diff --git "a/LGBTQ/train.json" "b/LGBTQ/train.json" deleted file mode 100644--- "a/LGBTQ/train.json" +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8420 +0,0 @@ -{"text": "It took them long enough. And it goes against Catholic doctrine, for now. \n\nI've always wondered why conservative Christians - both Catholic and Protestant - were always so intent on enforcing two or three Old Testament texts on homosexuality, but were happy to reject slavery even though there are far more extensive Biblical passages that permit it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well now Murray can simply go for the bisexual vote too. After all, he likes men AND boys.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He probably thoughthimself gay when he did not like women, but I doubt most gays would accept him (or any true asexual).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I have noticed is that people who make comments like this are usually closet case HOMOSEXUALS.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender soldiers can kill just as efficiently as straight soldiers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Psssst \"Hearts\": some of the youth you serve are gay. That's a fact. \nAre you apologizing for not taking the money or for your bigotry toward gays?\nYour bigotry has cost the children that you claim to want to help. I hope you all sleep well in your smug little beds, know that rejecting the tainted money will show those gay men who's who and that you want no part of their hedonistic lifestyle.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Can we please have a heterosexual leader.\n\nWould that be possible, or am I breaking all the taboos again.\n\nI don't care if someone is gay or not.\n\nI care that I am lead by someone is living the average life of most people, and views things as the majority would.\n\nGeorge Smitherman is responsible for all the Utility mess, and again, he is another gay person with an ego.\n\nEnough of this already.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Calling b s on that one wigandfakenose. \n\nWhat you said is neither common sense, nor is it backed by any sort of evidence. Trans-gendered individuals have been in the military for some time and there is zero evidence to support your claim that they aren't accepted.\n\nOh, and also another inconvenient fact for you is that Trump's rationale for this decision appears to have had nothing to do with purported acceptance issues. You can read up on what he said if you choose to do so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Get behind Transgender, homosexuals, blacks, native indians, hispanics, Muslims,\nJews and defeat Trump", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Her or her partner's sexuality has absolutely nothing to do with this issue. Neither does gay marriage. Don't be so ridiculous.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You...Police officer...\nGet back in the closet!!!\n\nSigned, the LGBT community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about state right Donny Boy? That is what you said about transgender rights? This man is such a liar!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The gay community is the most oppressive organization out there and your comment reflects that! They allow NO DISSENT, yet this country is built on it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How about the teacher I once worked with that told a group of 6th graders that gays are all hell-bound pedophiles.\n\nI bet you're OK with that, though.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he was just gay", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That's fair politics though because he IS in FACT opposed to choice and he is a homophobe. But here's my question for you, why would someone who is progressive (most Canadians) vote for a socon who promises he won't impose his extremist views when they can vote for someone who is pro-choice, supports women having reproductive rights and represents the party that legalized gay marriage. This is the real question. And look at the lineup behind Scheer... a doofus who promised to kill health transfers and force provinces to carry the entire health care burden and Kellie Leitch whose base is white supremacists.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "To all the gay white men railing against BLM, this is who agrees with you. Bigotry makes for strange bedfellows, I guess (and not the good kind.) \n\n:)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It won't stop till the dinosaurs in the Vatican change the Catholic Catechism. There are many stupid and untrue non biblical based things in there that were aimed to hate Gays and Lesbians. It is this that the bullying gets its fuel.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Bravo! The democrats won't be happy until all of us are dis-armed and helplessly cowering face-down on the floor of a gay bar toilet.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"But then we would also be publicly beheading drug addicts, along with adulterers, homosexuals and \"sorcerers.\"\"\n\nWell, Richard, that's a leap. Is that true of Singapore? Would that be true of BC? Talk about hoisting...talk about \"your own petard.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Just rough gay sex getting a little out of hand.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah....they have to wait....our Gov is busy with another type of refugees. Accepting gay men would offend the media darlings.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Justin represents all the people Gays, transgenders, blacks, brown, chinese, Jews, Muslims, Native Indians, not like Trump who just represents white people and christians. Thats the inner beauty of Justin and the outer ugliness of Trump.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "None whatsoever. If anything, they've brought in a pile-driver and hard hats!\nThe decline of my party began with the aged unsolvable issues, abortion, gay rights, gun rights, religion, and some more I'm getting too old and tired to want to repeat. The party pursued the extreme viewpoints in effort to win the fringe groups over defined as those who want to impose their viewpoint on the general group. \nThe party has forgotten the general group has the ability to make up their own minds on those types of decisions.\nSo, along comes what should have been the most laughable candidate in history, but, instead he has the biggest laugh in history, disassembling the \"Grand Old Party\", and making fools of the mules who chose to put forward their own parade of what \"should\" be acceptable to a nation that can freely choose that themselves.\nAnd, the result is now history for the party of history.\nNothing funnier than her saying it's misogyny. She won't accept she was the wrong candidate!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is LBB Barry back from his gay sex romp in the south seas yet? When he left Moochelle at home?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are raising a coward sissy boy. Give him to the father and let him learn how to fix your car, fix your house, etc. Let him play cops and robbers with his friends. Don't drag him to stupid BS event that will accomplish nothing other than possibly entering your son into the world of transgender. What a joke of a mother you are. Your husband should be ashamed of you, I would be.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lucas Frances, You made a mistake. You read past the title on a Wohlforth article about the oil industry or the economy. You wasted 2 minutes of your life reading illogical blather. And you wasted an hour writing this article. Wohlforth can write well about health care or down and out, gay, homeless gypsies. But his hatred towards the real world makes his diatribes on oil and the Alaskan economy not worth reading. Don't read his garbage.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm going to call you as I see you regardless of what you want. You look like a man dressed as a woman it's going to be \" hey man\" and a woman dressed as a man is \" hey ma'am\". Not changing my ways for anybody, period. Feel free to call me whatever you like. I have thick skin and don't get butthurt over anything as dumb as pronouns. Don't like it, suck it up or don't converse with me. Saw a tranny the other day I could barely keep my composure without bursting out laughing let alone trying to have a conversation with them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're lumping Milo Yiannopoulos with gay people, are you? Perhaps you're forgetting that he's also a Trump-supporting Republican who used to work at Breitbart and is universally despised by the gay community. He's part of your clan, not mine, or at least he was until he outgrew his useful idiot status on the right after he opened his big mouth one too many times and carried his juvenile shock routine a step too far. Then the right dumped him like a hot potato.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Another gay-hating, self-righteous, Christian extremist child molester. Yep.. he'll win. He's a perfect representation of the current Republican party.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Since the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize any same-sex marriages it basically consigns all gay people to a life of celibacy, not mere chastity. Your failure to acknowledge that reeks of smug disingenuousness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am gay too so I can say you are quite fascist in your determination to eradicate the rights of others, ie, the right of the School Board to say no. Muslims teach their child far worse about gays and what to do with them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "After the death of a feminist icon, I\u2019m reminded of those who paved my path\n\nWhich ones are those? \n\nThe women subjugated like dogs by the Muslim religion?\nThe millions of mutilated Muslim girls and women who you never mention?\nYou seem to be locked in a time warp where the women who need help are left without a voice as you white trash lesbians rage against the mythical machine. \nInstead of helping those that need it.\nThey are too small for you apparently\nThe war against the white male by the white and black feminists movement which infiltrated all walks of power and turned themselves into the bigots and racists we all despise?\nAll you have ever been is hateful white trash who see evil everywhere.\nIt is you not Trump who needs to be shamed.\nYou are hypocrites and sociopaths\n\nAnyway rationalize away if you dare", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Right: If the bishops really believe that homosexuals are not suited to priesthood, then they must begin an immediate and transparent purge. \nBut of course they don't believe it, not for a nanosecond; and most of them -- especially the most militant among them -- would not survive the purge.\nThis is hypocrisy of the highest order.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sam Butt Bam Adams is goin down and this time it will be CRIMINAL.........NOW how are all those Gay Hotels and Spas and Bars lookin that you had your Executive Secretary reserve for you, and of course with TAXPAYER Money.................Excuse me, I gotta run to the toilet and PUKE..........", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Have you heard Milo speak. He is a gay man whose likes black men. I don't agree with everything he says but I at least listen.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Muslims hate gays and want them dead. Islam is the biggest threat to the LGBT folks on this planet. This is probably only the beginning of this sort of thing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, let's end the insanity! No more trans people! No more boys kissing boys! No more rock n roll music! Let's get back to the good ol' days of the 1950s!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "the hypocracy of the LGBT... advocates at womens shelters and related organizations who refuse to accept trannies born as males. apparantly only the trannies born as females get their (our) financial and emotional support", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh yes we're just so nasty. Nasty women. Nasty men. Nasty lesbians and gays and transgendered persons. We're just nasty people. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fH5G_7iz0", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "people line momen are ignorant to such facts on trump, the president said friday that he didnt care what and who you shared your bedroom with etc.. he is clearly not anti gay etc", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The murder of transgenders this year has been one of black men killing black transgenders. Great denial out there in GLBT and BLM community on this problem.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What does the Church's TEACHING authority have to do with pedophilia? The \"sex abuse problem\" has nothing to do with \"clerical control\" other than the lavender mafia admitting far too many homosexuals into seminary.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I can already name the homophobic commenters who will quickly make the leap from this one [alleged] rapist to all gay men, as though they would similarly indict all straight men because some men rape women.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't need advice from a right wing Republican about whether I should socialize with right wing Republicans. Why doesn't he address himself to whether the Attorney General of the United States should be giving secret speeches to anti-gay hate groups? Presumably some on the right might actually be interested in his opinion about that. Trump isn't just a conservative, he's a criminal and a traitor. Anyone who supports him is either a fool or a scoundrel. If you support Trump, I don't need to find out which of those types you are before I tell you to take a hike.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I find it hard to take this congresswoman clown serious, she looks like a transgendered cowboy/girl. What a joker!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes Boss Coghill, we certainly don't want one of them there TRANNIES on our Equal Rights Commission. Next they'll want to let the negros, natives and maybe even a cripple on there!! Why before you know it, they're gonna wanna eat in the same restaurant as us and even use the same BATHROOM as us! Our whole society is just gonna go to hell in a hand basket!!\n\nNews flash Mr. Coghill ... IT'S 2017!!! Whether we are black or gay or native or female or hispanic or transgender or asian or handicapped or even white-anglo saxon-protestant-70 something-male we aren't looking for special rights ... just basic human rights. What better place to start than the EQUAL Rights Commission?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Bisexual.\" That is how homosexualists use labels to divert the discussion away from the issue. \n\nCall it what you want, but engaging in homosexual acts - or any kind of behavior - is the issue and the sin. Again, there weren't more \"gay\" or \"bisexual\" men in Ancient Greece's pederast culture: they all learned how to engage in same-sex acts.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We have the Proud-were not a frat-Boys on one side and on the other side the Blackshirts of the Hillary youth getting ready for a Bro down. Gay orgy to follow", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "lesbians, hawaiian mahu's, pedophile and bishop priests; its all about pride!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Crap? Is it because it's an old allegation, the so-called victim was just a minor, or that the alleged perpetrator is now gay?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I fail to see what is so progressive about making fun of gays....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know. Makes me feel a little oogie. A trans sexual marries an old hag princess. I should see butterflies and hear gay music but I don't.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Got a love these jerks at the AUSCP.\n\nHow dare you, Pope Francis, attack Gay Priests and support the idea they are less worthy for priesthood. Don't you know that you should follow the Association of US Catholic Priests and only attack the human dignity of all women called to priesthood and equal ordination. Only women aren't really people. You might actually hurt men when you strip their souls by taking away their experience of equal sacredness by taking away a whole sacrament without any real reason. AUSCP only feels women are not harmed by their forced voicelessness in our church and sacramental slavery and that is what we stated to you Pope Francis in our letter just two years ago - please limit only women to deacons. \n\n\"A Statement released, by the 1,200-member Ohio-based organization charged that \"the terms 'homosexual tendencies' and 'deep-seated homosexual tendencies' are ambiguous and disrespectful of the personhood of those who identify with a homosexual orientation.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Abbott are you seriously this stupid? We the people in TX dislike you because you're insane, not because...Soros. \nYou're handicapped, would you like people to take your rights away? So why are you so intent on taking others away and trying to use scare tactics to bait the rest?\nWe know you hate the entire LGBTQ community, and you're infringing on their rights. We know you want to throw out all of the illegals in the state, even though they do much of the labor in cities and suburbs. And we know you are intent on making this state a haven for biggots, racists, homophobes and anyone else that loves to hate people as you do. \nYou just posed with a trans Female and had no idea. You want to force women across the South to give up healthcare, because the place can perform an abortion, but it is far and away not what it 'does.' Just as Pharmacies can give out plan B pills, that's not what they 'do.' Your rhetoric, your hate...it's ruining our state. Really Sir, Soros? It must be a bad hand.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wiliki, seriously, are you allergic to the truth? The Bible clearly says homosexuality is an abomination.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My opinion is that you could hold a blacks only event, a gays only event, and a women only event and probably get away with it. But if you held a whites only event, a straights only event, or a men only event, you'd be in trouble. Some types of discrimination are more acceptable than others. Which leaves a lot of us feeling there's very much a double standard when it comes to discrimination, even though we're told that any type of discrimination is evil and against the law.\n\nI'll admit I'm not interested in grabbing my pitchfork and torches and storming the theater. \n\nBut excluding men was discrimination and both the columnist and the men who objected to the discrimination had valid complaints. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgendered bathrooms ? We pay for this madness ?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're stark raving mad. My mother is neither gay nor is she misogynistic. She's an 82 year-old life-long feminist who simply believes that people whose hairdos look like a football helmet have personalities that are equally rigid. She would say the same of Trent Lott's \"tornado-proof hair\" as Maureen Dowd (hardly a misogynist) once put it. \n\nSo you can take your homophobia and your misplaced rage and stick it where it belongs - up your wazoo!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mill's comment is just as true today as it was was when he first said it in 1866. There are intelligent conservatives. However, the vast majority of stupid people are conservatives.\n\nWhen I wrote that conservatives are at least as hateful as liberals, you called it \"childish\" If you think that the hatred is coming from the left, then you have not been paying attention. Muslims are being attacked, gays are being attacked and it sure isn't the left that is doing those attacks. Racism is now rampant in the US, because Trump and his merrie men have told the racists that it's OK to show their racism.\n\nTrump is a narcissist, a liar, a sexist, and a bigot. He knows little about the laws and history of the US, and cares less. This is not hatred, but the statement of demonstrated fact.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\".. Cardinal Burke is a homophobe ....\"\nDo you actually read what you post before you post it?\"\n\nMarty E, are you implying Burke isn't a homophobe?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am amused that people such as yourself think the proper response to the country progressing is to vote for a completely incompetent and inexperienced loudmouth racist like Trump as an act of defiance and racial resentment. \n\n\n\nThat somehow POC, liberals, gays, trans, women all somehow \"deserve\" a moron like Trump because they...well, what did they do, exactly? Fight for equality? Push back on unwarranted privileges of xtian white cis-gender men?\n\nVery sad that the Trump base views this as some kind of zero sum game. \n\n\nAnd are the GOP taking the long view here? Demographics are changing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This was not a Canon Law matter. This was the bishop being a sore loser on gay marriage by being rude to gay spouses and threatening to the priests who would minister to them. We saw the same kind of retaliatory nonsense when the Affordable Care Act passed and certain Bishops took retaliatory actions against sisters in Catholic Health who cleared the bill as not promoting abortion, which was correct, by the way.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Heterosexuals do not have sex with juvenile males.\n\nGay pedophiles do.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is actually you on the right who are so filled with hate. Your hatred of Hillary crossed the line along with your hatred of the last president who actually balanced the federal budget. Sad that you phony conservatives are filled so much hate. When you are not hating the Clintons, you are hating gays for some reason. \n\nI guess the biggest hypocrisy is that many of you profess to be Christians which is a joke. Jesus was about love not hate. No way any of you could really be Christian, just phony christian like being phony conservative. Shape up and start being real Chrisitans and real Conservatives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clearly you don't see the irony in your response, 420. I have no hurt feelings, just rational thought. As for educating me... laughable at best, 420. I ask for proof, you give me some \"definition\" you simply googled, 420. Where's the proof of the majority, 420? And how does your copy/paste definition relate to your statement, 420? How does it relate to transgender individuals using a restroom, 420? Why are you not outraged by gay, lesbian, queer, bi folks going into the restroom? the locker room? the showers even! Oh my! PANIC, 420!!! You lack proper debate skills. \n\nHow about I educate you instead: Ignorance (Noun) The lack of knowledge or information, unenlightenment, lack of education, lack of intelligence, stupidity, foolishness, idiocy, incomprehension of, unawareness of, unconsciousness of, unfamiliarity with, inexperience with, lack of knowledge about, lack of information about; informal cluelessness about. You see where I'm going with this right?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I maintain that Donald Trump doesn't really mean it when he denies the science behind the assertion that global warming is real and that it is man-made. We already know the man is a serial liar. I think he's lying about this because his real interest is in lining the pockets of his billionaire buddies in the oil and gas industry, and if he were to come right out and admit that it would be seen as too crass, even for him. So he lies and claims he doesn't believe the science, which sounds more legit.\n\nWhat I don't get is all the \"family values\" people who are always the first to chime in with \"but what about the children?\" not caring about climate change now. It's clear to me as a gay person that \"family values\" only ever meant \"no homo,\" but still, you'd think that conservatives really would care about the world they're leaving their children. The fact that they elected Trump tells me that they don't give a d*mn because we all knew Trump's plans before the election. Hypocrites all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I wish it were just plain old \"homophobia\" - that would be easier to expose, treat, and then move on from. \n\nWhat we're talking about here is endemic hypocrisy, born of self-loathing and a celibate clerical sub-culture that lives in constant fear of the loss of its political hegemony over the rest of the church. \n\nMost clerics allow their fear and shame to overwhelm themselves, convinced that their status and power in the Catholic community will be rejected out-of-hand by the people. That is why the Church and the great majority of priests and bishops are all balled-up in a twist over human sexuality. Celibacy was the price that far too many priest paid in exchange for entry into the ruling elite of the church. \n\nHomophobia is just a screen or dodge that excuses the hierarchs from acknowledging the central truth of their lives. \n\nWell, we're all taking notice ...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So gays are saying that there are no sexual preditors within their group........", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's OK for the faggot because he's a liberal but we must fault Trump simply because he;s a conservative! Is that what you see as fair?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A \"Lesbians not welcome here\" sign would not be illegal. Then if they patronize, give them lousy service. A baker, for instance could reluctantly bake a wedding cake for lesbians and accidentally spill a cup of cayenne pepper in the mix.\nThe bigger question is, why would lesbians patronize a business where their deviant lifechoice is reviled? They're just asking for a loogie on their cheeseburgers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "gay probably poor also otherwise he could of moved on her like a bitch and grabbed her by the pussy", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Too many homosexuals in the priesthood.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Quick question: How long did it take you to make up that bit homophobic nonsense? I'll bet it took a long time, even for an obvious queen like you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They ought to have a survey on which political party the transgenders affiliate with the most... Wouldn't that be a hoot???!!!! But I wouldn't be surprised with the result... As dragoninwater said, it is a mental disorder....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "... now that they've accomplished alienation of gays and liberals, only makes sense. Pound sand boy scouts ... make your bed lay in it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We need to be vigilant and look out for radical islamic terrorism, the forced marriages, the forced genital mutilation, the misogamy, and if you are gay watch out as you will be thrown off a building.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay marriage will never be approved by the Catholic Church, nor should it be.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"We celebrate no morality through pushing gay rights\" ?????!!!!!\nAre you kidding me? What correlation does this have to any of the crime levels in Anchorage. Do we have a bunch of homosexuals running rampant with guns shooting up apartment blocks? What a sad, narrow-minded and bitter viewpoint you must have to add that in to your comment. Someone's personal sexual preference is of no concern of yours or anyone else but them and is THE LEAST of the problems this country has. SMDH!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The military is being abused........by the freaks that the \"Hoodrat\" let in.......transgender freaks of nature.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Canadian communists want to regulate and kill the only growth industry in the entire country. Canada used to be a world-wide shining example of free market principles and wealth creation. Now it is a quasi-Muslim, socialist hell hole run by ignorant pampered metrosexuals and hostile lesbians that are Kryptonite to investment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Being gay, I am fully aware that many Muslims consider my death by them is be a blessing upon me.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Women are on strike? I'm gay so who cares.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This has to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard...are you kidding me? Being Gay is absolutely a choice...nice try though...next...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "wrong! the constitution is the ultimate law period. there is no higher bench mark. and it is the intelligence of the court to decide if any such applies, gay issue or not. i dont care if the founders did not think about gays, the rules apply. you dont like the rules because of changes in society get off your butt and get a constitutional amendment", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You have vehemently condemned sexual acts between members of the same sex.\n\nAnd that \"gay\" encompasses \"sodomy\" is YOUR interpretation. It is not the interpretation of actual gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Using your logic, gays should have nothing to say about contraception.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are you one of those who says \"Love your neighbor as yourself, unless, of course, your neighbor is gay. That neighbor you should hate and fear as 'intrinsically disordered'\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Great. A homeless pervert is watching gay porn, so the librarian gives him a laptop - which he can take to a bathroom stall. Then a little kid enters the bathroom ...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "see how smart canadians are! in the 70s on yonge street homosexuals took a shoe shine kid and killed him and put him on a roof top. maybe raped as well? i have no prob with homosexuals but after this there was the crack down. done son", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay men tend to work & pay taxes too. But we don't want those sorts here.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Who is generating the moral standards of what constitutes rape? Lesbians? To them all heterosexual sex is rape. It is part of gender studies every young heterosexual girl takes from high school to university: sex with men is rape because of the alleged power in balance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The UCP think that good economic policy means cutting taxes for the rich and the corporations, gutting funding for health care and education and letting roads crumble. Apparently there is supposed to be a trickle down effect from the rich to the poor. This policy was practiced by the PCs for 40 years and it left the province in a shambles. This trickle down policy has never worked in Alberta or anywhere else in the world. All it results in is the rich getting richer and taking the money elsewhere. Jason Kenney should shut his pie hole and go back to where he came from. We don't need any more of this nonsense. Nor do we need any medieval policies regarding gay people burning in a lake of fire.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sure, all newborns weight the pros and cons, and then make conscious decisions on their sexuality. \n\nDon't you realize how ridiculous that sounds? What you mean is that you were born heterosexual just as those you judge so harshly are born as homosexuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "this is all starting to make sense now. amy demboski is a gay terrorist.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nope. We have public accommodation laws for a reason. As a conservative small business owner I understand that it is not a matter of \"you can go elsewhere\" it is a matter of not being discriminated against when nothing you are requesting is illegal or indecent. Mr. Phillips refused service based on his opinion that gay marriage is indecent- think how far that could go in terms of law abiding citizens being discriminated against on the whims and biases of businesses? It is not acceptable. If he wants to open a \"cake club\" where he only serves members that align with his beliefs, he may do that and incur the costs associated with it. Otherwise, he must provide the same services to all, especially protected classes. And that is not just my legal opinion, it is also my personal opinion. I have supported same sex rights all my life, that is where I differ from many (but not all by a long shot) Republicans. Many peers agree or Cruz would have been the candidate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What Pride would that be. Being left handed, having blue eyes, being gay? What is their to be proud or ashamed of.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Most people who are fixated on how you have \"sex\" with another female your \"wife\" Suzy are the religious nuts. When I see a couple hetro or gay the last thing I would ever image in my mind is how they do the deed. I find that gay couples now legally can be welcomed into marriage by law but they get stuck with the same things that the hetro couples take for granted such as fighting, infidelity, domestic violence and divorce court. The gays fought a heard battle to have the same rights as hetros, but in reality they get all the crap that comes with the \"sacred\" institution of marriage that comes with it and some want to take that away from them? LOL", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is no law that says gays are not protected, so there is no law to override Colorado law.\nThat is why it is going to the scotus.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Philosophically, Islam and The Third Reich are very much akin: both want to exterminate Jews, homosexuals and all who disagree with them; women are little more than baby factories and they want to take over the world. They are the same to me, but one is considered a force for good for humanity and the other is not.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, I'm saying Martin is a homosexual because I know he is a homosexual.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hey yo.u are repeating yourself and your foolish comment. Maybe you have trouble reading but the article was not about taxation but hey it all reads the same to you and your boring mantra. Go right ahead a be a gay conservative it looks good on you.\n\nYour comment is still very much in tact below.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry, you have a right to be offended. Still, what you said about Fr. James was also inappropriate. My point was that James probably is asexual, not gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's tough being a gay guy these days. LOL", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Or the recent gay orgy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mormonism and rape are always mentioned in the same sentence along with racism. Like Catholicism, homosexuality, and pedophilia. Both organizations should be banned from the USA.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Comparing Trump to Hitler is ridiculous, it's nothing but a lame attempt to try to vilify someone who has different opinions than the authors. Same thing about Trump being racist, it's nothing but a overused label which has become a instant fallback for weak arguments. Trump is ignorant, but hardly a racist.\n\nI will give Trump credit, he has made republicans stop obsessing about gays. This year they actually cheered for a gay speaker, in 2008 they booed a gay soldier. Quite the turn around. For all the stupid crap he says, it's rather refreshing to not hear the constant mindless babble about social issues that are pointless and a total waste of time.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What a rancid apologism for hate.\n\nThe two faccts 'omitted' are common knowledge, so why would hte article have to even mention either?\n\nYou, meanwhile, 'omit' mentioning that Russia hates gay people and treats them horrifically. So, that must mean your post is \"fake news\", too, using your ... er, 'standards'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump supporters are out in full force in D.C. and other places, verbally assaulting Muslims, people of color and gays. Because they think they have a right to do that now. They've \"taken the country back\" from the people they hate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Paris is not safe for Jews, and increasingly unsafe for homosexuals and young women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think that you can get in trouble for saying that something that feels vaguely homosexual makes you uncomfortable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The lesbians are killing Pride. Pride is going to be a n embarrassment as gay men, the bears and leather and jocks who are accused of being brainless racists by BLM simply don't want to get involved anymore. Don't be too surprised if corporate sponsors don't try too hard to be part of it either", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My general view point is that I disagree with the Pope's views on Gender and Sexuality, but I \"understand\" where he's coming from. From his perspective as an Argentine cleric and the first leader from the global south he sees the changes in our attitudes on Gender and Sexuality as a Western ideological construct which is why he uses the phrase \"ideological colonialism\" a lot. I know as someone from the Caribbean that my family says the same thing a lot of the time. \n\nI would say in response to that that Pope Francis has to understand that it is people's lived experiences. Not just a construct. And also homophobia is itself a legacy of Western imperialism in the Third World. My other thoughts though would be that it is good that he speaks about \"accompanying people in the LGBTQ community and not condemning them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We need to be vigilant and look out for radical islamic terrorism, the forced marriages, the forced genital mutilation, the misogamy, and if you are gay watch out as you will be thrown off a building.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think gay is a unique way to describe this nonsense. But why bring in sexism to this conversation? Gay has not meant happy, jolly or fun loving for the last one hundred years. And it has never meant \"lame, stupid, ridiculous\" except to a few morons that were not gay. James, just how old are you? When were you a \"small-kid\"? A finally, when and at what location did you arrive on this planet?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So why would you even mention that he's gay? Other than that you're a bigoted imbecile.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Joe completely aligns with Alaska Libertarian platform. Your beliefs are why the party has never been relevant. Here you get a quality candidate that will put your party on the map and all you cry about is how Joe Miller won't support homosexual marriage. Go back to your crybaby \"I hate Joe Miller\" Facebook page. Gary Johnson is a moron and far from libertarian.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Has that happened? Most Muslims believe gays should be killed and young girls get their genitals sliced out. But let's stay focused on eco-terrorism. Let's just sit around and wait for more spikes go into logs until someone gets killed. Kind of like Orlando. Good plan.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Jealous Insecure liberal men.... at least the few who aren't gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is it OK to call people homos? Trump hasn't been sworn in yet.\n\nIn any event, I would bet $100 on one of Trump's sons killing the last gorilla in the wild. Just one more accomplishment for those swell guys.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mass murder, terrorism, perversion, LGBT, gay washrooms, socialism, communism all from this Synagogue of Satan. Enough of this hell on earth.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "From the 1950s to today, and in every nation in the world: If you allow them to hang out with boys, this is what gay priests will do.\n\nThe only solution is to bar all priests from boys, or to bar gays from the priesthood.\n\nAnd yet, we have progressives who think the church needs even more gay priests, and that the sexual orientation of gau priests be kept a secret from the public.\n\nAnd yes, I reject the silly idea that men who rape boys are not gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "unbelievable is right. don't like someone; problem solved with a visit from the government death squad. political opponents; they're all drug dealers. gays; they're all drug dealers.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Saudi Arabia there is 3 more steps to do that would make you a better Muslim country. 1. no more funding terrorist against the west. 2. no more hanging of homosexuals. and 3. no more funding of suicide bombers against Israel those are 3 big steps they should do to better themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "what a bunch of whiners commenting,,,is this FAKE NEWS on the front page?\n\nthe RG just keep on feeding all the wimps and the bar can't get much lower\n\nso many alternatives for entertainment, that everyone is voting with their CCs\n\nfirst world problems all over the place in our community...2 gay guys uncomfortable reserving seats at a theatre???? LOL just think if this became a racial issue, OMG\n\nis that Nero playing?\n\nyou can't fix stupid here in EUG", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "not only that, but any Catholic who is brainwashed enough to believe that the Evangelicals will treat them well when they get some power is totally deficient in gray matter upstairs. they hate Catholics as much do gays and Muslim. they may hide it better these days, buy it is still there and won't be going anywhere a long time yet.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Was it most helpful in explaining about misogynistic religion that forces women to cover themselves from head to toe or was it in how she explained a murderous religion that murders gays and lesbians by throwing them off buildings? Do tell.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"It discriminates against muslims\".\nThe temporary ban is against 6 arab countries who happen to be islamic in nature. It's perfectly clear to any sane person, the beheaders, those who stone the women, gay assassins, body bombs, come from this nations, for those who do not comprehend, these are places of grave concern for the lives of American citizens.\n Russians, Chinese, Indians, South Americans, etc, aren't the ones causing so much distress in the world. What a hypocrisy. \nSo yes, you need to identify the enemy, Obama, Trudeau, don't know who the terrorists are, they can't identify them,. Weaklings.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Claiming to be transgender is a sign of mental illness. The military has no place for people with mental disabilities. This is one of the times that President Obama played to the lowest denominator and is wrong.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Don't most gay guys like getting roughed up by another man?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "1. Who the fuck asked you?\n2. Being trans is not a mental illness. \n3. This article is a perfect example of why we say things like cis are trash. \n4. Gender is a social construct. Humans decided that penis=boy and vagina=girl. Male/female has no meaning biologically because the cultural implications far outweigh them. Anyone who refuses to respect trans people is just being difficult. \n5. It\u2019s so easy to respect trans people. You already respect cis people, why not just make it easy and be a decent fucking human being?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The shout of racism by goodwhite gullible progressives is code for I hate white America! These white guilt goomba's usually have another motive in mind when they yell racism in a virtual psychological black church that they never will attend. Most times its a gay agenda!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Learning to say \u201cthey\u201d for one person undeniably takes some extra effort\".\n\nAddressing an individual as \"they\" is inane and likely confusing. I am very accommodating, gay positive, transgender accepting but this stupid issue is championed by a small minority of a small minority. How freaking narcissistic do you have to be ? \n\nIf you (note I did not say \"they\", as that would be confusing my meaning as it would seem to imply that I mean all transgender people not just the small percentage of whiners) can't be happy with he or she then how about the already established gender neutral , \"It\". ?\nSheesh ....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As if you Trumpsters give a damn about gays.\nIf you did you wouldn't be passing so many laws against them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sure, run tranny Mike, see how badly she gets beat. Republicans would love it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Racism, fascism, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia and any laws restricting Transgenders must be eliminated period.\nWe all must get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne to defeat Trump and his fascist supporters!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"All bars are lesbian bars\"\n-Mark Twain-", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "manned or maybe that is the wrong way to put it ....by gays ,queers and trannies only of course.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "the only this idiot has accomplished is the most holidays in less than 2 yrs n most hrs logged on OUR jet/ most faggot parades attended by one goof in one yr , excellent legacy", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What both I and GBA suggested was that there be gender equality in sentencing.\n\nThat hetrosexual or lesbian or gay pedophiles get the same treatment in both the civil and criminal courts.\n\nI am definitely 'attacking' pedophiles! \n\nYou appear to be protecting one class of them. Gays. \n\n\nWhy should gay pedophiles be treated differently?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why was this comment rejected by the civil comment gestapo?\nThe democrats will not be happy until all of us are dis-armed and cowering helplessly face-down on the floor of a gay bar toilet.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What these femanazis fail to realize is that President Trump has hired and cut paychecks to more women blacks latinos gays lesbians transgenders and muslims than all previous presidents combined.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When you equate practising homosexuals and so-called trans-gender people with blacks you are implying that to be black is also sinful, which of course is nonsense.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Constitution gives the States, and only the States, the right to regulate marriage, with the proviso that the States will not regulate in a way that interferes with one's Constitutional rights. See Loving v. Virginia. \n\nAs for your friends and gay marriage. For the past 50 years, secular and Catholic educators have failed to teach the Constitution, and Catholic educators have failed to teach Catholicism. No wonder your friends think the Court got this one right. Do you REALLY believe that the framers of the 14th Amendment thought that Amendment REQUIRED the States to re-define marriage so as to include man-man marriage? Really? When virtually EVERY State at that time (and until recently) had laws that criminalized that kind of \"sex\"? You REALLY think the Framers of the 14th intended that? A straight-faced answer would be appreciated.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We have to get rid of the Ontario Liberals. They are destroying this province. First, they hound the Bowmanville Zoo out of business, now they want Marineland shut down. They are crazy and in bed with the craziest radicals. In addition to ruining Hydro, and promoting gay sex.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A tremendous amount of anti-gay and anti-black bigotry on these comments directed towards a protest move on Prides part. Just vengeful and petty retribution really.\n\nCanada is still full of hatred, from either LEO posters and other assorted bigots.\n\nJust shameful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you want to do your part for social, cultural, economic, political change and equality remaining single is a good start.\n Pretty soon the only folks getting married will be that old conservative , conventional, conformist cohort, gays and lesbians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Big boy pants? So in addition to being a free-speech-hating, science loathing global warming denier, you're also a racist, homophobic, transphobic misogynist that refuses to even acknowledge your white male privilege. Sad!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"The term originally appeared online in queer forums\"\n\n\"The absence of the term\u2019s presence in Latin American speech and research highlights the critique of inaccessibility and incomprehensibility as Gilbert Guerra and Gilbert Orbea of Swarthmore College write, arguing the term as \u201ca blatant form of linguistic imperialism.\u201d\"\n\n\"Aside from opposition based on its linguistic incompatibility, some claim that the term would lead to the \u201cdestruction of gender, a fundamental part of the Spanish language\u201d and that attempts at removing gender from the Spanish language \u201cadvocat[es] for the erasure of Spanish.\"\"\n\nI know a Latino who thinks the whole thing is ridiculous. He thinks \"Latinx\" is being imposed on his people by whites and makes his people sound like an alien race from Star Trek. Imposing English gender language norms on Spanish is ridiculous - anyone in Spanish knows that Latino refers to both and isn't sexist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I too as a gay man have no reason to trust Islamic Suprematism is good for me health. But our LGBT leaders support more Islamification of Canada, which is like endorsing your own suicide.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If it's a \"decency issue\" then you can count yourself out, as can Trump and all of his supporters. None of you has an ounce of decency. For shame.\n\n I'll take a trans person in the bathroom any day over Trump. \"Common sense\" says Trump is a pathological liar, sexual predator and cheat, among other things. I wouldn't want him anywhere near me or my child, especially in a restroom.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mokantx -- Are you male or female or 'bi' or transgendered? And what does the moniker 'Mokantx' mean?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hendren - WOW. \"The trans looking to get into my daughters bathroom??\" WTF? That is a disgusting comment to make. You had better be afraid of the \"straight\" women who were born female who could molest or prey on your daughter. Get real. Know your facts and your statistics. Chances are, you or your daughter wouldn't necessarily know what a \"trans\" looks like. Ironic, how many \"straight\" people are rapists, pedophiles and child molesters. Of all the stories we have seen in the news about peep holes, bathroom recordings or cameras in public bathrooms, I don't recall a single story about a \"trans\" person doing that. You have more to fear from straight people that you ever do w/ LGBT. \"Straight\" females frequently lure other females so their \"straight\" male partners can assault them. But hey, they are straight so they can use your daughter's bathroom, no problem. As a child I was sexually assaulted by a female who went to our church. Sexual predators are usually the people you LEAST suspect", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It figures that you'd know where the gay males are.....;-)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This inclusive stuff baffles me. If I play hockey and one of players states that he is gay I'm supposed to accept him as a teammate even though I find the thought of shoving a penis into another man's anal canal disgusting and weird?\n\nThe world is wacky.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "obamma wamma is acting like a gay gay spolied lttle muslim rat brat who's throwing a temper tantrum\nFLUSH........................................ he's finished ............ all he's doing is digging himself a deeper hole", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder why the left continues to fight for allowing men in girls bathrooms and locker rooms? Seems strange behavior considering there are more pervs then transgenders.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Translation: If you are gay, you should hate yourself and your sexual orientation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Stop lying.\nGays are members of a protectd class in Colorado, no matter what you say.\nGoogle, how does it work?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the middle east they kill homosexuals....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"a sin that cries out to Heaven for vengeance.\"\n\nThere you go again. What is it with you and gay people? Was your father gay? Did you marry a man who lied to you about his sexuality before he married you? Was a gay person mean to you when you were little? What?? Your hysterical over-reaction is completely irrational.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And I thought you were gay!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yep, every business owner who hates gay people for whatever reason could put out signs saying \"No homosexuals allowed\" or \"Help wanted: homosexuals need not apply\".\nAll they'd have to do is claim their conscience is violated.\nConservative Christian groups would launch campaigns claiming businesses that didn't discriminate were anti-Christian and anti-family-values.\nThe people backing this baker want to shove gay people back in the closet.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexual Leftists...like Larry Craig, Denny Hastert, and Mark Foley..???", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Propaganda of homosexuality should be forbidden.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "@Tron4000- Yea people don't change after 40 years... Hillary opposed gay marriage for decades. Chances are there was some point in your life when you used to call someone a \"fag\"... by your logic you're homophobic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I would not vote for you as that would be a vote against the country and our cherished belief system! Now go to your transgender room and close the yap!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Research \"the dancing boys\" umm many are homosexual themselves, child rapists, woman haters.. Their entire culture is sexually perverse, backwards and should simply be destroyed. I think it has to do with deprivation of natural male and female relationships from dictatorship, censorship, whatever keeps them under HAND and GUN. Basically, they are easily manipulated and self destructed their entire society based upon those who want to control them. It's kind of pathetic really.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In transgender, why do we assume the brain is right and the body is wrong?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay men are no more likely to be deviant than straight men. But why let facts get in the way of your hateful bias?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"students from all backgrounds feel welcome here and they have an identity here,\u201d \n\nUnless of course you have a gay identity, in which case you are told you \"struggle with same-sex attraction,\" because as we all know, in the Catholic world as in Iran, according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to an audience at Columbia University, gay identity doesn't exist.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So maybe they should have filed this as a gay wedding, no one can refuse service then.\n\nThis group is awful, but this is how censorship works and looks like. Just imagine the reverse outrage if this was a transgender conference or a gay wedding.\n\nI think racists are evil, but they should have equal protection and rights under the law. No matter how stupid their views are. They want to meet as a group and discus their ideas. Warped as they are, they have that right.\n\nEveryone involved should be ashamed.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "trans gender people need counselling not washrooms, there are only 2 genders, male or female anything else is a fantasy of belief", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My conclusion is true. You loathe gays, and your loathing of them is a rejection of Christ, who told us to love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why do liberals abort your babies? Because once you have a baby it makes it tougher for them to force you into a gay marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So she looks like she's about 8 years old. How does she know she's gay?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The. Transgender pervert republicans need to be sent home , replaced immediately !", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The left is utterly clueless when it comes to masculinity. They are mostly comprised of homosexuals and atheists who don't even comprehend the values and qualities that REAL MEN have. The fact is that these commie traitors have an agenda to feminize anything male or masculine and promote and defend every type of crime and sexual perversion known to humanity and for that reason alone, NOTHING that they say or do can ever be trusted. They must be PURGED from the Education System and I would not disagree to an open ended rifle season for hunting leftists everywhere.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "20% of priests are gay? I'd say closer to 80%.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A mouthpiece for the political party that attracts Blacks who hate Whites, Homosexuals who hate Straights, Feminists who hate Men, etc. And if you don't agree with anything they say....burn and loot.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well, doesn't this mean that NO TRADE AT ALL with all the Muslim countries in the world where gays are not treated as equals.... GOOD.... boycott all the Muslim countries in the world. HA HA... the left and the progressives and their friends in the Marxist community will finally have to admit that Muslims kill gays in some countries and persecute them in all the others. WAKE UP TIME for the TRUTH.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You sure TONTO don't mean GAY?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He's a horrible man with his hate propaganda against homosexuals and his association with that portable toilet, the Poo Tin.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuals are men right?\n-------------\n\nwho knows anymore?\nwe are told now by the progressives that your sex could be male but your gender could be female\nall kinds of combinations possible\nvery dangerous now if you choose the wrong washroom", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender - leave it to states. Weed - Keep it at federal level because states have no rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I will agree TCP that one cannot broad brush all pro-lifers and caring only about fetuses. Let me ask you, though, a few questions that many pro-lifers dodge or equivocate on:\n-Are you for broad availability of contraceptives, especially for the underaged and the poor?\n-Are you in favor of gov't sponsored child care, as even Trump has supported?\n-Are you okay with gay couples being able to adopt children?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "i dont hate gay anyone.. j edgar was gay.. he was director of the fbi.. whats that got to do with anything.. if you had not been such a pussy and addressed the post to me directly.. you might have understood.. however, if i had of said go blow yourself. that would have been different..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "LOL. Please tell me it includes the one that thinks that having boys do household chores turns them gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the whole discussion about Hawaiians' self-determination is gay*. They are part of this democracy and I democracies you get self-determination.\n\nIRONIC: Hawaiians are crying to get out fro under this DEMOCRACY (via independence or a form of \"government)so that they can democratically vote who & what they want. But only what HAWAIIANS want. So Hawaiians want a democracy, but only a democracy where only they get to vote. So they want an exclusionary democracy. Great...Ironic.\n\n*I'm using the phrase 'gay' I the old fashioned (circa my small-kid times) way: lame, stupid, ridiculous. NOT to describe a sex preference", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oosterhoff: \"I'm not a homophobe but homosexuality is a sin, gays should not be parents, homosexuality should never to taught in school, so please feel free to discriminate against them.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "STD's occur in every \"sexually active\" group. A very small number of gays fall into that group. Most gays are monogamous, in committed relationships. Your portrayal of gays is wrong headed and stupid. I figure you're a troll or an idiot, because Trump certainly doesn't agree with you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Being Gay is something that you are and cannot choose....so the wife of New York City's mayor is still gay, she just doesn't be gay with her male husband? I thought she stopped being a lesbian to marry a man? Help me here, please.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Majority gay marriage voting is wrong. Check your Bibles when you can, on your own time, for this is not a theological debate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "... just another religious blow hard taking a swipe at gays. They cant resist ...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yet you all want Muslims in Canada who mutilate, beat, and kill women for being women and make them walk around like animals. Bring your culture and misogyny says Jughead...\nWe love your middle earth attitudes....\n\nIt all depends on the spin I guess. Gay guys are better news and less offensive I guess.\nWhere is the articles on the mutilation of women by Muslims.....\n\nBTW where are the narco-fems and anti-farts on this issue? \nThey like Muslim desecration of women do they?\nNow if it was Trump well then....\nWhere are the marches and baseball bats people?\nOr are you just fake people hired by you know who and who are just like all the fake Leftist globalist news?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So long Europe. So many people are afraid of being called a name, that they would rather be killed in Islamic Extremist Terrorist Attacks. That's what they are and there is no way around it. The BBC now says that they just have to get used to it. Really? How about removing the individuals from your nation that cause terrorism. It's been awhile since the last Buddhist blew themselves up or maybe the elusive explosive Hindu. The fact is, the Muslim belief system desperately needs a reformation. Within that, it needs to say not to kill, steal, rape, etc. Why the Left wants to align themselves with those who throw homosexuals off roofs, don't allow women to drive, and stone women to death for being raped is beyond me. Also, why is it when you point out Muslim terrorism, you're called a racist? Islam is not a race, it's a religion... Don't forget to Spay or Neuter a Leftist - Bob Barker.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Organize like the LGBTs did!? Are you serious? That's your best example? How about organized groups like Republicans for Trump, the KKK, Westboro Baptist Church and Anchorage Baptist Temple? Those groups are the ones I fear because they're hate-driven, not gay people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Epigenetics and the link to homosexuality in males has current support. New theories are always great but I am now sure how you would test or model it, but if you do I am all for it. All the evidence helps end the stupidity of gays being disordered.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Holy crap. How can anyone be dumb enough that they don't understand the difference between someone's genetic traits, and what essentially amounts to a fashion choice? It's unbelievable. \n\nNot to mention - you people have spent the last 20 years denying gays rights because it's supposedly a \"choice\". So your little hissy fit reveals one thing - that you're the real hypocrite here. \n\nBut you are a republican, so it's required for party membership. I won't hold it against you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Killing gays and wearing traditional clothing? How are those equivalent?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The man thinks the pyramids were grain silos and going to prison can make you gay. He is not capable, intelligent or honest.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You know what I still don't get - who the hell cares? Why are people so invested in other people's sexuality or gender expression? Why should it matter to you if Joey wants to wear a dress & heels? Why shouldn't Suzie climb trees & kick ass? And if Joey & Suzie continue to dress as the other gender or want to marry the same sex, so what? Why not? Who are they hurting?\n\nAs for the LGBTQ activists who may or may not be trying to turn gender studies into a science, perhaps they're just trying to establish a right to exist in a society in which many want to see them eradicated. Imagine being LGBTQ & growing up in a religious household where you're taught that you are basically the devil incarnate? What a shitty upbringing that would be. Thank goodness not all religious people hold this opinion, but far too many do.\n\nWhen LBGTQ people are accepted by their family and community, they thrive. Simple as that. Those who have experience brutal rejections sometimes do not, which is heartbreaking.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Chris Steele is a gay porn actor...is he involved in this too?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's something you and all the ill-informed commenters should know. Trump and others cite the cost to the military for medical care for transgender service members. The upper end of the cost estimate is about $8.4 million per year. Meanwhile, they spend $84 million on erectile dysfunction drugs! It's also less than three of trump's government-funded golf trips, at $3.6 million each. Value for money? I think we get more value for transgender medical care than the buffoon's golf time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So a bunch of dead guys are more important than living gay ones?\n\nWell, as long as YOU'VE got your priorities straight...so to speak.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So all parents should switch gender to see if THEY are transgender too. And it's best to do it in public, particularly at work. Get some god makeup too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The baker is a bad Christian. Jesus would serve them.\"\n============\nYou are right. Jesus probably would have served them. After all, Jesus ate with a lot of sinners and healed a lot of sinners.\n-\nBut your supposition that Jesus would have baked them a \"gay wedding cake\" and officiated at their wedding is as wrong as you also supposing that Jesus would have performed abortions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you implying being homosexual makes you violent? That's absolutely absurd. You do know homosexuals are the targets of bulling and violence don't you? Who perpetuates that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So basically Doug is saying that the Christians who run the west with their War against Drugs, War against Sex, Sin , freedom of speech and even men are just as radical as the Muslims in the east with their intolerant attitude toward freedom of speech, gays, and women?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "OMG! Stop the presses! The WH fires its chief usher. She's a black, immigrant, woman and gay. How disgusting. How can Trump do such a thing. I heard Trump personally fired her. Next he's going to fire the WH gardener. What is going on? Let's organize and protest and riot in the streets! Hawaii needs to file a lawsuit.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hi Bill. I've listened to Nora, and I hope I was respectful, but I disagree with her. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s hateful to believe that men and women are fundamentally different\u2014unless \u2018hate\u2019 means something completely different to you than it does to me. And I\u2019m not sure there is such a thing as misogyny\u2014I\u2019ve never met anyone who \u2018hates women\u2019, though who knows, it's a big world.\n\nI assure you my comments on \u2018LGB\u2019 are not baseless. As doctor I've had considerable experience with (male) homosexuals, incudig many AIDS patients. I'm not saying I know more homoseuxals than you\u2014if you're a cleric or an actor you may well know more\u2014but I've met enough to have a pretty well-informed understanding of the psychopathology underlying the condition. As for 'T' (transgenderism): when someone believes they are something that they are not, that is the definition of delusional thinking. I'd refer you to The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, a fascinating read.\nPeace.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would trust any transgendered soldier to have my back before I would trust Trump, or any of his bible-thumping christian bigots.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This makes no sense. Canada and Trudeau have already gotten their headlines for stepping up to the plate with compassion and virtue to take the refugees and others who are being impacted by the Trump travel ban.\nNo one is going to find out what you're doing with the Emerson 'problem'. Enough already with looking for a technicality to save face. It's not necessary.\nThis is similar to the theatrics of whether Canada should do the right thing and not sell billions of dollars of arms to the worst human rights violator in the world. No one found out you did that either, you get to keep the money and the 'peace loving honest broker' stuff.\nAlong the same lines, European countries marvel at the relative ease in which Canada can bring in tens of thousands of Syrians compared to the chaos in their own countries. What they don't know is the secret seems to be to limit the influx to orphans, families and homosexuals. You would be stupid to let that info out. You've already gotten your headlines.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Then let's put the gay men on an island and lesbian women on another and after 100 years see if anyone is left, if it is a natural lifestyle!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Exodus 35:2 Those that work the Sabbath shall be put to death.\n\n\nMasterpiece Cake is open on Saturdays. Odd that it's ok to go against some pretty strong direction by Yaweh, yet somehow claim your religion prevents you for baking a cake for two homosexuals.\n\nSalad bar Christianity....I love it. LOL", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Phillips will sell gay couples a standard, out-of-the-cooler, sheet cake.\nHe refuses to design any wedding cake for gay couples. A service he offers to ANY straight couple who walks through the door.\nThat's discrimination.\nIf Phillips refused to design cakes for inter-racial couples you'd be condemning him. But because he refuses to design cakes for gay couples, you're fine with it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Try being a homosexual over in Saudi Arabia...I am sure they feel real loved over there.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "True, but Gays and Lesbians should show a little restraint in their behavior. Kissing and making out in front of children is taking it too far. I read that this is what happened in front of the shooter's little 3 year old boy and that is what set him off. That kind of behavior by Gays is extremism.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Did this baker say gays, blacks, women etc. couldn't patronize his bakery?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I can't believe you stated that gays \"love the pageantry.\" This is an ignorant and demeaning statement. I am gay and I hate pageantry. And so do most of my gay friends. Sadly for you, you know very little about us.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Meli26, You're a bit heavy on the histrionics. \nOn the gay oppression. Yes, indeed, as was widespread to varying degrees around the globe then. He backed off starting in the mid 80s and into the 90s. Speaking of the mid 80s, by then about 25,000 Americans had died of Aids, mostly gay. Ronald Regan famously turned a blind eye to the crisis. 'Crisis, what crisis.', and The Band Played On. \n\nPrior to his gay 'enlightenment', Castro gets a bit of reprieve in my book. As mentioned in my original post, when you have a giant living next door ready to resort to just about any means to have their way with you, get some license to respond in kind. The Cuban gay population of the late 50s and early 60s was known to have a number of people helping the CIA( check out wiki).\n\nFinally, I wonder if PET's 'The govt has no business in the bedroom's of the nation' statement helped plant that enlightenment seed in his friend. I hope so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Francis has said that homosexual conduct is a serious sin. Do you contend he does so because he's in this closet. Do you really believe that even a bare majority of those who oppose homosexual acts do so because they're gay? If so, you have less intelligence than God gave you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "However, this case that is being talked about isn't about that. It's about a baker refusing to serve gays a wedding cake, no matter how it is decorated, when he serves wedding cakes to straight people. I know this, because I've actually read the case, and the refusal of service was before any discussion of how the cake was decorated. From the Colorado Court of Appeals decision, in the statement of facts: \"Craig and Mullins promptly left Masterpiece without discussing with Phillips any details of their wedding cake.\" So, this isn't about how the cake was decorated.\n\nSo, my statement of this being about whether or not someone can get an religious exemption from obeying anti-discrimination laws still holds true. I personally like Antonin Scalia's take on religious exemptions to laws when the case of Employment Division v. Smith came accross the Supreme Court. He wrote for the court that to force every law to have a religious exemption would be nothing more than anarchy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Klastri, this transgender issue is not a matter about people hating others who are different. It is a matter of forcing the majority to change common sense values, norms and rules to accommodate a few individuals with mental or phycological disorders. Practical solutions like single stall restrooms do not satisfy transgender advocates. They want total, absolute and unrestricted access to restrooms of the transgender\u2019s choice. The hatred is not against transgenders. It is against advocates forcing the will of a very small minority on the majority.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow, check out the number of MAGAphants that like this post. Now, taxscrouge, I'd like you to ponder why people join the military. Some are patriotic gung ho types, some are expected to do it by their family, some so they can pay for a college education, some to develop skills only offered in a military job. And some, not just transgender people, join for the medical care. In fact, they do this, because the military provides insurance to all active members and their family regardless of any preexisting conditions. I knew a family (because our daughter had cancer) who joined the military so that their son (who was already diagnosed with cancer, could have the best medical care. So what you and your MAGAphant lapdogs are saying is that you'd like to decide who, and for what treatments, should be covered by medical insurance. Why do you guys hate our active military that you'd let your homophobia dictate medical coverage. Oooh, you guys are nasty.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Uh huh. Just like women get themselves raped.\n\nToo bad lesbianism isn't a choice.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Has Pat Robertson weighed in to blame it on The Gays yet?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A bunch of gays and trannies stomp out\nimagine that", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In fact, he is being asked to cater the wedding and to write something on the cake that he finds offensive (presuming he finds those prohibited actions offensive). Refusing services to blacks in not religious. Refusing to perform mixed race marriage is also not religious (no Biblical prohibition based on race).\n\nHobby Lobby is not being asked to provide personal services for a (insert religious objection like \"gay wedding\" here). The baker will sell cake all day long to anyone who asks. The decorations are his personal services specific to the wedding (akin to wedding photographers services).\n\nNot nearly as simple as it looks. Can't wait to read what SCOTUS has to say.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Michael Golijuch this is so funny you finally learning about Kirk he will tell you what you want to hear but backstab you later.. Dont cry about it now michael you endorsed him and suppported him.. Yes what a slap in the face a sexual predator on women and a homophobic..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah how things maybe come full circle. Trump preached the birther canard about Obama for years and then there were the constant stories out of the alt right about Obama being gay, Michelle was really a man, Hillary was a lesbian Bill Clinton a pedophile and rapist and then there was Sex Island where Bill and Hill could go and and pleasure themselves with underage girls. And remember Pizza-gate as well. To Obama's and the Clinton's credit they never took the bait on this crap. So now here we have stories about Trump. Well turn about is maybe fair play? Although yes it is still unseemly. And best part is that Trump can't just ignore it like the Obama's and the Clinton's did. He goes nuts.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hate defending a Trump mouth piece but any scan of the internet will show you that Hitler did not use chemical weapons during World War 2. Both the Nazis and the Allies had large stockpiles available but neither side used what was available. The Japanese did.\n\nUsing gas in the death chambers is not using gas as a weapon. The Jews, male homosexuals, mentally disabled, Russian and other POW\u2019s, Romani, clergy of many religions and others all died in the chambers but these murders were not used with what most consider weapons.\n\nThis mouthpiece can't express very well, but in this case his facts were real.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Or killing gays\nOr forcing women to cover themselves head to toe.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So let's see...if you are young, engaged, educated earth dwellers, you are what...against stupidity, in favor of change, maybe even for change sake...no that partly Trumpette's appeal, blow the sucker up. I think there are many voters of all strips who want to belong, have a sense of community, that they understand. Younger voters are much more likely to appreciate the energy and vitality of change. They like Sanders because he has energy, great for and gray-haired white guy. We all believe in the balance between the conservative, values of the past but again being anti-youth, anti-gay, anti climate change in really just putting one's head in the sand. What we all long for is a vital, vivid vision for hope, for innovation, for growth in our ethics and ideals...sort of the founding Fathers and America...we hope for change, and it's coming whether we vote to stay or leave.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "AlwaysThere, WHY, would you ever want to go and meet people like garycrum that......... 1. DO NOT believe in GOD. 2. SUPPORT ABORTIONS. 3. Vote in politicians that break Civil Law costing taxpayers MILLIONS of DOLLARS. 4. Supports Lesbians, Homos, Trans. whatever's.......... Really, I know your answer to that. \n\nDo not argue with a idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hope the all gays end up with HIV/AIDs and super STD viruses.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Seriously if you had told me that there would be a demonstration by a group calling itself \"The Proud Boys\" in Boulder 5 years ago I would have guessed it was a gay rights demonstration.\n\nI have a suspicion that it's actually an elaborate troll to make white supremacists look like fools.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Typical republican hypocrite. Reagan wouldn't mention the word AIDS until his buddy Rock Hudson revealed he had it. Then he could find money for research into a cure. Nancy Reagan was against stem cell research until Ronald got dementia and it was his only hope for a cure. Then she got behind research. Dick Cheney was anti gay/lesbian until his daughter revealed she was a lesbian. Then he was OK with gays and lesbians. Republicans wont grow a conscience until it affects them personally.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Really. It's fallible to the point of I can't remember what hotel it happened in or was it Friday or Saturday night. You don't forget sexually assaulting a 14 year old boy, unless you did it to so many the names have even blurred. Spacey was a predator and is now hiding behind booze, memory and gayness. He's garbage.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why should anyone be paid to go kill people half way around the world? This should be your agument, not that they are trans or gay or whatever. If you respect life then you should be against war. Sad that the Donald went against another of his platforms. But oh so typical of the clown.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The abortion gospel makes women cheap, accessible, childless, and exchangeable to wicked men. Belief systems which preach the Satanic abortion gospel also preach the \"moral goodness\" of promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, pornography, and trans gendering. Only a belief system will claim to know what is morally good. What underlying belief system ties these beliefs together? Is it government sanctioned and taught to children in our public schools?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for demonstrating that your bigotry extends beyond racism and homophobia but to Islamophobia as well. As does your ignorance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You cherry pick the parts of the Bible you like, and judge gays for doing the same. I know many Christians who would call you a Jezebel for claiming to have authority over men. That is fine with me, but your hypocrisy isn't. And if you are going to flag people who state this simple fact we will flag you into oblivion as well...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But does anyone ever share 100% of your values? I saw a video of someone walking through the streets of NYC asking people who claimed to be Hillary voters who said a particular quote, Hillary or Trump, then a somewhat shocking quote was read. Almost everyone attributed it to Trump, yet they were Hillary quotes. I take those things with a grain of salt because you never know how they are edited, but Hillary was anti-gay marriage until it became politically expedient for her in the past couple of years. Hillary's campaign staff started the Obama birther controversy. Hillary called black men \"Super Predators\". I could go on. Don't mistake this as me suggesting Trump has never done similarly stupid things, but are they really \"values\" if people are willing to set them aside to support a political party?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"And I can actually imagine the people on the right jumping gleefully that they can now treat women, immigrants, LGBT, and poor with total disregard for humanity, respect and compassion. Break a leg during your show!\"\n\nTrump stated specifically that he was going to protect gays during his acceptance speech. You're just going with a narrative because you're a Simple Simon partisan who does not question what he is told by the media. Where is the evidence that Trump is anti-gay? Where is it? You say stupid crap like \"alt-right and \"Breitbart.\" THE EDITOR OF BREITBART IS FLAMBOYANTLY GAY! The editor of the London office is MUSLIM. How stupid do you have to be, to actually believe the lies that the mainstream media tells you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Another 'UGE lie from president Giant Orange Dungbeetle. He lies more than other 71-year old bleach blonde homos. As a pathological liar and cheater (business and marriage), he simply cannot help himself that every time he opens his foul filthy mouth, another dangerous lie pops out. Who knew that sending America's youth off to be killed could be so difficult (for a draft dodger & war-mongering chicken-hawk COWARD)!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Obama is the racist.\n\nWhen white racist Dylann Roof tragically murdered nine black Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, \nObama said: \u201cThe motivations of the shooter remind us that racism remains a blight that we have to combat together.\u201d \n \nYet, when homosexual black racist Vester Lee Flanagan, whose alias was \u201cBryce Williams\u201d during his failed career in journalism, viciously gunned down a reporter, Alison Parker, and a cameraman, Adam Ward, only because they were white, Obama said: \u201cThe number of people who die from gun-related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths that happen through terrorism.\u201d\n\nMore:\n\"Trayvon Martin could have been my son.\"\n\n\"My grandmother was a typical white person.\"\n\n\"That's just how white folks will do you...\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My neighborhood had a gay, straight, tranny, granny, psycho, non-psycho, maybe=psycho, could be psycho\nmarch for under noticed imbeciles.....\n\neveryone showed up", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think it is time for Justin to name to the court the first trans indigenous person...why? Because it's 2017 silly....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Try distancing yourself from your ancestors and relatives who appropriated Canada from the indigenous peoples. Start packing your bags and get out!! You can always move to the West Bank or Gaza where your Palestinian friends and cohorts live. I'm sure you'd be more than welcome, unless of course you are gay, or a female having yet to undergo genital mutilation, or worse yet, JEWISH.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Overqualified cause he's black and hispanic. Guess if he was gay and trans he would really be a shoo in.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Bruce, you're the traitor for voting for this monster. Youre the same as he. Go back to your little distorted world, and keep your trap shut. As a gay man, I want you to go hide your two faces once and for all. It's your vote that brought this on. You own this.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is the new age Canada now, workers rights have been eroding rapidly. Consider having a sex change, claim to be homosexual/lesbian or develop some deviant mental disorder if you want any type of workplace protection - sorry folks, I'm dead serious on this one.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They are so full of it, they were never going to visit anyways, now they think they are going to make Trump feel bad, go back to your coke snorting and closeted gay sex boys", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Two lesbians and a pit bull walk into a bar.......", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alabama does not make decisions based on principles, the law, ethics, right or wrong....they are outcome driven regardless of the means by which they use to get there.\nThey will bend the law, they will close their eyes to molestation, ignore unethical practices AS LONG AS they can achieve a certain outcome i.e: they will elect a pedophile with no respect for the law as long as their outcome is achieved. The outcome? They want someone in power who will make sure blacks will never be in charge of their state, they want someone in charge to make sure gays will never be treated like human beings in their state. It goes back to their lynching days where they would Lynch a black man without evidence just to appease the ignorant redneck populace. And the educated Alabamians are even worse than the mentally deficient, they perpetuate this generation after generation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't object to it. Heck, it proves my point about the main objection to homosexuality is that God is somehow made unhappy by people he created gay having gay sex. Such a God would be an Ogre and God is not an Ogre.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\nYour point? We ought to call each other names we don't like? Two wrongs make a right? Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names won't hurt you? Words don't matter? When someone intends to offend another person and sets out to do it, the other ought not object? What in the world do you mean?\n\nHow do you know what you would feel or think if you were a homosexual? I happen to be a white person. One night about fifty years ago, I was working at a summer job. It was a season of racial unrest and there had been riots in the town. I looked around and realized that I was the only white person among over two hundred people. It was the proverbial \"Aha moment\": So that's what this feels like, I said to myself. It was a moment of insight, but I didn't think I knew what it was like to be a person of color.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes. He couldn't even bake them a cake from an irrational belief that this \"participation\" in an event he would not even be present at would mean his buddy Jehovah/Allah/Yahweh would frown on it. That somehow this six-degrees of separation between himself and the icky, icky gays would get some kind of taint on him.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There's a difference between a business and a tv show. Why would Ellen want someone on her show that calls her what this idiot did in her church? I'd like to see christians use Jesus' actual words on homosexuality instead of Leviticus. You know what Jesus was supposed to have said on the subject? Not one thing. Please note how these people that use Leviticus to condemn homosexuals, ignore the no shellfish, no two fibers in clothing and every other rule in the book but glam on the homosexual passage like a life boat. I'm guessing WWJD isn't something they really ask themselves that much.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Aw yes, that oft-used claim by conservatives that liberals are \"smug\". I remember fondly how smug you conservatives were when that weasel Harper was in the PMO not taking questions and being contemptuous of Parliament. The the election happened and it wiped the smug off your smug little faces.\n\nYes, we're the majority in this country. Always have been. That's why gay marriage is legal. Liberals made it so, not you. I will laugh at people like you until I'm in my grave. Because you suck.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Tabby Cat is using it in a disgusting offensive way and damn right it's a slur. It's a slur against every single non-transsexual person out there. \n\nWake up. The 'victims' of bigotry are now the bullies. \n\nTabby Cat isn't funny and should be dismissed for her hateful rant.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The democrats are not going to be happy until we are all un-armed and cowering helplessly face-down on the floor of a gay bar toilet.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are republicans tired of winning yet? Love that wall they are building and their destruction of Isis. Keep it up republicans. \nThere is never an imaginary fear too big to be afraid of. Time to bring back Same sex marriage? What jokes you have become.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Makes you wonder why he supports this incompetent jerk the other 99.9% of the time? He probably is just afraid some LGBT is going to make a mud puddle out of every Republican they find.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Risque? Absolutely. In poor taste? Possibly. But homophobic? Please...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, just look how Americans like Craig Weinerman openly support terror, genocides, and the continuing Western/Roman holocaust by Israeli or \"sunni\" Arabs who are even permitted to sexually molest young humans of every nationality incl. American even in Los Angeles or London England.... HAHAHAHA, these weak pigs (from any place) would NOT EVEN BE ALLOWED TO SUPPORT TERROR OR GENOCIDES if they were in Iran, despite whatever purported criticysms and shortcoming there may be about Iran. I rest my case. Hopefully AS SOON AS THE WESTERNERS STOP DESTROYING JESUS' PEOPLE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO STOP OR PUT ASIDE SINCE 2300 YEARS AGO by Alexander the homo father of today's Western terrorists who gladly choke on whole world's genitals before doing anything peaceful, positive, or productive, then perhaps, humaity's paycheck can stop being wasted on Western Terism and trying to CRIPPLE great nations while selling and gifting their daughters and sisters for their Saudi masters to rape, ki", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So it's better to have ignorant bigots in command positions? You're suggesting that the work output of the service person was degraded. Good luck trying to get evidence for that.\n\nThere is no proof of any kind - none - that transgender personnel management has challenged national defense. It's all being made up by bigots and imbeciles.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Liberals are really quite stupid aren't they? \nIt's like they read Marx or Lenin and believe the world works like that.\nIt really is scary that these are the attitudes of the liberals.\nThey are up against a killer in Trump.\nThat guy eats babies and you are trying to objectify women in the negotiation?\nProtecting Canadian enterprise is job 1, not protecting women. \nThat is done by domestic laws...\nListen kid, The economic survival of Canadian enterprises depends on economics not on virtue signaling or some gay rights crap.\nGender rights? WTF!\nLaws protect gender not trade deals.\nThe stupidity of these liberals is really frightening", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So you're ok with the death penalty for homosexuals as long as there are at least 2 witnesses? You pathetic coward.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay baiting is OK if a liberal does it. Otherwise, it's homophobia.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is no such thing as transgender! You are either male OR female! You are born what you are, this transgender stuff is a big lie!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Or if you try to leave the \"religion of peace.\" If you are gay, dead. And slandering the so called prophet will get you killed, or at least targeted for death.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am /was a single male parent. and I was an LPN . Sad the alcoholic female who couldn't work (no child support) lost out on most of her children's lives. This article is just as biased as our Justice system is. Oh and some of the best cooks, hairstylist and crossstitchers I love met are men. Well except the hairstylist he was flaming gay, but he was still better than most female hair dressers. totally bogus article .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Liberalism is a mental illness. This month it's all about supposedly bullying transgender individuals. Next month it might well be complaining about having the right to pick their nose and eat it in public view.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Can liberals please explain this: \nChristians merely teach that homosexuality is sinful. \nMuslims teach that homosexuals are pigs to be decapitated. \nLiberals teach homosexuality is the pinnacle of human achievement. \n\nSo why do liberals praise Muslims to much, yet have demonic hatred for Christians?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh look, a liberal gay-baiting.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "One of the most abhorrent things coming from this guys \u201cChristian\u201d supporters is that the Bible supports sexual abuse of underage children by way of the example of the Virgin Mary and Joseph and therefore the word of God supports Moore. This is a breaking of the 10 Commandments\u2014 according to Paul, the most important being the use of God\u2019s name in vane which constitutes a profound disrespect of God. According to Paul, God\u2019s punishment for those using God\u2019s name in vane to minister for their own causes is to turn them into lusting persons including homosexuals that will face further punishment beyond that.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I do not indulge in name-calling. I do say that someone is ignorant if they display ignorance, I say that someone is stupid if they show stupidity, I say that someone is a liar if they lie. \n\nI say, for example, that Cardinal Burke is a homophobe because he advised grandparents to shun their gay children lest the grandchildren not become homophobes -- and yes, that is what he said.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender kids don't have much choice in their gender. Christianity is a choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "i would and will never attend a pride parade, that does not mean in any way i am against the right of people who are gay to live thier lives in any way they want, this typical column of stupidity is the usual eft wing BS that infects canada with trash", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "linda hamilton. you don't like blacks, you don't like gays.. who do you like?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Molleda is a gay Latino man.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Kenny your \"outing' gay kids\" by your actions. What a bunch bigots!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All the women who voted for Trump are derided as being only men . All the blacks who voted for Trump are summarily dismissed as white. All the gays who voted for Trump are condescended to as being ignorant uneducated straight males. That is the homophobia, racism and misogyny you should be talking about. The left is the bastion of hatred and intolerance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"against hate, fear and irresponsibility.\"? Does that include the homosexual slurs made by members of the Democrat Party uncovered by the Wikileak e-mails and voice-mails which exposed the Democrats for what the hateful mindless little minions they really are.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "State Department defends US vote against death penalty ban at the UN\nhow about this:\nUS Votes Against UN Ban On Death Penalty For Homosexuality\nDeath for being a homosexual. \nLet's do the same...........death for being Christian/Muslim. Fair?\nHell YES!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "https://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/lawmakers-push-to-end-military-transgender-ban/\nLawmakers Push to End Military Transgender Ban\nCongress has the power to do what Congress did.\nPresident Obama signs legislation.\nHe couldn't and didn't over-reach his powers as the fascist Trump is attempting.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yer transgender phobia is unwarranted fake Beaver.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are a true He-man. The Manliest of men. A brute. I bet your daughter will be very proud of you when she's out in the world among her gay and lesbian and transgendered friends.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Conservative Christians have the power.\nConservative Christians can't stand the fact gay people have the same rights as them. They want to restore their former power imbalance that was in favor of them.\nConservative Christians want the right to discriminate against gay people, on religious grounds.\nBut, if a gay business owner discriminates against a Christian, that Christian can sue the gay business owner on grounds of religious discrimination.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're so busy pointing a finger at gay folk that you forget you have three fingers pointing back at yourself.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Many of them will up and disappear with their gay lovers when they are in their forties and fifties leaving a trail of destruction and empty churches behind them. Hell mend them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your comment represents a double standard. If heterosexual procreation is necessary for the survival of the human race, then heterosexual relationships are vital and necessary. However, if you're homosexual, TOO BAD!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "For some of them? Forever. Because he makes \"libtards cry\". That's how low they have set the bar. I'm not kidding. It doesn't matter how much of an embarrassment he makes of himself and the country. It doesn't matter how often he brings us to the brink of actual nuclear war. It doesn't matter how much economic damage he does to his own base. It doesn't matter that he takes to Twitter and obsesses over things like people kneeling at football games when Puerto Rico is still mostly without power.\n\n\nNone of this matters, because much of his base are so nihilist that they don't even care if they are getting battered by his policies, as long as they think the \"blahs\", the women, the gays, non-xtians, the liberals, etc., are getting it worse and if they think tRump is erasing the black president's legacy.\n\n\nA core of deplorables will stick with him because he pisses off what they perceive to be \"liberals\" - i.e., anyone who is not dumb/hateful enough to have voted for this moron.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You think because he isn't married he is gay? Wow there you have it folks the tolerant homophobic left on full display", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The men of Sodom didn't know Lot's guests were angels. All anal sodomy was considered rape back then, because those being penetrated were not willing recipients, knowing what Scripture said about men lying with men. The homosexual issue was made clear by Lot offering his daughters (knowing they were homosexuals) and the men rejecting the offer. \n\nRevisionist interpetation on your part.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"What we guys do\"? How can women....never mind.\n\nAnd women are afraid of male homosexuals.... because they fear it might lead them to becoming lesbians?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've been led to believe that we're all freaks, gay, outsiders, misfits, or feminazis. I'm convinced that mental illness is contagious.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You completely missed my point concerning the gay issue. I was pointing out that our society is sinking in part because it no longer accepts God inspired values. Gays parading in the streets supporting sinful anti-God like behavior proves that on a big scale. I'm not saying gays are thugs at all--but they're encouragement of anti-God like behavior is spreading. Gays aren't inspiring crimes---but lack of morals allows people to shoot and kill others and sleep like babies at night. A God-less society is a lawless society . Today's kids don't care if they kill someone or not. Bad parents and public schools teaching our kids nothing about respect and values is adding to our problems . In conclusion , gays had nothing to do with this shooting . I hope that clears it up for you .One more thought---look at how the thug in Furguson robs a store then tries to take a gun from a cop and gets shot . His parents just got a million bucks for him getting what he deserved . What a pathetic message", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "OMG! Reality??? You might well believe you are some crusader for homosexuality, or maybe you are a homosexual yourself [I don't you so I can't say one way or the other. What I do know is your kind of thinking/beliefs concerning homosexuals is very dangerous and does far more harm then good to those living in such a choosen lifestyle and those victimized by it. \n\nmotleycrew is right and I too agree...In general and in specific you indeed appear to be protecting and condoning an alleged bad behavior.\n \n\"Sexual harassment\" in the work place or in private is wrong, it is bad behavior and such behavior is ALWAYS a CHOICE.\nSexual ACTS whether legally consensual or illegal by law, whether involving heterosexuals or homosexuals are purely behavioral choices. The so-called orientation argument is pure horse dung!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No matter how hard the liberal bishops and Pope Francis try. The only followers they now have are illegals, home ose xuals, muslims and Protestantized Catholics.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Stop wasting our tax money and resources on your stupid pet projects, there are 1000's starving on our streets - enough of this crap\nUse you own damn money if you haev such a hardon for this \nI'm a white male = I have less rights than any metro-sexual transgender whatever they are called.....\nI am far more concerend about y own rights thank you\nGive me a break\nSocialism is dead\nYou parasites have killed the host", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wouldn't be a normal day in the Globe if there wasn't at least one column chastising those of us at the bottom of the elitist ladder for our treatment of women....muslims....trans individuals or the environment. Yet around the world thousands upon thousands of people still want to come to this land devoid of empathy and compassion and are willing to go to unbelieveble lengths to get here. Yes here, a land according to the left where you are in danger of roving mobs of (insert leftist insult here) and they still want to come here.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "She;s afraid she might get buried beside a Jew or homosexual.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Plus, if he thinks homosexuals are sinners, he is required to serve them, following the example of Jesus who served sinners.\n\nThis guy is really bad at being a Christian.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I dislike being the only one who's willing to say this, but the discourses of white nationalists, misogynists, homophobes, religious fanatics and those who seek the destruction of the living planet should NOT be tolerated. \n\nThe groups that practice these discourses are still around and they have a long, sad history: of oppressing and killing people of color, women and gays, of poisoning our water and air, disrupting the climate, destroying biodiversity and ecosystems, and of rationalizing extinctions as good for business. \n\nTo discourage those discourses because of their prior history is not \"censorship\"; it's merely good sense. Those who don't learn history's lesson must repeat them. Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose. Your right to cry \"Fire!\" in a crowded theater is not protected by the Constitutions, etc. \n\nPluralism does not mean that racism, religious fanaticism and ecocide are treated equally with all other ideologies and interests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why are most conservatives against actual people? No heart? \n\nGays shouldn't have any rights\nWomen are too stupid to control their own bodies.\n\nBut love the orange toddler", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay men are not pedofiles but if you're a man who preys on boys, you're gay and a pedofile.\n\nThe gay community can try to argue otherwise but that is the way it is.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "OldSchool: I could care less whether I date myself or not, it is what it is. To many of you people out there are hung up on numbers. Yes, I oppose \"ALL\" gay and lesbian, trans-mutilated \"TRIPS\". As it states in the BIBLE, 1 Corinthians 6, \"Those who are sexually immoral, (idolaters, adulterers, men who submit to HOMOSEXUAL acts, men who practice HOMOSEXUALITY), WILL NOT INHERIT GODS KINGDOM.\n\nI rest my BIBLE..............", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No more queers and faggots in the military. It's about time.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "wow klastri you are one very hateful person. why do you persistently resort to insults and name calling when you can't comprehend something or flat out don't agree with somebody? life can't be that bad for you, can it?\n\nrth simply was warning people to be careful criticizing shepard smith since he is gay. and as is often the case when you do criticize someone who happens to be gay or in some minority group you are automatically labeled as a homophobe, bigot, or racist when their status wasn't even an issue.\n\ncholo got what he said. why didn't you? wait, you just proved rth's point.....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Pandora regularly calls me a liar, because she does not like me saying things about her that she does not want to hear. RD called me a liar on multiple occasions. You want quotes?\n\nYes, I accuse you of the sin of sloth, Trid, because you tell us \"let other people make your moral decisions for you\". That is exactly the same attitude that Eichmann took. That should make you think, \"Perhaps unquestioning obedience is not a proper attitude.\"\n\nOne reason for not following the magisterium unquestioningly is that it while it claims to preach acceptance of homosexuals; in practice, it does the opposite. The homophobia practiced by the institutional Church is a perversion of Christianity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No it is not. Your example makes no sense but so typical of the wacko right. Face up to your imaginary fears. Gays are not going to attack you.\n\nTo date no one has ever responded to my question of what religious belief is being violated. There are none.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree. Gay men shouldn't be around children.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump supporters don't go into gay bars and kill 50people. An Obama voter did.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "But yet you are arguing it from a legal standpoint. \n\nHis orientation is not the issue here. It's the way he conducts himself. Which straight males are just as capable of being guilty of. \n\nLook at this comment thread. When Weinstein does this people don't say \"Well of course he did. All straight men are rapist pigs.\" But that's what's being argued here. \"If Adam West did this it's because he's gay\" is the argument being put forward, and it's bigoted and wrong. People's orientation does not make them guilty. Their outward behavior does.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah... that would be the same defence used by guys who had beaten up gays. Maybe not the best defence for people to be promoting, huh?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don't forget about the people who went to African countries to teach that homosexuals are sinners who need to be punished. There has been havoc there and grave injustices. I donate monies to local groups which either feed hungry people or who provide care for animals. I would not donate to a missionary cause.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is that meant to be ad hominem; you think that being aware of the location of gay males makes someone inferior in their opinions on this site?\n\nHow long have you disliked gay males? What is it about gay males that you dislike? Do you know any gay males?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I make a comment about a truism about Barney...That he is a Gay person and they cut out my comment...Well God will deal with that censorship soon enough for me!! And Barney Censor that ADN your attempt to be the PCness in this forum is ironic....Touched a sensitive nerve..... About God or Gays?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He is a cringing coward expecting other councilors to do his dirty work. He is afraid BLM will rally thousands of Black youth and gangs to riot all over downtown again. He doesn't want to be held accountable for that so he smiles and sells out the gay community.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Tell that to the hundreds of boys sodomized by gay priests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ha ha ha. I love drinking liberal tears. Here gather a bunch of whiners who are too childish too accept a democratically elected president. I see 30 people tops (including a few children) in the picture not 60. By the way, I don't care if these people have \"hurt feelings\" because of the election of Donald Trump. For 8 years, white working class people have been called every disgusting name in the book: racist, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic, bigots, islamophobic, etc. just because they don't embrace every single last socialist liberal whim. Even this article does it. Now you expect our sympathy???? LOL. LOL. LOL. Get a grip!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the interest of \"firsts\" and political correctness, I won't be satisfied until we get Hawaii's first transgender Tongan-Vietnamese midget as police chief. Hiring a regular white woman is such a huge disappointment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Complete truth. You supported Burke when he told grandparents to shun their gay children, lest the grandchildren come to accept gays. You supported Paprocki in his quite blatant homophobia. No, you have, time and again, supported homophobia, and you are doing it again here, when you claim that those who oppose bigotry are themselves bigots.\n\nMy comment is quite correct. You claim that I am uncivil when I point out the FACT of your anti-gay bigotry, but that's just too bad. You clearly believe that saying \"Once again, you show yourself to be a bigot\" is worse than your bigotry. Actual followers of Christ would disagree.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, this is exactly right. The issue was never about imagery on the cake itself, it was what the cake represented, and the fact the Baker did not agree with gay marriage - although, he seemingly had no issues baking wedding cakes for people who committed adultery, or had been divorced, or even if the person had stolen things in the past, or even murdered anyone. Apparently, for this baker, the definitive factor on if he will get into heaven or not is if he ever baked a cake that was later on used in a gay wedding.\n\nAnd I agree - if the couple had wanted some image on the cake that the baker found offensive, or was not a normal image/item that he had used in the past for other wedding cakes, and the baker refused on those grounds, I would be much more inclined to side with the baker. But that is not the case here.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If you are Satanic, gay , trans or even a pedo and the Left will be very tolerant of you, but if you are Christian they have zero tolerance for you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't get it...Adultery is frowned upon by the Military but people want transgender/gay lifestyle to be accepted. Sorry, to me all 3 are immoral.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "For your information home schooled fair WAY better than Public school children (proven Fact), you STUPID libtards took GOD out and put Transsexuals and Pedophiles in. THERE IS NOT one day that I dont read about another teacher molesting students, HELL its an epidemic. So you can keep your transgender bathrooms and Pedophiles in the school, and Ill keep my NORMAL students OUT!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder how many taxpayers know they paid for the tranny surgery because this little brat started a hunger strike and only would stop if they paid. What a real american!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hate to pop your egregiously offensive balloon but the vast majority of pedophiles are \"straight\" and suffering from an incurable mental illness...the reason priests so often molested altar boys is because that's all that was available. The hideous serial pedophile Fr. Oliver O'Grady was an equal opportunity child rapist...his youngest victim was a 6 month old girl. Now there's SICK for you! As for your snotty comment that \"most people don't care about the burial of gay parishioners\", that is one for the books. Most families that don't have their heads up their hindquarters have a loved one who is LGTBQ about whom they care mightily. You prove that DENIAL is not just a river in Egypt. I hope your \"handlers\" pay you well for your offensiveness!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder how many Muslim women died at the hands of a muslim man in the world today\nYou lesbian shiteheads should be ashamed.\n\nYou are not for women\nYou are for yourselves and your Globalists ethos\nYou lost - you are irrelevant", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are lying. There is no clitorectomy at birth. There is no stoning for talking. Women don't have to wear the hijab at all times. There is no killing babies for being \"born lesbian\"(!!!!!) How in the world would one determine at birth that a baby is lesbian? Are you non compos mentis? Does rationality baffle you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So can I up in my neck of the woods. But, that was heterosexual men on girls which is of course, a very different more 'natural' kind of pederasty. \n\nI will give MY this much credit, he has certainly put a big spot light on the hypocrisy of the religious right. He has them defending a flaming gay man who espoused the NAMBLA philosophy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The only comparison I was making between pedophilia and homosexuality is that Jesus doesn't speak about either, the point being that silence does not imply acceptance. \n\nYou decided to try and make a distinction with respect to harmfulness, and I replied in kind. While I might have not mentioned harmfulness of lesbianism (AIDS is primarily a male homosexuality issue), it doesn't change the fact that homosexuality is, indeed, harmful.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The best qualified candidate is not always the disabled native lesbian who has converted to Islam.\n\nFunny how that works.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps you could point out comments where Pandora or LotL have called JH, 'liar, hypocrite, fool' or compared him to a Nazi war criminal. On this very thread he has accused me of the sin of sloth and of hating homosexuals simply because I follow what the Church teaches.\nI can't understand why anyone defends the man unless, of course, they agree with him.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm so sick of self righteous religious BS. How is any kind of LGBT activity hurting you or your lifestyle?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Radir wants to be transported to a time when all those blacks, women, gays, etc. knew their places.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Did you mean first man? Michael is who she really is NOT Michelle. Obama is gay. Bet I will be flagged for saying this. Liberal newspaper", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Because its hate against White people. Only works if you are a minority, gay ect....ever hear of the WET (White entertainment tv) nope, not politically correct but its ok to have the BET (Black entertainment tv). How about the NAAWP( national association for the advancement of White people) nope, not politically correct but the NAAACP (national association for the advancement of Colored people) is OK. How about the congressional Black caucus...OK but its a no no to have a congressional White caucus. Its politically correct to hate White people, nothing racist about it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Of course he was homophobic and misogynist. By today's standards everyone in 1850 was homophobic and misogynistic. What a laugh. And this dude is a University President. U Chicago is my school and in my will, I am thinking of deleting them for employing such an idiot.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "everyone that thinks rangerMC is not batshit, balls to the wall nuts, raise their hand please. only a masochist with severe mental problems would choose to be transgender in this world, with so many rangerMCs running around in it. the people we need to keep out of our military, government, religion and neighborhoods are little rangerMCs. i hear wyoming has lots of secluded mountaintops-go find one and get our of our society. there is no place here for racist, bigoted despots like you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ugh.\nA gay cake maker is does not have to make a cake condemning homosexuality as that would be political. Political thought is not protected. If the cakemaker had said he would not make a cake for the couple because they were Democrats, he would be fine. That is not a good example.\n\nIf you offer a service to the public, you must offer it to all.\nAccording to Colorado law, he may as well have refused to bake a cake for white people.\nWould that bother you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"light stepping Jesuit priests\"\n\nRD has to insert his fear and loathing of gays even into this comment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "what a bunch of bs from the gay agenda liberals! no science biology of course to support it, just ideological bent nonsense..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homophobe! Now you're a lesbian hater? Just kidding.\n\nNpo need for moral high ground, but there is no doubt that Hillary had the moral low ground. Actually, he morality was more like a huge empty sink hole.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Another christian tempted by the prospect of sex with other men....\n\nmust. stop. gaysex.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I've made this same point repeatedly, and then when I add it must be because lesbian sex is a mainstay of male heterosexual porn, I get deleted. LMAO", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What these femanazis fail to realize is that President Trump has hired and cut paychecks to more women blacks latinos gays lesbians transgenders and muslims than all previous presidents combined.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Because the LGBTQ community claims being LGBTQ+ does not make you a Pedophile?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Need a citation to selective rights. Do you mean how Dred Scott, because he was black, was chattel? Is that an example of liberalism? And is consevatism where people adhere to tradition based on the Bible, where slavery is authorized by the Bible (and where gays need to be stoned to death)?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "'some kind of relationship?' NO, they were, and are homosexuals, just say it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I guess that means a few more gays are going to be killed because of this religion. How many women are going to be abused too.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, hodad, the LESBIANS are coming to take over the conservative south. Soon your lettuce will come from these LESBIAN farmers. Your tomatoes too! OMG! the corn too!!! Watch out for all those LESBIAN vegetables coming your way!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They are the freakie new breed of drag queens. They can't even admit they are gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "President Obama issued \"guidance\" from the oval office to all public schools that stated that they must allow transgender students to use whatever bathroom and locker room facilities that they wanted to or they could face the consequences of losing Federal funding.\n\nPresident Trump rescinds that \"guidance\" stating that it is not under the authority of the executive branch of the Federal government to force such policies upon public schools and it should be a state government decision.\n\nNow tell me how Trump is the bully here?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In his book The Changing Face of The Priesthood by Rev. Donald B. Cozzens, he estimates that as many as 58% of priests were gay...... And that percentages were even higher in younger priests.\n\nSo much for \"No gays allowed.\"\n\nSilly me, I thought hair dressers held the title.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm as conservative as they come. But I don't want to hear about abortion or gay marriage or sex education or bathrooms. \n\nThat ship has sailed.\n\nStop wasting our time with distractions. I'm no fan of any of the Clintonistas, but James Carville was right. It's the economy, stupid.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So, turns out the anti-gay bigot is a pervert and kiddie rapist. Of course the GOP stands up for him. Being a pervert is only bad if you're a democrat. Its a bonus if you're a republican.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why is it that evangelical Christians (and I am making an assumption about you here - if I am wrong I apologize) think that everyone who disagrees with their views is a Muslim, gay, going to hell, a Liberal (slung as if it's a bad word), granola eating tree hugger?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The gays need colonoscopy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "women can only act as beards... for obviously gay men who want to pretend they aren't.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In my opinion, the Catholic bishops need to ask themselves a couple of \"dubia\" ... and need to come up with some convincing answers.\n\n[1] is the homosexual orientation really an objective disorder? If so, why so?\n\n[2] are \"homosexual acts\" always \"intrinsically evil\"? Even if between a monogamous loving couple in a same-sex (civil) marriage?\n\nPerhaps a commission (much like the one established to examine the contraception question in the 60s) could be established to assist Pope Francis and the bishops in undergoing the necessary discernment. Such a commission should include experts (including scientists) as well as committed gay couples. A scientific consensus is emerging: http://tinyurl.com/grmhhs8 . We are about both Faith and Reason. Gaudium et Spes 62 sums it up well: \"The recent studies and findings of science, history and philosophy raise new questions which effect life and which demand new theological investigations.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are deviants (monsters) that are more than willing to pretend to be transgender for the opportunity to prey on women and little girls that are alone in a bathroom. I don\u2019t fear for myself. I fear for the victims that you now have a hand in creating.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"homosexual men ... are implacably hostile to the feminist agenda\" \n\nYou don't actually know any gay men, do you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "you think and talk about it more than most gay folks I know do. sounds almost as if you are fantasizing about it and can't get it out of your thoughts. LOL", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These transgender folks have a method to their madness. They want the government to pay fo their body alteration. The costs of this type of operation is costly and they feel the tax payers should pay for it", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A significant proportion of Muslims agree with killing homosexuals, Apostates, and women who have sex out of wedlock.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "if rumours and suspicions are true there are more big name gay Conservatives than big name gay Liberals", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Firing gays who marry is OK? Not in my vision of Christianity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Burke, Cordileone and Donohue, the three stooges of gay U.S.A.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah SD, do I see elitism hiding here? Trump supporters are stupid and gullible and believe fake news while liberals see the truth? This kind of thinking is beneath you. When I look at what passed for news regarding Trump with virtually all the liberal media pumping out nonsense about how unstable, lecherous, and outright stupid he is, I see another kind of fake news. Most of us Trump supporters do not believe \"Joan Rivers was killed for outing Obama as gay and Michelle as a transgender man\" -like stories. But there are common-sense-deprived people all across the political spectrum. To suggest that more of them support Trump requires substantiation that is lacking - at least if you live up to your name.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is a disgusting comment. There are many homosexuals who live better lives because Justin Trudeau walked in gay parades. Shame on you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lespark, you sound like a gay person that speaks from experience.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, and all women have to do is cease being found attractive by rapists and they don't have to worry about being raped. All black people have to do in order to stop being targeted by racists is stop being black. All transgender people have to do is quit being who they are, live a lie and they don't have to worry about being denigrated and depicted as perverts. And all you have to do, Mr. Curry, is stop posting ridiculous comments to stop torturing the rest of us.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, gay and black, you just caused all our white christian friends here to start salivating at the same time, for what I'm not sure.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nothing of what you claim is in my post. Nothing. A black person is obviously black to all casual observers. Not always, but the vast majority of the time. This fact does not apply to homosexual people. When a bisexual person engages in homosexual activity, does this make them homosexual or do they continue to be bi? My point is that, really, it is none of my, nor your, business. Unless you observe the activity, or if they proclaim their sexual preferences, you have no way of discriminating against the person. Black Americans do not have this ability to hide their status.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Cite a source where Muslims are trying to make stoning homosexuals or sluts not crimes in the U.S. And if you need sources of Christians trying to influence our laws based on their dogma, just ask.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "this report is gay as fuck", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes it is. Just as it was ok for that same singer to rant and rave tin her church on stage in front of the congregation about how nasty homosexuals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "so I'm going to ask all you socialist supporters, why is it ok for a oped guy to call Christians, \"Religious Right\" but I would be slammed if I called Homosexuals \"The Gay Left\". So for like the 5th time, please me understand. this why I'm asking all you Liberal elites because as you keep stating, I'm not too smart and do not know much. so please help this dumb guy out. Please leave Alinsky, Rules for radicals scripture out of your answer.. hahaha.. Sandya, shame on you thinking its ok to call Christians, \"The Religious Right\". shame on you. I thought you Socialist were \"Tolerant\". That's what you all say....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, since you're gay, I suppose it's OK that you sexually harassed a minor. My bad.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It was hardly a secret he was gay. He is a hypocrite but he will be forgiven all his sexaul trangression by Hollywood,. He may even win an Oscar for being so politically virtuous and so Democrat.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sheryl8, you need to look into the personal beliefs and religious affiliations of more conservatives. Many (not all) are anti-gay or many (not all) play to the percentage of the base that is anti-gay. You know this. You sound like a fiscal conservative. Social conservatives are different. You know that too. Trost is running to lead a party that will field a leader that might bring us the next PM. Hardly a minor figure. He is clearly fair game, especially for satirical treatment for such a ridiculous position.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "More intentional ignorance. \nYou have failed to support your dubious contentions with any sort of evidence.\nYou admit that gays do not have special rights and then in the same post you go on to say that a baker has to make a cake for a gay skinhead.\n\nI am having a hard time believing you are not trolling because this is so ridiculous.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hey robinson did you know that muslims like to throw gays off of rooftops to their death and in every mosque on every Friday they call for the killing of Jews and infidels?\n\nBut that's okay with these leftists!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I suppose that white men might also be transgendered so...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well thank God for the Niagara Catholic Schoolboard. It's about time someone at the top of an organization stood up to this insanity. Children rarely get confused about gender but they are sponges & this crap just feeds them this social contagion. People have gone stupid supporting transgender diagnosis as if it is something to be celebrating. Lupron the puberty blocker causes sterility and brittle bones. They are supporting the chopping off of healthy body parts & putting people on life long hormones. Young women are taking testostorone right now without knowing long term effects. There are no studies. Sure Gender dysphoria is a medical condition that requires compassion & all people need to be respected but let's stop celebrating this. The same thing has happened in Australia in their curriculum. The Education Minister put an end to educating kids about transgender issues as there was a alarming increase in kids. Kudos to the Niagara schoolboard for protecting their kids.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Roy Moore is one of those cons that really seems to struggle with understanding this country and its laws. It seems like he struggles with a great many things, actually. He is a creationist, for example. He also didn't seem to understand the law when it came to gay marriage.\n\n\nSo...of course the cons voted for this idiot.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is going to be critically important when the country collapses.\nAnd let me ask: it's OK to use \"queer\" again? \nHow about the very useful \"niggardly\"? A word that applies well to many pols lately.\nHow about \"transvestite\"? Or, even the co-opted \"gay\"? \nRemoved from usage by ignorance and illiteracy, these are now restored to us? Good for English.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A total obsession with gays is its own problem. What a waste of life's energy. Weak personal boundaries at the very least.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Islamic law is irrelevant to those who do not feel bound by it. Your religion says that you are to kill gay people. Are you doing that?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Anything negative involving the 2nd Amendment, showing support for abortion, treating gays as equal citizens, or treating Muslims the same way, other than that, they would support him even if he decided to round up political undesirables and jail them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Eastman claimed that at West Point he was subjected to speeches by gay cannibals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh Rthur, but your ARE a homophobe. Do you remember all your comments about the transgender community? I fully own that I am an idiotphobe. I like to start my comments to all MAGAphants with something like Rthur, pocho, les, sarge, ronin, STD, etc, are idiots. Like you have no tolerance for gays, I have no tolerance for idiots and morons. Please don't cry about me saying mean things to you. Best you move on the the article about Senator Schumer calling the baby-in-chief \"childish\". THAT should really make your head explode. You MAGAphants must really hate Schumer having proven that it doesn't take much to hand your baby-in-chief HUUUUGGGGE defeats. Sane America is enjoying watching his and him MAGAphants' mental illness.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Orobator is yet another effeminate gay male like John Hobson. They are an absolute plague on the RCC.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Since they apparently are not black, Homosexual, or Muslim the only reasonable conclusion is that they all must be suffering from a mental illness.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your obsession with homosexuality is pathological. Bro, you need to get some heavy duty therapy before you flip out completely!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sex is a product of lust, not love. It is my understanding that for many homosexuals, lust is equated with love, and that they rationalize that penetrating a same-sex partner is an expression of love. The 2am crowd at the local gay bar is filled with guys who are quickly falling in love.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Fish: Yes, GAY MONEY used...............................", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You call my post hate garbage, are you saying that Jade is NOT a Lesbian????? What do you not understand about FACTS???????", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay priests didn't forego marriage and children. They found cover they would surely lose if the RCC ever developed its thinking on homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Leave the \"Hot Hatchet\" alone, he is a victim and self identifies as a role model citizen!\n\nStop being Trans-existence phobic", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most ignorant thing you have said. No one is \"turned' by sex-ed unless they are already gay. This assumption that everyone is naturally hetero is just false._Any_who_can_are_bisexual.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And the numerous lies regarding same sex marriage (priest will be sent to jail for refusing to witness gay marriages!!! It will destroy the whole institution of marriage!!!), abortion causes breast cancer. Gay sex is taught in public schools!!! All homosexuals are child molesters!!! Etc, etc, etc...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "yeah definitely racist, and white supremacist and islamaphobe and sexist and gay bashing...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Everything Fr. Reese writes about Trump was well known before nearly 63 million people pulled the lever for him, yet they pulled the lever for him anyway. Why? Because Hillary is a liar (Trump isn't?), because Trump \"tells it like it is\" (\"I like to grab 'em by the p*ssy\", \"Mexicans are rapists.\") \"and because, gosh darn it, gay marriage and transgender bathrooms were a step too far and it was all Obama and Hillary's fault, and besides, black people are moochers. Oh, and abortion.\"\n\nThose people made the decision to pull the lever for Trump so they could have fun watching a bull in china shop with no government experience overturn everything in the china shop - which is about how a four year-old throwing a temper tantrum behaves when it doesn't get its way. Except in this case the china shop is all of us. Some Democrat, of course, will be left to clean up the mess - that's the way it always works, and then in four years everyone will forget who made the mess in the first place.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gays are lucky they don't get knifed by a right-wing religious fanatic, as has happened with some regularity in Israel.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Republican women senators you mention stood up because their constituents raised holy hell. I saw Susan Collins defense of Jeff Sessions for the position of Attorney General--the man who is the chief architect and executor of Trump's virulently racist immigration policy. Her defense of Sessions made it impossible for me to have anything but simple human respect for her. She's not \"honorable\" because defense of racists is not honorable but unseemly, undemocratic and grotesque. I'd be interested to know what part of Trumpian policy you agree with. I'm sure the Republican agenda, which is primarily racist, will make great headway in 3 years. Trump has already normalized racism in front of thousands of boy scouts. All the world is observing Americans and how they are normalizing racism, violent sexism and homophobia. When they think of Americans they now think of Donald Trump--a liar, sex abuser, cheat, and a disgusting lout. Donald Trump, king of the Americans.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This tragedy was brought to you by an Islamic nutcase who hated gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay, male conservative, I would much prefer the PM to apologize for raping my bank account each and every week for taxes to support a Liberal agenda that wants to make us all dependent on the state. Stop spending other peoples money. Repeat after me one hundred times ... \n\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\"As PM I will stop spending other peoples hard earned money.\"\n\n... (I ran out of characters ...)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "SO MUCH WINNING BY NIKKI HALEY - she's going to make a great first woman president (sorry Hillary but no one likes you but everyone likes Nikki Haley, plus she's way better looking and not a lesbian :o", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Theres plenty of fat to be cut from our medical community. Start with anything to do with transgender issues", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Bible also says stuff about not divorcing, marrying your mother, not eating certain animals and that it is OK to punish homosexuality with death.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "the mayor is a fag and loves little boys.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's LGBTQ2 or possibly LGBTQIA or LGBTQIAPK now. YOU FASCIST!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I thought this article was about our sheriff doing an excellent job of TRYING to keep our basic information safe. \nI'm sorry...but why would it matter if a homosexual male enjoyed smoking marijuana while wearing a tutu?\nYou sound like another angry, aging boomer looking to inject some bitterness into everyone else's life this morning. Thanks, I'll pass that bitter right back to you. Keep your hate filled mouth shut and hurry up and die.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "AT, read the quote. Just because he is good at one thing doesn't mean he is good at anything else. Here are a few of this nut job's quotes:\n1. \"Gayness must be a choice, because prisoners who get raped come out gay.\"\n2. \"Obamacare is worse than slavery\"\n3. \"The Big Bang was a fairy tale and the notion of evolution was encouraged by the devil\" \n4. \"Nope, I don't see any global warming\" \n5. \"Nope, I don't see any racism\"\n6. \"Planned Parenthood is a plot to kill black babies\" (how does he reconcile number 5 and 6? Is there, or isn't there racism?)\nHe may be an idiot savant but he is certainly an idiot.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What it means is \"you homosexuals are 'intrinsically disordered'\". Oh, conservative political correctness (and there most certainly is such a thing) pretends it means \"the homosexual 'tendency' is intrinsically disordered, not homosexuals\". A \"tendency\" is a quality of persons. Homosexuals see the institutional Church calling them \"intrinsically disordered\" and they are correct in this.\n\nYou can bleat all you like about \"context\", but the fact remains that the institutional Church has an official stance that rejects gays. And the gays know it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I often wonder why someone would be so focused on homosexual activities. Some people would say that there are questions of one owns sexuality when you focus so much on other peoples. Lola thinks he knows so much about homosexuals and homosexuality that he could screen seminarians to tell which ones are worthy of becoming priests. According to all the stereotypes that Lola espouses, the more effeminate boys could be eliminated and the more macho ones would be ok. After all, a real macho man like Lola could definitely tell by just looking. That is why he ignores priests who molest young girls and teenage girls. That is why he ignores priests who have affairs and engage in orgies. For one who truly knows, this is a gay problem.Lola knows.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why would fear of an axe wielding homosexual make me a homophobe anymore than a sword wielding radical islamist make me a islamophobe?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "One has to remember the venue for such vile intolerance - Eugene Oregon - Where Christians are loathed and Islam is embraced... the same Islam that executes homosexuals, beheads \"infidels\" and treats their women like dogs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Whoa Big Fella, pump your brakes.\nWhere did I even imply that Jesus would bake a cake. First off, it would probably suck. Jesus was a carpenter. Officiate their wedding and perform abortions? Did I really say that?\n\nThe gays are only sinners in the same way you are a sinner. \nI am not a sinner. \nHave a great day.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"I figure you're a troll or an idiot\"\nHe's both, with an abnormal fascination for gay men and their hedonistic, highly sexualized lifestyles.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "-There's only one group of people on the planet beheading other people who do not believe as they do.\n-There's only one group of people pushing gays off rooftops.\n-There's only one group of people flying airliners into skyscrapers.\n-There's only one group of people vowing to exterminate all other groups.\n-There's only one group of people carrying out daily suicide bombings.\n-There's only one group of people that strap bombs to their children and send them into crowded marketplaces to die and kill others. \n-There's only one group of people calling America \"the great Satan\" and vowing to kill Americans indiscriminately.\n-There's only one group of people that have legalized pedophilia, honor killings of women and daughters, oppressing women, male guardianship of women, modesty dress codes, lack of marital rights, forced marriage, stoning deaths of homosexuals, women committing adultery, etc.\n\nAnd that group is defended and supported by the Western Left (read Merkel, Hillary & Obama)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If surveys are correct that at least 20% of priests are gay, then it would follow that rape of boys would only be 20% of the total number of rapes by priests. \n\nBut the rape of boys by priests isn't 20%. It's 80%. Since the 1950s, 80% of the cases of child rape by priests were same sex attacks.\n\nThis can only mean that gay priests are far more likely to sexual predators of young people. Heterosexually oriented priests, as a group, tend to be far less a risk to children.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No. You cannot open business to the public and then have a list of disclaimers based on the type of people you will or will not serve. Gay, straight, christian, muslims, etc. It doesn't matter.\n\nIf your religion requires you to discriminate then you should not open businesses to the public. \n\nAs I pointed out to Bill: what's stopping the church of satan from denying services to christian events? You might laugh because the church of satan isn't as large as Christianity but imagine reading a news article where a coffee shop run by a satanist denied a church a large catering order. You'd think \"that's discrimination! You can't open a business and not serve certain kinds of people! What an idiot!\"\n\nThe reason people are for this precedence of discrimination is only because they agree with the baker. They're blind to the underlying issue.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am a gay man, chaste & celibate, with \"tendencies\" rather than just an orientation or supposed \"disorder\", and a former priest. The dearth of celibate integrated fellow priests was largely why I left active ministry. My experience is that gay priests tend to be more sexually active than straight priests, although both (forgive the binary constructs) are at least periodically active and to a staggering extent. Solid accounts by rare seminary or chancery personnel underline this reality. Yes, concupiscence is a function of humanity, so let's start such conversations by being compassionate and, where required, forgiving. But we must also acknowledge that the sideways living of enough priests, and the bishops who manage them and who themselves live less than integrated lives, give cover to those in their ranks who engage in criminal, and not merely immoral, behavior. You're only as sick as your secrets; an elite hierarchy calling out this phenomenon as a disorder is more than ironic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Please put this 'phobia' in perspective. Fear of an axe-wielding homosexual doesn't make me a homophobe anymore than fear of a sword wielding muslim makes me an islamophobe.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the left hates a real debate, they simply keep spewing thier side and then call anyone who says other wise is racist, homophobic, hate, etc etc, they couldnt win an honest debate if they tried", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is the kind of platitude needs to stop. Sometimes these weak kneed non-leaders need to grow some \"steel balls\" and side with data. Sure, it would be nice to have \"everyone\" to serve.. kids, elders, gays, trannies, dogs, cats.. why not? Losers.. Side with data!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Would the legion of gay priests, the dominant constituency of the RCC, come out of the sacristy in solidarity against holy mother who keeps scolding them & they keep accepting it? Eccleasitical S&M. Evidently the two parties enjoy the endless S&M play.\nDo the legion of gay priests have the \"cojones?\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I respectfully, and I do mean respectfully, suggest you open your laptop and simply google some of the things going in western Europe right now. I also suggest you go back and research \"Theo van Gogh\", yes he is a descendant of Vincent, \"Pym Fortyn\", and look into people such as Ayaan ali Hirsi. Then, if you can, I suggest you take a trip into western Europe and go see for yourself. It is attitudes such as yours that show extreme ignorance into the goings on in the rest of the world. It is NOT xenophobia, it is not racism. It is a real and true problem with incompatible cultures clashing: on the one hand, a culture that has adapted and reformed in their attitudes towards women, gays, art, and music, and another culture reflective of tribalism, extreme patriarchy, subjugation of minorities, and quite frankly acceptance of barbaric practices as norms. It needs real and true solutions, and not responses such as this \"stick your fingers in your ears\" one you just wrote.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All forms of hate need to be eliminated racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, discrimination against Transgenders. We must get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight Trump and this racist Quebec law!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Raised in Chugiak, my Dad did not talk like that, nor was he gay, or known to lie.\n\nI do not talk like that. I'm neither gay or lying about how I talk.\n\nMy friends do not talk like that. Some of my friends are gay, but so what?\n\nGrabbing someone by the p---y is sexual assault. Bragging about it is disgusting and reprehensible.\n\nYou Trump fanatics are a deplorable bunch who don't have a clue what being an honorable man is all about.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Denver Post; on the grift in the conga line of suckholds....tiz about the 500 East Colfax murders ...4 In a year and a shooting too and ..;..the homie maggot on Jax chef murder which you succulents completely misreported (maggot agenda.com?). Then there is the Five Points murder of that insignificant white woman by the black homie thug...all reported by tiny paragraphs. U be the enemy Cherry Creek subsidized maggot ....or what is yer sorry worm story...maybe you be subsidized Bronco tranny chasers...top editor...what be your excuse? Quote me skime bug.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The new law, which ludicrously requires transgender people to use the restroom consistent with the sex on their birth certificates,\"\n\nYeah, how dare we ask people to use the bathroom that fits their sex !! How \"ludicrous\" !", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "gimme a break. why doesnt the author lash out at the extremist that are beheading and killing women, Christians and gays. who is heck is she to label a TEMPORARY BAN, a hate crime. Focus on the real hate crimes. You are biased and trying to tick us. I am tired of caving in. It is always a one way street and my bleeding heart is with the families of the real hate cimes. Why don't moderates speak up against the atrocities that they should be fighting. So ignorant.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender is a mental disorder. Your body is male but your mind thinks it should be female. This would not pass the psychological aspect of recruiting.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is it sexist to vote for someone just because they are a women? It would be to not vote for someone because they are a woman? Will more people will vote against Clinton because she is a sleazy politician with no concern to her sex? If Clinton loses will it be because she is a horrible person or because she is a woman? What if the Trumpster were a woman? Or transgender? Would that make him/her a more attractive candidate? What a mess.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These are economic migrants, but of course they will tell you they are gay political dissidents escaping persecution.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Didn't i see anti Trump marchers smashing store fronts, burning cars and spraying anti Trump graffiti. Isn't it Radical Islam who want to behead Jews and throw homosexuals off tall buildings ? Who are the Nazis and who are the haters ?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Neither is a baker...there are plenty of bakers out there who'd be happy to bake you a phallic wedding cake, these types of things are only to attack Christians for their convictions. Besides if you're gay why would you want to give your $ to people who disagree with your way of living? Find a friendly baker...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gradually gay would convert every one to gay, that is their ultimate goal.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's a given that any candidate for the Supreme Court is going to \"have a good knowledge of the Constitution.\"\n\nThis tack is disingenuous, anyway. Barack Obama taught constitutional law for twelve years at the University of Chicago, and the right gave him no respect whatsoever.\n\n\"Homosexual marriage\" is a good thing that's here to stay, and a majority of Americans support legal abortion. This country is a democracy, not a theocracy, and not (for you Trump fans) a dictatorship.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you are wounded by comments I made to someone else? You are really sensitive. Why are you stalking me?\n\nYou are lying. You keep saying that someone can legally force a baker to make a hitler or kkk cake. It is a lie.\n\nI am under no obligation to prove your contention. You make the dumb contention that a gay white supremacist can force a baker to make a hitler cake for them. It is up to you to prove it. \n\nYou can not prove it because it is a lie.\n\nRepeating the same lie over and over and claiming it is factual with no evidence is not civil.\nLet me know when your feelings have recovered and we can talk about how you think a baker can be forced to make a hitler cake.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why on earth are gays and lesbians protesting? Trump supports gay marriage and gay rights, even has expressed the need for federal funding for transgender treatment. Are they ignorant?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lack of adherence to Church morality aside, he should be fired for basic stupidity. Seems he would have us believe that before the year 2000, when the overwhelming majority of the world was hetero and still opposed gay sex, the majority's opposition was based on their own sexual maladjustment. Got that? So the ones who were sexually well-adjusted were the REST of the population --- the small minority: the world's gays. Wow!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Who said anything about Russians? Its Putin whos the problem. And no one cares about him participating in our \"marketplace of ideas\". Its his participation in our elections and his grooming of and leverage over our current president thats the problem. The sad thing is while hes an annoying problem for us, hes far worse to his fellow Russians whom he readily imprisons, tortures and kills for things that are universal rights such as disagreeing with him, being gay, Muslim or a minority. Many of the trolls he uses to flood our social media with have been coerced by him into doing so, often by threats to them or their families. Perhaps instead of reinforcing their oppression by welcoming them to our participate in our message boards you should instead be looking for and fighting for ways to welcome their defection from a violent totalitarian dictator or better yet trying to end that dictators evil reign. But youre right, those things you mention arent treason, theyre just stupid and mean.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There are some atheists who wish all religions would disappear and be replaced by reason and science, some atheists who fear religious people - and their religions - who use their religious beliefs to impact government policy, in areas such as laws on abortion and gay marriage and the death penalty.\n\nOne could label such atheists \"religio-phobic\".\n\nWhat I say is this.\n\nWhat BUSINESS is it of government that some atheists are religio-phobic? What BUSINESS is it of government if those atheists express their fear of religions and its followers who use religious beliefs to influence laws?\n\nI mean, what is next? An official motion in Ottawa that condemns specifically those atheists and seeks their jailing for hate crimes? Torches at the local library to burn the atheism books in piles on the street, to the cheers of religious extremists?\n\nThe proposed motion is idiocy unbridled, and it is embarrassing and frightening that Justin Trudeau's army of self-righteous vote-panderers is caving in.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "oh perk up at least now you can use a transgendered bathroom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you do likewise when Barry O was promulgating baby killing and homosexual marriage/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Socrates was Greek. Socrates was a homosexual. Therefore, Greeks are homosexual.\n\nThank you for demonstrating the paucity of Ms. Daly\u2019s aphorisms.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your recent cheap shots on gay people contain outrageous lies, misinformation, and zero evidence. You've convinced me to add another description to the growing List of Your Character Flaws - Racist, Misogynist, and now Extreme Homophobe", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry that gay marriage is something you really disapprove of. Yourban huffing and puffing does not disguise your unchristian attitude towards gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why aren't they protesting in front of the embassies Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or other Muslim countries where women are treated like a cattle and being gay is punishable by law?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Y'all pull your head out of your ass. Transgender women are not going to hurt you or your children. It's just yur ignorance about other people that puts fear into yur thick skulls. Yur just pissed off cuz you lost the LBGT fight in the supreme court. It's the transgender girls that need protection from you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "maybe you're gay ...try making out with another man , see if that helps", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Tell me, are hermaphrodites included in your claim that \"you are your body?\"Yep. Why wouldn't they be? Because western doctors believe they should be mutilated at birth due to a harmless mutation? What a strange question for you to ask. What I'm saying is no one should have to fit into a box, but you are saying the opposite.\n\n\"And why have homosexual tendencies been observed in toddlers too young to know anything about sex?\" What exactly is a \"homosexual tendency\" if it doesn't involve sex?\n\n\" And how is rational thinking based on evidence, and believing we should respect all of God's children, sexist? \" Does \"respecting\" all people include mutilating them to fit sex stereotypes? Coulda fooled me.\n\nSexism involves institutionalized discrimination based on one's sex, neutral biological fact that is assigned social meaning at birth, like race. Please look up the word sex. It is not the same as gender. I'm sorry you're too ignorant to know that.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Anti-gay training\"......what sophistry !! LOL", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The president encourages students to be gay. Then invites them to live with him if they need somewhere to stay. What does that tell you about his thoughts on the gay lifestyle. It makes me sick", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are correct, but there are also Christians in Africa that are about as bad as Muslims toward gay people. FOTF is a hate group and a threat right here in Colorado. While they don't want to \"kill the gays\", they do want to make life quite miserable for them. But overall, their battle against gays seems to have been a losing battle.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A dangerous fiction put out by the left is that all Muslims are peace-loving...they point out the peaceful Ismailis and totally ignore Wahhabi fundamentalists.\nYou know...the ones that call Ismailis heretics and believe in stoning adulterers and homosexuals to death.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I just refer to everyone as \"a**hole\", everyone male/female/trans has one, so it fits.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So who gets to be the genital checker? You? So because you had a bad experience with one transgender person compared to the likely dozens of times you had no problem whatsoever using the bathroom with trans people, they now have no place in this world? Get over yourself, theres room enough here for everyone, even the people you don't like.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I don't believe in restricting people from engaging in sodomy.\"\n\nThen when you wrote \"For example, anti-sodomy laws are of Christian derivative and were in every state up until 1962 when the sex perverts started lobbying for sexual freedom.\" you were not regretting that these laws were abolished.\n\nAnd you are back to one of your \"gay sex is icky\" rants. As well as telling gays \"go back into the closet\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Now please tell me. Is Englebert Humperdink gay or stud?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hate the GOP Senators....and every heterosexual red blooded American Male does too. They are a bunch of RINO homos.\n\nAnd now they\u2019ve bedded down Roy Moore", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You mean you don't like him because he's gay? Why can't you just say it? \n\"light in the loafers\"? Are you heavy in your boots?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He is another gay one and they wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Beyond hypocritical article. Obama has befriended rogue, anti-human rights, anti-gay enemies of democracy like Iran. Get over your fake news-based obsession with Russia and Trump, liberals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Once again we find the misuse of homophobia. A phobia is an irrational fear. Can you prove that Jack Phillips has an irrational fear of homosexuals? I doubt it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right. I guess you supported slavery and segregation too. It is their right as Americans to have slaves, or discriminate on the basis of race. And Arab countries have the right to treat women badly too. Countries have a right to be anti-gay. No one should tell them how to behave!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In Toronto, Muslims has exclusive segregated Islamic only publci housing, to keep out blacks, gays and single mothers, as well as barring handicapped persons and dogs. But, hey its all good isn't it and we all want more.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I wish gay men would just leave children alone.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am gay too so I can say it is quite fascist to eradicate the rights of others, ie, the right of the School Board to say no. If Muslim parents had objected you would say nothing. Even today in Toronto, Imams teach children in mosques that gays are sick depraved people yet you say nothing about it. Catholics are much easier targets. .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ridiculous.\nYou do live in a dreamworld, don't you???\nI think that those demonic homosexual spirits which have taken hold of you are now clouding your judgment. \nSad, yet true.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "30 yrs ago that small number of malcontents were gays", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Black Pride = being black and proud\nGay Pride = being gay and proud\nWhite Pride = NAZI!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What Catholics \"hate black folks and to ignore the needs of the poor\"? \n\nThat's as nonsensical as saying: Catholics are free to support contraception, abortion, same sex marriage and adultery.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why do you hate gay people?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not Trump, it's those he empowers around him--the anti-gay cabinet and legistlators. Pence notoriously said that it would be better to fund conversion therapy than HIV treatments.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wrong website and forum dude. Like is this what really goes on in your head imagining the feminization and rape of a young male? It's like you are projecting what occurs in your \"mind's eye\" to everyone and it's TMI for CB. Keep your odd transsexual fantasies to yourself in the future. Thanks.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I see. So 24% of American Muslims \"don't know\" if it's OK to kill civilians.\n\n35% say \"neither\" when asked if there is a conflict between democracy and Islam.\n\n48% \"aren't sure\" if homosexuality should be accepted by society.\n\nYeah that looks much better.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are you out of your mind? Political thought is not protected. \nIf you want to be a activist go to a Muslim bakery, pretend you are gay and order a gay wedding cake. When they refuse, you can sue.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well for starters, you're an excellent example of an off-putting individual, gay or otherwise. Prefacing your rhetorical question w/an accusation isn't going to generate good will any time soon now is it?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Still fantasizing about gay sex and male genitalia, are you? And what does that have to do with your community-vermin, disease-ridden, pestilent cats? Other than that's the only kind of lap-gratification that you'll ever get in life.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Make America Great Again\"\n\n--\n\nLike it was in the past for women, blacks, gays.\n\n\"Make America Great Again\" means............\n\n \"Return To The America Where And When All You Had To Do Was Be Born A White Male And You Had It Made\"\n\n\n-------and everybody else.......not so much.\n\nIt's no coincidence that the core of Trump's support was white males.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Last week in Egypt, Muslim gangs burned down several Christian Coptic churches, and killed Christians by burning them alive inside the churches or by crucifixion . In other Muslim countries gay men are tossed off buildings, hanged or beheaded.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"I would like to attend a gay, white supremacist wedding, just out of curiosity.\"\n\nSo..you think it's impossible for a homosexual to be racist? You don't get out much..do you?\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Poor little sicko \"Allaha\" still thinks it's OK to discriminate against gay people. I guess he doesn't like Jews and African-Americans too. Or do you just discriminate against the gay people you sicko. Frankly, I disapprove of you and your neanderthal brain.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What an edgy article! Has CB's editorial board called yet for the next pope to be a lesbian or transsexual? Damn those traditional values. We will not be happy until the old order has been torn down!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Socially backward policy??\nThe only socially backward policy is yoru monkey ape assertions about climate change religious intolerance, and gay marriage..\n\nThe Muslims in the middle east are killing Christians, gay men, and mulilating girls and killing their own people by the 100's of 100's and you are calling us Intolerant?\n\nYou leftists need to be confronted at every turn\nYou lunatic fringes need to outed, we are the majority - not you\nWe see you", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All these gays have to do is make some medical complaint and say that they need to have a sex change to resolve their problem...yes, implants, hormone supply, drug maintenance for the sex change, etc., will be paid by the military. They will even pull out all of your teeth is you have a complaint and have implants done if that makes the service person feel and perform better.\n\nMe, too, only a tax payer and guys like our AG, senators and reps will oppose Trump no matter if it is the wrong thing to do.\n\nLiberals will bring down the USA!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hey pal, it's LGBTQ2S, not LGBTQQ2S - what sort of homophobic monster are you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How ignorant can these rainbows be? Islam forbids homosexual acts under penalty of death. These maroons want to support and protect their enemy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All forms of hate needs to be eliminated. All forms of racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, anti-semitism and laws discriminating against Transgenders.\nWe need to get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight all forms of hate which includes Trump!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Harper and Kenney are ideologues. Kenney's campaign style is divisive and hateful. His party has attacked women, gays and minorities. But keep attacking the messenger.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Paul Ryan is such a hypocrite. He doesn't want the government telling you what to do with your life ... unless you are pregnant, or gay, or you smoke pot, or you are a muslim etc. etc.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think anyone sees Trump as being perfect! He is not a disillusioned sneak like Obummer, wanting to change America into some preconceived idea that his race baiting socialist brain has contrived. The charges against Trump are suspicious at best, likely outright lies by women being bought by the Democrats crooked election machine. The idea that Trump is loud, outspoken, able to make a buck and doesn't cower down to the hard RIGHT makes him someone I will support - RATHER than a career criminal that has made it her life work to make herself 'rich & famous' Her lack of concern for Gays and Women in the countries she has accepted MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from should make women and Gays in America SICK!! She is a disgusting individual, likely very sick in the head.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lesbian nuns arise! Demand equal mistreatment, now!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This international idiot claims to be gay and CONservative. I heard him on a Bill Maher panel and the only thing this guy has going for him is that he has nothing but dead air space between his ears. It's hilarious that he's associating with the wrong-wingers. What gay guy wears pearls around his neck and wrists? Gender confusion for sure.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How do you know \u201ctorture results in little more than false confessions\u201d? \n\nKerry reply on ex-gitmo prisoner returning to jihad \u2026. \u201cWell, Senator, he\u2019s not supposed to be doing that.\u201d http://drrichswier.com/2016/02/28/video-kerry-on-gitmo-prisoner-who-returned-to-jihad-hes-not-supposed-to-be-doing-that/\n\nWhy do you defend these unconscionable jihadists who hate America, women and homosexuals?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What a joke. Democrats and Hillary made a statement about sexual predators when they voted in favor of Billy being elected even though the knowledge of the mans sexual deviance was laid out to the entire country. Democrats make a statement in favor of gross sexual perversion when they support and defend gays and lesbians. They make a statement about sexual perversion when they agree that a sexually deviant woman should be allowed to kill her own baby. They made a statement to the entire world when a transgender spoke at the democratic convention setting the example for all of our children that law and order does not matter and your feelings trump anything. Pot calling the kettle black for sure. The manipulation and hypocrisy coming from the democrats is mind boggling to say the least. But we must understand they are drinking a kool aid that distorts the mind. Its called free lovism and situational ethics. Hail Hillary!!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Please look up the difference between homosexuality and ephebophilia. The great majority of child sex abusers are neither priests nor gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, people being \"believers\" or transgender are legitimate concerns of yours? Mississippi would probably love to have you. P.S. I think the irritation in the back of your throat is probably just BS.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What in the world does it mean to \"practice\" homosexuality? There was a cartoon with the caption \"A practicing Catholic, and an observant Jew,\" showing a Catholic priest seated at a piano, playing it, while a Hasidic Jew stood a couple of feet behind him, looking at him as he played. But a sexual orientation is not like either a religion or a musical instrument. True, there are some gay wags who say they love practicing their homosexuality, because \"practice makes perfect,\" but that's something else.\n\nWhat the objection of conservative Christian authorities to \"the practice of homosexuality\" sounds like is no less than that they wish all LGBTQI people would stay secure and gagged in their closets, forever. These are the same people who at other times would say they give praise to God the Creator for all his creatures. Fools. Hypocrites.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All form of hate need to be eliminated racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, discrimination against Transgenders. We must get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight Trump and this racist Quebec law!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jaded, using VULGAR language shows your lack of character, which does not surprise me. Merriam-Webster clearly states this. You can call me whatever you want, it does not bother me. I could call you a bunch of names about your trip, however, I have character and will refrain. Your cute little run together words such as, anass, thepusy are clever. Why cant you be REAL and spell them correctly, (a ass, the pussy). You certainly qualify as a SLICK WILLY type. Evidently your run together words go over the heads of the Civil Comments reviewers. . Now, Back to your comment.\n\nThe people I am talking about being messed up are: TRANS people, Lesbians, Homo's. A ex-cop TRANS just KILLED his wife. DAD of Gladstone ex-cop charged in murder is sentenced for child pornography possession. SISTER testifies she delayed revealing 'crazy lady' murder plots to protect ex-Gladstone cop. Ex-Gladstone cop on trial for wife's death helped co-defendant duck sex charge, SEDA'S trip,", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "hollywood movies are not politically correct enough, something must be done to make them more politically correct, its time for award quotos, with categorys for gay, tranny , darkie and vagina pictures...oh an muslims as well", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There can't be Catholic schools in Canada, if we as a society truly believe in equality for women, gays and other religions. It's not like were talking about the Egalitarian Christian Churches who believe in equality for all, based off well educated modern interpretations of the bible. Were talking about the Catholic religion which has primitively old discriminatory interpretations, which they refuse to change. My concern is how these discriminations over time will effect the self esteem and personal views of young Canadians. The Catholic school funding by our government simply does not belong in this era. It seems obvious, unfortunately the only way for the funding to stop would involve a large petition and a political agenda. (:", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nobody will ever be able to match former Republican speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, who raped repeatedly a teenage boy that grew up and stalked Hastert for well over $1 million in blackmail money. Hastert was two seat away from the presidency. The Republican insiders had to have known about the closet homosexual/rapist. And the guy never was brought to trial for raping a teenage boy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Dispatch uses every chance it gets to push their liberal agenda. Showing a picture of Kelter down at the gay parade . Really ? How pathetic .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh really? I've had death threats leveled at me on other platforms by the right wing. Oh, and constant \"jokes\" about shoving people in ovens from the same. I know prominent journalists, etc., get death threats and threats of rape (if they are women), especially if they are Jewish, black, gay, trans, liberal, etc.\n\n\nIn the past, I used to use my real name on various media platforms, until I started getting cons posting my real home address and remarks about visiting my family. I've had butthurt cons look up where I work, call there, and try to get me fired. And all because they were schooled by someone smarter than them.\n\n\nUnfortunately, those behaviors were BEFORE that idiot was installed in the WH by the EC, now making these awful deplorables think they are now (even more) entitled to such behaviors.\n\n\nI have never seen anything like that from the left personally. If they do, I in no way condone such behavior, as it has no place in a modern liberal country such as ours.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "LOL icom .... Islam is the poster child for woman haters. Muslim men treat their dogs better than women and homosexuality is punishable by death. I cannot understand why you so-called progressives are pro muslim.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm back.\nAnd this religion is still misogynistic and kills gays.\nWhen do we have this conversation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The world doesn't care about Arabs because they are a terrorist culture. Otherwise Palestinians would have had a state by now. So as a booby for the world's view of Muslims, they get a meaningless UN resolution that will ensure no Palestinian state for the foreseeable future and a continuation of their condition of sand-sucking, rubble, honor killings, female genital mutilation, gay torture, and suicide.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sigh, what a pathetic piece yet again. Muslims cause trouble in every country in the world. Can we talk about why muslims are even being brought into Canada? SHould we not impose a duty to integrate, ? No, instead, we try to muzzle those to point out that Islamic rage and Shariah should not be tolerated. Incidentally, most canadians muslims are in full agreement with beheading homosexuals. Should we talk about that ? Oops, I guess I was just a little Islamophobic there... I hope I don't get a fine...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Frederick -- Were you the big fat guy who joined your friends to interrupt my wife and I night out? Ya, we stopped by Barns & Noble and your gang of socialist started hassling my Wife and I. Very rude! I didn't know who you guys were. You socialist said something to me. \"Are you Eddie Burke\". But this is typical for liberals. sp why is it ok for leftist to call Christians \"Religious Right\" but its wrong for me to say, Homosexuals are the \"Gay Left\"? Please explain why? Ive asked this question 7 times now. Why cant one of you answer ? I heard you communist folks were very smart. I know I won this hole back and forth when you cant answer my one question. hahahaha I learned from my radio show, Liberals cant actually back up the crap they vomit from their mouths.... hahahah", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A felon belongs to a group you moron .... just like a Trans person belongs to a group ... if I said you cant do something because you are trans ... that would be the individual and the group ... perhaps hooked on phonics would be a good investment for you ..\nI hate to break it to you but that moron is no longer the CIC so what he did or did not do and for that matter what Ash Carter did or did not do is not relevant. Reversing this as well as most of his other decisions is widely applauded ...keep stomping your feet maybe it will get better for you ... or maybe try holding your breath", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays, and we hate him!\" -Ole Hank\n\nI don't believe that you don't understand.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Just pointing out that the gay life choice in unnatural and unhealthy. 5% of the demographic with 81% of the cases.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called 'gay culture\"\n\nSince priests are celibate, anyone who \"practices homosexuality\" would be automatically prohibited from Holy Orders. Why is this even an issue?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Alan...baby....these are not conservatives. These are your people, liberals, liberal jews, skin heads, blacks, black separatists, lesbians, LGBTetc. In other words every fragmented fringe group block of nut burgers balled up is your little party and they support a death cult that uses useful idiots (Palestinians) as their tool of choice to drive a wedge in Israel. You wanted anarchy? It's here, it's at your door. Answer it....go ahead, answer that door.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's true that you can't 100% trust your family members, relatives, family friends, etc. \n\nSome people are mentally deranged, sex obsessed, sexually repressed, shy, socially awkward or abnormal, ranting & raving lunatics (also known as narcissists) and they will try to have sex with ANYBODY - example: family members, siblings (brother or sister), relatives, kids or teenagers of family friends, etc. \n\nThe sexual predator / molester can be male or female, of any age: young kid, teenager, adult, old person, etc. Gay, straight, lesbian sexual predator / molester.\n\nWatch over your kids. Even when the kids become adult, the adults are not safe. The sexual predator is obsessed with sex with ANYBODY.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh please, hodad, you spout rush, fox, breitbart and wnd and you're telling others to 'think for themselves'? Tell Wavemaker how you believe big bad LESBIANS are taking over the farm lands of the south? A rush conspiracy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's only allowed if the gay or alleged gay in question is conservative.....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hope the cake guy wins. The gays and their drama...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Let\u2019s call Trump\u2019s Muslim ban what it really is: A hate crime\n\nBy the same token many Muslims believe that killing gays is an act of love. Mateen was told by his Imam in Orlando that gays need to be killed for their own good. Such love. Such kindness to shoot 50 homosexuals for the glory of Allah. Praise be to Allah. eh Aziz?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No Offense to the Gay community but Jeff is a sad gutless Fag who can't stand the idea of getting his ass kicked in a primary so he does the cowards thing and decided not to run.\nWay to go pansie boy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Rochdale writes:\n\n\"Are they the ones killing gays\"\n\n--\n\nYes, actually they are.\n\nThanks for asking.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It means treating women like mangy dogs and throwing homosexuals off rooftops.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Men worshipping a male diety is kinda gay. #YesHomo #SheIsRisen", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mike, you are definitely gay. Face it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Next, beer for women and gays made with sperm. Yuck to both!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Conservatives...what a joke... The ones that scream loudest about moral values and anti-gay are the ones who are cheating on their wives or longing for the embrace of another man. Wearing a stupid pin makes them look and feel American...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Clean out the swamp.\n\nScreen out the fragile seminarians early and often. What a mess. Gay orgies. Who is Francis to judge, though! Indeed.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sources ? How about one you lack---common sense . Anyone who is so twisted they can't accept the way they were born can't be trusted to be in the same bathroom with young girls. Teachers and coaches have background checks . To you , you say transgender is not synonymous with pedophile---they are kissing cousins.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How about wantonly killing 50 plus homosexuals in a bar? Would that warrant the death penalty? Or should the person just be put up in a comfortable prison for the rest of his life? \n\n(Assuming he doesn't kill someone else in prison or escape and kill someone else--which does happen every now and then.)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Dearest CivilSociety\n\nthere are gay Black people indeed\nand i welcome Gay Black Lives Matter (GBLM) if it exists to take over Pride even\n\nbut BLM is not a gay organization", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don't worry, Richard, no one will ever take away your right to hate black people or gay people for having the same legal rights as you. Your bigotry and intolerance will always be protected by the US Constitution, so you can feel free to be just as hateful and close-minded as you always have been.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "good points mister gay, our mayor spendowitz better get on the job eh.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And you know that any of those you named are homosexuals how? Not appropriate in my view.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The whole ridiculousness of Transgender Sex is obviously here!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I read on three different places on the internet that Nick Travis is a transgender bathroom checker vigilante. Its out there, go do your own google search", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, it's just that what gay men do to each other is more clearly abusive.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "IRT Klastri, it's not bigotry or ignorance if genetically a transgender is a male or female. You know science and the x and y sex chromosome. Any other gender is an imagination or a mental issue.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What is wrong with these crazy anti-racists and ridiculous pro-transgender nuts?\nDon't they know the revolution is about stopping classism?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A complaint of rape should be definitive evidence that rape has occurred. The only issue then becomes the identity of the rapist, and the only issue on which the victim can be cross-examined. And yes, all men convicted of rape should be executed. I agree completely with the \"blue-haired lesbian lawyer\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Malcolm: We know that a \"lemon party\" is an Orgy for old gay men. I'm old, heterosexual, and seldom go to any parties. I've flagged this post as a crude, ad hominem attack. Gary Crum", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "rangerMC, you dont even make sense anymore. when will you thumpers realize that lgbtq's, blacks, muslims, mexicans, asians, the poor, the homeless, aliens, extraterrestrial and earth bound, all have the same, inalienable rights as you, white, christian males do (in a just world of course), the right of personal choice. no one says a straight guy cant marry a straight woman. we just dont care because it is none of our business. its not about your beliefs or your ideology, its about equality and a persons right to choose. your comment on transgenders in elementary school bathrooms is just too stupid to deserve an answer.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Right Mr. Ph.D, I \"made up\" the 2000 year dogmatic teaching that homosexual acts are mortally sinful. Just where did you earn that doctorate?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, I'm sure that a bunch of gay guys knowing that one another are gay would make it much easier to remain chaste /sarc. And from those whom I've spoken with in the priesthood, there's very little homophobia and very little hiding of homosexuality in the seminaries. Ask a Jesuit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What a load. Take a good, long look at yourself, the heartless twit and the greedy republicans you put in power because your feewings were hurted. This is on you and every right wing nut in the country who supports the destruction of America by supporting Trump and the Republican agenda. \nToo much hate preached by the Right: You hate gays, hate people from other countries, hate Democrats, liberals, muslims, other religions, the non-religious, equal rights, the old, the poor, the young, the starving and on and on. \nFor once in your self-centered me, me, me, life, accept responsibility.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "what gay propaganda would you be reffering to? and what do you mean by shoving it down who's throat? Trump should have given a speach appropriate for the the age of the group he was addressing.\nhis actions prove he was shoving this down the scouts throat! just more me, me, me!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Have you ever tried to get into a University with the same GPA as a black, gay, woman with a limp?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Boy \n\nthe hate men articles are coming fast and furious near Fathers Day as every dyke shrew in journalism uses a goofballs's idiot statement to paint all men as dirtbag misogynists.\n\nYou know what - to hell with you feminist journalists and male journalist who back them up due to fear of rejection under the desk.\nWhy don't male journalists say it as we feel? \nThat feminists are a direct and present threat to humanity that trying to create men who have no balls, no spears, no guts, and far too much fear. Imagine the bear bait babies these wimps would create? \n\nI told my son to disregard these articles as they are written by lesbians targeted to the latest crop of man-girls who dress like chicks, drink lattes like Marilyn Monroe would with their little baby fingers hanging the air and have milky handshakes.\n\nHe looked at me admiringly...........\nWhy wife fell in love with me again.....\n\nHave you ever been in a men's locker room ladies. It ain't you......\nGet over it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You just have a gay old time!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When it calls me a \"rag-head\" I disagree. Guess since it's a tranny should be OK for me to punch it out without being accused of \"hitting a woman\"...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Any republican claiming the moral high ground because they oppose gay marriage and abortion should be reminded that they voted for a man who bragged about grabbing women by their pu$$ies and whose wife has posed naked for a lesbian photo shoot!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How about if I read in the Bible that homosexuals should be stoned to death? I guess that means, according to you, that all Christians should be banned from U.S. soil. Awesome! I am definitely on board with that.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No kidding. How dare \"Christians\" have to live with gay people! how terrible!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Geee, the word of God I read is quite clear to me, no, I'm not preaching, nor condemning/judging, that is not my place. I will say, I subscribe to what the word I believe says. Hmmm, that being said, I don't condemn an athiest, muslim or others, why should they push their beliefs on me, no different then a gay, T/G etc. I do not PUSH mine on them. I am always glad to speak with anyone about anything, I again, do not push my beliefs on them, nor go to the government for help, any more then I expect them to do that to me. Yet is it not fine for all of us to stand for what we believe, gosh, is not that what you are saying, only I do not believe with love and care for others? Take care.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "GO BACK TO YE HOMOSEXUAL FKFEST,CIVIL ENOUGH FEKN LIBTARD FACIST PIECE O SHT!\nYOU CANADSIANS ARE KNOW TO BE TURNING INTO LIEING PFFS SOO FULLOVIT,YE STINK 8-O", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is absolutely adorable how you people completely deflect and project and use the \"you're a towel!\" defense while performing the mental gymnastic that lead you to conclude that - you are not racists, misogynist or homophobic just because you hate everyone that's not a white, hetero, male that was born in the US...but rather, those that don't hate everyone whose not a white, hetero, male that was born in the US are the hate-filled ones. \n\nAlso quite adorable how you people love going to penis measuring things - sure didn't take you long. Snowflake.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Regarding: \"Y'know, many of the Church Fathers like St. Jerome taught that when Christ was born, all peoples practicing homosexuality died to purify the world for the Incarnation. Lux orta est iusto.\"\n- In light of Jerome's weird relationship with women, and his rants that their existence occasioned it does not seem odd that for Jerome, creation would be improved by the obliteration of those in the throes of gay sex.\n- That is for Jerome, God's act of creation was not pure enough for the incarnation until women were dismissed or controlled, marital sex was limited to those several times needed for procreation (at least an heir and spare), and men (gay or not) who had sex with men were disappeared.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "well if anchorage cares about the gays.....then anchorage should give inmates in jail condems.....just like CALY DOSE....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lefties are stupid then... because crazy people don't ever get an AR and shoot up San Bernardino or gay nightclubs... which makes me wonder why are these shooters always LIBERALS? Grow up.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's because gays are a special protected class and straight white people aren't. Is that it?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So Chaput is a hypocrite and a misogynist:\n\n\"For many observers, a chief focus of the current campaign has been the crass and increasingly threatening language of Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has bragged about demeaning and groping women. In the third and final presidential debate on Wednesday, Trump also reiterated that he believes the Nov. 8 election has been \"rigged\" and that he might contest any result that did not favor him.\nBut the U.S. bishops have been virtually silent on those topics, while some have continued to highlight the centrality of opposition to abortion and gay marriage.\"\n\n\"Though he did express admiration for Trump's \"gift for twisting the knife in America's leadership elite and their spirit of entitlement, embodied in the person of Hillary Clinton.\"\n\nChaput seems quite evil too. Who else lobbies so aggressively to keep rape victims from getting statute of limitations extensions!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Unless you're gay or an infidel. Right Richard?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It would certainly help things if the mainstream peaceful Muslims spoke out more against terrorism, and Sharia Law. I've read disturbing statistics about how many Muslims in the US believe in Sharia Law, and also believe that violence against \"infidels\" is justified. They need to speak out louder against the violence...... toward women, gays, people who don't share their religion, and so on.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "whatever happened to good old fashioned gay sex and straight sex. The old days seem so less complicated.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "is it the same for gay prostitutes?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When you poor marginalized Conservatives want to lead my country and take away my rights as a gay Canadian, I will slam the door in your face. And so will many others - thank goodness. Maybe you might just want to think about why you're being marginalized.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay, Transgender ... that stuff is boring and mundane now. \n\nThe new frontier will be intercourse with other species; species reassignment surgery, and getting married to your pet dog or cat. Wait for it; it's coming. Take a walk on the wild side!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "2 homosexuals and a traini.....\nAnchorage has officially reached cesspool status.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It'll never happen; to do so would be political suicide. The question becomes, however, how far do the social conservative values go when it comes to other issues? That is, if you are anti-choice or gay marriage, are you going to lean to the hard right on climate, crime, and economics? Everyone knows the abortion debate isn't going to get re-opened in Canada.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree that Hillary has worked hard. Can you name any of her accomplishments as Sec. of State? Can you name any legislation she initiated that helped women and children? She supported NAFTA, putting people in jail for minor crimes, wanted to make black super predators heel, and her support for the defense of marriage act which banned gay marriages. She has called women trailer trash and bimbos that just happened to been involved with her husband. She is a stellar example of progressive policy. Write in Bernie Sanders, please!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, so you think a degree gives you intelligence? I know exactly what you said and it is perfectly understood. It's what the KKK has been saying since the civil rights movement. If you agree with glorifying a racist history, then you're a racist. (BTW - hopefully you remember all your homophobic rants about transgender soldiers). MAGAphants and Fox lapdogs like you would love to rewrite the horror of the Civil War into some noble cause. Of course, as a true lover of KKK and alt-right ideology, you'd probably love if Germany still had statues of Himler, Goering, Spier, and Hitler standing in their town squares. One more point. There's a reason Abraham Lincoln surrounded Lee's house in Virginia with the northern war dead. Because Lee was a hateful and willing participant in a treasonous racist movement that cost this country 500,000 lives. In case you don't know that cemetery is Arlington national cemetery and surrounds Lee's mansion. You moron.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why? it not christians throwing gays off roofs, using the death penalty for homosexuality, or shooting up gay clubs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "EVERY man talks like this. Get over it. If women could see into a mans brain, they'd never stop slapping us. Any man that says otherwise is A) Gay or B) LYING!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your POTUS doesn't exist. Truth matters and nothing you can say or do changes the facts. FYI; Trump is POTUS, no biological male can ever become female (even our bones reveal our birth sex), the Constitution protects religious rights while granting no rights to LGBT as groups, and all illegal aliens are foreign invaders.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Im offended at your homophobic thoughts- you know its ok for one guy to like another guy.... even though that guy might be transgender-", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think that the current mantra from the mainstream press is that \"all rich males are rapist pigs\".\n\nYou want eliminate those who are gay from that group for some reason.\n\nEven when the news media has at least two of that particular breed included this week.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I've been saying this too but the left wing fanatics wont listen!\n\nThey should move somewhere in the Middle East and see how long these fundamentalist Muslims tolerate they Gayness and Ultra left wingness.\n\nI mean I would hate to see them get thrown off a rooftop by the very people they're defending, just for being gay you know.\n\n\nLiberalism is a mental disorder.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nope, itis really simple. First, ignore como estsa, she has no idea what she is talking about.\nNo one has to make a hitler cake or anything offensive like that. Political thought is not protected.\n\nHave you read about people refusing to serve cops? Stupid, but legal. If you refuse to serve white cops, that is a problem.\n\nMake the cake, take the money (business 101) and I gurantee Jesus knows the baker hates gays in his heart. No problem.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As a post op MTF transsexual , I am appalled that NYC pride would hold this convicted felon and traitor up as a point of pride. What is wrong with you folks? Have you lost all sense of right and wrong? Manning is a disgrace to our nation, and a total embarrassment to the gay community. You celebrate this? Manning should be hiding in the deepest hole there is, not out on the street waving to the crowd like the Queen. Sad day for us all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The party is the home of ignorant blacks, self hating leftist Jews, gays, feminists and union thugs, They can kiss middle America goodbye.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What a silly way to start the article, attempting to redefine the argument.\n\nReese writes: \"The idea that gays cannot be good priests is stupid, demeaning, unjust, and contrary to the facts.\"\n\nFirst, this sounds like a typical video taped comment from one of those Jay Leno style person on the street interview, with camera rolling, and in this case, it sounds like an interview of a sophomore sociology studies co-ed from a no-name college.\n\nGood in the eyes of the Church are clearly different from good in the eyes of a dissenting jesuit.\n\nThe Church calls the priest...it's not a job application. The Church doesn't want to call men with high probability issues. \n\nIt's really like saying there 300 lb diabetic 20 year olds \"could be good priests\". They're not going to get the call either for good reasons...it's not good for them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If you niggers and faggots stopped fucking hookers and monkeys, I might consider giving a buck.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "While Muslims excoriate us about supposed Islamophobia, we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, Judeophobia, Christophbia, Europhobia, Americanophobia, democraceaophobia, iconoclasm, and even Islamophobia against each other. Ancient hatreds and wars of extermination between Kurds, Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabi, Druze and other Islamic sects are worse than anything expressed in the west, even by Trump", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "well written but....how do you know the shoe guy was gay? asking would be kinda rude. just wondering.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hillary was and always had been for sale. \n\nShe was bought and paid for and the Wall Street 1% should demand their money back for contractual non-performance! They spent twice as much money for her and more against Trump and she still couldn't win! \n\nHer selection of Podesta as her campaign manager was a serious lack of judgement as well. Not to mention Abedin and her sextexting husband the Weiner man. You are judged by the company you keep; she has kept Slick Willy, Weiner, and Podesta most recently. \n\nI definitely don't like her personally; she is the kind of low scum that gives honest thieves and criminals a bad name. \n\nHer gender is basically irrelevant; she could be a hermaphrodite and s/he would still be worse than a bucket of warm vomit. I view her as a pimple on the rear of the body politic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Has homosexuality changed? Is it now licit sexual activity? Is Satan our friend now? Is there a hell? Seems there is much confusion on these points.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder aloud why minorities are so over represented on CNN. Charles is a far left leaning black bisexual. That is precisely the opinion he brings to both his written op eds and his commentary on CNN. Don is a black homosexual, who is always giggling about how weird he thinks the POTUS is. And before you paint me with the homophobic brush, I think Anderson Cooper is a terrific journalist, and someone who might be fun to have a beer with.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "this is inappropriate, its bad enough that a feminist gayloving person is doing this for a photop. But one whos' father was a draft dodger and wore nazi clothes ? shame.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What a joke. Democrats and Hillary made a statement about sexual predators when they voted in favor of Billy being elected even though the knowledge of the mans sexual deviance was laid out to the entire country. Democrats make a statement in favor of gross sexual perversion when they support and defend gays and lesbians. They make a statement about sexual perversion when they agree that a sexually deviant woman should be allowed to kill her own baby. They made a statement to the entire world when a transgender spoke at the democratic convention setting the example for all of our children that law and order does not matter and your feelings trump anything. Pot calling the kettle black for sure. The manipulation and hypocrisy coming from the democrats is mind boggling to say the least. But we must understand they are drinking a kool aid that distorts the mind. Its called free lovism and situational ethics. Hail Hillary!!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I had zero trouble getting into college.....\n\nIf you were rejected, I'd be interested in finding out how it was you found out that you were rejected in favor of a black lesbian with a limp.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lesbians exist, too, you know.\n\nAnyway, flagged.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I shudder to think of your sexual relationship, if all sex is to you is lust.\n\nAnd you know the mind of Christ, to say that he agrees with you that gay sex is icky.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "HC, I grew up in this bl**dy place, the product of an Irish mother and an English ex-British Army soldier. Have you ANY idea what I went through at school? Don't shed tears for me, cos I was one mean son.... I took abuse from NO-ONE. I could fight. And I did...fight. Those who tried to denigrate me cos my beloved dad is English. I would rather go down fighting than cowering in a corner!\n\nI WILL perpetually stand up to abusers, including those who denigrate homosexuals. Know what? I'm in my freakin' element! I love being surrounded by enemies and fightin' back. Wow!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus was a cross dressing female. You people didn't know that but I don't think it's fair to deny it. Jesus wanted women to be priests, homosexuals to have nuptial masses, and for men to be able to have sex with donkeys. Now WHERE does Jesus say men cannot have sex with donkeys? Where does Jesus say that? He doesn't! Therefore, we can say it is very ignorant to say men cannot be with beasts. WHERE does Jesus say specifically that people cannot marry their sisters? He DOESN'T. Therefore, you people are ignorant who say that you can't marry or bang your sister because show me where Jesus says that!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay is just another Trump Chump fueled by GOP flatulence.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "same old protest crowd. freaks, losers and assorted other queer folks. The rainbow umbrellas say it all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You sir are a waste of skin! Please feel free to step out in front of oncoming traffic and take your homophobic attitude with you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gays don't scare me, leftist who want to force me to interact with gays scare me.\nForeigners do not scare me, we just want them to come in legally, as we need them.\nMuslims should scare all of us.\nLiberals, their contempt for individual liberty, & lust to enslave us scare me.\nI love women !\nI am mixed race.\nI try to learn from those that earn more than I do, & give little thought, one way or the other, to those that earn less.\nMost of my leftist family members have LESS education than I do.\nIn short, you do not have a clue what you are talking about.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's the leftwing of the Labour Party and the LibDems who are anti-Semitic in the UK. The term \"Zio\" is often used as an acceptable word for Jews living in the UK,; Corbyn's brother has done this. Labour are going after the Muslim vote.\n\nSaunders has been preaching for years that Europe has nothing to fear from Islam; a religion openly hostile to Jews and Christians, as well as gays and women. \n\nAnother article from Islam's useful idiot.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Even more odd if you remember that M103 asks that decisions about hate be \"evidenced based\"\n\nYet all the evidence shows that jews are the main victims of hate crimes... the order being jews, blacks, gays, muslims", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This woman is a religious nutcase. She is against gay people, etc. I wouldn't vote for her if she were running for dog catcher. Well, maybe dog catcher but she would probably have to compete with Muffi which is about the only job that he's qualified for. OK, maybe qualified.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Using the comments in her opinion piece and this piece I'd say Trump brings out the lout in feminist women......\nEven women are sick of them.\nMy wife says these women are just menopausal Marxist anti-fas\n\nThe lout in Democratic party women was always there - it was just never discussed\nIt is now. Hillary lost- it kills them\n\nYou can see it in the narco-fems opinion pieces. \nWhy are you not taking muslim men to task for mutilation and wife killing?????\n\nThey have lost the narrative and it kills them.\nA bunch of cackling lesbians - nothing more. Daily Beasts alright\nThe butch lesbian is the only Lout in the room. The rest of us get along just fine.\nTo these narco fems - the only good man is a neutered one.\nNot gonna happen ladies\nIn fact - you only make our resolve greater\nYou got your freedom but it is never enough, boogeymen in every corner u say\nYou want power to destroy", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Some days their actions and choices are as unfathomable to me as those of a lesbian Muslim immigrant who voted for Donald Trump.\"\n\nThat is about as unfathomable as it gets. As someone who canvassed for votes for months last fall, I know many people base their vote on a single issue that most people would consider bizarre. Still, I'll bet that this woman was an outlier and that most lesbian Muslim immigrants didn't vote for Trump.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Here's the truth to the ridiculous lies being sprouted here: They say heterosexuality is not hard-wired but transgenderism and homosexuality are. Obviously a stupid, nonsensical position but that is what it comes down to in fact, practice and theory if we allow these uneducated apes to impose their stupidity upon us.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All form of hate need to be eliminated racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, discrimination against Transgenders. We must get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight Trump and this racist Quebec law!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Globe and Mail recently had a headline along the lines of \"Trudeau ends cash for access fundraiser\" when in fact he had done nothing of the sort... headlines can be very misleading.\nI don't know what headlines you are reading but \"Dangerous Faggot\" most likely refers to one of the Breitbart editors, Milos Yiannopoulos, who is a very out gay man who did a speaking tour of US universities which he called the \"Dangerous Faggot Tour\"... if that is what the headline you saw is talking about then you have seriously misinterpreted its meaning. Perhaps you should consider that you may have misinterpreted all the headlines you've read there... just sayin'.\nAnd to answer your question, no, a headline saying \"dangerous faggot\" is not racist.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A bit like anti-gay Republicans secretly trolling for gay encounters ...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is irresponsible for Martin to ignore how unhealthy homosexual sex is. \n\nBecause of PC no one ever mentions the diseases and filth that surrounds homosexual sex.\n\nTotally aside from the immorality of it, you'd think he'd be concerned about the physical health of homosexuals.\n\nOral-anal, fecal mater etc. totally unhealthy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sure Trump is the reason your life is so bad. I hear he created cancer and AIDS just for fun.\n\nMuslim countries are known for their extreme intolerance. Once again the left has zero common sense when it comes to Muslim. The Left is very pro women's rights (as it should be). Muslims treat women worse than animals. You can literally do anything you want to your wife or daughter in a Muslim country. The Left is very pro gay rights. Muslims kill them in the streets. So our little snow flakes don't realize you can't be pro Women/gays and pro Muslim, it's one or the other. Trump's attempted ban on Muslim's is a Pro-women move, yet they don't see it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Meanwhile Muslims in Toronto are launching a campaign to convince the LGBT of Canada that Islam is their friend, a better friend of transgender and gay people than those intolerant Catholics and Christians. Forget about Orlando and Bataklan; that was Trump and the NRA.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Anyone else tired of all this winning?\n\nThey stole a supreme who is already providing dissenting opinions. They have an EPA guy in that wants oil execs running it. They have a pray the gay away education secretary with the iq of my shoe lace. They have a brain surgeon as an inner city manager who can't keep track of his luggage, an agricultural science flunky as a nuclear energy representative, a racist as an AG and on and on - we all know this shit.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "HOw much did Frank Giustra give the globe to get this crap written. Obama, the gay coke addict did more harm than anyone before him.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My brother and sister in law are gay.\nMuslims shove gays off buildings all over the world, still practice slavery, engage in \"honor killings\"\nLook at the problems in Europe.\nWe can't import these people fast enough to prove how tolerant we are.\nIt's crazy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A \"Lesbians not welcome here\" sign would not be illegal. Then if they patronize, give them lousy service. A baker, for instance could reluctantly bake a wedding cake for lesbians and accidentally spill a cup of cayenne pepper in the mix. This is what liberalism has brought it to.\nThe bigger question is, why would lesbians patronize a business where their deviant lifechoice is reviled?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So blacks and gays are now targeting the police. Perfect. As if that is going to change any respect those groups have for one another. It's only going to rule out the support and assistance the police have given to these groups. \nNext time a black or gay person needs police support, good luck with that. The police should just ignore both communities and let them fend for themselves. Black crime in the northwest and northeast of Toronto should just be allowed to fester. The police now have a license to only deal with and address when these groups commit criminal acts against other communities. Hopefully this will reduce the high cost of police presence in the black communities. Let them rot.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You forgot kicking puppies, starving children, and throwing old people and homosexuals off tall buildings. If you're going to regurgitate generic talking points from the Democrat National Committee (and the Civil Beat editorial board), you might as well throw in the entire kitchen sink of hogwash.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The explanation about Shepard's death being a botched drug deal has not been proven. Evidence has since surfaced that suggest the killer had sex with Shepard but experienced self-loathing for it due to societal pressure then cracked. Regarding the Orlando killer, it's possible that he was gay, but he was a Muslim who lived with a woman he called his wife, and law enforcement officials have stated that he scoped out the nightclub where he killed people weeks before gunning those people down, and even went on Grindr in order to try and understand the mindset of gay men before he proceeded with his heinous atrocity. Some of the men he met on Grindr testified that they never had sex and that he was so \"creepy\" they left before anything happened.\n\nBut how telling that you would immediately jump to those particular conclusions in order to demonize all gay men as you typically do. Sick.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah and the show is terrible. Awful acting that just chews the scenery every time. Even Jason Mamoa is terrible. The writing is the root cause for all this crap. So cliche brings nothing new to the table.Oh yes, the accents... The god awful Scottish, English and Irish accents are so poorly done that they come off as just plain racist. I can tell you that this show won't last long.. They definitely need to fire the person in charge of wardrobe, god they are obsessed with dressing everyone up as homosexuals. every outdoor scene is riddled with Spruce trees too. You can tell it's filmed in Noofie land if you have ever been there.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Beware the Gay Mafia. They are the BIGGEST group of self-centered hypocrites & thugs on the planet.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The legislature and the judiciary are afraid of the gay lobby. Pure and simple. They so desperately want to appear \"progressive\" and intellectually superior that they debase their own principles with pathetic moves like this.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is the post implying that the judge is gay? I don't understand the comment, please explain? Are gays involved in this and not Muslims and their relatives? *", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ask Marshall, the loser. His campaign went negative or Roem being a transgender woman.\nAsk Trump why he wants to throw all transgender people out of the military.\nAsk the \"family values\" crowd, they equate being transgender with being a sex offender.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Amy Demboski, your neighbors might be having gay sex. shouldn't you be putting a stop to that? thanks Eagle River, you're the deep south of Anchorage. the toothless inbred deep south.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Bible makes minces no words--slavery is okay, so is stoning homosexuals, and committing genocide. The only false equivalence is your brain.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Milo Yiannopoulos is a senior editor at Breitbart News. The creeps and freaks at Breitbart prop him up because, as a self-loathing gay man, MY is useful to them. They promoted his \u201ctour\u201d from the get-go: \"Suck It Up Buttercups: Dangerous F*ggot Tour Returns in September\u201d (7/6/2016): www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/07/06/milo-yiannopoulos-dangerous-faggot-tour-returns-campuses-fall/\nMY is pathetic, more to be pitied than scorned. His message is right wing cliches that are notable only because they are spewed by a gay man who both encourages gay men to stay in the closet and flaunts his own homosexuality for profit. To protest his appearances is to treat him more seriously than he deserves. On the other hand, of course, people have every right to protest if they so choose. They do not have the right to commit violence, to do harm, to cause damage; they especially don\u2019t have the right to stop the man from speaking. It\u2019s incredibly stupid. It transforms a pathetic figure into a sympathetic one", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gee Motely, you've already pegged the insult meter once tonight. Had a bad day because your homophobia boiled over?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If anyone is interested I would be happy to copy to you in it's entirety the Facebook thread in question. There is much more to this story than meets the eye. Shame on Whidbey News Times for attempting to portray Mr. Christensen as a bigoted homosexual hater as that is simply not the case. Shame, shame!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sadly, those extremists and Canada's conservatives have the same opinions of the gay. So you lose, Dick.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Amazing numbers. In 14 years, the Huston area paved over 54,000 acres of wetlands. Such hubris. Moreover, Texas is officially a climate change denial state. The whole disaster has been caused by gay marriage.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, there is. Of one believes as the Catholic Church teaches that \"gay marriage\" is not something that can morally be supported by a practicing Catholic, then baking a cake for said \"marriage\" would be sinful. At that point, a business person decides whether it is more important to serve God or Caesar. If you require Biblical citation, I suggest you begin by reading St. Paul's Epistles concerning the morality of a good Christian. Try 1 Corinthians 6:9. There are others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "you mean a transgendered horse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A Muslim, registered Democrat and Homosexual walks into a Homosexual bar and shoots the place up, and I've got to surrender my guns? Yeah right, COME AND TAKE EM!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Just like Hitler's SS rounding up the jews, gypsies, homosexuals, clergy etc. Agent Orange is laying the base for a police state. Impeach this unfit and deluded idiot, please!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And you probably voted for Hellary which is a vote for pure evil whether it be abortion, gay marriage, euthanasia, corruption or an all out assault on Christianity. Those who voted Democrat and Hellary are a disgrace.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your concern would be touching if it weren't a canned talking point.\n\nNobody needs to be trans or a soldier to be in danger in these third world dumpster fires. If you walk upright you qualify.\n\nThe best solution ? Stay out of these 'heck' holes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Geezus, instead of making abusive political commentary of our Great President Trump, Griffen should concentrate in ascertaining the best plastic surgeon because that pix of her in this article is a reflection of what an \"old grumpy lesbian hag\" looks like at its peak. Scary!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How clever of Kenney. He hates gays and so he found a way to put them back into the closet. Brilliant indeed.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Democrat mantra: \u201cIf you\u2019re not pro gay\u2026stay the hell away.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why would the right abandon Moore after these allegations? The fact that that Moore wants to imprison gay people was fine with the right. They are repulsive.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently the emails state he buys meth from gay Islamic party boys, who are transphobic, hate blacks, puppies, and illegally voted for Hillary !!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes... Hillary and company are winning the Gender War that is raging in the US election... and Trump is getting bashed from all sides. He has two Gender War cards left in his arsenal of smut:\n\n1. Hillary is a lesbian and will not be accepted as Commander-in-Chief\n\n2. Hillary has cuckolded Bill and is a fraud..!\n\n... and both cards are being tossed around in Trump's circle of supporters... quite sad but politics is a dirty nasty game... wonder how that will go over ....lol", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lesbians don't deserve rights anywhere. Why make it an issue in Anchorage?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is hilarious. All the poor Catholics whining because they can't have the opportunity to support their gay child. Meanwhile they belong to a religion that teaches that their gay child is going to burn for all eternity in a lake of fire. Good grief.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In the comment that was removed, you called me a jerk. I saw it when I was asked to judge its civility. It is one of the very few I have deemed uncivil. How about some consistency?\n\nBurke told grandparents to reject their gay children lest the grandchildren come to accept homosexuals. That, sir, is being a homophobic jerk.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Was Fred denied opportunities by political institutions bc he was gay, Jewish, Catholic, a socialist (gasp)? Or did he and his family just play the game and lose bc he wasn't smart, didn't want to work hard, etc.? There's your answer. And for what it's worth, wealth redistribution has been going on in the country for longer than there's been a country. Most people just never noticed bc they've been on the better end of it. Like me and my German great grandparents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not gay or a women. You have no reason to hate me son.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Poor Hillary, a bitter, crooked woman who cannot get over her loss. This is a woman who has no accomplishments and who used the fawning liberal media to build her up and erase her corrupt activities. But the American people saw thru all of it, and rejected her. Liberals, especially Hillary divide people along racial, religious and regional lines among others. Then she was beaten by the black guy (obama) and realized that blacks coalesced around Blacks because they are the most racist ethic group. But women do not all adhere to gender politics. Blacks and gays are higher up on the liberal totem pole than women. Hillary, the most unoriginal politician in the public eye, uses only focus-group tested cliches. There is no core, to this woman. She is as corrupt as they come.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You know that I know that that wasn't the whole quote. The next sentence explains what the sin was and why God destroyed her. Which makes sense in the context of the whole preceding 48 sentences about Jerusalem the whore.\n\nYou interpretation is homosexual revisionist.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sure, and while you're at it, update Martin Luther King's public displays to show his mistresses and anti-gay stance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It isn't hate, it is simple facts: liberals and democrats have endlessly attacked Western Christianity for the last four decades but suddenly want everyone to 'tolerate' and embrace Islam. Very strange to hop into bed with a religion that executes homosexual and stones women to death for infidelity in 2017. I wonder why?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "if a Gay kid is reading these posts and see any dissenting view being censored\nhe might think that there is something wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A Muslim killed 50 gay men and shot 50 more in a club in Orlando because his respected and righteous Imam told him it would be an act of kindness, that being dead is better than being gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "One could effectively argue that Islamic State, with it's ideology surrounding women, Jews, gays, and the separation of religion and state is far right movement.\nBut it might be simpler to stop all the hair splitting and take action against those inciting violence and hatred from any ideological basis.\nWhen people want to continually bang on about one particular hate group and never mention or rationalize the actions of another you can often hear a little axe grinding in the background.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "FormerDougCo, Is the baker asking the gay couple for a cake? How are gay people discriminating against religious conservatives. If your religion says you are to kill me, but I kill you first in self-defense, is my killing of you discrimination?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How do you know he is not proud of his cakes? Artists do not take pride in their work?\nMaking a cake for a gay wedding does not support that lifestyle, it is a business transaction. Period.\n\nI am aware no one said anything about him asking people about their sexuality. I am sorry that was hard for you to understand. Is he going to ask everyone that comes in if the cake is for a gay wedding? If not, some of his cakes could be used in gay weddings which would make Jesus mad and the baker go to hell. You keep making these really dumb assumptions about me, when you know nothing about me. I am not confused, you are rude. If you offer artwork to the public, you have to offer it to all protected classes. \n\nWhy would black people be discriminated against? Precedent. Ridiculous? \nIf the baker can legally discriminate based on a very weak interpretation of the bible, then anyone can discriminate against anyone and point to the bible. Satanists can discriminate against Christians...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yea that gay couple had a fight over their winnings and broke up. Oh so sad!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Contempt for the military ? really !!! \nBolstered funding, and said NO transgender.\nYes I would say his military support will show up in droves in the next midterms.\nWith the quest for collusion crumbling the media and its band of useful fools are running breathlessly from one hype to the next. \nHow I muse in your anguish !!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Except for the first category --- divorced and remarried Catholics --- I agree that the failure to fire does constitute unjust discrimination. But then, there are firings in the all instances you mentioned (except the first), just not as many as you and I would like to see. The answer, though, is not to increase the numbers of wrongs by the Church by failing to fire in-your-face married gays who have positions of prominence. The answer is to fire them AND those in the categories you mentioned (except the first).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Incorrect. These are liberal positions in the Lockean sense, more correctly called left libertarian or liberal libertarian. The key provision of the ideology is privacy, not from search, but of conduct. There are some things the society simply has no interest in doing, like considering Latinos as white people who can face enhanced scrutiny and racism by law enforcement, like regulating birth control or pre-viability abortions, regulating consensual sodomy, allowing Evangelicals to discriminate against Catholic Churches because they believe the Pope is the anti-Christ and denying marriage rights to gays because they are gay. Also denying education to the American children of immigrants (or benefits). In other words, freedom is no license to treat other people with scorn, torture, incarceration or the power of the mob, even if the mob is led by the local Catholic bishop.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay people ARE Canadians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Tranny rights are human rights and human rights are tranny rights!\n\nLOL. Just F kidding.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wrong? No; he said they're bigots. \n\nAnd that's not an unusual frame of mind for those who voted for Clinton. Disagree with them on gay marriage and you're a homophobe, no matter that you said we should love gays. Disapprove of abortion and you're a bigot. Disapprove of certain forms of affirmative action or BLM or illegal immigration, and you're a racist. Express conservative views on a college campus and you get hauled before a student board for hate speech. These are so-called \"liberals.\" And they wonder why they lost to a slug as bad as Trump. They have no imagination. Literally. They cannot imagine that mainstream America, which does not accept most of our cultural rot, would see Trump as the lesser of two evils. They live in a cultural bubble, all tatted up and pierced, glorifying the ugly, hating beauty and God, hating Natural Law, having their abortions and marrying gayly, all without a clue. No imagination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes. When BLM accused the white gay men of Toronto, who started Gay Pride in 1981, of being nothing but white racists, nobody came to the defense of the gay community. We were thrown under the bus when Tory, Trudeau and Wynne all nodded their liberal heads in supplication to BLM. They were cowards, afraid that they would be called white racists too. How insane is that?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I really have no thoughts on transgendered in the military as I doubt there are very many of them. I am in my sixties and unlike gays, have known no transgenered people. I know they exist but they are just not a major issue for me. But the fact is the Donald loves to stir his base to distract from all the investigations he is undergoing. You just show how pathetic you are when you refer to anything anti Trump as fake. What will you do if it is determined that the Donald is a traitor, a lover of Putin and a hater of freedom? Anything?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh but won't anyone think of the homos?!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Omar Mateen was a closet homosexual. Hopefully, we don't anymore of these people who hate themselves for being gay, because of their own religion, going nuts and shooting up people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And if the business owner didn't want to serve a gay couple, you would be the first outside screaming and crying about it. You want the right to discriminate but do not want to extend the same right to the business owner.\n\nTypical hypocrite libs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Amazing!\n\n\"I do not indulge in name-calling.\"\n\n\".... Cardinal Burke is a homophobe ....\"\n\nDo you actually read what you post before you post it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Liberals are smart they could use Trump against Brown. Wynne will be the defender of Muslims, gays\nTransgenders and whatever the media portrays. Brown and the Conservatives will be considered Fascist to disagree with Wynne. Liberal majority in Ontario next election. \nMasses are not that smart.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No transgender bathrooms were more important. Now you see why HRC lost.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many gays on Church St agree with you. More are loosing their fear of speaking out against the sabotage of Pride. There is a big \"F()()K YOU\" to Pride coming.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So you are a sane young black ( or non-white ) liberal college educated atheist woman ( or LGBT )...? ... or were you born an insulting ( mentally challenged ) tard. Oooops...turd.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are you gay? What kind of poof wants a job like that? Advisor? You sit at a desk and talk talk talk. All on the taxpayers' dime. What about forestry or the fishing industry? Lumberjacks and fishermen have the highest death rates. Be a real man. Join the army. \n\nEffing poofster.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay men are no more inclined to commit deviant behavior with minors than anyone else. You conveniently left out trusted family members. Why? Homophobia is ugly yet hangs on in the lives of the bigoted. They must always have someone to blame, never themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "DougN: They will have to call in an \"X\" officer to pat them down. They will also have to call in a Lesbian, Homosexual, he/she, she/he, Black, Mexican, whatever colored officer, Trans Mutilated, Agender officer to pat these people down. \n\nWhat a Friggin Discussting MESS. The old sayin is, \"You get in a fight with a pig, you will get slop on you................", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Karem is a fag", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hmmm I seem to remember when Harper was ridiculed here for being fat and hiding in a closet during the terrorist attack on the Hill. (which was a shot at gays imho)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A gay Indian is the Prime Minister of Ireland. Another Indian is the Prime Minister of Portugal. Next stop, the UK!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps you could point out comments where Pandora or LotL have called JH, 'liar, hypocrite, fool' or compared him to a Nazi war criminal. On this very thread he has accused me of the sin of sloth and of hating homosexuals simply because I follow what the Church teaches.\nI can't understand why no one takes him to task, unless, of course, they agree with him.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm feeling that these would-be CPC leaders are in a race to the bottom. \"Who\", they challenge, \"could possibly be even more stupid than me?\" \"Oh\", they cry, \"well, that was incredibly stupid. I bet I can do one better. So there!\" \n\nHonestly, I've voted Conservative, Liberal, and even NDP in the past (yes, \"even\" ha-ha) BUT this leadership race is really sad. I fear, at this rate, that I'm doomed to never be able to vote CPC again. Between the \"gay thing\", the \"Canadian values test\", and the nasty Cdn / American business typhoon ... Ugh!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "HOW could Trump be 'worse' than a lying, murdering, thieving career criminal that takes bribes from countries that murder gays, treat their women worse than their dogs and stands by as Christians are murdered because they won't convert? Let's not count all the 'mysterious' or 'coincidental' deaths that have followed her since she was fired from the Nixon investigation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The gay men of Church St who created Gay Pride in 1981, are now personae non grata to city hall and Pride committee. BLM accused us of being a pack of racists and white supremacists, and Tory, Wynne and Trudeau agreed, We are told to shut up. Nobody is listening to our concerns about being treated like garbage becasue we are just homosexuals now as we were in 1981.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hypothetical... your daughter is a boxer, she's the champ... and the undefeated top contender is a Trans Female... you cool with it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes the p u s s y hat, wow!!!!\n\nTruly I have never seen a people who I would never want to be around me or my family. \n\nMy wife - the independent bread winner said they all look like crazed lesbians!!!!\n\nThe professional protesters are still active and yes Tabs grade 7 education along with a horrible failed ideology still require a mass improvement. \n\nThe end has arrived Marxist, learn to deal with it . The next 3 years are going to be painful.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Let\u2019s call Trump\u2019s Muslim ban what it really is: A hate crime\"\nRidiculous assumption, but expectable coming from an islamic writters name.\nFor what I know, Christian muslims will be facilitated and given priority to come over to the States. Now that lives out the extremists who want join the Americans.\nNope, wrong again, it isn't a hate crime.\nCutting throats, stoning women, killing gays, write about that and call it a hate crime Ms, Shaist Aziz.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "the first and most vocal moron out of the clown car is your duly elected self righteous homophobic religious whacko. no recall of that idiot? then own her. i would be embarrassed to admit i was from Eagle River, because of her.\nonward, Christian soldier, keep purging the pews. you'll have no one left soon. that day can't come soon enough.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We will ever have true equality in Canada until ALL people are accepted. I'm not a Christian, but many of my Christian friends tell me that Jesus loved everyone and never condemned others- nor did he even say anything about homosexuality. \n\nIf that's the case, why then do we have self-righteous religious organizations around the world eager to promote exclusion, bigotry and condemnation toward the LGBTQ community? Maybe they should read the very document they profess to live their lives by....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nope, Chris from Ottawa\u2019s tranny ego Cassandra. The incredibly boneheaded sjw duo.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Islam treats women like dogs, execute homosexuals and correctly views liberals as infidels.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "you are such a dope.. a true herb man is like old guard weight lifters.. give us the iron.. give us the doobie.. thats what makes it real... no little dick wannabe... by the way.. holmes was bisexual.. so i suppose you are too..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "God will fix it if everyone pray enough. That means all us non born again have to be saved. No gay anything. Got to go. Abortion has to go because God said so. Never mine it's been around for more than 3000 years before the Bible was written. Just believe and give enough money to the church and Goddd will fix everything. If not buy some holly water from the russian preacher on TV.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You mean you don't like him because he's gay? \"light in the loafers\"? \nAre you heavy in your boots?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Motely, your recent cheap shots on gay people contain outrageous lies, misinformation, and zero evidence. You've convinced me to add another description to the growing List of Your Character Flaws - Racist, Misogynist, and now Extreme Homophobe", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "To Kevin Burns, way to kick someone when their down. Real men speak with their fist not a keyboard. Btw, how's your hepatitis C doing from sex with that gay hooker?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Rep. Hensarling will say it was gay people's fault.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump never said all Mexicans are rapists.\n\nhttp://www.breitbart.com/live/vice-presidential-debate-fact-check-livewire/fact-check-donald-trump-not-call-mexicans-rapists-criminals/\n\nTrump did not say anything against gay marriage. In fact, he did say he \"is fine with it.\" He has said *nothing* opposing gays or lesbians. He said the gay marriage issue is \"settled,\" meaning he does not oppose it.\n\nTrump said TG people should \"use whatever bathroom they want.\" (source: NYT)\n\nTrump never said \"Black people are moochers.\"\n\nYou don't even have your facts straight on what Trump has said. Not even close. So I find it even more hard to believe you have powers to read other voter's minds.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Didn't know you're gay too, Obooba. No wonder you chose that name.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "um ... gay dudes would never go for that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Allie, the transgender troops who served America well did so as men and women consistent with their sex at birth. Allowing them to now serve in the sex with which they identify is beyond insane. It is liberalism run amok.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "These tiny examples of Christian love ........ along with cemetaries filled with decaying corpses of self loathing homosexual hierarchs will eventually put an end to this Catholic hatred.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are too funny! Gay men do nothing that straight folks haven't been doing since the beginning of time! We just do it better!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LIEING GIMP!GO BACK TO YE HOMOSEXUAL FKFEST,RUSSIA AIN'T NYT PFF,YE DIG!\nFK YE UNCLE SAM SKELETOR DK,YE NOTHING ABSOLUTELY BEEN DUSTED TO ASHES HOMEY 8-O", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Junior at a gay pride parade pretty much sums up what Canada has become............", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality, transgender sex-all are deviations from normal human behavior as well.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Historically the \"gay gene\" if there is one has been associated with high achievements in the arts, science and mathematics. Also, why edit it out? In what way are homosexual people hurting you, or Rush Limbaugh for that matter. I heard that Rush is gay, but I don't care to think about it much. Speaking of pig genes and Rush Limbaugh, let's hear your \"oink\", Rush.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No evidence shows this was a setup by Phillips so he could put gays in their place. He didn't open his bakery 23 years ago hoping gays would someday gain the right to marry and then he could refuse to sell them cake, win the court case, and put up a sign saying \"No gays allowed.\" \n\nOn the other hand, gays have gained power and now want to impose their beliefs on everyone: Bake us a wedding cake or else. It's legal force used to impose the new belief system and destroy the old system. A lot of people still believe marriage is between a man and a woman; these people must embrace the new definition or be put out of business.\n\nThe gay couple, by the way, got a free cake from a bakery about a block away. But they still want Phillips shut down. \n\nSo, yes, this is all about power: the power of gays to impose their beliefs on everyone. I hope the SC imposes limits on that power.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I bet you're still ticked off about finding out that Liberace was gay", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Homosexual is now gay,\"\nAnd, gay people are out of the closet!\nThey're in the military!\nRun for your life!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, it has nothing to do with his politics or the fact that he resides in Boulder (which a lot of the state look at as a liberal enclave). It must be that he is gay!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Transgenderism and other politically correct stupidity will be the downfall of Western civilization.\n\nSorry if this offends the minority, but most normal people are tired of this nonsense.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Let's look at one of your opinions you call truths: homosexuality is a disease.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Male homosexuality, on the other hand, is an expression of the ultimate male supremacist blasphemy: that God erred in thinking that the man He created needed a woman.\"\n\nThe best evidence to date that you are personally offended by homosexuality as some kind of rejection of you as a woman. Not a good place to begin. Why not be a brunette with a hate-on for redheads? Just as ridiculous.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A bunch of closet cases, in my opinion. No other explanation for such pathological obsession with the subject. They think more about gay sex than any gay man I know and ever have known", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Nazi boneheads deserve being punched.\"\n===========\nNo one \"deserves\" to be punched. Assault and battery is a crime. Simply being a Nazi is not. Those who resort to violence or who think that violence is justified simply by what another person believes or says.....is worse than the Nazi.\n-\nAnyone who punches a Nazi simply because he is a Nazi is no better than someone who punches a black person simply because he is black, or who punches a gay person simply because he is gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Kill and murder religion. We need to destroy people's hope and differences. Force kids to be gay and lesbians and try sexual fantasy before they are out of school. Indoctrination to make them believe they were born that way with no choice. This is the way democrats are sounding. This is what they continue to do as well. They are pointing fingers with so much hypocrisy it's almost as sick as forcing a person to take a pennetration in the assets just because you want to be gay and ensure others are forced to be this way to. Just accept it and ignore the CDC talking about the aids epidemic sweeping the nation because of the last 8 years. Maybe we should ignore it and let them do this. Once they die off from sexually transmitted flagrant perversions/ they get what they paid for. \nHomosexuality is (Not love) it's just about having sex. If God is love, Love is not gay sex. \nLove is putting others before yourself. This includes having sex. Real love is not sex(rapeor homosexual tendencies.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuals see \"intrinsically disordered\" and see it as applying to them. Not some amorphous \"homosexual tendency\", but to them as homosexuals. \n\nYou are now spouting the tired old \"gay sex is icky\". If you don't like it, then don't do it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He is not Alt-Right. \n\nThe Alt-Right hates him. \n\nHe is pro gay. He is pro Israel. He is an immigrant and pro legal immigration.\n\nHe bashes Nazis. He bashes the Alt-Right.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "i hear some believe the fires were caused by tolerance of homosexuality :D :D :D", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obama was too busy promoting transgender issues and hating on white Christians to actually help Americans.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Personally I'm very doubtful the SCOTUS would hear any arguments in an action to reverse same sex marriage. It certainly would not be in keeping with the history of SCOTUS regardless of the justices who will sit on the bench in the future. Even though I'm not voting for either Trump or Hillary. What Trump had to say about homosexuals at GOP convention and the GOP's response was very commendable. What the DNC leadership referenced i.e. homosexuals makes them deplorable hypocrites.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed. Also incorrect. Monsignor used to tease Michael about his trysts with women. It is sad that the fact that he left that life behnid has people calling him gay. Agreed on Trump. What is pathetic is that this thread advances because these folks cannot handle what is said about Francis and how that evicerates their Triumphalism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I dont think any parents actually hope to have a gay child...they just accept and love what they get....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wait till they find out she is a black transsexual , then watch them spin", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"...all of the members of the Catholic community will be invited to participate in a preparation process in which they will be asked to pray, to listen, to learn and to discern...\" Is that listening and learning a two way street? \n\nWhat is the \"good news\" of the Church? If we stick to the story of Jesus, there is \"good news\" indeed. \n\nBut is the Church's attitude on women, contraceptives, LGBT people who marry, people who live together before marriage, and so many other issues - is that part of the \"good news?\" Do I want to spread this part of the \"good news\" to young women, gay friends, to career minded couples who are going to hear that contraceptives are a no-no? Or, do you suppose folks will come into the faith realizing that not even Catholics really believe all that \"rules\" stuff?\n\nI no longer know how to parse my Catholic faith to others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do not put words in my mouth. \n\nYou are the one making up ridiculous hypothetical situations.\nYou also think that homosexuals have special rights no one else has.\nI would say that is weird, but como estas thinks that Germans and Austrians have special rights no one else has.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Who is advocating white supremacy beside a few marginal weirdos that no one listens to? The left creates boogymen who don't exist to rationalize their own prejudices. Your side loves to say that \"not all Muslims are responsible\" for a terror attack that happened last week but out of the other side of your mouth you say \"all white people are responsible for slavery\" that happened 200 years ago. We don't have Christians killing and raping their way across the globe in 2017. Christians pray for gays while Muslims stone them and throw them off rooftops", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The economic inequality that exists in this country will only be remedied once taxes are increased on the rich, preferably to the extent that existed when President Eisenhower, a Republican, was in office. Back then, the top marginal tax rate was around 90%. Now it's below 40%. Sadly, the bishops' choices for president and congress want to lower the top marginal tax rate, but the bishops knew this when they tacitly endorsed these Republicans in order to protect fetuses and stop gay marriage. Unfortunately for the bishops, they cannot eat their cake and have it too. They chose fetuses even while Roe v. Wade remains the law of the land. Now, poor people will get poorer and rich people richer, all thanks to the bishops' choices. We are what we choose, and the bishops chose. Now it's too late to complain that it's not working out the way that they wanted. Some of us could see very clearly prior to November 8, 2016 how this would all work out, and we were right. The bishops were wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What group currently has the most number of AIDS cases? Heterosexuals. Which group has the least? Lesbians. I know you have been told this, so you can't plead ignorance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your statement shows how truly ignorant you are about the Proud Boys. First they have many gay members as well as several hispanic and black members and supporters. As for fighting. Of course especially since the fascistic antifa have been known to assault men and women, throw urine and attack using weapons. Darn skippy! Congratulations on accepting MSM's typical tact of lies and disinformation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"they said, their presence to some black, gay or transsexual people was seen as threatening.\"\n\nOh really, when a dangerous homophobic, racist nutter in the pride parade loses his steam and starts a brawl, who do these blacks and LGBT think will be the first in line to help bring the nutter to justice? Unicorns? Fairies? Tupac Shakur?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is this a JOKE? Try looking up Muslim pride, Black pride, Jewish pride, on Facebook. Now look up \"White Pride\" these pages are actually deleted because of minority demands.\n\nFacebook and Google blatantly promote a pro LGBT/Islam stance on their front pages, which are accessed by almost all children who use the Internet. The use of gay or islamic insults will result in immediate 30 day ban, yet blacks and mexicans can call out whitey, honkey, cracker, all day and there is never a peep.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The bigotry and ignorance about transgender service people is on full display here. These are people who have volunteered to serve, so it's remarkable how imbeciles who don't even know them can develop this much hate towards these brave people.\n\nTrump has allowed the deeply ignorant to ruin careers and disrupt our armed forces. What a disgrace.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Milo is an ass, ergo all gay men are asses. Uh, OK.