · answer #5 · answered by yourdayscoming 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I guess I'm in the minority here. We need more people in this country to speak up for what they believe(right or wrong)! Isn't that what this country was founded on? Why is everybody so scared to offend someone while living in the greatest country on the face of the earth? I don't get it! When did it all start?!
2007-03-20 03:57:50 · answer #6 · answered by gittit 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Let's see here...the greatest general ever on this planet was Alexander the Great....I believe he was a homosexual...Maybe we need more gays in the military..not less
2007-03-20 03:52:07 · answer #7 · answered by John 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
hi there!!!
While i think that everyone is entitled to their own opinion...there's a time and a place to share those opinions. If he thinks it's morally wrong, nobody is going to change his mind, however, nobody was asking his opinion and like he said, he should have kept it to himself. High profile people can't go around spouting hate if they want the public's trust.
2007-03-20 03:50:47 · answer #8 · answered by elfkin, attention whore 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The guy is a Grade A idiot
2007-03-20 03:51:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pace should be drawn and quartered. (figuratively, of course) And I missed you!
2007-03-20 03:48:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