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I believe that Jesus never mentioned homosexuals. That makes no difference to the homophobes and gay haters. Several of their prophets said some disturbing things. Radical Christians use those idiotic passages to spread hate and lies about gays. Yes, the bible calls for death to my tribe; can't sugar coat that. Interesting how Christians pick and choose what they follow and do not follow in that book. All it takes is one of the gay hating Christian charlatans to incite hate and murder.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Absolutely it's a compliment! By \"homophobic trash\" I meant blaming homosexuality and homosexuals for the clergy sex abuse scandals.\n\nOne of my leaps; I should have been more clear.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Transgenders are the preferred protected class du jour for leftists\". Liberalism is a mental illness!\n\nhttp://louderwithcrowder.com/man-drops-pants-in-womens-bathroom/#.Vw_Sr6P2awU", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I can't believe the Denver Post published this witless slur against transgender people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "seems pretty normal to me. A liberal city full of weirdos, potheads, guys with scraggly beards but no mustaches wearing kilts with their socks pulled up to their knees. Guys who wear belts but somehow their pants sag down to their kneecaps with their underwear showing. Crime everywhere. women with rainbow colored hair with a pokeman backpack strapped to their back. People who run across train tracks when the bars are down and the lights are flashing. This is normal for liberal cities. You asked for it and you got it so quit your whining and enjoy your opiod addicted weirdo population of strange deviants and creepy nutcases. Hey.....the gay fondler mayor is gone now! Maybe you can find another gay fondler. This time a woman....preferably with a marine haircut, deep voice, giant adams apple, carrying a socialist novel by Lenin. Oh wait...I forgot your socialist councilwoman. The brown one who spouts such bright ideas like \"Hey lets give boeing to the workers and make it a commune.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Just in - Trump has transgendered from female rattle snake to spitting cobra!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yep, the institutional Church has shown its loathing of gays by calling them \"intrinsically disordered\" and by firing civilly married gays. They have re-written \"You shall love your neighbor as yourself\" with the addendum \"unless he or she is LGBT, in which case you should hate and fear them\".\n\nI suspect you don't actually know any married gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry DP, you can't change you biology with your emotions.\nTransgender is a mental disorder.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Paul; Alethia, Its everything I can do after reading your comments, to not vomit. Im guessing your both in favor of the fascist transgender bathroom law, the Iranian giveaway deal, after which the Persian scumbags chanted death to America, and the apology tours, and pulling Americans out of the middle east, only to put them right back in. And a more divided country between whites and blacks than ever before, contrary to the promises obama made in his candidacy, and enacting more onerous regulations on corporate America than any other president in history. And now a SCJ thats charges money to hear her speak!!! What a disgrace! barak o is absolutley the worst prez that ever got elected in this great country, even worse than jimmy carter. and praise the lord, now we have sonia!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, I am stating the actual evidence based on investigations of abusers. It is not a matter for Vatican style circular reasoning. It's too important for that. Seminaries should quit hunting gays and go after those who have never dated a man or woman. Reason is idiot without data.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The hateful and sometimes violent homophobia of people that call themselves \"religious\" or \"christian\" is the main reason I became a None! There is no difference in hating someone due to race or religion or sex or sexual orientation. They are all hate and equally disgusting horrific human behavior! And what's worse is when that HATE is spewed out of the mouths of so called religious people. Now, I know not all people who claim religious belief are all homophobic, racists, and women haters. Unfortunately, churches are one of the best places to find such people. And too many large, powerful, well funded institutions are homophobic and bigoted in their actions, if not their words. Hate and tribalism under the disguise of \"religion\" is worse than just plain old hate for the sake of hate. At least such people aren't looking to use religion as an excuse and justification for their bigotry, whatever the flavor!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, a gay Hispanic Trump supporter is implausible enough. And then to get beat up by Bernie supporters? And then to write a piece that happens to be picked up nationally? Really? Clumsy political hack job.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality is a biological issue and not one of ideology.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As always Ivanka is a low brow hypocrite. \n\n1. Her father courted the Alt-Right \"white nationalist\" movement (Bannon, Breitbart etc.) and continues to count them as worthy members of his coalition.\n\n2. Her husband and herself are actively exploiting Daddy Trump's position to their advantage. \n\n3. So she is mad about anti-semitism but should we infer from her silence that the anti-mexican, black, muslim, trans rhetoric is ok with her?? \n\n4. This issue is not whether Daddy or Daughter Trump personally have animus to jewish people. What matters is that Trump's movement embraces, encourages and relies upon the extreme bigot vote, and has purposefully done so since the beginning. Half heatedly crying foul now is mealy mouthed hypocrisy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Um, ya he did. Kenney supports the proposed Catholic curriculum which suggests that gay people are going to burn for all eternity in a lake of fire. This is what they want to teach to children, in 2017. There is an invisible man in the sky with a score card and if you are gay then you get to go to hell. Seriously. This is the kind of thinking that is supposedly superior to the evil socialists.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The mosque is where young Muslims are taught to hate homosexuals and to tbeleive they should be killed for their own good. The mosque is where young Muslims learn to hate Jews and to want to kill Israelis. The mosque is where young Muslims learn females are less important boys. The mosque is where young girls are taught their fathers and brother can kill them if they do not wear the hijab", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Great letters! Will Gay? I hear ya. It sucks.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "American criminals who denied free speech to this gay man at a university famous for free speech.\nFascist scum!\nhttp://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-journal-the-berkeley-riots/4F9BDE75-FB2A-4816-9699-BB3F7A99956D.html\n\nWhere are all the MSM?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah! but don't you nasty, evil women think you are worthy, and sacred enough for priesthood!!!?!\n\nThose who admit to being homosexual are not to be allowed ordination, because transparency is wrong! Homosexuals should just lie and then they become acceptable for priesthood!?!\n \nDivorced can never receive Eucharist but these sex addict priests, and bishops, only need to say I am sorry in secret, in confession, and they can go on to communion the Sunday, after their orgy on Friday, and confession on Saturday. Sure - Jesus would be fine with that!?!! Bull!!!\n\nThis is very comforting: \n\"Alberto Melloni, professor of church history at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, said there is nothing unusual about scandals in the priesthood.\n\n\u201cThere is no sin that a cleric doesn\u2019t commit. Scandals to me seem quite normal,\u201d he told RNS.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There are gay Jesuits?\nYou amaze me!\nNext thing you'll be telling me that there are more gays in the clergy/religious life than there are in the general population!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes.They both have had systems based on : One book, one leader, one faith, one law, one people, one world, Jews and gays not welcome.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuals are afforded equal protection to participate and engage in Interstate Commerce - that's absolutely correct. No business may deny goods (defined by tangibility: a piece of cake, a box of carrots, etc...) or services (staying in a hotel, admission to a theater, etc...) to anyone based on their designation as a member of a protected class. It's also illegal to deny 'reasonable accommodations' to someone with a disability (no handicapped seating/parking) who is also a member of a protected class - all falling under the CRA of 1964. Fortunately, those arguments have nothing to do with this case. The customer is asking the purveyor to EXCEED his obligations, which are providing baked goods, in order to 'accommodate' the customers request, as a protected person. The purveyor has no obligation to accommodate the additional request of adding a message to the cake - equally opening his doors (intangible) to all customers, and providing the (tangible) cake is his ONLY obligation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All I said was that you don't know for sure. It has nothing to do with being cotentious.\n\nI will say that it is truly amazing how many gays and minorities you know that are Trump supporters....but that's your story, and I know you're sticking to it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think that many Christians have a problem with homosexuality, it's the actions, & forcing businesses to close, because they choose to follow the Biblical teaching on those actions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you're down with female mutilation and executing homosexuals eh Len?\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2017/04/22/health/detroit-genital-mutilation-charges/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We dont know how many blacks in America voted for Trump but we do know many did, just as many women and gays did too . The problem is that they can't come out and say so. Putting a Trump sign on a lawn would have been dangerous in Ferguson. For black Republicans, their homes would be burned, their cars vandalized, and they would be beaten in the streets by angry black thugs if they made their opinions known. In a twist of perverted modern racism, those black voters are now labelled white, and racists too.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, it's not clear whether the lovers were all female. A few females complained, but the article went on to describe how the priest invited other priests to his sex parties. It's a gay thing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hope it goes down. Some cleansing would be goodness! Think about who the left is? Elitists, blacks, browns, homos, and other victims and deviants!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "God is one of love and God is one of revenge... yes that's what i was told\n\ni was also nailed to the wall by some Christians..., blocked and unfriended by a good couple... many agreed about Knysna burning due to the LGBT things happening there.. i asked them why god took 2 years to burn Knysna to a crisp, response was one of \"in his good time\". then came the arson thing, same Christians... i then asked them seeing they agreed that it was gods wrath if he then instructed these apparent kids to start fires. this was the turning point because this meant god was doing good by employing arsonists.. OUCH!!!... thats where the blocking came in... god burning is ok, god using crime to do it, big no no...\n\nbut i get you, it does get a little to much, way to much. thanking god and praising god after almost dying in a car accident or almost being raped my question is do you pray and crap him out because your friend did die or your friend was raped... you dont want to hear the comments...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you've never lived in an Islamic nation, I get it. But I have, everything you tell me is a lie, are things I've witnessed or experienced the event while there. And when I specified being born lesbian, I was acknowledging they are born that way, and get killed for it when discovered. Just like the gay men, but we were specifically talking about women. You need to get a grip on your hysterical self!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While Muslims excoriate us about supposed Islamophobia, we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, Judeophobia and anti-Semitism, Christophobia, Europhobia, Americanophobia, democraceaophobia, iconoclasm. Muslims even suffer Islamophobia against each other as hate filled Islamic sects try to exterminate each other in endless civil wars.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh boo hoo! Another sob story from the liberal Kool-Aid factory attempting to make us feel sorry for the most hateful, misogynistic, homophobic, racist group in Canada that produces the vast majority of terrorists. Not that the Globe is taking sides or anything...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your blatant bigotry and ignorance grounded in ideological/fundamentalist religious idiocy claiming mental illness for all transgenders is blatantly false. The real insult is equating perverts/peepers/pedophiles with the transgender segment of society. Those criminal actions are committed by professed \"straight\" people against both male and female victims. Priests and preachers dominate the perpetrator class using the power of position to prey on their victims. Unbelievable in the 21st Century that people cling to such false beliefs grounded in hatred for other human beings and traitorous to the founding principles of this nation. Disgusting.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "JimmyJ: We are all familiar with self-deprecating humor. Fat guys can make \"fat guy\" jokes; Jews can tell \"Jew jokes\", gays can tell \"gay jokes\", Mexicans can tell \"Mexican jokes\", an Italian can call another Italian a \"wop\"; and Black folks can call each other \"N$#$%er\". \n\n I use my favorite scene from Owen Wister's \"The Virginian\" to explain what I mean. The protagonist , the \"Virginian\" wins a big poker hand from the villian and the villian calls him an \"S.O.B.\" The Virginian responds \"smile when you say that.\" The message is so clear. The key is INTENT. Is the term used as an insult? Is it used to \"put down\" another person? Are you \"spoiling for a fight?\" Are you being patronizing? or is the comment or joke truly friendly and innocent. All key questions. If a buddy of mine say \"Crum, you're such a #@% ,if a stranger says the same thing....that's a different ball game. Does this make sense? Gary Crum p.s. I hope you're not too stupid to understand this.....(cont)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "THATS WHY YE MORONS WHO SUPPOSED TO CATER TAMPER PROOF TECHNOLOGY BASICALLY NOW ADMIT THAT WE SPORTING BODIES TOOK SHORTCUTS AND USED WORN CONDOMS TO SEAL UP THE TESTS,MORE LOGIC TO THIS THEN YE BLATANT FACISTIC LIES SPREAD BY ERM NON HETEROSEXUALS AND ALL YE FAKE MATES ALONG WITH IT!\nNEARLY ALL WOULD BELIEVE THE DILIGENT RUSSIAN ORTHODOX COMPARED TO THE DEGENERATE HOMOSEXUAL WANNABES OF YE KIND,LIVE AND BEAR IT SORE LOSER CIA TROLL", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nothing is stopping you from donating your time and money now. So put your own money where your mouth is before irrationally slurring (\"ammosexuals?\" really? Kinda juvenile don't you think? Heck, kinda homophobic by association) and blaming all gun owners for the actions of a minority of criminals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would talk about the lies you spread about Hillary, but I really need to talk about something else.\n\nYou personally were against trans using the same bathrooms as women because they might be groped. You are now excusing someone who is in court for the rape of a 13 year old and openly stated he groped women.\n\nChristianity Today, the largest evangelical mag, dropped Trump due to him being very non-Christ like.\n\nYou are literally advocating for someone that is talking about sexual assault.\n\nLet me spell it out. Saying \"She has a nice ass\" is different that 'Grab them by the p***y...they can't say no cause your are rich and powerful.\n\nUntil you understand the difference please step aside and let real honorable men have a conversation about how women should be treated.\n\nI as a man refuse to be lumped into the category as those that abuse women.\n\nLearn what consent is.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "DEAR writter of this artical, please drop dead. You're human trash. Gender is fluid, and you even admit to it in the same freaking peice. You're not transphobic, but you are using it for clickbait. Might as well start calling you the whore of babylonian. \nYou use faith to harm people. God doesn't take to kindly to false prophets. \nFyi, lgbt is older than any faith. 10000 years baby. We are older then your faith, the same faith that fear mongers our existence for, yet again, more gain. Fake believes. Satanic white supremacists. To stupid to realize you're being used. \nDon't act like denying us our beliefs makes us better. You are the one harming trans people by carrying out transphobia, everything you said was wrong and soooo many people that actually know what their talking about know you are full of shit, evil, trying to harm fellow life with your lies and deception. I hope you rot, whore.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Funny how the right wing is always complaining about how gays and other males minority groups are wanting \u201cspecial\u201d rights, but when it comes to their private \u201creligious\u201d beliefs they demand exemption after exemption. The time is coming, as the pendulum swings the other direction, when these demands will be seen in a negative manner and they will lose them all. People will remember how others have been treated by these groups and they will fight back.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lol, how's That Clinton Foundation coming along, these days? No one except Democrat- registered Islamist terrorists blame gays for their personal failures, so just peddle you fake news somewhere else; no one buys that, anymore.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Especially when Rome has spoken. The CDF is full of misogynistic idiots to be resisted as often as possible. It would be better to adopt the Orthodox approach and shrink Rome to a national patriarchy under Constantinople. We could have our female priests and gay weddings and Nigeria can be as backwards as it wants.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "These stories are too common.\n\nWhat was the one in Manhattan recently? Some priest was spending parish money in a lavish lifestyle with his gay live-in lover, something like that. \n\nI think he was keeping two sets of books. \n\nRoot out these priests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Florence is to gay males what Yachats is to lesbians. Surely you know that.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Complete nonsense. The Vatican probably has more homosexuals in its government than the rest of Europe combined.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What fearful hypocrite spends their free time to take rights away from others? Scared lost soles that's who. So you are afraid of a gay wedding cake? What would Jesus Do? Not this. Get with the times and move on. Go feed the poor. Help others. Minnery gives Religion a bad name... I pray you see the light some day and bring love into your cold heart. Please stop wasting the legislatures time... the voters have already spoken.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump is most likely homophobic due to a deep-seated embarrassment over his longtime homosexual relationship with his gay mentor Roy Cohen...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Black Pride = being black and proud\nGay Pride = being gay and proud\nWhite Pride = NAZI!\n-\nHypocrisy is a greater crime than racism.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why did this comment get deleted by the civil-gestapo?: The democrats will not be happy until we are all un-armed and helplessly cowering face-down on the floor of a gay bar toilet.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wah wah wah, go paint yourself a sign and walk around in a circle with the other morons. I just got back from a gay wedding and smoked a huge bowl of the weed I grew. You are a narrow minded lefty who hasn't got a clue.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This gay looking dirtbag is only generous with other peoples money, not his own. The year before he ran for the senate he made $12 million dollars and gave a whopping $2400 to charity.\n\nHe's also UpChucky's little lap dog.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Great? 2 homosexual males using surrogate mother(2) produce another homosexual male or lesbian or more homosexual males and/or lesbians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Good to see one come right out and admit his bigotry. We all know gay people are not suitable for public office.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Jerry Brown the gay Governor should have called out the National Guard, all Police Officers then brought out the water cannons, flaten every one to the ground, washed clear to the ocean, any left shoot every one of these brain dead pukes, This is America not Iraq. This is wrong.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We must build a wall to keep these transgendered sheep-lovers from invading the Homeland and forcing their boiled food on us!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You may not be a reader of the Calgary Herald & know the respect that Don Braid holds in the province. Don's recent column has informed us that internally the NDP calls the legislative action after Jason Kenney.. Most of the province will believe Don Braid before they believe any politician.\n\nIt is the NDP who are playing politics with gay kids. Absolutely disgusting.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How long is your contract with ADN.....you are getting disgusting. You are a religious bigot, obvious by your article title. Anyone who points out the religion or race of a person as a way to label them is practicing bigotry and racism. I thought you were supposed to be a well educated woman and could actually be cognizant of those truths. \nAnd don't you DARE try to put the transgenders (.2%, if even that) on an equal playing field with the MAJORITY of Anchorageites, who are only trying to protect the PRIVACY and safety of their women and children.\nYou are against that! How dare ADN push your garbage of anti-women, anti-children, anti-family and anti-decency.\nYou are also one of the many liberals who are obsessed with sex. We have just suffered 8 long years of the decline of decency in America. Entertainers are pornographic, more than talented and almost half of the country laps it up daily.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why do gay people always have to think we care that they are gay? Do heterosexuals go around telling everyone, \"Oh by the way, I'm heterosexual\". Do what you do and shut up about it!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You have not debunked anything. You just do not understand what is going on.\nAgain, you can make ridiculous contentions all you want, but you have offered nothing to prove them.\nI can not explain it to you in simpler terms or with smaller words. \n\nIf you want to make more ridiculous hypothetical situations up, I would be happy to explain them to you.\nExplaining the \u2018gay white supremacist getting a cake\u2019 was fun.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "MAGA? Make America Gay Again? Make All Groping Acceptable? What is this MAGA you speak of?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is a problem for gay people, not for Canadians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Get the Chechen homosexuals over here ASAP!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Facts aren't subjective. Your \"facts\" aren't even close to truthful. If a Christian kills someone as a hate crime, or kills a gay U of Wyoming student, I don't project these heinous acts upon all Christians. Grow up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CMD: Since you seem to want to play pedantics with me...let me remind you of the difference between two very common words....mute- meaning unable to talk and \"moot\" meaning not of relevance in the present circumstances. I understand the meaning of the term \"regurgitate\" and, indeed, have repeated to you the law and the circumstances of the bakery issue. You seem to have difficulty with understanding the incident and the court decision. \n\nIn fact the \"religious belief\" you reference is specifically \"homophobia\"...the extreme position that homosexuality is an affront to God and homosexuals, unless they \"repent\" and abandon their sexual preference, are going to hell. For religious folks there can be no greater condemnation. The refusal to accomodate the same-sex couple is, as the court has held, a clear example of discrimination against members of a protected class. That may be fine with you.....it's not fine with the court. It's OK to be a bigot...it's not OK to discriminate ..GC", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I live in Illinois. This is the first I've heard of coffins for miscarriages. Are you sure you don't mean Indiana? Mike Pence was the former governor and I believe his happy little sexist \"I hate women and gays\" heart passed that law in Indiana.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How many gays have christians thrown off rooftops and then stoned?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nazis aren't a protected class. Homosexuals are. \n\nRead a law book.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course you can, but know that in doing so you reveal your own personal obsession with the anus. Are you gay?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You need to get your movement going to keep blacks, Hispanics, and gays in their rightful place.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I would put so much gay porn on my phone if I ever crossed the boarder lmao", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No doubt you feel the government should be out of your life all together.\n\nI bet you have something to say about gay marriage and sex ed and how they both should not be allowed", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr Ruse is as foolish as Fr Martin. My point was that Martin called out those that disagree with him as latent homosexuals, but now plays the victim when he received negative comments in return. It is all nonsense.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If that many! I guess this is a lot like that \"one drop\" rule in the old south. Just one gay marriage will destroy all heterosexual marriages in the whole world!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I feel the same fear for the gay members of my family.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, gays should remain in the closet, where they won't bother TomZ. He wants his daughters to be brought up to loathe gays in just the same way he does. And God forbid that gays should have \"rights\" like straights do. Tom calls himself a \"Christian\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why fo gay guys always think they can get away with misogyny?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How many times have we heard the Left (Democrats/Liberals) in the United States, Canada and worldwide state repeatedly, not to hate Muslims, Jews ,Gays, Blacks and just about every other part of humanity?! How many times?! How many times?!\n\nYet, how many times have we heard Democrats/Liberal politicians, world political leaders of every stripe, the news and broadcast media, talk show hosts, T.V. and movie stars and private citizens both in the United States of America, Canada and around the world spew hatred and condemnation toward American President Donald Trump feeling that is all prim and proper?!\n\nLike the Islamic terrorists who are radicalized by I.S.I.S. in mosques all over the world, those people who I have mentioned above that hate President Trump to such an extreme, are certainly responsible for radicalizing the gunman, James T. Hodgkinson. You have fueled this hatred and indignation by the words from your own mouth.\n\nYes, you asinine hypocrites have blood on your hands.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Republicans are such predictable hypocrites.\nYou can safely bet that whatever they are obsessed with and accusing the other side of doing is what they are actually doing.\n( \u2026private emails? check.)\nTake Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), for example.\nRep. Murphy is a fine, upstanding Republican with a wife and a mistress.\nGood red-blooded guy, who is now implicated in his girlfriend's divorce.\nIn texts produced in connection with court proceedings, a possible pregnancy, became something to 'manage' when Murphy and his lady friend Shannon Edwards thought she might be pregnant.\n\"And you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week\" Shannon Edwards wrote.\nMurphy answered her, writing, \"I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will.\"\nHow long can it be before we find out McConnell is transgender?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are making it up again, you have no evidence that Cardinal Newman was a homosexual. You are just spreading malicious gossip.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow. \nIt is super you think gays have extra rights that non-gay people do not have.\nPlease list these special rights gays have that I do not have.\n\nI have torn down your pathetically stupid contentions numerous times. The problem is you can not grasp a very simple concept. It is weird. The baker does not have to bake a cake for a skinhead, period. You can deny service to people for being a skinhead. I will post it again for you. A gay skinhead goes into a bakery, lol, your hypothetical situation.\n\nThe baker could deny service to the skinhead, for being a skinhead. Political and terrorist thought is not protected.\nEnd of your very dumb hypothetical situation.\n\nLet\u2019s say the baker decides to bake a cake for the gay skinhead. The baker does not have to bake a cake with Hitler or anything related to politics. If the skinhead asks for a cake that says, \u201cGay Marriage Should be Legal Worldwide.\u201d The baker is under no obligation to bake the cake, that is political.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And that a religion is misogynistic, treats women like property and throws gays off buildings. That is not very nice either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I certainly do. To me the saddest part, because all politicians are worthless in my eyes, is that voters still fall for his BS. They could seriously care less about actual serious pressing matters to 100% of taxpaying voters. The economy, deficits and debts. Once this goes too far which is steadily approaching all those feel good vibes go right out the window with swaths of decency and humanity. They've made gender politics the most important issue which is plain silly. When everyone's broke do you think gender or gay rights, etc will be of any use? I assure every taxpayer we will be running deficits into infinity with this government and style of leading. Absolutely no doubt about it and you'd be a fool to think otherwise.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wait a minute. That woman is perfectly able to talk about her \"husband\". How do you know she is NOT Gay, and she is the female half?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why do y\u2019all try so hard to look like men when you hate them so? This \u201ctransgender\u201d movement is a fad just like tattoos. These poor kids are starved for attention. It\u2019ll fade out like hula hoops and cabbage patch dolls did.\n\nThree hundred years from now, transgenders might be as reviled as slave owners are today.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The only way it is homophobic is if the gay population took it to mean that Donald Trump is actually gay & they found it insulting that Colbert would lump him in with them for a laugh. But as a joke for those Americans who do not understand, it implies that Trump is Putin's b***h. And that remains to be seen. Money buys a lot of things.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Smh....15, age you are eligible to undergo a transgender procedure in Eugene. 21, age you are eligible to undergo the polluting of your own body. Genital mutilation and hormone cross sex therapy apparently is much healthier than smoking on a cancer stick, at least there are warnings on cigarettes.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"I know you're gay so birth is not relevant to your kind\"\n\nDespicable. And I do not pretend to be civil. This kind of comment does not deserve civility. From an old white guy with children.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Null, you are confusing homosexuality with pedophilia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you the same Inept. Purg. who would go on anti-gay tirades? Or has someone else taken over the handle? Incidentally, do you sometimes get your left and right mixed up?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "normal as in statistically so, which is untrue among clergy. True heteros left and don't join. priesthood Asexuals and gays do.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Would you be opposed to a pro-pedophile group on a Catholic campus, in the name of introducing children to positive sexual experiences? Studying an issue and it's personal/cultural impacts, is far different than advancing a certain agenda or promoting a certain life style. I have Zero Problem with a Faithful Catholic university studying the issue of homosexuality in a scholarly way. That is far different than Clubs on campus which are advocacy organizations for the homosexual promotion agenda. Do you understand the difference? Newman certainly did!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Muslim bakeries have refused to make wedding cakes for sames sex couple, have been given a pass to refuse service. Even gays won't go after Muslim discriminations. But a Christian pastor is all but tarred and feathered to get out of town.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No amount of censorship, police intimidation or Canadian press bias will succeed in concealing from Canadians the incredible amount of hatred being propagated by Islam; hatred towards Jews, towards women, towards homosexuals, towards anyone who doesn't subscribe to that brutal doctrine.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, please. Stop slut-shaming women. A woman has the right to do what she wants with her body. The author of this article speaks for victimhood-loving feminists. Hugh was a supporter of civil rights, including gay rights, back in a time when it was unacceptable and he deserves respect for that.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hope all you LGBTQ people understand that Sharia Law (read that as the 10 commandments for Muslims) demands death to infidels. That means you have to believe in either Sunni or Shitte version. Being either version in the wrong tribe will get you killed. But they BOTH believe homosexuals need to die. And that women need to keep their heads down and their mouths shut. The ones you know here are practicing \"Taqiyya\". Ask them what \"Taqiyya\" means. And if they don't tell you its their Primary job of a Muslim to deceive infidels (you and me), well then, they're practicing \"Taqiyya\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So trans-gendered people cannot defend the US and fight? Used to say that about black people and women. Discrimination is discrimination.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And I am NOT gay, regardless of what anyone may tell you. That makes it so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Or a few drunk lesbians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I have met many homosexual priests. none, I MEAN NONE would have ever touched a child.\nTHIS STATEMENT ABOVE IS SICK", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Moore is the same so-called \"christian\" that said this, \"\u201cHomosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one\u2019s ability to describe it.\u201d He claims it's the same as bestiality. Look up the rest of this moron's nice \"christian\" comments.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What an appropriate drawing to illustrate this article! \nDear gay brothers, we know some of you are gay. We think others of you are gay. We love you. Well, I love you and I believe you are some of the best priests in the church. I wish you could all come out of the closet. If all of you came out of the closet, what would Rome do? Fire at half of the priests in the world? The hyprocrisy from Rome is disgusting and disheartening. Please know that we care and support you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're either utterly ignorant or totally incapable of telling the truth.\nTrump's VP is viciously antigay...\n\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pences-most-controversial-stances-on-gay-rights-abortion-and-smoking-2016-11\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/04/mike-pence-led-anti-lgbt-backlash-trump", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Like these black-clad fascists that attacked a gay man's right of free speach.\nhttps://medium.com/@trentlapinski/the-berkeley-riots-were-a-cowardly-act-of-domestic-terrorism-2bcafbb32ff0#.rlbjjb1np", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I haven't seen any Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Shintoists, Confucians, Zoroastrians, Pagans, Animists, et al beheading Muslims on video, using kids and women as suicide bombers, throwing gays off rooftops, hanging people upside down from meathooks and slaughtering them like a goat, drowning people in steel cages, stoning women for not doing the dishes, etc. \n\nHave you? No, you haven't. You need to quit coddling and protecting Radical Islamic Terrorists, eric. You also need to quit exhibiting your anti-Christian and anti -American hate at every opportunity.\n\nI will say another prayer for you eric. Not in Arabic though.\n\nBe a Great American. Vote for Trump.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "THOM is a HOMOSEXUAL that ENGAGES in DOG SEX with PROGRESSIVES\nTHOM has a CANINE MEAT LOCKER MOUTH that ATTRACTS NIGERS and DOGS as a PARTY MOUTH---\nWHAT A GUY\nHAS A GERMAN SHEPHERD ATTACHED to HIS ASS", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It seems to me transgender is faulty wiring in the brain bordering psychosis of people that are otherwise healthy. a weirdness just like fetischism .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for that irrelevant piece of homophobia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Free speech is wonderful when you didn\u2019t have to pay any price.\" ???\n\nMy dad was a F4U Corsair fighter pilot in the Korean War. He gave his life there fighting for freedom of others when I was a little boy. He was shot down near Wonsan and his body was never recovered.\n\nI represent diversity as much as you or anyone else FJS. Don't be such a bigot. Your tolerance is a one-way street. I have the right to state my beliefs every bit as much as you....... If you can't swallow it, put me on MUTE.\n\nI am not a racist. That is only your perception of me which makes you the racist.\n\nI also have a very valid reason for my abhorrence of homosexuality, but you wouldn't like to hear it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is odd you say,\u201dOf course gays don\u2019t have special rights,\u201d but you still think a gay skinhead has special rights.\nIf gays do not have special rights, why does the baker have to bake a cake for a gay skinhead?\nI did not think it was possible, but you are actually regressing intellectlly. You are chossing to be ignorant.\n\n You are wrong. No one agrees with your ignorant rants.\n\nAgain it is very simple. \nNo member of a protected class gets special rights. \nPolitical thought is not protected.\n\nI can not explain in more simple terms. I can not dumb it down any more.\nThat is it. If you can not grasp those very simple concepts, then you are hopeless.\nNormally I would think you are trolling as no one could be this dumb.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Studies show that being gay does not make you a pederast. Period. What does make you one is personal emotional immaturity, including but not just about sex. Such people should not be around children, let alone parishoners. These are the data from the real world. Your argument reflects the illogic the clericalists who are scapegoating gays spew. They make it because it is consistent with their view of homosexuality as disordered, which is another subject and something they are also wrong about. Cardinal Newman was gay. He was buried with his lover, a fellow priest. Indeed, they tried to separate the corpses and could not (what God has joined). He was no pederast. His relationship was adult. In rectories around the world, gay priests have adult relations with eachother and not altar boys. The two phenomenon are not the same.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Young liberals are really quite stupid aren't they? it's like they read Marx and believe the world works like that.\nIt really is scary that these are the attitudes of the liberals.\nThey are up against a killer in Trump.\nThat guy eats babies\nProtecting Canadian enterprise is job 1, not protecting women. That is done by domestic laws...\nListen kid, The economic survival of Canadian enterprises depends on economics not on virtue signaling or some gay rights crap.\nGender rights?\nWTF!\nLaws protect gender not trade deals.\nThe stupidity of these liberals is really frightening", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There are lots of implications for contemporary situations. \n\nSince Catholics have always believed and taught (but rarely discuss) the truth that couples marry each other and that the real sacramental action happens directly between the hearts of the betrothed couple, and not on account of anything the priest \"confers\" on them, I'd say there are many ways the ancient Jewish ritual you describe could be used to remind us of our common roots as it relates to the sacrament of marriage. In fact, I'd go further and say that if we really believe that, why should any church authority ever dare to question the marital legitimacy of gay couples who believe in their heart of hearts that they have already married each other? \n\nThen there's the lengthy history of couples living in remote rural areas who marry themselves only to have a priest bless their marriage after the fact, or the slaves who \"married\" each other by jumping over a broom without the benefit of the church or the state's blessing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The difference is Jesus never said to kill homosexuals. Mohamed did.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How many Muslim immigrants coming to Canada support the Muslim Brotherhood? Support Sharia law? Support the killing of homosexuals? Support the second class citizenship of women? Look at the statistics. The second generation is even more extreme. And you're worried La Meute?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Jeez, you guys truly are delusional.\nThe Republicans are rabidly antigay...whether it's passing laws to allow discrimination against gays on religious grounds or telling them what they aren't allowed to do with their genitals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Having some regrets are we? You should be hanging your head in shame! And stop it with the lame crap that equates Secretary Clintons faults with the crimes and obscenities committed by T rump! If you think his past behavior is bad, just wait until he's crowned President. Then the Adolph blood will really show up! I lump you and all T rump supports into a bag called Trump Trash. A vote for him was a vote for racism, intolerance, greed, ruthlessness, adultery, vulgarity, criminality, lies, bigotry, misogyny, hate, homophobia, White Supremacy, the KKK, war, inequality, inequity, narcissism, selfishness, a war on the poor, bullying, thievery, and every other repulsive human behavior listed in the dictionary! That's your hero, Donald \"Grab Her By The Pussy\" Trump! Don't you try to justify! We know what you are and what you support and who you believe in. A decent person wouldn't even have wanted to be caught attending a T rump rally!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Remember those days?? That was Alaska!! With these idiots I think not.. I remember the huge snowfall of 2003 I think it was the first time neighbors quit being neighbors, wouldn't even drop their blades driving down their own neighborhood street. Once upon a time, was standard, lost a tranny once because of but these aren't the days of old these are the days of depending on government cause your neighbor is an entitled cry baby A-HOLE with no skills and no realization. Personally, I wish AK would give us a good whipping so these fools can see what they are really up against when the winter storms come to call.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, and he is a pentecostal minister, very anti-gay and, supposedly, \"holy\". Another fine hypocrite exposed!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A simple solution to anyone calling you a cuck is to call them a bedwetter. All these alt-right types are cowards of the highest order. Scared of minorities, gays, women, its pretty pathetic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Idiotic. The Assembly needs to focus on running the city. This is a distraction that is not needed. What's next? A senior representative? A LGBT representative? A homeless representative? A Mountain View gang member representative? An illegal alien representative? This could be endless. Patrick Flynn is simply facilitating more dysfunction in a dysfunctional Assembly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I have a heart but come on you broke the law and I am sure I would be thrown out of your country in a second. Its getting a little ridiculous when you know that you broke the law and now you want help. Its ridiculous that the church is letting law breakers seek sanctuary in their church but yet would throw a gay person to the wolves. Very christian like", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mateen was on a jihad guided by his Imam, father and wife to kill gay men. He is the poster child of a Muslim on a mission.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's none of your business or anyone else's business what one's orientation is or isn't, Dick. I can imagine people like you would've come out of the woodwork to gay bash Senator Ellis. It's too damn bad that Senator Ellis didn't come out of the closet until now. And no he didn't lie to you or anyone else. I'm glad to read that you're in the extreme negative minority posts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Yes it's certainly not cool for a son to have sex with his mother, but . . .\"\n\n\nYou missed the point, which was that for unrepentent, recalcitrant mortal sin, Christians eventually have a right protect the Church by saying \"good riddance.\" That time has come. Things have gone from bad to worse to intolerable. It wasn;t enough that gay sex almost destroyed the priesthood. Most of LGBT wants more. To those who do, \"Good riddance.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why not send them to canada ???? \nAnd if there are any gays, then even better .................", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The best qualified candidate is not always the disabled native lesbian who has converted to Islam.\n\nFunny how that works.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No just the ones where everyone outside of the religion is an infidel and that death is warranted. The one that performs fgm , and throws gays off roofs. I can only really think of 1 group who feels this way. Been a while since I heard black panthers or kkk running people down in cars then stabbing them. Been a while since they've strapped on bomb vests and created car bombings, oh wait not sure they ever did. I'm assuming you wanted a yes response which you could blanket anyone with an opposing view to yours as an extremist? Not today peg, not today.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Amy Demboski, your neighbors might be having gay sex. shouldn't you be putting a stop to that? \nEagle River voters. F you!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender is a mental disorder.\nDoesn't matter if your liberal or conservative.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Unlike Elio Iannacci & Rinaldo Walcott (born 1965), I was around & actively involved as a Toronto musician in rock and roll / Motown 1960/70s. When not rehearsing or performing, I listened to scores of LPs for interesting material. Like most music fans then, we had no interest in Shane\u2019s \u201cpioneering.\u201d The only Shane tune we liked a lot was Any Other Way, which we doubled up with Clarence Carter\u2019s Slip Away, an original composition dedicated to Carter\u2019s deceased brother. Shane's ephemeral \u201cbig hit\u201d was a cover. What offends about this piece is mirrored in a complementary NYT\u2019s 19 Oct tendentious dissertation (also in the Fashion section) titled The Gay Architects of Classic Rock. And that is that self-professed fonts of \u201cquality journalism\u201d are slaves to relentlessly promoting \u201cdisruptive\u201d nonsense. When the Globe ennobles queerness and gender performance while printing - \u201cweddings were created to enslave women,\u201d it\u2019s the Globe I hold responsible as a disseminator of fake views as fact.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Islam relegates women to dog status and executes homosexuals. American liberals look the other way. Why?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "because she's black & a tranny", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And the Muslims are against gays ,Jews infidels, women with hair exposed women in shorts Non halal food, any depiction of moe, need I go on?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Not demanding that Muslims say clearly that they will promise to be tolerant of gays, LGBTs & feminism just as we are telling everyone else to be, unfortunately now opens the door for everyone to be intolerant of gays , LGBTs & feminism. \n\nNice work Libtards!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sure the transgender kid was a plant by Liberal strategists. Pretty pathetic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is a distinct male/ female divide about how Pride should be run. Guys created Gay Pride 35 yeas ago and bit by bit it has been distorted into what is now nothing of its original purpose.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The scripture on that view was meant to keep the Jews separate from their Babylonian captors, as were the dietary restrictions, which have since been revoked. As for original sin, there were no first parents, no Adam and Eve and the whole story of Eden was a myth about blame (not disobedience). The knowledge of Good and Evil is essentially the judgement of others. It is for God, not humans. Quit blaming homosexuals for their sexuality, which is biologically determined by a phenomenon known as epigenetics. It does not force those born with it into chastity, just the opposite. The Church can guide homosexuals into stable rather than transitory relationships, same as others, with Marriage. Castigating them for who they know themselves to be removes them from salvation by alienating them. Their souls are on your hands. Enjoy Purgatory. If you keep on this path, you will be there a long time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Corbeil: You say \" there is absolutely no evidence to support that claim...\" Would you be willing to sit down for lunch with an LGTBQ person? In the 1990's, Barry Goldwater came out for Gay Rights. He had two grand nephews who were gay and knowing them changed his mind.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Given this president's insecurities, he likely feels that his manhood is threatened because there are transgender people that want to serve, while he couldn't run away from serving fast enough when it was his time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was there in '83 when the consistent life ethic was trying to gain traction. Suffice to say there were few takers in the RTL groups--especially concerning the issues of capital punishment, war, and poverty. There was a small group of people in England who embraced it and a few US groups, but demonizing feminists, the sexual revolution, and the early gay movement proved much more palatable to the rank and file. They were more fired up by a perceived breakdown in the moral order centred around the roles of males and females than an erosion for respect for life (euthanasia being the possible exception). Economic inequality and war were big disconnects . . . in the US, they never drew the dotted line between the crappy schools and the food stamps and the decision to terminate, and assailed abortion as a symptom of sex-without-consequences. The woman was also on trial, not the government machinery that had the power to lift her up. A comeback would be interesting to watch.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you serious? What in the world is an Ace? If I follow Annie's logic all you seem to talk about is asexuals, therefore you may be one, however I cannot say. For the record, I am not homophobic, and I do not have an excessive interest or concern over homosexual issues. I simply respond to the myriad of articles posted on this website dealing with the issue. I will go out on a limb and suggest half the frequent commenters on this site are homosexual. I am sick and tired of verbal assaults made against good Cardinals such as Caffarra, Meisner and Burke, simply because they follow church teachings on the subject. I have never made one personal nasty comment about homosexuals period, I simply state my opinion which is in line with church teachings. Four years ago I never would have made any comments regarding the issue, however with recent attacks against the Church, personal businesses and now Gender Identity, it is time to make a stand for what is right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That doesn't quite work. Canadian airlines regulations say that someone cannot board a plane if they present as a different gender than that shown on their identification.\n\nThat means that the transgendered individual who presents as a woman but whose ID says \"male\" cannot get on a plane. Ditto for the transman whose ID says they're female.\n\nAnd it's not just trangendered individuals that get caught out on this. An intersex friend was assigned male at birth - it wasn't until she hit puberty that female characteristics started to appear - first in the form of breasts. If you see her now you would never mistake her for a man. But, because she was born someplace where she can't change the ID on her birth certificate she's seriously restricted on where she can travel. Her passport says female so that much is fine but the airline computer systems are tied into government databases that show her as male. Literally means that she cannot fly back to where she was born.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you're claiming the Christian has the power in this case, I'd say you've been buying too much Rocky Mountain High. \n\nThe gay couple asked for a wedding cake, Phillips said no, the gay couple made a couple of impolite remarks, flipped him half the peace sign, then went to another bakery and got a cake for free.\n\nThe baker has been fined, his staff \"re-educated,\" forced to document his compliance with the law--and, as a result, he shut down his cake-making business. \n\nThe score is Gays 1 and Baker 0. \n\nBut this really isn't about Christians vs Gays. It's about conflicting rights of individuals. Gays can get married if the baker wins or loses the case. But if the baker loses, he'll likely go out of business.\n\nBy the way, it's legal for gays to be Christians--thanks to the First Amendment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For once we're in agreement. I'm gay and have no idea what the I and the A stand for. Perhaps the time has come to abbreviate that long string of letters to the simple letter \"Q\" and leave it at that. \n\nAs for what equal treatment that group is looking for at C.U., I believe that would be the right to exist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rex...the Constitution is of course the Law...but my point was that the Constitution opens many areas where \" originalism\" as an attempt to look backward to what the framers meant, is vulnerable to bias of the Justice, who, by declaring that it is not the role of the judge to apply personal standards of interpretation, and who then limits his interpretations to a vary thin or limited range of sources by which to interpret the framers' intent, can arrive at conclusions which align with his bias under the shield of a forceful theoretical view of the Law's meaning. \n\ntake for example section 1 of the 14th Amendment, where the equal protection clauses under the law are found. What did the framers of the 14th Amendment in 1868 assume to be the interpretation of equality under the law, regarding the rights of gay individuals to marry ? To decide that question will require an interpretation that I can assure you, no one in 1868 had considered, yet are gay people not equal under the law", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He may be a one trick pony, but in this case he has a point. There is a strong activism to \"support\" these kids, which in some ways may be pushing them to do something that they may not need and may later regret.\n\nThis \"activism\" shouldn't be confused with protecting the rights of people, which is what a lot of the transgender activists say is there focus. No one should be subject to discrimination. At the same time rushing into a sex change operation and therapy for children shouldn't be pushed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Negative rights prohibit goverment action, particularly against minority populations (like homosexuals seeking marriage). Positive rights require government action. See Casti Connubii 191-121, which is where the Magisterium requires such intervention.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a Canadian on the sidelines here . . . does anyone really believe they are being \"forced\" to provide contraception and could this explain why the issue has stalled? Isn't Trump the kind of guy who, if you told him about religious exemption, would just shrug and say, \"Beautiful.\" He knows what his party faced with the APA and this isn't the hill to die on. Also: Collins and Murkowski specifically mentioned the preservation of Planned Parenthood when they voted down the repeal bill. \n\nWho buys the bishop's argument that the mandate turns the Little Sisters into facilitators of contraception or that anyone is interfering with their mission to \"serve the poor\"? \n\nI believe that Trump is so badly prepared/educated about most policy that he simply didn't understand what he was signing on to when he promised to stick up for the \"beleaguered\" Little Sisters and he would rather the issue go away. It sure ain't a priority. I think he was uncomfortable with the transgender ban too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By the way, the RFRA (which is a Federal Law, and only applies to other Federal Laws, since it has been ruled as Unconstitutional as applied to the States in Boerne v. Flores) doesn't apply in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. The actual case law in this case is actually in a case called Employment Division v. Smith. In this case, Justice Scalia (writing for the Court) stated that as long as a law is a neutral law of general appliciability, it does not violate the First Amendment's Free Exercise clause.\n\nBut let me ask you this one question. Let's say that this wasn't about gay marriage, but was about Black marriage. Should a baker who's a member of the Ku Klux Klan be able to refuse to serve Black people by claiming that it's against his religious beliefs? If your answer is \"No, a black person should have the same right to be served in that scenario\", then you don't believe in an religious exemption to anti-discrimination laws.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well done. An important addition to understanding of not just transgender people, but for others who are part of the LGBTQI community. \n\nThis struck me: \" ...recognizing their intent to live as the person they believe God created them to be, and refraining from judgments that might exacerbate struggles with gender identity.\" and \" ... hostility and condemnation arise when we focus too narrowly on applying specific moral teachings to the situation and lose sight of the overall good of the person in need of support.\" \n\nI think what we lose sight of is not just the \"overall good of the person\" but the overall good person. While we also need to help those \"in need of support\", we also need to just be open to those who no longer need our \"support\", are no longer struggling, but who have found the place where they do feel whole, and just love them, be open to their being part of our community. Gay or lesbian marriage and trans people who have gone as far in their transition need go.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The sad reality is that discrimination, persecution and violence against homosexuals in Canada is still a problem today- it's just not as visible as it once was. As a gay man, I hear of gay bashings that go unreported all the time. Gay and Lesbian people are still marginalized at work, at home and in the community at large. Employers can still fire their gay staff and landlords can still evict gay tenants- All they have to do is come up with a reason OTHER than the fact they are gay- And I suspect this happens more often than most of us realize.\n\nYoung people still commit suicide because of their bigoted parents, or peer pressure amongst their friends and family to conform to a heterosexual life. Just because we have won all our rights, doesn't mean the battle against homophobia is over- not even close!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Efforts to control pronouns will likely backfire since a transgender-unfriendly harasser could use the legally required pronouns but still harass in other ways. \n\nIt gives the harasser an opportunity for cover (i.e. 'I always use the correct pronoun for that person') you likely do not intend. \n\nThis is not to mention that 'pronoun abuse' will be difficult to measure or prove, and our legal system is clogged enough as it is. When someone set in their ways (due to religion or upbringing) refuses to use the correct pronoun, are you going to find fault?\n\nEducation and time, not legislation, is the usual course of action here, no?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am a gay conservative and I wish the PM would apologize for taking money out my pocket each and every paycheck to support a liberal agenda that wants us to be dependent on the government. Don't bother about apologizing for who I sleep with. Apologize for spending my money on your liberal agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To add....this is not the equivalent to homosexuals serving in the military. Even back when they were 'banned', I served side-by-side with them. Many seemed to be medics, but also one infantry officer that I was friends with(I was infantry as well). We all knew and there was no issue. The difference? They were not wanting to be something they were not. They were were not demanding expensive surgery and other medical treatments. They had no restrictions on service due to 'issues', mental health or otherwise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll concede your point, and posit another real life situation. Is it forcing your religious beliefs on others when you refuse to issue a gay couple a marriage license and tell your staff to do likewise?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Father I would like to see someone who asserts the concept of \"Gay rights\" demonstrate the philosophical or legal basis of such rights. Rights simply asserted out of thin air pose a threat to legitimate, long standing rights grounded in a culture's intellectual history. It is a shame to see artificial rights trump authentic rights. \n\nOf course anyone can create a right if enough people will stand behind him, holding signs, yelling and stamping their feet. You should know that there is no such thing as a right to choose, or immigrant rights, or a right to marriage. Already we have in the making a new right regarding marriage by people who want to marry two spouses at the same time. Why not, they will claim a right to it and since all one has to do is assert a right, without qualification, this too will become a new form of marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Burke is not merely asking a question; Francis is not refusing to answer. Burke is trying to undermine the teaching of AL; the pope isn't biting.\nA Catholic (or anyone) not only may but must follow the judgement of her/his conscience (cf. CCC 1790) even if, objectively, the judgment is wrong. Conscience formation is a serious obligation and while Catholics consult the teaching of the church, they cannot reduce conscience to conforming behavior to church teaching, especially if they have concluded that the teaching is wrong, as most Catholics have with respect to issues like birth control, masturbation, and homosexuality.\nI apologize for allowing you to draw me into a discussion about who goes to hell for what. I admit that I hurled the first volley in pointing out the lunacy of the teaching about masturbation. I really don't think, as I said earlier in thread, that anyone takes this seriously; but I'm aware that someone might be reading who could be harmed by what you write.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Real or the transgender kind?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Democrats also fought for gay rights, civil rights, abortion rights, etc. Lyndon Johnson said the Democrats would lose the South, when he signed the Civil Rights Act. He was quite correct.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is too easy.\nWhat you fail to understand that being a member of a protected class does not grant you special rights.\nIf you are gay, that does not mean you can demand a political or terrorist type cake can be made for you. It just means that you have the same rights as everyone else.\n\nEvery person is a member of a protected class, think about it.\nHere are some protected classes in Colorado:\nRace, Color, Disability, Sex, Sexual Orientation (including Transgender Status), National Origin/ Ancestry, Creed, Marital Status, \n\nEvery person is a member of at least one of those. That does not grant a person any special rights.\n\nSo, your gay KKK guy does not have some special right that grants him the ability to force anyone to make political or as you call it, \u2018terrorist\u2019 type, pastries or baked items.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First, transgendered individuals are not \"confused\".\n\nBut given the number of municipalities with ordinances in place that allow individuals to use the washroom corresponding to their gender (over 200 in the US alone - plus several states and any number of school districts) if your concern were justified we'd have seen hundreds (thousands?) of cases of this happening. Instead, nothing - not a single reported case of anyone using transgender protections to enter a women's washroom in order to commit a crime.\n\nBut, I do have a question for you? How are you going to know? \n\nAnd, if this was your daughter would you be willing to send her into the men's washroom?\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/z6amznq", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dave, you are absolutely right. I am a gay woman and I'm also republican. I can't imagine why anyone would vote for her, especially gays and women!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, what was originally intended was destroyed. I would almost call the disregard of the result Apostacy en masse except those who disagreed were correct. If you understand the Asexual Orientation of most bishops (celebate gays never get the job), the teaching, which alien to the experinece of healthy heterosexuals, was bound to fail. Of course, if you conveniently reject the concept of diverse sexual orientations in humanity none of this can make sense to you, which is like believing that Galileo had to be wrong because God had to be here, at the center of the universe. Those deductive reasoning \u201dhave to bes\u201d are the Achilles heal in most of the Catholic Doctrine that can\u2019t cope with modern science and medicine. Nothing \u201dhas to be\u201d if the evidence life provides contradicts it. That is common sense, not modernism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"How to know if your child is transgender\"\n\nThe real problem for grownups is how to know if that hott person you met at the supermarket has the correct parts for what the spaceship pilots call \"rendezvous and docking.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Easy-peasy. Determine the percentage of transgender people among eligible candidates. Ensure the perecentage of appointments of MtoF and FtoM corresponds. Ignore merit.\n\nThat's how it's supposed to work with all of the other groups -- it would be grossly unfair to treat anyone differently.\n\nOf course, if people refuse to self-identify, it would create its own set of problems.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed, you must be right, Frank, for it says at the top of this very story: By The Associated Press.\nThis just in from Les Nessman and the \"AP news wire\" . . . two special nuggets were left out of the original version from The Oregonian:\n1) \"Men, especially homosexual men, account for the majority of cases in Oregon and nationwide.\"\n2) Multnomah County leads the VD way in Oregon with a fun-loving 250 cases per 100,000.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The downside of Pro-Choice is, Adoption is rarely considered as an option. With adoption - the child lives, and a wanting couple become parents - everybody wins! With the rise in same-sex marriages, and heterosexual couples wanting to become parents at a later age when they are less fertile, we need *more* children for adaption.\n\nPromote Adoption, and rid the shame surrounding Adoption!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess I could whine and moan, and say how \"perplexed\" I am that Kate Brown, our liberal bisexual governor (that's what she claimed) was elected, and how an extension of Kitty Piercy (the hateful Lucy Vinis) was elected mayor, but what good would that do?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just now when I Googled \"transgender transabled\" the first few entries that turned up were (unsurprisingly) from right-wing web sites: Breitbart, Americafreedomblog, the Federalist, etc. Funny that. Sounds to me like an ideology in search of an analogy. While, unlike you, I would never be so bold as to question a person's understanding of his or her own identity, upon further reading I found that the incidence of trans-abled people is actually quite small, unlike the 2-5% of the population who identify as transgender, and that transability was recently added to the emerging measures and models appendix section of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It seems that this disorder (and it is classified as a disorder) is starting to be thought of as a neurological problem with the body\u2019s mapping, rather than a mental illness. Suffice it to say that in both the case of transgendered people and transabled people, unlike you, I believe they are to be taken at their word.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "'the two poles in the party\u2019s leadership race are libertarians and social conservatives.'\nPlease elect someone from either end. Signed, the Liberal Party.\n\nAnyway, the winner may have some ideas, but the cpc itself won't put them into a policy paper if they think it will lose them an election. Both those poles come into that category.\nAnd when did scheer suddenly become second favourite? It's difficult to keep up with a competition that sometimes seems to have more candidates than seats in Ottawa, but I thought chong was up there?\nOne thing the article informed me on. The cpc hasn't yet recognized trans-gender rights? Wow. But then it was only a few months ago they agreed on same-sex marriage.\nThe cpc should get into the 20th century sometime soon..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"an era in Hollywood when men were men and women were women and nobody apologized about it.\"\n\nNot exactly. It was also a period when gay men and women felt they had to hide their sexuality or destroy their careers - Rock Hudson for one..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not disagreeing that Transgender individuals have higher suicide rates than the regular population. Just saying this is a major problem that will not go away. Just be thankful that you don't have this problem. \n\nIt would be nice to know more about this study such as did it include any reasons why this may be so?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those laws were in large part the result of \"Those who know best\" do-gooders who used electroshock and concepts of eugenics and \"Cuckoos Nest\" treatments on the unwilling or gay or otherwise undesirables in the guise of psychology. The courts finally acted and then the Legislatures.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The law is not based on your personal experience with gay and transgender people -- or your belief that transgender females will not seek to shower in wide open shower rooms or use women locker rooms. The law applies whether the transgender population is .4 percent, 4 percent, or 40 percent of the population. It does not matter one whit if the transgender person has no resemblance to the sex they identify with. It only matters what sex the transgenders identifies with in their mind. What I wrote is not unnecessary rhetoric, it is the law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please enumerate for me the EXACT amendment to the US Constitution that addresses and guarantees the right to gay marriage. I can't seem to find it in my copy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes name calling is alive and well on both sides. You are floored by this offensive albeit obscure insult. It is certainly rude. As a centrist, I however, am equally floored by the cavalier use of \"alt-right\" by the leftist media - a label attached to virtually anyone who questions the immigration system, the subversiveness of some \"equal rights groups\" (who fund riots and discourse directly, in order to gain funding) under the guise of equal rights for all, or someone who takes a sovereign/protectionist (you call nationalist) stance on other issues. Just look at Berkeley - many of you applaud the efforts of the students to riot, and destroy property with the goal of muzzling someone whose ideas conflict with theirs. The individual in question also happens to be a gay jew and immigrant. Do we call these individuals who chant \"no borders no nations\" and tag \"kill trump\" on the campus walls, the \"alt-left\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I want my child and grandchildren to have healthy sexual principles. I want them to respect their own minds, souls, and bodies and to respect the minds, souls and bodies of the ones they love. I want them to look at sexuality in the context of the whole person, and to see the value of fidelity and monogamy, one to the other, to the one they each commit to spend their lives with, when they find that person. I think those are healthy sexual principles, and I think those principles apply equally to heterosexual and homosexual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And people choose to be gay. I do not. I have no problem with them choosing it as I have a number of gay friends, but they chose to be with a same sex. And I choose not to be offended by them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Firsts usually get mentions in our society. Transgender is also a big issue to talk about these days so anyone running this story is going to get a lot of clicks. The DP and other \"news\" sources are trying to make money, not intelligently and responsibly report news.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The question a journalist ought to have posed to Trudeau is this: If an apology from Ottawa is so appropriate and needed, then why sir did YOU YOURSELF not deliver the apology?\n\nI mean, come on, after all, Trudeau is an apology-issuing machine, having issued past apologies on everything from west coast migration events (\"Trudeau apologizes in House for 1914 Komagata Maru incident\") to Ontario-originating partner laws (\"Egale Applauds Trudeau\u2019s Announcement of Apology to Persecuted Gay Canadians\") to shoulder-checking politicians (\"Trudeau apologises for elbowing opposition MP in Canada's parliament) to choice of language (\"Trudeau apologizes for answering English question in French at Sherbrooke town hall\"), the list goes on and on.\n\nSorry, Trudeau, you cannot have it both ways. Either an apology is TRULY a paramount need and therefore YOU step forward to deliver it in full throated fashion, or else an apology is not that at all and you play manipulative games today with your words.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The \"faith\" of the people has changed since the introduction of the Novus Ordo Missae. Lex credendi, lex orandi indeed.\nHere are some of the things that New Order \"Catholics\" believe today, which we see in their very own posts daily on this site alone:\n-A belief that the murder of unborn children is acceptable \n- gay \"marriage\" is acceptable \n-gay sexual relationships are not intrinsically sinful\n- situational ethics are fine\n- divorced and \"re-married people living in a state of sin aren't actually sinning and should be allowed to receive the Novus Ordo cookie\n- only 22% of \"Catholics\" believe in the Real Presence \n- sins against the 7th commandment are fine if the government sanctions such activity\n- De fide sacramental theology is to be tossed aside in favor of \"equality\"\n- all are saved, including heretics, pagans, Jews, Muslims, and even atheists, in contravention to Catholic dogma\n\nTo allow the traditional Mass is to undo the political machinations & heresy of the New Order.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no \"homosexual agenda\", other than a desire to (1) be accepted for who they are and (2) to be left alone to be what they are. Your fear and loathing for them does not speak well of you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some of the women in Romans 16-17 likely presided at Eucharist. One, Prisciala, was the first bishop of Rome (Paul did not mention Cephas). While these men and women might be missionaries coming in, they still included females. I have no problem with male priests, female, gay or married, but they need to reject the ideal of Continence, which seems to be the root of all dysfunction in Catholic sexuality. Beyond that women priests need to be the voice of the pro-life movement, particularly married women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The entrenchment of the fringe? No, sir. The resurgence of the main street. Love him or hate him, Trump built his campaign around issues that matter to the voters like economic revival, rule of law and immigration control. The fringe lost, on all electoral levels, because they embraced issues that don't matter like transgender bathrooms, global warming, outsourcing, massive illegal immigration, politics of racial divide, etc. The fringe wants to push the main street into believing it's the fringe, but not many are buying it outside of the bubble.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He is bitterly attacking Fr. Martin using anti-gay slurs; he isn't engaging in respectful dialogue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is that the same \"alt right\" who oppose abortion, contraception, homosexual marriage; and who defend the traditional family, the rule of law, and the principle of subsidiarity? You know, all those things in conformity with 2000 years of Church teaching. Just askin....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First of all where is there a Muslim bakery? Secondly, the baker probably wouldn't refuse. I know lots of Muslims, and, while they do not agree with homosexuality, do not mistreat gays in any shape, form or fashion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trudeau has more important things to do like promoting gay lifestyle and same sex marriage", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By religious right do you mean Islam too? Seen what they do to gay people in some Muslim countries?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is so going to backfire. The result will be that people will draw into their own enclaves and refuse to associate with those they might suspect to be trans, even if they are not. You can't prove that a company with 20 qualified applicants disqualified anyone they suspected being trans/gender diverse because they don't want to have to deal with pronoun questions. Gender neutral, not definitively masculine or feminine enough, any question at at will lead to skewed stats as well because any stats on gender/identity hiring will not accurately reflect hiring practices because the decision will be based on an internal impression rather than any information and the data will be impacted more by a given hirer's perception than any reality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Amen!\nIf the transgender individual has a high-enough GPA (or military equivalent), has passed all coursework, and his/her rank within the graduating class qualifies for graduation, then s/he deserves to be treated like the other graduates.\nIf this person is willing and able to serve, the Air Force should salute and say \"Thank you!\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "so let me get this straight.\n\nBecause 20% of the Canadian Conservatives don't agree with gay marriage it is okay to bring in a group of people who would be 100% against gay marriage and gays and feel that it is their moral duty to take action against it?\n\nThere are basically no Canadians (Liberal, Conservative, NDP, or Green or PQ) that think that women are second class life forms and should be subjugated to the will of their male betters. \n\nThere is a significant number of the would be immigrants that have as their basic belief system the rights of male dominance.\n\nIs the plan to adapt Canadian Society to this belief system or ghettoize them within Canadian society.\n\nI would like the to understand the plan.\n\nI believe that the default plan is integration to Canadian society that has been successful with wave after wave of immigrants.\n\nHas there every been a wave of immigrants that have had such a contrary basic belief system?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Was that special 'gay money' they used?\n\nMy argument was that if these allegations are true it's just an an abuse of power, it has nothing to do with his orientation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is only one of the arguments made by North Dakota and Minnesota two days ago in front of the US Supreme Court. \n\nBy June 30, 2017, we will know whether that is still the law or not.\n\nJust like gay marriage, firearms rights, and any other laws, the last word from the US Supreme Court is what the law actually is. \n\nSince the US Supreme Court is still wrestling with breathalyzer evidence admissability at least 50 years after they became common, your Hound Labs Inc. test is not likely to be useful for marijuana detection, or useful to fire someone, or useful to convict someone of Driving Under the Influence in the immediate future.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Constitutional 'protections' depend on the interpretation of 5 of 9 unelected judges.\n\n\"Protected classes\" depend on a majority of legislators state by state or maybe in the US Congress. And then by that decision of the 5 of 9 unelected judges.\n\nOnly the decision of one judge made 'gay marriage' legal in Oregon, despite the majority votes of the people of Oregon.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Then you reject the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the entire tradition of Catholic moral theology. \n\n\"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.\" (1 Cor 6-11).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually you're wrong about Neil. He lost his job when he brought the legislature into special session to approve homosexual marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"It's good you are acknowledging that LGBT people are \"hurting, afraid ... often alone\" and \"broken\".\"\n\nNo, it isn't. Why is it good? If you hung around self-accepting LGBT people in good relationships you would know it's a lie--pathologizing perfectly normal people who have challenges overcoming a hostile world, although that hostility is vanishing as more and more people stop buying the ancient taboos.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why do you believe Islam to be a religion where men and women aren't equal or that gays aren't tolerated? Have you read the Bible recently? Here are some interesting excerpts for you to ponder:\n\n\u201cIn the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.\u201d (Romans 1:27)\n\n\u201cDo not allow a sorceress to live.\u201d (Exodus 22:18)\n\n\u201cI do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.\u201d (1 Timothy 2:12)\n\nSo, as you can see, there are similar beliefs in other religions as well. But, I don't hear you complaining about those.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can distinguish between facts and values. For instance, it is a fact that a very large majority of humans are either clearly male or clearly female, and the adults are heterosexual. It is also a fact that there is a very small minority whose physiques have both male and female characteristics, another very small minority who are physically one sex and psychologically the other, and a somewhat larger minority who are homosexual or bisexual. There is another small minority of adults who have no sexual orientation; they are simply not interested in sex.\n\nAll of these facts can be taught. The differences between male and female physiques can be taught. The mechanics of sexual interactions can be taught, even those interactions that some people consider \"sinful\" or \"perverted\", without introducing any opinions about the rightness or wrongness of particular interactions. In short, teach facts at school; teach values at home, or church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most Christians understand that consenting adults have whatever relationship they want, and the vast majority of younger Christians feel very strongly about this. The \"Religious Right\" consists of old guys like you that think Charles Wohlforth still uses a typewriter. \n\nHere's a newsflash - \"leftists\" would consider it an improvement if the \"Religious Right\" began referring to homosexuals as the \"Gay Left.\" Their current terms are far more derogatory. The many gay republicans might take issue with this, though.\n\nEddie - you should analyze your impact in these discussions. Despite your loud protestations, Anchorage recently elected Berkowitz and a more liberal Assembly majority. I'm guessing thoughtful comments moved some voters to toward the other side. In fact, I'm guessing the liberals applaud every time you post.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's what I mean. The bakers are claiming a civil ceremony is a religious belief, yet they don't seem to think that gay people can also hold such religious beliefs about the civil ceremony.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, at least Trump did not need to go all over the country to march in gay parades to get elected, as another \"leader\" we all know has.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is the military we are talking about where an order on the Transgender ban from the top - the commander-in-chief is a military order. \nThere is no such thing as being \"blindsided\" by an order from the top in the military.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The parents need to join the 21st century. Reckless behavior happens because we marginalized gay sexuality. Redefining it as differently ordered allows us to encourage monogamy with a straight face. Calling their sexuality always disordered gives away the standing to say anything, as does including this conversation in a larger moralist rhetoric designed to pander to the the lowest common denominator in the Alt Right. That is messed up. Interestingly, many gays and lesbians follow monogamy naturally because it is the natural thing to do, More would if it were not for the hate mongers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "God doesn't need money, but people and institutions do.\nGod runs on love, but churches need heat, electricity, rent or mortgage payments, staff salaries, etc.\nWould you be so upset with Paula Williams if she was still in the closet as Paul Williams making tons of money for homophobic churches?\nAs far as God's attitude towards trans and gay people, I'll leave that up to God. S/he's more merciful than a lot of His/Her followers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suspect that any court will support both the gay couple and Cheyenne Mountain Resort. And that both would be consistent with established law.\n\nBut please, Nazi lovers, take it to the Supreme Court - if they will let you in the door.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When was the last time Jews went into gay bars and killed people dancing?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "hello PGTL\n\nso calling a person a \"leftist\" is name-calling?\n\nI thought it was complimentary that i recognize them and respect their \"identity\"\nmuch like acknowledging a person is transgender and using the right gender pronoun\n\nwhy do you take the word \"leftist\" as derogatory name-calling\nyou insult leftists", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Very good point! Nothing wrong about a gay person serving as a judge. Nothing! However it is only right that any party appearing before Judge Carlson in a family matter, especially where child custody or life style issues are present, should be made aware of his alternative life style, in order to decide whether to exercise their legal right to recuse the judge and have another judge assigned their case. It is called a peremptory challenge where no expressed reason need be given. It is used all the time when a party to a court action has reason to believe that a judge may be biased but the person may not have enough to challenge for cause. They simply thank and excuse the judge. Judge Carlson portrayed himself as a heterosexual for many years when he knew he was not. Many parties to domestic relation actions in his court came away feeling they were mistreated and then found out that they lacked information when it came to deciding whether to exercise their peremptory challenge.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It will continue this way, the variations in identity are continuing to grow along a spectrum. The problem with your point is that a counter argument would be to just call both groups 'women', but then that would lead to confusion in certain relevant situations (like in these kinds of discussions). So, perhaps 'cis' or 'non-trans' should only be used to refer to groups when we are explicitly discussing gender issues or maybe medical discussions - in normal conversation 'women' should be sufficient.\nWith respect to human rights - generic terms like 'gender identity' could be used which would not exclude women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why even state such an obvious tautology like that? Is it not just as true that homosexuals find natural man/woman sex acts icky as well? Should that disgust be counted against them like you count the natural disgust of homosexual acts against normal men and women? Or are \"gays\" somehow special and exempt from such indictments?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You won't want to miss the Boston Globe's excellent Michael Cohen on what a disaster Newt Gingrich has been for the US, in so many ways.\n\nAs for the disapproval of the \"homosexual representative,\" let's be sure we understand there is NO good reason to object to the presence of a gay person anywhere, other things being equal, and that all objection to gay people is an issue of the past that fair-minded people have turned away from. On the other hand, whether we want to call the conduct of Newt and Callista Gingrich sinful or not, there is reason, perhaps, for mistrusting them.\n\nFor that matter, being not just a Republican but one who is willing to work for the current president is already plenty of a reason for mistrust.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm glad it worked for you. I know 2 transgendered people and neither seems altogether happy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Outsider: Just re-read your post and couldn't resist another response or two. a) the couple was denied service (the baking of a wedding cake) PRECISELY because they were lesbians....the bakery owners admitted this....their defense was that the refusal was an exercise of \"freedom of religion\" b) The bakery regularly make wedding cakes for heterosexual couples, it was an integral component of the services they provided...therefore, refusal to make one was refusal of service. c) there are, indeed, specific jurisdictions which have included \"political beliefs\" in statutes prohibiting discrimination by service providers...Oregon and/or Portland do not have such a statute. If you feel one is needed, support its adoption. d) as a liberal, I will continue to defend the rights of all individuals. Read the article I linked for you. Regards and best wishes, Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ignoring the Media Stumping for Hillary, Trumps views are very populist. He isn't extreme. it is his rhetoric that is turning people off. And of course the leftwing media twisting it into to something it isn't.\n\nIf Utah is the reddist state, then it isn't moderate is it? a purple state would be more moderate.\n\nChange from within? Those not towing the line are enemies? Be specific.\n\nIts not a matter of being on the wrong side of history. Its a matter of using the Constitution as your guiding document and living with in its confines. You change the law, you don't interpret it differently to suit you as attitudes change. You don't discover rights that never existed. Woman's right to vote was brought by law, not a judge deciding it was a right denied. Slavery was changed by law and a war, not by a judge. The same thing could have happened with Gay Marriage. Calling it a right denied is a perversion of our constitution. It is judicial activism seeking an outcome.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Violent crimes committed against transgender people are drastically under-reported nationwide\"\nPlease enlighten the readers and tell us how you know this to be true", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It took SCOTUS to make gay marriage recognized across all 50 states. I agree that CCW should be recognized across state lines, as much because it falls under the clauses you mentioned in your first post. It may very well take SCOTUS to make that determination as well. Glad to see you are consistent, so many folks are not, when it comes to gay marriage and/or guns.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LW1 - That's an awful situation for kids to have to deal with, clearly. I have to believe if the parents knew how it was affecting their kids, they'd make some efforts to change their behavior and at least try to behave more civilly towards each other. I like Amy's idea of writing a letter to them expressing how the parents' behavior is taking a toll on the kids.\n\nLW3 - Thank you! I have encountered gay people who make passing references that casually allude to being gay without making a big deal about it. I much prefer that to someone making a big announcement about it or making blunt comments that make it blatantly obvious that someone's gay or whatever (like \"Dad of a Transgender\" did). Like, am I supposed to throw you a party or applaud or something? Why the need to make a big deal about it and turn it into everyone's business? I honestly don't care whether someone's gay or not. That's their concern and I don't need to know either way unless I'm actually friends with them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "IRT Peter (aka Boots), of course there are mutations as you mention, a female with xxy chromosome set, or a male with xyy chromosome set, but sadly they do not survive past puberty with all their physical and mental problems. Therefore, if that is the case, nearly all 99.9% of the transgender is a male or female when entering the military service at 18 years of age.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are numerous incidents of males using women's restrooms to secretly photograph women and act out their perversions. \n\nI noticed the author did not expand her argument to highlight we have no reports of normal people \"attacking\" (authors words) transgender bathroom users. \n\nSo this was just a (poorly) veiled attempt to argue for letting people play dress up and pretend they are something they are not...FAIL, Mr(s) Wolfe", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As opposed to pro-abortion, pro-gay-\"marriage\" Hilary?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "_CivilSociety:\n\"BTW, I see a court challenge coming, the marginalised are no longer willing to stay silent, suffer silently.\"\nGive it a rest. Attempting to connect the U.S. military with the rights of transgenders is misplaced. NO ONE has the right to serve in the U.S. military. Certain medical and aptitude standards must be met. Medical documentation show transgender persons have higher rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse compared to others. That alone is enough to disqualify them from serving.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"And I always say that if I ever believed Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper and we were going against abortion and going against gay marriage, and we were going backward in 10,000 different ways, maybe I'd think of wanting to make Quebec a country.\" ~ Justin Trudeau when he was an MP during a radio interview with host Franco Nuovo in February 2012.\n\nDuring the talk show, when Nuovo expressed surprise at Trudeau's remarks, Trudeau doubled down: \"Oh yes, absolutely. If I no longer recognized Canada, I know my own values.\"\n\nHowever to be fair to the Tater Tot he was but a callow youth of 41 years of age at the time... just a seed potato eh?\n\nThat sound you heard was Pierre Trudeau turning over in his grave.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who your kids marry is up to them. We know that for males whether they are gay is predetermined. No so much for lesbians. Regardless, recent and soon to be unfolding legal developments will give all young people an accepting system that already matches their culture. They don't see this issue as a big deal (unless they are sucking up to coservative parents or bosses, and the latter is less likely). Only bullies are the exception. If we can make them behave (and their parents), society has a good future. Any society that happened to have open homosexuality that fell did so for different reasons, usually having to do with concentration of wealth and the unwillingness to tax it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wasn't ignoring your Lincoln comment. I've known that for a couple of decades. But it does not undo all he did.\nI taught that Franklin Roosevelt had affairs but not that Elanore might have been gay. I didn't even know that 30 years ago. Oh, and I got in trouble for what I said about Roosevelt too.\nSo I have been on the front lines.\nYou say you like fact based history but I think you imply hypocrisy on the part of our favored sons. That sounds like judgement to me.\nI especially like historiography.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Every American Service member should declare tomorrow that he or she is transgender. That might lead to Trump's demise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Canada, Sweden and Holland will be the only of 190 countries of the UN to have transgender soldiers\nWhen captured by ISIS then what?\nPutting transgender soldiers in danger\nnot very politically correct", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Neither political party supports a persons right to bear arms, it's just a issue that works for getting people excited and to vote.\n\nSame thing with abortion, gay marriage, ect.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So Leah gets axed for a week\nand Tabby has more space to squeak,\nabout matters quite gay \nthat she wont let go away\nIn a column that\u2019s typically weak.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yet another reason to defund the publicly funded discrimination. What do you expect from a board who routinley fires gay employess and our province knowingly lets them get away with it? Wasn't aware we were still in the 1800's.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did Trudeau say\n\"The Canadian army welcomes illegal immigrants and transgender. Diversity is our strength\"\nEnough strength to win wars, which is the purpose of armies ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Layla herself has previously pointed out that the Garratts would never vote for a \"Liberal\", let alone Trudeau. As members of the PAoC, they are part of a socially conservative, evangelical Christian movement which very strongly supported Harper in both his leadership bid and in the elections which followed. The PAoC, along with other Christian Right groups (eg: Charles McVety) do not like \"Liberals\" because of their stance on abortion, gay rights, etc. \n\nKudos to Kevin Garratt for thanking Trudeau, which was probably not easy for him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The issue is whether he discriminated against gays or whether he discriminated against \"offensive art\" he was being asked to \"create\"....just as a \"vegan music composer\" can decline to come up with a jingle for a hamburger chain. \n-\n\"People\" might enjoy \"special class protection.\" \"Offensive works of art\" might not. Gay guy goes into his bakery and buys already-made cupcakes. No problem. But when a customer asks him, as an \"artist,\" to design, decorate, and create an \"edible work of art\" that celebrates \"anything\" the baker finds \"offensive,\" does \"offensive art\" enjoy the same \"class protection status\" that \"people\" do?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Santa Claus parade does not play politics\nso did not get finger burned\nPride Toronto plays politics\nso deserves to get fingers and toes burned-\n.\nworst case was when QuAIA marched (Queers against israeli apartheid)\nIsrael has gay rights\nPalestine does not \nQuAIA were not logical", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Current Conservative ideology seems to be mostly composed of ideas that deny reality. The problem isn't that Conservatism's opinions and policies are disagreeable--it's that those opinions are far out of touch with known facts. Evolution, global warming, economic theory--tax cuts for the wealthy are proven to not fix much of anything. Gay marriage, how exactly can it hurt straight marriage again?\n\nO'Leary will be perfect in the Land of Myths, peopled by the myth-makers and true believers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe this will help: I'm classified as lesbian, or is it Lesbian? Is it a noun, maybe a proper noun, or an adjective? Certainly there's a descriptive in the word. Maybe Gay Woman? Is this the tack I want to take, correcting people to make sure that they refer to me and mine as \"lesbian women\" or \"gay woman\"? There are, IMO, words that clarify something about us without necessitating further qualifiers: She's American. (American woman) They're gay (that group of people) The Christians. The gays. The lesbians. The druggies. The Socilaists. The transgenders. \nAnyway, if you're the Seda from the article, I applaud your courage in coming out and I very sincerely wish you and your family all the best.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is our right to worship hurting the LGBT community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have not read his book. None of the reviews I've read, positive or negative, has claimed that Fr. Martin has exhorted us to reject Church teaching. The negative ones fault him for not repeating it. I have not seen anything which indicates Fr. Martin has argued to accept gay conduct as acceptable. Some have claimed that Fr. Martin has implied acceptance because he has not specifically condemned such conduct. I don't buy that claim. Even if true, it is not an exhortation. Can you cite a source for your claim? How has Fr. Martin not held \"true to the one true faith?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not a matter of discrimination. It's a matter of added costs to provide sex change surgeries to the transgender. Transgender people should get their sex change operations at their own expense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ontario was both our manufacturing hub, and at certain times a technology leader (Nortel, Blackberry). Now due to terrible mismanagement the provincial government has made it the place for industry to flee from due to outrageous taxes, regulations, and energy costs. In addition our transfer payment system rewards low productivity, and Manitoba and all points east are over-taxed welfare states. The role of government is to create the environment for business to flourish, full stop. If that happens we can afford to build safe spaces and transgender washrooms. Until then we just add to debt for the nice-to-haves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A misdemeanor. A fine. And under a recent Montana law, maybe expungement. \n\n\"If your expungement is successful, the case is dismissed and all legal records relating to your misdemeanor, including court records will be destroyed. This means there will be no record that you were ever arrested, charged, convicted, or sentenced.\"\n\nOnly the media will still care.\n\nIt will be like that 'civil compromise' we had a year or so ago of the pedophile charge against the gay rights activist and fund raiser, Terry Bean, here in Eugene. \n\nSpend enough money, Republican or Democrat, and such things go away.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can relate. I'm a male lesbian. I only like women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What a peculiar article. Transgender people believe they are the opposite gender and are just trapped in the wrong body. No evidence is given in this article that any of these people believed this. One woman liked dressing in men's clothes. She didn't claim to be a man. Others indulged her eccentricity, but I've always been told that crossdressers, like this woman, are not the same as transgender people. \n\n\"Researchers at the National Archives have found evidence that at least 250 women dressed as men to fight in the 1860s, some motivated by ideology, some by a taste for adventure and some by the need for a job. Most of those who survived presumably returned to their lives as women. But others continued to live as men after the war.\" The fact that women DISGUISED themselves to do the jobs they wanted in a world where women weren't allowed has absolutely nothing to do with women or men who truly believe they are the opposite sex from their biology.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yet, when asked whether there should be provisions that include protections on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender identity, 57% of the Anchorage voters voted NO. \n\nhttp://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Clerk/Elections/Election%20Results/2012ElectionResultsOFFICIAL.pdf\n\nPersonally, it makes no difference to me. But the matter should not have been dictated by the Assembly, as it was.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe every province has criteria and a process for people to change their sex designation from male to female or vice versa., but changing to a sex designation other than male or female is yet to be fully addressed. Although Ontario issues health cards and drivers licenses with the sex designation X to indicate a non-binary gender identity, nobody has issued a birth certificate with the sex designation X yet, and the federal government hasn't announced any plans to allow a third sex on passports either. \n\nBy the way, as to someone's identification matching how they present publicly, I have no idea how a non-binary person is supposed to look and I doubt anybody else does either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...and statistics?\"\nFrom Wikipedia, quoting the CDC:\n\"It finds a victimization prevalence of 43.8 percent for lesbians, making it the second most affected group after bisexual women (61.1 percent), ahead of bisexual men (37.3 percent), heterosexual women (35 percent), heterosexual men (29 percent) and homosexual men (26 percent).\"\nI think the operative saying is seek and ye shall find.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lots of ideas? Anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-lgbtq, anti-healthcare, pro-lower-taxes-for-the-rich may not be ideas you want to take to the voters. \nAnd it would be better if the platform was not only 'to oppose the current Liberal administration' but to show voters what you have to offer in return. That seems difficult for conservatives to understand.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "On the contrary, there is very strong evidence of the biological origins of transgender identities. From Chung and Auger, European Journal of Physiology, 2013: http://tinyurl.com/hbvmgmm\n\n\"Gender-dependent differentiation of the brain has been detected at every level of organization -- morphological, neurochemical, and functional -- and has been shown to be primarily controlled by sex differences in gonadal steroid hormone levels during perinatal development.\"\n\nTransgender identities appear to be a genuine mismatch between primary sexual characteristic and neurological phenotypes during prenatal development.\n\nOr you could try reading this\n\nhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654067/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All forms of hate needs to be eliminated. All forms of racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, anti-semitism and laws discriminating against Transgenders.\nWe need to get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight all forms of hate which includes Trump and this law in Quebec!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Correct. This sort of propaganda is supposed to distract the masses from the fact that this wasn't about Hillary but rather was about how the democrats basically became republicans in all but name, pro-choice, and gay marriage issues. It wasn't just Hillary who lost: the dems were wiped out from local straight on up to state, congress, and yes, the white house.\n\nAnd no amount of messages reinforcing the 'cult of personality' will change people's minds. We are done with the neo-liberal agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would appreciate it if someone who has a better handle on these issues would answer this question: what criterion do we use to distinguish the situation of transgender people from that of transabled people? Is the answer that we support both groups in their search and, if so, are we enabling transabled people as they harm themselves? Thank you for any light you may shed on this for me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "8 justices voted for gay marriage and sodomy rights and the one who voted no died. It is a non-issue. Indeed, ENDA will likely happen by Court decision before the term is out. The GOP has no room to actually propose anything on gay rights and won't on abortion (I told it how). Last I checked, the ACA was enacted and I suspect the Trump orders to gut it won't survive, nor will his simplistic presidency. Wait until you see the backlash. It will make 1974 look bipartisan.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Paul McHugh, former Johns Hopkins University psychiatrist in chief, has noted in the Wall Street Journal that the suicide rate among transgender individuals is 20 times higher than in the normal population. Its not the panacea everyone believes, as the emotional stress leading to hormone therapy, and/or surgery, to counter DNA assignment, needs to be dealt with in a compassionate way. Speak the truth in love as this has long term consequences", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not an \"understanding\" of his faith, but rather, a misunderstanding. In order to assuage his conscience, all he need do is read and follow the precepts of Jesus. Kennedy may very well be a \"classic conservative,\" or one that is not so hateful. I never could understand why modern conservatives bought the line that homosexuality (or sex in general) is a sin,\" punishable by some sort of action or law. One would logically think they would object to Big Government's intrusion in this regard. When I see pictures of this baker, I do see anger and hate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, it is dysphoria, but that doesn't really do anything but put a formal name on it. And, yes, becoming transgender is one treatment option, allowing the individual to at least largely reconcile the dysphoria.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's a decent argument if the facts support it. However, the article states that Bearden was a top amateur male, and the top amateurs race with the pros so he was clearly on the same level as top-tier domestic male riders. The only meaningful difference between pros and top amateurs in the U.S. is the level of sponsorship and the team's decision to go pro. It looks like she is a pro mainly because she developed a transgender awareness-oriented team with that level of sponsorship.\n\nAlso, she's not winning every race or smothering the competition. Unless she starts dominating the women's peloton or there is a proliferation of transgender athletes dominating the races, I don't see a major change in the near future.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Mayor went to the Legislature repeatedly to extend the 1/2% GET.\nWhy didn't the Mayor request the Legislature to pass a Progressive Income Tax to pay for the Rail with a Sunset Provision when the rail is paid for?\nWhy did none of the Legislators or the Governor ever mention, much less propose this? \nWith a 100% Democratic Senate, a 90% Democratic House and a Democratic Governor this would easily pass.\nMaybe the reason is Hawaii does NOT have a Democratic majority in either chamber of the Legislator nor a Democratic Governor.\nInstead we have a Liberal Republican Majority that favors the rich and business, \nWhile supporting gay rights/same sex marriage & immigration because they do NOT co$t anything- the Definition of a Liberal Republican.\nA Democratic Legisalture would make the tax system Progressive, not the 2nd most Regressive in the US- the proof is in the pudding or the taxing in this case.\nPrimary the Liberal Republicans & make the Democratic Party the 1954 peoples party again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Considering the party took until 2015 AFTER THE ELECTION THEY LOST to accept A 10 YEAR OLD LAW making gay marriage legal but they're still not happy about it, you can bet the base is as base as ever.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am curious what \"tremendous medical costs\" Trump and others posting here are referring to when talking about transgender individuals serving in the military. This is a joke, right? This is the same military that spends billions on such wasteful projects as the F-35 and its obscene cost overruns, etc. and those who are against transgender individuals serving are worried about some cost? Must be in the latest conservative talking points from Brietbart, etc. in order to support the usual hatred coming from the right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you're not willing to define what \"duty\" a person has to the common good but are only willing to invent new undefined unlimited \"rights\" then you reveal how utterly impotent your \"it's a right\" argument is.\n\nThe left never ever speaks about individual duties, only unlimited rights.\n\nDoes someone have the right to have zer/zis sex change operation done for free? And then later reversed?\n\nDoes a lesbian couple of a right to have artifificial insemination?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm assuming you have not seen the mean costs of healthcare for transgender people vs non-transgendered people serving in the military. Let me enlighten you- they're about the same. \n\n\u201cThe implication is that even in the most extreme scenario that we were able to identify \u2026 we expect only a 0.13-percent ($8.4 million out of $6.2 billion) increase in health care spending,\u201d Rand Study authors concluded.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, the only disruption so far is Trump's tweet and heaven only knows what to make of his tweets. At this stage there appears to be a lot more tweeting than actual doing, so one can only hope that every citizen who volunteers to serve will be given an opportunity and a fair shake once they've joined the service.\n\nFrom my point of view, Obama was on the right side of the broad arc of history. Racial discrimination in the military officially ended when I was a child, women have since expanded their roles, and most recently gay soldiers have found a place. The long-term trend is toward inclusion of classes of people once thought to be unfit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes lots of tall women and short men. Generally men are bigger. No, I have no discomfort at all with trans people. I have a choice of \"he\" or \"she\". Jillian is a human being and prefers \"she\". Jillian will never be a woman but will be a transgendered woman. I respect that choice and therefore use the pronoun \"she\". We are talking about an athletic competition here, not a luncheon and shopping, and IMO men - including transgendered to women - should not be competing with women. I will never be a zebra even if I paint stripes on myself and run with the herd.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Eric or anyone: Can you answer this question? Why is it that the comedians on tv or on stage can be un civil slamming their fellow personalities, being un civil and derogatory to the President of the United States, women, lesbians, Blacks, people of any race, homosexuals, Agenders, Trans, being un civil to anyone and anything, AND, the public laughs and accepts it.\n\nBut, if you comment in the Civil Comments section, and there are a few who consider it un civil, they black ball you, and restrict you. \n\nSo, whats the difference if a well known comedian blasts away or a average person in the general public blasts away?\n\nIf I IDENTIFY as a Comedian, will that make it OK????", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed. Ratzinger is wrong about gays being outside the natural order, which includes people being gay from birth (epigenesis). Of course, the natural order is a moral fiction to absorb violations because God cannot be made less perfect or be hurt by our sins. It is a sophistry. There are multiple experiences, however, and each is true. What is worse, the addict who smokes crack or the landlord who makes that person homeless by evicting them, not because they don't approve of crack, but because the rent subsidy or welfare is insufficient? Whom do you think Jesus would think worse of? You are right, there is only one answer to that and it's not the addict.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you think his next SCOTUS choice will be unable to read and understand the Constitution?\n\nBy the way ... can you cite one case ever, anywhere, where a transgender person molested anyone in a bathroom? Take your time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What part of Stephen Harper was elected Prime Minister did you miss? \nWhat part of Israel is the only democracy in the middle East that supports gay rights, women's rights, the rule of law and treats its Arab citizens with full human rights and allows freedom of religion.\nYour post is vile.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You do really need to read more and be more understanding and less judgement of people. You have tenured friends who are at the UofO and don't like it? Why do they stay, surely there are Universities and Colleges clamoring for their skills.\nI misspoke earlier, 1 in 10 people are gay, didn't realize my error until you pointed it out re transgendered people.\nYes xx=girl and xy=boy but it doesn't stop there. Please explain how some people are born with two set of genitalia, one male and one female? Which one gets taken out surgically, who makes that decision? Christian schools don't teach that.\nExplain why males and females both have nipples?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OMG - Yes! 1.7% of Canadians reported themselves to be gay. Good for them. Happy is me. And, what will the government do for the financial economy of the rest of 100% of us? How will they reduce taxes? How will they improve the business environment? Part of being a leader is to know what will help the most people! I don't see that judgement from you...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I look forward to your equally critical remarks on the article Jim linked to discussing the homosexuality of one of the Capitol Police.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First of all being homosexual, does not imply one is a sinner, it is the actions, in thought word or deed, that can be sinful.\n\nSo the \"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or rohibiting the free exercise thereof\" part of the Constitution becomes a target to force a point of recent law. That is \"approve my life style of else\", rather then going to another store, for say a wedding cake..\n\nIt becomes more of you must not only tolerate a life style, but approve it, & that in the long term, does not help..\n\nOne more thing. Look abound, & see even in families, a majority can make life miserable for the minority, or any place there is a gathering of people, white brown, gay, etc. That song goes beyond race, real or perceived gender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You act as if all wedding cakes are the same, and they are not. Each one is an individually commissioned piece, the result of a contract between \"willing\" participants to the terms of the contract. Jack Phillips didn't refuse to sell the homosexual couple a cake sitting in his display case. He refused to be hired to create a unique item for them. Contract law is well established, it requires that all parties be voluntary participants to the terms and conditions of the contract. There is not a \"universal\" contract for wedding cakes. Each one is unique to the tastes and size of the party desiring to hire a baker to bake a cake for them. I would hazard a guess that there are potentially thousands of variables involved; how many layers, are the layers all the same flavor or varying. What size is the lowest layer, middle layers and top layer? \nDo you really want to live in a country where you can be forced to labor for the benefit of another against your will? I sure don't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have gay people in my family. I do not support the Alberta NDP on this issue at all. It is simply Orwellian to suggest that the State should conspire to keep secrets from Parents. It is outrageous for the leftwing to suggest that the default position is that families will react in a hostile manner to any child, whether they be straight or not, joining a gay-straight club. Most Parents are loving caring people and of course they should be involved in every aspect of their children's lives. I am disgusted by the posturing of the Alberta NDP on this issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Should a Christian film maker be forced to film porn, because to not do so would be discrimination? Should a Jewish baker be forced to make a cake for a Nazi themed party? Should a Muslim baker be forced to bake a cake for a Gay Pride party?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Forget an inquiry, I can't wait until Trump takes office and just releases and declassifies all of the intel. He'll do more to expose both the CIA and the Democratic Party's fake news than any congressional inquiry could.\n\nSimply put, the Obama administration is full of crap. They are lying. They don't know that Russia was \"trying to help Trump\" because they can't know that, in the same way that we can never prove that $20 million in donations made to the Clinton Foundation by Saudi Arabia were given out of some kind of honest and sincere love of women's rights and gay rights, or because they expected something in return. We can only reasonably infer based upon records and motivations. \n\nRemember, it was just last year that James Clapper was caught fabricating intelligence about ISIS to conform to the Obama administration narrative. This is highly unusual. Giving fake intelligence reports? \n\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/obama-administration-and-isis-intelligence-2015-9", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "abortion is legal because of our constitutional system. The legislature cannot ban it without treating the unborn as legal persons, which is problematic in the first trimester. Gay marriage is much better than gay promiscuity. Forcing gays to behave like asexuals is as wrong-headed as asking married couples to behave as asexuals. Transgender is a question of science and medicine, not faith unless you equate faith and bigotry. Divorce and remarriage are facts of life that demand rethinking of doctrine to quit punishing those damaged by a bad marriage. Open communion is fast becoming a fact of life as concordants are reached with the other true presence faiths - as it should. Contraception has two elements, sexuality and the question of life. Patterning asexualism onto married couples is folly and the proof is in the pews. Read about gastrulation on the question of life and contraception. Sex outside of marriage depends on whether you are common law or sleeping around.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Overdue, and welcome. One of the (many) cruelties facing gay men in the post-war years was that Paragraph 175 still applied. Gay men who survived the concentration camps were very often re-arrested and imprisoned. Being still \"criminals,\" they were not eligible for state pensions or any post-Holocaust reparations.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, the bible is supportive of transgender people. From Isaiah 56:4-5: \" For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, Queen Victoria refused to acknowledge that women \"did that sort of thing\". That is why Lesbian activity was never outlawed in the U.K., although homosexual activity was.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You DO know that pro-life groups were refused, right? That this march, supported monetarily by relatively liberal organizations \"claimed\" to represent women - but not pro-life women? \n\nIt was basically an anti-Trump march. Let's be real. Would have been nice if they had been honest about it. You know that, I think......\n\nAs far as the St. Patrick's Day marches? As a proud officer of the Ladies' Ancient Order of Hibernians, you DO know that in the biggest parade of all - NYC - pro-life groups are NOT allowed to march under their own banner? That pressure brought to bear in the last two years from NBC and other groups supported gay marchers under their own banner? You MUST know we are working very hard to adjust this discrepancy that has hijacked the parade from what was originally intended to be a celebration of our heritage and faith, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Johns Hopkins and Fairfield Universities\n \nPart 4 of 5 parts\n \nFinally, while I invariably have a laissez-faire attitude/posture towards others especially when it comes to interpersonal relations, I respectfully believe that U.S. military Commanding Officers in today\u2019s military have just too much on their plates to focus effectively on the mission plus also deal with the obvious travail(s)/the untold drama/imposition of having to deal also with transgender personnel on a daily basis especially in U.S. military combat units [infantry, armor, artillery and signal] too.\n\nFred Harden III AKA \"GreyHairandGreyMatter\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(*In 2016,\u201cgender identity or expression\u201d was added to the Charter;\n**Discrimination based on \u201csexual orientation\u201d has been prohibited since 1977 (Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois); with that change, Qu\u00e9bec became the first jurisdiction in the Americas larger than a city or county to prohibit anti-gay discrimination.) \nThat\u2019s lead Canada (BC + Ont.) to adopt the Civil Marriage Act\u2026\nin 2005 (Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "An order of the commander-in-chief on a ban on transgender is just that - an order from the Commander-In-Chief. \nThis is the military we are talking about where orders from the top do not contain even a single information on how to accomplish the task.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not really sure there was a transgender policy 50 years ago. That would be 1967?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "and bacon, wrapping scallops (served at gay weddings). Two out of three is almost there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "personally I have difficulty accepting that \" originalism\" as practiced by Justice Scalia and perhaps to be practiced by Judge Gorsuch, allows for consistent rigor in the maintaining of unbiased consistency. \n\nWhat originalism seems to do is add the heavy weight of a deeply held and academically researched belief espousing the limited role of the Court, as a means to shield the judge from accusations of ideological bias upon the rendering of legal conclusions that in the absence of \" originalism\" he would find himself just as vulnerable to as those who do not abide by it's rigid interpretations, \n\n\" I personally do not oppose gay marriage..my interpretation of the original meaning of the constitution does\"..\"I personally do not support the right to carry a gun on the street, but the framer's intent, even though state militias no longer exist, prevents me from denying that right\" That sounds like the same old politics to me, not much different from the activism so often despised ,", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not quite right. Your analogy is faulty. Being homosexual is an inherent attribute, like skin colour. Religion is a set of beliefs not an inherent attribute.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is tough to have a fruitful discussion about this because Marcia is working off the assumption that gender and chromosomal sex are inseparable, while others think they are distinct. So it ends up with one person saying, \"there is no moon!\" and the other person saying, \"it is right there in the sky\".\n\nI can agree that a trans person didn't grow up with the same \"concerns, fears, expectations and requirements\", but \"He can\u2019t be part of the sisterhood\" is just her opinion, of course. Plenty of transgendered women have been welcomed by other women, who apparently haven't heard the directive from Marcia to be exclusionary.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Any \"religious group\" holds in common certain tenets of its faith. One of the tenets of the Christian Faith is that God created human beings man and woman, and that he intended for them to marry, i.e., to become \"one flesh\" and thereby to \"be fruitful and multiply\". These are the time-honored parameters for marriage, no matter how Gov. Abercrombie and the state legislature may have breached them in order to pander to the homosexual zeitgeist. A Christian church worth its salt will maintain this timeless definition of marriage, and in our country its members are free to practice their religion without harassment. They are free to associate with others of the same understanding of marriage and to not associate with those who reject that understanding.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not sure how gay \"rights\"...or support thereof, could in the remotest sense be causative. However, the rest of your post is, pretty much, spot-on. \n\nAreas around rent subsidized/free housing are morphing into criminal HQ. I suppose government handouts aren't enough as more of these paragons of society/intellect appear to be filling their \"fiscal gaps\" with crime proceeds. \n\nA few suggestions:\n- Bring back the \"Blue Ticket\"\n- Six year wait to receive the PFD\n- Fire Mayor Spendowitz", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I do not think this is the argument most people are making against the provision. If it was a simple process of people having a right to be called male, female or an accepted neutral pronoun, it is fine. And that is, I presume, what would be acceptable to the majority of transgender people that do not identify as either male of female. The problem is, does the bill prevent endless demands for an every growing list of \"neo-pronouns\" or those that demand they always be referred to in a specific unique way? If it actually, legally does that, fine, if not, it fails in my view. Anything beyond the one additionally acceptable pronoun in law is for people to work out among themselves, not to be a legal requirement based, essentially, on whim. And if the authors think there will not be all sorts of problems and wasted legal resources if the limitation is not in place, they are living in a world that does not exist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obama was against gay marriage\n\nuntil he saw the light\nand in the light he saw VOTES", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OMG - Is anyone going to take this article seriously? First of all, Washington is full of smart people - many have taken America for one heck of a ride! We're all waiting for the perp walk. But back to Ivanka having the ability to sway the president to allow us as tax payers to foot the bill for transgender people getting operations by joining the military. Are. You. Serious? hahahahahahaha", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Haven't read the decision? Of course, I've read the decision. Closely. And have compared it with other decisions in the due process and equal protection genre going back 50 years or more. Have you done that? Do you even know the legal test used to determine whether an asserted right is \"fundamental\"? If you did, and applied those principles neutrally, you'd laugh at the assertion that the right of gays to marry is \"fundamental.\" The Court trashes the Constitution and its own precedent to reach a result you like, and you go on, happy with all in your little Progressive bubble, glad that the Constitution and laws have been trashed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With respect to the good I think this article is trying to do, I would have insisted on absolute correct terminology. The gender with which someone is assigned at birth is not their \"birth gender\" as this article repeatedly states. For someone who is transgender, the \"birth gender\" is the one with which they identify, not the one with which they were arbitrarily assigned based on outward sex characteristics and social conventions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I understand that it's comforting for you to see the world in dichotomies: things are either moral or immoral, true or false, man or woman, gay or straight, liberal or conservative. However, the world doesn't so neatly fit your descriptions of it. Almost everything is on a spectrum. And often, people move on that spectrum over the course of their lives. If that makes you uncomfortable, then I suggest you hide out and take solace in the way things \"used to be\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "sky\n\nI think the Universities were always a step ahead of the population. They accepted gay rights long before the population did so. The Universities would have sounded extreme left at that point too. Communist parties in the UK had a stronghold in the 1930s in their best universities - the Cambridge Five spies are an example.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Murray grew up in working class neighborhoods in and around Seattle as one of seven children in an Irish Catholic family. He learned Gaelic (pronounced gay lick) at an early age.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can imagine how difficult it is to establish a baseline for testosterone or estrogen in transgendered athletes but there eventually will be a need to do so. Endocrines determine whom is whom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "AlwaysThere, the official policy of the BSA until 2013 was \u201cWhile the B.S.A. does not proactively inquire about the sexual orientation of employees, volunteers or members, we do not grant membership to individuals who are open or avowed homosexuals\". After 2013, gay scouts were not banned but gay scout leaders were. Gay leaders were allowed in 2015. \n\nYour troop may not have followed official policy, but there were lawsuits over people being banned based on this policy. I think the 'hogwash' and 'take a hike' comments are poorly supported by your anecdote.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Scouting is made up of citizens from all walks of life with varying thoughts and issues. Its a reflection of the members. Society struggled with gay rights for a long time. Many of the scout charter organizations are churches that have had their own struggles with gay rights. Change doesn't come easy.\n\nThe scout law has 12 points, kindness is one of them, loyal is another. I found that young people practice these better than a lot of adults. Teens are often loyal to their gay friends and kind. As it became more political a while back we had a troop discussion. The kids were of the opinion that gay scouts were just people who should be treated like anyone else. I'm proud of that. I'm also proud of a gay scout who became an eagle. I'm sorry for the pain they endured for so long, but I also recognize it as a societal issue beyond scouting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There's a reason the Conservatives got tossed in the last election. Now they're back promising the same policies....cut, cut, cut social programs....tax breaks for the rich so that the wealth will \"trickle down\". And throw in some anti-gay and anti-refugee sentiment for good measure. Ah...bring back the good old Ralph \"de-Klein\" years.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And poor Governor Kate Brown had to settle for \"bi-sexual\".\n\nSad.\n\n\u201cIt would have been so much easier for us if you were a lesbian\u201d Kate Brown\u2019s parents\u00a0declared\u00a0when she came out as bisexual.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Roskell, I'm sure that you can see the difference between discrimination by government versus discrimination by business or private individuals. \n\nTo use an extreme example, I'll violate Godwin's law, and point out it was the difference between anti-Semitism in Canada in the 30's (outside of immigration) versus Germany. \n\nWell, provincial and federal governments - and government actors (as outlined in University of Guelph) - per se - is outlined in Section 32 - point-blank.\n\nIf I recall correctly, cases such as Vriend focused on whether the legislation in question was discriminatory, not that private individuals need to work in lin with Charter values. Which has application to my statement about \"trans-gendered\".\n\nI suppose the recent line of labour cases are in line with your statement the government is obliged to intervene in favor of private-sector unions and the right-to-strike. If the charter is a living tree, it's a rotten limb and should be cut off.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gravitating from \"otherwise healthy\" to visibly impaired cannot be compared to acting on gender dysphoria, where no one intentionally seeks disfigurement and where, for example, a mastectomy might be regarded as enhancement and unity, as the article pointed out. Gradually, neurobiology will shed light on transgendered perception of self. I don't think we're far from that day. Now, if someone wants to be transabled or a furry or whatever, it's their business and I don't really lose sleep over it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LotL has a bogus theory about the transgendered, which he presents with NOTHING to support it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Constitution gives people the right to be left alone. The state and the voters thereof have no interest in many issues. Moral scorn is not a democratic right, whether it is sodomy, birth control, gay marriage or abortion. If you want to make abortion a more public question, do what it takes to defeat the reasoning of Chapter IX of Roe, have Congress recognize fetal personhood at an earlier stage than viability. If the President proposes such a law, support him for that, not because he may give you one pro-life justice out of three appointed (the current batting average for GOP Presidents). You have the Presidency and the Congress - pass the law or at least make the Democrats filibuster it, although the likely result is compromise and the end of the public perception that the pro-life movement is necessary. Until you take that bold step, your movement is still a fraud.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not buying your argument. As far as PTSD is concerned, my wife is in the counseling field and I'm well aware of how PTSD is diagnosed and treated. Viagra is typically not one of the remedies. There is a distinct mental health process that occurs in mitigating PTSD and Viagra is by far not one of the remedies. There are a whole host of medications considered before Viagra, but mental health counseling is THE primary remedy. Also, if you weren't aware, PTSD can be triggered from gender dysphoria as well, so you're actually making the case for transgender coverage if that's your argument.\n\nFinally, cite the percentage of Viagra distributions that are related to PTSD-related conditions. Your assertion that it's only 100% distributed to PTSD-afflicted personnel is far-fetched at best.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Klein's had served this couple before, though not for a wedding cake, so their refusal to serve them this time was not because they were gay.\n\nThe Klein's actual reason was because their Christian beliefs require them to have nothing to do with promoting homosexual behavior, and they believed doing so could risk their immortal souls as well as the souls of the homosexual couple.\n\nThis is a protected First Amendment right. Any laws the State of Oregon may have that deny this right should be deemed unconstitutional. Whether our Supreme Court will do so without Justice Scalia remains to be seen.\n\nEither way, the Kleins will choose their immortal souls and those of the gays over their business interests every time, guaranteed. I highly respect and admire their decision in the face of great adversity and persecution. And I am ashamed as an Oregonian that the OBLI could not recognize the conflict of legitimate rights between the two parties and craft a much wiser decision.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, the science is not as clear as you would like it to be. People who have no social experience of the gender they claim to be and yet they insist they are that gender apparently know more about gender than the rest of us. Most of us don\u2019t experience gender as something as specific as transgender people want to make it. We know that society has assigned gender categories and roles and that we are treated according to our perceived gender, whether we like the assumptions and expectations or not\u2014I certainly don\u2019t. All that seems to me like a social construct. Beyond that, people are unique individuals with distinct attributes, tendencies, likes and dislikes. If language is so deficient that it excludes people, then language should be changed, not people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is not meant to minimize women in any way. They are just as important as men as far as I am concerned. Without them there would be no life. While the ideal does minimize gays, I do think individuals should be celebrated for their uniqueness. In the same way, singles should be celebrated.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For those who were born homosexual (created by God as homosexual, if you will), their expression of spousal love will naturally be homosexual. Their love expression is then life giving, although it is not biologically life-giving, and is no different from the life giving expressions of elderly or sterile partners.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\ud83d\ude1c\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23 We are talking about a baker who doesn't agree with gay marriage and for that reason doesn't want to bake a cake for that wedding because of his beliefs. He considers his cakes to be a form of art and therefore not only is he protected by the first amendment right of freedom religion, he also has the right to deny his services based on freedom of speech. \nI was just unsure if there were wedding cufflinks being sold out there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"How long should one person wait for another to be ready for a relationship? Being gay makes this all the more challenging. \"\n\nMore challenging compared to what?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This reminds me of the high school sprinter who won state titles as a transgender girl but whose times would have been dead last for high school boys. \n\nThere is a difference, it's why times, weights, etc. are different for male athletes and female athletes at all levels.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh brother. In the US the number of gay marrieds is something like less than half of one percent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "--It has to be repeated over and over and over: we HAVE a married priesthood in the RCC. The Eastern Rites have had it since their inception. B16 created what I lovingly call the Orneryariate, that allows married Anglican/Episcopal priests (usually of a conservative stripe that don\u2019t gay clergy and female bishops) to minister as priests in the RCC. There has also been a practice to receive some married ministers from other denominations and allow them to serve as Catholic priests. ** All that needs to be done is to expand these practices throughout the entire RCC.\n\n** you should be able to access this free article in The Tablet entitled: The Tablet Interview: At home with my father the Catholic priest \n\nhttp://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/9878/the-tablet-interview-at-home-with-my-father-the-catholic-priest--", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Probably not so much a transgender agenda as much as a higher-ratings-play agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who said absolutely nothing about homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Arpaio pardon has no justification. What it will do, however, is ensure that the voter turnout for Hispanics/Latinos in 2018 will break every previous record high number. Latinos will crawl across broken glass in 2018 to cast ABT votes (anybody but Trump). I strongly suspect that blacks, Asians, gays, lesbians, and the transgendered will also be casting ABT votes. Trump is creating enormous cracks in American society but doesn't appreciate the magnitude of the damage he is causing or, possibly, doesn't care.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some people are born transgender. That appears to be a verifiable fact. Why is this a question of \"left\" or \"right\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think 100% of foreign aid should go toward establishing trans gender washrooms and helping finance programs that define the correct gender pronoun and gender neutral national anthems.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree w/your thesis. But, the anecdote is unconvincing. Do you know the details of her retirement compensation? ie How do you know that this particular individual is 'set for life on our dime'? She may have only been on the job for 3 yrs and can retire because her wife sold her company for a small fortune. Or joined a new law firm and is now highly paid to fight for transgender rights.\n\nAnd, what does how old she looks have to do with anything relevant to this discussion? It MAY cost taxpayers more than we ought to be paying if she makes it to 100. But, she could also die of cancer in 2 years.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are calling for censorship because the subject matter involves one of your sacred cows. There has been no post here that \"expresses bigotry\". The gay community is smart and strong enough to defend itself and I would bet most objective gays would concur with the bulk of what I have posted. They may not like it but it is what it is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Doug, I think Wump's \"didn't do it at all\" was with respect to allowing transgender individuals to serve in the forces. You owe him an Emily Littella there (\"Oh. Never mind...\").", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds like my kind of guy. I wonder what her husband is like? Gay? Bi? On the one hand, the left portrays Trump as a misogynist. On the other he has a fixation with women. Pick one. Trump loves women, beautiful women, smart women. I envy him the ability to attract them however he does it. Money? Power? Daddy figure? Who cares. After a few years, women hate their husbands anyway. Love is fleeting. Money is the glue that keeps a family together.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Although I never mentioned promiscuity, of course it is sinful for gay and straight.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That reminds me of TV's \"Modern Family.\" Of the gay couple, Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), Stonestreet is actually NOT gay, but he does a great job of acting, at times, even more convincing than Ferguson. Almost my favorite show next to Big Bang Theory which, BTW, the Sheldon character (Jim Parsons) is gay in real life but has to play a straight guy with a girlfriend in the show.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In other words, the Republican platform supports discrimination against homosexuals under the guise of practicing one's religion. A profoundly anti-Christian stance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am speaking to Icon - not necessarily the letter. Her vision of equality is a protected class (but never mind the fact homosexuality is a chosen lifestyle, not a race).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I haven't seen the words you refer to, and that does sound like a bad thing. But there is also physical reality to consider. Gay people can get married now. If the Republican party gets to pick the next Supreme Court justices, that might be undone. I don't think gay folks are being duped.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Persevering in a bad marriage isn't necessarily \"heroic.\" Neither is longevity in marriage. I'm a partner in a long-term, monogamous marriage; heroism has nothing to do with it (on my part, anyway). In fact I can think of only one marriage among acquaintances that I would describe as heroic, and it's between two lesbians.\n\nCurious where this rhetoric comes from.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am well of this. We conceived three times and enjoyed doing it. Sadly, we lost two to miscarriage, which is why I will resist any effort to give the state police power to investigate first trimester abortions.\n\nYour own comments resisting paying for children with public funds because people should be responsible for paying for their kids shows there is truth in the propaganda. This is not my first rodeo with a pro-lifer who resists the real solution - which comports with what Leo XIII and Pius XI say about a just family wage.\n\nIt is certainly not true that repealing Roe led to an abortion boom because of the sexual revolution. That is pure golden age thinking. The generation that thinks gay marriage and abortion are key issues to resist is dying out. The young who got roped into being pro-life by the Catholic school system tend to change their mind when they become sexually active. The Trump election aided by the pro-life bishops were your last hurrah.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The Truth of this statement can be seen in any offspring they may be blest with.\" \n\\\nI hope you are including their gay offspring in this sentence because they also have received the gift of life... and for whom the Church teaches lifelong celibacy which, according to your reasoning, deliberately denies them from offering any child an opportunity at life, thereby putting them in a perpetual state of sin. One surely does have to check their brain in at the door of the Catholic Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one \"allows\" a child to be transgender. They are, or are not, transgender. And your personal disbelief that a child of three can have a clearly established gender identity is in direct conflict with observed facts. It is NORMAL for a child to have developed a fairly stable gender identity by ages 3 to 4. \n\nHow Does Gender Identity Develop in Children?\n\nAround two-years-old, children become conscious of the physical differences between boys and girls. Before their third birthday, most children are easily able to label themselves as either a boy or a girl. By age four, most children have a stable sense of their gender identity. During this same time of life, children learn gender role behavior\u2014that is, do\u00ading \"things that boys do\" or \"things that girls do. - \n\n - American Academy of Pediatrics: Gender Identity Development in Children", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The quote about gay seminarians is qualified by adding the fact the seminary is a homophobic environment. Any gay man attempting to accept his orientation is going to have that made much more difficult in an openly anti gay environment. Especially when that environment makes the closet not just mandatory, but something of a shrine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Speaking of apologies, Elagabalus, you might be interested in the following news report about a just announced Canadian federal government process that will lead to formal apologies for the harm done to sexual minorities prior to the repeal of anti-gay criminal code provisions 1969. (Typing that year sends chills up my spine as I focus for the first time on the fact homosexuality was still a crime in 1964 when I first learned that my future brother-in-law was gay.)\n\nhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/trudeau-names-edmonton-mp-special-adviser-on-lgbtq2-issues/article32848251/\n\nAt the bottom of this story is a video of the Canadian Prime Minister walking in the Montreal gay pride parade earlier this year, a first for a Prime Minister. He also went out of his way to participate in other pride parades, including a trip across the country to Vancouver.\n\nThe Egale report referenced in the story is:\n\nhttp://egale.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/FINAL_REPORT_EGALE.pdf", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Joint Chiefs: Tweets aren\u2019t enough to implement transgender military ban", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Terrible.\nThe only cause for hope is that gay marriage is now allowed. A small step but in the right direction.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cardinal Burke advises that gay family members who are in relationships should be excluded from family gatherings at which children are present. He did not say, but may have meant, that the gay person might be permitted to attend alone. It's exactly what John described.\nhttp://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/10/cardinal-says-gay-couples-shouldnt-be-invited-to-family-gatherings-if-children-are-present/\nYou can also find a sympathetic account of Burke's comments at Life Site News.\nMay we infer from your reluctance to believe the Burke would give such despicable advice to families inicates that you disagree with him?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why is it bad for the DOJ to investigate ALL instances of discrimination? I mean, i know for the past 8 years the focus has been completely on issues of Blacks being discriminated against, and maybe a little bit on gays, but at the end of the day shouldn't the DOJ that is working for ALL Americans be there to defend ALL Americans? \nI find it funny that the NAACP has the balls to say they will fight it if the DOJ decides they want to defend ALL Americans equally. How Racist is it to insist that white people not have the same rights as blacks?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Total agreement.\n\nI find your Dublin priest and his congregation's response awe inspiring. When was that referendum in Ireland, and what were the results?\n\nGiven the fear of clergy to come out, it is very tough to estimate the proportion of clergy who are gay. I waffle in my guesses from about 20% to 45%. What's your guess?\n\nRe my point 3, are you sure you want to say something positive about gay marriage in Catholic churches using, at this particular time in human history, the phrase \"the truth always TRUMPS lies.\" ;-}", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It would be the medical profession's call whether or not the feeling is subjective?--if you're using that term to mean not worthy of acting upon. Yet so far, the response of the medical profession to transgendered individuals has been a cautious yes that has only grown more robust, though one area of dissension has been how early kids should be allowed to transition. Gender clinics are an obvious response to this request for intervention. By contrast, most physicians and surgeons would be hard-pressed to meet the demands of the transabled, whose condition is recognized as a disorder, not dysphoria.\n\nBreasts are not good in the same way that legs are. No compensation is needed when breasts are removed--this is a key difference. Indeed, they would be a burden to those who do not see themselves as female. But the destruction of a limb that will involve overt compensation can only mean that the person is OK with the compensatory devices too--perhaps even likes them. That's just neurotic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obama:\n Rescued the country from the Great Recession, cutting the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.7% over six years\nEnded the war in Iraq\nOrdered the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden\nPassed the $787 billion America Recovery and Reinvestment Act to spur economic growth during the Great Recession\n Supported the LGBT community\u2019s fight for marriage equality\nSaved the U.S. auto industry\nSigned the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to re-regulate the financial sector\nReversed Bush-era torture policies\nIncreased Department of Veteran Affairs funding\nSigned the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act\nRepealed the military\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d policy\nSigned the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, making it a federal crime to assault anyone based on sexual or gender identification\nSupported veterans through a $78 billion tuition assistance GI bill\n\nYou may not like what he did, but he did a lot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't agree with you that we don't talk to each other. I think that many people do talk with others. The thing that we don not talk about much is politics. But this is nothing new in American life. I am not historian, but from what I have read, American history is replete with sharp political divisions. \nI think that instead of seeing this time as somehow especially unique, we should go about improving civics education and encouraging more people to vote. If more people voted, then those who are elected would me more responsive to the populace, which based on various polls, does tend towards agreement on many things, such as the need to treat immigrants more humanely, to ensure the rights of gays and to provide reasonable access to health insurance for all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The irony of building all-gender washrooms is that the transgendered kid refused to use it. Even if you build it they will not come.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have neither called you names nor attacked you, nor would I. But I won't lie just to make you \"feel good\", either.\n\nAnd you and others have failed to provide the only thing I've asked for all along with respect to this topic--empirical evidence predicated on quantitative data, and identification of a so-called \"gay gene\" and its location(s) in the human genome. Your feelings (or mine) have nothing whatsoever to do with it.\n\nLinks between behavior and genetic heritage certainly exist, but the DEGREE to which they influence (still less \"determine\") human behavior have NOT been established. Not since Watson and Crick.\n\nAnd in all sincerity I caution that trying to FORCE recognition of genetic/behavioral links without empirical evidence is NOT science--it's very DANGEROUS. Claiming behavior is inextricably controlled by genetics is the first step toward designating certain genetic heritages \"inferior\". That's been done before, in this country and elsewhere. It didn't turn out well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is why I named them and didn't just call them Christians. In fact, my maternal grandfather was an Anglican priest and my mother the kind of Christian where she derived guidance, solace and comfort from her religion. My father however was vile about homosexuals and used his religion to judge and deride and feel righteous. God was a man and men were made in God's image and therefore men rule the households and the world. All religions have these extremes. I do feel religion has an important place for charity and to teach tolerance, love, inclusion and to lift up those who have less or are in need. It sounds like this is you and I fully respect that type of Christianity. But religion isn't the only avenue to teach and learn ethics and morality and, unfortunately, the good aspects of religion are too often overwhelmed by the bad and abuse of religion to say G-d is on their side. (and wage war).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. Just no. We only question the gender declarations of young kids when they're at odds with their anatomy. Furthermore, not all transgender people have gender dysphoria. Some of them are perfectly healthy in their bodies and it doesnt make them any less trsnsgender. You should broaden your research input.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Insanity has now replaced gender role choices. This writer points to extreme example as if to justify his ridiculous case. I am transgender, but I accept none of his conclusions and am bitterly opposed to the new trend towards indoctrinating and sexualising children that we see in society and which is attached to this whole transgender normalization movement. We are ignoring 100,000 years of human history. I want people to know that there are transgenders out there that oppose the new insanity being pushed by people like this and are now organizing to stop it. Please check out my video for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imYad5dq_t0&feature=youtu.be", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was at the very first Gay Pride in Toronto in 1981. I have seen it grow into an incredible event and I have also watched mendacious and malicious people within the gay community sabotage Gay Pride, bit by bit, year after year for their benefit at the cost of unity within the community as a whole. Pride stopped being about unity 15years ago. BLM is the inevitable result, where it isn't even about the LGBT community any more. We are merely do the catering and clean up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not one homophobe can prove a transgender or homosexual tried to sexually assault someone in the bathroom let alone another man or woman. It is all in the fear mongering.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here\u2019s the same Song for you LazyGuy=\nSigning by (famous French singer) Lara Fabian\n\u00ab She\u2019s \u00bb the female part of \u00ab him \u00bb\n\u00ab She\u2019s \u00bb the transvestite living w/his mother and a cat\n\u00ab \u2026I\u2019m a \u00ab Homo \u00bb, so they say\u2026 \u00bb\n\n(see this \u00ab little masterpiece \u00bb of Anthology of Gay Culture\n On YouTube= Lara Fabian- Comme ils disent (What makes a man)\n (w/French lyrics n English transl.)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUngIQnkpWI\n\n(same song & superb version) \nMarc Almond What makes a Man a Man (w/ Engl. Lyrics)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36x3YKH7gY\n(copy-paste in wb address)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is it \"equal\" rights when a \"transgender\" male can use a women's bathroom and a non-transgender male cannot? Hey! Put down the rocks! I'm just askin'...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course sexuality is a choice. Why wouldn't anyone choose to be homosexual? Is there something wrong with that? It's funny watching liberals pick and CHOOSE which choices to extol.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree. I just prefer to be called the gay community, and I am technically bi, but just prefer being with men.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would like to make the point that Amoris Laetitia does NOT allow Catholics who are civilly divorced and remarried to receive Holy Communion. It promotes the use of internal forum. There is a big difference there.\n\nDo you support Pope Francis's clearly stated teachings on contraception and homosexuality in Amoris Laetitia?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Originalism is a fraud and a farce. Scalia always maintained the pretense of being a humble lawyer but in truth was a far right judicial activist. He claimed to simply interpret the texts he was given, which conveniently always led to decisions favorable toward (and hostile to laws enacted against) modern conservative policy positions. The plain text of the constitution may say nothing about gay rights, abortion, personal ownership of firearms or corporate money as an analogue of free speech, but to originalists these central concerns of the modern conservative movement were explicitly addressed by the Founders. Gorsuch is probably to the right of Scalia. Once Trump has a few more appointments America will truly have the Supreme Court it deserves, by the corporations, for the profit and against the people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not sunny in DC. And if the local said it was sunny all day it would be fallible, just like if he said that Epigenetics was not a major scientific finding on whether gays are made or born.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here I was thinking this was a piece about racial and religious bias in immigration policy, and then in paragraph 4 the author throws out the LGBTQ (I prefer GQ-BLT) acronym. Two paragraphs later the author claims she is a lesbian, and later she mentions that a \"young person I know\" is a lesbian. (Big surprise that one lesbian would know another.) Sexual preference has nothing to do with immigration policy, so it just seems as if the author is just trying to pad her victim status and make it seem even more impressive that she makes it through each day. In this world of so many victims, it's important to stand out in your victimness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The LGBTQ community should be po'd at Spacey right now because what he did in trying to excuse his behaviour - let's ignore the 'I was drunk one' for now - is to link being gay with pedophilia; utterly dangerous and disgraceful to reinforce historical stereotypes like these. These are the kinds of things to produce 'bathrooms laws', among the milder things these groups must deal with.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The issues are many (and richly documented), each filled with dozens of questions, such as the one Keala asked. If you really want, I can (or fellow commenters can) create a list for any issue you choose that features Sanders/Spicer stonewalling journalists (who are your representatives; these are the people trying to get information from them for you). Just pick an issue, though, and I'll give you the first 3 questions I'd ask from a journalistic perspective. Following Keala's lead, we can start with the ban on transgender military service people ... 1. Who exactly will be affected by this policy; at what precise stage of transgender transformation will they be considered unfit for duty? Why? 2. How will this policy be implemented and to what depth? In other words, does this apply to every service person at every level of the military, including an admin assistant in some remote outpost? 3. How does this approach align with / or reject U.S. military history: https://goo.gl/7RYmfa?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Free to discriminate? I don't think so. If you don't want to serve the public at large, don't go into business.\"\n==============\nHe did not - did not - discriminate against the gay guy. He did - did - discriminate against an \"artistic work of edible art\" he was asked to \"utilize his artistic talents\" to \"create.\"\n-\nThe gay guy had the right to go in and buy anything off the shelves he wanted to buy. But does \"everyone\" (gay, Nazi, KKK, pro-choice, pro-life, etc) have \"the right\" to force any \"artist\" to decorate a cake, compose a song, design a web page, paint a painting, or anything else that the \"artist\" finds \"offensive\" because the \"artist\" is, for example, a vegan?\n-\nThe question SCOTUS may answer is \"Did he discriminate against the 'customer'?\" (No) But \"Did he discriminate against an 'offensive work of art' that enjoys no protection class status?\" (Yes)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If his behavior and \"offer of service\" toward the gay couple was different than it would be toward a straight couple, he is guilty of illegal discrimination. That should be the end of this story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The government needs to provide funding to support writers who publish articles like this one. There are not enough articles in the Globe and Mail on finding creative ways to waste my tax money. My only objection to this article is that the writer made no mention of transgender persons of colour and their need for safe injection sites where their religious practices can be respected while I pay for their kids' swimming lessons.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you so much for this clear accurate statement!\nI am so weary of those who continue to believe that the obligation of an elected official is to promote her/his own religious beliefs as an agent in a democracy which is, since its foundation, free from religious affiliation...what don't you all get about this??? \nThe SCOTUS has declared both abortion and gay marriage to be within the constitutional rights of any US citizen....if it does not fit with your personal conscience, then don't do it! I wish my taxes did not pay for activities of our government which I consider immoral: the death penalty and war - but as long as they are legal under the US Constitution, I have to accept that as part of my participation in the democratic process.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fr. Martin has been way too respectful and even then he was tossed from American Magazine as publisher. The fact is that the hierarchy cannot handle the truth, even the personal truth of many of its members and priests, who have a sexual orientation much rarer than the homosexuals they seek to force into celibacy and the priesthood. Less common in society and more common in the clergy are those who settle into celibacy as natural for them, those of the Asexual orientation. The way to argue the theology of sex is not the merits, since the Church will argue scripture and tradition to resist, even as they are proof texting both badly. Instead, it is time to \"out them\" and demonstrate that the ancient and modern clergy of this orientation are promoting their unique sexuality and that it does not apply to the rest of us. Until the truth is revealed, we will be stuck in a morality that is not appropriate to the vast majority of us. Martin should write about that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am afraid I am unfamiliar with Mr Do Bee.\nAs far as my comments are concerned my conscience is quite clear that none of them are homophobic. I have written nothing which can be construed as expressing hatred or fear of homosexuals. I have written nothing that can't be found in the Scriptures, the Catechism or any other teachings of the Catholic Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here are Kristin Beck's (a transgender ex Navy SEAL) own words to Trump:\n\n\"\"Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy,\" Kristin Beck, a 20-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, told Business Insider on Wednesday. \"Transgender doesn't matter. Do your service.\"\n\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/kristin-beck-trump-transgender-ban-2017-7", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If it's a personal thing (it's all about obstructing Trump....he doesn't give a rip about illegals or transgendered) he should be using his own money, not the state's. This entire subject has little to nothing to do with Hawaii.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you present yourself as a moral teacher and leader, but your own morals are lacking, why should you be taken seriously?\n\nMy youngest son left the Church largely because he saw how the institutional Church drove his gay uncle away. He asked, quite reasonably, how are Church that preached \"love your neighbor as yourself\" could treat their LGBT neighbors so unlovingly? He rejected the hypocrisy he saw.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you don't believe the travel ban was for safety and security, put on a yarmulke and move to Yemen or Pakistan or Iran.\n\nOr go to a public square in any of these countries, and loudly declare that you're gay.\n\nThis will result in a teachable moment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just like abortion and gay marriage, President Obama's views had to \"evolve.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Canada and the United States are different countries. I realize that should be self-evident, but it apparently needs to be stated since many pro-Trump Canadians are just itching to see the same pattern repeat itself here.\n\nFortunately, things are different here. Our public health care system is well established, and calls to eliminate it entirely are few and far between. The second amendment doesn't exist, which means guns and gun culture are not nearly as common. Social issues like gay marriage and abortion are largely settled, and digging them up again would be losing idea. Canada is heavily dependent upon exports, especially resource exports, so throwing up trade barriers would be a job killer for us.\n\nThe key pillars in Trump's populist platform have little or no meaning in Canada.... so if you want to sign on to the Trump train, your big complaint tends to be racial or religious bias. How about it? Nazi North, anyone?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"While Castro had his faults\" ?!?!? Are you serious? The man tortured and executed hs own people! He oppressed the gay community. He turned Cuba into a prison preventing people from leaving. You would describe these things as \"faults\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What you might consider traditional values is probably quite different from what others might think. I'd be careful with your use of the word \"traditional.\" Gay and transgender people have been around for as long as the human species. I'd say that makes them traditional, yes?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My daughter had two friends kicked out onto the streets in high school when they came out to their parents. I couldn't believe it. I'll be up front: I usually vote conservative. I also support the rights gays have achieved in the last several decades. Having the schools report gay children to the parents is repugnant. Gay teens (in the U.S.) have a suicide rate 20 times that of straight kids. Kenney, think about what you are doing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for this article. As a woman who lives in a family where four generations have experienced sexual assault and harassment over many years, the category rape culture seems apt. Even today with better laws, the challenge of having the perpetrator suffer any punishment/rehabilitation/effective response remains. The assaults on trans and other non-conforming identities are also terrible. It is not all men who do this of course but there is no question that a culture of toxic masculinity exists. I\u2019m a teacher and have great admiration for the young people who are struggling with this issue now. They are not afraid to name injustice. The universities and other institutions need to make their policies more effective. Indigenous women are ten times as likely to be assaulted and the taunts and racist comments happen all the time. The continue here is in the targeting and inhuman treatment that diminishes others in the interest of enhancing ones own sense of power.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She makes me happy to be gay!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She should sing for the gay and lesbian supporters of Trump\n\nout of 120 million who voted do you seriously believe there were none?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "lescaine,\n\n I've been posting here 11 years. I've never seen wildly irrational angry commenting as these months since Trump's election.\n\n You're right that historical revisionism is a problem. I read 30 years ago what Orwell wrote about it. It's clear most revising and whitewashing of history (and ignoring the more egregious parts) is done by the right wing (e.g, imperialists, monarchists, conservatives), The right wing has always written history, including Canadian history, because the right wing has been the victors of history (e.g.,chroniclers of the British Empire and American hegemony).\n The politically correct cannot change history and have no reason to revise it. But women, Jews, ethnic minorities, gays, First Nations, certainly have a right to point out examples of Canada's history that have been less than glorious.\n Obviously, in light of where we want to be now (growing democracy, world peace, social equality, economic progress for all), history falls way short.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The next president will appoint two Supreme Court nominees. Both houses of Congress are controlled by the Republican party. Gay marriage and abortion very well could be reversed, quite easily actually if conservatives control Congress and have a majority on the Supreme Court. That fact, combined with conservative views on climate change, are why I think it would be extremely extremely harmful not to have someone in office to veto.\n\n\"I\u2019m not so sure the economy has turned around other than for the few and that the ACA is going to work.\" By every measure, I practice economics. GDP growth, job growth, unemployment rate, budget deficit, market capitalization.\n\nI hope you don't have to see the effects of votes for Gary Johnson resulting in a Trump presidency.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1. Not sure where you're going with this? I don't doubt some Christians own guns, but so what? Maybe they like target shooting? It's the usage and intent that matters. \n2. Homosexuality is not a 'sin'. One's personal choice to act upon inappropriate desires however, is. \n3. Voting is a civic duty; None of the Canadian parties have platforms which are both socially and fiscally conservative; hence there is always the need to compromise.\n4. It comes down to bi-lateral respect. Not race, country of origin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I dare, no I double dare any student or even you yourself to identify the blatant logical fallacies evident in current thinking on issues surrounding the transgender issue as theyre being taught in schools today. The holes are there and they are big enough to put your head through so go on then, want to see how open our education system is to sound, logical reasoning and open, frank objective research? Try it with the transgender issue, you'll be in for a lesson in how quickly and loudly brain washed people who cant or wont think for themselves can shout down people they disagree with. Youll be lucky not to end up getting hauled before a Human Rights Tribunal but they aren't much into sound, logical reasoning there either", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're driving me crazy. Your use of its/it's is distracting me from concentrating on your busybody interest in the intimate lives of homosexuals (mainly men, it seems).\n\n\"It's\" is the contraction for \"it is\" or \"it has.\"\n\n\"Its\" is a possessive pronoun.\n\nFor the love of God, get it straight (so to speak).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the halal deli usually serves bacon sandwiches, then I'd expect them to serve anyone that stopped in and ordered one, so long as the customer ordering one wasn't a nuisance or health risk to others in the restaurant (the whole \"no shirt, no shoes, no service\" thing).\n\nThe couple wanted a wedding cake, which the baker does for others. He is refusing to do one simply because they are gay. That's the issue....and why your \"bacon sandwich\" analogy doesn't really work.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Quite right, gewaite. The Orthodox in UK are just not overwhelmed by Anglican ecumenical overtures, especially since the Anglican Church has ordained women (bishops, no less) and allows civil unions between Anglican gay clerics, couples, including bishops. Was there recently and heard Anglicans complain about the cool politeness they get from Orthodox circles. (Ironically, the Orthodox Church, like the CC, doesn't even recognize Anglican orders, yet they complain, especially Russian Orthodox.) And Francis seems far more receptive to Anglican gay bishop/priest couples than the Orthodox since he commissioned pairs of male Anglican and Catholic bishops to work and pray together in their home countries (though, as I said, there were no pairs of women bishops, gay or straight, commissioned). Anyway, ecumenism is in the ice age as far as I can tell, even with Francis' good will gestures.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most media have closed comments in articles on this case, but usually only until the verdict is rendered.\n\nEveryone will have an opinion on this. I think the verdict was just. Others will disagree. But disagreeing and still being agreeable can be difficult. But I still think people should be able to discuss it.\n\nOne always hopes for a civil discussion, but it's rare on topics like this - for the reasons articulated in the article ... like equating homosexuality with pedophilia. Some mis-informed people conflate the two ... even Judges, as late as the 1980s believed it.\n\nCalm discussions on human sexuality vs. sexual assault are rare. The fact that this story intermingles religion and homosexuality often serves to inflame the debate. Sadly. But it will attract clicks and comments.\n\nI cannot fathom why anyone would wait 40 years before seeking redress for any wrongdoing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Mental condition\".\nI've met plenty of transgender folks. They are as mentally stable as any other group of people I've met.\nI think the military gives recruits a battery of tests and examinations. Transgender people are already serving. If they're doing their job, why does it matter to you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually Transgenders don't identify as homosexual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "On transgender issues and respect for gay marriages, the bishop is on the wrong side. Solidarity should be with those that the majority would despise, not the prejudices of the many. Make America Great Again is more about making it white and traditional again. It is a call to reaction and white nationalism. Again, it is not nations that are the problem but the globalization of capitalism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First, let's stick with the US; and second, with respect to men, let's talk about cases per capita: In 2015, 26K+ new diagnoses in men who have sexual contact with other men; 8K+ for heterosexuals who engage in behaviors with partners with AIDS or at high-risk for HIV. https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/index.html\n\nI think lesbians have a whole different set of issues from \"gay\" men.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the republican party just approved a platform that his the worst attacks on LGBT people in the history of the USA ... even forces insurance companies to cover \"conversion therapy.\" for trump, this could well mean water-boarding.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry, more than two genders, especially if you go beyond strictly physical criteria. Catch up on the science. You are right though. How transexuals are treated medically is none of your concern as long as you treat them as respectfully as everyone else. You have no cause not to because, again, this is a medical, not a moral question. Even the bathroom wars had been settled until the right wing brought it up to hide its failure to-stop gay marriage and abortion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To be human, \"man's response to God by faith must be free, and... therefore nobody is to be forced to embrace the faith against his will. the act of faith is of its very nature a free act.\"39 \"God calls men to serve him in spirit and in truth. Consequently they are bound to him in conscience, but not coerced. . . This fact received its fullest manifestation in Christ Jesus.\"40 Indeed, Christ invited people to faith and conversion, but never coerced them. \"For he bore witness to the truth but refused to use force to impose it on those who spoke against it. His kingdom... grows by the love with which Christ, lifted up on the cross, draws men to himself.\n\nI struggle with this in the catechism, if they goal is to invite people to the church and not force it, why do Catholics participate politically in abortion and gay marriage? Which in a sense, forces someone to comply.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree with you too. when these people advocate against gay marriage, against healthcare for all people, against help for the poor and elderly, against public education, agitating against equality for all Americans, they are not being moral decent people. they are evil.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There really are more gay conservatives than you will accept to be true. Your own narrow-minded hate for conservatives means you dispose of the many gays who, just like their own parents and straight neighbours, have to worry about crushing taxes, property values, government waste of tax dollars and favouritism by publicly funded organizations that work against the real needs of all citizens. Owning a home and a business changes everything as legions of gay men have discovered. They don't march and protest. They vote. BLM alienated more gays than the conservatives ever did.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Would the defenders of Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop call it his First Amendment right if he refused to bake a wedding cake for an interracial couple?\"\nSpot on, Cheryl Kasson!\n\"People used religious arguments to support their opposition to interracial marriages\" But the US Supreme Court shot down those arguments.\nThe US Supreme Court also shot down arguments by bakers and flower arrangers and wedding designers who insisted their religious and artistic freedom overrode state laws banning discrimination based on race or religion.\nReligious conservatives never had a problems with civil rights laws and court rulings upholding them -- until gay people and couples began being included in state civil rights laws.\nThis is all about religious conservatives wanting government, through the courts, to protect their right to show superiority over gay people. Religious conservatives want to be protected from discrimination while discriminating against gay people. This is all about power.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jill, your piece invited an important conversation and I like that you replied. So, a bit about me. I've been 'sleeping with the enemy' a long time (I'm gay). As a few here have taken time to point out, I have come to suspect men are built for violence (we joke about testosterone poisoning), whether through genetics, cultural conditioning or both. \n\nI don't know. It seems giving boys space to feel when they might yearn to act crazy isn't quite it. That's why I said men know their bodies (and hearts) and this must be respected. I agree we have to find a better way forward -- one that values women and men making choices, not being fixed in roles.\n\nI think we can certainly start by agreeing sex without consent isn't right, is a violation of choice, for both women and men (remember, I'm a gay guy and really get this). \n\nThanks, Jill. All the best.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does the school or does not teach the lie that is the theory of evolution as fact? BTW, that is just one of the things. What is the way sex ed taught? Is it that abstinence until marriage is the best way to handle things? Does the school promote homosexuality? and transgenderism? What is the teaching on race relations? What about the roles of men and women? How do they teach the history of this nation? These are just some of the topics where the liberal side of things get pushed over the conservative.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because a homosexual orientation is supposed to not be acted upon whether or not one enters the priesthood? Since a priest sacrifices having a wife and family, how does one sacrifice something they don't desire to begin with?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps but if so it won't be the transgendered people who have to worry. It wil be the bigots who will have to deal with God' wrath against his children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The comments by these doctors that there are more pediatric cases now, and somehow that's a flag that there's a problem, really frustrate me. They should be thinking outside of the box. There is a little more knowledge now in the medical community about this condition. It wasn't considered a 'cause' for children's worrisome behaviors before because the possibility of a child being transgender wouldn't enter into health professional's mind and so they would be diagnosed with something else. Access to the internet and more discussion and visibility by and about trans people has also had an effect on this as distressed individuals realize that a) they aren't alone and that b) there is a reason they feel the way they do. These doctors also disregard the fact that adults (and some are much older) who are now coming out or realizing that this has been the issue they haven't been able to understand/resolve all of their lives were once struggling children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender costs BAD, Viagra costs GOOD!\nA 2016 study by the Rand Corporation found the maximum annual medical costs for transgender services would be around $8.4 million. By comparison, the military spent $84 million on erectile dysfunction medications Viagra and Cialis in 2014, the Military Times reported.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "whoooaaa....! amazing exposition of personal social and character orientation within your comment's inference and completely oblique tangency! simply amazing! \"gay\"? what? \"threesome\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You claim to care about those unaccompanied minors -- but you supported a man who boasted he would kick out the ones that were here and build a wall to keep them out, when he was president. \n\nYou claim to care about that child with Down's syndrome -- but you supported a party that has made clear their intent to cut the social safety net for the disabled and the elderly, when he was president.\n\nYou claim to reach out to all, in service for the \"common good\" -- but you supported a man whose campaign was based on the demonization and belittlement of blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, immigrants of all backgrounds, the disabled, veterans, women, gays.\n\nIn all sincerity, your words are blind, self-serving, and meaningless, and you hope we will forget what you did and said then. \n\nWe will not forget.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rather than 'threatening' marriage, the marriage of gay or trans people is an extension of the potential beauty and grace of marriage to groups of people to whom it was previously denied.\nThere is no confusion of the various types of love. You have mentioned agape and eros. These loves may exist (or not) in relationships of all types.\nProcreation has always been optional to an extent - as evidenced by the fact that the Church has always been prepared to solemnise the marriages of those who cannot have children (and No, it does not do this in the hope of miraculous births. It does so because it accepts that other purposes of marriage are also praiseworthy).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly! \n\nI support universal health care, the separation of church and state, immigration, multiculturalism, women's rights, gay rights AND balanced budgets. \n\nPlease, can we find a fiscally responsible Government that is also liberal minded?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The right to be left alone is not absolute, which is why viable fetuses are protected as part of the public interest. Non-viable fetuses are not because there is no authoritative statement in national law giving them that interest. Pass it or don't pass it, but don't act as if that is not the next logical step. The findings of Roe don't change until you do. There is a police power that exists when there is no General Will, as Rouseau would have called it. Libertarians also have General Will critera on some issues, although opion is mixed on abortion. The police power of the states is restricted under the 14th Amendment because they constantly misuse it agaisnt Latinos, Gays, Blacks and Women, as well as Catholics. The tenth amendment is largely oveturned by the fourteenth, the state must prove an overriding interest to target legilsationat a class. I suspect adult consensual incest laws are void Adultery laws have mostly been overturned. Bigamy laws won't last a challenge.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's been interesting to see the evolution in reporting of this matter. But there's still a ways to go. Up until fairly recently, media reports consistently portrayed TWU as anti-LGBTQ and running roughshod over their human rights. Following victories by TWU in superior courts, the reporting is a little more evenhanded.\n\n\"The dispute stems from Trinity Western University\u2019s so-called community covenant, which bans sexual intimacy outside of heterosexual marriage and which critics say discriminates against people in the LGBTQ community who are looking to enter the legal profession.\"\n\nTWU's rules about sexual relations apply to everyone outside of a heterosexual marriage, regardless of their sexual orientation. More straights are affected by the rule than anyone else. However bias in the reporting still remains. This article talks of TWU's \"so-called\" covenant. That language strongly implies that the covenant is illegitimate, which is untrue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh my goodness!! Were talking about President Trump banning transgender in the military. Since you cannot common sense dedend your support transgender in the military you are reverting to Liberal sour grapes fake news on the Russian probe. God created each human being in their mother's womb male or female not for anyone to change their gender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That people disagree with you does not mean you are persecuted. It means you live in a pluralistic society. In his book, which I have read Abp. Chput makes the hysterical and perposterous claim that recognition of transgender people and issues undermines our, as Catholics, belief in the Incarnation of Christ! Much like Steve Bannon and the dominionists cited in the La Civita article, Apt. Chaput wants to go back to a Constantine-imposed Christendom. Not going to happen, nor should it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The terminology \u201cintrinsically disordered\u201d (objectively is not normally used) signifies that (a) it is inherent in the condition and (b) it is inconsistent with God\u2019s plan, in this case man and woman and procreation.\n\nIt is not a moral judgment nor is it hateful. It is a sterile assessment of a particular orientation which makes it clear that acting on it is inconsistent with the moral law. It is also a direct translation from the Latin.\n\nThe Church has repeatedly stated that the orientation itself is not immoral and that those who persecute or deny rights to others based on orientation alone are themselves committing a serious sin.\n\nIf you can come up with a better phrase, please share it.\n\nOne of the reasons it is stated so starkly is to dispel any notion that the Church will change its teaching on LGBT sexual relations, which as you can read any day on this very blog is still hoped for by some few.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Re: Gender identity and discrimination. Basically I agree with Thomas Morse that some religions aggravate discrimination and it is wrong to do so. However, I would raise an issue regarding the clarity of how it is determined that \"you is or you aint\" in any given category. As with cataloguing any trait (religious belief, interest in fishing, or even sexual identification) characteristics are seldom YES or NO. Rather, reality presents a wide continuum of incremental differences - which might even change over time for one individual.\n\nApparatus at birth can be misleading. Shifts in sexual orientation might possibly be genetic, hormonal, medical, or even arising from educational or philosophical changes. Perhaps there are actually lesser or greater variations of bi-sexuality which permeate all human beings, but which are currently not measured. Humans travel the world and have extensive genetic mixing - as different from the more closed populations of other animals. (continued next post)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am always left wondering about people who oppose same-sex marriages by proclaiming that \"marriage is a sacramental union between one man and one woman\"\u2014for no one is trying to strip that union of validity. It's like saying, \"a good, filling meal is spinach lasagna, a salad, and some fruit and cheese.\" It does not say that no other meal is good and filling. Is the aforementioned comment about marriage supposed to be persuasive or something?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't expect politicians to be saints. Plenty of Catholics voted for the Kennedys and Bill Clinton whose sexual mores were no better than Trump's.\nYour judgements of Trump's character are in my opinion born of a hatred of conservatism and a personal dislike of this man. Your published comments about Mr Trump are the anti-thesis of the Gospel.\nWere I to have had a vote in the U.S. election I would not have been able to vote for Hillary on account of her support for abortion, same-sex 'marriage', etc, and her left-wing political views. Mr Trump's politics coincide more with mine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Honestly, have you researched the incident? Besides his remark about Obama and Boehner (really tone-deaf) Williams accused Pres. Obama of being a Muslim, hating cowboys, cowgirls & farming, and loving gays. Weird. And he finished with \"...and we hate him!\" How is that in any way appropriate commentary for MNF? It may not be 'racist' by your definition, but is certainly hate speech against the President. A comment like that directed at Trump would have you and many others here calling for reprisal, but because it targeted Obama it is okay with you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First, Pope Francis doesn't seem to understand that his blanket condemnations of groups of people are very unwelcoming. He cannot condemn gay people, transgendered people, and feminists for some secret plot to destroy marriages and expect them to want to be pastorally accompanied. \n\nSecond, what exactly does he think that gender theory is? Does he really think that liberals are going around encouraging children to change gender? That isn't what gender theory about; it is about getting rid of gender stereotypes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for this article! The GLAAD information seems outdated, however, as there have been 19 transgender victims of violence in 2017 in the U.S,\n as of September 6th. \n(https://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-calls-increased-and-accurate-media-coverage-transgender-murders and https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2017). \n\nI appreciate the Whidbey News Times for sharing my story and highlighting the LGBTQ presence in the community! Great job with the article, Patricia! (I know it's a complex subject to cover).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for your comment, AJ. It re:enforces and deepens my concerns. Ken Blackwell (and a rabidly homophobic, Mike Pence) may soon be in a position to fuse the anti-gay policies of Ratzinger's Vatican ( not Francis'), Trump's proposed America, and Putin's Russia. From a Kremlin perspective, given that Trump is Putin's proxy in America, we can expect the on-going resonance from this Bro-manse to influence a suite of issues, both domestic and international, and bring them into alignment just as, on the nuclear, refugee, and anti-Islamic issues, others have noted here. \n\nGeo-politically uniquely position to do so, Russia is pursuing implementing the Trans-Eurasian Infrastructure Development Project which proposes a bridge or tunnel over the Bering Straight linking Russia and the US. It will be the most massive infrastructure project ever undertaken. With China's cooperation, it will stretch from the Arctic to the Far East and underpin an equally massive trade zone. Thus the Bro-manse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tony - Thank you for both comments. If you are a doctor (MD, PhD?), whatever your practice, you know that holding the opinion that GLBT folks suffer from a psychopathology puts you decidedly apart from the respectable mainstream position of the Amerian Medical Association and the American Psychology Association. You certainly have the right to hold whatever\u200b opinion you want but, again, you are a professional outlier. I am intrigued that a cleric or an actor would somehow have a special understanding of homosexuality unless you are implying that these groups are dominated by same-sex attracted individuals.\n\nPeace to you!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The NCAA and the International Olympic Committees medical bodies disagree with your opinion and have stated unequivocally that a trans person undergoing Hormone Replacement Therapy possesses no advantage over other athletes provided their blood serum levels stay within legal limits just like every other athlete. Heres a link to a page that lists dozens of athletic governing bodies medical policies on trans athletes made up of actual doctors that all say the same.\nhttp://www.transathlete.com/#!policies-by-organization/c1vyj", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no modern liberalism. Neo-liberals like the Clintons took their place and for them its all about the donations from the capitalists. As for liberty, that is libertarianism, not liberalism. The whole FDA is in the way meme is over. Obama fixed that problem to the extent he could without hurting patient safety. \n\nConservative justices found privacy and extended it to contraception, abortion (Brennan was an Ike appointee), sodomy and gay marriage (Kennedy was a Reagan appointee). They could have used the partial birth abortion case to ban abortion, as Scalia insisted (and which was the real plan for passing the bill) except that Kennedy, Roberts (Bush) and Alito (Bush) would not. Libertarians all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Frank..think you are right....in the US and Western world..\n\nWe have lost so many young folks....think the synod might be focused on why the Church no longer speaks to youth of today...in the west\n\nThere will be the usual stuff about youth too secular etc....but if these questions were seriously and very honestly and scientifically posed using contemporary social science techniques....I suspect we might find that today's youth are plenty spiritual but are turned off what they see as the sins of the church.....everything from the abuse issues, to the gay treatment,to misogyny to very insufficient inclusion of highly disparate folks...\n\nI have 4 college level grandkids and they have been raised in very socially conscious families.....they are all selecting career paths that will help others....and my guess is that they will all marry some day and make wise choices.but a church that treats women and gays poorly....(they value both groups) doesn't provide a lot of religious attraction....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's an example of something you wrote earlier:-\n\"...... when Cardinal Burke told parents to reject their gay children, he was not \"beige\" a homophobe. That was just the first lie \"in\" have seen from you.\"\nPerhaps you could explain what it means.\n'Real' Catholics know that the Church's authority to teach comes from God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trans people should be ineligible for the military.\n\nMy ADD should make me ineligible too. That's not a criticism of ADD \u2013 I think it makes me a better mathematician \u2013 but it would be a disaster in combat.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Prove it with DNA? Do you have to prove that heterosexuality is part of our evolution? No, because it's so obvious in nature. Homosexuality in complex social groups makes perfect genetic sense and is observed in many vertebrate species. Science is not on your side.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe I missed that part of the Bible, but where in the New Testament does it discuss homosexuality?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't like discrimination in any form, but I do see a problem in this case. If the farmer had discriminated against customers buying apples at the Farmer's market, yes, barr him from participation. To me, hosting weddings on his property is a different and much more personal arena than a Farmer's market in town. If he's that uncomfortable with same sex weddings and feels hosting such a ceremony puts his soul in jeopardy, he should be able to say no. However, he should then be prepared to see his business suffer as people vote with their dollars about his homophobia and discrimination against same sex couples. If you feel that strongly about an issue you should be willing to suffer for it, shouldn't you? He displayed this homophobia on his private property, not in the public arena in town at the Farmer's market. I also understand the city of East Lansing wanting to distance themselves from the homophobia of Tennes by barring him from the market.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You have to admit, a POW being denied hormones would be their biggest fear. \n\nAnd it is hard to imagine many of the non-state players these days are not likely to ensure a supply\n\nDoes the Geneva convention ( not that a lot of these groups adhere) require drug supplies, as well as recognizing trans troops?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you notice when you quote Social Conservatives they accuse you of Hate Speech, even when you point out you're just repeating their very own words back to them?\n\nWe now live in a world where one can live in an information bubble, hearing and seeing only things that confirm our bias. Tabatha Southey pinpricks that bubble.\n\nThe collection of hopefuls running for the Tory leadership is rather sad. Kenney is very uncomfortable with O'Leary, but that just reveals the new Conservative Party is a restricted club where certain things are only to be said behind closed doors.\n\nBut O'Leary and Trump have done us a favour. The social conservatives are emboldened and say in public things which we suspected but could never pin down.\n\nTrost and Kenney are funded by some powerful people. These are people who are against homosexuals, against abortion, against indigenous land claims, and against science, specifically Darwinism and climatology.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "wow. finally i found someone who believed that Trump was a LGBT rights \"supporter\".\n\nDPEB: please list all the other things Trump promised that you guys actually believed.\n\nThat should be funny.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How casually we are reduced to name-calling lately. And how amazing that it is deemed acceptable.\n\nNot everyone who has a moral disagreement with homosexuality is a homophobe, kag. Some people can actually disagree with certain activities and choices people make and not be phobic about it. It may be a good idea to refrain from blatant labeling - it only diminishes all of us...but particularly the one doing the name-calling.\n\nNow. The contract to provide the cake was not accepted - no agreement was broken. No deposit was made, no money exchanged, . Are you now saying that all job offers must be accepted?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just to clarify one point: the trans individual is most often NOT in conflict with themselves about their gender identification, It is with the social and environmental features of their lives that present the conflict for them. It is remarkable that in all of the sexual variations, very, very few experience an inner conflict that lasts for very long, if at all. The outer conflicts, however, is the long-term damaging situation that results in all of the psychological symptoms (i.e., depression) and syndromes (internalized homophobia, etc.). The so-called \"conflicted with his/her sexual identity\" are the easier things to treat. The external conflicts (even by the Church itself) are the uphill battle each LGBT person must fight to maintain a sense of integrity and balance. It is there, at that point, that the Church and its ministers should be ready to \"accompany.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have no problem with uniformed police walking in the Pride Parade. I think it is amazing that police forces across the country are showing solidarity with the LGBTQ community- Especially given the tumultuous past each has had. These special interest fringe groups should leave our Pride Parade alone. They are more than free to hold their own rallies and marches if they wish, but they should respect the right of others to have their events as they see fit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As far as putting out a real platform is concerned Andrew Scheer right now is an empty suit unless you call opposition to same sex marriage and abortion something to campaign on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Regarding: \"The campaign is a response to an advisory sent to priests by Fr. James Bartylla, diocesan vicar general, that discouraged Catholic funerals for those in same-sex marriages and relationships. \"\n- If a mentally ill person steals, then we say that while stealing is a sin, the theft by an ill person, while not right, is no sin.\n- It follows then that if homosexuals who are disordered (church's teaching) then the acts that come from the disorder, while viewed by others as not a good, are also not a sin. \n- If follows then that presuming a disordered person has sin is a sin itself.\n- That is, while a local church might advise against a lot of funeralizing fan-fare, they can not refuse a funeral mass for gays or lesbians because the church suspects any sex that they had was sinful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just another instance of hillbillies finally coming to the realization that the world has changed. Either that or LGBTs have only succeeded in crossing the line in the sand. It takes more than a boycott, it takes a spine. So far they've been lucky. Tomorrow may be different. Nobody likes to lose.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It\u2019s tough, but I honestly think that, generally speaking, if a parent \u201conly knew\u201d because a teacher told them their kid was as gay, they weren\u2019t paying attention and weren\u2019t doing a great job as a parent. There are always exceptions to be sure, but I expect that this is a fair comment more often then it is incorrect. Yes this may sound harsh to some, but I think it is accurate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've known people like Pope Francis before. They are well meaning and can be effective leaders. However, when it comes to consistent theology, that isn't their strong suit. I'm not saying that he's right or wrong in his pronouncement regarding gays and their acceptance in seminaries, it's just that I suspect that we're going to be arguing theology back and forth during his period as Pope when it's a secondary issue to him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Depending on where a trans is in their conversion, their mind can't possibly be entirely on their job.\" One would expect discipline & training to kick in, and that soldiers going through particularly difficult points in their transition would be assigned duties appropriate to their situation.\nYou might make the same remark about soldiers going through divorce, or loss of a family member, or for that matter, allergy season.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "have lived the life of denial and repression as the Church expects them to, and the resulting depression, addictions, and suicidal thinking\nThe big mistake here is that you assume that the 'repression' caused the depression, suicidality, and addictions. In fact, it is more plauible to conclude that male homosexuality is one part of a syndrome that includes these other conditions. (This is not to imply there is a single entity of 'male homosexuality', any more than there is one entity of depression or one entity of schizophrenia. We lump things together because of surface similarities, even when the pathogenesis differs markedly.)\n\nhighly rigid and disturbed candidates I presume you mean people whose opinions and beliefs you disagree with? Why not just say so?\n\nThe church would do well to lose 50% (or more) of its current priests and retain those who actually live and preach a life of virtue in the increasingly decadent world which the secular West has become.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am surprised at her limiting it to just 50%. Most on the left make the blanket statement that all republicans/conservatives are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and any other ist or phobic they can find to use. Oh, and fascist also. Absolutely none of these are anywhere near accurate or true but they have never let that stop them since at least the 60's. This election cycle is rampant with these kinds of characterizations of republicans/conservatives and that may be why independents are favoring Trump by fairly large margins.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you were there, but perhaps you are more rational about things like that and not so uptight...No I don't because the Boy Scouts never barred Gay kids, they had a moral code loosely based on Biblical Standards, if there were a heterosexual kid having sex with his girlfriend they would most likely have the same stance, but I cannot speak for every troop. She is attacking a Red Herring issue, which is controlled by an imperfect group of people, and an even more disorganized \"corporate structure and philosophy. Jeannette is an activist teacher and counselor, and has written a few times Op Ed pieces on this paper, so she is not difficult to discern where she is coming from on this issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Moreover, there is already evidence to show that many in the trans community are, in fact, demanding use of a wide range of pronouns.\n\nAlso, they are quick to conflate disagreement with hate speech, and disagreement with justification for physical violence on their part. Witness the arguments of Prof. Hatt at U of T, or the assaults committed by Val Williamson and Meera Ulysses of the same institution.\n\nAny of the trans folks in my circle (the first transitioned in '93) simply want to live life normally and go about their business. To a person, they all use he or she as appropriate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cardinal Wuerl is fairly conservative in his views, as is Francis. However, he is like Francis in that he doesn't see the world through a rigid, black-and-white prism, and mercy and love take priority over harsh rules.\n\n For example, when a priest in the diocese who was presider at a funeral mass learned that the daughter of the deceased was a lesbian, he threw a fit. He refused communion to the woman, left the altar, and refused to go to the gravesite for final prayers. He did not find a substitute priest, but others did. The daughter who was treated in such an un-christian manner received a letter from the Archdiocese that apologized for the \"lack of kindness\" and saying \"I will offer Mass for the happy repose of your mother\u2019s soul. May God bring you and your family comfort in your grief and hope in the Resurrection.\" The priest was removed shortly afterward from the parish - without explanation (such as when Finn was removed). Wuerl is more Francis than Burke.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right, did you see the Iranian version of Footloose? Let's just say instead of a dance at the end, all the rebelling students are stoned to death for blasphemy, the end. \nComparing a country where women are lashed by morality police for wearing ripped jeans to Canada? Are you truly this shameless? Seriously, you are embarrassing yourself - there is no western parallel to the scourge of societies under the controls of religious zealots. Just look at every country that still has the death penalty for homosexuals - it's not a coincidence - it's a function of societies guided by political Islam.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As I read this essay it became clear that the author voted on the basis of the cultural issues of abortion, contraception and gay marriage. For him, the \"best\" candidate was the one that promised to appointment SCOTUS judges that would overturn Roe v Wade. Like many evangelicals and conservative Catholics this author voted on the basis of these issues only. Anything else was not really important. Jobs notwithstanding, any other issue paled compared to these. What is inconceivable to me is how he could justify voting for someone who obviously doesn't believe a word of what he says and makes it up as he goes along. I firmly believe that the chickens will come home to roost but not before Trump appoints the judges that will reverse Roe v Wade. Then he and other \"deplorables\" will have felt justified in their vote.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I will accept your word for that. ;-)\nI have read your distinction between a deductive and inductive interpretations of Natural Law and your preference for the latter: I'm not convinced. \nTo judge the morality of sexual activity upon how we experience it would legitimise many more types of sexual activity than simply heterosexual and homosexual, which I'm not going to mention here.\nRegardless of the situation the accompanying pastor cannot ignore the teaching of the Church otherwise why would he claim to be a Catholic? He is duty bound to point it out to his fellow Catholic seeking his counsel. Having done so, the 'accompanied', if he was culpably ignorant no longer is so.\nDiscernment is another word for judgement. To judge whether something objectively wrong can be right under certain conditions is 'situation' ethics, the belief that one can deliberately do evil if the outcome can be deemed good, the end justifies the means. The Church teaches that this is never permissible.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nice, another contrived feel-good story about a working-class stiff in Gillette WY, brought to you by a Washington Post Trump basher, published in the Denver Post, about the renewed optimism in America's heartland. It comes a day after the Paris Accord, and it's got coal miners, wide open spaces, oil and gas, power generation, layoffs, President Trump, economic recovery, environmental activism, Obama, LGBT people, fishing and hunting, coffee shops, the EPA, hotdogs, steaks, and ramen. Quite a smorgasbord of liberalism-- I'm amazed this Washington Post writer could squeeze all that in there-- but they still forgot to mention illegal aliens. ...God Bless America!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The transgender post surgery complications, can open the door to military service connected disabilities, that evolved during military service, even though the disabilities were not directly connected to military service.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're not making a heck of a lot of sense there, Lawrence. Isn't the \"right\" to discriminate against gays more like something out sharia law?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is an area that I really need to know more about, so I am searching for information. Australia seems to be the only country where deeper research is being done, so maybe we should listen to them. The number of trans gendered adults who changed their sex in Australia, and wished they had not, is a very high percentage. There is a gay actor in Britain who says he is so glad he waited until he was older and feels that the sex of the child at birth ,should be encouraged and the one assigned, until children are at least 18 when they can then make those major decisions themselves. I forget this man's name but a prominent star. Caving into this cross dressing phenomena does not seem right to me with elementary school children. Many will regret this. Allowing anyone under nineteen to have doctors interfere with their genitalia should be discouraged as well. This is a complex topic. What is causing all these chromosome problems?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Patient safety? Shouldn't the patient and their doctor determine that? Whatever happened to keeping the government out of women's bodies? Whatever happened to freedom of \"choice?\" Again, we see what liberals really mean by choice. Liberal \"choice\" isn't the right to live freely and make choices for yourself. Liberal \"choice\" is nothing more than the right to be gay and the right to have an abortion. Oh, and the right to be transgender, of course. \n\nLet me get this straight: a woman's \"choice\" to kill her unborn child is between her and her doctor. A woman's \"choice\" to try something experimental needs to be mediated by government regulation because she and her doctor might make a \"choice\" that puts her life in danger? If a woman and her doctor determine it is worth the risk, why is that any of the governments' business any more than liberals claim abortion is? A woman can kill her unborn child, but can't determine her cancer treatment! You don't see the irony in that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump's first and arguably most important appointment was Mike Pence - a man who voted against gay marriage, because it was against \"god's ideal\" and voted against legislation prohibiting discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of sexual orientation.\n\nNow that you know these facts, will you now post your disapproval? I'll be looking for it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So many of the commenters talk about \"fitting in\". Do Old Order Mennonites fit in? Goths? Punks? Bikers? Trans people? Aboriginals? My Canada includes more than Bob and Doug McKenzie. Diversity does not detract from our Canadianness, it is part of what makes it exceptional.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pence should get a lot of Republican support, as the \"Cro-Magnon wing\" of the party is currently rather large and may, in fact, constitute a majority of the Republican tribe. Perhaps Palin would be a good VP for Pence. Like Pence, Palin thinks that gays can be \"cured\" either through prayer or conversion therapy. Palin believes that high caliber automatic weapons can be used to liven up family gatherings by laying waste to all creatures great and small. This dynamic duo would still be demonstrably better than Agent Orange, a clear indication of the very sorry state of affairs in the White House.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gender identity politics can be compared to religious choice. I don't associate myself with a particular religion but I have no problem with others doing so. How many religions and their various subsects are there in the country? Hundreds would be my guess. I don't care if someone associates themselves with a particular religious path as long as he/she doesn't impose those beliefs on others. Sadly, many religions make it their mission to convert others to their world view. I have never met a person who identifies as transgender who tried to convert me to their \"side\". They only want basic rights and to be accepted and understood. Nothing wrong with that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And of course I agree with you ... who wouldn't. In stating that Caffarra was intentionally malicious I'm reporting what I think or suspect. Like what Monica did when she said \"I think some of the comments are intentionally malicious.\" And to which you replied \"you're probably right.\" Please forgive my grammatical imprecision in not explicitly qualifying my statement with \"I think\" or that Caffarra's intention was \"probably malicious.\"\n\nI suppose if you grew up with your sexuality criminalized you might be more sensitive to the disgust I feel for the Caffarras who worked and are still working to keep homosexuality criminalized in much of the world. The Malawi Bishops ( a stone's throw from where I live) in their pastoral letter on the Year of Mercy of all things roundly chastized their government for imposing a moratorium on the criminalization of gay sex. Caffarra's rhetoric on homosexuality being the stuff of Satan is very much of the same ilk ... and seems intentionally malicious.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suspect you are a hit and run poster, but I will take on this comment anyway. I do not see every white Trump voter as a racist, or a nationalist, and anti immigration. I think many of them voted the anti abortion and anti gay marriage planks because they believe these are the paramount cultural issues courtesy of the USCCB. What I hope they begin to understand is that the Southern Baptist Convention has used cultural issues to hide their racism. So in effect pro life Catholics enabled Southern racism and the rise of the Alt Right. I didn't vote for President and am getting sick of pointing out to Trump voters that Trump did not win the popular vote. He won the Electoral College by some 70,000 votes. It is indicative of his narcissism that he can't handle the loss of the popular vote and yet it is equally indicative of many of his supporters that they can't handle that fact either. Trump is a disaster and no amount of Rogue Catholic defending is going to change that fact.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Successive popes? Read the document \"Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion\" authored by Pope Benedict when he was Cardinal Ratzinger. Interestingly enough, Cardinal Ratzinger opposes capital punishment--yet he said in the document that one can be a Catholic in good standing and disagree with the bishops on that issue. \n\nWhat that means is that it is not essential to Catholic belief to oppose the death penalty even if a majority are opposed to it's use. \n\nAs for myself---I do not rule out it's use. You know how you liberals are always whining about the imposition of views on people and how we mustn't impose our views--on things like--abortion or gay marriage etc? If we mustn't impose our views on those issues, why do we get to impose our views on the death penalty? If a women is free to murder her unborn innocent child--in the name of \"choice\" why isn't the state allowed to utilize the death penalty to punish cold blooded rapists and killers? --Seamless garment turned on its head.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"More than 100,000 people were expected to turn out in Los Angeles where the annual Pride Parade was renamed the ResistMarch.\"\n\nResist, bought and paid for by George Soros. That has nothing to do with Gay Pride.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ruth,\n\nDon't be fooled by the official sounding name, The American College of Pediatricians is not a \"large body\", it is a fringe group of about 200 arch conservatives that split off from the 66,000 member American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP).\n\nhttps://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/11/13/meet-anti-lgbt-hate-group-filed-amicus-brief-alabama-supreme-court\n\nThe AAP has a much more reasonable, thoughtful, and appropriate viewpoint regarding transgendered youth.\n\nhttps://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/AAP-Statement-on-Protecting-Transgender-Youth.aspx\n\nSo back to you then.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Archbishop Chaput, for one, would question \"which Spirit\" Pope Francis was listening to: the Holy Spirit or the \"spirit of the world\" which \"leads one away from teachings of Jesus\"... as I was questioned on an occasion of accepting LGBT persons!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Would these outraged people be the same ones who voted for 45 even after they heard his infamous tape? ANY chance at all these would be the same people who claim religious rights in an effort to discriminate against gays? Would these outraged people be the same ones who rant about 'freedom' of speech to spread their own hatred?\nPlease....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dear Ayesha, \nYour article suggests that human actions (be they 'good' or 'bad') are based purely on culture & social constructs & hierarchies. If you look at human action holistically, you will find that hormones play a very large role in determining behavior. For instance, trans-gender people who take testosterone testify that their own behavior & attitude towards people slowly changes into something quite horrible (eg. gawking at and objectifying people). The behavioral effects that hormones produce are something that honest trans-gender people have claimed has surprised them, & that they catch themselves thinking & acting out things which they never would have. I'm not trying to knock your SJW article, but I think its in the best interest of humanity that modern science & understanding of human evolutionary history is given a fair representation and context within this post-modern 'dialogue'. I encourage people to read far & wide, to recognize bias & to question everything. Regs", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Some groups like the Proud Boys have initiation rituals that include violent hazing and require an oath of fealty to Western culture. Their followers thrive on hyper-masculinity and celebrate when one of their brethren hits a leftist agitator.\"\n\nHave you actually seen the initiation rituals for Proud Boys? Please answer. I can show you one. \n\nIt is NOTHING like that which the New York Times writes about. They are obviously a biased source. Which is fine. Every reporter and news outlet has a bias. But they can be wrong. \n\nYou told me you won't listen to Gavin explain the lawsuits and how media outlets have printed lies about him.\n\nThe Proud Boys are multi-racial. The New York Times suggested they were white only. Which is empirically false. Gavin has multi-racial children. He is fine with non-whites, homosexuals and Muslims joining his group.\n\nOther news outlets have removed their articles. The New York Times was one that actually apologized and admitted their error.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This motion can lead to a slippery slope. One where our abilities to criticize others, and religions, is diminished. When we can no longer criticize, we are no longer live in a society that values freedom of speech.\n\nNow there is a line between critical thought and hate, and that line was egregiously crossed by the sick demented young man that committed the atrocity at the Mosque. There is no question that those that kill or intimidate to achieve their goal are wrong.\n\nBut we need to understand that critical thought towards some of Christianities backwards \"policies\" only one hundred years ago led us to grow as a society. Women can now vote, they can wear (generally speaking) what they want to wear. Admitting you are atheist or non-religious is no longer blasphemous, nor will it (or should it) affect your standing at your job or in the eyes of society as a whole. Homosexuality is no longer a crime.\n\nOur ability to criticize is our right. Don't forget this!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All through history we see social panics, whether we're talking the innumerable rape panics, the pogroms, the Salem witch trials, McCarthyism ... all it takes is one person to start that ball rolling, and then the herd behaviour drives that fear to into hyperbole and hysteria.\n\nNo, this is not how 'it' starts. Since Handmaid's Tale was released in 1985, gay marriage has been legalized pretty much across the western world, including several US states in recent years. Marijuana has been legalized in multiple nations and states. Singular protection for gays, lesbians, transgender, minorities, etc. have been directly inserted into our Charter. Immigration levels in western nations have done nothing but rise, and racial tolerance has risen with it. I shouldn't have to illustrate how the Canadian restaurant scene is no longer anywhere near as 'white bread' as it was in 1985, should I? Roe v Wade will be 45 next year.\n\nTrump can't even pass an EO without a court challenge. Get a grip.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is legitimate for a reporter to do some investigation on a story like this, rather than simply publish the whole laundry list of allegations.\n\nThe school is obviously going to be banned from commenting because of privacy issues -- you can't discuss a student.\n\nBut it would not be hard to talk to a few people to see if someone at a board meeting actually made a suggestion to castrate transgender people, or look into whether there was religious content in the abstinence education program, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And again, you ignore the reality that bishops in Canada are using the logic in AL to give the Eucharist to people who are planning to kill themselves so long as their conscience is clear. The bishop in San Diego is using the logic of AL to give the Eucharist to active homosexuals so long as their conscience is clear.\n\nYou also ignore what Schornborn said, and what the Pope endorsed, about now using AL to interpret all the previous teachings of the Church, instead of the traditional way of using the previous teachings of the church, which developed from each other from age to age, to interpret AL.\n\nUnfortunately, the window for giving the Pope the maximum benefit of the doubt, thanks to his incoherent theology and endorsement of heteredox interpretations.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The one good thing about Trump if there is any is that he does not give a hoot about culture war issues and just mouths the stuff he thinks that the social conservatives want to hear. (And does so badly.) Of course this comes at too high a cost regarding minorities, women, and US culture in general. But really, people thinking a guy who is associated with Playboy, Howard Stern, etc. is personally invested in taking away your IUDS or banning gay marriage should calm down. Everyone, your IUDs are safe. Let's focus on what actually makes Trump scary instead.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A homosexual male ordained to the priesthood confects valid Sacraments and can live a life of holiness but a homosexual orientation impedes a priest from relating to the Church as Christ does his Bride, akin to a homosexual man married to a heterosexual woman. I used to be of the opinion that as long as a man is celibate what difference does it make but now I see the Church's wisdom in discouraging homosexual men from seeking out the priesthood.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tolerance and pluralism should be \"drilled into the head of each citizen\". They are the basic principles of democratic societies. It's why we aren't the U.S. with its 'New Jim Crow' system, prominent alt-right (white supremacist) movement, rabid anti-gay blocks, ridiculous gun violence stemming from fear and high inequality because people don't want to help 'others' that don't look like them (e.g., healthcare). The most tolerant and pluralistic U.S. states, such as New York and California are the global centers of excellence in the U.S. (e.g., Silicon Valley) because they embrace tolerance and pluralism. Not surprisingly, they also drive the U.S. economy. Why wouldn't you want some of the best and brightest of the world coming to work in your country. Of course all immigrants won't be beneficial, but it's the net benefit that matters.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was almost dead in body when Jesus finally showed me this, if we love our children as much as we do and would not put them to a test like the one that has been given to me and others like me. Why would a God a Good loving God who created all beings and things Not be able to love this much, He knows the Hell we've lived trying to live like the churches has have taught. I'm going to die soon. I've lived and ran the race i thought God had showed me, only to realize what i knew all along I'm a lesbian and God made me this way. Im 56 He said Get up come out and tell the church and family so this does not happen to no more Gay children that is when Tyler Clemente jump off the bridge to his death it's been 7 years I'm still here God. I came out at 18 in 1978, I always been rejected by family to this day. I even married a man still with him not as a wife but as life partner 23 years. If i could have been hetero i would have been by now. I have found Peace doing this its the right thing too", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree wholeheartedly with the author. It's (current year). Enough is enough. It's time for special protection for Transgender Persons.\n\nHowever, let us not stop there.\n\nAs it's (current year), there are also other groups in need of Canadian society's protection, over and above the blanket protection society already provides to everyone.\n\nCurrently, there is nothing, other than the Charter, stopping airlines from discriminating against Bi-Polar People. Prisons can discriminate at will against Paranoid Schizophrenic Folks. And, in an ultimate affront against Persons of Phedophilia, the courts and the police discriminate willy nilly.\n\nSo, to our Senate, I say Pass This Bill!! Until we all have super special Human Rights protection (except of course for cisgender white males who possess English as a mother language) then we, as a society, are incomplete.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Relax. Trudeau has ensured that our tax code will be subject to a gender based analysis, which may result in differentiated tax rates (likely lower for female business owners). Progressive social engineering in the tax code, what could possibly go wrong (think sudden spike in transgender numbers upon the advice of accountants!)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's three principles to promote the common good:\n1. Illegal immigrants should not be allowed to break the law; illegal immigrants do this every day when they force themselves into America.\n2. Illegal immigrants should not be assisting multi-national and trans-national corporations to drive down the wages of all working class people.\n3. Illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from poor and young white, black and Hispanic American citizens.\nWhere did these principles come from: Civil rights activist, African American, lesbian, physically disabled, and hero to the American left and progressives: Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Her Immigration Task Force in the 1990's came up with these three principles, and I wholeheartedly agree with them. They were sound then, and they're sound today.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Maybe we need to open the door and welcome in order to follow Jesus.\"\n\nWell, let's start with the country. Open the door and welcome Christians of all nationalities (without citizenship) in order to follow Jesus in the American Church. Then before welcoming fellow Americans (irrespective of their religious community or church) let's welcome fellow Catholics to the Eucharist table -- Catholic women, excommunicated for being invalidly ordained; LGBT Catholic couples expelled for promoting gay values at a Catholic school; then excommunicated Catholic couples, currently into their second and third straight marriages or gay marriages, who want to receive the Eucharist. In other words, let's start with our own constituent members first, component Catholic parts, as it were, who make up our membership, our Catholic community, fellowship. And when this holy exercise is settled, let's invite our Reform friends, irrespective of what they believe or hold sacred, provided they want Jesus.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can't find on my tablet your full reply to my comment on ENDA, and employment discrimination against LGBT people in the US. I received an e-mail with only a partial reply.\n\nYou mentioned Ashers bakery, in Belfast Northern Ireland, and claimed that a petition in support of its decision to refuse to fulfil an order for a cake made by a gay man showed around 70% of signatories in favour.\n\nShall I stop here? Or have you already spotted your gaffe? Yes, that's right, T. My comment concerned EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, whereas your post was about provision of goods and services. Totally irrelevant. You weren't paying attention, were you?\ud83d\ude0e\n\nStill, I'll humour you and comment anyway. Would that petition be the one that showed a massive, whopping, mind-bending, eye-popping, jaw-dropping, speech-stopping, eyebrow-raising...er... 15000 signatories in support of Ashers?\ud83d\ude29 Out of a Northern Ireland population of over 1.5 million? And a UK total of over 60 million? Wow! Decisive, eh?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "#3 explains the problem perfectly. They tend to think they know what's best for everyone.\n\nLet me ask you.....I happen to believe in God. Do I need to attend the same church as you do (by that, I mean denomination, not building)....or ANY church, for that matter, in order for that to be valid? I think gays should be able to get married. Is my belief in God not valid because I hold that view?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And yet LGBT activists are frantically trying to turn so-called \"gender studies\" into a science, trying to \"discover\" the biological roots of transgenderism so that they can argue that people are \"born this way.\" Where does that leave the common and popular notion that Gender is simply a mutable \"social construct\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The sheer hatred of some of the upper and lower Church toward gay people cannot be missed. No matter in how much goodness they live, they are kicked. Sometimes there is a pretense for the most minuscule and grudging tolerance, but the signal comes through clearly at intervals. This is such a vast shame that it cannot be pushed aside in a moral evaluation of the Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sean, look at the status of women in every single country \"governed\" by Islamic law (without exception). How about the treatment of gays? Is that the type of \"diversity\" we should emulate in Canada? Where women are pressured to cover themselves under the guise of \"modesty\" and piousness and outed homosexuals are jailed or worse? The idea that uncovered hair is \"immodest\" and encourages unwanted sexual advances is pathetic - the belief that men and women are treated as equals in Canada is not a function of cultural relativism, it is a function of progress. The appeasement of political Islam by self-titled \"progressives\" is inexcusable - when private religious schools in Toronto teach boys and girls they are forbidden from physical contact with unrelated members of the opposite sex, do you think that encourages healthy secular societies? Canada isn't different, Canada is advanced.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Looks like Australians are going to be given a postal vote on whether or not to legalise gay marriage. My original intention was to vote YES. Now I'm not so sure.\n\nI'm not impressed by the gay lobby's efforts to paint the postal vote as a waste of taxpayer's money because it's \"common knowledge\" that \"the vast majority\" subscribes to their point of view. I'm also unimpressed by the media's virtually unanimous support for the gay lobby's agenda. The other side of the coin barely gets a look-in, and when they do the responses elicited could rarely be defined as \"respectful.\"\n\nI'll reserve judgment until I listen to the debate in the months to come. I'll be keeping a weather eye out for any irrational incivility, including use of the term \"Nazis.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In 1933 the Nazis, led by Hitler and his Reichsmarschall Goering passed the most comprehensive \"animal rights\" legislation ever seen--medical experiments on animals was punishable by concentration camp internment. Of course medical experiments on Jews, Gypsies, and Gays were allowed.\n\nAs documented in this illustration from the Nazi era. http://www.topinfopost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/3.jpg\n\nYou're all in fine company. You all even say the very same things that they did back then as quoted in that illustration. Catching on yet to who and what you really are? Is your mirror getting clearer yet?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The problem you have is in how secular sciences view homosexuality. How do you protect students from the learning the latest research on LGBT, when that research contradicts the underlying premises of Natural Law theory. Hopefully a Catholic university is graduating students capable of dealing in their chosen professional worlds, and research on gender issues is a part of many disciplines, and that research is grounded in an entirely different approach than that of natural law. The same thing would hold true in business schools. Students have to be able to study the currently available information on both economic systems and ethics. If we want our kids to have professional jobs we have to teach them what's out there in the scientific information highway and not limit them to theological alignments.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Liberals and NDPers: don't worry about Mr. Scheer. He won't risk division among Conservatives by raising the issues of abortion or same sex marriage even if principle is on his side. They should be raised because the child in the womb is, at some point, a human being and therefore deserving of those fundamental rights that every human being has, including the right to security. The Liberals and NDP don't believe in fundamental (a priori) rights and that can be criticized. The law that unilaterally expanded marriage to include homosexual couples removed, at the same time, the right of the heterosexual population to have an exclusive rite for uniting a man and a woman. Fundamental rights argue that any group has the right to have an institution that manifests anything about themselves that they choose.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CristoVerdad,\n\nMany, including you, have jumped to the conclusion that because people are attempting to minister to those who do not match your binary view of sexuality that they are endorsing homosexuality. I sympathize because I once felt that way. Then God put me into a ministry on the streets of New York City where I often had contact with the openly homosexual, transsexual, drag queens, etc. My fear in trying to understand how to minister the Gospel to them was that I would be condoning their behavior. Then God sent me a converted homosexual whose testimony taught me the practical mechanics of the Gospel and how God redeems. \n\nJust as salt must be mixed into food to change how it tastes, it is impossible to redeem those trapped in sin if we are unwilling to mix with them and let our lives be examples of redemption. That mixing gives us understanding that God uses to make our ministries more powerful. So, please! Stop complaining and start learning how to redeem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The public was exposed far too long by all the bigot and racist comments levied against Alaska Natives and rural Alaska. Anytime ADN publishes new articles on Alaska Natives, the homeless, and the LGBT community they should publish without comments added. At least that way the public still receives the news and we don't have to read or put up with the bigots and racists that frequently visit this site. Amen.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you dodge reading comprehension as well? My reference to the bible was to point to the reasons why I think a baker should work with a gay couple. You are correct, this nation was not built on the bible, but on freedoms. Freedom of association was as important to the framers as speech as both were in that pesky first amendment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cardinal Cupich has made the point that respect for other persons begins with speaking about them in the terms they use for themselves:\n\u201cWe have always wanted to make sure that we start the conversation by saying that all people are of value and their lives should be respected and that we should respect them. That is why I think that the terms gay and lesbian, L.G.BT., all of those names that people appropriate to themselves, should be respected. People should be called the way that they want to be called rather than us coming up with terms that maybe we\u2019re more comfortable with. So it begins with that.\u201d\nSource: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/07/18/chicagos-cardinal-cupich-saying-gay-lesbian-and-lgbt-step-toward\nReferring to a person who identifies as gay or lesbian as a \"person with same sex attraction\" is the rough equivalent of using the N-word for a person of color. Anyone, gay or straight, would want to avoid a parish where that sort of language is used.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And there have always been marriages that break up. So the question is whether it's better to have a rule that holds the couple to an ideal, or to chip away at the rule and lower the bar with the end result that there will be even more marital breakups? It really comes down to faith in God, doesn't it? And frankly, with the way that faith is dwindling these days, few seem to care anyway what the Church teaches. As I said elsewhere, I think this is a guise for making unrepentant homosexual acts not sinful. There is no united group of married couples seeking Communion to be driving this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Discover they are gay\" is a false description of sexual confusion. People with same-sex attraction have the voluntary choice to embrace that disordered attraction and all of its hardships and dangers, or they can voluntarily form partnerships with the opposite sex, or they can voluntarily remain celibate. Sometimes God's will is not aligned with our feelings and desires. Many a married man will tell you how he has sacrificed his desire for a variety of sexual partners in exchange for a wife and mother of his children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By perpetuating the notion that gay people are disordered, the Church is forcing gay men who sincerely believe they have a priestly vocation into the closet. If a person has to live in constant denial of a major aspect of their personhood, how can that not have a demoralizing effect on that person -- especially when the Gospel teaches that is the truth that sets us free!\n\nHomosexuality did not cause the abuse crisis. But the crisis surely was exacerbated by the high number of priests, gay and straight, who were in denial of their sexuality and expressed it in destructive ways. Suppressing one's sexuality doesn't necessarily put one on the fast-track to becoming an abuser, but nothing good can ever come of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess it comes down to perceiving how you understand public. I seriously doubt you yourself would out a gay marriage if the music director was one of the two involved and you loved what they were doing. I hope I'm not wrong about that, because if a sinner makes my spiritual connection better, I'm perfectly willing to allow that God can overcome sin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rosita Antonio\nCan you please go back to the subject of this thread.\nThe reason why we need to know about this - if true - is that the attitudes of the elders in society get passed down to young people. \nThe church in some parts of Africa have supported (albeit temporally) the death sentence for being gay. \n\nThis article is demonstrating that as a church we should be careful always to encourage non-violence. Where have these young people absorbed the message of violence from? The is never an excuse for allowing violence in SDA schools. Even if a gay couple were behaving as stated that is a matter for the school administration. \n\nWhy were you so interested in changing the subject in such a belligerent way is something that intrigues me.\n\nJohn", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To be inclusive, the dog owners community, the Jainism community the motorcycle sidecar owners community, the gay community, etc, etc, etc, are all the same. Interested in their own agenda's. So if the Pride Parade has separate rules for the police then end the funding or apply the same rules to everyone. You know,like inclusive.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That truth is based on the tapestry of Roman Catholic sexual teaching which sees all sexuality as an inferior thing of the flesh, the wicked thread of the tapestry being the belief in Priestly Continence. It is a denigration of sex and women. Remove that thread and what you say about homosexuality, married priests, female priests, et al falls into a ball of yarn. The purpose of sexual morality is not some divine ideal but wholeness in this life. A sexual ethic that sees celebrating Mass as incompatible with health sexuality is warped and neither whole or holy. It is pietistic and not in a good way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "many animal species- are we dogs? I have nothing against gay people but like Last Patroit pointed out, it is Christians and the Bible that are singled out and not muslims. I believe in letting God judge and not hating but often wonder about no words against the Quran.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I do not know that any component of the Church fires people \u201cjust for being gay\u201d.\n\nAre you sure the accusation does not stem from someone parading in a \u201crights\u201d parade or otherwise advocating against the Church\u2019s teachings?\n\nThe exemption of churches from taxation is a common law inheritance from England. It is really not a result of statute, which defines business in a way that excludes churches.\n\nAn attempt to force churches to comply with so-called equal opportunity laws by holding its tax exemption hostage is considered by most legal experts as unlikely to pass constitutional muster due to the First Amendment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "F #3 was already covered by Keller's Planned Parenthood in schools. Too bad gay marriage is now legal. That was always good for wedging up the base. Though the Juneau bishop was recently testifying that the Catholic church needed legislation to protect it from gays who demand to be married in the church. So that one scores a twofer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clinic protesters are equivalent to the Westboro Church \"protesting\" at the funerals of gay men. Both are oboxious and are more about making the participants feel holier than thou. If you are protesting a law, do it at the legislature or you at your MPs office. By doing it a clinic you are just directing your judgement at individuals and that's what makes it harrassment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please tell me where the Conservatives didn't recognize women's rights, LGBT rights, international obligation, or environmental rules. I'll wait for you. If by international obligations, do you mean funding the corrupt UN blindly, or signing on to the Kyoto Protocol only to never do anything about it. As for environmental issues, do you mean destroy industry which creates jobs solely for an environmental vote, or a carbon tax that won't do anything to reduce emissions, but take money from the people? I'm still waiting for all of those scientists who are now free from their muzzles to speak freely? They guy won't let his finance minister speak, but where are all of those scientists??? Women's rights. That is so funny. It's a buzz word, even my wife and daughters agree. Most rational people want equality, or an equal chance to succeed in Canada. Most don't want special treatment, or to be pandered to as though they are weak.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just because he didn't consult the Joint Chiefs, that doesn't mean that they don't agree with it. That is just more twisting of the facts by the fake news media. .\n\n The oldest a person can enter the military without prior service is 39 years. That means there is a blanket ban on anyone over 40. Not even the 9th circus could say that this is ageist or discriminatory. \n\n It is a losing issue for the Democrats. The Minnesota governor was angry that Trump reversed the EO that schools be forced to comply with the SJWs' stance on transgender bathroom issues. \n\n If the Minnesota governor feels so bad about the transgender bathroom issue, then why doesn't he enact his own decree and put transgender bathrooms in his state???\n\n\n Because the Minnesota governor wanted transgender bathrooms but wanted to be able to say that it was the federal government that forced it on the state. If it were a losing issue for the GOP, the Minnesota governor would have embraced it", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What...on...earth.\n\nFreedom of association? That sounds like something Kellyanne Conway's ancestors would say about Jim Crow laws. \n\nThe problem you again fail to see with your \"well just go to another baker\" argument is that if you decide discrimination is okay there might not be another bakery. If everyone in your town is a Christian you might not be allowed to do business anywhere. This is exactly what the civil rights movement was about. You obviously think it's no big deal because you're not gay. But that just shows your lack of empathy. You think gays can be chased out of town under the guise of \"freedom of association\". And then you turn around and say \"I'm not a bigot\". You just don't think bigotry is bad because you're not the victim of it in your version of a freely associated society.\n\nYour post literally scares the hell out of me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently there's nothing going on worth reporting besides climate change & LGBT rights. Maybe the lead scientist is transgendered. Would make a great front page story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's probably due to the irrelevance of the TINY minority of trans-folk who manage to slip past psychiatric screenings and get gender-reassignment surgery due to 'psychological issues'. This is an article about biological sex and it's mostly misunderstood complex nature. NOT an article on *gender identity*, or an article on the rare cases of mental illness DISPLAYING as gender-dysphoria (or CO-MORBID in an individual with a gender-identity which doesn't match their biological sex, but who has zero dysphoria). But your comment is fairly telling about your ignorance and misinformation on the topic of gender identity (which, btw, is NOT a psychological issue, NOR a BIOLOGICAL issue - it's a personal choice, given that it's not some inherent trait, it's a societal construct which has outlived its usefulness in light of current advances in understanding the complexity of biological sex, as well as our social advances in learning what is none of our goddamn business (clearly still a WIP)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Any military is intrinsically \"hateful.\" Its purpose is to kill its country's enemies if required, not to be politically correct\n\nThe real question is:\n\n\"Do transgendered troops make our military more or less capable?\"\n\nOur enemies such as Russia, China, the DPRK, and Iran do not allow transgendered troops because they believe that it hinders combat effectiveness.\n\nTrump claims that our generals and military experts agree with this position.\n\nNevertheless critics point out that Trump made his decision during a controversy over the cost of transgender surgeries in the budget process which was dividing Republican senators; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff quickly pointed out that policy has not changed; reports suggest that Secretary Mattis was \"appalled\" by Trump's tweets about transgender troops.\n\nA transgender sailor like a decorated Navy Seal, Kristen Beck, clearly improved our military capability.\n\nCareful study, not political expediency must decide this question.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All forms of hate needs to be eliminated. All forms of racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, anti-semitism and laws discriminating against Transgenders.\nWe need to get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight all forms of hate which includes Trump and this law in Quebec!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "According to the Globe, political correctness is more important than critical analysis #becauseit's2017. The Federal Liberals appeasement of political Islamism is concerning, especially when considering the state of civil society in every country in the world (without exception) \"governed\" by Islamic law - no gender equality, no freedom of expression, \"blasphemy\" and \"apostasy\" laws, and women forced to cover their hair under the threat of assault or worse from \"morality\" police. \nOne of the most concerning aspects of political Islam is that male authority demands submission from women under the guise of religious piety and modesty - Islamic reformers have rejected this outright but the Globe would rather show deference to political Islamists than rock the boat with Tarek Fatah. \nWhy the silence and appeasement of Islamists from western feminists? Women in Iran are clubbed for \"immodesty\" in Iran and homosexuals face death if they are outed in Islamic countries.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What a story! Here is my personal response: Daddy appointed me over 30 others more capable. Joe Miller won the primary and I said I would support anyone who wins the primary as long as it was myself. I used RNC money for a write in campaign and was even invited to debates as a write in, sorry to the other write ins. I got half of the votes Scott McAdams, democrat, should have got because I made promises to Alaska Natives and unions that I knew I couldn't fulfill. I am still a US Senator even though I don't deserve to be based on all my dishonesty in my past. I am a Christian but have been evolving on my positions on abortion, homosexuality and transgender. Even though planned parenthood has performed the majority of abortions in America, I will vote to completely fund them as some women(and their male partners) can't afford a few bucks for condoms or other contraceptives. I am proud to be a Republican in name only but am evolving into a democrat. signed, Lisa", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ha, ha, ha! That was a good laugh, thank you U.N!\n\nCanada is the country that offers the best opportunities for a black men/woman/trans/bisexual in the entire World. \n\nCompletely ridiculous! \n\nPS: How about investigating the rights of Catholics in Saudi Arabia/Irak/Afghanistan/etc for a change! Or the rights of Caucasians in Zimbabwe!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As I remarked some time ago, in the approximately three years that I have been on the NCR blog, Brooks has used the word \"sodomy\" more times than everyone else combined. I think he has some sort of hang-up on it.\n\nHe also shows that he doesn't have a clue about homosexuals or homosexuality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The question I have for BLM is: why aren't you hijacking and staging a sit-in at Toronto's Caribbean Festival Parade in August to highlight your message and agenda? It would seem like you would have a far more receptive and understanding audience there.\nBut no. BLM is blatantly using Pride because it is a bigger, broader, more popular and better-attended event. BLM absolutely does not care at all about the gay community; if so, they would be highlighting the homophobia and anti-gay violence in Caribbean and African counties, where gays have absolutely no rights at all.\nThe police absolutely must be allowed to march in next year's Pride parade. And BLM, by having violated the rules on parade participation on Sunday, must be banned.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why is it a silly argument? If I was a baker and some christian guy wanted me to write something on a cake that was derogatory towards gays, I would refuse to do so. Are you saying I should be sued for standing up for homosexuals? Should I be sued because I won't tolerate bigotry?\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What's the problem? There is nothing to prevent women from purchasing as many birth control pills as they want, but I object to being forced by Obamacare to pay for anyone's recreational sex including Viagra for guys. I wonder what transgenders do. It must be very confusing for them to decide whether to use Viagra or a morning-after pill.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Did you read the article? Your last paragraph suggests that you didn't.\nMoreover, the fact that Stefanini was/is gay did not and does not constitute a \"public status at odds with church teaching.\" He was not in a gay marriage or civil partnership, nor was he an advocate for those causes. He was not a gay diplomat; he was a diplomat who happened to be gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Being a nosy Nellie and poking in people's private lives is never good. That is the point. I would react to some dumb bakers who are such delicate flowers they cannot serve a gay couple they same way I would a priest who obsessively pokes into the lives of a happy remarried or gay couple the same way. I would complain and take my business elsewhere. In the case of the priest, I betcha that most bishops outside far right pusses like Chaput would side with the couple and tell the nosy priest to MHOB. I know that Cupich would have no tolerance for such obnoxiousness.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In fact, most people interpret what the CDF said as meaning that homosexuals are \"intrinsically disordered\". Homosexuals do almost unanimously.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wow. There are certainly a lot of transgender males posing as a manly-men trying to date women with young children whom they eventually molest. Was Goldschmidt transgender? The guy from Wales? The guy who was recently accused of raping a dd woman? It never occurred to me that Uncle Jake was trans when he was after all the little girls on the block. Thanks 420.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes yes Chris, its the old testament and its followers who are blowing up children, gunning down gay men in night clubs, executing consort goers, cartoonist and running over anybody in the way!!!\nTruly entering the mind of the left is an exercise in madness.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't blame him one bit. I refuse to support her if she is elected. How can anyone support someone who cannot seem to tell the truth and takes money from countries who abuse women and gays. She said she didn't know what the \"c\" meant in classified emails? Really? Either she is lying or she is too ignorant to be our president.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry, but when people demonstrate an irrational fear or hatred of gay people then those terms are appropriately used. Should people stop calling other people racist if that's what they are? I think not.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All that needs to be done is an end to medical payments for any transgender care in the military. That will reduce the small number of transgenders in the military from pursuing gender transition.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, it's a bisexual IHOP. Their pancakes go both ways.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your ideal minimizes gays and women, IMO. I won't be inviting you to dinner.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You mean a retailer doesn't have to sell products it doesn't want to sell? Like a gay wedding cake?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is what tyranny looks like. \"think like we think, do as we demand, deny your individual beliefs, standards, and morals or you are out!\"\n\nThis is the \"tolerance\" of the Left for all to see. They are either incapable of understanding the difference between exercising one's own private property rights (not allowing a gay wedding on his property), and selling produce to everyone, including gays, at the farmer's market 22 miles away, or they choose not to in order to assume that victimhood status so familiar to them.\n\nTyranny, plain and simple.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ruse may or may not be a homosexual, but his tweets certainly suggest that he is a man with unresolved psychosexual issues. I wouldn't think there would be any point in engaging the filthy tweets.\nI thought Crisis aspired to be a serious publication. If so, they have to terminate their relationship with this guy; he's clearly reckless and irresponsible.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My sympathies aren't with the transgender who wants to be a soldier in the U.S. army.\nIt's with the guys who put their lives on the line being expected to react to transgenders as if there is nothing highly, highly unusual with it.\nMost soldiers will rarely if ever meet a transgender. The encounters are so infrequent that in practical terms having these people be assimilated is impossible due to human nature.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"but we don't spend a lot of time concerned about gay weddings\"\nThat's why you and other conservative Christians are busy defending bakers and others who use their Christian beliefs to deny goods and services to gay couples in defiance of the law.\nAs far as I'm concerned, the Dark Ages were followed by the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Secular movements.\nYou overlook that Mr. Bonora said \"the rest of us\". That is, the people who are not conservative Christians.\nConservative Christians want to reimpose their moral code on the rest of us. They want abortion banned despite the fact no woman has to undergo one involuntarily, they want to be able to show their moral superiority over gay couples by refusing them goods and services, they denounce the teaching of evolution because it's not biblical, and they want store clerks to be able to refuse to sell women contraception in order to condemn such women.\nYour side can't stand the fact that the USA is a diverse secular country.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Also Remember Catholic laity are amongst the most supportive of civil marriage equality.\"\n\nIf so, then this \"Catholic\" laity is facilitating one of the worst violations of Catholic teaching and promoting one of the greatest hoaxes on mankind, which is that the sexual union of two gays can be a \"marriage.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No one is saying that viruses discriminate. The continuing AIDS epidemic in homosexual men in the West is a gay cultural issue, not a viral issue. Had men with same-sex attraction followed one of the major religions' teaching on same-sex acts instead of secular cultural trends, there would be fewer dead men as a result of AIDS (and other STDs).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "1) MSW, so whose narrative should be magisterial? Tad Szulc's? No one has had more access to PJP II and written as thoroughly as Weigel. \n2) What Benedict said was in an interview. It holds as much magisterial weight as Francis's airplane interviews- none. And Benedict wasn't saying that if the homosexual prostitute uses a condom, that's enough to allow him to receive Holy Communion. That seems to be what Francis is pushing in AL.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "oh my god, stop with the accusations. of course I oppose racism of all kinds. I have not seen this echo chamber of hate in the comments section at Breitbart. Canadians are such virtue signalling, sensitive, control freaks. I simply am of the opinion that free speech is free, and there isn't as much racism in the USA as you make out. Studies have shown 95% of Americans agree with black/white marriages. I have traveled often to the USA. The site is far more libertarian than it is alt right. \"Dangerous faggot\" refers to Milo Yiannopolous who is their gay editor and is not racist. Islam does have some rape culture under Sharia law and i dunno what the 'jew renegade comment is, I have no clue. But grow up kids. Get real.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are 100 percent wrong on all counts. Every single time the gay issue comes up notice the tone of gay supporters . It takes them two seconds to call anyone and everyone a bigot who dares to disagree with them. Bruce Jenner was married a number of times and fathered a number of kids. IF he was born gay , why ? And now he has shamed and embarrassed his family for his tender feelings ? Give me a break. We are all influenced by our surroundings .If you hang around with people who drink , you'll probably drink. It you hang with pot heads , you'll smoke pot. If you hang with gangs , you'll join one. When one takes a close look at the photos of these gay celebrations , it appears many of the people are , how do I nicely put it--odd looking . Meaning many probably have a hard time getting dates with the opposing sex , so out of desperation they turn to this. Clearly what they are doing is not normal behavior .They can parade forever , but they will never gain our respect . Never .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In this society gay people are still on the margins. While gay people can be married in all fifty states, thanks to last year's Obergefell Supreme Court ruling, a ruling Donald Trump has promised to overturn, we can still be fired for being gay in 28 states, and Trump has already hired people who hope to increase that number. Of course gay people can be fired from their jobs in all fifty states if you happen to work for a Catholic institution, such as a church, school, hospital, or charity. I'm guessing Donnelly College won't be addressing THOSE people who remain on the margins, all thanks to Catholic teaching. So, on the margins we gay people find ourselves, and there we shall remain - at least within Catholic Christendom. But how nice for the poor immigrants - at least they'll get some attention from Donnelly College. With Donald Trump as president, they'll need it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Alaska better get on the stick with this. This is a SOCIAL EXPERIMENT gone crazy led by the ones in power. The ONLY ones supporting this crap are liberals with NO CHILDREN or females in their lives that they care about. LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of these people claim to be Transgender. See there used to be rules. You get a birth certificate when you are born, and you were not able to make ANY alterations to it. Now, apparently anyone can go and request to change their gender on a birth certificate. WHAAAT?? So there are no rules anymore to keep order. Now WOMENS bathrooms are being targeted as a hot spot for these people. If your born a man, you are a man. No amount of chopping off a penis will make you a lady. WOMEN STAND UP for your right to privacy....Husbands follow your women and children to the bathrooms to make sure they are safe. BOYCOTT Places that support this insanity and shut it down. Target has lost MILLIONS over their choice...so are scores of others.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well, yes, he did, in a way - at least re. gay people. Gay people can only patronize his bakery under conditions that differ for straight people. They can't purchase baked goods that they plan to use for something of which he disapproves, unlike, presumably, straight people, who can use said baked goods in any way they please. \n\nIf the baker views selling a wedding cake to gay couples are a form of participation in their ceremonies, then he seems to be arguing that his rights in the cake persist even after at it has passed out of his possession. That seems loony.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is a huge mistake and a setback for acceptance of the gay community. If I lived in Toronto I would boycott the parade after this decision.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's always the same story -- the gay faction, big on moral demands, but when it comes to their own accountability, they are helplessly in denial.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Milo Yiannopoulos is a senior editor at Breitbart News. The creeps at Breitbart prop him up because, as a self-loathing gay man, MY is useful to them. They promoted his \u201ctour\u201d from the get-go: \"Suck It Up Buttercups: Dangerous F*ggot Tour Returns in September\u201d (7/6/2016): www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/07/06/milo-yiannopoulos-dangerous-******-tour-returns-campuses-fall/\nMY is pathetic, more to be pitied than scorned. His message consists of right wing cliches that are notable only because they are spewed by a gay man who both encourages gay men to stay in the closet and flaunts his own homosexuality for profit. People have every right to protest if they so choose. They do not have the right to commit violence, to do harm, to cause damage; they especially don\u2019t have the right to stop the man from speaking. It\u2019s not only wrong in principle, it's also incredibly stupid. It transforms a pathetic figure into a sympathetic one. You are absolutely right: \"sunlight is the best disinfectant.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_sexuality\n\n\"Prison sexuality for males has been studied since the 1930s. Research is lacking on consensual sex because most research done has focused on coercion. Sexual abuse is more common among male inmates. Men sexually abuse others to establish dominance, power and to maintain their masculinity. Men who are physically weaker will offer consensual sex in exchange for protection, security, goods or support.\n\nHeterosexual men in prison view their homosexual acts as being \"situation specific\" and may not consider themselves bisexual. These men often describe how they imagine being with a woman while taking part in sexual activity with a male inmate. During masturbation, they picture past sexual experiences with women. They take part in homosexual activity due to having no \u201cheterosexual outlets\u201d\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well I guess I have learned something from this article. Because I have looked at a number of mainstream porn sites featuring f,or one's delight men, women, couples, and trans. I am led to one unfortunate conclusion...that women are the most base animal of all in what they are displaying on cam for money. The guys are cheeky displaying their frontal equipment only. The women, I am led to conclude are the most debased animal on the planet. I cant be any more explicit and carry off what I a saying on this blog. But on the rare occasion that I am led to look at this stuff, I want to vomit if this is what feminism has wrought for the modern woman.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Like said many times, never has been about abortion. If the GOP it would keep then in power, they'd sacrifice goats to Satan on the steps of the capital or the White House,. Instead they prefer to sacrifice the health, well being and a woman's freedom to choose. That is all it has ever been about. And if the get this, who knows what they will go after next. Birth control? LGBT? Muslims? Latinos (even the ones who are citizens)? Non evangelicals? (Face it conservative Catholics, they hate and distrust you as much as they do us gay people.)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm implying Fr Martin was judging those that oppose homosexual acts as being homosexual themselves. That would be considered a \"hateful\", as so many like to use, statement to those who simply believe those acts are gravely sinful and could affect their salvation. Is that a double standard?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Andrew Sheer is anti abortion and anti gay, LGBTQ. Sending his hysterical minions down south was a sad ploy that backfired. There's no way that Pudge is going to be PM.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well, you do not deign to respond to the unpleasant fact that you do believe \"Love your neighbor as yourself, unless that neighbor is gay. That neighbor you shall hate.\" So I keep repeating it BECAUSE IT IS AN ACCURATE STATEMENT OF YOUR ACTUAL BELIEF! Just as the fact that your role model in respect to your acceptance of magisterial teachings is Adolf Eichmann, something else you don't like to hear.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm a grandmother and a mother. I'm tired of my rights being ripped to shreds. Example and case and point. While on vacation I went into the women's bathroom in a very populated tourist area. While in my stall I hear a MAN come into my bathroom. It was a transgender freak who was apparently watching a mentally challenged young 17 year OLD male . This person yelled at this kid treated them like crap, I was in my stall listening to the whole thing. This troll came into a female's bathroom and obviously was a man acting as a woman there is no place for that in our world. If my granddaughter's had been with me it would have been a whole different situation but because I was an adult and a mother, I was able to just leave the scene. Angry as hell because MY RIGHT was infringed. BORN AS A MAN, use the men's room. Just because you are play acting like a female, does not make it so. These people have no moral compass. They only care about themselves. THAT'S WRONG.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Such a weak attempt at diversion.\nHow about Mr. Phillips is bigoted towards gays? Dislikes gay people and gay couples? Uses his religion as a sword and shield against gay people?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is a tad gay. So is the pastel colours on the turban.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "<>\n\nViolence against homosexuals is rooted in bigotry about homosexuality. We should find that violence both surprising and shocking. \n\nThat the author of the document in question thinks it unsurprising, that he thinks that homosexuals should be unsurprised by violence against them, that he also thinks that the rest of us should be unsurprised by it, too, reflects the moral bankruptcy at the very least of the author of this document. After all, homosexuals could avoid the violence -- couldn't they? -- if they just stayed in the closet. \n\nThank God almost no-one pays any attention to this drivel. We probably shouldn't either -- we've already given it more attention than it deserves.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, remember the time when conservatives would have been purple with outrage over a President from any party being owned by the Russian oligarchy? All of a sudden, conservatives love Putin. Like Trump, they love strong men. It may be coincidence (although I doubt it) that the the love-Putin shift occurred as the US (and Obama in particular) was becoming more overtly pro-SSM and Putin was killing gays. Hmmm...interesting hypothesis there.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Adultery is a property crime, but it also causes pain to the dishonored spouse. Paul said that fornication is a sin against one's own body. Homesexuality is not the sin, sodomy is, unless homosexuality is a created state of being with its own moral ordering. Nothing emotionalistic here.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your comparison is invalid because nothing that was asked of Jack Phillips to make, went against his beliefs. He refused to make the cake because of the meaning behind the cake - what the cake was going to be used for. Its not like Jack told the couple \"Hey, ill make you a wedding cake, but I cant make it the exact way you want because its not in my practice\". No. He flat out said \"I will not make a wedding cake for a gay couple\". You cant be fine making 1 wedding cake for a straight couple and then refuse to make the EXACT SAME wedding cake for a gay couple. THAT is wrong.\n\nStop with your false comparisons and look at this story for what it really is. No one was asking this Baker to create anything he had not already made in the past for straight couples.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Can I sue a business owner who does not serve gays if they think I am gay but am not but refuse to provide a service to me?\"\n\nI think you probably can, and successfully.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's funny to see Dems/liberals so out of touch with \"Christianity\" that they try to use it in defense of transgender? What part of the bible was that?\n\nAt least you're slightly better than some of your brethren who think joining the military is a constitutional right, or even funnier, \"human right.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "'I didn't see any females at any of our the Pride parades wearing a hijab, niqab or burqa.'\n\nAnd none of the drag queen queens either, presumably. Clearly, the gay community hasn't adopted a diversity approach.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well, I guess it didn't matter so much when Obama was President he didn't blab that he was going to exclude a certain group of people from military service. BTW, I've never voted Democrat, so my comments are not partisan biased.\n\nOf course it's unusual...transgenders make up something like 0.3 percent of the population. So, they're going to be infrequent pretty much everywhere. Duh. It's not an effort to make it \"normal\". What it is is an effort by those whimps freaked out by a man in a dress to prevent them from having equal rights.\n\nYeah, this is now. And, now is:\nNo more slavery.\nWomen's rights.\nAn effort for equal rights for everyone.\n\n\nTrump once again goes full-stupid instead of being smart, maybe lobbying for excluding transgender procedures being paid by the military, but still allowing a transgender to serve. But, since Trump finds no value in serving his country (he actually avoided it), he would understand being truly patriotic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This law is to give cover to the left side of the Liberals so they can continue to campaign to the left and still be able to make money off the murderous house of Saud and other like minded regimes. The Trudeau government has got a lot of nerve talking about the humanitarian violence in Venezuela and then turning around and selling 15 billion dollars worth of arms to the Saudi's to murder homosexuals, religious leaders and children in Yemen. Like all past Liberals, the Trudeau government's human rights only apply to groups without cash. It's disgusting.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "True, we can just ask gays their experience and then trust them when they provide it. Sexual morality is for them, not for God. What bothers you more is not their morality but the public authority of the Church hierarchy, which God does not care about.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The rationale I'm reading from commenters is truly astounding. Gays and blacks feel the need to protest their historical treatment at the hands of police. That is your democratic and constitutionally protected right.\n\nAnd these commenters are saying, they have no right to protest, and police should now react with retribution for being excluded from the parade in this protest move.\n\nWow.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm more curious about the reaction to 1k gay priests saying \"We're gone!\" More than a few have already gone to live their vocations in different pastures, and probably a few more will move on because of this.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "those of us who live in reality, Like trump, understand anyone as an \"transgendered\" anything are people with mental issues ,, see there are only 2 genders, male or woman, if you THINK you are another or the other from what you were born as, you should not be holding a firearm", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "About half the priesthood is gay, but that will decline now that gay marriage is legal. It is the discipline of Continence that must be overturned first, followed by promises of celibacy for gays and straights, men and women, with clergy allowed to marry after ordination, not just before as the Orthodox do (who also reject continece). These are matters of discipline, not theology and can be changed. They will be.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ignore, Craig, Kc, he's another one of those Un-Americans for Disparity supporters. Every post that Craig makes is either against liberal commenters, gays, or Natives. There's defiantly a pattern in his/her comments.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Anne Coulter is not a far right wing radical conservative. She is merely conservative. In the same way, Theo Van Gogh was not a far right wing radical xenophobic filmmaker. He was a gay man in Amsterdam who was defending his right to live as such in the face of racial violent and in his case murderous Muslims who really do want to destroy the liberal society of that city.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "An excellent question. I think further action is warranted. Don't you? I think Trudeau should show his commitment to diversity and step down and allow a woman to lead the Liberal party and Canada. A black bisexual FN lacto-ovarian vegan Woman. Perhaps with a disability or two. I mean come on Mr. Trudeau - put your money where your mouth is. Or are the rules about diversity just for everybody else?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm getting a little alarmed at all these good decisions being made in this usually blinded and ignorant right wing state. Gay marriage, Bernie Sanders, marijuana and now this. Bravo to common sense.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Awww Geeze. they even have an illegal alien giving the presentation. White shame month. How wrong is that? If you don't know much about PCC I can tell you the men hating lesbians run that place along with a bunch of \"guy\" with long hair and earrings. No wonder this school has a less than 7% success ratio. What a scam! All those student loans and the paper isn't worth squat. Our country is in bad shape. I'm going to vote for Trump and hope he will deport that lying criminalien living in the fantasy world of PCC.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Change the childs mind about what? Being LGBTQ? Or just thinking that LGBTQ people don't deserve to be treated any differently than anyone else? And what \"real issues\" are you referring to? There is nothing not \"real\" about being LGBTQ. \n\nSpare us your veiled homophobia.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Completely hypocritical. Russia is simply a politically correct target. Notice how we don't have a similar list for China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, etc. \n\nEven the media is afraid to point out the glaring hypocrisy of a \"feminist\" PM ignoring the abuses of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others and their treatment of women. What about the treatment of gays? religious minorities? \n\nThe government and media feel comfortable criticizing mostly Christian and european Russia, but feel uncomfortable targeting Saudi and others.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree there is a message. Restrict abortion, end gay marriage, criminalize pot, and do nothing about climate change. They will balance the budget so no new infrastructure spending (except for the Single Stop Scarborough and \"smart track\"); the conservative take on gridlock is more cars! This is a message that appeals to a majority of Conservatives, i.e. older Canadians, but not a majority, and an increasing proportion, of Canadians. We all love grandpa but, honestly, he is getting a bit dotty.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When religion ruled the world is now known as The Dark Ages.\nReligion also spawned The Inquisition, Jim Jones, and every offender that has to-date cost the Catholic Pedophile Ring over TWO BILLION DOLLARS (in the U.S. alone) in court settlements for sexual assault -- that figure does not include out-of-court settlements or situations where the victim is dead.\nThen there are \"honor killings\" in the name of religion, as well as female genital mutilation and murder of accused homosexuals. A staggering number of national genocides are in the name of religion.\nYou are flailing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And furthermore, Jesus may have been dogmatic, particularly regarding hypocrites, but he never said a single world about homosexuality. Not. One. Word.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "i don't know WHO you are accusing of 'flagging' you, but i didn't. as far as women no working- not contrary to Biblical law. Note Proverbs 31 in the OT, and Lydia (a buyer of purple cloth) in the NT. Not going in to the physical disc of sex and menstruation, but it has shown to cause chronic pelvic disease. And eating pork opened people up to many diseases. I don't eat pork (mostly) or shellfish because they are garbage eaters. Christ as a Jew didn't have to say anything about homosexuality, because the OT did; and writings in the NT concur.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Given the environment we are operating in, if Boyden says he's a black, handicapped, trans-gendered, lesbian who are we to question they? Today you are whatever you say you are.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump's ascension was a direct result of Tea Party, evangelical, and white backlash against disorderly Blacks, Mexican immigrants, a decline in sexual mores and rise of gay marriage. It has been harbored and nurtured as anti Obama and anti woman (especially Hillary Clinton) hate. But most important, it has fostered a hate for the poor, the disabled, the homeless, the sick, the aged, and anyone else in need. These needy folk have been disowned as \"unworthy\" of our concern and suffering from self-inflicted troubles. There is then no mercy - it is their fate until they pray themselves up from their own boot-straps.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You start by blowing off a fact which goes against your smearing of gays. You end with blowing off another fact which also goes against you. And in all this, you fail to address the basic difference between pedophilia and sex between loving couples.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Like abortion clinic bombers, folks who burn down gay bars, bombers of grade schools, etc, etc.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Do tell. Our nation respects all creeds and beliefs?\n\nWe respects Shariya law? Respect cultural notions advocating female mutilation? Respect polygamy and slavery as practiced by Muslims? Respect stoning of prostitutes and killing of homosexuals? \n\nRespects sati? Respects child labor? Respects wife beating? Respects the full burka? Respects burning down churches? \n\nRespects suicide bombers?\n\nAmazing. 10 stars given. Hoo boy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The gender fanatics are on the left, using identity politics to silence all any questions about what is going on. Whether its white supremacy, or trans gender supremacy the corruption behind the politics is the same. it has that whiff of fascism to tromp on the rights of other to get one's own way.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The picture in the newspaper is interesting. A presumably black, gay female officer is now excluded from a parade that BLM has really nothing to do with. Amazing!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They should win - - as long as they can put shock-collars on the WildRose fascists to stop them spouting-off inane anachronisms; denouncing and hating: women, homosexuals. environmentalists, non-white Canadians, labour laws, and any person or activity that doesn't increase the profits of U.S. and foreign oil companies...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"What we have here is a failure to communicate\" on account of one individual being exclusively focused on and enamored with his own thoughts (using that term in its broadest possible sense)--said \"thoughts\" being as articulate and coherent as a derailed runaway train. You posted these questions:\n\n\"WHY IS THIS A STORY NOW?\" It's a part of history and--good, bad or indifferent--history matters. Sometimes we can learn from it (present company excluded). \"WHAT\u2019S THE CONNECTION?\" To what? \"SO CHARLIE...(W)HAT WOULD HAPPEN IF CHRISTIANS REFERRED TO HOMOSEXUALS AS THE \"GAY LEFT?\u201d As this question is addressed to Mr. Wohlforth, I'm not obliged to answer it. \"WONDER WHAT THE LEFTISTS WOULD SAY??\" Ditto. I'm not a 'leftist'. I neither know nor care.\n\n\"WELL, I JUST SAID IT.\" You're always saying something. Problem is most of it is bakwa'as (that's Urdu for lumps of green, steaming, odoriforous matter that periodically drop from the south end of a northbound male bovine mammal).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Humanity is treating women as the equals they are. Not a clitorectomy at birth. Not stoned to death for talking to an unrelated male. Not the one blamed if raped, and stoned for getting raped. Not killing them if they are born lesbians. Not being forced to wear a hijab at all times. Respecting women is not Islamic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Never read in any newspaper of a pervert dressing like a transgender and going into a bathroom for the purpose of molesting someone. Most parents escort their child into the bathroom.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This article is diabolical and heresy. \n\n\"It's way past time that the Catholic bishops reconsider their position(s) on LGBTQ relationships \u2014 in light of the accepted psychological understandings of same-sex love.\"\n\nCatholics believe sodomy is a sin precisely because sexual intercourse is oriented toward the production of new life (whether or not it achieves this is irrelevant), as well it's \"psychological\" link to bonding. Love, as Catholics understand it, means fully giving of oneself on all levels of human fulfillment. Gay relationships are incapable of achieving this because no biological orientation exists. Therefore, studying the \"accepted psychological understandings of same-sex love\" is irrelevant to any biological orientation. Also, church teachings do not change on the whims of public opinion. Please stand up for what Catholics believe in. Our church was founded on a rock and a cross. I beg of everyone to carry their crosses and defend church teaching. Do it for God.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When i was in high school, you could be kissing your girlfriend and still get called the word that Pillar used. I'm glad it is getting closer to out of use, but it is worth noting that Pillar likely doesn't consider that the pitcher is gay. It was not really about sexual orientation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Indonesian government recently convicted two gay men and then beat them with canes(85 times). If you live in a country where your biggest fear is being addressed with the wrong pronoun maybe its time to rethink if you are being persecuted at all. It seems that gay or transgendered people believe that straight people are never insulted or humiliated. Grow up.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Neither you or the Church present a whiff of compelling evidence that homosexuality is \"disordered\", and equating one's sexual orientation with murder, selfishness, greed and brutality is libelous at best, and hateful at worst. Until the Church can present an intelligent argument regarding homosexuality -- and sexuality in general -- the Church's teaching is without merit.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "With Muslim terrorist countries spreading terrorism around the world, and its abject failings in Syria, the UN has failed to address what should matter.The only apartheid today exists in Muslim and Arab countries where the oppression and separation of women, gays and minorities is prevalent. The apartheid accusation is the functional equivalent of the Big Lie which was employed against the Jews thoughout history after the Czarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the German publication of Mein Kampf. In Israel, Arabs and Palestinians are employed in all walks of life:\nthe Israeli parliament, the judiciary, the medical profession, the university professoriate and student bodies, the military, in government positions, and the list goes on. Israel's sworn detractors employ the\nanti-Israel propaganda strategy that \u201cIf you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.\" The same is true here.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It would be nice if the self proclaimed true catholic believers just said adultery is against the Church's moral teachings, especially given scripture mentions heterosexual adultery far more times than it does homosexual activity, but for some reason, they just have to take the male homosexuality bait. It gets soooo old.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nothing will truly change until the Church comes into the 21st century with its' teachings on human sexuality. The basic message I received growing up in the Catholic Church and attending Catholic schools was that sex equals sin. Masturbation was a sin. Sex before marriage was a sin. Homosexuality was a sin. Extra marital affairs was a sin. The only sexual act that was not a sin was sex between a man and a woman united in holy Matrimony. And even in that case, a child born was born with \"original\" sin. When the Hierarchy saw that many of its' priests were engaged in sexual activity with children how did they see it. Of course, they saw it as sin. Nothing has really changed in the Churches' teaching in the last one hundred years regarding sexuality. If you molest a child, you simply go to confession and have your sins forgiven and go out and sin again.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"For us the bills for expedited background checks, filing fees, publicizing her name change, and an expedited passport...\"\n\nChanged my daughter's first name at 15 because she really never liked it and had been harassed by stupid people about its \"unisex\" status. Because she was older than 13, she also had to go through filing fees, fingerprinting, background checks with the CBI and FBI (not a big deal, just took weeks), and publication, new birth cert and SSN. Publication wasn't a big deal, just a small notification that ran in some obscure local paper for a week or two. Do people actually read those kinds of notices? Of course, I had to inform my insurance company and a host of other notifications. Yeah, it's a nuisance more than financial burden, but why is your daughter more special than mine or more special than anybody else who has to go through it? And what does being transgender have to do with it? Please get over yourselves. This is life.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Another title: Yes, There Are Lots of Good Gay Bishops. \n\nPerhaps a better question than when will the church be ready for its priests and bishops to come out of the closet is: When will the church give up institutionalized bigotry?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why not. The Progressive Left has now told all of society that there is no such thing as Genders yet they are champions of Men who believe their gender is woman? What's next in their confused minds, we are just more evolved animals?? Well than why not just use a fire hydrant like our dogs do? That would be so \"progressive\" in their minds.\n\nTransgenderism is a mental disorder, just like anorexia is. An Anorexic can be skin and bones yet when they look in the mirror all they see is a fat person. \n\nwww.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I.e., every Catholic parish.\n\nAs both sides know, but only one side admits, \"gay\" is a very loaded political term.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thus giving ammunition to RCs who blame the sex abuse crisis on gays, not only criminalizing an entire group of men, but one that sustains the church.\n\nNo wonder the US bishops went for Trump. They have the same level of discernment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "don't trust him, he was a Republican and anti-gay! I assume his daughter has inherited some of Daddy's ideologies !", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I must admit I have not read his book. I assumed this \"dialogue\" to which he was referring was a reconsideration of church teaching on the subject. \nOf course, it is not only gay people who have had enough from the institutional church.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Canadians are about to lose their Right to Free Speech as parliament gets set to vote for, Liberal MP Iqra Khalid\u2019s M-103 bill!\n\nThis bill will criminalize all criticism of islam and sharia law and force Canadians to accept sharia law limits on everything!\n\nCriticize islam for killing homosexuals? Sorry that is now hate speech!\nCriticize islam for female genital mutilation? Sorry that is now hate speech!\nCriticize islam for allowing men to beat women? Sorry that is now hate speech!\nCriticize islam for honor killings? Sorry that is now hate speech!\n\nWant to maintain your Freedom of Speech Rights, then contact your local MP and tell them they are totally wrong forcing sharia law on Canadians!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How is my scenario irrelevant? He is proud if it goes to a heterosexual wedding but disgraced it the same thing goes to a gay wedding? \n\nWhy would he take less pride in his \u201cwork of art, custom cake\u201d if all of a sudden it is used in a gay, satananic wedding?\nThe baker is choosing to be offended. \n\nIs the baker going to ask people if they are gay before agreeing to make a custom cake?\nHe is being a petty child.\n\nSo what if you think the cake is art? I am not going to argue that with you. \nDo you think artists are allowed to discriminate?\n\nIf an artist sells to the general public, the artist can not discriminate against protected classes.\nIf the baker wins, it will be legal to discriminate based on religion. I guarantee you black people will be denied service somewhere on religious grounds. \n\nYou can make all the semantic arguments you want. The baker discriminated, no one is arguing that. \nHe offers custom cakes to divorcees and adulterers, but not to homosexuals. He is a hypocrite.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A Muslim spiritual leader and I thought they wanted to stone homosexuals ? Seamus and your husband better be careful not to mention Junior said he and his dad read the Bible too?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "While I feel for the Chechnya gays, they are simply not a priority for our tax dollars.\n----------------------\nTrudeau could volunteer to march in Chechnya's first Pride Parade\non his own time and dime (like going to Bahamas on vacation?)\n\nit would make a great impact for gay rights", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Scalise has repeatedly come out gay rights. He wrote a Louisiana statute against gay marriage. Yet here he is rescued by exactly the sort of person he has been campaigning against.\n\nThere's an old joke about Heinrich Himmler nearly getting hit by a car. A Jew came out and saved him. Himmler asked the Jew what he could do for him. \"Please, don't tell anyone.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why are \"gay\" and \"transgender\" \"rights\" a subject of 21st Century America and were not a subject of 18th and 19th Century America? \n-\nWas America and Americans wrong for hundreds of years as to what is moral and immoral sexual behavior, or is America headed in the wrong direction today after being right for hundreds of years?\n-\nUltimately that is the question. Were we right before or are we trying to right a wrong now? For those who think mankind can make up their own rules either by Popular Vote or Elitist Decree, I will throw another factor in the equation: God. \n-\nAfter all, either all these hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, etc are the result of man-caused global warming or they are the result of man-caused global immorality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here Gummer I'll help you out. \n\nCriminalized. According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) seven countries still retain capital punishment for homosexual behavior: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Mauritania, Sudan, and northern Nigeria. In United Arab Emirates it is a capital offense.\n\nDid Hillary Clinton receive donations from Saudi Arabia?\n\nThe Clinton Foundation has dropped its self-imposed ban on collecting funds from foreign governments and is winning contributions at an accelerating rate, raising ethical questions as Hillary Clinton ramps up her expected bid for the presidency.\n\nDonors include the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In retrospect it's looking more and more like a cheap PR stunt - all at gay people's expense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With the exception of his position on homosexual issues, Trump's ideology appears to be strikingly {Traditional} Catholic. FDR, the 33rd degree free mason, and his New Dealers initiated the nanny state which, quite obviously, completely contradicts the Church's theory of governance via subsidiarity. His \"protectionist\" philosophy squares nicely with RERUM NOVARUM and the theory of distributism . His immigration platform is closely aligned with Aquinas' thinking. His support for law enforcement, and the rule of law in general {as opposed to the leftist penchant toward rioting and anarchy}, is a welcome change from the prior administration {just ask the residents of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Berkley}. So just what, exactly, are Catholics supposed to \"oppose\" here?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting. No comment though about how seeing woman while married constitutes infidelity. Or has she stopped seeing women since marriage? If she stopped seeing women, she is not bisexual. If having at least one encounter with a member of the same sex including childhood makes one bisexual, most people are probably bisexual. It would seem to me (IMHO) that one only gets the title that describes current activity. Of course that notion will be shot down by those who need to say that sexuality is intrinsic and unchangeable. Whatever.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trudeau has women in cabinet - equality\nhow about the first gay cabinet minister for the new Ministry of Apologies\n-\nbecause it is 2017\nCanada is back\nit is the sunny thing to do\nand it grows from the heart outwards like the economy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You just put confirmation bias and ad hominem arguments in same point. Would it be that bad if your opinions were wrong and gay people were actually morally entitled to their own seuality? Would it affect you at all (which is the first hurdle in frateral correction...when your-brother harms you...)?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess as long as you don't care if your child is female or male then that's your call. Not me. I would never want my daughter to cut off her breasts or son have himself castrated and take hormones for the rest of their lives. It makes me feel sick at a visoral level. That's where I don't see how you can say gender is assigned by society. If you need surgery and hormones to change who you are then that just can't be right. Are you aware that hundreds of trans people are changing their minds and detransitioning?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hmmm, what about respect for the baker's religious beliefs? What's the US Constitution say about religious freedom? What does the US constitution say about gay rights? Personally, I can't wait for the SCOTUS to hear this case.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds like Jeff will be tuning in to a gay sitcom on Monday Nights with his salad tossing friends.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "KS also has a decades long history of opposing everything and anything to do with gender orientation equality. \n\nFrom a 2008 G&M article, she is on record as opposing the use of books in schools portraying gay couples, and she advocates a declaration of rights that students not be taught that homosexuality is normal.\n\nI am proud of my kids accepting attitudes, and that they are easily able to see through ignorance. One of their friends was disowned by his mother when he came out as gay, and that lesson in injustice did more than anything else to impress upon them fairness, tolerance, and compassion.\n\nStand your ground in Langley.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They are words that were painted onto Jewish businesses in Nazi Germany (before the night when the store fronts of Jewish businesses were smashed) and that sent Jews and homosexuals to death camps. These same hate-inciting words we are seeing today being spray-painted onto some synagogues and mosques. You're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender soldiers follow the same rules as other soldiers and face the same consequences as other soldiers for disrupting good order and discipline. What is your point? That soldiers who dislike and don't trust transgenders might act out and disrupt good order and discipline?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The number of times the Bible speaks to the sinfulness of heterosexual adultery is never mentioned, but the number of those passages dwarf the number relating to homosexual behavior.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Until this issue is addressed in a bipartisan manner the divide it has created will just get worse. Sorry to say but that is exactly how the Democrats have governed for years. Divide, divide,divide, using every possible issue black/white, men/women gay/straight, rich/poor etc, any port in the storm. However when they screwed up the people healthcare they may have pushed a little too hard, healthcare is far too personal to be screwed with for political reasons.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Father Andrew Greeley often wrote about the \"Gay Mafia\" in the Catholic hierarchy. Glad you recognize it and will work to remove those bishops from the Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Deficits funding transgender operations and military transgender policy studies. Great.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"As a result of the yearlong study, I\u2019m ANNOUNCING TODAY that we are ending the ban on transgender Americans in the United States military. EFFECTIVELY IMMEDIATELY, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.\" -- former Secretary of Defense Ashton Baldwin Carter, June 30, 2016", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True, that it wasn't called marriage at the time, but Oregon has had legal same-sex civil unions since 2008. That's beside the point though. Sweet Cakes was found in violation of business law, which prohibits discrimination in public accommodations. Just as a restaurant owner can't refuse serve to people because of their race, a bakery can't refuse service to someone because of their sexual orientation. That's the law. The marriage issue is a red herring. They were refuse a cake because they were gay. Discrimination plain and simple.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nope. Neither should they. One can support a Pope as an improvement over previous popes without supporting church teachings that contradict Gospel commandments such as with the ordination of women. It is always sin to hate and discriminate like with racism or sexism and the Church Magisterium can't make what Christ has declared sin a righteous form of behavior. Most Papal Loyalist agree abortion is a sin & against church law but they don't see how church law & civil law need to be the same since they have different goals. Our treatment of baptized Christian Church members who are homosexual has been repugnant - Do not condemn else you will be condemned is in the Gospels spoken by Christ. Papal Infallibility is supposed to be utilized only when the pope is reciting scripture or a dogma, it does not specify anything a pope says is perfect or that popes can't sin which Pope Francis admitted to soon after election by identifying himself as a sinner. Who claimed God can't judge us?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, the entire spiel about \u201cgay couples upset by thr rejection might write bad Yelp! reviews, tell their friends not to go to the store, and even call the media. They want to get to reject certain community norms while not facing consequences for this actions.\u201d was an extended typo?\n\nBakers who don\u2019t do what you or someone else wants can go on about their lives without harassment?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It was neither of your assumptions. I simply axed a hypothetical question. The only thing that could possibly make it \"ludicrous\" is political correctness, but we all know that, in the minds of liberal extremists, political correctness is far more important than preventing mass shootings in gay bars.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Has anyone in the government considered the potential risk to transgendered folks who might choose to use and X on their passport instead of an M or and S? In Trump\u2019s America, and in many other less progressive countries in the world, the X may be a trigger for government officials, preventing a transgendered person from entering a country. Even if they are allowed in, the X may put transgendered folks at risk of persecution while they are abroad. Is it worth the risk?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My point about free cake was just an example. You claim he is such an awful person but know nothing about him. I can claim you are an awful person because I find flaws in your posts. Is that fair? As to him being an awful Christian, I think the Bible states that we are all imperfect. Why do you hold this guy to a higher standard than the Bible does? You may not like his actions, but you are off base in your statements. I am a conservative but I am fine with gay marriage and would attend a gay wedding if invited so I don't agree with his decision, but I don't look at him as a horrible person. It's not like he is the only source of wedding cakes so they can easily go somewhere else and get their cake made.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am Conservative because I dont believe in deficit spending and high taxes and the government knows more then the market\nSheryl8\n----------------------------\nyes that is the more important factor in an election than gay issue", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If social conservatives oppose Rex Tillerson because of his pro-gay stance while leader of the BSA, that's fine with me. The important thing is that this staggeringly unqualified person not be confirmed as secretary of state.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This initiative is all about filling Minnery's wallet, raising his national profile among the bigoted right and distracting from the incompetence of the Republican party at the local, state and national levels. It has nothing to do with solving a problem Anchorage has, has ever or will ever have. Trump instituted his half baked ban on transgender people serving in the armed services to distract from the scandal and ineptitude which so thoroughly characterize his administration. Alaska Republicans hope this unnecessary, divisive bathroom nonsense will somehow cover up their total inability to solve the real problems facing our state.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The term was Latent Homosexuality. Psychology stopped using it. The best joke is still \"better latent then never\" to refer to self-loathing gay people pretending to be straight because their God is an ogre.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pence a \"little more stable\"???\n\nWhat makes you think that?\n\n\"Pence signed in a law allowing businesses to refuse to provide service to same-sex couples. He was so anti-gay he advocated the use of taxpayer dollars for conversion therapy.\n\nMr. Pence has pushed for the teaching of creationism in public schools. He signed a bill requiring burial or cremation of aborted fetuses.\"\n\nReligious whackjob for sure.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ms Southey is correct, imo, that 'Those not-tragic stories should be overshadowed by the overall intention of the schools and the assumptions of cultural superiority that led to the plan of taking these children from their families and forbidding them to speak their own languages in the first place'. The thing is that the 'not tragic stories' are true, as Ms. Southey agrees, and thus Senator Beyak shouldn't be crucified for daring to speak of them.\n\nIf the Senator said other things that aren't true, about gay people or whatever, then that is a different matter. Crucify her as you will in that case, Ms. Southey. I won't object.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't Gary, you are simply making up your own definitions to suit your worldview. Marrying homosexuals has never been a sacerdotal responsibility of any Christian Pastor - I would challenge you to find any instances of this occuring and perhaps you will change my mind. Obviously you are forming your own opinions based on your choices and attempting to revise history, which has been a key platform of the homosexual movement since it's beginning. And furthermore, you have no idea what view is held by billions of Christians, so don't pretend you do. Your puff piece propaganda sounds good in the media, but contains no substance or factual information whatsover. And furthermore, these \"Christian\" Churches who are marrying homosexuals are simply doing so because they are the \"Church of what's happening now\" not the Church of Christ. I have no problem with you referring to them as Churches, but will not allow you to attach Christ to it, this is not \"my\" view, it is validate by history.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So if Evangelical Christian bakers can refuse to bake gay marriage wedding cakes, that means that gay bakers and florists can refuse to serve at weddings for conservative Christians. Yes? Do you think they will go for this?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We tend to look up to the expert(s) from afar....the further afar, the better the expert?\n\nHow about picking a gay man since we are a D state?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why is dragging people from the 13th century such a big ordeal?\n\nWake up folks. The year is 2017. Cultural face coverings and the subservience of women to the desires of men needs to end. Head coverings are not part of the Islamic faith but instead cultural.\n\nIslam is a religion. The culture of radical Islam includes:\n-Between 4,000 and 6,000 gay men and lesbians have been executed in Iran for crimes related to their sexual orientation since 1979.\n-Saudi Arabia. Gay population can face; Prison sentences of several months to life, fines and/or whipping/flogging, chemical castration, forced psychiatric treatments, torture, vigilante execution or death can be sentenced on first conviction. A second conviction automatically merits immediate execution. Vigilante executions are also common.\n\nPray in the mosques. Great, fine. Segregate the women from men. Have at it. \n\nBut in public, act like you belong in a civilized society.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"HIV is 100 percent preventable\" Yes it is. \n\n\"While CDC estimates that four percent of men in the United States are MSM (gay), the rate of new HIV diagnoses among them is more than 44 times that of other men.\"\n\nOverall, gay males \u2013 including those who also reported injecting drugs as a risk behavior \u2013 account for:\n\u2022 61 percent (estimated 753,800 persons in 2013) of the estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States.\n\u2022 Approximately two-thirds of all new HIV infections each year.\n\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/cdc-msm-508.pdf\n\nThe gay lifechoice needs to be shamed in the same manner as cigarette smokers for their irresponsible behavior that affects the rest of us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one is created with an immutable need to engage in same-sex sodomy. No one. No one is created with the inability to love people of the opposite sex. And no one is created with inability to engage in sexual relations with the same sex. No one.\n\nThe homosexual lobby is extraordinarily well-financed and powerful, infiltrating power positions in organizations and using propaganda to accomplish their objectives. Lust is not love. Sodomy is not sex. Two people of the same sex cannot be married. Yet these emotional ploys are gaining ground with those who eschew logic, reason, and thousands of years of human understanding over the fear being called insensitive.\n\nWe are commanded to love one another, regardless of sex. We are tempted to engage in sinful behaviors, choosing our own desires over what God has made clear to us is His desire. What we do with our sex organs in always voluntary. Conflating our love of people of the same sex with engaging in sodomy is clever and evil.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The problem is that in Canada many laws are based on Christian mythology not logic. We all know that homosexuality is forbidden by Christians. Freedom and rights are not on the agenda of the State.\n:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zejD0UkMGGY", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church says it \"profoundly respects\" homosexuals, but it will not admit them to seminaries. Clearly, the claim to have \"profound respect\" is a lie. Not only is it a lie, but since this is the Church, it is a lie in the name of Jesus.\nIs lying in the name of Jesus part of the strategy for becoming a smaller, holier Church? It is certainly the kind of thing that contributes to the goal of \"smaller\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dogma is credal, gay marriage is not in the Niceane Creed last I checked. Neither is mortal sin (a concept that has evolved from the Book of James to Vatican II). Gay civil marriage and support for it is not a moral issue at all unless you consider defending equal justice undner law and preventing the tyranny of the mob (even religious ones) to be a matter of morality, which I do. The question is, why don't you? Not a stupid question. The natural law reason of Fagothy ended in a tie (meaning it could go either way, 335-340). He had to refer to Theism to break the tie, which essentially means a loss on reason and a win for authority (if authority wins such arguments, most real philosphers say no). Put another way, if all things being equal, reason is permissive (which Fagothy could not say in THE Catholic ethics text), then the Magisterium is in error on this issue and therefore capable of error on all issues (which is why Humanae Vitae is such a failure).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How come you always say it so well, Elababalus? Genetic? Enculturation? Education? Or is it simply that \"to be gay\" is \"to be wise\"? ;-}", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The level of academic discourse in Canadian universities is an absolute disgrace yet even worse, that brand of discourse is now seeping into our political systems. In Bill C-16 our government has, in effect, predetermined a scientific conclusion for a scientific field of study that at worst can be described as junk science but at its best-and as its frequently described- can only be described as in its infancy. Academia has never yet been so extreme that it requires federal legislation to protect the findings it comes out with but here we are and for any scientific researcher employed or funded by our federal government and some provinces, disputing the theories universities are putting out on gender and transgender issues, they are risking their careers and risk becoming criminalized as human rights violators. Despite what fundamentally sound, scientifically objective reasoning might say.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You have projected your own dark meaning on to gay men. i\u2019m sorry that the gay man you loved so much didn\u2019t love you back in a reciprocal way. So sorry you weren\u2019t the one who could \u2018change\u2019 him. C\u2019est la vie.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting. In my WaPo online subscription, this same piece is titled: \n\"The target was a gay nightclub. The target was also all of us.\" By Monica Hesse June 12 at 7:52 PM\n\nDid WaPo's update change that, or did ADN rewrite the headline? as this is very much in play whether it was a hate crime or terrorism. It's why Obama called it both. But so, too, had this writer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"People can't join with psoriasis but lets reset all medical, physical training, tactical and operational standards for a transgender?\"\n\nI haven't seen anyone, not in these comments or anywhere else, propose that. Reset standards for transgendered? That's your straw man. Logic fail.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are we talking about the same Hilary Clinton? Name me a SINGLE abortion restriction she has supported. Of the CATHOLIC criteria one is to consider when weighing candidates, that is a non negotiable. Her \"support of gay marriage\" mocks God's design for matrimony. The article isn't talking about character flaws, but who will be defend the \"dignity of life\". Hilary is just fine with slaughtering life in the mother's womb. And speaking of \"damnable lies\", HRC's penchant for lying borders the pathological. The Donald might lie about how many girls he bedded as a bachelor, or how many touchdowns he scored in high school, but she repeatedly fabricates about matters of national security.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CitizenWhoPaysTaxesNotTaxPayer, you have such a rigid submission to the law?\n.\nCan there be bad laws?\n.\nAfter all the left keep telling us what a bad Canada this is\nexiting on stolen aboriginal land\na land of racism and marginalization and misogyny and homophobia blah blah\n.\nthat the progressive left must always 'Not stand on guard for thee\"\n-\nsurely such a land in the minds of the Left must be capable of Bad laws\n-\nand the Khadr case is one example\nwhere the \"law is an ass\" trumps common sense", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Have you read the Nazi law? It didn't just outlaw homosexuality like the United States did before Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003). Some of the subsections are very similar to current laws.\n\nhttps://www.ushmm.org/learn/students/learning-materials-and-resources/homosexuals-victims-of-the-nazi-era/paragraph-175", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Today Pope Francis is in the news for suggesting that he's open to the idea of [heterosexually] married priests, a development I would personally welcome. That would channel the natural sexual energy of men (and hopefully one day women) into a healthier, more integrated life, thus eliminating the need to seek out sexual release elsewhere, triggering the rightful accusation of hypocrisy. Of course, gay priests would, like all gay people in the Catholic Church, still be left out in the cold without the benefit of sacramental marriage, so even with married priests we would still be reading lurid tales of gay extracurricular activities among priests on pages like these and be titillated and outraged all at the same time over the hypocrisy of it all. Until we as lay people keep petitioning for married priests, deacons, and even bishops (Anglicans have them, why not us?) we shouldn't be surprised to read stories like this one in the news. The burden is on us lay people to demand change.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nope. Constitutional question. If you don't like birth and viability as the boundary of personhood, get your Republican congress to enact an earlier. But don't ask the states to, they are constitutionally incompetent on that question, as they show every time they try to do voter limitation, TRAP laws, anti-gay wedding regulation, et al. I would give up on the first trimester. Giving legal standing to any first trimester fetus gives it to all of them, making dealing with miscarriages complicated unless you are a predatory Ave Maria law grad. I would say 25 weeks is the earliest assisted viability has a good prognosis. Earlier than that and the child has permanent disabilities, but between 14 weeks and 24 weeks you could insist on induction only. No more salt or dismembering.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There was the article last weekend about Sam Adams' staffer who accused him of lewd discussions and eyeing advances. Sam Adams denied the claims and welcomed an investigation. In this story we have Roy Moore who is accused by multiple women of being approached for sex while they were under the age of consent. He too denies the claims. In both cases we can either assume they are guilty or that they're being falsely accused.\n\nIf the accused are innocent, then the accusers are wrong. If they are guilty, they are indefensible. One would have committed a serious crime. Morally we all agree on these points.\n\nPeople assumed Sam Adams was guilty. Guilty BECAUSE he was gay. It was discussed as no surprise. Reasoning that gay people are like this as well as a number of other horrible things (serial killers, etc). People who made comments like that are the same ones here today figuring Roy Moore is guilty, defending him, and then shaming his victims.\n\nA horrific double standard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did Mr. Christensen refuse service in his new bakery to an actual gay customer or not? Has his new bakery even opened yet to even have a customer much less a gay customer?\n\nMr. Christensen appears to be from his photo a man of a previous generation or two. It is a known fact that it is hard to teach an old dog a new tricks. Unfortunately improvement in civil rights is measured in generations rather than minutes, hours, days, months, if not years.\n\nIf your in to a stupidity fix to feel superior just tune in social media!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Distasteful celebrities like former \u201calt-right\u201d darling and professional bigot Milo Yiannopoulos\"\nI stopped at that. First of all, I don't know the gender of these opinion writer, 'bigot' , favorite attack word by gay bigots, Secondly, the only reason the leftist media is defaming Milo is , he's a white, good looking, right wing male who openly supports Trump. Nothing more, nothing less.\nTypical of the progressives, only thing is, he isn't down and out yet, plenty of interest out there for his book and speeches.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Callwaiting - Young people \"recruit\" each other about everything: music, sports, religion, politics, substance use or non-use, fashion, sex, tablets vs laptops, bikes vs cars, republican vs democrat, straight vs gay, vegan vs meat. All of it can have an obnoxious, sloganeering, overwhelming, exclusionary pressure to it, a feeling that young people are being \"recruited\" to one thing or another. It is the developmental age. And the vast majority move out of that need to validate themselves through peer pressure.\n\nAs a middle aged straight woman who has spent most of adult life living in gay-friendly communities and social circles, I remember heated conversations in my late teens/early twenties with gay friends about whether or not I was gay. I also remember heated conversations with straight friends about whether or not I would get married or have kids. It was peer pressure, which is equal opportunity and developmentally normal. It has been 30 years since I experienced it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Congressman Charles Djou voted to repeal \" Don't ask don't tell\" discrimination against gays in the military. He did this while serving as an officer in the military. He did this against Republican leadership, and I believe he was the only Republican to do so .\nThis is non-partisan leadership. I believe he will be just as fair as Mayor and as consistent to his values.\nP.S. there are more issues than rail like an out of control police department that our mayor washes his hands of responsibility. And than Carlisle believes we need to crack down on homeless people; because as a former prosecutor he sees evil among the poor and expects them to behave as criminals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Personally BLM should be told to jump in a lake..Start your own parade, go ahead I dare you. Big problem though, no one will attend. \nWhy don't they block Caribana and insist the cops disappear since they are the face of \noppression !!!\nNo no they attack the gay pride parade, truly a grotesque show of opportunism !!!\nFYI, \nBLM, all lives matter in Canada, we aren't the USA.- 2223 shot in Chicago already.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Three or four young male arabs with one or two concealed handguns each could very easily get into a gay bar by smiling and talking with a lisp. A smart gay bar would profile young arab males and not allow any of them entry. This guy had already visited this gay bar numerous times to case the joint. He shouldn't have been allowed entry. Gay bars will probably go to pre-screened membership only clubs and then they'll get sued by PC liberals like yourself for discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Substitute \"black\" for \"gay.\" How does that sound? \n\nFrom all my experience with gay friends and a family member, I am convinced that people are born with a particular sexual orientation, thus created by God to be the way they are. (Facing all the historical hatred and discrimination, who would choose to be gay??)\n\nThe Catholic Church doesn't need to compromise. It needs to pay attention to almost fifty years of scientific studies on homosexuality. \n\nCurrently, the Church's position on the subject is as ridiculous as its treatment of Galileo. \n\nUsing a verse in a 3,000-year-old document to understand and legislate on human sexuality is in the same category as all those Catholics --including clergy-- who supported and justified slavery and Jim Crow because of Paul's epistle to Philemon.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am very familiar with the Indian born, convicted criminal Dinesh D'Souza. I can help you out here even if this does not reach that gentleman. This president presented partisan drum beats and disrespect for honorable humans such as former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Teaching children to disagree without being disagreeable is hopefully part of the character building mission of the Boy Scouts. When people lobbied the organization to expand their democratic and human rights positions for gay or transgendered persons, they were presenting an issue not a political party or candidates. For the most part, they addressed decision makers within the Boy Scouts and not the vulnerable youngsters themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Which you will counter with nothing meaningful except a tirade whereby you will bore us with paragraphs filled with absolutely no examples of why life has not been devalued by liberal policies. You will insist that conservatives want to take us back to a time when gays were abused even though most really weren't because it's all you have. You will drag us back to Jim Crow laws that most Americans didn't observe. You will ignore the 40,000,000 fetuses that were murdered and magically prove that it has no bearing on how all life has been devalued. You will defend the emptying out off mental hospitals while blaming it on Reagan. Finally, you will insist that all white men who commit mass murder are Christians because we are a Christian nation even though we aren't. Do i have it about right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "An other religion, Islam, is far more oppressive against women and gays including honor killings and executing young gay teenagers, but strangely this group would never protest it, so the protesters grasp of reality is non-existent as is their credibility.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I understand the hurt that public demonstrations of hatred and fear of gay people can cause. The invitation to a \"New Catholic Conversation\" gave me some hope that we might all be able to rise above the name calling to get to the point of listening to each other. Is that possible?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Really? Seems as though the LGBTQ community is seeking the special rights. EVERYONE has to be exposed to the opposite gender in bathrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms - including schools and youth facilities to appease the demands of a specific group. AND...what's with the distortion of truth misleading people to believe anyone would not be served a hamburger from this simple request for gender privacy? Your writing is irresponsible and deceptive. The LGBTQ community has a right to make poor choices, but not at the expense of everyone else. Since when does someone's sex life have to be publicized and invade the public sector?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Trump could care less about someone's gender or their personal life.\"\nAnd he will throw GLBT people under the bus if it suits his purpose.\nAll he has to do is call for Hillary Clinton's prosecution and attack GLBT people, and his supporters will hoot and holler and cheer.\nThis was a political decision. Period.\nThis has nothing to do with readiness and unit cohesion.\nThe Joint Chiefs weren't even consulted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If your scared about Trump on this one, I wouldn't be. Guy who was on the cover of Playboy and who bragged openly about the number of women he could grope because he was famous isn't interested in policing people's sex lives. I'm much more concerned about the man's overall temperment and his playing patty cake with the neo-facists on the alt-right. But on matters like abortion, gay marriage, etc., he has essentially conned the social conservatives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I had not, but I just did some research and listened to some of his talks. He does make many valid points. As a gay man, his questioning of Islamic views on homosexuality have merit. His views on the alt-left and the demise of free speech I also agree with.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The pentagons very own report on this indicates that it has no effect on the military's combat readiness or effectiveness. The problem is that you're making this into a political issue. Being trans doesn't necessarily mean being mentally ill, nor do we hold trans people to different standards of behavioral and mental health then we do anyone else in the armed forces. If you get accepted, go through bootcamp, and serve just like everyone else, then your gender identity has literally no bearing on your combat readiness or effectiveness. You've literally boiled down this entire issue to, \"I think these people are weird and different, therefor I should be able to treat them differently and discriminate against them for untold, poor, and unproven reasons\". Congratulations, you're literally a bigot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Isn't that the definition of the transexual tribe? What is the address of this so called community?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "High makamaka? That's just insulting. The issue has nothing to do with social or economic class, but go ahead and create another tribe to join the others: Gender Tribe, Lifestyle Tribe, Age Tribe, Race Tribe, Millenial Tribe, Senior Tribe, Transgender Tribe, and on and on. All hail the Divided States of America!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the Jewish religion never gave a pass on homosexuality. Christ didn't have to discuss it. know the culture, know the teacher.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The victims of sexual abuse are women not just boys.\"\n\nThe vast majority were, but that's not what we're arguing about now. \n\n>Deprived of normal sex it stands to reason that abstaining cleric men would prey on trusting girls and women.\n\nAgain, being deprived of sex doesn't make one sexually attracted to young girls or young boys. Sexual attraction doesn't just change like that. Or are you suggesting that some form of \"gay conversion therapy\" may have merit?\n\n> Being a pedophile cleric is simply an easy way to find victims.\n\nAnd going through 8 years of seminary and two rigorous psychological exams make a pretty big obstacle for those who think that's a good way out.\n\n>I may add that any amount of sexual abuse by clerics is unacceptable.\n\nSo do the rest of us, nice virtue signalling.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Last month's Economist has an article about the collaboration of the Russian Orthodox church with the same clique of Evangelicals led by Franklin Graham. Mercifully, cooperation appears limited to the Russian church and simply magnifies the social prejudices held jointly by the oligarchs, the Russian clerics, and the US fundies. Graham is the main driver here, but the Russians seem to be lapping it up and are always anxious to talk about the \"imposition of the homosexual way of life\" on everyone else. To its members, this is a coalition made in heaven; however, they are totally out of step with the views of most Americans, including religious ones . . .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, if my supplemental post wasn't deleted, you would have read that I specifically mentioned gays and how it wasn't an issue. I served side-by-side with gays back when they were officially 'banned' from service in the Canadian Forces.\n\nThe difference is that gays didn't require special surgery nor special medications nor counselling. They did not (based on my experience only) appear to have mental health issues over and above the norms. Many of the female gay members were pretty tough (....for girls). There were no restrictions on their ability to deploy.\n\nA transgender person and a gay person are about as similar as children's laughter and an attack helicopter. One is attracted to members of their same sex, the other wants to be something different that what they were born as....I see no similarities whatsoever.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi Neko, yes the thought police bumped that post.\n\nI was simply stating that the Church has had lies at the core of its being for decades/centuries. I've put a more detailed comment on another thread but put simply here, many, many priests, bishops and Cardinals consecrate the bread everyday in the full knowledge that they are practising gay men. Yet they ban other practising gay people from the Eucharist.\n\nSo ridiculous is the situation that we have the likes of Benedict and Burke dressing up like drag queens while condemning homosexuals. The gay community don't even get angry anymore, they just howl with laughter at them. \n\nIf such a huge lie is attached to the Eucharist then they will lie about anything, as they have done.\n\nGay teenagers show more courage than these men. However, the truth will always trump lies, eventually. Ordinary Catholics do not require perfection in their priests, but they do demand honesty. One day they will get it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow, what a fantasy world. Every point incorrect. Don't know where to begin, but just a few points: Harper had balanced budgets until the great recession and then executed a classic Keynesian deficit spend and then brought the budget back to balance before he handed it to JT, who immediately drove it up to 30 billion, for no real reason.\n\nOn the other major accusation, please provide me with a link where Harper restricted the personal and economic freedom of women or gay individuals? You will have nothing, so you are just exercising your right to disseminate fake news and stereotypes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What a bunch of drama queens. And why not? The power of these religions lies in convincing others\u2026but mainly themselves\u2026that they are morally relevant. Gay marriage is just a token sin to make up for the reality that religion has no power except through money and politics\u2026and it is money and politics that rule us all. So these deluded Evangelicals must kiss up to big money and big politics\u2026and that precludes pointing out the real sins of money and politics---the obvious evils of economic exploitation and wars-for-profit. \u201cGod\u2019s imminent punishment\u201d is just the religious way of explaining away the inevitable consequences of the gross evils of incessant exploitation and warfare. Pretending that their god is primarily angry about gay sex is a delusion. The token \u201cmoral\u201d role in society of these religions is that of unofficial Sex Police\u2026the political equivalent of dog-catcher.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My brother felt that he was being insulted from the pulpit. This priest, as well as other so-called \"Catholics\" rejected him because of his homosexuality.\n\nBut then, to a lot of traditionalists, Matthew 22:39 reads \"And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself, unless the neighbor is LGBT, in which case you should cast him out!\" I prefer the original.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Milo Yiannopoulos is a case in point. The militant left calls him a racist, misogynist, homophobic hater, despite him standing in defence of the rights of all people. The far left\u2019s riotous armies of SJW on universities and colleges campuses, and the PC media hate him because they can not refute him face to face. He does his homework, and says only what can be verified from published information. That is why his enemies hate him so much: he pokes the bubbles of their fake news, and does it with such wicked humour and gay naughtiness. Straight white men love him, which is even more upsetting and offensive to the easily triggered.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I certainly agree that FCC rules should apply uniformly to everyone. But I also think that this faux outrage is over a deliberate misreading of the joke (which was about subservience, not sexual preference).\n\nCall it a hunch, but the people up in arms are likely the same people who voted for someone who brags about grabbing women \"by the p****\", and the same people who were upset that Milo got fired, and the same people that demand Ann Coulter be allowed to speak, and the same people who voted for a party who wants to reduce rights for gays.\n\nPeople love free speech until someone has a different viewpoint.\n\nI say we just let everyone speak and just learn to deal with the ideas we don't like.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That power argument is a big joke, applicable only when the victims are pre-pubescent. This is about homosexual sex acts and the preference for younger, near-pubescent age men/boys. Married men without same-sex attraction, no more altar girls, and a lot would be resolved.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ".\n\"Kenney, who does not have a seat in the legislature, said that stance does not effectively out gay kids to their parents.\"\n\nReally? Well, what in hell would it do Jason? Help these kids avoid a devastating / life changing encounter with their parents? \n\nBrilliant. Jason Kenney was an (to put it mildly) id$ot of mammoth proportions when serving under Harper, obviously he has nowhere to go but down in the most Conservative province in Canada\n\nToo bad.......for the good people of Alberta\n\n.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those 20+ non-Roman Churches believe in everything the Magisterium teaches and reject everything the Magisterium rejects on matters of Faith and Morals. Thus they believe in the Trinity, the Divinity of Christ, the Redemption, etc whilst rejecting the ordination of women, sexual activity outside of marriage, homosexuality and same-sex unions, contraception, abortion, euthanasia, etc. They have the same Seven Sacraments, essentially the same Liturgy differing only in externals and the same unity with the Pope.\nThis Vatican II Rite which you propose could never in a million years be in union with either the Roman Church or any of the Eastern and Oriental Uniate Churches, it would be just another Protestant church calling itself Catholic as the Episcopalians do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. The headline suggested it was a white's only group. So they changed the headline.\n\nHe praised them for admitting their error. Other outlets just removed the false claims and pretended like they never happened. \n\nThere is nothing wrong with being white, though. Or a proud Western chauvinist. It is the values that they are proud of: free speech, democratic system, a voice for the small guy, open discussions, debates. This goes against fascist ideals of other nations: no free speech, dictatorship, oppression of minority voices, dogma. \n\nThat statement does not shout that Gavin McInnes is a white supremacist. Fact is he is not one. \n\nInitiation into Proud Boys involves being lightly punched by 5 guys until you name 5 breakfast cereal names. \n\nThey are silly at times. They do love the First Amendment. And will fight for your right to disagree with them. Those are good values worth fighting for. \n\nAnd they do have non-white members. And gays. And a Muslim. \n\nTruth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"In the 1970\u2032s and 1980\u2032s, in particular, there developed at certain seminaries a \u201cgay subculture\u201d, and at these seminaries homosexual liaisons occurred among students or between students and teachers...\n... [T]he sexual corruption that entered into seminary training in the 1960\u2032s and \u201970\u2032s did not come before the increase in sexual permissiveness that had taken hold of segments of ordained clergy, but rather resulted from men, already ordained as priests, bringing their attitude and lifestyle recently acquired back into the seminaries as teachers during a period of significant confusion in the Church. This sexual licentiousness occurred concurrently with a rising crisis of confidence among all clergy \u2026\nThe atmosphere of disciplinary and doctrinal defiance common to the time [60's & 70's] would have encouraged confusion among the rank and file priests, and in the deviant, set sexual behaviour afoot ...\u201d\n\nhttp://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2265&context=lnq", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does one day the Great French production \u201cMademoiselle\u201d (1966) of a deranged crazy subliminal eroticism will be finally \"showable\" in original version ? The film has been very, VERY censored in all countries but the mores evolved much since that time, no?. It must be said that the author of this original scenario written especially for the Cinema is a \"sulphurous\" Jean Genet, prodigious maniac and gay poet burglar (it is his only full screenplay & dialogues written in 1951 and given in 'wedding gift' broom to Anouk Aim\u00e9e (19) (Genet was the best man)). The years go by / project is forgotten. 14 years later and then... In 1965, Jeanne Moreau, 37, the excellent \"maniac\" for this role, \"took over\" the project to his account and go at a brisk pace to put it back together. The film (in B&W) is presented in World Premi\u00e8re to the Cannes Film Festival in 1966. \n(more to come)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" Trudeau needs to have a Merkel moment\"\nThe only moment he's willing to have is a Pride Parade one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While I left Catholicism as a literal child because it was unpersuasive and gormless even to a ten-year-old, I stayed away because of the deviant criminality and the sick hold it had on people, thanks to a tradition of institutionalized threats, guilt and fear mongering. Later, of course, I noticed the way Natives and women and out gay people were abused and oppressed by this curiously all-male hierarchy of Catholicism. Nonetheless, I certainly understand the desire for acceptance and fellowship a church/temple/mosque can provide. I just can't bear the other costs of being involved in a monotheism for the sake of what a social club could provide. About the only benefit I retain is a Jesuitical approach to debate and a deep understanding of the jokes on \"Father Ted\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "from wikepedia: \n\"The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of the largest private youth organizations in the United States, has policies which prohibit atheists, agnostics and, until January 2014, prohibited all \"known or avowed homosexuals\",[1] from membership in its Scouting program. The ban on adults who are \"open or avowed homosexuals\"[2] from leadership positions was lifted in July 2015.[3] Prior to these policy changes, BSA had denied or revoked membership status or leadership positions for violation of these foundational principles. The BSA had contended that its policies were essential in its mission to instill in young people the values of the Scout Promise, or Oath, and Scout Law.[1][4]\" cont Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Grekoff, yes. The scientific evidence is that, for the past three or four years, the corporate media elites have been braying constantly in favour of transgender \"rights\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll stick with hijack. It is the same as homosexual men and women going to Mass with their rainbow attire, flaunting it before a priest at Communion, and hoping they are denied reception so they may play the victim.\n\nDid Christ know what He was doing or didn't He?\n\nThe third option may be to find a different church. I am not asking you to leave, but if you don't like the teachings of this club why would you want to stay a member? There are other Christian denominations which have what you want.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And no one asked him to be gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We like fish sticks? Are you suggesting we're gay fish?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"So if their politics are right you are all for women priests.\"\nWrong. This is an ignorant statement! You clearly don't know the difference between Catholic teaching and politics. The Church is against abortion and homosexual behavior and I expect any seminarian, male or female, also to be in line with Church teaching. After reading your views above, I'm glad you couldn't be ordained because you are very heterodox in your views, and my view has NOTHING to do with your gender.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Two of my three sons are \"nones\". My middle son has left the Church because his first marriage broke down. He refuses to get an annulment because he truly believes that if he were to say that there was a flaw at the beginning of his marriage, he would be lying. He is remarried, and since the institutional Church calls him a raging adulterer, he says that if they won't accept him, he won't accept them.\n\nMy youngest son left in solidarity with his uncle, my younger brother. My brother is gay, and feels that he has been rejected by the institutional Church. I cannot say that he is wrong to feel that way. My son says that since the Catholic Church is rejecting gays, it is being hypocritical in calling itself Christian.\n\nI do not blame either one of my sons for doing what they did.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That was my first thought as well. It was included so parenthetically in this article as to be almost completely irrelevant, especially within the context of libertarianism - except of course in the mind of MSW. I know of no gay people, prominent or otherwise, who subscribe to the current strain of libertarianism since most of the people who do subscribe to this \"ideology\" (if you can even call it that) are no friends to gay people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "These neo-Nazis are lunatic fringe, with zero cultural impact but the issue they ostensibly were protesting, removal of the General Lee statue, has generated a widespread negative reaction to the sjws who demanded it. \nA WSJ article last week revealed that while Americans are becoming more economically liberal (eg Obamacare) , they are shifting to cultural conservatism, e.g., to have an immigration policy more like Canada's etc. The reason for the shift to cultural conservatism was driven by a realization that a liberal cultural agenda was less about tolerance and more about using it as a battering ram against those disagree. For example, the legalization of gay marriage did not initially impact those who disagreed and thus no substantive reaction but that changed when the law became a crux to close religious businesses, i.e., victims of liberal cultural values.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump's been upset about this ever since he found out Melania is transgender.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Awww you find it sad that people aren't supporting the gay agenda? Stop whining, God, it's all we've been hearing for 20 years now: the gays, the gays, the gays. Even when they were all killing themselves with AIDS, they whined as if it was someone else's fault.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A tricky issue. \"Past homosexuals\" are pretty much all dead of AIDS. And they have no descendants, so who do you apologize to?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "These people who should be ashamed but are not--they do not value either ethics or democratic process--hence their colluding candidate and \"president.\" They want their cake and to eat it too. \nRepublicans want democracy for themselves but want to deny it to others--Blacks, women, gays, lesbians and transgender people, Latinos, immigrants. It's like democracy in ancient Greece only instead of democracy being limited to male citizens, it's limited to citizens who are white. This is the \"vision\" of the Republicans--a society where rights are offered--but only to whites who are straight. America will fall behind more enlightened societies because it allows its most backward elements to lead.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You idea about offensive art is dumb and irrelevant.\nThe baker has made many cakes for gay weddings, he just does not know it. When he learns he is making a cake for a gay wedding, he is suddenly offended?\n\nLet\u2019s say a wedding planner goes into Jack Philips cake shop and orders an elaborate, custom wedding cake.\nIt has 10 layers and has a mountain stream of icing cascading down the layers tha t look like mountains. It is stunning. The baker is beyond proud of his work. He accepts payment and the wedding planner takes it away. What a feel good story!\n\nBut wait. The wedding planner never told the baker the cake is for a gay wedding. The cake is rolled out at the gay wedding and is eaten, because it is a cake.\n\nDoes thst take away from the baker? Is he less proud of his work if he finds out it was in a gay wedding?\nDoes it make it less of a cake? Is it less of a work of art?\n\nThe baker is choosing to be offended. It is immature.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"The grievance a gay couple may have against a baker who doesn\u2019t wish to fill their order for a wedding cake may be a legitimate complain\"\n\nSo it looks like all the rights and freedoms you so fervently believe in extends to everyone except bakers. I guess I have to agree. I don't like bakers. They get up at an ungodly hour to go to work. They're always covered in flower. They're probably all Nazis. Down with bakers!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well Allan, Layla4 is absolutely correct. The \"homophobic\" Harper government brought hundreds of gay men and women into Canada as refugees and made being gay in an oppressive (i.e. criminal offences with fear of violence) society an acceptable situation for being accepted as a refugee. \nAnd what did Trudeau do? Nothing except what he is best at, talk and selfies.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You gotta , laugh, the vile left is all of a sudden against Red Russia! I don't believe it, except now that Russia is anti-gay, there may be a bit of truth to it!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We all know that Trump's administration denies climate change and is anti-gay. We all know that Trump has not paid taxes in decades, and that he bragged about sexually assaulting women.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Radicalization is taught at home, around the dinner table, as the family enjoys mom's good home cooking, while the grown ups discuss destroying Israel, eradicating homosexuals and the evils of dirty infidels It is drilled into young minds with every tale of glorious martyrdom for Allah in every mosque in every city around the world. Extremism for Islam is taught the same way Christians are taught about Jesus and his message of mercy and forgiveness. It is not at odds with the teachings, but is central to the religion.\n\nIn all other religions liars go to Hell. In Islam liars got to Paradise.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The comments are just what I expected, mean-spirited, narrow-minded and homophobic said with conviction from their perches looking down on the less fortunate. Yes, we can and should help these tortured souls. Perhaps you'd rather see these desperate people wait until an angry mob decides to throw them off a high rise balcony or execute them in public, simply because they are gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah! The Gay Pride Parade. Toronto's annual celebration of nudity and sado masochism. Tell me what's to be proud of.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Getting difficult to keep up with the current sexuality acronym. It seems to keep growing. What is the \"2\" for on the end of LGBTQ2?\n\nAlso, wouldn't it be appropriate to add on all non-heterosexual forms of sexuality- fetishism for example?\n\nAnd finally, shouldn't forms of sexuality currently deemed illegal- as was homosexuality not so long ago- be included in the acronym?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "@HJohn\n\n1) Kristin Beck, former highly decorated Navy Seal has been transgender her whole life. There is a large contingent of military and former military who have and are proudly and bravely serving the US.\n2) When the US military wastes billions, you'll squabble about 8.5 million a year? The US spends around $600 billion a year on its military. Transgender health would amount to 0.0014% of that annual budget. \n3) This whole point makes absolutely no sense and I think shows your agenda. Scientists argue about science not \"movements\". Yes there are those who disagree with the large majority of scientists that have concluded that being transgender, isn't a mental disorder but they are definitely a small minority. Do you realize that scientists used to believe that being gay was a mental disorder? Many are bitter old men that have harmed a lot of people by pushing failed treatments like conversion therapy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Democrats are just as bad at being purveyors of hate. Representative Keith Ellison barely lost out in the election to become the new Democratic National Committee Chairperson this week. And that is despite the fact that he used to be an avowed follower of Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam. Farrakhan is deeply racist, anti-Semitic and is also strongly anti-gay. The prestigious Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Nation of Islam as being one of the worse hate groups in our entire nation. It is larger and wealthier than any other.\n\nYet, the Democrats came very close to electing this filthy piece of shit as their new leader this week!! My goodness, if the Democratic Party truly opposed antisemitism, they would never of had anything to do with such a despicable person. He only disavowed Farrakhan when his membership in the Nation of Islam became an issue when he ran for Congress.\n\nhttps://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nation-islam", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, with many transgenders, neither science nor evolution said that they were a woman/man. Many of them do not have XY chromosomes. Instead, they have XXXY, XXXX, XXXXXY, XXXXXX, etc. IOW, they have genetic abnormalities that play with not only their sex organs, but their minds as well. \nit is from this that we get hermaphrodites. In addition, you will find ppl that have ovaries and penis, amongst other interesting issues such as 2 vagina, or 2 penis. \nFor these ppl, their minds can really be having a difficult time reconciling what to do, esp, with our culture.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Pass the salt and pepper please. Democrats like road kill too, kaine threw himself under the bus by signing on with the witch. Debbie Was A Man, transgender meat ala cart. \nBon a petit", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The word you did not mention was \"radical\". Also, the belief of the \"afterlife\" for a muslim has also created the radicalization of the Muslim religion in regards to the terrorism we see today.\nThat is why being a muslim CAN be misconstrued as bad. \nBad apples everywhere, whether it is Muslim, Christian, Budist, Republican, Democrat, Straight, Gay, Black, White, Conservative, Liberal.......", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Heterosexuals_tend_to_find_gay_sex_icky._It_is_part_of_being_hetero._All_are_wicked,_gay_and_straight,_and_it_has_little_to_do_with_sex.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I loathe the word 'gay'. When, are we going to stop using this stupid word, and accept that we are not all, strictly male or female oriented. Are we still living in the dark ages?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Deeper question -- do HUMAN RIGHTS really exist? Could they just be an illusion of the devil? Are HUMAN RIGHTS merely a secular atheist's summary of Christian theology to be redefined at-will? What's the end-game of promoting \"gay marriage\" as a noble human right and likewise dismissing opposition is \"hateful discrimination\" ???", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Church does not need priests who practice sodomy, just as she does not need priests who practice fornication and adultery. The Church does not need priests who experience deep-seated lust for men, just as she does not need priests who are constantly lusting after women. The Church does not need priests who buy into the gay lifestyle, just as she does not need priests to buy into a playboy lifestyle. \n\nI think that is pretty much what is meant by \"practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called \u2018gay culture.\u2019\u201d", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A Church that refuses to accept women as priests will also negate gay priests. Misogyny is a sin.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When not shivering over gay porn do you work for these guys?\n\n<<[Alliance Defending Freedom], which is based in Arizona, has offices around the world, with more than 3,000 allied attorneys and $44 million in case funding that it uses to fight for its core issues, which include religious freedom, \u201csanctity of life,\u201d and marriage and family. (On filings to the IRS, it says its mission is to \u201cdefend the right to hear and speak the truth.\u201d) The group\u2019s president, CEO, and chief counsel is Alan Sears, a former Justice Department official under President Ronald Reagan who wrote The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today.>>\n\nhttp://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/alliance-defending-freedom-lobbies-anti-lgbt-bathroom-bills/", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "BLM has created a situation where gay white men who show up will be accused of being racists, If gay white men don;t show up, they will be accused of being racists.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, since Benedict's 2005 rule, I'm sure ss-attracted men have stopped applying to seminaries. Just joking.\n\nIf you were ss-attracted (or generally confused about your orientation) and wanted to be a priest, how would you be likely to interpret the \"deep seated\" qualification? \n\nI would bet you'd interpret it as loophole, and still believe yourself not disqualified from a priestly vocation.\n\nWhy do I think so? I think so because Benedict's new rule isn't new at all. The church has always been \"legally\" against accepting \"gay\" men as priests. And yet studies have confirmed that thousands of priests are gay men.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I have to check my bible, first. Anyone has a chapter/ verse that could explain why God made homosexual animals?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "@ convert: Your response to Victor Victoria sounds pleasant enough, but the sad truth remains that while the title of the San Diego bishop's letter was \"Embracing the joy of love\" it should have continued with following disclaimer: \"except if you're gay, in which case no love for you.\" That's the real world in which gay Catholics still exist and will continue to exist as long as current church teaching remains. You can use all the pretty, flowery language you want to cover it up but it's still basically lipstick on a pig.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They are flesh and blood, and keep demonstrating their ignorance of sex. They have this idea that sex has to be \"justified\" by being specifically for procreation. That is the misconception that guides Humanae Vitae, which asserts it is \"natural law\". All too often \"natural law\" is used in theological argument to mean \"in my opinion\" or, worse, \"I don't have an actual argument, so I'm just going to say 'natural law' and hope no one notices I'm just hand-waving\". \n\nI understand the meaning of sin. I do not believe that God is as concerned about sex as the hierarchs do. Their refusal to accept gays is far more sinful, IMHO.\n\nI say that the magisterium is wrong. , I know you have this idea that differing from the magisterium by one iota means one has left the Catholic Church. You have said, in as many words, that your beliefs are completely congruent with the magisterium, and thus to disagree with YOU places one outside the Church. You substitute your opinions for the will of God.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Where should we start? The moderator Anderson Cooper, who is in the Hillary camp, is a queer engaging in fisting, tea bagging and anal sex. Hillary is bi-sexual and has a lover who is a Muslim and married to Anthony Weiner (enuf said). It appears that Trump was having consensual sex with Ms. Universe contestants while Billy Boy was dragging one hundred dollar bills through trailer courts in Arkansas when he was not raping women. On top of that Hillary has said in both debates that when they go low we go high. Hillary is the one throwing all the dirt just how low can she go while saying she is going high. When demonrats have sex they make their guys rock stars. However when republicans have consensual sex with Miss Universe contestants that is some how naughty. Additionally Trump has not left any of his lovers in his car at the bottom of a river ala Ted Kennedy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "People born with both sets, etc are suffering from syndromes and most likely have chosen a sex. What we're talking about are gender fluid, etc. types. You know, the ones who claim to be things physically and scientifically impossible. There are also the pedophilia types who will take advantage of being able to be this or that just to prey on kids. It's happened quite a bit already.\n\nYour comment about a father bringing his daughter into the bathroom is a ridiculous straw-man. SOCIETY ALREADY ACCEPTS parents bringing their kids into the bathroom with them.\n\nAlso, transgenderism is a mental disorder, so there's that....\nDr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a \u201cmental disorder\u201d that merits treatment, that sex change is \u201cbiologically impossible,\u201d and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In reality his nomination was lost to the certain knowledge that if any sign was given by the Vatican to gays outside of the closet, all hell would break loose inside the clergy ranks. I'm not referencing out gay priests, I'm referencing closeted gay cardinals and bishops who couldn't deal with a Vatican 'open' to any gays. It always comes back to the all celibate male clergy and their reasons for accepting ordination. \n\nI am always amazed at the average pew sitter's inability to understand why this Church can't move forward on the clergy abuse crisis. For once, it's only partially about the money. For too many practicing Catholics it's about the sacramental magic and their own soul and avoiding hell. Hence the official Catholic line from prelates like Wuerl about the Gingrich's: \"They both went to confession.\" As long as the 'confession card' can be played by adulterous heterosexuals, gay Catholics don't stand a chance versus the hetero norm.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Here we go again, Mike Brooks expressing his fear and loathing for homosexuals and obsessing about \"sodomy\". His \"Ergo, any 'gay'-friendly parish is Catholic-unfriendly.\" is one of the nastiest comments I have read in this thread.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Agirl: Actually, since you seem to have forgotten that the Invasion and Destruction of Iraq even happened....\"nothing dramatic during Bush's presidency\", I won't spend the time debating it with you. I do suggest you might read up on it a bit. When you tell an untruth, you tell a \"lie.\" The Bush Administration blamed that lie on \"faulty intelligence\"......even if that were true, and there's serious doubt about that, it doesn't make it any less of a lie. It's amusing that you trivialize the Iraq War and it's consequences with \"is there anything the 60's hippys won't protest against?\" Let's watch the Trump Administration and see how things go. As I've said before, \"I hope for the best and fear for the worst.\" \n\nBTW: I marched in support of Civil Rights, protested the VietnamWar, protested the War in Iraq, and marched in support of Gay Rights.....I don't apologize for any of those actions......your \"sickness\" notwithstanding. Regards, Gary Crum", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Downplaying the concerns of Canadians about our now open border, is not winning this government many friends. The main responsibility of the PM is to guard Canada against threats and to make sure our borders are secure. Trudeau has failed miserably at this and no amount of damage control can change this fact. To make matters worse, the Liberals have been using the Leftist playbook and denouncing anyone who opposes open borders as bigots and racists which once agin doesn't win many converts. Trudeau is responsible for this mess. He tweeted out a message that we'll take everyone and now we are. This man should have stayed with attending every gay parade in the country and organizing his sock collection instead of posting stupid messages that have created this out of control mess. 2019 can't come soon enough.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is an essential part of human sexuality. Sexuality is much more than the physical act of copulation or sodomy. Ethical issues live in the brain and in the community, beyond the brain. That is where the fun is. Resorting to a moral/genital model is, as I said, vincible ignorance. It does not help the Church, gay people, trans people, or their families.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There are many variations on the Ten Commandments: Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:1-24. Which one do you want?\n\n\nThe truth is that what is often taught---was the EASIEST understanding of anything. But that does not make it the BEST understanding.\n\n\nMoral teachings, as all teachings and laws, are for the people. If they do not benefit the people, they are NOT good teachings or laws. Any teaching or law that treats, encourages, permits actions toward others that demeans their basic humanity--is not good and should be abolished. The very fact that the hierarchal church doesn't do a disciplined, medical/scientific research on the nature of homosexuality---but practices exclusion, retaliation, and winks at vindictiveness against members of the LGBT community, is evidence of this We have abused other groups of peoples as well: the Jews, slaves, women. Today, the official church has made members of the LGBT the new lepers in our society.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ask Jerry Prevo, Don Young, the hateful Alaska GOP what their part was in this. Their constant hate rhetoric and call for disenfranchising gays. This is not just Muslim hate. Time for legislation for common sense gun safety, LGBT statewide equality. Also, this is what GOP RFRAs protect. The right to incite hate, violence and murder of the gay tribe.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You really are presumptuous. There is no reason to be rude. You know nothing about me. I will not make dumb assumptions about you, okay?\nI have worked in a bakery and have made wedding cakes.\nYou want me to put up some sort of resume here? I will get right on that Chief. \n\nHow do you know why the baker was chosen? Maybe they lived nearby or drive by thenshop coming home from work. Stop making up fiction. \n\nA wedding planner and Jack Philips create a custom wedding cake. It is huge. 10 tiers incorporating a moving fudge stream on one side and a ski scene on the other. It is a massive undertaking and takes enormous skill. Jack Philips takes on the task. It turns out perfect, just as the wedding planner ordered. Jack is paid thousands of dollars for his masterpiece by the wedding planner who also picks up the cake and delivers it to a gay wedding. Jack Philips only is offended if he knows it is a gay wedding. Is it less art? Should he not take pride in that work?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Not sure if it is as clear as that:\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-bill-clinton-accusers/index.html\n\nThat said, it is my personal opinion that Bill and Hillary have an open marriage -- and they both are lesbians. Seriously. \n\nAs to Michele Obama, you are aware there are cultures in our country that actively discourage any higher education of girls? Nevertheless, in a case of double hypocrisy, why has the program not been terminated, unless the current administration is just as \"sexist\"?\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/trump-michelle-obama-let-girls-learn/index.html", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Not nearly as dumb as claiming the Deity's Name isn't \"Allah\", or foisting homosexual King James as some kind of \"religious authority\". (Sigh) again--here's how it works:\n\nAllah & Allahumma (Arabic) = Alah & Alaha (old Aramaic) = Elah & Elohim (Hebrew).\n\nThose Semitic Names have likewise been translated as Olah (Zulu), Khuda (Farsi), Bogu (Russian), Dieu (French), Atu'a (Samoan), El Dio (Spanish), Hotheos (Greek), Astvats (Armenian), Bog (Hungarian), Xwede (Khurdish), Gott (German) and...GOD (English).\n\nArabic CHRISTIANS have ALWAYS invoked the Deity by the Name ALLAH. So did the Messiah (alayhis-Salaam) when he (allegedly) cried out \"Eli, Eli lama sabachthani!\" from the cross. The Greeks transliterated \"Allah\" as \"Eli\".\n\nGlad I could help. Anything else you wanna know about the Scriptures and/or their languages, just ask. Or, you can adopt the standard \"evangelical logic\" so succinctly described by Bill Watterson: \"Why expend effort learning when ignorance is instantaneous?\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, I'm saying that many homosexual men are predisposed to molesting pubescent boys, and that the increase in homosexuals in the priesthood has led to a larger number of homosexual molestations of young boys than in the general population, further damaging an already damaged perception of the priesthood. I'm also saying that a powerful homosexual lobby has great control in the priesthood, even powerful enough to drive the sitting Pope out and replacing him with an ambiguous, socialist, weak leader.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We hear the ANC wants to rid South Africa of Apartheid. What Apartheid, which sounds more than the system of Apartheid itself. Today, a flag and monument, tomorrow Pierre Vos' racist colonial name that reminds some people of 'oppression'. Tomorrow Pierre himself... Appeasement is the language of cowards. \nPierre you sound like the same guys that wanted to punish gays. All you're doing is bringing back that hatred and intolerance, but this time it's got a rainbow flag for underwear...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Pederasty has a long standing tradition of abusing both sexes among alcoholics in black outs. It has nothing to do with being gay or lesbian.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I find it curious that in your posts you focus exclusively on the gay part of this article, but say nothing about the priest with 30 female lovers.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Think Cardinal Burke? I think not. Think instead that pederasty is common among homosexual male culture and then think homosexual \u201clobby\u201d in the Vatican.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Comparing fundamentalist Muslim terrorists who are anti-gay, anti-feminist, and anti-abortion with the American Left could be considered hate speech.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed, one would think that if the hierarchy is so concerned with keeping gays out of \"the club\" they should certainly be concerned with cleaning out those already there.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is the left that remains silent when radical Muslims throw gays off of rooftops, burn women who refuse sexual relations, slaughter Christians, commit \"honor\" killing of women, stone adulterers, blow up women and children in terror attacks, etc. It is the left that celebrates the \"right to choose\" which has resulted in the destruction of over 50 million innocent lives here in America even though Pope Francis has called abortion an \"absolute evil\" and a \"horrendous crime\". It is the left that bankrupts small business people if they don't bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple even though such a \"marriage\" was uninmaginable 20 years ago. It is the left who has destroyed the humanities and has made academia an ideological reeducation camp. It is the left who are the thought-police waging an inquisition on anyone who fails to subscribe to their prevailing protocols and reigning orthodoxies.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Here we go again: \"Gay\" is a term that conflates same-sex attraction AND the willingness to embrace and/or engage in same-sex sodomy, the former of which demands compassion and sympathy, the latter of which is strictly against Catholic teaching. Ergo, any \"gay\"-friendly parish is Catholic-unfriendly.\n\nI would accept and even support any parish that welcomes those who have same-sex attraction and who struggle with the sin of engaging in same-sex sodomy. Indeed, the only way to help them is to embrace them with open arms and a willingness to help them.\n\nIt is impossible to have a clear and fair discussion about those who self-identify as \"gay,\" without bifurcating the meaning of the label. But, of course, homosexual activists don't want to have a fair discussion, just forced acceptance through subterfuge.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You must love being wrong, you do it so often.\n\nColorado law prohibits discrimination in the following areas based on these protected classes:\nRace, Color, Disability, Sex, Sexual Orientation (including Transgender Status), National Origin/ Ancestry, Creed, Marital Status, Retaliation\n\nFrom the state website:\nhttps://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dora/civil-rights/cases-we-handle\n\nDo you see where it says,\u201dSexual Orientation\u201d?\nGays are included in that no matter what semantic garbage you think of.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "<< But on matters like abortion, gay marriage, etc., he has essentially conned the social conservatives.>>\nHe has. But they, in turn, have co-opted him. There is no evidence that Trump is even remotely interested in the issues that matter to so-called social conservatives, but he is surrounded by people who do care about them. Mike Pence is an unrepentant, prolific gay basher, and Sessions is a reliable \"social conservative\" who will pursue policies designed to constrict or reverse the advances in civil, political and human rights of various minorities.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Question: Do you support the French law that now prohibits the freedom of choice in clothing? Or, are you just explaining why some people are upset with Muslims in general?\n\nI had a conservative friend 'give in' to gay marriage in Iowa, as long \"as they don't hold hands or kiss where I have might see them\"\nFor years our black population was kept out of certain area's of the South, I myself remember the 'whites only' signs in Houston in the 1950's. Few people murdered Black citizens, but segregation was to keep them out of sight of White activities. It's called institutionalized bigotry. \n\nAre you agreeing with the French ruling or not? \n\np.s. I find Muslim's treatment of women despicable in many cultures. It certainly doesn't fit modern American standards. \n\nWhile women living in ISIS territory don't have a choice, a woman living in America or France should be protected by civil law to make her own decisions, including traditional Muslim clothing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The guy with a gun was motivated by the paranoid fake news and put many people in danger. I see the fake news... truly fake news, not the \"oh fox is slanted or CNN is slanted\" fake news but the \"Joan Rivers was killed for outing Obama as gay and Michelle as a transgender man\" news that is accepted by millions... and they voted accordingly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Register Guard deciding what is appropriate speech actually censors free speech and ideas. If I think Obama, Hill, and Bill should all be wearing orange jumpsuits the rest of their lives for their numerous felonies The Register Guard Pinko Paper that it is might find that offensive because it challenges the delicate sensibilities of the Godless, Clueless, Idiots that put these criminals on a pedestal. As for your know it all editorial board, made up of mindless geeks, I'm telling you your cluessless and everything you know is wrong. Put that in your Climate Change, Gun Confiscation, Gay Rights nonsense. When the SHTF you clowns won't even know what happened because you all have SFB. Just a little constructive criticism that you never got but should have growing up in your nanny state.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Question? What have Gays to be proud about that the rest of us don't ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, I can agree that trans people should not be subjected to persecution for being trans while at the same time disputing the distortions of current trans language. And I can only speak as a woman, but specifically, if trans activists need a word that means women who have not transitioned from another sex, then they might try the obvious, clear language: non-trans women. \n\nThe central problem with creating a category like cis women is that it presumes women with two X chromosomes all feel the same about gender when in fact, women are pretty diverse in terms of how they embrace and express gender. Indeed, fighting to relax gender stereotypes has been a big part of women's progress over the past decades -- it's not so long ago that schools required girls to wear dresses and take home ec. It's not like trans women are the only ones who have struggled with the constraints of gender roles and expression.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, the problem is that the cake maker discriminated against gay customers, who are protected by law. That's the problem. The cake makers violated the law. The end.\n\nWhat you are saying is no different than supporting a cake baker who didn't want to put minority figurines on a wedding cake. This is not a hard concept.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All of a sudden common sense is no longer common!\nOf the little science I know, every cell you have (your hair cells, skin cells etc etc) has your genetic make up XX (female) or XY (male) \"stamped\" on it the moment you were conceived, months before your birth. \nChanging your external genitalia does not change this. \nChange the exterior color of your house and expect the interior of your house to magically transform. \nYou do not really have a choice here, it was determined before you were born! Laws and wishful thinking, no matter how sentimental, cannot change genetics.\nPeople who are truly and really genetically transgender are RARE, very RARE.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The point of view of the Roman Catholic church should not be relevant here. Many faith groups disagree, and are happy to welcome, even marry, gay couples. \n\nNo, he question is not what happens within the walls of the church--that has been decisively answered. after all, the church is free to refuse marriage to divorced people although they are perfectly free to marry civilly. No divorcee is suing a bishop to marry in church. ( Indeed, the church has found a way to coexist in the civil polis with those in marriages it considers invalid. So why are the gay couples any different?)\n\nThe question is how to co-exist with all those happily married gay Episcopalians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He has already flipped - under the influence of his \"handlers\" - on a number of issues: women's rights, gay marriage, etc., etc. The Tea Partiers in the GOP are using him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Sparhawk on Monday expressed regret for shouting an anti-gay slur at a protester during the incident. \u201cI said things I shouldn\u2019t have in the heat of the moment,\u201d he said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t express my views.\u201d\n\nOh, I think his views are exactly what we saw in the \"heat of the moment.\" The protesters should not have harassed this bigot, but we should understand that this guy spewing anti-gay bigotry is standard operating procedure for most of these guys. It's my experience that these types of guys are often the ones driving aggressively.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is not the law in this state and thankfully states that passed this ridiculous legislation lost many large corporate business's who simply moved out. The state ends up on the list of thousands or people who refuse to visit the state, while major events that are a huge part of the economy cancel their big events. The economic hammer put on these states and cities by people who agree with my point of view are a huge hit on their economy. So all the word salads from people who have never seen a transgender in a public restroom and mostly never will since there are not many out there, the arguments for this bathroom bill are ridiculous. If people are assaulted in public restrooms or in fact any public place in America there are already laws on the books. Even the idea that now transgenders, the few out there are dying to use the woman's restroom with you to show you their \"downstairs\" area is not based on any real facts, just a creation of people with a way over active imagination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lol. I see we still have someone who is upset about the word \"gay\". I didn't know if there were still any of you left. \n\n\nI seem to remember 80-some year olds grumbling about the word gay being \"taken\" from them. And that was 30 years ago or more.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you're going to refuse to make cakes for certain individuals then yes advertise so people don't waste their time in asking you to begin with. \n\nA bakery is a business like any other regarding food. If you don't want to make a cake for a gay couple let people know so they don't bother to ask in the first place", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most Americans Support Open Transgender Military Service", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have not read anything that directly suggests he isn't supportive of Gay rights but he has brought several people into his cabal that are quite clearly anti Gay, notably Pence and DeVos. I could and will, if you like, mention others in his cabinet that hold similar views. My question to you Layla, why would he have such individuals in such important decision making positions if he did not also hold their beliefs? \n\nTake a peak at these links.\n\nhttp://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/07/mike-pences-top-seven-homophobic-moments-many/\n\nhttp://www.towleroad.com/2017/01/betsy-devos-gay-conversion-therapy/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's the internal critical contradictions of the \"alt-left\" at work... They preach for example to vigorously love and accept everyone, but when you actually include those people they want you to accept, they censure you. So for example yesterday I made a comment in which I listed a few sample employees of a sample factory, I wrote: \"You've got the young lady working the phones in the call centre, you've got the young man wrapping & putting the stuff in the box, you've got the guy programming & fixing the robots, & you got the transgender individual doing the payroll...\" Well wouldn't you know it, the comment was Moderated out of existence for my INCLUSION of a transgender individual. I know because I re-posted without the transgender individual and the comment wasn't banned. This is hypocrisy, and I am the perfect person to point that out. They talk a BIG GAME of inclusiveness but when you actually do, they cry foul. Canadian Society is faltering.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not gay and the feel of Liberal hands on my hips makes me feel very uneasy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why not leave it to the court of public opinion then if he refuses to rent his property to a self-confessed, non-repentant homosexual couple?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you saying it is not ok, that it is a sin to simply BE a homosexual? I'm talking about existing, not actions. Identifying as gay is about identity, not about a \"lifestyle.\" \n\nWe probably prefer no high school students be sexually active until they are old enough to handle the feelings and situations sexual activity involves. But would you suggest heterosexual students not embrace and accept their heterosexuality? Should heterosexual students not acknowledge that they are attracted to the opposite sex? Should they hide in shame?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It breaks my local-loving heart to have to avoid a local baker. But how could I in good conscience shop at a place where my gay and lesbian friends would not be welcome? These friends are like brothers and sisters to me. They visit us here to relax and enjoy life. I can't take them somewhere where I know that they will face bigotry. I just can't do it. They get far too much of that on a daily basis as it is--just for being themselves. This is heartbreaking.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Beck\"\nBeck didn't begin the process of transformation until two years after he retired out of the military. He wasn't a transgender Navy Seal - he was a Navy Seal who transformed after discharge. Sorry", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My goodness.There were stage fulls of celebrities and entertainers who seemed ready to endorse trump....Scott Baio remember him, and the former male underwear model turned born again...Anthony Sabato Jr....who was the underwear model of choice for all kinds of male homosexuals. There is the Duck Dynasty group, Im sure they could manage to sing somthing, drag in Chuck Norris, or even that wacko former SNL comedienne who runs around claiming Obama is an agent of muslim extremists. The list is endless. Perhaps Melania could model. And lets not forget Tiffany Trump...who is proof that if you have a burning ambition...and a daddy who is a billionaire....you too can cut a hip hop tune. The Pence family could entertain us all with their homosexual cure prescriptions, and gosh doesnt bff of Donald Trump.....Valdmir Putin of Russia...have a rather young double jointed extremely flexible former gymnast girlfriend....she might be able to do a few backflips.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, you mean like the 19 Republican politicians who have been brought down by gay sex scandals since 1976. One example is Mark Foley who served in the House from 1995 until 2006, and voted for the Defense of Marriage Act. It came to light he had been sexting with two male pages, ages 16 and 18\u2014and after they turned legal, reportedly having sex with them. \nBTW, Foley has been seen in pictures standing behind and in support of Trump who we all know is not exactly immaculate either. \n\nI could list the others if you like.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And you are the reason why white gay guys should give their head a shake, if they think disparaging a group of activist LGTBQ members demanding their rights is going to do anything other than bring all the homophobes out of the woodwork with their toxic, mocking views. Exhibit A here, guys, exhibit A.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The readiness of our armed forces is a serious matter. Transgenders serving along side others in some cases would be no problem, but frankly, I don't want a transgendered women to man in the fox hole next to me when my life is at stake.\nI don't want the military and it's budget used to pay for the operations to change a person sex and then pay for the recovery time it takes to be back to fighting shape.\nWe do have a volunteer military now and choices are made for type of job available for many of these individuals, but in a time of war (and that is what we must alway be prepared for) the people that might be sitting at a desk, may be called to the front lines in some area. They need to be prepared and effective in holding their own. Besides, it might be unconfortable for them is their uniform colors would clash.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "At some point rationality is less important than gut feelings, and in my gut, I feel as I did in the 60's when America murdered so many of the left and delighted in electing Nixon twice. Electing Nixon may have been through fair elections, but it stopped being my America, and started being rule by the anti-union 1%.\nThis is Putin's win. He will soon be able to invade Ukraine.\nIt is Netanyahu's win, he and his followers are already being quoted as saying the idea of a Palestinian State is dead.\nThis is a win for those who hate Roe V. Wade, and women's reproductive rights, or gay rights. It was won by shutting down American government, hating the black man in office for seven years, and making sure poor Americans didn't have jobs or health care. \n\nSo those who delight in this election...a compassionless gloating crew...enjoy your time in the sun. We who hate Trump and how he won are frightened of you, and many of us would move out of the country if we could. \nHugh Massengill, Eugene", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Elagabalus, while I share your assessment that B16 may well be homosexual (indeed, I defer to your superior judgement on this topic!), and while I share your observation that having Gorgeous George in his entourage is \"conveenient,\" I am inclined to the assumption he is a non-active, closeted gay -- in your words \"denying his own nature.\" \n\nWould it not make more sense that B16's choice of language like \"intrinsically evil\" arose from a self-denying rather than active experience? That is not rhetorical -- I really am asking. We're reading tea leaves here, obviously, but given how B16 \"set the tone so low\" for contemporary discussions of homosexuality in Catholic circles, I really think pondering where he might be coming from is important.\n\nI fear this comment could get voted uncivil. I can only beg evaluators to note that raising delicate matters for serious reflection is not uncivil -- its just delicate, not unkind.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay pride is not about celebrating being gay. It's about us coming together saying we will not be discriminated against, we want to be treated with respect. So be glad you don't need a straight pride parade. Be thankful you can walk down the street with your spouse without fear of physical attack!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I sadly agree. I think we here in this forum see way more than our share of homohatred and homophobia any time an article is presented that has even a shade of relationship to LGBT+ issues. We can at least name the existence of the malady even if we are sensitive to avoiding labeling the person spewing it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In 1933 the Nazis, led by Hitler and his Reichsmarschall Goering passed the most comprehensive \"animal rights\" legislation ever seen--medical experiments on animals was punishable by concentration camp internment. Of course medical experiments on Jews, Gypsies, and Gays were allowed.\n\nAs documented in this illustration from the Nazi era. http://www.topinfopost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/3.jpg\n\nYou're all in fine company. You all even say the very same things that they did back then as quoted in that illustration. Catching on yet to who and what you really are? Is your mirror getting clearer yet?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps of your coreligionists celebrated life more than death, were more tolerant of women and gays and dogs and music and dancing and wine and tolerance itself, and exhibited a modicum of impulse control, there would be fewer reservations about allowing muslims into the neighbourhood (even dead ones). And those Jews you mention, the ones that Linda Sarsour famously claim that muslims donated $100,000 to repair a vandalized cemetery... they\u2019ve yet to see it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I see Gorsuch is already having an impact. This can't be good.\nAll a person has to do is proclaim their religious feelings are hurt, and they can deny services to a gay couple?\nWhat's to prevent conservative Christians, who refuse to see Islam as a real religion, from denying services to Muslims?\nWhat's to prevent a Jewish-owned business from refusing to sell to a Hindu couple or person because the owner perceives Hindus as worshiping false gods?\nWhat's to prevent a white business owner from selling to an inter-racial couple?\nNo, IF Gorsuch is in support of the baker, I suspect the SCOTUS will find a way to narrow this to gay couples only, so that religiously uptight people can once again show their superiority over gay couples.\nThat's what this baker and his supporters are about: Power.\nThey would be appalled if a gay business owner discriminated against conservative Christians, but they want conservative Christians to have the absolute right to discriminate against gay people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cIn a statement released April 19, the 1,200-member Ohio-based organization charged that \"the terms 'homosexual tendencies' and 'deep-seated homosexual tendencies' are ambiguous and disrespectful of the personhood\u201d\n\nThey/you are correct! \u201cHomosexual tendencies\u201d are \u201cdisrespectful\u201d to the priests as well. Thus, why it\u2019s a problem. But, in the Church through Her Ordained Ministry with Mercy and Content in God\u2019s plan for Salvation of Souls who are nonetheless, sinners. She tells the fall and the need of self control/chastity, obedience, and poverty. Hence, Pope Francis\u2019s namesake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CriticalReader, thanks for your comment. If liberals can create a new sex called transgender to identify people who are confused about their sex, what not a new term like \"transracer\" to identify people who are confused about their race? With regard to Trump's alleged weight gain, the good news is that we are getting more for our votes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can't get to the more important substance of the matter here, i.e. gay relationships. Because, I can't move past this typical legal advocacy that despite whatever the Truth, nevertheless, misleads and insults the human intellect. Curious context injected into accepted theology are used to declare self-serving legal findings...like a ghastly summary judgment commonly committed by 1st circuit judges. It's sad to find here just another court argument in priestly drag. One can play with my mind and even disparage my intellect. But, just be fair when doing so. So, despite the matter of veracity over the issue of this article, this sermon is a patronizing ripoff.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can't disagree, but it is another example of selective outrage ..... Russia is an easy and acceptable target. Saudi Arabia executes people for being gay and no one in the West really cares. Not to mention the system of gender apartheid and complete oppression of non-muslim believers. Where is the outrage, the protests, the pressure on Western governments to act? \n\nThe MSM selects its outrage and criticism .... Syria is a mess, Russians are partially to blame (True), but mostly silent on the abuses and destruction in Yemen. Putin is oppressive and anti-democratic (True), but the dictators in Qatar or Saudi Arabia? etc, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It seems many Liberals and socialists in Canada dont really believe in gender equality, human rights, female emancipation, LGBT human rights, and free speech for all people after all. They vehemently denounce any defense of that sort of stuff because Muslims don't want it. If it were Catholics rejecting gay rights that would be an entirely different matter for the left. They want two contradictory moral codes in Canada, where as Conservatives want one. How does Islamic FGM fit into Ontario's OHIP coverage?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Considering that BXVI said that violence against homosexuals was \"understandable,\" getting much of the church hierarchy to condemn such violence in a meaningful way seems unlikely.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why worry about how the Church defines anything? Simply call yourself Catholic and life as you wish to.\n\nThe two biggest \"alt\" Catholics right now are probably Andrew Sullivan and Milo Y. Both are gay, but both have partners and reject the Church's unreasonable live-as-a-celibate rule.\n\nPeople with gender-whatever, be Catholics if you wish to. We are all equally unwelcome here, equally unable to achieve holiness as the Church defines it in its 10,000 rules.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As usual, it wasn't anybody they cared about killed in Orlando. Typical Alaska Greed & Intolerance Party smokescreen about gun control. When is someone going to figure out a way to document the destruction of Alaska's economy under radical conservative economic so called leadership. The common sense gun control efforts are--as usual--killed by false rhetoric from the NRA culture police. Since dad appointed Senator Murkowski, she teases by acting like a social centrist. She isn't, she is a party hack through and through. \nI mourn for the dead gay folks who were ignored--indeed disrespected by the Republican party. GOP can no longer govern successfully or effectively.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Toronto has much greater needs than funding for the \"gay parade\". Put the money towards the homeless, women's shelters, low income housing etc. etc.! The city can show its support for the LBGQT community by issuing a permit for the parade!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In theory, perhaps, but there's been an ongoing debate in the gay community regarding \"outing\" people and people's own personal decision to come out or not at work, to friends, family, etc. I think the general consensus is that people should be allowed to make that decision for themselves, and I agree with that. In the end it's a very personal decision. And as long as the environment remains hostile, it's understandable why some people like priests would not want to risk having members of their congregations attack them verbally, or report them to the local bishop, which would surely happen in almost every case, putting their livelihoods at risk. Would you have the courage to do that? If I'm being honest with myself I'm not sure I would. I'm lucky to be surrounded by supportive people in both my work and personal life, but that's not really true for gay Catholic priests. For them, every parishioner is a potential land mine waiting to explode in their face.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mike Pence is for jailing individuals who marry gay couples. Pence has said on multiple occasions that homosexuality is a sign of social collapse. Pence opposes legal protection for homosexuals in the work place. As far as dissidents are concerned, the US has the highest rate of incarceration on the planet. The US prison population is overwhelmingly overrepresented by racial minorities, the poor and individuals battling mental illness. As for Trudeau's comments, he is objectively right. Castro did improve healthcare and education for Cubans. The same cannot be said for American regimes since the Civil Rights movement.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How, I ask myself, and why, should I, as a lay person, be in the position of, in essence, demanding that someone, heterosexual or homosexual, who is giving to me and others a life of service, abstain from sexually expressing himself and finding this fundamental fulfillment and genuine, beautiful partnership in his life? It is like asking someone to chop out his tongue and gouge out his eyes, just so that he can be my servant. This is horrible, and it is a sufficient reason to detach from the lay-priest-parish paradigm.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I really don't know Fishy - As I would need to interview every one of them. Is this another one of your emotional arguments that has no evidence or proof to back it up ? I will not get into a long discussion with you over this as this is something you and I have covered before. My ANECDOTAL evidence (at least I am honest) is that my Uncle is a Homosexual (by his choice) and has CHOSEN to alienate himself from his family (his choice as well). Oh, he did come back for a few months when the people he was hanging out with kicked him out for drinking too much, then he proceeded to do the very same thing to his mom, and she kicked him out as well. The reasons are, most likely, is that there are deeper underlying problems and issues that are driving people to homosexuality and not vice versa, but that is my opinion (and many others), of course.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are guided by a radical political agenda highlighted with token leftwing ignorance: outspoken critic of Israel / silent on Hamas - criticize free democratic countries / silent on Iran's treatment of homosexuals... etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Michael, the distinction between (1) SEXUEAL ORINETATION, be it heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual or anywhere along that continuum, and (2) SEXUAL ACTIVITY is the cornerstone of the Church's sexual morality, and it has been unambiguously such since at least the middle ages, and probably much longer. Therefore once again, Michael, you startle me with the ancient quality of your line of argument. \n\nAnd when we through modern psychology into the mix, I am completely gobsmacked to here someone say the kinds of thinks you are saying.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The guy that attacked the gay dance club in Orlando was a citizen who wouldn't have been excluded by these actions. Get your facts straight before spewing your bigoted hatred.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Her father's stance against same sex marriage was typically republican. Government knows what is best for people. People are incapable of running their own lives. He was sad and pathetic. Perhaps you can also point out where Jesus spoke against homosexuality? or why he went around with 12 males?\n\nTulsi has turned out to be relatively good. She has suppported prison reform and I like her not looking to war as the first option. I would prefer to compare her to Patsy Mink rather than big Dan. Dan sadly became addicted to the military indutrial complex which has given the state more than just a few problems. While she is no Patsy, she might evolve into one some day.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They don't like ostentatious expressions of personal religious beliefs, especially of thousand-year-old homophobic, misogynist, anti-science dogma. That makes them more logical than insular.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Part 1 of 2 \nAt my own alma mater (St. Michael's College), an atmosphere dedicated to academic freedom persists. (I hasten to add that this was even more pronounced when I attended in the '70s and '80s.) \n\nOne example: In the early 2000s, the principal-appointed Advisory Committee on Sexual Orientation openly criticized a lecture on marriage by Peter Kreeft in which he appeared to analogize homosexuality to alcoholism. Kreeft had been invited by the more conservative Students for Life. The Committee \"condemned\" the lecture--both in terms of its stated hypotheses regarding sexual orientation and the fact that the talk was a \"counter-witness\" to the College's own statement on inclusivity. This in turn generated a response by about a dozen faculty who objected to the objections by the Committee. The principal responded in the college mouthpiece that academic freedom must be respected. So it was a wash--Kreeft spoke, but so did his detractors and the detractors of the detractors.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll ask a question I've asked here before on this topic: identify the last time a \"liberal\" Justice broke with fellow liberals on a case involving some red hot issue & voted with a conservative majority? Yet Scalia protected the rights of flag burners, Kennedy saved Roe & legalized gay marriage, & Roberts saved Obamacare. At this point, I really don't know what liberals have to complain about from GOP nominees.\n\nAs for the charade of these nominations, I'm fine with punishing McConnell, but let's not forget that it was Joe Biden & Ted Kennedy who made these hearings the truly appalling events that they are. It's time to go back to the old method: end the hearing charade. If you complain about the campaign-esque fundraising that now occurs (for nominees of both parties, Sen. Whitehouse), then end the campaign-esque features of the process. I'll won't hold my breath.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Congrats to the Pride community for standing up for principle!\nIn the LGBT community, and especially in the black community, police power is often correctly seen as abusive and designed to protect property rather than people. Systemic racism in policing has been well established for two decades, and marginalized communities feel it.\nApoplectic critics such as this editorialist who moan about spending public money on Pride should think a) that the police don't need protection, b) that Pride is a huge community event featuring minority populations, and c) that the taxpayer can save the money the TPS would spend on float and booth propaganda.\nGay and lesbian cops who want to participate will still be welcome, I'm sure.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This was my original comment that got deleted.\n\nWhy is this \"not civil.\" \n\nYou can't mention Sharia law or you will get your account deleted. People don't want to know that female genital mutilation, misogyny, and throwing gays off buildings exist under Sharia law. It dispels the myth of multicultualism.\n\nWhy can't we even just talk about it and get admit the elephant in the room?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...unless you are LGBT, in which case the institutional Church embraces it and practices it\". Unfortunately, John, I would have to add \"and promotes it\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A person born male wants to live as a female. Fine. But no one is obliged to accept their self redefinition. A transsexual is a person who emotionally and psychologically feels that they belong to the opposite sex. Not all transsexuals undergo hormonal and surgical treatment. \n\nWhat \"fear and loathing\" have the Cardinal Newman Society expressed by upholding Catholic teaching in this area?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Rebranding\" is something the Republican Party had to do after George W. Bush trashed the Republican \"brand\" so badly after he drove the country over a cliff and into a ditch that it was no longer considered \"cool\" to be a Republican. So for the next election cycle, right after Obama was elected, in swoops the Koch brothers to start their astro-turfed \"Tea Party.\" Voila! Republicans have been \"rebranded.\" See, all it takes is a brand new label. \n\nSadly, rebranding does little to change to nature of a thing, only the way it's perceived. If the USCCB really wants to change the way people think about them they'll have to change their collective behavior. But I'm grateful to Fr. Reese for this revealing tidbit: \"Only Pope Francis could get away with saying that the church should not obsess over abortion, birth control and gay marriage. If a simple bishop had said this, he would have been shunned by his fellow bishops.\" That's good to know if ever they should attempt to rebrand themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The lack of compromise is . . . a product of a patriotic defense of the civilization we have built.\" And never did this constitution-based civilization of ours permit, until recently, man-man marriage. To the contrary, until 1961, all 50 States made gay sex a crime.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True, and I meant to add that this 'unreformed' culture may also apply to those, both cleric and lay, who have come from developing nations to western cultures and who seem to be becoming the higher proportions of Catholics in their new countries. It's a worry and I do think we will see some repercussions of this aspect down the track especially in regard to adult abuse. Indeed, I have a number of such stories already. I do hope that one day, the approach to clergy sexual abuse will combine both child AND adult abuse, and general clergy sexual activity so the whole issue, including mandatory celibacy, psycho-sexual maturity, homosexuality of clergy and in the Church, and all broader related (Catholic) sexual issues and activities, and, indeed, the real nature of human love in all its forms (see Fromm - The Art of Loving), not just emotional, Hollywood erotic love, so domineering today, can be tackled more fully, openly, comprehensively, maturely and humanly. We shall keep at it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think I missed the point. I'm actually pro-gay marriage. If I was in a similar situation of planning a gay wedding, the last place I would go would be at this bakery. I would want to go where the baker would share in my joy and excitement for a wonderful event. \nThat being said, I've read the baker was polite to them and even had sold them baked goods prior to them discussing the cake possibility. So, he had provided services (actually, goods) to them before. \n\nImagine you go to a master seamstress for some custom made clothes. He/she can make absolutely anything but he/she prefers to only make skirts and dresses- are you going to force him/her to make dress shirts and suits? NO, you go find someone who likes to make skirts and dresses, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are inventing Biblical teaching to suit your own prejudice. For the most part, marriage in the ancient world of Palestine and in the days of Jesus' physical presence on earth was all about ownership of property, lines of inheritance and the recognized status of the land-owning, ruling class of a carefully defined economic and ruling class of men. The Bible DOES NOT teach marriage as being between one man and one woman in a covenant of exclusive, spiritual, and legal mutuality as well as an expectation of sexual fidelity. Those definitions came much, much later well after the death of Jesus. And as for the quotes from Mark, you may want to do a little investigation into the context(s) in which His comments were made and the cultural practices - both Jewish and secular - of the times. Marriage - and that includes ssm - as we know and practice it today were not in existence at the time of Jesus or Mark or Paul. It is not the homophobia of Jesus we are concerned with, but yours.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How many vegans are transgendered?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A child will complain their life is 'dour' when they are not allowed to engage in some desired activity because it is contrary to their good (physical or spiritual). Putting limits on ourselves to focus on the good to which God has called us, is in fact the whole point of the Christian Life. The 'dour' life you are referring to is really a call to holiness, which all Christians are called to. You are focusing on the one single aspect of a relationship to which homosexually inclined persons are prohibited from engaging in because it is contrary to the natural order of their own bodies, and therefore contrary to God's plan for Sexual intimacy. As Christians, there are all manner of things we are prohibited from doing. Married men are prohibited from lusting after other women even in their own thoughts. I too could complain to my middle aged wife (like me) that she is making my life 'dour' because I cannot view pornography of younger woman, It would be childish though.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "After having read the Handmaid's Tale, and am now watching it with my teen daughter, I was always afraid that the religious whack jobs, bad enough as they are, love stuff like this no gender, transgender nonsense to convince themselves they are on the righteous path. We know how that turned out in the story. Could we regular binary and secular Canadians please have our country back?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can appreciate the sincerity of your comment. As a person who has dealt with the contradictions of being both gay and Catholic for nearly half a century, I can tell you that it is a heavy cross to bear. But we all have our own witness to make, and mine is to counter what I consider to be the psychologically, mentally, and spiritually abusive nature of Courage's approach to what you call \"ministry.\" \n\nIt is not ministering to people to tell them that because they are attracted to members of the same gender (as occurs in every species of the animal kingdom) they are therefore to deny themselves the one thing that all human beings crave in our inmost being: profound intimacy with another human being that is at once spiritual, mental, and yes, physical, because we are all enfleshed beings - we apprehend the world around us according to our five senses. To force some people to give up even the prospect of a healthy, mutual, life-giving love in all its wonderful forms is just plain cruel.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "it's still male bones in there , be trans but don't try to compete with biological women, it's unfair . there should be special categories for trans athletes to compete against each other .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Um, let me speak personally...as a gay man, if someone said that they accept me but that I am \"intrinsically disordered,\" I would feel quite rejected.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, criticizing things like Sharia Law, ISIS genocides of Christians and other minorities, the hangings of homosexuals in Iran, the mass sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany by muslim migrants, the stoning of adulterous women, Islamic terror attacks, and the beheadings of infidels is now being considered 'Islamaphobic' by the Trudeau government? Liberals will be gone in 2019.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well now, Gay, I seem to recall that when President Obama took over the White House, the nation was sliding over the Republican-created fiscal cliff. The Obama administration worked quickly, without help from the Republicans that created the nation's fiscal crisis and kept us from following the Republicans over their fiscal cliff. It's a pattern that we've all seen in many red states. Wouldn't that count as a \"bear bull market\" performance, Gay? Oh yeah, I also like waving this bit of presidential history in clueless faces like yours, Gay. Read it and weep:\n\nhttp://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-03.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A metaphorical marriage implying a covenant relationship of loving care and commitment. To take the metaphor to the extreme is to overly feminize the Body of Christ. Do you really want to go there?\n\nLet's cut to the chase. There are, in fact, many gay priests. Are you saying they are objectively incapable of living out honorable priesthood?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.\"\nThere is a great wall of separation between church and state, which works because good fences make good neighbors.\nThere is no god, no established religion, and no religious test for public office in US Constitution.\n\"With or without religion good people will do good and evil people will do evil, but for good people to do evil... that takes religion.\" \nStop persecuting gays and transgender citizens. Period!\nThe church, of course, may continue its traditional orthodox \"love\" towards their gay and trans neighbors.\nRemember this the Bible contains no specific condemnation nor prohibition of slavery, but we now know that slavery is wrong. Today's is the same with the gays and trans human beings.\nLive and let live, and let whatever gods there be judge. But if you do judge, you yourself will also be judged.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CMD: You continue to assert that another person couldn't possibly disagree with you on any topic without be extraordinarily ignorant. Frankly, it does get just a bit tiresome.\n\n\"The country has been deeply divided from day 1, and it will always be deeply divided. \" In a democracy, there will always be differences of opinions and different views expressed. If one truly believes in democracy that is not, as you contend, necessarily a \"divide\". We do have issues which have long been contentious...\"women's rights\" (including the vote); gay rights; racism and racial discrimination; ethnic/cultural discrimination; religious discrimination; economic issues; wars; the proper role of government, and the list goes on........ \n\nAs a people, we've dealt with these issues for centuries.....some are \"closer\" to a resolution....some not. Some issues are transitory (Vietnam War, War in Iraq) some are, unfortunately, not (racism, homophobia)... But, we somehow manage...\nRegards, Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tremendously sad to hear of this struggle. Grateful that gay Americans do not have to hide as much anymore. Love you even more, Sen. Ellis, and wish you the best.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll remember that one the next time someone defends homosexual sex because Jesus did not speak of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why should this Boy Scout Chief be concerned on what President Donald Trump said to the Boy Scouts at the Jamboree yesterday.\n For Boy Scouts of America to open this Godly family organization to homosexual boys is much ia much concerned than what our President Trump shared with the Boy Scouts. This shameful act of giving in to the Liberals and opening up your organization cannot hold the title of a Moral boy scouts of America. \n Few years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Boy Scout of America of not bringing in homosexual boys, /The Boys scouts won the case. But the land owners who sided with liberals and homosexuals, threaten the boy scouts of losing land that they were using for their organization. A few years after the U.S. Supreme Court Decision, the boy scouts cave in on the liberal homosexual pressure to let in homosexual boys and homosexual adult leadera.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a man who was once very out and proud, I have a big problem with Bishop Stowe; what New Ways Ministry is selling to the LGBTQ community is one big lie \u2013 they argue that in some weird alternate universe, the Catholic Church will one day reverse its teaching against homosexual activity and same-sex marriage. It\u2019s not happening. I was told this by both Dignity and NWM back in the early-90s; they assured me that after the death of JPII \u2013 all would be different. Right. Gay men and women need (deserve) the facts and the Truth \u2013 then they can make their own decisions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LOL...glad to know you're good with trans females you're unable to differentiate by sight, wearing high heals, high skirts, lipstick , etc.; walking into the public restroom that yours and her birth has assigned you both. Can imagine the look on your face as she walks up next to you at the urinal, lifts her dress, does her business and says, 'sorry sweetie, it's the law'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "'Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without complaining. As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.\u2026' (1 Peter 4:8-10)\n\nYou know well that your Catholic clergies rape children; do you still attend mass? Do you boycott them too? If you don't, then surely you are discriminating against just LGBT people?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have an emotional need for rights, which is why I vote to protect rights of others that I'll never use, like a woman's right to choose or the right of two gay people to marry. \n\nI have a practical use for firearms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't believe you ever can sever yourself entirely from your own culture. It's sort of like the ring in the bathtub, there is always some left. \n\nCultures are not 'equal or unequal' IMO. Just different. That doesn't mean all cultures are acceptable to me, however.\n\nMy cultural background does not permit me to accept the tenets of some other cultures, no matter how long they have been around or how many people accept them. Female castration/mutilation, inequality of females in voting, driving, etc., and most of the rest of Shar'ia law which ensure the ascendency of the Mullahs and males will never be accepted by me, for example.\n\nPolygamy, polyandry, group marriage, bi-sexuality, etc, I see no problem if I am not forced to participate or required to pay for their choices. \n\nSame with partial or complete nudity and other things which vary by culture. Do as you please but leave me alone in my choices and don't expect me to support you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Polygamous relationships and homosexual relationships are both forbidden by the Church. Accordingly, the funeral mass can not treat participants of either as if they were in any way similar to Christian spouses.\n\nPolygamy is generally associated with male dominance. Male homosexuality, on the other hand, is an expression of the ultimate male supremacist blasphemy: that God erred in thinking that the man He created needed a woman.\n\nPolygamy, at least, is based on the first commandment God gave mankind, not on a sin that cries out to Heaven for vengeance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Being gay -- and sexually active -- does not necessarily entail engaging in immoral activities, though as with straight sexual activity, it can be immoral.\n\nYou and I have been here before. I remember how vile your thinking is and I know where you will go if I engage you. I choose not to provide the occasion for you to re-post that filth. I don't want to be the proximate occasion for your sin.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The fact that transgender people need medical treatment for their condition tells it all. Normal people come either male or female and require no medical treatment to stay that way.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Tush, Mr. Smith. \n\nNo Christian has been granted the license to read the Bible for himself or herself and interpret it as he/she sees fit. The Bible is rightly interpreted within the context of the Church's Tradition. Protestants, who believe that they are individually granted the imprimatur to interpret the Holy Scriptures according to their own lights, are in grave error. The whole counsel of God, found in the Bible and inthe rest of Sacred Tradition, does not & never can support the perversion of matrimony that is now called \"gay marriage\". There is no cherry-picking involved here.\n\nFurthermore, you presume a lot when you accuse me of having been raised with homophobia. I have never been afraid of people who claim to be homosexual. Therefore, I am not now, nor have I ever been \"homophobic\", despite your accusation. God does not create gays; \"gays\" decide for themselves to indulge their own lusts. Any sexual sin that is committed by gay people is their own responsibility, not God's", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay who wants to convert to Islam I have been met with derision and forcefully ejected off the mosque property, all I told them was that I wanted to be a good gay Muslim and that this is Canada and they have to accept me and renovate their bathrooms so they are not segregated.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Who cares, meanwhile Gay/Lesbian/Christian genocide is going on in the Middle East. Crickets from the mainstream media. (denver post)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The reason people do not have to make a cake with Nazi symbols is because political thought is not protected.\nOffensive has nothing to do with it.\n\nThe baker chooses to be offended once he learns the cake is for a gay wedding. \nIf he does not know the cake is for a gay wedding he is not offended. \n\nChoosing to be offended and dumb religious views are not a license to discriminate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Very well said, Elagabalus. I would like to offer my apologies for all of the presumably heterosexual idiots who have tried to put you down in this viciously cruel way. It sure seems not to have affected your sense of self-worth at all, and that is a blessing. Bravo!\n\nMy gay brother-in-law suffered horribly from that sort of sh*t but ultimately was unable to find the sense of self-worth we all desperately need to get up in the morning. Not long after the death of his protective lover, he committed suicide. RIP", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And where in any post today or ever have I compared the likelihood of being a child abuser between gay men or lesbian women, or heterosexual males or heterosexual females or even transgenders?\n\nI merely acknowledged that such deviants do in fact exist in all those categories and their customary habits of grooming their victims and going to the places where they can be found.\n\nThe liberal knee-jerking response to any such truth is to assume antipathy towards those so identified. \n\nI lump all those sexual people in one pile when any of them choose to abuse children. At that point, they are all slime. \n\nGay, Lesbian, Straight, whatever. Doesn't matter. They are all, without equivocation, just slime. \n\nAny questions?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What is homophobic? Republicans have generally been against gays but seem to often be gay themselves. Nothing wrong with being gay but there is when you advocate against them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "i think that we canadian are an example, for the world. Not only for gay, but woman, integration of all sort etc . We are not perfect, but among nations we are pretty good leader's.\n\nThat being said, we are a country whit the population of many city, in other country. We cannot, fix, educate, finance, influence everything everywhere. Although it is sad and pre historic thinking. There are more pressing issue in this area. Kid's are armed, populations are restricted for a lot of other reason's then who they sleep whit, politicly it's for the least \"unstable\" etc. One thing at a time. And sorry to say, but several of those \"gay\" are probably more political problem then gay let's face it. \n\nStill sad and ridicoulous but other's have their own part of the road to travel to evolve. We cannot walk for all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As I said, Riel, if you are stupid enough to consent to Muslim, Jewish, or Catholic tribunals, as with any other type of arbitration, you deserve what you get because that is your choice. This is Canada, not Saudi. No one is forcing you to use faith-based tribunals. \n\nHowever the buck stops when the ruling contrasts with our laws (public floggings, persecution of gays, etc). It's really very simple and pretty well summed up in the article.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This reaction by the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests leaves no doubt that a huge percentage of our priests are gay.\n\nBetter that they just come out of the closet, and declare they having feelings for men. \n\nThis will accomplish a number of positive things:\n\n1) It will show the world that Catholic priests can be honest about sexuality.\n\n2) It will show that Catholic priests really don't have a hangup about being gay and Catholic.\n\n3) It will serve as an example to gay people that there is no shame in declaring yourself to have ss attraction.\n\nIt's time for these priests to stop pretending. By staying in the closet, they are sending a message that they cannot be honest about who they are and how they view sexuality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The US could learn a lot from Castro. First of all, if somebody is a troublemaker you stand them up against the wall and shoot them. No trial. Secondly, put the homosexuals in prison. And third, make sure your loyal lieutenants are well-rewarded for keeping people in line. The lefties like Castro. Let's see if they're in favor of following his example in the USA.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is illegal to discriminate against gays. A church membership is a not a get-out-of-jail free card to let you slander and bash gays all you please, motivated by ancient superstitions. Surely, it would also be foolish to teach children to be bigots. The obsolete Catholic religion is no longer a legitimate excuse to harm people who did nothing to you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I saw your comment later. Sorry, I was working through these in order. Neither Mr. Ruse's nor Fr. Martin's sexual orientation matters. There have been some individuals who are gay that have hidden their sexuality and opposed gay rights. Fr. Martin's comments were more civil than Mr. Ruse's, but both were irrelevant to this discussion. In terms of your question as to whether Fr. Martin's remarks were hateful, I don't know if I can equate calling someone a \"pansy,\" \"effeminate,\" or \"coming out of the closet,\" with stating the fact that some who have opposed gay rights are gay. Having said that, I think Fr. Martin's remarks that individuals who oppose gay rights have unresolved sexual issues are irrelevant and inappropriate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They weren't gay (homosexual) priests? \nA.) Homosexual/Gay - sexual orientation/attraction to persons of the same gender/sex\nB.) Boys - Non-Adult Males (for a brief certitude in definition.)\nC.) Male priests - Men who are priests\nD.) Gay priests engage in sex acts with boys\nSo, if priests are A and C, and employ that orientation with B, then they are D. If my logic is wrong, can you show/prove?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "48% of American Muslims say homosexuality should not be accepted by society. If you think that's not a significant statistic, that's your judgement, not mine.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We all know some muslim people. If you know about 9/11 then you know a muslim. \nIf you've seen stories of the Taliban pouring acid on a girl because she wanted to go to school, then you know a muslim.\nIf you saw the devastation in Orlando as so many innocent people were killed because they were gay, then you know a muslim.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The article states that the pastor \"voiced support for business owners who choose not to serve gay and lesbian clients\".\n\nIt is curious that the article does not provide a quote of what the pastor actually said about businesses and homosexuality.\n\nHere is a quote from another news source, the pastor's words:\n\n\"Have you ever asked yourself: How can we fight the tide of moral decay that is being crammed down our throats by Big Business, the media, and the gay & lesbian community? Tiffany\u2019s started advertising wedding rings for gay couples. Wells Fargo bank is using a same-sex couple in their advertising. But it has dawned on me that we don\u2019t have to do business with them. (And I am taking that action,) at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, we are moving our accounts from Wells Fargo to another bank.\"\n\nUh, hello?\n\nWhere did the pastor say that banks and jewelry stores should not let gay people in the door and should refuse to do business with gay people?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are correct and orthodox. If Holy Father Francis truly gets the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the St. Pius X Society to join in Communion with the RCC, we'll have PLENTY of comrades. PLENTY! All of the Eastern Orthodox priests who I know are VERY opposed to homosexual behavior. VERY! Additionally, if we can get married, heterosexual men into the priesthood, this would also drive out the priests and seminarians who are active homosexuals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Even eunuchs can abuse. As you don't need a penis for that. And to add more to rebut the old lie about it being a homosexual problem, many of these clergy and religious (including the sisters as well), abused whatever was most easily available, for priests that would be the altar boys.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Male homosexuality, on the other hand, is an expression of the ultimate male supremacist blasphemy: that God erred in thinking that the man He created needed a woman. Polygamy, at least, is based on the first commandment God gave mankind, not on a sin that cries out to Heaven for vengeance.\"\n\nThere is no arguing with the Byzantine labyrinth that is your twisted tortured mind. I'm done.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am gay too so I can say you are quite fascist in your determination to eradicate the rights of others, ie, the right of the School Board to say no. If an Islamic madras had refuse the gender bending play, or if Muslim parents had objected you would say nothing . Even today in Toronto, they teach children in mosques that gays must die, yet you say nothing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Fairy tails related to gay and transgender people. Nice to see you have sense of humor.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How long until somebody accuses her of murdering Servaas, her lesbian lover? I say 12 minutes.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mateen killed those 50 gay people and shot another 50 for the glory of Allah.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I have no doubt that there is a 'homosexual lobby' in the Vatican. It has been there for centuries. We had popes, cardinals, arch/bishops, priests, religious---who have been homosexual. My problem is the presence of homosexuals who PRETEND that they are celibate, when they are not. My problem is with homosexuals who see nothing wrong in forcing themselves on youngsters or young men [aka. in seminaries], who are too fearful to resist. \n\nI questioned Layoftheland, because he provided NO evidence for his remarks. Thank you for yours.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Those events exist. Look at 'black bike week' in Myrtle Beach and all the gay cruises. There is absolutely a double standard. Just try setting up a whites only 'Ivory Awards' to the corresponding blacks only 'Ebony Awards' and see how that would fly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hmmmmm, are you speaking based on your own experience? Or are you just making a blank statement about transgender people as having mental issues? Tsk tsk....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He can't order private companies to do that but in your world BC can stop private companies from building a pipeline - see the hypocrisy? Equalization per se is not in the constitution - better get a copy and read what it says. Catholics do not teach \"anti-gay stuff\" they teach catholicism just as your friends teach that middle eastern religious stuff, you know like killing infidels or stoning women or female genital mutilation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually the Herald is as about as liberal entity as you can get! Every once in awhile they'll put on the \"do gooder\" act for the community but their intentions are far from honorable.... LASTLY- they talk about homelessness & drug addiction being a \"Complex\" problem HA HA HA HA, it's actually very easy, it starts with God & family & 99.9% of societies problems would vanish within a single generation. The problem starts with our schools teaching children that transgenderism is \"normal & healthy\", that same sex marriages W/adopted children are \"Normal & healthy\", that diversity & multiculturalism is \"normal & healthy\" ! This is the same nefarious lifestyles that the \"Herald\" promotes....... you see Gary Watts & the Herald are doing nothing for positive change! What they are doing is no different than walking up to a pile of crap & poking it with a stick, and what good does it do to poke & stir the crap & say \"SEE\" -ITS CRAP, DO YOU SEE IT! get my point? This guy isn't doing any good.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And don't forget that their version of Islam throws gays off buildings.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, he did do it willingly. The Actual Civil Rights Commission just told him that if he made wedding cakes, then he'd have to make them for gay people as well. Instead of agreeing to not discriminate in his business, he decided to discontinue making wedding cakes. It was his decision what to do. The commission didn't force him to not make wedding cakes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tom, you seem to be saying that Census data today are unreliable because people self-identify. Indeed, transgender men and women today are choosing to identify as the opposite gender from what their anatomy clearly displays, and teenagers with man-anatomy now call themselves girls and demand to take showers with the girls at school. You seem to be saying that a lot of those 600,000 people who self-identify as ethnic Hawaiian are actually transracial people with no native blood. How interesting! Facts no longer matter. We can make things up as we go along.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A values charter will have nothing about when to shower or bathroom habits. It was clearly state that in Canada we allow gay marriage, don't allow honor killings, don't allow female genital circumcision, etc. Most Canadians will have no problem with this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Putin referred to gay marriage in his comments.\nHe violated Russian law, and now has to turn himself in for making reference to homosexuality in public.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Walt Bonora made a false statement that needs correcting. He wrote that \"When the Christian right speaks of religious freedom- they want it for them, but not for the rest of us.\" To begin with, the Christian right is part of \"us.\" The pledge says that we are one nation. Freedom of religion applies to everyone. Same with freedom of the press, to assemble and the right to bear arms. He also conveniently forgot that the Dark Ages was followed by the Reformation. The Church is populated by humans, not deities. We are feeble and frail and apt to fail, as proven throughout history. But today's Church is feeding the poor, digging wells in Africa and healing the sick by bringing doctors to the needy worldwide. But we don't do good because ours is a Christian nation, because it's not. We are pro-life because it is right, but we don't spend a lot of time concerned about gay weddings. That impression is put forth by the same media that is obsessing about Trump colluding with Russia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are tough questions\u2013answers about the relationship between homosexuality, ephebophilia, and the sexual abuse crisis in the Church during the 20th Century.\n\nHowever, they are distinct from the broader question: Whether a person who experiences sames-sex attraction ought to be barred from priestly ordination and/or making profession in an institute of consecrated life that involves long-term same-sex community life?\n\nIf the answer is generally \"yes\", it makes sense to screen such a person out of the beginning of the formation process, during his application to seminary or first few semesters therein (depending on what is realized and when), or during her or his candidacy\u2013aspirancy prior to canonical entrance into community.\n\nTo understand why the answer ought to be \"yes\", one needs to dig more deeply into the meaning of sexuality. Please refer to the late Fr. Quay's fine book, \"The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality\" (Paul Quay, S.J., Ph.D.): http://j.mp/QuayMeaningOfSexPDFscan", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LGBTQ rights and interests\n\nWhat of Christians and their rights and their interests? People are not disposable just because they are inconvenient. Would you be so outspoken to Muslim schools teaching antihomsexaul doctrine from the Koran? Certainly not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Newman may or may not have had homosexual tendencies. Who knows? And so what? The fact is there is absolutely no evidence - none - he lived anything other than a celibate life or that his relationship with and love for Ambrose St John was anything other than agape.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think what many are bashing is the hypocrisy and double standard of attacking some religions for it, while giving others a pass.\n\nAlso that since being \"against\" gays can mean anything from moral disapproval, or disapproval of gay marriage, to advocating the death penalty, throwing gays off buildings, etc., is it disingenuous to equate all of these.\n\nJust as it would be to equate moral disapproval of adultery, penalising it in divorce, and advocating stoning of adulterers, for example.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Multiculturalism should not mean that we (the west) tolerate another culture's intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, woman's rights, and gay rights , then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity. And we need to say unambiguously to Muslims living in the West: If you want to live in our societies, to share in their material benefits, then you need to accept that our freedoms are not optional. They are the foundation of our way of life; of our civilization \u2013 a civilization that learned, slowly and painfully, not to burn heretics, but to honor them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Someone who can no longer count how many times their kid(s) have puked on them. Giving birth is the biggest sacrifice at all, but the point is, they know nothing of married sex and should quit idealizing it. They are also badly misinformed about human biology, both human development at gastrulation and gays at epigenesis. Their models are based on reason, not evidence and are as dense without facts as Austrian Economics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"While the Bible does not address sexual orientation, it does describe appropriate and inappropriate sexual behavior. We acknowledge that attraction to someone of the same gender may be temptation, but not an act of sin (. . .); therefore, those with same-sex orientation, who conform to biblical teachings about sexual behavior, may fully participate in the life of the Adventist Church.\"\n\nThere are multiple levels of meaning in the word \"sin\". The foregoing citation distinguishes between sinful desires and sinful actions which is Biblical. I fail to see that it excuses sin. Regardless of sexual orientation, we are ALL born sinners (according to Paul). And the Bible does condemn all forms of sin, including extra-marital sexual relations, judging, reviling, slander, and many others.\n\nFrom the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks and the fingers type. First remove the plank from your own eyes. Do not overlook sin in yourself in your attempts to correct or enlighten others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not saying they will, I am saying they have. Actually, gay couples do have kids, their own from prior sham marriages, those they inherit from siblings and those made with test tubes and surrogacy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No we are not saying to anyone, including gays, that \"you can join us.\" The Church is not a country club, where you join the membership. In our baptism we are joining Christ in his death and resurrection, and by the function of that event/act we become (members of ) a community---and not the other way around.\nAnd, sorry to disappoint you with bad news, but yes, joining Christ is a one way street. You either transform/conform to Christ, or you did not join Christ. Trying to form God into your image and likeness and not to allow to be formed into God's image and likeness is the worst form of idolatry in any religious practice. Good luck to you ...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While that is certainly true, it seems a pity that Mr. McElwee did not include this part of the pope's response to his question (Catholic News Agency transcript): \"Please don't say: 'the Pope sanctifies transgenders.' Please, eh! Because I see the covers of the papers. Is there any doubt as to what I said?\" The question becomes \"Does the title of Mr. McElwee's piece cast doubt on what the Pope actually said, contrary to the Pope's own specific request?\" The answer to that seems to be \"yes, the title of the piece does indeed cast doubt on what the Pope said.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Correct me if I am wrong, but if you fall under the transgender category, doesn't that mean that one identifies with the opposite gender to the one he/she was biologically born with? In other words, why would you need an \"x\" if you know which gender you identify with - why not just select m or f accordingly...it seems illogical to put gender-neutral...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm confused. When I read articles about transgender, I learn how gender doesn't exist. Now is see that it exists in the equal pay argument. If gender is defined by your sexual organs, then the transgender bathroom debate flies out the window. If gender is defined by how you feel about yourself, not how your appear, then the equal pay argument flies out of the window does it not?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Postscript: Maybe you have heard this, but many believe that anti-gay sentiment of the likes we see over there today was whipped up through steady incursions of American Evangelicals into Russia. Various charities and Christian clubs like CoMission traveled there starting in the late '90s, all of them carrying the message of \"traditional values under threat.\" The irony, of course, is how sky-high the abortion rate is over there . . . looks like they dropped the ball on that one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why would you hate to clarify for me? \n\nWith the full quote in hand, I think I might now understand how you (and the Catechism in that section) understand the concept of structural/social sin. And if I am right, then your usage seems to me to be different than that used by the author.\n\nDo I have this right?\n\nIn Chaput's mind (and yours?) every instance of homosexual intercourse is a mortal sin because it is contrary the natural law. Gay marriage is a social structure that arises from individual instances of the mortal sin of homosexual intercourse, and in this case the very purpose of the social structure is to facilitate more sin of the same type. Therefore, \"in an analogous sense, [gay marriage] is a 'social sin.'\" Thus, the only real sin is \"personal sin,\" the only sin for which someone must answer is individual personal acts; gay marriage is merely analogously sin, sort of sin like. \n\nIf so, then do you realize the authors use sees social sin differently? \n\nThus my confusion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Last time I checked humans existed as one of two sexes - male or female. I have never walked in the shoes of a transgendered person, so I do not want to comes across as unsympathetic to their plight. And, because of that, I can't begin to understand their life situation. \n\nBut I am troubled by the proposal. We can't deny our biology. I am not convinced that mandating the use of new pronouns does anything to protect transgendered people and I doubt that it does anything to enhance their lives. Discrimination against transgendered people speaks volumes about those who are discriminating.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These are matters of facts, not belief. You can certainly try to brainwash gay people into thinking they are straight, but it has not been shown to work very well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So gay CIVIL marriages are not sacramental marriages. So what?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's a pretty fair assessment. As a gay person who (somewhat regularly) attends mass, I can only articulate my own reasons for adhering, however tangentially, to Catholicism. I don't think the gay community as a whole is the least bit interested in doing the same thing, however. If I were still living in Boston I'd still be attending mass at the Episcopal Church of the Advent. If I were still living in New York I'd still be worshipping at the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, both Anglo-Catholic shrines. As it is, where I live currently, the Episcopal Church scene is awful so I go to the local Roman Catholic Cathedral where mass is done beautifully and the sermons are pretty good. But I'm a relic from bygone era and a creature of habit. Most gay people have fled the churches so this discussion is largely academic and is happening without a significant gay presence. In the end, it won't really matter what churches decide to do about gay people because we'll largely be gone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Scalia had a novel view of states rights which everyone regards as wrong, except the aging Federalist Society. Not sure about Gorsuch. The tragedy of gay rights jurisprudence was the fear that he could get four more votes, so no lawsuit was filed until Lawrence. Indeed, they had the same fear over gay marriage (that and they feared a loss of fundraising when they won, which will likely happen soon because Perry is being used to overturn employment discrimination without additional legislation). Scalia voted alone.\n\nYour second paragraph shows that you believe the God is an Ogre. Sad for you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many want the same thing for gay sex, that it be within a marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So now that you have mentioned it - who are all of the Christian Right evangelists that have called for the death of gay people? You say 'all' so I presume you have knowledge of several, more than a few, many.... I'm looking for examples to back up your statement.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But even hermaphrodites don't consider themselves transgender! LOL", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump could admit to SEC and FEC violations and accept censure and likely serve out his term, but he won\u2019t get a second and Pence is too extreme on the non-issues of gay marriage and abortion. Any Democrat who acknowledges that wins. Will it be a neo-liberal or an anti-Trump who goes after capitalism? Is it ageist to say Sanders is too old? Is his midwestern protege, Eliason, too Muslim? Rachel Maddow watchers have been seeing a lot of Adam Schiff lately. He has been the Democratic face of the investigation He won\u2019t be made Speaker but he might be an interesting President.\n\nIf the GOP splits into an alt-right party and a neo-liberal party, the Dems might move into a radical party and join the GOP neo-libs. Given the last primaries, I am not sure who would win that. It depends upon the candidates.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Meanwhile back at the Ranch Wynne and Justin are stressing more diversity and the tricky subject of public washrooms (transgender issue). \nStay tuned!!!!!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think it shows how the well-financed homosexual propaganda movement takes advantage of the Catholic propensity for mercy and forgiveness. It's shameless and a testament to how manipulative and immoral people who have adopted a homosexual identity can be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I issue with this for me is not the transgender's using whatever restroom, its the predators & pedophiles that could use this as a way in without question. If I see a trans person walk into the ladies room after my 7 year old daughter I'm not going to freak out, but if some dude with a beard wearing a flannel and work boots does that's a different story all together. This law would give the people that would abuse this unobstructed access to places they do not belong period.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"those who identify with a homosexual orientation\"\n\nSo, would that be about 40% of the clergy?\n\nBTW, The document does not say \"those who identify with a homosexual orientation\". It says: \"those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called 'gay culture.\"\n\nJust the usual self-serving inaccuracies of the usual suspects, likely consumed by 'anger'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course, for me that is a given. In the meantime, those with SSA need not apply. Perhaps a reply to the institutional church is in order to remind THEM. And I am again not endorsing or saying that priests should be sexually active; that is betraying their vocation and promise. But come on! To say simply because someone has deep seated homosexual tendencies he should not even be allowed to be considered for the priesthood. For me, the institution is wrong, totally wrong on this and no amount of theological gymnastics will convince me otherwise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you kidding? Have you ever picked up a gay friend from hospital after a beating? I did, just last summer, at St. Mike's. As for your questions about comparison to other groups...I didn't know it's a competition. As for your last paragraph, it doesn't make much sense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "they dont this is alt left bs propaganda attempts to force courts to make decisions based on ideology of the gay agenda liberals rather than the law", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Socrates did not go around claiming that he alone was created in the image and likeness of a Greek homosexual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nice attempt to change the subject.\n\nThreats change over time, often in a compensatory style. No more 911s (yet), so we get scores of new responses..one wolfs, attacks on gays at nightclubs, attack on runners at marathons, attacks at Marines at recruiting stations (who were prevented by DOD from being armed), and other less dramatic cuts to our throat, including electronic threats.\n\nObama owns a solid response to old threats and new ones. Pointing to a lack of unbombed cities isn't good enough in this day and age. Sort of old school/old cold war mentality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bob, you demsnots have been in charge for 8 years. You own it. Why the middle class has been decimated is because your leaders spend more time on gay marriage and hand outs and obama care and on and on. The economy was put on the back burner and the only jobs created are gubberment jobs to tax and cheat the bejeasus out of the middle class. \n\nCivil that mt friend", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LBGTQQS2: Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Gays, Transgender, Questioning, Queer, Two Spirits.\n\nBTW, NYC officially recognises 65 pronouns.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Reparative therapy, like all psychological counseling has an experimental component; some methods that do not involve negative reinforcement have proven effective. I think the homosexual activists fear Courage because of its successes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oregon voted against same sex marriage. One Oregon Federal Judge and Five Justices of the US Supreme Court found that law unconstitutional.\n\nAny State law lasts at the whim of five old people in Washington D. C.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When it comes to equal and democratic rights for women, minorities, religions, and gays, only Israel extends these. And yet this is the one country demonized in the middle east more so than any other.\n\nMakes you wonder.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not very easily, there's still a lot of stigma around adoption for transgender. Parents are very picky about who gets their unwanted kids...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Be wary all you want for whatever reason. But allow others to be wary as well for good reasons. The Boston bombers and the 911 hajis had assimilated into middle class America and were \"good friends\" with their American neighbors.\n\nHow many Americans have beheaded other humans for religious reasons? How many Americans have thrown homosexuals off rooftops? How many Americans have put their wives in a hole in the ground and stoned them to death for \"infidelity\"? How many Americans demand that other humans convert to their religion or die?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Although we've made a lot of progress on the legal and political front, homophobia, violence and discrimination still threaten the LGBTQ community in Canada. I hear many stories at Pride Parades and online of people who know people who have been bashed. It is estimated that 98% of gay bashings still go unreported, and hate-crimes statistics are not accurate because these incidents are never taken into account. There is still much more work to be done to address bullying and trans rights in Canada. Like Prime Minister Trudeau recently said at the U.N- \"Canada is still a work in progress\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, just the opposite of what you are saying here is true. It was Christian Churches that have led the way in fighting things like slavery and discrimination against homosexuals. The entire Abolitionist Movement movement before the Civil War was first created and supported in churches.\n\nAnd not one single US church ever endorsed or supported the KKK in any way. You are re-writing American history to fit your own personal make-believe fantasy. The KKK itself was extremely bigoted against both Catholics and Jews.\n\nAtheists like Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong have exterminated millions. And it was Muslims who were responsible for the horrific Armenian Genocide that took place during WWI. \n\nThe monstrous number of innocent civilians that have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in recent decades has been primarily due to Muslim vs Muslim violence. The number of civilians that have been killed by America's military in those nations is very, very low.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Geez, Comrade. \n\nKristoff writes a column about bullying of transgender people, and to counter his argument you issue a threat against those people. Thanks for helping Kristoff make his point.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You claim you want to have a serious discussion and yet you continue to post untruths like this: \"You still want conservative Christian businesses to be able to refuse service to any customer -- as long as the customer is gay or a gay couple.\" I've said it many time and it is still a mystery, you actually believe that putting words in my mouth is a good debating technique.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Obama Fearmonger Machine, recently metamorphosed into the Hillary Hate Machine, is merely the extension of the old Reagan/ Gingrich GOP strategy. Getting the poorly educated to vote against their own interests is key to modern GOP wedge politics. Its origins are with Newt's and Pat Buchanan's cultural wars. Get the poorly educated (from whom the Trump declares his love) riled up about guns, god, flag burning, gay marriage, prayer in school, immigrants, global warming, big government, etc., and they'll vote against their economic interest every time. But of course, they'll all be rich someday in their dreams so they worship the Trickle Down Gospel of St. Ayn Rand.\nNothing new here!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That simply shows that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of sex. It can be nothing more than lust, but it can also be a sharing of love. \n\nBefore I met my wife, I had a relationship with a woman. With her, sex was lust; with my wife, it is a physical sharing of our love. I daresay that the married couples I know, both gay and straight, would say the same thing. It is truly a pity that you do not experience this in your marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, why should we care if this person is a transgender?\nDo they get a tax break?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trid means \"'The ACP is a dissident group of priests who' disagree with ME!\"\n\nThe referendum was on gay civil marriage. The people of Ireland have every right to ignore the Church on that subject.\n\nThe Catholic Church in Ireland has a well-earned rotten reputation. Do I have to mention Magdalene laundries, the Ryan Report or the orphanage at Tuam (to name just three)?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Louisiana problem is precisely the same as Alaska's. The Koch brothers in particular got an incompetent governor elected and with redistricting, a similarly inept legislative majority. The Kochs even got judges elected to appeal courts. \n\nThe did it the same way: Hollering about \"abortion,\" \"homosexuals,\" \"regulations,\" and \"taxes,\" red meat issues that appealed to the lowest information voters. \n\nThey even permanently exported a great deal of the state's black population post-Katrina, most of them to the Houston area.\n\nThey got what they paid for: Tax givebacks and progressively more insufficient oversight of industry and business.\n\nPiyush Jindal tried to paper those problems over by selling state assets. Everything went on the block: Schools, bridges, prisons,roads, even the state capitol buildings.\n\nThe only reason they have a decent, competent governor now, is because Vitter couldn't stop patronizing prostitutes and some of the fundamentalist right had a problem with that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Totally correct. The media doesn't report that the pope called same-sex marriage the \"work of the devil\", an \"anthropological regression\" in 2014, and \"disfiguring God's plan for creation.\" That Fr. Krzysztof Charamsa was fired from the Vatican after coming out and refused to accept Laurent Stefanini as French ambassador to the Vatican because he was openly gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently if there are no selfie opportunities or a gay pride parade involved Junior is not interested.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No , really why? Are there simply no transgendered humans?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "if a transgender to female wants to use the woman's restroom -totally understandable...what other choice does she really have? ladies - what difference does it make? you're in a stall. you have as much privacy as you'd like. you don't want a transgendered to woman woman see you comb, makeup or wash?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fukumoto needs to start aligning with the RINO/DINOs in the Democratic Party of Hawaii. \nLogically, it makes no sense to believe that the DPH is \"cohesive.\" There are major and minor factions, all jockeying for influence, sway and dollars. I'm sure she can find a significant number of faux-DPHers to align with, and with whom to sing Kumbaya.\nThe DPH has anti-abortion, anti-gay rights Christians, and well as flaming Liberals, and Marxist Socialists.\nAll in the `Ohana really does mean ALL.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This article is embarrassing, perhaps Mr. Yakabuski should go visit Malmo like his counterpart at the National Post and revert back on his experience. But Swedes and Fins are known for being so unwelcoming? (sigh)... The transplanted Imams who preach Salafi/Wahabi fundamentalism are still treated with deference. The mosques known to sympathize with Islamist ideologies under the guise of piety are still open. There are entire neighborhoods that are hostile to anyone who dresses \"western\". \"Islamaphobia\" is a political term invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in the 90's in a successful attempt to demonize anyone who criticizes Islamism (the idea of society ruled by religious laws). It's not hard to understand, we can look at every society governed by Islamic law (57 in OIC) and how many support gender equality and freedom of sexual orientation? I suppose it's a function of cultural relativism? I missed the gay pride parade in Malmo this year... but we ignore that, #becauseit's2017...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fr Martin's actual non judgmental comment- \"If these people are uncomfortable with their \u201ccomplicated sexuality,\u201d he said, then they will be threatened by any discussion of homosexuality and project that fear onto others.\"\n\u201cThe hostility may also come from fear of their own complicated sexuality,\u201d stated Father Martin, offering an often-used argument that those opposed to homosexual acts must themselves be battling latent tendencies.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gun control advocates? Good reason to never elect them. I think you mean \"anti-2nd amendment advocates\". If they had the courage of their convictions, they'd just come right out and say it, instead of doing a gutless end run around it. Thankfully, the shooting community has a pro gun President, we're soon to have suppressors on 4473s instead of available with cumbersome tax stamps,and constitutional carry will soon be the law of the land. After all, if gays can marry, we can carry. Right? Goose, meet gander.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Coming out is not \"another viewpoint;\" it's as old as same-sex attraction itself and has been subject to social experimentation over the ages. There's no new case to be made, especially when one figures in basic anatomy and physiology: God or nature or whatever source has made the intended use of the sex organs quite clear. And if that wasn't enough, God or nature has created sexually transmitted diseases in the male homosexual population that are at epidemic levels in proportions far in excess of those in the heterosexual population. \n\nNo, I suppose I don't know anything of what God intends until he appears in the sky and says, \"Hey, can't you see that it doesn't go there? \" \n\nMy issue with people with same-sex attraction (or any temptation to sin) is not that they have it, but that they refuse to resist it, even more so in today's amoral society that has a standard of self-desire over everything and anyone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First and foremost Christians? Where in the bible did Jesus Christ condemn homosexuals? He's probably shaking his head every time he sees people using his name to promote discrimination against a certain class of humanity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Corrections: (1) Those claiming the Messiah's \"tolerance\" for homosexuality argue based on a negative. What he SAID was: \"Think not that I come to destroy the Law\" (Torah) \"nor the Prophets\" (books of Exekiel, Isaiah, etc.), \"I come not to destroy, but to fulfill. Until heaven and earth pass away\" (look around, they're still here) \"one yot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, until all as been fulfilled. He who breaks the least of these commandments, or teaches others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven.\" Homosexuality is explicitly prohibited in the Torah, which I'm told is CHRISTIAN as well as Jewish Scripture.\n\n(2) All kinds of things contrary to authentic Islamic tenets occur in the middle east. While Qur'an likewise prohibits and denounces homosexuality, it doesn't differentiate between that and any other form of unsanctioned sexual behavior by unmarried persons--for which the punishment, per Qur'an isn't death, but (non-lethal) flogging.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You don't oppose them because they break bread with gays and lesbians, that just shows that the opposition is based on bigotry. There is no moral issue, just a medical one and nothing the right wing says in this area is helpful. Hate never is. The bathroom wars are shameless pandering to the alt-right. Despicable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Callwaiting - Does this belief spring from the information that some gay adults were molested as children and that the assault was causal to their later identification as gay? \n\nI often hear the argument that sexual assault in childhood by a same-gendered adult led to the child's homosexuality. \n\nBut my take, as a former child protective social worker, is that kids get targeted by pedophiles because they are vulnerable or unprotected in some way. Being different-which gay kids often are-can result in kids being vulnerable and unprotected: isolated socially through rejection and neglect by parents, friends, churches and schools. Pedophiles seek a child upon whom they can act their own sexual needs; some prefer girls, some prefer boys, some don't care: all are looking for a child vulnerable and isolated in a way that will allow the adult to commit a crime undetected. That is why gay children are frequent targets: WE make them vulnerable to abuse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ed is right. Black Lives Matter. So do gay lives, women's lives and all other lives. We should not privilege the sensitivities of one subgroup of a group and throw out the rest.\n\nWho gets to \"win\" when a person turns out to be complex? Are we going to rename buildings named after President Kennedy because he called the black gay poet James Baldwin, one of America's greatest writers, \"Martin Luther Queen\"? What happens to Churchill High School after people read the colonial views of Sir Winston the Tory? Do we erase MLK's name because he plagiarized a paper? What did Abe Lincoln think of gay rights? Did Cesar Chavez support abortion? \n\nDo people really feel \"unsafe\" entering a building named after a person a hundred years dead? That is not a credible position for an adult to take. The building has only the spiritual power that we each care to give it. \n\nAs for these ancient crusty founders whose lives were imperfect, teach about them, not without them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no need to alter the Charter to add specific protections for transgender individuals or anyone else.\n\nThe Charter itself already provides protection for everyone. The Charter ensures each of us is equal, there are no other classes of people under the Charter and thats how it must remain.\n\nIt seems the writer is confused regarding the meaning of gender and I would suggest this person consult a dictionary. Rather than creating a meaning which only reinforces the persons own beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While it may be rare for the public to find out about a political candidate receiving public assistance, the hypocrisy is not.\n\nPeople who identify as conservative, right-wing, etc. tend to have difficulty empathizing compared to those who identify as progressive, liberal, etc. They're against abortion until they find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy. They are against food stamps until they find themselves needing money for food. They're against universal healthcare until they find themselves sick without insurance or underinsured. The list goes on and on.\n\nOne great example is the ultra conservative Dick Cheney. Many may not know that he has been in favor of same-sex marriage for a long time. How is this possible? Well, he has a gay daughter. He was forced to empathize....to see things from other's perspective.\n\nCallahan's excuses are also typical. He's essentially claiming that while others don't deserve it, he does, and they get more than he does.....failure to empathize.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This one is classic Trump. He only has to wait for his Supreme Court pick to scuttle LGBTQ rights and then he can say, 'but I've bigly supported gays'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I saw \"Falsettos\" this weekend. Interesting story, written by a man who identifies as homosexual, in which a man leaves his wife and child for a homosexual relationship. \n\nHe laments not having his family anymore, but he can't help himself to be drawn to the purely sexual \"love\" that he has for this handsome guy. The show depicted the striking differences between male-female unions, based on procreation; and homosexual unions based on sodomy and appearance. There was one scene in which the two guys were naked, one sleeping, and the other singing about his \"love\" as he peeked under the sheet to look at his penis. \n\nOther homosexual films, created by homosexuals, depict similar perspectives. Sodomy, sodomy, sodomy: the climax, so to speak, of \"Brokeback,\" and the reason for \"Philadelphia.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kind of a refreshing piece, but it falls short.\n\nThere are two failure elephants in the conservative room. He only acknowledged one - the right-wing fear-mongering media (Limbaugh, Fox, etc.).\n\nThe other elephant is social conservatives. The evangelicals. This group has hijacked the conservative agenda and focused it on unrelated topics such as abortion, gay stuff, and willful ignorance of basic science (evolution, climate change, etc.). This 'christian' group endorsed Donald Trump - enough said.\n\nThe republicans recruited and nurtured that evangelical puppy, and now that it's turned into a 120 lbs snarling, biting, smelly, defecating mongrel sleeping on the furniture, they don't know what to do with it. \n\nIt's one thing to recognize the problem. Fixing it is another matter. For the sake of the country I hope they do, but I'm not holding out any hope.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"No one gets to tell us how to tell our stories, or how we choose to do it.\"\nWhat I get from your narrative is that you don't stay in Motel 6 when you do speaking engagements and that you name drop. Oh, and that you're transgender. \nI don't doubt that transgender people have monumental struggles. Try as I might, I do not understand it. Whether the kid at TacoTia looks at me and assesses my gender is not going to make the food taste different. \nThere are so many people who have \"coming out\" stories: a white woman falls in love with a black man, gays and lesbians, atheists in Christian households, the boy who doesn't like football, Rachel Doezal is white...\nThere are as many individual stories as there are people to tell them: first loves, spectacular careers, tough childhoods, that secret abortion. \nChoosing when and how to tell our stories applies to everyone. Not all of us find our stories riveting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trudeau is like all other politicians on the left. They have abandoned the LGBTQ community in favour of another community that persecutes and murders gays. Trudeau certainly wouldn't wish to offend his new best friends - the ones with the quaint cultural practices that offend most civilized people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right, its no ones business. Well, except this baker who made it his business and decided that he wont make cakes that are to be used in gay weddings.\n\nI dont wear a star on my shirt to show im Jewish either - yet, through both verbal and written comments I hear/see in public, I see discrimination against Jews in one way or another on a near daily basis. Should this baker also be allowed to refuse to make me a cake because im Jewish? How is that any different than him refusing to make a cake for someone who is gay? \n\nHe is using his Religion as a shield to protect him from doing something he has done for countless other straight couples, many of which I am to assume have been divorced or have been married several times - yet I have never seen anything from him that shows any type of consistency in his \"religious beliefs\" other than he does not want to make a cake for a gay couple. Which leads me to believe he has no real \"religious values\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with MSW that the women's march coordinators made a tactical error in not allowing pro-life groups to march under a banner. Having a \"big tent\" approach is nearly always the way to go. But a lack of inclusion at marches and parades is nothing new. It was not until very recently that the Ancient Order of Hibernians prevented gay Irish groups from marching in the St. Patrick's Day parade in NYC. For many years, the parade's Grand Marshal, The Cardinal Archbishop of New York, was just fine with that decision. So exclusion from parades happens on both the left and the right.\n\nAs for the women's march in Washington over the weekend, I like what my favorite commenter at the New York Times, gemli of Boston, had to say about it: \n\n\"This march was not about offering coherent political alternatives, or providing a structured response to the challenge of an illegitimate administration. It was more like a gag reflex to a noxious stimulus. It was our democracy\u2019s way of throwing up.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This bishop Tobin, far more than his Newark counterpart by the same surname, contains vast knowledge as to why people leave the church, after all he's the reason why many in Rhode Island have already done so! Of course it's amazing he had so much time to pen this article, when he already has a full agenda of hunting down and firing gay employees, denouncing Democratic candidates, stonewalling on the release of the names of predator priests and disparaging the holy father. What a true Catholic bishop, in every sense of the word.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The United States of America is not a Catholic nation. Abortion and homosexual marriage are legal. If those items are not your choices, then feel free not to have an abortion or to marry a person of your own gender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You know diddly about the human DNA and genetics as it relates to transgender people. Medical science has researched and confirms that it's possible for homosexual and transgenders to have female genetic markers. You're way in over you head. Perhaps you should focus far more on spirituality and what Jesus had to say about \"Love they neighbor as they self.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't see irony in this. Was Scalise on record saying queer black women should not be permitted to be police officers or something? Otherwise, what does her active homosexuality or marital status or his views on those have to do with her job? \nIt's just incidental and irrelevant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you mean the kind of inclusion 50 Islamic countries displayed when they came together to ban LGBT groups from attending a United Nations AIDS conference dedicated to ending the global epidemic? Or do you mean the kind of inclusion where it is permitted under sharia to deceive, plot against, hate, enslave, mock, torture and kill the non-muslim? That kind of inclusion?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently you missed... it's all over this comment section. This article, and any other article about anything LGBT, triggers them to crawl out from under their rocks and whine about other people's genitalia or bedroom practices, or whatever else is bothering them about \"those people\" that has zero impact on their lives. It is creepy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To this reader it's clear the Dispatch run's certain stories to promote non traditional lifestyles . The author of this story is trying to push a few buttons as well . First , the subject of the story he wrote about wasn't \" a young woman \" , but in fact was a 17 year old boy correctly described as \" a boy pretending to be a girl \" . I agree with the author and Dispatch about how comments should be kept civil. Most of them were . In my past observations on this general subject I find that those , with few exceptions , doing most of the trash talking are those who lack traditional values. If anyone dares to disagree with the gay movement they are attacked . To me the word \" bigot \" shouldn't be allowed , yet dare to speak against the gay movement and your called that and a whole lot more . I was shocked that the subject of the original story in his own comment was allowed to use the slang word for private part . How civil was that ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Abortion is legal because the justices on the SCOTUS wanted it to be-period. \n\nWho is forcing gays to live promiscuously? Who is telling gay people they can't commit to each other? People do not need marriage to love and commit to each other. \n\nThe site does not give me enough words to reply to the rest of your post. I will just have to ask a question: if you believe all that, why are you Catholic? See--if the Church actually taught what you want it to teach, I would leave. I would not stay with a Church that proposes things for belief I believe are wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds like typical liberal, resorting to name calling, if anyone is a bigot its you against Christians, I'm not a Christian or a bigot, I do have several gay friends that are really embarrassed about gay pride parade and all of the fuss, they don't want it and have a good life, its the liberal agenda pushing it, if you think anyone will change their minds by the government saying it will be so, think again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Whatever the government pushes and pays for it what \"experts\" will agree with. No matter how many scientists who aren't paid by the government say that climate change is a matter of nature, not carbon footprints, and that there is no melting of ice caps, the government needs to try to control weather and pays people who will agree. They also desire to control parenting, something that people managed to do on their own for how many years? So for lack of parenting we have a diagnosis of ADHD, for drug addiction now people are born with addiction. No personal responsibility for actions needed. Trans people still have other mental issues even after surgery, it wasn't the fix they hoped for. Not treating underlying conditions is poor help indeed. Most had suicidal thoughts before society knew they identified as gay or trans. And will continue to have them unless properly treated. Society crumbles and it is encouraged.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Burke may have intended (it's not clear) that he would permit the gay son or daughter to come to family gatherings alone. There is no sense in which that is less despicable than excluding him/her altogether, or excluding the couple. It absolutely constitutes shunning -- and Burke, who has no children, is recommending it to people who do. It's filthy advice. I don't think many people take Burke or people who hold views like his seriously, but sadly, I'm sure some do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, the old conservative taddle about what I call \"the elastic job market\". It says that if you don't like your current job, you can always get another just as good. It is, like many conservative notions, unrealistic.\n\nNo, what you support is employers saying to their employees, \"You must live according to our religious beliefs, whether or not you agree with them\". To put that another way, you are saying that you do not support freedom of religion.\n\nSocial conservatives believe that they can dictate to other people how to live. We have social conservatives saying that gays cannot have civil marriage, even though it does not affect them in any way whatsoever. Have you ever considered that it's simply none of your business what they do? That it offends you personally is simply just too bad. They are not injuring others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mateen believed he was delivering Allah's message of love and benevolent blessing upon the LGBT people in Pulse Dance Club that night.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This the Oxford Dic definition of a disorder \"An illness that disrupts normal physical or mental functions\".\n\nI looked up your definition too. As expected I didn't find any reputable source for it. Just your name next to it on some anti-gay sites.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The ACLU belief system which preaches the baby isn't a baby until it breathes air, also preaches promiscuity, homosexuality, and transgendering are fine. I want their belief system recognized for what it is, a bunch of lies from the pit of hell. I want their faith defunded, removed from our schools, and away from our children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. In the past, gay men were disproportionately attracted to the priesthood because main stream culture rejected them and forced them into the closet, and the priesthood is a rather cushy closet. Currently the percentage of priests that are gay is somewhere north of 50%, and about half of them are sexually active. This phenomenon will not survive this century for two reasons: (1) More and more gays will acquire the freedom to live outside the closet, and marry rather than become priests, and (2) a married priesthood and women priests will allow the Catholic priesthood to become more representative of the population in general. Oh, and the married priesthood with include gay married couples. \n\nBoth of these changes are absolutely inevitable, as the false theologies that prevent woman from being ordained and the clergy from marrying evaporate as the prejudices that spawned them die out. Guaranteed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This writer assumes that Catholics are monolithic and all have the same views. I know an equal number of Catholics who approve of same sex marriage legislation as I know Catholics who oppose it. Likewise for abortion. I once spoke about this with an old Catholic man who had actually studied in a Catholic seminary, had left few steps short of becoming a Catholic priest, had a religious wedding, and had 3 children all raised as Catholics. The man said: \"I am against these things for me and I hope that they will not happen for my children. However, I am in favour of laws allowing them for those who have different believes. I have seen too many back alley abortions and too much misery for closet gays. People must be free to have their life as they feel that it is right for them\". My many Catholic barbers have expressed the same views. My Catholic colleagues in Montreal have substantially said the same thing. Of course I met also those who vehemently disagree. Catholics are not monolithic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for that blatant piece of homophobia.\n\nGiven that the institutional Church deliberately makes the priesthood unattractive to heterosexual men, it should not be surprising that homosexuals are widely represented in the priesthood.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "2. Even today, as long as there is enough of a market that will be satisfied by you discriminating, the \"invisible hand\" won't actually work. For instance, let's take a look at this exact situation, but with Sweet Cakes by Melissa. They were able to raise over $500,000 in the course of about 2 weeks in donations because they discriminated against gay people. Again, the \"invisible hand\" of the marketplace didn't really work there either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks Motley. I agree on all your points. Bigotry would be pre-judging our Muslim fellow citizens with the assumption that they take Sharia law literally, would commit the barbarities we read about elsewhere, or want them to be legal here, or are guilty of doing things that are illegal here. I hope nobody does that kind of pre-judging based on religion. I don't know you and I have no reason to assume you do.\n\nI don't think we can blame our Muslim fellow citizens for barbarities elsewhere any more than we can blame our fellow Christians for the Oklahoma City bombing or the crimes against gays. I hope you agree.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps if Cordileone had not spent $1.5 million fighting gay civil marriage, the archdiocese could have found the money to pay its health insurance bills.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's be clear here: no one is DENYING anything but money to anyone. That is, no employer is denying anyone a job because they user bc. Nope, all they're doing is refusing to pay for it. And if the insurer wants to independently offer bc to employees apart from the employer, then it can do so.\n\nEmployer-provided insurance days have come and gone; the need to entice employees with goodies no longer exists as it did in the early part of the 20th century when there was a worker shortage.\n\nAttacking religion and morality is what is dividing society; don't blame the religious, Catholicism is 2000 years old. Recreational sex, open homosexuality, gender-bending, etc... are all new, divisive perspectives, barely 60 years old, and only recently accepted by a significant portion of the population.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay Stolberg should be put on the endangered species list and given 24/7 police protection.\n\nMs Stolberg is a left-wing reporter for the left-wing, lying NYT which is one of the very loud mouthpieces for the lying, progressive MSM.\n\nBut here's the thing. Ms Stolberg is, fasten your seat belts(!), actually honest!\n\nFor example, she had the audacity to tweet what she saw at Charlottesville:\n\n\"...hate-filled 'anti-fa' beat white nationalists as they were led out of the park.\"\n\nThat honesty was absolutely unacceptable to her colleagues in the MSM.\n\nMs Stolberg has been persecuted by progressives ever since she dared to tell the truth.\n\nHence the question actually is:\n\n\"How can honest members of the MSM be protected from the vast majority of their progressive colleagues who are completely dishonest?\"\n\nHere's the good news. Protecting honest members of the progressive MSM should not be difficult.\n\nThere are only a handful, like the left-wing, but honest, Gay Stolberg.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The smart thing to have done would be to consult experienced professionals BEFORE alienating trans soldiers, but.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My split off from progressivism a few years back was precipitated by precisely this kind of outrageous deviation from reality. When did progressivism spiral off into rank hyperbole? Histrionics? \n\nWe have a nominally educated writer, working for a major newspaper in Canada, arguing that a freshly elected US President, that's all of four months into his term, is the first step towards a dystopian future from in a novel that was already hyperbolic back in the 1980s when it was written. The author will ignore that Roe v Wade has been settled law for decades, that western society has inexorably marched towards extending rights further and further over time, that gay marriage was legalized in Canada 8 years after the book was written and is now law in many US states, that religion is fading generally from western culture, that minorities make up more of Canadian life than ever before, etc.\n\nIt's time to call this what it is - a mental illness. She's Chicken Little.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"... bit of dog-whistle politics ...\" Candidly I had never heard of this speech until it was mentioned in a similar context by our compatriot EN. I take it that it is something of a cherished touchstone for the modern liberal-progressive? You make it sound as if all fiscal conservatives carry a copy of it around in their wallets like true-blue liberals carry the lyrics to \"Kum Ba Yah\" ... but I think that is an exaggeration.\n\nThe political left of course has plenty of its own dog-whistles, e.g. the jibe about RR being responsible for the AIDS epidemic. I was in the Bay Area going to school in the late 1980s, when gay men were perishing by the tens of thousands from HIV. But in the mass media of the time, I don't recall a single instance where anyone claimed they got HIV from Ronald Reagan. :-/ RR was no more to blame for the spread of AIDS than he was responsible for male pattern baldness or PMS (sheesh).\n\nThanks for the exchange of views.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry, Kevin, but the vast majority of people are given the gift of sexuality in order to use it in relationship. For an entire group of Christian gay adults--and we don't really know how large this group is--lifelong celibacy is an unrealistic and cruel option. Unfortunately, the Church's myopia about the meaning of sexuality (and I use the word *meaning* on purpose because the Church doesn't control meaning; only two people in a relationship do) results in regulations that have nothing to do with love or intimacy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How do you know, Pandora, that they are just \"stories?' and without merit? Isn't your denial also filled with \"loads of agenda?\" Please excuse my turning your own style of questioning and disagreement on you personally, as I do believe you are unaware of the verified investigative reports - aside from personal exchanges with clerics in Rome - that confirm such stories, including of clerics of all levels visiting brothels of both men and women. Interestingly, much was learned as a result of the Vatican rumors of a \"gay lobby\" that was significant in the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. It was amazing how so many talked as a result of that event. I wish that our friend with deep ties to and in Rome was around to once again give us the citations from the mainstream press there. But I am sure you can find it with a bit of research. A Blessed Christmas to you and yours!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No bishop likes to talk about vanity, it cuts too much to the quick. It is why Jesus gave example of the washing of the feet, and not just for annula commemoration. Of course, humility should not be considered a lack of courage and it took courage to ensure all partners, married or not, gay or straight, but it would have shown more to challenge the Church more directly on this. Christ would have. To go with the meal by the sea, sometimes the meal Christ must serve the apostles is crow. Bless the bishops who served up this latest portio for the Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sure.\n\nThe Catholic Church - or \"pure catholic types\" - rounded up a transsexual who has reputation and awards for reporting on LBGT issues, talked her into going undercover for years, and then popped it up after most the suits are settled.\n\nTime for the \"Twilight Zone\" theme.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Paul VI was an active homosexual who was compromised by the Freemasons very early on in his pontificate on the issue of cremation. During his 15-year reign as Pope, he also promoted many homosexual clerics to the Vatican Curia.\n\nhttp://padrepioandchiesaviva.com/Paul_VI_Beatified_.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We a have president who openly bragged that avoiding STDs was his \"personal\u00a0 Viet Nam,\" who continues to profit from his public office to make money for his personal business interests (but is afraid to reveal his taxes), and who never risked anything at all in his gold-plated life for his country . . . not one thing ever. \n Now, in one of his short-attention-span Twitter fits (without even telling the Joint Chiefs of Staff), he has just knifed thousands of transgendered soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and Coast-Guardsmen, simply for some kind of short-term for political gain among the members of his right-wing base of support. \n Do we remember\u00a0how\u00a0Donald\u00a0Trump treated the Gold Star family of\u00a0fallen Captain Humayun Khan? \n Do we remember how he insulted POW John McCain? \n Is this how Trump wants to \"Make America Great Again\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When I read self-professed experts saying that the children always know best regarding gender dysphoria, I can\u2019t help but be reminded of the false memory syndrome triggered in the 90s by well-meaning therapists who brought out horrifying tales of satanic rituals and abuse. \n\nChildren don\u2019t always know what\u2019s best for them; that is why we need to guide them until they are at least 18. It is curious to me that many people seem to think that a child will know what gender they want to be before they have reached sexual \u2013 and intellectual -- maturity.\n\nI think we would be much better off to allow children to self-express all they like but avoid the potential of lifelong complications that may be brought about by drugs or unproven therapy. It is true that transgender people are at a much higher risk of mental illness and suicide, but let\u2019s try to be sure that any cure is no worse than the symptom. Hippocrates was right when he said first, do no harm.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They didn't have to close. They could have chosen to abide by anti-discrimination laws and put \"Jane and Ethel\" or \"Steve and Brian\" on wedding cakes. Not that gays would patronize their bakery, or that people who truly defend equality would..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I heard that on 710KNUS. I heard Boyle say it, but I don't think the lawyer said anything. Did you hear the lawyer say that? My understanding is that the Colorado Public Accommodation law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. So I can't figure out how the couple would have known that the baker would refuse to decorate a cake for them, before hand. That is why I asked for your evidence, other than Boyle. I don't think that the baker had ever said before this that he would not decorate a wedding cake for a gay couple. Did he? Were there other men who had asked for a gay wedding cake and had been refused? I don't know. That is why I asked for evidence. Maybe the lawyer will come back and speak directly to that - unless you already heard her, because I don't think I did.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So how is refusing service to this white power group any different from refusing service to a gay couple wanting to buy a product (i.e., a wedding cake)?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unfortunately most of this Progressive \"change\" does not seem beneficial to society.\n\nExample: At my children's (1 and 3) daycare they are learning about homosexuality, transgenderism, and the importance of the LGBT community before they are taught anything about heterosexuality or the nuclear family. Why you ask? Because the manager of the daycare is in the LGBT community. \n\nThis is how it works. One person with power inflicts their philosophy on young children under the guise of \"inclusiveness,\" while at the same time not being \"accepting\" of the parent's philosophies. Later on these same people lecture you on \"acceptance.\"\n\nPitiful, I know. But this is considered progress to some Americans.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because it is what gets taught in general in Catholic High School Marriage class and in pre-Cana. Also, most Catholic families have a gay sibling, child, parent or cousin who is gay who they would like to meet a nice and settle down with. When you relate the matter to your own family, suddenly Catholci gay marriage sounds essential. There is no doctrinal rebutal for the experience of the faithful. Or the gay priests who are most likely blessing civil gay unions privately. That last part is what has the hierarchy scared to death.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder how the hermaphrodites feel about this? Seems the tranny community is getting all the ink.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They may just refuse to accept her. The Holy See did that with an openly gay French ambassador. www(.)mediaite.com/online/pope-francis-reportedly-rejects-new-openly-gay-french-ambassador-to-vatican/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Southey and her fellow left wing SJW travellers - McLaren, Saunders, Renzetti, Picard, McGee - well, virtually all of the Globe's writers - are the reason I recently cancelled my Globe subscription. Even the Globe's \"hard news\" coverage became badly slanted.\n\nEvery once in a while I check back on its website and what I see always validates my decision to cancel. Today, it's Southey mocking someone who doesn't celebrate and glorify homosexuality.\n\nKeep it up, Globe. Well done.\n\nSigned, a former subscriber.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Re: Citizen power.\n\nOkay, real quick \"What I Think (was) Great About America\" essay contest winner circa 1993.\n\n\nBack then I was a stringer for the Old Ex and I smelled a story in Clinton's \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy. I decided to feel out the military about it, so I dialed up the White House operator.\n\"Pentagon, please.\"\n\"I'll connect you.\"\n\nI wasn't really prepared for that. But lo and behold . . .\n\n\"Pentagon. How may I direct your call?\"\n\n\"Well, I'm not really sure. My concern is this: My son is wanting to sign up fro the service and I want to know how use can assure me that he won't be exposed to the AIDS virus by letting in all these gays and all . . . ?\"\n\n\"Could you hold, please?\"\n\n\"Of course.\"\n\n\"Hello, this is Major BS, how can I help you?\"\n\nI reiterate.\n\n\"Who is this?\"\n\n\"I'm Joe Citizen, Major, and I want to know how you're going to . . . \" Etc.\n\nI don't recall his response with any accuracy, and it's not relevant anyhow.\n\nBut try that today and see what happens.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I doubt the church will be able to address women priests until they come to terms with clerical sexuality, both celibate and otherwise. If there are so many gay clerics, they could not welcome women colleagues, unless they had developed mature gay relationships, celibate or otherwise. When and if that happens, clerics would have less need to regard themselves as special persons and could share ministry across the board. But somehow I doubt that will happen anytime soon , so introducing women into the same clerical culture would wind up, as it has in other churches, in more of the same clerical folie a deux, with overly dependent laity and dependent-needy priests. The underlying problem is more clerical status and culture than who fulfills that role.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Religion is not an excuse to discriminate. Never has been. The baker is a terible Christian, Jesus would serve the sinners. Maybe take some time to preach, what do they call it, \u201cTestify\u201d?\n\nAnyway, the baker\u2019s opinion that he is taking part in a gay wedding by making a cake is ridiculous. No baker took part in my wedding. She, or he(?) was not invited. I never actually saw them. It was a business transaction. The business offered a service to the public. The service was a business transaction. There was literally nothing religious on either end of the business transaction.\n\nHow is it forcing a baker to decorate a cake? He would do the same thing for two heterosexual people.\n\nWhat if only one of the gay people showed up at the bakery and ordered the cake? Let\u2019s say the other man\u2019s name was Chris. What if the baker did not know it was a gay wedding and made the cake?\n\nWhat is the difference?\nIt is not hard to make a wedding cake.\nYou want people to be able to legally discriminate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cI fear these cancellations may be based on misinformation, grown out of fear, intolerance, transphobia, homophobia and misogyny,\u201d\n\nOh please. Why are these people who push these agendae so incapable of tolerating other people's perspectives. I would say that this person is the intolerant and fearful one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now you are just denying OBJECTIVE facts. \n\nThe 10 countries where homosexuality is a crime: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/13/here-are-the-10-countries-where-homosexuality-may-be-punished-by-death-2/\n\nStoning:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is the hypocrisy that gets to me, if you really followed the faith:\n\n1. you could never carry a gun as Jesus was a pacifist and promoted peace and love and turn the other cheek.\n\n2. You could never judge homosexuals as Jesus taught to not judge others and to love one another. Judging others while you have a plank in your eye. At NO TIME did he speak about homosexuality.\n\n3. You could not vote Conservative as they are the party that believes in helping the poor the least. And Jesus was ALL about the poor and critical of the rich (whom the conservatives also support).\n\n4. You cannot feel anything but love and compassion for all immigrants and should seek to help them.\n\nSo tell me do you follow these principles or only the ones Jesus NEVER taught that seek to judge others and keep young people in the dark?\n\nFor the child struggling with gender identity or homosexuality do these teachings hurt or build the child up in love? So simple the teachings of Jesus (and in a good way :)).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fr Martin knows how to dance right up to the line of what he can get away with saying and rely on innuendo to do the rest. His most devoted followers seem to believe he is for overturning Church teaching on homosexual acts and the impossibility of same-sex marriage and he hasn\u2019t done anything to correct this impression. Maybe he is holding a mental reservation and doesn\u2019t believe the Church teaches what it does. \n\nAt least Luther had the courage of his convictions to state openly what he believed, heretical though he was.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Keolu its a nice scripture you quoted. But in Tim Miller's letter the issue is the \"sin of homosexuality.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is a gay couple a federally protected class?\nFederal protected classes include: \n\u2022Race.\n\u2022Color.\n\u2022Religion or creed.\n\u2022National origin or ancestry.\n\u2022Sex.\n\u2022Age.\n\u2022Physical or mental disability.\n\u2022Veteran status.\n\u2022Genetic information.\n\u2022Citizenship.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It could be worse. In Sweden, the job the the military is apparently to defend gay rights: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/03/sweden-army-exists-defend-gay-rights/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have quite a bit more than \"high school biology\".There are a few rare exceptions. But, for the most part, a Y chromosome defines a male. Transgenderism is a delusion. To encourage people to change the window dressing and hormones and live like the opposite sex is NOT going to allow them to BE the opposite sex. EVER.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you not understand that if you think it's okay to discriminate then there is nothing stopping an entire city from denying services to gays, Christians, or any other group the \"in crowd\" doesn't feel morally obligated to serve? We have laws that you cannot discriminate based on race. It's kind of absurd you think we should be allowed to discriminate based on sexual orientation or how much \"in sin\" someone is or is not. That is not freedom.\n\nAll anyone is asking the baker to do is make cakes for the general public. If he doesn't like the fact that some members of the public are gay then he shouldn't make cakes. Nobody is knocking on his door forcing him to make offensive cakes. The only offense in this entire situation is his opinion of the customer. As you stated, the customers were offered other services - they were good customers he had no issue with. He decided \"I cannot serve you because of who you are\" and that is the problem. It's no different than \"we don't serve blacks here\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You'd better watch out if you don't claim Christianity unto yourself like they do. It is true that people harbor resentment over people whom they view as different. It's the only reason I can think of why they hate gay people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If a woman earned less than a man for doing the same work, wouldn't it make more sense for the bottom line to hire more women? Since that isn't happening, that debunks this whole gender pay gay crap. Notice also how this article is about equality yet at the same time it can mention women earning more degrees than men and living longer without giving it a second thought.\n\nFinally, in the 4 tennis grand slam tournaments, women pushed to earn the same as men and they are right now, BUT they are only required to play a best of 3 while men play a best of 5. This is why feminism should not be taken seriously anymore. When women have the advantage, they stay silent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"LGBT advocates express frustration over Vatican document barring gay priests.\"\n\nWell, yes, they would, wouldn't they.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The great majority of clerical abuse was men abusing boys.\n\nExplain how 81% of the thousands of raped boys had nothing to do with homosexuality.\n\nAre you of the opinion that straight men are somehow attracted to boys?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Whoa' hold the phone, are you telling me Liberace was gay also?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your anti-gay, anti-transgender bigotry is attempting to continue making these populations victims and it won't work. There's far more civilized, rational people in our state and nation that don't have a problem with people that are different. Your phobic comments aren't welcome here. Your comments are better suited for the Minnery/Prevo crowds.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And maybe while they're at it they can also protest countries that punish homosexuality with severe legal sanctions up to and including capital punishment. Human rights are human rights are human rights, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good for him! What about all those Punahou football players in cheer leader costumes and ling haired wigs on their Facebook pages!?! They need to come out too, instead of mockingly saying,\"I'm gay!\" They need to come out to their \"good\" Mamas!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds like you're one of those loons that thinks a judge shouldn't rule in gay marriage until you know their sexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder if Kenney (or the writer of this story) get that 'Gay/Straight' means something: many members of these groups are straight!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can we please be honest in this debate and make a distinction between Islam and radical Islam? \n\nI believe the vast majority of Canadians are able to distinguish between the two. One would rightfully be fearful of Radical Muslims , but that does not make one an 'Islamphobes' any more than a radical homosexual would make one a homophobe.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Promiscuity is sinful, gay or straight.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pederasty and homosexuality are TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS! Stop pretending otherwise. It is obvious that you want to display your fear and loathing of gays, which simply demonstrates that Christian love is no part of your religion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And how do you know that LGBT have no interest in others? You must have proof, of course. Because I've known gays, lesbians, bis, and transgenders during my LONG life, and I haven't met one who didn't care about others -- regardless of their sexual orientation. I know gays and lesbians who have adopted children with severe handicaps and haven't cared about their sexual orientation. I've known gays and lesbians who have adopted children and who have been very happy to raise straight human beings.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The 18 countries which currently allow transgender citizens to openly serve have militaries that function. So why would the same not happen in the U.S.? The same logic was used when Don't Ask Don't Tell was lifted - the U.S. military will fall apart. Guess what? It didn't. Stop perverting Christianity and love of country for your own closed minded hatred. Evolve, for God's sake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course Hillary will win in Oregon; that's a no-brainer. But I would like to know why she insists she is the champion of women and gay people, but accepted millions of dollars from countries where women are chattel and gays are executed. Do the ends justify the means when they throw gay men off roofs and, if they don't die outright, kill them by stoning?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm going to weigh in as a transgender man (female to male). \n\nI prefer to think of myself as a good person-- I've never done anything illegal, and I try to be kind and courteous to all I meet. I've definitely never felt the need to bother or harass anyone in any bathroom (men's or women's) because that's kind of a jerk thing to do. I do my business, wash my hands go on about my day. I can safely say that that's all we, the members of the trans and gender non-conforming community, really want-- to be allowed to go to the bathroom in peace. We're more likely to be hurt in the bathroom by the bigoted and intolerant than anyone else is by our presence-- and legislation like this will make it even more likely that a trans / gender nonconforming person (especially transwomen, the most marginalized members of the LGBT community) will be seriously hurt or killed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because the sex is not intrinsically evil if you were born gay. Moses did write Leviticus, Levites in Babylon did for cultural reasons. The Mosaic party, if it existed at all (and they found evidence at Horeb, not Sinai, was small. They found where in Egypt the Israelites came from. A village, not a large area. How can they permit gay marriage for employees and sacramentally? It would be an act of humility to do so after we were so sure that they were contemptible (and atonement for our hatred - and don't dress it up as some kind of concern for their salvation) and to assist their salvation by directing them to monogamy rather than serial partnership.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is it that transgender people cannot perform military service? Our Congressional delegates believe they currently do perform service. Or, is the tweet suggesting transgender people be removed from service simply a matter of fashion, as you suggest with the runway model example?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "... with an extremely broad measure of what it means to \"promote to children\" such that ANY kind of promotion of gay rights can be deemed illegal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He wasn't asked to participate - just to bake a cake. He refused because they wanted to use said cake for something of which he disapproved - because they are gay. It's discriminatory.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They could be transgender. I am so funny.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hilary won the popular vote did she? The number they are throwing out now is 3 million is it?\n\nUnfortunately in this country and our system of government it is the STATES who elect the president, not the popular vote. The popular vote, therefore, is not relevant. The electoral college is a balance to the popular vote. It ensures states with huge populations like California or New York do not have influence over the election at the expense of the other states.\n\nOur country is not a democracy, it is a Republic. Besides--liberals are hypocrites. They love democracy until it gives them things they don't like. For example--liberals loved democracy until the people voted against gay marriage. All of a sudden, now we need 9 unelected and unaccountable monarchs to impose it from on high.\n\nDon't talk to me about the popular vote. If the situation were reversed I don't think I would hear liberals whining and moaning about the popular vote and the electoral college.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Look, this isn't about \"modern gender theory\", although that does sound very scary. We've only got the last several hundred years of history to show that forcing gay people into the closet and denying them the right to live a normal life is harmful to their lives and society as well. \n\n\"The ultra religious views on gender and sex are about as factual and proven as any modern gender theories and Id sooner have that taught to my children.\"\n\nNo, they're not, and claiming that Biblical morality is \"about as factual\" as our understanding of sexuality, pregnancy and disease is silly. This is a human rights issue, where we teach children to tolerate people who are different. And teaching children the basic facts about sexuality, pregnancy and disease is a human right, and our responsibility as a society. Children have a *right* to learn what science has discovered about these issues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Xavier: I see.....the White Supremacist/White Nationalist movement is former President Obama's fault......If that @!#$ Obama had just been willing to \"stay in his place\", it wouldn't be necessary to advance White Supremacy......yes indeed. If racial and ethnic minorities, if women, if LGBT individuals, if any disenfranchised minority had been willing to just \"stay in their place\" it wouldn't be necessary to work to shove them back into \"their place.\" Thanks, Xavier, I think I'm starting to understand. Let's re-segregate the schools and all other public services; let's reinstate laws against inter-racial marriage, let's take the vote away from women, let's push gays back into the closet and lock the door, let's disenfranchize Latino voters, and then we can have a peaceful, white-male heterosexual dominated America....we can really \"Make America Great Again.\" .....Hallelujah, I've seen the light. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's true that he could be a repressed homosexual or not interested in sex.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So in our Land of the Free, you want people forced to stand for the pledge and flag? Hmmmm. We are not equal, anyone who bashes the LGBT community is NOT a believer in equal rights. Equality for everyone, regardless of color, race or sexuality but nope, we preach hate and ban people from the bathroom they use based on their birth \"private parts\" - note PRIVATE parts - and not who they love their life as. Equality? Bullshit. Blacks. Women. LGBT. And now you want to punish the NFL financially because you disagree with one player. Wow. We have so hatred and disdain for anyone who disagrees with our beliefs. That doesn't seem like we value ALL people to me. Why don't you protest against companies that knowing hire sexual predators and suspected rapists? Refuse to watch swimming because of the Brock the Rapist? But nope, that's ok because Brock stands for the flag and Colin Kaepernick doesn't. Good to see your values are in the right place.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Using that logic, if banning women (or even blacks or gays) from serving as combat troops was \"good enough\" for the first several hundred years the United States existed, then it should be fine if we return to that status. Dont you think?\n\nI mean, it was only a couple of years ago that women were even granted the ability to even apply for all types of combat positions...but, since it worked out so well beforehand with them not being allowed to apply for those positions, might as well go back to that also. Right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is what Ray Burke said about gay people not homophobic?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jason Kenney has declined to comment on his own sexual orientation, as is his prerogative.\n\nI hope he will accord young gay people that same right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Then that would be a question of evidence as to which was the real reason for the refusal. Are you suggesting there have been cases of bakeries that refused to make gay wedding cakes because they reasonably feared the couple wouldn't pay the bill?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Resistance to gay marriage is contrary to Natural Law? How, when 95% of the human race is hetero, and the sex organs are made for procreation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He only stopped making the cakes because of FORCE applied by people like you. \nAlso again, you must not be watching the same shows I have been. What have late night hosts been saying? Almost any prime-time show portrays conservatives in a negative light and have been since the 70's at least. I admit there have been a few exceptions. like \"Touched by an Angel'. But for every one of those there have been a dozen \"All in the Families', or do you think that 'All in the Family' did not demean conservatives?\nA gay marriage to you may not be obscene, but to a conservative Christian it is. Just like eating pork is to a Muslim or eating a cow is to a Hindu. Now you want to force some people to do an action that is obscene to them. Until you accept the fact that a 'gay marriage' is as obscene to them as a pedophile wedding would be to you, you will not have a clue as to what is going on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Conservatives, just not ready to lead as they are still stuck in yesteryear. Until they come out of their closets they can't move forward. Remember all those bible beater guys in the USA, that use to bash gay people every Sunday on TV. Then we found out they were having sex with men and that ended their rich faith jobs. Conservatives clean out your closet dwellers and move into this century as your a sad lot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually gay marriage is a state issue. Recall that the state of Hawaii amended its state constitution on this subject. So too are drug laws, note that multiple states have legalized marijuana. Separation of church and state is as well. Indiana got itself into hot water over its version of the religious freedom restoration act. Many states have been putting all kinds of bizarre limitations on abortion access. All of these issues are absolutely state issues. Politics has become a lifetime profession. Assuming that she does become governor, what office will she aspire to next? Senator? I want to know where she stands on all of these issues, because if she turns out to be a conservative wing nut, I want to nip her career while its still budding.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good job Alceste, now you got Duke deleted. Duke, please come back. I had my account deleted like five times and finally came back to life. You just have to be careful what you say. The liberals and the censors don't like people pointing out that Islam is anti-woman and anti-gay. They don't want you to point out that they treat women as second class citizens, force them to cover themselves, and that they throw gays off buildings. If you stay away from saying those things you will be OK. (So, delete this comment after you read it.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Margaret, what do you mean by \"some\"? All transgender activists are denying science. There is no science to support this belief.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But can the president ban obese people from being runaway models? That is different. And what evidence is there that transgender people cannot perform military jobs? Are you equating transgender with a disability? My point stands, the only people that should be qualified from military service is if they have a characteristic (i.e. ankle spurs) that prevents them from doing the job. if their presence makes other people uncomfortable, the other people should be allowed to obtain an honorable discharge. You d on't think a lot of white troops were uncomfortable with the first integrated black troops?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kinda like the Westboro Baptist folks who protest gay everything - by showing up at every gay function imaginable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pederasty, which is sexual contact with pre-pubescent children, is an ancient and current practice among homosexuals where an older man will teach a young boy about the world and also sodomize him. Paedophila is always against the law. Pederasty is too but only when it involves a boy under the age of consent. \n\nSome want to describe sexual abuse of pubescent boys as paedophilia because it lets them off the hook for what it is - pederasty, which is common among them. The priest sex scandal in America was almost exclusively pederasty with homosexual men preying on teen boys. \n\nA 1992 study of homosexual and bi-sexual men showed that 37 percent had \u201cbeen encouraged or forced to have sexual contact before age 19 with an older or more powerful partner.\u201d The Sigma Project carried out in Great Britain found \u201c50 percent of homosexuals had their first same-sex experience with an adult by the age of 14.\u201d \n\nhttp://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/now-everyone-cares-pederasty", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I thought the original subject was Muslims killing people here in the US. But I did bring up the Saudi's because you seem to think the anti-homosexual bias is some ancient no longer applicable belief. You are wrong; if you go to Saudi Arabia and practice homosexuality, you would be DEAD wrong. \n\nAs an agnostic, I think all these religions are merely another tool for egotistical people to exercise power over those who they convince that their 'religion' has some validity.\n\nI don't think you really have the same view of Islam that I learned from practicing Muslims from both Sunni and Shi'a backgrounds. They believe. Islam is the Submission to Allah! To deny any of the teachings is to be apostate. What Muhammed said centuries ago is not 'old testament' stuff. It is The Word Of God! To deny anything Mohammed said is punishable by death. Period. \n\nThey make Hasidic Jews look like reformers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From Russia with love...to Transgender in bathroom! Good move DJT.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When it comes to 'Catholic Identity' of any Catholic Institution, we must follow the Principle, \"First, DO NO HARM\", to the faith. That means the Catholic University CANNOT be promoting, supporting or engaged in activities which undermine the established teachings of the church on Faith and Morals. Consider the hot button of Homosexuality. The University could have some sort of campus ministry to people who have a homosexual inclination, so that they can understand the Church's clear teachings, and learn to integrate the teachings of the church into their lives. This ministry to homosexuals could NOT promote homosexual marriage, or an active homosexual lifestyle. Conversely, If there were a Business Club on Campus, it would have to absolutely reject the exploitation of peoples at the altar of profit. So a true Catholic university does NOT fit into 'Liberal' or 'Conservative' camps, but promotes all the truths of the faith, regardless of political alignment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Southey reiterated the same complaints ad infinitum. Her quality of writing is reminiscent of a college newspaper sophomore badly in need of an editor. Why give her a forum in a national newspaper? The Rebel is a fringe phenomenon. I have never read any Rebel content but no doubt it too is bush league. Is this the attraction for Southey? As to the racist/anti-semitic line that Southey takes (ad nauseam) I'd ask her to do me a favour: Name ONE Muslim majority country that would allow Westerners to 1. Immigrate 2. Maintain their religious practices and 3. Dress in Western style bathing wear - particularly women 4. Openly be Gay. 5. DEFEND women's right IN LAW to wear Western clothes not head scarves, to drink alcohol...need I spell it out for you TABOO-THA! For that matter, name one non-European/N. American country that would allow Westerners to become citizens. What \"gated\" ivory tower community did Southey grow up in and now live such that she is so utterly ignorant of the real world?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "August Cisar: classic case of PROJECTION. You forget, we have years of archived letters to the editor penned by you for case history. The seething you proclaim is your reflection in the mirror. I'm sad you refrained from the usual lesbian accusations this time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wish I could like this more than once. it is so very true. for most gay people the hypocrisy of the church has made it a laughing stock or a much hated organization. for me as well. I don't hate the church, but I also no longer have any respect for it. the only thing that does keep me from hating are the wonderful priests, religious and laity I have known over the years, who aren't full of hate and strive for justice and acceptance for all people! and the gay issue isn't the only issue for us either. the ongoing sex abuse crisis is a part of it, the clergy (and laity, like many on here) who have made themselves as being better from everyone else and who insist they are the only ones who can tell us what is right or wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess the rabidly pro infanticide and pro homosexual marriage Mrs.Clinton would have done a much better job \"defending human dignity\". Please.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Radicalization is taught at home, around the dinner table, as the family enjoys mom's good home cooking, while the grown ups discuss destroying Israel, eradicating homosexuals and the evils of dirty infidels It is drilled into young minds with every tale of glorious martyrdom for Allah in every mosque in every city around the world. Extremism for Islam is taught the same way Christians are taught about Jesus and his message of mercy and forgiveness. It is not at odds with the teachings, but is central to the religion", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Job application forms are allowed to discrimination while bragging its nondiscrimination. to self identify. Are you a member of a visible minority? Are you male, female or transgender? Are you handicapped? Are you native or aboriginal? It is the death of your application and any chance of getting a job if you identify as white male. .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They were packed, I think, with the children of immigrants and those older grandchildren who did not question anything. The end of Vatican II happened to coincide, in this country, with a lot of questioning of authority: Vietnam, middle class women's roles, the sexual double standard, women's rights, gay rights, etc. I think that it was a fluke that Vatican II ended just as the more rebellious sixties began. \n\nTo put it in, perhaps, superficial but musical terms, it was a time when, thanks to the coming of age of the first Boomers, it finally became apparent that \"Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye\" was indeed going to be replaced by \"Rock and Roll is Here to Stay.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgenders have served in every military since forever.\n\nI know it's hard to grasp, but transgender, like gay, like so many issues and realities \nare NOT something just recently thought up by liberals to annoy y'all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's not pretend Christianity in the US has a clean history. The KKK's killings and intimidation, segregation, anti homosexual equal rights legislation, anti interracial marriage legislation, slavery, and the cruel excommunication actions (due to such terrible things as being an atheist, not being of their particular religion, etc), have all been terrible legacies of Christianity in the US. The Bible has been used to justify all these things.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Politcal groups and terrorist groups are not protected. It does not matter that they are offensive or not, not one has to make politcal or terrorist cakes. It is ridiculous to think they do.\"\n\nIt is ridiculous to think they do. That's why I never said they were. I am talking about an individual as I pointed out quite clearly in my previous post. An individual sympathizer. Not a group. If you want a picture of John Lennon on a specialty cake that does not make you a Beatle. It makes you a Beatles fan. And the argument can be made that gay marriage is offensive to a whole lot of people because it fails to pass in one of the most liberal states in the union again and again. Before the Supreme Court decision gay marriage was legal in like 3 or 4 of the 50 states.\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are the any Jews, gays, or Muslims in Texas?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I write the following comments without intending disrespect to the author:\n\n1. This was a military decision, not a decision based on ideological social justice aims. Military readiness runs up against 'inclusiveness' all the time and many people are excluded in spite of their willingness to serve.\n\n2. The author (and commenters everywhere spouting the \"viagra costs more\" talking point) should think of medical costs on a per-capita basis not on a overall total basis. The per-capita medical costs for 'transgender' individuals are far higher than the *average* per-capital medical costs per person in the military. This is a fact and it is relevant to a decision about who to allow to serve. \n\n2. It is factually wrong and ideologically weasally to paint all opposition to the transgender movement as being evangelical in nature or rooted in Christianity. In fact, opposition to the movement (as well as support for it!) can be found in the scientific community and across the religious spectrum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess it becomes a question considering the act of consummating a gay marriage, sodomy. A serious sin, as noted in the OT & NT Bible. \n\nSo, what's wrong with a priest preaching against it?\n\nAs to weather it's the #1 sin in US may be up for grabs, but I would think many hearing the a priest speak against adultery & fornication, would label the priest in the questionable language you post here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Indigenous people aspire \"to commemorate the victims and survivors of residential schools\" by erecting a sculpture at Toronto City Hall. Meanwhile, the organization principally responsible for the abuses of the residential school system is still allowed to run provincial schools in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta at the expense of all taxpayers. Many residents of these provinces don't agree that their money should be spent teaching, for example, that gay people are depraved (as it says in the Catholic Catechism). But politicians (including a prominently gay one) continue to subsidize the church anyway. Eliminating segregationist separate schools would be a really important monument for future generations to marvel at.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Riddle me this, Alexandra Ellis, gets drunk and high, kills a guy on a bicycle, leaves the scene of an accident and gets slapped on the wrist with a 90 sentence. The State says this saves money and is a fair plea bargain. Then, Traini, a supporter of all things gay, gets a comment on his facebook page saying he's going to get himself assassinated. The key word in the guys statement is \"your,\" (you're). So we don't have the money to incarcerate a known killer but we can spend boat loads on this? It's no wonder Mood's outlook for Alaska is negative. Just saying....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nope. If you're choosing to provide a business, the people of a state, county/borough or city can choose to put reasonable restrictions on how you operate that business to protect public health, welfare and civil rights. One basic civil right in the United States is that you can drive up to a gas station and pump gas into your car, or buy goods in a shop, knowing that you have the freedom to do so, and that you cannot be denied that freedom for reasons that have nothing to do with the content of your character.\n\nThe fact that someone thinks gay, lesbian or transgender people are evil or immoral is not a valid reason, any more than the fact that white Alaskans thought Alaska Natives were \"uncivilized savages\" was a valid reason to post signs saying \"NO DOGS OR NATIVES ALLOWED.\" Elizabeth Peratrovich blew that \"logic\" to pieces 71 years ago in the Territorial Senate chamber.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Will we need to add 10% blacks, 10% Natives, 5% gays, 1% trans to every company's board? I'm sure that would sit well with some as they would stand to benefit greatly but those companies would be doomed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"No, if you called out a Muslim for their intolerant views on same sex marriages, abortion, women's rights or being anti-gay, you shouldn't be accused of Islamophobia.\"\n\nYou should spend some time on these forums... that exact thing happens all the time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Disgruntled gays\" - ok, I can see that. Canadians? hmm. But \"organized liberals\"? Are there such people?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Masturbation was a sin. Sex before marriage was a sin. Homosexuality was a sin. Extra marital affairs was a sin. The only sexual act that was not a sin was sex between a man and a woman united in holy Matrimony.\"\nsy\nCorrect teachings, one and all. \n\n\"If you molest a child, you simply go to confession and have your sins forgiven and go out and sin again.\"\n\nSexual activity with a child is and has always been regarded as a very grave sin by the Church. Were you never taught that repentance and a firm commitment of amendment is necessary to validly receive the sacrament of confession? Indeed, one of the fears being voiced about Amoris Laetitia is that it undermines these core aspects of the sacrament.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Given the situation in the U.S. today, with Catholics such as Steve Bannon in leadership roles where they foster, or at least do not oppose, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish, anti-gay, anti-Black, anti-feminist sentiments and actions, this movie might be quite relevant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe he will write a book about his experiences of being gay. How did he feel growing up being attracted to members of the same sex while friens were attracted to the opposite sex and having to listen to various male jokes of adolescense?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This wasn't a gay joke...it was putting two homophobic men in their place", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While having strong new Cardinals is important, as important is pruning those whose statements are at odds with Rome. I will believe it when I see it. Of course, their attachment to the GOP is self defeating, because in victory, the Republicans will do nothing for them. Indeed, they really cannot. Even their own goal of overturning Roe will so gut equal protection jurisdiction that it will never happen, though overturing gay marriage and legal sodomy are the fondest desire of some these bishops and their favorite organizations. They don\u2019t see that human freedom is part of human dignity or that some of their moral positions are not as infallible as they believe. The issue is about more than cultural conflict, it is about their presumed absolute authority on sexual matters while science goes the other way.\n\nAs for Chicago gun violence, the problem is that the city bans guns but the suburbs do not. The state has to do something, and this is even less likely than action from the Hill.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, that's rich coming from deleted post king rex and serial ad hom attacker. The keystone cops are tripping alll over them selves running this garbage out before they even have a AG. Repubs are lining up against trumps tranny team too, guess its time for another bad dye job before running out Kellyanne and Cheeto Jesus looks like he's due as well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did Jesus mention abortion? Homosexuality?\n\nNope.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe the Bible. Many scriptures that state God's original intentions, 1 man, 1 woman, and go forth and make many children to inhabit the earth. Unfortunately, Adam and Eve screwed that up and SIN was created. (1 Corinthians 6:9,10) Those who are sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, men who submit to homosexual acts, men who practice homosexuality, thieves, greedy people, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners , WILL NOT inherit God's Kingdom. The same applies to women. (Romans 1:26) That is why God gave them over to uncontrolled sexual passion, for their females CHANGED the NATURAL USE of THEMSELVES into one CONTRARY to nature. \n\n I LOVE humans just like GOD, but DESPISE certain behaviors they practice, just like GOD. \n\nIt is what it is, you are what you are. I do not hate you because you love a person of your own gender. However, I agree with Gods scriptures.\n\nWe will all come BEFORE GOD on JUDGEMENT DAY. \n\nWhat's in your wallet?????", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"\"The Church steadfastly opposes all unjust discrimination\"\n\nUnless, of course, unless you are LGBT, in which case the institutional Church embraces it and practices it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Motley, you and I are seeing the same thing. Folks, I do not think I have to tell most of you this but, its not really hard at all to spot gay males or lesbians based upon the way they dress, certain haircuts, their mannerisms. (a habitual gesture or way of speaking or behaving).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trying to make this thread about me, are you? It's none of your damn business what I do with my life, Nowhere. \n\nRegarding the Sparhawk, it's good that we have the video which shows him driving into a group of people when he said himself that traffic ahead of him was simply driving around the crowd without harm. So he threatened the marchers with running them over with a truck. then, four times, he jumped out of his truck chased down individuals, threatened them with bodily harm, cursed them and called them crude epithets denigrating homosexuality. What did Sparhawk expect? Physically, he was much larger and more physically aggressive than any of the marchers, including a skinny girl who bravely stood up to him.\n\nOnce again, keep your personal insults out of this discussion. You are a troll hiding behind an alias, accusing me of a felony, driving while drunk. You owe me an apology. If you have any common decency, an apology will be forthcoming within the next ten minutes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And Black Voters, Hispanic Voters, LBGT Voters, etc... But nice try, NYT! There is a reason your profits are down over 95%...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's look at some of these stats on their flip side:\n\n18 percent of American Muslims AREN'T concerned about extremism in the name of Islam around the world.\n\n24 percent say targeting or killing civilians IS justified.\n\n35 percent DO think there is a natural conflict between Islam and democracy.\n\n48 percent say homosexuality should NOT be accepted by society.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is illogical thinking. Viagra costs (which should be paid by the individual) are spread across the millions ho serve. Sex change drugs would apply only to the tiny minority who are \"trans\" -- so naturally the Viagra cost would be far greater.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I consider myself a fairly liberal individual. I believe in equality for everyone and equal rights for women and homosexuals. I don't want any religion to have any say with respect to any laws of Canada ever. I simply don't see Islam agreeing with any of my core beliefs I listed above. \n\nLet's be honest. If this was a group of fundamentalist white Christian males from the deep south insisting through intimidation and violence that their women wear niqabs, and that it was OK to kill gays because that's what God demands, and that death is the only suitable punishment for leaving the church, the same liberal elites would be up in arms to have every last one of them deported. But because they are brown people from the middle east they get a pass because \"it's their culture\". Enough already. It's time that liberals fight for what they are supposed to be all about.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The situation, as The Atlantic article describes it, is clearly a miscarriage of justice. The hateful language about seeing Shanley die a slow and painful death, ratified by the court, is absolutely of a piece with the horrific witch-hunt against pedophiles that has become a permanent fixture of American life. Exactly as Michel Foucault predicted, pedophiles would become the scapegoat of choice now that Jews and gays are no longer available for the purpose. Or better, the narrow subcategory of alleged clerical pedophiles are the ideal target for acting out sacred rage and uninhibited hatred, under the banner of \"protect our children.\" There is no rational check on this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since when the US government has as priority to defend and expand the homosexual agenda? Why the state dept. take side with a nazi corrupted man like Soros? Nobody need to be a genious to know the answer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is the culmination of the right's efforts over the last thirty years to scare their followers into submission. Fear sells. It's a fact.\n\nLook at their posts on the ADN. These guys are scared of gays, foreigners, Muslims, liberals, women, minorities, people who earn more than they do, people who earn LESS than they do, educated people, and on and on and on...\n\nThe problem is that when you back the True Believers into a corner with a bunch of scary rhetoric you don't how they'll react.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the public won't take the Church's abuse remedies seriously until the Church required homosexual priests to come out of the closet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What does it matter if Father is gay, but pretends he's not? Who is hurt?\n\nWe've seen over and over again that it's often the closeted clerics who are the most vociferously anti-sex, anti-gay and anti-women. Their extreme Jansenism often arises out of shame of their own unresolvable '\"sinful\" sexual orientation, and the need for secrecy and denial. They become authorities, and encourage others to accept their extremism, which creates a vicious cycle.\n\nFather should just come out of the closet; he is helping no one by pretending to be what he's not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've never been to a gay nightclub either, but I know people who have and have seen the ads for them. And I've read about a popular app called Grindr. Of course not ALL men with SSA are sexually obsessed, so please don't try to defend on that basis.\n\nThe Church's teaching about gay sodomy is the reason it is attacked by homosexual activists. But the activists never mention that; they mention or imply adversity towards \"gay\" and \"lgbt\" people. So, yes, I'm going to bring up this uncomfortable subject, because it is THE issue, and even the Church is afraid to defend itself because it is afraid to talk about it.\n\nThe priest I mentioned DOES identify as homosexual; I will not reveal my source of knowledge. It is relevant because those promoting homosexuality are not unbiased sources, and those who cite them hold them out to be independent reporters.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Being welcoming toward gays is not --- or at least, should not --- be a liberal vs. conservative issue. As with most other things, there is the Catholic position --- neither conservative nor liberal. Simply the Catholic position. On whether a parish should welcome gays, the answer is clear: the Church teaches that we are all sinners, and precisely because of that, all of us need the Church, her teachings, and her sacraments. To welcome gays is not at all to accept or condone gay sex. The Church's position on that is also clear. But for those who are truly Catholic and seeking the way of Christ, the Church should always have open arms. Maybe the better question is whether gays, knowing the Church's position, will seek salvation guided by the one true Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay man i know well what will happen to me if Islamic power in Canada gains momentum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You apparently havent read the bible, it \"condemns homosexuality\" very clearly by saying they should be put to death. Not that I agree with it, but you have no clue what you are talking about and Id bet youve not talked to one \"biblical scholar\" in your life. Lying @$$ fraud.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In short, he's learning to be more like the last guy we had. He's actually going to discuss (he says) filthy lucre issues with Trump, not the usual liberal high moral sanctimony stuff like feminism, gay rights, how great Islam is (don't know how those three go together- ?), legalizing pot, recognizing indigenous land rights, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Stelmach and Redford were also good at corporate give-aways. \n\nThey were also 'conservative'.\n\nIf by 'conservative' you mean gay hating medieval wing nuts that believe in an invisible man in the sky, then yes, the merger will definitely accomplish that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The law not only \"robs children of stable homes\". It corrals them toward and limits them to homes that practice religion and a specific religion. Atheists will be placed higher than gays or other religions on the list of banned parents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My last sentence---\"The sexual abuse scandal was caused by homosexual priests\"----is ABSOLUTELY TRUE!!!!!!!!!! Go look at the facts. There is no denying it, though you and others like you try to. You say, \"The fact is that many in the hierarchy are gay. If the Church actually got rid of all of its gay clergy, we would be left with very few.\" The reason for the large number of homosexuals (not \"gay\", homosexuals) in the hierarchy is because the seminaries in the 60's and 70's were allowing in as candidates men who were not qualified to be priests. Who are you to determine who is qualified to be a good priest?????? The rule against allowing homosexuals and those with homosexual tendencies is a GOOD rule, a USEFUL rule, a HEALTHY rule. If it had been followed, the Church would not be having the problems it is having today.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why not direct your comments toward the one making silly and erroneous accusations?\n\nYou know...the one who falsely claimed \"She pretends that discrimating against our LGBT brothers and sisters is Catholic doctrine and should be a civil right\" or.....show me where I ever ever said such a thing?\n\nOr where anyone has ever been \"prevented from worshipping.\". Or where anyone has been denied medical care. Or where I ever claimed to be living the perfect Catholic life.\n\nOr...more to the point - perhaps reconsider who exactly is being sanctimonious here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If there are so few, barring them is also insignificant.\n\nAllowing one category of transgender but not another as you suggest could be construed as similar to allowing only women who have been surgically sterilized. That wouldn't go over well either. \n\nIt would be interesting to get accurate information on studies by the military regarding issues other than medical costs regarding the effect of permitting transgenders. What you or I guess is the effect is irrelevant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean it's fake news.\n\nThe point is that paying for transgendered person's medical needs is no more costly than boner pills...yet you don't see the typical trump supporter foaming at the mouth about viagra costs.\n\nAlmost like there is something else driving this policy.\n\nHint...it's bigotry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What nonsense. The Liberal (and liberal) stance on these issues has nothing to do with personal beliefs and everything to do with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Supreme Court decisions. Whether the person holding beliefs that run contrary to those two foundations of Canadian society is a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu or Buddhist is irrelevant. They can dislike gay marriage, abortion and LGBTQ people as much as they want, but any attempt to impose their position on society will be struck down.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LOL! Here, have a look at Glee's version, with two gay males...they've got the right idea. Very sexy.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ja9JLuGryU", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump did not leave the transgender policy up to the military. He blindsided the command structure. When he tweeted about consulting his generals, no one could identify who those generals were. They most certainly were not part of the formal structure, as the Pentagon stated that there would be no change in policy until the orders came through the proper channels, and tweet does not qualify. If that weren't chaotic enough, there was a nine minute gap between tweets completing Trumps train of thought, leaving the Pentagon wondering precisely what Trump was announcing.\n\nBe a conservative. Fine. It's a legitimate political stance. Defending Trump is not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So are you going to have someone checking peoples birth certificates and equipment whenever they enter a restroom?\nYou're right, this should not be an issue. There have always been transgendered people using the restroom of their choice, suddenly it's something to be afraid of.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's not true of course, but I'm betting that you voted for Trump. So facts don't matter.\n\nTransgender people have served honorably in combat for years. You know nothing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When businesses open up shop, the owner or manager agrees to abide by all laws pertaining to that business, including public accommodations laws.\nIn Colorado, that means businesses cannot refuse to sell to gay or lesbian couples.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dude, dude. Its hard to say this give that its traggic what happened. I wouldnt say that homosexuality isn't under attack but that its the male identity is under attack. I know, I know how that sounds but hear me out.\n\nThese boys that attacked him are probably so frustrated with the systematic sexism and outright attacks that the feminist are inflicting on the male indentoty that they lashed out at a symbol of that. Hell, who cares about being gay these days? A man who wants to love another man, whats wrong with that?\n\nBut you have to remember, there is a concerted effort by feminists to turn men into slaves. These boys go to school only to be treated as sub-human by the feminsit oppressors. There is zero respect for what men have done to create this society and are boys are being taugh in school, in society that they are evil sinners, nothing better than criminals. The oppression and disrepect these days is rife, ask more so why than how.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They haven't been dis-invited. Officers are still welcome to attend.\nWhat the community has requested is that officers not show up armed, in uniform.\nless than 20 years ago, Toronto police were still gay bashing members of our community.\nThey've got a long way to go before there's any pride in policing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My interpretation of Trump's decision is based on the financial burden placed on taxpayers for the gender transition. Here's an idea, start a go fund account to support transgender transition for those in the military, that way taxpayers won't have to pay for the enormous medical expenses...everybody wins.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I figured Caldera was \"channeling\" Jerry Falwell - who proposed that Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby, was a gay role model because the character was purple (which Falwell claimed was a \"gay pride color\" - perhaps Falwell should explain that to the Minnesota Vikings, aka the \"Purple People Eaters\" - or to the Colorado Rockies), because the character's antenna was a triangle (which Falwell claimed was a \"gay-pride symbol\" - you know, like the PYRAMID on the back of a dollar bill) and because Tinky Winky carried a \"purse-like tote bag\" (kind of like a laptop bag).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some statements are logically incompatible. \n\nFor example, one cannot assert that an ecclesial discussion is being conducted without a single \"gay\" voice then, a few days later, assert that a large fraction of priests are \"gay.\"\n\n(Just like one can't assert that young people think it's perfectly fine to be \"gay\" and only moribund antediluvians think it's bad, then, a few days later, lament that vast numbers of \"gay\" young people are committing suicide because of \"anti-gay bullying\" by their schoolfellows.)\n\nI mean, you can, obviously, but not with any expectation of being taken seriously.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're conflating \"pick up on,\" and \"influenced to start doing that themselves.\" Sorry- not the same thing.\n\nBUT--if you're willing to concede the fact that there is just as much statistical chance of \"men kissing unconscious females put under a spell\" as there is about transgendered/ homosexual princesses, and that Disney should treat that statistic with commensurate levels of attention, then you're leaps and bounds above the Washington Post/Anchorage Daily news :)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Danica Roem beating Bob Marshall... Now that was sweet. A classy transgender woman who didn't make her gender identity an issue thrashes a homophobic and transphobic 26-year incumbent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What will it take for homosexuals to just be plain old citizens? How much time will have to transpire before this group of people no longer have any precedence over anyone else in the society? Are there still crimes against them or discrimination against them for who they are? Is it any more than other groups? Who suffers more hate crimes and discrimination? \nIs there a goal that when achieved will result in the end of the special attention that these people receive? \nAt what point do they stop being victims of Canadian society? In fact, do they ever want to be 'accepted' in society without their special recognition, even if the recognition is not always positive? How many are basking in the attention?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender have the right to declared their status but they should continue to served the Armed Forces 'as is'. A female is a female , a man is a man ! Any future transformation is at the expenses of the individuals and upon completion then each should be treated accordingly!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "[We have one of the last centrist politicians on the red side.]\nAs a centrist I wouldn't call Murkowski a centrist. Firstly, centrism isn't \"middle of the road,\" \"fence-sitting,\" etc. but a ideology that we as a nation and as a result of our governing system got to where we are with good reason. This generally means resisting any big shifts one way or the other.\nSecondly, Murkowski is consistently conservative in about 90% of her stances. There are two areas she consistently breaks from her party though. Namely reproductive rights and hate crimes. But for gun rights, gay marriage, pro-development, etc. etc. etc. even affirmative women's rights Murkowski votes alongside most Republicans.\nI don't think Murkowski's issue on the Republican healthcare bill is shifting the healthcare issue a good distance to the right so much as the disregard for proper process and inclusion of viewpoints.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You and I went to the same biology, physiology, sex education, and English classes. You are 100% correct: it IS impossible.\n\nIf Tridentinus is correct, sex between heterosexuals can turn them into homosexuals. Wow.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When a progressive cause is silenced with a ban, NCR publishes a story decrying a curtailment of free speech on the American campus.\n\nBut when a violent mob shuts down the free speech of a gay Catholic at UC Berkeley (as happened last week with Milo Yannapoulis) NCR won't even bother to mention it.\n\nMy conclusion is that NCR sides with the thugs who use violence to stop the free speech they don't like -- and so do comboxers who react to this post by banning it from the forum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is a trans woman is that man, I am confused.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, funny how people aren't concerned about females competing with other females. Males have a decisive advantage and this is backed up by serious studies. In fact, one study shows how males who identify as transgender actually strengthen their bone density by taking estrogen. \n\nThis is just a new wave of misogyny and glad to see who is on the side of oppressing women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I figured it was legislators from Eagle River who started it because they were upset about the schools promoting the homosexual agenda and teach evolution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Treating women, gays, Muslims and all the rest of your list as we treat everyone else is not groveling or pandering but acting as a decent human being.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The article states \"trans gender Individuals,\" which implies inclusivity for anyone who identifies as trans gender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Having the federal government pay for transgender operations on the taxpayer dime is not right. And that is what has been happening.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because someone has to bring the case. That is why gay marriage, which could have been considered a right much earlier, waited until someone outside the usual suspects decided that the time to file was now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Comments have been posted like: \"Are Christian intervenors heard?\" and \"How many Christian church organization will be granted intervener status?\"\n\n..........................................\nHere are the groups initially excluded, now included:\n\nCanadian Council of Christian Charities\nCanadian Conference of Catholic Bishops\nCanadian Association of University Teachers\nLaw Students\u2019 Society of Ontario\nSeventh-day Adventist Church in Canada\nEvangelical Fellowship of Canada and Christian Higher Education Canada (jointly)\nBritish Columbia Humanist Association\nCanadian Secular Alliance\nEgale Canada Human Rights Trust\nFaith, Fealty & Creed Society\nRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, Catholic Civil Rights League and Faith and Freedom Alliance (jointly)\nWorld Sikh Organization of Canada\nLesbians Gays Bisexuals and Trans People of University of Toronto (LGBTOUT)\nUnited Church of Canada\nStart Proud and OUTlaws (jointly)\nWest Coast Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund\nBC LGBTQ Coalition", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And Satan has also been saying \"Discriminate against women and gays! Tell everyone that this is part of the Christian message.\" That alone will drive many from the Church, and fill Satan with glee. Along with \"Tell outright lies such as 'the magisterium has never changed a teaching.'\" Nothing will please the father of lies quite as much as lies coming out of the institutional Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" that offers female, male and transgender victims of sexual assault and harassment up to four hours of free independent legal advice,\"\nWow. And will victims of robbery, threats, physical assault etc. also get this four hours of free legal advice? If not, why not? \nThat's $600-$1200 worth of time at most lawyers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's another one for you Keiran. I am sure you are aware of the Richard Wagner study which saw him harrassed out of the priesthood. His study involved in-depth interviews of 50 participants recruited through an \u2018informal network of gay priests\u2019 (Wagner 1981: 12). Of those 50, only 2 stated they were living celibate lives. Of the other 48, between them, they had an average of 226 sexual partners (Wagner 1981; citied in Sipe 1995). Now, do you think this level of sexual activity would have occurred before this period in history? It may have but I wonder. I'm not saying that the activity was abusive in any way but then again, none of the other people involved were interviewed so we'll never know - and that's always the problem here. I suppose St Peter Damien might have something to add, but the only people who seem to discuss him are the likes of Randy Engels of the gay conspiracy theory, where Marxist gays have been plotting for decades to bring down the Church, family and society. Hmm", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u2018Heartbroken\u2019 troops, veterans react to transgender ban\".\nIn a related story, several million more troops and veterans, thank God, and breathe a sigh of relief. The greatest generation must be rolling in their graves. \"Never leave your buddies behind\" could take on a whole new meaning.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know a LOT of gay people. And every one of them was/is capable of loving people of the opposite sex. But they chose to go with their sense of sexual lust, seeking a particular anatomy. And really is a confused state of affairs because there's really nothing natural about the sort of behavior that is engaged in. Where to \"put things\" when there is no designated orifice? Well, wherever it fits, I suppose.\n\nSo I believe that anatomy should dictate who we decide to form partnerships with; that is, complementary anatomy. When we fall for someone who is unavailable, whether it is an already married person or a person of the same sex, we move on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess I missed the news about Catholic parents lobbying their school board to support the formation of gay straight alliances. Hopefully some do but that doesn't exonerate the boards who block the formation of these support groups.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I cannot say that I am proud that I am gay, any more than I am proud that I am healthy and that I have blue eyes; but I am glad for all three.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry Father Reese but on this one your missed the key point.\n\nIn addition to the valid legal reasons offered by Glaze my donut is that any compromise is a statement of agreement with bigotry. \n\nIt is a statement against Charity.\n\nYour compromise would continue to allow Catholic schools like the one in Colorado to expel a child because the Gay parents were, 'living in sin.' \n\nThis is the same (but only possibly to a lesser degree) as saying that children should be kicked out of the country because one of their parents committed a terrorist act.\n\n (see continue following)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for all the good replies. Orin Hatch said something rather similar to Ken Buck, probably for the same reasons. This all reminds me of when I heard former Colorado Governor Roy Romer speak in front of the Denver Gay Men's Chorus, backstage at the Buell when it opened in the mid-90s. \"I'm a kid from a small town on the eastern plains, and grew up with a set of views about gay people. Only when I met, worked with, and got to know them did I realize how wrong those views were.\" Same goes for transgendered folks. Learn about others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Everything was fine until the ninth paragraph: \"The bill\u2019s language doesn\u2019t include transgender men and nonbinary people who menstruate.\"\n\nI'm just appalled that there's no concern for the agender people in that statement. Actually, I'm not appalled, but I just learned that word, \"agender,\" this week, and that's the first time I've been able to use it. Seems like if you menstruate, you're a woman, despite the fact that you might think you are a man or a cat or a sunflower.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1. Of the 3,141 counties in America, Trump won 3,084 of them. Hillary won 57. I call that a mandate. 2 million more votes for Clinton than Trump were cast in New York (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens). That's why we have the electoral college, so New York city doesn't get to choose our president.\n2. Trump said he's divesting his business interests on Dec. 15. Try and keep up Rex.\n3. Brannon ran Breitbart which apparently white nationalists looked at, it doesn't make it exclusive to them. Yea Rex, Betsy DeVos is a pretty traditional conservation and not an off the left side of the page progressive like yourself. Her boss the president-elect is okay with transgender restrooms and gay marriage so I doubt she's going to make any sweeping changes in that regard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"And if SCOTUS sides with Masterpiece Bakery, the conservative Christian viewpoint will prevail over other religions in matters of how the law treats gay people.\"\n=============\nAnd if SCOTUS rules against Masterpiece Bakery, you really and honestly think the ruling would \"side with true justice, the American way, and everything that is great about being an American?\"\n-\nNo, because even I will admit that regardless of how the SCOTUS rules, it is going to make some people really happy, and it will make some people really sad.\n-\nBut that doesn't bother you anymore than it bothers me.....\"as long as we are the ones who are happy and not the ones who are sad.\"\n-\nSo cut any \"we can all win if SCOTUS rules the right way\" ideology....because we are not \"all\" going to win. Someone is going to lose.....and you want Conservative Christianity to lose.....and Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism to win.....one \"religious\" ideology to lose and another \"religious\" ideology to win. \n-", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump\u2019s Navy Secretary On Transgender Troops: \u2018Any Patriot\u2019 Should Serve", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Re: \"Transgender military members sue Trump over service ban\"\n\nGOOD!\n\nJudge (and hire) people because of their ability to do the job, not on what's between their legs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\nWhy on earth would you use an expression like that? Nothing you've said in this thread has been truthful or factual: Nothing.\n\nThen do it; or stand down. In the absence of corroborating evidence, there is no reason to believe anything you post: you've established a pattern of gay-bashing supported by lies.\nI had never heard of Equality Ohio until you came here to lie about them. However, I was glad to become familiar with their work and gladly make my own the positions they take on their website and in the statement I quoted above from their Communications Director with respect to religious freedom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That\u2019s the script - race and homosexual behavior are the \u201csame thing\u201d - but as things are playing out ordinary folks see they are not.\n\nThe Civil Rights Act did not result in little old grandmothers being persecuted because they were Baptists and acted on it.\n\nThey are not the same thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wut, they are questioning transgender bathrooms and a bankrupt health care program, possibly a proxy war with Russia?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can business discriminate against trans people? Since choosing to change your sex is a choice like a political affiliation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who will our Prime Minister ask to apologize for the orthodox Jewish and Muslim views of homosexuality? For example: \n\nLeveticus 20:13 \"And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed a detestable act: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.\"\n\nSahih Bukhari (72:774) - \"The Prophet cursed effeminate men (those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners of women) and those women who assume the manners of men, and he said, 'Turn them out of your houses.' The Prophet turned out such-and-such man, and 'Umar turned out such-and-such woman.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Part 2 of 2\nAt this time, Students for Life complained to same principal that other students were trying to silence them. They also challenged him to \"acknowledge the Catholic Catechism's teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.\" This brou-ha-ha was also played out in the college mouthpiece. No evidence that principal ever ceded to this demand. \n\nIn the wake of these incidents, a bit of a crisis developed that went all the way up to the archbishop, with some claiming that \"pressure groups\" were trying to redefine Catholic values at St. Mike's. This time the brou-ha-ha is published in Catholic Insight. In response, a statement on University of Toronto's acceptance of sexual diversity is issued by U of T's president, a St. Mike's alum. \n\nFootnote: one month later, same archbishop refuses to confer a doctorate on a nun whose thesis was on the spiritual contributions of lesbians. Sr. gets her degree--conferred by the chancellor instead. Freedom wins.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The behavior has not been considered \u201cunacceptable as a human activity\u201d by the \u201cRCC\u201d.\n\nThe statement \u201cIf children are not possible then sex to them as a religious entity has NO value.\u201c is a fabrication.\n\nSince the \u201cRCC\u201d is not \u201c(d)enying the intrinsic value of human sexuality\u201d, that can hardly be \u201ca defect in their understanding of human nature\u201d.\n\nPsychologists have had some rather heated debates historically and have today about human nature. First homosexuality was a disorder in the DSM, then it disappeared.\n\nNice chatting with you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Small-c Conservatives? Most of the individuals involved in this new merger are rabid anti-abortionists, corporatists, anti-gay activists and hard right extremists. I would hardly call this a small-c conservative party. If they ever formed a government in Alberta, they would make Donald Trump seem like a flower toting hippie! \n\nMany religious and social conservatives bought memberships in both parties so they could ensure this \"United Conservative Party\" becomes a reality. If they ever get into power, we can say good by to Human Rights, social support services and adequate funding for roads, schools and hospitals. Only the very wealthy and privileged will be able to thrive under this party's direction.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rich, the residential schools had neither gas chambers nor ovens. There was no stated aim to completely stamp out all traces of a race through murder. Medical experiments resulting in permanent disfigurement and death were absent. Systematic starvation and 16 hour slave labour days were not features of the residential schools.\n\nThere is absolutely no comparison between the two, and anyone who debates the point is perpetrating a great insult to the Jews, Slavs, Roma, political prisoners, and homosexuals who perished.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So is pay standardized? I liked the link on the code of conduct. It would seem the tool is their to remove a bad judge, but I'm not sure that it's used very much? Iowa voted out 2 very good judges based only on their vote for the right of gays to marry (first in nation). It was a bi-partisan court with appointees from both parties and the vote was unanimous. A lot of Iowan's didn't like the rule Bob VanderPlaats a tea party conservative, got the vote to cause 3 up for realection defeated. I notice in this last election, all the remaining judges were re-elected. \n\nOne of those cases where the consitituion is not specific, The decision was upheld on challenge as we know now.\n\nDoes a judge serve the law, or does he/she serve at the will of the people? IMO justice sometimes stands on the side of the minority opinion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Nobody's complaining that he's coming out.\"\n\"Some of them are. According to the article, they think he's saying being gay is a choice.\"\n============\nSpacey apparently is saying just that: It's a choice that he freely chose....and is proud of.\n-\nBut that contradicts the \"we are born this way\" and \"it's not our choice because we are born this way\" mantra that gays have proclaimed for decades. \n-\nIt's one thing for the gay community to pretend that homosexuality is akin to \"race\" that no one can do anything about; it's another for Spacey to proclaim that, \"Not at all, it's a choice. It's a complete choice.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Layla - \"The following is part of what Mr. Martin had to say: \u201cI rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. If we do not step forward, then we must step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.\u201d\n\nMr. Martin, a devout Roman Catholic, was challenged by the Bishop of Calgary, Frederick Henry, who was in favour of excommunicating Martin for his plan to legalize same-sex marriage. Henry said that the prime minister\u2019s politics clashed with his religion. The Bishop went on to say, \u201cYou\u2019re either with the Church, or you are not.\u201d\n\nMr. Martin considers his beliefs a personal matter, but believes strongly in equality, including equal marriage. The gay community is thankful that this prime minister realized the need for equal marriage in this country, in spite of his religious affiliation.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am a straight Catholic woman living in community with two gay women, one of them also Catholic. We are all professionals with more than a hundred years of service to the community between us. I know nothing of their \"bedroom activities\", as Tom Z sums up their identity as gay women. They are not interested in having anyone know anything about their \"bedroom activities\". Asked about their lives, they speak of the essential work they do in the community (we are a social worker, a doctor and a lawyer) and the loving home life that fills and heals their hearts and souls, allowing them to serve the community the next day. For people like Tom Z, they announce their \"bedroom activities\" when they introduce themselves as a family. For me, when they identify themselves as a loving family committed to serving the community, they announce the beauty of family and the shared joy of serving the community, EVEN the people who reject them. They are the most Christian, generous women I know.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would like to hear Chelsea Manning's views about whether a transgender soldier could pose any risks for the security of the US military.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree, murders of transgender's in this nation according to you is only a crisis to the transgender who is being murdered. But the bigotry that leads up to these murders that involve \"profiling\" a specific group of people is widespread and that is a National crisis and a disgrace that some members of our society are not allowed the same rights as all due to bigotry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality in it's relation to all humankind has become in many ways the most covered-up and excused lifestyle in the history of mankind. Where the truth be told, revealed or discussed there exist a nearly total disconnect to have any form of open honest debate or discussion on the subject.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Excellent choice!\n\n\"Jim Nabors, 'Gomer Pyle' Star, Heads to Washington for Gay Marriage\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Transgender people, Jenkins said, aren\u2019t asking for special rights \u2013 just the \u201chuman rights\u201d allotted to all American citizens.\"\nYes, they are. Besides when the left leaning media celebrates a win, that usually means more corruption, higher crime rate, more drug abuse, and more poverty for those neighborhoods. See south Chicago and Baltimore for examples.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"It has long been known the Mounties kept an eye on a wide array of people and organizations \u2013 from church and gay rights groups to Quebec separatists and Communists.\"\n\nThose who oppose the staus quo and the prevailing orthodoxy of the day have always been the enemy within that the state is most concerned about; they are persecuted relentlessly while the public at large is duped, made to fear the spectre of some foreign boogeyman. Last century it was Communism, this century it is terrorism. The language changes but the tactics never have. \n\nSomething to ruminate on next time you're told we need sweeping new surveillance powers to fight scary foreign terrorists, and that if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mary - what you wrote is very powerful. After reading the link to the article Fr. Healy wrote for NCR talking of his own AIDS and being gay, I think you speak in different words of the same anguish he experienced. \n\nHealy \"preached to teach\" in that article/homily: He said: \"But neither can I deny that we priests have long realized that the institutional church has done extraordinary harm to both the laity and to us in its adamant stance on all sexual issues. ... The love and affirmation I have experienced in my ministry is a priceless treasure to me. But I cannot avoid a deep, abiding sense of sorrow for the many ways in which we have failed to deal courageously with the sexual myopia of the institution. Perhaps my belated decision to share these thoughts will encourage other priests to speak, but I rather doubt it.\"\n\nToo little speaking out. We all need to speak out more our willingness to accept and embrace \"the full spectrum\" of all humans created in the image of God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Try that on someone who hasn't taken genetics classes. XXY and XYY don't correlate to \"sexual preference\", or you'd find that genetic \"pattern\" in a preponderance of homosexuals. In fact you don't, because as noted above there is no such correlation. That's a classic \"apples and oranges\" comparison.\n\nAnd your \"multifactorial traits\" argument describes, in its simplest form, mere genetic expression in phenotype: \"dominance\" vs. \"recessive\" in characters such as eye color (or hemophilia). Difference between that and the fallacy to which you attempt to apply it is that there are genes corresponding to those phenotypes, even if they're not completely expressed (as is the case with skin melanin content/expression in my children and grandchildren). You have none corresponding to \"sexual preference.\"\n\nYou perforce resorted to attempted \"baffle\" because \"dazzle\" was beyond you. And in the process fooled only your self. There's science (my argument) and wishful thinking (yours). NEXT!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So the GOP is even closer to Satan than the Democratic Party that supports abortion on demand, gender on demand and suicide on demand? Exorcists will tell you that abortion, homosexual activity and suicide are the three most reliable indicators of demonic influence or activity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Privacy? Let me first point out that there are already laws against being a creep in the bathroom. If someone is peeping on you or assaulting you it is already illegal. As it stands right now a transgender person goes into the bathroom that corresponds to their phenotype. They go in, do their business and leave, (hopefully after washing their hands). If they assault anyone, they get arrested. I'd like for you to explain to me how carding people at bathroom doors or checking their \"REAL\" sex is going to increase everyone's privacy. Or how much less confusing it would be to send women into the mens room because that's how they were born. As to the gay marriage issue, there are a ton of rules laid out in Leviticus which Christians constantly ignore. Unless you think women should be sent away to the woods when the are menstruating, maybe you should stop trying to hold everyone to the \"word\" of god.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay person and lifelong Catholic, I have long been bewildered as to why some people consider the mere tolerance of gay people (and think about what that means: \"tolerating\" someone) is enough to send them over the edge and off to another, less tolerant church, as has happened among other Christian denominations. \n\nWhen one considers that the origins of homophobia in the Judeo-Christian tradition stem from Leviticus, a book largely devoted to Jewish ritual law which most Christians and many Jews mostly ignore, it is curious indeed as to why the one particular issue of homosexuality is enough to have some people raving that it alone is \"the sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance!\" as though they were discussing murder. \n\nAs an old gay person I no longer care what the Church decides to do about people like me, but I do care about the young people who will be forced against their will to listen to homophobic sermons as I recently endured this past Sunday when the theme was love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is a specious argument. Texas was one of the first states to state that they will not comply. In 2014, there were 66,500 confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect in Texas. If there were ANY cases of someone pretending to be transgender in order to access bathrooms with members of the opposite sex, I am pretty sure it would be in the news. Yet the uproar is about the bathroom issue. I find the argument that this is for \"the children\" to be disingenuous at best.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cFor the Kremlin, it\u2019s now harder to define the enemy\". Yup, with trump in place, I can understand that. \nIt's maybe too obvious to state, but I'll do it anyway: Everybody in the world outside his immediate family, can become trump's enemy and then his friend again, in the space of a day or 2 tweets, whichever come first.\nI wouldn't mind Putin being confused by trump, but when trump himself does 180s, 360s on every subject every day so he seriously confuses himself - major problem.\nThe only positive side I can see right now is that he'll decide tomorrow that he never said anything about banning transgenders from the military. Since it's taken 30 seconds to type this, he may already have done so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "....Can someone please explain to me exactly what is meant by \"deep-seated homosexual tendencies?\"\n\nTake a look in a mirror.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hello Larry ... Your question affirms my point that once an observer has a category (e.g. \"male\") in mind, there are almost automatic limitations on the following observations. Two thoughts come to mind. The first is that the physical distinctions are not always that easy to identify (hermaphrodites, for example). The second is that regardless of the physical \"category\" there are the psychological identifications (of the one being observed). Transgender people almost always describe that they knew this \"psychological truth\" early in life.\n\nAs scientific knowledge progresses very likely the categories become more \"fine-tuned\" - hopefully gradually closing in on what is \"more true\" of reality than was previously understood. The mores and laws of any social group/government always lag behind what is actually happening in a population. I would love to know what the laws of the US will be in 200 years. I bet people will think that some of our 2016 laws were strange and archaic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The priest who said the funeral Mass was approached by the woman in question who told him that she was there with her lesbian marriage partner.\n\nHe did not leave the altar and did not refuse to go to the graveside.\n\nIt turned out that she and her mother, who was daily communicant, were alienated, that she pulled the stunt specifically to put a known orthodox priest into the situation, that she had left the Church some time previously, that her brother - a known anti-Catholic attorney - was in on it with her and immediately notified all his press sources to spin the matter against the priest and the Church.\n\nThe priest in question correctly observed Canon Law which required him to refuse her communion, he left the archdiocese on his own volition - he had been visiting from another country - and was not removed by the archdiocese.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You seem to be saying that because transgendered individuals compose a small percentage of society they don't deserve protection. Reality is, the smaller the minority the more they need (and deserve) protection.\n\nJust how big does a minority have to be before you think it should be protected? Five percent, ten percent, ... what's the threshold?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Give me a link to a medical, genetic or other scientific research paper that identifies a 'gay' gene. It's also possible for heterosexual males to have 'female' genetic markers. In fact all of us do. We got 'em from our mothers. So until you can show me some quantitative data confirming the presence of a 'gay' gene and its actual LOCATION in the human genome, you're in the same boat as the Christians concerning their various squabbles about what Jesus (alayhis-Salaam) said and did, and what he meant by it all. In short, you BELIEVE in the existence of a gay gene, and that's all you got. Prove me wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's basically like this. Military service is conducted by 1% or so the talking heads say. If we go w/ the 6000 figure of transgenders, out of 1.5 million then even still, it is a small percentage of an even smaller percentage of people affected. APA still considers \"transgenderism\" as a psychological disorder. If you were born w/ boy parts, but deny that you are a boy, and are willing to have a surgery to remove your boy parts, then fine....they can pay for it themselves. It still doesn't make them a girl, w/ girl parts and having girl things happen to them like menstruation, ovulation, etc. \nAbout military service? I personally do not want a soldier who could possibly be suffering from some kind of psychosis to be disrupting good order and discipline because of their personal belief. The mission comes first, then the team, then the individual. In that order. Use all the examples of other country's military all y'all want, but the US military is different from any other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Johnny, You fought the good fight for so many years (and, often against daunting odds). I admire you so much -- gay or straight, you are just one great guy. Wish you the very best in retirement!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay marriage left the station long ago and won't be returning, no matter who wins the election same goes for abortions there is an institution called Congress and the Supreme Court that stands in the way even if the Donald would try to ban anything. Climate change is another thing, I seriously doubt whoever is elected will do anything about it (see response below).\n\nI'm not so sure the economy has turned around other than for the few and that the ACA is going to work. It seems like costs are dramatically going up and health insurance providers are bailing on it. I hope we can figure something out and soon regarding health care.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Separation of church and state do not allow you to sit in judgement about the right or wrong of someone's religion. Religious rights are protected by the Constitution. No one is preventing or forcing gay couples not to marry, as the courts should not allow gay couples to force religious persons to participate in any wedding that they are uncomfortable with. They can buy muffins and cookies, but there's no reason they can't find plenty of people supportive of gay marriages, to bake them a cake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is a difference between showing anger and hate and being homosexual. Anger and hatred are not an intrinsic part of the person. At most, they are thoroughly ingrained habits, but they are not innate. Homosexuality is. It is as innate as being left-handed.\n\nThe point is that homosexuals see that the institutional Church is calling THEM \"intrinsically disordered\". If the CDF were to denounce left-handedness as intrinsically disordered, then left-handed people would rightly consider themselves as insulted by the Church.\n\nYou want to uphold conservative political correctness by claiming that the institutional Church is welcoming to gays. In fact, it is not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm saddened (though perhaps not surprised) by the tone, tenor and dare I say ignorance (in the literal meaning of the word) of many comments posted here. As has been noted, Courage's perspective and significant portions of some current \"official\" teaching on sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular is based on an incomplete and flawed understanding of human sexuality. There's overwhelming evidence that humans' sexual orientations fall along a spectrum. While a majority are heterosexual, more homosexually-inclined persons have existed across time and across cultures. This is What Is; this is Reality; this is God-given. \n\nWhy is it so difficult (threatening?) for so many to recognize and accept that God's Plan may be just a bit bigger than the plan I/we/the Church think it is??", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Very well-said.\nThat any of these obvious facts needed to be said in 2017 is a testament to our medieval injustice system, making justice almost impossible to obtain for survivors of sexual abuse, extremely difficult for victims of various kinds of abusive power.\n\n The system is rigged against women and people on the lower half of the income ladder. That's been the case since forever. Calls for more democracy, inclusiveness, and equality have been met with doubledown defense of the injustice status quo from Establishment elites like Beverley McLachlin.\n\n All the political correctness from feminists, anti-racists, gay rights advocates, transgender supporters, ethnic minorities, indigenous people defenders hasn't changed that lack of democracy one iota.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is what I still don't understand, the gays have a right to marry, but, why should she not have the right to protest what goes against her beliefs? There are people from the middle east afforded their religious beliefs, yet, she can't have hers? It may not be everybody's belief. But, it is hers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Suffice it to say that in both the case of transgendered people and transabled people, unlike you, I believe they are to be taken at their word.\"\n\nSo you'd support severing the spinal cords of the transabled?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A United States District Court judge on Monday blocked a White House policy barring military service by transgender troops,\n...noting that the policy did not appear to be based on facts,\n...but instead on \u201ca desire to express disapproval of transgender people generally.\u201d\nThe judge noted in her ruling that the changes in transgender policy were \u201cnot genuinely based on legitimate concerns regarding military effectiveness or budget constraints.\nThe judge saw right through Trump's unConstitutional bigotry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "l4: \n1. To disagree with your comment is to disagree that someone can't refer to a straight person with the word 'gay'? Why not? have you found some law against it? \nWhat schizophrenia has to do with your post I have no idea - the original post is deleted, and you don't clarify.\n\n2. If you can't accept even a 'disagree' reaction on your comments - And you do get a lot of them - you are just to sensitive to post here. \n\nI suggest you try to keep with the subject of the article - scheer - though i fully understand why you would prefer to avoid that subject.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Never by two, always by three\" is still operative in monastic and priestly life today. While it may discourage gay/lesbsian relationships, it also describes a fear of intimacy of any kind, making every person an island unto themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is a specific question being asked and ignored by Pope Francis. Namely: whether or not his recent teachings exhibit continuity with previous teaching? Do the recommendations in chapter 8 of AL square with the historical teaching of the church? Are bishops in Malta and Germany who are admitting those who are divorced and remarried without an annulment to communion correct or those bishops, almost everywhere else in the world who are not?\n\nDissenters under Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI were dissenting against long standing and clearly defined teachings of the Catholic Church concerning birth control, abortion, homosexual relationships and the ordination of women. On the other hand, \"dissenters\" against Pope Francis are seeking clarity in the face of ambiguity and confusion and the way his teachings are being interpreted by heterodox priests and theologians in contradiction to Catholic teaching, in the name of \"mercy\" and \"love\". \n\nThere's a big difference.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I voted for PM Trudeau and I'm very pleased with most of his job as PM\"\n\nOh please tell me what you're pleased about?? I can't think of anything he's done-other than being grand marshall at some gay pride parades, taking selfies, and dressing up like \"Clark Kent-Superman\" in the House of Commons last week", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your remark indicates you know nothing about the parade.\n\nLGBT persons were ALWAYS permitted to march in the parade. But the parade was never intended to be a conduit for personal agenda - it has always been intended to show pride in our heritage as Irish Catholics. ALL Irish Catholics - not separated by \"I'm gay\" or \"I'm pro-life\".....in fact...do you know there was also a dress code? No face-painting? The message has always been to honor St. Patrick and our heritage as Irish Catholics....\n\nIn fact, the ONLY political statement ever allowed in the parade was \"England - get out of Ireland\" (with apologies to our Brit friends here :-) ) But now, of course, the parade has been hi-jacked to become a mess of personal and political agenda, losing the character of what was intended. Follow the money - and the threat of NBC. \n\nUnless it can be reclaimed. Otherwise - it will be just like every other parade - a hodgepodge of political and personal agendas.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...reject transgender identity.\"\n\nThat is sad. Fortunately, more Catholics -- the least noisy -- are not bothered by transgender people, whether Catholic or non-Catholic, and accept them as fellow human beings. Reminds me of the saying, where the river is deepest it makes the least noise. Why miss their existence as witnesses to our humanity and diversity?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, what is upsetting to you, the fact that these suicides take place in a visible public place, or that they happen at all? Making the bridge safe will only cause them to seek another option. At least we remain aware that suicides happen in our community. The paper doesn't publish suicides unless they happen in public and would otherwise be remarked on. Are you then going to make sure somehow no one can get drugs they can OD on? Eliminate guns to shoot themselves? Hide all the knives to slit their wrists in the tub? For the money spent on higher railings, how about we instead spend the money on the things that ACTUALLY PREVENT SUICIDES. Like treatment and maybe, just maybe, open our hearts to people like those who are transgender or have depression or kids who are bullied or abused, and others who have high suicide risk, rather than making fun of them and turning their lives into some sick joke by demeaning their struggles.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays are not a protected class in Colorado? Then why did the baker have to,go through all this?\nI can\u2019t wait to hear the semantic gibberish you come up with to defend this. \nThis is great. \nWait, you aren\u2019t trolling me with this stuff, right?\n(Ah, who cares, suspend disbelief and enjoy the ride, me.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know how many people it takes to remove a comment as uncivil, but apparently enough folks on this board think that the following falls into that category;\n\n\"Sex is designed by God to be within the bounds of Marriage, and between a man and a woman only. Yes, we all fail to live up to God's standard but that's why Jesus gave up His life for us, to give us forgiveness and purity before God.\nLGBT folks are loved and forgiven by God, just as heterosexuals are. God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. As I see it, the problem arises when some LGBT's seek to justify their sin, and call it something else. That's no different than me attempting to justify my own heterosexual sins, is it?\"\n\n4 Reactions (3 likes, 1 dislike)\n\nAre you serious? I can understand someone disagreeing with my opinion, but to remove it altogether?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My statement \"with annulments, the Church does dissolve marriages; while pretending it's not\" stands unchallenged, certainly unchallenged by you.\n\nA significant problem I have with the institutional Church is its dishonesty in some things. With annulments, it is pretending not to dissolve marriages, while in actuality doing exactly that. (Henry VIII's sister Margaret got an annulment on grounds she knew were false, and would not stand up to any scrutiny. But, unlike my son, she would lie to get out of her marriage.) JPII declared that both Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe were to be canonized as martyrs, even though neither one met the criteria for martyrdom. The magisterium claims to teach objective and eternal truth, and pretends it does not change its teachings. The institution clams not to see women as inferior to men, which is a blatant and obvious lie. The CCC says homosexuals are not to be discriminated against, while firing gays who marry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm curious where you get your information. I've heard of absolutely no companies stating that they'd have gender neutral locker rooms.\n\nAs for people who \"simply identify\" as the gender other than what you perceive them to be, I actually know numerous trans people. I'm not sure if you do, or not, but I'm guessing that you don't. Most live in fear of being physically attacked for being in the restroom they feel is more appropriate for them. I'd like you to name even a handful of cases in which someone who was actually transgender went into a bathroom and hurt anyone in any way.\n\nThe fact of the matter is, if someone is going to be brazen enough to take photos in a restroom, they're going to do so regardless of whether you legally allow them in the restroom or not. To discriminate against the trans community because someone might take advantage of a policy is unethical. \n\nOh, and trans people have already been using the restroom they feel is appropriate for them all along.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They can't handle being equal. because they need to feel special. When somebody so thoroughly believes they are special they need to be able to claim they are oppressed. It is part of their self identity to be hated. Without being able to claim they are hated they lose leverage. Being just like everybody else, even as a trans person, is not part of the agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Monte, you said, \"... There is no prohibition in the Bible of equality in ordination for both men and women, all races and ethnicities, all kinds of people.\"\n\nWhat did you mean by \"all kinds of people\"? You'd already mentioned gender, race, and ethnicity. Is \"all kinds of people\" merely repetitive, or do they refer to people who are practicing homosexual, bisexual, lesbian, or transgender lifestyles?\n\nDo you think there is anything in the Bible that prohibits the ordination of those who are practicing such lifestyles?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good article. I note that Hawaii has declined in terms of measurable happiness. Too much stress out here and too much political shibai, crime, homlessness, race discrimination aimed at Asians and whites, etc. I see a large number of sad faces in the streets. More and angrier people in the crowded conditions, filth, and poorly managed city.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you, Devin. This was a thorough and well written article, unlike KTUU's written version of the issue. It is clear this is a gender identity based issue, not an issue of race as claimed by Farrell. Shame on you Farrell for trying to deceive people into believing it is a racial issue. Ladies, who wants a man in the bathroom or restroom? That's just not right! We must be careful. These gender issues are getting quite strange and possibly dangerous. And...this is also about not forcing bakers and photographers to participate in and support conducting gay marriages, not refusing general services like restaurant service and the like. Shame on people who are misleading others to believe that too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "ok, so that I understand your list of demands, they are: 1)female clergy 2) nuptial masses for gays and 3) no pope, since in a democracy you don't need a pope. He/She'd be nothing but a figurehead anyway right? 4)redefining mortal sin to exclude fornication, and adultery. Anything else? In all candor, that sounds a lot like the Episcopal Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pew Research is quoted in just about every creditable news source? New York Times uses Pew Research to document statistics all the time? I looked at the report on people in most Muslim countries and found the numbers as high as 99% in favor of Sharia Law to be law of the land. Naturally places like Afghanistan favor it 99% while Turkey is 12%. Which is when I scratch my head and think at how many women are oppressed and suffer genital mutilation at the hands of this law not to mention treatment of gays and people who have different beliefs? I guess I care about people in other countries that are oppressed. This is not about America its about nearly 1/2 the Global population. So in sum its safe to say 50% of the 1.8 billion want Sharia to be law of the land. If you want to see it for your own eyes. Look at the report. The report has a lot. Scroll to \"support for sharia\". Google - Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll never deny the possibility of being wrong. Inshaa Allah (God Willing) I retain enough of a conscience to refrain from sliding into the 'evil' category.\n\nBut I still maintain that Mr. Pitts (with whom I disagree as often as not), wasn't taking the position in his article that you've ascribed to him, per your above post. I believe he was arguing that those who decry injustice usually serve \"truth, justice and the American way\" better than those who denounce them for doing so. I agree with that.\n\nThere are too many knee-jerk attempts to drown-out dissenting voices by reviling rather than refuting said voices' arguments. Such as shrieking \"RACIST!\" when someone has the temerity to question police-actions against black folks OR express criticism of a particular political leader 'of color', \"ANTI-SEMITE!\" when someone criticizes \"Israel's\" mistreatment of Palestinians (who are Semites, BTW) or \"HOMOPHOBE!\" when mentioning that some gay-rights activists' claims lack scientific basis.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The people in this city will throw rocks through your front window if you speak negatively about something as trivial as the beloved Oregon Ducks. Look at the people in CA who attend a Church whose Pastor teaches the Biblical truth about homosexuality and are being shamed by having their TV show about remodeling jeopardized. The truth does not need a name behind it to be credible.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And all those millions of Catholics who believe in contraceptives, civil gay marriage, women priests, and all these discussions on so many \"settled\" subjects, including infallibility? You are saying they are not Catholic? \n\nMuch is being called into question. The issue of the \"authority\" of bishops and popes is being questioned around the world. Being Catholic is no longer tied to something like accepting that \"infallibility is a dogma of the Church\". Not even calling oneself \"Roman Catholic\" is tied to accepting a doctrine or dogma of \"infallibility.\" \n\nIt is getting interesting to be a Catholic. We have to use our minds - not to memorize and be able to spit back out what is learned by rote. No. We have to think, use sources of information we never used before, be willing to doubt as well as be willing to believe. Recognize new knowledge, new ways of being community. Pretty exciting stuff!\n\nTri, being \"Catholic\" is not either/or. It is both/and.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Perhaps it is too simple to understand, or many don't want to accept it, that many fundamentalist Christians (as is true of zealots in any cause) have as their real objective, to exercise control and domination over others.\" Are you including as \"zealots\", in a partial list of issues that evoke strong emotions, proponents of gay marriage, gun control, forced birth control included in company provided health insurance, those demanding removal of any religious symbols such as the 10 Commandments from public buildings, mandatory minimum wage increases and those advocating removal of any Confederate symbols in your list?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "http://www.thetrevorproject.org/pages/facts-about-suicide \n\n\"Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among young people ages 10 to 24. [1]\n\n\u2022 The rate of suicide attempts is 4 times greater for LGB youth and 2 times greater for questioning youth than that of straight youth. [2]\n\n\u2022 Suicide attempts by LGB youth and questioning youth are 4 to 6 times more likely to result in injury, poisoning, or overdose that requires treatment from a doctor or nurse, compared to their straight peers.\n\n*LGB youth who come from highly rejecting families are 8.4 times as likely to have attempted suicide as LGB peers who reported no or low levels of family rejection. [4]\n\n\u2022 Each episode of LGBT victimization, such as physical or verbal harassment or abuse, increases the likelihood of self-harming behavior by 2.5 times on average.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ken Buck's response is great, and logical in light of his exposure to transgendered issues while prosecuting the murder of Angie Zapata. I would say unless you have met a transgendered person and learned their story, you have no right to an opinion of their lives, their rights, or their struggles.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "WOW! Nothing sweet nor reasonable about this comment. The lack of compassion is astounding IMO. BTW: HIV/AIDS isn't limited to the gay community you judge so harshly; even babies are born with the infection. \n\nIt will be interesting to see how compassionate the top secret GOP health care bill is toward people with catastrophic illness such as cancer; I'm guessing not very.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, but He did say His followers would obey the spirit of God's laws and not just the letter of them. I find it interesting that people who are \"well-versed in theology\" want to make a letter-based argument that \"Jesus never said ...\" on this issue, but ignore His teachings that Christians would obey the Law. And then there are the NT writers who knew Him intimately and wrote strongly against all forms of sexual immorality, including homosexuality. Again, you want to do the law-based argument and say \"well, we're not forcing you to have actual sex, so bake the cake.\" Yet, that's not what Paul advised about the sexually immoral church member in 1 & 2 Corinthians. He said flee sexual immorality, don't even be seen to condone it. Do you think that while Paul was talking with Jesus on the road to Damascus, he might have learned a thing or two that you who are \"well-versed in theology\" are unaware of?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since WWII, starting with FDR to Eisenhower to the New Left, the hippies, Yippies, leaders of Labour, Feminism, the peace movement, anti-racist organizations, Gay Liberation - the best minds in North America have warned against rising fascism for more than 70 years.\n\n Thirty years ago we were warned against the Mulroney-Reagan-Thatcher cabal. Most Canadians knew that NAFTA would enrich the rich and cost many workers their jobs. Journalists warned about the growing \"democratic deficit\" and the \"war on the poor\".\n In the last 20 years, as Canadians submitted to the conservative beat of \"grow the economy\", democracy has been shrunk. Many Canadians had a revelation: they were sabotaging what little remained of their democracy by giving ever more power to giant multinational corporations. And they were voting for politicians who became \"elected dictators\".\n Fascism has been on the rise for at least 70 years, dragging North America down the muddy slope. Blaming Trump will not work.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry- we get our evidence and truth from somewhere else besides fake pictures from fake Daily Kos. The few individuals who still speciously equate our President to a Nazi are dwindling by the day. These were the same ones who attacked Ben Shapiro for being \"A Nazi,\" ....until they realized he's an Orthodox Jew. These are the same ones who called Milo Yiannopoulos \"A white supremacist,\" until they realized he's a gay Jew who married a black man. It's sort of hard maintaining a fake narrative once you realize there's absolutely NO evidence to support it.\n.\nBut I'm glad you and Daily Kos are sticking with it. Please- keep it up through 2020.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is a natural law teaching and must change with evidence. Its first condemnation was by the assembly of rabbis who wrote Leviticus and claimed Mosaic authorship. Such a gathering has no more and no less authority than the USCCB. Same sex couples should start demanding Church weddings. When enough do, it will happen. God is not going to ask if you were gay but how you treated gays.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps the best way to disarm Mr. Kenny would be for large numbers of straight students to join their schools' gay straight alliances.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Afirlwhoknowsherownmind: Excellent post. I agree with you 100%. I for one do not need any credit for caring what they do or who they claim or wanna be. This Agender, Trans what ever, stuff is taking place in their heads alright, its called, Men!@* Ill*^#!. \n\nI always enjoy your posts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Especially when these actions are natural for them. There are plenty of other articles on Epigenesis and homosexuality. I just took the first one because I was in a hurry. Google it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In my opinion a solomonic decision on the part of General Mattis/Secretary of Defense Mattis pending a thorough policy review. In the meantime, constructively I'd like to add my anecdotal proverbial \"two cents\" worth.\n\nWhile I invariably have a laissez-faire attitude/posture towards others especially when it comes to interpersonal relations, I respectfully believe that U.S. military Commanding Officers in today\u2019s military have just too much on their plates to focus effectively on the mission plus also to deal concurrently with the obvious travail(s)/the untold drama [and believe me when you're dealing with gays, lesbians and transgenders there is beaucoup drama] of dealing also with transgender personnel on a daily basis in U.S. military matters [particular during combat] too.\n\nFred Harden III AKA \"GreyHairandGreyMatter\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is utterly heretical. From Vatican I's Dogmatic Constitution DEI FILIUS: \"For the doctrine of the faith has not been handed down as philosophic invention to the human mind to be perfected, but has been entrusted as a Divine deposit to the Spouse of Christ to be FAITHFULLY GUARDED and INFALLIBLY INTERPRETED. Hence, also, that understanding of its sacred dogmas MUST BE PERPETUALLY RETAINED, which Holy Mother Church has once declared; and there MUST NEVER BE RECESSION FROM THAT MEANING {Wait for it, modernists} UNDER THE SPECIOUS NAME OF DEEPER UNDERSTANDING\". And can you please show me where the Magisterium has declared it a DOGMA that the Church in Ireland is to reject the \"priority {whatever that means}\" of a homosexual companion? In other words, you reject actual dogma, and then whine about some non existent dogma. That would not even constitute a disciplinary rule, let alone a De Fide teaching. How do you expect to be taken seriously when you simply make something up?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have to question this one line...\"NASCAR might not be \"all\" White, but NASCAR is anything but diverse.\"\n\nAnd now I ask you - does EVERYTHING have to be 'diverse'? Or can it be something some people like to participate in just because they like it? And it may be one group- be they men, women, transgender, color or ethnicity and so on prefers it by majority. SO what?\n\nI like NASCAR. I grew up with NASCAR. It is fine to say it's \"boring\" but it also fine I say that it is not!\n\nAs for this \"The NHL also doesn't fly the Confederate flag at its events\"-If they wanted to they could. That is beauty of our beautiful country, no one gets to say \"no you can't\" just because that individual or group feel their opinion has more control than another. It doesn't. \n\nThe day that changes is the day that any race, person or gender will become \"less than\" another person in their civil rights. \n \n*That incorrect thinking is exactly what is leading the human trafficking trade, aka human slavery, today*", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dear Pierre Omidyar, Patti Epler, Bob Ortega, Richard Wiens, Chloe Fox and Todd Simmons,\nI am assuming that all of you are progressive liberal with very little knowledge, facts, information, and skills acquired by a person that is experience or education; and has the theoretical or practical understanding of a Gun. I am assuming, used for the purpose of argument to indicate a premise on which a statement can be based, that we all fear what we do not understand. The progressive liberal in his or her or transgender state of mind is arrogant or presumptuous to believe that owning a gun is not a right and the only right that keep a country from tyranny. I have place some links here for you to review. \nKnowledge and familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation may bring awareness, consciousness, realization, cognition, apprehension, perception, appreciation; formal cognizance to anyone thinking.\nhttps://youtu.be/oaDzKzKT6nM https://youtu.be/eHLsnzZgdPw", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Breaking News \"Heavily armed man arrested on the way to So CA gay pride parade\" Police in LA shortly after the Orlando shootings arrested a man from Indiana who intended to do \"harm\" at the parade. The suspect was caught with multiple assault rifles, high capacity magazines ammunition, and bomb making materials in his car. Locals had reported suspicious activity in the street where he was parked.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What was Obama doing for the first 7 years and 9 months of his 8 year presidency when he also refused to let them serve? Was he just being alt right? Or was he perhaps listening to his soldiers and military experts who thought putting transgendered people in the military was problematic?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Chrizmart, I don't know how aware you are of the situation in Northern Ireland. I have never in my life experienced such overt homophobia. It was truly vicious. There was a Thursday night talk show televised each week from Belfast. The subject matter was often political and the panellists would be either unionist or nationalist politicians.\n\nI saw the programme twice when it concerned matters surrounding homosexuality. I was utterly astonished! Unionist members of the audience at times were feral. The hatred of gay people was scary. \n\nIt was a collection of Protestant fundamentalists, a macho vulgar culture, and plain knuckledraggers. 15000 is nothing in terms of the US, but it is serious, concentrated hatred in a small part of the world.\n\nAs an aside, there is a historical relationship between N. Ireland and early white settlers in the Appalachian mountains. \n\nThankfully Ireland voted for gay rights at the recent referendum. I hope the North improves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You obviously follow the politics of the issue more than you know the on the ground reality. I have a gay eagle scout and I'm proud of him.\n\nThe news and the politics of juggling groups of supporters may have made it a difficult issue at a high level, but in the troops, you find that people are people and we all want the kids to succeed. It took a while for the upper levels and old guys of the institution to get it, but they eventually did.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Better late than never, Jeff, but the rest of us have been awake since January. Too bad you were on the team that mocked the women's march in February. Too bad you were on the team that decided to take the budget reconciliation path and railroad through the GOP version of health insurance repeal and tax cuts for the rich. Too bad you said NOTHING as Trump attacked Hispanics, Muslims, Gays, Transgender, Blacks, Democrats, the poor. So now that he's attacking you personally, you pen a letter advising the rest of us to \"wake up\". \nJeff, I believe the phrase that applies is \"pot calling the kettle black\". Your steadfast support for Club for Growth ideology is nothing short of cruel and indifferent towards your fellow Americans. Your \"every hog for himself\" libertarian philosophy doesn't really believe in community values. And now you turn to the community looking for a sympathetic ear, because you are the one being harmed. You were more than happy to act with depraved indifference.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Canada's problem with this is that these are the people the rest of the world thinks of when you promote yourselves as the ultimate nation for tolerance and inclusion. It's not the ones who enter on the merit or point system under controlled circumstances. Look at the Syrian refugees that came as part of the 'Canada is Back' campaign. Canada took in many thousands but they were limited to families, orphans with relatives in Canada and homosexuals. Hardly the same as the ones in Europe but advertised by Canada with no distinction.\nThis 'test of Canadian values' is similar to the Saudi Arabia arms sale. When push comes to shove self interest wins out.\nOr the headline grabbing peacekeeping effort that was also part of the 'Canada is back program'. On further thought it turned out to be too dangerous.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I, for one, admire an applaud Barbara for her courage in standing up strong for her beliefs and convictions in regard to the LGBTQ+ club at RMS. She expresses no hatred or condemnation but only a genuine, caring concern, compassion, empathy, understanding for these vulnerable and innocent children going through puberty and change. She sees their emotional, social and physical struggles and, contrary to other's misunderstandings, desires to prevent more unnecessary confusion and false negative feelings. \nGenesis 1: 27 says clearly and beautifully \"God created them: male and female He created them.\" To try to change an deviate from their Creator's plan and purpose is to bring harm and destruction upon them emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually and prevents them from true happiness and divine purposeful fulfillment for their lives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was not sure what the value of the article was going to be, but as someone who is not a gay many but did see the movie I was compelled to read the article. Just like I wasn't sure what I was going to see when I saw the movie, I bought tickets and sat down and didn't really know much about what I was going to see. \n\nThere is no other way to put it; I loved La La Land. I adored Lion. Moonlight left me speechless and resonated in ways I did not anticipate. It is a very important movie. It leaves one pondering much...Mr. Bailey serves a reminder that film is about entertainment at it's basic level, but so much more when done so brilliantly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is gonna sound controversial to some but, on the whole Castro's legacy was positive. I am looking at this from the perspective of someone from the Global South. \n(i)He assisted Nelson Mandela in the fight against Apartheid. \n(ii)In my country(Jamaica) he played a pivotal role in sending doctors and helping in land reform. \n(iii)He supported anti imperialist and anti colonial movements globally, but especially in Africa. \n(iv)Though he was an atheist, he supported Liberation theology in the 80s which included his relationship with Fr. Ernesto Cardenal in Nicuragua. \n\nHe was authoritarian and I want Cuba to be a democracy. I am also critical of his treatment of Cuba's LGBT population and his suppression of dissidents. But I think on the whole the balance sheet shows more positives than negatives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rich, is the fact that a \"marriage\" under the law, is nothing more than a civil contract have any meaning? then can it not be argued, that it is in fact, the state that is being discriminatory for not allowing you to enter into that civil contract? why does the LGBT community believe it is the people that are discriminating? to take it a step further and force your neighbors or people the choice to participate in that lifestyle, by acceptance, is not right either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Remember, these are just accusations, and the accused are innocent and sinless until tried and proven guilty, all appeals are exhausted and all True Catholics have analyzed the evidence to conclude that guilt was proven beyond any doubt whatsoever, including any unreasonable doubt. Plus plaintiffs lawyers, mainstream media, attacks on the church, it's all in the past, everything has been fixed, blame the gays, and so forth. I believe that covers all the comments normally made by those who defend the abuse of children in an effort to defend the hierarchy of the Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Catholics had been were taught that living morally was fulfilled by obeying the law, either the 10 Commandments--divine law or the commandments of the Church---ecclesial laws]. Thomist theology included the 'natural laws' that flowed from observation of the created order, expressing the moral teaching of the Church on sex, contraception, homosexuality, and social justice. Breaking that law made the action sinful, and the offender liable to a whole slew of punishments [which the Church drew from the Bible or from Natural Law], seen as appropriate punishments to curb bad behavior.\nCatholic theology has moved from this legal model of understanding moral life and sin. The 'Crime and Punishment' view is deficient in many ways. The demands of being a faithful follower of Jesus, living according to the vision and values of the gospel, challenge us in ways that can never be adequately prescribed by law. The Bible is a record of God's graciousness to us, not a collection of do/don'ts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Segal references the Indo Chinese, the Ugandan and Ismaili refugees as shining examples of Canadians opening their hearts. True enough but those were refugees, not immigrants, and not immigrants coming to Canada with, regrettably for many, a reputation for violence against women, homosexuals etc. Apples to oranges I'm afraid, Hugh. \nAgain, more preaching from someone who is out of touch with the mood of the present day electorate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"That is because you do not understand the law and how it applies\".\n\nGreat. I'l set up the scenario for you. Feel free to knock it out of the park.\nA man walks into a bakery that is owned by a Black Baker.\nThe man says \"I'm having a birthday party for a friend of mine. I would like the cake to have his image on it. The Baker says,sure let me have the birthday boy's picture.\nThe man hands the baker the picture. The picture shows the birthday boy in full KKK garb standing in front of a burning cross. The baker says Uhh...no. I am not having any part of this please leave my shop.\nThe man says...sir...before you say another word I have to let you know that i am a homosexual. So I will ask you again...please bake a cake for my friends party with this picture on it.\nThe baker says I will not.\nThe man says...you will hear from my lawyer.\nSo tell me....what legal ground is the baker standing on that can put him in a situation where he doesn't have to stop baking birthday cakes.\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The European Catholic Church buried men with full pomp and ceremony and with multiple relationships all the time. Only the second relationship was the official mistress, not a second wife, and in some circumstances the second relationship was the gay lover. This is Morlino's agenda being enacted, not the Church's.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No scientific basis for trangenderism, overwhelming consensus among independent (read - non post secondary school zealots) is gender dysmorphia. Should they be discriminated against? No. Should there be the amount of time and space given it by our MSM and government?. Not even close. We can thank the US democratic obsession with identity politics that is bleeding its way into canadian society.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The US Constitution recognizes the preexisting right of people of faith (or no faith) to practice their faith according to the principles of that faith and the dictates of their conscience WITHOUT interference from the government.\n\nAs a Christian, I am told in very strong language to \"FLEE sexual immorality\" which includes far more than homosexuality. Like the Corinthian church members, I can't say \"Well, I'm not doing it myself, so it's okay for me to approve (or seem to approve) of another's sin.\" NO, IT IS NOT! The Bible is clear that it is not. I can ignore what the world does outside the doors of my home and the church, but I am responsible for my own walk with Christ and answerable if I present a false image of God's standards.\n\nIt's all there in 1Corinthians, by the way. What you folks do outside in the world is not my concern. What you do in my church or force me to participate in is very much my concern.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All forms of racism, Islamphobia, Homophobia, anti-semitism and discrimination against transgenders must end!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suppose most Liberals are so used to lying about their real agenda, as evidenced by the numerous flip-flops that Liberals have employed, once securely elected with a majority, that it's understandable that they expect politicians from other parties to use the same lying, sneaky, deceptive and duplicitous standards when communicating with the public.\n\nFor what it's worth, I'm willing to give Scheer the benefit of the doubt on his promise not to reopen socially divisive debates on abortion or gay rights, as I've yet to see any evidence that he would betray his words to the public. Harper kept the socially conservative wing of the party in tow for years.\n\nLiberals, on the other hand, especially here in Ontario, have abused trust with the public on numerous occasions, so much so that the public has become trained not to trust a single word that they promise on the campaign trail. One should remember that this doesn't necessarily mean that other politicians will be equally duplicitous.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Too complicated. And certainly does not need special mention in our constitution as transgender people are already protected.\n\nArguably we use pronouns based on how a person looks. I have inadvertently referred to a woman as a male because they \"looked\" like a man. Once I was told I was in error I simply used the correct pronoun from then on. It is a simple matter of respect. But I would not want to have been considered a criminal or bigot because I errored.\n\nWRT how many genders. Again too confusing. Having just male and female seems sensible. If someone is in transition they usually identify with one while transitioning to the other or trying it out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't need to read a book on communism to understand why communism is good, when it is not. Same applies here, all the sympathy/empathy in the world will not help these poor confused people because they are going against their nature - and nothing is going to change that, except the truth. Look at the statistics on crime, life expectancy, drug addiction etc etc etc. I have a homosexual uncle who is more like my brother (3 years older) who I grew up with. I probably have more intimate knowledge on this subject than you do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suppose you really want to go back to the 1960s, when women stayed at home, and African Americans didn't have the vote, segregation was legal, and gay marriage was illegal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good luck trying to get the USCCB to stand up to a Republican president. We all saw how well that worked out when both JPII and B16 denounced the Iraq War as unjust. The silence from the bishops then in challenging George W. Bush was deafening. Unless they're challenging a Democratic president on abortion or anything having to do with gay people, I fully expect the bishops to sit in frozen silence where President Trump is concerned. They're all stuck on auto-pilot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually talking about what makes some people feel they are being treated with \"homohatred\" or \"homophobia\" is part of the discussion. We can't ignore that but need to explore it, too. The words we use, the body language we display - on both sides - impacts how communication really occurs. Dialogue cares about not just what is said, but how what is said is received by the listener.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One does not leave home because of a family squabble, true enough.\n\nThis, however isn't just a family squabble--as if all you are asking is for permission to stay out beyond curfew but your unreasonable parents refuse to consider that you have a good reason for needing to do so--like it is prom night, etc. In this case parents could grant that permission, they are just choosing not to do so. \n\nOrdaining women is not something the Church is arbitrarily refusing to do--just because some old men want to cling to outdated notions concerning gender responsibilities and relations. The Church is not ordaining women because it is not possible. It is metaphysically impossible. The Church cannot change reality. That is the same reason the Church cannot marry a gay couple.\n\nLiberals may not like reality and they may convince other people that reality can be changed by the whims of those in power. The Church does not work like that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Even if President Trump follows up on his tweet announcing a ban on transgender Americans serving in the military, it is unlikely to pass muster with the courts, writes Noah Feldman for Bloomberg View. \u201cA ban on service in the military is obviously a form of discrimination.\u201d\n \n\u201cThe only conceivable way it could be constitutional to ban transgender people would be if the government had a strong reason to do so -- a real reason, not a pretext made up to cover irrational bias.\u201d\n\n\u201cTrump\u2019s tweets mentioned two reasons. \u2018Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory,\u2019 he wrote, \u2018and cannot be burdened with tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender [sic] in the military would entail.\u2019\"\n\n\u201cMedical costs and disruption are thus the president\u2019s chosen rationales. But he did not offer any evidence in support of either proposition. That makes both look highly suspicious. To put it bluntly, both sound made up.\u201d\n\nEverything he does looks highly suspicious!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Patrick, did you read Mr. Philips essay? He clearly states, more than once, that he is willing to serve anyone.\n\n\"There is no policy at my shop, real or imagined, that says, \u201cWe don\u2019t sell cakes to homosexuals.\u201d I\u2019ll sell anyone any cake I\u2019ve got. But I won\u2019t design a cake that promotes something that conflicts with the Bible\u2019s teachings.\"\n\nThis is not about how Mr. Philips feels about the people who walk into his shop or even about whether he endorses their way of life. This is about him being unable to use his artistic talents in good conscience to promote or celebrate something that he believes is wrong. It's very telling that every single argument I've read against Mr. Philips begins with an inability or refusal to even acknowledge this distinction.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are federal laws to protect LGBT and the states that have come up with hateful laws in order to oppress LGBT will financially feel the pressure to re-think their opposition and oppressive laws. Unless you're a member of one of those 'militias' you and I obey the laws and if we think those laws are wrong we use the system and the process available to change the laws. If you randomly decide which laws you'll obey and which ones you won't obey we will live in chaos and those that don't obey will be put in jail and thats a good thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh. \n\nBased on \"Drug use tends to adversely affect judgement in all groups.\" I thought you were trying to convince us that drug use was the problem rather than the fact that \"Gay and bisexual men are the population most affected by HIV.\"\n\nObviously, I misunderstood your intent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm confused, isn't Jason Kenney gay himself? Along with a whole slew of former federal Tory MPs and Minsters? Why the self-loathing? Sad!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed. If a gay or straight couple walk into a place of business and order a cake, the last thing they want to hear is about the owner's chosen belief system and the resulting personal hangups that follow. \n\n\nThe only thing they want to hear is when it will be done and how much. Business owners that want to wear their personal lifestyle on their sleeve AND serve the public had better think a little harder about the matter and choose one or the other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The more liberal, metaphoric interpretation is, I'm quite convinced, the correct one. If it makes people less inclined to belief, that's fine with me.\nIn the past, for odd reasons, I \"had\" to attend one of these newer, evangelical places, something called The Vineyard. Instead of a choir, there was a \"worship team\" -- essentially, a rock band. There wasn't a liturgy (I'm an atheist, but certainly admire the poetry of the liturgy) but instead a Pastor who opened with a joke and \"shared\". The there was an altar call - people coming forward to get \"saved\". The theology was terrible -- pure fundamentalism. Only Christians go to heaven -- everyone else is banished to hell. Homosexuals are \"deceived\" or \"trapped\" by Satan. Women should submit to their husbands. Once, \"Pastor John\" even said that karate is a deception of Satan! There was absolutely no gravitas or sense of mystery. If that's the option to declining numbers in mainline churches, well, pardon the pun, but God help us!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Without compassion to unite this country, we will be tearing each other apart as Mr. Kaahui alluded to.\nWe have allowed a monetary system without a moral basis, a predatory health care system, and a political system lacking principals to have control over us.\nThe force that empowers this system is division. Republicans against the Dems, conservatives against liberals, whites against blacks, hetros against gays, religious divisions, home owners against homeless, and the list goes on.\nThe more infighting the more power the elites have over us. As Mr. Buffet has been quoted saying, There is a class war going on, and my class is winning.\nThe US is 19 trillion dollars in debt to maintain it's deteriorating standard of living. Anyone who knows math, knows that is not sustainable. \nHope through action, and compassion through empathy is the means to a better collective future. Plus lots of luck!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cardinal Maradiaga, who coordinates the Council of Nine cardinals, recently confirmed the presence of a homosexual \u201clobby\u201d in the Vatican and revealed that Pope Francis is trying \u201clittle by little to purify it.\u201d\n\nThe Pope also acknowledged the presence of a homosexual network at the Vatican in June 2013. In the context of saying he found reform of the Roman Curia difficult, the Pope said: \"The 'gay lobby' is mentioned, and it is true, it is there \u2026 We need to see what we can do.\"\n\nElmar M\u00e4der, commandant of the Swiss Guard from 2002 until 2008, said his time at the heart of the Vatican had given him an insight into certain aspects of life there. \"I cannot refute the claim that there is a network of homosexuals. My experiences would indicate the existence of such a thing.\"\n\nThen there's this:\n\nhttps://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/with-the-pope-against-the-homoheresy.pdf", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course it's a civil rights issue. Why should gays be discriminated against just because they have sex w/their own gender? Never understood why anyone cared about such things. Gays didn't have any more \"choice\" about it than you had in being hetero (which I assume you are, from your comment). So yeah, I'd say you are a \"hater\" and closed minded if you disagree with their \"choice.\" \n\nI think conservatives only got on the anti-trans bandwagon because they lost on gay marriage. Then, suddenly, they discovered trans people, and now they're pushing all these anti-trans measures. \n\nSince things are now set up for the trans folks in the military, and if are doing their job, why kick them out? I think it's a waste of time, resources, and energy to do so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And I suppose you think Planned Parenthood hasn't pushed a religious ideology on children in public schools. You can't say something is good without saying something is bad. Why does planned parenthood and the aclu preach a baby isn't a baby until first breath, that promiscuity and homosexuality are morally fine, and that transgendering the latest greatest thing to embrace? I want Planned Parenthood's state sponsored belief system out of our public schools and away from our children. If you want to teach this hogwash to children, you should be forced to do so with private schools or homeschool.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oddly, science has now shown that white people are mixed with neanderthal DNA (an inferior species). Only those who have never left Africa are pure homo sapiens. Modern science also shows gays are born that way after epigenetics in the womb, which if you add a religious spin to it means that God created them that way - both for the sex and for the natural companionship. The same area of study shows that the people who are really comfortable being priests, asexuals (they never let gays be bishops, no matter how chaste) have a sexuality that does not desire human attraction. They have \"pure\" relationships in a platonic sense and assume this is true for everyone. Their lack of empathy has messed up the sexual morality of the Catholic Church since St. Paul, who was likely asexual. The three great asexual hoaxes are the celibacy of Christ, the immediate return of Christ and the perpetual virginity of Mary, wife of Joseph.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not a huge expense because the numbers are so few. Because the numbers are so few, then making special arrangements a requirement for business and public spaces is foolish and costs too much. There are far more people who are physically handicapped so it makes sense to make bathroom accommodations. \n\nI'm not putting and restrictions on people who think they are transgendered. I also don't want to pay for sex reassignment surgeries any more than I want to pay for viagra or boob jobs. Do I have the right not to pay for your cosmetic surgery?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bereft of any coherent argument, all poor Bruce can scream is that conservatives are \"racist\" and \"haters.\" It is not racist to enforce federal immigration law. The bathroom wars are about keeping women safe. Bruce ignores the fact that it was Democrats who were KKK members and enforced Jim Crow laws. Why are people like Bruce so utterly ignorant of the US Constitution? Just exactly how did America become so wealthy, so open, so free? So Bruce: move to the Middle East, where they throw gays of tall buildings and slice out the genitals of young girls. Move to China, where there is no freedom of speech and the authorities can seize your property. Move to Cuba, where you will be hustled into a police car for protesting the government. Move to Venezuela, where you will have nothing to eat, thanks to socialist policies.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Correct. There might be some gay couples who want a church wedding but many probably don't want that. Lots of straight couples would prefer destination weddings or weddings where they have control over their ceremony. There is lots of frustration among straight couples about the restrictions on the Catholic ceremony - i.e. no custom vows, restrictions on music and readings, no additional personal touches (i.e. not allowing a special poem), etc. I've even heard of issues using things like the wedding march.\n\nMany gay couples would be fine if their marriages weren't treated as \"sinful,\" if they weren't denied the Sacraments, and if they weren't fired from their jobs. Oh and if the Catholic Church stopped campaigning against civil marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Poor Black, stop falling for the Donald's propaganda. Do you really think the Donald cares about transgenered people? This is nothing but a distraction to keep the sheep from learning about the Donald's ties to mother Russia. Come on Donald, release your tax returns so that we can at least see some of your ties to Russia. \n\nHate to tell you this but gays have been in the military from day one. Many of them served with great honor. \n\nAs for transgendered really would like to know what the extent of it is. 265 seems to be a small number when compared to the total?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's all anecdotal. There have been seminaries with larger than average percentages of homosexuals - Milwaukee under Weakland for particular example - but these have been offset by diocese like Lincoln with zero tolerance. The high estimates come from the homosexual community, reasonable estimates seem to approximate the overall Catholic percentage, which is not \"so many\".\n\nThomas Patrick Doyle is completely unreliable.\n\nThe teaching on the ordination of women and the immorality of sexual relations outside of marriage are irreformable no matter how you characterize them. The Church leads people to reform their lives, not the other way around. Your opinion of that is of no consequence.\n\nGenerally theological high church Anglicans have exited the communion. Yes, there are some liturgical high church - bells and smells - communities who accept the notion of women priests, but they are a minority quickly fading away, just as they did among the continental Old Catholics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am perfectly aware of what CDF stands for, however in the case of New Ways Ministry it was not primarily about doctrine. It was about disciplining Grammick and Nugent for their ministry among gays. It was a call for religious obedience.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dennis,\nTo be clear, you're absolutely right in that the species survives through procreation. That is \"the norm\" if you will. I'm pretty sure the species will survive, even if there's no church there telling us what to do, or not to do when it comes to sexuality. I ALSO think that if we focus on love, (and the stuff I talked about in my post), much of this will work out. What I mean by that is that by all accounts, being gay is not something \"contagious,\" or otherwise \"spreadable.\" So whatever that normal/natural percentage of gays exist, that's not likely to change. \n\nI don't have answers, but I'm pretty sure that the church's teaching on human sexuality jumped the tracks a LONG time ago. Spreading a litany of prohibitions, fears, name calling, and discrimination does little to foster what's REALLY important in human relationships. And remember, it's DESIGNED to teach this to our kids. Today, we pay the price of that. I think the church needs to focus on something MORE basic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That thirty years of \"scandal\" you say \"surrounds\" Hillary Clinton began because she pushed the boundaries of what women were supposed to do. It first began when she made conservatives like you uncomfortable when she declared that she wanted to be a productive First Lady who actually worked (having been a full-time lawyer) rather than sit around all day baking cookies. That infuriated traditionalists like you who thought women should stay at home just as God commanded. Then, when she worked to make health care affordable to all and her husband worked to end the ban on gays serving in the military, that cinched the deal for conservatives. They had found their villainess and they haven't stopped hounding her ever since. And all the millions of dollars spent seeking out non-existent \"scandals\" like Whitewater, Vince Foster, etc. have all amounted to nothing because there is no there there. Try again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Doctrine says that functionality not fecundity is required for marriage and that couples marry themselves. Why should gays be different, especially since we know through Epigenetics that it really is their natural, rather than a chosen or environmentally determined state? If sex is a gift from God (and not just for child bearing), gays are entitled to it, as long as it is withing marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The most dangerous prospect for this strange ecumenism is attributable to its xenophobic and Islamophobic vision that wants walls and purifying deportations\" ... not to mention this \"vision's\" misogynistic and homophobic core disordered tendencies ... the theology and the sacramental vision is all compromised in favour of securing fellow ideological culture warriors ... what a measly idolatry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rainbow progressives cheer for Pell's downfall, but remain mum on the fact that 81% of the abuse cases were caused gay pedophiles.\nTheir interest isn't in reform, that's for sure. If they cared at all about actual reform, they'd support \n\n1) All priests with same sex tendencies coming out of the closet.\n\n2) The ban on same sex attracted men from entering seminary.\n\nBut they don't. Their interest is first in gay rights, second in bringing down the church, and the welfare of children is a distant third.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your argument is flawed the supreme \ncourt has recognized the rights of LGBTQ community throughout the United States. The Justice Department is challenging those states that have developed conflicting state laws for political purposes. Rules governing Independents voting in Primaries differ from state to state it's not a federal law. If Bernies Campaign did their home work they would have informed Independant voters of the Primary rule in the states where they voted. It's a State law if you want to change it you do it using a process prior to a primary you don't wait until after to use as a political statement of the election is rigged to incite people's anger towards anyone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But Pope Francis still hasn't revoked \"Apostolicae Curae,\" which declared Anglican orders null and void. And given the schisms and broad ruptures within Anglicanism today -- with Anglican Gafcon missionaries from Africa sending missionaries to England to \"rescue\" the Church of England's move toward recognizing gay marriages (it already recognizes gay unions among Anglican clerics); its concept of degrees of Eucharistic sharing, its full interchangeability of other Protestant ministers, etc., etc., etc. -- I wouldn't hold my breath that Francis will change things, modify the depth of his ecumenical reflections on Anglicanism. Faithful Catholic is on target, not least because the Anglican Church can't get its own house in order in England.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The adherents of those branches of Western Christianity don't condone \"honour\" killings, stoning people to death, beheading people, forced marriages of child brides or tossing gays to their deaths from the roofs of tall buildings or hanging them from construction cranes as is the practice in Iran. It's also worth noting that the Christian prophet, Jesus Christ, was not a pedophile like the founder of the crescent moon death cult.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one is attempting to paint him with anything, he has defined how he is perceived by his own voting record and statements. He has opposed gay rights women's reproductive rights, assisted dying and action to combat climate change.\n\nHe has also said he will cancel the CBC news department so presumably we can a get our news from the Rebel since his campaign manager sits on the board of Rebel media.\n\n This is the second article in the Globe today trying to claim that opposition to Mr Scheers neanderthal policies are anti Christian..\n\n Now that is truly shameful.\n\nYes for years voters would switch from Liberal to Conservative, I was a member of the P C Party of Canada myself. But this is no longer the PC Party,it is the Reform party and is as different form the PC Party as chalk from cheese.\n\n There is no doubt that the Conservative Party of today is much closer to the values of Ezra Levant than Bob Stanfield.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've been trying my best to keep this civil.\nBut there you go calling me, not smart, because I don't see it the way you do. BTW....if your point is true about \"who you are\" you wouldn't have people who gave up the gay lifestyle. There are many documented proof of people who gave up the gay lifestyle freely....just like people I know who gave up drugs, affairs, stealing...etc. Unlike the true civil rights issues of African Americans, Native Americans, Hawaiians, Japanese internments, Jews....the list goes on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My favorite colleague and one of the brightest people I've ever met is a gay woman. When I needed advice or someone to bounce ideas off, she was my go-to person. Her partner is also a good friend and immensely capable. I count her as a friend also. Knowing them and really liking them has given me a perspective on people that I didn't have before. Gender really doesn't matter if someone is a truly good person. (What was funny was her partner referred to me as her \"Work Husband\" while giving me a hug.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can't believe your callous support for employment discrimination. From what shadowy corner of your psyche is this coming? You're gloating at the prospect of ENDA's slipping beneath the political waves. Ever heard of compassion? Are your moral sensibilities so fragile that they'd shatter in face of equal rights for LGBT people?\n\nI really don't understand the paranoia, and naked hostility, that LGBT people face daily in the States; there's more than enough of it in these comments. Here, in the UK, you'd be taken to court and fined, heavily, for the kind of discrimination you're cheerleading. And you'd find few sympathizers, not to mention a largely hostile media. \n\nYeah, I know: what right have I, a Brit, to poke my nose into American politics? But come on, man: this isn't about geopolitical boundaries and international etiquette; it's about human welfare, the maximization of human happiness. No, not a take on Bentham's utilitarianism, but love of neighbour, bar none.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The concept of \"intrinsic disorder\" has a certain internal consistency within the system that gives rise to the term. Precisely because it does, it underscores that it is not only, not even so much, the church's teaching about homosexuality that needs renewal and revision, but rather the church's entire understanding of human sexuality. The good news is that the theological, anthropological, sociological, and scientific groundwork is already available; the bad news is that the current teaching is entrenched within a larger framework that claims, incredibly, that the church cannot change its teaching.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some good posts herein, but we have to step back and lok at the big picture. Bettman and the NHL d not think that hits to the head/ concussions are a issue in the NHL (in so many words). They are going to court to defend this stance. These illegal hits sell tickets and make Gary happy.\n\nSo here's what we should do to prove that concussions are a result of these type of hits (regardless if it is to the best player in the game, as they are all humans). Gary Bettman can stand at centre ice (wearing a helmet) getting boo'd, then Matt Cook....better yet, Marc Savard, can skate by a slip an elbow to Gay's head. Nothing wrong with that, Gary is on the ice, so not illegal. The rules will change when Gay suffers what Marc Savard has been going through for years and there will be zero tolerance for these hits to the head thereafter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In related but far more substantial and consequential LGBT news (beyond the little blog wars that fr martin finds himself overwhelmed in):\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/in-major-supreme-court-case-justice-dept-sides-with-baker-who-refused-to-make-wedding-cake-for-gay-couple/2017/09/07/fb84f116-93f0-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.9a3356848508\n\nThis is great news. \n\nOf course such cakes are forms of expression....artistry.\n\nMost excellent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually based on science, still no proof that transgenderism is anything other than what it has been diagnosed as, by PROFESSIONALS, for a long, long time.; gender dysphoria. Ironic how the left claims the high ground on science except when it disagrees with them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The real world. Hmmm. You say the marketplace of ideas is \"the real world,\" and you imply it is therefore true. Well, the \"real world\" South until 50 years ago was full of lynchings. The real world of some Muslim countries allows the stoning of gays, even today. Why? Because in their marketplace of ideas, those ideas are the most popular. Is it true that blacks should be lynched? That gays should be stoned? So there you have it: The marketplace of ideas --- like any marketplace --- measures popularity, not truth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The article you linked to does not say that nearly 70% of transgender people have an underlying psychological disorder. It says, \"that studies show between 70% and 80% of children who express transgender feelings \u201cspontaneously lose those feelings\u201d over time.\"\n\nBIG difference!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sheep is a homo and likely angling to work for msnbc. He does not care and likely looking around.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is that why so many LGBTQ youth are disowned by their families?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just concerned for the safety of women and children, and the future of this Republic. Justified I dare say, when a significant faction of a polled group indicates they don't believe their religion is harmonious with democracy or the humanity of gay people.\n\nFrankly, your views about half of America strike me as radical as those coming out of Mosul.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree in a perfect world. This tax break will go to try and alleviate a lot of such subsidized programs. Personal responsibility has not been in our past President's sights. Bigger government programs, like food stamps(S.N.A.P.) have been the concentration, essentially rewarding poor decision, or no decision, making.\nThere are those recently in the paper that think that we should pay for invirtro, and surrogates for gay men couples, for instance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This isn't an issue of celibacy, Pandora. Nor is it an issue of homosexuality. But then, you know that and you only posted to start the usual game of hijacking a discussion which is inevitably critical of the Church hierarchy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, it's not funny, it's depressing that hashtag activists defend a symbol of female subjugation and social regression that is only common in societies where homosexuals face jail or worse and it's not a coincidence, the niqab is part and parcel of a fundamentalist belief system - this is true all over the world, without exception. European countries who share Canadian values of gender equality and LGBT rights have implemented even more strict bans because 15 years of hoping for the best and attempts to \"accommodate\" a regressive belief system only empowered religious fundamentalists. The community segregation and division throughout Europe speaks for itself. The fact that the niqab is not common in Canada is a function of progress. The founder of modern Turkey implemented strict secular rules in a majority Muslim country that held for over 90 years and it's taken one Islamist government under 10 years to regress Turkey into an authoritarian regime, go figure.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Holy Father disagrees. He has already apologized for the way the Church has treated gay people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Federal tax money in the United States can not be used to pay for abortions in the United States because of the Hyde amendment which prohibited the use of federal funds for all abortions except in the case where the life of the mother is in jeopardy.\n\nAn amendment passed in 1993 allowed federal funds from Medicare and Medicaid to pay for abortions where the life of the mother is in jeopardy as well as the additional situations of rape and incest.\n\nMike Pence is a discredited man who sees women as useless for everything but producing babies and that gay people can be made into straight people by \"conversion therapy\" (they can't). He is an anti-science religious zealot who believes the earth is only 6,000 years old and that humans walked with the dinosaurs. If Mr. Pence is considered to be a dinosaur, then maybe that belief is true.\n\nWhile he shouldn't be in a public office, he is and he should be resisted and opposed at every opportunity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "European countries have implemented similar bans on face coverings, perhaps the strategy of doing nothing in the face of assertive political Islam has failed conclusively in terms of a festering social fabric and segregated communities. The niqab has nothing to do with cultural relativism, it represents an ideology that demands absolute submission from women under the guise of modesty or piety or both. Canada isn't \"different\" from countries where the niqab is common, Canada is advanced. Canada does not punish women for the \"immodesty\" of uncovered hair or kill homosexuals, not because of cultural \"differences\", because of progress. The niqab is not independent of culture in countries where it is most common, it is a symbol of a fundamentalist belief system that also includes the death penalty for homosexuality, \"blasphemy\", and \"apostasy\". After witnessing Europe's regression over the last 15 years, Quebec's new law is progressive and warranted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And Dolan was making the point that so many young adults just don't feel that way. It's true. My soon-to-be-twenty-year-old and all her friends are totally accepting of LGBT people to the point if it not being an issue. It's confusing to them if you make it an issue. Social prejudice against gay people was always irrational and the theological argument simply isn't very good or convincing on any level.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alexandra, thanks for your response. I think many bishops/cardinals choose to play it safe for their own benefit. Cardinals Cupich and Tobi n are very welcoming to the LGBT community; they are the pastoral risk takers! They encourage us to go and do the same--respect toward all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One only has to look to Ontario to see what's in store for Canada. Kathleen Wynne and her cronies have robbed the place blind and left a tab of $330,000,000,000 in debt. Gerald Butts was an advisor to her and now Ottawa under Justine Trudeau is going down the exact same path.\n\nTrudeau is going down as the worst PM in history, no amount of selfies or prancing around at gay pride parades is going to change that. He's typically outmatched on the world stage and hands out goodies just to look good. He recently waived VISA requirements on Romanian and Bulgarians, so we should be getting a new wave of thousands of 'refugees' from EUROPE any day now, well I guess we can just add it to the steaming pile of debt our grandkids, grandkids will be paying off.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know if I buy that. Religion has had a long history of viewing homosexuality as a sin. You're making a leap that a little too far. I don't think a Church of the Blessed Whiteness would be recognized as a legitimate religion by the government.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can attest to what happens on grant juries through The Canada Council for the Arts. The question is: \"Does this person identify as X\" ... ie Does this person identify as LGBT, Trans, First Nations? Is this person a visible minority? If the jury finds itself at a stalemate, the person who \"identifies\" gets the grant. I've sat on juries.... nobody checks. Self-identification is all it takes. (Of course, this 'should' only come into play in the case that 2 or more applications get the same score.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suggest you put a few more in the reserve hopper for emergency use. Islamophobic and homophobic are mandatory, after all. I am not entirely clear exactly what is meant by transphobic but it sounds good (ie bad).\n\nI personally have affinity for Islamophobic. People who are not Islamophobic have not been paying attention. And what is agoriphobic? Fear of fuzzy sweaters? I just can not keep up. We need an Android App.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The difference here is that The Lionhearted One is a micro-manager who fired a bunch of long-term employees and brought in his own \"company men\" and made policy accordingly. He also spent a lot of Archdiocesan money fighting for his \"pet\" causes and flying around the country to crusade against \"evil\" gay civil unions and setting up little covens of the uber wealthy to have his back...no gossip here, just the truth. Catholic San Francisco is a village, and he is an incredibly divisive wedge in the village. Pan, I know you always defend the hierarchy, which you are certainly entitled to do, but they are not always as holy and above board as we might be entitled to expect.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church has shown ample interest in helping them. What LGBT wants, though, is not ministry, but an acceptance of their conduct, and they leave the Church when they don't get what the Church can't give. Good riddance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for the clarification Colkoch I ref back to \n\n\u201cI hope you are including their gay offspring in this sentence because they also have received the gift of life... and for whom the Church teaches lifelong celibacy which, according to your reasoning, deliberately denies them from offering any child an opportunity at life, thereby putting them in a perpetual state of sin.\n\nMy statement; The greatest gift we have received is the gift of life, given by God, through the action of our parents, refusing to fully partake in His creation by deliberately denying another the opportunity of life.\n\nDeliberately denying (Artificial Contraception) while partaking in His Creative plan, that was what I was trying to convey.\n\nDid you read my article A Bond of Divine Mercy?\nI believe it shows empathy for LGBT Children and their parents \nand a possible way forward for some.\n\nkevin your brother\nIn Christ", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's a historical fact:\n\nMany German bishops supported Hitler's election because he was against abortion and homosexuality. How did that work out for them?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the context you raise, the notion of \"freedom from religion\" is misleading. It trivializes the actual freedom in play, which is freedom of belief. \n\nCanadian citizens may believe, or disbelieve, anything they wish. I'm not aware of a single instance, ever, of an adult Canadian being forced into believing something against their will. Certainly that's not happening at TWU. Students are free to believe whatever they want. However they VOLUNTARILY agree to follow certain rules, which is a different matter altogether.\n\nIt's generally true that you may not have your rights materially impacted by others. And the courts have already noted that TWU doesn't materially impact the rights of LGBTQ students. LGBTQ students have many other options for an education. So there is no material infringement on their rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Revolution has begun. The Trump era begins on the web:\n.\nThe Department of Labor\u2019s report on lesbians, bisexuals, gays and transgender people in the workplace? Gone.\n.\nThe White House\u2019s exposition on the threat of climate change and efforts to combat it? Gone.\n.\nIn its place, An America First Energy Plan:\n\n\u201cFor too long, we\u2019ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule. Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years.\u201d\n.\nAnd \u201cAmerica First Foreign Policy.\u201d\n.\n\u201cPeace through strength will be at the center of that foreign policy. This principle will make possible a stable, more peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They are in Davos to promote LGBTQ2 in business?\n\nIs this a joke?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you even read my whole comment? And news flash: not everything is about LGBT people, foreign or otherwise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why was a permit to assemble given to any of these groups, by the leaders of Charlottesville? Wasn't there a protest some weeks back, near that statue, that was peaceful? \n\nWhy is there, now, a double standard in defining hate? The shooting and killing of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood and we were told \"we can't be to quick to judge.\" The shooting and killing of five police officers in Dallas and we were told the, gun did it. The shooting and killing at a gay night club in Orlando, and we were told there is \" there is violence in ALL religions.\" Is there violence in ALL these different groups? Hate is hate, violence is violence, and to make excuses for one group because it doesn't fit the template, is not living in reality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "so like....if a guy thinks he's a gal, changes to become a gal, but likes gals, does he count as a male lesbian?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With all due respect, that is a pretty generalized analysis. The decision by the IOC and USA Cycling was not made without substantial scientific research, a fact that is lost in basic \"I'm not a zebra\" conclusions. I would not be surprised if the policies continue to change as more research is available.\n\nYou said earlier that the current social climate is driving this. Certainly that is true, as social climates are ever-evolving and society is collectively seeking better inclusion for LGBT persons. There's no reason to believe that old social climates are inherently better. In fact, history shows that many don't stand the test of time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can't see why. Gay people are just as responsible as everyone else to pay the societal costs associated with unwanted pregnancies. But I guess a hater gotta' hate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And I'm sure the newly appointed Minister will be a gay handicapped woman from a visible minority.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We need to encourage men to take a larger role in direct care for their children as well. So where are the benefits for them? We women can't carry ALL the responsibility AND expect equal representation in the boardrooms. And just because men CAN take the time off and take advantage of parental leave, doesn't mean they WILL. Most of the men I know who DO take a longer parental leave are gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "East Anchorage is becoming Chicago with the exception of our thugs a poor shots. If their aim was better we'd reduce the amount of thugs in this town. If one cares about their family , they'll move from that side of town as soon as they can. Look for nothing to change as long as so many parents raise their kids to have no respect for human life or anything else for that matter. Our town is sinking fast. We celebrate a drug culture . We celebrate no morality through pushing gay rights. We want open borders so anyone can move here. Given the way our state is financially sinking , there may be help on the way. If the PFD program is ended thousands of riff raf who moved here for the free money will leave .That alone will reduce crime on a massive level. If one put red pins on a map of Anchorage where crimes occur , east Anchorage would be solid red . East Anchorage is crime central . Look for Berkowitz to do nothing about it, nor our assembly , which is the worst group ever elected.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What? You're immune from scrutiny because you're female and homosexual? Two supposedly persecuted minority tags?\nWhat would happen with a gender and sexual preference change in this story? Would you have lasted this long?\nCongratulations Parent, you've deftly demonstrated that a female homosexual can be just as sleazy and imperious as any male heterosexual.\nWe are seeing true equality here.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Church street, with its \"steamworks,\" is gritty as the heterosexual hooker harveys, zanzibar and jillys. As a total phag, which I identify myself as right now, I find it offensive and non-inclusive to not have church street bath houses in your list of disgusting toronto landmarks in need of gentrification. You are about to be sued by the homosexuals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Deep-seated homosexual tendencies\" is not a medical term rather its use lies somewhere between a slur and a pejorative. If the issue is for a 'chaste' priesthood; just say so and knock off the bias.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When I was in Army basic training at Ft. Knox Kentucky I was awakened by the recruit sleeping in the bunk above me, who was receiving fellatio from another recruit. I came to the realization then and there that homosexuals, as well as transgender personnel had no common sense, let alone a sense of decency, and deserved no place in our armed forces. I hold to this conviction to this day.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Allowing a business to use Religion as an excuse not to serve someone is the ultimate slippery slope to allowing a business owner to discriminate against anyone, for nearly any reason. How is refusing to serve a gay couple now any different than the racists that refused to serve blacks or mixed raced marriages back in the 40's and 50's? The answer - its not. Its discrimination painted with a different brush and people are using the Bible as their shield.\n\nAnd to be clear - no one in this case was forcing this baker to do anything different than what he already did for hundreds/thousands of customers before. No one asked him to cater the wedding or write something on the cake that he found offensive. It was simply the fact that a cake he was making was going to be used in a gay wedding. Thats it. So, based on that standard, could the owner of Hobby Lobby come out and say they no longer will sell any of their products to anyone who has had an abortion? How is that any different?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Where should we start? The moderator Anderson Cooper, who is in the Hillary camp, is a queer engaging in fisting, tea bagging and anal sex. Hillary is bi-sexual and has a lover who is a Muslim and married to Anthony Weiner (enuf said). It appears that Trump was having consensual sex with Ms. Universe contestants while Billy Boy was dragging one hundred dollar bills through trailer courts in Arkansas when he was not raping women. On top of that Hillary has said in both debates that when they go low we go high. Hillary is the one throwing all the dirt just how low can she go while saying she is going high. When demonrats have sex they make their guys rock stars. However when republicans have consensual sex with Miss Universe contestants that is some how naughty. Additionally Trump has not left any of his lovers in his car at the bottom of a river ala Ted Kennedy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "People do that because there are \"Christians\" who openly advocate violence against gay people, and if you have any grasp of history, it is easy to see where fundamentalist religions take these kinds of issues. Just as it's easy to see where most extremist/reactionary movements go. \n\nPlus, Jerry's been promoting hate in this city on this topic for a long time. He more or less built his little Baxter Road empire on anti-gay bigotry and it works for him. If Christians don't want him to be their spokesman, they should speak up and drown him out.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm just happy I'm not Christian and I'm not gay. Sheesh.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hope that one day a journalist (or a gay historian) will tell us the reasons that led Harvey Milk, 39, and his lover to leave New York abruptly, his hometown, immediately after the events of the riot at the Stonewall Inn in June 1969. What municipal authorities (police department) who have served on Milk that he was \"non grata\" and leave New York within 24 hours? What was the participation of Milk, lawyer, very well-known agitator from the authorities (for the defence of the rights of gays in Greater Manhattan) within three days of rioting of the Stonewall, the ONLY gay bar 'authorized' of the city and held BY the New York mafia ? \n(Don\u2019t forget, this is the SAME day of Judy Garland\u2019s New York funerals-\nALL Gay Manhattan & \u201cforeign guests Drag Queen\u201d around the World (20 000) are in mourning of their SUPER SUPER Icon of Gay Culture and above all just of the middle of VietNam War, \u201cenough\u201d is \u201cenough\u201d ! And Paf ! Three Days of Riot !)\n...and the birth of \"Pride Day\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He\u2019s good at muddling the message. But on a positive note, he snaps a good selfie at a gay pride parade.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Don't be silly. The groups sponsoring the demonstration, AND the bulk of those participating in it were white supremacy/white nationalist whose message is one of racism. BTW: this is NOT Israel.....my outrage is over overt, \"in your face\" racism right here in the United States. Distracting the conversation to focus on marriage laws in Israel is a rather weak attempt to excuse the increasing racism in our country. The \"gay pride\" movement was focused on convincing gays to \"come out of the closet\" and cease to accept second class citizenship because of their sexual orientation. \"Black Pride, IMO, focuses on the many significant contributions African Americans have made over our history and continue to make......again, a rejection of second class citizenship. It's really rather shameful to equate the white supremacy/white nationalist movements with the minority movements to step forward to full rights and pride of citizenship. Gary Crum", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When they finally see the light and ordain women. Gay Bishops and Cardinals will then be less insecure and stop the self hatred.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It was also bound to get his base all tied up in some ridiculous hate of transgenderism. You're being played.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed, if only reason they are enlisting is to have their transgender costs covered. I think we should let them in, but not cover any of that transgender medical treatment. If they then cannot meet requirements of military in terms of readiness to deploy, etc., then cut them loose.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"...You forgot to mention that many of the complaints came from homosexuals complaining that the joke was offensive to them...\"\n\nI don't think so..Besides since when was fellatio (or the implication thereof) the exclusive purview of homosexuals?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Um, proud of being gay ? Like you are proud of being not gay.\n If you can't find anything about yourself to be proud of then maybe try harder.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Have you ever considered that in promoting \"homosexuality\" the homosexual activists are bringing their bedrooms into public, most abhorrently into the classrooms of our children ?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump has no moral core, except advancing Trump.\nHe's telling evangelical Christians everything they want to hear, and throwing gay people under the bus, because he knows as long as he spouts the right words, conservative Christians will follow him -- right through the gates of Hell.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Or Gay! Don't forget he called hisself outta the closet. I will also add Republican to your list of perps. EVERYONE in America is up in arms over our rigged system that doesn't include the Middle Class, It's it diabolical plan! How on that, Last \"Patriot\"??? The last Patriots sold out to the twisted Tea Party.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Because a drunk woman should EXPECT to be raped? How about learning a little s elf control and not being a despicable person by taking advantage of a drunk person?\nHow many times have you seen some young guy passed out? So as soon as he passes out it is OK for say a gay guy to do whatever he wants with him?\nWonder how many times you have woken up with a sore a..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That is what this \"bathroom bill\" controversy is about - it's an infringement of individual rights when the government says \"you must use the bathroom as assigned by your birth gender or identified gender and we have the right to check\". If a transgender person decides that their gender assigned at birth isn't their gender identity and they would prefer to use the restroom they identify with laws like what was passed in North Carolina basically says \"Nope you can't do that, we have to confirm what your genitals are and you must use the bathroom that coincidences with that\". The more civil approach is to keep the government out of it. Law or no law people who are predatory will be predatory. The idea of the government intervening and telling people which bathroom they are assigned to does nothing to keep anyone safer and infringes on individual liberty. \n\nIf someone is being pervy in a bathroom then that's the violation - simply being transgender isn't perverted or violating anyone.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Neither the Gay Community or BLM deserve any respect for excluding uniformed police officers.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I too have ancestors. My father was an oppressed black gay man in Trinidad where it was not safe to be gay. He married my mother who was an Indian (of what sub-tribe we in the family could never discern) lesbian from Jamaica. They married and moved to Cuba to escape prejudice and liven in a Worker's Paradise. I was born physically challenged - no legs - due to a birth defect on my father's side and have Asian features as the result of a recessive gene. I am transgender. I tell you all this so you will understand that I too want Prince Harry to repent and admit that as a white man who speaks good English, he is by definition the enemy of all people with ugly minds named den-hiss, all non-white people whether they are ugly, named dennis, sherry hidustinci ' or even just Jamal Oblatiwhatsinslurkinginaninanename and have relatives going back 5,000 years who are all female. Gay. Indigenous. Incensed. So racist against white people so not really racist. Correct SJW Denis and PC Hini-Hindi?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No one is 'forcing\" this bigoted baker to do anything. He can be hateful towards gays, jews, blacks and women all he likes in his personal life. He can believe anything he wants about groups the disagrees even though it's highly irrational.\nBut what when he avails himself to the public marketplace he should either abide by the proscribed rules or quit. There is nothing that says baking cakes is practicing religion and nothing about the law that he violated that requires him to believe anything.\n\nI think something that isn't explored is that 99% of those who claim this religions exemption only target one group - homosexuals. They never target adultery or other sins that the bible talks about. This to me shows that it's not really about religion at all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "At least we don't have to worry about transgender hottie hottie issues on an airplane today.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Those socks look a lot like those worn by the wicked witch of the West in the original Wizard of OZ. Any transgender serving in the armed forces is guilty of fraudulent enlistment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What you fail to realize is that Donald Trump has hired and cut paychecks to more black latino gay lesbian and transgendered people than all previous presidents put together.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Anyone could have been a bully when they were young, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Mitt Romney and his friends bullying the gay kid in high school.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "IRT ShopOHolic, because the liberal democrats objective is to destroy the Christians and religion to get approval for same-sex marriage and homosexuals as a civil right. Auwe. But, President Trump has made many of the necessary changes to reverse the policies of Hawaii born ex-president Obama and move America in conformation to the Constitution as envisioned by our Founders. Imua.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He just did list his reason(s). Hypocrisy. He is saying that the same people that disparage homosexuals probably have a number of things they would would be ashamed of should they come to light. That is not to say homosexuals should be ashamed. I am not a writer, so that is the best I can do.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nate: Be extremely CAREFUL when using that word POKING. The LGBTAX (lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals, transgenders, Agenders, X's), will be on your case.............", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There are 1000's of Transgender people already in the Military? \nGays and Lesbians yes, but I seriously doubt there are that many TGs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ya know what? Some times it just doesn't work out. Their actions either for or against gay marriage have nothing to do with this. I suspect nearly everyone goes into a marriage thinking \"This is THE one!\" People change; needs change. \n\nSeriously - acting as if this is some great act of hypocrisy is dishonest. If one of them was caught en flagrante with someone else of either gender...well...it's still just a divorce and the schadenfreude is a bit inappropriate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is no country in the world that is primarily Islamic that has gay rights. Yet, ETFO continues to uphold that Islamic prayers should be held in public schools in Ontario and that Islamophobia is the problem. Sorry, ETFO, you're on the wrong side of history supporting this cause!\n\nBTW, ETFO wants to remove the names of dead prime ministers from schools, but ETFO doesn't mind having its members oversee sexist, anti-gay, and anti-anything-but-Muslim prayers in their schools - in a language most members don't even understand, so they can't even be monitored????", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In your interpretation of Church teaching, you say: \"The greatest gift we have received is the gift of life, given by God, through the action of our parents, refusing to fully partake in His creation by deliberately denying another the opportunity of life, is sinful.\". \nA gay Catholic is unable to comply with this idealistic mandate about providing for another to have the opportunity of life....unless that gay person was to enter into a heterosexual marriage, but that too would be a life of perpetual sin because the very fact they know they are gay mitigates against the validity of the sacrament. Your advice, perpetual celibacy, is a choice that purposely denies another the opportunity at life. In your understanding of Jesus, LGBT are dam-ed if they do and dam-ed if they don't. It's hard to see where any parent who believed as you do would see an LGBT child as a blessing. Maybe that's why so many of our LGBT children are depressed, suicidal, and lucky if they aren't homeless.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"And don't worry, my standards are the same for everyone.\"\n\nAnd yet you use the derogatory terms \"thumpers\" and \"holy rollers\" for Christians. I guess I dont want to hear what you call Muslims or gays or blacks or women if your standards are truly the same.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Just to state the obvious: Even though the author takes the Pope's retelling of the joke about the 'woman-like' young priest with the saturno as indicative of \"a disturbing resentment of women and gay men who seek to serve the church,\" neither group was the obvious primary intended target. Instead, the butt of the joke were really young trad priests. I generally agree that repeating the joke was ill conceived. Immediately upon hearing it, I remembered an article I read here, in which Fr. James Martin told a gay audience that a way to seek better relations and bridge-building with the Church would be to refrain from making jokes about the vestment preferences of traditonalist priests. I guess Pope Francis didn't read the article.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As opposed to the \"Christianity\" of a Clinton White House? Infanticide, homosexuality, expansion of the welfare/nanny state; sounds awfully \"Christian\" to me. And did you ever consider how many people lost their healthcare under the disgenuously named \"Affordable Care Act\"?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Dunthorpe: Such a pleasant, respectful post.......First, I'm heterosexual and have been married 54 years, so your nasty little quip regarding \"the gay left\" is rather wasted. However, monogamy is just as common, perhaps more common, among same-sex couples today as it is among different-sex couples, so your statement is also inaccurate. But, keep up the nastiness, it defines your character. \n\nIf you, Crispina or any other \"Christians\" have evidence of Hillary Clinton being a \"serial killer\" by all means present it to the proper authorities. Also remember Trump isn't just an \"adulteror\", he's also boasted of his sexual assaultive behavior..... my best regards, Gary", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are judging. You are using a shield of Church rules and Church understanding to support actions that inflict pain and suffering. You also have to use your heart; you have to apply love as it fits the situation of the suffering person. You don't condone a gay lifestyle by treating a gay person with kindness and love. You don't condone a gay lifestyle by sitting with a grieving family of a gay person who has died, holding their hands, praying with them. What would you do, passing the man lying beaten and suffering on the road? Give him a swift kick in the head for getting in your way? Or, would you help him? Are you a good Samaritan - who was not the one recognized as righteous by the law - or the Pharisee who, so busy with his own duties, walks on by? \n\nThink about it, RR. What is proposed is ugly, unkind, not an act of love. You want to be self-righteous with sword raised when you need to be loving with an open heart.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My point is this. Seemingly every time an issue like this comes up all the Christian haters come out and start throwing their ridicule at them. Yet no one says anything about Islam and their treatment of gays under their religion. Nor do they throw the ridicule at Judaism. \nGuess Christians are the easiest of targets. \nPeople want to be gay then fine. Don't try to force me to accept it and don't go around flaunting it. Even the laws of nature dictate it is not normal.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When BLM staged its extortion coup d'etat against the LGBT community of Toronto, Wynne, Tory and Trudeau were all at the Parade but abandoned the actual \"GAY\" community to BLM. They even tacitly agreed with BLM that the white gays of Toronto really are a pack of racists. As always, the gays of Toronto were thrown under the bus for political convenience. It\u2019s like the 1980 bathhouse raids all over again as elected officials refuse to fight this injustice done to us homosexuals. Ironically, the cops are now our only ally. Not even lesbian Wynne would dare come to our aid.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ms Leitch appears to be the front runner. That is so depressing.\n---------\n\nMs Leitch is against those with anti Canadian values\nthe Left does not mind\n\nhonour killing?\nfemale genital mutilation\nhomophobia?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe they were greeting each other with a holy kiss. Now, after all the rant on exclusive male homosexuality, the church has a new problem to grapple with. What FB has been violated? Let us know how the school and/or church handles this problem now and in the future to stamp out homosexuality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am going to definitely file away all your comments defending Milo's 'free speech'. It is jaw dropping and mind boggling how you, and many other conservative Catholics, have claimed a flaming gay male espousing every single thing you castigated all gay men for espousing, as your very own. My how tribalism makes for strange bed fellows.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No one is forcing them to be gay, which is the crux of your argument, but if you're going to be open for business you can't only serve white people, even if that's what your religion is premised on.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Touche', there, 63. I have the exact sentiment. As long as there's bigots and racists that like to stick their heads up every time ADN publishes a story on Alaska Natives, the homeless, the LGBT, or any other vulnerable group, I'll be there to fend them off. So should others that have decency and ethics. There's a big difference in having an opinion but when it's laced with hate garbage than all bets are off.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It\u2019s the shaming of police officers plain and simple, to suggest they can come but not in uniform is grossly insulting.\nThis is what they do, police large events and ensure safety for all. Like a fireman the uniform serves many uses, t-shirts and jeans are useless.\nThis is particularly troubling given the struggle gay officers went through internally back in the day .They more than anybody have the rite to ware their hard fought uniform with PRIDE !!!!\nPerhaps if Black Lives Matter cares so much about fighting for civil liberty's they should go ware they are needed rather than invading the gay pride parade.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sadly, you are probably right. Things in Africa have gone from bad to worse for gay people, thanks mostly to American evangelical homophobes like Scott Lively exporting their hate to foreign shores.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuals appear effeminate, but so do asexuals. Burke appears that way to me but I doubt the is gay. That he is asexual, I have no doubt. Soft, quiet voices but stridency about chastity and purity and holiness. Very Asexual. They simply don't realize that their own lack of attraction is not held by anyone else.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It doesn't make sense from a military perspective to ban transgender service members. Trump tweeted it to shore up the homophobic sector of his base of supporters, which also includes racists, xenophobes, Islamophobes, and sexists.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Leave the Mormons alone, gay people and Denver Post. We have a thing called \"religious freedom\" in this country which would be crushed if the left took over. \n\nLooks like the girl is happy to be at the church and if she isn't, she can leave the church when she's ready. This is another liberal advocacy column disguised as a \"news\" article. This article is not news, nor does it help the public in any way.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"height of cruelty\"?\n\nYou mean like vilifying non-hetero students and telling them that God hates gays? By ignoring contraception and putting teenagers at risk not only of pregnancy but of STDs as well?\n\nGive your head a shake andy. Nice job with the hyperbole and fear mongering by the way.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well the Catholic Church partnered up with Mormons, right Evangelicals and Orthodox and Hasidic Jews (all of which hate Catholicism with a passion) to try and squelch gay marriage in the USA, so it's choice of bedfellows is quite broad. Where money and power are concerned, the church has never shown much morality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If you are openly gay, does that mean you are sexually active? Because that would merit suspension all by itself.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well, Clearthinker. I wasn't aware that gays can force people to give them baked goods for free...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Disagree. I would say most people don't give a flying fig... whether you're trans or not, gay or not, rich or not, black white green or not... but \"not caring\" is more in the vein of \"An it harm none do what ye will\" as opposed to \"it's weird and I'm gonna pretend it doesn't exist\".\n\nTo the OP: much empathy. It must be hard enough being a member of a truly rare and misunderstood community without having band wagoners jump on board, diluting and distorting a very real issue for their own narcissistic and myopic views.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The right's vision of America is based on greed, disdain for their fellow Americans (except for the rich), pseudo-patriotism and egotism. Should the government help the poor? No, that money is needed for tax cuts to the rich. The poor are poor because they make poor choices (like not having a father who leaves them $300 million).\n\nWhite privilege, misogyny, racism, homophobiaare core American values. White Christian males are to rule! Rights are a zero sum game -- any rights you get reduce my rights. Christians are simultaneously the majority in the country and relentlessly persecuted. Why, there is a farmer in Michigan who can't even refuse to serve gays without there being consequences.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You mean sew up the Sharia vote? You mean sew up the votes of the creepy people who force their daughters into arranged marriages and punish people who are gay? Those people?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Living a LGBTQ lifestyle is sin. The Bible clearly addresses the issue. God teaches to love the sinner but hate the sin. As a result, the sin cannot be condoned by society. A LGBTQ lifestyle is not to be enabled and glorified. The individual is to be treated with respect, but societal accommodations simply enable the behavior and endanger the rest of society. Males and females do need their privacy in certain situations. LGBTQ behavior crosses the boundaries of that privacy, because it is scientifically impossible for humans to fully change sexes. Society cannot let people simply act in any manner they wish, for it will cause a slow deterioration of that society. \n\nIn general, people do not like to be told what they can and cannot do. It is sad that a law like this has to be put in the books. It is sad that right is becoming wrong and wrong is becoming right. Laws forbidding marriage between the same sex and rights to privacy are far from bigotry, for It is simple consequence to sin.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Francis has affirmed the 2005 instruction which excludes homosexuals from priesthood. I\u2019ve always regarded that Instruction as cynical, hypocritical and dishonest, but apparently we have to take it seriously. And so let\u2019s get on with it. We should be able to exclude every gay bishop, priest and deacon from ministry within two years. By December 31, 2018, every bishop, deacon and priest in the world should be required to obtain a Certificate of Heterosexuality. The Certificate would be issued after a comprehensive examination by competent psychiatric and psychological experts. Every cleric who has faculties must be required to obtain the certificate, even married deacons and priests. (We know how sneaky the gays can be.)\nI propose an over/under pool for the number of American bishops who would still be in office on Jan. 1, 2019. Set the point at 50; I\u2019ll take the under. No good could come of this, of course, but at least the so-called culture-warrior bishops would be gone.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What you expect when is lesbian in charge", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How would a person be able to differentiate a true trans person with a person with mental illness ???", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Aren't you the same guy with the rants against gays? If so, what's your agenda here?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yet another whiny, hand-wringing condemnation of the idea that maybe, just maybe, we ought to, well, interview people who want to come and live here. I mean, has there been a single national media institution which hasn't already made it clear that any suggestion hard-core, fundamentalist Muslims who think gays and Jews should be killed and women beaten like dogs if they get out of line are in any way less worthy of coming to Canada than others is akin to Hitlerian fascism? Every single columnist has made it clear that anyone with the slightest discomfort with the social values of Islam should just pack up and leave this country. The CBC's political panels squawk about it almost every day. Why, the very notion that Canada and its values are better than any other people or nation anywhere on earth simply horrifies them. I would really like to take the writers of editorials like this and expel THEM from Canada, fore them to live in Saudi Arabia, where they'll be happy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My previous post is referring to the dot points on page 193. I'm just trying to make the point that there were/are bad apples as well. Even though I agree we need to, I'm interested in why we are so intent on focusing on the apple barrel rather than the bad apples. Part of the reason, I suspect, is that we want to blame the organisation which for many of us has caused so much grief, abused us personally, and has turned out to be such a disappointment, perhaps exposing us to ourselves that we were so bloody stupid to have ever believed in it. Perhaps we also had and still have our own psychological (bad apple) issues that need addressing, something we may not want to admit. I know I do. So, easier to blame the organisation (the barrell) than blame individuals (bad apples). Perhaps it's because many of us went along with the sexual revolution, are gay and love Vatican II and therefore, cannot even begin to consider these issues to be part of the problem? Asking is part of academia.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The western culture, from excessive individualism, feminism to LGBT fashion, doesn't lead to a big offspring. Thus more successful you brainwash people with it, the less people you will have to inherit this culture. The enemy is just within.\nThis is a culture without future.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's the law. You can't discriminate against a couple solely because they are gay or lesbian.\nAnymore than you can discriminate against blacks or Roman Catholics or disabled people.\nIf skinheads want meat from a kosher butcher, and they are polite customers, they have every right to be served. If they harass the butcher, that's criminal behavior.\n\nIt is amazing how many people were fine with civil rights laws -- until they included gay people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Dumpocrats are now 0 for 4 in their referendums on president Trump, expect more of the same in 2018. Americans have had it with the party of minorities, gays and muslim lovers.\n\nPowerless, left to whine in the wilderness.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I criticized Wynne, so I am now a misogynist and a homophobe. Apparently.\n\nSo yes, you will be labeled a racist for daring to question.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Facts:\nsince V11:\nMass attendance below 20% world wide...in come countries like France it is below 5%\nSignificant reduction in the number of priests and religious, especially nuns (although a good thing, as mot liber non Catholic order will cease to exist in 10-20 years)\nMass apostasy from the faith..most Catholics don't know the basics of the faith..couldn't define transubstantiation, name the Commandments, corporal or spiritual acts of Mercy, recite basic prayers at Mass, a loss in belief in the Real Presence\nMost Catholics have the same views as most secular atheists with regards to morality and a whole host of vile practices accepted by the broken society at large, like abortion and gay \"marriage\"\nClergy sex abuse whose root cause, unnatural sex addiction, was allowed to grow and is not discussed\nYup the fruits of VII..something to be really hopeful and full of pride about..I just don't get how those that should be shepherding us don't see the disaster in front of their noses", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "For those who may be unaware:\n\n\"But the proper reaction to crimes committed against homosexual persons should not be to claim that the homosexual condition is not disordered. When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behavior to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational and violent reactions increase.\"\n\nFrom LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE PASTORAL CARE OF HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS (1986)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Not just Christian, but joining a bigoted Conservative Baptist church as an adult and then being wishy-washy about whether he believes/doesn't believe the\nfundy positions (gays sex is sin, co-habitation is sin, women must submit). I like Wheeler, but if you can't support Wheeler, Schor is the smartest and most qualified after the top two.\nSarah Iannarone was chosen by Charlie and Nancy Hales to cause trouble for Wheeler. She speaks in jargon, supports unlimited tent camping and is basically Hales Lite. Her inability to understand the implications of state law prohibiting city rent controls is shocking. I love they way she pretends to be an outsider when she was recruited by Hales.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Transgender\" is an adjective, not a noun - as in, transgender people, or trans woman, or some such.\"\nAs in Americans, Democrats, Liberals, Republicans, or Christians -don't forget gays, lesbians, or LGBT - or is transgender completely different?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Knowing the naturalness of their relationships, which is the same as any other. Gays, straights and aces spend most of their lives doing other things besides their sexuality (or lack thereof).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So Leah gets canned for a week ,\nand so Ms. Tabby can squeak.\nOf matters quite gay\nshe must have her say\nwhile with joy her followers shriek.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump failed in his attempt to defend his ban on transgender troops with, as usual, nonsensical self-praise.\nHis 'defense' consists of bluster and posturing with not even the hint of factual argument.\nThose who have been forced to pay attention to Trump will quickly recognize this as his go-to bluster for every question he is asked:\nHe is great, his decisions are great, everyone loves his decisions or will love his decisions in the future, that's that, next question.\nHe continues to exhibit all the symptoms of a barely functional narcissist; it's not merely that he blusters about everything, all the time, but that he cannot seem to even retain more than a cursory bit of information about any topic not directly related to himself and his own falsely perceived success.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Apparently, the gay couple flipped the baker half the peace sign on their way out the door.\" I would have, too. But you don't seem to understand this was AFTER his illegal refusal to afford him the same services he would give to straight couples.\nThe SCOTUS taking the case feels, to me, like the first anti-LGBT effect of the Neil Gorsuch era.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Articles like this make me so glad that I am gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most people in Quebec don't want large numbers of Muslims moving to their province. They believe that Muslims are backwards, anti gay, anti woman and that a large number of them support terrorism or are sympathetic. They believe that Islamic values are in conflict with Quebec, Canadian and Western values.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Re: \"ya you want to be gay, be gay\"\n\nIt isn't an optional choice. either one is or one is not attracted to others of the opposite (or same) sex, and nothing on God's green earth has ever changed that.\n\nBut, it's mighty 'christian' of you to 'allow' other people to \"be\" ... themselves.\n\nRe: \"but no right to force public schools to segregate such groups\"\n\nIn actual fact, they are ALLOWING people of different groups (gays and straights) to intermingle. What a concept. And, it's the OPPOSITE of \"segregating\" the 2 groups.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Better use some of this money to figure out where the new crowd of people are going to PARK. Remove the medial strip and make one or two rows of diagonal parking? Double decker parking? Forget the Natatorium. Just make a boulder breakwater like Magic Island around from Diamond Head all the way to the gay beach. Make a first class island with a volleyball court complete with seated stands. The breakwater will control erosion and provide calmer waters for long distance swimming, floating around, standing around for tourists who cannot swim, paddle boarders. Make small openings for sea water to circulate. THINK.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Coghill argued afterward that adding protections for gay and transgender people \u2014 like allowing them to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, or requiring businesses to serve customers regardless of their sexual orientation \u2014 could infringe on others' rights.\"\n\n\"It is the human rights, not the special rights commission,\" he said.\n\nSenator Coghill, does your statement mean that you do not represent some of your constituents based upon their sexual orientation or gender identity?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yawn. Phoning in a cut&paste piece again, Paul? How about some original thinking on a topic that hasn't been beaten to death already. Maybe abortion will be next from you? Gay marriage? Benghazi? Yawn.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you, Brem. This discussion seems to be getting ridiculous. I thought Mike Pence's comments were just nutty, and am really surprised to see so many others thinking like him. Do people really have so little self-control in the workplace? And understanding that not everyone is heterosexual, does this mean that gay men should avoid work meetings with other men, or lesbians with other women? Interactions with difficult people and difficult issues at work are challenging enough - do they really have to be even more complicated because people don't want to control their urges?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "King... \"his brother was gay, and Florida wasn\u2019t a tolerant place when they were growing up in the 1970s and 1980s. He struggled with depression.\n\n\u201cGrowing up was incredibly hard and he dealt with tremendous insecurity based on who he was,\u201d King said, before describing a call he got from his parents during his freshman year in college. He killed himself.\"\n\nGillium... \" \u201cThe first thing that he did when he had the opportunity was get on the first bus that he could afford, to go all the way across the country to California, with not so much as a job or a house, just so that he could be himself.\n\n\u201cIt was intense,\u201d he said. \u201cIt tore me up, because [my brother] was the closest thing to me.\u201d\n\nThe gay and lesbian voters represent every economic and social stratum within the state. Their support will means a broad-based campaign is possible.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That gay persons are objectively disordered is an idea, an ideology. That gay love-relationships are intrinsically evil is a cruel lie ... and an idea, an assumption of an a priori allegedly self-evident \"truth\" which is anything but. Once catholic priests genuinely accompany gay persons, only then will the taboo collapse and the real truth emerge into the light of day ...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The dude in your image is from famed gay erotic artist Tom of Finland.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just reinterpret the word semi to mean auto, just like gay marriage, and presto - problem solved!\n\nWinston would be so proud of you Cox ...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The police do need evidence of the motivation other than the victim being transgender. The evidence is not in this article so nobody can judge the police's motive from just reading this. Motivation is also hard to come by and is not needed in a clear cut murder case.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have never been able to understand such comments like dragon's. Is it they just don't like women? What does that make them? gay? mass murderer?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not so, Byard. HIV is only transmitted through gay sex or drug use. What you didn't know is that Florence, although regarded as a retirement community and gambling Mecca, is to Oregon what Castro District is to California.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because transgender people have been a tiny, tiny, miniscule number of people and their political agenda is not directly harmful to men, only to women, so MSM don't really care about it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Epigenesis and self-reporting say the same thing. People are born gay. The fact that abusers have always been abused shows pederasty is learned behavior. Only bigotry equates the two.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the Holy See quietly vetoed a homosexual representative, then why do they appear to be willing to work with a heterosexual mistress & her adulterous spouse??\nCould it be all that GOP friendly K of C money??", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am a transgender veteran and military transplant from California living in Denver. I have always loved Colorado it seems our politicians actually think subjects through. This ban has broken my heart but Seeing so much outrage even from the republican side of things gives me hope that I served a country that may one day value me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting to note that the President of this country loudly proclaimed some time ago that there were no gay people in his country.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some of the very best critiques of Obama came from the left, it turns out. And most of that was not carried on the \"liberal media\", of course; you'd have to seek it out from more serious outlets, and it is/was generally confined to print.\n\n\n\nCertainly, most of the critiques of Obama from the right were ridiculously cartoonish and childish and just plain unhinged - swimming in a swamp of nonsense about long form birth certificates, being secretly gay, secretly Muslim, that Michelle was a transgender man, talk of Wright/Alinsky/Ayers, and of being a \"socialist\" or \"communist\" or \"fascist\", etc...\n\n\nIf consuming serious media was \"eating your vegetables\", I sure do wish the right would eat their vegetables more often. They seem to mostly consume the media equivalent of pork rinds and soda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Taken from my article A Bond of Divine Mercy in the link below, perhaps some may consider reading it. \n\nThe Church teaches that the only option open to a gay Christian is celibacy and if they should sin they are in exactly the same position as all of the unmarried, the sacrament of penance is available to them and in this regard, they are treated equally.\nFor young Christian gay adults, the options appear to be stark, live a single celibate life. As Christians we consider this to be a gift from God. Obviously Homosexuals have the same needs as heterosexuals for a loving sexual relationship, to impose celibacy upon any one, either a heterosexual or a homosexual person would create an intolerable situation within their heart, which would only serve to increase the desire for companionship and sexual intimacy...\n\nhttp://www.v2catholic.com/background/2015/07/2015-07-25Kevin-Walters-a-bond-of-Divine-Mercy.htm\n\nkevin your brother\nIn Christ", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for demonstrating, once again, that you don't know any homosexuals. Gay men are no more given to molesting teenagers than heterosexual men are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OOPS! Stephanie, don't use my computer while I am sleeping! No, Gaga and I are not together. This has been a battle cry for my gay friends and family long before the long or even the findings which confirmed what they already knew about themselves. That is what is so galling about the whole disordered comment by Ratzinger, that he had no respect all for their self-knowledge. I hope he repents of his sin, as there enough popes in Hell (ever seen the painting of the Last Judgment).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not at all. 1st, my point is that sexual differentiation in primate behaviour, even when apparently arbitrary, is innate. You have confirmed that. 2nd, I have never heard anyone is against \u2018same-sex behaviour\u2019 in social interactions; we all do that.\n\nBut if you meant, \u2018sexual acts between members of the same sex\u2019, then we\u2019re not talking about sexual differentiation of labour (and other behaviours) anymore, but about homosexuality. My hypothesis there was that the current western epidemic of sexual attraction/identification disorders currently results in large part from the irrational belief that men and women are to all intents and purposes identical. It's not instructive to equate western-style \u201cgay\u201d homosexuality with animal behaviour. Simply because a behaviour can be found, commonly or rarely, among animals does not make it moral (that\u2019s not what \u2018natural law\u2019 means). Many species kill their own kind with abandon, but that does not mean that humans should emulate them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I certainly agree that the repressive regimes of the Mideast are far worse than Pence-style conversion therapy or a few alcohol-fueled gay bashings by someone partly triggered by seeing \"sin\".\n\nI was merely pointing out that GBA decided to attack Islam for \"forbids homosexual acts under penalty of death\" which is a more widespread sentence in religious texts than he apparently realizes. I think I made that point since the topic has now been switched to how terrible Saudi Arabia and Yemen are... I have no criticism of criticism of those terrible regimes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We should deny entry to immigrants or certain groups that are unappreciative, use faulty logic to make a point, use bizarre comparisons to win an argument, who are in fact not oppressed but a leader in being oppressors to minorities, who throw gays off of buildings, stone women , like to own women, have an army of immigration lawyers on their side and most important continually whine, whine and whine about everything.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The \"Cardinal Newman Society\" gets all the attention and awe that any mindless mechanized puppets in the pews thoughtlessly give them. \n\nIf we start the day by reading briefly from the four Gospels, and saying some quick well-thought prayers, we will be open to a real and charitable embrace of our fellow Christians, however they appear and seem to be -- old and young, hurting or victorious, gay or straight.\n \nTry getting someone to smile who seems to be hurting. If you are standing in a group, and you don't notice anyone preoccupied by some pain, you aren't paying enough attention. See whether you can detect someone who needs a real friendly greeting, and -- without meddling too much -- find out what's bothering them. With that kind of charity for others, you will pay no attention to Cardinal Newman Society types. \n\nI never say anything charitable about the CNS when the topic arises. And I do know how to put them down. I am now a care giver, and put my energies there. Period", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You noticed? Or antisemitism, Or white supremacy, Or sexism....Or civil rights, in general? Catholic hierarchy including Kurtz, Vigano, Lori and Cordileone have been involved with groups that are associated with hate groups, noted by the SPLC....that specialize in the discrimination of a \"group\" be it Jewish, or black, or female, or gay or Muslim or whatever. And attempts to PROTECT these groups.\n\nSomething the USCCB is NOT doing.\n\nYou are better off with the SouthernPoverty Law Center, the Anti Defamation League, Amnesty International, et al....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "King was right, but from what I see in the pews there aren't that many gay people left to witness to the \"patience as persistence\" approach. They are mostly gone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1. Epigenetics. 2. Most gays self identify as children before any sexual activity. \nYour belief on divine law is based on the pietousness of asexuals, not reason or evidence. It is stoic, not Christian. To be Christian it must show God as humble of heart, be easy to follow and a light burden. It should certainly not drive teenage boys to suicide for having to chose between being true to themselves or true to God. God does not ask for such nonsense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Now, to quote your previous BS \"Medical documentation... I hope you realize how foolish and bigoted your comments are.\"\nI hope you realize how uniformed your comments are. Your \"expertise\" in this field is non existent much like your knowledge of the U.S. military. I correctly pointed out she WASN'T a transgender while a Navy Seal - period. Sorry - I'm not qualified to speculate how he felt \"for many years\" as you. Bigotry has nothing to do with the facts. Grow up and realize crying bigotry or the other favorite lib battle cry \"racism\", doesn't fit every situation which you don't agree.\nhttps://www.vumc.org/lgbti/key-transgender-health-concerns", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK. So if you disagree w/ the policy, the DoD still has to listen to its paymaster. Lobby Congress to have DoD change their entry requirements and continuance requirements to how you want it to be. Questioning the policy w/out first finding out what the rest of the 1, 494, 000 other military members have to say about it is just more leftist tampering. If it aint broke, don't fix it. It is not the military's job to make people feel wanted & loved, unmarginalized, and \"special\". The left is all about not creating hostile work environments. By forcing this issue, what other \"special needs\" people will be forced into the military? Pedophiles? Beastialites (or whatever you call them)? \n\nThe most convincing argument I have for myself, if you want my opinion, is that out at the pointy tip of the spear, we all are our own blood bank. HIV is more prevalent in homosexuals and needle users. More trans people use needle drugs. That's just the data. I didn't make it. I don't want HIV.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...thanks mostly to American evangelical homophobes...\"\n\nI was under the impression that the anti-gay sentiment was deeply ingrained in African culture. Of course external sources supporting that bias is outrageous, but surely you are overstating the case for those forces causing (\"thanks mostly to\") the homophobia?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting part of the Transgender bathroom issue is that my Uncle was a gay man in the 1950's so that has been going on for decades But in the last decade some religious people created a problem where there wasn't one and that is where the problem is. There are laws already that make it illegal to attack or harass anyone in a public place including restrooms. In defense of ones \"wife's and daughters\" being protected from attack from a man who will dress as a woman, enter a female rest room to sexually attack them, never happened. A new study was released that states the largest threat to the women in this nation by far is being assaulted, sexually and physically and some murdered by their spouses and boyfriends. And that would be thousands of American women annually. Best way to go, spend all this time on the real threats to women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He was too busy marching in ANOTHER gay pride parade to take notice. (I swear that if wasn't for parades this guy would never get any exercise.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Surveys in the U.K. Daily Mail show that no more than 3% of people here identify as homosexual. This might suggest that homosexual priests are likely to be few and far between. However, the vast majority of cases of 'child-abuse' were homosexual encounters (between priests and pubertal and post-pubertal teenage boys). This means that homosexually inclined priests are more likely to abuse children. This is not the same as saying that in general, homosexuals are more likely to be child abusers.\nIt seems to me that for homosexuals, becoming a Catholic priest opens up opportunities to encounter teenage boys or before this scandal, did in the recent past, hardly a calling from God and thus justifying the ban.\nAny priest with homosexual inclinations who has remained celibate and not communicated his sexual preferences to all and sundry need not feel insulted in the slightest. He is to be admired for carrying his cross in silence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While the boosters here promote their sponsors at Big Oil, they claim that the industry has done wonderful things for other economies. Here's a good look at the tsunami budget crisis in another state, Oklahoma, brought on by the rants to low-info voters about abortion, homosexuals, where people pee and the \"Muslim\" in the White House: http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-oklahoma-bust/\n\nOil is taxed at 1% and schools are going to a four-day week, while peoples homes are being destroyed by earthquakes brought on by reckless frackers. Revenue has dropped by a billion dollars.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, many of us now no longer care if the church accepts us or not, we just want to be left alone. The gay stuff was only one of many reasons why I left the church, as it was for most of us. The gay thing was one of the two biggies for me, the other the response to the abuse crisis.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not condemning anything, I'm just trying to clarify the discussion. \n\n\"Gay\" encompasses two things: 1) Same-sex attraction and 2) Same-sex sodomy. The first is temptation, the second is sin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Benedict, who also happened to be one of the most effeminate popes in recent history, who enjoyed dressing up in the most flamboyant frumpery of the past and who also surrounded himself with handsome men of all ages, not to mention who took into retirement with him his long time companion \"gorgeous\" Georg. Nothing the least bit gay about any of that....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Vast majority of Catholics in the pews? He probably means the majority of Catholics who regularly support abortion, homosexual marriage and euthanasia, or the main readers of NCR. I doubt those are the very same Catholics (~22%) who regularly go to mass.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One important distinction. What any citizen supports or opposes on the issues of either abortion or gay marriage are immaerial to their existence. Neither provision is a matter of legilsation. Electoral politics has no effect on either and to say it does is a fraud. The Supreme Court will never give abortion legilsaion or marriage prohibition back to the states. To do so would essentially bring back Plessy v. Ferguson and its tyranny of the white mob, although in this case it would be the Catholic mob. Not even Catholics have to support that. Indeed, to do so would violate the Magistarium of Vatican II. Dignitatis Humanae.\u201d This declaration was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on December 7, 1965.\u201d The only way out is to have Congress redefine personhood under the 14th Amendment, as I have been saying. Of course, doing so would end the issue and the pro-life movement fraud that one must vote pro-life (Republcan) or be a pro-abort.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, great we really have our team now! They're right in line with my very extreme devout evangelical views. It's reassuring to know the hate for latinos, Muslims, and transgender people is still alive and well. Now hopefully we can get this abortion thing turned around....and, uhhh what else is important to us? It doesn't matter Trump is very white and likes Jesus more than the Democrats...that's what someone said, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can't NCR offer Father a job as a writer? His impressive progressive bona fides: a \"street priest\", ministering to drug addicts and runaways who struggled with their sexuality. His writings included Changing Norms of Sexuality. He co-owned a bed-and-breakfast for gay customers in Palm Springs. He earned the nickname \"the hippie priest\" for his long hair and outspoken views, including his public rejection of the church's condemnation of homosexuality. \n\nHe could be NCR's head writer, or editor. Only one question remains: does he hate Trump with all his heart and mind? If so, he's totally qualified to spread the real gospel on this pages.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Natural law reason without a papal bias shows no immorality in marital gay sex for those born gay. Benedict's response was to call homosexuals objectively disordered, but the natural order is a made up fiction created to collect sin because God cannot in his perfection. If the natural order was not made up, point to it. The bottom line is that morality is for the happiness of the individual in life. What concerns you is not that happiness but the reputational authority of the Holy See. That is an unworth goal. One that puts you with the Pharisees and the goats. (the plural you of course).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right Mr. Ph.D, I \"made up\" the 2000 year dogmatic teaching that homosexual acts are mortally sinful.\u2014mjmchale So, the claim is not made it up; but neither is the claim based on a dogmatic source for whatever it is the claim may mean. My problem is censuring moral theologians from considering a \u201c2000 year dogmatic teaching that homosexual acts are mortally sinful.\u201d Just what constitutes \u201chomosexual acts\u201d in this case is ambiguous at best. Same-sex shaking hands looks like a \u201chomosexual act\u201d, but not mortally sinful.\n\nJust where did you earn that doctorate?\u2014mjmchale That information is no secret and is available at www.wesern-civilization.com. I do use my real name.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It would appear you are assuming & adding items of your own, to my comment.\n\nIn my comment, I noted only ordination numbers, not quality, that is something only time can tell. \nAnd yes they are defined by their sex, they are males. \n\nIn your opinion, you are assuming the homosexuality part.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The f-word is not a homophobic slur, it can be used for someone who runs a red light while you're waiting to turn left in the intersection or a group of loud obnoxious Harley riders who drive through the city slowly for the specific purpose of making noise and getting attention. The f-word is not affiliated to any sexuality - in fact I've seen gay friends call their straight friends the f-word (again, for doing something annoying and nothing to do with homosexuality - it can be applied to straight, gay, trans etc.) For anyone looking for an in-depth analysis on this topic, I recommend watching the South Park episode - the f-word, which gets to the heart of this issue. SJW's try to hijack words for their own agenda but the f-word is not a homophobic slur. Everyone should google South Park - F word.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Focusing attention (and negative at that) on the relatively few people who fly signs on street corners ignores the overwhelming majority of the homeless population. What should be done to help the mothers and children who have fled domestic violence; the youth who have left home because they were emotionally, physically, or sexually abused; the veterans who have served our country and suffer serious Post Traumatic Distress Syndrome; people who have paid their dues through imprisonment who no one wants to hire or rent to; elders whose Social Security income falls short of rising rents; people with physical and mental disabilities who cannot support themselves; addicts; gay and trans youth whose families have thrown them out; families who cannot keep up with rent or mortgage payments because of unemployment of a breadwinner or major health care expenses; and those displaced by landlords using no cause evictions so they can substantially hike up rents and increase their profits?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hello Dante,\n\nUm, no.\n\nThe sentence: \"He voiced support for business owners who choose not to serve gay and lesbian clients\"...\n\n... um, no, that sentence emphatically does NOT accurately reflect his quoted statement.\n\nHis quoted statement could be paraphrased as: \"He has voiced support boycotting businesses seen by opponents as promoting a gay agenda in advertising\".\n\nThat is NOT the same thing as only saying \"voicing support for business owners who choose not to serve gay and lesbian clients\", which implies that folks are not allowed in the store and are refused service if they do walk in, along the lines of black segregation decades ago.\n\nThis is a matter of clarity in journalism, not a matter of interpreting the Bible. You are conflating matters.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you believe that about secularists (whoever the heck they are) because you define \"diversity\" as including (or even celebrating) those who would discriminate against others based on some quality. For example, when we are commenting on the cake bakers and the gay couple, you (or your identity at the time) wrote that you would be fine with a shop keeper discriminating against Christians or gays or Jews or blacks or whoever because, you know, freedom and honoring diversity. \n\nOne can honor diversity but still push back against bigots.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Only in America. Society, rules, laws, boundaries are torn down, thrown out, tossed aside, and discarded as being outdated, unfair, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-anything.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you mean by duty to change or reform that the Church must change her teachings, especially toward modern day \"hot-button issues\", then that is false. We as people need to change and reform and that includes those who have divorced and remarried without an annulment and those who choose to engage in homosexual activity and those who choose to engage in sex outside of marriage, use contraception, etc. The list includes mostly sexual sins since these are the majority of the issues that many in the Church want her to change.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The intention was to humiliate the visitors through sodomy, which was standard practice used by Hebrews on their fallen male enemies. This act of rape most certainly violated hospitality codes in form and intent. It had nothing to do with homosexuality as we now know it. It was not intended to be an act of sexuality, but an abusive act of violence against strangers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have no idea what Meghan Clark is talking about. It sounds like theo-babble to me. Can someone please translate?\n\nSarasi1 already said it beautifully, but I think the church has many things right on matters of sexuality. Sex is fraught and ripe for exploitation and should be approached scrupulously. I also agree with Sarasi1 that sexual essentialism and \"natural law\" arguments against LGBTs are bunk. It's a conundrum for the church to unwind its views on homosexuality from its teleological perspective on sexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anti-Semitism is a sin. Racism is a sin. The heart of the \"ism\" is \"I, self, me\". It is ego-centric and ego is another way of saying \"easing God out\". \nI am always so embarrassed by \"catholics\" engaging in such behavior. What rank ignorance of the Gospels. What a sad state of affairs when priests, supposed men of God, standing in for Christ (?) act out this ancient calumny. \nWhen Christ was asked what is the greatest commandment he answered \"Love God above all others and love your neighbor as you love yourself.\" \nWhen asked who is my neighbor? He responded with the parable of The Good Samaritan. The meaning of course is that everyone is your neighbor. Christ did not say except for that fat guy, or that weird girl or the L,G,B,T or those perfidious Jews; which of course would have excluded all of his friends and family, including his Blessed Mother.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Gay Marriage\" is the great Heresy of our Age \u2014 a debate raging in the UMC, Episcopal/Anglican Churches, the Roman Catholic Church et al. \u2014 we faithful must have a DEEP understanding of all the issues involved: same-sex attractions, the LGBTQ political agenda, transgender ideology, and the anthropology of the family. A brilliant talk on Homosexuality is made by the Rev. Paul Scalia (Antonin\u2019s son) of the RC Diocese of Arlington \u2014 I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this video -- it adds depth via logic & reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUXqgpbua9k", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" A lesbian , a native, and a Rabi are in a life boat ... \" Yadda yadda yadda", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no straight pride because you people are not shunned. You are not hated for who and what you are. You are not shot at for being who you are. Get it now buddy? P.s I'm a straight woman who is married to one hell of a trans man that treats me right in which all the \"normal\" guys I was with abused me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I really don't want to go back to the bad old days where being openly gay in Alberta was very dangerous, and LGBTQ people in the province faced constant hostility, violence and harassment. I'm old enough to remember those days and the thought of Jason Kenney as Premier with all his \"lake of fire\" candidates running the province sends chills down my spine. \n\nOn that same token, I'm not terribly impressed with the current NDP government either. So, as a gay progressive, I am seriously considering voting for the Alberta Party, assuming they can get organized on the ground and pull themselves out of the fringe box before the next election.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Conservative Christians are making the biggest noise. Businesses owned by Orthodox Jews seem to serve whomever comes through the door.\nIf you serve any straight couple who comes in, you have to treat gay couples the same way.\nShould people opposed to serving inter-racial or inter-religious couples because of their religious beliefs be forced to sacrifice their faith-based principles to serve them?\nThere is a solution:\nAbolish all non-discrimination laws for private businesses. Every business is free to serve or not serve whomever they please. No exceptions.\nBut some people don't like that idea. They like civil rights laws, overall. They just want the religious freedom to discriminate against gay people -- and no one else. Because gay people are immoral.\nOther people are immoral as well. However, if a straight couple walks in the door, the morally uptight don't know how that couple is immoral. But, to the homophobes, two men or two women visibly display their immorality upfront.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As goes for all special interest groups. No more making private lives public. Hench no more gay pride parades, no more (fill in the blank) protest. Agree yes ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jeanna Duryee is clearly paranoid . How many attacks have there been on gays in Anchorage , yet she say's they all now feel a target on their backs after a shooting at the bottom of the country . She starts her sad tale loose with the facts stating the shooter was using an automatic weapon , then continues to get it wrong saying all normal straight bars are dangerous havens for bad people . I feel sorry for her daughter being taught normal bars are full of bad people. Then she compares a veterans bar to the gay club. That's a disgrace. There is zero doubt if someone tried to shoot up the place in a vet club many hero's would have charged down the gunman as opposed to Orlando where it appears everyone ran like sheep . Why didn't a large group like that subdue the gunman as he reloaded ? A story on that event even tried to make a 18 year old girl on a future college scholarship into a sad victim . She was a victim , but what the heck was an underage girl doing in a nightclub ? Sad .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You seem to be confusing the issue with your Hobby Lobby example. Hobby Lobby not selling ghosts and goblins is not the same as a cake artist who sells wedding cakes to straight couples, but not to gay couples. What if he refused to sell wedding cakes to black couples? Or mormon couples? Or catholics? Hobby Lobby isn't selling ghosts to *anyone* and so they aren't discriminating. \n\nThis guy sells wedding cakes. He should sell wedding cakes to anyone and everyone who walks into his store. That's it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bishop Stowe's a nice, but catechetically under-educated man: the Church, he said, 'has always opposed discrimination of any sort' (against homosexuals). No, Bishop Stowe, it hasn't: it opposes what it calls 'UNJUST' discrimination against LGBT folk. Can you spot the nuance?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "versus Hillary and Bernie da Bomber screaming at us. I saw a clip earlier today of a lady with a terminal illness who showed up at a Trump town hall (or something) to thank him because when she was lying in her hospital bed contemplating her situation she received a hand written note from Donald J Trump telling her that she was the bravest person he knew etc etc etc. If you guys are waiting to hear him apologize for putting Americans and our needs and out interests ahead or illegal aliens or anyone else you are going to wait for a long long time. If you think the PC left is going to bully him into doing crazy things like embracing gay marriage and supporting abortion just to pander for their votes ...don't hold your breath", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This most certainly is about gender theory and that is where my concerns lay. I'm fairly open with my children regarding sex and sexuality but I will not have them taught strange, unscientific activist views on trans issues. Just look, even mildly questioning the validity and credibility of the science these purported teachings are based on results in wild insinuations of human rights abuses and no teacher or any other person in authority is going to sit my children down, dictate unproven theories to them as fact then shame them as human rights abusers if they dare ask too many questions or fail to adhere to these teachings.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CristoVerdad,\n\nOK, you find homosexuality repulsive. So do I. Do you know anyone who has been redeemed from it? Well, I do. If they have taught me one thing it is that condemning those who are seeking to promote understanding of it so that more can work effectively to redeem people from it just makes their deliverance more difficult and grows the number who will be lost instead of saved.\n\nDo you even know the power of the Gospel in your own life? You may think condemning sin is what you should be doing, but it is Satan who condemns us where God lifts us up and His great, infinite love draws us to Him and the cleansing He offers us. I hope you will soon experience that cleansing so you can value it and learn how to offer it so others instead of condemnation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dear RG Editors: I want to thank you for printing this amazing Eggleston letter. With enemies like her, the RG editors must be doing something right. Totally incoherent, there is no clarification of what exactly she was so horrified by, or even what this cartoon was specifically about. She seems to imagine you sit around searching for anything which will upset conservatives, while in fact you print a wild array of opinion pieces here, such as recent letters claiming that Obama is the Greatest Traitor of All Time or that Oregon should form a Robert E. Lee-type militia to oppose the Feds. \n\nBut her true \"bon mot\" was suggesting you were upset because of the \" tragic deaths of many of their own liberal people\"-- evidently referring to the fact that many victims were probably LGBT and Hispanic.!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As BSA enrollment of straight boys drops because gays are joining and leading troops, it only makes sense for girls to join in order to increase the ranks and maintain a constant level of femininity.\n\nFortunately, Trial Life USA is taking advantage of this ridiculous decision of the BSA, growing its organization quickly with boys who want to be boys and mature with boys in a boys' club. Not sure what the BSA is thinking.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What if Jesus were bisexual as a hermaphrodite? Would that make a difference? Is being a woman less human than being a man? (St. Thomas said a woman was an \"ill-made man.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While the ban on gay clergy is lamentable, allowing married priests and bishops would be a step forward. The Roman Church needs to update its concept of \"natural law\" to reflect contemporary science.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am very sorry to hear about your gay brother-in-law. I'm afraid depression in gay people is rampant, for obvious reasons. Still, your support of him, even if it was of the quiet sort, was no doubt appreciated. And by the way, no need to apologize for wrongs you haven't committed, but it's a kind gesture nonetheless.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And don't forget the gays and the transgendered. It must be an extremely-tiring and sad life. So-much cortisol wasted. The sky is perpetually falling. I am so glad I don't live that way. During the so-called \"Cold War,\" the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union kept people under control in like fashion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think the more pressing concern is how Trump has made a habit of lying. He said he consulted \"his Generals\" about a transgender ban. They say they were not consulted. He said Sen. Blumenthal \"told stories about his battles and conquests\" in Vietnam while being in the Marine Reserves. Blumenthal did not. He tweeted the US nuclear arsenal \"is now far stronger and more powerful\". Nothing has changed. I could go on, but the US President has made a habit of taking to social media and just speaking falsehoods. Not a good trait.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Then the powers-that-be should let remarried Catholics receive communion, perform funerals for LGBT people who married their partners, open the Church to women as humans capable of leadership, and get off it about sex and contraceptives. There are a few other things that could make a difference - one is accountability of bishops to the Pope and to the faithful in the diocese. Another would be true synodality that includes the faithful in the management and oversight of parishes and in discussions about the development of doctrine. \n\nThe hierarchical/patriarchal church is full of those who consider themselves \"elite\" and they run the church out of the elitism they claim.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Honestly, politics in this country has absolutely nothing to do with the issues we face and problems we need to solve - together, in a bipartisan fashion, using political theory and informed stances. \n\nJust read articles about the candidates or potential candidates for the Senate race in Arizona. On both sides, it is all about identity politics. The Democrat identifies as previous homeless and bisexual centrist. Other Democrats hate her because she voted for the Benghazi investigation and against Nancy Pelosi (good. She needs to go). \n\nWhat about the issues??? This is true of local politics as well on both sides. I miss the day when the GOP cried about the debt! and cared about real issues, whether I agreed with them or not. Now it is all about inflammatory attacks, corrosive language, Hillary, Obama and deflection. Both sides try to claim the moral high ground - dangerous territory that and hard to defend. I changed to unaffiliated.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Spacey pulled the gay card to avoid the pedophile angle.\"\n============\nHe just didn't \"pull it out of thin air.\" \nApparently there has suggestions, allegations, and rumors that he has been gay for decades.\nHe finally is confirming it all.\nBesides the \"homosexual-pedophile\" angle is hardly better than the \"homosexual-pedophile\" angle.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "To suggest BLM wants to kill all white cops is right wing rhetoric dribble. What they want is equal treatment from cops when being pulled over, or for having a legal gun, or for, you know, just walking the streets.\nYes, there ARE bad eggs in that group, just like there are bad eggs in nearly every group - but that group was not founded on \"kill all white cops\". The core concept of that group is to get equal treatment. Whereas the core concept of White Nationalists is the elimination of anyone who does not look like them. \nYou suggesting that BLM is \"the same\" as White Nationalists actually gives more power to White Nationalists because you are equating them to a movement towards equality. Which they are anything but that. To prove my point, how many black people do you see joining the White Nationalists? Where as BLM is not exclusive to black people, and many people who support that movement are in fact white, and latino, and gay, and straight, and jewish and muslim.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hawaii Dems proposed the resolution. So let them take the complaints when the Con-Con results in a Constitution that outlaws gay marriage and abortion.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What about Vietnam?! Count as a war?\n\nOf course Tchaikovsky is one of the very greatest composers. Putin should be reminded that he Piotr was gay.\n\nI think that \"The Five\" are all there at the top. Its about time Borodin and Scriabin were more widely appreciated. \n\nAnd give the Russians huge credit they deserve for stopping Napoleon just as they did with Hitler. We should celebrate 1812 more.\n\nShame Putin and his greedy Oligarch thugs have no culture and therefore no interest in the wonderful Russian people, which is their culture - only in enriching themselves and funnelling it out to offshore accounts and vulgar baubles. Very like Trump.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are not allowed to fear a radical part of a religion that wants to kill gay people, rape women and behead non-muslim's. \n\nDo the Liberals actually think they will win over more votes with the wording of M-103?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gays are not imprisoned and flogged in Israel as in Gaza, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc. \n\nPride parades in Israel\n\nNone from Morocco across north africa to Pakistan", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why should the gay men of Toronto want anything to do with Pride anymore? Bit by bit, year after year, Gay Pride was taken away from us. Now it has been stolen by BLM and turned into this farce. As a gay man, I have no link to events anymore. Corporate sponsorship will be next to go . If Pride folds, so be it. We gay guys created Gay Pride 35 years ago and we can create something else to replace it. Cops in uniform welcome.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sure Jesus, being an orthodox Jew of his time and place, was also very, very opposed to homosexual behavior. He said that he was here to fulfill the Law of Moses, not condemn it. The Law of Moses condemned homosexual behavior.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So, all an employer has to do is say GLBT people violate their moral code or religious principles, and they can discriminate.\nDonald Trump, who has no moral center, no religious principles, except the exaltation of Donald Trump, will be the gift that keeps on giving to the religious conservatives who want the good ol' days when gay people could be harassed and shamed with impunity.\nWhenever Trump gets into trouble, all Trump or his trusted sidekicks like Sessions or DeVos have to do is throw gay people under the bus, and all will be well.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In other words Mr. Hannon, if you were in harm's way and someone was covering your back, you wouldn't care if they were male, female, gay, straight, metrosexual or a democrat. Only that they shot straight. I'm with you. Good comment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "regurgitating the same crap, gary. the fact remains this has yet to go before the supreme court. the fact remains, and why you keep running from it, the law is not being enforced equally, Christians are being singled out, a bigoted double standard, and one you have gone on record condoning when it comes to liberal bigots; predictably claiming their is a deluded difference.\n Furthermore, you now change the subject running from the fact you posted a bigoted statement mirroring the racists you condemn. You made a slur on all Christians, and slung it exactly like racists who use the N word.\n What you are failing to understand, either willingly ignorant, or intellectually bankrupt is the fact, ordering a custom cake from a Christian baker for a homosexual event is the equivalent of ordering a Muslim caterer to barbecue pork. This isn't an issue of discrimination, it's an issue of asking them to sin against their god, and in an obnoxious in your face manner.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nothing unnatural period. There is nothing natural about a LGBT... nothing. There is no way to creat a generation of gays unless they twist the mind of a innocent child into believing they can reproduce with two identical sexual organs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "But it violates his religious beliefs because they are homosexual. So the distinction you attempt to make collapses (for me). \n\nPeople who hold certain conservative political beliefs violate my religious beliefs (seriously). If I owned a coffee shop, and someone who planned to attend a pro-conservative political event came in to order ten coffees to take to that event for his or her fellow attendees, would I have a right to refuse to serve them?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Probably something like Gays for Trump or Act for America.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Butinski, here is another theory. The person at the helm was a transgender who was distracted while putting on his make up.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus had two dads .Seems there are a few people out there who think he turned out ok .There are more reports of elected officials abusing kids in bathrooms than transgender folks .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This just in Seattle's gay married mayor has just resigned after the 5th accusation (from male victims) of child abuse.\n\nhttp://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-mayor-ed-murray-resigns-after-fifth-child-sex-abuse-allegation/", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not calling you any names. When Burke told grandparents to shun their homosexual children lest the grandchildren not come to hate and fear gays, you supported him. When Paprocki excommunicated married gays, you supported him. No, as I said, your support for homophobia is well established.\n\nYou support the \"teachings of the Church\", which in your understanding include \"you shall reject gays, for they are manifestly sinners\". In other words, you want to believe that homophobia is a Church teaching.\n\nI simply state the facts about you. You don't having these facts stated. Too bad. I care more about the truth than I do about the feelings of a homophobe, especially when that homophobe supports her views by perverting Christ's message.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My jaw dropped at the columnist's thesis, which is spelled out near the end of his article: That those Muslims who embrace extremist, violent terrorism are a set of people who got that way simply as a \"reaction to racism\" that they faced in their earlier years growing up in the West.\n\nAre you KIDDING ME?\n\nGee, let's look at a list, shall we, let's look at a list of sets of people who have faced nasty bigotry or racism in the West during the past century:\n- gay people\n- women\n- Jewish folks\n- Chinese people\n- black folks\n- Japanese people\n- folks from India\n- folks from Pakistan\n- natives\n- Italians\n- Irish folks\n- transgender people\n\nSo, Mister columnist, how many of those victim groups resorted to SLAUGHTERING PEOPLE IN FREQUENT MASS MURDER SPREES AGAINST INNOCENT STRANGERS IN MUSIC HALLS AND PASSENGER TRAINS AND MARKETPLACES AND TOURIST SITES?!?!?!?!\n\nSometimes all capital letters are needed to dispatch the ridiculous blindness of a columnist to the weakness of their view...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "To me this just says that women are a miserable lot. They would complain if the world was served to them a silver platter.\n\nOK, men get it. Biology does not allow men to push a watermelon out of a uterus. But just because you push something out of your uterus doesn't give you license to complain the rest of your life.\n\nHave children or don't have children. Get married or don't get married. But learn to be happy for yourself and stop complaining. The gift of life is precious.\n\n(And once again, articles like this make me so glad that I am gay. My partner and I don't have time to argue about who does what as we are too busy doing the \"what\" to keep a scorecard on what one does and the other doesn't. If women need to learn how to do this, come see us. I am sure he would be glad to give his input as I have I.)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Arsenault is a lesbian.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Accepting as true that the Southern Baptist Convention is racist, what does that have to do with abortion, gay marriage, and other key culture war issues? Nothing. Last time I checked, Pope Francis was no cracker. You usin' pretzel logic, Vern.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Jackie Owsley YOU are the ignorant one. Were you not listening when Trump pledged to his followers that he would repeal gay marriage rights? Or when he chose Mike Pence, who has one of the strongest anti-lgbtq agendas since Rick Santorum (he actually wants to pull federal funding of AIDS treatment and use it for conversion therapy. That's the \"transgender treatment\" you ignorantly are referring to him proposing; it's where they \"electroshock the gay out of you\". Jeezus, do some research before you dare question \"why in world\" people would be protesting. They're fighting for their very civil liberties.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Merkel is neither intelligent nor knowledgeable. She is a puppet of Islamists, supporter of gay-rights oppressors in Riyadh, and does not know that Obama bugged her phone (though the whole world knows it)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I can understand allowing coverage for a lesbian to use in vitro but a surrogate for a gay man? That's completely crazy. How can one person's health insurance policy provide coverage for another unrelated person? It defies logic and reason.\n There's no shortage of kids that want to be adopted. Gay men should consider that option instead of trying to force everyone else to pay to rectify a problem of their own making. Or perhaps consider getting their surrogate pregnant the old fashioned way. That's always an option too.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Kind of thick, Chuck. The word \"faggot\" has long been used as a homophobic slur. That's why Pillar used it. Just because you're apparently not aware of this use doesn't mean it's not intended that way. And your gay friends' use of it has absolutely nothing to do with what Pillar meant when he said it. Think of blacks and their free use of the\"n\" word within their own culture.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, it will and it is hurting straight marriage everyday in many, many ways. First and foremost, promoting 'gender confusion' which leads many men (and some women) to question their sexual orientation, and consequently reject both the responsibilities and rewards of heterosexual marriage; i.e. the procreation, birthing and raising of new human beings. Without strong support for heterosexual marriage, family formation and the generation of new and psychologically healthy children will seriously diminish. It's already happening . . . The 'gay' lifestyle is truly a 'dead end' that does not benefit the larger society in any way.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your whinge amounts to \"I disapprove of gay marriage, and I will raise any bogus argument I can. Right now, I'm pretending that the state cannot govern civil marriage\".\n\nCivil marriage, which is what Obergefell is about, does most certainly \"belong to the state\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When I was going through my nursing education 22 years ago, I quickly found out in my naivety that some people assumed that I must be gay. This was most definitely an insulting threat to my masculinity and my heterosexuality. It did not mean I was going to nor did I sexually assault anyone. What a bunch of bull.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why would the daughter of a draft dodger, who has just slapped the face of every serving American transgendered person be chosen for a ceremonial task of honour?\n\nTime to for the government to remove her from the guest list.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Now that was the most bigoted and hateful post I have read in a while. Do you hate gay people or just gay Republicans? Please stop posting if you cannot be civil and adult.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gays and LBGT represent , at best about 10% of the population. If surveyed I'm sure the vast majority of tax paying public would agree with the police union.\nAs for calling Black Lives Matter an anti-racist group , that's laughable . That's like calling ISIS 's and Al-Aquada's version of Islam , a religion of peace. \nThere are hate mongers complaining that BLM is giving them a bad reputation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It used to be left-wing parents hoped to have a gay son or daughter. Now it's a transgender one. They aspire to be like the Roxy Music song - part of the \"In Crowd\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Stone age beliefs? Hate speech against Catholicism isn't uncivil, apparently.\n\nHow can loving parents, even Catholic parents, support their gay child (who may be going through some very difficult times) if they don't know what it happening with their own kid? \n\nYou assumption of Catholic parents as incapable of supporting a gay child is absurd.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I see my comment got deleted because I dare speak the truth about a particular religion that treats women like second class citizens and kills men and women because they are gay. But we can't name that religion because people get offended and say \"we are multicultural.\" So apologize for forcing certain religions down our throat in the name of multiculturalism when they hate women and kill gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's just my opinion(we are in the opinion section)...\n\nOMG!\n\nCould you not pull the iron curtain back? It's embarrassing and not conducive towards secret treachery. Drumpf and his Russian friends have their pants on fire.\n\nThey are all old white guys and NOT homosexuals. None of them are gay in any way. They are all 'gay free'. If they do happen to get some gay on themselves, they immediately go to the decontamination tent to see if they too are now gay and in need of electroshock therapy. Lot and lots of electroshock therapy.\n\nAlso, it appears \"The Drumpf\" and friends are up all night going to the restroom. \n\nIt's just my opinion...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "ESPECIALLY when they are STILL abusing members of the community? Why more resistance to them not being invited vs the resistance to get them to STOP abusing members of the community who's parade they want to march in for PR? Are only the concerns of white gays valid in the \"community\"?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And so it goes on. More terrorist attacks, more attacks by the regressive left on anyone trying to correctly label these attacks Islamic Terrorism. And the west will slowly whither and back away allowing the movement to flourish and build up their states while they throw gays off building and subjegate women while the regressive left worries about mansplaining and man spreading in the west.\n\nWe are turning into a wussy nation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I bet there was a secret gay in the church.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They hire christians all the time, who are statistically more likely to be murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and criminals than any other group. The suicide rate is because of degenerates like you that seem to think you have a right to dictate what other people do with thier lives, not because of being trans in and of itself.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When BLM staged its extortion coup d'etat against the LGBT community of Toronto, Wynne, Tory and Trudeau were all at the Parade but abandoned the actual \"GAY\" community to BLM. They even tacitly agreed with BLM that the white gays of Toronto really are a pack of racists. As always, the gays of Toronto were thrown under the bus for political convenience. It\u2019s like the 1980 bathhouse raids all over again as elected officials refuse to fight this injustice. Ironically, the cops are now our only ally. Not even lesbian Wynne would dare come to our defense.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Church teaches that the practice of homosexuality is seriously wrong. Almost the entire world taught that until recently. The Church also teaches us to respect and love those who try their best to bear this cross. So why all the hatred on the Catholic left?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I want everyone to know, when I get busted for my next big felony, I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body and want to go to the woman prison. (Not the man's - yuck)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Every news source since the dawn of journalism has had some sort of a bias; that's why it pays to examine several, and maybe read a few books pertaining to history, current events, philosophy, etc.. Sometimes, the bias leads them to sniff out corruption and report well on it, and many news outlets put their bias aside when wrong-doing is plain. The National Post, for instance, often read like a product of Harper's PMO, but they went at the Cons very hard over the Mike Duffy affair. A bias, in short, doesn't necessarily mean bad journalism or \"fake news\". But Alex Jones simply invents malicious lies like his garbage about Sandy Hook. Oh, and drinking water that's really a \"gay bomb\". It takes a pretty twisted view of the world to think Jones has a shred of credibility.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "White supremacists always view non-whites asserting equal rights as shocking. We're familiar here in Oregon with your far-Right \"special rights\" refrain. The Oregon Citizens Alliance used that phraseology in an attempt to deny gays and lesbians their basic rights but blue state Oregonians didn't fall for it. \nYou're too old and tired and know too little history to judge things Mr. V..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not aware of Jesus forming close friendships with or condoning the behaviour of adulterers or homosexuals. Can you provide citations?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Apartheid in Palestine? So you sympathize with the rabid terrorists of Hamas who support and reward the families of terrorists who stab pregnant women in grocery stores - pathetic. Israel is a beacon of civility surrounded by regressive fundamentalists. Telling how the self-identified progressive blowhards are deafeningly silent when Palestinians accused of homosexuality are lynched in the streets of Gaza but use every opportunity to attack Israel.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise transgender actress Gabrielle Tremblay for her FIRST film role received her FIRST nomination and the FIRST transgender to be nominated \nas Best Actress in a Supporting role to the Canadian Screen Award for her performance in the film \u00ab Ceux qui font les r\u00e9volutions qu\u2019\u00e0 moiti\u00e9 \nn\u2019ont fait que creuser leur tombeau\u00bb\n(Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves/ \nBest Canadian Film at TIFF, 2016 (Huge Success! But Huge Scandal too!\nAnd the Beginning of a \u201cMyth\u201d, of a \u201cCult Movie\u201d, of \u201cRedSquare\u201d symbol)\nsee trailer onYouTube=\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaLBRRbyYzw) \n(copy-paste in wb address)\n(more to come)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why don't we have a similar list for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries? Russia deserves the criticism, but is not the worst human rights offender. Compared to Saudi Arabia, Russia looks progressive and democratic.\n\nWhy do liberals feel comfortable with such lists for Russia but not others? Even friendly dictatorships like Jordan are oppressive, lack freedom, deny women equal rights, oppress gays and make life difficult for religious minorities. \n\nRussia is a politically correct target. Why doesn't the media question the lack of a similar list for worse human rights abusers? It seems like racism of low expectations. The media and government (Freeland) expects more of mostly european Russia, but not of Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That you compare eye colour to gender identity suggests to me that you have no idea what you are talking about. As a physician with an additional degree in human physiology and who works with transgender individuals, I suggest you get more education on the matter before you write another trite commentary.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Believe it or not, gay people are no different than anyone else in that they don't have a right to be not disagreed with. I know, it's hard to handle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What happens if Trump goes and speaks? First, he gets either boo'd or the crickets effect. Also, can't imagine where he might draw humor from over what he's done and doing. Jokes about Muslims, transgenders, race relations, even Obamacare etc. would land with a thud. Then, he'd get compared to Obama's cool and really gifted witiness. He can't win by going. As someone else said, the decision not to go might be the best of his short administration.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perry is a real piece of work. A believer in \"Biblical inerrancy,\" he's perfect for a position in a Trump administration in that he doesn't believe in evolution. He also doesn't support the right of women and children who have been subjected to rape or incest to have an abortion. He hates gays. He's been a tool of some of the most corrupt industrialists since his days when Karl Rove managed his campaign for Texas Agricultural Commissioner. He cut corporate taxes when the state was experiencing a huge budget deficit. Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury charged with abuse of official capacity for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funding for the Public Integrity Unit, a state anti-public corruption prosecutors department.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The positive news in all of this is that because of fRANCIS's near daily high profile....taking a loud (albeit often double-sided) stance on every this or that topic, every single case like this one mentioned in this article...every child porn possessor, every \"gay-cocaine bust at the Vatican\", every high profile priest plucking the single string, will get attributed to fRANCIS in one way or the other. \n\nSadly, but probably good for the Church given all the confusion he's sown, this will make infertile his voice. \n\nIt'll just be like reading another tweet from Fr John Martin; go in one ear and out the other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Stober couldn't file his city council paperwork in two losing elections\nThe democrats need new leadership .\nThey lose elections and voters by pandering to the far left transgendered bisexual questioning persons of color on a quest for equit diversity and mediocrity.\nThe opportunity is there\nThe Trumps are driving in the ditch\nTake the wheel", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "GRIS-Montr\u00e9al (Groupe de Recherche et d\u2019Intervention Sociale) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure a better awareness of the homosexual \nand bisexual reality and to make it easier for gays, lesbians and bisexuals to integrate into society. \nAs is the case for the fight against racism, the integration of any minority can only be achieved by trying to eliminate ignorance and prejudice. \nSince the values of our youths are being shaped in school and since schools are where knowledge takes precedence over ignorance, GRIS-Montreal focuses most of its actions in the school system, providing demystification of homosexuality \nand bisexuality workshops to establishments in the Greater Montr\u00e9al Area.\nFor More Information see Google for GRIS-Montr\u00e9al\n(and look for \u201cEnglish\u201d)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Radicalization is taught at home, around the dinner table, as the family enjoys mom's good home cooking, while the grown ups discuss destroying Israel, eradicating homosexuals and the evils of dirty infidels It is drilled into young minds with every tale of glorious martyrdom for Allah in every mosque in every city around the world. Extremism for Islam is taught the same way Christians are taught about Jesus and his message of mercy and forgiveness while they enjoy a turkey dinner. It is not at odds with the teachings, but is central to the religion", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is evidence of transgender people going back at least 70,000 years. They have been seen in all cultures around the globe. Though how they are treated does vary considerably by culture, it isn't a cultural phenomenon. \n\nEvidence shows it is biological in nature. \n\nIt has only been in the last 100 years or so that we have had medicines available to do anything to help them. There are differences between the brains of men and women. A woman whose brain is bathed in testosterone is going to have a lot of problems. This is what happens to trans women. These problems are corrected with hormone therapy.\n\nSo how is SHE living differently? Different hormones, which cause all sorts of psychological changes. And life: depending on culture, women tend to have different expectations, are treated differently, and more. The differences between men and women are subtle compared to the big similarities, but they do exist. And the consequences of having the wrong hormones are extremely damaging.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course NAFTA is going to be ripped up. When you have Captain Moonbeam and his band of Nincompoops asking that transgender rights, native issues and climate change be included what did you think would happen?\n\nOh there will be some form of trade agreement but not until this current band of incompetents in Ottawa is given the boot!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jason Kenney has a ton of baggage. His time as a federal MP solidified him as a far-right social conservative opportunist willing to go whichever way the wind blew. He's been driving around Alberta in a gas guzzling pick-up truck for a year drumming up support in mostly rural, ultra conservative strongholds, and now he wants to \"out\" gay kids to their parents! DEFINATELY not the person to lead Alberta. I'm waiting to hear if Kenney will even walk in the Calgary Pride Parade like his rival is. The smart money says not very likely!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender people who have had the sex listed on their birth certificate changed to match their gender identity are allowed (in fact required) to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity. That\u2019s an important point for people to know when forming their opinions of this new law because it addresses some of the more extreme implications of the law, such as the hypothetical case of a person being born anatomically female, but after hormone replacement therapy and surgery now looks like a big hairy bearded man, being forced to use the women\u2019s bathroom for the rest of his life. According to the new law that hypothetical person would be required to use the women\u2019s bathroom as long as their birth certificate still said female, but if/when they changed their birth certificate to say male they would be required to use the men\u2019s bathroom from then on.\n\nThanks for your time,\nDaniel Pfalmer", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By the way, at ~.2% of the population that identifies as transgender, 21 murders works out to ~3.3 murders per 100,000 people. The murder rate in the U.S. in 2014 (the latest year that the FBI has available data) was 4.5 per 100,000. So that doesn't exactly sound like a crisis.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All those replies, as well as the to which I'm replying to now, are just dodging the question.\n\n1) The John Jay report says that 15 to 50% of priests are gay.\n\n2) It also says that 4 out of 5 of the abuse cases were men raping boys (not girls).\n\nThen it wants to say that the perpetrators of these rapes were somehow not gay men?\n\n\u201cWhat is not well understood,\u201d we learn from the study, \u201cis that it is possible for a person to participate in a same-sex act without assuming or recognizing an identity as a homosexual.\u201d\n\nYes, it is entirely possible for a homosexual not to recognize that he is a homosexual. So what? Isn\u2019t it behavior \u2014 not self-perception \u2014 that objectively defines one\u2019s sexual orientation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because discrimination is discrimination whether or not if you agree with someone. Imagine the blow back if they refused a gay rights convention...lol. It's exactly the same as the baker refusing to make the gay wedding cake except his reasons were religious, this strictly economic which makes it an even less noble cause. I know freedom for all is a difficult concept for lefties.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who prosecuted the police officer sex offenders? Lara and the other one. Those were done by a district attorney from another county brought in by the Lane DA to avoid a possible conflict of interest.\n\nYour assertion that the \"DA's office NEVER scrutinizes the actions of the police\" fails on those two cases alone. \n\nBut then we have the Eugene Police officer convicted of assault on a prisoner last year to further remove your credibility. I think I can pull up a few more, but your believability is toast already, so I won't bother.\n\nYou have an agenda. It shows. \n\nI was unaware that Mooney was a lesbian. Why do you choose insert that into the discussion? Looking for some other group to buy into your bias?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rudy Giuliani can hardly be held up to be an exemplary Catholic.\nWhere would you draw the line? What about murder, theft, adultery and all the proscriptions of the Ten Commandments? What if someone confesses to homosexual activity in a jurisdiction where such behaviour is against the law and viewed as equally criminal to child abuse? \nShould we be obliged to confess speeding offences and turn ourselves in in order to receive absolution?\nWhy would a priest confess to a brother priest to obtain absolution when he knew perfectly well that his own disposition would preclude him from receiving that absolution whether his confessor granted it or not? If a paedophile priest believes that he can obtain absolution and continue to molest children then on top of his paedophilia, he has a serious mental problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And by \"the cult manifesto\" you're talking about the 2016 Republican Party platform, which seeks to curtail the civil rights of homosexuals, minorities and women especially? No of course you aren't. It's not a \"cult manifesto\" when we're talking about the backwards, regressive, hateful ideology you cling to without question. Got it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Would it be in bad taste to clap now? Instead of summer shoes, flip flops, we can have claps for clap. But great facts in the responses. Most of the cases involve gay men. Who'd a ever thought? And the infection rate for Po'tland is 250 per 100,000. Learning this on the day it was announced the deaths by violence in Chicago, per 100,000 population, are way more than Afghanistan violent death rates per 100,000 population. Probably all of this is Putin's fault and Trump is assisting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The solution is simple.\nAll A&E Tire has to do is claim that replacing tires and repairing engines is an artistic endeavor, and that hiring transgender people impinges on their artistic freedom.\nIf a baker and a pizza maker can make the claim, why not a tire & auto repair shop?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Any time in pre cana gives you these facts on marriage. Am I incorrect on couples marrying themselves in the sacrament or that fecundity is not required? Of course not. The Church is merely dishonest about taking that teaching to gay marriage. Dialation and Extraction is banned under the Act, which mutes the issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Until the AUSCP comes out and says that it supports women's ordination and the recognition that gay people's marriages are valid, it will not be clear that this is what he is advocating. None of them is willing to speak up until after they retire.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So in your view none of all other soldiers captured by ISIS are not in danger, only transgender soldiers.....right? I'm impressed by your rationale, please keep it up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I went to one of Provos Sunday church services and I must say it was one of the most hate-filled and fear mongering churches I have ever attended. I grew up with a strictly Catholic home and not even they implemented the amount of hate ABT has for Muslims and the gay community. Truly freighting considering the amount of \"believers\" we're at attendance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Question-if I go into a Muslim bakery and order a cake for a gay couples wedding and they refuse to make it, will they be sued? Will the media play the story for months and years?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree. East Lansing is wrong unless he refuses to sell apples to all comers, including gay couples, in the market under their control. If he rents out his farm for other weddings, that is another matter, but it has nothing to do with the City. Nonetheless, it is a Civil Rights Act violation under the heading of public accommodations. If he can't be a gracious host, he needs to get out of the wedding business and examine whether his feelings about these weddings are moral or tribal. Don't confuse the latter with either spirituality or liberty.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dennis: No problem. I had a fellow survivor tell me in a post that he wishes he had suffered memory lost after he was abused by a priest at Father Judge High School in Northeast Philadelphia. He was anally raped on a routine basis by a priest who had befriended him. He was a gay kid. A gay kid in a Catholic High School back then was at the mercy of all those good Christian boys. The way I responded to him was that he never forgot what happened to him. He knew why he felt the way he did and why he acted the way he did. My life was a complete puzzle. I had no idea why I felt the way I did and why I acted the way I acted. Recovering the memories connected all the dots. I do believe that forgetting what happened is a way of avoiding the pain. I was never asked whether I had been sexually abused. It was not a subject brought up in polite society. But I was in recovery. I had been seeing a therapist for two years. The subject of sexual abuse never came up.We talked a lot about my family.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The common sense aspect of this is typically lost on progressives.\n\nIs there a visible and measurable difference in attitudes in immigrant families, if you compare the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generations? Of course there is. Whether we want to formalize this as a hard test for adherence to the basic freedoms and beliefs in our culture or not, acculturation happens, and every immigrant family experiences it. Whether you measure it with adherence to the old religion, old modes of dress, old political preferences, etc. they all fade and get replaced by Canadian versions. Quick, which generation has more hockey players? Is more accepting of gay marriage? You'd have to be a total goofball not to guess correctly.\n\nAll screening would do is improve the rate of adoption, and bring in people that might get up to speed in that 1st generation, rather than the 3rd.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I posted this earlier, but it got removed. I guess the liberal elite doesn't like the fact that there are gay conservatives out there. So here goes again.\n\nI am gay, male conservative. The only apology I am interested in is one for taking money out of my pocket each and every paycheck to pay for a liberal agenda intent on making us wards of the state. Repeat after me Mr. P.M.:\n\n\"I apologize for spending your money on my liberal agenda.\"\n\"I apologize for spending your money on my liberal agenda.\"\n\"I apologize for spending your money on my liberal agenda.\"\n\"I apologize for spending your money on my liberal agenda.\"\n\"I apologize for spending your money on my liberal agenda.\"\n\"I apologize for spending your money on my liberal agenda.\"\n\"I apologize for spending your money on my liberal agenda.\"\n\"I apologize for spending your money on my liberal agenda.\"\n\"I apologize for spending your money on my liberal agenda.\"\n\nJust because you are liberal doesn't mean this comment isn't valid!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, the Human Rights Campaign paper that was linked in the article makes it clear that it was NOT claiming that the 21 victims it cites were murdered for being transgender. In the one specific example -- the murder of a homeless person in Vermont -- investigators expressly do not think that the victim's transgender status was the motive for the murder. See http://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-arrested-in-california-in-slaying-of-vermont-transgender-man-amos-beede/ \n\nAny murder or other crime is a tragedy and the victims deserve our sympathy. They also deserve better than being turned into propaganda for a political agenda that doesn't fit the facts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You should ask a couple dealing with infertility if having children isn't left up to chance. Plus, heterosexual couples aren't the sole source of children. LGBTQ also have children. There are an estimated 2 million marriages in which one of the two is gay or lesbian. They have children. You just need functional equipment to roll the dice on having children...or finding out you can't have them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. Life experiences do not change DNA. Male/Female is in the DNA/genes and cannot be changed.\n\nEven doctors admit that transgender surgery can only make the person's body appear to be the gender they \"identity\" with, but it cannot change the gender. That means a man who \"becomes\" a women is still a man--he just looks female--and visa-versa. One might be able to change their sex--if sex is defined as the gender a person identifies. Gender itself, however cannot be changed. \n\nEven people that have had transgender surgery have admitted this. They knew in their heart of hearts even after the surgery that despite the legal documents, etc, despite appearances they were still the gender they were born with. \n\nThe idea that DNA can change through life experiences is hogwash.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"God\"? The eye for an eye tooth for a tooth \"God\"? The \"God\" who sent the two bears to kill the children for mocking His prophet for being bald? The \"God\" or Son of \"God\" depending on your theology) who violently threw the money changers from the temple? The \"God\" who forbids \"witches\" to live? The \"God\" who demands the death of homosexuals? The \"God\" who demands the death penalty for kidnapping or for cursing his father or mother? Or for having a dangerous bull? \n\nThat's the \"God\" who is watching me? \n\nNothing in there about me lying and the death penalty so I'll take my chances.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're last post says you shouldn't care if they use the washroom corresponding to their gender.\n\nThe guy is open about it - he hasn't had bottom surgery so he still has a vagina while the girl is only sixteen so she's too young to have had surgery.\n\nBut what exactly is a \"male physique\" or a \"female physique\".\n\nSo how will you know whether someone is trans or not? After all, we've seen any number of cases of women (born as women) being challenged in washrooms because someone doesn't think they look feminine enough - too tall, deep voice, short hair, mannish dress, whatever. So how do you tell?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This idea of no discriminating based on sexual orientation and transgender will make designing a building easier. Why make two separate bathrooms anymore, when 1 big one will do. Also, you will not need to put in any gender specific items. Sorry, guys, no urinals. Sorry, ladies, guy will treat the facility like they do at home.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wouldn't count on the Democrats screwing it up. The Democrats seem to be bad at winning elections and OK at governing. The Republicans seem to be good at winning elections, but unable to govern.\n\nI expect, sadly, that there will be some event that gets the Democrats all wound up and manages to alienate the moderates again. It will probably have to do with gun control, abortion, or gay rights, or some other wedge issue, where the Democrats will get all wound up and propose some legislation that pushes many away, yet again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The writer is simply confused about the legislation..\n\nBill C-16 does NOT aim to insert specific protection for transgendered into the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (which indeed already prohibits discrimination, period) but rather, into the Canadian Human Rights Act. \n\n(It also seeks to change the Criminal Code to include gender as a grounds in hate crime laws.)\n\nDo note, guantanamo, that sexual orientation is also not specifically listed as a protected group in the Charter -- because the courts have clearly upheld that S. 15.1 means that everyone is equal under the law, whether they're specifically mentioned or not, and that includes gays as well as gender nonconforming people . There is no need to amend the Charter, and it's not what Bill C-16 is aiming to do.\n\nThe G&M should have gotten someone competent to write this article.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The real problem is that its a blanket statement saying that ALL trans people are to be excluded from serving in the military in ANY capacity. What about the trans person who has been post-op for several years and no longer requires any follow-up procedures or anything like that. Sure - maybe they still need hormones, but I would hardly call that a disqualifier as there are plenty of people in the military who take medications on a daily basis.\n\nWe arnt even just talking about combat troops. What about a skilled translator? Or someone who is very good at doing cyber intelligence. We are saying to these people, regardless of what skills you have that might help the country - we dont want your services. \n\nAnd lets be REAL clear here. The number of transgender people currently serving in the military, or wanting to join the military, is fairly minimal. I would be shocked if it even represented .5% of the total military population. So, lets not pretend that this is some epidemic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cMy biggest issue is why so many (transgender people) are behind bars in the first place,\u201d Ryan said, pointing out that transgender individuals report much higher rates of arrest and incarceration in Hawaii than the general population. \u201cSo the whole issue needs to be re-examined holistically.\u201d\n\nI can at least answer Tracy Ryan's question about why so many transgender people are incarcerated. As someone who has spent allot of time working in the Chinatown area, transgender folks are all over the streets there, mostly at night, but also during the day. Much higher profile in Chinatown than any other area you may visit. The majority you see on those streets are prostitutes and of course, drugs are part of that. I also noticed while working in the area of Pacific Marina Inn on Waiwai Loop, that you see the same Chinatown transgender faces hanging out there. There are plenty of law abiding transgender folks here. I have no dog in this fight and am only describing what I have witnessed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Dispatch claims it welcomes a broad range of viewpoints on issues----yet doesn't allow any comments to Charles Wohlforths story on gay issues . Why are they against free speech on this issue ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The NFL should be careful, their viewing numbers are shrinking ... while I love the USA, there really can't be any question WE have a lot of growing up to do when it comes to racism and race relations. 50 years since the 1964 Civil Rights Act really ain't but a drop in time and history. There is still PLENTY of work to do. We really haven't done much to impact cyclical poverty in our urban areas in particular ... \n\nThat being said ... as a Packer fan I loved what I saw at that Bears Packers game, standing, arms locked, showing some unity. Rodgers showed some spine outside of being a great football player.\n\nWhen the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, I purchased and hung the flag post and flag for my gay neighbors across the street who never felt much Patriotism up until that point ... I attended their wedding which was coincidentally the 1st weekend after the Supreme Court ruling.\n\nWhen we are equal in all ways, we are a better stronger country for it. USA! USA! USA!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Puff piece. I don't believe the U.S. bishops conference has embraced Pope Francis message of a merciful, collaborative, synodal church. They still think \"religious freedom\" means the right to control the personal lives of those who work for them, including how they act in their roles as citizens of a democracy. \n\nA couple of scary lines: Catholic agencies are to \"strengthen their core services on the path to deepening the understanding of what it means to be Catholic.\" And later: \"...strengthen Catholic identity among the laypeople.\" Bishops have a very narrow view of what Catholic identity means - subservience, obedience to rules and the \"tradition\" which no longer works in the modern world. This is pulling into a ghetto mentality, refusing to work with other organizations on a common issue if that other organization also supports something they consider non-Catholic, like gay marriage or condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS. \n\nTrying to recreate power structures a la 1500?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rudy Akbarian, 26, said his chain-of-command was supportive of him as he transitioned from female to male. Of course, they were, they had no choice. They had to outwardly show support for orders issued by Obama and Defense Secretary Carter or they would have ended up on the outside as civilians looking in at a military service more concerned with transgender issues than national defense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The right to marry & form a family is a fundamental human right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 16), and the equal right to access to, and protection by, the law and all parts of it are enshrined in the nation's constitution.\n\nOpposing those rights without a single rational justification for that opposition, is an act of irrationally discriminating against (or seeking the discrimination against) homosexuals.\n\nThe definition of homophobia (Merriam Webster dictionary) is as follows:\nIRRATIONAL fear of, aversion to, OR DISCRIMINATION AGAINST homosexuality or homosexuals\n\nIf the action meets the definition of homophobia, then the action is homophobic.\nThe only possible way to change that fact is to redefine the word homophobia and get the new definition of the word accepted and adopted by a sufficient proportion of the population to warrant the redefinition being adopted by each set of authors & editors of each version of the dictionary", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay can mean many things. Some gay folks are homogenitally expressive, some aren't. Not everyone who identifies as \"straight\" is genitally involved with someone, yet they call themselves \"straight.\" \nSSA is finally part of a repressive and controlling strategy. Another repressive tactic used is to make people afraid their kids are in some kind of danger from type of stranger.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It doesn't matter how many other people were willing to obey the law and treat them the same. It seems like you want gays to go from shop to shop to fined one who will actually obey the law, and then not report the ones who don't obey the law. The fact is that this couple did actually get their cake from another bakery. However, this is no more about the actual cake itself than the people demanding service at Woolworth's Lunch Counters was about a sandwich.\n\nAnd what happens if there are no other bakeries that will serve them? What if they're in the middle of a small town that only has one bakery, or all the bakeries in town refuse to serve gays? Do they have the right to sue then? And then why should this bakery have the right to discriminate, when those small town bakeries don't have that right?\n\nAnd if you believe that both have the right to discriminate, then why bring up the number of bakeries in close proximity?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"None of us believe Tulsi's shift on gay marriage was genuine\"\n\nAnd if you read the leaked emails, apparently Clinton's staff didn't think her shift was genuine either (probably wasn't, she only changed her position 3 years ago).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good points. The niqab and ideas of \"modesty\" are fundamentally incompatible with Canadian values of gender equality. The niqab is part and parcel of a belief system where women are subjugated and outed homosexuals face the death penalty. I don't get the hypocrisy of western \"progressives\" to wilfully ignore the depressing realities facing women and LGBT communities in every country in the world where the niqab is common (without exception). It has absolutely nothing to do with religious freedom or cultural relativism, it is simply a function of progress. Canada is an advanced civilized society where women are not shamed under the guise of \"modesty\". The niqab is part of a fundamentalist culture tied to conservative political Islamism - it has taken one Islamist government in Turkey under 10 years to roll back 90 years of secular progress established by Ataturk. Many European countries are now trying to catch up after strategies to \"accommodate\" only entrenched the fundamentalists.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I love Pope John a lot but lets be real. Scientific research on the topic was more developed than suggested going all the way back to the 1930s. And yet Pope John took a pretty hardline against Homosexuality. He for instance in 1961 signed a Papal document banning gay seminarians from the priesthood. Compare that to Pope Francis's position saying \"who am I to judge\" when asked about gay priests in the Catholic Church. \n\nPope John declared the absolute indissolubility of marriage when it came to divorce. Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia by contrast has taken a less rigid approach to the issue of marriage. \n\nI agree with you that the Catholic Church needs to change on subjects like this. But we are talking about a 2000 year old institution, with 2000 years of entrenched dogma with 1.2 billion followers on several continents that don't all have socially liberal attitudes the way liberal Catholics in america do. So Francis's task is much more difficult than is let on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It has been found that the transgender brain is 'different'--not male, and not female but different. That is quite an acceptable finding. Transgender people deserve acceptance, compassion and respect just like everyone else. But when being whoever you are does not happen as a matter of fact by virtue of being who you are but it involves transforming yourself into Betty Boop through medical intervention and a lifetime of medication, imposing your 'truth' on society as \"not a psychological problem\" requires a mass suspension of disbelief--a mass indoctrination. And that is just not like being left-handed. Left-handers do not pretend to be right-handers by cutting off their hands and swapping them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You have got to be kidding me. Trans-gender stuff is now a headline issue for our Forces? Excuse me, I was under the impression it had to do with combat power and the willingness to employ it. And not something to do with (quote) showers, assuming there are any.\nGeez, we have dropped so low.\n(This commentary, by the way, written from Riga in Latvia. Where the best effort our army can do is not a brigade group, let alone a brigade; nor even a battle group, let alone a battalion; but instead part of a battalion.\n\nYeah. Right on! Let us all take pride in LGBTQ stuff. And stand back in awe at our military prowess and accomplishments.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi callwaiting - Thank you for the compliment. I really do want to listen and learn and appreciate it when people who see things differently will talk with me, especially around this topic. So many many thanks to you. It is interesting to hear your sister's experience because I went to a women's college, too, though I was there in the 1980s. I remember that people were doing a lot of experimenting on our campus and with the men's and coed campuses all around and, in the end, my hit is that my classmates pretty much settled into straight or gay relationships in proportions similar to society at large. \n\nI agree that the changing culture has resulted in more kids identifying as gay. The distinction I would make is that, today, more gay youth are identifying *publicly* as gay because it is safe now (while another group of youths are simply experimenting sexually. I think those are two different groups). \n\nThanks for the dialogue, callwaiting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "IRT Garry P. Smith: You posit that the military is no place for social experiments, such as allowing transgender people to serve. I am sure many people said the same thing when President Truman directed the military to stop segregating service members by race.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, Russia's Peter the Great tortured and killed many Cossacks (and not only) and endorsed serfdom, during Churchill's time gays were thrown in jail or forced into chemical castration, while in Admiral Nelson's navy sailors were treated inhumanely. Not to speak about Napoleon's treatment of rebels in conquered nations. I say down with their statues and let's erase their names from history !", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It appears as though you are misgendering the transgender individual throughout this article. I hope that you asked the person what pronouns they prefer. And if not, you need to. If the person says they prefer masculine pronouns (he/him), I would expect an edit to any online or paper copies. Please learn how to respectfully report on transgender issues--there are many resources online that I am happy to help you access.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your opinion is only that - opinion. There is nothing factual that you can point to that says people \"pick\" their sexual orientation the same way people pick religions or anything like that. And in fact there is much more to suggest some people are actually born with inherent attractions to people of the same sex....which is why you see homosexuality in every country, on every continent, in nearly every species, across the globe.\n\nYou suggesting that people \"pick\" their sexual orientation also suggests that you picked your orientation at some point in your life, or that sexual orientation is fluid in that one can change their preference at any given time. While that may be true to some extent, I have yet to ever meet anyone who is against gay marriage or gay rights, ever be able to tell me when they chose to be straight, or admit that they could have a sexual relationship with someone of the same gender anytime they wanted to - if they wanted to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"We need to have the conversation about how to stop gun violence,\" Ahh, completely true, based off of a \"wrong\" agenda of focusing on a \"tool!\" That \"conversation\" has to start with WHY. Why has there been such a catastrophic \"moral decay\" in America? Every statistical American cultural norm, from birth to death, are in the toilet! Want to \"never let a crisis go to waste?\" Think that 59 dead with 527 injured is some WILD occurrence? Consider ONE lonely cultural stat: On the same day that 59 died violently, 2,488 (two thousand four hundred and eighty-eight) abortions were performed, just in this country! That happens EVERY DAY of the year!!! A portrait of America's scary decline: Positive responses are at record highs for moral acceptability of divorce, out-of-wedlock births, homosexual relations, sex between the unmarried, abortion, and pornography! How laughable is the concern for having some \"conversation about how to stop gun violence?\" My concern is for my grandchildren's future!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Civil does not allow me enough space to educate you on transgenderism and sexual reassignment surgery, but I can assure you that the AMA, and the APA, are clear that these are not \"lifestyle choices.\" \n\nYou are correct that education is not a lifestyle choice, which is why we citizens fund public education whether we have school age children, or any children for that matter, or not. \n\nThe parents who want to send their children to private, often religious, schools, are the ones making the \"lifestyle choice.\" It is unethical to siphon funds from the public pool through vouchers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All one has to do is go through the comments and look at who has reacted to it. Whenever someone makes a comment on the brutal treatment of women, gays and religious minorities in Saudi Arabia and just about any other muslim country - invariably you disagree or flag the post for deletion. That's the real \"Alceste\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you mean 'allies'.\nThere are victims in this world, even in the democratic west. To imagine that gay people, for instance, have not been & still are 'victims' of the tyranny of the majority is to live with one's head in the sand.\nI'm in my eighties & a retired teacher. I remember the days when we would walk into the staffroom & find a notice on the wallboard asking for 'male applicants' for an upcoming vice principalship.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not fixated with gender at all, I only reply to those who are fixated upon it themselves. Nearly all the progressive contributors here seem to be obsessed with matters involving either sexual activity (contraception, abortion, homosexual activity, same-sex marriage, adultery, etc) or feminism and gender issues.\nYou misread St Paul when you claim \"all are apples\". It is obvious that the Apostle is saying, it doesn't matter whether you are Jew or Greek, etc, salvation won by Christ's sacrifice is open to all. The message here is that despite the vicissitudes of life here on earth, which we must bear, eternal life with God is possible through Christ and only through Christ.\nThe Apostle's concern was not with man's or woman's earthly plight, it was with their eternal existence.\nWhat you mean by my \"delusion of grandeur\"? I cannot guess save that it is phrase which might sound good to progressive ears.\nBTW, 'colour' is the English spelling, American English is not the lingua franca.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Quotes from the links,\n\"\u2026authority over the actual composition of the military belongs to lawmakers thanks to the stipulation in Article I, Section 8 that Congress has the power to \u201craise and support armies \u2026. provide and maintain a navy \u2026[and] make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.\u201d\nJust as the president must seek congressional approval for declaring war and appointing inferior officers, so must lawmakers eventually approve changes to the armed forces.\"\n\"The two-month waiting period is called for in the legislation passed late last year that ended \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell,\u201d the 17-year-old law that banned openly gay men, lesbians and bisexuals from military service.\"\n\nComprehension is a skill set necessary to make reading effective. Some people can pull it off, and some don't have the wherewithal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, despite what the CDF may say, many of us here do not see being gay as \"objectively disordered\". Thus, the analogy with alcoholism and kleptomania fails.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Joe Dick, perhaps your comprehension of the entirety of this issue is lacking. \n\nThe discrimination that I speak of is the discrimination (generally) against those that are \"different\" than the stereotypical \"normal\" person. Discrimination against transgendered individuals is part of that, and it was (and still is) a problem. It is true that having male/female bathrooms is not discriminatory per se, but REFUSING to allow transgender people to either choose or have a unisex option is discriminatory. \n\nPlaces like North Carolina refused to accommodate so the federal government had to inject itself. North Carolina responded by doubling down on its discriminatory prohibition (against accommodation) laws. Fortunately for civil society, smarter heads are starting to prevail, though it is sad that it had to go this far.\n\nI'm firmly positioned in the \"adult world of reality\", to be clear. North Carolina looks to be on its way there, finally.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A librarian I know recently told me the selection committee had added a book to the elementary school reading list that included a transgender person. Talking about the book with a group of 4th graders, she asked (apprehensively) if anyone had heard of laws about bathroom use by transgender students. One young boy said he heard some people were uncomfortable sharing the bathroom. So the librarian asked the boy what he thought should be done.\n\n\"I think they should have a separate bathroom.\"\n\nThe librarian asked why he thought that.\n\n\"Because if it makes them uncomfortable, they should go to a different bathroom.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I assert that Mr. Trump neither knows the content of the bill nor cares. His MAIN reason to exist is to tarnish the legacy of his predecessor...period. ANYTHING his predecessor did, from health care, to Cuba, to gay rights, you name it, as a vendetta against his predecessor he wants to undo. It is Mr Trumps nature to be vindictive and satisfy his own demons and he could care less about anyone else.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have been attending Pride days in Toronto for over thirty years ever since the march after the bath house raids of 1981. It has been a long battle for equal rights, recognition and inclusion. Over the years I have met a good number of gay police men and women who serve proudly and with distinction and I cannot imagine a Pride Parade that would exclude them wearing the uniform they trained and worked so hard for because of a bunch of malcontents who held up last year's parade up for ransom.\nAs much as it saddens me to say this, I do not want my tax dollars to support an event that fought hard for inclusion and acceptance (think of the shameful years of Mayor Art Eggleton tenure when he refused to declare Pride) that now would exclude a vital and necessary branch of what makes our city work so well.\nI will also not be attending this year's Pride parade as a protest to the small-minded thinking of the Pride organizers. \nI thought that by now we all would be so much better than this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My point should be obvious even to a conservative. You said \"Not thinking unborn children should be killed = hatred and building a theocracy to you, ok\". This only makes sense if the SOLE meeting point between the two was opposition to abortion. Since even you admit that they also agree on discrimination against gays and on the subject of being legally able to tell people who are not members of their religion how they should live, my statement about their meeting of the minds is agreement on hatred and building a theocracy stands.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This policy is a good thing for trans people if those trans people live in America and enjoy the protection of the military.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"navy seal 20 years\"\nYou might have considered actually reading the article. Beck didn't begin the process of transformation until two years after he retired out of the military. He wasn't a transgender Navy Seal - he was a Navy Seal who transformed after discharge. Sorry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's why I wrote that perhaps now is the time to post such signs. They could of course be removed if the ne'erdowells on council prevail and return to their evil ways. Observing the state of the mass-extinction event scientists claim we are well into, does it matter what we do? Psilocybin has been shown to reduce ptsd so perhaps that would be a priority as water additive. Eat, drink and be Mary, for tomorrow they install transgender parking spaces. It would certainly wouldn't hurt P.A. dining establishments to demonstrate their commitment to quality food & water, and would take the sting out of such vigilantism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am on vacation for the winter I Caif. and read the Toronto news since I live in Toronto born and raised I am a 78 year old gay man and coming out I the 1960's was living two lives undercover so we would not lose our jobs - families - friends -brothers and sisters etc. We have paved the way where we stand today free accepted and live our own lives the way we choose not the way someone wants us to live as it is our life - - Canada is my home and best country I the world in my beliefs. I was appalled that BLM won over Pride Committee giving In like they did - I was disgusted - as many of these kids are just that and know nothing about how we struggled to live our lives over 60 years I can live my life...normally. As for BLM they do matter but so do all lives including Gay Police men and women - they had difficult struggles and should be able to enjoy and celebrate - we have great police force ...I haveblack friends who agree wth me... I will no longer support pride -", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course a person can be both scientist and theologian, however, I doubt if this hypothetical person could get a scientific article published in a peer-reviewed journal containing theology as part of the discussion (let's exclude archeology from this hypothetical arguement). \nI do not believe theology is a science. It does not use the tools of science and is adverse to evolving theory. Strange how often a theological/ethical argument concludes something that is factually not true. I can think of a couple of example:\n- homosexuality is a natural orientation in many species\n- overpopulation stresses the resources of our planet resulting in wars, famine, disease and environmental decay\nHow does theology use these facts?\nHaving said this I consider myself Catholic basing my personal ethics on my religious beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What everyone must relalize here is everyone has the same rights and this is no different than black or women or gay or what ever marches.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The recent history is that Humanae Vitae was promulgated to preserve the myth of unchanging moral truth. Indeed, yesterday's article by MSW was full of assumptions that AL was invalid because it did disagree with Veritatis on the same topic. It is a childish worldview and spawned the aphorism that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. The Trads in the Curia are constantly fearing that if they admit to error on a moral teaching, like birth control or homosexuality, that their whole intellectual house of cards will fall. Of course, the reverse is true. People who have faith and courage enough to admit error actually inspire the trust of the faithful. If their worldview is based on never making a mistake then they will never accept that homosexuals are born not self-chosen. The tragic thing is, people actually suffer real consequences of their arrogance. Drag queens will enter Heaven before they do, if only because the Queens are more fabulous.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Call it the permanent occupation of the South if it makes you feel better. Article IV of Constitution always provided for federal supremancy. The Courts have their position over states because of Amendment XIV and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 (not a typo). Judicial appointments matter more for capitalistic reasons. Wedge issues like abortion are a side show. On the main, the federal judiciary is pro gay rights, no matter who is appointed, and pro-Roe with very few exceptions (including most GOP appointees). The parameters of Amendment XIV are pretty well established. First Amedment Law is the most in flux, although Affirmative Action still is a flash point for disagreement. Propose using random selection among qualified applicants to solve enrollment and promotion questions and the issue goes away. Drug legalization is firmly in the hands of Congress. So is personhood for the unborn. Pass something or quit talking about abortion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll apologize up front for my ignorance but why shouldn't the US, or Canada for that matter \"extreme vette\" potential refugees before entry from counties that openly sanction bigamy, beating of wives, forced marriages of girls as young as 9 years (rape as far as I'm concerned), hand out death penalties to gays, etc? Please help me understand.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Very few people have the black-and-white beliefs that you seem to hold Neighbor98. Most people who strongly support abortion rights also support some restrictions (say, prohibiting elective abortion in the third trimester). Many people who believe that gun ownership is a fundamental right also support strong gun control - including millions of NRA members. And many people who love and accept gays and lesbians are still uncomfortable with gay marriage. As the son of a lesbian, I find it much more productive to engage those people and get them to understand how important marriage is to my mom and my entire family, rather than demonize them as \"evil.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Klastri, you are correct. Health care should not be withheld from one group because they may not be liked and I have not read or heard of anyone proposing that. Transgender sex reassignment is not health care; it is an elective procedure and should not be funded by taxpayers. Females, who comprise about 16 percent of our armed forces, are provided free health care but they do not get taxpayer-funded services for elective procedures like abortion except in rare medically-necessary circumstances. What is hateful about it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "...\"according to Holy Scripture and thousands of years of Tradition, homosexual behavior is gravely sinful? It is through this very behavior that that homosexuals estrange themselves from the Church.\".....\n\nYou are right about this being the source cause of anti-gay attitudes.\nQuestion is, have we reached a point in our knowledge where some ideas need to grow and change? Can we ask \"Why\" these former judgements were made? \n\nTrue enough, same-sex attraction is not the 'norm', and the majority of people are attracted sexually to the opposite gender. So most 'feel' funny about it. They don't comprehend it. But does that make it morally 'sinful'?\n\nThat's the sort of question people of today are asked to grapple with. Even if only one person in the world is different from everyone else, does that render them abhorrent?\n\nCan 'truth' go beyond \"thousands of years of Scripture and Tradition\"? the human race is will continue to be propagated, even if not everyone contributes to it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Please don't say: 'the Pope sanctifies transgenders.' Please, eh! Because I see the covers of the papers. Is there any doubt as to what I said? I want to be clear! It's moral problem. It's a human problem and it must be resolved always can be with the mercy of God, with the truth like we spoke about in the case of marriage by reading all of Amoris Laetitia, but always with an open heart.\"\n\nA revealing statement. With Pope Francis there is always doubt about he says and what he means. It's way past time that he made clear statements about these issues. \n\nHow can an unrepentant man in a same sex \"marriage\" receive absolution in confession and receive the Eucharist?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Part 2: I have a relative in the southern USA who is dead set against \"illegals\". However if you ask him about \"Juan\" who rents a trailer down the road from him (not his real name) and you ask if he should be deported too, the answer is always no he isn't hurting anyone and he is a really nice guy, always willing to help and when the woods caught on fire he was working harder than anyone to keep it from spreading, even though it was going away from his place, etc, etc. Kinda like these same folks are about gays. They are against them until it is a family member or person they happen to life.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1.)\"That\u2019s not the definition of homosexuality. \" - I said\n2.)\"It_is_not.\" - You said\n3.) \"It_is_a_definition_of_who_is_at_risk_for_abusing_children\" - You said\n\n1. & 2.) Then we agree. Why are you arguing then? \n\n3.) The male/female adult is at risk abusing children? Or, I imagine you mean the child is at risk being abused? Because, the subject doing the abusing is the adult, not the child. And thus wouldn't, I imagine mean what you mean/intended to come to that conclusion. The error is in logic/reasoning. You have your argument outlining a direction to the conclusion you do not intend, I believe. So, can you refine that statement?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A reasonable and justified policy which is wholly in conformity with Catholic teaching and Canon Law. \n\nPersons who enter \u2018same-sex marriage\u2019 or civil unions plainly manifest their public opposition to infallible Church teaching that restricts marriage to one man and one woman. Giving public scandal to the faithful involves \u201can attitude or behaviour which leads another to do evil\u201d (CCC 2284). Such services will give the impression the Church approved of the deceased\u2019s homosexual lifestyle.\n\n\"Assuredly, the word of truth can be painful and uncomfortable but it is the way to holiness, to peace, and to inner freedom. A pastoral approach which truly wants to help the people concerned must always be grounded in the truth. In the end, only the truth can be pastoral.\u201d (Cardinal Ratzinger)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There's no argument that women have abortions because they have an unintended pregnancy through careless sex. I still maintain that it's the woman's very personal decision.\nI'm sure that there are many, many reasons other than rape or aggression. I doubt that it's as easy a decision as choosing toast or biscuit. \nThe issue is, the woman is the one carrying the baby. We are not breeding stock, we are not property. \nI can not imagine being forced to carry an unwanted child to term. \nI support health care including abortion for women and children. Better yet, universal health care, excluding Viagra.\nIt's kind of like the notion of Civil Unions before gay marriage was legalized - health care for women and children is at least a start.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Although my eyes are blue and my skin is quite fair I am not a member of the white \"race\" because the white race is an imaginary construction. Like all Americans, I am a \"mutt\" having many \"ethnicities.\" Gay pride, for example, exists because people who identify as glbtq have been shamed and denigrated as outsiders and not full members of society deserving protection and equality before the law. Their pride originates in their self-recognition as a class of people which has been formally discriminated against and who must choose to value themselves because society has told them they are less than full citizens. If white people are feeling devalued because they are poor, underpaid, out of work, etc. they can join with other groups in society experiencing the same problems but they are not being discriminated against on the basis of skin color but rather economic class. \"White pride\" is a cover for narratives of white victimization--a proxy for white supremacy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Depends on what you mean by chastity and whether you delineate a long term sexual relationship by an unmarried couple (common law marriage) from a series of one night encounters. Also, there is the question of whether sexual pleasure is an end in itself. If chastity means no oral sodomy or manual stimulation of a female partner to orgasm, whether full or partial, I will have no part in such chastity, which is neo-platonic with an asexual bias, with nothing to do with authentic Christianity. My point is that being celibate and chaste in clergy comes from either an escape from unwanted homosexuality (self-loathing) or natural asexualism, which like homosexuality, is an orientation in and of itself. Such an orientation has its own proclivities and ideals which have no empathy for what the rest us experience. It is not just-chosen or taught, it is hardwired. I don't want diagnostics hard wired for aloneness linked to my system, which is most certainly not wired that way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Southeast Alaska is a very caring community and people seem to care more about what kind of human being a person is then the gender. I realize there are concerns from parents but hopefully each school district will develop policies to address their concerns about locker rooms and bathrooms. I try not to judge people other then how they treat others and how they contribute to the community. Transgender people are human beings and should be treated as such.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But im thinking the God of all: created epigenetics and moleculor structure. Hence forth created all things including \"the Gay and straights and bible that Men have today, to argue about or to battle for justice. amen", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gender is base on the physical features of the reproductive organ not how you feel. Transgender, well i believe they fall in male or female up until final physical changes have been made. So for example, Bruce Jenner, would still be male by description if the physical feature remained. I would be more concern with reason why it has become a concern these days....we need to make sure our environment is not contaminated to a point that we have challenges with our physical form.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality is apolitical. Politically organized gays exist in all major political organizations. The Democratic Party and the major gay organizations have formed an alliance that politically advance a gay agenda. This is a simple fact. The Democratic Party is not a center-right Party, a centrist party or a center-left party. It is a leftist party. Bernie Sanders could have been the Democratic Presidential Candidate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Precedence over anyone else? Hate crimes and discrimination? Take 30 seconds to educate yourself and see what it is really like for gay people in this country or, god help us, worldwide. One thing is for sure, the desire to have gays just disappear is not going to happen, regardless of how dismissive you are about their concerns and their ghastly history. Gay people are not hiding in fear anymore, and are not going to be \"plain old citizens\" just so people like you can feel comfortable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The question was rhetorical. However I think that articles like this just serve to legitimize him. We would never give this kind of attention to someone saying racist things in the name of the church. Let's just let this bigot fade away into obscurity. His day is pretty much over. Gay marriage is legal everywhere. Those bigoted positions are fading away as their holders grow old and die.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly. They try to have it both ways and fail miserably on both natural law and authority. Natural law means that at the second gastrulation is known about, it cannot be ignored on HV. Likewise, the second Epigenetics was known about in regards to homosexuality, the natural law conclusion must be that gays are ordered after their own fashion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most militaries have some sort of minimum medical requirements. If a soldier has a \"transgender\" situation going on, I would have to think that that is going to put them < minimum. It's a sad statement on the state of the US military that Trump should have to state this publicly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I provided many examples of transgender people going back for quite some time, thousands of years. Don't assume. Read the links. In India the Hijra have records going back 4000 years. The evidence is out there. It helps to read it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hello Marley,\n\nAnd I do mean \"hello\".\n\nYes I have lived in busy apartment buildings in several major Canadian cities including Toronto.\n\nHowever, unlike you apparently, I am aware that white men in this country outnumber Chinese-origin women and India-origin women and , further, that straight folks outnumber gay folks - thus the ridiculousness of the timing and prominence I outlined above.\n\nWhat I outlined in the video above fits Canadian demographics about as well as a video that touts Canadian food by highlighting Pad Thai and Oolong tea for the first 175 seconds, leaving 4 seconds at the end for poutine, bacon, bagels, lobster, London broil, turkey, beer, wine, Tim Horton donuts and beaver tails.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you a Russian slu? Is that why you support Trump? It makes sense. Trump is totally Putin's toady, he's an American who's for Russia just like Putin! If Trump won that would give Putin (and Russia) control of most of the northern hemisphere. All he'd have to do is yank on Trump's chain and dasvidaniya to homosexuals, ethnic minorities, freedom of speech and the press, sound economics, innovation, success and happiness just like in mother Russia! You must be so excited!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, I think that is where it is going. Similar to the Orthodox, who add to Tertulian's notion, expand upon it. In his book, ORTHODOXY, Orthodox Bishop Ware notes: \"For Orthodoxy, the validity of ordinations does not depend SIMPLY on the fulfillment of certain technical conditions (external possessions of the apostolic succession; correct form, matter and intention). The Orthodox also ask: What is the general sacrament teaching concerning the inner meaning of the apostolic succession and the priesthood? How does it understand the Eucharist?\" etc. This is very similar to Cardinal Kasper's understanding. To compound matters, it is hard for Catholic ecumenists to know exactly which voice speaks for the Anglican Communion, given its brokenness among bishops, etc. Some Anglicans bishops don't accept lay presidency; others do (in Australia). Some don't accept gay civil unions among clergy; others do. Some don't accept women bishops; others do. Same with other moral and doctrinal issues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I get so very tired of hearing about bathroom bills. Things like that, abortion rights, gay marriage, etc., all exist to distract us from the fact that the USA is crumbling and the oligarchs are taking all of our wealth. We are being turned into a serf class and people are too busy arguing over where we can pee to do anything about it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When freedom of religion crosses the line into discrimination, we have a problem. There are still those in our government who would love to undo all the progress we've made in equality. \n\nAnd BTW, my church (religion) has no problem with same sex marriage. So don't lump all religion together.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LGBTQ? Please, would someone give me a plausible explanation of the \"Q\". Some say it means Queer, but isn't this a bit redundant? Others say it stands for \"Questioning\". I have many questions too, but I'm not a member of the LGBT community.\n\nAll I want is a simple explanation of what the \"Q\" stands for.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are a lot of things that people say Pope Francis said, which he didn't say. Like for instance the notion on the internet that he allegedly said that the Transgender community is like nuclear weapons. When you actually check his statement that turns out to be a wildly inaccurate report. \n\nI suggest that instead of just relying on second hand sources, people just go to the primary sources, namely the Vatican pages such as Vatican Radio or the Holy See's official website where the publish full transcripts of the Pontiff's remarks rather than relying on media driven sound bites.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, Atoday has abandon the Christian faith and opted for politics. Not really surprising in light of the fact many who profess to be Christians are more loyal to their political party than Christ and the Christian faith.\n\nAnd wouldn't you know that the liberal forums are all for Hillary and the \"Social justice\" agenda as opposed to responsible freedom that demands that people work, and as Paul says, \"Those who don't work, don't eat.\" And \"a man who will not support his family is worse than a heathen.\"\n\nIn modern America, any responsible candidate who would run on traditional values could never be elected president. You must embrace the Gay agenda, the women's lib. movement, abortion, and any other evil in the American life if you have any hope of being elected to any political office. And your politics must transcend your religious convictions. And this applies to more than a few so called \"believers\" as well, even in the SDA church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think the issues like birth control, homosexuality, divorce and remarriage are too important NOT to leave them to the successors of the apostles.\n\nPeople can stay Catholic even if they disagree with the Church. My post concerns those who complain and whine and moan about how the Church needs to change. If people can disagree peaceably and at least respect where the Church is at, that is one thing. For those who are openly hostile to church teaching--that is quite another. Someone who is openly hostile to Church teaching should consider leaving the Church and joining a Protestant church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apostasy is not redeveloping doctrine, it is giving up on the Church entirely, usually in reaction to some sanction, like ISIL or a capitalist who finds your moral scruples inconvenient. If someone is created gay by God, through the natural process known as epigenesis, their rights to live as sexual beings are not lost.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Women and men all over the world marched yesterday. Trump has offered plenty of plans to stack the Supreme Court in order to overturn Roe v Wade (abortion rights) and to harass immigrants. Mike Pence at one time supported shock therapy to convert gays (into straights) and attacked women's rights to reproductive health.\n\nMaybe if you weren't pretending the media is against Trump you could focus in long enough to know what he has promised, who the people around him are and what the plans are said to be.\n\nAnd I have to echo CivilSociety and ask where your proof is that the media \"incited\" women (all over the world, mind) to give up their Saturday and march.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This bill was as much about censorship as it was about education. As the law is written, abortion is legal, as is same sex marriage and many other behaviors I personally don't agree with or understand, however, discrimination and divisiveness is destroying the fabric of our liberties. For those who find educational topics about sex and reproduction inappropriate, private schools are available.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "he makes cabinet and other personnel position decisions at least partly on the basis of gender or ethnic background \nMaya 87\n-\non gender yes but Trudeau forgot gay and transgender\nhe has only 50 - 50 male and female\nhe can posture only so much\n-\nethnic background?\nnope\nno Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Portuguese...on cabinet\nbut 4 Sikhs - more than Cabinet in India itself\nthat is not ethnic balance\nTrudeau can posture but limited", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ms. Minnery and Ms. Wheeles: Your problem has a very simple solution. Write a ballot initiative that will meet the city's requirements for a citizen-led initiative. You can either write two ballot initiative statements (one for no transgender people allowed in public intimate facilities, the other for protecting private businesses' rights to refuse service based on the owners' personal beliefs), or you can craft one ballot initiative that is clearly focused on a single issue. In this case, I think your single issue is that you want the city to allow individuals and private businesses to discriminate against LGBT persons. If this is the case, then be honest about your intentions and write a single ballot initiative clearly enough so that voters know what they are voting for.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's also worth nothing that Trans activism is causing a huge wedge in the LGBT community. Many gays and lesbians vehemently disagree with their tactics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was never a Reince Priebus fan, and thought he was an establishment guy. I feel Trump wanted to play nice with the Republican establishment when he picked Priebus, but he now knows the establishment doesn't want to play nice. So now Trump is going to pick his own people. The new communication person is pro choice, pro gay marriage, the perfect liberal, and Trump isn't getting any high fives from the media or the Democrats. \nThe best explanation of the reaction to Trump came on this site a few days after the election. Trump could cure Cancer and the media and the Democrats would blame him for eliminating 100's of jobs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I retired a few years ago after 43 years as a Hawaii public school educator, so I am familiar with the required as well as elective courses over the course of my career. I agree, most teachers do stifle their opinions, so to speak, but the few that don't cause lots of trouble on issues ranging from race to gays to religion. I think all those other disciplines/focuses need be separated from history. They can be integrated with history study, but often history is sacrificed to the more current and emotional issues which engage students but are divorced from historical background or anything that happened before the students were born. Ask today's high school students what they know about 9/11. There is a reason so many students don't know in what century our Civil War was fought or have no sense of an historical timeline. Europe is the cradle of our American culture, but European History was deleted from my school's curriculum years ago to make room for \"social issues.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All of the quotes from Peterson are either from his videos or prior G&M interviews. Did the writer not talk to him personally before writing this article? This is drive-by journalism. Peterson has mentioned in his videos that he has support from many in the trans community. How about tracking some of them down? Would it alter the narrative? Then maybe the narrative is wrong. Furthermore, labeling anyone who agrees with him as somehow necessarily right wing is superficial, naive and honestly quite offensive.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As father of a transgender male, I am genuinely glad Stowe is trying to move the giant stone up the hill. However I've had enough of waiting for the Church to become more humane in its teachings. It finally hit me a few months ago: Why in the world am I sticking by a church that, as a matter of policy, considers my son hell-bound for simply being who he is? I now feel like a moron for telling myself the Church was still worthy of my support since it does other good works. But other churches also do as much, if not more, social good than Roman Catholicism, and a couple of them are welcoming to the LGBT community, as in the Episcopal Church. Guess where we're headed? We attend a Jesuit parish in Charlotte, NC, that for years has done its best to do right by LGBTers, but in the end, that's not enough - not when the local bishop is old-school, pre-Vatican II conservative, and our new pastor, unlike previous Jesuit pastors here, is scared of him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Left-wing politicians change their friends with the wind. In both the U.S. and Canada, they have started to abandon the LGBTQ community for other minorities. In recent years, those politicians have made a very telling choice by giving priority to another community whose track record with regard to sexual minorities (e.g. tossing gay men to their deaths from tall buildings) hasn't quite reached the 21st Century.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But that's just it:\nNo baker, not even Mr. Phillips, would ask a straight couple about their sex life or drinking habits or whether the couple gambles. It would be considered rude, an invasion of privacy. The baker would soon be out of business.\nBut, bakers such as Mr. Phillips don't need to ask rude questions of a gay couple. The evidence of the couple's \"sin\" is standing right in front of the offended baker. Two men. Asking about a wedding cake.\nYears ago, I saw a TV news story about racial discrimination. A young woman called an apartment building manager about an apartment for rent. The landlord said he had a unit available. The young woman said the moment she opened the manager's door and walked in, the manager's whole demeanor changed. The manager no longer cared about the woman's income or previous rental history, etc. All the manager cared was that the woman was black. The manager told the woman the apartment was rented. Days later, the \"for rent\" sign was still out front.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Appropriate for his audience; and, yes, appropriate for all of us. \nWe need to experience mercy, as well as to bestow it.\nPerhaps Francis bestows mercy upon the clergy? The changes in CDF could indicate this. \nAnd he has shown concern for migrants.\nHe also needs to bestow actual mercy upon the laity (especially survivors of abuse, women and LGBTs) - not just words. \nIt seems his hands are tied. Perhaps, like Jesus, he needs the faithfulness of the disciples (clergy and laity) to BE merciful? (We are all rather good at expecting goodness and mercy from others!)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "hjgcan and in-my-view .. you are both wrong.\n\n\"Eggen said the province will also bring in changes compelling every school that receives public money establish codes of conduct against discrimination, adopt policies to protect LGBTQ students, and affirm the existing legal right for students to set up a gay-straight alliance if they wish.\"\n\nThis says nothing about mandating the creation of GSAs--only that schools _must not oppose_ their creation by students.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If federal officials wanted Mass. state officials to detain, for example, a man charged locally with car theft - in connection to also violating FEDERAL laws re: gay rights - Mass. legislators would trip over themselves to comply.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the church is losing the young, mostly because they see the anti gay and anti woman teachings and say they can't be a part of anything like that. and so they leave. and once gone, they will never come back.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People afraid of violence in the men's washroom should use the woman's. We have stalls. I have always wondered why trans boyz would want to use the male washrooms especially in school's as their vulnerability in the situation is extreme. I think the likelihood of trans and openly queer people being harmed in the male washroom is probably common, women being assaulted by a man in the women's washroom, can happen no matter how a male born person identifies.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church has budged on the indissolubility of marriage. It now says according to Amoris Laetitia that two people living in an adulterous relationship which is gravely sinful can be full members of the Church, fully integrated into the life of the Church which includes reception of the Sacraments. It won't be long, if it isn't happening already before the divorced and remarried will be allowed a second Church wedding on the grounds that it is being pastoral to grant this.\nThe Church cannot have two teachings, one official and the other unofficial which contradicts the official stance.\nScience cannot reveal what is moral or immoral. The Church teaches that sex outside of marriage is gravely sinful therefore homosexual activity is always gravely sinful as the Church also teaches that a marriage can only take place between a man and a woman. Science has nothing whatsoever to say on these issues. I'm not sure what you mean by the \"expansion of the circle of sympathy\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I meant conservative politician. To a degree both sides really do cheat as much as possible, that is just how politicians act. Unfortunately, too many Rs will claim to be against abortion, while paying for a mistress to get one. Will claim to be all about family values, while cheating on a spouse. Be all against gays yet get caught trolling for men in a bathroom. Or in the case of our current President, lie about absolutely verifiable facts, again and again. This happens over and over. While I dislike the corruption on both sides, I absolutely despise the hypocrisy that the right has shown and continues to show on a daily basis.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was not there but nothing that I saw or read about the prayer gathering indicates this was about homosexuality or gender roles. A million people gathered peacefully to pray for South Africa, left the place spotlessly clean afterwards, did not incite violence but condemned it, and all you can do is criticize, judge and complain, pointing fingers and digging up quotes from 2004 to try and discredit a man who loves all people, loves this country and simply believes and preaches what the Bible says. South Africa needs more gatherings like this and fewer \"journalists\" like Rebecca.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Council took the Church Voris is pretending still exists apart, with Paul VI doing the heavy lifting. St. John Paul tried to push back as hard as he could, just as he did at the Council, and Benedict took back as much ground as he could on the Mass and in fighting the tide against homosexuals. I agree on the Mass, the new English translation has much more traditional responses, but the older version was adequate. That the Church is destined to come apart into something more Orthodox and less Roman was inevitable. It caused scandal to our Protestant cousins because it did over-reach administratively and Vatican II is a band-aid. Francis is an able physician in this regard. As for the rest, take your pick. And with your spirit or and also with you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You mentioned epigenesis, which is the dominent theory, although self reporting should be good enough for you. Again, if you can't rely on it why should they rely on your morality. As for your kids, they know not to tell you, although they likekly are straight, but that has little to do with their upbringing. One of my brothers had the same moral upbringing as the rest of us and no incidents of abuse, yet he has a husband. He cares little of what the Church teaches on his sexual morality. The tragedy is that what they say about it has alienated him from the Church. An understandable human reaction to being treated as less than and whose experiences are not trusted on these matters. Families of gays who do \"get it\" will be the force that changes the Church on this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I used to follow the antics, er, actions of the Colorado House of Representatives. I can't tell you how many rural legislators assured me that gay issues weren't their concern, because there are no gay people in rural Colorado. It's a manifestation of living in cities.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The laws of nature?\" You mean those pesky scientific ones, which demonstrate widespread occurrence of homosexuality in many, many animal species, or would these be more of those faith-based \"guidelines\" (as Hector Barbossa termed the rules of parley in Pirates of the Caribbean)? \n\nPro tip: If you want to learn about the laws of nature, look to Darwin. You will find in his writings the theory that explains the real world, why your ilk is approaching last call, and why your screen name may be more accurate than you think.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I don't understand about those who want to deny service to LGBT people, is why they aren't equally selective about other sinners.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bigots never win... they fought to preserve slavery and lost, they protested to support segregation of schools and lost, they protested to oppose same-sex marriage and lost (in Canada at least). When will they learn?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think, as a pretty rare animal being a priest abuse survivor at age 11 and then a 44 year Catholic School Religion teacher, that the key to solving the abuse crisis is not better training, better screening, removing celibacy, eliminating gays, etc., but rather reforming the theology of the priesthood. The idea of \"alter Christus\", the forgiver of sins, the consecrator of Eucharist, the \"priest forever, ONTOLOGICALLY superior being\" must be returned to \" servant of the servants of God\" or the potential for clericalism and all forms of abuse will remain because it is virtually impossible for any believer, especially a child, to say no to someone who is perceived to be, essentially, God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bottom line: this particular farmer's market has an anti-discrimination policy. This particular farmer knew about that policy when he agreed to sell his wares there. He violated the terms of that policy and now the other farmers, who also signed off on that policy, want him out. That is their right. He should be no more surprised by the unwelcome he received after refusing service to customers on the basis of his personal prejudice than gay people who work for the Catholic Church after they get fired for getting married at City Hall. Right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "another one/ about same periode/ France\u2019s King Louis XIV at 12 in 1653 as an excellent dancer (which \u201cCulture\u201d was his priority/ \u201cCirque du Soleil\u201d upon Louis XIV ? see the link onYouTube= Le Roi Danse J.B Lully Ballet de la Nuit 1653 (Ouverture) \n (w/ English subtitles/ \u00ab Italian manners \u00bb ? said someone for \u00ab Gay \u00bb)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYHPNgSUIoE\n(copy-paste in wb address)\nLater in 1670, at 17, as a dancer again (from same film) onYouTube= \nDe koning danst - Absolutisme in beeld geluid en goudstof\n(in French w/German subt.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Okay...so we as a species (and frankly all animals) evolve to operate with heuristics to organize the world around us. It helps us streamline our thinking so the dangers of the environment are easily identified, we know who to herd to, who to avoid, and also expend less energy. T\n\nThe 'binary' world is not an archaic system designed to keep people down as it is fairly consistent with sex identification we've always evolved to expect. Yes there are bona-fide trans-sexuals, fluid identifiers, who don't feel they fit structural gender norms. But the majority percentage identify as one or the other and it is just easier to operate day to day with binary pronouns and sex identity. Is it discrimination? I don't think so. Could we go further to accept people in the 'grey' area of gender identification? You bet! But stripping the majority of a very common identifier \"man or woman\" is making life more difficult for everyone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kaepernick wasn't blacklisted for expressing his first amendment rights, he was let go for being distracted on the job. \n\nFootball players are paid to do their job, which is to play football at the highest level. How do you think Exxon would feel if their CEO took a knee for Black Lives Matter before every board meeting? Or how would you feel if your plumber made a speech about LGBTQ rights before fixing your toilet?\n\nProfessionals are hired to be professionals, and focus on the job at hand. Kaepernick clearly so many interests outside of the NFL, that being a pro-level QB was no longer his #1 priority. And you can't pay some one millions of dollars to be unfocused. That's just the way the world works.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your argument is that the Pride event should take up every marginalized group's cause. A show of solidarity perhaps but to regress on the progress made between the LGBTQ community and police should not be the desired outcome. BLMTO was out of line and Pride organizers allowed themselves to be bullied. Does every group that holds up the parade get their way?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "yes, but it varies by gender identity. Our concept is a concept to desicribe reality, not reality itself. Gays can procreate, by the way. Childrearing and marriage are more than fertilization and sex. Much more.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting correlation, gay men and divorcees. It kinda pains me to ask, but would you mind explaining that one?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay person, I am often bewildered as to why some people get so hot and bothered over people like me. I mean, let's face it, that's what this controversy is all about. What is it about homosexuality that is so threatening to some? Are people seriously worried that everyone will suddenly turn gay and people will stop reproducing? When I look at the statistics about world population growth I'm worried about the opposite problem - people breeding too much! Has anyone read or seen the movie \"Inferno?\" Seems to me when it comes to over-population the facts are on my side, not on the side of people who harbor the irrational fear that people will stop reproducing. I don't get it. Homosexuality exists in every species of the animal kingdom. It's natural, it's built-in population control, and the church and everyone else should be thanking people like me for doing our part to slow down over-population. Instead, everyone else's hatred gets heaped on us. And for what? Leviticus? Pork, anyone?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would even say that C-16 and M-103 could even be saved if they were thought through, and Peterson has more or less suggested such. To quote Section 2 Purpose from the Canadian Human Rights Code, few people have problems with protecting the rights of transgendered or non-binary individuals from \"an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have and to have their needs accommodated, consistent with their duties and obligations as members of society, without being hindered in or prevented from doing so by discriminatory practices\". Discriminating against somebody because they are transgendered or non-binary is wrong.\n\nThe issue is failing to analyze the legislation effects. If a non-binary demands a fabricated pronoun and can have you fired and guilty of a hate crime for refusing, is that \"opportunity equal with other individuals\", or does it make people fear going near them instead? That's a problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe we just haven't seen or heard anything that would warrant the tiniest approval. I kno I haven't, except his stance on gay marriage. \n\nIf you're so displeased with the editorial direction, the content and even comments we anonymous folk make, why do you persist reading NCR? I know you wouldn't find me over at Catholic.com or even the gulag of groupthought on Reddit's \"/r/catholicism forum. \n\nBecause it feels so good when you stop beating your head against cyber walls?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In America we have to use the polite words listed under LGBTQ.\n\nCannot use the English version of the Mexican vulgar word. (Guess Respect and Kindness and being Civil doesn't apply there huh.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Frost knows that taking a knee to thank God for a touchdown is different than doing it to protest white supremacy in policing or the presidency of Trump. Taking a knee to pray (which should be done in private, not on TV) is also different than taking a knee because you are too winded not to, which is apt symbolism for the problem of bigotted cops.\n\nI don\u2019t car about Professor Barrett\u2019s personal spirituality, individually or in groups. I care about how she sees the 14th Amendment in terms of regulating state political action that violates the privacy rights of women, gays and anyone else whose behavior states wish to regulate. In short, does she agree with the Federalist Society viewpoint? (which IS fringe)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What's the problem with that? You would be teaching marriage between a male and female and not \"feel\" any conflict or a need to justify and promote same sex relationships. Maybe in different times this prohibition can be relaxed. There's just too many dissidents about at the moment ready to concede to the permissive culture and homosexual pressure groups active in the Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you want to send out a call to Young Democrats about running against fellow democrats, you probably shouldn't use the darling of the Republican party as the example. Young Dems and establishment Dems alike remember Djou's consistent standing with the Republican party - because he still is. Standing with the GOP against gay rights, against working families, and in support of tax breaks for the wealthy and a smaller government with less services. These are all still things that Djou has shown even in this election that he still believes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Defending the subjugation of women under the guise of religious piety or cultural relativism is inexcusable. When Canada appeases a belief system that demands men and women of no relationship are forbidden from physical contact, it encourages cultural segregation and division. In Canada, men and women are equal, period. Instead we get private schools teaching girls they must cover up to avoid men's advances, how \"progressive\".\nIn Iran, women are clubbed for not covering their hair in public and \"there are no gays\". Why do self-titled \"progressives\" in the west turn a blind eye to the regressive nature of societies \"governed\" by Islamic law - it has nothing to do with cultural relativism, it is about universal interpretations of right and wrong. There is nothing \"immodest\" about refusing to cover one's hair - the idea that hair encourages unwanted advances from men is pathetic. Men and women are equal in the west, not because of cultural relativism - but because of progress.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You gotta be kiddin! I'm from New York and belonged to very \"progressive\" (yes, they do exist). Catholic parishes. Each was always packed to the rafters every Sunday to be challenged by the pastor -to be witness to and for Christ. \nScores joined outreach programs and active, vibrant, thriving ministries far beyond \"altar servers, women's sodalities, and ushers\" to minister to God's rejected and unwanted.\nWhen a more conservative pastor arrived, gone were some of these ministries. Gone were the challenges issued from the pulpit to live the Gospel. Gone was the absolute conviction that God loved me even though I was a sinner. Replacing it- the use of the pulpit to rail against gays, the divorced, birth control, planned parent supporters, women's ordination supporters, and on and on, and on. The stampede from the parish could be heard for miles.\nSorry, Without the progressives in the church, most churches would be either historic museums or sold off for condominium development.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"By contrast, total military spending on erectile dysfunction medicines amounts to $84 million annually, according to an analysis by the Military Times \u2013 10 times the cost of annual transition-related medical care for active duty transgender servicemembers.\"\nSo what, neither should be covered. The VA have enough problems to fix, to take proper care of our veterans.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Straight people have NEVER had to worry about being denied or fired from a job, turned away from a business, kicked out of a rental property, or denied the right to marry the person they love because of THEIR sexual orientation. Is it really asking that much that LGBT people ought not to have to worry about these things, either?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You have a cramped view of how the Holy Spirit speaks. Sodomy is about 45 minutes out of any gay couple's week, like any marriage. You can have an opinion of sodomy v. copulation, it is not helpful in settling the question of whether gays are created that way or chose it. Sadly, I doubt you care. Your issue is public morality, not personal happiness, and not for their benefit (if you cared, you would honor their testimony) but the fleeting authority of the Magisterium in such issues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If 10.2% of LGBT folks are married to someone of the same sex, and 13% are married to someone of the opposite sex, then how is it possible that 90% are not married to anyone as this editorial claims? That adds up to 113.2%.\n\nRemember that LGBT does include bisexual people, who might fall in love with someone of the same sex or the opposite sex. It also includes transgender people, which seems odd to group together with others for the purposes of this question. And finally, it includes people who got married to someone of the opposite sex before it was legal to marry someone of the same sex. I have a friend in this situation; he doesn't believe in divorce, and is committed to staying with his wife even though he's gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I, for one, firmly believe that this is a wonderful and prudent idea. In fact, this methodology should really be extended to other issues facing the Church: abortion, gay marriage, heterosexual divorce/remarriage, women priests, priestly celibacy, political involvement, the Ten Commandments, etc. And one more - a commission devoted to hand-wringing over the rise of 'nones', and the increasing Godlessness of society.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kind of a broad brush of anti-CPC don't you think? Do you actually think Chong or Raitt (for example) even give the whole 'gay thing' a second thought as though any sort of differentiation was necessary? Candidates like Trost could not represent very many CPC members.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know, I get caught up in that when I shouldn't. Time waster. Maybe in this case it's because I've seen the damage homophobia can do. I even know hetero men who have been \"gay bashed\" because they \"looked\" gay. One friend was even holding hands w/his wife @ the time, just minding their own business, walking down the street, when these horrid young men started pounding him and yelling that he was a \"F-ing f-g-t.\" Then they ran away. Never caught of course. My friend wasn't seriously hurt but it was very frightening.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's be clear- Transgender Just*n and Gerald Take-it-up-the-B*tts don't care about asylum seekers, international borders, human rights, overtaxed Canadians or anything other than staying popular and staying elected.\n\nIt's pure smoke, mirrors, selfies & 3x weekly hair salon visits.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She will be appointed Canada's second openly gay female senator by Justin if she loses the next provincial election. Trudeau owes her big time for helping boost his big jump from third party to majority government in 2015. Wynne had an axe to grind with Harper and boy did she grind it likely costing him many of his Ontario seats. I can't even remember the last time a Premier from any province with a different party stripe openly campaigned against a sitting PM and even went as far as endorsing her Federal contemporary who was never even Official Opposition Leader or leading in the in the polls I might add.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you should revisit the CDC stats on AIDS in the US and in the rest of Western society.\n\nAs for the kids, once they lose both parents, it's a difficult time for them, so the safety nets are important and better for family than strangers to raise them. But those adoptive parents are not their parents, not their mom and dad. And that's a big deal as we know from the fact that orphaned kids always seek out their real parents.\n\nI have adopted nieces/nephews, and I have nieces/nephews born to my sisters/brothers. I have different connections with the adoptive ones from the others; they're not my blood, and there's a lack of natural affinity between us.\n\nAs for homosexual parents; daughters need a mother. And a father. Sons need a father. And a mother. It makes a huge difference, and given that in all likelihood your child will not have same-sex attraction, that mom-dad relationship is all the more important.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm always confused about why you attribute women being the leader of the family's domestic life to \"conservative\" women. Lesbians, liberal women, single women with children, really most women (of course there are important exceptions) are the people in their families who make the domestic decisions. I call \"conservative\" people backward because they blindly support an abjectly corrupt party in order to have their backward religious views forced on their fellow citizens. Conservatives in no way have a monopoly on family life, ethics, quality relationships, etc. \nI have no problem with conservative women saying, \"Because of my religion, I don't think I should use birth control.\" I have a problem with them saying, \"Because of my religion, you can't use birth control.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Having considerable experience with transgender in the military I can assure you every transgender person who comes to realize this is part of their life, will with no exceptions wish for it to occur early in life, and not in the military. In 1971 Army I learned this lessen the hard way. But to imply a soldier would take advantage of the military heathcare for gender reassignment surgery must statistically be nearly zero, or in any event negligible by every measure. This politician should do his research to see how minimal this issue is, unless he wants to continue pandering fear and phobia for what I can only assume is politics or religion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Spot on would mean they accepted Epigenetics on how people become gay and gastrulation as the start of life as an ensouled being. Their fear of in vitro is also backward, to their objection that poor people cannot afford it, their response should be funding through insurance for everyone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Politicians either supporting or opposing abortion has no impact on either the SCOTUS (at least 7 justices are pro-Roe, if not 8 - even Republican appointees are 70% likely to support Roe when they finally vote on it) or the much needed federal law changing constitutional personhood to some point earlier than viability. Such a law, of course, would have most people consider the issue settled, so no one would vote on abortion as an issue ever again. As far as gay marriage - its constitutionally protected, politicians supporting or opposing it have no impact. Scalia was the only justice against and he died.\n\nThe current legal framework requires that people actually say they don't want to cover contraception. Not too much to ask.\n\nGo ahead and say you voted for Trump because of life issues, however. If enough do, it will set the movement back 50 years.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't disagree with you about promiscuity being harmful to everyone. But AIDS rates (and of other STDs, btw) indicate that there is a bigger promiscuity issue with male homosexuals. Of course, the \"National Association of Gay Monogamy\" is trying to change that, but....oh, wait, there is not such association.\n\nChildren are a separate issue that we can discuss elsewhere (again, I only brought it up to call attention to the fact that there are lots of clearly sinful acts that Jesus never mentioned, but that didn't make them non-sins as a result)\n\nThe issue I have with homosexuality as it relates to children in the present discussion is the equating of homosexual relationships and sodomy with male-female unions and sex. Because what is clear from history is that same-sex sexual acts are teachable; consider the pederasts of Ancient Greece. When we legally equate sex to sodomy, then when we teach about sex on school, we must also teach about sodomy. The \"closet\" was the best solution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not everyone can serve, Buck. Trans is just one of many disqualifications. If you're too short you can't serve either, but you didn't whine about that today. Why not?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jerry, when was the last time that you read up on the science of homosexuality? I'd suggest doing a bit of research before you accuse others of not knowing their biology because you are totally wrong on this one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This issue is a matter of competing rights. The best way to resolve the matter, and the way the Supreme Court is bound to follow, is to balance the rights so that the least harm is done overall.\n\nFrom my explanation above you can see that LSUC hasn't done that. It's solution doesn't seek to balance rights, rather it creates another injustice. LSUC's approach is also disproportionate to any material harm done to the rights of LGBTQ people. Further, LSUC ignores simple measures it could take to ensure those rights are respected by all its members. Instead it chose to attack the religious rights of TWU.\n\nBased on the above and my understanding of how the Supreme Court has handled other cases of competing rights, I believe the eventual ruling will favour TWU.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Do you identify with any of the following groups?\"visible minority FN, Inuit, Metis,disability, LGBTQ2", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The headline asks a reasonable question, but it's naively put. The Government of Canada knows full well about Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses, and always has. Reports of those abuses aren't hard to come by, as the Saudis publicly execute individuals for adultery, homosexuality and blasphemy, among other things. Not to mention the Saudi government's penchant for the hyper-strict version of Islam that spawned al Qaeda, Islamic State and a host of other brutal terrorist groups.\n\nIt's not ignorance of the Saudis that allows our weapons to be sold to them. It's greed. That and the knowledge that those weapons can never be used against us, 10,000 miles away. The mayhem that the Saudis create in their own and neighbouring countries doesn't affect Canada. We can facilitate the carnage with impunity. \n\nNothing will change, Ms. Kermalli. When $15 billion is at stake, foreign lives don't matter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Outstanding article, and needed to be said.\n\nThe only caveat is that we have to be vigilant in that presentism is never used to whitewash truly evil deeds. For example, MacDonald\u2019s sentiments on both the Chinese and residential schools are abhorrent today but were fairly common in the late 1800s. The Nazi attitude towards Jews, Slavs, homosexuals and the Roma was also fairly prevalent in the late 30s and early 40s. But accepting MacDonald\u2019s warts is completely different, and we need to guard against those who might honour the truly odious figures in history through the presentism argument.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Scott, the Republican women you speak of do not have a monopoly on the qualities of motherhood. Church-going women have abortions. Republican women have abortions. Why? Because for a variety of reasons they become pregnant and are not in a position where they can produce and raise another child. Women who have children and work ALSO see their role as mother/protector and nurturing of children and sometimes that's exactly WHY they choose to use an abortifacient, why they choose to use birth control or why they choose to have an abortion--to protect their interests and the interests of their family. So do not insinuate that women who would not choose abortion are somehow more \"womanly\" or something BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT. All women have a protective maternal impulse--lesbian, straight, bi-sexual--all kinds of women have this. Still you are incorrect. Jennifer Markovsky who was killed by Robert Lewis Dear was assaulted for being a woman seeking healthcare. It was a political murder.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Military Times previously reported that in 2014, the Defense Department spent a total of $84.24 million on erectile dysfunction prescriptions. Of that, $41.6 million was specifically spent on Viagra. According to the Defense Health Agency, between 2004 and 2013, the number of servicemembers diagnosed with erectile dysfunction doubled, the equivalent of approximately 10,000 new diagnoses each year.\nComparatively, the RAND Corporation estimated that allowing transgender people to serve in the military would raise defense health spending between $2.4 million and $8.4 million, an increase of 0.04\u20130.13 percent in expenditures.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fascists are on the left, using identity politics to silence all any questions about what is going on. Whether its white supremacy, or trans gender supremacy the corruption behind the politics is the same.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When Christian conservatives rally their troops at the voting booth in an attempt to repeal gay civil marriage which in no way affects them personally, you'll forgive me for not sharing your view of them as \"good, decent, and patriotic Americans.\" As long as they continue to work tirelessly against people I know and love (which they are) I will most certainly continue to doubt their goodwill, which is sorely lacking where LGTB people are concerned.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I feel the same way. I want to vote YES because I think state recognition of a union should be available to all couples - if it's available to heterosexual couples, it should be available to homosexual couples. It's a civil right. But the 'conversation' we're having here is so one-sided, so bitterly prejudiced against those not in favour, that my rational mind is being overwhelmed with resentment and desire to punish! I don't worship a sky fairy! I do have a right to an opinion even though I'm a Christian! I'm not an evil bigot! And I'm going to have my revenge by voting NO! (I'm not proud of this).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay couples adopt or have life other ways. No 50 year old couple is \"open to life.\" Again, you are conflating celibate poetry with Canon Law. It was tried in all the marriage cases and it failed miserably. It only works in the world of Catholic Relativism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interest groups that form the base need to support this shift in focus. LGBT, immigration, environmental activists... will all benefit if their party starts to win. But to do that they need to cede some ground. Encourage a broadening of the message. Allow other voices to be heard.\n\nBe brave.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays cannot be discriminated against. They are a \"protected class of people\" who cannot be discriminated against.\n-\nBut, and this may be one of the issues, is \"offensive artwork\" \"people\"? Do \"artists\" have the right to claim that \"offensive artwork\" they are being asked to \"create\" is \"offensive artwork\" and, therefore, is not a \"protected class of people\"?\n-\nThat logical reasoning is why a Jewish baker doesn't have to decorate a Nazi cake with Nazi symbols, why a Black baker doesn't have to decorate a cake showing a man being lynched by the KKK, or a painter doesn't have to paint a painting showing Hillary with horns.\n-\nIt is wrong to discriminate against people.....but \"offensive artwork\" is not \"people\" and is not a \"protected class\" of anything.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Revisiting the whole dissent thing. My dissent on LGBT matters and suggestion that doctrine should change has no impact on me, because I am not gay. While I hope my gay brother finds peace back in the Church, he did leave, largely because of the hateful tones. I will not back hate in my name. Whether hate was intended, it was received that way and when you are the Church, you are responsible for how communication lands.\n\nMy dissent on abortion is mostly on law, not doctrine. While I do dissent from the illogic of not having an abortion when a trisomic pregnancy that will assuredly kill the child before birth may also kill the mother as long as the child lives, this is a rare case that most doctors would ignore and most confessors would not even require a penance for. On law, whatever the motivation of the Brennan decision on Roe, the logic is correct. Further, it is obvious when some right wing bishop talks about the abortion law in America that they are ignorant...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think that everyone's thoughts are with the families of those killed and injured in this horrific attack.\n\nAnd the columnist is right that care must be taken not to demonize any group and that doing so brings with it the risk of violence being perpetrated on those demonized.\n\nAt the same time, the columnist ignores the fact that there is a clash of values between the views of some followers of Islam and many others in society. For example, I hope that the great majority of Canadians agrees that it would be wrong to throw homosexuals off of the roof of Place Ville Marie because of their sexual orientation. Yet some adherents of Islam see no problem in as they see no problem in killing young women for the crime of dancing.\n\nSo the solution cannot be, as the columnist seems to suggest, refraining from a vigorous defence of secular values out of a fear of offending the sensibilities of those who hold extremist views.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The person who most represents the values of the Catholic Church didn't get elected...if you consider social justice: Laudato Si, gay/LGBT rights, minimum pay, social security, Medicare, Medicare, health insurance for all, affordable education including k-12 and college, skilled job training, apprenticeship programs for plumbers, electricians, etc., safe water initiatives, etc., etc., and so forth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What secular \"Catholic\" Democrats fail to understand is that the Church can quite legitimately oppose both Clinton and Trump. Having held its ground on the imperative, non-negotiable, moral issues of abortion and homosexuality, it can legitimately oppose Trump's position on the economy, immigration and his foreign policy. Clinton and the Democrats couldn't be influenced by Catholic moral theology, because of her fixed ideology, but there is hope Trump's excesses can be influenced. President elect Trump is already demonstrating a capacity to be conciliatory. Get behind your President and the American democratic process.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If it's such a small group, then the costs to comply are quite small are they not? This country guarantees equal rights for all. If we can make reasonable accomodations for the handicapped and disabled, then why are we putting special restrictions on what transgender people can or cannot do?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Huh, well, you haven't acknowledged that TWU discriminates against LGBT either, meaning they have different rules for married hetero students than married LGBT.\n\nI don't like the language of \"violating\" rights in this discussion. I'd say TWU is limiting equality rights in the exercise of its religious rights, and LSUC is limiting religious rights in the exercise of its regulatory duty in the public interest.\n\nAt issue is whether LSUC's decision reflects a reasonable limitation of TWU's religious rights in the context.\n\nMy guess: I can't imagine the SCC would interfere with the LSUC's decision. They were thorough in their process, analysis, and balancing of rights. So why is SCC hearing the appeal? Dunno. Maybe they want to weigh in on reasonable accommodation for potential future graduates from TWU's law school. So far, LSUC has only denied TWU accreditation, but they haven't yet specifically addressed the religious rights of individual students should the law school open.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You will have headphones attached to you and endure 72 straight hours of pronoun reeducation by transgendered OISE professors.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a celibate gay man, I acknowledge my homosexuality, but also acknowledge God's divine mandate to live in a state of grace. It is a very difficult struggle, but through the grace received by the Sacraments it is possible. The zeitgeist desperately wants the Church to accept homosexual behavior as \"normal\" and even blessed by God, but it can't. I know that living a care-free homosexual life would probably be much easier, but Christ said the road to Heaven is narrow and in order to follow Him, we must take up our cross and deny all that attaches us to this world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don't forget how much the gays like their drama.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "John, character limits here militate against that idea. And all debates need not proceed so formally. Most of the moral arguments against gays in Canada are rooted in Christian dogma. Let's go with love and acceptance as defined by the New Testament then. No mention of homosexuality there, and J.C. amazes with his pleas for us all not to judge one another and to love. Tormaine suggested gays were a perversion. I pointed out what was likely the usual religious hypocrisy on view. Besides, sorry, but the seeking of common ground part is over. Christian society had its fun for 2,000 years persecuting gay people. It's over in Canada. There are laws now and equal rights. The parades, and my remarks here, are simply clean-up work as people who care about human rights continue to push for full, cultural acceptance and to challenge stuff like what Tormaine said. I'm pleased his/her comment didn't meet civility standards. The younger generation in Canada are fine with all this. Time to move on.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is Richlynd Ketah-Guest, a transgender, taking hormone shots? Those aren't cheap.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Liberals must be deleting your comments, I keep getting notifications that yu replied to me, then the comments are gone.\n\nOkay. You are a liberal. You are a tax and spend, homosexual loving, big government liberal.\nOkay, see how that adds to the conversation?\nGrow up. When peolpe disagree with your incredibly dubious opinions that does not automatically make them leftists.\n\nI never said Trump should go down there. I said he should be a leader, not a whining snowflake.\n\nHow do I know that Trump is not acting like a leader? \nAre you serious! Because he tweeted all weekend like a triggered snowflake anout a nearly dead issue instead of offering support and reassurance to suffering Americans. He could have drawn the discussion to Puerto Rico and drummed up more support. Instead he pandered to his brain dead base.\n\nYou call that leadership? LOL\nWhere did I say nothing is being done? \nI said that Trump did not display leadership, he acted like a triggered snowflake. Figure it out.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If you are viewing the posts to the above article. my Post with 18 comments is not been displayed it can only be found by repressing/reinstating (Most reactions or Newest first) and then ensure that it is initialized \n\nThe Church teaches that the only option open to a gay Christian is celibacy and if they should sin they are in exactly the same position as all of the unmarried, the sacrament of penance is available to them and in this regard, they are treated equally.\nFor young Christian gay adults, the options appear to be stark, etc\n\nTaken from my article A Bond of Divine Mercy in the link below, perhaps some may consider reading it.\n\n\nhttp://www.v2catholic.com/background/2015/07/2015-07-25Kevin-Walters-a-bond-of-Divine-Mercy.htm\n\nkevin your brother\nIn Christ", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Judging by the number of comments straight conservative males make on all columns GLBT, I beg to differ. I will be the first to congratulate some of them if they ever post on straight male sexual proclivities with the same righteousness and vehemence they reserve for gay men. There a number of reasons that will never happen, the first being that dissing the sexual activity of straight men is considered effeminate. 'Locker room' talk rules the day.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Transgenderism is a guaranteed way of getting some attention when a youngster gets none at home.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Reckless behavior happens between homosexual men, because men's sex drives are driven by self-gratification and there is no limiting perspective among the partners. Indeed, so-called open relationships between homosexual men are common, to the extent that any homosexual men form lifelong partnerships.\n\nCalling their reckless, misuse of their sex organs is just calling attention to biological fact: combining one's sexual anatomy with other systems' anatomies with no physiological purpose but pleasure with the exposure to deadly disease is not the normal order of human conduct.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Just like your election of Trump explains the sharp rise in hate crimes against minorities, women, gay people, Dems, liberals and immigrants post-election.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "At least at the topic of gay marriage the Mormons show good judgment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am gay and the feel of Liberal hands on my hips makes me feel very uneasy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If you think you choose your gender preference you are out of your depth. No one in his or her right mind would pick to be gay in this world right now. You are very, very, very sadly mistaken. And, I know that you know that, because I have yet to meet a so-called 'straight' person who would say, \"Yep, I was sitting there at 5 years old, and I said to myself, 'You know what, Steve, I think I'll be straight. Yep, I think I'll choose to like the opposite gender pool for finding my soul mate.'\" Nope, sorry, it's not a choice. And that idea has been debunked for decades. Get over it. Meanwhile, my understanding is that some Black people resent the equation because it is much harder to pass as white when you are black than to pass as straight when you are gay. The discrimination is more universally and automatically felt by Black people in a white-dominated world. The racial stereotypes against African Americans has been, perhaps, more institutionally marginalizing than for gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why shouldn't gays be allowed to march in the St Patrick's Day parade? After all, Ireland was once known as Gaelic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay marriage is not legal in Israel. Nice try.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "St Paul was \"ex-gay\"? That might be illuminating.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So here's the thing with homosexuality. People do not choose to be homosexual, it is how they are born. Same with heterosexuality, people do not choose to be heterosexual, they are born that way. \n\nChaps. When they are worn, without jeans, are worn with thong bikini bottoms - just like some men and women wear at public beaches. If they were not wearing anything underneath they would be showing their genitalia, which is illegal.\n\nBTW my fair reference wasn't about cowboys and chaps, it had \nto do with the anti-abortion people and their photos of abortions. Those photos are far more traumatic than a bare bum.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "LotL, your \"passions however disordered\" remark gives you away. Why don't you at least have the guts to spell out in so many words that it's your belief the sex abuse scandal is all the fault of gay priests? Same old, same old...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "NRA - check. Remember back in 1967?\n\"The National Rifle Association, which in 1967 supported the repeal of California's open-carry law when members of the Black Panther Party began carrying legally purchased firearms, said gun control \"will do nothing\" to stop gun violence, and then urged Congress to allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines; and at least 64 members of Congress who've accepted campaign contributions from the NRA announced that they would pray for the victims in Las Vegas, including a representative who said gun control was \"not the answer\" and who once spoke at an international white-supremacist conference, authored a bill banning gay marriage in Louisiana, and was, after being shot by a 66-year-old white man, defended by a black female police officer who is married to a woman, a demographic in the United States that is a hundred times more likely to be shot and killed by a man than to use a gun for self-defense.\" [ Joe Kloc, Harper's]", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Just like men who see a single woman with a cat.\" A life lived as a cliche, Butty Hanker, is no life at all. You and your 'lil fren' Freddy began all the \"gay\" talk about which you both protest way, way too much. Amirite? Yes, I am.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The rebel.media has been telling peopke about gay persecution under Muslim rule for years.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ooh, an opinion by the Post. I must immediately change my views. Hillary could burn down an orphanage filled with transgendered children of color and beat them with Gibson guitars as they came running out and the Post would still giver her their support.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's a given that in any discussion of gender non-conformity somebody will eventually make a comment like this. Consider it the transgender equivalent of Godwin's Law. And it's just as inane and stupid (and bigoted) as it was the first time I saw it many years ago.\n\nBut I've come to the conclusion that anyone posting comments like this is really identifying as a tree stump because they're clearly as thick as two planks.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your gay friends don't have to talk about it; they have a well-financed powerful machine that does their dirty work for them, intentionally designed to disarm and silence people like me with their \"love is love\" propaganda. So, yeah, someone like me who sees through the BS has to speak as long and as loud as possible in order to reveal the subterfuge.\n\nThe cited articles/books can't be unpublished, and the ideas they espoused were not popular with the public so we don 't hear about them much. Let's not pretend that there is no homosexual agenda and try to dismiss it with a snarky comment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay men have been vilified by society for their alleged sexual promiscuity. Straight buffoons such as Trumplethinskin are secretly or even openly admired by their male (and some female) counterparts when they brag and crow about \"getting a lot.\"\n\nI've more than once wanted to ask these frozen-in-time pubescents that, if they had to give up half of their sex lives which half would it be: thinking about it or talking about it", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Poll: Americans back transgender military service\n\nI don`t trust this \"poll\" one bit. Transgenders are less than 1% of the population. Most people have other things to CARE about than confused people in the service.\n\nAnd by the way, if you take a blood sample from a transgender person and test it, they will still have the same chromosomes as they did before the procedures. Also, males and females have a different skeleton; such as the pelvis. Have transgenders had an orthopedic surgeon alter their pelvis? No. Can a man who has transgendered to \"women\" ovulate? No. Can women who have become \"men\" produce sperm? No. \n\nNo one is changing genders. They are just people who should be in a state hospital eating anti-psychotic drugs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Burke is neither gentle nor holy. He is, among other things, a blatant homophobe. He said, in as many words, that grandparents should shun their gay children, lest the grandchildren come to accept them. A man with a \"heart for truth and justice\" would not say such a hateful thing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When it comes to dialogue with gay people, the church will first have to reach beyond the pews to find those legion of gay folk who had enough and left for good. Once they're found, however, the dialogue won't last very long once the church inevitably gets around to the major stumbling block that alienates gay people from the church: church teaching which says to gay people, \"in order to be in good standing with us you must cease and desist with your abnormal 'lifestyle,'\" all because of a book in the Old Testsment that also instructs us not to eat shellfish, or mix meat and dairy products together or wear clothes made of mixed fabrics, or a host of other \"abominations\" that no one heeds and which prevent not a soul from receiving communion if they commit any of those \"sins.\" There's a word to describe this kind of discrepancy: injustice. And no amount of dialogue can overcome that.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Being Transgender is not solely about surgical procedures to \"plumbing\". Please research on hormone therapy, which does have impacts on regions of the brain and therefore effects sex drive and impulse control.\nWhy are you trying to force people who look like men, and have significantly more testosterone than most men, into women's restrooms?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So transgender does not include looking post-menopausal, huh? At 66, real women do not look like this.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "why, you want pictures? numerous studies have shown that those who are vocally antigay are often closeted homosexuals that are secretly envious of those who are you publicly out. is that why you are stalking me, you have a crush on me? how special!\n\nhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/homophobes-might-be-hidden-homosexuals/", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And Obama and Michelle were the first gay man married to a tranny to live there whats your point?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How do you know homosexuals are not patterned by other homosexuals? \nAs for \"pretending\" to know what the intent should be for every sexual act: I am not \"pretending\"to know anything. I am basing my position on divine law, both natural and revealed. The Church affirms the truth of these two aspects of divine law. And since the Church is \"pillar and bulwark of the Truth\" (1 Timothy 3:15), what I say is not \"pretense\" at all, but the truth of the matter. \n\nCan I assume you are a Christian?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're just all over the place in points and analogies. It does matter if he's served them before. He did. He doesn't want to do this particular service because he feels it violates his beliefs. That's a huge distinction. \nAnd your analogy about the woman dying is just way off, it isn't even the same scenario. And he didn't refuse to serve white people, just like he didn't refuse to serve them. He just didn't want to bake this gay wedding cake. I mean, go get a cake elsewhere.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's just really hard to find an Indigenous Asian Female who's transgendered lol", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If the church wants and needs many new priests, it is going about getting them in the wrong way. By their exclusions, there are not many men left who they deem worthy. And if they get rid of the gay priests they have serving now, the situation becomes even worse. There are many gay priests in our diocese. Some are celibate and some are not. All except one that I know off are great priests. I guess celebrate old men are fixated on sex. The church makes most of it's prohibitions of a sexual nature. They tell you what you can do, how you can do it, when you can do it and with whom you can do it. However, it seems to me, that doesn't include priests who prey on children and the bishops who allowed them to do it and the cardinals and maybe even the popes who covered it up. Except for the priests in question, those criminals are still there and our pope should root them out instead of rabbiting on and on about gay priests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The leftist media would do its best to make Pence look like the second coming of the anti-Christ for gay people were Trump to be impeached - which has a zero chance of happening.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is any of that true? Do we have an ingrained bias against women in tech? Is it a problem? Or has this running story been part of a campaign promoting misandry in Canada all these years?\nI believe it is the latter. But the media in Canada says otherwise and until very recently it was only the lunatic fringe who were willing to speak a word against this agenda. Until recently there was no comment section. No wonder suddenly they are promoting our young men to \"come out\" as transgender. There is no place for them as a male in this society unless they are prepared to take a stand against it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Barry \"The Man\"ilow is gay???!!!! What a surprise!!! LOL", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Martinesque progressives cheer for Pell's downfall, but remain mum on the fact that 81% of the abuse cases were caused gay pedophiles.\nTheir interest isn't in reform, that's for sure. If they cared at all about actual reform, they'd support\n\n1) All priests with same sex tendencies coming out of the closet.\n\n2) The ban on same sex attracted men from entering seminary.\n\nBut they don't. It's clear that their interest is first in gay rights, second in bringing down the church, but the welfare of children is a distant third.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is pretty much evident to all on this forum that you are blissfully unaware of what happens amongst male prison populations. Here, there is no preponderance of gay men. 90%+ of male prisoners are heterosexual. And yet, there is a lot of sex happening amongst the inmates. This is not about preference, but about opportunity ... precisely as observed in the JJ study.\n\nHave I answered your incessant question?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If you have been living in a cave recently it been reported by EVERYONE that he is very anti-gay and a stringent Taliban supporter. Yikes! You need to get out more!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Let me define Mr. Wear's idea of \"Republican extremism.\" Those were, at one time, mainstream ideals. Work, family, God, all of which the left has replaced with Government with a capital \"G.\" Health care is a right, basic income is a right, housing is a right, anyone who opposes the BLM agenda is a racist - actually nowadays every white person is a racist by birth, anyone who doesn't believe in gay marriage and the LGBTQXYZ agenda is a homophobe and is cruel. And on and on it goes.\n\nGood luck selling that in 2018/20/22/24 and beyond because the average American is sick of it, and Trump's win proved it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The author is still trying to direct communications for the CPC.\n\nI see no evidence that the Liberals would be any more favourable to anti-gay or anti-choice Muslims than Christians. The author gives no examples of toerating one but not the other. Being tolerant of headscarves, for instance, is not the opposite of being tolerant of gay marriage or abortion. \n\nKudos to Scheer for saying he would not open the gay marriage or abortion debates. However, he won't have my vote unless says he convinces me he will be guiding policy with science and facts rather than beliefs. I don't want to see Canadian scientists muzzled again.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I could care a less if the good Doctor is a woman or not as long as they can act and wouldn't have commented as I don't know any fans of the Doctor who care either but Tabitha completely lost me with the whole rant on political correctness. It's a cop out to say that the people who are against it really just want to beat up on blacks, women and gays with impunity. While I'm sure there are a very small minority of people who feel that way, 95% of us are sick and tired of SJW's telling us how to feel and react to any situation full stop. To trivialize it by saying we're all racists, bigots or fascists shows a total lack of understanding - which she continued to demonstrate through the rest of her rant on the subject. It's clear she's not a real fan of the Doctor but used this simply to expound on her silly belief that many people actually mind in this day and age if women are put into positions of power.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "ThEvergreen Church teaches that ALL people are to be treated with love and respect. Firing gays for getting married is the antithesis of this teaching. \n\nWhen the institutional Church does that sort of thing, it is being hypocritical. As I said, if it were to fire all employees who sin, there would be no one left. The institutional Church had no problem whatsoever in forgiving and retaining clerical pedophiles. But homosexuals are apparently worse than pedophiles. \n\nYes, I do object to the institutional Church not acting as I think it should. I think it should act in the way it claims it should act. Don't you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Feminist lesbians? \n\nThere is two way street. I won't deny that and I won't deny that there have always been women who have profited from leading men around by their pelvic region. I don't see this as a strictly female issue even though women pay the bigger price by far. Why don't men get all bent out of shape by Hollywood's portrayals of men? How many violent male redemption movies must be shoved down your throats before you stand up and say 'we don't need redemption through excessive gore, violence, and liberal use of automatic weapons?' That's not very sexy at all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Please do pull out the Scripture where Jesus is quoted as saying gays need to be bullied and reviled. Most Christians reject your Taliban style ignorance in favor of the love and inclusiveness of Jesus' message. I pray for your lack of compassion and empathy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"FDR, and others (e.g., Churchill), thought the Japanese had rational leadership which could be deterred.\"\n\nLOL.\nThe entire world in the 1930's was a fascist swamp with more and less vicious fascist countries everywhere. Japan's Emperor was pure evil. Japan was one big fascist cult of war with a racist superiority complex, the aristocrats demanding god-like authority over their subordinates.\n And the Western countries were almost as bad.\n Gays, women, ethnic folks, Jews, indigenous people, Chinese, French-Canadians - all were mistreated as second class citizens at best, jailed as criminals at worst. Life was very nice for middle class white folks, sure. But Canada and the world was a fascist swamp. It was only a matter of time before the alligators, crocs, snakes, and others attacked one another.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Re: \"Muslim bakeries have refused to make wedding cakes for sames sex couple, have been given a pass to refuse service. Even gays won't go after Muslim discriminations.\"\n\nBoth of these statements are patently false. \n\nSadly, your mentor, Trumplethinskin has made lying the new norm for the frightwing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "may god the alt left lunatics in the liberals are just nut jobs, there is no other gender at birth than MALE or FEMALE! now they want what some kook parent to label thier kid as something else?and pray tell who would that work on passports since regardless of the bs coming from the alt left, the international community agreement treaties sets what is accepted information wise in passports, so if this nonsense goes thru, they will not get one since there is no place of anything other than male or female, that all other countries will accept! \n\nthis gay agenda of wynnies needs to be put down.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So we should ignore the thousands of young girls and teenagers who were sexually abused by Catholic priests because they don't fit into your hateful, bigoted narrative of the sex abuse crisis. Those priests who molested young girls are part of the hetero lobby who we all know who prey on young girls and innocent teenagers. You cite false facts to support your hatred and ignore one entire group of humans.Your obvious anti gay rhetoric is also anti women.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "One of the rationals used for mainstreaming homosexuality as normal is \"homosexual behavior is found among animals.\" This article shows that murder is also found in nature.... so maybe murder should be celebrated also?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "God created gays. It's \"normal\" to God, so why not for all of humankind (or at least those who believe in God)? Or are you saying that God, too, is promoting the \"liberal lifestyle indoctrination game\"?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ahhh...I'm not going to comment...my mother told me \"if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.\" Schumer, (the closet homosexual) brings the worst out in me.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hillary exemplifies the lack of trust. She is the most corrupt individual to ever run for president. Why in the world the middle or lower class would vote for her is beyond my understanding. A rigged election is not conspiracy it is fact. Hillarys buddy soros has election machines in 17 states. He is a known globalist who is salivating at the opportunity to watch America fall and be absorbed into a new world order. Its not conspiracy at all. It is common knowledge that Hillary and Soros have the same sick goal for America. They want to level the playing field world wide and pride themselves in being the orchestrator of that. Only problem is they need to rob America of its wealth to make that happen. Trump would stand in the way of their goal. Liberals are willing to run off a cliff with Hillary and Soros strictly because of Hillarys stance on abortion, gay rights, etc. That is the trap they have set. Colleges and public schools have created the robots of liberalism.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Pandora spouts homophobia, and says she is not. That, sir, is lying. I suppose you support her in her loathing of gays, and call my acceptance of them \"dissent\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Did this commission include black trangendered womxn, Black non-binary persons and black intersex bodies? Or did this commission exclude this marginalised and oppresssed group from these particular sex and gender conversations and policies?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "First and foremost no one has the right to show up at another country and be taken in. Second, North America can't take everyone else in the world in. We can't. Our economies cannot absorb billions of people and just keep chugging along. We'll end up Third World, and I don't want that.\n\nThere are great people all over the world. Awesome, smart, friendly folks from all nationalities, ethnic backgrounds, and religions. There are also some really horrible excuses for human beings we don't want in this country.\n\nThe question isn't about religion. The question is about values. Not all cultures are equal. Some are better than others.\n\nWe don't want people who'll go against the grain. I don't mean an avoiding pork. I mean real rape culture, honour-killings, thinking homosexuals need to die, tribal-conflicts.\n\nYou shouldn't hate someone just because of their religion, but you shouldn't accept the unacceptable just because someone's attached to words \"holy\" or \"tradition\" to it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Other than the mayor of Calgary, is there a Muslim in a prominent enough position in Canada to make it worth publicly examining his or her position on abortion or same-sex marriage? Muslims don't get bashed because there just aren't any Muslim targets, not because Muslims are exempt from attack.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The governing association got that part right but failed to realize that these transgenders are taking steroids to accomadate their sex change which also gives them a physical advantage. By not disqualifying herself this girl was basically cheating and being unethical.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed, if we look at the past, there's a lot of ugliness. Sexism, misogany, sexually assaultive behavior (watch the Trump/BillyBush video for explanation), racism, violence against homosexuals, discrimination against physically and mentally handicapped individuals, mistreatment of the elderly....we can all add to the list. Putting in the \"context of the time\" simply means acknowledging that it was widespread, not that it was morally right...Surely, no one would claim lynching a black man for \"looking at a white woman\" was morally justified just because it was accepted during the Jim Crow Era. Surely, no one would claim a boss coercing sexual favors from an employee was OK just because it was rather commonly done. Surely, no one would claim belittling the mentally handicapped was OK just because it was done on nearly every playground in the country. \n\nSome of our \"poster-community\" use the term \"politically correct\" to trivialize concern with behaviors. (cont)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am in fact old enough to remember when only white males were first class citizens. I was born in 1949. Throughout the 50s and 60s women and minorities were openly discriminated against in employment. Very few women held public office. Blacks were kept from voting throughout the south and were unable to buy housing in places like Eugene, Oregon. As late as the late 50s people as prominent as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald could not get a hotel room in Eugene. (I recommend a trip to the Mims house near Skinner Butte if you think open racism was something that happened long ago and far away.) As for homosexuality, that was more likely to get you jail than matrimony.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah Purgy, I've missed your efforts at logic. Let's start with para 2: do any \"ecclesial\" discussions (you seem to mean RCC, since you end with priests) make it possible for gay voices to be heard without severe punishment for the priest or theologian? Have you read anything about the Fr Martin and his very mild efforts to start dialogue and the resulting criticism of him?\nAnd then, are you really asserting that (all?) young people think it's fine to be gay, ignoring all the evidence of prejudice, including bullying, etc.? People who commit suicide do not usually feel perfectly fine.\nDo note that one response from me is all you get, since your main purpose is to entice people who are more willing than I to waste their time responding too you to no avail.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "....\"the word (porneia) refers to \u201cprostitution, unchastity, fornication, of every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse.\u201d This would include homosexuality'...\n\nThat's the point! Exactly! \n\n'Unlawful' sexual intercourse would even include the use of a contraceptives, or spouusal 'rape' without consent. If we include all those things there aren't many marriages that could not be divorced, annulled, and re-marriage allowed.\n\nUsing \"no divorce\", Period. as the rule is not considering the full Gospel, nor 1 Corinthians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are a Bolshevik aubrey. Get over it. I know a bolshevik by their actions and postings. You slide into that categorical slot very well. \n\nObama's legacy:\n.\n+ Destroyed our national sovereignty\n\n+ Destroyed healthcare\n\n+ Destroyed the sanctity of marriage\n\n+ Turned race relations back 100 years\n\n+ Attacked the Police and Praised Criminals\n\n+ Quadrupled the number of people on food stamps\n\n+ Restarted the Cold War\n\n+ Destroyed our Allies and Supported our Enemies\n\n+ Turned our Military into a gay bath house\n\n+ Reverted the middle east back into the middle ages\n\n+ Turned the IRS and NSA into the KGB\n\n+ Doubled the national debt\n\n+ Infested America with Foreign Diseases\n\n+ Wasted Billions of taxpayer $ on the Scam of \"Global\nWarming\"\n\n+ Greatly empowered and supported Islamic radicals\n\n+ Flooded America with illegal Aliens, Muslims and Africans\n\n+ Taken over the Internet - If you like your Internet you can keep it!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Huh, they think that dressing down is going to make a difference; meanwhile, the article is quite clear that what's destroying the faith is tyrannical homosexual propaganda, the mission of which is to do precisely what is happening: turn young people away from the Church. If you do not support sodomy, then you are irrational, mean, and lacking in all credibility. Meanwhile, when the AIDS crisis came about, the villain was the disease, not the people or the acts that they engaged in that caused/cause it.\n\nWelcome to the religion of sex and sodomy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "After the Orlando shootings Yiannopoulos started wearing a t shirt that had the GLBT rainbow colours with the text \"We Shoot Back\"... if I'd been a gay guy and down there I might have worn the same shirt.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Re: any \"alternative\"\n\nWell, there's always the tea movement. Too bad they lack the testicular fortitude to actually form an actual party and publish an actual party platform, huh? (Too bad every last one of them has a great big \"R\" after their names.)\n\nIt could be short. \"God, gays and guns\" would pretty much cover it.\n\nInstead, they stick around to infest the GOP with their hatred - so unlike the One they purport to adulate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Girls today have very few male role models. The parents maybe divorced and they only see the father on weekends. All their influences are women, the baby sitters, teachers, nannies etc.\n So these girls today in fact do not understand men at all, how can they? It even encourages them to become lesbians by rejecting men. That is why there are more lesbians today then ever before.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You had a better upbringing, or better chance at success than I. I think it's probably because of the NAACP, and not because your parents had the personal drive to go to college. You got to go to college, probably because you're black, while I did not - I don't have any afirmative action programs working for me, as you do.\nIn the history of this country, the privleged white man has mistreated Native Americans, Blacks, Chinese, Japanese, Gays, Women and I'm sure I've missed some. I fit two of those. Whaa! \nEnjoy your pity party Charles. I find it tiresome.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think I can safely say no \"gay people\" my age were ever \"bullied\" because in my time we had never heard of \"gay people.\" We didn't even know the details of the authentic marital act until darn near high school. \n\nThe kids who really get bullied, now as then, are fat kids, slow kids, smelly kids, kids whose parents dress them funny and kids who aren't good at sports.\n\nSo where is the special study and pastoral letter and priggish finger-shaking about welcoming and affirming and valuing the fat, the slow, the smelly and the unathletic? Why the preoccupation with the same-sex-attracted? After all, one can always choose to keep one's sexual attractions to oneself; corpulence and body odor, not so much. Why are the British Catholic bishops so zealous to insist on the importance of welcoming and affirming and nodding and winking at same-sex attractions? Hmm, almost as if ... oops, my 500 characters are up.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, more \"Catholics\" who read Matthew 22:39 as \"And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself, unless the neighbor is gay or transgendered. Those people you should loathe.\" And they have the chutzpah to claim that theirs is a Christian attitude.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Am I to assume that you think all Muslims are trying to enact laws like that? \n\nI am aware of laws that exist in Saudi Arabia and Iran. I'm not ignoring that. What that has to do with Muslims in our communities I am at a loss on though. You seem quick to bring that up. Same types of things happen in Russia from Christians, am I to assume all churches are somehow in cahoots with beating up gay people?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "For the next four years it will be comatose, but it will regain consciousness and will be passed in time. Face it, the religious nuts are dying out. Most young folks today think gay people should have the same rights as anyone else. As more peop,e openly declare themselves as nones, agnostics and atheists, they become more angry about the right to discriminate against other Americans using the name of religion. Denying any person access to public goods or services is evil, even when done from supposedly \"religious\" reasons. Remember, it wasn't all that long ago Catholics were discriminated against for religious reasons and these supposed \"religious freedom\" laws could bring those days back. Be careful what you wish for, as these things can easily bite you in the butt.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The DSM is a socially construction. Diagnoses come and go as society changes. For example, homosexuality was removed as a mental illness in 1987 after gay rights activists protested. The total removal of homosexuality from the DSM was the result of a vote. Recently, sexual identity disorder(s) were reconfigured to eliminate stigma against trans persons. The reconfiguration came after consultation with transgender advocacy organizations. And a vote. Gender dysphoria continues to be a diagnosis only to facilitate insurance reimbursement for treatment. People who are not unhappy with being trans are not diagnosed as having a disorder, and people who have successfully transitioned from one gender to another no longer have a diagnosis. If the DSM had stable diagnostic categories, then it could be reasonably argued that the DSM is purely scientific. But the diagnostic categories historically have shifted in response to advocacy and political action, demonstrating its essential social nature.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is a much simpler way for bakery's now and in the future to deal with the whole government censuring issue. As a bakery you simply offer a limited portfolio of designed wedding cakes. No custom design wedding cakes beyond offering options only on the icing and favor of batter. Have set designs A, B, C, and D for heterosexual couples and A, B, C, and D for homosexual couples. If one were using their creativity I would believe same sex couples would take one look at the options and say to themselves no thanks. There is more then one way to rein in a rogue government.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People are being true to themselves and walking away from something they don't believe or something that has left them because they can't fit the right mold. If someone if a young man or woman who is gay or lesbian, the church teaches that the only we for them to be accepted is a lifetime of celibacy. And those that have been badly hurt by abuse and have been brutalised in Catholic institutions can not be expected to want to stay. It wasn't Catholic teaching that drove them away, it was abuse. \nMy parish is thriving, it is fairly liberal and people that are remarried at welcome too, even if they don't take Communion. And they give a lot to Parish life. I attended a funeral today, the idea of the mention of Purgatory would have been insulting if it happened. Especially when people often have dementia at the end of their lives, but have been devout all their lives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The lives of \"thousands\" of transgender people have been thrown into \"chaos\" because they now can't openly join the military - give me a break.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To know that Barry Manilow was NOT gay must have been living under a Rock! Really?\nEverybody ,I know?Knew he was Gay. What's the Big Deal? Who cares if you're gay or not. Many famous Rock stars were indeed gay. Example; Look at Elton John, the fans knew he was gay from the get Go . \"Who Cares!\".\nLike Barry Manilow,Elton John let his music do the talking . And Boy! Did they both make Good Music! And that's what counts! IMUA!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bingo. I'm sure it has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with gay marriage and the War on Christmas.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, and Obama never served in the armed services. He should have backed off and let the military govern their own instead of forcing them to accept homosexuals and transgenders serving openly and forcing military leaders to assign women to any and all specialties including the infantry, Special Forces, Rangers and Navy SEALs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By your reasoning, any cohabiting couple could be accused of 'grave sin'. How does one know a married gay couple is embracing a gravely sinful homosexual lifestyle? What if they are actually celibate? What if someone wrote this about their same gender housemate of 32 years: \"\"I have always thought no bereavement was equal to that of a husband's or a wife's,\" he wrote, \"but I feel it difficult to believe that anyone's sorrow can be greater than mine.\" Would you say this person lived a gravely sinful homosexual lifestyle? Those words were written about Ambrose St John by Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But the gay bar wouldn't refuse to serve you if you chose to go to one. The point is, they tried to buy a cake from the guy and he refused to serve them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How do you feel about Obama pardoning a transgender traitor that cost taxpayers thousands of dollars for a sex change operation. Knowing you probably pretty good.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuals were prosecuted and sent to jail in 1876 and for centuries before this country even existed; prosecution of homosexuals was not forbidden until 2003. (LAWRENCE et al. v. TEXAS) and only recently the Supreme Court has discovered that they have a 'right' to marry under the same Constitution.\n\nThe Constitution is whatever the last five (5) Justices say it is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "See, \"After the Ball,\" (Madsen), \"The Overhauling of Straight America,\" (Kirk), and \"Gay Revolutionary,\" (Swift) for starters.\n\nI don't purport to know the cause of same-sex attraction. But I do know from friends who have chosen the homosexual identity that to call themselves \"gay\" was a decided choice, a decision to embrace their same-sex attraction and the acts associated with that attraction. \n\nAs I say over and over again here, there is same-sex attraction, and then there are homosexual acts. Conflating the former (which seems to have an element of involuntary predisposition) with the latter (which is totally a choice) under the banner \"gay\" is an attempt to bury the sin under the sinless. \n\nWhat could be wrong with someone who is \"gay?\" It psychological manipulation and selective messaging towards people who are conflict averse and just want to get along. You know what they say about the road to Hell....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These marches are mostly rallies. Most of the marching is getting to the rally point. While there was an organic beginning to the events, most of the speakers were from established orgaizations. I suspect many of the supporters were already linked into to them as well. This was mostly about rights, not democracy, and mostly reproductive, racial and gay rights, particlulary lesbians. I did not watch every speech, but it was not about globalization. Anti-globalization is what you find at Trump rallies. These groups are coalition already, mostly through the Democratic Party. The question is whether this coalition can win back Congress in 2018.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "$84 million on Viagra and Cialis, $8 miilion on Transgender according to a Rand Corporation study conducted in 2016.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's not what I'm saying. What I mean is that a person can be going along quite splendidly as a straight or a gay and then fall in love with someone that they had previously never considered a possibility.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've met Vic and he is a good person! And I say if your good then who cares if your gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay-Straight Alliances: united in our contradictions!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you were 76, the schools most certainly did not worry about race or gender questions because bias and discrimination were acceptable in public life. \n\nThat doesn't mean black people, women, gays weren't discriminated against Mike. Not all Americans were as content with life in the 1950s . Thousands of poeople have been murdered for no other reason that being a woman, gay, or black somewhere in the nation during our lives. (I'm 63)\n===\nLove does not come easily or without struggle I'm afraid. It's hard to have compassion for lives that we cannot, or did not, experience ourselves. It's not impossible.\n\nHappy New Year Mike, may 2017 bring peace.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Repost: \n\nGay Pride consists of a series of floats affirming the celebration of LGBT people by business; financial institutions; government; churches; unions; police; military; schools; entrepreneurs . . . and, of course, LGBT organizations themselves. Several hundred floats make up the largest parades like the one in Toronto. The people who appear on the floats could be LGBT or could be their straight supporters. The \"gay paraders\" as you call them could be anybody from the Canadian prime minister to TD Bank employees to somebody in a gay chorus. The particular motivation for participating depends on the individual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why is is that violence against homosexuals should be anticipated or expected so that we should not be surprised by it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Continuation of previous post.\n\nSo, let's do a thought experiment, since you seem so fond of them. We have two wedding cakes, decorated exactly the same way. Nothing on them indicates any sort of gender of the reciepants of the cake. Let's just say that they're decorated like this: https://apis.xogrp.com/media-api/images/778ffbbc-9b81-bd6c-5dfe-8d253894aaf6~sc_320.320\n\nOne of those wedding cakes is sold to a straight couple for use in their opposite-sex wedding. Mr. Phillips would have absolutely no problem with that.\n\nThe second cake is ordered by a gay couple, for use in their same-sex wedding. It is exactly the same as the first cake, so Mr. Phillips obviously has no problem with the cake itself. However, he denies this cake, calling same-sex weddings an abomination. Now, are you saying that there is no illegal discrimination there?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh... Wait a minute... \n\nAre we not allowed to discuss how Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe consolidated his grip on power and failed to introduce any meaningful human rights reforms in 2015 ?\n\nAre we not allowed to criticize Mugabe or his government, including human rights defenders, civil society activists, political opponents, and outspoken street vendors, were harassed, threatened, or arbitrarily arrested by police and state security agents. The authorities disparaged lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. There was no progress toward justice for past human rights violations and political violence ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gary:\n\n Everything being said by Trump currently, has been said and can be heard from the mouth of Hillary, You Tube has many videos from the past that show Hillary commenting on everything from the \"Wall\" to Gay Marriage, it simply proves that she will say or do anything to increase her chances by bending in the direction of the current trends. It also goes to prove her inability to both tell the truth and stand up for what she truly believes in.\n The Clintons truly define perversity, both in their private lives and in past political performance, and anyone who feels differently is simply deluding themselves.\n Duty, Honor, Country, they used to be the hallmarks of what service to this nation consisted of, now they are simply a sick punchline for the joke political service has become. Hillary has achieved a place in history, she is the first Presidential candidate of a major party to be confirmed while under FBI investigation, that in itself should speak volumes about our nation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Moore is the same so-called \"christian\" that said this, \"\u201cHomosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one\u2019s ability to describe it.\u201d He claims it's the same as bestiality. Look up the rest of his nice \"christian\" comments.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So they are OK as long as they stay in the closet. \n\nGays in general don't give two hoots about the Catholic Church's stance on marriage. What they want is CIVIL marriage. No, you are another one who is anxious to point to the sins of others. Your Phariseeism is shining bright.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yoh Joe! Gays and Lesbians are included in Hitlers list of Holocaust Victims. Your remark is not cool.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Holocaust", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First off, a boy who has never identified as a girl, is not going to be able to get away with impersonating a transgender female --we're not living in a Rodney Dangerfield movie Richard. Secondly, girls have been wrestling against boys in middle/high school since at least 1998. We had a very good female wrestler on our middle school team in 1998, who regular handed down ass-whoopins. Lastly, in high school we had a girl on our JV hockey team. She was a solid player, checking was allowed and she gave as good as she got.\n\nIt's sad to watch a grown man post ignorant comments day after day. But what cracks me up is your support for Trump --he thinks the transgender community should use which ever bathrooms they want. So much for your boy supporting your \"traditional\" values. I guess that means you don't really \"value\" anything, seeing as how you're contradicting your \"traditional values\" by supporting a candidate that doesn't share those same \"values\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I find amusing about all this, is that when I watched Levy on Schitt's Creek I kept wondering: Is he gay? I wondered this because, in addition to all his other characteristics, he had a gay affect. That is to say that he WAS \"fey\" in accordance to at least one definition of the word.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "'\"Gay\" is a term that conflates same-sex attraction AND the willingness to embrace and/or engage in same-sex sodomy,..'\nHmmm - I always understood that 'GAY' was an acronym for 'Good As You'. \nAs we are ALL forgiven sinners, one cannot deny the truth of the acronym, uncomfortable as you may find it. And we all practise our favourite sins we just define them differently :)\nPerhaps we should change the acronym to BAY?!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK, how does civil homosexual marriage affect you? Be specific.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The reason we are having trouble using a pronoun other than he or she is because we all instinctively know that there are only 2 genders and anything else is a pile of BS. There is no science to support transgender identity. It's no different than believing in creationism or that climate change is not happening. Sorry, those are just facts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays cheer for Pell's downfall, but remain mum on the fact that 81% of the abuse cases were caused gay pedophiles.\n\nTheir interest isn't in reform, that's for sure.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks Tabitha, for pointing out how morally superior you are to others by ridiculing their position. I have no issue with gay rights at all, but I do have an issue with the constant stream of BS coming from the left.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I accept my gay neighbor and I do not insult him by calling him \"intrinsically disordered\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Faith Myers and Dorrance Collins, if you were in a public restroom and a transgender woman came in, you might not even know it, because they would presumably be trying to \"pass\" as the woman they feel themselves to be. However, if a transgender man -- presumably dressed and acting like a man -- came into the women's restroom as required by this law, would you feel more comfortable?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "At least we don't have to worry about transgender bathroom issues on those airplanes today.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When the commander-in-chief says: \n\"After consultation with my Generals and military experts please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military\" - I believe that technically makes the President himself the credible source.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, no matter how hard the Democrats attack the Catholic Church. No matter how hard they push 3rd term abortion on demand with taxpayer funding, Transgender reassignment surgery, etc, they will still have the 100% full support of Pope Francis. The Democrats are aware of this which is why Catholic Democratic politicians are celebrated in the church and can act with complete impunity, (and they do).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It doesn't matter whether you support same-sex weddings or not - opposing it and not wanting to be involved in one has nothing to do with discrimination based on sexual orientation. \n \nTo those that say, \"he advertise hosting weddings and should accept all\" the obvious answer is that his definition of wedding is not the one of the State. How do you call the procreation-oriented union of a man and a woman, before it was redefined? There, he is offering to host these, and of course does not care about the sexuality of the people involved. \n \nHe is anti-gay \"marriage\", not anti-gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why do I care? Because I respect the word of God and His design for creation. And I care for all the souls whose eternal happiness is being placed in jeopardy by the claim homosexual desire can be legitimately expressed without eternal consequences.\n\nPresumably you have evidence for the claim that \"gender preference is in our DNA\"? No. Didn't think so. That's because no such evidence exists. And, even it was in our DNA, acting on sexual desire is always a matter of choice. No one is compelled to act on a sexual desire. Accepting a person who has same sex sexual desire and loving them does not mean accepting homosexual behaviour as moral and licit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"They need to be taught\"... Found the old rod and staff and ruler, did we?! Hidden behind the cheap rosaries and missals collecting cobwebs in the cupboards behind the sacristy? I can still smell all the old sacristies of my life. Creepy. All this \"refusing of the Eucharist\" and such. Have you no idea, really, how bigoted, small-minded and offensive you seem? Why is this okay? I have to let this go. I'm ashamed for you. Do you have any idea how many homosexuals were rounded up and sent to concentration camps and into ovens during the Hitler years? Great movie: \"Burnt\", with a very young Clive Owen. Open your eyes and ears and your heart, for god's sake. This is not a joke. This is life and death for many around the world. If you have no problem with that, God save you, Because no one else can.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have no issues with these types of individuals. However it is unfair to the genders that were born female. This transgender may be a female now in physical appearance but still maintains the strength of a male through", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now i guess we know why they put an otherwise pointless bisexual threesome scene into House of Cards.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My point is that it is a mental disorder. It's not a very stable mental place to be. I then referenced a transgender person that had major problems. Transgender people commit suicide at a 40% rate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clearly Mr. Pence's views are more in harmony with the Catholic Church's teachings on homosexuality than these gay groups.\nIf Obama could speak at Notre Dame, then Pence (and Trump) should be able to speak there also.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow you must have REALLY known how to \"pick'em\". You need to crawl out from under your rock. In every big city USA everyday strait people are denied the most desirable bartending/hospitality jobs because they are NOT gay. Welcome to reality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What does Trump have to do to prove he is not anti-gay\n\nHold Justin's hand and march in 3 Pride Parades ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, the people of Iraq under Saddam Insane and Libya under Daffy Gaddafi and Syria under Assad had just a humongous bundle of human rights (except, of course, for the ones buried by the hundreds of thousands in hidden mass graves and the Christians and the Jews and the gays and the women, etc., etc.). \n\nIt is such a shame those dastardly Americans and their allies intervened to deprive the citizens of these countries - who had flourished in prosperity and peace under the gentile and benign leadership of the aforementioned dictators -of their democratic rights and freedoms. And it is all the fault of the evil Americans and their evil allies that these countries have been totally destroyed.\n\nAnd of course the West should have just kept their heads in the sand and allowed the aforementioned dictators to destabilize the ME, acquire WMDs and the means to deliver them, thumb their noses at the UN resolutions and threaten western liberal democracies.\n\nDoes that sound insane?\n\nIt should.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Paul: Please take a look at my many previous comments regarding Christianity. I think you will see that I note and emphasize that there is a great diversity of Christian belief......from generous, compassionate and understanding to \"Hellfire and Brimstone\" I am well-aware of the diversity. My wife is a very active member of Unity of the Valley Church in Eugene and I honor the compassion and humanism of that Church and its members. I also remember attending a marriage of a gay couple which was \"picketed\" by a group presenting themselves a Christians and condemning the couple to Hell. Yes, indeed, there's real diversity in the Christian religion. I have no quarrel, nor do I mock, anyone \"seeking a pathway to peace and reconciliation with our social an natural word (world?).\" \n\nStereotypes of Christians? Hardly. I know Christians who are great, understanding, compassionate caring people. I know others who are bigoted, nasty condemning individuals. (cont)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Chinese Canadians are no different than Jews, Italians, Greeks, Irish and so on.\n\nThey can assimilate and become Canadian, because Canadian is a nationality, not a race. The various First Nations are, as the name suggests, also nations. \"Canadian\" is not their primary identity, and likely never will be. They are the only group of people in the country who can say that Canada is a net negative. \n\nChinese Canadians (and muslims, jews, blacks, women, gays etc) are just as guilty as whites. We ALL enjoy the benefits of a system that is built on their suffering. It's not a \"white\" problem. It's a Canadian problem.\n\nThe constant left wing conflation of the very real, very systemic oppression of Natives with the minor grievances of ethnic/religious minority Canadians is currently a bigger roadblock to reconciliation than old fashioned white bigotry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sadly, its the homophobic parents that lead lead them to suicide. A gay teen of my acquaintence is out to both of per parents and is only suicidal when it comes to math. She cares not at all what the Church thinks and I find that healthy. The fact that she is gay is not at all a risk of suicide and she has carte blance in challenging bullies because she is secure at home.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not familiar with the Church Militant movement. Just now when I Googled it the first thing that popped up after a Wikipedia entry for something entirely different was from Churchmilitant.com and it was a piece of anti-gay propaganda. Is that what you're talking about? I knew all about Bannon's racism and anti-semitism but not about the homophobia. I supposed I could have easily guessed. Upon further digging I found that this headline was run on Breitbart while under Bannon's leadership: \n\n\u201cSuck It Up Buttercups: Dangerous F*ggot Tour Returns to Colleges in September.\u201d\n\nSomehow, as a gay person, that does not make me feel very reassured by all of Donald Trump's supposedly tolerant positions on gay rights. All his campaign's movements beneath the surface of the media radar have pointed to the exact opposite. Where gay rights are concerned Trump is a wolf in sheep's clothing and his henchmen are coming for us. \n\n\"First they came for the Socialists...\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, I see. My freedom of religion is an affront to their guilt. Thanks for the clarification. Refusing to \"celebrate\" gay marriage is some kind of ban. OK.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They disagree with YOU. You are trotting out your own version of Cafeteria Catholicism, saying that you can disagree with the social teachings.\n\nSupport for women's ordination perfectly legitimate, saying that no Catholic can dispute the papal stand hows the shallowness of your argument. Supporting gay CIVIL marriage is a matter of civil liberties. The official stance on abortion is simplistic. First, it is based on the OPINION that a blastocyst is a fully-fledged human being. Second, I keep asking a question which, to date, every single one of you \"pro-lifers\" has dodged: In the case of an abortion to save the life of the mother -- and yes, it is a rare occurrence, but it does happen -- you anti-abortionists say it is immoral. So how is a dead fetus and a dead mother morally superior to a dead fetus alone. Would you care to answer this one, or are you going to duck it like the rest of them?\n\nNo, YOU have set up standards for who is a Catholic, which is hubris on your part.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The 2nd amendment is there, and it\u2019s always going to be there, so why don\u2019t we come together and support sensible gun legislation that works for everyone -not just those who think because they have the loudest voice or the best ideology that they are right.\"\n\nBecause it is irrelevant how you feel. What is relevant however is that we have the Second Amendment right to use guns to protect ourselves, gays, transgenders, the kupuna, and the weak. No one including you as a gay person can stop gays and transgenders from protecting themselves. \n\nFurthermore with the latest tantrum by Representative Lewis who protested and fought for his civil rights in the 1960s recently tried to deprive Hawaiian civil rights activists of our right to due process.\n\nClearly he and those of his ilk are failing and I am glad.\n\nIt's not for you to dictate to us how and/or when we exercise our rights. Gun rights are a human right to self -preservation. Your pouting and whining will not change that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I did not leave The RCC for any reason other than college made me, a previously very devout Catholic and a daily Mass attendee, a non-believer -- and I've never regretted 'losing my faith.' However, when the scandal first broke, I wrote a Letter to The Editor of The LA Times, and The LA Times published my letter. In my letter I reminded readers that the vast majority of RC priests are good priests and, secondly, that the classic profile of a pedophile did not at all fit a gay man/priest. //// Somehow -- I guess I was very stupid -- I really believed that The RCC would step up and do the right thing. They didn't. And the Chancellor of the diocese that I was in, and who was a good friend of mine, had a severe nervous breakdown over the continuing coverup and was in an a medical institution for a year. It's now -- what -- 15 years later, and this 'stuff' is continuing and The RCC is still playing dodge ball. This all is so shameful and criminal that there are no words to describe it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trumpenproletariat auto-reflex deflection:\n\n\"Clinton\".\n\nAnd last time I checked, Bill Clinton isn't POTUS, nor is he advocating banning transgendered from the US miltary.\n\nTrump on rights for transgender people in 2016, said that he had \"\u201crepeatedly said transgender people should be protected under the law. \n\n You\u2019ve got to protect all people, even though it\u2019s a tiny percentage of 1 percent.\"\n\nOf course that was before he felt the need to pander to homophobes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1 in 3 billion?\n\nwere the 2 Boston Marathon bombers 1 in 3 billion?\n\nwas the Florida gay nightclub 1 in 3 billion ?\n\nwas 9/11 1 in 3 billion ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Gay said he stuck his head around the corner and saw a slender man in a blue track suit running southbound on West Street holding a gun.\"\nThat was the truck driver with guns, so it negates the possibility that this was an accident due to medical condition.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Bakers and photographers would like the right to not participate. . . It has nothing to do with discrimination.\"\nBakers and photographers would like the right to not participate based upon what? A decision to discriminate against members of an LGBT classification?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wake the hell up, ISIS is at war with us. The Republican party has been trying to do something about ISIS since it was created. The Orlando incident is just further evidenced of the need. Would you have rather them just said, that this incident didn't matter, their just detestable gays? How wrong headed.\n\nThe left is using that same incident, not to go after the source, radical Islam, ( a word Obama can't utter) but the tool that was used, guns.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you Dianne. At least someone knows the conclusions of the medical community. Had this reporter done some actual investigative reporting she would have discovered her single reference of McHugh has been discredited by even his own colleagues at John Hopkins. He also believes conversion therapy works for gay people. McHugh is classic religious zealot that abandoned rational thought based on real scientific studies and conclusive data from therapists and surveys across the globe. Let children tell you who they are - be open to phases - but be accepting if the child exhibits consistent and persistent gender identity. If the girl in her article has a boy's gender, the child will let his parents know. And if the child flips back to saying I am more comfortable as a boy, the parents will likely be jubilent because they know how hard society can be on transpeople. No one is forcing the child to be either gender and that is the point.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In a way I agree with you. By definition, a guy who thinks he should have been a woman is considered a transgender. So, what are we doing here? Should that guy, who isn't getting any medical enhancements to make himself more like a woman, be prevented from serving? He's not wasting taxpayer money on transgender treatments.\n\nSmart thing to do would simply classify any gender altering procedures (whether it's hormones, cosmetic surgeries, etc.) as purely cosmetic and say they won't be covered by the medical military plan. End of story.\n\nBut, Trump had to get diarrhea of the twitter account again....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree. When someone takes a high paying job as a spokesperson for a religious organization that has very specific ideas about homosexuality, then that person shouldn't play a game of pretending to be straight, when he clearly is not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ex-priests is the point here. Since when has the teachings and doctrines of the Catholic faith relied on public opinion? Some say it's influences may have crept in following the disaster of the \"Spirit\" of Vatican II, but all the falsehoods of same will be overturned, hopefully in the very near future. Personally I blame some of the large gay-priesthood,(those not chaste) as you put it, for the issues we are currently facing in the Church today. A priest living a sinful life needs our prayers. This was a main point of the messages of Our Blessed Mother at Fatima.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alaska passed an Anti-Discrimination Act back in the mid 1950s. Alaska Natives weren't allowed in most white-owned businesses. That bill sought to end discrimination for not only Alaska Natives, but for anyone living in Alaska. If you open a business, you're inviting the public (everyone) to patronize your business. Therefore, you can't very well draw an invisible line and cherry pick customers. It's over anti-LGBT supporters. No religious beliefs or affiliation can stop the US Supreme Court's declaration supporting gay-marriage. Accept that the LGBT community forever has parity with the heterosexual community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Upon reflection, I would add that Pope Francis is indeed a \"son of the Church,\" in all of its confusion, secretiveness, and periodic breaking through of its real sexual distortions (both hetero- and homosexual). In my years of clinical practice with priests and religious, I have met many who are homosexual (no \"practice\" needed) and have lived the life of denial and repression as the Church expects them to, and the resulting depression, addictions, and suicidal thinking that are the daily struggle for most of them. If all of them left the Church, we would have 50% less priests and bishops and 60% less religious over the past 50 years (my estimates based on available findings). If these statements of the pope are to be taken seriously (and I see no reason why they should not be), then we will only continue to push young Catholics out and further away from our doors, and be the home of the highly rigid and disturbed candidates that wreck havoc on the Church in often unseen ways.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The owner was willing to sell them a standard off-the-shelf cake, but he refused to discuss designing any cake -- solely because the couple was gay.\nIt is one thing to object to a specific design. It's quite another to refuse to discuss any design.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently, you are the one who needs to read some of those verses instead of just doing a search the only verse that discusses man and woman is MT 19:3-5. You say I pass on lies, however, that is your interpretation of the Bible, not mine. How do you know you are right and I am wrong? The other verses discuss fornication or sex outside of marriage still being a sin. MT19:3-5 does say male and female, but does not say there are no other options. Keep in mind that the New Testament does not take back the ban on shellfish, marrying a non-virgin, or mixing cloths to wear nor eating pork. It also gets into adultery and pre-marital sex and being drunk. So, if you are doing any of those, I guess you are just as guilty as a sinner as you imagine a person who is homosexual might be. Obviously, I don't believe they are guilty of any sin. However, you seem to have forgotten Gal 5:14.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While I disagree on the \"sin\" label for gay people, I agree with the rest. If I owned a cake shop, I'm in it to make money, and probably have a good time making cakes. I wouldn't care what you did with the cake! And I imagine this baker has made many a wedding cake for people he disagrees with on religion. \n\nI'd like to ask him, \"Do you think you'll go to hell for making a wedding cake for a gay couple?\" Probably not. So it's just discrimination. If you aren't comfortable serving anyone and everyone, then don't open a business to the public.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homophobia is not \"authentic Catholic teaching\", no matter how much you want it to be.\n\nBurke is a homophobe, as proven by his own statements. Pandora and you support his homophobia. Why is that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First time I have commented on a Globe article, but this one really got me going. I like to read Gary Mason but where is his head at here? Of course society doesn't care, these are addicts!! You cannot compare to SARS, a contagious disease that affects the innocent. And, this is no different than early days of HIV and AIDS, when it was just gay men dying, so no one cared.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does Ruse think his words will encourage the LGBT community to move to a hetero lifestyle? They won't. Fr. Martin isn't leading gays to perdition, he's displaying acceptance of God's wondrous creations.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When will we see Islam embracing homosexuality? embracing equality between the genders? embracing other religions and cultures of the world? embracing Western values? and voicing Sharia law as only a cultural law and never a legal law of the land?\n\nWestern nations have welcomed in Muslims, but can anyone say the reverse? Muslim nations do not!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Justin's support for LGBT human rights extends only to countries that already have LGBT human rights laws. He would never dirty his hands telling the dictatorships of the Islamic world to follow Canada's;s lead. That would be uncivil. He will let gays die gruesome deaths rathe than rock the diplomatic boat.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clearly in the land of dogma and glory, we would all do that and the USCCB would be leading the charge on the snow white steed of righteousness. BUT, what the sanctified bishops have learned is with the ACA Catholic hospitals are stuck with far fewer indigent patients who never pay; the costs of whom they used to have to write off (and raise the fees the fees for everyone else to cover their unpaid expenses). Now with more of the bills being paid through ACA mandated insurance, they have more scratch for other worthy endeavors such as hunting down and firing gay employees who are civilly married, fighting contraception and lecturing on the evils of divorce, etc. AMEN!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I tell you what we really need.\n\nWe need to be vigilant and look out for radical islamic terrorism, the forced marriages, the forced genital mutilation, the misogamy, and if you are gay watch out as you will be thrown off a building.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I take it by your remark: \"You misuse the word \"hate.\" Refusing to accommodate sin is an act of love...\"\nthat you think LGBT people are committing sins by their way of life. Obviously you don't know or have rejected the scientific research evidence that has proven that Genetics are the basis for people who are LGBT. Contrary to belief by some who hate, yes, I meant hate, these people are born their way; it is not a life style choice and those who think it is wrong are badly mistaken. Even when talking about gay priests, Pope Francis said: \"Who am I to judge.\" Judgement is reserved by God the Father to Himself so neither any of us nor the clergy should be in that business. Scientific research should rule in this matter and the Catholic Church doesn't have a winning record on science if you remember Galileo and what the church did with him that was wrong on all counts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe but the race between the two is going to get nasty & NOT the kind of nastee' Janet Jackson sang about in her song. The more interesting matchup is the Democratic winner will matchup with most likely Repub Tupola. If she comes out with a platform that she will require a full independet audit of the rail project & will talk about her deep religious beleifs that does not agree with same sex marriage or abortion, HOWEVER like John Burns will not let that affect her official decision making as Governor of Hawaii, the Dems will have a problem. Also if Tupola is backed by some NON-RELIGIOUS groups or rich individuals independent of union & real estate development special interest & has a savy campaign manager/strategist a Repub can be the next Governor of Hawaii that will begin the end of rail. The 'all in' attitude of raising taxes by City & State officials to temporarily fund the money pit project when with 100% certainty that it will FAIL, gives Repubs a rallying point to win.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"We should first expose the common lie presented by the media. They keep talking about paedophilia among clergymen, while it is most often the case that the problem is ephebophilia, which is a perversion consisting in adult homosexual men being attracted not to children, but to pubescent and adolescent boys. It is a typical deviation related to homosexuality. Basic knowledge about that reality includes the fact that more than 80 percent of cases involving sexual abuse by clergymen reported in the U.S.A. were cases of ephebophilia, not paedophilia! That fact has been carefully hidden and ignored, as it reveals particularly well the hypocrisy of the homolobby in both the world and the Church. It is all the more important that it be exposed.\"\n\nhttp://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/02/fr-dariusz-okos-major-article-with-pope.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pride has always been political ???\n\nalways political? like what?\n.\nWas Pride involved in\n\nCanadian elections?\nUSA elections?\nBREXIT?\nISIS?\nSomalia?\nAfghanistan\nIraq?\n\nPride has been political only on the politics of gay pride and rights\nperiod\n.\nall other non-gay politics is not part of Pride's mandate\nit merely waters down the gay message\n.\nor it should be political only if it pushes a leftist political agenda - is this what you mean?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Father Martin is encouraging dialogue with the Devil. This is how evil prevails, and one only need look to the scriptures in which Satan appears and tries to \"help\" people.\n\nClearly what Martin is doing is trying to divide the Church as others who have gone before him have done already. The Church already teaches that those with SSA should be loved as anyone else. But the Church teaches that their acts are sinful. But Martin doesn't talk about that even though that is the real issue at hand. If there is contempt for those who identify as homosexual, it comes not from the \"homosexual's\" attraction, it comes from the acts that he adopts in his homosexual identity. \n\nAs a Catholic, Martin should be focusing not on those who understand that same-sex acts are sinful; he should be focusing on those who engage in the sin. How about \"Courage\" and other groups who seek to HELP those with same-sex attraction? How about helping kids avoid adopting a homosexual identity?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "sure but we have taken in 10 gay men so mr selfie is happy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This article confirms an uncomfortable truth: gay priests are living a lie by pretending to be heterosexual men who have chosen celibacy. Honesty and openness -- coming out of the closet -- is the only way forward, cost what it may in shock and squawking.\n\nApologetic explanations about how it's wrong to define anyone by their sexual impulses, and therefore priests should keep mum about their ss attraction? Weak arguments for deception. The fact is, the public is growing in knowledge that there is a good chance that Father has feelings for males over females, but is pretending to be straight as a arrow, pretending to understand and care about the dynamics of heterosexual marriage. How else to look at such a religious leader but as a pretender? How to take such a man seriously on moral matters, if he himself is pretending to be something that he's not? Or at the very least, encourage others to pretend, to live a lie?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry but Democrats constantly use fear mongering to get votes. They just instill different fears. And in many cases both sides are correct and instilling legitimate fears. If you think the fear of a terrorist attack is just fear mongering, there are 100s of gays in Orlando that would disagree.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Frankly, what's not to like about the idea of LGBTQI individuals not participating in the ongoing Cheney fascist regime's war crimes, crimes against humanity, and endless immoral illegal hegemonic atrocities abroad? Why poison their own spirits with the sins of a failed government? We non-cisgender are better than this worthless corrupt government, are we not? Plus, they hate us existentially and were we to serve, we'd likely suffer mysterious, ignoble, and/or violent fates within their framework.\n\nYou can't really participate in evil without becoming corrupted by and subverted to evil yourself. It's stronger than us all within its state-within-a-state. Let's keep LGBTQI protected from this evil regime. We can serve our country once the corruption's been purged forever, and the balance of 1999 (1965? 1916? 1866?) has been restored, hopefully one day extraordinarily soon. We've already been waiting sixteen years too long for the corruption to be bled out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Muslims and Liberals excoriate us about Islamophobia, but we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism, hatred of Christianity, Europe. Israel, and America. Islam's destructive iconoclasm is destroying historic treasures across the ME. In just one year Notre Dame in Paris has had three close call bomb threats. The danger never stops. They even have Islamophobia against each other. Ancient tribal wars between Kurds, Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabi, Druze and other Islamic sects, ISIS , Taliban and Al Qaeda are the root causes of most of the world's wars and social chaos today. It is not Islamophobia if we do have reason to worry. We should worry about the taqiyya.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays have given so very much to the Catholic Church. It's time we recognized their contributions.\n\nhttps://www.lifesitenews.com/news/u.s.-bishops-report-reaffirms-link-between-clerical-abuse-scandals-and-homo", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why cherry pick? Why not help all the gay people being prosecuted in all Muslim countries?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Eddy, would Jarred Kushner be destroyed if he were not a Jew....would Donald have been elected, could you imagine Donald and Jared putting on a towel on their heads and going to mecca why doesn't Canada publish stats on black crime and Natives and drinking; how many Canadian Jews sign up for the Canadian military and go over to the front row, and how many of them have supported and chearleaded for our lower middle class Christian boys and a few girls to go over there and get killed and maimed, that is the ones hiding out in McGill and York....I could go on for ever about a dozen subjects like homosexuals and the spread of aids and the billions that it cost the health care system and these drug users tying up the emergency wards....but the press is too terrified to go there, like Eugene Melynk the owner of Senators, a Carribean tax avoider and a jump in front of the line liver transplant, but yet the city of Ottawa depends upon tax revenue....why does no one talk about those things.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you mean that the original comment from I'm back was horrible, I agree. What other reason than homophobia would lead him to choose that example? There was more than enough time for him to reply that he didn't mean that at all. It's not the first time, either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not really. Banning other people's birth control and abortion are not a free exercise right. Neither is religious scorn against gays who marry. That is shouting fire in a theater, religiously speaking. The bishops are not seeking free exercise, they are seeking religious power. Not here, not ever again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, yes, like a Vatican II for the Knights. Change the name to \"Nice of Columbus,\" and funnel all their money to promoting homosexual \"marriage\" in the Church; distribution of free condoms; and Communion for everyone, especially those who've concluded for themselves that they haven't sinned.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The process is about attempting to detach reason and logic to aid our understanding of God's decrees for man's well and happiness from Divine revelation. Why would God prohibit homosexuality, fornication and adultery? Replace the Natural Law discipline instead with empathy and emotionalism, then throw in some data from sociology and psychology and claim Jesus' teachings didn't account for \"lived experience\" in the 21st century.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And that's the problem with using faith-based support services instead of local government run services. They are blinded and shackled in bronze aged mythologies and paranoia and too willing to bow to those \"beliefs\" at the expense of who they really are supposed to serve. And nothing in the Bible reads \"thou shalt not accept money from gay men to help the needy children.\"\n\nI'm betting they wouldn't have thought twice about accepting money from a divorcee group.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cIt\u2019s been very clear that Pope Francis himself is wanting to directly experience what racial and economic exclusion [is], how that has been experienced by marginalized groups of people around the world. And not only how they experienced, but how they are organizing to address it and to overcome it,\u201d he told NCR.\n\nYou must be kidding! PF has done nothing but confirm the exclusion of women and gay men from the clerical profession of the church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't tolerate gays, I just accept them as I would other people. To me they are one in the same. As for religious people - I try to avoid them because it usually ends in arguments over their intolerance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Seems a bit early for a gay pride parade?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay men are not pedofiles but if you're a man who preys on boys, you're gay and a pedofile.\n\nThe gay community can try to argue otherwise but that is the way it is.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The question should be is our military stronger or weaker with transgender recruits. I vote weaker.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So you are saying that married gays are on the same level as mafiosi. I would say that there is a difference in kind, not degree, between a person in a same-sex marriage and a mafioso. Gays do not harm others, the mafia does.\n\nNo, R&R, once again, your fear and loathing of homosexuals is on full display. And to claim that your homophobia -- and that is the correct term -- is based in your religion is a perversion of the Catholic faith.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nothing in public discourse is as bullying as calling another a racist when he is not a racist, or a homophobe when he does not hate gays. Yet it is UBIQUITOUS. One dare not speak against gay marriage or gay conduct without being told he that he hates those who engage in that conduct.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why don't you ask your buddy Fred? He wrote the very first comment about \"gay sex and male genitalia.\" I just assumed you two are an item.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You seem to be contradicting yourself. On the one hand, you state that the \"scandal which is given to the church by sexually active priests (gay or straight) is devastating .... and clearly neither gay nor straight clergy have a monopoly in this field.\" Then, you say that the bar is reasonable, because it limits \"opportunities for scandal\", thereby implying that openly gay priests are more likely to give scandal. The latter suggestion is highly offensive and quite frankly, untrue.\nI would suggest that they simply bar males from the priesthood, since it has been shown that it was males who have abused children and who have caused scandal through their sexual dalliances.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Don't get too carried away, Kearon, with your radical assumptions. Apparently there's reports that the shooter was GAY. Sooooo, it happens to be a shooter was a wannabe gay individual and couldn't fit in with the gay crowd. Sounds like too much is being emphasized on him being Muslim with Afghanistan ancestral roots. Heck, Kearon, with all the radical, over the cliff comments that you've singlehandedly made on this site, you should be investigated. I'll bet KK is an alias. Really.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "His compulsive need for attention, any attention, does suggest someone who has already been run over too many times. But the self-hating gay man who takes his rage out on women is a meme I can't abide.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"In the wake of Donald Trump\u2019s election, the news is flooded with reports of abuse, assault, and harassment, largely of minorities, by jubilant Trump supporters celebrating the ascent of their candidate, a candidate who campaigned by appealing to white heterosexual Christian supremacy. \n\nOver the past 48 hours, women have been assaulted for wearing the hijab, property has been defaced with swastikas, LGBT Americans have been threatened, and African Americans have experienced election result-specific harassment by fellow Americans touting the election of Donald Trump as the dawn of a new America, apparently one where they consider that the ugliest of racial and social animus to have the seal of presidential approval.\"\n\nWhy hasn't Trump denounced this behavior? For that matter, why haven't his supporters? Oh, right: They're the ines doing it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well if gay members (or others who are Prideful) cannot represent their employer like the TPS then maybe all employer groups and companies should be excluded......no banks, fire departments, air lines, no Kinsmen or Lions.... you get the drift. Frankly BLM, as a social action and anti-violence movement, should be more concerned about black on black violence as their number one priority.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with Rush Limbaugh. What happens when they find the gay gene and we can edit it out in the future. An interesting thought experiment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Many country have, mixed gender bathrooms, and they have no problems with it.\nIn the not so distant future, it will be normal for both genders to use the changing room and showers together. So until we reach that time, transgender people will have to decide what gender they wish to be. And then have a sex change surgery, if they do not have the surgery then they are just weired and perverted.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't consider the Washington Post to be a reliable source for any information. No need to read anything in that rag. What I wrote is not a diatribe. Nothing at all bitter about my answer. Haven't attacked anyone. Just rebutted your responses. And I am not homophobic. I am definitely not \"afraid\" of homosexuals. Just very sad for them for being so terribly misled.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And how is fellatio ANTI-homosexual? Looked at another way it means Trump is gay friendly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Make America Gay Again\"? When were we ever a gay nation?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Where are the good Republicans standing up for sanity, decency and justice? Does such a creature even exist?\n\nAnd when Trump appoints his new Supreme Court judge - a virulently anti gay bigot and founder of the \"Fascism Forever\" club at his private Christian graduate school - you can guarantee that decades of social progress in the US will be reversed at the stroke of a pen.\n\nNext week, I have a group of US clients visiting. Two are American born Muslims, two are gay, four are Christian Quakers, two are Mormons (one a bishop) and the other two are atheists. They all work closely together for the same company, and have done for years. They are Democrats and Republicans. And they all get along together wonderfully.\n\nWhy even mention this? Because it shows that real Americans are not bigoted bullies but decent caring people. Donald Trump is an aberration, a festering boil on the backside of American politics. He does not represent anyone other than than those who are just like him.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And you are a lesbian. woo hoo", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If this actually happened it's a crime and should be reported as such, complete with a description of the perps, the location, etc.---Was this done? \n\nAs far as gay hispanic republicans for Trump---Hey, whatever floats your boat. The whole piece kind of pegged my BS meter though, and I'm inclined to doubt it. On the very small chance that it's true, there should be a police report to back it up somewhere. Otherwise, it seems like a cheap political hack job, frankly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"This isn't an issue of celibacy, Pandora. Nor is it an issue of homosexuality.\"\n\nThe issue is both, but especially the latter, which is so obvious that even the most casual observer can see it instantly. And the more one looks, the clearer it gets, until the reality just screams in your face.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "ummmm no\n\nTo find the hate for homosexuals, minorities ( infidels), women you need to visit a mosque.\n\nMerry Christmas", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Tolerance as long as you are not a woman, or gay, or non-Muslim (I am sure they are welcoming to non-Muslims in Canada, but Christians are persecuted in Muslim countries).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Not. The relevant data do not back up your claim here. Plus, the Catholic church has plenty of non-offending (so far) gay clergy. And the \"rule\" prohibiting gay clergy is, de facto, unenforceable!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When will someone cast a \"spotlight\" on the sexual abuse of young teenage boys in Hollywood? Odds on it's the next breaking scandal. And how disappointing for the \"gay rights\" lobby that Spacey declared himself to be a homosexual at the same me as a child abusing pederast.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The fact that Napa moved from CUA to Trump Tower tells you all you need to know. Busch does not understand liberty. We don\u2019t vote on it, we recognize it, which we did for gay marrieds. The right to marriage existed, it was not created by the SCOTUS, which came to the game late. They could have simply let the lower court cases stand. Many of these rulings were from GOP appointees. As for abortion, Trump did what both Bushes and Reagan did. I doubt many overseas abortions were stopped by the usual action. Of course, this is about pandering to rich donors who help fire up the masses, not policy. Same with the Little Sisters case. It is already settled and Trump would be a fool to touch it. Of course, he is a fool.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"If you know anything about Chechnya, and know what the word \"jihad\" means, it was clear from the beginning. There is no whitewashing here. Islamic fundamentalism has a horrid take on sexuality.\"\n--------------\nI think that was his point. IF you know about Chechnya, and IF you know what jihad means, then it is clear. Otherwise, not so much. Being clear is saying the word \"Islam\" - which other religion systematically kills homosexuals?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I also find it disturbing that people think forced gay sex in prison is appropriate punishment.\nI think it says a lot of how they view homosexualtiy.\nFor example, I don't think I've ever noticed people online saying similar things about female inmates and male prison guards.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not gay - or black, or of a religious minority, or any other identifiable target group.\nBut I do think that the union is trying to stir up trouble.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They don't plot shoving millions into ovens at gay weddings or transgender conferences.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If he sexually assaulted a 14 year old, he is a pedophile. He also admitted he is gay. So he is both. But they are two separate things.\n\nI am not going to try to convince you about the research. It is out there for you to peruse. If you refuse to accept it, that is your own, erroneous choice, But do you deny that the priesthood has long been a place that has a much, much higher percentage of gays than the general population?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What a hypocrite.\nKenny, a 49 year old bachelor, when asked about his own sexual persuasion, has replied that he doesn't discuss his private life with journalists.\nhttp://www.canadalandshow.com/kd-lang-asks-jason-kenney-if-hes-gay/\nSo, it's monstrously unfair of him to breach the privacy of teens by recommending parents be told their kids have joined a gay-straight alliance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How would anyone know that 98% go unreported if they're unreported? Has to be the stupidest thing I've read in a while. I'm no fan of gays lifestyle but it's there choice and It's really none of my business. I'm pretty sure that is the sentiment of the majority of people in Canada these days. I sit and wonder why they need extra rights, special parades, etc. Then I come to he conclusion that they just want attention. My young child expects special treatment and to be the centre of attention in the same manner. Throws hissy fits when it doesn't go there way. This is the new norm of social justice when in reality the general public could give 2 damns about your life. It is estimated that 98% of people will agree with me but it will go unannounced. Lol", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Good. Because your mandatory belief system scares me. I am wondering when you and your cohorts are coming over to take my head off because I do not believe the way you want me to believe. BTW where is your empathy for the baker? Also, who is telling gays they have to get out of town?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "GC: Sorry, you are just running scared. The Professional Plaintiffs like linda hamilton, have you living in FEAR. I have rentals and I have a NO policy on dogs, cats, lizards, snakes, chickens, whatever. I have had people provide a side insurance policy covering any damages from animals and this works fine. Also, a NO policy on Homosexuals, Cigarette smokers, POT HEADS, DRUGGIES, Lesbians, she/he's, he/she's, Trans-mutilated, poor credit, criminal record. I only rent to MARRIED heterosexual BLACK, WHITE, MEXICAN, people of other colors, Elderly, who qualify. I have never been sued and I rarely have a vacancy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So they want coverage so a man can implant his sperm into another man?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "More reason not to send your children to a faux Jesuit university: Gay students at Georgetown, not content to have a gay pride group on a supposedly Catholic campus, now say other students have to pay a price for opposing gay marriage.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Here we go again, endlessly on celibacy! I am committing at least a venial sin to comment.\nFortunately, there is a YUGE number of gay priests than others wise, so the number of priest children will be on the low end. TY, Jesus! \nFor an institution that touts family it is just a marketing promo.\nRCs have lived with cognitive dissonance in knowing many priests had wives and children and compliantly acquiesced to \"don't ask, don't tell\". Folks understood human need not to be alone even if the hierarchy didn't believe the Genesis revelation. And with a monogamous relationship, less chance father would be a sexual predator. Meanwhile in South Sudan ...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Glenn, the Human Rights tribunal decisions you're talking about obviously didn't involve issues like 'cultural appropriation' They never have. \n\nHowever, they have involved (for instance) white supremacists who advocated the wholesale extermination of homosexuals and \"r**ards,\" among other groups of people. That one also called for global genocide of Jews and other non-Whites. That's slightly more than 'hurt feelings' perpetrated by truly dreadful people.\n\nI'm sure you're against that ... aren't you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That's a lot of words. \n\nTL;DR version: I'm afraid my child will catch The Gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Careful there, Kurgan, you might be calling for the elimination of homosexual priests from the Church.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The fact that you need to consult a web site in order to locate those measly 200 or so gay-friendly parishes out of a total of 17,651 Catholic parishes in the United States is a statement in and of itself. I'll say no more.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Surprising to hear this from Benedict, i.e., the Pope. Benedict is still alive and pontificating. The Devil infiltrated the Church in the 1960s, the priesthood is dominated by homosexuals, and the false Pope is destroying the Church from within. So sad.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Liberal priorities:\n\n-omnibus bill that hides a government slush fund masquerading as an infrastructure bank within the budget\n\n-a bill that ensures terrorists keep their Canadian citizenship \n\n-transgender bathrooms\n\n-creating a committee to ensure CSIS is handcuffed and can not react in an appropriate and timely manner to terrorist threats \n\n-sanitize the national anthem to suit the politically correct agenda of the left\n\nAre these items aligned with the priorities of average Canadians?\n\nLiberals are, as always, a world removed from the day to day concerns of normal everyday people. \n\nShameful.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The world must stand United in fighting all forms of Trumpism which leads to Islamphobia, racism, anti-semitism and disgracing the transgender community.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Whs, transgenders have \u201cgender dysphoria,\u201d formerly known as \u201cgender identity disorder.\u201d It is classified as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. Gender dysphoria causes severe distress, anxiety, and depression which are disqualifications for military service. It borders on insanity to allow a class of people with mental disorders to join the military to be all inclusive or politically correct as the Obama policy seems to have been.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Imagine a U.S. where the law allowed exceptions for every religious tenet. The Bible says that homosexuals should be killed. Do you think lawmakers should be consulting the Bible (or the Koran) before they pass laws? The U.S. is not a theocracy. However, the Islamic State is. Maybe this baker should seek to live with them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Howard Stern faced numerous FCC complaints during the Clinton and Obama administrations over things as silly as using a male body part to play the piano with. On the radio.\n\nTo say this complaint is politically motivated, is absurd in the extreme. It was very offensive to the gay community.\n\nFor an example on just how deep the silliness gets ...here in Canada...\n\nStar Trek inspired licence plate deemed offensive in Manitoba - ctvnews.ca\n\nBut Troller got a phone call Wednesday from someone at Manitoba Public Insurance, who he says told him two people had complained that the word \u201cassimilate\u201d is offensive to indigenous people.\n\nMuslim jokes are offensive to Muslims, that's why Justin is working on M-103. Gay jokes are offensive to gays and obscure words connected to a star trek episode are offensive to natives.\n\nThis is the world the \"progressive\" left would have us live in. \n\nNow back to youtube videos of left wingers violently assaulting Trump supporters.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "RD is trying very hard to justify his support of discrimination. Of course, if one says that the station of blacks is to be subordinate to whites, then the Jim Crow laws are perfectly justified.\n\nSo just what is the \"duties\" of gays, RD?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It\u2019s easy to get caught up in the deeply flawed character of Donald Trump. We also need to recognize the policy catastrophe of this presidency.\nThis past week Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shielded around 800,000 young undocumented immigrants \u2013 often called Dreamers \u2013 from deportation under what\u2019s been known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.\nLook at other of Trump\u2019s recent policy decisions and you see the same arbitrary and unnecessary cruelty. What\u2019s the point of banning transgender people from military service? Of siding in court with a businessman who doesn\u2019t want to sell his services to gay couples? Of weakening the standard for responding to sexual violence in universities? Of banning Syrian refugees and reducing by half the number of refugees admitted to the United States?\nThere is no point, in terms of policy. None of these decisions makes America safer or economically stronger or fairer.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It has nothing to do with the specific issue.\n\nMy point is simply that Dunleavy was no victim here.\n\nHe knew this would happen.\n\nIf you're part of a legislative leadership and you vote against the leadership's position, you're going to be removed from that leadership if you don't voluntarily resign from it. That's just how it works.\n\nMy characterization of Dunleavy as a reactionary is based on his medieval views on sex education-especially his delusional insistence that schools shouldn't teach anything to teens about sex OTHER than not to have it until your married if you're straight and to live your life as a lie or in hiding if you're gay) and access to contraception, his support for cuts in social benefits and environmental protection laws, and his support for the massive giveaway to the oil industry that created the current state budget crisis, not his position on this specific issue.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yep, the institutional Church has shown its loathing of gays by calling them \"intrinsically disordered\" and by firing civilly married gays. They have re-written \"You shall love your neighbor as yourself\" with the addendum \"unless he or she is LGBT, in which case you should hate and fear them\".\n\nI suspect you don't actually know any married gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The only men who support Tina Brown's gender feminism are eunuchs, beta males, or deeply closeted homosexuals who think the crocodile will eat them last. If you have a son, put him first - instead of worrying about what your transient girlfriend thinks. You do realize that North American Caucasian females are a dwindling part of the global population, right?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That\u2019s Canada\u2019s PM, the big muddler. But boy, does he bear a striking image at a gay pride parade.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Says the greatest homophobic poster...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So in this case, \"compromise\" means liberty for the baker, not for the customer. In other words, as I said, liberty for me, not for thee.\n\nGiven that the baker's idea of \"religious liberty\" means \"the liberty to discriminate against gays\"; I would say that the Christian religion, which does NOT say \"love your neighbor, unless that neighbor is LGBT\", would call on him to serve the customer.\n\nI believe that to practice arbitrary discrimination is a far greater sin than being homosexual. I see no difference whatsoever between a baker who would not bake for blacks and one who would not bake for gays. Both are perverting the Christian religion by claiming that their \"religious liberty\" would be damaged by doing so. Both bakers are bigots, \"justifying\" their bigotry in the name of religion.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not sure it's a shame if there was that much hate in their heart that they could not bake a cake for gay people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Will he defend the transgender bathroom guidance that Obama issued for public educational institutions? He said during the campaign anybody should be able to use whatever bathroom they wanted, so one would think he would defend this in court.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do we have a summary by High School as to how many gay, lesbian, heterosexual, bi-sexual and transgendered students are graduating in our area this year? Or how many are still in high school and will need to be appropriately supported? \n\nIf we are going to properly prepare our educational system for the future, we need to know the numbers so we can properly allocate resources based on need, rather than anecdotal stories such as this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Huh. Good point. My first reaction was, \"Yeah, it is different.\" But then I got to thinking... and I tried it. Which went kind of like this: \"I'm an American\" - check. \"I'm a Christian\" - check. \"I'm a transgender... American;\" or \"... Christian...\" - it doesn't work\n\nIt's true that language evolves over time, and maybe someday I'll get there. But right now, for me - yeah, it is different.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have known at least one homosexual priest who did present problems, but heterosexuals are not problem-free (is anyone while we live?). On the other hand I have also known priests who admit to homosexual orientation but seem not to have been \"active\" (again parallels with heterosexuals) and showed a higher than average sensitivity to marginalised people, a dedication to helping them and better than the verage priest's ability to \"relate with both men and women\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, it's saying that homosexuals are \"intrinsically disordered\". I know, you will say it is \"the homosexual tendency\" that is disordered. However, the way it is interpreted is that homosexuals, not the amorphous \"tendency\", are the disordered ones.\n\nThat should be stricken from the teaching, and apologized for.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ephebophilia is the primary interest in adolescents aged 15 - 19, not to children at the pubescent age. You realize that most men, gay or straight, find individuals attractive in this age range and that it is not a \"deviation related to homosexuality.\" It's simply that straight men get a pass and they've learned not to let it slip that they really dig the wife's 16-year-old sister.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The cannabis legally sold in Alaska is grown here, and inspected here. It does not cross state lines. It is not the business of federal government. The Republican Party is the small-government party. The states rights party. Somehow this is relentlessly thrown out the window with issues like gay marriage and legal cannabis. Using government to control people and ban disliked behavior is for Democrat Party liberals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus criticized divorces where one partner was forced to \"marry up\" by their family in order to increase their social status. This has nothing to do with getting out of a bad marriage and finding love again - or gay marriage. Indeed, the scripture affirms the latter by putting the couple's rights over the family of origin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A gun show at the county fairgrounds sends the wrong message? What about a car show? Cars kill more people than guns. Cars often put people into unnecessary debt when they buy that BMW instead of Toyota, for example, and some would argue that cars are partly responsible for global warming. And don't even get me started about the bridal show. Talk about putting people into debt. And is that show sensitive to homosexuals and transsexuals? What about the fair itself and all those stinky animals trapped in inhumane cages and often raised for meat, which contributes to our obesity crisis? Has Tony thought this through? Has Tony thought anything through?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Episcopal Church is dying and is schism in the United States. The two reasons given for the decline are the ordination of women and the blessing of same sex marriage, In my area, there is one Episcopal church for three towns. In my own parish, a gay man, a former member of the Episcopal church made his profession of faith and is now a Catholic. I wonder how many of the 67 percent you quote are practicing Catholics or are Catholics by baptism and have not entered a church in years?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why exactly do you think Taft being married with kids means he isn't bisexual?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree that some sex abusers are married but that does not mean that those who get no sex at all will not be inclined to abuse women and children more than if they were in a committed relationship with women or if they are gay, with men. Men do tend to be promiscuous, unfortunately. I still maintain, that no sexual abuse should occur among clergy once they have committed themselves to celibacy in the name of Jesus, who by the way, did not require that of his followers. You are absolutely right that there is a misogyny problem among the clergy and Fundamentalist and Evangelical Christians who seek to control society by controlling women's reproductive lives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The need of the few to pretend in public that they are not gay, forcing everyone else to follow their lead?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "An acquaintance, now gone, was a nurse to a brief Campeau hospitalization in the late '60's. She reported that Bob insisted that his minions confirm that Pierre Trudeau wasn't a homosexual before he would agree to meet with Trudeau or donate to his campaigns. \nI always thought his constructions were mediocre at best, his business practices duplicitous, and his reach consistently exceeded his grasp. Among Canadian business entrepreneurs, it seems to me that only the Reichmanns (Olympia and York) exhibited hubris on a scale exceeding Campeau. Just guessing, but I expect it was trying to compete in the Reichmann's league that led to Bob's comeuppance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps the reason we don't learn is because history is no longer really taught in schools. The students need to learn about diversity, inclusion and transgender issues. History is relegated to... well, history. Speaking of history, your statement is false. Hitler did not promise to clean up during the Great Depression, since he wasn't in power at the time. Close but historically incorrect. He might have used the Great Depression in his favor though.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Chong would have lost them a lot of Conservative votes.\" \nWith all due respect, that's a bit absurd. Where would those Conservative votes go? Would they go to the Liberals, the NDP, or the Greens? The reality is that if the CPC ever wants to be in government again, the party is going to have to move back to the centre. If Scheer pursues a So-Con agenda that includes turning back the clock on gay marriage or abortion, he'll be buying the party a one-way ticket to oblivion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm gay and I stand with Stephen.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LFS, I can't get your link to work. A gay UN ambassador represents diversity, indeed. The RNC chairperson is elected by voting members of the party from a field of candidates, and I didn't know that any candidate specially nominated by the president is typically chosen. The electors are a small elite group, and I don't know how they are chosen. At this time, the transition seems to be in turmoil, but that's separate from choosing cabinet officers, so I'll wait and see. I read that former NY Mayor Rudi Giuliani is on the short list for SecState, and I'm pretty sure that he has the experience to run that very large department. However, I don't like his temperament. However, it is 66 days to the inauguration, Friday, Jan 20. Plenty of time to see how this administration shapes up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To say that anyone of authority in the Church is \"calling gays intrinsically disordered\" is to lie and to play games with the meaning of the word \"disordered\" in the context. This has been corrected over and over. Why do you persist in this?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "jane...none of those people were Harvard educated Presidents...they are members of the community, living and working and succeeding within the local community of their neighbours..white, black, Asian, gay, straight, male, female, Christian, non-Christian, born here, not born here...it's repeated thousands of times throughout the nation\n\nwhat the proponents of white privilege can't stand, is that all of those people, as diverse as they are, living within the same proximity as their neighbours and appreciated by a wide diversity of identifications, didn't need their help and neither do they appreciate being spoken to as though they are children....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed. I personally wouldn\u2019t enter into that type of marriage, but as long as they are adults and it is consensual, how is this any different than gay marriage?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, you dont see any comparison in republicans opposing the NFL because some players wont stand for the national anthem, with democrats opposing places like Chic-fil-A because of their CEOs stance on gay marriage? Personally, I think its fine for people to protest both for whatever personal reasons they have. I just find it amusing that you dont see the similarities because you feel your \"protest\" is more just than the other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay Pride consists of a series of floats affirming the celebration of LGBT people by business; financial institutions; government; churches; unions; police; military; schools; entrepreneurs . . . and, of course, LGBT organizations themselves. Several hundred floats make up the largest parades like the one in Toronto. The people who appear on the floats could be LGBT or could be their straight supporters. \n\nThe \"gay paraders\" as you call them could be anybody from the Canadian prime minister to TD Bank employees to somebody in a gay chorus. The particular motivation for participating depends on the individual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would encourage your parish to stop using the term \"gay\" and use \"same-sex attracted,\" and preferably referring to it as a condition or challenge.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Although I do support transgender athletes fully and the right of a person to be able to identify as the gender that they feel like they are meant to be. I disagree with crossovers in competitive sports where scholarships and titles are on the line. With all the progesterone and estrogen injections a male can take or visa versa you can never truly convert to the opposite sex on a physiological level. I know I am likely to receive harsh feed back but it actually isn't fair. You cannot become truly equal to the gender that you identify with because your skeletal, muscular and psychological development cannot be augmented. So please go out and challenge yourself in intramural sports but you cannot take away records or achievements made by a female by birth or a male by birth. You'll need to make another category.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I never understood the need for hate crimes. \n\nBut please tell me more about the right's fight for transgender equality...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lee Mayhan, a lot of vague statements but I am basically talking about the faith and belief of Islamic Koran that controls the lives of most Muslims here and every place else. Islam is a theocracy at its base level and teaching of the Koran is considered to be the foremost of that faith. Do you disagree with me on that? You think like a Christian and many Christians' belief are based on their comfort zone. Muslims who claims to be Muslims. don't think that way at all. Despite of their public words, their belief in their faith is strong and that could be a call for admiration. Koran really do considered homosexuals to be blasphemous toward Allah. You can't deny that so why are we debating this issue?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Considering reading about it. He is a transgender man. Yes he went through puberty with female hormones. \n\nAnd the idea that Jillian \"had the advantages in development\" is an assumption you're making -- one that isn't backed by the data (which supports Bearden.) There are other studies out there which agree that, no, she doesn't have an unfair advantage. \n\nAnother thing you should know is that trans women tend to have lower than normal T levels. Cisgender women naturally produce more testosterone than they do. Trans women's means for producing T are disabled or removed. \n\nIt's pretty telling that no one seems to care when a cisgender woman has higher than normal T level, which does occur naturally, but without any evidence of an advantage, it is assumed that a trans woman has an advantage and 3 times as much T as a cis woman. The T limit set by the IOC is actually for all women though, cis or trans. And many ciswomen are higher than average. But people would rather hate on trans women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think this points out the absurdity of the transgender issue today. We are making blanket policy, gender-free bathrooms, adding or changing restrooms across the country. There just aren't that many people who consider themselves to be transgender. It's quite uncommon and even for those who are transgendered, you probably don't know that about them when you meet them in public.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one cares what the enemy thinks of them. Are you trying to suggest that gay men would be more sensitive than any other minority soldier? And since we're on the topic of including irrelevant points - it was a gay man who won World War II for the allies by cracking the Enigma machine - Alan Turing. He also invented modern computing - which sadly gives a platform to the same prejudice that caused him to take his own life after the war.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am astounded to see anyone in the pages of the N\"C\"R defending a movie that glamorizes sexual predation on underage teens. Here's Mr. Winter's statement, from above: \"Actor James Woods castigates a movie that deals with a gay relationship between men of different ages, but the difference is minimal when compared to Woods' own romantic escapades.\"\n\nThe relationship -- according to the HuffPost article to which Mr. Winters linked -- is between a man of 24, and a boy of 17. Any other circumstances, and N\"C\"R calls that predatory behavior.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, would you be for banning speech that promotes family values if there is any insinuation against gay people. Is it hate speech, and who decides when it rises to the level of censorship?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It seems that it's okay for a couple to walk into an estalishment and ask for service, so long as they cannot be profiled as persons living in a way contrary to the shopkeeper's personal beliefs. So divorced couples get a pass because they cannot visibly be profiled as such. \n\nThis is a pernicious infringement on people's civil liberties. In the sad old days of laws banning miscegenation, many people \"passing\" for white were not denied their civil rights. Only those who could be profiled from their appearance or their speech or outright admission were subject to such vile constraints as denial of the right to marry, or even to sit at a cafe counter. \n\nSimilarly, gay persons, evidently so from their demeanor or outright admission, should no more be denied their civil rights and treatment equal to all other law-abiding citizens , than those who are evidently in a mixed-race relationship. \n\nThis is applying profiling, exactly analogous to such as upheld segregation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For anyone who wants to help the transgender community fight intolerance, here's a GoFundMe campaign for an awesome nonprofit fighting the good fight:\n\nhttps://www.gofundme.com/help-save-gender-justice-nevada", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Medicare covers colonoscopy screenings. Gay or not. Remember when President Reagan had a problem whilst in office? I got mine, results proved I was a \"typical man\". https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/colorectal-cancer-screenings.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Other than subjective \"testimony\", what is the evidence for this assertion? I find none in the scientific and medical literature I've reviewed that's based on any empirical or quantitative data. Until the existence of a 'gay' gene is empirically proved, as in located on the human genome and identified, such assertions are no less matters of belief and 'preference' than religious choices.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some sort of accommodation seems to be called for - but I stand on the side of caution. If we work from the premise that the Military is a fighting force, it becomes clearer. People going through the transgender process are conflicted before - and adapting afterwards. That conflict/adaptation process spans many years - through which they are NOT the best choice for the Military when compared with others that do not carry the burdon. All that said, it makes sense that there is a limit - perhaps 5-10 years after transformation one could be eligible to join the Military. Just spitballing here but there IS an issue and let's deal with it. Our Military needs the best it can recruit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's already been shown that transgendered people have a very high suicide rate. Add that to the already high rate of suicide rates of veterans coming back from the combat zones tell me why having them in the military is a good idea?\n\nMoreover, there's no time in the field for them to take time off to find themselves. They will be a liability to thier fellow soldiers and place others around them in danger.\n\nWho are you liberals and Democrats doing the right thing for? The enemy or our people serving? Serving in our military is a privilege, not a right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Nobody's complaining that he's coming out.\"\nSome of them are. According to the article, they think he's saying being gay is a choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can you suggest a scenario where this law might be exploited? Seems to me all the fuss seems to be about people who don't accept that people can be transgender. And what is happening in our H.R. kangaroo courts that you object to? Please be specific.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, both gay and straight people are looking for lust at 2am in the bars. \n\nSex outside and inside of marriage is lustful. It becomes more intimate and communicative in marriage, but that is because the partners are more intimate and communicative from being married, not because sex is no longer an expression of lust.\n\n(what's the topic here again?)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, you are quite right, science has found no proof of a homosexual gene.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gee Wavemaker, next thing we know, you will be telling us that the earth is flat, we never landed on the moon, Elvis is the new Madonna (he is a transgender, right?) and there is this cow that keep jumping over the moon. Although we never met, I can probably figure out that the person running down the streets screaming that Imperial Stormtroopers are here to arrest you....that would be you, eh?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh Geraldine, would that the Founding Fathers had conceived of such a group as \"business owners\" and understood their need for protection!\n\nCivil rights protect IMMUTABLE characteristics. Choosing to become a business owner is the choice to accept public accommodation. You can't choose to be black. You can't choose to be female. But you have all the choice in the world whether you wish to engage in the grubbiness of public commerce. \n\n(What an insult to those who have suffered -- even died -- for the right to worship according to their own conscience to sully their memory with some cockamamie insistence that worshiping Mammon is worshiping God! Blasphemy.)\n\nBTW - there is no \"gay wedding cake\" anything. There's just a wedding cake. Mr. Phillips has a right to withhold \"expressive intent\" (that's inherently a very narrow matter) but he cannot just refuse to sell wedding cakes to whole classes of people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As usual (by the current legislation) this law is of weak constitutional power and will most likely be withdrawn by the supreme court.\nBut at least they voted on gay marriage the same day and the headlines are guaranteed for that instead of the censoring of free speech.\nWell done Ms. Merkel.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just came over after reading an article about the #Takeaknee controversy. If JK manages to push his proposal through, maybe entire schools, in a show of unity, would all sign up for the Gay-Straight Alliance. After all, they all qualify as one or another.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder what the transgender advocates will say when it's an athlete that was born male competing against teen girls. That would present an obvious unfair advantage as males are typically stronger. I don't think the boys will object to competing against a girl that wants to be a boy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Every men/women/trans have a right to make money saying whatever ideological/political position they're espousing. Their relevance is afforded by the number of people willing to listen. Obviously, there are millions willing to listen to him and thus make him a multi millionaire with the amount the network is willing to pay him. It doesn't matter if his position don't appeal to a certain segment of the population. This is a land of opportunities and he's making full use of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gergiev is a superb conductor. His video of the Brahms Requiem is a wonderful thing. So far as I know he has not persecuted anyone for their sexual behaviour, and he has made some excellent Tchaikovsky recordings. (Tchaikovsky was very probably gay.) \n\nAre his views about the laws concerning gay sex perfectly satisfactory? Maybe not. Neither are the Pope's. Just a few short years ago, Obama was against allowing gays to adopt children. So let's not start a little inquisition.\n\nI suspect that a lot of the folk sounding off care little for music but enjoy expressing moral indignation. If the conductor's political views trouble you, stay home. But barring extreme cases we shouldn't vet musicians for having correct moral or political views. \n\nThis seems like another case of people who prefer moralizing to critical appreciation. Being a really good critic of literature or music is very hard. Moralizing about the artist is much easier.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why doesn't the Gay Pride organizing committee ban all police presence? Wait, didn't a self-professed ISIS jihadi recently kill 49 people at a gay bar in Orlando? Scratch that idea.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, once a person has come to grips with being transgender, they're through the rough part mentally. I'd share my foxhole with such a person. (Yes, I served 67-70.) I'd be more concerned about someone having a love affair with The Bottle (knew several in 'Nam). Or with those still \"in the closet\" about their sexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Great point. Tesa Ann, what about gay taxi or uber drivers? Gay cops or firefighters?\nYou like movies?\nWhat about gay doctors? They look at you naked. You might read a newspaper article written by gay journalists. \nYour very own holy leaders might wear a thong. \nYou will never really know, or can you tell just by looking at 'em?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If he puts a bride and a groom on the cake, he must put a groom and a groom or a bride and a bride on it.\nThe law says to treat people in protected classes the same.\n\nEvery person in America is a member of at least three protected classes. \n\nThe baker has made many custom cakes for gay weddings, he just did not know. He is only offended when he knows it is for a gay wedding. He is acting like a child.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Have you not read the democrat party platform recently? Do you deny that they give full throat support--if not celebration and praise--to the leftist sacraments of infanticide and homosexual marriage? It's not JFK's party anymore. BTW, its none of them \"is\", not none of them \"are\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have been here since 1978. Alaska has been a non-stop social experiment when it comes to creating the diversity of this state we share today. There was a doctor at a hospital I worked at in a small community in Alaska back in 1980 who transgendered to a great looking, classy female. Some jaws dropped upon her arrival. But she was brilliant, a joy to work with and her patients loved her. She went out in the community for our pot lucks and was the first to step up and donate money for fundraisers to help people in our community with loss's and medical bills. The \"manly\" males in the community treated her with respect for the type of person she was. The LBGT community is not new to Alaska.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, what does all that have to do with transgender?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump only success is the further division of our country. Essentially he is saying you gays, lesbians and transgenders don't belong. Once again he just spouts out a directive without notifying anyone, including the Secretarty of Defense (Jim Mattis). NO coordination. NO Planning. What a great leader you have empowered.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fr Hall supported civil gay marriage. The fact you participate in annulment proceedings that require a civil divorce states you support civil divorce as a prerequisite for an annulment. I fail to see the difference.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Correct! Remember when the USCCB issued a letter on homosexuality and never had a single gay person provide their perspective?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I honestly don't think so. The anti gay Christian groups [there are many Christians & churches who welcome gays] fought civil unions which would have given gays many protections without marriage. That tells you their problem with gays is not marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your view is that the hundreds of priests who molested boys....were all straight men with no homosexual inclinations?\n\nTry selling that on ebay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The columnist says that \"as a lesbian, a new parent and a woman with a broken ankle, I was a somewhat textbook diversity hire.\" \nBut what if you are not a \"textbook diversity hire\"? What if you are a well-qualified, straight white male who would be excellent at the job? Well, I guess you remain on the dole. \nIn fact, for every \"diversity hire,\" there will be some more deserving person who loses out, simply because he is not a member of a politically-approved \"diverse\" group. \nWorkplace \"diversity,\" a concept promoted relentlessly by misguided social-justice warriors, is just a cover for gender and racial discrimination. It's the kind of bigotry that has no place in a fair, modern, productive society. It's disgraceful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Put on a Gay Pride hat and wander through parts of many different towns in CO, and let me know how that goes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can't you read? My comment began by citing the reasons Trump voters voted for him. But if you want to discuss Trump's own personal stance on LGTB issues I'm happy to oblige. \n\nWhile Trump hasn't sounded quite as anti-gay as, say, Ted Cruz, he did say he wanted to overturn the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay civil marriage - hardly a gay positive stance. Even before he began assembling one of the most rabidly anti-gay cabinets ever he danced a little side-step before the election by saying some things that could be construed as gay-positive while simultaneously courting extreme anti-gay figures behind the scenes, giving them his assurance that he had their back. Naturally little if this made it into the news, but those of us with our ears to the ground were aware of what was going on. As with everything else about Trump, on gay issues he's a duplicitous fraud.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True.\n\nBut there is good news for them, too!\n\n\"CDC\u2019S December 2015 \u201cVITAL SIGNS\u201d estimated that 25 percent of sexually active gay and bisexual men, nearly 20 percent of adults who inject drugs, and less than one percent of heterosexually active adults are at substantial risk for HIV infection.\"\n\nAnd they are down to less than 40,000 diagnosed cases in 2015!\n\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/policies/cdc-hiv-2015-dhap-annual-report.pdf", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "On an unnecessary side note, the reason why the original scrolls, texts, and canons spoke against homosexuality (according to the current crop of theological scholars anyways) is an interesting tale. The initial intent (again, according to the scholars) was to discourage any sexual practice that did not result in reproduction as the jews (Israelites) were lower in numbers than their leaders wanted. The practice was further encouraged by the subsequent peoples who held the jews in slavery (more pregnancy = more slaves). Homosexuality was in the same banned catagory as masterbation and any other practices that did not result in a future child. Modern religious zealots who take precautions to avoid producing a pregnancy with each sexual encounter (condoms, etc) are breaking the same laws that ban homosexuality. Just a fun fact to consider.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Eventually they are going to have every letter in the alphabet because people losing their minds with political correctness. I am transgender and I cannot believe all the categories the professional activists are adding. It is getting way far out of control. The bathrooms bills are frankly a sign of mass psychosis and people better wake up soon. Check out my video on this subject if you like https://youtu.be/0AOTT--Lk9E or do not believe I am transgender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Conversion therapy is the moral and medical equivalent of blood letting. That's true regardless of one's beliefs about homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I'm sure you know that my post was serious; perhaps labeling it as unserious is your way of not dealing with it. My first point simply goes to the hypocrisy of persons who, on grounds of 'religious liberty', seek to restrict the liberty of other persons.\"\n\nYOU'RE not dealing with it. You assume there is a true liberty for two gays to marry. There isn't --- short of perverting the Constitution beyond recognition, which the Supreme Court did. Reasonable people can, and do, dispute the \"liberty\" of gay marriage. It does not seriously meet their argument to say, \"Then don't marry someone of the same sex.\" That doesn't meet their reasonable objection, which is that marriage has always meant the union of people of the opposite sex. If your post were serious, you would not have proposed as a solution something that doesn't resolve the objections one iota. And if you think your first \"solution\" was \"serious,\" you don't understand the objection.\n\n\"No-one\" is sloppy and non-standard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't have a desire for gays to disappear and whatever the police did years ago in bath houses was then, not now.\nAre there any laws left to be enacted to ensure your rights as an average citizen?\nIf you feel you've been discriminated against don't you have the same channels for redress as anyone else?\nWhat is happening to the gay community 2017 Canada that you still act as if you are oppressed and are fighting for your rights? It seems as if you would rather be victims than not.\nWhether you like it or not, the 'majority' have done all that needs to be done to eliminate impediments that prevent you from an equal shot at success. \nIf I'm missing something I don't know what's left.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Charles, thank you for a relationship that let Johnny finally take this step and writing about it. Johnny, thank you for all your work, your life lived in public service and to your new life open to the person you painfully hid. Coming out is a sweet and difficult passage. \n\nTo Don Clocksin, thank you for hiring Johnny. But I want to leave you with this story. It was some months ago in London, when I noticed two teenaged boys crossing the street in front of me in a pedestrian shopping mall. They were holding hands, chatting. As they walked, they passed mums pushing babes in prams, blokes and glamour girls with treasures. I stayed behind them, watching the world react to them. \n\nNo one batted an eyelid. They were happy, likely in love. I don't know. But I do know the joy that came over me to see what I saw -- to see what Gene and I gave so many years of lives fighting for made a difference. Who we are matters. You count as a gay person.\n\nBe well, and welcome to being you, friend.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As there is no proof of any kind - none - that transgender personnel management has enhanced national defense and your adolescent pejoratives undermine [not enhance] the argument. Military service is selective service\n\nMoral is degraded when: The ever-changing psychological emotions of a minority are elevated to, (and pitted against), functionally superior, sociologically established, biologically sound, scientifically proven majority.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unfortunately, there are also too many cases of gays who were fired that did keep their 'yaps' shut, or were promised their orientation would not be a problem, who later found out someone else spilled their beans or management changed and didn't honor any promises.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The argument isn't that it is only biology, but an interaction.\n\nFor example, feminists themselves often argue women are discouraged from workplaces that do not offer work-life balance, a more harmonious and cooperative atmosphere rather than a competitive one, etc..\n\nIs that nature, nurture, or both?\n\nIf transgendered people and gay people are so for \"natural\", biological reasons, why can't it be that some gender characteristics are distributed differently across genders as well?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "martha, it was your video link. i agree the baker can refuse service to anyone. go across the street and buy a cake. but, when that anti-gay baker is instrumental in getting laws passed forbidding other bakers to bake a cake for a gay couple, i disagree.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I do NOT see how you could be MORE Wrong: YOU stated, \" The idea that gays and lesbians get more protections than straights is laughable and an insecure point of view\". My God, look at the last 15+ years in Society. One can NOT even say, Homo, Ho, Lesi, Queer, ***********, Hersey Highway Hauler, Corn Hauler, Sore Tonger, Intestinal Intercourse, out in PUBLIC, without getting sued. And when it goes before a jury, these messed up people usually win because the jury feels sorry for them. There is all kinds of documentation they are afforded more protections then any other group of citizens in the US.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The pro life movement has no vision and never has had one (I was actually involved in my youth). Its leadership never understood its own era. All movements need inspiration to carry the difficult work forward. In societies that are evolving socially, like ours has been since the '60s, this comes in the form of expansive ideas like \"brown people are just like me,\" or \"gay couples are loving, just like us.\" With the abortion issue, no one was able to craft an idea like that. The outrage on behalf of unborn life had no audience. Sympathy, rightly so, lay solely with women because people could picture her and other women understood the experience. This doesn't mean human life has no value, only that the message failed. The best the movement could do right now would be to reduce abortions. Imprisonment of women who got abortions will only result in a backlash. Contraception is as much everyone's right as antibiotics. The clerics don't understand pregnancy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sad, but true.\nYou are correct.\nThe evidence all points to what you have stated.\nEven Pope Francis agrees with you: he said that gay men should not be ordained to the priesthood.\nBut the liberals here will engage in cognitive dissidence because they can't bear the truth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would add the GI Bill that paid for my Dad's education and allowed him buy a house. I would add public safety...police and fire. I would add add that we could have free and fair trade in an increasingly global economy, if people voted their values rather than their fear. The so called conservatives guns/God/gays of the GOP have allowed the few to manipulate the many...but we must face this fact, the earth is interconnected, our economic values provide hope, we must not try to wall ourselves in as this will only limit our ability to manage our affairs..hiding in the darkness is not they way to be safe...sorry. We are better together!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Being gay is not a \"condition\" any more than being left-handed or red-haired is. It's simply a normal fact of life that has been observed in every species of the animal kingdom. As Dorothy Parker put it, \"being straight isn't normal, it's just common.\"\n\nOh, by the way, here's a helpful hint: try using an English language spelling checker.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "His obsession with some puffed up version of \"masculinity\" and enthusiastic attacks on gay and trans people suggests he is overcompensating for his internal self-doubts.\n\nHe's the kind of guy who 5 years from now I wouldn't be surprised to see leaving his wife and running off with one of his \"proud boys\". (Although, sadly, he'd probably become a follower of the gay alt-right types like Jack Donovan or James O'Meara who wrap their misogyny and racism in some hyper-masculine vision of gay sexuality....)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't understand the progressive left not siding with the anti-sharia people on this. Sharia underscores everything the progressives believe in. Look at what's happening in sharia controlled countries, the killing of gays, mutilations of young girls, women not allowed to leave their homes without a male escort, etc. and yet the left is so filled with political hate they can't bring themselves to do the right thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your comment is spot on. The GOP under McConnell and the Freedom Caucus in the House is no longer about governing. They are nothing but ideological bullies who don't even represent the interests of the majority of their voters, much less their districts. \n\nI too was unpleasantly surprised by MSW's singling out Planned Parenthood and gay rights groups as the driving forces for the Dems. I suspect he's swallowed this particular GOP talking point hook line and sinker. (I'm assuming most people still fish in using that metaphor.) As you point out, that leaves out all the other 'agenda driven' groups the Dems have historically championed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good for VP Pence for not subscribing to the view that religious bakers and caterers and what have you should be forced to bake, cater, photograph or in any way take part in or support a homosexual ceremony of marriage.\n\nAs if anyone would shrivel up and die from taking their business elsewhere - and if it were a wise thing to force someone to bake you a cake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Same as w/ the transgender \"issue\". The military doesn't exist to fix society. The personnel that join are a reflection of the society at large.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, according to the Muslim holy book, Il Qur'an, and as religiously enforced (pun intended) in Saudi Arabia and around the Muslim world, \"alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution, adultery, and homosexuality\" are death penalty offenses. \nSo the people committing those offenses certainly wouldn't be doing that anymore, at least.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for clarifying the law breaking comment. As to the cake being a work of art, perhaps the court will see it the way you do. However, I am not so sure. When they role cakes out at weddings, they are designed to provide visual appeal, otherwise you would have a great big layer cake that serves the number of guests you have invited. There is a reason many are tall, multiple layer, have adornments and so forth. Clearly you have never watched the Food Network and their baking challenges, nor have you watched the show about Duff's cakes in Baltimore where they were tasked to make all sorts of unique cakes. And please, I do know the meaning of unique. We've had a decent discussion, no need to be condescending. Hamburgers are not works of art, some cakes are considered to be. And you are right, he probably has made cakes for gays. However he is not being a baby. He is actually following his faith.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Will Gay you indicate Clinton made the outrageous sale of 25% of the strategic uranium to Russia. Your letter is factually incorrect in many aspects. The sale was for 20% of the production of a Canadian companies production at a mine in Wyoming. Not a sale of 25% of the uranium reserves of the US. The sale was recommended by eight members of the CFIUS committee. Clinton did not participate in that decision. The uranium was not and can not be sent to Russia. Your missinformation was easy to dispute as there are lots of reports available on the web giving factual not imaginary accounts of the transaction. \nThe issues at hand today are current ones, not from the past. The investigations of the 2016 election are what Congress and the various agencies are looking at. These will not get bogged down in some obscure reasons to avoid the facts by pointing to an unrelated accusations of the past. The finding will be on what transpired. The facts will review who did what.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The death penalty for being gay is in 10 countries ...... all of which are muslim majority. Russia is a politically correct target, so politicians and the MSM feel comfortable criticizing. The criticism may be completely valid, but it is a good example of selective outrage and political correctness going too far.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This panel is sweet. The world will be better for these angelic parents--really. They should be on TV. Our house is different. We all believe deeply in accepting, respecting, and even loving everyone, including people who are transgender and gender queer--even if they are Trump supporters. We will all go to the mat for people's rights and dignity here. We are also--apparently--a little different from the other families on the panel. We hotly debate transgender science. We debate the ways in which being gender queer is a matter of choice, performance, biology, and so on. We argue at length over which parts of social change on these issues should come through distributed democratic processes and which should be forced by the federal government--and what the criteria and values are for making these decisions. We tend to cringe when teachers and governments start messing with the sexual self-understanding of children, and we also tend to cringe when we see ignorant prejudice anywhere.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The rationale I'm reading from this author and commenters is truly astounding. \n\nGays and blacks feel the need to protest their historically documented abusive and non-constitutional treatment at the hands of police. That is their democratic and constitutionally protected right.\n\nAnd these commenters are saying, they have no right to protest, and police should now react with retribution by violating their oath to the constitution...again....by withholding policing services, for being excluded from the parade in protest against this protest move.\n\nAll police have to do is, acknowledge their on-going legacy in this regard, apologize for their violations of the constitution, make retribution, and present a go -forward plan to drop the bigotry against gays, blacks and women. \n\nIt's simple really...do the job you're to do as a public servant in the first place.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A man with muscles and a beard will not use a woman's restroom. Transgender to females do not use woman's restroom until they appear to be \"female\". The last thing they want is public attention. I have used woman's restrooms and being a master swimmer, many female locker rooms. I see who uses the facilities. The most threats to me in a female bathroom? Some of the most disgusting toilet facilities on the planet are public restrooms. Some so bad even is supposed \"nice\" places I take one peak in the door and will not use them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You guys missed reviewing Stag, only the finest all-make review club in Portland. There's several reasons why they attracted the best male dancers in Portland. Check it out... It's great fun for everyone, straight OR gay! \ud83d\ude1c", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, you can say what you wish but you were wrong. Conversion therapy refers to trying to \"cure\" homosexuality and it is a pseudoscience. Gender reassignment therapy/surgery is not. The only real controversial part of it in medicine and science is what to do with children and the practice of hormone blocking, and there is actually open discourse on this very topic.\n\nThere is no real controversy with consenting adults. You can not like it, but your views should not have a negative impact on those for whom this is a very real life issue to deal with.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Why did you vote for Trump?\" Apparently the answer is \"abortion and all things abortion related.\" OK, I get it. You don't like abortion. Are there other things you don't like, things your Catholic conscience simply cannot support? Sure there must be something. \n\n\"The mainstream media, including progressive Catholics, think we are \u2014 like President-elect Trump \u2014 intolerant, racist, and misogynistic.\" I'm not that interested in what others think. What do you think? If you vote for a racist are you racist? If you vote for a misogynist are you misogynistic? If you promote Islamophobia, homophobia, xenophobia, are you culpable for all those things? You should at least consider the possibility that in your zeal for purity on the abortion issue you voted for a candidate who is seriously, morally stained on other issues and by casting your vote for him you take on a part of his moral deficiency. You could have cast a protest vote, or refused to vote at all, but you didn't. You voted--badly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This was a petty tantrum by the Vatican and sadly Pope Francis because France, the \"elder daughter\" of the Church, legalized gay marriage. This despite the fact that no one in France goes to Mass and displays of religious faith are strongly discouraged among public figures.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And people like me will be right behind you calling the police for assaulting an innocent citizen. You better check state and federal court systems that grant transgender citizens legal name changes based on their new gender identity. You need to worry about what is going on in your own backyard before attempting to manage someone else's backyard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please. This is hyperbole. I didn't vote for Obama but he wasn't evil. He was a normal liberal Democrat who pursued liberal Democratic policies. The demonization of the right by the left and the left by the right is why someone like Trump is being excused. What Trump has normalized (racial hatred, xenophobia, etc.) is in a different atmosphere as Obama wanting to pursue liberal policies on health care or gay marraige. \n\nAnd most of the protests have been peaceful. Please don't compare that to a roomful of people gleefully giving the Nazi salute as happened last weekend in Washington. There is a reason why minorities are scared to death.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...In July, Trump tweeted that he was going to ball all transgender people...\"\n\no_O\n\nI was expecting Trump to go off the deep end because of Hanafort, but I was expecting a Twitter storm. LOL \n\nWinning bigly!\n\n4 paragraphs and the DP can't proof read the story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"If a transgender is creating a problem (and again, I'm not being specific, but anyone can create an issue that deserves discharge) they should not be protected just because they are transgender.\"\nThe corollary to that should be if a transgender person is performing satisfactorily, and is contributing positively to readiness and cohesiveness and effectiveness, s/he should not be removed because of conservative correctness.\nBut Trump wants ALL transgender people out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dear Fr Hall,\n\nThank you for your courageous example and fearless leadership! You are an outstanding role model to your gay brothers of the cloth ... if only they would all simultaneously display your courage and integrity ... then we might see some substantive change happen overnight!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Renovations are expensive. North America isn\u2019t Europe\u2026..my older female relatives would studiously avoid any establishment that had shared bathroom facilities (except if they were single occupant \u2013 again, expensive to implement).\n\nI don\u2019t think there is a way to legislate or regulate ourselves out of this dilemma. But the marketplace has a ready solution.\n\nMost businesses already know if transgender folk will be regular customers. If they think it is a good idea to break down bathroom barriers, let them.\n\nFor the rest, let them renovate \u2013 or not -- on their own time. I can see that Toronto and Vancouver are ahead of the curve in some of the other comments, and that's great, but small town Ontario, for example, is a whole different world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is just a random observation which may be a little off topic but really isn't- \n\nI see that many people's argument against gun control is that the evil guys don't follow laws and will get the guns no matter what, and so we shouldn't try and restrict access to military grade weapons. \n\nPlenty of the commentors here and other people who are anti-gun control are also very much against transwoman using the woman's bathroom. One of there chief arguments is that if we allow them, they will go and abuse all the little girls. But if we create laws against it, then naturally men will never dress up as woman and go in and molest young girls.\n\nBut I thought that criminals didn't pay attention to laws....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Reminiscent of a question Dave answered a few years ago. NO, do not have the right to be jealous. YES, men and women can be \"just friends\" while married to others. Just because they're still friends after dating eons ago does not mean they have romantic feelings now. They were friends before you came along and either you accept it or leave. At this point it's your issue not hers. I have a good male friend who's like my brother, and hubby knew this before we dated. No romantic feelings on either side and he's not gay. In fact he's almost more protective of me than hubby is. They respect each other and me. This is the only way it works, so if you're jealous it won't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "when she was quoting 1 student, and after adding additional points, finished the paragraph with \"they\" said. Will we have to stop and think, is the writer describing more than one person, or is it a single transgendered person?Is this not going to get rather confusing. Will writers have to get permission to use a pronoun?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So racism only exists if the racialized person knows they are racialized? What? So the racialized person is to blame for statistics suggesting that racialized people are underemployed? Can your logic be expanded to include women and gays? And look at the amount of people that agree.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you missed the point. The point is, everyone should be treated equally. I dont really care if this guy wants to make a cake for a gay couple or not - but he certainly should not be allowed to discriminate against a specific subset of people that he does not agree with for his own reasons.\n\nIm sure the same argument about why choose to eat somewhere where the people there dont want to serve you was used for when Blacks were trying to gain equal rights as well. The point was not that they did not have access to the same types of things elsewhere - it was that they should not need to go to another store to buy the exact same product just because of the color of their skin. Choosing not to serve someone because of the fact they are gay, is not really any differnet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In my opinion, a Catholic baker, florist, photographer, caterer, etc., who refuses to provide services to a gay wedding doesn't have a legal leg to stand on (or a supposed church teaching to hide behind) if they also provide services to other weddings that don't meet the standard of Catholic teaching -- such as a wedding in which at least one of couple is divorced.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is a pretty big overlap in body proportions of people no matter how they have developed, male or female, and there are also differences in the development of trans people depending on when they started hormones. There are cisgender women out there with a natural born advantage over other women, and there are transgender women out there without those same advantages. If you want to create \"body proportion\" classes in cycling, great, but there is no evidence to suggest that transgender women should have their own division. \n\nYou're not looking at evidence; you're making assumptions and straw men. The scientific evidence backs trans women being allowed to compete with other women. I don't think it's any coincidence that the same people claiming to not understand or to have a problem with transgender people are the same ones who want to exclude them from sports. You yourself mentioned in another post you would never get it and essentially admitted to not researching the topic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, there is a big difference. The difference is that the two previous popes were caught in the fallacy that the \"clearly defined teachings\" can evolve; they are not static in many cases. Otherwise, we can pick apart all kinds of things that the church taught that are absolutely wrong, and in some cases, people paid the price with their lives. Ordination and homosexual orientation are two prime examples of what should...and needs to change based on scriptural exegesis and modern science. The previous popes were clearly afraid of scientific advancement and hence\"dug their heels in\" and said things like \"as it always has been.\" Clearly not true in many instances and it leaves little room for the Holy Spirit to continue to allow us to grow in knowledge, even as we know that scripture is ever revealing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"For the first time since Germany in the 1930s, homosexuals in a European country are being systematically rounded up, tortured and killed,\"\n\nJust to clarify your statement - that also went on in the Soviet Union into the 1950's. I know it's not popular in the GTA to say that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ken__W, are you suggesting that your sole expertise on matters of gender is that you consulted a dictionary? Or do you have some other expertise?\nActually, if you read the Charter, although it says everyone is equal before and under the law, you will notice that it specifically defines categories that cannot be discriminated against. \n\"15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.\"\nNote that transgender people are not mentioned, which some people might interpret as a license to discriminate against them. \nMy question to you is why would it make a difference in your life if transgender people are added to those in the above list? \n(No, I'm not trans.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anoher way to look at dogma and doctrine is that there are some matters for which evidence is impossible, so the Church must prayfully come to agreement and once agreement has been reached, it is binding dogma unless a different agreement is reached. This is the case in matters of the Trinity, etc. Teachings about human nature, however, must be based on evidence and scientific understanding rather than reasoning from first principles. Sex, marriage and especially gay marriage fall into that category, as does the worthy reception of Communion (if you receive and you experience grace, your sin cannot have been great OR the teaching on what is unworthy is simply wrong).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the Church were to fire all employees who might be deemed sinners, there would be no one left. Gays are being singled out for firing. This is discrimination and unchristian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So here's what I don't understand. Some folks are calling Donald Trump racist. He's against letting illegal aliens staying in the US. Illegal aliens are not a race. He says we should put permitting the immigration of people of the Islamic faith on hold. OK, people of many different races are Muslims. If you're a liberal, you probably should not like the tenets of Islam; no tolerance of gays, lesbians, Christians, people of the Hebrew faith or any other religion that is not Islam. As far as they are concerned, women are property. He has suggested we not allow Syrian refugees into the country. News flash! Syria is a country, not a RACE. I was taught that Mexican was a nationality and not a race. Was that incorrect? So if someone can give me an example from Trump that he's racist, I'm all ears.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's a few others:\n\n- 15-year-old dies in menstrual hut\n- Right-wingers accuse National Geographic editor of child abuse for putting 9-year-old transgendered girl on the January cover\n- Mormons start their own Wikileaks to post dirt on the LDS church", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can;t know what isn't true. So you can;t know that \"conservative Catholics think doctrinal development aims to reverse [Church] teaching.\" There's a difference between development and change. \n\nYou say \"progressives are progressive because they think things can be handled better than they are now.\" True. But if a \"progressive\" is simply one who \"thinks things can be handled better than they are now,\" then everyone more sentient than my father's '54 Buick is a progressive. I don't think you want to argue that. No, progressives don;t want merely to develop doctrine, they want to change it . . . and fundamentally. As in gay marriage, as in women priests, as in assisted suicide, as in abortion. The question that continues to loom here is: Why do so many people who reject basic Catholic teaching insist on calling themselves Catholic? It's one of the most \"intrinsically disordered\" (no, not in that sense) phenomena I've ever seen.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "there is a difference between a Jew and a gentile. or didn't you know that? one follows the law, the other falls under grace. Jesus didn't have to say anything about 'homosexuality', though the NT has plenty to say. knowing He was a Jew, and called a Rabbi, means He followed OT Jewish law. Homosexuality is clearly addressed in the OT. so hang that tired old argument up, would you? it is nonsensical.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My question probably arises, because I am not sufficiently familiar with the field. Your requirement that everything arise from the old is a bit unclear. Eg - I believe that the Church is dead wrong on its position on gay marriage. I understand from where that position came, but I don't see how an acceptance of gay marriage and full rights for gay people can grow from the current institutional position. The same can be said for the institutional Church's view on women.\nWould you please explain?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In theory I agree with you, but this only really holds valid in a world where you cannot get any kind of window into possible future behaviour. \n\nIt's also technically true that we cannot guarantee that a firearm owner will responsibly store ammunition, secure their firearms, and won't use them to shoot up their local school ... but we still ensure every owner has taken a firearms safety course, has agreed in principle to abide by our laws, and has no glaring issues around mental health or social instability. We do what we can to reduce the risk, even though there's really no possibility of eliminating it.\n\nSo, if you knew that a certain Salafist sect was virulently against gay marriage, and had a history of persecuting and even killing gays, could you improve the odds of successful integration by screening for membership or participation in that sect? Hard to argue that this wouldn't improve our odds.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some years ago, the GM had a book review/personal profile of a female University of Toronto professor.\n\nWe learned that she was divorced 3 times (and was now in a same-sex marriage)...it turns out all three of the men she had been married to, turned out to be abusive alcoholics. I believe there was some indication that she had no pre-marriage fore-warning this was going to happen, they just \"all turned out that way\".\n\nSomewhere in all of this was a narcissistic abdication of any responsibility for choices, etc. (sounds like a certain US politician, but I digress), or a complete lack of understanding that the men did not change, she sought out their type, and was willfully blind to their faults.\n\nWe have an increasing car-wreck here (no pun intended), at least on the personal front (there is no quibble, she is very accomplished professionally), but the \"judgement\"......\n\nOne wonders where it will end....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "hawknbee: Most Canadians do identify as being Christian although I suspect only a small minority identify as being social conservatives. Mainline Christianity maintains a more solid presence in Canada than in the U.S., where Christian Evangelicalism and other conservative Christian sects are far more influential than here. Roman Catholicism is easily the single largest Christian religion in Canada, but in general Roman Catholics in the West tend to hew far more to the progressive side of the social agenda than do many other Christians. In a 2015 Pew Center study of attitudes toward homosexuality in the U.S., for instance, 70 percent of Catholics indicated their acceptance of homosexuality, the highest ranking among members of any religious community. My guess is that mainline Christians in Canada are likely to view criticisms like that made by Adam Vaughan as being directed at socially conservative Christians rather than against all Christians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Breaking: \n.\nEast Coast millionaress Alice Rogoff's 'Alaska Dispatch' censors comments on President Trump's reinstatement of bans of those with the mental disorder Sexual Identity Disorder from joining Active Duty Service; removes comments after the majority of comments were in favor of reinstating the ban:\n.\nhttps://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/07/26/no-transgender-people-will-serve-in-the-u-s-military-trump-says/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe too subtle or pseudo-clever. How about the \"leviticus gene\", an organic origin for what was once attributed morally defective behavior? If you spend time with a kid on the autism spectrum, you will soon become annoyed with behavior that is not really the kid's fault. I honestly expect homosexuality, and all other sexuality for that matter, to one day be considered in the same light. And as far as bigotry, hate, and disliked others, if you don't consider all behavior to have a genetic component, you haven't been keeping up with your reading.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Time magazine had an article on 10/29/2015 in its Money section. They looked at the surgery costs from the Philadelphia Transgender Surgery Center. The total cost Time cited was on average $100K+ including follow-up. I don't know if the total costs included the time from lost work and included psychiatric/psychological costs and lifelong hormonal therapy? Other estimates peg the male-to-female surgeries at around $25K and female-to-male at around $50K (Yale Univ. article). Any reasonable reading of the costs reveal extraordinarily high costs upfront and downstream for years.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow, I'm actually agreeing with Mr. Minshall. There is no factual evidence I can find that LGBT is genetic. Race, on the other hand, is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Wildrose PC coalition doesn't like LGBT members. Here's an idea-- LGBTQ Albertans should all take out memberships in the Wildrose party. Take over the party en mass. Make it their own and promote progressive ideas in Alberta. After which, throw their support behind the NDP that supports freedom, choice, and diversity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your views on religion are clear but the point of the article is that the symptoms are not really a problem. There is no crime. Any real crime such as abuse of women or children is handled by other laws. Courts are not trying to shutdown the church. They are applying the law. Perhaps an outdated one like the ban on homosexuality, marijuana, or liquor (1930's).\n\nMany religions have practices at odds with our social norms (Jehovah Witnesses do not take blood transfusions, etc). So long as they do not infringe on the rights of others I feel they should be allowed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "AT, is this LP a he/she, she/he, Les-bian, homo, Trans something? I am just trying to understand the LP \"THOUGHT\" process, and in each of these categories, ITS DIFFERENT...................", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Given what we already know about Trump and that he is still President elect - I wonder if it will matter to his voters one bit.\n\nBut overall I agree, Trump and his administration are surely compromised by potential blackmail. Looking forward to what the Russians may have on anti-gay advocate and manscaping professional Christian politician Pence, as much as Trump.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am far happier and healthier post-transition than I was before. So are lots of trans people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's true, we are made in God's image and likeness. But that doesn't mean that the resemblance is physical or even psychological. God has no body and God has no gender. Rather, we resemble God because both we and God have free will, the element which allows us to love. If we can accept that God is the author of infinite variation, then we can see our transgendered siblings as intrinsically ordered children of God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wasn't this post removed once before? Don't see any vile hate at Christianity or Jesus Christ. You, on the the other hand, are called out for your misogyny, racism, homophobia, and general BS.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Whether they are the voices of the poor, or black or Latinx, or feminists, or LGBT Catholics, NCR is singular among other Catholic media outlets for the range of voices it includes in its reporting and its commentary. \"\n\nThis is why I have been a subscriber for decades. NCR gives points of view one doesn't hear in the mainstream media or the mainstream Catholic media.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Understood, but I wasn't addressing that issue. I was addressing Bill's comment (since removed) insinuating that gay people don't own guns.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It sounds like you have some cryptic beef against the trans community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I tried to reply to you, but it seems citing published peer-reviewed studies on rates of Personality Disorders among patients who also identified as trans is considered offensive.\n\n....which kind of goes to proving my point, that this legislation will be weaponized by high-conflict individuals suffering from personality disorders.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If a parent doesn't want their child involved, it's not a required class or an elective, and it isn't held during the school day. If the parent doesn't want their child in the club, they can tell their child they don't have permission to go. It's the parent's job to know if their kids are making choices in line with their morals. It's also a parent's job to protect their child and make them feel safe. A LGBTQ child or their allies that fear violent repercussions or mental abuse because they go to a club, will not tell their parents and sneak. A child that can go to a safe environment won't need to. \n I would like to see statistics and references to psychological studies to back up the data points in this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, I see. So what IS the magic mortality number something must reach before it is a worthy endeavor and no longer a \"pet project\"?\nDoes your opinion change if you or someone you love develops a \"less fatal\" - in this scenario less than 13,000 deaths - disease?\nAny morality/lifestyle factors in your decision making? You know, smoker, gay, drinker, drug abuser. What about people who spent too much time in the sun? Drank too much coffee or soda. Ate too much. People who don't exercise. Where do you draw your line?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I live in the northeast, as does one of my sons. I have been following discussions on modifying the annulment process. On the whole my family, including those who attend weekly mass, give little credence to proposals to simplify this process. Sometimes valid marriages fail and as long as the Church cannot accept this and move on its statements will be considered silly. Ditto statements on birth control and homosexuality. The Church can remain firm but will have to accept a smaller Catholic world. Of course, there are a number of practicing Catholics who just ignore Church teachings they don't approve of and continue to live what they consider a fine, acceptable Catholic life.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First of all, I walk in company with a person who deals with same-sex attraction every day: myself. And you simply prove how we're going to go on and on and on talking past one another: You, for example, surely and evidently believe that a life \"lived well and faithfully\" can include to some degree same gendered sexual/romantic relations, whereas I am going to continue to say that those desires and the actions toward which they are ordered are inherently an indication of the opposite, of NOT living well, nor faithfully. You mention \"the majority of Catholics in this country,\" something that to me has no meaning, as I don't see how my belief, or yours, renders something true or your disbelief, or mine, makes something untrue. And I already think I belong to an inclusive Church, a Church open to \"whosoever will.\" For you, dialogue has to include the possibility of an openness to committed homosexual couples. For me, \"accompaniment\" can't be divorced from a call to chastity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You cannot change DNA nor the years of what his hormones did to his body development starting at the moment of conception.\n\nI have compassion for people who struggle with mental issues. But he will never be a \"woman\". So stop using 'trans' in an effort to erase women and their unique experience AS women.\n\nHe can live his life as he pleases, cosplay 24/7. But he should not be able to compete in women's sports. Period. This is just misogyny.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Only homosexuality has been universally rejected by nearly every culture and religion, even after being accepted in some ancient cultures. \n\nNothing with respect to sexuality has changed since man was created: Male and female are anatomically constructed to unite and that union is what leads to children. Everything beyond that is perversion, acts engaged in for self-gratification. What's occurring in modern times is the rejection of God, the rejection of limits on self-gratification, and the nearly complete ignoring of what is best for our children and the society in which we raise them. What's happening is a rationalization for the acceptance of sin; or, rather, the eradication of sin. This is how the Devil works. \n\nWhy did Eve eat the apple? Because she was being her \"authentic self,\" choosing her own desires over God's, then rationalizing it by saying if God didn't want me to have it, he wouldn't have put the tree there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Both are public manifestations of grave sin in opposition to clear Church teaching. The same applies to unrepentant pubic heretics. It should also apply to those who submit with full knowledge to euthanasia. It's not all about \"gays\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ruth Conniff, Common Dreams:\n\nFor years, both major parties pushed multinational corporations\u2019 agenda in big trade deals. But not this year. Growing public ire over NAFTA, especially in the Rust Belt, which has seen more than 57,000 factories offshored, has changed the political debate. St. Louis points out: \n\n\u201cNow the candidates are fighting over who hates the TPP more. That is a prudent response since all of the trade unions, environmental groups, LGBT organizations, women, retirees\u2014the entire progressive base is opposing TPP.\n\nIt\u2019s not about trade or not trade, it\u2019s about who writes the rules and who benefits.\"\n\nOverall, the trouble with the TPP is that it \u201cdoesn\u2019t learn the lessons of NAFTA,\u201d St. Louis says. \u201cIt expands incentives for offshoring and creates more opportunities to challenge environmental and health and safety laws through secret tribunals.\u201d\n\nhttp://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/07/04/global-trade-whats-good-progressive-do", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The few guys shooting up airports and nightclub, those are the people I would assume are the barbarians,\"\n\nI cannot speak for Dean but that was my assumption. It is not just a few. Those that are sympathetic to the use of violence in the name of Islam are many . More so in Europe but with the large influx of Islamic immigration we will soon have the same issues that Britain, Brussels, France and the rest of Europe are currently having. \n\nWhile this is not the case with all of the followers of Islam, a majority do not hold the same values that westerners do, Sharia, subjugation of women, religious pluralism, tolerance of homosexuality etc. ( do not confuse tolerance with acceptance) We shouldn't allow those to emigrate to our country if they do not share our values. Otherwise we'll find our values in jeopardy. There is no reason a country should do that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you're right. Stefanini was an experienced, accomplished stellar diplomat; his nomination would be a credit to any jurisdiction to which he was posted. His nomination was lost in the pettiness of the Vatican's hostility to and fear of gay rights generally and gay marriage particularly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wish I could read the text of the play. If it's about challenging gender roles and how boys can play princesses or girls can play superheroes, great! If it's saying boys who like traditionally feminine things are really all transgender girls or a nonbinary gender, I'm not onboard. Acceptance of transgender people, sure, but I find the messaging lately that gender is based on stereotypical behaviour that I thought we had already got over several decades ago and that if you're a woman who isn't 100% feminine you're actually male or something in between (or vice versa) so deeply offensive, as a woman who has never been super feminine. I hate to think that if I was growing up now I might be encouraged to identify as a different gender instead of just encouraged to be myself and do what I like regardless of gender.\n\nOh, and I also think we shouldn't have Catholic schools anymore and all resources should be pooled into one public system, but that's another issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Probably not. Like homosexuality, it has likely been with us for a long time. It is only a recent development in our society that people can act themselves in public (where we can see it) and we now have a name for it. Its existence is known, but the reasons for it (i.e. the cause) are still under investigation and discussion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Neko...the Southern Poverty Law Center has a great deal of data/definitions etc re the alt right, Spencer and Bannon et al and folks who want clarification can simply google it...\n\nIt is interesting that a number of very far right conservative religious groups have been recently associated with USCCB leaders and are noted as connected with the SPLC \"hate groups\" ....Vigano and USCCB players et al were involved with these groups during the March on Marriage, the Davis affair etc.\n\nThe \"hate\" issue that I recall in these matters was anti gay...the SPLC protects any \"class\" of citizens from discrimination....the SPLC grew out of the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's and along with ACLU and the Anti Defamation League is a very key protector of civil liberties in this country and an organization that many of us fiscally support, as an expression of our \"religious values\". The SPLC has noted a huge increase in \"hate\" attacks since the Trump presidency...(as have these other orgs...)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I do disagree with them, BurtEarnest. \n\nHaving read both decisions that the Supreme Court of Canada will hear on appeal - British Columbia and Ontario - I prefer the Ontario Court of Appeal (also a unanimous decision). \n\nI agree with what the Ontario court said, in blunter style: \"TWU\u2019s Community Covenant discriminates against members of the LGBTQ community, and the LSUC was entitled to consider whether the discriminatory policy precluded accreditation.\"\n\nIt will be up to the SCC to decide, but at this stage, this \"comment-board pundit\" has an opinion - as do you, obviously. Do you have any particular arguments in support of yours?\n\nNote: the Supreme Court may even say both decisions were correct, since the legislation defining the jurisdiction of legal regulators differs from province to province.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don't you understand that according to Holy Scripture and thousands of years of Tradition, homosexual behaviour is gravely sinful? It is through this very behaviour that that homosexuals estrange themselves from the Church.\nThe Catholic Church has bent over backwards to reach out to homosexuals in the hope that they will repent of their behaviour in the same way as it does to all sinners. It has to stop short, however, and always will in not condoning the sin, whatever the sin maybe. \nThe bottom line is that one cannot be a practising homosexual and a practising Catholic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All forms of hate needs to be eliminated. All forms of racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, anti-semitism and laws discriminating against Transgenders.\nWe need to get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight all forms of hate!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Speaking of implementing change: Since 4 out of 5 cases of clergy abuse of minors is that of priests abusing boys, do you agree with Benedict that men with deep seated homosexual tendencies be kept out of seminaries?\n\nA yes or no answer would be nice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "<>\n\nYou might be the last person I'd consult on the issue.\n\n\"Cross-Cultural Evidence for the Genetics of Homosexuality\"\n\nhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cross-cultural-evidence-for-the-genetics-of-homosexuality/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right. The refusal to ordain women is not misogynistic and calling homosexuals \"intrinsically disordered\" is not homophobic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No mention of the Knights' $1.4 million contribution to California's Prop. 8 in 2008 (the largest single contribution in that campaign) which temporarily halted gay civil marriage in that state, only to be rendered null and void a few years later by the Obergefel Supreme Court ruling in 2015. Presumably this lack of mention is either because MSW thought that was not truly part of the Knights' culture war agenda (it was) or because he agrees with that use of funds (my guess.) Since Prop. 8 was ultimately voided out by Obergefel, imagine how far that $1.4 million might have gone to feed hungry children in California, or elsewhere. But no, heterosexual civil marriage desperately needed \"defending\" out in California, so naturally the Knights were on the case. That money was totally wasted, which makes the Knights' stewardship of the funds they collect highly suspect, and that is why they will never receive another dime from me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "GHorsnell writes:\n\n\"What do they think they will accomplish with their marches and protests?\"\n\n--\n\nPerhaps you aren't aware of the role that public protest demonstrations played in advancing civil rights for black people in the US, in ending the US involvement in the Vietnam War, that helped bring women the right to vote, that pushed the awarding to gays of equal civil rights with heterosexuals, and brought justice and resolution to many other issues.\n\nIt you aren't aware of those things, you should be.\n\nAnd now you are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We don't attend Mass to feel good, hear cool music or relevant sermons. We go to worship God - not one another. If the Church gave the go-ahead on contraception, abortion, homosexuality, divorce, and women's ordination, do you really suppose attendance would increase? And, if it did, so what? \n\nPeople are losing faith in Christ and His Church. Ultimately, our salvation is in God's Hands. There are reprobates in every generation. God's grace and the gift of faith in Christ, is freely offered. Not everyone accepts these gifts, or is granted the gift of perseverance in the face of the Church's human failures.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While homosexuality and gender dysphoria may have been occurring in nature during the pre-Decalog epoch, the human concept and understanding of sexuality was still evolving from instinctual animal behavior.\n\"Adam\" decided that \"this one shall be called 'woman,' for out of 'her man' she was been taken.\"\"Eve\" became the \"mother of all the living.\" Sexuality, animal and human, was focused on procreation and survival. (Gn. 2:23, 3:14-20)\n\"The tradition of the Church has understood the sixth commandment as encompassing the whole of human sexuality.\" (Catechism of the Catholic Church #2336)\nChurch teaching has emphasized the indissoluble bond of one man and one woman, but the essence of the injunction against adultery still considers monogamy and heterosexuality as \"property rights.\" The Church defines and confines the right to \"suitable partnership\" to man with one woman for life. Death extends the survivor's right to another \"suitable partner.\"\n\ncont'd...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cInstead of improving the lives of hard-working Americans, President Trump has tried to force on the American people an immoral, ineffective and expensive border wall, discriminatory new barriers to the ballot box, a degrading and disgusting policy banning transgender Americans from serving in the military and a hateful, senseless anti-immigrant agenda that instills fear in our communities and weakens our nation,\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Marxism has been harmless for everyone except villagers, landowners, homosexuals, Cossacks, native Americans, political prisoners, union members, and the religious. And of these, only 85 million or so were killed during peacetime (ref: communiststats.com ). I don\u2019t know what all the fuss is about.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Richard, you really should run for office!! You'd fit in really well with the current (hopefully changing soon) Legislative majority -even though you collect a union-calibrated pension. Tell me, if all Churches stop helping (\"enabling\"), can they still call themselves Christian? What should they do instead? Attack gays? Demand schools teach \"Creationism\"? What do you want the Mayor & Assembly to do with homeless who refuse to die immediately? Jail them ($50-60,000 year)?--- Ever volunteer at a shelter Richard? Meet the homeless kids aged out of foster care,? Homeless kids from horrible homes? The mentally ill with no alternatives? Walk the mile rRchard - walk the mile...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well....I'll give you the New Jersey gubernatorial race. However.....\n1) All of the special elections that Dems have lost since the 2016 Election have been GOP strongholds, and yet Trumpies have said that was an indication of Dem failure.\n2) I wouldn't call Virginia a historic stronghold, but I don't think it's too far off from becoming one. A 25-year House of Delegates incumbent that has acted as nothing short of a big league homophobe and \"bathroom bill\" sponsor, just got his clock cleaned by a transgender candidate. The House of Delegates is going from a 66-34 GOP majority to a 52-48 majority.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, that's not what I meant at all but feel free to extrapolate on my thoughts to fit your narrative, anytime that it makes you feel better.\n\nAnd perhaps you can share with us your source for determining that all transgendered US military service personnel who volunteered to serve were motivated by \"a steady paycheque\".\n\nPlease share with us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "completely agree that transgender issue is blown out of proportion, whe I was a little girl I prefered to play with boys over my girl peers but my parents did not see it as a \"sign\" that I might be a boy! by the age of 16 I wanted to kiss a boy and was pretty sure about it, just imagine that I will be growing now and my parents will be very progressive ones, gosh I was lucky.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why is the left so enamored of Islam and islamo-fascism?. After all, Islam unambiguously rejects most of what liberals like Timothy Ash CLAIM to defend: (freedom of religion, womens rights, gay rights, etc)\nHistory can be most illuminating. It is an undeniable historical fact that progressives lionized and looked kindly on fascist movements in Germany and Italy in the 1930's and in fact had no problem when Joseph Stalin made his famous alliance with Hitler in 1939 (Molotov-Ribbentropp pact). Why were progressives attracted to fascism? Because they both had the same enemy - capitalism and Western democracy.\n\nToday we see the same: progressives defending \"one of the most retrograde forces in history\" - to quote Churchill - because they see immigration of muslims into the heart of Europe as a useful stalking horse in their interminable battle with capitalism. \n\nThat's why we have twits like Timothy Ash asking: Can the center hold?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Really not relevant. Just saying one cannot easily switch their sexuality. If a person is gay, not likely they will ever turn out to be straight. Now transexuals are a different matter. I doubt there have been enough cases to make a credible sample? Do you personally know any? I met the head of the Libertarian party once but that is the closest I have gotten to this. She seemed happy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Free speech means defending the right to speak for those you disagree with. Period. The President of Iran spoke on the mainland - and said there are no homosexuals in Iran. How is a student to be able to form his own beliefs and mores? Perhaps he'll listen to Coulter and realize how 'out there' she is and completely reject her philosophy. But if she is silenced, the feeling simmers under the surface, only to break out in the worst possible way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\nA deflection: we were discussing the bigotry inherent in the language you use to refer to members of the GLBT community.\nBut yes: both gay and straight persons are tempted to infidelity or other failures in commitment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not concerned about this person credentials and background.\n\nI am concerned though that the name \"David\" does not sound female or Muslim.\n\nIt doesn't sound like \"he\", can I call him a he, is qualified to serve in Justins Canada.\n\nIf Justin could maybe find a female trans-gendered African America, I would feel better.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Couldn't agree more with your last sentence, Elagabalus. I recently attended Roman Catholic services out of state. The homily should have been about love, but it was a hate-filled political rant against liberals. Hate for gays, hate for aborters, even hate for his \"sick\" seminary (this is scary.) He revealed his soul. He can't be bridegroom to the church while the love between men is in the open. I have never heard such concentrated hatred. I felt pity for all the young Catholics in attendance. This is happening all across the United States. I also can't stop thinking of all the young who become homeless when their new world's understanding conflicts with their parent's & priest's worldview.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's have an article in NCR covering the arrest of a certain flamboyant monsignor last month on Vatican grounds. There were drugs and a gay orgy in progress. The priest had to be de-toxed. \n\nAnd it wasn't just any \"ordinary priest\"..it was one of Cardinal \"Cocco's\" closest aids.\n\nThe whole Vatican needs an industrial strength exorcism...financial misdoings and this other sordid stuff.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "McMaster university won't be getting any donations from me after what happened to the trans language prof. Agree with him or not but don't prevent him from speaking", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So Chillin I am going to give a free math lesson today. This map is of any group that does not support the entire liberal play book. Some church groups are on there because they appose gay marriage, but I will allow them in the 917 count per your website.\n\n\nSo to support your very dramatic millions claim, each group would need to have a total membership of 2,181 to get to 2 million. If it were 3 million 3,271. \n\nI would wager good money, that the majority of these groups are in the tens, very few have over 100, and even fewer have a single registry of 1,000.\n\nSo Although you were able to find a link, it does not in any way support your very dramatic declaration that there are millions of Neo Nazis in the United States.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\nFair 'nuff. I was anticipating.\n\nAcquaintances, not friends. If they were your friends, if you were theirs, you would know this about them.\n\nWhat doubt? What benefit accrues to them as a result of the doubt?\n\nI gave you a hint about my age when I said I was working fifty years ago. Do the math -- you'll be close. And yes, of course, I've changed my mind about this and many things over the years.\n<...how a core teaching of the Catholic Church can be rejected>\nThe core teachings of the Catholic Church are found in the Creed; it's preposterous to describe the teaching about birth control, homosexuality etc. as \"core teachings.\" \n\"...can claim to be a Catholic.\"\nI don't claim to be a Catholic; I am a Catholic. So are most of my gay friends, even the married ones.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can't tell me you're outraged over a gay priest's abuse of boys, and also say that you support this current policy of cover-up and silence that allows thousands of gay priests to hide their same-sex orientation from the public.\n\nGay priests have to come out of the closet. Their game of pretending to be heterosexual has served neither them nor us. \n\nIf so many gay men had not joined the priesthood, the sex abuse scandal would likely never have occurred.\n\nIf you disagree....why not reply to this with a reasoned argument, rather than be bookburner who censors comments that make you uncomfortable?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't see how this is discrimination at all. Married heterosexual couples might not be able to have kids because their plumbing doesn't work right or whatever.\n\nSame sex couples cannot have children because two males or two females are physically incapable of reproduction.\n\nWe're talking apples and oranges here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Considering how quickly the bishops and archbishops react against priests who speak out about LGBT rights or women priests (ton of bricks comes to mind) it's kinda bogus, frankly, for B.Zurek to whimper like he can't really do anything about Pavone because it's a civil organization.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All forms of racism must be eliminated, forms of Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia and discrimination against transgenders.\nPeople need to support Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne in this fight against evil.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi foreshorten - just for the record Anglo-Catholics as Episcopalian and Church of England people (lay and ordained) call themselves, do not consider themselves theologically 'protestant' and many are still opposed to the ordination of women; after years of debate the General Synods (involving 3 'houses' of bishops, priests and laity) eventually had a 60% majority in each of the houses for the ordination of women. The practicalities were fudged in the UK and that is something that they will have to work through (TEC were not as hidebound and led the way) - they are still working with the fallout as the 'evangelical' (protestant) wing are still very much against the ordination of women (because women must not teach men, not because they cannot administer sacraments) and, now, gay marriage. \nThis is a complex issue and will tear the Catholic Church apart. \nPapa Francis is in a lose-lose situation but it seems as if he has unlocked the door, eve though the key is still in the keyhole!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The silence from so-called \"progressives\" on the subjugation of women and violence towards homosexuals in countries governed by religious law is inexcusable. Iran makes Atwood's dystopian Handmaid's Tale seem like a nice place to live - Rouhani has the shameless arrogance to ask Trump to apologize for his comments while Iranian regime thugs beat women with batons for wearing jeans with holes in the knees, failing to properly cover their hair, or practising zumba. Iranian women are forced to submit to the whims of Islamist thugs or face the iron fist of the Revolutionary Guard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is only messy because you\u2019ve conflated two issues.\n\nJesus had no problem at all pointing out and condemning sin, and withholding forgiveness from the unrepentant. He was not Santa Claus.\n\nFrom the Catholic perspective the primary human rights involve freedom from attack or persecution for orientation. From the Catholic perspective there is no right to same sex marriage or to compel others to violate their religious beliefs by participating in same sex marriages in any way.\n\nFrom a civil law standpoint, the issue of rights and whether they are violated are a matter of the law, first the Constitution, then statutes.\n\nSo there are two discussions: what should a Catholic advocate for in the way of laws; what are the laws and what should they be?\n\nThe two may not be in synch.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Democratic Party of Hawaii has its challenges, but Hawaii's Republican Party is downright dysfunctional. With its anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage stances, the Republican Party is stuck somewhere in the middle of the 20th century. The best and brightest of the Republican Party -- the young up-and-comers -- are becoming Democrats, such as Fukumoto and Johanson. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is happy to get rid of criminals such as Rod Tam, who has joined the Republican Party.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You wrote that Callista Gingrich should be rejected because her public life is at odds with Church teaching. I replied that that is often reason for rejection, as in the case of Iribarne, but that in fact her public life is unexceptional.\n\nI do not have a theory why the Vatican rejected Stefanini. However, I can't help noticing that the fact of his homosexuality seems to have been widely known. This suggests he was not living a chaste life and keeping his personal struggles with temptation to himself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He writes from his experience counseling LGBTQ folks and their families. What else are you trying to imply?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The point Kenney is making is that Notley is being purposely confrontational. The Catholic board, as far as i have read, have not said how they want to teach sex ed at all. Notley is suggesting that they will be gay bashing etc...\n\nThe challenge is how do we treat religious people who as a matter of their faith do not agree with a total liberal attitude towards sex ie. you are whatever gender or neither a boy or a girl, and you can have protected sex at any age etc...\n\nPrior to confronting the Catholic School board, let's hear what they want to teach. Clearly if they dont respect gay rights and the rules of mutual consent of Adults then Notley should deal with it - but to do so now in such a public and confrontational way means its more a PR political stunt then reality. She is scapegoating a group (religious Catholics) to gain political points.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When people come to realize that homosexuality is not \"unnatural\", then it is the moral teaching that should change. Thomas Aquinas, in the Summa I, q 1, art 1, says \"there is no reason why those things which may be learned from philosophical science, so far as they can be known by natural reason, may not also be taught us\". This is taken to mean that as \"philosophical science\" -- that is, our knowledge of nature -- increases, this knowledge should be included in doctrine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The UMC is now on the verge of learning that LBGTQs have a home in their church, thanks to Bishop Oliveto and many others who have \"defied\" church traditions and rules. Some day, perhaps, we will see the Roman Catholic church on the verge of a similar discovery!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"You cheapen life when you decide to end it prematurely.\"\n\nDid I cheapen the life of my sweet old arthritic Labrador retriever who shared so many adventures, up times and down times with me when I laid him on his doggie bed with his favorite toys and wrapped my body around his and told the vet to \"go ahead\" through my tears?\n\nShould I have forced him to suffer when he couldn't stand up anymore and let him cry in pain and frustration for days and weeks? I've heard this described as \"the final kindness we do for our best friend\" and it is one of the hardest decisions I ever made.\n\nI think we should show at least the same kindness to our family that we show our family pets. The tired \"slippery slope\" can be used on anything we disapprove of. We heard it with from the gay marriage opponents who were concerned people would start marrying turtles and goats, and we are hearing it now with this compassionate death bill.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You will note that persons of such high moral stature as the author are never wrong and are the very model of perfection in all things, so they may lecture us about our failings. Nobody would dare lecture him about want an ass he is. I am gay and he offends me when he claims to speak on my behalf. I got over prigs like him 30 years ago.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the 20th century, progressive movements had a positive impact on ensuring that formerly marginalized and discriminated against people were treated fairly. Affirmative action proved positive in many people's lives.\n\nBut once the big issues got at least partially dealt with, the progressive momentum hasn't been able to stop itself and in some cases has just jumped the shark. This transgender issue is one of these cases.\n\nChildhood/adolescence is when a young person discovers who they are - and in the vast majority of cases, they end up settling with whatever gender they were born with. Recently I talked about this with my 85 year old mother, who if born now would have been caught up in this - she passionately wished to be a boy as a child. She grew up, fell in love, had 4 children - and retained stereotypically male interests. No domestic goddess she. \n\nToday, there's a good chance her .children wouldn't be born since her gender issues wouldn't be resolved.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "just a few days ago, our Prime Minister almost wept at the passing of his family friend, a true freedom denying, press restricting, free speech hating, Gay loathing , law manipulating, political enemy executing, secret police using, personal fortune achieving, .but, health care providing and universal education supporting dictator I believe the word he used was \" controversial \"\n\nDonald Trump is a serious threat to competent government, and I would not have voted for him for that reason , but he's got a ways to go on the dictatorial scale before the Left qualifies him as merely controversial while simultaneously cooing at his macho attractiveness it appears", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Breaking:\n.\nEast Coast millionaress Alice Rogoff's 'Alaska Dispatch' censors comments on President Trump's reinstatement of bans of those with the mental disorder Sexual Identity Disorder from joining Active Duty Service; removes comments after the majority of comments were in favor of reinstating the ban:\n.\nhttps://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/07/26/no-transgender-people-will-serve-in-the-u-s-military-trump-says/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Morals? Interesting. Whose morals? Jim Minnery's morals aren't necessarily mine. And you do know that a primary health risk from abortions comes from back-alley abortions sought by girls denied abortions in a controlled, healthy environment, right? I have no problem with Minnery standing up for his beliefs, my problem is with his flawed view of separation of church and state; he would perpetrate his beliefs on me through manipulation of the law. And he's not a bad guy for doing that, he's a bad guy because it's his basic personality. My wife and son were volunteering at the gate for a Dimond High sporting event when Minnery and his crew showed up for a demonstration against a transgender athlete competing there, and Minnery was an a-hole to them for asking him to pay before he entered like everyone else. The guy better hope he NEVER runs into me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would also point out that we are all often a mix of gayness, straightness, and bisexuality, and some times in our lives one \"side\" takes precedence over, or has more strength than, the other than at other times. I have know a few people that fluctuated from one to the other and back again, over several decades. It didn't make one more true than the other; rather, one was more true *at the time* than the other. A better way to explain it was that it was more the person they loved at any given time than the loved one's gender that determined their feelings in any given decade. They loved the person no matter that person's gender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But the \"sensus fldelium\" \"listening sessions\" whatever else--is not going to lead to a liberal, secular, atheistic humanistic Church. That is what I am trying to say. The Catholic Church can do everything you want--and it will still be Catholic. It will still teach what it currently teaches. Abortion, gay marriage, birth control, homosexuality, sex outside of marriage, divorce and remarriage will all still be condemned and women will still not be ordained. \n\nAs long as you understand that...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I skipped the gay marriage issue only because I ran out of characters.\n\nAt the present time, our SACRAMENTAL theology of marriage does appear to presuppose a man and a women with a view to procreation. I can conceive of a distant future when that could change. \n\nBut this is not the question on the table for Catholics at this time. In terms of today:\n\n1) I utterly reject our current magisterial teaching that homosexuality is an intrinsically disordered state, and that gay sex in immoral, and thus gay marriage as the context for immoral gay sex is, therefore, immoral. \n\n2) I totally support gay marriage as a secular institution, and am totally ashamed of Catholic resistance to governments legalizing gay marriage.\n\n3) Given the above, I would very much like to see secular gay marriages in Catholic churches with the addition of an appropriate blessing. \n\nBut VVV, I don't understand why you addressed your questions to me? They do not appear to have arisen out of any particular comment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump owes Black Republican voting Americans a lot. We can only hope that he will get the job done to help them as he has said he would for gays, women, and all Americans. Sadly Democrats may also benefit too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The doctrinal issues are: \n\n - the role of conscience and whether it can overrule settled Church teaching (it can't);\n - whether grace can overcome all human situations, no matter how difficult (it can), or whether it is morally okay to accept sin because it's impossible to do better (it isn't) or may lead to suffering by others (it isn't);\n - whether sins such as adultery and homosexual sexual activity can continue unrepented and without any attempts to amend one's lifestyle without personal culpability (they can't); and \n - whether access to the Eucharist for those publicly manifesting persistent serious sin will damage the faith of others through scandal (it will).\nPope Francis refuses to commit himself to clear answers. It's not dissent to call him out on this. And, in case you didn't know, no Catholic is obliged to accept novel teachings from a Pope, especially if \nthey are personal opinions expressed to the media or are contained in obscure footnotes he can't recall writing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mutilating the genitals of a trans murder victim is not a clue that this was a hate crime? Really?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Regarding: \"The U.S. Catholic bishops swiftly rejected Trump's action. A joint letter from the bishops' committees on family life and religious liberty called the order \"deeply flawed\" because \"it creates new forms of discrimination against people of faith.\" \n- The question that the church has to consider is how to rid the episcopate of gays, bi-sexuals, and transgenders?\n- The first step will be for those near and dear to each episcopate to vouchsafe each man's hetero proclivity. For those others, that is, for those for whom no-one will vouchsafe, then the church will have to use secondary indicators of non heterosexual proclivities: love of lace; lust for the bling of the realm; willingness to spend money on rococo decoration for all that they survey; etc. \n- Of course, unless the episcopate extends to lBGT employees the same benefits that the church extends to them, then civil governments need to withhold funds for church charities, and suspect claims of religious liberty.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why? How is Hobby Lobby saying they wont sell their goods to people who have been divorced any different than this guy saying he wont sell his product to a gay couple getting married?\n\nWhat if Hobby Lobby said they will not sell any of their products to gay couples if they are using their products in a gay ceremony?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The blessing of same-sex marriages and same-sex unions is an issue about which Christian churches are in ongoing disagreement. These disagreements are primarily centered on the interpretation of various scripture passages related to homosexuality, and in some churches on varying understandings of homosexuality in terms of psychology, genetics and other scientific data. While various Church bodies have widely varying practices and teachings, individual Christians of every major tradition are involved in practical (orthopraxy) discussions about how to respond to the issue.\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessing_of_same-sex_unions_in_Christian_churches\n\nThere are, across the world, thousands of Christian churches which bless (sanction) same sex marriage. There are thousands which don't. Obviously, your church and your personal beliefs represent the \"don't\" category.\n\ncont.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dear ADN, when posting articles relating to local or state laws, I would love it if there was a link to the actual wording of the statutes. I haven't been able to find the wording of the LGBT anti-discrimination law that was passed. I would very much like to read it to decide for myself if amendments are needed. \n\nI also have concerns about the bathroom part of the legislation. To be clear - I am NOT concerned about sharing a bathroom with a Trans-sexual person. I'm AM concerned that this law opens the doors to predators and pedophiles. Why not make all bathrooms unisex. Doors can be installed around urinals and the facility you chose can be based on how you do your business. \n\nBut what about teens claiming to be gender fluid in order to get access to locker rooms of the opposite sex? How will this be prevented and/or dealt with?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a Dutch person, I would just like to say that the phrase \"be normal\" doesn't really translate into English very well. As my mother used to say, it is perfectly acceptable, say. to be a transexual, but Heaven forbid if you fail to wash your front steps on the morning when everyone else does. There is a long social history of both tolerance for others and expections of \"proper\" behaviour that make for a complicated mix.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tim Miller says that the Bible never mentions homosexuality. And that's true because at that time people were not aware of homosexuality. Most men of the time engaged in such behavior. \n\nSuch behavior was different but it was not considered not normal. Homosexuality is a fairly modern concept. In terms of sexual behavior. Monks were lumped with eunuchs, etc.\n\nBut the Bible is explicit about \"hermaphrodites\" as a different form of sexual behavior. The biblical definition of this behavior was extended to even include religious people who refrain from sex. \n\nIn the New Testament as well as in the Old Testament such behavior is considered not normal - but not immoral. Jesus and Isaiah both blessed and valued \"hermaphrodites\" as part of God's creation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's a thought: The sacrament of matrimony is conferred by the partners on each other. When undertaken in a church, the priest (merely) witnesses for the institution. Gays need no permission or approval from the rest of us - they need simply to love and to vow. As for civil marriage, it is manifestly just, AND the law of the land. Get used to it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Christians are not asked or forced to accept abortion or homosexuality. If they are against abortion then they don't need to get one. If they are against homosexuality then they are free to not engage in it. On the other hand they are not allowed to tell other people how to live their lives. Even \"modern, mainstream Muslims\" cannot tell other Muslims how to live their lives. This is what freedom in a democracy looks like. Live and let live.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was talking about the high period of clerical child abuse, viz: the 70s and 80s. Sadly the taboo is well into the process of being of being removed thanks to the media and the behaviour of those in the entertainment industry. With a majority of so-called Catholics in the US approving of same-sex relationships there is no need for homosexuals to enter the seminary to hide their sexual preference when they can remain in a world which f\u00eates and adulates them on account of their publicly proclaimed preference.\nOnce upon a time it was the prayer of every Catholic mother to have a son a priest and/or a daughter a nun. Ere long her proudest moment will be to announce to the world that she is the mother of an homosexual son or daughter in whom she is well pleased and be lauded for her acceptance of diversity, perhaps even receiving a congratulatory 'phone-call or telegram from the Pope.\nOne day perhaps, coming out will be a sort of 'bar mitzvah', a Rite of Passage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Suicide is the second leading cause of death among Canadian youth, and LGBTQ individuals are disproportionately represented.\n\nI agree that we have bigger problems in Canada, but troubled youth isn't petty or insignificant. It's one of a raft of problems that need to be addressed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So why is it that many so-proclaimed Catholics who support abortion, homosexuality, and euthanasia also champion the false science of climate change, which ultimately seeks to reduce human population?\nNotice the pattern? That methodical denial of objective reality -- life does not begin at conception, gender is not fixed, taking your own life is not a sin -- culminates in the fanatical belief that a complex non-linear chaotic system can be controlled by toggling the amount of carbon dioxide which accounts for less 2% of all greenhouse gases on a medium-sized planet, 71% of which consists of water.\nDelete", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While my personal reaction to Oom Angus is one of trepidation ( as I believe humanity is measured by how it treats women, men, children, LGBT, nature and science ), there may be a lesson here. In the USA, the liberals disregarded conservatives, wrote them off as uneducated plebs, and look what happened there. Best we all pay attention, keep our cool heads, but engage with great respect, those who hold views contrary to our own. Maybe the likes of Save SA can harness some of this passion and drive, and treat these sentiments with delicate consideration, as true democracy demands.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Science interprets the universe in six stages. My point is that the books were inspired but not dictated and were written for the Jews at the end of the Exile, using pre-existing Jewish and Babylonian material. They are snapshots, not universals. There is much of value in them, including the teaching about lying with a male like you would a female (with entitlement). You can't lie with females that way anymore and pederasty is still wrong, but not consensual homosexuality. What is really at stake is not the sex, it is the patriarchy. Men controlling their wifes, Church leaders controlling the faithful, women not being priests or marrying them. No to all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cI prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.\u201d- Molly Ivins\n\nI couldn't agree more. Our nation has never been perfect. If we are to continue our uneven progress towards our ideals, we simply must protest our failings, as we have done for generations - Civil War, unionization/worker rights, women's suffrage, civil rights, Stonewall/gay rights, free speech movement, anti-war movements, environmental movements and, lately, black lives matter. Sadly, most of these movements and protests are repeats of attempts to rectify our American Original Sin of slavery and racism. We're slowly, unevenly moving forward, but only because of people like these fine SEHS students. \n\nBravo, and excellent response from the principal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Of course, it has never worked [trickle down economics], but ideologues do not care about results so much as they do about the purity of their ideas.\"\n\nWell that pretty much describes all the Catholic voters who've been willfully, mindfully voting for supply-side ideologues for the last generation, all because of the purity of their ideas about abortion, homosexuality, contraception, religious freedom, blah, blah, blah. And they do care about results when it comes to Supreme Court justices, so they become willfully blind to everything else. And the next thing you know we're electing a President Donald J. Trump, only the most recent Republican standard-bearer for so-called \"voodoo economics.\" And once again all the Republican sheeple get right on board and fall right in line. It's d\u00e9ja vu all over again, like an endless broken record that will never stop playing - over and over and over again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The LGBT \"community\" should get together with African Americans - you just can't win with either. The writer of this piece should take into account that the folks posting on Twitter are not exactly a representative cross section of gays - and a \"reporter\" for the Daily Beast has all the journalistic integrity and weight of the neighborhood gossip. \n\nKudos to Spacey for owning up to his past behavior.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't mean you. Gay sex doesn't result in unintended pregnancy. When gay people have children, they've thought it through and worked very hard at it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The discussion was what government has the right to compel a private entity to do. An on-going discussion that is very American.\nBigotry is a hatred towards a specific group. He did not attack or demean any group and indicated he has Gay friends just like you.\nIn matters like this it's important to be accurate. There is no indication that Chris's Bakery, past or present has refused to serve their guest.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Trump announces ban on transgender people serving in U.S. military\"\n\nHow is that biased?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The bishops fire homosexuals who are in active relationships. Paragraph 2358 of the CCC says,\n\n\"The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.\"\n\nObviously, the bishops feel that firing gays is \"just discrimination\". I would disagree.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Who would pay for the initial and reversed procedures? What happens if the couple get divorced or the male becomes a widower? Does the male have to go thru this process each time he becomes single? Is it still paid for by someone else? Or would this become an unfunded mandate (the male has to pay for it)? What about gay men or transgenders?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When BLM staged its extortion coup d'etat against the LGBT community of Toronto, Wynne, Tory and Trudeau were all at the Parade but abandoned the actual \"GAY\" community to BLM. They even tacitly agreed with BLM that the white gays of Toronto really are a pack of racists. As always, the gays of Toronto were thrown under the bus for political convenience. It\u2019s like the 1980 bathhouse raids all over again as elected officials turn their backs on us, and refuse to fight this injustice done to us. We remain just a bunch of homosexuals. Ironically, the cops are now our only ally. Not even lesbian Wynne would dare come to our aid or say BLM is out of line.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Every organization makes rules. The Church is no different except that it is not just an organization; it is a body created by Jesus. The Church is not requiring that someone \"deny his sexual orientation\" or pretend he is someone he really isn't. The Church is saying that someone who has homosexual desires or acts out his homosexual desires may NOT be a priest. There is nothing wrong with making rules like that. Just because someone wants to be a priest doesn't mean he is qualified for it. If he doesn't meet the requirements, he should not be admitted to the seminary. If this rule had been followed 40 or 50 years ago, we would not have had the problem of sexual abuse that we have had. The sexual abuse scandal was caused primarily by homosexual priests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How does it make me ignorant and mean because I disagree with a morally wrong and physically dangerous lifestyle ? The only people making mean statements are gay supporters . They demand tolerance yet have absolutely none for anyone who dares to disagree with them. What consenting adults do is they're business , but exposing young kids to events like this , in my opinion , borders on emotional child abuse. You don't take young kids to R and X rated movies and no good parent should take their kids to these events.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What bunk. Nobody \"chooses\" to be gay, and anybody who pretends to be in order to get a scholarship commits fraud.\n\nMoreover, it's not necessary. In less than five minutes, I found lists of scholarships for three different Caucasian cultural heritages, and demonstrated that lowlyrepub's claim, \"There are no white guy scholarships,\" is a blatant, egregious, LIE.\n\nAnybody who says white men are discriminated against, to their detriment, are either clueless fools, or actual racists. We still control the vast majority of the wealth and political power in the most powerful nation in the world.\n\nFull freakin' stop.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I have to wonder if your comments have more to do with Trump than any concern over transgender men or women. You don't know that \"transgendered\" is an inappropriate term that should be not be used.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, gay or not, you should hate yourself if you are in a state of sin.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He is gay, so he's imminently qualified to hold the portfolio of Minister of Virtue-Signalling and Identity Politics.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Foul Language, Foul leftist Ideas (gays, stong independent women, oh my could you cram some refugees in there and go for a trifecta??,) Foul Article in general\n\nWhy ADN keeps the author of this schmuk employed is beyond me!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Klastri, you are an imposter. A real lawyer would know that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applies explicitly to state governments only. A real lawyer also would know that the Federal Government must do the same, but this is required by the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. A real lawyer would have cited the Fifth Amendment\u2019s Due Process Clause in reply to my question about the unconstitutionality of Trump\u2019s transgender policy instead of the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s Equal Protection Clause as you did. The Equal Protection Clause is a catchy little phrase commonly tossed around to support an argument, but people who use it should first know its applicability and what it means. From which law school did you graduate?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am surprised that the paiting of the fathers of confederation is still allowed to be displayed. After all they are all white people, men and Christian. \n\nI am sure in the not too distant future the Liberal policy wonks will have an artist repaint some of the faces and bodies to have different colours, women and the transgendered.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This article and transgenderism is an insult to most women. These activists are totally destroying our society and the whole definition of man or woman or whatever. Your job should not be protected if your behaviour at work goes against the norm or is disruptive. Would anyone allow these people to adopt a child? Imagine the messed up head that would create.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Agree. Can't see what all the fuss is about having a gay scene and gay character. Especially when the main theme of the movie is beastiality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Re: \"HB2 supporters say ordinances like the one in Charlotte make it easy for sexual predators to enter public restrooms designated for the opposite sex.\"\n\nNonsense. Just google pictures of Buck Angel and tell me you want him in the ladies' room - because that's what it says on his birth certificate.\n\n Re: \"Opponents say that\u2019s nonsense and the danger is imagined.\"\n\nThat is because it IS nonsense and any such \"danger\" from sexual predators would involve heterosexual men with motives other than actually going to the bathroom. Trans-folk are there to go to the bathroom.\n\nLordy some heterosexuals sure have strange notions when it comes to human sexual orientation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Many on the left quote these studies approvingly when it suits their purpose--for example, to bolster their claims that transwomen actually have female brains.\n\nBut when someone comes along and uses the same studies to argue that gender disparity in STEM may be more influenced by brain differences rather than sexism, suddenly the studies are junk science and the individual, a sexist!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Where were there CEO 's the last 8+ years when militant blacks, Hispanic/Latinos, Muslims, homosexuals and ILLEGALS were rioting in our streets threading whites and our children with death simply for being white? Not a peep from corporate America, the Leftist so called, \"Mainstream Media, nor the Regressive Socialist Democrats! Obama and his corrupt crew were doing everything in their power including hiding their instigation of violence and hate and no one called them out on it. All these actions by reservists is simply revealing to America their globalist mind think.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And here I thought we were doing so well, with not a cathouse or casino in town. I forgot about the homosexuals. No wonder we're being smitten. \n\n(That was sarcasm, if anyone misunderstood.)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, but Mr. Trump didn't mow people over in a car and then stab and kill 7 people.\n\nThis problem arrived before him and will outlast him.\n\nPeople who invoke Trump don't have arguments, just blame.\n\nThe fact is that muslim extremism is alive and well. Multiculturalism sounds good when you are eating different foods and learning about different cultures. The fun stops when you learn of the real misogyny of forcing women to wear veils and not go to School and the murderous homophobes that throw gays off of buildings. At that point, multiculturalism isn't really any fun any more.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ok news flash THERE IS NO RELIGIOUS CONVICTION TO DENY A GAY COUPLE SERVICE. PERIOD. Please produce such testament if you can meanwhile these alleged bakers will bake cake for adulterers? Pedophiles? Muderers? What is there a questionnaire? Have you ever sinned, no, check. Get real.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Klastri, back to name calling when you can't explain a comment you made. You said transgenders in the military is a civil right. A sharp lawyer like you ought to be able to defend your position, so why can't you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think it better to encourage these priests to Out themselves.\n\nThe current Catholic party line is that priests should not \"identify\" as \"gay,\" because identifying oneself by sexual attraction is wrong.\n\nBut if priests with ss attraction began to simply confess to the public that they deal with sexual and emotional urges like the rest of us, and are not the saints they pose as, then that will bring much needed light to this issue.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I notice that you natter about abortion, but don't write a word about gay civil marriage. Undoubtedly because you see that it proves my point, but aren't humble enough to admit it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Heterosexual acts are ordered to the natural functions of the body, in totality.\n\nHomosexual acts aren't ordered to the natural functions of the body.\n\nWe'd have to \"throw out\" so much function!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Because it's \"all things Catholic,\" and if you censor talk about sodomy, you're censoring what the Church teaches about homosexual acts. Why are you so afraid to talk about it?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The transgender primary argument for public restrooms breaks down to the same argument the religious right are using to oppose them. We as a people need to stop trying to force others to live how we want them to and instead look for ways we can live together. (This is true for both sides imo) This means we need a different solution than both being proposed.\n.\nThis entire thing is just... well... stupid. There should not be any laws giving trans leverage nor should there be any barring them. Let the businesses decide individually which \"customer\" they want to market to OR (my opinion) ban cattle-stall bathrooms requiring individual \"gender neutral\" bathrooms. In most locations this solution would actually be more beneficial. Laws governing social behavior should only be used as an absolute last resort.\n.\nWe are flirting with WW3 and we have people fighting over bathrooms. smh\n.\nAt this time, I still don't know how I'm going to vote. Except, I'm disgusted that this is even an issue.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Can't wait for some of this 'stunt' outrage to be aimed at Muslim business owners once this gets pushed through. I'm sure there are plenty of Muslim restaurants who would refuse to cater a gay wedding. Too bad the UCLA considers Muslim intolerance of homosexuals a protected civil right.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No foul language used... my post was deleted because it was \"not in accoordance with the left-wing main stream view\" as \"judged\" by the \"left-wing\" peers and Chad (who are not my peers by the way).... conservatives be silenced!... let the country be guided by transgender bathrooms under Obama and his successor Clinton. Let the country be torn usunder by Keynesian Centralk Bankers and Presidents who declare that debt ceilings need to be removed... where not a single person undertstands the economy... not a single person here that understands the Austrian School of thought. Sheeeeeesh!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The rates of violent crime, STD's, suicides, drug addiction, depression, etc. that exists within the homosexual community would alarm anybody, but since they are a protected class (as mentioned above) these facts will never been broadcast on the nightly news.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In other words, you DO believe in restricting people from engaging in sodomy by making it illegal.\n\nOh, and the anti-sodomy laws were felonies, not misdemeanors. \n\nYou clearly want young people to be brought up to hate and fear gays as much as you do.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I wish more stray cats were gay, then we would have fewer of them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ridiculous. He passed through many other safe countries where he could have made a refugee claim. He probably heard about our generous social programs and chose Canada. If the US would not accept him as a valid refugee claimant than either should Canada. It appears that Canada is becoming a haven for disgruntled gay people from around the world. In fact, I would not be surprised if many of them are counseled into claiming that they are gay as a way to help ensure that they are allowed to stay in Canada. Meanwhile, Trudeau has not done anything to make sure people are not making there way illegally into Canada from the US. I recommend a 50 foot high by 50 foot wide wall of barb wire between the border with the US to put an end to this issue.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And since it wasn't transgender, they refused to use it!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I do not know what language I am speaking here that you won't get it. Perhaps I should translate it in Spanish for you. I am not talking about gay people here. I am talking about the perversion in the church regarding gay people. There's a huge difference.\n\nHave you not read the content I have posed here? Do you think the church is doing gay people any service by telling them that \"homosexuality is not a sin\"? Is that what you are also doing?\n\nListen, I am not trying to convince you or anybody here of anything. I am presenting the facts. What you do with them, it's up to you. But,\n\n25 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord , choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD .\n\u2014JOSHUA 24:15 KJV", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think a better example of playing politics is conservatives using a class of people they detest, gays, to try to win support for war against an American creation...Isis \nBefore you turn choleric and foaming at the mouth I am not democrat.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, he does need to stay out of airports. As it is, he's in Rome once a month. I say just move him there. He will be at home with the gay mafia and the rest of the stuck up Cardinals in Rome.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Adhering to Church teaching that homosexual behavior is akin to fornication, and not falling within the definition of sacramental matrimony is sinful. You clearly don't buy that and dissent from that position. Hurray for you. What it doens't mean though, is that people who agree with this teaching \"HATE\" those who don't. I think they're wrong, but that's not hate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What point do you see in it?\nYou've argued that the Instruction doesn't ask anything different of homosexual priests and seminarians from what it asks of heterosexuals. So what was the point of the extended observations about homosexual candidates -- other than as an exercise in cynicism, hypocrisy and dishonesty?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Black person: Sesssion's bankrupted the KKK in his prosecution of them in Alabama\nBrown person: I don't know anything that he did for brown people (and I don't really know what a brown person is; it sounds like you might be racist)\nFemale: Equal rights for years\nGay person: Marriage equality, despite democrats coming late to the party.\nMuslim: Same rights as everyone else", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "CUE: \"As far as my \"10\", YOU have brought this up 4 times now. I understand about being JEALOUS, YOU are not alone.\" ... where to start...? i have probably mentioned your \"10 incher\" more than 4 times. It's the most humorous and outrageous statement i've read in a newspaper comment section. watch Shrek again and take note of the \"compensation\" remark i figure you seen it , being a cartoon and all.\n i don't enjoy responding to your posts, i feel like i'm taking advantage of a child in many ways. \n i've come to realize you really have no idea how to actually communicate with others - your go- to response is always something nasty .. often unrelated to anything. what you think are slickly \"hidden and coded \" in your posts are well known, degrading terms regarding blacks, women, gays \"druggies\", etc . terms an insecure person would use to feel better about themselves. the fact that you throw them in totally unrelated places is just desperate. i do feel bad for you", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting. Alberta has a NDP government. Calgary has a gay Muslim mayor (while Toronto had Rob Ford; and Montreal had a mayor who was jailed). \n\nAnd Alberta is right wing?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "By \"jobs,\" Trump voters meant \"jobs for white men\". They did not want family leave to help women, a path to citizenship for Hispanics, legal protection for LGBT, travel for Muslim workers, or help for Black Lives Matter. It doesn't matter if Trump keeps his promises, or even if he actively contradicts himself: Trump voters know that whatever he does, Trump will put white men first. They elected him, not for any policy, but to protect them from having a woman, another black man, or a white person who sympathizes with the marginalized in the White House.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "90% of this is fueled by the women of Pride. Most gay guys like the police in their smart uniforms and polished leather equipment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I wish everyone who called himself a Christian would actually go back and read about the kind of person, assuming he was real, that Jesus is thought to have been. When did He EVER discriminate against anyone? Was his life all about fomenting hate against anyone? I have not met many modern Christians who seem to even know who Jesus was and what Jesus was about. And, if you read the Bible, the Torah, the Qu'ran, they all have one overriding principle in common. They all say that God NEVER gave the right to man to judge each other. In fact, that is a right God held back only for Himself. And God NEVER says anywhere in any of the religious texts that there is anything wrong with homosexuality. What there is, however, is room for people with their own prejudices and reasons for fomenting hate to interpret or misinterpret scripture toward their own hateful agenda. They've used it to justify the subjegation of women, children, and people of color since it was written.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Spacey pulled the gay card to avoid the pedophile angle.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Isn't it clear? The Institutional Roman Catholic church wants to rid itself of gay people. I don't know why gay people, their friends, families, and co-workers, choose to remain in what is an abusive relationship.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Eugenics doctrine in both Oregon and Nazi Germany singled out homosexuals and mental defectives. \n\nThe homosexuals in Oregon were just forcibly sterilized; in Germany, they wore Pink Triangles until they were run through the gas chambers.\n\nAlthough Germany tried forced sterilization first. \"The forced sterilizations began in January 1934, and altogether an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 people were sterilized under the law. A diagnosis of \"feeblemindedness\" provided the grounds in the majority of cases, followed by schizophrenia and epilepsy.\"\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nazi-persecution-of-the-mentally-and-physically-disabled\n\nYou are in good company to not want \"a fatally gened mutant\" to live.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And conservative Christians are still claiming that gay people or couples who seek equal rights, who merely want a baker to comply with a law, are seeking \"special rights\".\nIf a gay baker refused a conservative Christian couple a custom-designed wedding cake, churches would be howling!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This issue is ultimately about legally creating a third gender or class of human beings. Males, Females and Transgender-gay. Federal signs concretizing this law for bathrooms have already been created. The man, the woman (skirt) and the transgender half-skirt. This illusion has been achieved by making gender synonymous with race. Gay equals black-brown or the minority of your choice-they are the same legal identity-victims of oppression. Gays/transgender are now allegedly a race of people. Therefore as a legal recognized race of people they are liberally entitled to special privileges and Laws protecting them-special financing-affirmative action-job preference and so on. I personally do not believe sex or sexual identity should be elevated to the level of race. I have no issues with anyone's sexual proclivities, identities or desires. The same laws protect all of us. I prefer that we are all Americans and not hyphenated-Americans. \nThere is nothing exceptional about sexual identity.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No US president has been snubbed as badly as Obama has been. From gay agenda in Kenya, backdoor landing in China, son of a w---- by Duterte, by Putin in Syria, hacking, Ukraine, and above all by US people by electing someone \"not suitable for 7-11 job\". He will leave White House more unceremoniously than Bush, Jr.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think there is much question that some gays entered the Catholic priesthood as cover for their lack of interest in women. There is plenty of question as to how many of the pedophiles were involved with boys because of access and not their orientation. Some of the most egregious pedophiles raped girls as well as boys, even though boys were in the majority precisely because they were altar boys and left alone with the priests in question.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Another lame attempt to imply some misguided claim to manliness by someone too illiterate and too cowardly to read the article. Your homophobia shines through along with the blind idolatry for the new Hitler, and all of his Nazi brethren, Sessions, Zinke, et. al. More suitable reading for the Republican Aryans of White Supremacy are comic books.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why shouldn't I be allowed to criticize other people's faith? Is their faith sacrosanct and beyond discussion for criticism? We in the West seem to have no problem criticizing catholics or jews...so what makes Islam so special? From what I know of Islam, it ain't for me (as a gay male). Do you always look to denigrate someone who has a difference of opinion? Very progressive of you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The official Chi-town gay ministry is AGLO. It is more accepting than Pray the Ghey Away therapy. Cupich wrote AGLO a nice letter after the Orlando Massacre expressing his sadness and support.\n\nAnd reparative therapy, which is what Courage is, is harmful. It is actually outlawed for minors in IL. Priests like the guy profiled do great harm to gay people and families with gay children. I wonder how many parents he has advised to send to harmful conversion therapy programs or how many people he has encouraged to remain in the closet.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Another one who claims that his fear and loathing of homosexuals is based on Church teaching. As Christ taught us, \"You shall love your neighbor as yourself, unless the neighbor is gay. That neighbor shall not be loved.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The sex act is naturally ordered to procreation. That isn't an opinion, it's a fact. The only people realizing that homosexual acts aren't disordered are those who deny nature.\n\nFunny that you quote Aquinas. He clearly states in the Summa:\n\"I answer that, As stated above (A6,9) wherever there occurs a special kind of deformity whereby the venereal act is rendered unbecoming, there is a determinate species of lust. This may occur in two ways: First, through being contrary to right reason, and this is common to all lustful vices; secondly, because, in addition, it is contrary to the natural order of the venereal act as becoming to the human race: and this is called 'the unnatural vice.'\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sure, but we completely ignore and even provide weapons to oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia (death penalty for being gay, crucifixions, beheadings, ban on non-muslim religions, ban of non-muslims from some cities), Qatar, Kuwait and other dictatorships.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Bahahahaha if there is one thing I will stand up for in life, it is free speech and the things that I believe in. And nothing amps me up more than politics. Yesterday someone (don't even know him) walked by me with a \"Make America Great Again\" hat and nodded at me. I guess he sensed we were on the same side.\n\nThe irony is that I never voted for Trump, nor have I ever supported him. I just can't stand the BS media echo chamber that has done nothing but lie and shill for Hillary throughout the election. Repeating the same election narratives that Trump is a racist and hates women and gays. \n\nTrump's already done something GREAT, and I really mean that. He talked to to Putin. Hillary Clinton wanted to establish a no-fly zone with Syria (war). She wanted conflict with Russia. No American would benefit from a conflict with Russia, just the out of touch, smug, pompous, Washington DC elites. The sooner the people rise up with their pitchforks and burn them at the stake, the better.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And the reasons for the transformation came out of thin air, right? No doubt she felt like a woman for many years, perhaps since childhood, despite being trapped in a man's body. \n\nNow, to quote your previous BS \"Medical documentation show transgender persons have higher rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse compared to others. That alone would make them unqualified for military service, or is that also not politically correct enough?\"\n\nObviously in your mind Kristin Beck was all of the above (despite not having gone through the \"transformation\"), yet she was a fine Navy SEAL for 20 years.\n\nI hope you realize how foolish and bigoted your comments are.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"How many Catholics truly CARE what these guys say on human sexuality anymore?\"\n\nRegarding a subject as laden with moral content as sexuality, the problem is that you have it completely backwards. You haven't been listening to the Bishops for decades. And now look at our mess: scores of millions of aborted babies, what a horror; the near destruction of marriage; children without fathers (even among upper middle-class \"liberated\" women, the thought is, \"Who needs a man to help raise a child?\"); gay marriage; transgenderism --- all advocated by the weirdest bunch of people mankind has known since Rome year A.D. 1. And you think this is good. Lost.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"I think something that isn't explored is that 99% of those who claim this religions exemption only target one group - homosexuals. They never target adultery or other sins that the bible talks about. This to me shows that it's not really about religion at all.\"\n\nAgreed. There are a lot of fake Christians out there who have a problem with gay marriage but if you a convicted murderer.. not a problem. See Richard Ramirez who was known in the 1980's as the Night Stalker. A convicted serial killer who was married at San Quentin in 1996. Don't remember a whole lot of (if any) religious groups protesting this marriage.\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Bryan's letter addresses the concept of \"decency.\" I fear that the right-wing of the GOP has lost their belief in this concept. I fear that right-wing zealous Christianity has become a religion of hate rather than love. I see the millions of posts across the internet attacking minorities, women, LGTB individuals, the poor and all \"liberals\" who support them. I see the millions of posts which, over the last eight years, have attacked President Obama as a \"stupid, Kenya-born N@#$#%$ who hates America and seeks to destroy it.\" I see the wide-spread lack of decency and civility which, instead of promoting a \"better\" America, promotes a very dark nation with hate and discrimination prevalent. \n\nI simply ask, \"How can such a negative, hate-filled world view \"make America great again\"?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Kind of corresponds with whole sexist and homophobic \"man up\" ideology promoted by Barron and my brother, Stephen Grunow. Of course, these married priests would have to not use birth control. Imagine multitudes of children in the rectory. Who would support them financially?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It should be based on appearance. Many lesbians try their darndest to look like a man so for ID purposes they should be listed as M.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"As being gay becomes more culturally acceptable, it will be interesting to see if gay vocations to priesthood and religious life decline, especially if the Catholic church continues to be perceived as a homophobic institution. Another 20-60 percent drop in vocations would be devastating to the church.\"\n\nVocations to the sisterhood declined as opportunities for women rose. It is only logical to conclude that as opportunities for gays increase fewer will feel a need to resort to the priesthood.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Please show me where I am protecting any of the behavior mentioned in this article and I will promptly correct it. I in no way am defending sexual misconduct. I'm only pointing out the bigoted homophobic conclusions that are being made. The \"of course this happened, all gay people are like this\" sentiment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality conspicuous by its absence in the gospels.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Since Leitch has never publicly acknowledged her sexual preferences, I find it offensive that you would try to \"out\" her, and then suggest that being a homosexual is a negative.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": ".....so, when is the BLM community of West Indies ancestry going to do the same for the LGBT community? You *are* aware of course that the Black community has a long standing hate for Gay men, and that being gay can mean a death sentence in countries like Jamaica or Trinidad? In fact we have many refugees from these very countries who fled on threat of death because they were gay. When will this \"major cultural shift\" happen? When will BLM \"recognize, own and apologize\"?\n\n(Of the 77 countries where being gay is illegal, 33 of them are in Africa, 10 of them are in the Caribbean - you've got some apologizing to do)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No. That is not self-promotion. Simon is the one writing about Gavin. The man is an actor, comedian and podcast host. \n\nHe is not a racist. He denounces the Alt-Right openly. He denounces Nazis openly. The KKK hates people like Gavin McInnes. He has bi-racial children. He kicks racists out of his fraternal organization, and allows non-white, Muslims and homosexuals to join. And some have. \n\nI said don't take my word for it. And I gave you information about the lawsuits where newspapers retracted - and one apologized - for posting false information about Gavin.\n\nBut if Simon's self-promotion is all you need - and you are fine taking his word for it - ok. \n\nThe New York Times printed an article on June 2nd that Gavin McInnes was fronting a White supremacist group. June 3rd, after being faced with a lawsuit, mad a correction and admitted that it is not a White supremacist group. And acknowledged that non-whites, homosexuals and a Muslim were members.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "She of the TPP. She of the never ending wars. \nShe of the never ending debt. \nShe of the 100+ unsolved murders and alleged suicides including 5 people in 6 weeks this year alone. \nShe who left 4 men to die in Bengazhi, \nShe who bullied, threatened, and victimized rape victim after rape victim who she was afraid would go public with the fact that they had been raped by her husband. \nShe with the 'foundation' which serves as a clearing house for bribes and facilitates the allocation of access to power all at a huge profit to her. \nHer of the charity that spends over 70 cents out of every dollar on her own personal expenses. \nHer of the 'foundation' that accepts bribes from every 3rd world world despot and oppressor of women and homosexuals in the world.\nHer of the marriage to a known rapist and pedophile\n\nHillary Clinton is the most dishonest corrupt and criminally incompetent person to ever seek the presidency. Her resume reads like a howto book on failure and wasted opportunity.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Apart from the problems of \" non-gay white men in Canada\", should every single issue on Earth be Canada's concern?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I bet their next one will be 'The First Hispanic' , or first Gay or Transgender, or first test tube baby, etc. etc........to run for President. The Democrats need to always have a 'first' for their next Hollywood production aka President. Obama and Michelle were swooned over and promoted so much by the Celebrity left, talk shows, media and so called other artists......it is no surprise there was much thought put into every move they made. One big show.....and he sucked as a President, but just could not get enough of the limelight.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There have been instances of people being fired because someone \"complained\" to parish or school leaders about a person being gay (and single). \n\nOn the other foot, I know lots of situations where gays teach or are music ministers and no one has an issue with it, until they get married to their partners of 20 or 30 years. I had a partner for 13 years and am a church musician and never had an issue. There are gay priests and bishops who don't get fired (some have), so it's all all over the place. It depends on the diocese and the parish. \n\nYou can look back on this publication and see articles about people being fired for being gay. https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/hiring-firing-lgbt-catholics is one.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "However, it's just par for the course for Evangelicals and conservative Christians to use religious belief as their argument to define and discriminate against another class of people. Jim Crow Laws are the perfect example, and so was the treatment of Native Americans, and so now too, the treatment of LGBT and women's reproductive rights. I suppose none of this should be shocking when the prevailing view of God in conservative Christian and Catholic circles is that of a white heterosexual male.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "....by the same twisted folks who contort themselves mindlessly defending a 6th Century religion that throws gays off buildings, stones women, believes in honor killings, and forces women to cover themselves.\n\nBut yes, open-minded leftists, tell us about those horrible Christians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I agree. Firing someone just for being gay is terribly wrong and should be prohibited. The Church itself does NOT teach that such a person commits sin simply by being gay. In fact, the Church treats such people with special respect, in recognition of the cross they bear for Christ.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Not just Anderson but the Knights generally. I remember their response to the HIV/AIDS crisis back in the '80s. It was obvious that the Knights favoured a shaming approach to homosexuality and AIDS whereas Koop favoured neutral sex education. What I could never understand is that the Knights' gatherings of my childhood were punctuated by chain-smoking and copious quantities of alcohol, and many families lost fathers early because of tobacco- and alcohol-related diseases. Yet they were NEVER shamed the way men, women, and children with HIV were. At funerals they were remembered as faithful servants of God, and some had an honor guard posted during the Vigil of the Deceased. By contrast, the Church refused to bury many victims of AIDS. \n\nThe hypocrisy has always stuck with me.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "http://addictinginfo.org/2015/12/21/republican-poverty-93-of-the-poorest-100-counties-in-america-are-in-red-states/\nThe numbers are clear: Republican governance breeds poverty and misery. Conservatives crow about Detroit either out of ignorance or shame. Either way, they\u2019re still going to vote for the people who are actively trying to destroy their lives because gays can marry or something.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed, gay couples should marry. If you find their sex icky it is because you arenot gay, but don't but your unthinking reaction on God. He created gays to be gay and to have their own kind of sex. God came for them so that they will not be damned for responding to your intolerance with their own sinful intolerance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What the heck is it with \"progressive\" politics these days and its bizarre obsession with sex education in general and a homosexual and transsexual sex education in particular. And their apparent desire that all schools must (ironically enough) proselytize progressive views on sexual topics.\n\nIf parents really want their kid to have a \"progressive sex ed\" program, they'll send their kid to a public school in Alberta. Or they'd give them a long talk themselves.\n\nBack in my day, schools in Ontario taught drivers' education (\"Sportsmanlike Driving\" was the text). It was probably far more useful than any of the drivel advanced by Kathleen Wynne and her ministers in the past few years.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "they tend to obsess over what we do so much, it is all in their heads. they are the ones thinking about it over and over and over again. way much more than we gay people do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One in five women have been injured in some way by men. Though there are many kind and caring men, there are also many predatory men. Do not degrade and nullify how these women are trying to move forward with their lives. There are many ways a woman is victimized. A transgender man is still a man. He has not had a brain transplant, nor is it medically possible to change all of his DNA, cells, etc. to a woman. A man cannot run from himself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Re: \" Pence signed in a law allowing businesses to refuse to provide service to same-sex couples. He was so anti-gay he advocated the use of taxpayer dollars for conversion therapy.\n\nMr. Pence has pushed for the teaching of creationism in public schools. He signed a bill requiring burial or cremation of aborted fetuses.\"\n\nWait. I thought you said he \"is no whacko\"???", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Re: Man undressing in women's locker room\n\nMinnery's got her facts wrong. It was NOT legal for the Seattle man, who was NOT transgender, to undress in the women's locker room. This behavior is NOT allowed under the law. \n\nThe Washington Human Rights Commission explained why the man's conduct was ILLEGAL: \n\n\u201cHis behavior is inexcusable and reprehensible. And it is absolutely not protected under the law. Men cannot go into the women\u2019s locker room, as this man claimed he had the right to do. Only women \u2013 including transgender women \u2013 can go into the women\u2019s locker room. ... If a business has a reasonable belief that a person is in the wrong place, there is no rule that states that the person cannot be questioned and required to leave.\"\n\nRead the full WA Human Rights Commision statement here: http://www.hum.wa.gov/media/dynamic/files/320_Press%20Release%20pool%20locker%20room.pdf", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As far as i can tell, there is one reason to vote for Hillary, which you mention, but so very many reasons not to. I fear she lost her soul to the establishment, and find it hard to believe she makes any decisions without polling it first. NAFTA, the war in Iraq, gay marriage, legalizing marijuana, the TPP, etc., etc. etc. She votes for what's politically popular every time. I wish Elizabeth Warren was running!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Or test for a host of other conditions or characteristics. We already have the capability of testing for the gay gene in utero. If Hitler were in charge, we would terminate every-such fetus in order to eliminate homosexuality. Just think, with DNA testing, all the human characteristics we could eradicate.\n\nKeep in mind though that vaccines are not a good analogy. Those can introduce other (sometime unintended) pathogens into the population.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The problem is not necessarily allowing those who are transgendered to enter the restroom of their choice, but allowing those who are not transgendered to pretend they are when in fact they are child molesters or perverts. When you have a way of perfectly distinguishing those types from the transgendered, then perhaps women, girls, and men who have wives, daughters, and granddaughters whom they love will feel more comfortable with this recent and extreme change in our social norms.\n\nOr maybe not. Maybe some women are just not wired to see a transgender's junk hanging out as he shaves his legs in a public restroom with one foot up on the sink while wearing no underwear and a miniskirt. Sorry for the visual, but this happened to my family and some other folks who were very upset about it. Why is their highly unusual wiring the only legitimate kind? Time will not change this, it will only force ugly confrontations as 99.95 percent of people are told their wiring is actually just bigotry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So failing to provide a gay couple with a product you sell is okay? Or not? You haven't made yourself clear.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "False equivalence to begin with. Gay couples don't threaten the bakers life. Gay couples don't exist to attack the baker. They are just people who want a wedding cake.\n\nFurthermore, there was not discussion about what was on the cake. Simply, \"we don't serve gay weddings\". It wasn't about insensitive remarks. If that was the case I would be with a baker who said, \"I won't put that on a cake.\"\n\nI know a lot of conservative (not political) type people who woulnd't put a lot of things you see on cakes today. They'd make the cake and tell you to put that part on your self if you wanted it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you know what \"transgender\" means? It's not \"in between male and female\", it's going from one to the other.\n\nI see you did not address the fear and loathing towards our LGBT neighbors expressed by the society.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those stats are broadcast and widely understood. They weren't shocking to me at all. LGBTQ has a stigma associated with it, just look at CleanupEugene's comments: upset that he can't call gay people derogatory names in public.\n\nWe promote a culture that kicks people to the curb, then points the finger and says \"See? Those people are always sitting in the gutter\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no such thing as \"cis\" women. There are women, and there are transwomen. This, some would say insidious, use of newly-minted language by trans activists is seeping unquestioned even into the Globe and Mail. Why should any woman, with all her lived experience as a girl and a woman in Canadian society have to demean or qualify her existence to please men who wish now to take on that female identity as if it was some sort of costume? Surely the editors of the Globe and Mail have more respect for the power of language. I was born a girl and raised a girl in a time and place in which every day girls were prey for predatory men. That still is true for many girls in Canadian society today. Trust me boys - you wouldn't have wanted my girlhood. As a woman, I'm a survivor. I hold my hard-won ground and my hard-won language. I am not moving over. I have never been, am not now and never will be, \"cis\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not a cent....period.....sadly our rather stealthy government will probably funnel money to this and hope no one finds out, just like Khadr, just like bringing in the Gays secretly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If Catholic institutions reject transgender people, then transgender people and their allies will reject Catholicism. Which is a win for the trans people and a loss for Catholicism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The gay couple coming in asking for a normal wedding cake with nothing different other than they are a gay couple.\"\n\nSo you're not familiar with this case. Read up on it and then comment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Unfortunately a lot of diseases can spread through homosexuality\"\n\nWhich diseases 'spread through' homosexuality that do not 'spread through' heterosexuality ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, no, we all understand. We all understand completely. Some people want to be \"genital police,\" and other people want to treat some members of the public like second class citizens. There has never, ever been an incident where a trans person \"violated the privacy\" of a woman or a girl. If you want to be an apologist for bigots, it's because you share their views.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Left supported equal rights for women, minorities, gay persons, etc. The Right supported a ban on abortions, Muslims, refugees, immigration, etc.\n\nWho is more tolerant?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I said nothing about mental condition of transgendered folks. I said that serving in the military is not an absolute right, and it isn't.\n\nAs for people currently serving, it's important to make sure that every service member is contributing to readiness and cohesiveness and effectiveness. Don't read into this what I'm not saying. I'm not saying that transgendered people are not doing their jobs, I am saying that nothing, including political correctness, should prevent any commander from removing any service members if there is an issue with maintaining readiness and effectiveness. We've seen this happen with service members known to be sympathizers with terrorists like ISIS. If a transgender is creating a problem (and again, I'm not being specific, but anyone can create an issue that deserves discharge) they should not be protected just because they are transgender.\n\nAnd I think if you want to transition to another gender, that should be handled outside the military.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well now, BBurn, 68% of American voters supported gay marriage. Voters are part of society, are they not? Haha", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, I just know you have so many gay friends who just just love discussing gender theory and queer politics with you! LOL you think and talk more about this stuff than all of my gay friends combined and having been out over 35 years I have lots of them! Conspiracy nuts are fun up to a point, but then they just get boring and tedious. Welcome to that point! \ud83d\ude34", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"My\" video link was about Progressives, and the gay baker issue was only one part, assuming you are insinuating that I started the baker discussion when I meant to focus on Progressives. There may indeed be anti-gay bakers who refuse to sell any product to gay people; there may also be live-and-let-live anti-gay-marriage bakers who don't wish to make wedding cakes for gay people. There's quite enough generalizing going on these days without creating a class of bakers. Each individual baker should be able to decide for him/herself whose cake they want to bake. Heck, if a baker wants to put up a sign that says \"Gay cakes are our specialty,\" I don't give a rip. WHy would I want a cake made by someone who didn't want to make it? Who knows what they might put in it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We need to examine all of the individuals whose names and images grace our currency, buildings and streets. If their views on slavery, immigration, abortion, taxes, homelessness, the minimum wage, gay marriage, or anything else do not match the current liberal mindset, then things must be renamed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "no. it is ok with me if every last one is homosexual, as long as they, and all candidates are tested somehow for pedophilia, as probably anyone who works with children should be. there are very simple, non-invasive tests for this but could they be used without someone being sued. I do not know. i do think it is good to get more diversity along these lines. as a woman, i would rather go to confession to a gay priest, especially if i was younger. i am for gay priests, woman priests, married, unmarried, retired, young old. they really should be irish though and speak in an untranslatable brogue. oh there goes the diversity element.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are probably valid moral arguments about banning transgendered persons from serving in the military. This is not one of them, and reeks of adolescent moral reasoning. I'm surprised the Denver Post chose to publish it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the same can be said about left wing people - happy to support muslims and then criticize the right for being against gay marriage. It literally goes hand in hand on both sides. That you somehow seem to think this is isolated to conservatives is naive. Bud maybe a little to nice on this topic (for the record, I agree wholeheartedly with Bud), however, both sides are hypocritical. \n\nFor that matter, what's with left wing people thinking that all canadian conservatives are super right wing pro tump supporters? Lol, Canada is way more left wing than the U.S., including Obama and other democratic politicians. Harper was and many conservatives (maybe not Kellie Leitch haha) still are. Just cause you vote conservative does not mean you hate gays and love trump. Everyone should think of every issue independently of party lines. If they did that we would all be better and likely realize we have way more in common than we think (and I will happily admit I can be guilty of that).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is that what you say to your children? \"I don't owe you anything. Tough luck.\"\n\nIt's not about owing something. It's about love. Catholic teaching says that God calls each of us to happiness and fulfillment. \n\nExcept for homosexuals, apparently. They have to settle for a \"disordered inclination\" and a life of struggle with a cold shoulder from the Church.\n\nOh well. Not your problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the past three years, I have attended probably a dozen same-sex marriages. As one can imagine, there was pent-up demand. The couples I know have been together for decades and for them, this was a dream come true. Finally, they are able to enjoy all the legal benefits and protections provided by civil marriage.\n\nFor many years, gay couples could have a matrimonial ceremony in quite a number of faiths but this was not recognized by the State as a legal marriage and thus no civil protections were a result. Today, those protections are available through the recognition of their marriages by the State and Federal governments.\n\nAs far a low number of marriages, marriage is an option for some couples. Statistics on straight couples show 50% marry and 50% do not - even when children are involved. For gay couples, this will take time and generations to even-out.\n\nThis article comes across as \"sour grapes\" implying this was not needed. That is not the case. Ask those who did marry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is the hypocrisy that gets to me, if you really followed the faith:\n1. you could never carry a gun as Jesus was a pacifist and promoted peace and love and turn the other cheeks. \n\n2. You could never judge homosexuals as Jesus taught to not judge others and to love one another. At NO TIME did he speak about homosexuality. \n\n3. You could not vote Conservative as they are the party that believes in helping the poor the least. And Jesus was ALL about the poor and critical of the rich (whom the conservatives also support).\n\n4. You cannot feel anything but love and compassion for all immigrants and should seek to help them.\n\nSo tell me do you follow these principles or only the ones Jesus NEVER taught that seek to judge others and keep young people in the dark? \n\nFor the child struggling with gender identity do these teachings hurt or build the child up in love?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Most, if not all, households live by conservative principles, not liberal principles.\"--So, you bash a poll I mention, and then you throw out this claptrap? My household is run with a mixture (as are many, I bet). Our son is taught responsibility and that there are consequences for decisions. He is also taught that all people--black, brown, white, gay, straight, and everyone else--should be free to live their lives and have basic rights.\n\n\"Look at how Trump is getting savaged, because he want to fix what's broken for ALL the people.\"--Another piece of claptrap that has nothing to do with the discussion.....and also laughable.\n\n\"What happens to those teacher that shouldn't be in the classroom, 1) they become administrations, or 2) nothing happens to them. NO, education isn't like other professions.\"--No, it simply requires documentation and causation. BTW-My wife has worked with many incompetent people during her career in the private sector.....most of whom were never fired, either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unfortunately, when Burke discovered that Tim Gunn is gay, he would have conniptions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dishonesty is a characteristic of the Liberal party and they are showing it in this very topic today. They are attempting to ram though important legislation that requires much more thought and debate. I give credit to he Senate for sending back some of this bad legislation, particularly the citizenship issue of fraud and convicted terrorists getting to keep their citizenship. Likewise, with transgender bathrooms which is beyond belief the amount of time wasted on this stupidity but, that is what you get when you vote Liberal. Example, Premier Wynne!! Again, the utter nonsense we have gone thought because a dying MP had a wish to change our National Anthem which most citizens disagreed with. Doesit ever end!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The baptism of infants comes from bad proof texting about having to be born again to enter the Kingdom of God. It means having new eyes to see beyond what the world sees and notice the poor and marginalized, including gays. It has nothing to do with origial sin, the misogynist theories around sex being its method of transmission or that original sin was one act of disobedience rather than our common history of blaming others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Everyone who knows Trump says he is definitely not a racist\"\nTrump doesn't have enough of an ideological core to be racist or to be not racist. The only ideology Trump has is the advancement of Trump.\nBut!\nTrump is willing to play to the racist component of his base with the kind of ridiculous comments he made after Charlottesville to keep them happy and in his corner.\nIt's the same reason that Trump abruptly ordered the military to kick all transgender people out of the military. Trump doesn't care one way or the other about gay or transgender people, but he knows that throwing them under the bus keeps his conservative Christian base happy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just take a look at what they do to gays in Muslim countries like Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Kenney and the Conserves are our saviors by comparison.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How can you not \"fit in\" with the gay crowd. I thought all you needed was a good \"opening\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is the Khadr family that are the Haters. Haters of Western democracy democracy, haters of gays, haters of women's right etc, or haven't you been listening to what they openly say in their interviews", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(Part two of four) The only moral, ethical thing to do at this point is stern denunciation of Donald Trump and everything for which he stands. At this point there is no other moral way out. Period. The end.\u2014Elagabalus Nuts. THE USCCB is not about to give up its Republican-Trump agenda.\n\nRight wing Catholics and Evangelicals voted on 2 issues and only 2 issues: abortion and gay marriage. All else was ignored to make that \"moral\" choice.\u2014Anna Rose Kearney that looks like what Pope Francis was condemning in the recent bruhaha over Catholics joining with Evangelicals. Raymond Arroyo went after Pope Francis on this matter August 17 on EWTN. \n\nthere is still room for discussion about where the monuments should go.\u2014Robert ADDINGTON Gravel for dirt roads seems about right for me.\n\nYou decry the Francis revolution; you have ensured a traditional Catholic disaster.\u2014dennism", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are there really more gay psychologists than there are gay priests. Hum. Where did you get that statistic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Heather Knight was also one of the draftees of the document \"An Understanding of the Biblical View of Homosexual Practice and Pastoral Care.\"\n\nIt is important to note that Jonathan Henderson was under her wing during her tenure at PUC. So what is so important about this? Well, Henderson\u2014a chaplain and pastor at PUC, has preached a series of abominable sermons promoting the LGBT agenda in the SDA church. Once you you read that 21 page document and listen to Henderson's sermons, you will realize that there's is a well planned agenda to promote homosexuality in the church. Here are a couple of clips of the Sermons \"Adam and Steve\" and Coming Out, Coming In\"\n\n1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fW3FHFWj7g\n2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAT6P4GB-do\n\nHere are the complete sermons. You have to pray a lot before you watch these:\n\n1. COMING OUT, COMING IN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNWUxZZgWU&t=2908s\n\n2. ADAM AND STEVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asqUWRhcjlc&t=1485s", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think she was let down by those groups of voters. Rather she just took them for granted that because of their grouping that they would vote for her. I am in a same sex relationship and there is absolutely no way I would ever vote for a Clinton. She doesn't represent me nor my values. Gay or not, she (or anyone else for that matter) can't take my vote for granted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tell me, are hermaphrodites included in your claim that \"you are your body?\" And why have homosexual tendencies been observed in toddlers too young to know anything about sex? And how is rational thinking based on evidence, and believing we should respect all of God's children, sexist? \n\nApparently, you don't know the meaning of the word sexist. Here, let me help:\n\"relating to, involving, or fostering sexism, or attitudes and behavior toward someone based on the person's gender.\"\n\nSeems I'm not the one discriminating against any of my fellow Americans, just supportive of the importance of respecting others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Few would struggle to identify values like civil society, tolerance, respect and mutual understanding with the Jewish community, both in this country and elsewhere throughout the free world. \n\nIslam doesn't carry the same undiluted package of virtues with it where it comes from, or where it goes. Actions taken in the name of Islam have provided many people in places like Manhattan, London, Paris, Madrid, Nice, Berlin, Ottawa and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu with a wholly legitimate sense of fear. \n\nI feel considerable discomfort about a culture that marginalizes women and homosexuals, and that shows unique interest in importing its own set of laws into our otherwise successful civil society. I also feel discomfort about the religious fanaticism that produces suicide bombers who murdered, oh, another 100 people in Pakistan this week. \n\nMight my beliefs and discomfort be described as a phobia by someone trying to push an agenda?\n\nWhen you need to control my thoughts, the problem is you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is pathetic seeing MSM beating the Russian drum when it is apparent to all that the majority of hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center came from Saudi Arabia. Yes, it would be fair to slam Trump's willingness to continue on with previous administration's cozy relations with Saudi Arabia but this endless obsession with Russia is getting tiring.\n\nHow about investigating Saudi Arabia's abuse of human rights, women's rights, gay rights, sponsorship of terrorism?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm profoundly grateful for the new-found legal right to my marriage, and for my 'alternative' family's welcome in our parish and in our kids' Catholic school. \nI'm profoundly angry when same-sex marriages result in firings from other less-welcoming Catholic schools. \nI'm really annoyed when folks like Mr. Tennes disrepect and dishonor same-sex couples.\nSo I'm finding it hard to articulate the reasons why I wanna say 'Come on, just let the guy sell his fruit at the farmers' market\". Something to do with mercy? The right to earn a living? Pity on someone who doesn't know any better? I suppose I could be accused of internalized homophobia...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To make your long story short, you hold yourself out to be worthy of more respect than the cardinal bishop.\n\nCardinal Burke\n\nhttps://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-cardinal-burke-responds-to-australian-couples-synod-presentation\n\ncounseled parents and others not expose children to homosexual relationships in such a way as to give the impression that they are not morally objectionable.\n\nIf you believe that to to be \"homophobic\", you're the one with a problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He will just sneak out any gay and other oppressed people in China to Canada without telling anyone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'd say at least half of the clerics who wrote the document were gay ... albeit closeted, lonely and probably very, very afraid. ;-)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know if the studies mention it, but the vast majority of hiv/aids, and much higher instances of other STDs are with homosexual couples. I'd hazard a guess that this is because of the lack of risk of pregnancy (no condom usage), and tearing of the anal tissues, making transmission of bodily fluids that much easier. Same sex or not, should always use appropriate protection.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...Trump's hateful ban of transgender troops weakens our nation...\"\n\n1st, his ban wasn't 'hateful'. 2nd, his ban strengthens our Military. 3rd, what the ban does weaken was the damage Barack Hussein Obama's hatred of our Military wrought.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, if you really disagree, why don't you just come out and say \"I am against a religion that is misogynistic and treats women like trash and I am against gays being murdered and thrown off buildings.\" Tolerance is fine and dandy as long as people don't say things that others find offensive. While I think we all know that ISIS does not represent Islam anymore than Timothy McVeigh represents Christianity, until such time as everyone is willing to say tolerance does not equal silence and that we are against bad and evil no matter who perpetrates it or which religion's name is used in vain, then we have a problem. I for one an against misogyny and killing of gays. Religions that support this are part of the problem and they are not welcome in this country.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "At the time of the founding was gay marriage normal? Change normal changes the culture, changes the country. And this is the point of transgenders in the military. It is less about serving change normal behavior within the military. If serving is the aim have any surgery first, then serve, and then there is not a problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The anticipation is killing me....\n\nBack in the 80's, it was acceptance of gays.....\n\n(When I joined the Army in the mid 80's, one of the first lectures I recall was how it was everyone's duty to report on gay comrades due to their susceptibility to blackmail -the Cold war was still on.....By contrast, gayness is now celebrated within the Army...)\n\nIn the late 90's and 00's it was gay marriage.....\nNow, it's acceptance of transgender....\n\nWhat will the '20s bring? Is NAMBLA getting ready for a run? Will we be making belated apologies to Benjamin Levin ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anyone can see it from your tendentious posts. What do you lose by admitting the truth? Why are you such a flaming feminists? Women in 1st world countries have it pretty well indeed. Are there not legitimate example of suffering in the world that take priority over the \"oppression\" of 1st world women? Even in the US we have prisoners who are being abused, systematically, in violation of the 8th amendment, but here the progressives are in a state of apoplexy over whether or not some gay couple can have a cake made. Thats why you lost the election.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From the article: \"This is thought to be the first time a European government has arrested, tortured and killed homosexuals since the days of Nazi Germany.\"\n\nSadly I don't think this sentence is very accurate. If anything it is just more recent and systematic, but homosexuals have faced a lot of persecution over the years in MANY countries. Read up sometime on the story of Alan Turing, perhaps one of the individuals who played the biggest role in the Allies defeating the Nazi's in WWII. He was arrested for homosexuality, subject to chemical castration and then committed suicide. In Britain.\n\nIn many countries gay men have been murdered with police turning a blind eye. This happened in Australia in the 1980's and 1990's and is still happening today in many (predominantly Muslim) countries. About a dozen or so countries still have the death penalty on the books for same-sex sexual activity.\n\nChechnya is the most extreme right now, but they aren't alone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course Justine will puff out his/her/it's chest and then offer taxpayer funded sex change operations in the US for all transgenders. Mr. Wynne in Ontario has delisted many critical health services but their beloved trans or whatever get free surgery worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The constant blaming of society for their own mental health issues is pure denial, nothing more.\n\nThe insanity has to stop.\n\nTrans troops are an insignificant group and the hysteria is more political correctness gone mad to support their agenda to take the rights of the majority away and enable them to profit off some completely fabricated victimhood.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It it horrible of him to take out his self-hatred on other gay people who have come to terms with who they are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "HitLIARy must be really happy that Vlad and the Donald aren't married since she's anti-gay anyways! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maEvJQBJH4s LOL", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Then why did Feinstein & Durbin ask about her Catholic Faith?...Her paper back in college was a statement that religious faith SHOULD NOT interfere w/ public law.\n\nIt's just like hate crime....beat one gay person and they'll all hide.... or Klan tactics....just hang a person every once and a while so others behave ....or the Brown shirts ...they didn't have to beat up lots of German citizens to get everyone towing the party line\n\nI think 20 years ago Barrett was doing the same thing JFK did, assuring the State that a persons beliefs can not supercede American law\n\nBut the Dems feel they have to publically slap a conservative Catholic around so the others will fall in line....wouldn't want too many conservative Catholics in the courts would we \n\nYou really think they should be picking judges in our country by what some bishops have said\n\nwhat about Mormons are they out in your book too", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm happy to offend Muslims (but the ones I know would not be offended) by pointing out oppressive regimes built around extreme Islam are terrible places. You are simply wrong when you claim I am trying otherwise. They are terrible places, and the religious rules they have are sickening.\n\nBut many people think that every Muslim adheres to these beliefs and that is wrong as well. Many graduate students in the sciences are from Iran and Moslem, and they hate their oppressive laws. People in Iran are fighting against this (see https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmk8z3/the-iranian-women-fighting-state-censorship-one-selfie-at-a-time for example). I don't think all of Christianity is bad because the Bible says to kill gays, or because the Phelps Church is terrible. But I also think that the terrible things happening in the Middle East are more about oppression and poverty, and almost any religion would have served the same purpose for being a tool of terror and oppression by those people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you really believe that a homeless man and a billionaire are truly equal? Assume that both are brought up on the same criminal charges. The billionaire with his army of high-priced lawyers is more likely to get off than the homeless man and his public defender. That, sir or madam, is reality. The theory is that they are equal. The reality is that the deck is stacked in favor of the billionaire.\n\nGeorge W Bush got into Yale because he was white and his father's son. Otherwise, there is no way he would have made it. This discrimination against non-whites doesn't bother you. You favor discrimination in favor of rich whites. \n\nMy mother's family were all Czech and Austrian Jews: Antisemitism got many of them killed by the Nazis. My brother is gay: He was rejected by the Catholic Church. My daughter-in-law is black: She and her family all know what racism is an does. Don't say that I am irrational about it, nor do I feel guilt. I feel anger that you actually support discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bigot: a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.\n\nClearly you are intolerant of those of us who exercise our Second Amendment right to self-preservation and to kupuna-preservation. Clearly you are intolerant of those of us who use guns to protect ourselves, gays, transgenders, the kupuna, and/or the weak. Ironic isn't it?\n\nThis may challenge your beliefs. Gwendolyn Patton of the Pink Pistols an LGBTQ gun rights advocacy group stated it best in her press release in response to the tragic Orlando massacre that targeted Latin gay men yet destroyed gays, transgenders, and straights:\n\n\"I say again GUNS did not do this. A human being did this, a dead human being. Our job is not to demonize the man's tools but to condemn his acts and to work to prevent such acts in the future.\"\n\nhttp://www.pinkpistols.org/2016/06/12/pink-pistols-saddened-by-attack-on-orlando-club/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "J.Bob, I think many Christians have a problem with homosexuality, though I don't think it is a majority. \n\nThe problem is when a Christian, for reasons of his/her belief, refuses to bake a cake or provide a venue or issue a marriage license for a LGBT weddings, when they purport to provide those goods or services to the general public. Or when they won't hire people from a particular group . At one time, many of these Christians also refused to provide their services to non-Caucasian people and they believed it was moral and right. There was a time it was perfectly legal for an ad for a job to note: Catholics need not apply. What is different in attitude if the issue is LGBT people?\n\nI grew up in the segregated South during the 1950s and 1960s. I have seen and lived with how a majority can band together and make life miserable for a minority. This is the same song, just a different verse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In addition to saying nothing about homosexuality directly, Jesus never said anything about three or four person marriages either. Yet, Matthew 19 and Mark 10 are used to argue that such unions are morally illicit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good for them. Pence, giving credibility to a hate group, disgusts me. Focus seems to be a dying hate organization and the vast majority of Americans don't agree with their push to discriminate against gay Americans. But my guess is most people who voted for Trump/Pence had no idea about his hateful, fundamentalist leanings.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree completely. And how do you think Muslims feel, who follow their faith and coexist peacefully with other faiths, are loving parents, and want all violence to end? \n\nI have fought back, on this site, with several liberal commentators, that they unfairly stereotype all Christian with very narrow behaviors that are not true of all Christians. Westboro Baptist leaders stinks but it's still just homophobia. Anti homosexuality is widely held in mainline churches, although few would interrupt a veterans funeral to make their case. \n\nNow imagine yourself as a Muslim accused of the mass murder committed by ISIS?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This isn't just about people with homosexual inclination, it's about sodomy. The word homosexual is misleading. It can refer to someone who doesn't commit sodomy or it can refer who does. It can refer to someone who has repented or someone who has not. We are not morally obliged to treat unrepentant sodomites with respect, especially if they oppose the Church or its teaching or promote or condone sodomy or if they behave in a perverse manner near us. We would be right to rebuke them. Saints and the magisterium have condemned sodomy as a grave evil, an abomination that cries to heaven for vengeance. In Catholic nations sodomy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"President Donald Trump went into bigoted overdrive\"\nIn order to be bigoted against transgender people you have to have an attitude towards them. You have to have a worldview that excludes them.\nBut, Donald Trump has no core values, other than the advancement of Donald Trump. Even his support for his children is to ensure the advancement of Trump.\nWhen it comes to values, ethics, ideology, etc, Trump has no \"there\" there.\nThat's what makes this even worse, IMO.\nPresident Trump has known gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people his whole adult life. He's probably socialized with them, hired them. Maybe arranged loans from them.\nBut, GLBT people don't matter to Trump, one way or another. And if it advances his agenda to throw them under the bus, he'll do so in a heartbeat.\nTrump just threw the lives of thousands of transgender people, people honorably serving our country, into chaos. For purely political reasons.\nTrump did this to keep his base happy.\nThat's what makes this so sad.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not a license, an inquiry into one's humanity. If one's humanity is gay, then that is appropriate. We can both pray for the Church, although God's plan for it will happen in due time, and I suspect continued use of a Magisterium will not be part of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With sincere apologies to my LGBT friends out there, I think you shouldn't take the bait on this one. \n\nThe evangelicans are masters of the wedge issue. Gayness, gay marriage, abortion (goes without saying), etc. Apparently they've grabbed on to the transgender boogeyman for this election cycle to pump up the base and get em to the polls. You know the drill...\"some creepy man posing as a woman will get into the restroom and molest your daughters.\" They must have focus-grouped it. \n\nI don't think the transgender fight is your best political play right now. Focus on bringing the working class back to the party that has traditionally fought for them over the republicans' oligarch masters. Don't abandon LGBT constituents, but don't make this your signature issue, or you play right into their hands.\n\nAnd to the LGBT crowd, please be patient. Show some restraint now to help beat republicans. Social norms are changing. This isn't an issue with the millenials. Hang in there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "her extreme stand?\nKellie said screen for \"anti Canadian values\" not for Canadian values\nsuch as\nhomophobia\nhating and oppressing women\nhonour killing\nfemale genital mutilation\nstoning adulteresses\nracism\nwhy is it \"extreme\" to be against these?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When BLM staged its extortion coup d'etat against the LGBT community of Toronto, Wynne, Tory and Trudeau were all at the Parade but abandoned the actual \"GAY\" community to BLM. They even tacitly agreed with BLM that the white gays of Toronto really are a pack of racists. As always, the gays of Toronto were thrown under the bus for political convenience. It\u2019s like the 1980 bathhouse raids all over again as elected officials refuse to fight this injustice done to us homosexuals. Ironically, the cops are now our only ally. Not even lesbian Wynne would dare come to our defense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, we don't have a problem. We have the First Amendment. I didn't mention your religion. You are free to celebrate gay marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your article underscores the glaring hypocrisy that exists in the Catholic Church regarding its selective punishment of gay people for causing SCANDAL (the scariest word in the Catholic lexicon) by, for example, taking time off from work to come sing in the choir for the funeral of a friend. If some clerics consider that SCANDALOUS, then they should be equally SCANDALIZED over the horrors of married couples who do not present one child for every year married in the communion line at church on Sundays. Since straight people who use contraception on a regular basis can pass without anyone bothering to ask them about their reproductive habits prior to the reception of holy communion, they get a pass. And nobody seems to think it's a SCANDAL. I say the way these clerics treat other human beings is the real SCANDAL and I, for one, am SCANDALIZED!!!!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr Trudeau exudes energy and fun, when he speaks it's clear he's addressing women and the young, he legalizes pot, he spends his time in campaign mode, so it's clear he's in sync with today's Canadians.\n-\nalso\nhe marches in more Pride Parades than gay teenagers\n.\nhe is so emotional that he sticks his tongue out - way out - and opens his mouth - wide wide - when he is cxcite\n.\nhe stages shirtless selfies in public\n-\nhe wears colourful socks to get attention\n-\nhe thinks he is handsome and his official photographers takes photo after photo\n-\nhe takes family along for free trips when he is on government business\n-\nhe has rich friends like Aga Khan - actually more the father's friend\nFidel Castro - see above\n-\nCONCLUSION\nso it's clear he's in sync with today's Canadians. (the shallow ones anyway)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the poor dears can't wish anyone a Merry Christmas or they get burned at the stake! they can't their Christian Sharia law enshrined in public laws, no matter how hard they try. and when they do sneak something in, that darned old Supreme Court won't let them get by with it. but they keep on trying! they just gotta make sure the whole US of A is a \"christian\" nation! although which flavor of Christianity they say out loud. but to all of those so-called Catholics who have hitched their cart to this star, you can get when they get the power you won't be any better off than the gays, women, atheists or Muslims! your's is one of those marriages of convenience and when they no longer need you, you will be in the same boat as the rest of us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's interesting you should bring that up. People often forget that in the sacrament of marriage the church teaches that the sacramental action happens between the hearts of the two individuals who are betrothing their love to each other, the priest being merely an incidental witness to publicly confer the church's blessing. The priest is therefore not \"confecting\" a sacrament that magically renders the couple married in the eyes of the church. \n\nThis is one of those instances where the church actually gets it right and has the wisdom and humility to accept that the real nitty-gritty is happening within people's hearts, not on account of anything the priests does. Now if only the church could accept the fact that that's just as true for gay people as it is for straight people. Acknowledgment of that would go a long way to begin the enormous task of healing the deep wounds the church has inflicted on a countless throng of gay people who remain part of the Communion of Saints.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This sort of thing does make the concept of involuntary sterilization of criminals and other 'undesirables' during Margaret Sanger's Eugenics phase a little more palatable.\n\nAs usual, the tendency by those 'who know best' to expand the definition(s) of who shouldn't be able to breed and who gets to make those decisions is always the challenge.\n\nOregon included 'wayward teenagers' and homosexuals on their involuntary sterilization list, of course.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "... there is no doubt you are a Republican, 'conservative' only in their views of gays, people of color, immigrants which you all once were, women ... etc etc ... \n\nFiscally conservative Republicans all died with Nixon.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "March 2017: Cupich instructed his priests not to offer sanctuary to immigrants as that would create \u201cfalse hope.\u201d \nFeb.2017: Cupich said he does not believe in the usefulness of street protests that question Trump\u2019s legitimacy. \nSept. 21, 2016: Chicago Fr. Octavio Munoz was arrested on child pornography charges. The previous summer, Cupich had transferred Munoz to a Maryland treatment center without notifying the police although evidence of Munoz' crime was known to the archdiocese. \nIn 2015, Cupich fired archdiocesan employees Sandor Demkovich and Colin Collette after coming out as gay. \nHe also defrocked Fr. Marco Mercado because of his \u201cinappropriate relationship with an adult man.\u201d \nNCR doesn't report criticisms of Cupich.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People of color don't have a choice in what color they were born, thus the civil rights that are appropriately theirs. People who are homosexual are not born that way, and it is a choice, thus the reason they should not be granted special \ncivil rights appopriations the same as those discriminated against due to color, gender, age, or any disability.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We have free speech in Canada. People should be able to question, criticize and disagree with gays, Muslims, religion, etc.\n\nIf Graham's presentation contains hate speech, arrest him. We have laws against hate speech in Canada.\n\nIt's starting to sound like the Trudeau Canadian Liberal government should pass a motion denouncing and condemning Christianophobia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Predictable leftist rant complete with the mandatory elementary school yard name calling. \n\nYou forgot to use the words xenophobic, homophobic, misogyny , unfair, and mean spirited. \n\nTry harder next time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you have programmes for the parents of LGBT children. How admirable! The question is, do you have programmes for the LGBT children? For the LGBT youth, adults, golden oldies? And if not, why not.\n\nAs a gay Catholic, the one thing that tires me about the \"church\" above all else is that it talks about us (LGBT folk), but never, ever talks with us! Chaput at the world meeting of families displayed this disordered tendency ever so well! And the san diego synod does the same ... as John Hobson has pointed out, the criteria for lay participation are claustrophobic: \"To assure the validity of their contribution for the good of the Church, it is important that the lay faithful taking part in the Synod should be chosen from amongst those distinguished by their 'firm faith, good morals and prudence'. It is an indispensable requisite that these members of the lay faithful be in a canonically regular situation in order to take part in the Synod.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's not bullying, that's doing the Church a service. Archbishop Chaput made a dreadful mistake ignoring Lepanto's warnings about Nutter and Wolf, two of the most high profile, anti Catholic people in Philadelphia. One wonders whether this was concealed from the Archbishop by his Curia. \nIt's almost as bad as Mo Rocco being chosen to read a lesson before the Pope in New York because he is a homosexual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I could write a cut and paste statement as a refutation of yours..\n\nLets try something different. A few decades ago, homosexuality was removed from the list of mental illnesses by the psychiatric community. So using the \"diagnosed by professionals\" as a back up to current or beliefs from the recent past does not work.\n\nYour quote \"Body dysmorphia is an anxiety disorder based on a distorted view of how they look. \" is exactly the definition of being trans. (I posted the same before, and it was removed, which is why I trimmed it, and started with \"lets' try this again\").\n\nWhat they see in the mirror, is not what they believe in their mind.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You weren't dismissed because of your same sex attraction. As the spokesman for Archbishop Myers said:\n\n\u201cEvery Catholic priest promises to be reverent and obedient to his bishop. A priest\u2019s actions and statements always must be consistent with the discipline, norms and teachings of the Catholic Church. When they are ordained, priests agree to accept the bishop\u2019s judgment about assignments and involvement in ministry.\u201d\n\nYou claim to have taught anything contrary to the Church, yet recently stated this:\n\n\"I\u2019m a gay man. If I wasn\u2019t a priest and I met somebody for me who was a soul mate, who I enjoyed being with, who had all the things somebody who is marrying looks for in a relationship, I\u2019d want to be married. I\u2019d want to have the ability to marry that person. I\u2019m a priest, so I took a vow of celibacy. But how could I, with integrity, be against gay marriage if it\u2019s something, probably in a different circumstance, I would want for myself.\"\n\nEnough said, I think.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, is the point that you're trying to make is that all transgender soldiers will likely break the law? That's a pretty big jump to make.\n\nNext step would to be to see if there was ever a member of the military with the last name of Robertson that ever committed a crime or was dishonorably discharged, and to ban all future people with that last name from serving.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "TryingtoStay: You seem like a very fair and balanced person to my ears, who is willing to listen (thoughtfully) to the sincere concerns of someone who is very turned-off by the pressure that many young people are experiencing these days to 'accept' that they are gay. I do think that peer pressure and a changing culture have led to more young people identifying as gay. My sister noticed this way back in the early 1970s when she noticed that when young women at the all-female college that she was attending had a 'bad date' (or two or three), they almost immediately jumped to the conclusion that the reason they were having such a hard time finding a compatible male partner was because -- without realizing it- they had been 'born gay' and therefore were unattractive to men. In previous generations they simply would have said: We weren't compatible. I sometimes wonder how many of those young women entered into 'the life' (and I don't mean religious life!)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Again that's a fact not a theory Im pretty sure everyone in America knows that except you I am all for progress do you know the Allah crowd is for killing the gays they beat and stone their women on a regular basis not to mention the dress code their version of the man in the sky and his set of rules are... well thousands of years old they share none of our morels or beliefs I could go on but I'm sure you will just respond with more catchy slogans and uninformed statements", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know what that d\u00e9tente looks like, but it's got to be better than the commonplace \"Don't Ask Don't Tell\" in most other dioceses for it to be worth recommending. Cardinal Cupich deserves our trust, and he has said and done some admirable things in other issues. But wasn't there recently a firing of a gay worker whose marriage was discovered, somewhere in that archdiocese?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no soul-searching necessary to figure out how this came to be: a majority of Catholics voted for Trump because he promised to appoint pro-life judges to the Supreme Court, thereby protecting fetuses - never mind what will happen to the rest of us who've already been born. A majority of rural dwellers voted for Trump because they hate \"inner-city people\" (wink, wink.) A majority of whites voted for Trump because they thought their special status was diminished under a black president. A majority of men voted for Trump because they feared their special status would be diminished under a female president. A majority of nativists voted for Trump because they hate immigrants. A majority of conservatives voted for Trump because they hate gay marriage and gay people, their #1 sworn enemy whom they think have destroyed civilization. A majority of the \"poorly-educated\" voted for Trump because they're poorly educated and because Trump told them he loves them. Did I leave anybody out?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK...Am I alone in this?? ... what really frightened me was the religious bible speak-right after Trump's dark, crusade-like 'crush the infidels' speech. God save this and that and America too. God? If God is on Trump's side ... heaven help us. Ironically, as any reasonably intelligent thinking person knows, there is no God ... and if there were, he/she does not choose sides.... Government and God do not belong together! You can be black, white, brown, male, female, gay, straight, misogynistic, racist, bigoted ... and get elected...but an atheist?? Forget it ...that eliminates most reasonable people from office in the good ol US of A ...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Answer: Because the cake baker discrimated by NOT making a wedding cake for one specific group or class of people but made them for other group(s) or class(es) of people. His mistake. Now he makes none. Now he is following the law.\n\n* Do For One, Do For All, or Do Not Do AT All. * \n\nGays are not a special protected class. But they, as a class of folks, are protected from discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds like he was forced out. Too bad as he is a very interesting, smart and articulate.\nHe is certainly not of the main stream as he is a staunch conservative who is also unabashedly gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, homosexuals do not have a monopoly on pederasty. Pederasty is abuse, not consensual sex. It is rape.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Just like homosexuals, transgenders are \"born like that\". The gender is determined by the doctors at birth, and a scientific reality can't be denied by \"I feel\" nonsense. The fight is between pro-science realists, and pro-choice fanatics.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I will keep saying there is nothing in the bible that says so called Christians can't bake cakes, gays can't marry or insist so called Christians should discriminate. These Bible literalist, literally can't find one passage that they can use to defend their actions. They conveniently ignore passages that cover all kinds equal sin's that is what makes this whole thing baloney. Mean while, here is the deal we live in a secular nation, annd this man can practice his religion all he wants but he cannot discriminate. Where does it end, no cakes for muslims? Blacks? Latinos? No, it is going backwards.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "But no one can actually demonstrate why homosexuality is intrinsically degenerate. Not without relying on circular reasoning.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He is NOT woman. He is a transwoman, and some sources say he has a brain injury, and the sex reassignment surgery (it really doesn't change one's sex) might have caused some problems. Transwomen demand access to women's restrooms and locker rooms. Now, they just crap on people's lawns.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In the here and now, whatever good elements Islam possesses are eclipsed entirely by the bad. \n\nToo many Muslims adhere to Sharia Law and too many support barbaric, cruel, and utterly insane behaviours. \n\nHonour killings, beheading gays and apostates, forced child marriages...... the list goes on \n\nIslam is becoming a death cult wherein suicide bombers, often children, are glorified. \n\nThey become instant saints and martyrs for blowing themselves up and taking with them many other innocent lives \n\nI see no evidence that the author or others of her ilk are willing to address these issues.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's in good part about protection from a hyper-aggressive, intrusive, increasingly demanding and emboldened homosexual lobby.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A homosexual orientation is not a sin. Homosexual behavior is a sin, as well as heterosexual behavior outside of marriage is also a sin.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "LOL. I was talking about the bakers. Sweet Cakes for Melissa was in Portland Oregon. They want to lecture gay couples about how they are going to Hell but they do not want to suffer the economic consequences for their beliefs, aka that liberal Portland residents might not want to frequent a store owned by homophobes. No one says that Mary has purchase the cake for her daughter's birthday or her wedding cake at a specific baker and Mary can take into account how they treat her gay friends. Gay couples who were denied a service by a bakery have every right to complain about how they were treated and write bad reviews. Even people not directly affected can complain in support of them. It is called capitalism. I thought that conservatives liked capitalism.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Western women have no interests in common with homosexual men or Muslims or immigrants from Third-World countries. All of these groups are implacably hostile to the feminist agenda, although they're happy to take advantage of mushy-headed, liberal, we're-all-victims-together rhetoric.\n\nMSW, Damian Thompson, Andrew Sullivan, James Martin, David Berger, Milo Yiannopoulos: what do all of these guys have in common? They all vociferously denounce every hint of a shred of improvement in the Church's attitude to buy a blind eye to their pet proclivity; they all yearn for the days when women's role was to pop out pubescent baby-priests and send them off to be \"formed\" in minor seminaries; they all babble effusively about the \"transcendent beauty\" of a liturgy whose distinctive feature is that all the women are groveling on the floor with bags over their heads. \n\nWake up, liberal losers. Stop being dumb chumps. Stop helping men who despise you bash your own fathers, brothers and sons.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"This is also part of what is behind abortion.\" Gay people, fewer gay men than gay women, get abortions. The good news is, whereas hetero women get pregnant with what's-his-brother's-name and can have 8 children by 8 daddys, if gay people put enough thought and effort into it, they too can produce children. The fact that fing easily produces a child is extremely unfortunate for thousand of children who live in domestic violence, abandonment, neglect, squalor - and are subjected to horrific acts of sexual and physical abuse by their parents, friends of parents, or mom's new boyfriend. Let's focus on what gays don't bring to the table and how uncomfortable that makes you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Which hockey team is not openly gay?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ok, so there are diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria which are not meet by simply being transgender. No one asked for, and no one cares what your personal opinions are.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, it shows you the severe problem. The media is trying very hard to push this, and the numbers just are not there like they wish them to be. Lived 50 years of my life without seeing a MAN in my bathroom, UNTIL this year. One crashed in my ladies room, acting like a jackass, yelling loudly at some poor kid \"IT\" dragged in the bathroom with him. They want us to believe they have been using the womens bathrooms this entire time. I call BS. This is Obamas social experiment for his transgender lover Michael DeVaughn Robinson \"AKA Michelle Obama\"....its what its ALLLLLLL about....google it...no woman I know has a friggin adams apple!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There are radicalized nations where gays are thrown from the top of buildings, where women are second class citizens, where molestation and even child sex is excusable....but \"shame\" to those who object bringing these people in contact with our fellow citizens and loved ones?\n\nYours is the side of cog diss. My side is looking at the whole picture, and not pretending that immigration from radicalized nations doesn't present serious problems.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are correct. I'll restate my position: \n\n\"Heterosexual males do not have sex with juvenile males.\n\nGay pedophiles do.\"\n\n\"Definition of gay\"\n\n\"a :homosexual gay men \nb :of, relating to, or used by homosexuals the gay rights movement a gay bar\"\n\n\"Weasel\":\n\n\"a deceitful person\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "LOL, who my kids marry is in great part a function of how they were raised.\n\nNo, we don't know that male same-sex attraction is pre-determined; in fact the evidence points to the contrary and that it is associated with environment, oftentimes involving abuse as a child (which they might not remember).\n\nFortunately, with Trump in office, a lot of the social liberalism is soon to be reversed, taken from our laws and removed from our schools. I know several parents who are distressed at how their kids have become sexually confused from what is being taught in school; this trans-bathroom nonsense is the straw that broke the camels back. Conservatism is back. Open homosexuality is a proven failure; I believe that open homosexuality (and its destructive force against society) is what led to the teachings in Genesis (Sodom & Gomorrah) and Leviticus.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're so cute and funny.\n\nThe gay couple isn't likely to burn a cross on your lawn and string you up. In fact they just want a cake. \n\nI would guess a lot of racist folks have had their houses painted by black and mexican guys.\n\nSo yeah, you hire a house painting crew, they aren't go to runaway when they see your bumper stickers, unless they feel in danger. \n\nWhile you are at it, make sure the guy working the drive through is the same race as you are. \n\nDoes this cake guy think he's going to be hurt by making a cake for a gay couple? Is he going to loose his soul? We better check out scripture on that one.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I can picture a day when the BLM issues more commands, like no guys in leather during the parade or white men watching the parade must stand at the back behind the women and people of colour. Its not just cops, it is white males regardless of being gay they hate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I've worked in some estrogen swamps. Let me tell you: being a bodybuilder and having all those sexaully over heated and thuggish women grabbed my biceps and giggled, or rubbed my chest like it was public property was humiliating, I wept from the humiliation i had to endure when they stared at me like I was a slab of meat. Straight guys might like it, but I'm gay. Where do i go for my human rights?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He does not support equal rights for all. He has lost in the public arena - most people support marriage equality and equal rights for GLBT people. Gay people are not second class citizens and everybody but the most ignorant shut-ins knows it. Most everyone has a GLBT family member, co-worker, neighbor or friend and supports them in every way. Marriage equality has hurt exactly nobody. We won't go back.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your hatred for the priestly caste and your virulent homophobia prevent you from acknowledging the obvious. Sexism, misogyny and homophobia are pervasive in space and time and represent a primitive dichotomy: man or bitch. It's why gay men have suffered more opprobrium than lesbians: gay men are perceived to assume the role of the 2nd-degree human female. Like practically every institution under the sun, Christian theology inherited and perpetuated this dynamic. We know the Catholic Church is hidebound by its shrink-wrapped theology and pretensions to infallibility. It's hardly an excuse to vilify an entire group of people based on sexual orientation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sadly, you have hypotheticals in your narrative as well, James. 13 years ago I was with my sons in an Indian restaurant in downtown San Francisco. As I headed to the men's room there was a commotion in the ladies' room. A transgender guy dressed as a female prostitute in a very short skirt was in the ladies room shaving his legs at the sink to prepare for the evening. He had no underwear on so his junk was clearly visible as he had one foot up on the sink. This was all apparently no big deal to him, but a female patron had complained to the owner, who was confronting the guy and holding the ladies' room door open as I walked by. I figured, wow, so that's what goes on in San Francisco. Now this will be coming to a ladies' room near you and your young daughters, minus the confrontation. The brazen attitudes will increase exponentially as the administration enables their behavior. It is only being done to increase the turnout for Hillary, not just for the benefit of the trangendered.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Did they also sign on to punish the gay coffee shop owner Ben Borgman who kicked Christians out of his shop?\n\nhttps://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=coffee+shop+owner+kicked+out+christians#id=1&vid=0e842c691d122320291c7202fc4ac7e3&action=view", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How else should they interpret it? It is a slam on them as persons.\n\nAnd your current whinge is \"I loathe and fear homosexuals, and am afraid that my children may be led to accept them and not be as close-minded and bigoted as I am\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You clearly need a reality check, Ken. Not all males who engage in same-sex sexual activity identify as gay. Prison populations and military forces have demonstrated this reality for millennia.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm all for beating up perverts in bathrooms that are trying something nasty. Are you? You just seem to be equating transgendered people with perverts, since you feel compelled to mention \"perverts\" in threads about transgendered and I doubt you are just randomly babbling.\n\nSo let's just stop speculating:\n1) Are you in favor of beating up nasty perverts in bathrooms (if so, good for you!)?\n2) Do you think transgendered people are perverts?\n\nIf you think transgendered people are perverts but that they shouldn't be beaten, then tell us why you have been saying being in the wrong bathroom is dangerous for perverts.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "God did not \"create\" them homosexual. You speak as though God would create someone to be oriented to an activity that opposes God's own law. That is absurd.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "@Fualili Jordayn Estavan - Truth \u256a hate and stupidity. You may very well be lgbt yourself so I won\u2019t put it past you to not understand. @Metri\u00e9 Pompey By definition, they are mentally deranged. The very definition of the term \u201cqueer\u201d tells on them.\nLike I already stated, nobody is born that way. How/why? Because it\u2019s been written since the 80\u2019s. 87 to be exact. Those deviants were up to their deceit and trickery to the masses to make folks fall for that \u201cborn that way\u201d hoax. And in this day and age; has worked. This nonsense was written in Guide magazine and years later became published in a book called \u201cAfter The Ball\u201d.The Overhauling Of Straight America (1987) Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill *Now, there are two different messages about the Gay Victim that are worth communicating. First, the mainstream should be told that gays are victims of fate, in the sense that most never had a choice to accept or reject their sexual preference. The message must read: \"As far as gays", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What these femanazis fail to realize is that President Trump has employed and cut paychecks to more women blacks latinos gays lesbians transgendereds and muslims than all previous presidents combined. Is there any way we can find out where these women work so we can boycott those businesses?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The policy of the church is that gays or straight clergy are to be celibate---no sex with anybody, even themselves.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "RC - I doubt there are any \"progressive Catholics\" who are accepting of the LGBT community who think gay priests, brothers and sisters should NOT come out publicly. Whether that is safe at this moment is another question. As a Catholic community, we still maintain for church men and women the closet which lay people are increasingly escaping because their rights are legally protected. Our church men and women are not protected in these way and they can have their lives torn apart if a parish or diocese or blog decides to go after them for leaving the closet, even as celibate gay men or women. When people come out, even in celibacy, allies tend to say \"oh great! She is comfortable with being who God made her to be\". Others seem to say, \"we need to watch that guy to be sure he doesn't get out of line/break his vows/come on to me/recruit my kid/corrupt the parish/etc.\" When that stops, maybe more church men and women will come out publicly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender usually means plastic surgery or drugs to change a person's body (and yes it is noticeable). Dressing as the opposite gender is drag.\n\nSome will find out that they are just gay and grew up in a house that just never supported them to be gay. Some just want to be the next \"super star\" an just love attention for the sake of it, known as flaming.\n\nThis also isn't Thailand FYI, and women would like to be in washrooms without men, and now your bizarre BS suggests all people can use the same one bathroom. Ever seen them in Vancouver? They reek like piss, piss all over the toilets, toilet paper all over the place and are not hygienic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Any ss attracted man who pretends he's straight is an agent of homophobia. \n\nThis is doubly true if that man is a professional journalist for a religion that calls homosexuals \"intrinsically disordered.\" He is advocating repression, and more.\n\nAnd those who are triggered? That clearly indicates their true feelings about ss attraction.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "RD is another who believes that fear and loathing of gays is part of Church teaching.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "She's not just guilty of \"jumping to conclusions\"--she's guilty of outright bigotry. And my remarks represent my objection to a legitimate social/political struggle being hijacked by by a fifth column with its own agenda--an agenda which proves particularly harmful to black women in this country.\n\nOne example of this hypocrisy you seem so ready to swallow is the double-standard of lesbo-nazis promoting \"gay\" marriage out of one corner of their mouths while shrilly condemning polygynous marriage out the other.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "4:20 thinks it is dangerous for transgendered people to be in a bathroom because they might be violent against someone. So 4:20 would like to beat up any transgendered person found in the \"wrong\" bathroom to prevent this violence. 4:20 doesn't like violence, so is willing to beat up people to stop it from happening.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Jules is the candidate who attends an anti-gay, misogynist church. I suspect the PAT didn't know that when they endorsed him. Now they are in a bad position- piss off the possible mayor and hurt the union, or offend all the groups\nthat Bailey's church condemns as sinners. I like PAT and I wish they hadn't endorsed a man who is deep down inside, probably a bigot. Because he chose that bigot church out of all the churches in Portland.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Any church (or other organization) that turns a blind eye to abuse is to be condemned and held accountable, including the Australian Catholic Church. What a disgraceful record.\n\nBut here is a comment that may not last long on the board with censor deletion, so read it while you still can.\n\nThere is an unusual habit of the Western media to lump all abuses by the Catholic church as pedophilia, as if the acts always involve an old priest and an infant or elementary school child, pedophilia being the attraction to pre-pubescent children.\n\nBut if you read the reports, including the Australian situation, the average age of male victims is around 12 years old. \n\nThat means a large portion of the victims are post-pubescent teenagers, meaning they are victims not of pedophilia but instead are victims of statutory gay rape.\n\nThe Western media doesn't go there, though, preferring to paint it all as pedophilia, when it isn't.\n\nBoth types of rape are wrong and appropriately illegal, obviously.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No: \nA faithful Catholic follows the teaching of the church about the formation of conscience; gives the teaching of the church 'pride of place' in the formation of his/her conscience and the benefit of doubt; and follows the dictates of her/his conscience.\nLike most Catholics, I think the teaching of the church is wrong on several matters -- among them human sexuality (birth control, masturbation and homosexuality) and the ordination of women. I am a faithful Catholic, a daily communicant most of my life -- and your opinion about this is utterly meaningless. You don't get a vote.\nThe official church has trapped itself, to some extent, by making the preposterous claim that it can't change its teachings. The claim is ludicrous: indefensible historically and theologically.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We have a crazy man who should never have had access to deadly weapons. He was motivated by an irrational animosity towards Republicans, it seems. That's this week's target. It could as easily have been Muslims, or Christians, or gays, or women, or co-workers (as just happened in San Francisco within the last few hours), or people of colour, or just innocent Americans going about their daily lives. The targetted groups are endless.\n\nThe common denominator is an inability to control access to guns in a way that adequately protects the American people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Or maybe, just maybe, Michael Sam wasn't good enough for the NFL.\nHe was drafted in the seventh round. The last round.\nA lot of seventh round picks do not play in the NFL.\nAnd he came out as gay before the draft.\nKnowing what you are talking about would help your post not be \"utter nonsense.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The legitimate is whether he was celibate hetero, celibate gay or naturally asexual and easily celibate. If he and Ottaviani were the latter then they are imposing their abnormal sexuality onto the rest of us.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He wanted to hold an anti-lgbt rally right before the Pride festival? Disgusting. There\u2019s no room for that kind of hatred here on the Harbor. It\u2019s easy to believe the rest of the story when the owner\u2019s actions at city hall show what\u2019s in his heart.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The progressive Oregon Legislature insists that anyone who can pass a driver's license test is educated enough to vote for President and should be signed up to vote whether they want to or not--that they have to 'opt out' to keep from being registered.\n\nWith that standard and decades of tabloid magazine sales at Safeway with bizarre stories, how can anyone be surprised that \"Joan Rivers was killed for outing Obama as gay and Michelle as a transgender man\" news that is accepted by millions... and they voted accordingly.\"?\n\nThe internet today is just the free exploitation of the vast numbers in the United States of idiots, morons, the mentally ill, and the ignorant; you know, ________________Voters! (Please insert your preferred Party in the blank provided.)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So you're saying that you're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamaphobic. Go to know.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "For some reason, reading your post brings to mind Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. He recently denied a persecution of gay men in Chechnya, which included torturing and even killing gays. His incontrovertible evidence? \"There are no gays in Chechnya\"!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"He said that the Courage approach is not discriminatory against gays, that chastity is a Christian virtue that applies to gays and straights, married and unmarried alike. \"What we're saying is that this is a plan that God has that applies to every human being.\" \n\nThey can say this all they want but there is no equivalence. In this definition of God's plan gays are always and everywhere to be celibate and for heterosexuals it's situational. It is most certainly discriminatory against gays. Dream on Courage.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "50+ years go Democrats wanted to put a man on the moon. Now they want to put a man in the women's restroom. The Democratic Party has lost touch with the common people. They now represent the lunatic fringe and everyone else, to quote Hillary Clinton, is racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic or islamaphobic and she went on to call half of Trump supporters a \"basket of deplorables\". This was not lost on a large segment of the population that doesn't live in the bubble world of the west coast and the northeast. And while the Republican Party had a very diverse slate of presidential candidates, all the Democrats could field were a bunch of rich old white men and one rich old white granny. So much for the diversity Democrats always seem to tout.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump's Chief Executive, Stephen Bannon is a racist. Bannon, the head of Breitbart News is an extreme bigot who is has published anti-Latino, anti-LGTQUI, anti-black, and anti-Semitic material for years. In addition, he has attacked many white supporters. ANYONE who promotes cultural or racial diversity. Even the former editor of Breitbart News, Ben Shapiro, stated, Bannon and has \u201cembraced the white supremacist alt-right alongside Bannon\u2019s embrace of Trump.\u201d Bannon openly supports the \u201calt-right,\u201d racists, and white nationalists. \n\nIn addition, Trump brought in Nigel Farage an extreme right-winger from Britain. Farage is so extreme; Britain doesn\u2019t even want him back. British leaders refer to Farage (ex-leader of the UKIP) and his followers as \u201cretro-nationalists, not patriots.\u201d Cottrell, Farage's office manager was arrested for fraud and money laundering AT the RNC. They are all cons.\n\nWhy would any person of color vote for a white nationalist or anyone who supports them?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Talk about denial. Israelis understand that there\u2019s no rational reason to believe that a Palestinian state would be anything other than a dangerous, antisemitic, religiously intolerant, homophobic, misogynistic country that is home to Islamist terror groups, just a stone\u2019s throw away from Tel Aviv and Haifa.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I read the whole thing and I work in tech. The guy is an idiot. If he felt that his conservative viewpoints were marginalized, it is because being a conservative in the tech industry is very much being in the minority. There will be many who will call you out on things they disagree with you on, so you either leave your politics at home, or be willing to defend those views. His take on gender and minorities as a whole is just plain wrong. I don't work for google, but have worked for other companies that try like hell to be more diverse. We would do our level best to hire a diverse team, but NOT to the detriment of being able to get the job done. We would still hire the best candidates we could find. Yes, sometimes that candidate was a white guy, or a lesbian, or an Indian guy. It didn't matter, what mattered was whether or not they were a good technical AND cultural fit for the position.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"so obviously its not religion thats the problem\". Definition of naive. I know you would like to think that but this is not only about the terrorist attacks, it is about culture. Their religion does not like our culture. They do not like gays, they believe women should be subservient. Pew polls suggest that while a small minority believes in the violence (still a whoopingly high number in absolute terms), they do believe cartoonists should be killed if they portray mohammed. And they also believe in Sharia law. Overtime you see a muslim leader or Imam get questioned they say \"Islam\" is a religion of peace, but push them on Sharia, women and gays and its all double speak and changing the subject. Plus, where are they when these things happen? I rarely see any news stories of large swaths of muslim sincerely renouncing these atrocities nor do I see them doing something about it day to day. You would think the left leaning media will be all over those types of stories.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You can't tell me you're outraged over a gay priest's abuse of boys, and also say that you support this current policy of cover-up and silence that allows thousands of gay priests to hide their same-sex orientation from the public.\n\nGay priests have to come out of the closet. Their game of pretending to be heterosexual has served neither them nor us. If so many gay men had not joined the priesthood, the sex abuse scandal would likely never have occurred.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Intentionally leaving disorders untreated or banning the treatment as has been done in Ontario sets the patient on a course to let the disorder run its course in this case resulting in SRS mutilation and sterilization. That is transgender.\n\nOh the lucky ones may grow out of it before the activists get a hold of them. Then they are not transgender.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Businesses in Colorado operate according to law, including the Public Accommodations law which does prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The baker, as I understand it, sold customized wedding cakes. The law, as I understand it, and I am not a lawyer, says that a business must offer the full range of services and goods to everyone and can not discriminate. I don't know what your statement here means: \"Because it's not based on sexual orientation.\" The baker said he would not make a customized wedding cake because it would be for a gay couple, and he was refusing to provide the goods and services of his customized wedding cake to the couple because they were gay. Wedding cakes are for marriages. Please read the law. Here is a link to the law: http://www.lpdirect.net/casb/crs/24-34-601.html\n\nIn my opinion, if the baker and his supporters did not like this law, then they should have worked to change - either by lobbying the legislature or putting it on the ballo", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have no issues with these types of individuals. However it is unfair to the genders that were born female. This transgender may be a female now in physical appearance but still maintains the strength of a male through DNA molecular structure. Therefore this person should not be allowed to participate in female activities except for maybe restroom use.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As long as you are Googling people, try D.O. Cauldwell or Harry Benjamin... or even delve deeply into the works of Money. Your type always goes after Money because of the David Reimer case. However; Reimer actually contradicts the point you are smugly trying to make. Reimer demonstrated that you cannot \"teach\" gender; that it is innate in a person. Reimer failed not because you cannot make a female out of a genetic male but because Reimer's gender; the intrinsic wiring, if you will, within him was male, thus he identified as male even though raised female. Transgender people know and understand this because most of us have, like Reimer, been raised in the wrong gender.\n\nBTW focusing your entire knowledge on one researcher in the field of gender because they are the \"father of genderism\" is a bit like reading Gregor Mendel's studies as the entide body of knowledge in the field of genetics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "His actions 50 years ago are significant for what they were then and the change they brought about. His actions today - criticizing the new president - have nothing to do with the last 50 years. As a member of Congress one has to ask what has Mr. Lewis really accomplished during the 30 years. There is not doubt about his record 50 years ago. \n\nIt is fine and dandy to get caught up in the emotion of his work as a civil rights icon, but do you get a free pass on everything else.\n\nWhat if a person did wonderful things to support civil rights 50 years ago but doesn't like a transgender person using the bathroom of their choice. Do they get a pass on this current behavior because of their past good deeds.\n\nCelebrate the good in the people, acknowledge the great work they do, but hold them accountable for their actions today.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Then move to Europe for the next 20 years, and find out what how easy it is to turn a relatively safe progressive secular society where women have equal rights and power to me, where gays aren't murdered as they leave gay bars, into something that resembles the hellholes of the Middle East, in about 1 generation of uncontrolled migration, reproduction, and unwillingness of a host culture to stand up for the values that made it successful. \n\nAnd if you want to live in fear right away, move to Malmo, or Marseilles, or the Paris suburbs, or much of Copenhagen or....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Slippery slope arguments are for the most part nonsense, used when there is no rational argument against a position except to say if you do this imagine what could happen next. It was once unthinkable that there couldn't be slavery; make a slave free and the next thing is that he will want the right to vote. Allow divorce and society will collapse. Permit birth control and the purpose of marriage will collapse.Permit gay marriage and the next you know bestiality will be legal.\nIn many instance making the unthinkable normal is called civilized progress.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You disagree that there is a fundamental right for gays to marry. Since when do you decide on what is constitutional and what is not?\n\nI think that the Citizens United decision is terrible. But I don't say it isn't the law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Harry,\nThat is one of my favorite movies. The comparison to Trumpet is way off. Melvin was quirky and anti-social, but he did not aspire to be the leader of the free world despite his touching change of heart inspired by a gay neighbor, a cute puppy, and an amazing woman .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They are made for procreation, elimiation and pleasure. People are made for marriage and some of those people are gay, not by choice but by birth (aka by God).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For years the Liberals fought hard against gay rights too. More Liberals voted against same sex marriage than did Conservatives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pregnancy and childbirth disrupt military readiness, and to a broader extent than transgender servicemembers. Should we ban women from serving?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Father Reese stated: \"I must remind my progressive friends that every change has unintended consequences.\"\n\nI know this is a little off the subject of the article, but I am always somewhat confused by the idea of Progressive Catholics. Progressivism to me represents an ideology that has absorbed secularism with its atheism and militantly anti-Christian and anti-Catholic tendencies. To be \"progressive\" means that one thinks the state should have authority over every aspect of a society's culture and over every aspect of the individual's life. Also, Progressivism is de facto socialist. Progressives also promote the so-called pro-choice position respecting abortion. These same support gay marriage, and take other positions of morality inimical to the Catholic Faith. \n\nBut for lack of space in which to write, I could mention other ways that Progressivism is contrary to the faith. So I will now ask how can one be Progressive and Catholic? Enlighten me!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not only same-sex relationship but the homosexual orientation itself. That was the innovation of Homosexualitatis Persona in 1986.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clearly you guys are non-empaths. It's like an SS officer saying \"It's OK!! Cattle cars are OK!! I can empathize with Jews/Slavs/Gypsies/Homosexuals/(etc.) ... they are comfortable, and taking lovely holiday trips in our trans!\"\n\nThis CBC guy should be turfed to the curb. I am shocked that he still has a job here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am amazed at how twisted Americans can be when it comes to defining \"freedoms.\" \n\nIn Canada, we ensure that gays, LGTBQs and all people of whatsoever nature receive the opportunity to be full participants in all aspects of our society and to be fully served by all aspects of our society.\n\nIn the US, they consider that their religious freedoms would be trampled if they were not allowed to discriminate against gays and minorities such as LGBTQs.\n\nVery twisted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Martin is a priest whose job it is to minister to Catholics. As someone who works in NYC and has contacts within the movie and arts world, he likely has met many gay Catholics who feel alienated by the Catholic Church over the years and wishes to reach out to them. That is a much nobler goal than getting in a personal Twitter war because of your own issues with your life.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm guessing some people didn't understand the reference to the homosexual activities of the Cardinal's secretary....I understand the Cardinal owned the apartment, but it was the secretary who was....raided, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The pride rests in no longer being ashamed of being homosexual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't quite understand you. I personally am against discrimination of any kind. Are you? Gay people are not sinners, they are born that way. As US citizens they have the same rights as heterosexuals. The court decided in favor of human rights against the claimed right of radical religions to discriminate against them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kadryov is Putin's puppet in Chechnya. Putin has also brought repression of homosexuals in Russia, and he is of course a Christian. Putin expressly supports Kadryov's oppression of homosexuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Even Republican senators are opposed to Trump's transgender ban:\n\n\"Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who served in the Marines: \u201cI\u2019m all about training standards. High, high standards for whoever joins the military,\u201d he told HuffPost. \u201cBut my initial reaction is, if you can meet those standards, we shouldn\u2019t care who you are. So, meet the standards, and you should be able to join the military.\u201d\n\nSen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a former Army Reserve commander and the first female combat veteran elected to the Senate: \u201cWhile she believes taxpayers shouldn\u2019t cover the costs associated with a gender reassignment surgery, Americans who are qualified and can meet the standards to serve in the military should be afforded that opportunity,\u201d \n\nSen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who is up for reelection in one of the reddest and most socially conservative states in America: \"I don't think we should be discriminating against anyone. Transgender people are people and deserve the best we can do for them.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We've been observing homosexual behavior among animals for centuries, yet as recently as the mid-2000s a large contingent of biologists still denied it existed - literally denying what was happening right in front of their eyes ! \n\nA lack of diverse perspectives absolutely taints science. These are just a few examples I can remember of the top of my head. There are countless more. Now I am not familiar with Raju, I don't know his work and can't judge if he deserves a university platform or not. \n\nBut I can judge the claim YOU made and, to quote Neils Bohr, it's not only not right, it's not even wrong ! (I.E. an idea so far and obviously removed from reality that you couldn't even gain knowledge by disproving it). \nhttps://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong\n\"As a more formal fallacy, it refers to the fine art of generating an ostensibly \"correct\" conclusion, but from premises known to be wrong \"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Really? They're not focusing on transgender bathroom rights and strong-arming universities to hire more women?\n\nWhat will Justin talk about?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "On Tuesday night, the media erupted with reports of Secretary of Defense General James Mattis defying President Donald Trump by enacting a so-called \u201cfreeze\u201d on the Transgender Military Ban.\n\nIn a shocking twist (not), this turned out to be fake news. Mattis is currently developing a plan to enact the trans ban, as directed by the POTUS, which is set for implementation in March 2018.\n\nBut hey, why break up a good media lie?\n\nBTW: the source was the left wing \"Vox\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Even if you do end up in a washroom with a transgendered individual, how will you know?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not everyone who voted for Trump is a right winger. Some are centrists who, this time around, found the holier-than-thou (which you exemplify) political correctness of the left more annoying than the usual guns, gays and god dog whistles on the right. All the Dems had to do was not run a total frump and they would have won standing on their heads but they couldn't step away from the anointed one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well yah but: The Green Hair society doesn\u2019t decree that the punishment for apostasy is death. The Stetson wearers in Toronto guild doesn\u2019t advocate throwing gays off the top of tall buildings. The pidgin Quebecois French speakers in western Canada union doesn\u2019t preach taking the sword to the non pidgin Quebecois French speakers in western Canada. Please don\u2019t try comparing apples with oranges.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They misunderstand the notion of rights. They think that simply letting states handle it, like with slavery, will solve the problem. It will also solve their issues with gay rights, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I see the point, and I get the sense if my answer isn't to your liking there is a 2nd Amendment tirade in the shadows. \n\nProposal only: Certification could be done by private schools. And yes, they have to keep records, but not in a unified government way. There would probably need to be oversight that the schools are providing the needed info and not just sending bodies through a turnstile. \n\nBy reciprocity you mean one state recognizing another's laws? Have to admit I haven't thought about it much, and not sure I have a clear position (as it wasn't central to my statement above). That is an interesting one. I guess my first reaction is States have rights to pass laws for their area. Perhaps the analogy that might apply would be if CA passed a Transgender Bathroom bill, would that entitle a Transgender person with CA residence to walk into any bathroom in Texas or Carolina just because they could back home?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Men are men and women are women. We have segregated bathrooms because of issues of privacy and because women, who are sexually vulnerable due to biology, are in an enclosed unsupervised space, partially clothed at times, and vulnerable to attack. There have been many instances of men - some who don't identify as trans AND some who do - assaulting women in bathrooms. See link for list of 50 documented incidents. http://www.lc.org/transgender Beyond that, what is this Newspeak? Just because someone says they are a woman or a man and claims to have a subjective \"feeling\" that tells them this, we are supposed to go along with it and call them that? Can people also force us to believe in their religion and alter laws accordingly because they have a strong feeling about it? Feelings are subjective, biology is objective. It is more responsible to base laws and regulations on objective reality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When you start to assign \"rights\" for any situation that makes a person uncomfortable, the true value of HAVING rights is diluted. In the case of transgender - those who identify as a woman, will presumably dress and appear feminine - and the opposite for those who identify as a man. It's a simple case of respectfully referring to them as He or She to the best of our ability - and correcting ourselves if we err.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know of no reason to call it \"bullying\" to offer one's opinion on the subject to large numbers of people. By your logic, no one on NCR should give his opinion on any subject that has moral content, for fear that that opinion would reach several people. What and how a thing is said matters, not the number of people addressed at once. Of course, I don't mean to imply, of course, that when talking to many people at once about the morality of homosexuality, a person has the right to address the private, undisclosed sexual conduct of another person. That goes without saying. But it's absurd to say that one is a bully if he discusses the morality of homosexual conduct in a public forum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How twisted can you get?\nYou obviously did not catch on to the spirit of liberation that prevailed in those pivotal years of the amazing 1960's.\n From women and gays to ethnic minorities, French-Canadians, workers,and the sexually repressed, everybody was transforming socially, sexually, politically, and culturally.\n Actually the blowing up of mail boxes was about over in 1967. What De Gaulle's speech did was wake up English speaking Quebecers to the need for liberating Quebecois from English domination. What followed was the \"Quiet Revolution\". Thankfully, very little violence ensued because the hippies and many other liberals, progressives, and enlightened folks woke up to the realization that Quebecois were second class citizens in their own province. The Quiet Revolution fortunately changed that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for your response, which makes YOUR prejudices clear. Now, if you would please provide the information to the fine readers of fine character that read CB the data to back up \"...transgenders are currently serving in the military without disrupting good order and discipline...\" that would be helpful. Let's all speculate. Would that number who do disrupt order and discipline be a very small one? Probably. Would they use their psychosis as an excuse for their behavior? We wouldn't know now would we? Which means the argument for allowing transgenderism is moot. Right? Because whether or not they are trans shouldn't impact their performance according to you. So what's the big deal then? We've had RIFs since forever. Since the number that try to enlist as trans people is miniscule as compared to the overall population, it won't have an impact. In fact, it might even enhance recruiting efforts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A minor correction. The average person will never knowingly interact with a transgender person. After all, unless they out themselves how are you going to tell?\n\nYou can't go by appearance - if in doubt, just google \"Buck Angel\" or \"Jazz Jennings\". For that matter, in the early 1980's Caroline Cossey was not only cast as a Bond girl in \"For Your Eyes Only\" but she appeared in her own Playboy pictorial - nobody knew until a few years later when one of the the UK tabloids outed her.\n\nIt's quite probable that you've interacted with a transgendered individual without ever being aware of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Transgender\" is an adjective, not a noun - as in, transgender people, or trans woman, or some such. \nAnyway, understanding that you don't understand it is half the battle. Fortunately, there are a lot of good resources out there. The Eugene Public Library has some good ones. I'd recommend \"The Riddle of Gender,\" by Deborah Rudacille; \"Whipping Girl,\" by Julia Serano; \"True Selves,\" by Mildred Brown; \"Becoming Nicole,\" by Amy Ellis Nutt; and \"The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism,\" by Thomas E. Bevan, PhD.\nAnd yeah, the good thing is that the kids feel safe and loved. Let's work together to help \"little Luke\" and the others in vulnerable situations.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A poll is a sample of a small but statistically significant part of a group. Depending on the sample size, the result is true within a margin of error.\n\nHomosexuality may be a matter of choice for some people, but it's well known by now that most homosexual persons recognized their \"difference\" in sexual preference at an early age.\n\nYou believe what you want to believe. Others, like myself, trouble themselves to learn the actual facts of matters.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Frederick Minshall, you are confusing sex with gender. Sex = male, female, intersex. Gender = woman, man, feminine, masculine, trans*. Sex is biological, while gender is social. The meanings of gender and of sex have shifted throughout human history. Although you are obviously uncomfortable with the changes to the contemporary sex and gender system, there is no need for you to be so hostile to others who are willing to adapt to the changes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because everything in the media about gays must be positive or people will finally find out that they are just like the rest of us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Imagine that the US Supreme Court didn't decide (5-4) that 'money is speech' in Citizens United so that corporations and PACs and Unions can spend unlimited and uncontrolled amounts of money.\n\nJust like gay marriage, five Supreme Court Justices changed the law for the entire country even though voters throughout the entire United States and in many States had voted the other way. \n\nSometimes those five Justices rule the ways you like, sometimes they don't. \n\nEither way, those five people decide for 300 million other people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds like Rosenblum in her second term hopes to tackle stuff that's not in her job title. Note the words \"hopes to\" used by the author. \n\nThe Attorney General is THE government official who is responsible for being a voice for the people and insuring that government officials aren't stealing money and aren't being corrupt. Where was Ms Rosenblum when all the back door deals were going on during her watch with our disgraced former governor and his girl friend? Asleep at the wheel, falsely claiming \"I dont have the authority to investigate Gov. Kitzhaber\"\n\nWhy did she refuse to defend Oregon's ban on gay marriage? Something the people voted on and is part of Oregon's constitution. The current Attorney General promotes special interest instead of voter's interest.\n\nOregonians are tired of officials who think the law doesn't apply to them, their friends, or co-workers. Vote for someone who stands for the Rule of Law, vote Daniel Crowe for Attorney General. www.oregonslawyer.org", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The flashlightonroaches.wordpress site has a lot of Jagad Guru/Gabbard bashing stuff for those who go in for that type of \"research.\" \nMy assertion is that an elected official's religious world view is secondary to their policy world view, and therefore disparaging someone's religiousness versus their policy-making practice isn't really logical--unless of course there is an ulterior reason. \nUsing a recent example, being against same sex marriage (or said another way, advocating for traditional marriage) might initially be rooted in one's religious world view, but as long as the politician bends to the public will, they can still make sound policy. Don't forget, there are many, many constituencies who are anti-gay marriage, and agree or not, they deserve to be heard and included in the discourse.\nAs for her \"decision makers\" are, that should come out in her policies, testimony, and voting, eh? That's why one could say that policy is king, and religion is the court jester.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here is Ben Cayetano talking about the so-called Heftel Smear. It contains one obvious error when he identifies Rick Reed as \"a born-again Christian and had been associated with a local religious sect headed by a guy named Chris Butler.\" Nope. Rick was a religious conservative who preached fear and hatred of gays. While that might be mistaken as a \"born-again Christian\" perspective (snark?), it came from Chris Butler's Hare Krishna group, not from the New Testament.\n\nOtherwise, the Cayetano account provides a pretty good overview of the \"Heftel Smear.\"\nhttp://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Feb/16/ln/hawaii902160349.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"While 75 other Commonwealth countries still criminalize homosexual acts\"\n\nThere are only 52 Commonwealth countries, here is the list in order of GDP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commonwealth_of_Nations_countries_by_GDP", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The context here is that religious wrongs assigned to gay circumstances are well established as a central Christian theme for well over a millennium, which religion became the primary social practice not only accompanying the political colonization of \"America,\" but also, an indisputable foundation upon which the Constitution and Bill of Rights was founded. In US history, this contextual religion was established first for the \"American\" society as colonized. The rise of gay rights came later. So, which position should fairly survive as a constitutional fundamental right where you cannot have both?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No no no no. 45% male 45% female 10% LGBTQWERTY", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps the newspaper could also have a periodic section called \"transgender culture,\" demystifying all that stuff. It would have a calendar of related events and examine ongoing medical and legal issues, etc. The \"first-time switchers\" guide, and the marijuana first-time buyers guide, could be set up like the restaurant guide, with the auction-like format. Or we could read the Eugene Weekly tabloid.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You apparently think that people say to themselves, \"You know, I think I'll be a homosexual. It would be fun.\" While it is not known exactly what causes homosexuality, it is undoubtedly innate.\n\nAnd certainly, no one's sexual orientation is affected by allowing same-sex marriage.\n\nOh, and perhaps you can solve a problem. My gay brother has complained that his copy of \"The Homosexual Agenda\" has apparently been lost in the mail, as have the copies that his homosexual friends and acquaintances should have received. Maybe you have a copy that they can borrow.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps the single most important war hero in world war 2, a man whose efforts single-handedly turned the tide of war - was Alan Turing. He even WAS A white male. But he was gay. For his service to the free world - he was forced to take hormone treatments to try and turn him straight... which caused such severe depression that he ultimately committed suicide. His achievements in mathematics go far beyond just winning the war and securing the free world, he is one of the three people most directly responsible for computational theory - and the invention of the information age. Indeed, any modern cellphone or computer is really a Turing Machine.\n\nIn anthropology recent research indicates that polyandry was extremely common historically - but until recently it was believe that only polygamy was common. Yet these discoveries are not based on any new evidence- the evidence was there all along. White, male scientists were willfully blind to what they meant.\n\nTBC.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...BC NDP say a vote for them a blow to the wealthy...\"\n.\n.\n\nSubstitute \"wealthy\", with the word(s): Black, Asian, Native, Jews, Women, handicap, Lesbian, Gays, Trans, Muslim, or in fact all but a few descriptives, and see how well a statement like that would go over in general society...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I admit I am not disappointed by this decision. I have been familiar with Father Martin for many years. He came to speak at my church, I enjoyed his presentation. I have read two of his early books and liked them very much. I friended/or followed him on Facebook several years ago, I am not sure but I think when I found him he was not even a \"public figure\" and I think I \"friended\" him at the time. I was within the first 1,000 friends (or likes). About 2 years ago I started to feel that what he was saying on facebook was a little \"off\" perhaps getting heterodox, so I just unfollowed him and stopped reading his writings. During this controversy I have looked at some of his presentations and, In his presentations, he is now suggesting that the church will eventually accept and even bless gay unions. I feel this is an incorrect reading of doctrine (or the possibility of \"doctrinal development\") I think CUA made the correct decision.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ruse says nothing that is not empirically true and obvious from Martin's own writings, speeches and conduct, i.e. his life's work. And if Ruse as a \"fixation\" on gay people, just what exactly does Martin have? A passing casual interest?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I got the Wong joke from the Readers Digest over 20 years ago. \n\nThen ultra-left weasels and wackos were insufficiently mobilized to be able to play the race and discrimination and other overblown (oh no, is over blown an anti-gay joke?) accusations against any and all conservatives. This, finally, has led to an opposite and equal reaction called the election of Donald Trump. Good.\n\nAs to people from all backgrounds feeling welcome in the CPC, Michael Chong is running for the leadership, the Conservatives won the highest vote % of new immigrants in the 2011 election and in 2015 had a slightly higher % of support from new Canadians than from so called old stock Canadians, the Bill of Rights to prohibit racial and other discrimination and the changes to the Immigration Act to make it colour blind and many other non-discriminatory measures were Conservative initiatives.\n\nMost new immigrants here for an opportunity not a hand out find CPC economic and social values closest to theirs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Part 3.\nThe past 4 years of Obama have been the democrats worst fear. Nothing went right from their foreign policy choices to the economy. Middle America was not getting anywhere. After 8 yrs of Bush, 8 years of Obama, what was to show but lost wealth, lost opportunities, lost faith and pride. We gained 10 Trillion in debt, we gained more people in government working but less in private business. We got wonderful things like gay marriage, a third bathroom, and forced acceptance of anything and any persuasion from the left fringe. Tattoo's, ear piecing's, colored hair, public bra's and panties, you name it. Not one of which you could put in the bank or on the dinner table. Immigrants flowing into the country, hoods taken over. All things important in some way to someone, but really, not the top priority. The middle class working person that makes it all go around was put on the back burner and asked only to contribute their money. \n\ncontinued....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let me get this right -- he says they were investigating his sexuality (presumably gay) while at the same time indicting him for using funds to meet and vacation with a WOMAN? Sounds like a fishing expedition to me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can you point me to the EXACT amendment that guarantees the right for anyone to get married? Gay or straight? \n\nOh, right, conservatives were unable to create a constitutional amendment making marriage only between a man and a woman. So, its not so much that there isnt a specific constitutional amendment granting same-sex marriage, its more that there isnt anything defining marriage.....at all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Depending on where you live in the United States, it may be difficult to find a church that voices a specific and enthusiastic welcome to transgender people. \n\nThe good news is that the churches that are doing this work seem to be doing it well. \n\n\nA full 96 percent of the transgender people currently involved in a faith community said that they had experienced some form of affirmation \u2014 that might include personal support for their trans identity, or it might mean a theological affirmation of their acceptance and belonging. \n\nRegardless, this statistic shows us that Christians are more than capable of bringing the Good News to people in ways that they can actually experience as good news.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But we as a society have not decided such a thing. Only the group that thinks like you. There are other groups who think other things. For example the religious right would likely wish to ban speakers whose message promoted homosexuality. Recall that popular vote banned gay marriage in many states where it would still be banned save for judicial activism. Point is, your view is not the universal view, but as a liberal you think it should be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am so livid at government getting there nose in business like this. They have no right to force someone to believe in their guidelines. The revenue will speak fur itself. I will support this place wouldn't say a thing if they elected to not support a homosexual anything", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Analysis: The military spends five times as much on Viagra as it would on transgender troops\u2019 medical care\n\nhttp://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/26/us-military-viagra-transgender-medical-care/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does anyone care about the UN anymore? Does it have any power or legislative framework or democratic input? Is it relevant in anyway in 2017? It panders to states where women and gays and other minorities have no rights, are regularly imprisoned, tortured and killed, and are ignored as human beings. It has states that support terror around the globe on its human rights committee and security council. I personally would be fine with Canada leaving the UN.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I couldn't disagree more strongly. \"Our established normal human function of mating\" is immaterial to nature. Look at our close relations, the Bonobos, and their free for all sexual behavior. Look at all the varied examples of homosexual behavior among other mammals. Look at the history of homosexuality in humankind. \n\nConversion therapy works in a very small percentage of people because, as Dr. Robert Epstein's work explains, sexual orientation is on a continuum from 0% to 100%, and some people are only very slightly homosexual in the first place. Someone who 90% homosexual is not going to become heterosexual no matter how much conversion therapy is tried. \n\nAnd common sense tells us why the distress - it's all about acceptance. If you are not accepted by your family or society, then of course you are going to feel distressed. So obvious!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Callwaiting - I am not familiar with the phrase \"changing ghe culture\". Is \"ghe\" a way around saying/writing \"gay\"? \n\nIf so, at first pass, it feels to me like a way of saying \" I refuse to use the language you use to describe yourself because that might connote the basic decency of human respect but I will acknowledge it in a way that communicates my basic lack of respect for you\". \n\nIs that what it means? If not, I apologize for hearing it that way and would like to know what it means to you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My daughter is a big fan of musical theater; her choice to see it. Although, while I don't make it obvious in my comments here, I don't believe in restricting people from engaging in sodomy. What I object to is promoting the behavior as normal, moral, and equivalent to male-female sex, especially to children, but also to those who are trying to resist their temptations to engage in sodomy. I maintain that homosexuals in the closet was the best way to handle the situation; it involves compromise on all sides of the issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What do you do if the rules become intolerable? The history of the world is full of dictators who were elected (Hitler, Marcos, Musollini). Were their rules to be followed? The world is full of laws that are unjust (stoning homosexuals, child marriage, death for apostasy). But America is different I hear you say. In a way, it is. The founding fathers of this country believed that if there did not exist a moralistic culture within the country that the laws wouldn't matter. \n\nMy point is that we are in the decline phase of our culture and civilization therefore the laws that are being made are equally immoral and unjust.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A bit disingenuous, Betty....\nDemkovich and Collette were NOT fired for \"coming out as gay\" - they were fired for defying Church teaching and publicizing their same sex marriages. The Archdiocese issued a statement...In part, \"Pastors hire and dismiss all parish personnel and govern according to the teachings of the Church and archdiocesan policies. ... Those that serve as ministers of the Church, including worship ministers, are expected to conform their lives publicly with the teachings of the Church.\"\n\nWhy criticize Card. Cupich for defrocking Mercado? or upholding Church teaching? Typically, NCR puts him on a pedestal because he is seen as liberal - so any non-liberal position he holds should be criticized?\n\nNo. What NCR fails to do is report on anything he does that does not fit with the progressive agenda - for that could weaken their coronation of him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suggest you read a bit more about them - in their founder's own words. They have a term for transgender people which I surely would get banned from Civil Comments if I repeated it here. It's a hyphenated word that incorporate a racial slur.\n\nIf they truly cared about LGBTQ or racial minorities why would they say things like that?\n\nAnd they don't appear to be interested in self-defense. They go out looking for opportunities to get in people's faces and if they get to bash a few heads in they seem to take a certain gleeful joy in doing so.\n\nLook at \"Based Stick Man\". He's the poster child of bringing weapons to protests so he can put the hurt on others. And they alt-right made him a hero for it. The others, particularly the so-called \"antifa\" are no better but that doesn't make the Proud Boys righteous.\n\nI don't need the MSM to tell me what they are. I can look at their own words and actions to see it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hello Roger Mann,\n\nWhat sophistry you weave.\n\nIf you were to ask Trudeau if he was apologizing ON BEHALF OF THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT when he apologized over the treatment of gay folks and on the Vancouver immigration matter...\n\n... you know full well that his answer would be Y-E-S.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"But to go from there to pushing so that society should accept those choices as something good, desirable, digestible and that it is taught to little children, we are not willing to go there.\"\n\nThis patriarchal, heteronormative mindset is all about cultural ideology. As a gay youth in the 80s, there were scant gay role models in society ... even Disney films were ever about the prince and the princess and happily ever after. Perhaps the time has arrived to have the occasional two princes riding off into the sunset, or two princesses. After all, many gay people now aspire to professions other than hairdressing. We've even had gay world leaders: Prime Ministers J\u00f3hanna Sigurdard\u00f3ttir (Iceland), Elio Di Rupo (Belgium), Xavier Bettel (Luxembourg), and soon Leo Varadkar (Ireland). Very visible role models for today's gay youth.\n\nThe hierarchy of Panama might not be willing to go there ... but most ordinary Catholics already have! And gays flourishing is good, desirable and nutritious!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can go to any church you want or no church at all. Christianity isn't about buildings but belief in God, His Son, His Son's work on the Cross and the poker of God to transform a life. I know these things because God inspired forty different men, over 1,600 years, to record His plan for mankind after the fall of man, to reconcile them to Himself. Now, to answer your question about gays, if you believe in God, then the answer is in His inspired Word.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is nothing in any of the \"gay wedding cake\" cases that indicate that the gay couple ever wanted anything on it other than what the baker did for straight couples. There was no discussion on how the cake was to be decorated in either the Masterpiece Cakeshop, or the Sweet Cakes by Melissa cases. It was simply them finding out that the cake was for a gay wedding, and refusing them right then and there. Let me put it this way, by asking you this question: if this couple has said, \"Fine, we'll take a straight wedding cake, and just use that for our gay wedding\" do you think that Jack Phillips would have said, \"Fine, I'll bake you one of those.\"? Or do you think that the very fact that one of his cakes was being used for a gay wedding is what he objected to?\n\nThe baker is free, for instance, to not stock same-sex wedding toppers. Not all wedding cakes have cake toppers. There is no indication that the couple even wanted their cake decorated with a wedding topper.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...Augsburg...the cathedral....\"\n\n\nYes, it is beautiful. Very Catholic; built on the site of an earlier church going back to the 4th century. During the Reformation, the Lutherans took a lot of the art work from there, plundering it, but cathedral people got a lot of it back. (Not sure of your \"switch around\"!)\n\nAnd yes \"let change happen ... that is the liminal space where....\" Most accuracies, theological or scientific, aren't born yet, so to speak. We are a work in progress, as it were, reaching out for the ultimate, seeking clarifications (doctrinal developments [Newman]) not yet \"worked out\" on our theological scales. But still there are daily differences that do separate the two churches, very real and have to be worked out like gay marriages, for one. That comes to mind. Lutherans there bless same sex unions in their churches, ordain LGBT candidates for ministry, permit ordained clerics to live in civil unions. The CC still hasn't worked that out, biblically or theologically.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sadly, \"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\", written by a great American author is not inline with the liberal and politically correct that dominate our educational system today, respectfully RICHARD_ALASKA. It has too many racial overtones that are unacceptable. \n\nMark Twain is no longer acceptable reading in our current educational system, but one can read a book on the struggles of a transgender person such a children's book like \"Jazz\" in schools to kindergarteners and first graders in California, without parental permission or knowledge, and that is much more than acceptable in todays educational system of social engineering. Poor kids came home confused and some truly hurt and crying, but we must start as early as possible teaching the alternative lifestyle to our children. So goes California, so goes the nation some folks say.\n\n\n\"Times are a changing\", and \"you got to serve somebody..\" as Bob Dylan puts it so eloquently, why not the state and government?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe you've mistaken political posturing for something more honest. What could possibly be the problem with gays getting married? Where's the science behind it? There is none. People are against gays because of their indoctrination, whether it be religious, familial, military, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A transgender identy child has suicidal tenancies??? May want to inform the parents then.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Great article, however the pronouns in this article are problematic and made the article confusing. The author should check out GLAADs media guide, the New York Times and AP style book; use the transgender person's chosen pronoun (including past reference) unless using an attributed quotation. \n\nAlso, this article did not clarify the reference to drag queens. It makes it sound like there is a \"drag queen\" phase of transition and gender confirmation. This is problematic because the reader may not understand that drag-queens and transwomen are not the same and should not be confused.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It only takes 4 justices to add a case to the docket. It is possible that the justices saw this as an opportunity to resolve ambiguities among the Circuits. The four strong conservatives might want to end the advance of \"gay legal rights\". Maybe Kennedy decided he would postpone his retirement until after the case is resolved.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "here's another GOOD ONE for you hmmm=\nQu\u00e9b\u00e9coise transgender actress Gabrielle Tremblay for her FIRST film role received her FIRST nomination and the FIRST transgender to be nominated as Best Actress in a Supporting role to the Canadian Screen Award for her performance in the film \n\u00ab Ceux qui font les r\u00e9volutions qu\u2019\u00e0 moiti\u00e9 n\u2019ont fait que creuser leur tombeau\u00bb\n(Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves/ \nBest Canadian Film at TIFF, 2016 (Huge Success! But Huge Scandal too!\nAnd the Beginning of a \u201cMyth\u201d, of a \u201cCult Movie\u201d, of \u201cRedSquare\u201d symbol)\nsee trailer onYouTube=\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaLBRRbyYzw) \n(copy-paste in wb address)\nand see her interview(in Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois only) (onYouTube)= \nL'actrice transgenre Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay \u00e0 Tout Le Monde En Parle\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmKpmVfl68", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The question is as old as the republic: How far can states go in substituting their own laws for those of the federal government?\" I thought that question was answered with the gay marriage approval by the Supreme Court.\n\n\"Nullification\" of the Defense of Marriage Act and the numerous States' laws, including Oregon, who had voted or legislated against gay marriage were nullified by the Court.\n\nThe short answer is, it depends on the personal opinion(s) of at least 5 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices as to which State or Federal laws are nullified and why.\n\nThe opinions and laws of State legislators, Governors, or the voters are subject to the whims of five Supreme Court Justices.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's too easy to fence sit, which seems to be what you're doing here. Female-splaining the gay male art show while feigning irony but also trying to make a subtle political statement leaves us with nothing useful whatsoever. \n\nIt does, however, leave you with easy deniability should someone be offended by your brand of humor. \n\nI propose that you intended it exactly as it read. Some people were correct to be offended in this entirely over-sensitive environment and instead of just claiming honesty, or humor, you pu$$ied out and did neither. \n\nWhatever. Your title of WW staff I'd most like to see let go remains intact.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think it has anything to do with women becoming lesbians, there is no evidence for that that I know of.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "'So name some.'\n\nGlad to! \n---\nHere's the American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/04/biology.aspx\n---\nOr the American College of Physicians:\nhttps://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children\n---\nThe Encyclopedia on Childhood development: http://www.child-encyclopedia.com/gender-early-socialization/introduction/does-biology-play-role-gender-development-and-behaviour\n---\nHere's an article found right in this paper: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/science-in-transition-understanding-the-biology-behind-gender-identity/article25553156/\n\nNote this phrase from the article: \"The idea that male, female and transgender brains are different upsets feminists, for example, who maintain gender is a social construct.\" ... and it's in the G&M? Wow.\n---\nOr you could just Google \"Nature vs. Nurture Gender\" and take a gander at any of the hundreds of papers that get published every year on the topic. It's a pretty hot topic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As night fell Friday and Texas braced for a generational storm, Trump pardoned a racist political ally and ordered an indefinite ban on transgender servicemembers joining the military.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"[Roksana Nazneen] argues that guilt-ridden feminists just don't get it. They do not know what the niqab means and they should not be fighting for the right of women to self-oppress.\"\n\nREALLY well said! I'm a feminist who's sickened by the encouragement to support the niqab as some \"fundamental right\". GEESH. Multi-culturalism must -- absolutely must -- have some limits. What culture anywhere in the world fully embraces human rights for all humans (girls and women included)? Precious few. And for the many, many countries that have no respect for women or homosexuals, I say that we Canadians should show the right level of disapproval. It will help the children within these communities to feel supported and grow into empowered individuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, it doesn't becuase neither Hamas nor Hezbollah have attacked any western country. Their issue is solely with Israel and the treatment of Palestinians.\n.\nWhat is wrong with the treatment of Palestinians by Israel?\nPalestinians in Israel get better hospitals, medical\ngay rights\nwomen rights\nlegal rights, rule of law\nthen Palestinians in any Arab country\n.\nand Hamas have attacked fellow Palestinians in the Fatah party\neven thrown them from roof tops", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm gay, Lana. And we wouldn't be such \"easy prey, easy targets\" as you call it, if it weren't so easy to buy these high powered weapons. The 2nd amendment is there, and it's always going to be there, so why don't we come together and support sensible gun legislation that works for everyone -not just those who think because they have the loudest voice or the best ideology that they are right. We can both get to a place where people can enjoy their gun sports and keep the public safe from those who want to abuse their 2nd amendment rights. I don't think I'm wrong. I think our countrymen have abused their rights under the 2nd amendment to the point where everyday people are saying this is enough. With rights comes responsibility. And everyone who enjoys guns as sport should be sensitive to the rest of their countrymen, especially as our nation grieves over innocent lives lost.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "also the reason why he did not want to make there wedding cake was the little statues on top of the cake the gay couple wanted the little statues embracing each other swapping spit, and to him that was offensive especially if young children see that kissing going on it would confuse them so yes its his free speech to deny making that wedding cake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So the baker could quit instead of choosing to be offended?\nYou are right, the baker should quit.\nThe baker has made many cakes for gay weddings, he just did not know it.\nIs he going to start asking if the cake is for a gay wedding?\nHe has to ask to know if he is going to be offended.\n\nSo the baker is choosing to be offended, like a child.\n\nIt is weird.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgendered need treatment, NOT political correctness.\n\nNo matter how hard you want to be to be a male\u2026after operation after operation\u2026and what your family and friends do to collude with your fantasy....if your DNA says, female, you are FEMALE!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I will add as another thought, that if we are holding people to a commitment that is binding for a lifetime, then we are doing a lousy job of preparing them. A few premarital counseling meetings with Father and a Pre-Cana weekend, then we turn them loose and expect whatever they picked up from mom and dad's example to sustain them for a lifetime. Preparation should be similar to that for the other sacrament of service, ordination, or to the process of joining a religious community. It would involve several years of discernment and education, required spiritual direction during the formation process, and step-wise levels of commitment leading up to the final vows. The church can then provide continued accompaniment, financial assistance when needed, and counseling to help couples maintain their lifetime commitment. If the church is unwilling or unable to do this, it might need to recognize as legitimate other forms of civil union...so maybe it is about gays and lesbians, too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If it works, yes, that's a good solution. However, people who are truly transgender cannot be made to \"feel comfortable\" in their assigned gender. Making such people go through puberty is extremely cruel as they are very distressed by the completely wrong changes their body undergoes. It's much harder physically to transition post-puberty than pre-puberty. The most humane thing to do is to delay puberty (which is not irreversible) until the person can make a mature informed decision.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think that the Supreme Court will side with the baker, Jack Philips. This case is similar to\nthe Hobby Lobby decision in June, 2014 which went against the Obama Administration which\nwas attempting to force Hobby Lobby to offer contraceptive services as part of the medical coverage\nprovided to their employees under Obama care. Hobby Lobby objected as offering contraceptive services was contrary to their religious beliefs against birth control.\nThe First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion.\nThis means that if your religious beliefs prohibit you from supporting the gay life style, the government\ncannot force you to violate your religious beliefs/prohibitions as this would interfere with the\nfree exercise of your religious beliefs and practices. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination\nbased on race, religion, color, sex or national origin and ended segregation. The law says nothing about\ndiscriminating due to religious beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "WASHINGTON (CBSMiami/AP) \u2014 Throngs of women from around the nation will converge on Washington for a march the day after Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.\n\nThey\u2019ll arrive driven by a multitude of motivations.\n\nGay rights, gun control, immigrant rights, equal pay, reproductive freedom, racial justice, worker rights, climate change, support for vaccinations: They all make the list of progressive causes that are attracting people to the Women\u2019s March on Washington and its sister marches across the country and the world this coming Saturday.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Disclosure: I am gay. Much of the self loathing described in the story is based on politicly correct lies that gays today have it worse than previous generations. In truth things have never been better. Misery can be a self fulfilling prophesy. Many sad gays are so self absorbed in their own little lives on Church St, they forget there is a big wide world out there that doesn't give a damn if they are gay. For them, being gay is a ball and chain of self pity, and they expect the rest of the world to care. I see it in the younger generation who side with BLM, a symptom of that self loathing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh goodie. The Official Pray the Ghey Away Ministry of the Catholic Church - You cannot even find out where the Pray the Ghey Away sessions are because they don't want people to know about their goofy-cake ex-gay counseling sessions. \n\nAs for gay ministries, some dioceses have actual ones. Here is Chi-town's http://www.aglochicago.org/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that transgender troops have served with honor.\n\n\u201cI believe any individual who meets the physical and mental standards, and is worldwide deployable and is currently serving, should be afforded the opportunity to continue to serve,\u201d Dunford said, speaking at a hearing examining his reappointment as chairman.\"\n\nAre you saying that a Marine Corp Gen isn't making his recommendation based on readiness?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would think you should be asking why the republican party basically dumped one of its newer members? If we are screwed, it is because the two parties have gotten away from their roots. The republicans no longer stand for republican values while democrats are not as gutsy as they once were. We were one of the first states to legalize abortion and to approve the Equal rights amendment. Sadly we fell to 14 when it came to same sex marriage and we still haven't totally legalized marijuana, a plant given us by God on the third day of creation. Sad.\n\nCome on Democrats start being gutsy again. Republicans are probably hopeless although their new leader is somewhat impressive. It will be interesting to see if she is actually able to do anything. I hope she succeeds as real competition will improve both parties.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "<> \n\nThe LDS may have done a bit of a deal with the State of UTAH, but almost immediately it instituted an internal policy that automatically excommunicates all gay members who inter into a civil marriage as apostates. This same policy refuses to baptize the child of a gay parent, and will not allow such children access to any of the Mormon Endowments until they have reached 18 and publicly renounced the lives of their homosexual parents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wrong. I am conservative fiscally but liberal socially, as I believe most Canadian conservatives are. I think it is equally unacceptable for Muslims to discriminate against gays as it is for any other religion to discriminate against gays. My belief holds true for activities on either side of the 49th parallel.\n\nHas that clarified things for you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So I do not see the same efforts being made to include children from fundamentalist Christian families who have their own problems \u201cfitting in\u201d with the secularist and moral relativist policies of the Boulder School District. What special efforts are being advanced to protect overweight, underweight, pimple challenged kids from the taunts and bullying of their peers? Do they have special forums to address the needs of obese/skinny/pimpley Christian transgenders? Are transgenders a significant portion of the population to redefine the English language? \nI know it is difficult for Socialist to teach the fundamental principles of our United States Constitution but the concept of individual liberty and the protection of individual rights covers all of the above. Perhaps these teachers should reacquaint themselves with our founders views on liberty and share them with our children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is not only Donald Trump's war on reality.\n.\nBig Oil has waged war on reality for 30+ years. That is what climate change denial is all about. Remember the Harper government?\n.\nRight-wing success is based on convincing low-information voters, particularly white rural male votes, to vote against their own economic interests.\n.\nA common medium for that purpose is some kind of hot button distraction - abortion, guns, immigration, gay marriage, Islamophobia, etc., - that is of huge prejudicial effect, but of little economic harm.\n.\nThus evangelical Christian voters enable climate change denial and administrative capture of government agencies - e.g., the NEB or the EPA - by oil companies.\n.\nDo evangelical Christians hate the planet?\nWhy would they?\n.\nYet the right-wing obsession with e.g., abortion, has the practical results of preventing action on problems of enormous importance such as (a) climate change, and (b) building public transit.\n.\nDonald Trump did not invent this game.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Again, you are presuming the correctness of the ideologies you uncritically accept and project onto Catholicism. \n\nThe Church (which is feminine in essence) is the Body of Christ. Women, therefore in their humanity represent the Church as body. Priests represent the head of the Body and that is Christ. Christ is a man. The Church is a women. The imagery, then, in worship, is bridegroom/bride because that is the nature of the relationship Christ has with his Body. The relationship is heterosexual in nature. This is imaged in the \"cult\" (worship) of the Church. The Mass is the wedding feast of the lamb. The lamb is male. \n\nOrdaining women turns the unity of the Church with her bridegroom into a homosexual union. That is not the relationship God has with the Church. Do you not see the connection between those churches that have ordained women---and their eventual acceptance of gay marriage? We pray what we believe. We believe as we pray.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lol I suspected as much. I referenced Islams position on homosexuality and it was immediately reported as being uncivil.\n\nLet's just stick to attacking conservatives on the same issue. Far more civil.\n\nToo funny. Sorry Tabs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wasn't expecting people on a religious comments board to take health advice from my post, but, yes, in actuality the salt-BP relationship is not clear cut, including the J-relationship that you mention.\n\nAgain, science is hardly infallible, but the propaganda suggests otherwise, especially when there's a political objective, be it climate change, homosexuality, or otherwise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Sanders and her colleagues had spent weeks stonewalling journalists about several issues imminently important to our country\u2019s future, creating pent-up demand. Without consulting with his Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Donald Trump also had blindsided military officials that day by abruptly announcing his ban on transgender service members.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm a gay man and like to consider myself politically moderate. I'm married and have full custody of my 5 year old niece since my sister died. Although I did vote for Clinton, I absolutely understand why people voted for Trump and like republican ideals and values. The GOP speaks to working families that are struggling to make it. The Democrats do not - it's really that simple. I find it sickening to see the Queer community completely isolate half of the population over something as petty as politics. My life is more fulfilling and rich because I have friends, coworkers and family from all walks of life and across the political spectrum. Screaming in echo chambers will not get us anywhere. That goes for both sides. In all reality, the Queer population would normally be 50% Dem and 50% Repub if part of the GOP wasn't so anti-lgbt. However, that is slowly changing. More and more republicans are inclusive every day.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"While it's clear that the majority of the LGBTQ community leans liberal\u2014and remains fearful that the Trump-Pence administration will instigate increased discrimination and a step backward for equality\u2014gay Trump voters don't appear to share the concerns of the larger community. In fact, they are thrilled to support a man who many Republicans say is the first truly LGBTQ-friendly GOP president.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because it's the purview of gay men.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Any doctrine not accepted by the faithful disqualifies as doctrine. This is good old sane Catholic teaching. Much of the preached sexual morality is not accepted (case in point: Humanae Vitae). James Martin is correct: in time, even the RCC will have to acknowledge that homosexuality and gender fluency are a given, God created, and that they are ways of living (including sexually), which are expressions of Love Divine (not confined by the greatest, yet contained within the smallest). Doctrine has to evolve, as one of its sources is the human experience - just as human experience needs to evolve aided by doctrine. Cut these two apart (the Great Sin of the JPII-BXVI papacy), and what you get is a house of cards tumbling down: hasta la vista, RCC. People will go there where their human experience is listened to (think Jesus be called by name by those on the outside of the community), and held in the light of the Gospel - such proceeding will become doctrine, that doctrine not idol.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church has tried to control women's bodies because women by nature have certain types of power men don't, including (usually) sexual power, reproductive power, and, in most modern societies, domestic power (over the home and children). Most women become aware of these powers as teens and come to terms with them, deciding to what extent they will shape their relationships. \nMen have attempted to control women's sexuality by defining marital sex as the norm and making a husband's desire for sex a \"right\" that cannot be denied under normal circumstances. Analogously, they have also defined a \"right\" of the fetus that often competes with the woman's rights, and have done their best to subjugate one to the other. \nThe Church has traditionally been an ally in the quest to neutralize women's powers and keep them dependent on men, even when men had to come to women for intercourse and offspring. Now they're trying to control gays, but the same rules don't apply, and it drives them nuts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1/ It's telling Tony cherry-picks \"political legerdemain\" to conclude that Lincoln was simply \"dishonest.\" The whole point of McPherson's article is that Lincoln's ostensibly racist rhetoric was calculated to forward an anti-racist agenda.\n\n[And please trads spare me the lecture about consequentialism. After having supported Trump over abortion and gay marriage, it's as obvious as ever the bishops themselves are consequentialists. Too bad we have to live with the consequences.)\n\nCertainly Frederick Douglass has as much credibility as any person to weigh in on Lincoln's alleged racism:", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As was said in other posts on \"sustainable\" (don't know what exactly is \"sustained\") or \"renewable\" (don' t know exactly what is \"renewed\") energy, this is not about any of that. The left just wants power. Not electrical power, but power over others' lives and minds. By utilizing complicit news orgs to further the left's ideology, as was alluded to in the article, bulldozing of individual citizens as well as whole communities is old hat for some of these guys. Good for you Mr Kaye. You still have to pay attention, because there are still those who are patient enough to wait you out some more, and then try again (e.g. homosexual \"marriage\") to railroad these initiatives upon your community, whether you like it or not. Fortunately, lucky for you that CB was willing to take your article and publish. I doubt that the pravdatiser would have. Anyway, keep on truckin'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ">> Peter Cook, a spokesman for Carter, said the Pentagon chief was busy dealing with \"a long list of national security challenges.\"\n\nHmm. I don't know if this is widespread outside the military community, but inside of it, Carter is considered to spend most of his time and energy on socially engineering the military -- Encouraging transgender people to join the military, paying for troops to have transgender surgery, spending enormous resources trying to get women into combat roles, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am a master swimmer for 4 decades and use female locker rooms in the both states I live in an traveling frequently I have been to so many often for my lap swimming I can't recall them all. So in some locker rooms female nudity is not big deal. However, there are ways one can change into your swim suit, shower and get dressed without out being naked. I do it all the time. Women will also come in dressed to swim and leave afterwards without taking a shower wanting to go home and do that. I do that in Hawaii all the time.. I doubt that anyone transgender is going to take an all out shower with the ladies if they still have male parts.. The last thing trangenders want is any public attention, why would they when they know how people feel about them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How do you feel about schools having children shower together?\n\nHow do you feel about public swimming pools with open same sex shower areas?\n\nSandusky used the bathrooms for homosexual predatory behavior. Where is the outrage against male/male female/female nudity in showers?\n\nThe idea that bathrooms have become sexual things is part of the problem. They are used for evacuating the bowels and the bladder. They are not used for anything else. Anyone that thinks differently should not be using public restrooms.\n\nSexual predatory behavior is not limited to a gender identity, that is the crux of this bill. It is writing off the crimes of sexual predators by attempting to pin it to one subgroup.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So a male wants to become a female so he (she?) can become a lesbian? \nGot it - it is a new and different world out there ....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you your candid reply.\nI had one friend, a practising Christian who I suspected might be homosexual as he shared a house with another man although they had their own living areas. I didn't really want to know and he never referred to it. He is dead now, RIP.\nI disagree with you about what constitutes a core teaching. The Creeds were composed to ensure uniformity of belief in response to heresies. \nIt is only recently that Christians began to question the Moral Law regarding sexual activity. Up to 1930 there existed core beliefs on sexual morality not restricted to the Catholic Church but throughout Christendom and beyond. The Church, therefore, did not need to codify in creedal form what was already contained in the Scriptures and not seriously contested. It is only since early last century when the biblical proscriptions on sexual behaviour began to be challenged that papal teaching has become more focussed on such issues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Francis was selected in a democratic election by Cardinals the world over. There should not be a plebiscite for electing the Pope, however parishioners should be able to elect a lay deacon to administer their parish (who, by the way, should be lay, not clergy - no celibacy) , with the parents electing the board of the school who would hire the principal. Parish and school employees would be considered outside Hosanna Tabor and would likely be protected by Perry as it is currently being used to prohibit anti-gay discrimination.\n\nWhether the local bishop assigns the pastor and associates or they are hired by the deacon administrator is an interesting question, but the administrator should be able to fire them for cause. There should be a diocesan level administrator elected by the deacon administrators with the bishops elected by the clergy. If Rome keeps appointing bishops, it's property should be vulnerable in child sex abuse lawsuits. Thy can't have it both ways.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Twice you can infer a comment. One is on Pedersty (because there was no doctrine to lead young person astray on) and which is not the same thing as modern homosexuality and the other is his appropriate citing of Genesis and people being created male and female (which is actually the second creation story without Adam and Eve). He related it to divorce, not to heterosexual marriage unless you arre doing some very Protestant Fundamentalist Proof Texting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think the correct answer vis-a-vis gays and transgenders is that they were born like that.That's also true of most short people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Francis is the one who has brought up \"gender theory\" in the past without prompting. You would think that he would focus on social justice and its impact on the family but he chose in Georgia to discuss how feminists and gay people are coordinating some \"war on marriage\" as well. He also equated \"gender theory\" to nuclear war in a book interview with a friendly journalist without prompting. This was in a book that was supposed to be about economics BTW. \n\nAs for Pope Francis' other fixation, he has spent quite a bit of time whining about milennials not marrying. As a single woman, I really resent this. He doesn't know why I am unmarried but chooses to lecture me about it. (And it is because of a dearth of decent men.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've worked in restaurant / bar / hospitality businesses, usually in the LGBT scene. And let me tell you. Every day there would be high drama of a female staff crying becasue somebody had broken her heart. The female staff members would then split into two antagonistic groups for the rest of the day, upset and angry. Then the next day somebody else was crying about a broken heart and the dynamics of group support woudl switch. Us guys just wanted to do our work, but had to bear with all the theatrics that wasted time and energy. An all male staff got along to do work, even if we didn't necessarily like each other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sure the movers and shakers on the right are ever so grateful that the twin issues of abortion and gay marriage have had such traction over the years in keeping their masses distracted like you say. Imagine how much more difficult it would have been to sell their bill of goods without them. Of course, they've since added xenophobia and Islamophobia to the mix for good measure in order to make up the bases lost by the growing acceptance of gay marriage, so they're nothing if not resourceful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you not understand the story? The bathrooms are ALL-gendered, not transgendered. In other words, all children in the school can use the same washroom, including the handicapped. In other words, where you needed four bathrooms in the past, one will now do. It's a cost savings, not a cost increase. You're welcome.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Iv toyed with the idea that our governments insistence on the need for our combat troops in Mali might be based on some strange notion of gender equity and LGBT rights issues and this article only makes that idea seem that much less outlandish.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Absolutely, I was never arguing that the US has a monopoly on tourist sites. Just that Canadians shouldn't pretend that we have everything possible here. Lots of great Canadian scenery and Lake Louise is as beautiful as anything the States has to offer. At the same time, we can't offer anything on the scale as Vegas, Disneyworld or some of their museums. I just got back from DC where they had the Enola Gay, Space Shuttle, Moon Lander and Wright Brothers plane at the Smithsonian. No museum here comes close to competing with that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "God's first instruction to the male and female was, \"Be fertile and multiply.\" (Gn.1:27,28). God settled the man in the garden to care and cultivate it with a suitable partner. (Gn. 2:15, 18) The man and his wife were naked, yet they felt no shame. (Gn. 2:25) This was God's invitation to discover the miracle and mystery of human sexuality.\nGod said, \"I will place my law within them, and write it upon their hearts.\" (Jer. 31:33) When we look at others according to the law written in our hearts, we see with the eyes of love. When selfish lust clouds our thoughts and actions, we deny God, sinning not only against a divine image of God but also against our own self.\nHuman sexuality is not sinful. It is willful sexual abuse that goes against the law God has written in our hearts, whether that abuse is heterosexual, homosexual or self abuse. Our task is to teach our children about human sexuality according to the law God has written in our hearts.\nPaz y Bien, Rolando, OSF", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Firm grasp of the obvious department: \n\n1) 2-4% of any human society is same sex attracted.\n\n2) Societal and religious factors impels these same sex attracted men to the celibate RCC priesthood. Therefore the priesthood has always had numerous priests with a ss attracted orientation.\n\n3) Granted, not all ss attracted men will pursue minors. But it makes sense that when you combine celibacy, ss attraction, a culture of trust and authority, and ample access to young boys, a significant percentage of ss attracted priest are going to act out with these boys.\n\n4) The higher ranks of the RCC are also going to have a high percentage of ss attracted authorities. This has contributed to the culture of secrecy and deceit that perpetuated the sex abuse scandal.\n\n5) 4 out of 5 abuse cases are that of priests molesting boys. The incidents of priests abusing girls is rare. \n\n6) Same sex orientation of priests and bishops has been the #1 factor in causing the church's sex scandal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cInstead of improving the lives of hard-working Americans, President Trump has tried to force on the American people an immoral, ineffective and expensive border wall, discriminatory new barriers to the ballot box, a degrading and disgusting policy banning transgender Americans from serving in the military and a hateful, senseless anti-immigrant agenda that instills fear in our communities and weakens our nation,\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Very nice car. Last time I owned a car was 20 years ago. Then a couple of minivans, then small SUV's. My next vehicle will be a pickup truck. 2018 Ford F150 sounds real good on paper. A 3 litre diesel engine with a 10 speed transmission? Maybe I'll wait until 2020 for the bugs to be worked out? A new engine with a new tranny?? Hmmm.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Partially developed short-term Governor Palin had just enough time to demonstrate her ineffective parental leadership style, penchant for divisive discourse, unqualified appointees, poor interpersonal skills, low emotional intelligence, revenge orientation and--to put it nicely--her lack of critical knowledge and skills. Not to mention her love of corporatism and desire for a radical Christian (Iran style) theocracy. OH...and her homophobia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree that Hillary is a THREAT TO AMERICA - America in general! With her as president, not ONLY our foreign policy could be worse than it has been under Obama (it that is actually possible) but the very idea of this career criminal who supports the murder of Gays and Christians as well as the mistreatment of Women ever becoming president and continuing Obama's race baiting policies PLUS appointing judges to SCOTUS that will want to take our guns away is one of the most revolting things I've heard in Years. I may not be a FAN of Trump but I do believe that we NEED him to STOP the corruption and destruction of America that has been a general policy of Democrats for decades!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is now moving towards 'body dimorphism', - on the continuum of anorexia and body builders (what they see in the mirror is not the image they have or want in their mind).\n\nIt has aligned itself as a movement with 'LGB' people as many of the same goals are shared, but make no mistake they are definitely not in the same 'group'", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the hierarchs are the ones confusing the faithful. they read the bs coming from their mouths and parroted from the pulpits... then they look at the gay people in their lives and how their lives are nothing like what the bishops and priests are describing them. luckily, most are smart enough to go by their lived experienced and now what the closeted self-hating gay priests and bishops are saying and doing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First, your assumption that homosexual sex acts are intrinsically evil is no longer supported by any branch of the social sciences and by most contemporary moral theologians. I don't expect that will phase you one bit, however. What may pierce your categories is the lack of distinctions and subtleties you have about those who seek priesthood. You have a dualistic view of sexuality-heterosexual and homosexual. What about asexual men? They aren't sacrificing anything by entering the priesthood. Should they proceed to ordination? I can assure you that if you removed all homosexual and asexual priests, you would probably reduce the number of clergy by at least 50% worldwide. Then, how would you propose to provide sacramentally for the People of God, which is one of the bishops' most important tasks?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are hundreds of cities, dozens of states and even whole countries that extend protections to transgender people to include the ability to use the proper restroom. Many of these protections have been on the books for decades and none of the things you are imaging has happened, ever. There are zero instances of a woman who happens to be transgender molesting anyone in any bathroom. These bathroom bills have nothing to do with protecting anyone but rather creating convenient scapegoats to score cheap political points with the conservative base. Don't take my word for it , here is the official position consensus statement from hundreds of organizations dedicated to protecting women and children.\nhttp://4vawa.org/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pence also knows how to compromise on tax legislation (Trump is over his head), as he did as Governor. On the social issues like abortion and gay marriage, his personal opinion is no more influential in law than Dromig10's. Even on abortion cases like Gonzalez v. Carhart, he cannot direct the Justice Dept. to say Roe should be repealed. The Justice Dept. defends the law regardless of the views of the President. For example, Bush did not and neither could Pence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ineed, intent is, IMO, very important in this incident and every incident of behavior which smacks of racism, misogyny, homophobia, or any other bias, discrimination or perceived\"hate speech.\" To contend otherwise is, in my view, as clueless as Ms. Shurtz's wearing blackface. \n\nPresident Schill is bending to the political climate on the U of O campus. To me this doesn't represent leadership, but rather cowardice. The most extreme factions on campus are demanding Ms. Shurtz's resignation or dismissal. Schill supports those demands and, at the same time weasels behind \"due process\" concerns...a classic CYA maneuver. \n\nHe touches on \"forgiveness\", but such discussion really requires a consideration of intent...a topic he dismisses early in his email address. Does the University need to be more \"inclusive\" and more open to minority students AND faculty? Of course it does. At the same time it needs to embrace understanding, compassion and forgiveness..they're not mutually exclusive", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am so tired of the abortion issue or civil gay marriage being some sort of litmus test to all of politics or some primary marker of someone's Catholicism. There are many issues in the world and people are as complex as the issues. \n\nIt was very important that Obama be recognized because he was the first African American president. There is nothing special about Trump - give it a few years and see if he does anything worth recognizing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alt-right Catholic and Bannonite with a weird fixation about gay people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The right wing never gets religion correct. Somehow you are a follower of Jesus and can carry a gun. Don't think so. Somehow you are a follower of Jesus and believe in billionaire oil barons over helping the poor through taxes etc. Don't think so. Somehow you are a follower of Jesus and wish to judge others (homosexuals) while having a plank in your own eye. Again I don't think so. Somehow you are a follower of Jesus and detest immigrants. Once again, I don't think so. \n\nOnly the right wing can take Jesus' very simple teachings and distort them completely the other way. Kinda like supporting the Iraq war and thinking you are a Christian.....polar opposites but somehow their minds can go there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "BS. The article clearly states that Justice Wagner felt that the views of the LGBTQ community were adequately represented by the groups that were already granted intervenor status. Therefore, in his view, there was input from all relevant stakeholders. If, for example, the Supreme Court granted intervenor status to seven out of twenty LGBTQ groups, would a reasonable person conclude that it is necessary to hear from all twenty to pass the \"test of objectivity\"? I don't think so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hate to publically reveal my ignorance and spiritual ennui, but I'm not in the least concerned about unity with Lutheranism nor the Orthodox expression of Christianity -- in light of the disunity and schismatic state of Roman Catholicism. The RCC has lost MILLIONS of members over the past 50 years as it has struggled with the disappearance of fear as reason to follow faithfully, the horror wrought by child sexual abuse and evils of rampant clericalism, the continuation of gross misogyny, and unchristian actions against LGBT brothers and sisters, plus remaining at least 500 years out of date in the realms of science and human development. Those reforms would be much more meaningful to many remaining Catholics than would ecumenism -- which should be a given since we all (pretend to) follow Jesus anyway. Maybe we should put our own house in order before seeking to extend power and control over others' particular religious practices?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Social liberty is different. It can also be seen in two ways. The first is as autonomy, which is a blank check for individuals on morality. The second is humanisticly, that morality is meant for individuals to lead the most fulfilling lives possible, rather than being some test to see who gets to go to Heaven. In the second rendering gays are encouraged to marry rather than be celibate and late term abortion are allowed if they are obviously necessary. Indeed, the whole obsession with allowable sexual pleaseure goes away. That is what the Church growing up looks like. (It would also ordain women).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So Tulsi's a Hindu on the mainland, but her religious beliefs aren't discussed in Hawaii where she's a religious minority. So she vocally opposed gay rights before she was for them. Is she still having difficulties separation Muslims from terrorists as she did in the right leaning national media? She's friends of conservative Republicans except that conservative Republicans have no progressive friends. She's a good looking, ambitious person with lofty political goals, but she's not progressive. \n\nThe Washington Post has this one wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Speaking of \"unmanning\" you should try and find a copy of the video \"Frank Blye: Boy's Achievement\" in which the dean of Education at the University of British Columbia tells us how we don't need more \"toxic\" male teachers, bridles at the idea that female teachers couldn't do all the teaching etc. This is the guy (apparently gay and hetero-phobic) who controls the granting of education degrees and thus exerts enormous influence on the narrative at schools.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We are not talking merely about selling wedding cakes but cutom made wedding cakes. The seller has the right to refuse to design a cake which offends his conscience. I'm sure you will agree that a baker would be quite within his rights to write obscenities onto a cake so if he considers same-sex marriage to be an obscenity then if he refuses to design such a cake he is within his rights to decline. Surely they could take the cake to someone of the same mind as themselves, but that wasn't the object of the exercise, was it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If God is love then any manifestation of true love is a manifestation of God. There is plenty of empirical evidence that many gay and lesbian couples are living lives of committed love for each other. These examples of committed, sacramental love are powerful examples of living out the commandments: love God and one another as I have loved you...just as powerful (and sacramental) as the committed sacramental love of heterosexual couples.\n\nYes, we need the conversation that is suggested by this article and I hope that it is inclusive enough to hear the voices of heterosexuals like me who will never completely understand what it means to be gay or lesbian or trans (with all of the mean spirited and/or negative labels that demean their human identity and goodness) but who do know genuine love when they experience it themselves and see it in others, regardless of sexual orientation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Better to fear Trump and try and get rid go him, than wander around in a stupor thinking he's the man for the job. Unless the job is making corporate America extremely nervous. Or the job is making American Muslims extremely nervous. Or making LGTBQ extremely nervous. Or seniors. Or working class Americans. Or America's trading partner to the north. Or China. Or Europe. Or everyone except Putin. Is that Trump's job?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sessions may very well have said something racist 31 years ago, but the Senate was considering a candidate in 2017. Obama and Hillary publicly opposed gay marriage much more recently than 1986 (think 2009, at the earliest), but who would bring up that homophobic stance today, in an effort to discredit them? Mrs. King thanked Sessions in 2000 for his help in founding a civil rights museum. If Mr. Noah failed to mention that, he is simply a partisan hack.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "'The average transgender soldier will spend 238 days recovering from sex change surgeries and unavailable to deploy, according to an Obama administration study.'\n.\nSo the issue, Senator Duckworth, apart from the dedication of medical assets that may have otherwise been devoted to battlefield casualties, is that someone may not even have been available to help you when you were 'bleeding to death' as they were not deployed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "P. T Barnum and his competitors used to display people and animals who were not 'normal' and make money at it. \n\nToday, we have Inside Edition, the Kardashians, The Apprentice, Survivor, Mixed Martial Arts in the mainstream television market and all those tabloids by the check stand doing the exact same thing for the exact same reason.\n\nAs far as \"critter\" is concerned, when \"he\" or \"she\" or \"him\" or \"her\" are not proper pronouns for whatever transgender is, one will have to be invented. \n\nI guess I could use \"it\" instead. \n\nThe author uses the term 'media wh****e'; that is 'its' choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Revenge porn\" sees bitter exes publishing intimate photos and videos of their former partners online \"\n\nStrange how the column starts off gender neutral but delves in later. No mention of men being exploited even if it is a smaller number of men then women. And again no mention of this problem in the LGBT community. \n\n A shallow, narrow minded article. It's difficult to take any of these columnists seriously with their blatant bias and agendas.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "EPBenedict had no problem getting rid of polygamous bishops and those with wives on the side....quietly. That leads me to believe the real issue is to protect the celibate priesthood and make the sexual incontinence problem a gay thing. The John Jay report bent over backwards to try and nip that thinking in the bud, but was obviously ineffective. Richard Sipe tried the same thing, also to no avail. In the end it's all about the sacramental magic of the ontologically changed priest. The sad part about that is it's magical thinking. There is nothing ontologically spiritually special about the ordained priesthood. There are certainly some spiritually evolved priests, but they came into it that way. Ordination didn't create them. I seriously doubt the official church will ever face that fact. How would they ever generate the hundreds of millions of donations if rank and file laity didn't believe in the magic of ordination? We see it's operation here all the time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That cannot be .... did you not know? :)) Only \"right-wing\" (whatever that means) people can be 'populists! :))) Certainly not Obama, especially after demonstrating his great charisma in psyching people into a trans-like state with all the \"Yes, we can do\" chants!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most Gays are smart enough to know that the official church cannot PROVE scientifically, medically, or psychologically that either Gays or their actions are disordered. The church continues to use the Bible as the basis [and then any church teaching supposedly based on the Bible] as the main proof for the church's argument against homosexual acts. \n\nThe church tried to use the Bible, centuries before to prove that Galileo was wrong in his assertions---that the sun is the center of the solar system. The Bible was not written to be a 'proof' text to support that the earth is the center of the solar system, then. And the Bible is not a 'proof' text to support that either being a Gay or to engage in homosexual acts is sinful now.\n\nThe church either needs to use forensic medical science to prove its points. If it can't, the official church needs to stop making a fool of itself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "... the above quote was parsed from a study performed in Australia: (c) Age at first anal sex and HIV/STI vulnerability among gay men in Australia - Anthony Lyons, Marian Pitts, Jeffrey Grierson, Anthony Smith, Stephen McNally,\nMurray Couch)(c) \"Accepted - 10 December 2011; Published Online First - 12 January 2012\"\n\nhttp://factsaboutyouth.com/wp-content/uploads/Age-at-first-sex-Lyons-et-al.pdf\n\nThe education required by homosexually-active young men is quite important for both the life-long maintenance of good physical & mental health -- let's hope the Feds have ponied up Money for the impact of new Cdn laws with Federally funded 'Canada Health Transfer (CHT)' payments -- (c) \"... the Canadian government's transfer payment program in support of the health systems of the provinces and territories of Canada....(citation: Wik)\n\n. . . therefore, how about we look at Cdn Human Health, first -- before the ever present cunning of politics c/w the Federal Liberal Public Relations campaign..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know_ Proud Canadian, P-Canadian, P.Canadian, P-Can, Claude, Income Tax By, Mrs Waring, Laughter, Laugher, Laffner... you have no response to my last posting. I will come out with class. I wish all 27 of you and your families a very Happy Hanukkah and the best for Ramadan for 2017. I hope you will take this advice for 2017. Post on here regarding the topic and get away from the personal attacks on people from Toronto, Jewish people, Muslims, Gays, Africans and the poor . It gets you nowhere. Absolutely nowhere. If that is all you have to say, or type, then its not worth the wear on your fingers.\n\nOh, and by the way...\n\nI had at least 6 responses to your demented ramblings.\nYou deleted them all.\nBecause they were true.\nAnd they embarrassed you.\nWhich is not very difficult.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Others here have learned how to discourse with people they don't agree with without resorting to your regular, near invariant practice of trying to besmirch the intelligence of the other person.\n\nThe number I quoted came from the 2016 annual report, and it's totally meaningful. \n\nPerhaps I am quoting the wrong consulting company...I meant the one that just got released last year, not the original one you're referring to.\n\nAnd your hetero vs. homo point below is preposterous when you examine proportions.\n\nIt reminds me of that fallacious line that was trotted out in the 1990s and 2000s that AIDS wasn't just a disease affecting homosexual men...some isolated cases don't prop up the lie.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The classically liberal approach to social issues was to challenge traditional conservative beliefs: Christians good, non-Christians bad; men strong, women weak; straight good, gay bad, etc. Liberalism (again, in the classic sense) says these group identities have no place in the public sphere, and should be given no legal recognition. A citizens is a citizen is a citizen. A woman has every right that a man has, a gay person has every right a straight person has, etc. That's why it was liberalism that fought the racist and sexist behaviours that were normal in decades past. \n\nBut the left is no longer motivated by liberalism. Instead, they've turned to cultural Marxism. Under that model, it's groups that matter, not individuals. We shouldn't ignore that someone is a woman, or Asian, or Catholic, or Muslim. Those identities should actually be our main social role, and balancing the outcomes of those groups the goal of justice.\n\nVery different ways of looking at the world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'd actually prefer you not put words in my mouth. I clearly did NOT say I'm OK with the \"flow of radicals into America\". I clearly did NOT say that \"the treatment of women and gays in Islam gets a pass\" and I certainly did NOT say \"you should pay for your legal immigration while others get it for free.\" In fact, you and I are in agreement regarding these three issues. I would enjoy having a civil conversation with you regarding our progressive or, as some would contend, no longer progressive tax system. \n\n I had \"laid out\" a sign reading \"PLEASE PROTEST PEACEFULLY\" to carry at the event this evening. However, I now read no signs or banners are permitted. I presume this means no \"pro-Trump\" signs as well as no \"anti-Trump\" signs. I further presume it includes no \"promote civility signs\" as I planned to carry. \n\nIf you'd like, I can make two of those \"PLEASE PROTEST PEACEFULLY\" signs and we can walk together OUTSIDE the parking lot. Interested? Call me....I'm in the book", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One of life's greatest oxymoron's without doubt. Jesus railed against fundamentalists and was aware they are the one's that just don't get it. Yet, since his death they are the same ones that have used his name to use religion as a tool of oppression on other groups. \n\nJesus, like the Buddha and Ramakrishna etc. was a mystic who espoused the esoteric not the exoteric that many conservative believers lean towards. His message was simple, non-violence at all costs (see Ghandi) and love for ones neighbour (even other countries are our neighbours). If you practice these without fail you will enter into a world of god realization. If, on the other hand you utilize scripture to condemn others, example homosexuals or people from other cultures than you are far away from Jesus. Jesus all but over rode Mosaic law and moved beyond it. He would be the last to enforce a conservative interpretation and quite simply if you own a gun you are not a follower of Jesus.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Khadr's sister has never changed her views. There are recent blogs to the effect that if you cannot be a True Muslim you must leave your mosque.\nThat includes vilifying homosexuality and refusal to integrate into Canadian society. No questioning of belief is permissible. Not to mention her support of terrorism!\nIn what universe would it be ok for Khadr to associate freely with this woman? \nAnd with 10 million to donate to one if her favourite \"charities\"..\nChretien was duped by the father...let us not make a similar mistake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A memorandum calling for a 30-day review of military readiness. Two orders reviving the Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota Access piplines. He also signed three other related orders that would: expedite the environmental permitting process for infrastructure projects related to the pipelines; direct the Commerce Department to streamline the manufacturing permitting process; and give the Commerce Department 180 days to maximize the use of U.S. steel in the pipeline.An order to reinstate the so-called \"Mexico City Policy\" \u2013 a ban on federal funds to international groups that perform abortions or lobby to legalize or promote abortion. The policy was instituted in 1984 by President Reagan, but has gone into and out of effect depending on the party in power in the White House. A notice that the U.S. will begin withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Trump called the order \"a great thing for the American worker.\" And I am just getting started.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church has lost this and likely the preceding generation of Catholics through the thuggish anti-LGBT advocacy it has engaged in, largely via the K of C, over the past several years. They aren't winning in the political realm, and they are definitely leading the Church to is nadir here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But when Herr Trump reintroduces conscription, I can see a lot of people claiming to be transgender to avoid being drafted. I think the creativity of the 60s to avoid the draft will be again come into play if the draft is reenacted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow.... another disgrace to our country. We knew it was going down when people get sued and shut down for refusing to make cakes and serve gays and muslims... black lives matter and stand with black power fists while standing on our flag and refuse service to police to include a Walmart refusing to make a police lives matter cake and they say it's in the name of freedom which tells me they are ignorant people. Respecting the pledge and flag is being part of this great country. For our elected members to disrespect the pledge is heartbreaking. I'm sure I i said I was proud to be a white American a lot would be said about it. I am proud to be one. My grr grandfather came from Russia.... I am a descendent of the Volga Germans and third generation army. If people feel the need to disrespect this country in the name of free speech and protest... move to Syria and see our freedom", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So what is the percentage of the 3 out of 1000 people that are transgendered that want to enter the military? Maybe the transgendered should pick other battles.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So a woman or girl wanting privacy in the bathroom or a photographer not wanting to be forced to take pictures he doesn't want to take is discrimination? That is what the petition is about. Quit deceiving people. The petition is asking for protection from LGBT people forcing their lifestyle on others. You have the right to sin, but you do not have the right in this country to push your sin on others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for a wise theological approach for how faithful Catholics should encounter transgender people. This reinforces my experience with all of the parishioners, nuns, priests and bishops that I have revealed my transgender history to. It also affirms Pope Francis's comments on the Spanish trans man he encountered. He has made some rather hyperbolic comments on 'gender theory ' and if we are ever able to determine what he means by that there may be some concern but he has made it clear that the treatment of transgender people must be accepted and supported. A modern theory is not a cause of transgender people. We have existed in every culture, throughout history and in 'primitive' cultures too. Our medicalization and marginalization are evidence of our current cultures struggles with gender as class and the inequality inherent with that. But that might be a whole other article.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CNN tracked down this user but also finds he posted other material that might get him killed if not force him into hiding if the Left knew about it. \nUsing the CNN logo was no crime, it didn't even come close to a trademark infringement. CNN apparently obtained an agreement that unless this user agreed to never use their logo again AND never post other racist, anti-gay, etc. posts, they 'reserved their right to out him.'\nThe user has right to post anything reddit allowed.\n18 U.S. Code \u00a7 875(d) Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.\nCNN should be busted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "suppose you would apply this to any sin. but true love let's people know that they are headed to destruction. may not be popular, but then Jesus was not, either. the Lord said: \"go and sin no more\", not have a great time, keep it up, all is right in your own eyes, truth is relative. homosexuality was not accepted at all by the Jews- a capital offense. the gentiles are expected to remain sexually obedient and pure, but the food stuff did not apply.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed, and that's the really troubling thing here. Wagner should not have assumed that the LGBTQ community could be adequately represented by others here, since it is their rights at stake. He certainly didn't see fit to do so re: the religious groups on the other side of this.\n\nTime to write PM Trudeau to voice my view that Wagner would not be the right choice for Chief Justice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "None of the people from those countries behave in a way that is contrary to the way people have behaved since the cave men and to this day world-wide.\nYou might find yourself speaking louder than usual because of the language barrier however an intimate issue like sexual identity, especially this condition, is not something most people want to have imposed on them. \nIf you don't know if you're a man or a woman then there are still plenty of things you can do but living with a bunch of men in a large room where your business is war is not one of them.\nAnd what about from a female point of view? Do you seriously think you're going to get the cooperation of 75 women living in a barracks of having this transgender man among them? \nI'm talking from a practical manner.\nLook at your own military. They can't even deal with straight women in your army as many articles here have shown.\nThe army is not a democracy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why can't nonreligious people fire religious people for their chosen religion and lifestyle too? Why can't a Jew fire Christians or Muslims for their chosen lifestyles? Why is it only okay to single out the gay lifestyle for discrimination? I know people who wont shut up about their religion and I tolerate them. Yet they think they dont have to tolerate anyone else. I know how gay people feel about having religion shoved in their faces...and I don't side with religious fundamentalists who make their religion someone else's problem. \n\nThe gay people I know don't do that. They might mention their lesbian wife (\"Susie and I went hiking at Hatcher's Pass last week...\") or their gay boyfriend (\"Rick and I are flying to Seattle tomorrow...) in passing etc. They NEVER mention their bedroom escapades, and I don't care what they do either. Otherwise it isn't even a topic for discussion. Minnery's folk never stop talking about gay people all day long. There's a huge difference.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And, if you even bothered to read the diagnostic criteria (which you didnt), requires anxiety and distress resulting from misidentification of gender at birth due to psychological, behavioral, and biological causes. Transgender is not a disease or mental disorder under any clinical diagnostic in the US. Period.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Id like to see your documentation that says ALL hormone replacement therapy for women automatically disqualifies them. I dont claim to be an expert on the issue - but from the searches I have done, it seems very situational. It seems like it can depend on a variety of factors, of which include if the hormones are being prescribed by your doctor, and for what specific reason you are taking them. On that same note, what happens if a woman gives birth and needs to take hormones for that, or what happens to a military woman after 45 (when most get menopause)...are they no longer allowed to be in the military?\n\nIm not, nor have I ever suggested (even though your responses keep insinuating that I am) that we should throw out all the rules. Just that we should not be encapsulating ALL transgender people into this ban. What about transgender people who dont take hormones? Or who dont need psychiatric help? You are taking a group filled with very different people, and calling them all the same.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Publicizing the sins of others is the very definition of the sin of scandal. It is not defying the Church publicly as some hierarchists teach, as in Merlino\u2019s insanity over gay spouses being recognized at funerals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump cited no credible source indicating that transgendered troops are a detriment to the effectiveness of the U.S. military. It appears he is making statements like this to solidify his homophobic core supporters.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I read this with appreciation for it's insight, clarity as well as the feelings of good will even as Mr Konar expressives his profound disappointment in the current state of our country. He hits on multiple points in which the change of heart goes from generosity to selfish, meanspirited fear in seemingly in one or two generations. \nSocial conditions and access have improved during that time for women, blacks, gays, transgenders, physically hadicapped, etc which provides a sense of a more open society. But the Trump phenomenon seems to have opened a floodgate of hate and revenge. \nAlso he touched on the message of prosperity now promoted by evangelicals that has replaced the 10 commandments and other teachings that presented ethical behavior as a spiritual value. That view is as celebrated as it is base. \nBut let's not lose sight of our community's churches and organizations such as Saint Vincent de Paul who use their resources to provide for the homeless and less fortunate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Even though individually there are gays who support Trump, 100% of all LGBT organizations, and politicians stand allied with Islam. Even Toronto's LGBT community stands in solidarity with Islam after Orlando. How hard would they fight when they already believe they are on the wrong side?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How do you know she was not really gay? It appears you did no further investigation. The only way to formulate your own conclusion is to look into her life story a bit more don't you think? If you fancy yourself on being an informed person then there is no dearth of youtube vidoes and articles on the web about her conversion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "AlwaysThere, is this LP a he/she, she/he, Les-bian, homo, Trans something? I am just trying to understand the LP \"THOUGHT\" process, and in each of these categories, ITS WAY DIFFERENT...................", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hillary has never \"advocated abortion\". She has advocated giving women the right to determine their own health choices, as well she should. Abortion is legal in the US, whether it is moral is a choice each of us must make. Trump, on the other hand, has openly spoken derisively about women, gays, Mexicans, Muslims, the list goes on. He has shown, by his recent cabinet/advisor choices, that he concurs with the alt-right and has no love (let alone knowledge) for our Constitution. He exists in a values-free bubble and is in danger of being led by the nose by the folks who surround him. God help us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What/whose agenda are you talking about? I'm talking about metrics-based social science research and, like you, the doubts, questions, and pain of many \"nones\" I know. \n\nMany--dare I say most--were part of families that practiced the faith \"faithfully.\" They didn't\n lazily opt out because they had too much to do on Sunday. You insult their discernments, rigors, and pains by making them sound less than rigorous and vigorous in their decision making. At least half are products of formal Catholic education--from pre-Vatican II to post-Vatican II.\n\nAs for the #1 reason. If you take my sample base--wide but not research-tenet sufficient--it's not even close: the \"demeaning and ignorance\" (their words) of women, gays, and human sexuality, followed by, at #2, my education. You might disagree with that conclusion, but it can't be denied. \n\nI am not a \"none.\" Not even close. Like you, I deal with \"nones\" quite a bit. A whole lot. So please don't presume I have or reflect some agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now the Court needs to continue making decisions based on the state's constitution to protect us from the tax credit giveaways. Someone should've filed a class action suit against SB 21 when voters approved it. Just because legislation is passed into law doesn't make it legal; i.e. same-sex marriage and abortion laws.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So called partial-birth abortions, District of Columbia v. Heller, McDonald v. Chicago, \"Obamacare,\" Voting Rights Act, same-sex marriage... \n\nPaulie, you've made a compelling case for voting for the Democrats!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is is not our belief's we advance, it is our demand for moral teaching based on reason and evidence, not superstition or the peculiar sexuality of asexuals (who are even rarer than gays and lesbians) who assume that God made their sexuality holy rather than nature making it aberrant.\n\nThe Church is a democracy. We elect popes. Until kings started doing it, we elected bishops and in one parish towns, the bishop was essentially just the pastor. Indeed, all city churches started that way.\n\nDemanding restoration is not heresy, especially when Francis is looking at it anyway.\n\nThe rich man thought he was fine. He went to synagogue, he gave money, he kept the oral law but he missed the hospitality thing. Abraham told him that even should someone come back from the dead, they would not listen to him if they did not listen to Moses and the prophets. The risen man is Jesus.\n\nYou know him. The one who argued with the Church of his day?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They are malcontents. All this is happening despite what the gays of Toronto think. It is being done to us. but not for us. We suffer the damages being done by BLM.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the article it was stated that in their lifetime the average Canadian will encounter no one uses a neo-pronoun. The authors are on safe ground here, is I suspect that that the average Canadian has no idea what this is in the first place. They might have gone on to say that Bill C-16 which will be significant to an extremely small segment of our society will have no implications for the rest of us. The average Canadian will likely never interact with a transgender person, and if they do Bill C-16 will be the farthest thing from their minds.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why do you assume that the 88% has to be \"countered?\" This retrospective study looked at 139 male patients of whom 122 resolved their gender issues and 17 went on to identity as transgender. Zucker's clinic treated over a thousand young patients during his tenure. If we accept the robustness of the data and variable controls, your query seems to suggest that some portion of the 88% would somehow switch teams with a different approach than Zucker's? That the fraction itself is a product OF his approach? You see the problem with this faulty logic, no? That is an untestable question for obvious ethical reasons. Sadly, that doesn't prevent histrionic speculation. But, there is something we DO know. The 17 young males who WERE treated with Zucker's non-affirming approach but still identify as TG (the kind of TG person Wente concedes really must be TG) underwent a treatment antithetical to their true identity. That's not speculation - just a fact.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From Tom Roberts's second paragraph.\n\"I know of nothing else 'in' the U.S. Church that was built precisely to do what it does.\"\nA minute ago Mr Roberts was assuring us that NCReporter is independent of the Catholic Church, now it \"is in the U.S. Church,\" part of the Catholic Church. Which is it? You can't have it both ways.\nThe Reporter gives the 'microphone' to anyone who disagrees with Catholic teaching, who attacks the American bishops, who disparages those whose Faith and liturgical practice. \nJust today, Jamie Manson (a regular columnist here and books' editor) contributes an article advocating the ordination of women (an impossibility according to the Magisterium and closed for discussion) gets pride of place. She is well known also for her support of homosexual unions claiming that they are not sinful and can even be 'good'. Again this is in direct opposition to the constant and unerring teaching of the Church over two millennia and beyond.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Boots \"That is true but I will remind you that God did not mention homosesuality in the ten commandments. Rules in Leviticus probably arose due to societal pressures at the time.\" \n \nI have three points for you. First, you have been challenging people to come up with a religious right/belief that would be violated. And when produced, you try to deflect it with your own unsupported theory. \n\nSecond, either the entire Bible, i.e. Word of God, if from God or it isn't. By the way, it is! So none of it is from \"societal pressures.\" \n\nThird, read Romans 1:18-32. I suggest the New American Standard version for ease of understanding. \n\nAnd will you please tell me what \"right\" the couple is losing in the baker's refusal? They can get married, have a cake, and pretty much anythings else. The myth that every business must serve every customer is without basis. At their peril, any business owner can deny any customer for no reason at all, just as a customer can refuse to do business with them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't say it was a bad thing. WaPo, NYT, Huffpo, etc.- none think the Clinton Foundation taking tens of millions of dollars from countries that kill gays, won't let women try on clothes in stores, and won't accept any refugees into their country et al is a good thing. And justifying it by saying the money will be put to good use in America. Well if that's how you feel fine. I'll say it now though - I'm with the liberal press on this - I don't like it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder what would happen if the Pentagon brass decided that tweets are not official orders, and simply waited for Trump's milliseconds-long attention span to be diverted elsewhere?\n\"General Dunford, is the transgender issue taken care of?\"\n\"Yes, sir!\"\n\"Fine. Carry on.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, there are religious orders and then again there are religious orders. In Philly.com, a gay man who had been a part of the parish community of Daylesford Abbey for nearly 40 years wrote an account of how the abbot, not without sorrow and regret, dismissed him from his ministry of lector, which he performed very well for a long time. The occasion was the spread of knowledge that the man is married to another man. And the abbot, unlike many other religious superiors, felt bound by the orders of Archbishop Chaput.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality is not the result of an improperly ordered inclination. It is a normal biological variant. Heterosexuality is not essential to priesthood, neither is male gender. Priesthood's job description of servant-leader does not admit of either sexual preference or testosterone overload.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How was I attacking you? My answer to your questions is that we do not rely on ourselves to answer these questions of \"where do we draw the lines\" but on God and His Church. We ignore God and rely on our own \"knowledge and wisdom\" instead of asking God for His Wisdom. Look where it has gotten us. And we already have it as far as how God made us and how He wants us to live from Scripture and His revealed teachings. The neo-Nazi, KKK et. al are not following God's Wisdom and neither are Antifa, BLM, LGBTQ groups, etc. They are all out for themselves and their \"rights\" instead of giving a fig for God's Rights and the rights of our fellow man. If we truly tried to live-actually asked God to help us do this- love of God and love of others as Jesus loved us (which was a self-sacrificing love) then these problems would be relieved, not completely because we are all imperfect, but in a large way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I did not read all the comments. This is my take on the matter. I don't if a he wants to be a she or if a she wants to be a he as long as they pay for the change and all that is included. It is their choice. With all the hate that goes with being trans don't you think that will cause some problems in the military as it does in the general public now?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Peggy, Trudeau is \"popular\" as he shamelessly panders in a grovelling manner to\n-\nMuslims (not Christians)\ngays, transgender (not hetero)\nthe \"middle class\" (not the Poor who don't vote)\nthe Diversity class (but not Anglo-French Canadians like himself) \n-\nthe selfie crowd (enough said)\nfeminists (as if other men are not for women's rights)\n-\nwho else?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Peterson is pretty clearly a bigot - not because of refusal to use the 31 customized pronouns, but because of his public statements that transgender people don't deserve to be recognized as existing at all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I get the whole discrimination angle, sorta, but why do you want a cake, or anything for that matter, from someone who doesn't want to make it for you or who judges you negatively?\n\nJust a guess but I'll bet there are a ton of gay cakemakers who would do a bang up job for a gay wedding cake. Just sayin......", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's only recently that the Hierarchs have begun to throw homosexual clergy under the bus. There was a time when they were quite happy for it to be seen as the fault of heterosexuals. When Benny visited one country and met with groups of victims to \"listen\" to them, there were protests because the handpicked victims were in a group of ten - 8 females and 2 males. Look how 'normal' our abuser priests are, was the intention.\n\nThen they had a rethink. Not a good message to send out really, was it? Much better that it was pinned on homosexuals. They could then ban them from ever darkening the door of the priesthood again.\n\nDon't forget, they did this in the full knowledge that a huge proportion of the clergy are gay. \n\nThat's some kinda crazy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What I find notable, Emmanuel, is that Ms. or Mr. \"Silverhair\" (whose gender here is unknown\nand possibly even in transition) seems unaware that ACTUALLY it's Mr. MINNERY and other\nlike-minded local theocrats who are so \"obsessed with\" transgender people...and also have a\nlong history of expressing an hysterical obsession regarding gay people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "LGBTQ? Not in the US, where you can still be fired for being gay, where \"religious freedom\" can be used to deny you service, where you may have to use the bathroom on your birth certificate, and where the POTUS tweets that Ts should be discharged from the armed services.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cAny American who is physically and emotionally qualified should be allowed to serve.\u201d Ken Buck.\n\nHow is a person emotionally qualified if they don't know what gender they are?\n\nIf a transgender person wants to serve, do the surgery first, and then sign up. And for all you transgender people, look who wants YOU to put yourself in harms way.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My My My all this violence against Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos who is openly gay simply because of his conservative views. What homophobic hypocrites the anti-Trummpy snowflakes have become throwing bricks and paint at attendees and law enforcement officers. Tisk Tisk Tisk, riots, property damage, violence against others. Is this the diversity libs preach?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "BLM will eventually destroy the Gay Pride movement. Once you start excluding people it never stops.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When I was in my bodybuilding days, I would regularly get fondled by the women I worked in a hotel with. They touched my biceps without asking permission, and squeezed my pecs while giggling, and even grabbed my buttocks. They made me feel like a sex object. They didn\u2019t know I am gay so it really was offensive. To whom do I apply for sympathy?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why not put your attention on the huge number (likely 25% or more) of Catholic priests who are gay, but remain in the closet?\n\nThey're the one's who are empowering the restriction and denial you perceive.\n\nThe writers for progressive Catholic pubs who remain in the closet are also complicit.\n\nIt's largely because of their silence that the change you long for hasn't come to pass. You can't just put all blame on we heterosexuals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am NOT protecting or condoning the alleged behavior!\n\nI'm pointing out the \"he did this because he is gay\" bigotry.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "With so many people making the news today by claiming to be gay, it will not be many years before someone makes the news by claiming to be straight.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All of which are subjective claims which depend entirely on what you already believe - not facts. Damn near every problem in the UK right now up to and including last year's doctor strike is a direct result of her weakening unions. Strong unions benefit all of society. They are it's most important defense against abuse. \nAs for being elected. Scared voters are stupid voters. She made them fear Russia.\n\nThe true test of a leader is how the weakest and most vulnerable people did under them. Go ask gay people what Thatcher did to them. There is a reason they held celebratory parties when she died. She caused them endless grief and misery. \n\nConservatives always seem to end up marginalising somebody, denying somebody rights they enjoy, oppressing somebody. When liberals demand equal rights for them you call it 'political correctness'. \n\nWell then it's a mantle I wear with pride. Only in a perfect world can it be morally justified not to keep changing everything.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Seriously? No.\n\nSocrates was Greek, therefore a Greek was Socrates.\n\nSocrates was a homosexual therefore a homosexual was Socrates.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ignorance promotes hatred and bullying. Inform the children it is OK, this way there might be one less kid bullying a transgender . As for bullying children who stood up against SOGI , I wonder if they were dishing it out more then receiving. Some kids can be down right nasty little F-ers.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There are also irrational bigots who fear jews, as well as irrational homophobes who both fear and hate gays. The most problematic part is when people act on their irrationalities. Nobody, repeat nobody, was telling anyone what to think . . . or feel.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "ISIS killing Christians who don't accept forced conversion to Islam is persecution. Telling a man he should accept gay civil marriage is not.\n\nI'm not sorry that your and his bigotry is deemed unacceptable. Did you weep when the Supreme Court struck down racial anti-miscegenation laws? Were you aghast went apartheid no longer existed in South Africa? Do you yearn for the reinstatement of the Nuremburg Laws? Or is it only one form of bigotry that you support?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That is true, male homosexuality if generally frowned upon, but I sometimes wonder if that revulsion doesn't have some basis in the fact heterosexual men feel it's their prerogative to sexually pursue women and can't stand the idea of themselves being sexually pursued and assume gay men are inherently attracted to straight men. Plus there is the age old shaming as exemplified by Jewish armies of old who would sodomize their militarily vanquished to drive home the point the losers were no better than women. Male sexuality and it's expression can be interesting to say the least.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Last time I checked diabetes was an illness. Are you suggesting that transgenderism is also an illness?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "From the article: \u201cKevin Spacey has set gay rights back fifty years by a) conflating homosexuality with\u201d Rupp\u2019s allegations, one Twitter user said, \u201cand b) Saying that being gay is a \u2018choice.\u2019 \u201d\n=============\nFor decades the \"gay community\" has proclaimed that \"homosexuality is not - not - not - not - not - not - a 'choice'\" but is something that they cannot do anything about because \"they were/are born that way.\"\n-\nIn one paragraph Kevin Spacey refuted that myth. Kevin Spacey acknowledged that it is indeed \"his choice\" and Kevin Spacey refuted the \"homosexual myth.\"\n-\nThat is why the LGBTQI community is upset. Their lie is exposed as being a lie by a \"now-proud-to-be-a-gay-by-choice\" Kevin Spacey.....who 30 years ago may have had a fondness for a 14-year-old boy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Or bakers not baking homosexual wedding cakes.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's really clerical homosexual pederasty that was/is the issue. We see it flare up again with Milo and George Takei. It existed with Oscar Wilde. It was a HUGE problem in the last 50 years with homosexual priests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuals were exterminated in Nazi Germany and also on their behalf Canadians fought and died. No one is being executed in Russia because of their sexual orientation. At one time women were imprisoned because they demanded the vote - are you equating them to the holocaust? Beliefs change and not every country is at the same period of time so don't be so judgemental.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Closeted gay men who make a living as professional Catholics, constantly calling half the country ignorant racists? They're the really odd and sad ones.\n\nThere was no \"populist anger\" here, nor has there been \"populist anger\" at any time. That is simply MSW's code for racism. How very lame, how very dishonest.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And where is the program to fight Muslim hate of Jews, Christians, Atheists, Gays, Women? This is a canard, the ruling class along with media people hate criticism and they are using Islam to kill free speech and criticism\nPEOPLE from Middle East say this is exactly how the Islamists come into power and take over.\nMuslims form Middle East are frightened this is happening, because they fled the ME to escape it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It means we are obsessed with the sexuality of others. Here is a thought to try on: God does not create gays (through epignetics) to challenge their morality but to challenge ours. Trads like Fr. Scalia and Joseph Ratzinger flunk the test.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sooooooo....... not inviting your often brutal and oppressive abuser to the party SPECIFICALLY about Equality, and anti oppression is MORE of a step backwards than being abused and oppressed, and everyone around you letting it happen no matter how long you've been asking for help, just because it's not happening directly to them?? I wonder how many times have this author or people like him spoken up about the abuse faced by people of color, women and trans people by the Toronto police? Do you all just ignore the storied they share? Or do you just have your self righteous heads stuck up somewhere? The poc who talk about being singled out, disproportionately policed? The disproportionate number of poc who end up in Toronto Prison because of the targeted policing? The Trans people singled out, and often accused of being prostitutes when they are not? The focused public sex sting of gay men while ignoring public sex of straight people? Treatment of women who are reporting rape? Umm ok...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm straight, a traditionalist, married for over two decades and raised two wonderful children. In that time, I never saw a single negative effect on my family as a result of LGBTQ equal rights movement, legalization of gay marriage, etc. Nada, zero, zippo. I have witnessed fewer Matthew Shepards' strapped to fence posts and tortured to death. So how exactly is this a family's \"worst enemy\"?\n\nHave some humility and show respect for other's views. Your beliefs are just that, your beliefs. You don't have to agree, but listen with compassion instead of spouting dogma.\n\n\"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.\"\n\u2014\u2009Matthew 7:1-5 KJV", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I include you Elaine in my nightly prayers, I pray that everyone of your Grandchildren is healthy, happy and gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Fact of the matter it is republicans who loathe the bill of rights. Their main goal in each election is to discourage or downright prohibit minorities from voting. We shall see how this SC judge does but I don't have much hope. Republicasns just love big government. If they had their way, no minority would be able to vote, gays would be shot, and women would only be barefoot and pregnant. \n\nDemocrats are far from perfect but republicans are the ones who generally crash the economy I hope you remember this next year when the economy turns due south. Why anyone would vote for a party that has abandoned its principles and today is only for the top 1% is beyond me.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Russia as a whole is hostile to homosexuals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What else can you expect from a cowardly democrat like Slummer? Go back to 1994 when their was tremendous support for a Constitutional amendment for marriage to be defined as between a man and woman. Slummer fought it tooth and nail buying time with the D.O.M.A., Defense Of Marriage Act which passed both houses of Congress with veto proof majorities forcing Bill Clinton to sign it into law. Then our good friend Chuckie led the attack on D.O.M.A. when it came up in the courts after the cowardly Attorney General Holder in collusion with Barry Sotero and Chuckie refused to support the law before S.C.O.T.U.S. resulting in homosexual marriage being the law of the land. Congress should open an investigations in treason activities on A. G. Holder, Chuckie, and Obama.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am not quite sure what you are trying to say. But I think you are looking at it from the wrong end. A business open to the public, Masterpiece Cakeshop, is refusing to provide a cake for a gay couple. The business is not participating in a religious ceremony, nor is it practicing a religion. (Businesses do not have religions.) Since it is open to the public, it may no more discriminate against gays than a diner in the South could lawfully refuse to serve black people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Keep in mind that demonizing those who hold opposing viewpoints is the tactic of Donald Trump and his base.\"\n\nThat was precisely Caffarra's tactic ... declaring that those who support the normalization of homosexuality in society are the agents of Satan and are bringing about the destruction of civilization. It is impossible to dialogue with the holder of such a priori assumptions. Their Trumpian tactics ... repeatedly demonizing gays ... were and are intentionally malicious. If they weren't then they'd have ameliorated their hate speech with the reminder that gays are to be \"accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The mind and heart of the church are warped on this. No one need give up the right to priesthood, straight men, straight women, gay, lesbians, married, single, divorced or engaged. The problem is the misogynistic demand for continence. That kind of anti-sexuality is an offense to the human person. Indeed, those who are that anti-sexual are the deeply frustrated ones who are most likely to abuse children.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You said that gays are not a protected class in Colorado. No matter the semantic argument, you are wrong. Gays are listed as a protected class.\n\nNow let\u2019s talk about how you think Germans can force bakers to make them hitler cakes.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Really? If I called out a Muslim on, say, opposition to same sex marriages, abortion, women's rights or being anti-gay, I would be accused of Islamophobia.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If the teenage boy is prepubescent, it most certainly is pedophilia. And if the teenage boy is under the age of 18, in most states it is statutory rape, or sexual assault of a minor, or however the particular state defines the act under its criminal code. And the societal issue here is not that the clergy is homosexual (as a majority of them probably are), but that some of them committed a crime.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Its war on men\n Hallelujah\nIts war on men\nAMEN !\nNo guy is never, \nEver gonna be \nNot FOUND TO BE \nNOT GUILTEEEEE\nIts war on men \nIts WAR War war war \n-----------------------------\nThank goodness I;m gay and I dont have to deal with that stuff straight men have to deal with.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The liberal, married, gay Black woman who took out the shooter didn't seem to have any problem.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hope that a person can be gay without being an apologist for bad behavior. You do not advance your cause by doing so. It's not heterosexuals making up these stories. The main stream media is just reporting facts. I haven't read about any heterosexual priests raping unconscious women lately. Have you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"it's important to respect differences in a pluralistic society.\"...starting with religions, who believe gods in the sky tell them being gay is wrong.\n\nJason, if a religion teaches nonsense, it's good if the government calls them out on it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't support the sexism of the Catholic Church. It's you who believe that I do. NO one who knows me in real life has that idea.\nYou remind me of the young undergraduates in the early 70s, who were at the university where I doing graduate work, mostly from Long Island, who had come to college and had suddenly become radical lesbian feminists. They told me that was not a feminist, because I was married to a man. Only they were feminists.....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gee seems to purposely miss the point - it's not a gay community issue, it's a black community issue, including black Torontonians who are gay. Black community members find it difficult obviously, to march along side a police force that has long targeted black men. I'm neither black nor gay and while I've attended Pride and support it, it's not rocket science to understand the black community's push on our police force, levering the parade as a tool to make their point. It's smart. It's working. But for the Globe to purposely mis-position this as a gay community issue, is silly and unhelpful and ignores the legitimate complaints that black men are still targeted by our police no matter their economic status.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trudeau now grovels for the Jewish vote\nhaving already pandered to\nMuslim vote\nGay vote\nFeminist vote\nDiversity vote\nIndigenous vote\nImmigrant vote\nRefugee vote\nsunny vote\nwhat next?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "2/2\nThe special problem for homosexual candidates is that it asks them to lie about who they are; worse, if they accept, or even pretend to accept, the 'intrinsic disorder' nonsense, they will be drawn inexorably into a profoundly unhealthy and dangerous form of self-loathing.\nI think it\u2019s time to cut through the hypocrisy that drives this nonsense. Our bishops ought to tell us, plainly, whether they accept this directive; and if so how they are implementing it, both for seminarians and for clergy. What are they doing to purge the seminaries and the clergy of homosexuals? Alternatively, they should say plainly that the document is cynical, hypocritical and dishonest and they are ignoring it, or perhaps admit that they have paid lip service to it. If homosexuals are excluded from priesthood, two-thirds of the bishops (probably all of the culture warriors) would be gone; and probably nearly the same proportion of priests -- most of them good, holy, effective priests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I didn\u2019t correct the poster, I corrected the choice of words. The Church does not use \u201cdegenerate\u201d or any variation of it.\n\nRule and Raven stated that we live in a fallen world \u201cThere's overwhelming evidence that men are brutal, selfish, greedy and murderous too. So what? We live in a fallen world where sin and degeneracy of all sorts exist.\u201d\n\nYou could have as easily picked \u201csin\u201d were your intention not to color your point.\n\nThere are zero \u201c(a)ttacks on homosexuality by the church\u201d. The Church teaches that sexual activity between the unmarried is immoral. That is based on a view of sex that you reject. It also teaches that a homosexual orientation, whatever the cause, is and of itself not a moral failing.\n\nUnlike some of our Commonwealth brethren, we don\u2019t treat religious instruction as \u201chate speech\u201d because we have the First Amendment.\n\nNo amount of argument, tapdancing, reimaging, accusation, or any combination thereof is going to move the Church to approve homosexual behavior.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay man myself, I'm quite perplexed as to why there is still so much hatred and persecution of homosexuals in the world. Hate is not something that comes easily to me, so I don't understand why so many feel the need to persecute others who are perceived as \"different\". Why should anyone be attacked, beaten, tortured and detained simply for loving another human being and wanting to pursue a healthy consensual relationship???", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Except that Francis is really no more welcoming to gays than his immediate predecessors. He hasn't said, \"You should not fire gay employees for being civilly married.\" That's is something he should insist on if he truly means for the Church to be welcoming to LGBTs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Are you applying the same standards to Christians\"\n\nIf you've looked at my record on GLBT issues, you know the answer is yes. \n\nI'm pointing out the hypocrisy of the regressive left in hating evangelical Christianity for many of its views on civil rights, but triping over their bleeding hearts to defend another cult with a far worse civil rights record.\n\nAs an agnostic heathen, contemporary Christians don't worry me at all. At worst they're annoying, and increasingly ineffective at curtailing civil rights.\n\nBy contrast, homosexuality is still criminalized in every Islamic nation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The whole \"trans\" issue is one of mental health . If these people wanted to cut off an arm or a leg , we would recommend psychotherapy, but because they want to cut off a penis its different ? Please explain why ?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know whether transgenderism is a mental affliction or a physical one, but either way, it is a condition that will require years of medical treatment to \"cure\". We don't allow people with club feet or rickets to join the Infantry, since neither can walk the walk without large amounts of medical intervention. We don't allow allow diabetics to join, nor those with other diseases or conditions, because of the increased medical care needs that detract from their ability to perform active service. It seems reasonable to prohibit known transgenders from enlisting to prevent the long term and expensive medical care they would need in order to perform their duties.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Adultery, fornication, masturbation, contraception, homosexual activity are all proscribed in the Scriptures so I don't see how anyone can dispute this?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This article just put me to sleep. Yawn. Slow news day? Why are old lesbians always so scared of neighbors mowing their own lawn?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The delusion of modern science, acquired by reading and actually listening to gays. Gasp. Do you even begin to understand who superstitious you sound and how that hurts your POV? Keep it up and they will be having gay marriages in your parish in the next few years.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I apologize if you missed the tongue in cheek intent of my comment. I stand by my idea that not ordaining gay men will just make the \" Vocations Crisis\" even worse. I do agree with your comments about chastity but would extend it to all members of the Body of Christ.\n\nI happen to have some up close and personal experience with a STRAIGHT priest and a female member of my family and the attitudes of his superiors in the chancery. Trust me, it ain't pretty. \n\nTo be sure, I have some real issues with the pastoral damage caused by the Roman concept of priesthood which I won't go into here, but such a move by Rome will simply result in ordaining closeted gay men.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In general I like to use \"they\" in the place of he or her (or \"it\"), because it reinforces the fact that our conscious minds are collections of neurons firing in chorus. Using gender-specific pronouns was once useful in our history but is not really necessary today and just about everyone finds it annoying to be mislabelled, even non-trans-gendered people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Again right-wing snowflakes deemed the following comment uncivil:\n\n\"Plus, if he thinks homosexuals are sinners, he is required to serve them, following the example of Jesus who served sinners.\n\nThis guy is really bad at being a Christian.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Seeing as how we can't comment on the radical islamic terrorist in Edmonton article (which is closed, for \"legal reasons\" which is code for \"we don't want people to be able to express their opinion and say something against Islam because then we wouldn't be multicultural\") I decided to comment here.\n\nYes, Sheema, we did think it would happen here; it was just a matter of time. And yes, we will be calm and carry on. But we also need to be vigilant and look out for radical islamic terrorism, the forced marriages, the forced genital mutilation, the misogamy, and if you are gay watch out as you will be thrown off a building.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Boots the problem with you and others like you, you do not have a personal relationship (religion) with the God who formed you on your Mother's womb. As for Barack Hussein Obama, he was not a decent person when it comes to Godly values. He supported the murdering of the unborn(abortion) and blaspheme God's covenant of marriage of one man and one woman. He supported homosexuality that God calls a detestable sin. He is not a decent person but an evil one.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Globe has run a half dozen columns on this Cultural Appropriation controversy and the number of hate-filled comments that have followed only proves that racism is alive and kicking in Canada.\n\nJust why the Majority should be so outraged at Minorities wanting to be heard and respected is puzzling. Is it guilt? It reminds me of the old white woman I once saw on the Spadina streetcar complaining about all the foreigners not speaking English. They weren't speaking to her, so why did she need to know what they were saying?\n\n I have heard the most vile words come out of the mouths of suburban teens talking about indigenous people, people of colour, and the LGBT community. And yet if anyone from these minorities complains, it's they who are being racist or bigoted.\n\nEqual Rights always seems to imply that some are more equal than others. It is disheartening to think that those here championing free speech are the same who cheer on Trump and his Fake News nonsense. Status Quo forever!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Can there be two motives? Hatred based on religion is one motive. The other obvious motive is homophobia. In this case hatred of his own homosexuality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hate to tell you this but there are over 200 municipalities in the US with bylaws on the books allowing people to use the washroom corresponding to their gender. Add several states, any number of school districts, and who knows how many private businesses to the mix and, if there was going to be a problem, you'd have seen it by now. Instead there hasn't been a single case of a transgendered individual causing a problem in a washroom. Not one. Fact is, the people at risk of assault (physical and/or sexual) are the transgendered individuals themselves, not the general public.\n\nAfter all, if this was your daughter would you be comfortable sending her into a men's room?\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/z6amznq", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The gay beach below the light house or the gay beach where Queen's Surf used to be?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here, I'll make it easy. The gay CIA exists to export American friendly banana republics, and nothing more. If the information as the gay CIA branding on it, it is actually about that American export phenomenon which is not accountable on their balance of payments.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If it's not due to their religion, then why is the attack centered on their religion? This is absurd. You attack their religion as being a cult. \n\nYou say that your anti-Vaishnava Hindu religious bigotry is OK because the religion you are criticizing is a \"cult\" and that it has what you call anti-homosexual views. So if we simply label a religion a cult and point out their conservative views in regard to homosexuality, then they're fair game? That means we can go after any Islamic or Evangelical Christian church or the Catholic Church, which many people consider a cult. This is the point. You define a religion as a cult, you say that their views on social issues go against the mainstream, and your religious bigotry becomes perfectly acceptable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not sure you understand what I'm saying at all. \n\n1. What laws are you referring to?\n2. How am I being permissive of sexual misconduct over one orientation or the other? I've made it pretty clear that gay or straight: sexual misconduct is wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Somehow Joe Dick thinks allowing a teenager to join a gay-straight alliance without telling his parents amounts to \"nanny-stateism.\"\n\nMakes as much sense as thinking adults have Charter protection against other family members searching their bedrooms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hmm ... Raptors eliminated, Leafs eliminated, Blue Jays are the worst team in MLB and now a \"small\" hotel tax to gouge attendees of the Gay Pride Parade ... nice job on tourism GTA.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As I recall Fr Martin tweeted out that those that oppose homosexual acts or unions are in fact latent homosexuals still hiding in the closet. That seems somewhat judgemental to me as well. Did he not think that comment would cause some negative interactions? Now he wants to play the victim in all of this?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender like the traitor 'Chelsea' Manning who was pardoned by Obama.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you don't have the right to get legally married? Read the question again, and try offering an answer. I'm also pretty sure you're allowed to adopt a child, so long as the agency sees that you are fit to be a parent.\n\nNo one has said that you have to use a transgender toilet. A toilet is a non-living object. It has no gender. You are free to use the toilet, just like always.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hear what you are saying, but let me share a slightly different perspective on LW3. Part of the way that things in society change is by people making things personal. I am more likely to \n be accepting if I am personally impacted by something. There is quite a lot of bias and misunderstanding about LGBTQ people. One way that those misunderstandings, and the bias and hate that people feel, can be lessened is by realizing that there are many people who we know who fit into one of those categories. By being more vocal about where someone is, those who know them can start to see that they know people \"like that\". While I am no fan of former VP Dick Chaney, his acceptance and understanding of gay people only really changed when he found out his daughter was gay. Making the personal, intentional connections to people is one way we can start to have more people who say, as you do, that they don't care about \"those factors\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's actually sad that you uniformly make such uninformed statements about gay people. I wonder what the reason for this might be ......", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sans any laws to the contrary, the common law was that you could serve or refuse anyone for any reason or no reason at all.\n\nThe exceptions to this are statutory and the bases for them is an entire long discussion.\n\nThe bulk of the cases involving so-called \u201cgay persons\u201d involve people who have purposely revealed and in a number of cases specifically selected individuals known to have strong religious beliefs.\n\nThis offends most Americans\u2019 sense of fair play and is leading to a backlash which appears to be taking shape in a movement for the exemption of small family-owned businesses like bakeries with some form of \u201cconscientious objection\u201d.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "80 - 90 % of feminism today is lesbian based. A young heterosexual female going to lesbian gender studies professor in university for advice about men is unlikely to get a gender neutral answer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ask just about any homosexual former Catholic. You will either get a \"none of your business\" or an earful", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are mixing 2 things that are sort of similar, but not really. There is no difference between a \"gay\" wedding cake and a \"straight\" wedding cake. They are both made of the same ingredients. Both require the same amount of time to complete. They are, by all accounts, the same. There is, however, a difference between pants and skirts, and dress suits and dresses. If I needed a suit tailored, I would go to a tailor who does suites. \n\nA better example would be if I went to a tailor I had gone to dozens of times before to get fitted for my suit I was going to wear to my gay wedding, and the tailor refused saying he could not tailor a suite that was going to be used in a gay wedding - then I would be very upset, as I would feel as though he is now discriminating against me for the fact that im gay. Its clearly not because he cant tailor the suite - its only because he wont tailor that specific suite because its being used in a gay wedding.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Not my business if it\u2019s not my bed.\" Precisely. \n\nI neither care nor want to know who, or how many, of whatever gender are doing what to/or with whom. Yet the media insists on providing explicit details over and over on all of the above because enough people do care about such things to pay money to the media.\n\nPerhaps I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body. What does that mean? \n\nWhy should anyone care?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Couldn't one also say that gay people want to be protected from discrimination while discriminating against religious conservatives? To have any credibility at all, one must defend/condemn each group with equal fervor.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is that extremism\nIs that misogyny (make women wear veils)\nIs that homophobes (throwing gays off buildings)\nIs that murderous thugs (OK two words)\n\nYeah, the G&M doesn't want to discuss the facts. It is not longer a newspaper. It is Kumbayah paper where we all sit around and discuss recent murderous rampages while drinking coffee and eating scones.\n\nI am pretty sure my account will be deleted after this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course you created a strawman. You said I supported discrimination against homosexuals and trans-gender people which I is not true.\nTo publish an untruth about a person and then criticise them on the basis of that untruth is creating a strawman.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I find it difficult to reconcile the ideas that Scheer will not reopen the gay marriage or abortion issues and the fact that he says that he will listen to all shades of Conservative. For Prairie and interior BC Conservatives, those socially conservative issues are a big deal and he will be pushed on them consistently.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obama was against their anti-gay position.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada for over a decade. There was no systemic discrimination against gays in Canada for at least a generation; quite the contrary, there was a number of gay-centered programs to compensate for past transgressions.\n\n At the same time, I'd say that there was no meaningful discussions about policies for families in general, except, perhaps, a short burst of activity regarding income splitting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's only male and female, girls and boys, XX and XY. There is no third sex. So men should not be allowed to access the ladies room. Get 10 more reasons why transgenderism is wrong: \nhttps://www.tfpstudentaction.org/blog/10-reasons-why-transgenderism-is-the-familys-worst-enemy\n\nWe must protect the family. Help kids understand human nature and right reason, not confuse them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Huh? I assume your referring to somebody else. I'm always up for civil discussion. I'm just not going to read Blow any more. I read this column, googled and read some other stuff he has written, all his quotes, half of which he sounds like a confused bisexual. And he seems mad. I like reading opinions that make me think (Tom Sowell for example), not make me angry. Different strokes, continue reading him if you want. But I'm done, and done commenting on this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed, yes ,thanks for posting the official Catholic view on homosexuality which is accurate, reasonable and compassionate according to many, Catholic or not. \n\nI did actually post a response a number of days ago but can't find it anymore. I can't even find your original comments with the vatican quotes - flagged as inappropriate perhaps? It wouldn't surprise me, given the prevailing intolerance and bigotry of our secular society on these issues. \n\nIn any case, please repost your thoughts on this topic so I can try responding again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The baker refused to serve the couple because they were gay. That was, and still is, against the law in Colorado. Thank goodness the CO Supreme Court saw through all the smoke and mirrors to reveal this simple fact. Phillips broke the law and can't claim his religious beliefs negate that law. End of story. (I wish.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A report like this is simply de rigueur boiler plate. Does anybody think a militant feminist, in charge of writing a report about any organization that is 95% male, would find anything but a cesspool of vice? It's not unlike BLM claiming the white gay population of Toronto is a cesspool of racism. It couldn't be anything but.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fr. Reese says it is embarrassing to see the Catholic Church even less tolerant than the Mormons!\n\nOn matters that have anything to do with sexuality, even tangentially, the Church IS less tolerant than other religions, even the most rigidly conservative, literal-Bible-guided, (and pro-life) ones. Gay rights...contraception...divorce and remarriage...and other issues seem to have isolated the Church from other religions. Why?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This white privilege business is nonsense by social justice warriors who never lived through the hard times and want to make a mountain out of a mole hill.\n\nSeriously, look at the people who spout this nonsense - most are white, most come from well to do background, and most are not old enough to remember the hard times of the 50, 60, and 70s. \n\nRacism existed and does exist. But it exists in all cultures and all colours of the skin. There are those who are privileged all right, and those people are those who have money. And those who have money come in all shades and colors.\n\nSo instead of teaching nonsense, redistribution, and shaming people because they are a certain color why not tackle real problems, like religions that teach misogyny for making women cover their faces, or religions that throw gays off of buildings? But that can't occur because it would be against multiculturalism. Maybe when gays stopped being killed I will be a little more empathetic to the killers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Come on Gay, is that the same 47% that Romney lost is presidential bid on? The vast majority of American voters appeared to sift through Romney's lies. Guess you're still trying to figure that out too huh?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"He was twice removed from his Supreme Court position, once for disobeying a federal court order to remove a 5,200 pound granite Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of the state judicial building, and later for urging state probate judges to defy the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.\" And bangs a 14-year old girl. What a SCHMUCK! This could not have happened to a better guy. And this is the Bible Belt.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree. This is Catholic Answers claiming \"it was the gays\" and distancing themselves from the creepy pedophile label. The John Jay report may not be perfect but it gives us a profile of 11,000 victims and the vast majority of them were under 14 and some were > 7. 20% of victims were female. It also states that the peak incident time was 1980, which makes no sense with the \"gay liberation\" narrative because things were just getting started then. How to explain how the number of incidents dropping continuously from 1980 to 2003 . . .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, trans-gendered rights are human rights, but sanctioning a critic of a middle aged, drug and alcohol induced man in a dress, who is standing in the middle of the road screaming at the sky is a human rights violation of the utmost order. If you know Davie/Denman Sreets in Vancouver, you'll understand my comment. Please, let's not confuse the very valid, but rare, trans gendered condition with the predominant issue - mental illness. The real issue today is simple, can I say that?????", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He is excited about being gay i guess", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How ironic! On one hand, Trudeau promotes LGBT rights to the leaders of the Commonwealth countries, many of which criminalize and punish homosexuality. On the other, he favours admitting tens of thousands of \"refugees\" from cultures that oppress women (\"honour killings\", FGM, forced marriages of child brides, the imposition of Seventh Century dress codes, etc.......) and murder gays. Hypocrisy, thy name is Liberal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Born black or white or- but homosexuality and all of the other letters are a choice, and learned behavior. If not, prove it with DNA. All the laws in the world can not force us to call good, evil and evil, good. You cannot force acknowledgement, acceptance, approval. The king still has no clothes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think the big deal is that he is gay, the big deal is that he allegedly forced himself on to a minor.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This seems a ridiculous issue. The military already has distinct and strict dress codes, especially for those in combat operations where men and women wear the same thing. I can see both sides of the argument on whether hormone therapy should be paid for, but as u5a1a1 pointed out in this forum, why are taxpayers covering Viagra? The bigger debate should be what types of medical services should be provided in an enlisted's health care package. \n\nAs far as transgender people serving, these are patriots risking their lives for our country and deserve the same respect as any other service member. This is something five-time draft dodger Donald Trump actively avoided-- laying down his life for others or his country.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"There is no freedom to dissent from church teaching on abortion, contraception, gay marriage, divorce and remarriage, sex outside of marriage, women's ordination, etc.\"\n\nReally, F.C? So it is only the pelvic issues that really matter? That explains plenty about the nature of your posts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Motley, these are, unfortunately, excellent examples of the horrors of Islamic extremism in parts of the Middle East. I can't imagine anyone around here would be \"apologists\" for such institutionalized cruelty. \n\nBut 3 quick questions-- 1) As the situation concerns American Muslims, how do you feel about CAIR's Nihad Awad's strong condemnation of the attack here?\" 2) However, if you want to go overseas, how do you feel about Nigerian Christians' treatment of homosexuals? 3) As the Old Testament which is the basis of Judeo-Christian morality also represents the same \"stone 'em to death\" cruelty, yet overwhelmingly most American Christians and Jews have moved far beyond this dogma, why do you suppose America's Muslims can't also move on? Isn't this \"the American way?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How do you feel about schools discussing gay marriage, transgenderism, gun issues, the Confederate states and participants, or any of the other \"hot button\" issues in today's society? So many condemn Christianity (or other religions) but demand that issues more to their taste should be openly discussed, no matter the audience.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Remember the ban on gays in the military? And \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\"?\n\nRemember all the scare stories about what would if gays ever got into the military? None of them came true.\n\nThis ban will meet the same fate in time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Trump has found a way to tap into people's fear of the stranger. Deep-seated emotions like racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, or homophobia, for example, cannot be combated politically because they are rooted in soul sickness, a profound warping of the human spirit.\"\n\nFear of the stranger, racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, homophobia? I voted for Trump and I suffer from none of these cliche spiritual illnesses. This is true with the overwhelming majority of those who voted for Trump. If such \"soul sickness\" existed as Massingale believes, then we would not have ten of millions of illegal aliens in this country. Nor would the gay movement have progressed as much as it has over the years. The fact is that Americans, even those who voted for Trump, are the most tolerant, loving and generous people in the world. It is Massingale who is full of unfounded fear and intolerance, not people like me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fact is that eighty percent of the abuse was same-sex. The majority of priests (56%) were alleged to have abused one victim, nearly 27% were alleged to have abused two or three victims; the largest group of alleged victims (50.9%) was between the ages of 11 and 14, 27.3% were 15-17. \n\nThese were predominately prepubescent and pubescent boys assaulted by middle-aged men. The majority of priests involved were ordained between 1950 and 1979 (68%). Priests ordained prior to 1950 accounted for 21.3% of the allegations, and priests ordained after 1979 accounted for 10.7% of allegations. \n\nAs I said: \"The figures published there make it clear the vast majority of abuse was homosexual assaults on teenage boys.\" I've indicated the reasons in other posts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Based on your comment, amylou, you choose not to do your own research because you know that you'll find medical science that does prove that homosexuality is genetic. You sit on your holier than thou pedestal and say, \"prove it.\" Well girly, I can throw stones and say prove that it's learned behavior and not genetic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Odd that in 2017 you can no longer refer to a non homosexual as \"gay\", but you can still use the word schizophrenia as a slur.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My wife and I have been won over by this show. Levy has fantastic comic timing and instincts - Google the episode where Levy tries to rent space in a garage and somehow ends up in an extended debate with the owner over the merits of opening a bagel shop. It's just comedy gold and a credit to Levy's abities.\n\nWe have also very much enjoyed Kim's Convenience. We loved the play but I confess our expectations were very low for the tv show, which looked corny as heck. But the show has been great. Watch the very first episode and you'll be won over by the writing and the great comedy instincts of the main actor. Without spoiling the bit, Mr. Kim somehow gets into a confrontation with gay pride attendees and... Well it's worth watching is all I'll say.\n\nSome of the material, to be fair, was lifted right out of the play, but to our surprise the show is still going strong after that material was used up. Even the lesser characters like the daughter and the son's buddy are growing on us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One need only have kids to know why people are more accepting of sin. The public schools are not allowed to teach about sin, and they get sued whenever they teach against any kind of behavior or thought that offends someone. CCD does not teach about sin anymore either, and it's never mentioned in mass anymore. The colleges teach no morality and encourage sexual experimentation and homosexual clubs. \n\nThe only place sin is being \"taught\" is in the Church rules, but the only ones talking about the rules are the homosexuals, the divorced, the sexually immoral, and anyone else who willfully engages in sinful activity and resents the Church's teaching.\n\nThe Pope is failing the world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I see no difference between refusing to serve gay people today and refusing to serve African Americans at the lunch counters of the deep south during the civil rights movement. Discrimination is discrimination. Period. When you run a public business and agree to serve the public you cannot discriminate against protected classes of people. That is the law. If you don't think you can offer a specific service to all patrons without discriminating, then don't offer that service. No harm, no foul. Do we want the country we proudly call \"the land of the free\" to regress to the point where the sign in the window singles out the people they don't serve? I certainly don't think so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Again, like the mosquito in the nudist colony: I know what to do but where to begin?\nWhat priest brings along a 16 yr boy to a canon law conference? To parade him as a trophy?\nHoeppner pontificates \"Ron needed to be humble and have a servant's heart.\" \nHow conveniently the powers quote pious pablum when they have no \"fundamentum in re\" to terminate a person! Isn't Hoeppner the one who refused to confirm a high school kid because he made a statement supporting gays? No servant heart then but hardness of heart.\nHoeppner can corral other clerics to carry out his bidden like our-called president.\nPower surrounds itself with prostitutes.\nAnd what does the Fr. Vasek shares with his parishioners Sunday?\nI stand with my father or the bishop? Stay tuned!\nAnd isn't that the notorious Niensted sitting in the background of photo?\nGotta be a musical in all of this, on the order of a Requiem!\nAnd all this lying posturing, but for Crookston?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This whole thing is actually rather simple, if one holds true to the one true faith, which neither Martin nor Ruse do. The Catholic Catechism teaches: \"[Homosexuals] must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.\" To the extent Ruse insulted gays and lesbians with the broad brush that he did, he violated the foregoing \"commandment.\" It was a sin. Martin, for his part, exhorts us to reject Church teaching on homosexuality, and to regard homosexual CONDUCT (as distinct from the state of simply being homosexual) as perfectly acceptable, sinless. To the extent Martin does this, he was wrong, see RC Catechism sec. 2357, and Ruse was right. Ruse's provocative language, however, did the Church's cause no good.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is better if it is a clear separation of the male and female roles that gays can not and do not provide. Men and women have a number of differences that children need to see and appreciate.\nYes, men have done some damage to their reputations but most of the criticism is undeserved. For instance why are men almost always the ones accused of domestic abuse when women can be just as guilty? Why are there no safe houses for men with wives who are abusive, some physically so? Why are men always assumed to be the rapist when women are just as likely to take advantage of men? Women are also more likely to sexual extortionists. In the workplace, it is assumed the man is the one sexually harassing the woman, when the opposite is just as likely. There is a reason some women are thought to have 'slept' their way to the top.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There's numerous countries over there who will accept gays without a problem. We have dome enough", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "sheeperst., Kenney and Trost do not deserve serious treatment on this matter. Lighten up. Read the Book of Leviticus out loud some time, or any religion's scripture declaring gays an abomination. Then ask yourself about drinking, the act of writing, and the disappearance of Reason. Besides, \"Randian curious\" is almost universally a funny thing to say, for anyone other than humourless Randians. The poor in Rand's philosophy? Should be left to die. She just never had the guts to say it outright. Listening to a robo-Randian talk their way around that one? So laugh-out-loud ridiculous that they, like Kenney and Trost, also deserve nothing but mocking treatments such as Southey's here. Her serious question is this: a robo-Randian is not discriminated against while gays in general should be, based on ancient tales with other weird prohibitions such as keeping women out of the kitchen once a month? Dude...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A reply that is intended to give us the impression that you understand \"consubstantial\". (As in \u201cit\u2019s too hard for you, but not for me\u201d.)\n\nSuppose we give you the benefit of the doubt:\n1. for how many people is that an intelligible word?\n2. given that the Creed was originally compiled in Greek, why should be we stuck with a latinism? \n\nYour literalism (so often deployed in these threads) surely means you should be advocating that we ought to be declaring our belief that Christ is homo-ousial with the Father ...\n\nIn all events the pastoral question was the more important \u2026 for which you have displayed an evident disdain.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Emmett, have you ever noticed when Jesus talked abou the last judgment he never talked about doctrinal orthodoxy? Not once did he say if you had the wrong beliefs concerning the Trinity you were bound to hell. Never said that if you didn't hate gay folks enough or work hard enough to keep them from getting married in the secular sphere, let alone being gay, you were bound to hell, etc etc etc.\nBut he sure had a lot to say concerning not feeding the hungry, fighting for justice and human dignity. Could this mean Jesus was more concerned about those things than doctrinal/\"moral\" purity???", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A good friend that I have known since the 6th grade grew up in a very strict Mormon household in a very strict Mormon community. I always knew that he was gay. He did, too. In fealty to his parents and church, he did everything they wanted him to do in order to not be gay. He served on a mission. He went to special camps. He prayed about it. I believed he prayed sincerely and with dedication. He went to BYU. At the age of 25 or so, he decided that either God had made a mistake or that the LDS church was wrong about homosexuality. He left the church at no small cost. I've never seen him happier or healthier. \n\nBest of luck to young Savannah.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The next time he will hit the news is when he will march with Justin in TO's gay parade.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Trump vs. the politics that Christianity requires\"? Let's lower the bar and wonder about the kind of politics that the minimal standards of humanity requires.\nRegardless of one's position on non-traditional sexual people one should be absolutely livid and resist with the strongest words and actions the Trump banning of transgender persons serving in the US Armed Forces AND how he did and is doing it.\nFace it: by his action and how he has/is doing it places a vivid target on these and all transgenders, rendering them diminished, excluded, demeaned and legitimate targets of the basest, virulent and brutal hatemongers and self-satisfied fundamentalists. \nThese persons are your/our brothers and sisters and we seem to be letting this happen without a whimper.\nWe seem to have forgotten that these standards apply to us as well. Shame on us....again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The SPLC is an odious group, and should be listed in their own \"Hate Map\". Two men took what the SPLC put up on the website and acted upon it - shootings at both the FRC and at Republicans, hoping to kill them, and nearly being successful in both instances.\n\nThe name calling by Ruse should cease, I will grant you that. At the same time, Fr. Martin is causing grave spiritual harm to homosexual men and women, and to himself. That may not appear to be charity to a sinner, but we humans are all sinners and correction is needed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Very well-said.\n And imagine where gays and lesbians would be today if the baby boomer generation had not fought against all religions in the 60's and 70's.\n\n Imagine where women would be today if the baby boomer generation had not fought against all religions in the 60's and 70's.\n\n It's appalling how easy it's been since 9/11 for authoritarians of all repressive sorts (religionists, corporatists, militarists, republicans, fascists, police, imperialists, royalists, monarchists, evangelists, etc., etc) to halt the march of democratic people power towards economic equality.\n\n The 1% billionaire oligarchs might as well have several photos on the gold-plated walls of their inner sanctums - the Queen of England, Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini, and Osama bin Laden.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" the scientific term is homo or hetero\"\nHomo is a scientific term? I mean other than the broad \"Homo\" which includes all, i.e. Homogenous, homogenized, homo sapien? Are you attempting to hijack Homo to describe a minority of humans? And as for \"gay\", I think that the word became associated with homo in 1862, when \"Don we now our gay apparel\" appeared, meaning \"Girl, your outfit is fabulous!\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Beth does not seem to me to be a Mike Gabbard who basically was a preacher who was always talking about the evils of homosexuality. I suspect that Beth probably didn't have much of a position on this and largely went with the flow within the republican party. But now that she is out of the republican party, she will probably be moving away from such silly positions and embrace a more conservative view of individual choice. Shame other republicans haven't done this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Would like to see your proof the \"Bible was given to us by a Devine Creator\".\n\nWhat is Bill O'reilly up to these days? What is Dennis Hastert up to these day?\n\nReminds us all again about those \"family values\" Republicans who sat on the Clinton Impeachment panel that were later to have been found out as some of the biggest Christian hypocrites to ever serve in Washington D.C.,,, Would you like us to jog your short term memory for you? Probably not.\n\nAs it so often happens with nutwings like this, I wonder what his little secrets are from his past. He sure seems to stink he knows a lot about homosexuality. hmmmm, it will probably come out some day, but it will be too late for the CHINO crowd, once again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "An alarming number of \"moderate Muslims\" DO want Sharia law actually. \n\nAccording to a 2007 poll conducted by the PolicyExchange think tank in Britain, nearly 60% said they would prefer to live under British law, while 37% of 16- to 24-year-olds said they would prefer sharia law, against 17% of those over 55. Also 36% of 16- to 24-year-olds British Muslims believed that those converting to another religion should be executed. Less than a fifth of those over 55 think so\n\n30-40% of a Muslims wanting it isn't insignificant, and as we've seen in Muslim majority countries, the \"moderates\" don't do anything to stop it from happening. While the \"radicals\" throw gays off of rooftops, the \"moderates\" watch from the street.\n\nLook at the actual data:\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_attitudes_toward_terrorism", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with you but I think this point should be emphasized. It is the partners themselves who convey the Sacrament of Matrimony. The priest is only the Church's witness. It is entirely possible for two gay partners to convey that sacrament on themselves with, or without, the priest's witness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anne went too far, but your comment was appropriate? You insinuate I may be a latent homosexual, and that I certainly sound homophobic. You then question if I am a gentle? Quite frankly I find it very bizarre of you inquiring if another grown man is gentle. The best part is you did not make the comment directly to me so I could defend myself. That appears to be somewhat cowardly. I don't read all 400 posts and usually only read those I receive email notifications on. It appears to me, that I have touched a nerve due to our numerous discussions, to which you responded with such a puerile comment. Hopefully I have given you some different views to ponder regarding the Catholic faith. That is my only purpose for commenting. \nTo allege any priest that has devoted his life to Jesus and remains celibate is only due to the fact that they are asexual, and would not desire to experience sexual relations or a family is outrageous.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, I didn't try hard at all. It came naturally to me. My heart does go out to Britain. They have dealt with Irish, anti-gay and Islamic terrorism over a period of decades. That is all fact. Terror is terror, regardless of who commits it, my friend. As far as fact goes, Islamic terror mainly kills other muslims in far greater numbers than anyone else, ergo, terror is terror, and we do need to be vigilant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thomas Reese SJ is not a good source of information on anything \u2013 except perhaps how to affirm someone in their homosexuality. \nAfter the Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) decision, which legalized same-sex marriage in the United States, Reese wrote: \u201cWith the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage throughout the United States, the U.S. Catholic bishops need a new strategy going forward. The bishops\u2019 fight against gay marriage has been a waste of time and money. The bishops should get a new set of priorities and a new set of lawyers.\u201d\nWith men such as Reese - the Church needs a new set of priests.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I quoted the original poster so we could stick with his or her language. Your analysis doesn't help either. Attacks on homosexuality by the church always reference as their starting point that sex is about men and women. It isn't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Even so, it strikes me as hypocritical that the Trads are urging lay gay Catholics to come out of the closet, and Progs are urging the gay Catholics to join the Church. Both sides are for openness....except when that openness applies to the priesthood.\n\nI find it very strange that progressives here think having priests come out of the closet is an idea that deserves a Laughing Face emoji. If they truly want more cultural acceptance of homosexuality, then they should want their priests to end the policy of sexual secrecy. \n\nIn other words, if tomorrow 5000 priests announced they were basically celibate gay men, wouldn't that be a blow for overall cultural acceptance of same sex attraction, and well as an act of courage that the world would recognize and applaud?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Best of luck to them. I am not sure if same sex marriages in the British Anglican church will stem the hemorrhaging there -- only 17% of the people self-identify as Anglicans (less than 2% in Scotland) -- but at least it will put the Anglican Church on par with other Protestant Churches -- with Lutherans, for example, with whom they are in communion -- that do clerical same sex marriages. Of course, all this won't keep Pope Francis from praying for unity and pairing his fellow Catholic bishops with Anglian bishops (as he did earlier this year in an ecumenical liturgy at St. Peter's), some of whom -- like Rt. Rev. Kevin Robertson of York-Scarborough, Canada -- are opening gay and married. Indeed, the Holy Father hopes that the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove will continue to open and close it wings on both gay married Anglican bishops and celibate Catholic bishops alike -- for the sake of church unity and a half thawed winter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good grief! God loves all His children, no matter their sexual orientation. Homosexuality is a naturally occurring biological variant existing in all mammals. God doesn't make junk. \nEach human should be allowed to healthily express his normal sexual desires in a blessed spousal relationship. \nIf anyone is going to suffer perdition, it will be those who refuse to recognize/help their brother and sisters (feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, etc.). At least, that's what Jesus tells us to expect at the Last Judgment. No mention of who's sleeping with whom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who cares? She didn't win because she was transgender, she won because she \"...focused on jobs, schools and, with particular fervour, northern Virginia's traffic congestion.\" Politics is a contest of ideas, the best of which have nothing to do with what's between your legs...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ex-\u201cgays\u201d have been a part of the Christian church from its earliest days. After reminding believers that \u201chomosexuals\u201d and \u201ceffeminates\u201d (male transsexuals) \u201cwill not inherit the Kingdom of God,\u201d the Apostle Paul wrote: \u201cAnd such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God\u201d (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).\n\nWhat is the problem?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When Obama flip flopped on gay marriage, the libwingers called it \"evolving\".\n\nWhen Trump \"evolves\" they call it pivoting.\n\nTrump could easily whip Hillary with an unbiased media. I sincerely doubt Trump can beat both Hillary and the anti-Trump media.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "and we grew up and actually took a scientific look at homosexuality and realized it was a natural variation. Modernists looked at scripture and found that the Torah was not universal law, but an attempt to build a Jewish nation and keep it during diaspora. Historians look at the condemnations of sexuality by the Church (both hetero and homo) and discovered we had been duped by an Asexual hierarchy, which is even more sexually abnormal than homosexuality. No more.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Music minister in Rhode Island fired....\n\nNew priest comes in. What had been a quiet acceptance of a gay music minister then becomes a mess. The priest fires the music minister on learning he is in a legal gay marriage, another employee then quits, lay ministers then resign, and dozens of parishioners quit, including many other LGBT Catholics who thought they had a faith home.\n\nI would think the new priest would consider how the rest of the faithful of the parish were dealing with the music minister. But, then, that would mean the new priest would care what they thought. And, of course, it is THAT Bishop Tobin.\n\nThere was a choice. Imagine the priest not firing the gay music minister and preaching on acceptance of all because all are sinners. No one measures up - certainly not the goody-two-shoes who thought to out the music director. Why reward that person, who, despite his/her many virtues, is also a sinner? Doesn't the music director also have other virtues?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With all the serious problems in this country this type of silliness is what the news media focuses on. Everything reported in so called mainstream media is distorted and slanted against the Trump Administration. Just like when we have a mass murder in Las Vegas the 1st thing the Democrats do is to politicize the situation and begin yet another assault on gun ownership and the 2nd Amendment. Democrats have polarized this country with their never ending assault on American values and rights. Gay marriage, trannies, abortion, false racism, Socialized medicine, globalism over patriotism, open borders, environmental extremeism, increased welfare, and demonization of White America. These are what the Democratic Party stands for. Democrats are Communists and Bernie Sanders even admits he is one. Anti American values and insanity run rampant through the Democratic Party. America has eoken up to the Communist values of Democrats and the elections in 2018 will show just how reviled theh are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Heh! Watching the Trump presidency is like watching a car crash in slow motion!!\n\nOf course, while all the lefties are so focused on bringing Trump down, they seem to have failed to take into account that if he goes, his replacement will be Mike Pence, a man with 18th century views on homosexuality, abortion and the role of the church in government - and worse than that, someone who is an experienced politician, who actually knows how to play the political game.\n\nPerhaps the Dems might be better off leaving Trump in place, rather than trying to get rid of him....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The word is \u201cporneia\u201d, which your translation calls \u201cadultery\u201d. The Arndt, Gingrich, and Danker lexicon states that the word refers to \u201cprostitution, unchastity, fornication, of every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse.\u201d This would include homosexuality.\n\nThe Catholic interpretation of it is that it describes something which we would consider today a cause for a declaration of nullity, a radical inability to accomplish and/or an intention against a requirement of marriage, monogamy.\n\nThis would mean that the putative marriage was invalid at its inception.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're a straight guy. You walk onto a gay bar, even if you don't want to go there... Even if you don't know it's a gay bar. Let's say you're Lt. Harris from police academy and you just waltzed into the blue oyster wanting a drink.\n\nWhatever the owners of that bar happen to think about you and your sexuality are irrelevant. They are required to sell you the beer. By law. Period. Done. They don't get to decide which CITIZENS they serve beer to. However much they think the art of pouring is art, it isn't. It's a beer, unfestooned with gay umbrellaa... They have to sell that beer. End of story. \n\nIt's basic business. The tiki torch or khaki manufacturer can no more deny the sale of their product to Nazis than thr cake maker can refuse sale of a generic wedding cake, or the bartender the beer. Allowing self-determined restrictions like that opens Pandora's box, period.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There was also a wonderful article in the NY Times about one of the pillars of a community who voted overwhelmingly from Trump in downstate IL being caught up in the deportation net. The cluelessness of the Trumpkins who didn't realize that this could affect an immigrant who they actually know and like is priceless. What exactly did they expect to happen by voting for a bigot? \n\nAnd yes, the bishops have been weak on this even though it is hurting and scaring real people. They are too busy protecting Evangelical bakeries who might get cooties from making gay wedding cakes to care about immigrants.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sad is / are those supportive of a group who kill innocent mothers and their children while they sleep. \n\nSad is / are those that forget ignore that Yasser Arafat walked from a 2 state solution whereby he got over 90% of what he asked for because as he said, if he made peace with Israel he'd be dead in a week. \n\nSad are those that unthinkingly believe the left's narrative (note all of the despotic states that agree) that the \"Palestinians\" have any legitimate claim to any land in Israel. \n\nSad are the Palestinian people themselves, who receive billions in aid but have no economy, instead investing the money in weapons and tunnels. \n\nSad are those that support a people who throw gays off buildings, perform genital surgery on their girls so they don't experience sexual pleasure and murder one another because they aren't sunni in one case or shia in the other. \n\nYour loyalties are misbegotten - you aren't acting in your own best interest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nope, as they refused to accept the papers of a gay French guy a few years back. I think it was right after France approved same sex marriages.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The purpose of gay rights laws is to protect gays from being discriminated against . They fear losing jobs if someone finds out about their chosen lifestyle. It's wrong to fire someone because they are gay. But, why is it ok to discriminate against those who don't support that lifestyle ? Tolerance is demanded by gays and their supporters---or else . In today's Dispatch it was reported Curt Schilling was fired because of a picture he posted on his facebook account showing how if anyone complains about a man dressed as a woman using a woman's bathroom---they will be called a bigot. Blackhawks player Andrew Shaw was just suspended for using a gay slur. Why is ok for gays and their supporters to use slurs , but wrong for normal people ? Why is ok for blacks to use the N word, but whites will get fired for it . No one should call anyone names .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fact is that the institutional Church teaches that homosexuality is \"intrinsically disordered\". Gays see this as saying that the Church finds them \"intrinsically disordered\", because \"the homosexual tendency\" is something amorphous, but homosexuals are actual people. Unfortunately, the institutional Church demonstrates its rejection of gays by firing them if they hold jobs in the Church, by denouncing them as sinners and so on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suggest everyone read \"Some Considerations Concerning the Response to Legislativ Proposals on the Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons\", if they want to understand what the Church really thinks of gay people. Particularly paragraph 12:\n\n\"Homosexual persons, as human persons, have the same rights as all persons including the right of not being treated in a manner which offends their personal dignity (cf. no. 10). Among other rights, all persons have the right to work, to housing, etc. Nevertheless, these rights are not absolute. They can be legitimately limited for objectively disordered external conduct. This is sometimes not only licit but obligatory. This would obtain moreover not only in the case of culpable behavior but even in the case of actions of the physically or mentally ill. Thus it is accepted that the state may restrict the exercise of rights, for example, in the case of contagious or mentally ill persons, in order to protect the common good.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hey if they vote Liberal, that's all that matters - oppose and you will be labeled as a right wing fascist by failed ideologues. \nRochdale\n-\nthis year's insult from the Left\n - right wing fascist\n- white supremacist\n- neo-Nazi\n-\nlast year's insult from the Left\nxenophobe\nhomophobe\nIslamophobe\n-\nnext year's ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ridiculous comparison between the two men. Luther's sola scriptura and sola fide were and are heretical. Martin bases his teaching on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which demands that homosexuals be treated \"respect, sensitivity, and compassion.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don't put words in people's mouths. My argument, by the way, is that those males who commit pederasty can be gay or straight in their normal orientation. I think we have probably had enough of this topic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't understand why my account keeps getting deleted.\nThis article is about muslims and violence.\nI merely pointed out the history in some parts of the world of persons in the name of a particular religion treating certain groups (mainly women and individuals who prefer same sex relations) very poorly and in some cases resulting in death.\nIf a religion in Canada did this they would be called misogynistic and homophobic.\n\nWas this written in a politically correct enough way not to offend sensibilities of our beautiful multicultural society.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law\n\n\"However, when asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, 18% said they agreed and 52% said they disagreed, compared with 5% among the public at large who disagreed. Almost half (47%) said they did not agree that it was acceptable for a gay person to become a teacher, compared with 14% of the general population.\"\n\n\"Nearly a quarter (23%) supported the introduction of sharia law in some areas of Britain, and 39% agreed that \u201cwives should always obey their husbands\u201d, compared with 5% of the country as a whole.\"\n\nIt amazes me that liberals do not condemn this sort of behavior and thought. Instead they approve of it. Yes lets bring more in, it is working so well in Britain.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Less than 1% of married couples are same sex according to the census yet here is the G&M (and the Star too) with yet another article focused on the topic. No gay bias at the Globe.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You could change the word \"Cuba\" in your post to \"Iran\" and it your comments would almost fit perfectly. \n\nExcept the part where Liberals (Obama, France, The rest of the EU, and Canada) made sure we lifted the embargo and restored trade (as opposed to free trade). The world owes Iran a debt of gratitude - by their own words they have no problem with gay marriage as they regularly marry gays to the end of a rope, and there's no health care crisis in Iran, in fact no crisis of any sort, that anyone and certainly not a journalist, would care to discuss in the public forum lest they find themselves either married to a rope or growing mildew between their toes in a dark dank cell. \n\nYou seem to aggrandize Cuba for its accomplishments absent American support and castigate the US because the Hondurans have problems. Your comments suggest that this would be a better world without \"American crap\", yet I wonder how much / little American crap you have in your comfortable western existence", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why she didn't fit in with the GOP these past few years did she? Can't get more hate than the national GOP (minorities, immigrants, gay people, scientists, etc).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"I am not saying that transgender people are predators. Not by a long shot. What I am saying is that there are countless deviant men in this world who will pretend to be transgender as a means of gaining access to the people they want to exploit, namely women and children.\" \n\n\"There\u2019s no way to make everyone happy in the situation of transgender locker room use. So the priority ought to be finding a way to keep everyone safe. I\u2019d much rather risk hurting a smaller number of people\u2019s feelings by asking transgender people to use a single-occupancy restroom that still offers safety than risk jeopardizing the safety of thousands of women and kids with a policy that gives would-be predators a free pass.\"\n\n http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/23/a-rape-survivor-speaks-out-about-transgender-bathrooms/\n\nSo far, I haven't heard of many transgenders who ID as men pushing for bathroom rights. Have you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What is this rubbish about more gay men being married to women than to a man? Out of a hundred or so gay men I know, not a single one is married to a woman, plenty of others do have a husband, and since marriage equality I know of at least 10 who are engaged. Perhaps many gay men are not rushing to the alter because we've already waited long enough for marriage equality that what's a little while longer a wait to get married so as not to rush things along?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wyatt are you a transvestite, Transsexual, or just a Man that just hates himself for being what you are? Do you have a hard time competing against your gender? Get real, look in your shorts Dude!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How do they prove whether someone is a gay refugee?\n\nSeems that it would be easy for every refugee to claim to be an at risk gay refugee.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Timely lesson as homosexuals who are also registered as democrats are duped again. I would educate you/others by re-posting the homosexual slurs made by the Democrat Party leaders which Wikileaks uncovered in exposing the Democrats e-mails and voice mails. However, the ugliness and hatefulness of those homophobic slurs wouldn't last 2 seconds on civil comments as they really are just that hateful and nasty.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Pride Parade will. Santa is gay in the new Progressive world. Get with the times.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Mr. Campbell called Pride\u2019s announcement that gay and lesbian police officers could still march, but only out of uniform, a \u201csham.\u201d\" I was offended that Pride actually said this. It suggests that they could have decided otherwise, that it was their choice to allow gay officers out of uniform. That is so wrong.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think the same about the liberal mind, on one hand they say they love the gay community and on the other hand they invite the father of the mass murder that killed over 50 gays to a big Democratic \"party\" to celebrate with them? Their minds are truly a mystery. :/", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hermaphrodites have a valid case. To lay claim one was born a woman \"trapped\" in a man's body is ridiculously absurd. If they want to become a pseudo woman through surgery that is their right to do so, but it doesn't make them a woman. They still cannot have children, and they have man boobs that cannot breast feed.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're suggesting there was NOT moral outrage over Weinstein ? \n\nThe real difference is this - when supposed leftists get caught doing bad things it's OVER for them. They don't just get to say \"I sinned, please forgive me\" and be welcomed back into the fold.\n\nThere are two more, slightly less important but still key, differences:\n1) This is rarer on the left - it is just a fact. Just in the last 20 years well over a hundred GOP elected officials have been caught committing sex crimes. Most recently the former speaker of the house was convicted of numerous crimes of statutory rape.\n2) The list of anti-gay GOP members caught in homosexual acts are astounding.\n\n\nThe hypocrisy of the right about sex matter is just mindblowing. Nobody is pretending there is less sex on the left -but leftists don't try to legislate anything beyond 'consensual adults'. There's no hypocrisy in being gay or divorced on the left. There damn well is if you claim to support 'family values'.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That's not exactly the reason why you were suspended though, is it? \n\nFrom what I read, it was because of your open and supportive stance for gay marriage in defiance of Church teaching, your Twitter comments and activism....not because you are gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think people are just shocked that somebody from the right is acting like a bully. The people on the right have been bullied for decades. First it was civil rights, then abortion, and gay rights. Now it seems to be transgender rights. If you do not say or do the current correct things according to the left, you are ridiculed and shut out of the town square.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "After reading a little about this case, it's pretty clear that this priest was a homosexual with the common attraction thereof to pubescent boys, and that the boy who was participating in sex acts with this priest was likely a willing participant who saw the opportunity for a payday in his adulthood wherein he could rely on repressed memory (he was apparently \"raped\" on many occasions) as his reason for not reporting it when it was happening.\n\nThe priest is not a pedophile in the clinical sense; he is a man with sexual attraction to pubescent males transitioning from boyhood to manhood. Indeed, that is how he describes himself. If you're going to track him, you have lots of other homosexual men to track who engage in sodomy with willing adolescent young men.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That's interesting. But it isn't what was said in the passage that I cited, which is that a list of convicted sexual assaulters is \"equivalent\" to identifying homosexuals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Its war on men\nHallelujah\nIts war on men\nAMEN !\nNo guy is never, \nEver gonna be \nNot FOUND TO BE \nNOT GUILTEEEEE\nIts war on men \nIts WAR War war war \n-----------------------------\nThank goodness I;m gay and I dont have to deal with that stuff.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "this is what worries me, Bannon does not like gay folks and maybe he just pushed this too fast. I am sure that it will come up again. I don't trust anything this administration says or does.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Essentially, gay and transgender people are going to be forced to accept more of the same kinds of violent abuse and discrimination so that some people can make the choice to practice hate as part of their respective religious doctrines. With the centuries long history of brutally from the purveyors of religious dogma as a foundation for a reputation, how can these so called Christians lay claim to have the best interests of their gay and transgender victims at heart?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hold the governing association responsible, not this transgender boy. He asked to wrestle with the boys and was denied. There is little question about the advantage he had over his female opponents by taking testosterone but, had he wrestled with boys, it would not have been an issue.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What is an Hawaiian? Good question. It used to be someone with a blood quantum level of at least 50 percent. It is now whatever a person feels like. The term \u201cNative Hawaiian\u201d is now like sex, as defined by liberals. You can be male today and female tomorrow, something called \u201ctransgender.\u201d It is a weird world in which we live, isn\u2019t it?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well, frankly, this is one if the worst articles I've ever read here, conflating all acts of aggression from high school texting to ISIS terrorist attacks. If it were written better, I'd say that the purpose of the article is to redefine bullying, such that, e.g., homosexual activists can compare someone who expresses opposition to same-sex \"marriage\" to a suicide bomber. These are dangerous Orwellian word games.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Be a white male today. Dont lecture us on bigotry.\n\nWe live it every day.\n\nWhy do you Social Justice Lesbians not go after the muslim culture for subjugating women to the equivalence of dogs?\n\nnot a peep from you", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I do not believe that this has anything to do with hate or the colour of anyone's skin. Phobia means to fear, not hate. How can you possibly talk about what is going on in this world with the influx of people of the Muslim religion (Islam) and not mention human rights? No one can possibly call themselves a feminist and ignore the reality of Sharia Law and the utmost oppression of women. \n\nHow can people like Kathleen Wynne for example, allow herself to be covered and sent to the back of the mosque, or stand in front of pamphlets that inside the folds says homosexuality is a sin punishable by death?\n\nYour article actually tries to lay blame for rape on feminism. I don't think you can become more backward thinking without your knuckles dragging on the ground and a club in your hand.\n\nSharia is evil and dangerous and yes, we should 'fear' it. It has no place in modern day society.\n\nThank you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What are you talking about? Political thought is not protected, so discriminating against a group of people because they are talking about killing babies is legal. Did you read about the coffee shop guy or did you just read the headline?\n\nYes, I am exscusing political thought discrimination. That is completely legal. Do you know why?\n\n Refusing to take money from paying (gay) customers is not only dumb, it is illegal. You realize the point of a business is to make money, right?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexual marriage is counterfeit in the eyes of the Church, and what the Bible teaches. Just because 5 robed wizards say something is, doesn't always make it so.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Gasping Old Party can't win because they have alienated the vast majority of women, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Millennials, LGBTs, the poor - the list goes on. And this continues despite the 'autopsy' the party big wigs held years back that concluded the Republican'ts must have a 'bigger tent.' So much for that. \n\nHow shameful that Murkowski, Sullivan and Young are all in for Trump. That is proof positive that they don't listen to the people they are supposed to represent, and put party over all else. They'll own that for years and years. Pathetic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Now we just need gay orgs to take responsibility for the fact that 4 out 5 church abuse cases were the work of gay priests abusing boys.\n\nI call that fair play and honesty.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Geraldine, your feeble mind has failed you. Publicity for gay rights? Is that what MLK was doing with his marches, publicizing black rights? How about Fourth of July parades? It's terrible when people draw attention to themselves and their causes. Religious rights? This cake baker is advertising his cause. He is the one pushing the issue. What about the rights of someone who wants to not serve or hire blacks, Hispanics, women, Indians, Muslims, etc? What about the rights of someone who wants to enslave another?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "lol, ask a better question.\nNo one has to make a hitler cake. No one has to make a cake with naked people on it, unless that is what you do. No one has to make a cake that looks like a cross dressing trump/clinton combination with a swastika and a gay pride rainbow.\n\nWhat are you looking for Big Guy?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am gay too and as far as I know no Christian ever went into a gay club and killed anybody, much less killing and shooting 100 people. Killer Mateen was shouting ALLAH AKBAR the entire time. I have no reason to think Islam is good for my health.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The rise is isis and Islamic terrrorism occurred before Trump took office or even announced he was running. Where did they get their propaganda back then? They kill women, children, gays and non believers. That type of crazy does not need propoganada. It needs 2 to the chest and 1 to the head.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Canadians are about to lose their Right to Free Speech as parliament gets set to vote for, Liberal MP Iqra Khalid\u2019s M-103 bill!\n\nThis bill will criminalize all criticism of islam and sharia law and force Canadians to accept sharia law limits on everything!\n\nCriticize islam for killing homosexuals? Sorry that is now hate speech!\nCriticize islam for female genital mutilation? Sorry that is now hate speech!\nCriticize islam for allowing men to beat women? Sorry that is now hate speech!\nCriticize islam for honor killings? Sorry that is now hate speech!\n\nWant to maintain your Freedom of Speech Rights, then contact your local MP and tell them they are totally wrong forcing sharia law on Canadians!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Carlson was nuts. Gay was the least of his problems. He was rude, got cautioned by the Alaska Supreme Court for being too arrogant to implement their orders, was horrendous in court, calling people \"cuckolds\" among other things in divorce actions, practically never gave custody of a child to a man. He didn't go forward for election because he knew the bar survey would never have a good word to say about him A horrible judge, and a terrible human being.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You believe your own press. The Democrats don't so much support abortion (save a few vocal famiists) as denying the state has any role in criminalizing it. I can see exorcism related to abortion if you life in a former abortion clinic, but I have heard of one anecdotal case. From what I undertand, scizophrenia is the predictor, although in most case there is nothing demonic about it. Certainly the case that spawned the movie had nothing to do with anything but a vulerable child. I can see parents asking for exorcism for a gay child, but there is likely no demon involved and the exorcist is likely to be gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Quote: \"Pierre Trudeau made multiculturalism a key plank in his plan to destroy English Canada\".\nYou are right. Here in Vancouver we have Sikhs taxi drivers, Philippino nannies, Hispanic gardeners, Ukrainian bakeries, Chinese accountants, Thai restaurants, Mexican restaurants, not to mention the Poles, the Russians, the Italians, the Greeks, the Vietnamese, the place is crawling with foreign students, there are even a few French people around. The English are now hiding terrified in Point Grey, can't even find a decent place to go for tea. Your neighbour could be gay and you would not know about it. Terrible, absolutely terrible.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The last time I heard, Jesus has not returned. So it does not appear that you know what Jesus would say to homosexuals. There is a pretty good chance Mary Magdalene was the consort of Christ, but if not perhaps He was gay!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wow. President of the US got BOY SCOUTS to boo a former President.\n\nGuy better calm down; he's losing his cred even as a cartoon villain - too boorish.\n\nBTW - Obama sent a video address to the scouts and I believe part of the reason he wasn't there in person was security and the Scout's fighting to discriminate against gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting - I think those were the exact same excuses generals used in the past to keep blacks, women, and gays out of the military as well.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Traditionalist's version of God condemns a little girl to Purgatory until the end of the world for not sharing her toys. Oh and they think that little Francisco is going to Hell for not reciting enough Rosaries. (Stuff from far right nuts associated with the Fatima prophecy.)\n\nAs for God's laws, the far right is fixated on the sex lives of consenting adults and mundane observance laws (i.e. the form of the Mass, etc.). They don't care about the meat of God's laws which are about how we treat one another. There are huge problems in this world and it has nothing to do with Bobby and Billy getting gay married. It has to do with far right fascists who hate others. Types like Sebastian Gorka are farther outside what God wishes from us than a gay couple.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I have seen more bad constitutional law than conspiracy theory from the left, especially on impeachment. There have always been conspiracy theory on the left, mostly among Greens. Some of the misinformation is deliberate, like the meme that abortion rights are in danger. Of course, the right wing likes to believe than can be, even whe they are not. Of course, much of the conspiracy theory around capitalism turning to oligarchy is true. As for the article, it relies on an unpublished study and a survey provider most people have never heard of. Ironic.\n\nThis shows that Long deserved his sheepskin from UVA. Good for him!\n\nSilk nails him for how we all know what he is thinking. Of course, the point is that it will take him time to step away from his base, like it took time for Obama to support gay marriage even though the black church hated the idea. The thought bubbles raise the question of whether he is using Banon or just thinks like him. Only time will tell.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Alberta has an NDP government, and Calgary has a gay Muslim mayor. I doubt redneck conservative applies to the province any more.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh tsk,tsk, Cal\nYou didn't like Michelle's vegetable garden on the White House lawn.\nHow do you like future First Lady, Malaria Trump's lesbian themed soft-porn photos?\nClassy, eh?\n\nhttp://nypost.com/2016/08/01/melania-trumps-girl-on-girl-photos-from-racy-shoot-revealed/", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Anne Coulter is not a far right wing radical conservative. She is merely conservative. In the same way, Theo Van Gogh was not a far right wing radical xenophobic filmmaker. He was a gay man in Amsterdam who was defending his right to live as such in the face of racial violent and in his case murderous Muslims who really do want to destroy the liberal society of that city.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They'll split the vote. 80% of it. Because the dinosaur party will be talking abortion, anti gay rights and don't forget niqab.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alceste,\n\n So, in other words, we're a mere bunch of insignificant layabouts up to no good. \n Right?\n But at least we're not a bunch of corrupt business types working for a rigged economy making the rich richer and the rest of us poorer.\n Right?\n Not only that, about 75% of us are gay. You can tell easily when there's a news story about religion. 90% of us are always against it. (Against religion and against the news story as well).\n Right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is ironic, I agree, and shows that everyone has lost their minds and victimhood is power in today's world. Conservatives complain about correctness until it works in their favour, and now liberals are turning a blind eye to the suggested homophobia (you demean gay people by using homosexual acts as an insult) in the joke. I personally don't think it's that homophobic (more distasteful than anything else), but many people who are not leftist late night heroes have gotten skewered for less. My opinion on the matter is everyone should get the hell over themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Quite right. \n\nBSC-America specializes in helping same sex men become biological parents:men\n\"BSC-America helped our first gay couple become parents in 1999 known as the most famous \u2018Gay Dads\u2019 in the UK, when most agencies around the world would not even consider working with a gay couple. From the period 1999 \u2013 2012, the team at BSC have helped countless gay couples and single gay men become parents through egg donation and surrogacy. BSC America believes that the right to become a parent is the same for all couples, regardless of sexual orientation.\"\n\nNo mention of the \"rights\" of the child in there. Hedonistic, or what?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A quick reply to add a bit to your excellent comment. Mot of the homosexual priests also left in the exodus of the 70's and 80's as the cultural changes also brought an openness for gays and lesbians that never existed before. It was those with a stronger and healthier personality structure that left, or many of those that stayed, that never had to act out the pathology of a repressed celibate life. This is another aspect that this document is woefully ignorant of and, as a result, should be given as food for the shredder. The Church in its curial offices and congregations are still unable to write a mature and insightful document regarding this entire topic of human sexuality and the ministry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obama hesitated about gay marriage\n\nthen realized for votes he had to approve\nis his heart there or just being opportunistic\n\nthere was NO persecution of gays under Bush, was there ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not trolling, answering a question you posed to me in your reply to me.\n\nFurthering ones education here:\n\nThis baker and all bakers can stand behund their counter and talk all day long about their viewpoint on gay marriage, be it uphold or disagree, right in front of the couple and all others who are there.\n\nWhat they cannot do is personally address the person(s) with disparaging remarks directed at the people themselves.\n\nHave a good night :) \nAnd you are welcome!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pardon my refusal to accept your authoritarian method of declaring victory. This is a discussion, not a sports game with ever changing rules.\nYou made an interesting assertion here; you equate people whose ancestors were enslaved and have been subject to extensive discrimination by government to people who are participating in an activity. Even if a person is homosexual, they are demonstrating that by conducting an activity in private. They are not the equivalent to someone born with black skin and this continuing effort to equate the two is not reasonable. I defend the right of people to engage in freedom of association, including same-sex marriage, if they choose to do so. Note there is no requirement for such people to be homosexual; people can choose to marry for whatever reason they choose, including to provide benefits for each other if they want. After 10 years, a person is entitled to Social Security survivor's benefits, a significant benefit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ok, Mike. Truth be told, I know of a few examples right here in my own locale where either gay unions were accommodated by conservative leaning faith institutions or they faced serious backlash by civil authorities, and I -can- back that up with hard links.....but...since you are soooo indignant that conscious of conservative leaning faith institutions be observed, may I hold you to your word, and expect that if -any- gay activist tries to force conservative leaning religious institutions to accommodate them, I can count on you to issue a FIRM rebuke to said gay activist?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They are the exact same 'geniuses' who decided that homosexual marriage was intended in the US Constitution in 1789 even though homosexuals were killed when exposed at the same time the Constitution was being written and ratified.\n\nYou either have an unchanging document that is only being 'interpreted' or you have one that gets changed depending on which last five Judges have been appointed by which Presidents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are we safer with transgender recruits? Is the expenses warranted to keep our country safe? Does a .005 or less of the population warrant so many drastic changes to our military? If you answered \"no\", you are in the MAJORITY of the population.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just another reason not to support the Pride Parade and I'm gay. I remember the first parades and the trouble we all went through to get them to happen and all the issues from the police. So now, thirty years later we are being forced to revert to the old \"us vs them\" attitude that is so loved by the \"professional victims\" that are doing everything in their power to destroy and advances maid by anyone. \n\nBeing white and male I have absolutely no idea what its like to be carded or treated like an animal simply because of my skin colour. But, I do know who started the Gay Pride Parade and who puts all the effort into it and I don't see BLM-TO in the list or Apartheid Israel or any other wacky-doodle group doing any serious volunteer work so my suggestion is that if BLM-TO is actually serious, let them have their own parade. That way they can exclude everyone they want.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The military will refuse to follow Trump without the authorization of Congress.\nThey've already refused to listen to him on the Transgender ban...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Funny, I don't recall seeing those items in the Republican platform. However, one can not miss the dems' insistence on promoting infanticide and homosexual marriage--you know, sins which cry to Heaven for vengeance--in theirs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You assert that \"prior to 1967, many states (maybe most of them?) required that persons who wished to marry be of the same race. The racism of the miscegenation laws is no longer 'respectable'.\" You seem to think it follows that \"the bigotry which heretofore prevented gay persons from exercising the civil right to marriage enjoyed by other citizens is now recognized, in law and by most people, as no more 'respectable' than the racism of the laws that prohibited interracial marriage.\" That's a hoot. Maybe you can spell out how simply being black, which is no basis for discrimination -- and prohibited by the 14th Amendment --- is like committing acts which have long been viewed as a crime against nature. Maybe you can explain how the Loving v. Virginia case, which of course involved heterosexual marriage, said ANYTHING about the legitimacy of marriage between two homosexuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We will see pigs fly before Scheer permits a public debate or an iota of policy regarding abortion or gay marriage.\n\nThe fact that it is all Liberals can find to say about Scheer says more about Trudeau's down trending popularity numbers than anything else....they are cranky.\n\nThere is a whole lot of water to go under the bridge before the next election. Intelligent Canadians, as usual, are taking a wait and see position.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are completely misrepresenting what these legal protections allow and don't allow. Regardless of the law it has always been and will continue to be illegal to enter a bathroom with the intent to harm others. Can you cite some instances of transgender people harming anyone in a public facility? As long as where inventing fanciful scenarios how about this one, in NC under HB2 a man would no longer even need to pretend to be a trans woman to enter the ladies room. He only needs to claim to be a trans man who transitioned from female to male and then he can enter with a full beard and his regular clothes, no dress needed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1) No straight person wishes they were gay, but a lot of gay people with they were straight.\n\n2) it's very possible that a teenager's sexual identity hasn't been fully formed, and also very possible that an influence toward ss attraction may alter their sexual formation.\n\nSo no, homosexual teenagers should not be encouraged to \"embrace\" homosexuality.\n\nIf they determine they're homosexual in adult life, then fine. They don't need adults to encourage them into a homosexual identity and acts -- and that's the purpose of this group.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course she did!\nShe had a 6 year affair with a married man. What Commandment was that again?\nShe did not wait for him to divorce before having an affair. She did more to undermine the sanctity of marriage then 2 gay people that love each other ever have!\nAre these rwo the best Catholics that the US can send to the Vatican? Or are they the best that Donald Trump thinks should go?\nTelling I would say.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sadly, I agree with you about his chance of winning. He really is NOT a liberal. He is more mainstream than ppl give him credit for. BUT, he WILL be brand gay and liberal. Sad, really. \n\nBUT, I hope that these dems do NOT go after trying to denigrate each other. Instead, they would be better to speak of what they want to do for the state. \nIOW, how can they help it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The wording and facts in this article are problematic and only confuse the reader. Pronouns are not part of c-16. There is no requirement to change the language and free speech people use. Because people are concerned about respect, they wonder how to address trans people and worry about doing the wrong thing. All you have to do is ask if you don't know. Existing laws already take care of harassment without c-16 and you have to repeat something harmful, to intend to be a jerk...so no problem. Hate speech is only applicable after someone has already injured someone else then the intent and punishment is determined by the derogatory language.. So no problem there unless you plan to hurt a transgender person. For Joe average, c-16 will never apply. But, the message will be out there that transgender people exist and discussion about being respectful will happen. So for everyone, transgender people and others, there is flexibility and respect required while everyone learns.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does anybody know how many transgender individuals are members of the special forces?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality is an interesting topic since both the Christian and Islamic faiths, shares very familiar view on the subject. Many Christians are bit more lightweight on the subject then most Muslims. But both the Bible and Quran, teaches against homosexual behavior and the people who practices them. Elise Patkotak here is trying to separate Christianity by saying it doesn't tolerate equal rights. If you are a true Christian, yeah I suppose you are right. Bible does not say favorable things about homosexuals. By saying \"right\" Elise is actually trying to divide the Christian community from those who believes in the teaching of the Bible compared to those who do not. Unfortunately for Elise, Muslims are far more true to the cause. They do endorse the teaching of the Quran and they will never endorse political correctness like so many lightweight Christians. They will stand against gay rights. Of course, for Elise and her ink, that is not what they want to know or hear.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nonsense. Gay couples adopt children all the time. \n\nNature's Way isn't sweetness and light either. You might want to rethink that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is nothing like a cup of coffee and paper to read in the morning. I do not object to the digital age, my wife and I travel and I can read the paper on my I-pad, anyplace in the world. But there is just something about reading a paper, turning the pages. To those who don't take the paper, who state there is only bad news, two thoughts, you have not read the paper recently, and time you come back to reality. Transgender bathrooms on the front page, and right below it on the front page a story of being paid an hour once a week to go home and have sex with your spouse, never would have thought this to happen, but times are changing. I can recall that in the service (Navy) the Star and Stripes cost ten cent, amazing how many wanted to read my paper and not pay ten cents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But you have no problem using the state to enforce YOUR religious beliefs concerning women's health issues, same sex marriage and transgender issues. So what's the difference? And too, the author you are disputing never said anything about the state requiring this, only that folks no longer be given a pass in society just because they claim something as their PERSONAL religious belief.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They're misrepresenting information from the survey--which includes both bisexual and transgender people, some of whom would be married to someone of the opposite sex--and describing the results as though they applied only to gay men and lesbians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most sports are designed for male-bodied people, based on size, strength, or speed. Women fought for decades to create female sports teams. Now a male-bodied athlete can demand access to women's sports teams, and steal titles from actual female bodied people. I used to be a trans activist, but I cannot support this movement any longer. The disregard shown to women by current trans activism is horrifying.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Over against this curious prophecy, my own fear is that the paranoia of many on the religious right, who actually believe they are being persecuted, will lead to a restriction of civil rights and liberties, and maybe even acts of violence. In particular, their sense that their \"religious freedom\" is endangered looks delusional. Sadly they have many friends in state governments and on the Supreme Court.\n\nGay Americans are very satisfied that the Supreme Court recognized their equal rights, with regard to marriage, alongside the rights always given to opposite-sex-oriented citizens. I don't know of any Catholic gay married couples who are demanding that the church \"condone and bless\" their unions, though it's possible there are some. Anyway the demand is very reasonable, to ask the church to be consistent and practice what it preaches regarding justice, inclusion, and the essence of matrimony. May the church be guided by the Spirit on this matter toward honesty and love!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The case pits the rights of a gay couple against baker Jack Phillips\u2019 religious objections to same-sex marriage. The case will be argued on Dec. 5.\"\n\nThe chefs are right and the bigoted baker is wrong.\n\nUnless we want to throw out a half century of civil rights progress (and, of course, the white nationalists do), \"religious\" objections should not be grounds for discrimination. If they were, we would still have segregated schools and businesses all over the South.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"You do realize that I am gay and this bakery only makes wedding cakes for same-sex couples\"\nAnd that baker would also be in violation of the law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is most disappointing about this review is it's focus on Disney.....what about the 1946 Beauty and the Beast masterpiece by Jean Cocteau ? Completely ignored. duh ?\n\nIt look likes Disney has yet again taken a myth meant for ALL and reduced it to a simplistic Kindergarten story for girls.\n\nDirector Jean Cocteau - \"My aim would be to make the Beast so human, so sympathetic, so superior to men that his transformation into Prince Charming would come as come as a terrible blow to Beauty (i.e. Belle), condemning her to a humdrum marriage and a future that I summed up in that last sentence of all fairy tales: 'and they had many children'\".\n\nQuite ironic - and even though gay Cocteau's real life lover was the actor who played the Beast sexual politics was kept out of his script. Wise\n\nFeminists note Cocteau says \"superior to men\" - the Beast is a transcendent mythic being - not a sexy hunk with anger issues.\n\nBeauty's maturing from naive to wise is also transcendent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So he is gay, big deal. What he does in the bedroom is his business as long as his partner is a willing participant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Its called reasonable accommodation, and the reason for it is that these people (trans-gendered) are at an order of magnitude greater chance of suicide. They just want to be accepted for who they are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, they are but they are connected. It's self reported by homosexual men and substantiated by research.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Smoke and mirrors, the GOP keep in office by working up their base, one day it is about bathrooms, a made up problem to work up their base, now Trump has this transgender agenda to work up his base and the religous radicals. Next month they will come up with another made up problem to keep the gop worked up. It is also a nice distraction for Trump with all his Russian probelms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "not even close. \nOther than gay issues, he is actually middle of the dem pack and closer to the overall middle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Given that there are over 200 municipalities in the US that have regs on the books allowing people to use the washroom corresponding to their gender as well as numerous school districts, several states and who knows how many private businesses, if there was going to be a problem you'd expect to be able to find hundreds, if not thousands, of cases. Instead there hasn't been a single reported case of a transgendered individual causing a problem in a washroom. Fact is, the people at risk of assault are the transgendered individuals themselves, not the general public.\n\nMoreover there hasn't been a single reported case of someone using transgender protections to gain access to a washroom in order to commit a crime.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Note: I have never seen an episode of Doctor Who.\nBut!\nIf the series premise is that actor changes are really the Doctor undergoing a change in body, then why can't the body be female? And if the body is female, why does that necessarily represent a blatant political statement by the transgender community? Maybe the show creators or writers decided to give a female Dr. Who a try?\nPeople have talked about a female James Bond. Without pushing a transgender agenda. And, no, I don't think Atomic Spy is it, unless we're talking in the Daniel(le?) Craig mold.\nI remember a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, where Dr. Beverly Crusher falls in love with a space alien who is a parasite living in a humanoid host. Every so often, the host body fails and the alien has to find a new host. Dr. Crusher knew this and had told herself she was prepared for it. At the end of the episode, the alien gets a new host body, and rings Dr. Crusher's door. It turns out the host is female. Roll credits.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with your last paragraph. I was not being \"disingenuous.\" I think NCR readers know that \"coming out as gay\" means \"defying Church teaching.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.\" Card. Joseph Ratzinger. LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE PASTORAL CARE OF HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS (1986, October\u200b 1)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I already use they in preference to he or she when I want a non gender specific pronoun. Similarly, I have no problem calling a transgendered person he or she as they wish. However, it is unreasonable to expect us to learn a growing and ever changing list of neo pronouns. Unhappily, the article doesn't make it clear exactly what the new law enables.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nicole, you can't \"catch\" being trans. Nor will any absence of encouragement, or presence of discouragement, make a trans person stop being trans. Such a notion is contrary to everything that's scientifically known about cross-gender identity. This is a recognized syndrome; wanting to be a dolphin is not. Please do your research next time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some Gay clips for French Immersion class ;\n(frm 10 to 15 year-old &+);\n(\".. .two girls who were the pair laughed so hard \nthat the most beautiful almost die...die of joy...\" \u00bb\nHolden- Madrid (w/ French Lyrics)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQmMjG-zUs\n\nLaura Fabian \u201cComme Ils disent\u2026\u201d (w/French lyrics)\n(a song written for a Gay Man but \u201cshe\u201d is the female part of Him)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUngIQnkpWI", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the real problem is you seem to only be able to follow dictates. \n\nWe are throwing verbal bombs at each other and I think the real problem is that we find spiritual nourishment differently. You need certitude and I need mystery. \n\nIt is okay with me that you find strength and nourishment in faith your way. What is not okay is for you to think your way is the only way. Most Catholics don't accept the teaching on contraceptives, gay marriage, confession, celibate priesthood (okay, a discipline, but a stupid one in today's world). Most Catholics in developed countries (where women vote) think female priests is a good idea. \n\nI wouldn't assume, however that all of them agree on all these issues. Catholics come in many varieties. Who are you to judge?\n\nGive some room for mystery, for faith without reason, and for those seeking God and the Church to find a balance of their own - some of which agrees with how you see things and some of which does not. We are not robots.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about the transgenders ? This is a total affront and act of aggression on the transgender community. What is wrong with the CBC? Are they not aware of this years cause du jour? The whole place and its SJW agenda should be defunded. Let all the affirmative action types that work there try to make a real living in the world", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Married Gay men and woman refer to their partners as husband and wife all the time.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just a wedge issue to get the 'believers' off their couches and to the polls. This year's version of 'gay marriage'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lesson of story: Many women lie to men and in so doing make big messes.\n\nThe converse is also true: Many men lie to women and in so doing make big messes.\n\nThat is why everybody needs to be on guard in some fairly obvious scenarios: When in a bedroom, when drunken in the company of others, when handling ones money, when handling one's kids, and so on.\n\nAnd yes, many men lie to men and many women lie to women. Same rules hold, minus the risk of an unwanted pregnancy.\n\nUnless one of the folks is transgendered.\n\nModern times are a complicated affair.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Taken from my article A Bond of Divine Mercy in the link below, perhaps some may consider reading it. \nThe Church teaches that the only option open to a gay Christian is celibacy and if they should sin they are in exactly the same position as all of the unmarried, the sacrament of penance is available to them and in this regard, they are treated equally.\nFor young Christian gay adults, the options appear to be stark, live a single celibate life. As Christians we consider this to be a gift from God. Obviously Homosexuals have the same needs as heterosexuals for a loving sexual relationship, to impose celibacy upon any one, either a heterosexual or a homosexual person would create an intolerable situation within their heart, which would only serve to increase the desire for companionship and sexual intimacy...\n\nhttp://www.v2catholic.com/background/2015/07/2015-07-25Kevin-Walters-a-bond-of-Divine-Mercy.htm\nkevin your brother\nIn Christ", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi Kag, I can't really speak for other parishes, only my own. I have always sought out those who felt estranged for whatever reason and invited them quietly back to the sacraments. That changed with AL. I announced publicly that from here on in it was no-ones business who received or didn't receive communion. It was up to people's individual conscience. Since then a number of gay people have appeared and quite a few divorced and remarried. But the biggest impact has been on the congregation in general. The feeling is that a great wrong has been put right. \n\nI guess there are people on here who would describe my parish as a church for adulterers and perverts, run by a heretic. I suppose it is. And it's beautiful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Could well be that the \"faith-based\" program increased government funding for religious charities but it has been going on for a long time. \n\nInternationally, it is a ritual of the first day of a President who is of a different party from his predecessor to revoke or reinstate the \"Mexico City Policy,\" established by Reagan, which prohibits government support of NGOs that offer counseling related to abortion.\n\nDomestically, I know that Catholic Charities and some of its affiliates receive a large portion of their funding from the government. Early screams by the bishops about \"religious liberty\" involved refusal of the government to renew contracts with Catholic agencies that refused to arrange adoptions by gay couples.\n\nI have unwittingly waded into a discussion about something of which my knowledge is neither broad nor deep. Although that does not make me unusual among NCR commenters, I think I better stop now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the judge throws this one out, we will still have a lot of people who read this story who believe that this woman stood up in a board meeting and said transgender people should be castrated. There is a basic level of investigation that really needs to happen before extreme accusations against named individuals are printed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Elvi the comparisons you use are completely of a different spectrum here. We are talking about biological males or women being in a restroom with a young child of the different sex. It isn\u2019t just that bad people could potentially use the law to their benefit claiming they are transgender but it is about the potential exposure that could even accidentally occur in a situation like this. I for one have nothing against transgender people but I don\u2019t want my 8 year old granddaughter to walk in and see some woman with male genitalia exposed even if that risk is minimal. In that logic, what is the difference then of them using the biological assigned bathroom? Why can\u2019t a woman with male genitalia use a men\u2019s room? If a young female has to be potentially exposed to that, what\u2019s the difference of them being potentially exposed to a male with male genitalia?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are very narrow minded and uneducated if you believe the simple to dispute fact that only the Republican party is backed by billionaires. Fact is both parties have their millionaire backers, billionaire backers and corporate backers looking for politically unfavorable favors to be rubber stamped once their party gets elected. Both parties contain high levels of corruption. We have Democrat corruption in the stealing of the DNC primaries from Sanders, paying homeless to instigate violence at Trump rallies, forcing TV and print media to trash Trump while covering up Democrat negative stories, election rigging, deleting subpoenaed emails and the list goes on and on. Republicans blocking Obama's justice nominee, gerrymandering election regions, using unsavory methods to get their way with gay rights and manipulating laws to force abortion clinics out of business. If you open your eyes and are truly unbias, you will realize based on actions, Obama is more of a monster than Putin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Whose business is it----that the couple is homosexual? Their money or credit card is legal tender in America. And this whole point is about the famers being able to sell produce to buyers. It is not about the sellers' analysis of the buyers' personal lives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not ex cathedra, I agree, but magisterial, nonetheless. At the same level of teaching as that of homosexual acts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Typical strawman. The $84 million for erectile dysfunction drugs (which work for PTSD...the erectile part was a happy side effect of the drug), was divided between hundreds of thousands of active, retired military and their dependents. Like the rail, the initial costs of a transgender surgery are extremely high in cost, but is dwarfed by the constant and life long maintenance and upkeep treatments necessary for the patient. \nOr, as is typical with SJWs, are you going to cut off their aid after you've used them and they aren't needed by you guys anymore?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Understanding public nudity.... As a nurse I joke I have seen \"10,000\" people naked and there is only one person I have seen that should live naked since he was one of the best creations God ever made. The rest of you, hurry and get dressed. LOL People are shy when it comes to taking their clothes off, are aware they do not look like airbrushed models. a lot of women cover up when taking a public shower, I do it at times and many other women do it and I see it all time. Anyway what is the deal with viewing a female transgenders downstairs area in a military shower and being able to view another female soldiers downstairs area in the same shower since there are Lesbian women serving in the military. I asked my husband once how as a man do you not get excited at the beach in Hawaii with all those women wearing thongs ( dental floss) for swim attire. He said the same thing I would say, there is a time and place for that and men by nature learn to control themselves early on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How odd is it to see \"women\" comment when their active duty life was of the \"other\" gender? It struck me rather oddly that one retired transgender woman was raving against this newest tweet by President Trump and seeing her story on video, it appears she was a he during her/his whole enlistment. How odd! Just saying!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In a gay bar.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Per Sarasi1 and everything that I have read related to the report, the vast majority of victims (80%+) were male. The vast majority (approximately 85%) were 10 years of age or older. What would you call that, if not predominantly homosexual activity toward preteen and teenage males?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There's a huge difference between non-conformity and having one's body mutilated by hormones or surgery. \n\nWhat's the difference between a gender-non-conforming man (a biological male who enjoys looking and acting like a woman but wants to be called a man) and a transgender woman (a biological male who enjoys looking and acting like a woman and wants to be called a woman)?\n\nIf the only difference is the terms themselves, then \u201cgender ideology\u201d is guilty of eviscerating the concepts of male and female of any objective meaning beyond \u201cwhat I want to be called.\u201d How can we ever hope to raise well-adjusted men and women who interact with one another in a healthy way when no one has any idea what men and women are in the first place?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hiring a person to perform in front of a crowd of hundreds/thousands of people is not the same thing as hiring a person to make a cake.\n\nYour example would be better if the gay couple had asked this baker to cater the wedding or serve the cake himself at the wedding. But they didnt. All they asked was for him to make the exact same wedding cake he had made for hundreds of straight couple before. And he refused.\n\nWhen you open up a business in America, you agree to run that business fairly and equally and treat all customers the same. This guy is using his religion as a way to discriminate against someone who he does not agree with - which is exactly what these laws are put in place to protect, and why no lower court has sided with the baker.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"it will be on you to prove one way or another for it to holdup in court.\"\n\nThat's what the gay couple did, and they won against the baker. So...yeah. If you see a business only providing service to people who are not visible minorities, but point to their precious little sign when a person of color walks in, it's pretty easy to prove.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many women (and probably transgenders) have been injured or killed in combat.\n\nMy point is the same as the headline on this letter to the editor:\n\n\"What matters is: can they do job?\"\n\nSome can and some can't. \n\nThose that can't risk the lives of the rest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "a great gay wedding cake vid here from reason tv\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgRlzFIgm1E", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not hate. It's fear. Fear that we are importing hundreds of thousands of individuals who do not believe in rule of law, non-violence when you don't agree, equality of men and women, tolerance of gays and other religions, etc. \n\nAnd based on what we see elsewhere in the world, that fear seems justified.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "male and female is so out of date\nlike male and female Cabinet 50 - 50\nSophie will introduce transgender fashion\nas prologue to Justin adding transgender to his cabinet\noh Sunny brave new world", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am glad Cole, the student in this article, has made it safely to Grade 11. This student, when she was a girl in high school, didn't make it past Grade 10. It would have been nice if the article had said what is being done to encourage girls to stay in school. Teach them boundaries? Teach them that they have a right to privacy, to spaces free of boys and men? Teach them they're allowed to say no to boys? Not only conservative groups are questioning trans ideology in schools. Simple questions like, what is a trans kid?, are not even allowed. Conservative notions of gender roles, what boys and girls are, are not being questioned. Is a non-masculine boy a girl? Can't he just be a non-masculine boy? Why is it acceptable to deny all girls their right to privacy just to assuage the feelings of a few boys and their parents? Why is it only boys who are demanding access to girls' spaces? Why not the other way around? I'm far left of the NDP, and I question this too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Odd isn't it John, that \u201cThe people of Lot,\u201d (what muslims call gays) are usually pro-islam. Unfortunately, there is no reciprocity is there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"You don't approve of gay marriage? Then don't go to one or have one. But if your business is making wedding cakes, then you need to make cakes for everyone.\"\n.\nElise,\nWhy would anyone want to contribute to the success of a business that disapproves of their lifestyle? Writing laws that force a group of people to behave a certain way doesn't eliminate the problem, it only masks it allowing it to fester. \n.\nAs for the gender/bathroom issue, if you really believe in freedom of ideology, you would (in my opinion) try to push a solution that allows both sides to exercise their beliefs freely. I think that this issue could be solved by requiring businesses to provide single unisex bathrooms instead of cattle stalls. This is a progressive solution that would render both sides of the argument moot. Changing areas could be handled similarly as well.\n.\nI guess the question for both sides is: \"Which is more important... solving the problem or getting your way.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now you are assuming that I'm not transgender.....or which direction I am gendering....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is because the Transgender community wants you, the Taxpayers to foot the bill for reassignment surgery and whatever other costs they believe they need to exist in modern society. It's one thing to be confused about what sex you are, it's totally another to expect taxpayers to pay for it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The most significant data point is that adults under the age of 30 are more accepting. For example, two-thirds of those under 30 believe transgender individuals should use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.\"\nPerhaps the author of this statement needs to be clearer in defining how she got the views of the under-ten population. I am sure the various polling services would like to get a grasp of how such views are ascertained, the sample size etc.. As I have previously stated, most of your correspondents are pushing a personally held point of view and their opinions need to be evaluated on that basis, not swallowed hook, line and sinker. \nWe need some form of truth-check as well as spellcheck.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't make any arguments regarding Canadian identity. If you want to know what that identity is, I'd say:\n- we believe government has a strong place in society (unlike the U.S.) but it shouldn't be an overwhelming force (as it is in much of Europe);\n- we have a majority social liberal outlook (believe in gun control, believe in equality for women, gays, ethnic groups); \n- we don't have a strong populist/national viewpoint (as countries like Britain and the U.S. have) ;\n- we have time and time again shown a desire to be part of an international community (NATO, U.N., the Commonwealth, etc..)\n- we were a country founded on a relationship between first nations, the English, and the French - and that has permeated a lot of our subsequent history; \n- we have a huge geographic country, , so the landscape has always been a part of our character (so yes, lousy weather plays a role); and\n- yes, hockey, the CBC, memories of all of our PMs, our wars etc\n\nNo other country has all that :)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, I never thought I'd see the day when someone writing for the N\"C\"R would rise to the defense of a movie glamorizing sexual predation on underage teens. Here's Mr. Winter's statement, from above: \"Actor James Woods castigates a movie that deals with a gay relationship between men of different ages, but the difference is minimal when compared to Woods' own romantic escapades.\"\n\nThe relationship -- according to the HuffPost article to which Mr. Winters linked -- is between a man of 24, and a boy of 17. Any other circumstances, and N\"C\"R calls that predatory behavior.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for your reply.\n\nThis underscores how libs have a tendency to misrepresent.\n\nIn any event, with respects to the Decision to allow gay marriage I say:\n\nThe Supreme Court had no Jurisdiction or Competence in this matter. It had no authority to change in a fundamental way the institution of marriage. Marriage is not the creature of the state. It precedes the state. The state may make laws which uphold marriage and give it social form, but the state cannot redefine marriage. Effectively what the state has done is destroy marriage. Marriage no longer exists in this country. The same sex marriage case has put the final nail in the coffin to end a process that has been going on for the last 50 years or so. There is no similarity between marriage as a social institution and marriage today. \n\nMarriage is part of the cultural patrimony of Western Civilization, It does not belong to the state.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Liberals have gone insane saying you can discriminate against people's feelings about themselves, and that is exactly what this transgender stuff is all about.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your bedroom comment makes no sense. Pierre began a wonderful legal push in Canada to stop persecuting gay people. Rights and same-sex marriage (finally a reality in 2005) were a long way off then. Now, Justin is finishing the job, apologizing for grotesque historical wrongs and continuing to push back against the baseless homophobia that persists (and which is destined for the historical dustbin, given that young people today are fine with all of this). Governments are large, many MPs, they can do more than one thing at the same time. This is not something that is eclipsing a focus on the economy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If that was the case every one would claim they were a conscientious objector and get a draft deferral. And since that didn't happen it wouldn't happen to claim you were \"transgender\" and get a deferral either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no danger with transgender service members. In fact the military has already had trans service members for as long as it has existed, they just didn't serve openly and didn't transition while in the military. Your gender identity in no way effects your physical and mental ability to serve. As long as you can complete all requirements, they should be allowed to serve. The U.S. has a volunteer military force and people who chose to put their lives on the line for the country deserve respect and the right to fulfill their duty, as they have chosen. Further, many countries have openly trans service members with no issues and in the past yr in the US military there have been no issues. What specific dangers to trans members pose and what evidence do you have to back it up?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Michael, I have extended family members who are gay, one female and one male. Through them I have come to know something about being gay. At no time have they ever confused love or caring or commitment with what you describe. It isn\u2019t about male and female equipment in the way you describe it, as if we are talking about the male and female ends of an electrical connection. It certainly makes me wonder if you know anyone gay who you also care about or love in the way that family love one another. I can only assume that this isn\u2019t your experience. So, we are really talking about two very different things.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please reread the context of these quotes. This was referring to two archdiocesan gay employees who were fired after one married and the other posted his engagement on facebook.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think they should come to grips with the present before they deal with the past. A good one one supporting a religion that believes homosexuality is punishable by death while supporting the LGBT community in concert. First things first", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the DOJ's brief the baker admitted that he has non-custom wedding cakes that you can order from a book. He never offered the same-sex couple that option. That basically destroys his argument that all of his work is a personalized artistic endeavor when he\u2019s made the same cake dozens of times. He also had other employees that could have made the wedding cake for him. Which would have relieved him of his moral dilemma. Since this lawsuit has taken place, many of his employees have quit in protest, and he\u2019s lost 40% of his business when he stopped making wedding cakes altogether. Considering that he only applies his Deeply Held Religious Beliefs\u2122 to gay customers, and all of his (possibly immoral) straight customers get a free pass, I don\u2019t have a lot of sympathy for him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This people need help but Ontario government (lead by lesbian ) cancel this program that was covered by OHIP", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What utter and complete BS. Your stereotyping is offensive.\n\nMy sister is Catholic and she has a gay son, and she is very supportive. My mother is old school Catholic. She was quite judgemental until her own grandson came out. Now her opinion is quite different.\n\nEven the Pope now says \"Who am I to judge?\".\n\nI left the Catholic church for my own reasons. But it's abundantly clear that it is possible to be both Catholic and support your gay children (or grandchildren.\n\nSpare us your hatred.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Oh dear, citations please?\"\n\nHere ya go: http://religionnews.com/2016/09/01/nj-priest-suspended-for-supporting-gay-groups/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Whitehouse resident--and U.S. government--blinked. We'll never know how much Trump's Presidential Order cost U.S. taxpayers. It was a very political--and, frankly, an economic--move. The image of a long, drawn out and very public court case was not a nice one and the settlement here is not surprising. \n\n\"We are pleased with the settlement and that this chapter in the fight is done,\" said American Civil Liberties Union Attorney Lee Gerlent.\"\n\nThis is bound to be a long book. Chapter 2: refusal of visas when these individuals reapply. Chapter 3: the stipulation of a \"credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.\" Chapter 4: Transgender individuals banned from the military.\n\nOutlines for these chapters in the avoid-court-at-all-costs non-fiction tome are already in place. Who knows what direction this Presidential Order & Tweet narrative will go from there? The plot thickens with each day this President inhabits the Whitehouse...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Though one shouldn't condone violence of any kind there are a few important things you may want consider Mr. Miloscia. 1) Some civil disobedience has been a part of every great cause throughout U.S. history from Gay Rights to Civil Rights to Women's Suffrage, and all they way back to the Boston Tea Party. History often looks back at these incidents as being patriotic. 2) However, with that said, most of the protesters were non-violent. We also know that typically the violent protesters show up just for the excuse of being violent, not for the cause. So perhaps making generalized statements towards the protesters was the mistake, and perhaps that mistake deserves an apology.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...Tillerson headed the Boy Scouts of America from 2010 to 2012 he helped convince the organization to admit gay youths, and ExxonMobil contributes to Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion services and has become a top target for Christian conservatives.\"\n\nOh, pooh. And I was so ready to find him thoroughly wrong for the job. Guess I am gonna' like him - at least a little bit - after all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Rhyner, school districts with policies allowing transgender students to compete in sports based on gender identify require that a student consistently behave as a boy or a girl in dress, mannerisms, how they refer to themselves, everything. A boy who wants to play a sport but gets cut from the boys' team and suddenly shows up to try out for the girls' team (like that's going to happen) is not going to meet the requirements. Not to mention that the young woman from Haines who competed in girls' track is taking hormones to support her gender identity. So your argument lacks logic, in my view.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is the expectation that a specific baker make your cake a basic human right?\n.\nIsn't the ability to do what you want with your property a \"basic right\"? isn't freedom of association a \"basic right\"? I am speaking specifically about privately owned, non-subsidized businesses like DBA's or personal property rentals. If something goes wrong, they are personally liable in civil court for all of their decisions.\n.\nBusinesses that receive special treatment from \"the people\", shouldn't be able to discriminate against \"the people\". Government entities are in place to represent all people, discrimination of any type here shouldn't be tolerated. (Like the gay marriage refusal incident.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm as progressive as anyone.\nBut I don't support this \"identity politics\" stuff.\nThat's a way to divide the people, not unite them.\nThe problem of America and most of the world isn't so much a man-woman divide or a black-white divide, or a gay-straight divide. It is a middle class have - working class have not divide.\n The women's movement at this time, the whole array of Democratic Party and CNN protests - they are all a big fat red herring.\n The only way to unite America and bridge the dangerous divide in Europe is for the middle class to support the working class, as they did in the 1960's.\n We need to support the Bernie Sanders political revolution to transform the economy. That way women, blacks, Latinos, and gays will all benefit from more equality. The same old same old identity politics, ignoring the real issue of classism is the way to ensure people are divided, the 1% continue to enrich themselves, and the middle class voting block remains a shill for the status quo.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While emotionally damaged progressives obsess over trans genders in the military, perverts in the girls room, destruction of statues and shutting down free speech, The Donald is systematically dis-mantling little Barry's many screw-ups with or without duplicitous RINO republicans. The ACA is the granddaddy screw-up of them all followed open borders, crippling of the military, enabling Iran to obtain nuclear weapons and racially dividing the country just to name a few. Once he appoints the next supreme court justice the balance will shift significantly for a generation. Bad time to be a progressive democrat so look for increasing immature behavior from that group.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rev. Van Ens,\nWhat sports does God like? Really? Most monotheistic religions teach God is an all-merciful, all-wise, and all-just incorporeal entity who resides, in some fashion, in all of us. God doesn't pick sides -- in sports, politics, or war.\nWhether to eat shellfish or not seems a trivial matter for a religion column -- unless the column seeks to inform a newspaper's readers why religions create dietary or clothing restrictions.\nYou mentioned women's suffrage and women's rights. You could have mentioned how society should handle abortion, the role of gay people in society, how religion and government should relate to each other, what religion has to offer regarding ethics or morality.\nBut, if religion columns were arguing that God favors the Denver Broncos or the Houston Astros, maybe there's a reason religion columns are on the decline.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A person's sexual orientation is innate - plain and simple. If you don't believe that, ask lesbians and gay men. (I have and am well satisfied with their responses.) \nWhy would someone choose to subject him/herself to nonstop, venal bullying and discrimination?\nAs for transgenders - ask qualified psychologists about that.\nWe can - and should - have discussions about who can go into which bathroom. No one group should dictate to the other.\nBut science is valid - and those who deny it are putting our planet at substantial risk.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The ONLY reason homosexuality is legal is because criminally closeted homosexuals colluded and corrupted the voting process which removed them from the DSM, a medical book. It was changed by doctors by a vote, very few doctors voting, doctors who were motivated to vote, due to their own homosexuality being illegal. \n\"81 Words\" \nA referendum is needed to rescind and remove all human rights based on sexual orientation. Removal of the special human rights, due to, criminal corruption, collusion and conspiracy in the Psychiatric community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good heavens. Toronto has its nationally famous Gay Pride parade where men can strut around in various states of undress....or in a dress if they prefer....(which is fine; its a free country) and you take issue with Calgarians dressing up as cowboys? \n\nLive and let live. Attend the event(s) of your choice, and kwitcherbitchin about how others choose to celebrate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't say \"they/homosexuals\" have monopoly. You were refusing to believe/allow/conclude from the course of the argument that began, that the abuse of non-adult person's of the same sex does relate to being homosexual. And your refute was faulty, for since by the orientation one makes towards a non-adult person does fall under the definition. You then proceeded in defense of someone being a homosexual excludes the identity of persons of same sex preference to non-adult persons of the same gender. You were excluding \"pederasty\" from homosexuality. You continued to endorse studies/views held they were hetero persons - which you even referred the Spartans (apparently straight) of the Greek City state of Sparta - were only in fact leaning to preference with non-adult person's of the same sex. So you excluded homosexuality having nothing to do with someone's disordered/perverse inclination towards non-adult person's of the same gender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One can hardly call natural law theory or the use of reason to inform us about sin a \"phobia\" and it is the height of anti-intellectualism to do so.\n\nBut that aside in the written Gospels Christ is very clear about adultery being prohibited and since the very early days of the Church (as reflected in St. Paul's letters) this has included all forms of unchastity, including homosexual acts. \n\nNaturally Christ didn't use the word \"homosexuality\" as the word and the concept (of an inclination toward this being somehow constitutive) are products of modern fads.\n\nBut even searching for prohibitions or excusing sin by reference to absence in the New Testament is wrong and un-Christian. Christianity isn't Islam or Judaism founded on a book that lists naughty and nice things to do. We avoid these things--and remember that the ancients considered homosexual relations a universal temptation--and all sins because they are contrary to love of God and love of neighbor.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "According to a report published in 2011, 0.3% of Americans identified themselves as transgender. Why is this an issue? Because of the medical available in the military, pure and simple. Transgenders should find another line of work that provides free transitioning medical. Sorry liberals, but taxpayer money for this country's defense has higher priorities.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You do know that the polls show Catholics clearly opposing magisterial teaching on homosexual relations. So, \"the fringe\" has moved into the center.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If a conservative asked a homosexual baker to write on a cake \"Sodomy is Evil\", would the baker be required to produce that cake?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed it does, and he fails to meet it.\n\nhttps://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/homophobe\n\nAs a Catholic bishop he teaches against homosexual behavior, and has become something of a target for those who think there is actually a pro-same sex behavior position compatible with the Church's teachings.\n\nOther than that, it's tommyrot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hate? The rally was about anything but hate. It was about not being divided, about tolerance for those who are different than us. You obviously don't get the difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives are always looking for someone to blame: immigrants, gays, Muslims... I was there in the cold and the snow, and the message was positive, but about resisting those who would divide us. The monied interests that run our country want us fighting among ourselves, so we don't notice them taking more and more. Don't believe me? Look at Trump's cabinet. Do you really think they give a damn about you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If one starts with the premise that there is something to fear, then your points are good ones.\n\nBut to track the Harvey Milk analogy, there was a time when a good deal of the hetero community feared that they, or their children, might be perverted (or worse) by exposure to gay folk. They might reasonable have feared priests, but I digress. \n\nHarvey's great insight was that knowing more gay people in your otherwise hetero life would help defuse that fear, and allow the hetero community to accept and even embrace a community that had once been a pariah. No one needed to get into too much detail about what might be called the 'teachings' of gay life for that process to gradually start happening.\n\nWith Muslims, maybe there is something to fear, like reproduction fuelled world domination or some other militaristic caliphate-centric agenda. But if there isn't, maybe \"getting to know each other\" is as good a start as any. There's still time to act, if fear is warranted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't see how they are the same. Better example is calling a transgender person the T -word (rhymes with Annie), which is a slur, and I would support a system that allows redress for slurs. Pronouns are not slurs, failing to read the mind of another individual is not harassment or \"violence\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes. If you're a wannabe of the opposite gender and it's OK to demand to be treated as transgender without actually having surgery to change your anatomy, then why should it not be OK to change your race even though your DNA remains the same? In Hawaii, a law passed by the legislature last year says it's OK for a man/woman who feels like a woman/man to get a new birth certificate identifying him/her as his/her wannabe gender. So why can't we all get a new birth certificate identifying us as \"Native Hawaiian\" just so we can get all the racial entitlements, just like a man who is a wannabe woman can go into the women' athletic changing room or bathroom where the facilities are much nicer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is interesting to observe the incredibly rapid evolution of acceptance of homosexuality over the past 25 years. Media spin, organized campaigns and political pressure has resulted in it becoming the leading issue of political correctness of our age. Amazingly, tolerance for homosexuality requires nothing short of endorsement. Political leaders who may personally tolerate it, are criticized if they choose simply not to participate in the local pride parade. This is particularly interesting because other minorities, whether racial or religious, do not demand the same degree of tolerance. They are usually satisfied with tacit acceptance rather than participation of the tolerator. Amazing to me is that all of this acceptance has taken place with little balanced discussion or debate on the merits of accepting. Which is sad. And probably one of the reasons, that some still do not accept this shift.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She said she was pro choice and anti gay and she has totally reversed her positions!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I never thought would I see the day when Star Wars is actually over. Should we anticipate the eventuality of an all black cast, or a super duper trans-gender being to keep us interested? How about an episode where everybody has an evil twin from another dimension that causes havoc for the good people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is patterning, not natural homosexuality. Two very differernt things. If you cannot tell the difference between child abuse and equal chosen relationships, you should not write on this issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have never argued that two gays have a right to marry, only that two persons, having satisfied the requirements of the law regarding age, residence and freedom, do. You're entitled to your idiosyncratic reading of the Constitution, but the reading that counts -- the one by the Supreme Court -- differs from yours. You'll get used to it; or not. It doesn't really matter.\nAt best, you used \"sic\" incorrectly . Your understanding of \"no-one\" is, like your understanding of the Constitution, idiosyncratic, but at odds with the authorities. Your incorrect use of \"sic\" appears consistent with the rest of your thinking and writing. (Good writers use 'sic' conservatively and precisely.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you for broad availability of contraceptives, especially for the underaged and the poor?\n They already are. Public schools, colleges, clinics are full of them.\n\n-Are you in favor of gov't sponsored child care, as even Trump has supported?\n In general I am more in favor of government policies that would allow a parent to stay home to raise their own kids and not be warehoused in government run institutions. \n\n-Are you okay with gay couples being able to adopt children?\n No. Kids are best served with a Mom and a Dad.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's cut to the chase, there is no such thing as LGBT people. They are no different than anyone else other than the sexual behavior they like to engage in. And behavior does not constitute a class of people any more than any behavior, say playing basketball or chess, does. I won't be surprised if you pretend with faux indignation or shock...Homosexual activists love to act shocked or indignant as if that makes that fact wrong, when it doesn't. Because it's a fact, both scientifically and theologically.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would assume there are international agreements about what information is on a passport or other government ID, and that governments are accountable for the accuracy of the information. Germany has passed a \"3rd sex\" law so that sex can be left blank for intersex babies on their birth certificates, reflecting the objective fact of their being intersex. That might actually be a smart solution for transgender people who don't completely transition to the other sex. Beyond that, I can't imagine government would allow anybody to write in \"two-spirit\" because it's not objective information, nor to write in male when they're female because it's not accurate. And I can't see the courts ruling that government can't accurately identify sex on government ID either. We may have added the concept of gender identity to our laws, but that doesn't mean it replaced the concept of sex, which also still exists in law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Father Reese wrote, \"churches and religious believers feel that they are being vilified for simply maintaining centuries-old teaching.\" I expect that's right, that those people do believe that. But in that case, it's a disgraceful kind of belief, and it's no wonder that many LGBTQ people think religious believers are deplorable bigots. Inasmuch as homosexuality gets any attention in biblical literature and Catholic moral theology -- it does, but not very much, and never in a matter of central importance -- , it amounts to saying no more than that God is displeased by homosexual conduct; given that the orthodox Christian disposition does not assign normative value to Leviticus, there is nothing in our \"teaching\" that should recommend active persecution of LGBTQ people. And so for Christians to invest so much interest in opposing LGBTQ rights looks perverse, cruel, and in fact un-Christian. These people were always homophobes at heart, glad to be confirmed by a few minor Bible texts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nope - Sorry. What it is reflective of is a deeper problem that lies within the soul that is driving the behavior - not the social stigma attached to the lifestyle. BTW - even if that were the case, you guys cannot have it both ways, as we are social creatures and evolve as much to our social constructs as much as we do our physical ones. So if anything, according to the Darwinian model - homosexuals will most likely die off due to the harsh social and physical environments, as well as the inability to reproduce (you always forget about that one, right ?). You should be rejoicing over being able to see such a fine example of \"survival of the fittest\" in action, right Fish ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Neko,\nI see the Alt-right as very very similar to the sovereign militias. \nNeiwert has done much research and writing about them. These include the skin heads, the neo-nazis and many other white supremacist groups. They exist in every state but are very prominent in Idaho. \nAs I read some of their manifestos they show to be very nearly the same as most Republicans. God, gays, guns and abortion are their main issues. White supremacy, fear and intimidation are additional hallmarks. War on everyone is their agenda. They believe that their sovereignty means they obey no laws but their own. Also that they owe taxes to no one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, we listen to them. If their conduct is sinful, they will tell us. Not the self-loathing people who think they have to chose between God and how they love but people who have self-acceptance. Its not a sin because you, Babylonian rebi or fairy tales about Sodom say it is. Again, you are dendending the authority of the Church, not caring for gay sexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When we brought in Italians in the 1950s, they were very religious and old fashioned. The women dressed in old fashioned dresses and often covered their hair. Their kids, however, were different. Muslims are much more religiously conservative, and their Canadian born kids are even moreso. They reject secularism, reject anything approaching equality of women, hate gays and Jews, and since they're inspired by God they aren't about to change. They are our fastest growing group, and will soon eclipse aborigines in numbers, doubling every ten years.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Key concerns include whether currently enlisted troops have had medical or other issues that cause delays or problems with their ability to deploy or meet physical or other standards for their jobs. Military leaders also wanted to review how transgender troops are treated, if they\u2019re discriminated against or if they have had disciplinary problems, the officials said.\"\n\nYou'd think U.S. leaders would try to get answers on these issues before announcing anything as draconian as a total ban. Although Trump appears to like bans, which he presumably believes make him look authoritative and decisive, the announcement seems intended as \"red meat\" to appeal to the most regressive views held by some of his supporters.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "NCR, why are you wasting space with this article on hetero marriage? The important issue facing Catholicism is how to bring more Gay people into the church, and revising the church's stance on what marriage is! The systemic oppression of heterosexual marriage is a blight upon our culture -- I for one wish you'd published an article on that theme.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm an author of sf and crime fiction. I have a Facebook page to announce new books and stories and other such news, and I regularly get friend requests from people who read me. But over the past year or so I've been getting requests from young women (and occasionally young gay men). When I check the requester's page I usually find nothing but a couple of posed pictures.\n\nBack when all this started, I clicked \"confirm\" on a couple of requests. The next thing I knew, I was getting ads for shoes and fashions on my wall. I defriended the shills and the ads stopped.\n\nSo mostly it's just seems to be people trying to make money through clicks on Facebook ads.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Let\u2019s say I get pulled over for some reason and maybe a police officer looks at it (the driver license) and says \u2018what\u2019s going on here?\u2019 that was terrifying,\u201d \n\nTerrifying? Like the officer is going to draw his/her weapon? Perhaps order the driver to remove his/her pants for genital inspection? I understand those scenarios would be terrifying, but they are not going to happen! And how often is this person getting pulled over anyway? More likely the license is going to be inspected by a retail clerk. Oh no, that person might notice the discrepancy and snicker! Or they probably won't care, because most people don't care until these transgender types make an issue of it. \"I'm queer, I'm here,\" they chant, before getting upset that people are looking at them funny.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The baker wouldn\u2019t offer racist cakes to anyone, so no one is being discriminated against. If the baker made a plain wedding cake would you be able to tell if it was for a straight or gay couple?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am surprised that you have not offended climate deniers enough to have some of your comments deleted.\nI guess the gay haters are more likely to find my comments uncivil. Thanks for stalking me? \n\nI already explained it.\nGo away.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Using abusive tactics to force someone to become something he/she isn't is not pleasing to God at all. Pray the ghey away therapy has harmed many people and led to suicides among gay teens. This is why it is considered quackery, not therapy by the APA and states are outlawing it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In regards to the Canadian Forces transgender policy.....\n\nIt has no bearing. It's irrelevant in the Macro picture, because, let's be honest, the Canadian Forces is irrelevant in the Macro picture. We are not the ones keeping the North Koreans in check and ensuring South Korea's livelihood. We are not the reason Taiwan continues to exist as an independent country. We are not the reason Europe is not living under Communism, and why present day Ukraine is still an independent country today. We are not the reason ISIS is in full retreat.\n\nIn the main, Canada's military and foreign policy decisions are a moot point. Not so the American military and American foreign policy, even with Trump wanting to pull back.\n\nSo, the Canadian military can continue to virtue signal, can continue to spend millions on Transgender members and 'medical' marijuana, and occasionally is allowed to come to the ballpark and play catch with the big boys. But remember, our entire ARMY is half the size of the NYPD.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "POTUS is just pushing the MSM and the Establishment into a psychotic frenzy. They will exhaust themselves and alienate more folks. People will just roll their eyes at their histrionics. Who's bright idea to recruit transsexuals, anyway? Why would anyone willingly lower requirements to be of sound mind and body to serve in the military? Oh, right, Obama. Well, the military is not the place to enable mental illness instead of referring the person to a competent psychiatrist for both physical and mental testing and therapy. It could be chemical poisoning (endocrine disruptors) or psychological poisoning (repressed memories of abuse), but whatever the underlying problem, it is not needed in the military.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But what if it is a person's firm conviction, based on their beliefs and even perhaps scientific, medical or psychiatric knowledge, that that \"transgendered someone\" has in fact 'misgendered' them self. In this new legal scenario, the transgendered person is deemed the bearer of truth, and any who don't fall in line are made criminal.\n\nThe advocates and activists supporting enshrining pronouns in criminal law, wish to project criminal intent upon those that don't use a their desired pronoun. However, in doing so, they are removing the right to project anything but the purest of intent on the transgendered. \n\nThough I try to respect diversity, and act respectful to all, I will not forgo my right to call a spade a spade, if I so choose. The assumption that the 'transgendered' will never act insincerely, deviously or misguidedly, but others always will, is not an assumption I wish to have criminalize in law. \n\nCriminalizing this issue, is simply not called for.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Planned Parenthood is fine with taking a child's life before first breath, fine with sex outside of marriage, fine with homosexuality, and now fine with creating transgender students. Your morals come from your belief systems and Planned Parenthood has a belief system they want to teach your children. They want your children to believe without even admitting it is a belief system. It is time for men to stand up and protect their daughters from the creeps that just want to use them. Abortion makes women cheap, accessible, and exchangeable to wicked men who could care less for her, her children, or her future.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"how about this: US Votes Against UN Ban On Death Penalty For Homosexuality\"\n\nThat would be a lie, Thomas Smith. Can't you tell?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"In the end, this effort shouldn't be about serving liberal or conservative agendas, but defending core American values.\"\n\nSince when has the USCCB's agenda regarding religious freedom ever been liberal? Come to think of it, when has any liberal in this country ever argued for more religious freedom? If anything, liberals usually argue for freedom FROM religion. This constant need on the part of the media to insert a false equivalence into every argument is starting to get really annoying, which brings me to this line:\n\n\"Some Christians today seek to deny gay, lesbian and transgender people basic rights in the name of religion. Discrimination under the guise of faith does a disservice to upholding authentic religious freedom. \" \n\nExcuse me, but wasn't the whole point of Fortnight for Freedom originally built on the premise of denying gay people goods and services and firing them from their jobs? Sorry, Mr. Gehring, but you can't have it both ways. Enough with the false equivalence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly. As a person who tends to the libertarian philosophy, I believe that people should be treated as individuals and as members of a group.\nI experienced a washroom designed that would solve the problem for trans people. On entering the washroom all the sinks, baby change tables etc. were in the front near the door . To the left but out of sight of the sinks were the urinals for those who care to stand and to the right were the toilets, but with the doors going down to the floor for those who needed to sit. It worked.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My parish priest used to be boring and superficial in his homilies. It was uninspiring and annoying. Then after Pope Francis came on the scene, he seemed to find his spiritual stride. He mentions Pope Francis often and is showing a real depth of understanding of Pope Francis' words and of spirituality.\nMost of his homilies now are very good and sometimes he's just on fire!\n\nHow do I know it was Pope Francis? Well the rumor is that he is gay and that famous, \"Who am I to judge?\" comment really hit home. He seems very spiritually balanced now and dedicated to the Lord first and is faithfully serving with the church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you, RD, for demonstrating that your knowledge of psychiatry is on the same abysmal level as your knowledge of logic or your knowledge of history.\n\nI suppose you have not forgiven the APA for saying that homosexuality is not a psychological disorder.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"or refuse to admit that there are problems here.\"\n\nYou clearly live in a different country than I do. \n\nBecause the country I live in legalized gay marriage 14 years ago, passed legislation mandating equal pay for equal work back in 1977, is on the verge of passing a bill legalizing marijuana, is importing 300K minorities a year from around the world, has more citizens of colour than we've EVER had, just saw our sitting government mandate a 50/50 sex-based cabinet split, the same government is talking about mandating similar quotas for women and minorities on corporate boards and for university positions. This very newspaper has run a long-term series isolating out sexual assault above all other violent crimes for special handling. Abortion is a reality in every Canadian province, and Canadian women use that service more often than most other western nations. Birth control options are everywhere. Churches are emptying.\n\nMy two best friends are a lesbian and a black, female coder.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Which is why so very many gay people have left the church - they've gotten that message loud and clear that \"WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE!\" So they left. I'm one of the few who stay, albeit tangentially. I'm old, you see, and a creature of habit. But I believe the point of this whole discussion is to see what can be done to start talking with the wider gay Catholic community with less of \"WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE!\" and more of \"Please stay.\" So far there's been much of the former and very little of the latter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right on, sisters. It's way past time for the church to take seriously the grand pronouncements of Vatican II that we are all church. When has this important precept ever been seriously demonstrated, not just pontificated on? We all need to talk about contraception, and women, and same-sex love.\nAs a gay man who as a young adult made every effort to live strictly within church teaching as I understood it, know from bitter experience that this was ultimately destructive for my wife, as well as for myself, and led to both of us drifting away from the church. Years later, after I had the courage to come out and start life in a committed same-sex partnership, I was able to return to the church. The attempt to reconcile the apparent conflict led me to years of deep study and intense prayer, leaving me convinced that conventional teaching is just plain wrong. We need to tell our stories. Read mine here - http://queerchurch.com/?p=46971", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Notice that in:\n\n\"AS A GROUND FOR HUMAN DIALOGUE, I dispute both your premise 'there is only one truth' and your presumed opposite 'there are multiple truths.' Neither proposition correctly captures the state of the question about truth through human history.\"\n\nDennis changes the topic from truth - which is the existence of an objective reality outside our perception of it and correspondence of our subjective appreciation of it to objective reality - to the topic of consensus among humans on what is true.\n\nThis is a viewpoint prevalent at this blog - objective reality is irrelevant and what we feel about things is as important or more important than what they are.\n\nThus same sex marriage, gender flexibility, and abortion may all be \"goods\", while the reality of a natural law is denied, which of course denies a good portion of the divine law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sure SNAP and LGBT groups and abuse attorneys have donated the same millions the KofC did to NOM. Otherwise known as the National Organization for Marriage. You wish.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"This is a great example of the sort of insensitive trans language usage that is twisting even people who agree that trans rights are human rights. \"\n----------------------------\nAgreed. There is a big danger that even sympathetic people will begin to feel alienated and push back.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps the four Cardinals really believe we need explicit doctrinal change, rather than having it implied under a the banner of mercy. Of course, if there were real change the same cardinals would be the ones objecting the loudest.\n\nI am not sure that dealing with homophobic (and possibly self-loathing) priests is a matter for the Pope. The problem here is the local bishop, unless you are advocating rethinking how we deal with gay sexuality (and not just orientation).\n\nHaving employers pay education taxes rather than their employees would make vouchers very possible, although unionization should be an essential part of any such scheme.\n\nSanchez is emiently qualified. Her election is also a delightful slap in the face for Atl-Right racism. Bravo.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Murkowski voted against defunding Planned Parenthood. \nVoted NO on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions, Supports federal abortion funding.\n\nPro gay marriage. Voted to repeal \"Don't ask, don't tell\" in the military.\n\nVoted against finish building the Mexican border wall. \n\nVoted for TPP.\n\nFavors expanding obamacare.\n\nVoted for the FY2016 Omnibus Spending bill to increase foreign workers and refugees.\nVoted for DREAM Act.\n\nCosponsored Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015 to give feds control over state voting laws.\n\nAgainst legalizing marijuana claiming it's a public health risk.\n\nSupports Pebble Mine proposed to be the largest open pit copper mine in the world and as deep as the Grand Canyon. Pebble Mine would put a three mile wide hole and 9 billion tons of waste...right in the heart of Bristol Bay at the headwaters of 2 of its pristine rivers. Even a minute amt of copper, which is lethal to salmon, leeched would destroy the salmon industry in Bristol Bay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow. You have really drunk the Kool Aid. 1. Progressives are the ones dividing the country. Policies that want to take away guns, marginalize religion, kill the most innocent and use gays are being stood up to by conservatives. The mass media gives unbalanced coverage to progressive positions. Progressive positions need an activist Supreme Court to help move them along, and that is the wrong side of history. As for the Birchers, they are of no consequence, so why bring them up?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fair enough. Pregnancy is a choice. It requires close medical attention. And it's managed effectively.\n\nThe military offers drug and alcohol rehab programs. That lifestyle is a choice and requires a lot of treatment.\n\nLast, to save on cost, they could always reclassify transgendered treatment as one not covered, similar to what they do with many cosmetic surgeries. Leave it up to the person to decide whether they want to incur the cost on their own.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The Doctor has been a man for so long because the show\u2019s narrative choices have been constrained by the misogynistic expectations of society. [...] a female Doctor would have been a hard sell.\" -- Galen Mitchell\nOr, maybe Ms. Mitchell, the show's writers or creators found an actress they felt was the right fit and changed the dynamic of the show. Dr. Who is not some 1950s medical show. I suspect the show's creators aren't overly worried about being constrained by the misogynistic expectations of society.\n\"there hasn\u2019t been one [GLBT rally] demanding an LGBTQ doctor on a fictional television show\" -- Teresa Latimer\nMaybe not specifically demanding a transgender time-traveling shape-shifter, but there have been campaigns to promote more GLBT characters in fictional TV shows.\nMy two cents? Jon Caldara was creating controversy. He admits the show's producers use shape-shifting as a device to explain changes in actors. So the producers hired a female actress. No other agenda necessary.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201c\u2026the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in question, cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called \u2018gay culture.\u2019\u201d\n\nPracticing homosexuality? Obviously, the meaning in context is 'sexually active,' but the wording is awkward and indicative of a shallow understanding of human sexuality. We are all sexual beings, therefore we all 'practice' our sexuality every day.\n\nAs for 'deep-seated homosexual tendencies' and supporting 'the so-called gay culture,' the meaning is crystal clear. Stay in the closet and talk about sports. A lot. And we don't mean figure skating either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tobin should welcome everyone to the cathedral who is baptised or wants to be baptised in the death and resurrection of Christ. And that is the only reason anyone and everyone should be and must be welcomed. \n\nThe dying to oneself and rising with Christ to a new life, has no qualifiers attached to it, such as male or female, Jew or gentile, gay or straight, black or white or polka dot. \n\nThere is no such thing as \"I am white, who happens to be a Christian,\" I am a gay who happens to be a Christian. He did not (does not need to) welcome the \"heterosexual community\" or the \"female community\" or many other communities either. So, what's the point in \"welcoming the LGBT community\"?\n\nI guess the Pauline maxim of \"no male or female, Jew or gentile\" has limits after all.... when it serves someone political and ideological purpose ...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is a failure of obedience by trad bishops and of disciplineby Francis or O'Connor not calling them on it. The whole concept of the Magisterium is being called into question by this Pope by not using the term. Regardless, that was not my point. My point was that this Gospel highlights that morality is not for piety, it is for life on this earth. Any moral principle, like calling gays disordered or going after the victims of a bad marriage for marrying again is contrary to what Jesus says here. Call it a license to be real.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This article is from the diocese newspaper and in that the definition of \"family\" is addressed. The follow ing is a question to Bishop McElroy and his answer: \"Q: How did the delegates define family?\nA: The group working on how to bring spiritual depth to family life raised the issue of inclusion. what they said is that we really need our marriage and family outreach to stress that families are all-inclusive. They include single peopl, they include gay and lesbian people, they include the homeless, the margainalized. They include everyone. They are all part of our families. And thus, when we talk about the spitituality of family life, it has to convey very powerfully the fact that Christ calls to each and every one of us and invites us to be part of this family which is the Churc, but also to be a part of family life, the families which we're born into and those created in our lifetimes.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Revolution has begun. The Trump era begins on the web:\n.\nThe Department of Labor\u2019s report on lesbians, bisexuals, gays and transgender people in the workplace? Gone.\n.\nThe White House\u2019s exposition on the threat of climate change and efforts to combat it? Gone.\n.\nIn its place, An America First Energy Plan:\n\u201cFor too long, we\u2019ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule. Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years.\u201d\n.\nAnd \u201cAmerica First Foreign Policy.\u201d\n.\n\u201cPeace through strength will be at the center of that foreign policy. This principle will make possible a stable, more peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.\u201d\n.\nObviously Hawaii is not on the agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The short and frustrating answer is \"I don't know.\" \n\nThe truth is that probably few people are aware of the document that Elagabalus cited. Further, few people would take it seriously. If one did not know the source of the document, one might infer that it came from one of the gay-bashing right wing \"Christian\" sects like the Westboro Baptist Church (which has no affiliation, it should be said, with any official Baptist body.) I am of two minds about this: Is it better that no-one knows about this trashy document, lest someone take it seriously? Or is better to shine light on the trash, the better to sweep it out? If we go the second route, I suppose we must start confronting our priests and bishops, asking them to disavow this and similar documents. I wonder how many of them are even aware of the document? Surely many are embarrassed by it, as well they should be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Didn't Francis recently contend schools are teaching children to pick their gender? He gave no source for this papal assertion. So, no surprise this group has come out against transgendered people.\n\nWalsh, quotes AL, \"In Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis explained that accepting our bodies as gifts from God is vital for accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father, while 'thinking that we enjoy absolute power over our own bodies turns, often subtly, into thinking that we enjoy absolute power over creation,' \" (Our bodies are a gift from the Father - without aid of a mother? This is beyond transgendered! A new creation!)\n\nKind of a quantum leap for the latter part of quote, \"we enjoy absolute power over creation.\" Who thinks like this? This is a false assertion that this is an automatic conclusion. Again, popes, like anyone can rationalize anything. Hence, the rationalizations about transgendered folks.\nGet out of the papal slippers & walk into other folks shoes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not kidding; the impression I get when I read many NCR articles is that of circus sideshow, a grand caricature of the world, oddity articles attempting to paint the general by chronicling the rare...priestly abuse (in fact a rarity), white supremacists (as rare), the former priest-now-gay antique collector, the unicycling former nun who runs a bio-fuel farm, and so forth. \n\nIf one relied on NCR for one's news, one would know only a rare and strange world, hardly representative.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Last year at Pride, when Black Lives Matters accused the entire LGBT community of Toronto of being nothing but oppressor class racists, did the Globe, CBC or Star stand up in defence of the gay community who have traditionally been open and accepting of all people. Did any politician ( Wynne, Trudeau, Wong Tam, Tory) speak against the sweeping slander of BLM? No of course not. They all tacitly agreed with BLM by refusing to refute the allegations. In white man's media , white man is always guilty. Appropriation is just one more sin we supposedly carry in our marrow.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you Courtney for a very good article, as usual. \n\n>>>\u201dreally back to baseline\u201d\n\nThat does not mean \u201cnormal\u201d to you and me. It just means here condition now is about the sand as it was before the stroke. The question now becomes, what is her mental condition. \n\nWorth was receiving $700,000 in salary. Pretty good for a caregiver. She sounds extremely greedy and does have a blotched past in regards to fraud. That leads me to question this marriage. Did the princess show lesbian tendencies before? If not, then I would look at this \u201cmarriage\u201d very suspecially.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The ordination of women, for example caused so much acrimony and strife not only within dioceses but within congregations, bullying by bishops wishing to impose women priests on parishes which didn't t want them, and congregations refusing to recognise the ordinations of women. Different attitudes to sexual morality, marriage, divorce, homosexuality; and that was on top of the historical differences which existed between the various groupings within Anglicanism.\nAlso, reasonable discussion between them was practically unachievable because it was impossible to appeal to any authority as each had its own.\nThe same thing is happening now in the Catholic Church as factions vie with each other to change or to block change in doctrine and praxis; bishops and bishops' conferences contradict each other and there seems to be no direction or guidance from Rome. We are rapidly becoming a group sof semi-autonomous Churches rather than one Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People are in such denial that sexual orientation is a choice. Every day, people like you and me wake up and wrestle with the critical choice: \"Should I be straight or gay today?\" We ponder and ponder because it's something that could go either way, sort of like choosing between strawberry jam and orange marmalade for our toast. \n\nUnlike sexual orientation, toast topping is an easy choice for me. What is wrong with those orange marmalade people? There was none of that in my house growing up, and I turned out fine! Those people are making the wrong choice, and they'll have to live with the consequences.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These guys (both Dem and Repub) do nothing to solve the real issues. This is more bread crumbs for the big party votes. If they REALLY want to save money in the military, they wouldn't be using the military for unnecessary wars that cost us trillions. Trans-gendered procedures is a fart in the wind compared to the costs of these wars. Heck, supplying viagra to the troops is as well.\n\nNeither big party wants to solve the problem. All they want to do is get your vote by legislating on tiny emotionally driven issues without impacting the tons of money being made in these wars.\n\nYou guys are being played.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church of England is always the last of the Anglican bodies to move whenever change happens. When women were allowed to become members of the ordained clergy the CoE was the last member to move in that direction - it was the American church which led the way. The same has been just as true on the subject of homosexuality in general and gay marriage in specific. \n\nAs for the problem of how to balance the needs of conservative churches in the southern hemisphere where Anglicanism, like Roman Catholicism, is growing the fastest, with the needs of \"first-world\" churches, well, that is a problem that isn't going away. But I, for one, don't think it will be solved by acquiescing to the demands of third-world bigots who were just as upset when women were finally given the reins of power as they are now that gay people are marrying in Anglican churches. Power, like freedom, is never freely given, it must always be taken. Within Anglicanism, women did it first. Now it's gay people's turn.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't believe that was suggested Chris. You can look at 57 members of the OIC at the UN and ask out of all those countries, how many protect homosexual rights and gender equality? Islamism (the idea that all levels of society should be governed by Islamic law aka, political Islam) is fundamentally incompatible with advanced progressive societies - the state of individual freedoms in the 57 members reveals as much - in addition to Turkey's regression under an Islamist government after 90 years of secular progress. It's not a secret that the Globe has wilfully ignored Islamic reformer movements (Tarek Fatah) out of a misguided duty to political correctness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many years ago I was in Seattle in my car stopped at a light when a \"mob\" of marchers came down the street and passed my car. It was scary and at that time, with a nice car, I thought I'd be targeted. I did not get out of my car. It is totally inappropriate for any marchers to even touch a vehicle as some did in Eugene. And though legal, I don't advise anyone get out a yell at protesters as they pass. \nThis is what I think we know: Marchers broke off from the main march. They passed a few vehicles in the street. The marchers were aggressive toward Sparkhawk's vehicle. Sparkhawk got out and cursed at the marchers using and anti-gay slur. He says those comments not express his views. He had a momentary \"knee-jerk\" reaction that caused him to press on the gas but he had no intention to drive into the crowd. He felt nervous and especially so when he got out of his car. \n\nPolice are investigating and may issue citations.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These folks refuse to comprehend that they were the imaginary majority. All those in our system had a voice in the form of a vote. On one side, there was the divisive straight-male-hating-vicious-gay-Facebook-feminists, who (still) believe their education entitles them the privilege of dictating what is best for (atheist) America. On the other side, there were God fearing, Coal miners, Farmers, factory workers and other inclusive minded human beings. They believe that the country is for everyone! In the sixties we learned, you MUST work within the system for positive change. No one has turned their back on the protesters. The protesters have turned their backs on American democracy. The day will dawn when we have a fantastic all-inclusive female president! Remember, millions of people thought Hitler was right, but it didn't make him right. Facebook is just a tool, Networking folks into a lather of misplaced values will not win a presidency. You are all welcome to celebrate America!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "so an lgbtq rights group endorses an lgbtq governor.........how exactly is this news?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Great analysis by JM of Francis toward women and gays. They remains 2nd or 3rd class members as long as he's on the throne.\nThe RCC is increasingly for dysfunctional members who buy Francis' regressive thinking. The teaching of equality Paul espoused is in conflict with RC practice. Good to have it on the books but practice is totally other.\nFrancis' gobbledegook thinking and talking is more akin to Trump. And he can say anything off the cuff and retract it or his spinners. \nCan't understand why any conservative has a problem one of their own.\nLove Francis' story (true?) of monsignor who \"loves Jesus.\" Jesus has many lovers, evidently!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"With data from surveys collected in 2011, 2013 and 2015, the report found that more than 1 in 10 Hawaii public high school students \u2014 or about 4,700 students \u2014 identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or questioning. With limited data available on transgender individuals, the report offers only \u201cpreliminary information\u201d on that group.\n\n\"Much of the health disparities are explained by what the report describes as \u201cminority stress theory,\u201d or the additional stressors that sexual minorities experience, including internalizing homophobia, concealing identity and being subject to discrimination, bullying and family rejection.\n\n\u201cNot surprisingly, on all indicators of mental health, LGB youth perform worse than heterosexual youth,\u201d the report says.\"\n\nWe are failing our kids. Too much stress on LGB should be addressed in our school and youth programs. Token efforts currently...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ah. So sorry. \nI appreciate that trying to establish taxonomies of desire is of psychiatric interest, but I find the simpler, legal questions more to the point, and wish people wouldn't muddle the two spheres. It's especially homely when people do so for the sake of castigating gay people. I'd think the important distinction was between predators and non-predators. There are men of all sorts in either category. \n\nAll the best to you. I'm off to therapy in a few hours, after a decade or so without.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Freedom of conscience is a fundamental Catholic value which obliges us to respect the conscience of others. The law of the land in a democratic religiously pluralistic society must accommodate everyone's freedom on conscience. \n\nLegal abortion and legal same sex marriage does not in any way infringe on Catholics exercising their freedom on conscience. And our formal recognition of the freedom of conscience of others, including those who do not find abortion or gay marriage morally repugnant, OBLIGES us to accept such laws. In is a violation of our value of freedom of conscience to attempt to change the law to so the state will impose our moral values on others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "trump hasn't declared war on political correctness, he's declared war on women, PoC, immigrants, refugees, the LGBTQ community... i could go on, really. he's declared war against american citizens, mostly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, that 0.4% of the population that are trans and the half of that percent that might visit the womans shower the same day and time you do, we need a law that forces someone that likely looks more like a woman than a man, who very likely doesn't want you seeing their junk any more than you want them seeing yours, in the mens locker room. You know- so you arn't offended at the gym in that extremely unlikely scenario strawman you've made in your head. Chances are you'll never share a locker room with a trans individual, but if you did I doubt you'd even know.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How did a discussion of the Clinton Foundation and the Trump Foundation become part of a discussion about ending violence toward the LGBT community and individuals? Certainly, since Trump loudly blames others to draw attention away from his own failings, the comment in itself is valid, but why here?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Could it be that there are no defined 'Canadian values'?\n--------------\n\nJustin says Diversity and Feminism and Gay rights are Canadian values\nLeftist progressives say Political correctness and Inclusiveness are Canadian values\n\nSo why is the lib left against Canadian values?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lets be honest, much of these so-called sex-ed programs have been disingenuously designed to confuse impressionable minds. There is no fair balance, which is why religious schools should have the right to explain these issues according to their moral compass and philosophy.\n\nThanks for making the distinction between Catholics and some christians which are way out there.\n\nDo you honestly find the Catholic position on homosexuality vilifying? Do you really interpret it as 'hate' ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The military has commented that they had no idea this was coming. This was not 'a military decision' unless it's common for military decisions to be made without the military knowing about it. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has gone on record stating that until they get more specific direction from The White House, they plan no change to their transgender policy. Dunford said, \"we will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now there is a set of facts that makes \"innocent until proven guilty' difficult for counsel to argue!\n\n\"At the time, Johnson had just completed a one-year prison sentence in Cambodia for sexually abusing five boys who were in his care at an orphanage that he had operated there, according to multiple media reports.\"\n\nHe is 39; a mandatory minimum of 30 years would be a good start. \n\nOf course, I also understand that gay men are not pedophiles. It just seems that way when this sort of thing happens. \n\nWe still need to keep the gay men as Scoutmasters, school teachers, Sunday school leaders and other places where children are found. \n\nMy Federal tax dollars will be the ones that keep him locked up; that works for me. \n\nMost of my Federal tax dollars go to pay interest on the National debt, anyway.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would like to continue this discussion, but your hiding being \"SkeptiCat\", I've heard all the reason people wish not to use their real names. Oh check letters to the editior and I show up there now and again, same name I use here. Stand behind your real name, means more, it is to easy to say things and never have it come back to you personally. Have a Good Day, the snow is melting finally, each to his own view. Good Day to who ever you are he/she and to be Political Correct LGBT, this is not disrespect but respectful of today's world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You owe me a new computer screen after that last sentence. You made sense until you suggested Ben Carson was a better candidate. Ben Carson is completely unsuited for elected office. A book tour with Ann Coulter maybe, elected office........uh no. \u201cWell, my thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. It\u2019s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality. It doesn\u2019t matter what they are. They don\u2019t get to change the definition.\u201d \u2013 2013 on Fox News\u2019 Hannity\n\nHe may have been a brilliant pediatric neurosurgeon, but his grasp of the real world and oxygen breathing governance would not be his forte", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My maternal grandfather's family was Masonic, yet we got over anti-Catholicism in a big way. Anti-semetic too. Don't even mention the Irish or those German immigrants. Treat gays as our family now treats Catholics (with members marrying into the Church, even Irish Catholics) and remember how Catholics were once treated and repent of your bigotry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Circular reasoning? Prove it. I have already showed/proved in an argument without circular reasoning of 3 premises leading to the conclusion. Which is logically valid. I didn\u2019t articulate or demonstrate all homosexuals commit those acts with boys. Thus, my argument still holds. You have one last lingering attempt, that is to insult to tell you the truth. \n\nLastly, which I am happily to listen. What is the evidence/proof of investigators of these abusers (I imagine you are referring to priests who\u2019ve done these damaging/harmful effects to boys \u2013 non-adult males by definition which I referred)?\n\nFinally (I guess lastly didn\u2019t make it ;) ): \"immature...males\" doesn\u2019t makeup the definition of being a homosexual, since by definition it\u2019s referring to people with an orientation/tendency for sexual preference for those of the same gender/sex. And hence, I referred to male homosexuals in my argument, which was logically valid and held true.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "-On March 19, 2004 (Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois), Qu\u00e9bec became the third province in Canada (Ontario & B.C.) to legally perform a same-sex marriage, following a court challenge brought by Michael Hendricks and Ren\u00e9 Leboeuf in Montr\u00e9al; \n-That\u2019s lead Canada to adopt the Civil Marriage Act\u2026in 2005 (Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois). \n -On July 20, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world, and the first country outside Europe, to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act which provided a gender-neutral marriage definition.\n\nCHEERS to Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois !", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ".\n\n\"Trump bans transgender people from serving in U.S. military\"\n\n--\n\nTrump pandering to his homophobic base.\n\n.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Would like to agree with you but can't. Some institutions are different here, say health care. \n\nBut many of the same triggers apply; anti-immigration, white fear of losing power, anger, hatred of government and frankly a poorly educated, violent and authoritarian loving base. If not, the \"lock her up\" chant would not have resonated, Leitch would be laughed at for running on her version of pro Canadian values and Trost running on anti- gay marriage would face the same.\n\nIt can happen here but it needs a charismatic leader which no opposition party currently has.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sad. Children have a natural right to a mother AND a father.\nhttp://www.frc.org/issuebrief/new-study-on-homosexual-parents-tops-all-previous-research\nhttp://dailysignal.com/2015/06/16/new-york-times-ignores-children-of-gay-parents-who-want-a-mom-and-dad/\nhttp://thefederalist.com/2015/03/17/dear-gay-community-your-kids-are-hurting/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "and once again a comment from a gay, conservative (me) got deleted because it goes against the mainstream that a man can be gay and not jump on the liberal agenda. I will repeat my comment.\n\nI am a gay conservative and I wish the PM would apologize for taking money out my pocket each and every paycheck to support a liberal agenda that wants us to be dependent on the government. Don't bother about apologizing for who I sleep with. Apologize for spending my money on your liberal agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bigotry must be confronted directly; the sideshow of trying to divide us against each other must be faced and discredited: Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, every other religion, Atheist, undecided; \"black\", \"white\", brown; male, female, transgender; hetero-, homo-, and pan- sexual; \"right\", \"left\", and every other classification used to chop us up into little pieces to be conquered---These must be acknowledged and set aside in the face of our kinship as people inhabiting one planet, and our kinship to every other living thing on this planet. It's that simple.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...married couple should be forced to have children.\" All the birth control stuff mentioned here: religious-based doctrine aided and abetted by government. It went further in Quebec. Again: heavy Roman Catholic influence, church used the state to further its (no-abortion/big family) aims. \n\nThis craziness, from something called Interim, Canada's life and family newspaper: 1992: \"Quebec has its share of bad policies which hurt family life. The same accommodating attitudes toward abortion, homosexuality and secularism prevail [as in the rest of Canada.]\" \n\nThink about that. And then: \"...this province, once known for its big families, must now resort to incentives to encourage couples to have more than one or two children.\" Hilarious, because even in the (really historic) 1990s, there was no \"must now resort.\" To keep French culture alive, the Quebec government PAID people to have kids in the 1940s-1950s era of Premier Duplessis.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes. Thank you for that. It really is frustrating on both sides. I've spend years trying to get pro-lifers to be more flexible and vote pro-choice in certain situations. This is just another setback, especially if people want to be rid of Trump in 2020. Getting some Evangelical and Catholic women to vote for the Democrat might help. \n\nAnd really? The LGBT community in Toronto is upset with the police. Canadians are tres nice. I don't think that there is any issues with the cops and racism. And I would certainly want them there for security.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Phrogge,\nI'd agree. I think there should be a place for both those priests committed to celibacy, and married priests. Each will have gifts to bring to the church, and we could all benefit. I'm saddened to see so many gifts rejected by church leadership. I'm gonna guess that there's a much higher percentage of gays in the episcopacy than in society or the church in general. Odd that they feel THEY can contribute and lead, while holding others at bay? \n\nThe church has SO many who offer great wisdom, insight, experience and intuition. Our gifts are amazing. If the church is EVER to have even a chance at moving towards what I suspect Jesus may have had in mind, we're going to need ALL of those gifts, and will need to live as a true community, where we don't write people off because of their gender, their sexuality, their education, wealth, age, marital status... But UNTIL all those voices are truly brought to bear, we're so much less than we could and should be.\n\nThank you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They've made small steps to get from being \"criminals\" for how they lead their lives, to being free to love who they want, and it will be small steps that take them back to a time when sexual orientation is a crime. Trump seems to be just the one who will allow LGBT people to lose the rights they have gained. More power to them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I like democrats. They have opened up voting as opposed to restricting it like in republican states. I like the fact that we were able to be among the first to get same sex marriage. I know, we should have been the first but it sure beats being 50. Rail is being built, although poorly, but it is being built. What have republicans proposed since Nixon when he first formulated Obamacare?\n\nWhat do you think should be done to the state to improve it? Increase school vouchers? Cut the budget for education so that the rich can get tax cuts? Please be specific.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unfortunately, Humanae Vitae does refer to the inherent infertility of homosexuality in it's defense of the traditional Catholic teaching on birth control. I don't see how you can separate the two if Humanae Vitae itself equates them both as infertile sexual acts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Could not agree more and from the tone of the comments I imagine this guy comes home and treats his wife a subservient berating her at every turn. If he has not already done so I imagine he will be soon sleeping around looking for another victim to jump to.\n\nI suggest you seek counselling for you superficial traits and priorities. Also look into what part of the problem are you. Did you lose your hair 2 years in and it depressed her so much she gained 80 pounds or was it that you were \ninsufferable. Then get joint counselling...it could be as a former female athlete she may have gay tendencies and the weight is a defense measure to keep an undesirable partner away.\n\nPlease do one descent thing and that is encourage her to get counselling and if it is depression get it treated before you walkout and file for divorce.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If Trump is concerned about the medical costs for transgendered members of the Armed Forces he should just say so explicitly. He should still welcome them to join the military and state that their medical cost to transgender will not be covered by the military while they serve.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hello, Sr. Pacatte. I think Moira, who IIRC is a lesbian in the book, remains a lesbian in the Hulu series. However, in the book she's assumed to be white, whereas in the series she's black.\n\nI have been watching the show, and I thought in one of the flashback scenes June (Offred) teases Moira about taking off with a woman whose name she can't recall. However, I might have projected what I'd read in the book onto the scene.\n\nThank you for sharing the story of your poor sister in intestinal distress. It's great when women (and men, for that matter) express solidarity. Too bad we can't count on it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's amazing the lengths the left will go to banish Milo. \"He's sick.\" \"He needs help.\" They sound like the doctors in the psych wards that Solzhenitsyn spent years in.\nMilo makes lefties uncomfortable. Milo is the natural result of the left's permissive attitude toward gays and towards children. This makes lefties uncomfortable. \nBut they really fear Milo's libertarianism, a philosophy that has no use for social engineers, sjw's, and statists.\nOh, and taxation is theft.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But does it actually protect vulnerable teens???? 33% of LGBT youth have attempted suicide in comparison to 7% of youth in general. So they are a high risk group. Unless there is a direct correlation to LGBT suicide and being \"outed\" to parents are you not putting them at further risk by not having the parents know?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Confused, MSW, is the focus of this stream of consciousness Trump or Tillerson? Do hope that Senators actually do their homework and have documentation that is comprehensive and balanced when they vet Mr. Tillerson.\n\nThings you skipped over to fit your skewed viewpoint:\n\n- US state department has a long and fitful history of aligning with authoritarian leaders/dictators - some for decades e.g. Saudi Arabia, Gulf states, former Russian states\n- US history is filled with US military interventions to influence governments - Iran, Iraq, Guatemala, Cuba, Philippines, Vietnam - we could go on\n\nFact - US has also supported the Kurds - so, why condemn ExxonMobil? Russia - please investigate the actual negotiations....Tillerson did not just acquiesce to Putin; given ExxonMobil experience in Venzuela, he pushed for a pragmatic deal that did not given anything away\n\nFact - Tillerson as Boy Scout chair, pushed for gay rights/inclusion\n\nFact - ExxonMobil supports women's health (Planned Parent)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree that St John Paul and Benedict did not stem the flow although they tried to. Vatican II opened Pandora\u2019s box and once opened there was no shutting it.\nIt is also true that the world changed too. You say not an evil change but in fact the change was in an evil direction, the wholesale rejection of a prewar \u2018christian\u2019 moral consensus manifested by acceptance of abortion, sexual licence, promiscuity, homosexuality, divorce, etc. The Church could not possibly acquiesce in any rapprochement with these trends, JPII and BXVI did not compromise but neither did they oppose this culture vigorously enough, academically maybe but not evangelically.\nBy the early eighties it had become manifestly obviously that VII had not only failed in its objective of renewal but it had contributed to this failure. Retrenchment was called for but never happened, the barque was allowed to drift and I hate to say it was eventually abandoned to its fate by BXVI.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would personally like to see him call this what it is which is Islamic terrorism. Of course he, like most left-leaning politicians, are too scared to do so. I would also like him to reach out to the Mosques and Imams in Canada to educate me on how much they teaching the muslim followers about our culture in Canada and how important it is too most of us that they abide by our cultural norms which mean no Sharia, fair treatment of gay people and women as a start. I really want to know what is being said in the Mosques and being taught to young people. Are they being taught the literal values espoused by the Quran, or are they being taught that those literal values are no longer relevant.\n\nThat is a few things I would like Justin or our leaders to do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One would assume that in a legitimately objective legal system the courts (and especially a Supreme Court) must permit input from all relevant stakeholders. By deselecting LGBTQ intervenors in a case where LGBTQ rights and interests are fundamental to the matter at hand, the SCC's original position failed the test of objectivity. Imagine if the SCC were to hear and rule on an appeal application about a pipeline in northern Canada after deselecting intervenors representing aboriginal interests. It just wouldn't happen. And it shouldn't happen, just as it shouldn't in a case where LGBTQ interests as well as the legitimate right of LGBTQ citizens/residents to be protected from discrimination are at stake. This is not about special interests. It's about the right of people from a historically oppressed community to be able to protect themselves from discrimination. To shut them out of the process would have transformed the SCC into little more than a kangaroo court.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Auwe, another name change, for what? How much did it take to change the name (putting up big, bold letters)? The 'Politically Correct' at work again. Monies that could be used else where, but, then again, what else is new in Hawaii, or any where else. You have the PC in Hi and the PC in the south (those who want to remove a statue of a Confederate General [anything to do with history is now racist, according to the PC]. What's next, some PC is going to complain about King Kamehameha's statue? Don't forget about the two gays who complained about the cross at the Makakilo off ramp 'cause this is your future. Not forgetting about the Easter Cross a top of Punchbowl, still miss it to this day. Lib's are ruining this country piece by piece until you (hell, I'll be dead by then) will be living in a socialistic society. Sorry about the length of this. Have a nice day!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not sure why some consider this article to be controversial. Here are some things to consider. Can we condone violence at any one of our schools for any reason? To what extent is the school responsible for creating an environment where students take matters into their own hands? Keeping in mind these are high school students, when confronting a situation where students of approximately the same age engage in romantic activity, are they always expelled--whether same-sex or opposite-sex or do we have different standards for each? Is expelling the most constructive solution or is there a more restorative approach? Because this was not a case involving abuse of power, why was this referred to a government body? It is long past time that our denomination and its centers of education woke up to the fact that we have lesbian and gay members who are fully committed to Christ, to living responsible lives and given half a chance would avoid promiscuity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh - I get it - the change relating to gays must be what's on your mind. There have been gays in Scouting forever. The change is just dealing with reality. Is it the daily marathon of lies and tweets seeking to undercut people in and out of the administration that fits your definition of trustworthy? Cutting off health care for 22 - 32 million people is not quite helpful either. Morally straight?? Hahahaha - Trump brags about sexual assault and the GOP ignores it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A significant win in Virginia was also in store for Democrat Danica Roem. Journalist and first transgendered person to take office in Virginia. She beat out Republican Bob Marshall, an anti LGBT legislator. Marshall and his allies campaigned by running attack ads misgendering Roem and accusing her of wanting to teach kindergarteners about gender identity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bill: As I mention above, the fundamentalist Christian beliefs regarding evolution, abortion/choice, sex education/birth control and homosexuality are religious beliefs. They are \"faith based\" and, as such, are not subject to rational discussion. That's fine...it's your religion and your beliefs. However, I am strongly opposed to using tax dollars to promote religious beliefs....Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays cannot be discriminated against. They are a \"protected class of people\" who cannot be discriminated against.\n-\nBut, and this may be one of the issues, is \"offensive artwork\" \"people\"? Do \"artists\" have the right to claim that \"offensive artwork\" they are being asked to \"create\" is \"offensive artwork\" and, therefore, is not a \"protected class of people\"?\n-\nThat logical reasoning is why a Jewish baker doesn't have to decorate a Nazi cake with Nazi symbols, why a Black baker doesn't have to decorate a cake showing a man being lynched by the KKK, or a painter doesn't have to paint a painting showing Hillary with horns.\n-\nIt is wrong to discriminate against people.....but \"offensive artwork\" is not \"people\" and is not a \"protected class\" of anything.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's funny. No one needs to-be taught such things in the classroom for any sexuality. They have the Internet now. A little classroom honesty is probably a good counter-balance. Regardless, the anti-gay chorus in the Church empowers bullies who love permission and it must stop.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The March for Marriage, (NOM) the third such march, is scheduled three days before the US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that could preserve traditional marriage laws throughout the country, or impose same-sex 'marriage' in every state in the nation. Speakers and special guests attending the march include:\n\nSenator Reverend Ruben Diaz of New York\nArchbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, The Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the United States of America and The Organization of American States\nMost Reverend Joseph E. Kurtz, Archbishop of Louisville and President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops\nMost Reverend William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore\nMost Reverend John Joseph McIntyre, Titular Bishop of Bononia and Auxiliary to the Archbishop of Philadelphia\n\n Cordileone was a founder of NOM as part of his fight against Prop 8 in CA....an attempt to prevent gay's of all denominations, or none, to seek SSM...mercifully it failed!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Abp Chaput isn't saying anything new. Pope Benedict XVI said the same many times. When that happened, I said the Pope was wrong to think so and even more wrong to say so out loud. (But I happened to be in a small parish where no one was a letter-writer, so my archbishop never found out.) Back in the day, even the rather conservative group I was pastor to thought that +Chaput was in error when he ordered a pastor to remove the children of a gay couple from his parish school. Frankly, he's not that relevant at the moment. I'll find ways to preach the Gospel without mentioning his name.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In a modern Noah story the floods are made by man, both through warming and not listening- to God on where to build and not build, but we have learned pretty well how to deal with the victims, from rescue with bit helicopters to mass provision of food, water, shelter and rebuilding aid. David is all wet.\n\nI care little for either James Woods opinions on gay movies or his own relationships.\n\nSingle-payer is good if we enact a tax to pay for it. Let\u2019s start with a Public Option first. Anyone on Medicare, Obamacare and Medicaid will tell you that for a lot of people, Medicare for All is not far from Obamacare unless thou make Medicare much more generous in eliminating copays and premiums. I have had all three in the past three months. With Accountable Care Organization (i.e., HMO), there is little difference aside from copays. Medicaid for All is better but not as sexy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "More censorship. But churches are entitled to believe and preach whatever they like, so long as it doesn't harm someone. I ask people to consider the harm done to gay and transgendered persons by religions over the years.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cIn a statement released April 19, the 1,200-member Ohio-based organization charged that \"the terms 'homosexual tendencies' and 'deep-seated homosexual tendencies' are ambiguous and disrespectful of the personhood\u201d\n\nThe ambiguous could be more eloquently poised with words much driven in the context of sodomy (non procreative gestures of conjugation between people of the same sex. Which obviously is the intrinsic disorder of passions.) Perhaps we should realize that those passions held for a time being then were let out on boys wherefore many/majority of those abuse crisis\u2019s have developed. Do a google search and find how many boys were abused by priests. And note why those homosexual tendencies were advanced/solidified/enacted upon with children. Go figure.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "-1995, R\u00e9al M\u00e9nard (Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, Ottawa) introduces a motion; \nrecognition of same-sex spouses. Motion defeated !;\n-1995, the Supreme Court of Canada concluded that section 15 of the Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms guarantees the right to equality implicitly protecting Canadians against discrimination based on sexual orientation;\n-1996, the Ontario Court; questioning of the definition \"spouse\" in Ontario\u2019s Family Law;\n-1998, Qu\u00e9bec; Filing of bill authorizing civil unions between same-sex (Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois);\n-1999, the Canadian Government threatens prosecution challenging 58 laws (since 1992) in relation to \"the case of spouse of the same sex\";\n-February 2000, Government of Canada introduces a bill to extend to gay couples the rights and obligations as heterosexual spouses;\n-Since June 24, 2002 (Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois), Qu\u00e9bec has had a civil union system available to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples;\n(more to come)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Again Civil Comments wants me to make a one-word all-or-nothing judgment on a comment to this article. I would prefer to say nothing than respond in such a simplistic way.\n \nMy response--I whole-heartedly agree that the violence and hatred against LGBT people should end--for the sake of the humanity of all of us. Hatred is \"not Christian\" and hatred and violence hurt the hater even more than their victims. \n(Or consider for a moment the Wall that Israel is building around itself that is becoming a prison.)\n\nOn the other hand, changing laws does not change people's hearts, as we've seen with the end of slavery in 1865 and the end of Jim Crow segregation 50 years ago. Social change is different. It's a choice each person must make within themselves and it must slowly grow and become an accepted behavior of the whole community. But also the LGBT community needs to consider that they are changing sexual boundaries--and no one has addressed this--yet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Could you cite some evidence or links to support your view that only anatomy, physiology and immunology are genuine sciences and that they support the homophobia of the Catholic Church?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fundamentalist Mormons in BC don't accept it either. As a liberal, I think two or more adults should be allowed to marry if they want to. Why should the state interfere in that? Any more than it should interfere if two gay people want to get married. In the USA, interracial marriage was illegal in many states till 1967. Same principle.\n\nWhen I lived in Brazil, divorce was extremely hard. The state used the Catholic definition of marriage. I know the (Catholic) Philippines had (or maybe has) the same problem. Which led to many men abandoning their wives, but still being legally married to them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sen Rand Paul has a replacement plan. HSA's coverage across state lines, no penalties for no insurance, etc. Murkowski is NOT a conservative if she supports planned parenthood(Go to their website, it is 95% abortion related, not hidden). She supports gay marriage and transgenders in the military. She got to the Senate because her dad appointed her out of some 30 more qualified candidates(nepotism) and then reelected by using rnc funds as a write in and being invited to debates as a write in. She got half of the dems votes from Scott McAdams by promising Alaska natives and union members promises she couldn't keep. I really don't know why she voted against repealing the uca, unaffordable care act.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The freedom to pray in peace without fear of violence or persecution is at the heart of Canadian values. Having said that, I take issue with this attack being used to push a political agenda in suggesting any and all criticism of Islam is Islamaphobic. Even in Canada, there are issues with fundamentalist/orthodox interpretations that are incompatible with Canada's freedom of expression (including religious satire), gender equality (girls of co-ed soccer team forced to sit on the bench after their pious opponents threatened to forfeit), and freedom of sexual orientation (note treatment of homosexuals in 57 members of the OIC \"there are no gays in Iran\"...). Whether it's Monty Python or Family Guy, there are no sacred cows in liberal secular societies, no religion is beyond reproach. We should be free to discuss all religions respectfully, even if the topics are uncomfortable (why are female Muslims ostracized/shamed for choosing not to wear a head covering?).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"President Obama ends his presidency with positive ratings for his overall job performance as well as his handling of the economy, according to the latest Fox News Poll. The new poll finds 57 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of him, including 40 percent who have a \u201cstrongly\u201d favorable view.\"\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/15/fox-news-poll-positive-ratings-for-president-obama-as-exits.html \n\nThere are a lot of reasons people think we're headed in the wrong direction. Trump is one of them. We elected a con man as our president, and our new first lady has appeared nude in lesbian themed soft-porn photos. As Paul Jenkins once wrote, \"that Trump could be considered seriously for president, much less nominated by a major party, could be a sign of the End Times.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The next Conservative leader will need to craft a social policy that accepts same-sex marriage and a woman\u2019s right to an abortion \u2013 because this is the law \u2013 while promoting stable families and the right of parents to raise their children as they think best.\"\n\nBernier is on record as saying he is willing to have a debate on these issues and hold a free vote. A vote that the social conservatives would lose because they don't represent the majority. That is the ultimate in democracy and par for the course for libertarians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alaska Libertarian Platform includes:\n3.2 Rights and Discrimination: Government may not discriminate based on any individual\u2019s rights. Group rights do not supersede individual rights. Yet Joe Miller supports discrimination against the rights of LGBT Alaskans to access services, housing, and an education free from fear of bullying.\n1.0 Personal Liberty: Individuals should be free to make choices for themselves and to accept responsibility for consequences for the choices they make. No individual, group, or government may initiate force against any other individual, group or government. Our support of any individual\u2019s right to make choices in life does not mean that we necessarily approve or disapprove of those choices. Government does not have the authority to define, license, or restrict personal relationships between consenting adults. Yet Joe Miller is adamantly opposed to abortion and gay marriage. \n\nJoe Miller - still the carpetbagger.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "angelo writes: \"Religious organizations who refuse to perform same-sex marriages....\"\n\nAngelo, our current law states that religious organizations are NOT obliged to perform same-sex marriages, just as they are NOT obliged to perform marriages for divorced people (some Catholic churches), and so forth. Our constitution protects freedom of religion... shocking, as that may seem!\n\nNow, if the Tories had resolved to state that a non-religious marriage commissioner could refuse to perform a same-sex marriage, then I think this could be grounds for legitimate discrimination, but let's temper all of this anti-religious zeal a bit... as the last time I checked, Canada was a free country, where one is free to choose, free to be gay, and yes, free to be religious if that's what gets them through life.\n\nProvided that the religious right is not stomping on the rights of others to co-exist, then why do certain politicians continually stomp on the rights of those who choose to be religious?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree that the notion of compromising political, civil and human rights, especially of minority persons and communities, ought to make us very uncomfortable. I think with respect to GLBTQ persons, same-sex marriage, and related issues, the following principles should be honored:\n1. No-one who disapproves of same same-sex marriage should be required to enter into one.\n2. No-one should be required to accept an invitation to attend a same sex wedding, or any other wedding.\n3. No minister should be required to officiate at a marriage that does not comport with the requirements of her or his faith community.\n4. There must be no discrimination against GLBTQ persons in accessing services of government or business.\nA related issue: it\u2019s probably time for ministers to cease functioning as agents of the state when they witness marriages. \nThe US Bishops have done a pretty thorough job of trashing the notion of religious liberty. It\u2019s time to just stop.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does calling a person a racist get them to listen and converse with you? Maybe we have to get beyond the name-calling and speak together about the sins of racism, homohatred, white supremacy, etc. Talk about how the sin doesn't just hurt another but also how it distorts our thinking in so many ways. Just a thought.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The classmate of one of my kids was disowned by his mother when he came out in high school. It was awful, and a stark reminder for my kids, about how strong discrimination can be, that it can even exist within what is supposed to be one of the strongest bonds - mother and child.\n\nHere in conservative Richmond BC, there were no gay/straight alliances or support groups in school. He had a tough time of it, and it was only though the strong support of his father, that he got through it.\n\nAlthough to this day his mother has cut off all ties, so how does a child ever get through that.\n\nYeah, tough call...but schools should not be \"outing\" kids to their parents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He did no such thing.\nHe pointed out IF Pope Francis believes that adultery \u201cis what God himself is asking\u201d of couples in \u201cirregular\u201d situations, then there is nothing stopping any other intrinsically evil acts from eventually being justified (quoting1P5.)\n\u201cIf this is truly what AL affirms, all alarm over AL\u2019s direct affirmations regarding matters of changes of sacramental discipline refer only to the peak of an iceberg, to the weak beginning of an avalanche, or to the first few buildings destroyed by a moral theological atomic bomb that threatens to tear down the whole moral edifice of the Ten Commandments and of Catholic moral teaching,\u201d Seifert wrote. (1P5)\nThis is true. Plug in any other sin into this logic: racism, defrauding your worker, contributing to climate change, etc. and what have you got? It's not pretty but there it is. If Francis doesn't intend this he can say so. \n\nWhy is this not ok but Fr Martin playing footsie with homosexual acts is?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "M103 was a motion, not a bill and not an act. How many times has that been told you already? And transgenders affect you exactly how?\nSo you're anti-muslim and anti-equality. If those things raised your ire there is NO way you voted for Trudeau last time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Roy, you always throw around these names like kim jong-un, hitler, the nazis, and so forth when talking about your arch nemesis Trump. And a new word, queendom, are you now tossing out a venomous gay type insult at the Donald? Your anger and discontent roy are going to consume you. You become more angry with every post. Good grief man, calm down and take a breath. Do you really want to be pissed off for the 4 to 8 years?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yep. The focus is only on the issue of LGBT marriage and not on the issues of prior marriages, cohabiting before marriage, have the couple received the right counselling so that they can form a valid marriage? Nothing matters but the gender of the two who want to marry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mike - As for your statement that \"Anatomy and physiology...are pretty obvious with respect to God's intentions for us\", I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly. As someone who has an undergraduate degree in Physiology and a master's degree in Theology (and an M.D. to boot), I've concluded that God intends for some people to be gay. I came to this conclusion begrudgingly, however, because there is some dissonance or lack of harmony in the idea that God would create something naturally in some people (homosexual desire) that must also be suppressed in every circumstance, bar none. One must ask, then, what is the purpose of this desire? I don't think God creates anything without a purpose. Even such natural feelings as rage and envy can have constructive purpose (i.e., fueling justice or self-improvement) if harnessed and directed correctly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree that conspiracies happen all the time. One co-worker says to another, \"Don't tell the boss I am leaving early today\" The other says, \"Don't worry, I'l l tell him you were at an off-site meeting\". That, by nature, is a conspiracy.\n\nBut Jones has been kicking around for twenty years, nothing he's predicted as \"happening\" or \"going to happen\" ever did. No gun grabbing, no FEMA camps, vaccines don't cause Autism, Michelle Obama is not a trans woman, The Bush administration did not enact martial law and take over the country, Obama didn't enact martial law and take over the country, Mexican cartels did not annex California by force of arms. Absolutely nothing he assures his listeners happened or is going to happen ever came to pass", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I don't know why it is so hard to admit that for every Mark Sanford there is an Eliot Spitzer.\"\n\nI have no trouble admitting that. \n\nMy point is that Republicans/conservatives ran around during the 1990s and 2000s claiming to be the party of morals and family values, and passing judgment on those they felt fell short. Democrats, for all their faults (of which there are many), didn't make such claims in this department. Therefore, when a Republican screws up in this department, they're going to get hammered.....and they only have themselves to blame.\n\nThere was a state legislator in North Dakota that voted against some anti-LGBT discrimination legislation a couple of years ago. As it turned out, he had a profile on a gay dating website, which he finally admitted was his after several denials (he claimed someone else put it on the site). Of course he is going to get hammered for it.\n\nIn short, it's not that Republicans are worse....it's that they PRETEND that they're morally better.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Our military is not now, nor has it ever been, an equal opportunity employer. The military rejects plenty of people for being physically unfit for duty, as well as for a multitude of other reasons, like being over weight, mentally unstable, having poor eyesight or for being flat footed, they're not fixed first, they're rejected outright! \nThe military is to be mission focused and battle ready, but as usual, the LGBTQ community expects rules and expectations to be different for them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Which Mosque in the US stoned a single woman to death for infidelity and executed a single citizen for homosexuality? What we as Americans are expected to tolerate is the freedom to worship (or to not worship) in peace without being harassed, demeaned, or to be blamed for something that has nothing to do with their religious practices. It makes as much sense as saying all Catholics are pedophiles. It is just ignorance on display. Furthermore, to say one religion is not tolerated in this country is the most un-American thing I can think of, as that type of thinking that is counter to the foundation of this country.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My parish has homosexuals striving to lead chaste lives. He would be welcome in my parish.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Sorry liberals, but taxpayer money for this country's defense has higher priorities.\"\n\nSorry, Repeat43, but there are plenty of non-liberal folks that have spoken about what an absolute hogwash policy this is.\n\n\"The statement was unclear. The Department of Defense has already decided to allow currently-serving transgender individuals to stay in the military, and many are serving honorably today. Any American who meets current medical and readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving......There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military -- regardless of their gender identity. We should all be guided by the principle that any American who wants to serve our country and is able to meet the standards should have the opportunity to do so -- and should be treated as the patriots they are.\"\n\nSen. John McCain (R-AZ); former US Navy A-4 pilot and Vietnam War POW.\n\nSome of those liberals you denigrate also served.\n\nTBC", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trans is not a mental disorder. The AMA and APA are clear on this issue. \n\nEmployers cannot discriminate based on gender identity in the state of Colorado. \n\nThe suicide rate is due to being subjected to ignorant, bigoted, and dehumanizing insults like those demonstrated by your posts. Not to mention the rampant discrimination and out right physical violence perpetrated against trans people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gushee is right about the split among evangelicals, although they have been headed that way for a while. Of course, it may simply be a transformation toward the Millennial generation, with the older conservatives having their last hurrah with Trump. Whether the anti-gay marriage crowd will be able to do anything is questionable. They could not do anything about interracial marriage either - and the religious freedom issue is likely dead at the hands of the courts (although the anti-abortionists are still trying to draw the magic court case they will never get) and the whole focus was more anti-Obama than anything else - just like the opposition to the Affordable Care Act (rather than just the taxes on the rich that fund it). If Pence were to do a Cheney on cultural issues, he would not get far. Most of these issues are constitutional law, which puts them safely (and thankfully) beyond popular opinion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Quit whining. Our PM has selfies to take, gay pride parades to attend, illegal immigrant events to glad hand and mosques to attend. And there are also details to attend to related to the tax grab of small businesses. He doesn't have time for \"old stock\" Canadians. People in the Caribbean are probably the small business crooks that JT loathes anyways. Divesity is our strength. TM", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perverts? Fact is, there are over 200 municipalities in the US alone with bylaws on the books allowing people to use the washroom corresponding to their gender. Add in several states, however many school districts, and who knows how many private businesses and, if this was going to be a problem this press would be full of hundreds, if not thousands, of cases. Instead there hasn't been a single case of a transgendered individual causing a problem in a washroom. Reality is the people at risk of assault (physical and/or sexual) are the transgendered individuals themselves. Not the general public.\n\nBut if this really were about safety you'd be lobbying to ban Sunday Schools and bible camps - after all, kids really have been assaulted in those places.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Democrats for Life act like the term \"oppose abortion\" is somehow innocuous. Like the usual Republican anti-abortionists, they rarely say what \"oppose abortion\" means. Do they want to criminalize it? If so, how? Do they want federal supremacy in equal protection and due process cases overturned so that states decide these matters, including gay marriage, legal sodomy, contraception and the rights of Catholics in the south or Latinos not to be considered whites and therefore without protection? Do they want Congress to decide the issue of when personhood begins and if so, when? If they succeed, will only abortions be punished or, in like all contract killings, women too? Are they willing to forestall criminalization and instead seek adequate incomes for parents with children (adequate according to USDA is $1000 per child per month) through tax credits? How they answer these questions determines whether the platform changes. Being vague does not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Academic extremism comes to Canada\"\n\n\nWell, that may be so, and/or it is just an opinion of a Globe and Mail \"freelancer\" \n\nOn the other hand/in the real world, far right extremism has been on a steady rise and has come to the cesspool surface in the United States and \"parts \" of Canada, bolstered/empowered by the Trump Presidential campaign and subsequent win\n\nThe amount and frequency of far right white-supremacy, anti-Semitic, homophobic, Muslim hating violent bullying has increased ten-fold in the past year, yet, it has been swept under the carpet by the right-wing across Canada and the United States, a right-wing that refuses to take responsibility for this lunatic fringe.\n\nTime to look in the mirror Ladies and Gentlemen of the \"right\"/Conservatives, time to clean up your \"house\" before pointing fingers at others\n.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The necessity of avoiding doing something wrong in order to achieve some good is not a natural law imperative. It's scriptural. So, for example, whatever one's circumstances, contraception, abortion, euthanasia, homosexual sex, adultery and fornication, judged as sin in and of itself, regardless of intention, is always wrong. \n\nNatural law is a way of understanding and explaining God's Law that isn't solely reliant on Divine revelation but is assisted by insights from creation and the application of reason and logic, based on the premise that God's is rational and His creation therefore has intelligible purpose and meaning.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fish: NOT upset at all. I just look the other way. So why should these people be afforded more protection????? \n\nExample: A couple months ago me and a couple of my Hot Rod buddies went to the Cottage Grove auto races. We got in our seats and were there for a few minutes when a couple of middle aged 20 males sat in front of us. Almost immediately they started putting their hands down each others pants, kissing etc. There were children all around that saw this. I said to them, why don't you two take your business home or elsewhere. Immediately they jumped up, started hollering vulgar words, said we are going to sue you, they went and got security. Security asked 8-10 people surrounding us if we were the problem, they all said no, that we simply asked them to go have sex elsewhere. Security asked these two Homosexuals to move and they were reluctant. I told Security, we will gladly move, and so did about 50 other spectators that were around them.........DISSCUSSTING..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This veil is about increasing demands of accommodating assertive political Islam (or Islamism) - political Islam or societies \"governed\" by Islamic law are highlighted by social regression, authoritarianism, and the subjugation of women - without exception. Just look at every country that still has the death penalty for homosexuality - it's not a coincidence. The veil is a symbol of oppression that should be opposed the same way society would be opposed to a KKK member on a bus in full white cloak. Just imagine the civil liberties association taking the same case: \"this person's white cloak is a symbol of modesty and piety, it has nothing to do with racism and bigotry\" (apparently, the fact that it does represent racism and bigotry everywhere else around the world is irrelevant - or is it?). Look at the state of individual freedoms in every single country where the niqab is common, is that the type of society Canada should \"accommodate\", because it's 2017?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One wouldn't think that a song that celebrates transgenderism, written by a noted bisexual, would be considered offensive and hateful, but here we are.\n\n(look up University of Guelph and Lou Reed/Take a Walk on the Wild Side)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You clearly do not understand the regulations of crop protection products. Would you prefer to have taxpayers fund the testing of these products? The required tests are part of the EPA requirements. If you don't trust these results then you don't trust the governement. \n\nThe Center of Food Safety has told people that the FDA could not be trusted and hence went after state labeling. After that failed, they went to the federal government. On Kauai, these groups told people that the state could not be trusted to regulate on pesticides and now they are demanding state regulation. Do people not see the problem here or are you all true believers in the CFS mantras?\n\nPeople should know that CFS isn't only in Hawaii but visiting Asia and telling those people that chemicals are causing infertility and making people gay. They are using Hawaii to spread these messages. Look at their tax forms and you'll see this is a global scheme and we are a pawn using people who don't think critically.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All I care about is keeping gay priests away from children. These theological issues are too complicated for my caveman brain.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I served on active duty in the military, and I can tell you we don't care about gender orientation or identity or who you love, we just care if you can shoot straight and complete the mission....This is actually hurting our military readiness, and I hope he reverses his decision.\"\n\nRep. Ted Lieu (D-CA); Colonel, USAF JAG Corps--Current USAF Reserves\n\n\"When my Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in Iraq, I didn't care if the American troops risking their lives to help save me were gay, straight, transgender or anything else. All that mattered was they didn't leave me behind.\" \n\nSen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Lt. Colonel, US Army (Ret.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The definitive dictionary of the English language, the OED, does not contain a single instance in which \"modern\" civilized society has included gay marriage. It does mention instances of \"group\" marriage in small, primitive societies, where all the men in a village are married to all the women. But those, as you know, are by far the exception. \n\nActually, your argument bolsters my point. It was so universally understood at the founding of the Nation that marriage meant man-woman that marriage did not need to be defined. Indeed, in most States, marriage could not have been defined so as to allow gay marriage, because until 1961, ALL 50 STATES outlawed sahdemy. Do you begin to get at least part of the point?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The mother was in denial; she wanted CAHOOTS; they weren't available; the Johnson Unit wouldn't take her son when he refused to stay; she tried to force the issue by calling the police; that is what caused this entire mess.\n\nShe then decided to sue. The Federal Judge already removed the race card she tried to play when he did his Summary Judgment ruling. (And he is hardly a right-wing nut job! He's the one who ruled in favor of gay marriage here in Oregon.)\n\nNow all she has left is a too-much-force argument.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. (I presume) Kennedy poses an interesting question. To continue such an inquiry one must then ask: how does a heterosexual couple say that \"they are pregnant\"? On a related note: I _have_ felt for a long time that God was transgender. Good one AKBen!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since when is being trans gendered a sin?\n\nThere are no laws against same-sex marriage in the US anymore. That ship has sailed, sister...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\" . . . far right white-supremacy, anti-Semitic, homophobic, Muslim hating violent bullying . . . \" \n\nThis is what leftists do. Anyone who expresses any thought not aligned with theirs, anyone who promotes fiscal conservatism for example, is tarred with the level of hatred and vitriol expressed by the writer. Think your government should have a balanced budget? Why you're just another far right white-supremacist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, Muslim hating, violent, bullying Conservative. \n\nWhat happens? The person with conservative views just shuts up, withdraws from debate. Why be abused? Until they get into the ballot box. Then they strike back, and they might strike back far too fiercely as we have seen in the US election. \n\nLeftists with their extreme bullying and political correctness are their own worst enemies in having their agenda advanced now. They can't tolerate debate; they have no idea how people really feel, because they won't permit it to be said.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Should they not pull the support of gay parades that attack all things righteous in our society?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "One of the loveliest ironies of this is that according to most historians, Tchaikovsky was gay. And we know how Russia treats its gay citizens, don't we?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps the conversation could start by those of us who are the parents of gay/transgender children sharing with you the angry, vitriolic, condemnatory facebook postings, comments, and physical and social harassment that our children have suffered. It's hard to see any thing but hatred in the viciousness of these words and actions.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Gateway\", the favourite word of the moaning moralizers.\n\nI'm so old I remember when marijuana was a gateway for heroin and homosexuality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"First prove your contention that a baker has to make a kkk cake.\"\nYour reply does it for me. In my state of California gay marriage bills have been defeated on every occasion (although I have voted in favor of them). It was made legal by a Federal judge not the will of the people. Therefore the argument can be made that gay marriage is offensive to most people. Therefore the contention that the KKK are offensive to most people becomes irrelevant. Therefore if the ACLU is successful in this case, all someone would have to do when the go to this black baker (just to be evil to him) is order a cake with the Grand Cyclops of the KKK on it...claim they were gay and therefore protected and watch with incredible glee as this black business owner has to submit...under the law...to decorate this Alt-Right guys cake with this heinous image on it. It's a virtual civil rights kick right in the teeth.\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Right. Rejection, being fired if you are gay, and refusal of burial is \"love\". No, it is quite clear that the institutional Church has no love for homosexuals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So are you saying that they also should have mentioned all of the anti-LBGT judges Trump is trying to put in place? How about that one guy who calls transgender kids part of Satan's plan? Maybe you are trying to draw a line between transgender people and the rest that used to be dismissed as just a bunch of queers. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/analysis-lgbtq-advocates-sound-alarm-over-trump-s-judicial-picks-n802401", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nuns, both straight and gay, can always count on at least equal mistreatment!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for the clarification -- I was going to post it.\nI tend to think in terms of the nature of the criminal violations, rather than the speculative matter of the perpetrator's orientation. The Spacey story reminded me of my own rape. However, my rapist conveyed to me that I was a one-off, that he was straight. I can't say that mattered one way or another to me. He might have been lying or telling the truth, but the salient facts are what he did to me. He's welcome to take the matter up in therapy, but it's nothing to do with me. I also know a woman who was raped by a guy who lived and died self-identified gay. The issue in both cases, as well as with the instances of child-rape with which I am familiar, is male sexual predation. In my view, muddying matters to serve a homophobic agenda is beyond un-helpful, it is actually damaging, tacitly suggesting that raping women and girls is more Godly. \n\nI sincerely hope we see a bunch of men go to prison for this stuff.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "First sentence, \"Transgender models are all the rage now. \" begets the question, 'All the rage with whom?'\n\nAmerica, in general, could not give a whit about Trans-ies (or whatever the accepted nickname). Hollywood, the land of sexual obsession, perversion and assault, is naturally obsessed with Transexuals. For Hollywood, Sex is the Raison d'etre. No so much for anyone else.\n\nAs for Playboy featuring a She-He (He-She?) on the cover, they are trying to transition from a Heterosexual to a Homosexual magazine. Let them. No one cares much about Playboy anymore, either.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The PC media needs to stop protecting the gay community from criticism. To any open-minded observer, the gay male life-choice is unnatural and unhealthy, and has created a national health crisis.\n\nIn 2015, 81.7% of the reported male syphilis cases where sex of sex partner was known were among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Available surveillance data indicate that an average of half of MSM who have syphilis are also infected with HIV.\n\nSmokers get nailed to the cross constantly for irresponsible choices..... why not gay males?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So the transgender troops expect the military (meaning taxpayers) to pay for their conversion surgery.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, I don't like \"Courage\". The reason I don't like it is that it promotes self-hatred in homosexuals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I wouldn't want to be expected to take orders from a transgender dude/lady. If they can't make up their mind on that stuff, will they be capable of big decisions?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, the biblical view is rooted in Genesis 1: \"Male and female [God] created them.\" Jesus re-affirms this truth: \"Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female.\" Thus, there is an intrinsic, sexual complementarity between man and woman, which homosexual activity and transgenderism violate. The Levitical prohibition, while real, is actually subsidiary to the creation mandate. And you definitely cannot equate sodomy with eating unclean meat; the latter is part of the ceremonial law, done away with by the Gospel. The former is part of the moral law, which is never abrogated. \n\nCan you even tell me what natural law is? \n\nAnd your resort to ridicule actually betrays the weakness of your argument.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I believe that life has enough problems without the government sticking its nose in other people's business. Discrimination is discrimination and gays and transgenders have enough to deal with without the government making their lives more difficult. \n\nTrump is wrong on this and I hope he is stopped.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "From a 'fair work place' in a very short time, became, 'marriage, adoption, 'hate crimes' special privilege, and has gone on to 'transgender toilets' that we ALL must use, or be called 'haters'. Call away then.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The US military;s own cost analyses has pegged the Trans Gender cost at 2-8 million out of a 600 Billion dollar budget. Now Trump's fiasco is going to cost them much much more than 2-8 million in lawsuits. The man is a complete failure and idiot and the people that continue to support him have no brains whatsoever.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Because I don't buy-in to the redefinition of things that the propagandists feed the public through the media. When we call homosexual sodomy \"sex,\" we are saying it is the same as the act by which the human species is propagated.\n\nThe act of sodomy is generally not fit for public discussion, so the homosexualists soft-soaped it by calling it \"sex.\" No one here likes the term \"sodomy,\" even homosexuals, because it calls attention to the acts that the Church labels as disordered and the general public finds offensive and abhorrent (with the PC caveat, \"Not that there's anything wrong with that\")\n\nRedefining words and acts is a means of hiding or rationalizing sin.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "But that is NOT basic training in the Army Patrick. Huge difference. BTW I am not a fan of Trump and I'm not a \"right winger.\" A tad judgmental on your part. We have separate facilities in the military for men and women, we can't have separate facilities for two different brands of \"trans.\" That is utterly ridiculous. BTW I'm betting you have never served.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sure. Why let facts and reason get in the way? It's always better to argue a case from a platform of complete ignorance. Just ignore the fact that transgender people have served for decades. Why think?\n\nLet me guess .... you're a Trump voter?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I left Christianity behind several years ago because I could no longer stand the hatred they display toward gay and transgender people. There is a marvelous book called \"Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity by Bruce Bawer. It was instrumental in changing my entire world view toward not only Christianity, but religion in general. Life on this planet is tough enough without dragging people down in the name of whatever god you worship. Why anyone needs to force their belief in a Supreme Being on the rest of us is beyond my comprehension. Keep your religion in your heart, mind, and home and leave it out of the rest of the world. Otherwise, you are no better than those terrorists you hate and fear so much.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am a catholic and I can\u00b4t stand this holy lying, falseness, hypocrisy any longer. Let\u00b4s ordain women, men, married, single, widowed, heterosexual, homosexual but mature and responsible people. Stop call priests \"Father\"! It is ridiculous. A father who makes his children call him \"uncle\" is a rogue. And an institution that covers this practice is no church at all. \nWhy do I not hear of this kind of problems from my protestant brothers and sisters in my country? There is something wrong not only with weak individuals but with the entire ecclesiastical structure, with its mandatory celibacy. Pope Francis - do something!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, Klastri, I do not know the dollar amount spent on programs for acceptance indoctrination or to reconfigure facilities to accommodate transsexuals, but there have been enough stories about them to tell anyone who uses common sense, anyone, that it has cost the military services a lot of money that could have been better spent on combat readiness instead of on transgender readiness.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Silly. The halal deli probably doesn't have bacon, hence you can't order it. You can order anything they make. \n\nYou can go into a gay bar and order a drink. They will serve you. If they won't you might have reason to complain.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "His nightly reading of Mein Kampf on his nightstand. His willing education by Roy Cohn, a homophobic homosexual bully and traitor and his Nazi, racist father throughout his life. His appointment of avowed Nazis onto the National Security Council. His appointment of Mad Dog Generals to lead his military's Nazi world domination agenda. His public relations mouthpieces telling the media to shut up and obey, or else with the insane inclusion of Alternative Facts to replace truth. His replacing American media in news conferences with foreign Nazi Breitbart and other Aryan Nazi publications. In other words, every aspect of his campaign, his conspiratorial Republican Nazi election, and every word out of his mouth since illegally occupying the White House. As you refuse to see the evidence filling the history and the current agendas, you are complicit and equally traitorous to the principles of human and civil rights contained in the soon-to-be hijacked Constitutional Republic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So because you had one experience of feeding hungry people with Dennis Richardson we're supposed to disregard the crazy and frankly dangerous things he has said about women like--\n\"A woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby.\" (Letter to the editor, 9/21/90). I guess Richardson has conveniently \"forgot\" about pregnancy that occurs as a result of rape, oops! I guess as a man he doesn't have to think too hard about that. \nOr how about this: \n\"How about considering the affect on both cost and recidivism for illegals who are sent to do their prison time in China...\" (Rep. Dennis Richardson's newsletter (1/21/11).\nHe also compared the legalization of gay marriage to the Virginia Tech massacre of 2007 calling both \"tragic.\" \nIn the first example he makes that same kind of presumptions about women that rapists do. In the second he proves he's anti-immigrant AND has poor English--rather ironic. Last example, just ridiculous.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'd say doing a parallel with how alcohol and tobacco were handled ...would satisfy most. Nobody will satisfy those who are against legalization....except to prove to them that it is better than what we're doing now. Canada has sent over one million people to Court....the overwhelming number of them...for our present marijuana laws. Wasted lives...police and court and corrections resources....also wasted.\nyou don't have to smoke it......OK??\nMaking recreational marijuana legal DOES NO MORE MAKE IT COMPULSORY ...THAN LEGALIZING GAY MARRIAGE ........", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Until President Trump's recent ban of transexuals serving in the military, female soldiers were being told that they would have to shower with transgenders who still have male genitalia. http://hotair.com/archives/2017/07/17/army-trains-female-soldiers-shower-women-male-genitalia/ So over time, I wouldn't bet the farm on trangenders not wanting to take a bare-naked shower in the woman's locker room.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are really hung up on this asexual thing lately!\n\nI know it is a very convenient way for you to explain what you don't understand, but this conviction and assertion that those who are not gay \"are undiagnosed Asexuals\" as you stated above is simply silly - and unsubstantiated.\n\nBest to say it is a charism you simply don't understand instead of passing off diagnoses on people you don't even know.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I agree that the problem with gays marrying is purely an indoctrination one, and one I think is stupid. It shouldn't be anyone's business but the couple's if 2 consenting adults want to be married. My point is that if it is OK for the Dems to change their views on gay marriage, then we shouldn't be hammering Trump on changing his views on abortion. I may not agree with him, I may think that he is probably doing it out of political expediency, but if he really did change his views, he may also have had what he feels is a valid reason to.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Omar is a Right Wing religious fundamentalist. There is always place in a Conservative Cabinet for that type. Reverse gay rights, abortion rights, minority rights, etc.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "On the other hand, every Muslim MP voted in favor of same-sex marriage in Germany recently. \n\nActually, do you have a source for 48% believe homosexuality should be illegal and punishable by death? I see a recent poll that says 52% believe it should be illegal, but no mention of death. I wonder how US evangelical Protestants would answer that poll, given that a recent poll showed increasing acceptance of gays, ticking up to 36% saying gays should be accepted by society. I would hope that a minority of the non-accepters would push for it to be illegal.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps it is time for the Catholic Church to become less judgmental,, less controlling of women and more tolerant. As a former Catholic all my life until 5 yrs. ago, I cannot agree to their anti- women and LGBT bigotry. I now attend an Episcopal church with a gay woman pastor . She is marvelous,, intelligent, and lovely to talk to. Catholic priests are too caught up in their own importance and afraid to get their hands dirty. Protestant churches are smaller, more welcoming and more tolerant. I have 6 children, was told my health could not take another pregnancy but my Catholic Church teaches if I got pregnant then I should die? No, the priests are not God. Priests are to serve us not put us on hard wooden benches in the church and collect our money. Just look at yourselves! Cardinals get a salary of approx. $300,000 a year and live luxuriously!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Anyone but Justine in 2019!\n\nIf you're not a transgender, refugee on welfare well, you're not welcome in Justine's tent.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Right on, I am so sick of Republican leaning White nationalist, neo nazi, anti abortion, gay hating, immigrant hating christians stand up for a president who doesn't care about them, has said that in public and the party of rich white men who only care about getting re elected whine about how this country is taking away their rights, to make america great again. The truth is, they are afraid that their beliefs and superiority will cease to exist. Perhaps, but such is growth and change, this country was built on the belief that anyone who works hard could make a good life for them regardless of their class, ethnicity and wealth.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The truth is that the Conservatives have made a campaign of harassing a group based on their sex life and how they do the deed. So to pretending that you think that someone' sex life of the LBGT community should not \"invade\" the public sector is hypocritical to say least. Adding that you think the LBGT makes poor choices has only one response, ridiculous. Are you going to protect me in the female restrooms from Lesbians? How are you going to pull that off? Form your own God Squad and stand by the doors of the nations female restrooms and ask women going in\" are you lesbian\" or are you going to profile women and if the look \"gay\" you are gong to do a citizens arrest, tazor them and zip tie up. Am I giving you ideas but you probably got that covered. Who is demanding here, not me.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The biggest issue the pope, Trump and the US episcopate agree on is \"religious liberty\" i.e. the continued ability of Catholic agencies to obstruct health care for women (in particular to victims of human trafficking and immigrants fleeing sexual brutalization), deny gay and transgender human rights and still receive gov't funding. \nDuring the press conference, the pope also talked about his \"fraternal relations\" with the anti-Semitic SSPX. \"With Msgr. Fellay I have a good rapport. I\u2019ve spoken many times\u2026\" he said. \nAlso, the tribunal he promised to address bishops who, like himself, aided and abetted sexual assaults, never happened. Instead, he created a tribunal to defend pedophile priests. \n(see entire transcript at catholicnewsagency.com)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed, two gay partners can \"become one flesh\" although many conservative folks might find that icky. Since the institutional church withholds its presence at gay marriages, that might be considered an \"in extremis\" circumstance. In any event, it is the marriage partners themselves who bestow the sacrament. Gender is a non-essential.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Canada, Sweden and Holland will be the only of 190 countries of the UN to have transgender soldiers\n.\nWhen captured by ISIS then what?\n\nPutting transgender soldiers in danger\n.\nnot very politically correct\nyou can bet ISIS will have no transgender prisons\nand no transgender washrooms", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If either buyer or seller does not wish to any contract including the cake-baking for whatever reason then they are entitled to refuse. If a buyer has right so does a seller\nIf I asked a printer to print me a large placard saying, THE BIBLE SAYS HOMOSEXUAL ACTS ARE SINFUL, which is undeniably true, and he refused, I would concede that he has every right to refuse and go elsewhere. So your inflammatory accusations are patently false as usual.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Could you run that by me again? But without the numbers. That just makes things confusing.\n\nI was failing my remedial elementary school introduction to multiplication and division math course in Ryerson's totally awesome social justice studies graduate program when it was announced all LGBTQXYZer's get an automatic 30% added to their grades because of white male oppression. They (the scum) got 30% deducted. \n\nSo how do I get your sweet job?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mind your accusation of bigotry. This blog purports to be Catholic. I have a right to assume it IS Catholic, and that it does not call its own believers bigoted. Further, I assume that when people here say I'm bigoted for opposing SSM, they're not really Catholic, because the Church condemns gay marriage as intrinsically disordered. Virtually all the world believed that marriage was for one man and one woman . . . until the sexual revolution came along. So until then, all of us, from the beginning of time, were bigots??! What a hoot.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I choose not to be gay, and I am a bad actor.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Public beheadings, corpses left hanging at intersections, mass child rape, public spectaculars such as shoot-ups of dozens of people on quiet pedestrian streets in the evening, throwing homosexuals from rooftops, mass live burials, shoving someone in a cage and then drowning him, or setting him alight.\n\nNot to mention car bombs that take down an entire city block.\n\nYou know what's needed? National service. Two years. Shut the heck up and get out into the world with real people who are different from you, and experience some real live stress. Go see some horror. Then tell us what you think about these scary, dangerous, outrageous, white supremacists.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The divorced and remarried are raging adulterers according to the magisterium. Thus, they must be fired as flying in the face of Church teachings.\n\n\"The answer, though, is not to increase the numbers of wrongs by the Church\". You seen not firing married gays as a \"wrong\". I see firing them as a far greater wrong. That's the difference between us. Unlike you, I do not take \"You shall love your neighbor as yourself\" to have an addendum of \"unless your neighbor is LGBT, in which case you should show disdain and hatred towards him or her\". That, Sir, is clearly your actual attitude, and your calling for them to be fired from their jobs is unchristian.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thats ridiculous, DV is not some boogie man crime where everyone charged is a monster preying on innocent victims who just sat there one day and then started getting hit. It's usually a couples quarrel where one person calls the police in the moment and then it starts the spiral of extreme forced prosecution by the state, during and after the person is crucified as a \"wife beater\". Statistically, lesbian couples are the most violent towards each other and men don't call the police on their wives and girlfriends. DV cases should result in counseling.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Francis uses the term \"gay\" quite comfortably ... are you suggesting that he's a homosexual activist?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is another reason we are leaving this state after living here for almost 50 years. This libtard agenda with the love of the gays has actually RUINED what this great state WAS... A bunch of hard working people, more concerned with their FAMILY VALUES than makin a political statement like this. So DISGUSTING... Less than 3% of the nation claims to be gay or gender benders.. that does not make up the majority of the people who LIVE HERE. I'm tired of MY WAY OF LIFE suffering, my kids, and my grandkids.... Do you know, in tiny town Kenai, their home Depot has a third bathroom for the ones who can't figure out what dam gender they are born into. Funny. Lived here for almost 50 yrs... Never saw a man acting like a woman needing a different bathroom. ENOUGH.. Stop feeding the WRONG WOLF and wake up.. Your all being manipulated by the OBAMA administration... Making YOUR NEEDS more important than mine... Gloves are off...you have crossed the line.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A rather uncalled for, nasty thing to say about me. Same-sex attraction is a heavy cross indeed despite your denials, it is something that each person with this inclination is called to resist, this cannot be easy in today's culture. I pray that you and others suffering from this affliction can find the will to resist such temptations and live out their lives according to God's will.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are you stating a fact that Fr. Martin is a homosexual BECAUSE he encourages dialogue between the hierarchy and the LGBT community? \n\nI would not invite Michael Voris to any dialogue in this area because he is hardly an \"uninterested\" party. The comments that he made/instigated about Fr. Jim Martin, M. Shawn Copeland and Rebecca Weiss were shameful. He made insinuations about the Jesuits and the Felician Sisters [who own Madonna University where Shawn Copeland was to speak] that were utterly disgusting. Voris also seems to have acquired a 'let's keep women in their place' attitude. \n\nThe LGBT community was told FIRST by the Catholic hierarchy that homosexuals they are \"objectively disordered\". There was NO attempt made by the hierarchy to do any biological or embryonic research to back up their ridiculous comment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh they know, they just love having this as a stick to poke LGBT folks with.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah yes, Stephen Harper, friend of gays and lesbians everywhere. Wasn't he the one who voted against every gay rights bill that came before Parliament? As well as vote against bills to protect gays and lesbians from hate crimes? And opposed a trans-rights bill? And for a long time opposed same-sex marriage, calling it \"vile\"? And then tried to reopen the debate on the definition of marriage? And reduced or cut off funding to LGBT and AIDS service organizations? And failed to make even a cursory appearance at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, even though leaders of host nations generally do? And whose office did not send out any kind of press release to recognize International World Pride in Toronto, even though it sends out press releases about, oh, the tall ships regatta and Ramadan? And who had absolutely nothing to say, despite repeated questions, about the US Supreme Court decision on gay marriage?\nA decade of stealth bigotry.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Then stop firing gays who marry. That is \"malice in action\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All that matters is that 4 out of abuse of the Catholic Church's abuse cases were incidents of gay men raping boys.\n\nAll those gay priests were supposedly celibate, and we see how well those vows and the trust in those vows worked. Not at all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Church is there for all races. This liberal nonsense of making special provisions for every group that complains is tiresome. You can't have a unified Church unless the people stop looking at themselves as victims or members of a special class. You want that, go to your Black church or your \"gay\" church or any other Protestant sect that meets your requirements.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I would like to know the basis of your comparison - because to my mind, what little difference there is makes me prefer China. At least the Chinese don't lock you up for being gay and haven't made it legal to beat your wife.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I thought the idea of belittling the president at this ceremony was poorly thought out. What separates these people from most of the rest of us unimportant folks is their ego and bank accounts. Their political opinions should be kept for a different time. (though I agree with some of what was said).\nI thought the Iranians speech was interesting. She comes from a terrorist supporting non democratic nation that threatens the survival of Israel, treats non-Muslims, gays and women like garbage, yet she speaks about democracy?? Give me a break. Anyone affiliated with that countries govt. should be banished.\nIt was great seeing Mel Gibson being accepted and forgiven for being the obnoxious racist he really is. Nice to see these liberals in Hollywood can look beyond a persons behavior and accept him as one of their own. He is a pariah.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The only way LGBT lives are \"hell\" is due to the effect of the blatant bigotry on the part of this \"Prince of the Sect.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Any guy who can't get an erection should be discharged immediately. Those Viagra costs are unnecessary and huge. LOL\n\nC'mon you Trumpty Dumpty's....just admit the truth. This has nothing to do with the costs or improving the quality of the military. Heck, you voting for a draft dodger proves you don't care about defending the country. You're just anti-LGBT. Just man-up and admit it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Justin Trudeau says....\n\n\u201cFor someone to start questioning my own faith and accusing me of being a bad Catholic, is something that I really take issue with. My own personal faith is an extremely important part of who I am and the values that I try to lead with.\u201d\n\nMr. Trudeau added that neither he nor his father saw any incongruity between enshrining the rights of gays and lesbians, for example, and the tenets of Catholicism. He notes that he is personally very opposed to abortion, but still believes nobody can tell a woman what she should do with her body. - globeandmail\n\nOh dear, do liberals not know who their PM is? Or did Andrew Scheer say that?\n\nHow embarrassing. How awkward.\n\nGoing to be tough attacking someone who shares your own personal views you went on record with.\n\nUnless you're a galactic hypocrite.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Puberty blockers are not \"irreversible.\" Kids take them under medical supervision and if the kids decide they're not TG, they just stop taking them and puberty proceeds. However, if they ARE transgender, this gives them an opportunity to avoid a puberty that would be distressing for them and allows them a chance to express the gender they experience. Surgery performed in accordance with the \"standards of care\" for transgender people would only happen when the patient is old enough to give consent (so no kids) and their medical team (including mental health professionals) agree that it is appropriate. This stuff really isn't as unsupervised as many seem to think.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Just think...if it was Hilary under the bridge, she could have arranged abortions for all the pregnant nanny goats and sex-reassignment surgery for the trans-goats.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Bet you would have been one of the fathers that raped their daughters before the 1980's finally said no more. \"We're no longer going to call it just a misdemeanor.\"\nAs a person who is trans and actually knows stuff about this. You're totally wrong. Just like whole article. Literally everything in it is some kind of personal opinion with absolutly nothing backing it up.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "http://www.minddisorders.com/Py-Z/Transvestic-fetishism.html\n\n\"'The medical treatment of delusions, psychosis or emotional happiness is not surgery,' Dr. Berger stated.\"\n\nhttps://www.lifesitenews.com/news/psychiatry-expert-scientifically-there-is-no-such-thing-as-transgender\n\n\"He explained that cosmetic surgery will not change the chromosomes of a human being in that it will not make a man become a woman, capable of menstruating, ovulating, and having children, nor will it make a woman into a man, capable of generating sperm that can unite with an egg or ovum from a woman and fertilize that egg to produce a human child.\"\n\nI don't need a soldier w/ a potential for psychosis to disrupt an operation whereby other soldiers will be killed, maimed or harmed. That would be dereliction of duty.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the Supreme Court ruling against polygamy dating back to the Utah Territory needs to be reviewed based on the same criteria used for gay/lesbian marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not sure I agree social media has killed gay bars. I think gay bars were fading out 10+ years ago or more due to a societal change in stereotypes and acceptance of gays in most bars. The Detour moved from East Colfax to West Colfax years ago and eventually closed its doors.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Judging by comments here, many people feel that Trudeau went the wrong way when he equalized age of consent laws affecting gay relations downward rather than raising the age for others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We elected the first openly gay \"I \u2661 All Caucus\" in the Assembly!\n\nWe got the ex- Teachers Union President on the school board!\n\nWe are going to force landowners to pay for parks, police training centers, a park in fairview, more work on city center square park, and the firemen will get to put in LED lights with he help of the IBEW!!! All on the property owners dime!\n\nThis was a grand election for the progressive front, Berkowitz can now make the city the progressive Utopia it was meant to be!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If, as it does in Saudi Arabia and several other countries actual enforced civil law, Shariah law includes death for being a homosexual, that rape can only be proven with the testimony of four (4) male witnesses, that it also takes the testimony of two women to equal the testimony of one man, that women are forbidden to drive, that female sexual mutilation is authorized, that being stoned to death is the punishment for adultery, that a woman cannot be out in public without a male relative, etc. then Sharia law is totally incompatible with my values.\n\nIt is also in conflict with the US Constitution.\n\nIt is barbaric.\n\nAnd that law is enforced in Saudi Arabia and Iran and by ISIS. \n\nThese are 13th century barbarians and it is reflected in their legal code and beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So this is not really related to this topic but I don't have a forum anywhere else. My daughter just found out her boyfriend of 3 months is Transgender. Apparently she found out in the worst possible way for a 17 year old girl. I am upset as well. Am I being intolerant? Shouldn't someone going through this be open with someone they are entering into a romantic relationship with? I understand it is a very difficult time for someone questioning or transitioning from one gender to another. But it is no walk in the park for the rest of the kids either.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Glad to see this common sense endorsement. Oregon has suffered from one party rule for too long. Not mentioned is the fact that Richardson is a veteran. As Richardson has said, his personal views aside, the social issues (abortion and gay marriage) are now settled law and there is no going backwards. I think he has a really good chance at winning this race.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "funny how I don't feel ashamed. He announces to everyone whenever he can that he is gay, so he is out loud proud. How is it insulting to recognize what he tells the world incessantly anyway? As to the \"your kind\" comment, so what? Gays won't be having babies anytime soon. Is that an insult? Lots of people don't have kids.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, Patrick, I have an intolerance for intolerance. Btw, some of my best friends are christian. They just don't believe their beliefs tops anyone else's beliefs, like the Constitution states. Are your gay friends trying to stop gay parades or do they just not participate?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But as Ramzan Kadyrov rightly states, there are no gays in Chechnya, so offering refuge to such people is an impossibility. \n\nSo Ab, you got two Putin-stars for your contributions. I'd say go back to your Moscow flat but, alas, Vladimir probably doesn't pay you enough to afford even that, so back to the burbs. Meanwhile, you might want to work on your logical arguments, though your cut-and-paste skills are top-notch.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't mean to be to be uncivil, Mr. Jung, but truthfully you are either ignorant and would benefit from getting educated on transgender people, or you are simply bigoted and hateful. Actual numbers aren't known, but the military estimates that 15,500 transgender people are CURRENTLY serving, so likely that many, many tens of thousands have served. I'd say we'd know if they weren't qualified or were a problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "R.I.P.\n\n\"Let the dead bury the dead and the living lead a gay [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_(disambiguation)] life\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Then by your own logic males who identify as women should compete with males since they better fit within male times/speeds/etc (er, because they are MALE). Without testosterone you don't have male strength? Nonsense. The skeletal structure and size of males alone gives them an advantage. Any male who has lived beyond 11 has this advantage of puberty. Testosterone has done the job already even if you stop taking testosterone. \n\nAnd there are are studies like this that show that bone density increases for males who identify as transgender. However uncomfortable that makes you. The truth is inconvenient to your religious rhetoric here. You can identify as anything you wish, but the facts of physical differences between the sexes are the very basis for males competing against each other. Had there been reason to undo this logic, it would have been undone long before males wanted to compete in women's sports. \n\nhttp://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0037/ea0037gp.10.05.htm", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Rosenblum is the same Attorney General who refused to defend the voter-passed anti-gay marriage law.\"\nBitter, are we? \nHas the world erupted into scantily clad men prancing about, oogling one another? Has there been a run on hetero divorces? Fewer children being born? Churches imploding?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"What if someone doesn't have it in their heart to serve Christians?\" With all due respect (and I mean that), this isn't a symmetrical example. He specifically said he doesn't refuse service to homosexuals. An analogous example would be, \"What if someone doesn't have it in their heart to provide a product for a church function (Christian)?\" And the truthful answer is, I am OK with that. There is a difference between refusing to take on a client for an event or action and refusing to provide services to a client, full stop. Perhaps the law will not see it that way, but there is an actual, ontological distinction to be made. What sets a dangerous precedent is setting up the law such that people who have non-violent, non-harmful beliefs about *events* and *actions* are forced either to act in such a way inconsonant with their beliefs or else close their business. This kind of policy by the left preaches conformity or punishment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LOL - the Clinton Campaign spent $1.2 billion directly vs Trump's $650 million. Almost 2:1 advantage.\n\nIt is not even alleged, if you bothered to read the article, that these fake Facebook accounts participated in direct support of any one candidate...\n\"pages spread polarizing views on topics including immigration, race and gay rights.\n\nAnother $50,000 was spent on 2,200 \"potentially politically related\" ads, likely by Russians\"\n\nThe only story of the 2016 campaign is this, the donkey party campaigned like their mascot. It should have been a slam dunk and they blew it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a guy I have no problem who is using men's washroom, but I can imagine that ladies may have an issue with it. Realistically, the percentage of trans-gendered people is so mall that you have almost a zero chance of bumping into one in a washroom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, there are many good gay priests. But due to current circumstances the bar to entry for a homosexual man has to be high. No complete ban of course, but a high bar. If he is really interested, a candidate will clear the bar. It is not about fairness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Other than the inherent hypocricy, it really doesn't matter. Personally, as I've stated before, I don't judge candidates by gender. Male, Female, Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual or Transgender is pretty irrelevant for me. What are your polices and beliefs are what I'm interested in. For Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright, sex defines their politics and that's kind of sad. Any woman is better than any man seems to be their mantra. I'm glad to see that the younger generation seems to have a more liberal attitude than these old warriors who can't forget the past.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "20 yrs ago when my daughter was born I took a yr of Women's Studies so I could understand the social issues facing her. The only man in the class, I learned that gender was something that society assigned to you; that society expected certain ROLES & behaviour (gender) from your biological assignment.\n\n -- So I strove to raise my daughter GENDER-LESS. I attempted to counter gender influences by stressing the opposite. So she received trucks as toys, tool kits & was told that Barbys were stupid. Many of her friends were boys playing with swords, hiking & tree-climbing. As a teen she fell in with the gay kids & the odds. As an adult she wants to be a man & rejects that old time feminist argument that gender is a set of social expectations and dress. Gender is a valued RIGHT!\n\n -- Today leftists & feminists insist that gender roles R a choice. Well, looks like I programmed my child to make the only choice available to s/him: the gender role that s/he was immersed in. Failed experiment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wait just a minute, Klastri. It was not more than two days ago when you said you and a group of lawyers were already working on legal challenges to Trump's ban on transgenders in the military. Why are you letting the ACLU get the jump on you? One more question, which I do not believe you will or can answer: What makes the transgender ban unconstitutional?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So they will cover same gender employees - then fire them because they are gay. I don't buy it that they have 'seen the light'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow, I am going to be more blunt.\nHe is either gay and hiding it from his mother with you as his beard, or that is NOT his mother and he already has a wife that he lives with.\nShe didn't go into details of how often they date, if he sleeps over, if she has met and interacted with the mother, or if he has a close male friend who lives in the house he bought perhaps. \nYep there are women who can delude themselves into a decade long relationship with an unavailable man of all kinds, married, gay, or just plain uninterested. Uninterested is the most benign of those choices which is the one Dave Eddie chose; but it usually something else, why uninterested? \nI place bets on his mother is actually his wife; he never sleeps over; she has never met the mother; she can only call him at work, so as not to disturb his mother of course, and the entire engagement is something she just wants to believe. Seen it!\nHe could be in the closet, but that's a smaller percentage of the population.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Hate\" has nothing to do with it Patrick. Practicality has everything to do with it. How do you accommodate a tiny minority of women who are \"transgender?\" Who do they bunk with, the boys or the girls? Who do they shower with? Conversely, If you have one transgender male, do he (and his male genitals) shower with the girls?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll bet you were first in line to decry obomba mandated transgender bathrooms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If this actually occurred as reported then this was a heinous crime and I want the perpetrator punished. BUT I can't help but wonder if there is more to the story or if it even happened the way the media breathlessly repeats the alleged \"Go back to your own country\" line said by the shooter. \n\nToo many times the legacy media will \"report\" on stories about hate crimes where the victim was gay or lesbian, racial hate crimes etc. Later on we find out (especially in the case of the gay / lesbian crimes) the whole thing was made up or the story was actually way different than what actually occurred. When the truth comes out of course those same media outlets won't report the correction or if they do, it's just a quick one time line, or in the case of the newspaper, the correction is on page A10 so hardly nobody notices.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why are you against lesbian employees getting danced around by scantily clad cheerleaders when they do well? What do you have against lesbians?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "An excellent article. A dignified gay man of integrity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It would depend on what kind of cake. \nHitle cake? No dice.\nPro-Gay marriage cake? Nope, not at all.\nA wedding cake for a gay marriage? Yes!\n\nI would like to attend a gay, white supremacist wedding, just out of curiosity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly! \"Patriotism\" is what the press is turning to \"nationalism\", as it has darker connotations. We will no longer see the word patriotism applied to any kind of conservative point of view. Homosexual is now gay, socialist is now progressive. That kind of thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Every liberal in Oregon who advocated for gay men to be boy scout leaders should be included as defendants in this lawsuit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The message is clear enough:\ntypical male homosexuals are attracted to other male adults, though maybe often younger than themselves (don't promiscuous heterosexual men prefer younger women?)\nthere is a recognised condition which makes some men feel attracted to under-age boys, and these men are not normally attracted to adult men. You might still call them homosexual because they don't go for little girls, but there is a difference and using it helps to deal with the two different cases.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Straight white people are members of at least three protected classes.\n\n1. White is pretty obvious. You can not discriminate based on a person\u2019s color.\n2. Heterosexual is a protected class just like gays.\n3. Being a male or a female, another protected class. \n\nAre you saying you are not a member of a protected class? That is literally impossible.\nThis is not rocket surgery.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"When you go from Walter Cronkite to Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, there has been a decline.\"\n\nInteresting (or perhaps not?) that MSW chose the only two openly gay men at CNN out of this long, long list of CNN media figures that includes such luminaries as Fareed Zakaria and Christiane Amanpour.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CNN_anchors#News_anchors.2C_correspondents.2C_hosts.2C_political_commentators.2C_regular_contributors_and_meteorologists", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Every group has its members who dislike people who are different. There are racists among people of colour as well as among caucasians. LGBTQ people have their prejudices too. I have been called a breeder by a gay person who I was arguing with, who was conveniently ignoring the children of her LGBTQ friends. \n\nWe need to try to understand and be respectful to people who are different from us, no matter where that difference comes from. Telling me that I am a racist and implying that you are not does not help. We likely both have biases towards people who are different.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alceste is desperate for Macron to win - or Gay Paree will never be the same", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If only I had realized you were a master doctor of the Catechism and Catholic teaching. I pry, what catechesis justifies this ground-breaking revelation that women may be ordained?\n\nOr perhaps you're a layman whom has never read the Catechism or the acts of the Magisterium, let alone even know what either of the two are.\n\nYou believe the root of the cause for the drop-off in numbers in the Church in the West being the Result of not being \"modern\" enough, despite drop-off in numbers beginning not to long after the Second Vatican Council, and the effective destruction of the church in America not to the mandate of the Council at all, but to the \"spirit of Vatican II.\" \nWere already modernizing and yet still, we continue to lose even greater numbers of Catholic brethren, as do the various protestant denominations after their attempts at modernizing failed. Despite the Episcopalian church allowing women priests, contraceptives, and gay marriage, its still losing numbers. \n\nIt doesn't work.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you admit to there being a legitimate orientation, rather than being heterosexual and having same sex attraction. That last bit of sophistry is the hierarchy's attempt to recognize people as being gay as part of their essence, in which case there is no reason to say their behavior is sinful within marriage. Gay sexuality is the norm for gay people, not asexuality (which is a different orientation).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not commenting on the content of the various quarrels you have here or on the merit of your complaints. I am simply pointing out that when you are offended, you object. I'm suggesting that you could draw on that experience to understand why our lesbian and gay sisters and brothers object when they are offended; especially when they know that the person offending them is deliberately choosing language that is intended to offend. Indeed, the offense is not so much in the language as in the full, deliberate intention to offend. This is not about political expediency. It's about respect; it's about empathy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With 325,886, 603 people in the US (three seconds ago) and \"One birth every 8 seconds and One death every 11 seconds\", one 'transgender' critter more or less is really irrelevant!\n\nhttps://www.census.gov/popclock/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Or a tweet. Many Pentagon staffers were on the edge of their seats yesterday during the nine minutes it took Trump to tweet a follow-up to his transgender 'ban' in the military, concerned he was about to announce a strike against North Korea or Iran.\n\n\"After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow......\"\n9 minutes pass\n\"....Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Um, Earth to Bill G, how do you think the NDP won the last election?\n\nOh and by the way the NDP are actually behaving like a center party.\n\nIf the right unites it means the PCs will have to move toward the wing-nuts who think that gay people need conversion therapy and women who want abortions should pay for funerals for the fetus. This is not going to be acceptable to actual reasonable and sensible Albertans.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jesuit, Holy Cross, whatever. They are both liberal and dissident so what difference does it make?\n\nYour point does not address my original point to the original poster anyway. The poster implied that Catholic universities like Ave Maria would likely not permit a pro-gay activist to speak on campus. The poster may be right. But why should they be expected to? They are a Catholic university. The Catholic Church does not condone things like gay marriage. \n\nBut my response was that the \"Catholic\" universities like Notre Dame would not permit a person to speak in defense of traditional marriage and Catholic teaching--ironically at a university that calls itself Catholic! So this idea that liberals are \"tolerant\" and \"open-minded\" of contrary viewpoints is totally absurd. I find liberals to be the most closed minded and intolerant of anyone. \n\nYou did get one thing right: the Cross is our only hope.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus died for all sinners and if homosexuality is a sin, they must be included.My views might be different than other Christians although I do not think homosexuality is natural, but for me to be heterosexual does not make me a judge on right or wrong. However the Bible says it is a sin, but what I know from God is that he has a lot of mercy for sinners. The Israelite's could for instance not eat certain foods like camel or pork. Pork because of what pigs eat and quick decay.Camels because they gave hair for clothing and transport over the dessert.Unfortunately a lot of diseases can spread through homosexuality and that might be a reason to be called a sin.Christians generally believe that God will punish you if you sin.God do not micro manage us as we all have a free will to do what we like.If we skip a traffic light, chances are good that we would be involved in an accident.That is natural law kicking in and not God.All sins in the Bible involves are things that hurt other people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And once again we run into the problem of translating meaning-laden Greek and Latin into simplistic English.\n\nThe Koine word being translated as \u201cdivorce\u201d, \u201cadultery\u201d, and so on in various translations is \u201cporneia\u201d. A direct translation is usually \u201csexual immorality\u201d but its import is much more than that. A better phrasing might be \u201csexual depravity\u201d.\n\nIt includes adultery, fornication, prostitution, homosexual relations, incest, group activities, and so on. It is a very negative word. One would not use it for the average adulterer.\n\nWhat it is describing is someone who is incapable of contracting a marriage because they cannot be monogamous.\n\nToday that would be grounds for annulment because the party could not contract a marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you are trying to spread terror among a group, whether it is women, Muslims, gay people, regular people, or any other group, then it is terrorism. Was this perp trying to terrorise Muslims, into not immigrating into Quebec? If so, that is terrorism.\n\nAlso, a terrorist can kill one person. Assassinations are also a form of terrorism. The man who killed Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 was a terrorist - he wanted to stop the peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. Godse, who killed Gandhi, was also a terrorist. He despised Gandhi for fasting to protect Muslims.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "WE NEED A TRANS-GENDER JUDGE - YES!!!!!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're quoting the Old Testament, Roy; Mr. Jones' grand poohbah made his comments LAST YEAR.\n\nFurthermore, in how many Christian nations is homosexuality still a criminal offense? Because it still is in every Islamic nation.\n\nI'm very much on record as a constant critic of Demboski, and of Christianity when warranted. But anyone still under the misconception that contemporary Christianity is anywhere near as repugnant an ideology as Islam is a propaganda drone who's never studied history or read the Quran. You very simply do not know what you're talking about.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lest anyone forget, Austin Ruse was in big trouble not so long ago for saying gay activists \"should be taken outside and shot.\" First he stood by the statement, then apologized profusely when his pocketbook was threatened. As a result of his language, he lost many of his endorsements, but somehow still is respected by Crisis and other extreme Catholics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The \"Troops of St George\" were founded because those who hate and fear gays want their sons to grow up as hate-filled as they are. It is not a personal slur to say that you are a homophobe, RD. After all, you agree with the other homophobes that demean the good name of St George by associating it with homophobia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We are talking here about sin. The parallel with interracial marriage doesn't hold, it was never a sin.\nYour use of the word 'we' (we grew up) implies that unless one agrees with 'you' (liberal, socialists) we are immature, uneducated and unfeeling, a modern form of Pahariseeism.\nCardinal Burke has nothing to do with this discussion which is solely about the sinfulness of homosexual behaviour. You are implying that his utterances are as mortally sinful as indulging in same-sex activity.\nThe slogan seems quite Christian until you describe what it really means. You liberals decide what is essential and non-essential, we agree and everything is fine after that as long as we keep quiet and leave you unencumbered in your task of secularising the Church.\nThe sin of Trivialisation?\nIf you think that the offence against God of Mortal Sin, and the loss of one's soul for all eternity is a trivial matter then I agree with you that such a trivialisation is indeed a sin, a very grave sin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, most families. Just for ducks, here's mine. Mother's first cousin was gay. On my father's side, one of my first cousin's was gay and died of AIDS. In my workplace over the years (35) I had eight gay men and ten lesbians as colleagues (they all belonged to Catholic families). Our daughter's first boyfriend was the adopted son of a lesbian couple. In my husband's family, (huge Irish Catholic group) there are quite a few gays and lesbians and nobody gets their knickers in a twist. In my parish, there are a number of gay couples, including one couple who has adopted four special needs kids. I don't go by statistics, since they often lie...I go by lived experience - many gays and lesbians to this day keep their reality private for fear of losing a job or being socially rejected...so yes, most families...and the really sad thing is when the family rejects their gay son or daughter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Classical example of a gay couple showing off their utter intolerance toward others. If the situation were reversed, the liberal Nazis and their sycophants would be crying murder. Very reflective how intolerant liberals are getting nowadays as they attacked those who refused to kowtow to their belief. For a gay couple to do this and without any sort of condemnation from any of the gay organizations out there, they got no room to complaint next time they get single out. It can be said nowadays that conservative intolerance has been far surpassed by liberal intolerance as our nation move into the intolerant stage where we are open to attack people for their beliefs, for who their parents might be (like in this article) or their lifestyle. Interesting time we live in, eh?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Falun Gong is tolerant? I think not. The founder, Li Hongzhi encourages the hatred of homosexuals who will be \"eliminated\" by \"the gods.\", the offspring of mixed race unions are \"intellectually incomplete\" or \"with an incomplete body, and commands its followers to \"stop thinking\" and continuously \"recite the Master\u2019s teachings\". It's a cult that's not much different than Scientology.\nhttp://www.asianpacificpost.com/article/3022-falun-gong-evil-anti-gay-cult.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Patrick Brown has been busy backing away from his own former anti gay rights and anti abortion statements in an attempt to make the PC's appear a more centrist party than they actually are and now the spectre of religious fundamentalism raises it's head in this prominent Conservative stronghold, thwarting his efforts. Looks like the party is determined to remain in opposition.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He's certainly not alone as a self-loathing, (formerly) closeted homosexual cleric. But I suspect he's been pretty much isolated from and by his former colleagues. Generally speaking, they're cowards -- afraid, perhaps, of guilt by association; or aware that the same fate could be out there for them. The closet is a profoundly unhealthy and dangerous way to live -- and Catholic discipline effectively demands that, as much as -- more than -- celibacy, for its gay priests.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "After the Orlando massacre, gay leaders of LGBT communities across America and in Toronto said it had nothing to do with the beautiful religion of Islam, and it was all because of Trump and the NRA. Trump identified the killer Mateen as an Islamic terrorist and that he would work to protect gays in America from it happening again, but has been vilified as homophobic for that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Straights who say that all sexual acts in a loving relationship are sinless are out of harmony with Catholic sexual morality. \n\nSo practicing gays --- who generally claim that all sexual acts in a loving relationship are sinless --- claim more sexual freedom for themselves than do Catholic heteros.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Michael, if Francis attempts to ordain women or officially admit gay men to the priesthood he'll be sharing an apartment with Benedict the following week - if he's lucky! - and the chair of Peter will receive some quick extension work in order to accommodate Burke's considerable @ss. Francis is NOT going to change these things - we are!\n\nThe best Francis can do is change the system of governance in order to facilitate a college of Cardinals which is collegial, a Synod of Bishops which is synodal and help the process of ordinary people giving shape and form to the thing which shaped and formed them, The Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wonder if you can explain how you can support western values such as women's and gays rights while also seeing Islamic values, morals and customs as fitting into the wests social fabric?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the infamous words of Hillary on the Bengazi debacle \"What difference would it make?\" Passing more laws , most of which Obama and his gang only follow when it suits their purpose anyway, only serves as yet another feel good gesture in this utopian vision that liberals put forward. Most of our largest cities with the highest murder rates have had some of the toughest gun control laws for years and we see the result in undeniable stats every day. This effort more broadly serves as cover for the pols that they are \"doing something\" in response to yet another murderous attack by a radicalized follower of Islam. It changes the focus away from the WAR we are experiencing against western values. There is a great deal more behind this refusal on the part of the left to face this fact then meets the eye. This becomes more apparent with each murderous event. Even a specific attack on a gay bar changes nothing in their reaction. That speaks volumes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your article misses the point...although I get bored with the rhetoric... it is about vulnerability. Boys, gays (broadly described...I am not a sociologist), homeless, girls, women, nuns, NGO workers' in foreign states (MSF, others) etc.....All are at risk, rarely described. The need to empower self by oppressing others...rape, domestic violence, ethnic \"cleansing\" xenophobia....all fear based, all about an environment of scarcity....there is not enough, so we need to fight. Noooooooooo, this cannot be the way. \"underlings\" need to take u their power and say NO. If enough drones rebel, we cannot lose the fight for an equitable society!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Seriously? Why don't we scrutinize the judges in unhappy marriages or who had nasty divorces because they can't be fair in domestic cases? Or judges with messed up kids can't sit on juvenile cases? Or white judges can't sit on cases involving black parties and vice versa? That makes as much sense as the nonsense you're advocating. \n\nA lawyer who used Civil Rule 42(c) just because a judge is gay would be committing malpractice, and any client with such a lawyer would be a fool not to fire that lawyer on the spot for suggesting it. And just try getting a judge to recuse himself for cause for having a \"lifestyle\" you disagree with. Good luck on that one! This is a small legal community and if lawyers started doing that, there would be few judges who would get any cases at all. \n\nAlso, \"alternative lifestyle\"?? So 1985. It's 2016 and gay people get married, have kids, etc. None of which is required for a judge to sit on any type of case at all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How does allowing gays to marry affect straight marriages?\n\nAnd you don't have to remind us that your knowledge of communism is nil. We already were quite aware. Incidentally, how does the \"traditional family\" protect from \"tyranny and Communism\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "BJ\nWe all like to cherry pick our points, but I ask, what on earth would make you think that religion or Christianity has ownership over the words or concepts \"truth and peace\" Take a look what is going on in the middle east, all internecine warfare between competing interpretations of basically the same desert religion.\nMy cherry picking would ask why you would want our children to be taught many of the things that have been occurring in religious schools in the last year. in Canada. For example, telling gay children they are inherently disordered, equating contraception to nazi principles, asking menstruating women to go to the back of the class, decline progression through religious positions of authority for anyone with two X chromosomes. \nI will run out of space before I run out of shameful religious practices occurring today in this country. \nSorry....you asked.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Religion, all religions, were created to control the masses with brainwashing false morality, and Kim has deputized herself as a pius police to enforce this fake dogma!\n\nWhatever God is, it cares about the same for gay people as it does straight people! And, the sad thing is, Kim and other self righteous white people who work in jobs that can approve or deny someone what they need to survive, are everywhere. They are playing God and not doing a very good job at it.\n\nSome of these pillars of society work in Law Enforecement, Human Resources for various companies and they decide if I will get the job based on their religious, social, political feelings!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How promising it would be If Paul Ryan + Mitch McConnell could be banished too. All four of these self-serving, arrogant men are waging warfare against regular working people, women, LGBT people, people of color, native Americans, immigrants, public school students, environmental safeguards and protections of consumers and small investors.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Holy Father Francis would have accepted the gay man's credentials, but he was against Church teaching on homosexuality and abortion, and had a husband. That's why he wasn't accepted. Mrs. Gingrich on the other hand has no impediments. Her situation in the Church is fully regularized.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The background of the contributor who saw no bullying of gays in school sounds much like mine. He says in parochial schools (which from outside the US I take to be mainly primary schools) his classmates had not even heard homosexuality was possible. In my secondary school I must have been in second year, when someone asked a teacher what the sin of Sodom was, he replied, as most people would then, \"sex between men\" and we couldn't believe or imagine it. No prejudice there, just a sign of massive ignorance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Part 1\nThe stereotype of gay man as effeminate is only partially true--it is a characteristic of some gay men. I would even hazard a guess that this stereotype is thought of by many straights as a touchstone feature of gay manhood because we more readily recognize gay men with this characteristic that we recognize gay men without this personality pattern. \n\nI will even go so far as to agree that PERHAPS effeminate gay men may be more attracted to the priesthood than other gays. My evidence is anecdotal and thus not very secure. I have noted that many men with a Roman Catholic upbringing who become Byzantine Catholic priests are effeminate gays. There is more fuss and frill in that rite to titillate those so inclined. (Weak evidence, but my attempt to grant your views maximum credence.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No Kurgan, We in the liberal church prefer to be our own rule makers. What ever is true for you is true for you, whatever is true for me is true for me. Some may call this chaos but we like it like this, don't judge us! In fact many of us do not even believe in God but that does not matter anymore, this is a new world. How boring it used to be when there was only two genders, now we have over 60! The liberal church is making such a difference in the world. All those who believe in the true Church follow God's laws but we think for ourselves! Did you know that thousands of homosexual adults are being killed by their mothers every single day? Do we ever hear about it in the secular press? No! But true Catholics only try to protect innocent children in the womb, that's not fair protecting the most vulnerable in our society who have done no wrong! Anyhow, one day you may see the light, I think you would make a good comrade!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The role of the infantry, as written in doctrine, is to 'Close with and destroy the enemy'.\n\nAny external influence that distracts from that role, and that is not somehow related to that role, and that can be avoided without negatively affecting the role, needs to be eliminated.\n\nAlthough not a fan, the Canadian Forces can experiment with Transgenderism, because, quite realistically, we're not the defenders of the free world. Whether we spend $500,000 on a sex change operation, counselling, hormone therapy and the like, or hand grenades, really doesn't matter a wit.\n\nOn the other hand, the US Military needs to be focused on the mission. If they fail, there is no other organization in the world that can defend freedom. \n\nGood call.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Francis, your favorite pope, last spring agreed that homosexual men should not be ordained to the priesthood. \nThe pope agrees with Utilitas, not you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Vatican II reiterated the binding authority of natural law, which carried over from the Old Testament.\n\nDivine law, of course, provides moral certitude.\n\nScience, and the Church, accepts that 'THE TRUTH' objectively exists, just as God objectively exists.\n\nThe opponents of natural law in the Church are primarily those who hope to, somehow, obtain endorsement of homosexual relations, accomplish the destruction of objective moral norms, and advance related objectives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A pathetic attempt to cast an event in a light that satisfies your need to divide, condemn, and cut down. Parents love their gay children. They attend. Siblings and other family members love their gay family members. They attend. LGBT-friendly churches love and nourish their LGBT members. They attend. Co-workers respect and often love the gay co-workers in their midst. They attend. Businesses hold out a hand to their LGBT customers. They attend. Whole cities have respect and pride in their gay neighbourhoods. Huge crowds attend. Love wins out, Mike, whether you like it or see it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Louis, can you please explain to me why, if God loves the sinner regardless of their 'choice', his followers regularly demonstrate such hatred towards homosexuals? Surely if god loves them, his followers should too?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"You said I supported discrimination against homosexuals and trans-gender people which I is not true.\"\n\nBut my dear Trid, it is COMPLETELY true. You have posted repeatedly that you support those who would not sell to them because they are LGBT. No, the only lie here is your lie that you do not support discrimination. In fact, you show that you support discrimination against anyone for any reason.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are no \"victims,\" here. The vast majority of actual transgender individuals (and that is NOT a lot) oppose this subject from even coming up, as documented by Dr. Jordan Peterson.\n.\nLeftists want government to forcefully coerce the public into forcing us to say certain words and accommodate mental delusions. There are numerous examples of both men and women taking advantage of silly laws which allow those of the opposite sex into restrooms for the other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"2) The issue of WO is far less related to spirituality (if at all!...) than to human decency. Discriminating against women is an insane practice that has infiltrated the Church not by Divine design but by males' need to be in power & control. It is generated by inner, hidden fear and by insecurity experienced by certain males (not all).\"\n\nCome on, George. Deal with the issue objectively without implying that anyone who advocates male headship is a \"nut job\" who needs mental treatment.\n\nYou are not \"freeing the slaves\" as you envision in your war on male headship. To use the parallel to build your case will leave some people thinking you are the \"nut job\" instead of those you accuse.\n\nBy the way, how old is Wayne Blakely? You know, the guys who is the liberator ministry for the Gays to be set free and converted? I don't question the sincerity of his efforts, but I do question his methods. It seems to be more about himself than Christ. Just my evaluation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please don't bore me with your psycho-terminology. The fact is that there was a culture created whereby controlled environmental factors prepared boys to engage in sex acts with other men. If that is child abuse, then a modern family today that raises a child in an environment that leads to their boys to engage in sex acts with other men is guilty of child abuse. What the vast majority of families try to do is \"pattern\" their children for sex with the opposite sex, but they don't realize that there are environmental factors that can prevent that patterning (apologies if I misuse your term) from being successful (e.g., absent fathers, overbearing moms, secular propaganda about homosexuality, sexualization of people in the media, etc...)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your splitting hairs --- he know he meant \"strong attraction\" --- doesn't detract from the truth of TomZ's post. And unless you have real evidence to the contrary, don't argue back that homosexual attraction isn't a \"strong attraction.\" I can only assume that a homosexual sexual attraction is as strong as a normal person's, except misdirected. Further, if it isn't a strong attraction, then what's the fuss? Why not just follow God's revealed Word in that regard --- which wouldn't be hard if the attraction isn't strong --- and get on with life. It's because the attraction is assumed to be strong that gets gays have what sympathy they do among the general public. Tell people that the attraction is only ho-hum, and there'd be little sympathy indeed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Read Scalia's dissent for the correct legal analysis. \n\nGod and Catholics support homosexuals who are tempted to engage in acts that have been forbidden by all religions and cultures for most of civilized history. The Kingdom of God awaits those who resist temptation and engage in complete unions of the species, male and female. For those who struggle with resisting, there is confession and prayer to overcome the temptation. For those who embrace their sin, there is Hell.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "why did the organizers of Pride Parade invite Black Lives Matter to march in the first place ?\nnot only march but as honoured guests\n\nthe Parade is about Gay Pride and not Black Pride - that should be a separate Parade\n\nthe organizers are as much to blame\n\ntraditionally there are few Black marchers and spectators on the sidewalk\n\nso why did Pride make BLM the honoured guests ?\n\nplay politics and got their fingers burned", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no \"mind of the Church\" independent of the head of the Church: \"sensum fidelium\" cut off from the Church's leadership is not the sense of faith.\n\nThe CDF letter to Curran, which also says he should be removed from a pontifical faculty, does so because \"you will no longer be considered suitable nor eligible to exercise the function of a professor of Catholic theology\" because \"your repeated refusal to accept what the church teaches\" on a variety of cited issues (marital indissolubility, contraception, masturbation, homosexual activity, etc.) CC was not canned for what he might have done as a sideline: he was fired because he was not a Catholic theologian in light of what was contained in his writings (and still writes), which is not Catholic moral theology.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No spin, overwhelmingly christians in this nation are the ones creating divisions between people and using their faith as a weapon in order to oppress minority groups they deem inferior. They rightly deserve the heap of blame, Prevo, Minnery and their ilk are the ones opposed to AO96 here in Anchorage and would like to see our LGBT friends and neighbors fired, evicted and denied economic services all because the wizards who interpret their magic spell book say they are bad. Religion may have served a useful purpose at some point in our past but has long since outlived its usefulness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Catholic Church IS a gerontocracy. These men are NOT grandfathers. They are old, privileged men who may show general compassion for some groups, but show no compassion for other groups (viz Paprocki's pronouncement re gays and the non-action of the Abuse Commission) and little empathy for individuals (viz the treatment of Mary Collins). And if the Pope does not think that he is old (as in \"having lived for a long time; no longer young\"), he ought to get over himself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can you provide one organization that does not exhibit at least one of your many examples listed above? According to that list even Jesus himself would be labeled a Fundamentalist since he clearly was upset with the money changers showing disrespect in his Father's Temple, which caused him to turn over their tables. (Shaming, Compliance codes, Hierarchy of bosses,) \n\nI can therefore label LGBT groups as fundamental since they bully, threaten and sue individuals such as private citizens who refuse to bake a cake for a homosexual marriage due to their religious beliefs. Apparently they believe their beliefs must be embraced by all or else.\nThe same can be said for Gender Identity groups who demand that an adult male, with a penis can use a woman's room which may be occupied by a 7 yo child at the time. If one disagrees with this belief they are bigoted, homophobic, haters. \nPlease show me wrong according to your above examples.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Go back 81/2 yrs. ago when BO stepped in because his friend got arrested. One of his worse moves ever. Not enough space to list them all. The policeman was doing is job, and frankly, I would have done the same thing. That started all the racism, gays, blm and other movements. It started with a small bush fire which is now out of control. For your info, he is doing is best but the libs wouldn't let him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We need to ask ourselves why is there still a need for a parade. Gay rights are completely and fully entrenched in today's society. We don't hold Straight Parades.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First, Desa, reading Roman literature about the Emperors is like reading the New York Times about Republican Presidents or the Dispatch about Republican legislators. Roman literature was written for the wealthy senatorial and knightly classes and reflected their beliefs and interests; ironically, most of the emperors were populists and relied on the Roman mob for their power. Consequently, there was never much love lost between the emperors and the Roman elite. If you wanted insult a Roman politician, you accused him of homosexuality and of incest with his sister(s) or mother. There is just as much evidence that Caligula was an able administrator who took on some powerful vested interests as there is that he was some sort of perverted monster, but just as today, the elite got to write the history.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "...\"I never said that the Church was responsible for the estrangement of homosexuals from the Church. \"....\n\nMaybe it is more that by the Church's perpetuation of what the Church sees as being demanded by 'Scripture' and so 'traditionally' passed on, it is the church that estranges herself from homosexuals.\n\nSame effect. Homosexuals get 'estranged'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sure. But McInnes isn't a white nationalist. \n\nIt wasn't until McInnes was assaulted by members of a group like Antifa, which are extremely violent, that he started fighting back.\n\nMcInnes was pepper sprayed and assaulted - with under-educated people calling him a Nazi and a KKK member. It is all documented on tape. He was scheduled to speak on free speech. It is a good topic. \n\nI'm sure you've seen the pictures of Antifa attacking journalists, women and African-American conservatives. They have paraded down streets promoting their militant violence. Literally saying they are at war. \n\nAnd they end up assaulting liberals like me. And fairly objective journalists like Tim Pool. Or conservative gays. \n\nFrom what I've read, McInnes' message is fight back. I don't want to see my black friends hurt by white supremacists. Or the Alt-Right. Nor do I want Antifa hitting my black friends with sticks. I'll fight back at white supremacists or leftist extremists. Self defense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't Church shop. My baptism and confirmation make me a member in full standing which entitles me to raise my voice. Indeed, the latter obligates me to do so. I am a true student of Erasmus (except I am not gay).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think the real issue here is who's really causing scandal and confusion. Leaving aside the whole debate about whether homosexual acts are intrinsically sinful in a way that heterosexual acts are not, the bishop's actions have created a far greater degree of scandal and confusion among the faithful regarding the manner in which Christians are supposed to treat all people, especially at the time of the death of a loved one. Bishop Morlino has chosen to single out gay people as being somehow uniquely sinful and scandalous, as though every human being on earth weren't sinful in some way, shape, or form. He has created a huge scandal for the church by making it seem as though only gay people are so sinful as to be uniquely deserving of horrible, humiliating treatment at the hands of the very institution that is supposed to be the single greatest agent of God's love during their greatest hour of need. If that isn't scandalous behavior, I don't know what is. The bishop needs to repent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The same old patter. Homosexuals are--uniquely among us--not tempted to sin and not called to repent? Yeah, that's a tempting message these Protestant groups are offering. Come as you are and stay as you are. Don't aim to be better. Christ without a cross came to redeem you who are without sin.\n\nThis is just what St Paul was warning against in the second letter to the Corinthians, another gospel and a different Christ.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The issues is \"Should adults have the right to enter into contracts with a school that requests certain conduct in line with the social standards of the school?\" The rule is universal with one exception. Anyone is free to agree or leave. I say yes. I am gay, but the actions of the LGBT justice warriors are an attack on free choice, as they try to force their own biased choice on others. Would they go after Muslim Islamic schools that actually teach homosexuals should be killed because they offend Allah (as happened in Orlando)? No certainly not. That would be called Islamophobic, even by the LGBT community. Christians, though, are easy targets. This enters the realm of persecution rather than equal rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The comment to which I am replying (by Aint Carrol) makes me wonder why you have to \"jump through hoops\" to finally have your comment posted. \"The excellent Psychology Department that she destroyed\"? I don't see what use screening was... in the final analogy. President Knight did not destroy the psychology department at Pacific Union College. She sought to safeguard the department from teaching things that are contradictory to SDA beliefs: \n1. Atheism.... Which ain't got nothing to do with Psychology; making me wonder why Ryan Bell was invited in the first place.\n2. Homosexuality.... Club sponsored by a Psych. Dept. faculty member. WO opponents are very quick to try and use perceived SDA Fundamental Belief violations (FB #14) to substantiate WO. Hence, they should know that we clearly don't believe in Gay Marriage or Homosexuality.\n\nAny \"destroying of the Psych. Dept. at PUC came from professors standing up for fellow professors; instead of standing for God!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With a lot of these so called civil rights advancements we just end up creating another imaginary disenfranchised group for lawyers and politicians to get excited about. Transgender is the latest, we will spend millions on this and then after something else will come along. It's all quite silly and wasteful. Why can't politicians just pave our roads. Nothing has proved more effective than raising a child than a traditional family and nothing ever well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Forced internment camps for an \"undesirable\" group of American citizens who haven't broken any laws -- didn't we already do that during WWII (to Japanese-Americans), while Germany was doing the same to Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled? Those were not exactly the proudest moments in world history....\n\nIsn't it better to defend freedom and equality for all? Any of us could be part of the next social group that's \"rounded up\"...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "they have always had a secret and at times not so secret admiration of Putin and loved all the things he made happen over in Russia with his hatred of gays and his giving the control of morality in Russia pretty much to the Patriarch. Even though that would not work out well for any of them were they try to set up camp in Russia. They see Putin as a strong ruler who is making Russia \"great\" again, although in reality things are probably not much different now than they were under communism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bustos is \"free from the expectations normally associated with political ascendancies.\" Oh, okay. This may be way off base but can she change the name of their party? Can she improve their values? Forget the transsexual bathrooms, the abortions, gay marriages? Can she bring them back to morality?? To employment? To committed parents--a mom and a dad--where children can be raised with love and respect? Oh, okay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "....its not cool to beat up, kill, or oppress people. It IS totally OK, even necessary, to criticise bad ideas contained in religion - such as islam's idea that it is OK to oppress women, gays, apostates, and blasphemers, which are ideas basic to sharia under all of the fiqhs including Jafari. It is also OK to criticise these bad ideas when they occur in Xianity, Judaism or wherever. It is not OK to disrespect persons, but this does not give their bad ideas immunity. oh yes...and branding anyone who disagrees with you as a Breitbart at-right type is very uncool.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "YOU choose not to accept transgendered people. I choose to love them, as Christ called on me to do.\n\nKick transgendered people out -- which is what the \"Cardinal Newman Society\" calls for -- is showing fear and loathing of our LGBT brothers and sisters. Applauding this homophobia does not speak well of one's claim to be Christian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder how long it will take her to justify her bad numbers because she is a woman and and a lesbian and that's why she isn't liked.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So i ask what was the faith and party of the PM's that legalized gay life and same sex marriage?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I point out Purg generalizes all gay men from the odious Milo, and my comment gets voted down? What the heck, readers.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "EdmondL,\n\"He excites a lot of morons by abusing free speech principles to be beyond the pale offensive and thereby make money\"\nIn other words some one like Maddona, Meryl Streep, 'funny man\" John Oliver, and 90% of Hollywood entertainers and celebrities. What do you say?\nOr the fact that a bright,gay man who happens to support the enemy of the left, brings bad feelings with that sector of society.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I was agreeing with what you said up until the comments about him being a terrible man and Christian. This man just might give lots of free cake to homeless people. He might donate a bunch of time to service organizations. He also might set trip wires in the old folks home. None of this is covered in the article, yet you call him a terrible man because he refused to bake a gay couple a cake.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, the very one's that like to practice sodomy in the privacy of their bedroom but deny it to gay couples. Tee hee.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh yes, punishing a priest who merely wants to open a dialogue about the role of gay people in the church is EXACTLY like punishing serial child molesters. Go away, why don't you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why do you think God created them male and female if His intention was for two men to engage in sodomy? God did not create homosexuals; anatomy and physiology make it clear what God created and what he intended for them. With few exceptions we are all designed heterosexual, each of us having anatomy designed to unite with the anatomy of the other sex.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In the end, Canada will be a much better nation for it's Subjects as a result of this. This new deal will force the Canadian economy to disengage permanently from it's current Euro-like socialist command economy. Wages will drop. Prices will drop. Regulations will be eliminated wholesale. Trade unions will be decimated. Social spending will diminish greatly. The cost of living will drop. Taxes will drop. Socialist engineering will become an unwelcome and detrimentally expensive folly. Canada will finally become competitive and will go back to work and maintain it's rightful place as America's #1 ally. Canada will develop some economic muscle like it had in generations past before it all went Euroweenie gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Many Blacks do not like the way the gay movement have moved in on their struggle. I wouldn't know but I wouldn't presume to equate the two movements.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lynn - I found the referenced article from 2002. Coleridge was incredibly childish and insulting. And, he has not always been as clear and articulate as I am sure he wished to be - consider his recent comments on the gay marriage vote.\n\nBut, he is saying some of the right things now, reaching outside the box for a way to bring the Church into the world of today. I think he goes much further than Pell ever would have and I have to wonder if he doesn't scare the pants off of some of the other Pell-like bishops. He talks as if the Vatican is going along with his views about bringing more women and lay people into governance. Maybe they are just waiting to see if something really comes out of this that they can accept. Putting lay people into governance is going to upset a lot of apple carts.\n\nStill, he at least is thinking outside the box of rules and tradition the Church seems so stuck on. If not Coleridge, then who? Is there hope for the Catholic Church there?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Which was the most helpful piece about this article. When she explained why Islam is misogynistic for forcing women to cover themselves or that it treats women as property or was it when she explained while it condones throwing gays off buildings as punishment? Do tell which was most useful to you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You would bring that up. And really, he's only abusive if they're pregnant or gay or Muslims or from a country where there's been terrorism, supposedly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That is simply incorrect. The notion that violence against homosexuals should not be surprising is based on the fact that SOME PEOPLE will believe that it is deserving. Yes, such beliefs in THOSE PEOPLE are despicable, but you extend your ire to those who would simply acknowledge that these people exist!\nWe have seen police officers tried for killing minority citizens. The local mayor may warn the community that rioting and looting might ensue when the verdict is announced. If the officer is acquitted and rioting and looting do occur, do you believe that the mayor has endorsed it and he/she would cheer it as appropriate? Your logic above suggests that you would find that mayor to be despicable!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "if this man had any cojones he'd walk down the streets with sophie in full hijab\n\nhe shows up at solidarity events where the votes are an easy win like gay pride parades\n\nnow let us see him do the tough stuff", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think the transgender issues could be greatly simplified by simply testing for fecundity:\n\nIf one's body produces sperm or xy....= assign male gender\nIf one's body produces egg or xx = assign female gender\n\nThis rules out all of the very rare hermaphrodites, since no single hermaphodite produces functioning egg AND sperm..or xx AND xy.\n\nSo that will narrow down the pool of issues considerable. The goal is to simplify the pool by operational criteria, not feelings. \n\nThen tell the \"I produce x but feel like y\" people that they are what they produce, and that's how our society is going to work. Go get an operation on your own dime that allows you to produce the other..and when we verify it, we'll change your legal designation.\"\n\nAnd for those totally (totally) neutral/neutered/infertile..let them pick any label they want.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "May his time in purgatory be spent learning to love all god's people, including the gay ones.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The worst thing Christians will do to same sex couples is not bake them a wedding cake. Muslims stone gays to death or toss them from tall building AND not bake them a weeding cake. But we are supposed to believe Muslims have a higher moral code.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Of course, I don't really want to see anything remotely like what I described in my post; but I wonder what in the world any priest or bishop who supports this nonsense really thinks should happen in response to the relentlessly hypocritical \"instruction.\" I do think that any bishop who claims or pretends to be implementing the directive can fairly be asked whether he is a homosexual or whether there are any homosexuals among his clergy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why don't you all just leave the Catholic Church and stop attacking the Church from within!! Face it, you hate being told how to live, which the Church demands of us, but only for our ultimate happiness. \nYou are termites that slowly chew away at the foundation of our Faith. Go join the Luterans or Anglicans with all their messed up gay clergy and ideas.....!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "how many times do i have to remind progressive leftist\n\nrefugee means you are fleeing persecution\nyou are a political dissident, or prisoner\nor fleeing gay persecution etc\n\nnot every economic migrant is a refugee\n\nwhy are leftists so easily fooled and naive", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, ok. So the if the gas guy had to pump gas for that gay man, he should be able to refuse that, right?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That's the point I am making. Equating the extermination of tens of millions of minorities including homosexuals with the harassment of homosexual is Russia is outrageous . What next, the imprisonment of suffragets is equivalent to the holocaust .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The intent of these kinds of things is to get people 'feelin' funny' while contemplating other peoples' privates in order to make money. Nothing sells like sex, especially sex that has been characterized as nasty and evil. It puts people in pews and keeps them entertained and reaching for their wallets. It's also invasive, rude, childish, delusional and disrespectful to spend so much time thinking about the sex lives and genitals of other people without just cause i.e. you are their doctor or partner. At a basic level these creeps are afraid of being confused - that they might confuse a gay man for a straight man or a trans woman for a 'real' woman and that might lead to actually experiencing some of them funny feelings. Your momentary confusion and uncomfortable feelings don't turmp other people's basic rights. Get over yourself and get your head out of other people's underwear. Practice real modesty and respect.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Let me understand.....It would be OK for the White Supremacists/White Nationalists to protest the removal of the Confederate leaders' statues. However, it was not OK for there to be a counter-protest. It those damned anti-White Supremacy folks had just stayed away everything would have been fine. Good point. The same can be said for suffragettes, the same can be said for the Civil Rights marches, the same can be said for gay-rights marches and protests......just be quiet or, preferably, stay away. \n\n BTW: You mention the anti-White Supremacy activists \"folks are so small in number they have to come from all around the country to gather in any significant numbers.\" You did notice the young man who drove his car into the anti-White Supremacy group was from Ohio, didn't you. I have attended rallies and marches supporting civil rights issues in the past. Could you be helpful and define for me just how far I can travel to such an event without offending you. Thanks, Gary Crum", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I do find it disturbing that Lane County's only Lesbian judge is being targeted like this.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Talk about a bunch of lies and garbage.... Church Militant is one of the very few religious publications that tells the truth about anything and is not in bed with the modernist leftist media. Look at what \"modernism/liberalism\" has done to the Church in the last 50 years - from homosexual priests molesting kids to millions of Catholics leaving the faith. This is one of the largest disasters in Church history and the Church closes a blind eye to it and pretends \"everything is doing fine!\" Today's RCC pushes \"social justice\" and millions of souls will perish because of it. The job of the Church is not to take care of the body, it is to take care of the soul - and they are doing a horrific job of this. Thank God for Church Militant, they tell the truth!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay Leftists in the West and Gay Palestinians\n\ndenounce Heinbecker's attack on Israel\n\nbecause in the middle east only Israel has gay rights", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And these clowns seem to CONSTANTLY engage in double think. Classic recent examples?\n\nThe conspiracy theories that Obama is secretly Muslim and secretly gay. How on Earth would that work?\n\nOr that he's secretly gay and that Michelle is transgender. If he's gay, why would he be married to a transgendered woman?\n\n\nOr another one - according the the right wing conspiracy theories in the 90s, Hillary was a radical, ball-busting man-hating mega-feminist and super-hippie Communist.\n\n\nNow she's \"Hitlery\" a neo-con warhawk that wants to start WWIII with the Russians, running child sex abuse rings out of a pizza parlor, etc...\n\n\nTalk about double think. And many of the rubes don't even notice the complete 180 on the Clinton conspiracy theories they are made to swallow on the daily.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In the US there is an 800% greater risk of being shot by fellow Black dudes than by cops. Black gays have to decide for themselves whose protecting their best interests: BLM or general society of which cops are part. Most choose the latter but they are cast aside in the hysteria of the vocal radicles who claim to speak for everybody.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "President Trump was speaking metaphorically not literally about a \"storm.\" All the great ones do this. He meant a storm like a \"tempest\" in a tea cup known as CNN which portends the firing of Jeffrey Zucker and all the gay, tranny loving, anti-white, anti-Trump reporters there as CNN becomes the new Fox News.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "75% of militant feminists, in gender studies and social activism are lesbians, but dont ever say it. They prefer to be thought of as just women along with straight women as if they all share the same goals in life. Of course they will be offended by what is actually normal social interaction. I am gay and even i don't dare compliment a lesbian on her green hair .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That study's conclusion is an extreme example of \"begging the question,\" and of how PC values deter accurate sociological study.\n\nThe JJ study says that 15 to over 50% of Catholic priests are gay.\n\nBut at the same time, the study is alleging that the thousands of cases of priests raping boys had nothing to do with \"gay\" men.\n\nWhat we have here is a deep reluctance to admit the truth -- homosexual priests were the cause of the sex abuse scandal.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It seems that discrimination is only okay if someone is gay, according to Minnery. And that's because it's a \"choice\". Who cares if it is? Who are they hurting if it is a choice? The ones I know all say they didn't choose to be gay, and most of them (and their families) knew they were gay or trans before puberty. The \"gay repair therapy\" was proven useless long ago and one of them even admitted they were a bunch of frauds. How can someone persecute a small child for something they have no control over? Minnery is a monster if he hates gay/trans kids that much. He reminds me of that Fred Phelps guy, just without the signs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Get the hell off of my beach!\" ~ Abigail Kawananakoa to a Hawaiian fisherman. This is how I think of her -- a spoiled, arrogant brat of privilege who led a life of debauchery, financed Iolani Palace restoration because, after all, it was her Princess House. I say debauchery not because she was gay, but because she had many lovers and used her money to chum them. Kills me to see our Hawaiian people fawning over her, so impressed they are with her money and faux title. Disgusting. Could care less about her sleazy life.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My favorite bible story is the one where Jesus took the five loaves and two fish and told his disciples to feed the 5000 except of course the ones who were gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry, progressives. Gay jokes are never OK, even when you\u2019re bashing Trump - nationalpost\n\nComedy is an effective means of protesting the new administration. But these particular jokes rest on homophobic assumptions. The supposed humour in sexual jokes about Trump and Putin lie in the jokes\u2019, well \u2026 gayness. Suggesting that two putative straight men might be romantically or sexually involved is extra funny: it emasculates them, subjecting them to ridicule and derision. Imagine if Colbert suggested that another Putin ally, Marine Le Pen, is good only for sexual acts, or joked about a romance between Trump and Le Pen: such jokes would likely be (rightly) criticized as both misogynistic and humourless.\n\n--------------\n\nThe irony is, \"progressive\" snowflakes are the first ones to shout down any criticism and run for their safe spaces, lest they be triggered, but are perfectly ok using homophobic humour to make their point.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Don't confuse a meaningless reaction geared for public consumption. The resolution adopted on Friday at the U.N. changes nothing on the ground between Israel and the Palestinians and likely will be all but ignored by the incoming Trump administration. Last time anyone looked, the Palis were still sucking on sand and rubble, still with the lowest standard of living, still throwing rocks at steel, still engaged in honor killings of wives and daughters, still engaging in female genital mutilation, still torturing and murdering gays, still stabbing innocent Israelis, still.... What a wonderful culture.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Emmett, as you will know, many of these young spiritual automatons who go into priesthood in love with clericalism actually DO wake up after twenty or so years. They suddenly realise that they have been duped and go off to get married or live with their gay lovers..... leaving a trail of destruction and empty parishes behind them.\n\nThere is nothing worse than being subjected to a 24 year old, on whom the chrism is not yet dry, pontificating from a pulpit to a group of parishioners on matters he knows absolutely nothing about.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"but it was one attack carried out by 10 men.\"\n\n....who were directly supported by a country that harbors and funds two of the largest Islamic terror organizations in the world.......in an organization led by a man with Islamic enterprises in 12 different countries, whose demographics overwhelmingly support Sharia Law, oppose/ want to kill homosexuals, and kill women who want to learn to read.\n\n...but close enough.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Dear authors of this liberal-biased drivel, the headline should say \"Pro-Democracy\" but since journalism is dead then you wonder why I won't pay for your newspaper. Also for our friend Mr. Pivner, thanks for confirming the free internet at the library is working today. Mosques are not incompatible with western society. They are signals of conquest and oppression, (Mr. Pivner while you're there at the library look up Russell Sturgis' A-History-of-Architechture). The irony is that subaru-liberals such as Mr. Pivner thinks you should \"coexist\" with the mosques because you're racist if you are anti-mosque (Heraldnet's journalistic integrity-failing, non-biased label). You support the oppression of the mosque's founding building blocks, yet probably tell people stay out of your bedroom and be OK with what holes you'd like to poke. Don't forget moslems are \"ANTI-GAY\". (Heraldnet I hope that's a headline in your future articles\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "France's Hollande appointed a gay man who has a husband and is against the Church's teachings about homosexuality and abortion also shows how Hollande feels about the \"seat of Roman Catholicism.\"\nRight?!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So gay lives don't matter to the black lives matter crowd? Seems rude to take attention away from the main event. And why would anyone want to honor someone who confronted police with a knife?\n\nAll that said, Seattle has many parades, as do many other faraway cities. Not sure why this one warrants RG attention.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Where does Christianity call for gay men to be put to death?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Where I worked for 35 years the pay grade was set regardless of who did it. Male, female, transgender, gay trained monkey or who.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I speak as a gat man yet the Globe censors my gay opinion. The fascists are on the left, using identity politics to silence all any questions about what is going on. The spirit of Ben Levin is still alive and well at the Ministry of Education, and the school boards: get them while they are young and malleable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I'm concerned the NDP is introducing this bill at this time as a political ploy by the government to divert attention from their disastrous economic record and ever-decreasing polling numbers,\" Smith told the legislature.\n\n\nUmm, no. The NDP are introducing this now to \"out\" the \n\nNeanderthal knuckle draggers in the UPC.\n\nThink about it guys, if a gay student comes out at school, \n\nbut won't tell their parents,\n\nThere's probably a very good reason....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "PET at least legalised homosexuality which was a far greater discriminator in the law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yay DP! When you are reading this article and scroll down, the top header then reads:\n\"Trump announces ban on transgender people\u2026\"\nThe DP's vitriol for this president will continue to divide all of us with \"Less than complete\" headlines and reporting!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What exactly are you accommodating? What is it that would be logistically untenable? Transgender does not necessarily mean transitioning. Moreover there are so many roles in the military beyond combat that I am sure a capable person a find a place to help.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Animal species that are proven to have homosexual members: Chimpanzees, Flamingos, Dolphins, Snails, Vampire Bats, Sea Lions, Killer Whales, but wildlife biologists prefer to say instead of \"gay\" animals these animals are showing \"same sex attraction or behavior\" and some show exclusive interests in only one gender and have their own ways of mating with the same sex. Homosexuality exists in every single species on the planet but only homophobia is found in Humans. Animals have no free \"will\" to make such choices to be \"gay\" or not therefore these animals were simply \"born\" that way. No doubt that some of these animals species like Dolphins, Sea Lions and Killer Whales are the most protected on the planet with entire wildlife organizations devoted to fundraising millions of dollars annually to protect them. No doubt that we should do the same thing to protect the most vulnerable of our Human species from abuse and ill treatment simply because they are attracted to the same sex.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So Russia is partly to blame due to their support for Assad ..... Ok. I get the logic ..... but doesn't that mean we are partly to blame for the chaos and abuses in Libya, the oppression and abuses in Saudi Arabia, the lack of religious freedom in Qatar, the death penalty for gays in Afghanistan and the complete mess and war crimes in Yemen??\n\nIt is the selective outrage and hypocrisy that bothers me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those of us who actually know gays are not so quick to condemn them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One of the main purposes of writing is communication of a point of view. What does the \"whole gay thing\" mean? I stopped reading at that very point. Unless a writer can convey accurately a point of view, just give up. The word \"thing\" is so over used and not meaningful. Please think.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For most people against this, the issue is not transgenders. The issue is perverts pretending to be transgenders so they can go into bathrooms with members of the opposite sex, especially children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CMD: Obviously you find this a very emotional issue. I, to use your phrase, \"regurigate\" the same facts because you don't seem to understand them.. That's not my fault. \n\nI stand by my comment regarding right-wing Christian homophobes using the First Amendment in an attempt to discriminate against homosexuals. Expressing my distaste with that discrimination is hardly comparable to using the \"N-word.\" \n\nWould you be good enough to cite an incidence of someone being refused accomodations/service because they Christians. You offered a link to Shoe.com, but all I found when seeking that link were ads for shoes. Could you explain what you're talking about and supply a link which helps you do that. Thanks for the help. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you ever consider that I don't want to reveal because I'm his gay lover?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "White politicas are so afraid of being called racist, no matter how bogus the accusation, They will ruin the lives of anybody to save their own white skin. I watched some of the debate and more than one councilor said we in the gay community must atone for slavery 200 years ago, and BLM and LGBT community are one in the same.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe it will help if we think of our earth not as an oblate spheroid, but as a cylinder, closed on one end, filled about half way with water, and of ourselves not as advanced primates, but as green, short-bodied, tailless amphibians. Now relax. If you're having trouble relaxing, try concentrating on something like a transgender whistle blowing amphibian whose been transferred from a lidded cylinder into an open-topped one. Ah...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By all accounts I have read Judge was a celibate priest. If he truly was \"gay,\" he could be held up as an example of fidelity for other gay priests. But that would not require a costly and overused canonization-fest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Separation of Church and State is the bedrock of democracy. Priests, and this article of Fr. Reese, do not represent the community of Catholics- look at the comments of your readers. There is group, big in numbers that opposes the century old teaching of the Church regarding homosexuals and oppose in even sronger terms the discriminatory actions of our church agains the indviduald because of their orientation. How the LGTB community fights for indvidual rights is a separate issue on how each Catholic treats the people they come accross. The conservatives, I fear say, have not acted with the compassion our religions demands of us. The church should get out of politics and work in a small way - with humility, serving all humans.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sure uses the term \"intimate\" a lot. Sounds like they're ginning up an emotionally charged wedge issue for the next election. Gay marriage no longer is working for them. This is about political power, and ultimately money, not bathroom habits.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Learn the difference between transgendered and transvestite - the two are not the same.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But even if you change \u2018original gender\u2019 to \u2018original sex\u2019 in your article, there\u2019s still a problem. \u2018Original sex\u2019 means the sex that you were born with; but the state defines \u2018biological sex\u2019 as the sex listed on your birth certificate. And while that may seem like a minor difference, it\u2019s actually a very important one because North Carolina (along with every other state except Idaho, Ohio, Kansas, and Tennessee) allows a transgender person to change the sex listed on their birth certificate. Different states have different processes and requirements for doing so, but in North Carolina once a transgender person completes sexual reassignment surgery they can be issued a new birth certificate showing their new name and sex. So in the case of this new law the state is not barring all transgender people from using the bathroom that conforms to their gender identity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree because men and women are biologically different from the day of birth. I know lots of 5'4\" women and lots of 6'1\" men. A man, no matter how many hormones and surgeries he has will never be a woman. Jillian will be a transgendered woman. I hope she has a fine life and enjoys cycling but Jillian should not be allowed to compete in a women's sport. The current social climate is driving this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Kevin Swanson: Hurricane Harvey Is God's Judgment On Houston \nFor Having A 'Very Aggressively Pro-Homosexual Mayor'\"\nhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kevin-swanson-hurricane-harvey-is-gods-judgment-on-houston-for-having-a-very-aggressively-pro-homosexual-mayor/\n\nHere's my newest fave from the fever swamps:\nMark Taylor: Freemasons And Illuminati Are Using A Special Frequency To Change DNA And Make People Hate Trump\nhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-freemasons-and-illuminati-are-using-a-special-frequency-to-change-dna-and-make-people-hate-trump/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with President Trump on his decision to not allow transgender people to serve in the military. The military has enough problems.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about Ellen Degeneras cancelling a performance from a Christian singer on her show because she has a biblical view of homosexuality? Is it ok for Ellen to deny her this? Is it any different than a private business who chooses not to make a cake with 2 dudes on top?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe if the Democrats would stop pandering to every identifiable special interest group they would have a chance to be seen as serious people. When your message is aimed mostly at people who care about transgender bathroom access and microagressions, you are going to lose more than you gain.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"He probably saw himself as just \u201cenforcing the law\u201d (though most Colorado judges routinely waive publicity requirements for transgender people).\"\n\nThe letter writer probably considers herself \"above the law\" and entitled to have the law ignored on her behalf.....but since she didn't cite the law, I think she knows the judge was correct.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The whole idea that the public has to pay for a fertility treatment - for either homosexuals or heterosexuals - is preposterous and shows what insane society we have become. No wonder \"liberals\" is turning into a swearword.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As an atheist this does offend me. Yes I regard it as fiction, however it is extremely dangerous fiction, and establishing a tolerance for it to be favored over another group is a slippery slope.\n\nReligions have been used as tools to suppress dissent, stifle debate, control the people, and ultimately, to take away people's rights. Look at the christian-right in our own government that decries gay marriage and abortion on religious grounds. That is the type of influence that ordinances like this give to religions.\n\nChurch and State are separate in this country for a number of reasons. Government exists to carry out the will of the people, ALL the people together, not the will of one religious sect. The will of the people is for government to do its job, and as \"ACfH\" pointed out, this is a distraction from the assembly doing it's job.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(2/3)\n-1995, R\u00e9al M\u00e9nard (Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, Ottawa) \nintroduces a motion; recognition of same-sex spouses. Motion defeated !;\n-1995, the Supreme Court of Canada concluded that section 15 of the Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms guarantees the right to equality implicitly protecting Canadians against discrimination based on sexual orientation;\n-1996, the Ontario Court; questioning of the definition \"spouse\" in Ontario\u2019s Family Law;\n-1998, Qu\u00e9bec; Filing of bill authorizing civil unions between same-sex (Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois);\n-1999, the Canadian Government threatens prosecution challenging 58 laws (since 1992) in relation to \"the case of spouse of the same sex\";\n-February 2000, Government of Canada introduces a bill to extend to gay couples the rights and obligations as heterosexual spouses;", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A high % of gay men ask for a second opinion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have a question concerning Mr. DeBernardo's statement about gay orientation being a gift from God. I'm not sure what grounds exist for such a statement. I'm certain he doesn't mean that the mere existence of any sexual orientation is a gift from God. Is he saying that there are people who are gay who love God, therefore their orientation must be a gift from God? That sounds like a generalization from one's own experience. \n\nI'm not sure any sexual orientation can be said to be a gift from God. I think the gift consists in the ability to put one's sexuality at the service of God's people, not in the orientation per se. In that view, the distinction would be between people who, regardless of orientation, attempt to make their lives sacraments of God's presence and those who do not. Am I missing something?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Humans exhibit various behaviours that, while advantageous earlier in our evolutionary history, are no longer desirable, e.g. the fight-or-flight reflex that gives so many people high blood pressure in fast-paced office environments.\n In this case, it appears reasonable to assume that groups with strong self-identification and a hierarchy of males often express and reinforce their structure via regular demonstrations of sexual dominance and submission, which is often symbolic, e.g. Weinstein masturbating in front of junior females, and not necessarily heterosexual, e.g. homosexual dominance in the Nazi SS.\n\n The value in this observation is that once a group falls into this behaviour pattern, all members participate and reinforce the pattern and accept it as necessary or inevitable, even if they don't like it. Once we recognize that groups often exhibit this pattern, we can look for ways to jam the behaviour and morph it to a more appropriate group dynamic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't agree that the AUSCP statement necessarily means that a \"huge percentage\" of priests are gay. That makes as much sense as saying that supporting women's ordination means one must be female. Some people really do stand up for what they believe is right, even when it doesn't profit them personally.\n\nThat said, I have no doubt there are many gay priests and, obviously, most are closeted. But if that's the case, the reason is that they serve in an institution that still considers homosexuality an impediment to holy orders. Who can blame them for not wanting to deal with all the nonsense that would inevitably follow if they came out?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Federal Government of Canada should not be encouraging everyone to be Gay. Try sticking to Policy and Taxation. But that's what you get when you elect a Drama Queen, Justin Trudeau {DQJT}\u2122. \n\nOMG, 2019 can't soon enough.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Chelsea, could you have written \"Possible hate crime reported in Cottage Grove; vigil planned for gay man assaulted Sunday?\"\nAs already pointed out, how brutal was the assault if the victim was not injured?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "'We are not importing values.\"\n\nOf course not ! We're importing humans that HOLD values, and if those values aren't in alignment with the ones practiced in our culture, there's friction. Should we work to minimize that friction and improve the rate of adoption of our values? Should we let values in diametric opposition to those practiced here get a foothold, again? It's not like we don't have a history of bigotry, sexism and racism in our culture ... are we OK with letting those 'new vantage points' take root again?\n\n\"There is no relationship between what I infer you are talking about and immigration.\"\n\nYes, we don't measure pretty severe and significant differences around the world on topics like gender equality and tolerance for homosexuality. Not a bit!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess Trump is very afraid of the gays. He does not want to get glittered. And the backlash against the #MuslimBan has prevented him from throwing this bone to the Evangelical \"Christians\". So keep protesting.\n\n(And we are using \"Christian\" loosely. Going to Churcg learn about how Jesus wants you to be a millionaire is not Christianity.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe people can be gay outside their bedrooms, too. Just like heterosexuality doesn't end at the bedroom door.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You must be speaking of a conversation you were having with yourself, because every example in the entire discussion has involved \u201cgay\u201d people engaging in some behavior, and our discussion was specifically about a refusal to provide goods or services in furtherance of a same sex marriage to which the vendor had religious objections.\n\nI don\u2019t bully people. Nor do I picket people, boycott people, prescribe or proscribe others\u2019 religious convictions, or call people who don\u2019t see things the way I do \u201chomophobes\u201d.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The majority of Oahu residents don't want to pay any more for rail, and McDermott wants to force us to do so. Let HART build what it can with the money that it has. Let's see what that is before committing any more money for rail. McDermott is one of the leaders of the Hawaii Republican Party, which has taken positions on issues contrary to what the majority of Oahu residents. For example, the large majority favors gay marriage and the right of women to control their own bodies, but the Hawaii Republican Party is on the other side of the fence. No wonder Republicans are becoming extinct.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many parents are blinded by faith and these are the ones you have to be aware of. Parents that find out their kids are gay and then try and convert them or in some cases beat them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In 1964, the US Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The US Supreme Court upheld it as a legitimate exercise of congressional power -- citing the Commerce Clause, I believe.\nI bet that, after that SCOTUS ruling, whites opposed to serving either black people or interracial couples tried to use freedom of religion to justify their discrimination. And the US Supreme Court said \"no\".\nWhy did the current SCOTUS take this case? To create a \"gay exception\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It\u2019s easy to get caught up in the deeply flawed character of Donald Trump. We also need to recognize the policy catastrophe of this presidency. \n\nThis past week Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shielded around 800,000 young undocumented immigrants \u2013 often called Dreamers \u2013 from deportation under what\u2019s been known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.\n\nLook at other of Trump\u2019s recent policy decisions and you see the same arbitrary and unnecessary cruelty. What\u2019s the point of banning transgender people from military service? Of siding in court with a businessman who doesn\u2019t want to sell his services to gay couples? Of weakening the standard for responding to sexual violence in universities? Of banning Syrian refugees and reducing by half the number of refugees admitted to the United States?\n\nThere is no point, in terms of policy. None of these decisions makes America safer or economically stronger or fairer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But the cake is no different than any other straight wedding cake he has already made countless of in the past. Also, his morals for baking cakes seem to start, and end, with gay marriage - as he seemingly had no issues making cakes for divorced or re-married couples, which are also considered sins in the bible just as much as gay marriage is.\n\nA business open to the public should serve the public equally.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You obviously have no understanding of what gender dysphoria is, or of the transition process. You never questioned your gender because it was the same as your body. Try to imagine what it's like for someone where that isn't the case. And at that age the only changes made are to clothes, haircut, and name/pronouns. If the child changes their mind (which almost never happens with trans kids), no harm done. Also, please stop quoting McHugh, who has been disavowed by every medical association out there as a quack, including Johns Hopkins! Spreading fake news is not the best way to go about convincing people of your opinions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Canada and all countries that say they protect human rights need to pressure Russia to put an end to this violent campaign against gays. But allowing LGBT people to file for political asylum in Canada for fear of persecution in their homeland would find Canada making a pledge or promise the country absolutely cannot keep. How many LGBT individuals around the world live in fear of their lives every day? Well, assuming at at least 1% (some estimates say the figure is closer to 10%) of humans are something other than heterosexual, the small region of Chechnya alone could provide over 10,000 asylum seekers.\n\nThe plight of the LGBT community in Chechnya is indeed dire, but Canada cannot even solve this problem for Chechnya, or Mexico, India, Pakistan, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, or Somalia, etc., etc: the list of countries where it's dangerous to be gay is a long one. \n\nCanada can bring this to the UN. Who knows? Maybe the UN has time for sanctions against a country other than Israel.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't delight in what I express. It is my belief that well-funded homosexual activists - a \"lobby,\" as P. Francis might say - are relentlessly attacking the Church because of its just teaching about those with same-sex attraction and engaging in same-sex acts. \n\nThe Church is an easy target, but common sense and reason are more challenging foes. I'm not going to sit back while the Church is relentlessly attacked here and elsewhere.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since you mentioned Obama....You do realize that Obama and the Clinton's were AGAINST gay marriage, before it became politically advantageous for them to be for it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I care and so do many other folks who are opposed to discrimination of whole \"classes\" of our citizens, for whatever reason. This was an organization formed as a later part of the Civil Rights movement...the founders are famous...for their work against the Klan...(a group strongly supporting Trump) \n\nAnd I very very clearly support efforts to protect these classes of our citizens....be they black, Jewish, female, gay et al. Think God calls us to do it.\n\nI am amazed that you are not supportive of such protections too....think it's at the essence of Christianity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can we have a Pride sort of Fest for straight people? I'm definitely proud of being straight. But is pride and parades only for lgbt? Explain that to the kiddies...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fair article with couple of notable omissions:\n\nFunding issue: \nConsider socially progressive Netherlands: Funds all schools, public and charter. Moreover, religious / philosophy based schools are constitutionally protected, allowing them to deny applicants who object to the schools philosophy (which rarely happens). \n\nScience issue:\nThe 'science' is still very immature and incomplete on the subjects of gender dysphoria, homosexuality etc. As such, it is far too premature to respond to gender confused people by prescribing dangerous hormone treatments and/or irreversible physical mutilations. The fact that 'exposure to higher levels of testosterone in the womb is associated with masculine behaviour' should be a wake up call for scientists to finally start exploring the effects of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDC) on human development. Once we have a cause, we can develop a cure. In the meantime we need to treat these conditions with compassion and non-invasive treatments.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of L.G.B.T.Q. rights, just as he was throughout the election,\" the White House said in a statement. \n\n\"The president is proud to have been the first ever G.O.P. nominee to mention the L.G.B.T.Q. community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So there is no difference between alcoholics, shoplifters and gays?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If someone identifies as Trans and requires medical treatments then would qualify as a medical condition ... so they would be disqualified based on your #2 \n\nThe CIC is the civilian leader of the military (BTW who made the decision to allow them?) \n\nAny person that has committed a felony ... any person that has sworn allegiance to ISIS any person above or below a certain age ... \n\nThose are a few groups that are barred ...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I view this discussion as moot at this point, because same-gender marriage is legal in this country, and the SC, not we, will determine the outcome of this case. What we think no longer makes a difference. It's in the hands of the Court.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The best I can tell, many Republicans seem to be single issue voters. He will lose groups of them if/when he crosses the only line they care about. If he were to say that abortion is OK, then he would lose one group. If he were to say that gay marriage is OK, a different, though similar group would flee. If he were to endorse some form of gun control, again a portion of his support would leave. He is staying away from angering the single issue folks, so they stay with him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Critical thinking does seem out of place in many of these comments. take for instance your two above. You seem to think that if there is a law demanding it be so, that it is a good and just thing. I feel confident that the laws that once criminalized homosexuality you would be opposed to. So how is it, that you can claim that if the law deems it so, it must be followed to people who oppose a law. Now i am not weighing in on the law here, but rather your demand for critical thinking of others while failing to exercise the same.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you bother to read the Dubia? I believe you will see that it was a series of points that asked for clarification.....\n\nAnd please stop your fixation on homophobia. Stop making accusations you can't possibly support. I state again all I have ever given you is the exact quotations from the Cardinal - which you refuse to acknowledge - and which YOU claim are homophobic . You persist in false accusations that belittle you, not me. Knock it off John. It grows tiresome for everyone. It is you who have become disingenuous.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"No one 'allows' a child to be transgender. They are, or are not, transgender. And your personal disbelief... is in direct conflict with observed facts.\"\n\nTrying to make it sound scientific doesn't make it scientific.\n\nAt 3yo, a child does not have a clue about their sexuality. That, is a directly observed fact.\n\nChildren older than that explore everything, both male and female. And where you Liberals are wrong, is in applying a sexual motive for doing it, when none exists, since they have no clue.\n\nYou want us to believe that a child who doesn't understand sexuality, understands all of what adults get confused about and that they want to be the opposite sex. Ridiculous!\n\nYour \"facts\" are nothing more than mothers (99% women) seeing an 18 mo baby smile when Mommy gives him a girl doll and claiming he's a girl (true story). The kid ain't sayin' it! A kid who doesn't even have attractions yet gets screwed up. You \"science\" is \"Mommy said so!\", while Daddy shakes his head.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"2,341 sterilizations are recorded to have occurred in the state of Oregon from 1921 until 1983\"\n\n\"The law permitted the sterilization of \u201cpersons, male or female, who are feeble-minded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates and sexual perverts.\"\n\n\"Homosexual men were often the main targets of this discrimination\"\n\n\"Ideas about eugenics and the genetically unfit may have also been passed to Oregon from the \"Eugenics in New Germany\" exhibit which was shown both in Salem and Portland. The exhibit from Germany displayed population trends in Germany, explained Mendelian laws of heredity, and showed how sterilization could be used to reduce \"the transmission of physical, mental, and behavioral defects\"\n\n\"The eugenics movement's most salient supporter and contributor was Bethenia Owens-Adair. Owens-Adair was Oregon's first female physician and a famous campaigner for women's equality and temperance.\"\n\nhttp://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/OR/OR.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You've been repeating this, but do you think this is an actual solution? Some heavily armed young male Arab comes into the club, and the bouncer says, \"Sorry, you aren't welcome here!\" and then the heavily armed young male Arab is going to say, \"Ok\" and turn around? I have a feeling you know very well this idea is ludicrous but enjoy thinking that gay bars will be hypocritical in some way when danger comes their way. Either that or you really believe this idea will work to prevent future massacres.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Holy Spirit speaks to everyone - man or woman, adult or child, any color, any faith. Our mistake is in thinking that only the magisterium can hear Her, understand Her, and make known what She brings into the world. There is much we can learn about God's presence through how people of other faiths have listened. \n\nThe Spirit of Catholicism is open to discernment, to listening. The problem with the surprises of the Spirit is that old fuddy-duddies only listen to what they want to hear and many are not open to the Surprises of the Spirit. I think many Catholics do understand that - which is why majorities of Catholics in many nations do things like vote for gay marriage or ignore what the fuddy-duddies say on a number of issues. \n\nThey are still Catholics, just discerning, listening Catholics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To clarify Pope Francis said \"If a person is gay and seeks out the Lord and is willing, who am I to judge that person?\". According to the Catholic faith part of seeking out the lord and being willing means putting what God wants for your life over what you want for your life. Even if that means giving up your ability to have sex with whoever you want.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting to read, but confusing.\n\nHere in the U.S., would the legal trouble Kim Davis (think Kentucky and gay marriage licenses) got in be considered a \"government harassment or use of force\" against a religious group? How about the mandate in the ACA that Catholic hospitals had to include contraceptives in health insurance in employee insurance? \n\nWe look at all this through a lens colored by our national experience and a culture that has been shaped by it. We are also experiencing growing globalization, with people of different cultures and experience moving into places that have a very different culture and set of expectations about dress, behavior. Many of us are also affected by our ability to send and receive communications from just about anywhere in the world - and that is spreading to more and more people. All this means it is harder for countries to maintain the old cultural and religious identities they once had.\n\nJust food for thought.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Could that be because the people running \"Holy Mother Church\", the same people who call gays \"intrinsically disordered\" (and that is how that phrase is universally seen in the LGBT community) want gays to be self-hating?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Have you ever tried thinking? There are ~11,000 transgendered people serving. Compared to the rest of the modern world, our education system and healthcare system are near the bottom, and Drumpf is leading us further down the scale.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For reasons unknown, you seem compelled insist that the idea of voluntarily resettling blacks was not all but abandoned by the time the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, and you disregard Fredrickson's book as well. What is the point of your hobby-horse? What do you think it proves? Lyndon Johnson no doubt held segregationist views much of his life, and Barry Goldwater changed his views on gays because of one of his own relatives. Staunch conservative South African F.W. deKlerk brokered the end of apartheid and ordered the end of South Africa's nuclear program. Civilization and human progress are largely the result of humans' ability to change their minds, and in the end, Lincoln changed his.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It all started when Jerry Falwell insisted that the purple Teletubby was gay.\n\nThanks a lot Jerry. \n\nBy the way it seems Jerry Jr. is on the new White House task force on education reform. \ud83d\ude44", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the idea of this synod is to accompany young people starting with the premise that they need to be guided, taught the catechism of the church, then this will start and finish an epic failure. I'm not sure of the format, but it would be nice if the bishops had one day where they had to listen to the \"average\" young person offer what they believe, see, think and act as a catholic. 20 young adults offering 15 minute vignettes about their journey with no judgement. I wonder if the bishops could actually do that any better than these young people listening to one of the bishop's dry homilies about gays, sex, marriage etc. There is no relationship with our priests and bishops. We may be sheep, but our clergy are it shepherds. This should be a perfect time to understand what our future church could be, but I'm afraid it will once again just end with a nod and restating what the church is, was and always will be....out of touch with the people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Women for business, boys for pleasure, goats for fun.\" So said the ancient Greeks, or some of them anyway. I predict the next frontier for the LGBT&Q crowd will be to break down the \"onerous\" laws which persecute the \"mentors\" who escort young boys into the adult world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's a fact from column.\n\nMSW: \" In the back of my mind, I entertained the worry: The mainstream media would love nothing better than to pull down Pope Francis from his pedestal.\"\n\nGiven that MSW is such a fan of Francis's environmental agenda, this explains his worry about giving an inch to the guy who is critiquing Francis' stand on gay seminarians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "NP, I think you misread Klastri's comment. It said, \"fundamentally evil when it comes to LGBT folks and women's rights,\" meaning as he relates to those issues, not on the whole as your interpretation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know Minnery from a hole in the ground, but he looks like someone that has a birthright in the Dueling Banjo country. Here's a liberal message for you Mr. Minnery, go back where you came from and take your bigot values with you. Alaska doesn't need your far right divide and conquer mentality. Hell no Alaska won't change for you or the anti-LGBT so-called religious right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When is the RCC going to be Catholic and not just religiously partisan? \nIt keeps ignoring the unbroken traditional of non celibate priests as if they never happened, are invisible.\n\nAnd gay priests get an undue portion of media consideration. What about bisexual priests? They don't get any respect, space time!\n\nThis fixation on the sexuality of a person in the face of unending human suffering underscores the moral bankruptcy of the RCC. \"And Jesus wept!\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Luke, thank you for the straightforward question that is probably on the minds of many Catholics. My answer is a couple of questions in return... If a measure to stop bullying would \"condone a behavior that is condemned by the Church as a mortal sin\" then wouldn't the reverse be true: would allowing bullying in school prevent behavior that is condemned by the church? In other words, are there fewer sexually active adult homosexuals for having been bullied as children? I would guess the only people who aren't sexually active because of bullying are those who killed themselves because of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This comment thread makes me so sad. As a very religious and Christian person I can testify that God loves each of us/you with no qualifiers! For all the scripture quoters, how about this one: John 8:7 \"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.\" I am certainly not without sin - just like every other human on this thread. Here is some free advice. Exercise compassion in and your honest concerns are more likely to be respected. I can truthfully say that in my personal experience with actual LGTB people, (including close family members, coworkers, teachers and friends,) not one of them has ever tried to push \"gay agenda\" down my throat. For anyone reading this who believes religion is the enemy. It's not. It does have value to society. But none of us are perfect. The vast majority of us are trying to do what is right. I know that I have legitimate concerns, and I am open to the the idea that my concerns are unfounded and want to hear legitimate responses.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(Part one of three) Where are you relative to God?\" said Fr. Philip Bochanski, the new executive director of Courage, a ministry to Catholics with same-sex attractions, as quoted by Peter Fuerherd As risky as it is, what the hierarchs are saying about homosexuality merits consideration in the full context of life as lived by the Faithful. How to do this during a liturgy for children poses more problems than may be prudent to confront.\n\nHeck, if that's \"pastoral,\" folks should duck for the dogma. Sad and increasingly irrelevant.\u2014Sarasi1 But the question itself is relevant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This election in Alberta will come down to jobs vrs transgendered bathrooms. Even the lgbt community needs jobs. Kenney will win handily except in Edmonton and central Calgary.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "ACPeds? You mean the politically-motivated anti-LGBT hate group that's a fraction of the size of the well-respected American Academy of Pediatrics that supports trans kids? Oh. Those \"experts\" in damaging children's health.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As I have written elsewhere tonight, the Church has been built on lies for decades/centuries. A clergy/hierarchy with a huge proportion of practising gay men, consecrating the bread everyday in life but maintaining that practising gay people cannot receive that same Eucharist. That level of deception is pretty breathtaking. Nobody trusts them to tell the truth about anything.\n\nSomeone posted elsewhere that the Church cannot sin. I didn't reply but OMG. The poster obviously has no clue about 'social sin.'", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And it's the ONLY gay group approved by Holy Mother Church. :-)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What you say may be true as far as it goes, however, it does not cover those men who are already priests. I have always heard that once a priest, always a priest. Many men choose the priesthood because they are gay. They believe God will make them like others. In my practice I have seen many gay men and women. If the pope thinks he can scope out a priest because he interacts with a child, he needs to give his holy head a shake. I have not seen many a man or woman who can see a child and not smile or talk to them. It is a rather an inane statement. I can truly say that men or women who are trying to live straight are in torment every day. And who says a gay man or woman can not get a calling from God? For that matter, since God holds men and women to be on the same standing, women can get the calling to the priesthood. God has called many women to preach. It's in the bible. I guess a certain cardinal who wears red flowing robes and lace is gay. Who knew?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Believe it or not, in many of these cases of racist vandalism , were the works of Clintonites. Why would they do this? Probably to grossly exaggerate and create racism when it wasn't there in the first place. Democrats and Clintonites can't survived without creating a racial division. Obama himself admitted in wanting to create a \"browner nation\". There has been several cases of things like this happening and I believe that in most parts, its an inside job. Muslims are doing it too as this article stated. And its not only blacks or the Muslims. Gay rights people have done this before to advance their cause. Classical case of some woman in the mid-west who claims to be beaten and carved by some conservative thugs, only to be revealed that she did it all to herself. This sort of behavior can only backfire in the long run. If there were a real white racist doing this, it could easily be dismissed by most of the public as another inside job. Classical boy who cries wolf story, isn't it??", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This really is pushing the LGBTQ agenda too far. There is absolutely no reason for kids in lower primary grades to be exposed to theatrical performances of this kind.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Gay assassins?\" Is that a thing? Sounds fabulous.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, you should move to North Korea, or Russia, whichever. After all, you voted for and support a leader that resembles those who dictate over North Korea and Russia. Unless you're gay--then you'd better stay out. Sadistic homophobes are welcome there and in Isis. So you'd feel right at home with any of those entities.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Courage\" is a ministry for gays who hate themselves.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Also, according to you legality doesn't matter, it's how you identify. Then why in the heck has gay marriage been such an all-consuming huge issue? If heterosexual marriage isn't important, why is gay marriage?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump's surprise ban on transgendered people in the military is ridiculous. They were allowed before, identifying them is hard, they're not *nearly* as expensive as conservatives claim, and there's no clear instruction on what to do with the transgendered individuals already serving.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Probably the same folks who are terrified by the existence of gay people. So instead of watching in person, they went home to watch porn on their computers. I am not justifying performing sex in public. Just saying. . .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That was most likely a consensual situation. The sexual misconduct that was alleged was not. Your explanation is like Spacey making all gay people appear to be sexual predators.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Meanwhile, Trump is up early to tweet about transgender in the military.\n\nThe man has the attention span of a gnat.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I get discriminates against all the time, not becasue I am gay but for being male and white..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Effeminate men are as likely to be asexual as homosexual. Priests are as likely one or the other.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When BLM staged its extortion coup d'etat against the LGBT community of Toronto, Wynne, Tory and Trudeau were all at the Parade but abandoned the actual \"GAY\" community to BLM. They even tacitly agreed with BLM that the white gays of Toronto really are racists. As always, the gays of Toronto were thrown under the bus for political convenience. It\u2019s like the 1980 bathhouse raids all over again. Our elected officials refuse to fight this injustice done to us primarily because we are still just a bunch of queers and we don't really count do we. Ironically, the cops are now our only ally. Not even lesbian Wynne would dare come to our defense.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Amazing indeed. She worked in the US illegally as a model and lied about it on her visa application. She lied about her university degree. She plagiarized her convention speech. She posed nude in lesbian themed soft-porn pix. Real classy.\nhttp://nypost.com/2016/08/01/melania-trumps-girl-on-girl-photos-from-racy-shoot-revealed/", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're right, Colkoch. There are so many sins that are committed every day that cause real harm to real people -- like cutting funds for food for the hungry, or cutting medical reimbursement to providers, resulting in limited access to medical care for many in need, and domestic violence, and so on and so on, ad infinitum. Yet, these guardians of morality have a need to focus on homosexual sex and then to insist that they are not homophobic......", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A fine example of NIMBYism. \n\nShorter version: Let the poor eat their cake ... just elsewhere. (But only after I get 99% of the cake.)\n\nBTW - I sincerely wish 'gay homesteaders' would become an internet meme!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"homosexuality is a chosen lifestyle\" What utter nonsense. \n\nMy theory about people who make this completely unsupported claim is that they were born bisexual and are terrified of that fact.\n\nStephen J. Remington", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This a report about an historical and persistent tragedy. Continued new cases, and especially where the statute of limitations has been opened. It unfairly equates unsubstantiated accusations (perp dead or SOL in place) with untrue accusations, which clinicians know are rare. Meanwhile bishops mostly fail to name known perps, thus consigning victims to deal with their trauma alone. Meanwhile bishops pay lobbyists and lawyers to fight for institutional protections. Meanwhile bishops are covering for the pernicious problem of the secret lifestyles of their priests, gay and straight. You're only as sick as your secrets..and this church is still sick and dying.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Manning would be much safer if she remained in jail. As a transgendered convicted traitor with no prospects of employment, her release will mark the beginning of an inexorable drift into drugs and prostitution. Three years from now she will be found crumpled up in an alley, dead from a fentanyl overdose or stabbed to death by a bad trick.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump Pence and Company are quick to condemn Blacks, Muslims, Mexicans, Hispanics, Non-Christians, Gays, are at a loss for words when dealing with violence, hate speech and home-grown terrorists of Neo Nazis, White Christian Supremacists and Nationalists, the Klu Klux Klan and other fascist right wing hate groups, who are no better than ISIS and Al Queda and other extremist and fanatical groups.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "She's not quite MIA, her brain might be, but the rest of her was there the day she appointed Bruce Buckmaster to the ODFW Board of Commissioners, after being unambiguously advised of his status as a gill-net industry hired gun. Now, thanks to her stubbornly stupid appointment of this slick, little man, the State of Oregon owns the distinction of withdrawal from an agreed-upon plan with the State of Washington to at least attempt restoring salmon runs along the main channel of the Columbia River. An important step, more than just a symbolic dog and pony show.\nOregon's governorette has had a powerful impact on the environment and well-being of vital creatures a little less well-connected.\nWe're in the first stages of a worst-case scenario, and species much nobler than we are the incidental targets of both the feckless and the treacherous.\nOh by the way, you forgot to mention her frequently cited bisexual status. You know, it really does matter here.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "this woman, who apparently lives in her own little bubble, reminds me of how really dumb people can be.... is she not aware of the deep seated black racism that is running rampant in the US? instead of concentrating on setting up phony arguments for banning certain words that accurately describe certain people, how about concentrating on how morons are pushing the idea that if you are white, you should be ashamed? \npersonally, I would prefer our Western world where white people have advanced our society to its current level to the societies in Africa or the Middle East where women are treated like sh*t, gays are thrown off of buildings, Christians are hunted down and killed, men hide their women under rags and bugger little boys as sexual compensation, etc. etc. etc.\nThe hypocrisy of coddled dolts like this woman who attack anyone who does not agree with bending over and giving in to dumb ideas advanced by morons BUT ignores worse atrocities is pretty useless.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The crescent moon death cult is steeped in bigotry and is not only contrary to American values but to those of any civilized society. American values do not include female genital mutilation, the forced marriage of child brides, \"honour\" killings and slaughtering people in gay dance clubs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Considering that Trump just banned transgender individuals from the military and his DOJ is arguing to deny gays and lesbians protection at the workplace and housing etc..., I would say the Log Cabin Republicans are the most insanely inept group advocating for equality. They are pretty useless.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Muslims and Liberals excoriate us about Islamophobia, but we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism, hatred of Christianity, Europe. Israel, and America. Islam's destructive iconoclasm is destroying historic treasures across the ME: in just one year Notre Dame in Paris has had three close call bomb threats. They even have Islamophobia against each other. Ancient tribal wars between Kurds, Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabi, Druze and other Islamic sects, ISIS , Taliban and Al Qaeda are the root causes of most of the wars and social chaos happening around the world today. So few Muslims have ever come forward to denounce the sins committed by Muslims for islam.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And gay women? They are FAR more monogamous than any straight men! Are you forgetting them?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is hogwash - The Scouts never barred \"Gay\" kids or kids from a different \"religion\" from being scouts, they taught a moral code based largely on the Bible (which I was not all that in favor of, because \"good deeds\" without Christ mean nothing Biblically) . Each Pack or Troop is allowed to select their own leaders based on their own criteria. All three of mine were in until they started caving to the Politically Correct crowd, and there is nothing I have ever read that barred \"Gays\" or kids from a different \"religion\" from being Cub or Boy Scouts. Take a hike Jeanette...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Contd 2 \u2026\nI notice that you are rather selective regarding which of my posts you reply to. E.g. you never commented when I said I would respect the right of a homosexual to refuse to print a banner which said, \u2018THE BIBLE SAYS HOMOSEXUAL ACTS ARE SINFUL\u2019.\nSimilarly, when I said that your equating practising homosexuals with blacks was tantamount to accusing the latter of being sinners, you never responded.\nI have also noticed that you don't seem to pick up nuances in comments; if one is not for something then you automatically assume they are against it. When posters try to explain you have no time for subtle difference and nuanced arguments. You just label them all \u2018liars\u2019.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, for the sterilization of former military lesbian nuns who were not covered by the VA health insurance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Muslims arrive with their predetermined prejudices to not be good neighbours. Everybody in Quebec who is not \"pur laine\" is marginalized, Even their gay, and Asian communities are marginalized, but people still get along. Ingrate Muslims reject the Quebecois host and all others, and then blame the host all others for the rejection.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm absolutely Certain without this ever seeing 1 day in Court that all the Allegations are 110% true and CSIS is a big bad terrible place full of monsters. On the other hand I think it would make 1 Great Conspiracy Movie; the Pitch: gay guy goes to a manager friend, working in some Canadian Government office: \"Hey Charlie, me and you both know the pensions around here are Capital 'C' Crap... what say you get me a job here, you harass me for 12 YRS, I sue the Canadian taxpayers (government) and we both Laugh ourselves straight to Monaco!!\" I smell a Blockbuster.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Heh yah\u2026it\u2019s really hard to take these guys seriously. Maybe taking selfies with other Gay Pride enthusiasts and with economic migrants is more their thing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Typical nonsense from the usual anti-science, anti-facts left wing activists. They say their goal is 'equality' but that's another way of saying they want to be more 'equal' than others. They always want someone else to pay and pay, they feel entitled to have things handed to them on a silver platter, but ask them to make a single sacrifice, other than spewing nonsense and they react violently and make personal attacks with the usual labels of racism.\n\nThese hypocrites at Ryerson should simply drop out of school and dedicate all of their salaries, and tuitions to native causes, lead by example rather than scolding hard working taxpayers with their high and mighty, ignorant and stupid ramblings. But that will never happen.\n\nThis is about tyranny, totalitarianism and control, these activists (LGBTqRSTLOMNOP%, etc) are as ignorant as the creationists, and it's very dangerous. So called micro-agresssions, safe spaces, and the like are bogus and all intended to steal your rights.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay person you don't like to be slammed and called all of the things that you just stated, but you sure don't seem to mind being a hypocrite and slam straight people with that do you? And you wonder why there are a lot of straight people that won't tolerate your actions and attitudes. And if you aren't gay, you just fell into the \"gullible\" \"mindless\" warrior for lgbt group.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I want every gay priest, bishop, and cardinal yanked out of the closet and pronounced in the light of day. Considering how important the hierarchy seems to feel this to be, it seems to me that we, the people, are entitled to know which of them fail to meet the standard they are proclaiming -- and in fact, if it's that important, the hierarchy should be demanding it.\n\nBut then, when have we the pew folks mattered or been entitled to anything.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What I don't understand is why, of all the sins and sinners in this world, the greedy and the selfish and the thieves and the dishonest, it's the gay people who simply want to marry , who are targeted for rejection and discrimination.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"It is time for the bishops to commission a reputable survey to determine what percent of their priests are gay. They should also do a survey to determine the reaction of their flock to the reality of gay priests.\"\n\nYes. Yes. It is long since past time for bishops to face reality and learn how to deal with it. This pretense that all priests are heterosexual and never have sex is just ridiculous. Equally ridiculous is the idea that Catholics are united in the way the bishops and the Vatican treat LGBTQI people, whether they are priests or not. \n\nBishops need to know how much what they do is supported and not supported. In this day and age, it matters - we do not live in an age of authoritarian \"divine right\" rulers - and that includes bishops. More, though, bishops need to listen to the heart of the people of faith - the Holy Spirit speaks in those hearts, too. They also have to learn to be brave and not cave to loud mouthed bigots. Bishops - listen and learn.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A country where 44% are Catholic supports these draconian laws, even seeking to institute the death penalty for homosexuality? Those must be \"the real Catholics\" that are the hope of the future and who are going to save the Church, right? Not we dissenting, immoral, cafeteria, liberal Progressive Catholics...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But if you look at the sexual ethic that they preach, it is decidedly influenced by what would be natural for an asexual orientation. Male asexuals have the same kind of \"unmasculine\" affect but are not gay. Kind of a standoffish gentleness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nonsense. Holy matrimony may be religious; marriage is a civil contract historically about the transfer of property from one man to another (father-in-law to bridegroom, or VV). In this country, people are free to enter civil marriage contracts. The Church can refuse to recognize these contracts as sacramentally valid, as it does with divorced people or gay people. But it reognizes that in a civil polis it requires a co-existance.\n\nFurther, there are many faith groups who consider that divorced people and gay people can marry in their church. It would be denying their religious freedom to prevent that.\n\nReligious freedom must be distinguished from religious privilege.\n\nThis kind of remark is why the fastest growing faith group in this country is the \"nones\"...and why ex-Catholics are one of the largest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From the Center for Disease Control in 2010:\n\n\u2022 The majority of women who reported experiencing sexual violence, regardless of their sexual orientation, reported that they were victimized by male perpetrators. The most stark numbers were for rape, where 98.3 percent of bisexual women and 99.1 percent of lesbians reported their perpetrator was a man.\n\nMore:\n\nThe Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention states, \"For several methodological reasons \u2013 nonrandom sampling procedures and self-selection factors, among others \u2013 it is not possible to assess the extent of same-sex domestic violence. Studies on abuse between gay male or lesbian partners usually rely on small convenience samples such as lesbian or gay male members of an association.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am neither religous or gay but it sickens me to see the intolerance and predjudice the religous right has towards gay people. These people do not choose to be gay they are born that way and should be accepted for who they are. I always was told that Jesus preached to have tolerance and to love your fellow human no matter who they were. I understand people can be frightened of things they do not understand but you dont see the gay community rallying for laws against starry eyed born again christians who base their life on a non - entity. I tolerate both gay people and religous people who are both just trying to get by in this crazy world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about Viagra?\nA 2016 study by the Rand Corporation found the maximum annual medical costs for transgender services would be around $8.4 million. By comparison, the military spent $84 million on erectile dysfunction medications Viagra and Cialis in 2014, the Military Times reported.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where is the money coming from to pay for all the transgender bathrooms we will be ordered to build?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's all anecdotal. There have been seminaries with larger than average percentages of homosexuals - Milwaukee under Weakland for particular example - but these have been offset by diocese like Lincoln with zero tolerance. The high estimates come from the homosexual community, reasonable estimates seem to approximate the overall Catholic percentage, which is not \"so many\".\n\nThe teaching on the ordination of women and the immorality of sexual relations outside of marriage are irreformable no matter how you characterize them. The Church leads people to reform their lives, not the other way around. Your opinion of that is of no consequence.\n\nGenerally theological high church Anglicans have exited the communion. Yes, there are some liturgical high church - bells and smells - communities who accept the notion of women priests, but they are a minority quickly fading away, just as they did among the continental Old Catholics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Seems to me if I was a transgender I would think..hmm...IF I don't have the right to defend myself and my country....seems to me it would occur to me that I should have the \"right\" not to pay my taxes..given much of it goes to the military.....someone should try that on for size........in court.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This smart and seemingly educated woman who adores her Mosque where she has the right to sit at the back with the other women and know her place. Oh yea that's Canadian Values for you. My condolences for anyone murdered by acts of intolerance but please where was there outrage, where were their marches and protests over the gay men in Orlando that were murdered. I never heard a peep from the International Muslim Center in Toronto. It's only an outrage when it happens to them. The left wing in this country and the US have used the word racist for any opinion that doesn't match there's.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The number of bi-sexual males may be larger than you imagine. \n\nOther than infected needles, how else do you think many of the women in the US and particularly in Africa contract HIV? \n\nToilet seats?\n\nNot according to the CDC.\n\n\"Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men made up an estimated 2% of the population but 55% of people living with HIV in the United States in 2013. If current diagnosis rates continue, 1 in 6 gay and bisexual men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime, including 1 in 2 black/African American gay and bisexual men, 1 in 4 Hispanic/Latino gay and bisexual men, and 1 in 11 white gay and bisexual men.\"\n\n\"Gay and bisexual men accounted for 83% (29,418) of the estimated new HIV diagnoses among all males aged 13 and older and 67% of the total estimated new diagnoses in the United States.\"\n\n https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/index.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All good. You should also consider: a) treatment of single-parent families; b) welcoming of gays; c) valuing of lay views and experiences; d) homilies that address relevance of current Church issues to the gospel; e) invitations to academic experts, lay professionals like docs/lawyers, theologians, Protestants, and others for evening \"issue\" programs; f) formal surveying of member needs; g) availability of NCReporter; h) racial diversity; i) women on parish council; j) suggestion box availability; k) worship with Protestant churches where other family members attend; l) recognition of data we already have regarding why people claim they leave: clericalism; legalism; sexism; hubris; anti-sex ism. Few parishes close because of few opportunities for rosaries and confession and no sermons about confession. I could be wrong. I join you in defining a) problems; b) solutions. Learning is what happens AFTER we know it all. Be not afraid of knowledge. Humbly seek to KNOW, not to WIN.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not a bad call, because the Devil is in the details (as usual). There are consequences to hasty decisions, and no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. I side with Trump, because one thing that is necessary to an effective military is the psychological stability of the people wearing the uniform. In my case, I required close scrutiny because I was to be one who launched nuclear weapons. Remember Chelsea Manning? Crypto troop, special clearances and a psychological basket case. He released vast amounts of classified material because of his homosexual/tranny leanings. If he made the Army \"stronger\", then I'm a cracked teapot with a giraffe for my mom. Who wants to give a Secret clearance to somebody who can't even decide what gender he is? Might as well enlist depressed and./or bipolars and give them access to sensitive material. And the Navy needs lookouts, so why not recruit the blind for those positions? What could go wrong?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You date yourself, Cleanup, by using a 1950s phrase that's really a pejorative for a man whose gay \"trip\" you so despise. As JJ so aptly suggests, such bigotry -- emboldened by Fake 45 -- is pitiful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These are elected officials, conducting business meetings. Of which their constituents must play a part. \nThey are there to do the PEOPLE'S business, not God's. \nAre the prayers from one denomination? Would you, if you were a Jew, Muslim or atheist feel comfortable, declining to pray? Or as a Catholic participate in prayers by a Mormon, Baptist or 7th Day Adventist? \n\nAgain. Those who work in the public sector or provide services to the public need to follow the law.\nNo one if forcing them to change their religious beliefs. Or marry a gay person.\nAnd I cannot believe that when they die, if asked, will be told, \"no heaven for you for baking that same sex marriage wedding cake\".\nIf you really believe that, then I can understand why YOUR world is upside down.\nI hope that I can live up to and be judged by my actions in how I lived.\n Faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First off, her \"partner\" is her live-in boyfriend JP Leitch who lives in Stornoway with her. Second off, if her partner was on the same team... who cares???? The Conservatives have lots of gay MP's including some very high profile ones. Just because they don't flaunt it like a badge of honour doesn't mean that most Conservatives (including the ones that elected them) aren't fully aware of it. Your comment is disgusting in this day and age.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One more reference on this thing about \"religious liberty\", cake bakers, and gay marriage.\n\nThere is a very good article by Mark Reiff published in July in The Conversation here https://theconversation.com/a-philosopher-argues-why-no-one-has-the-right-to-refuse-services-to-lgbt-people-80365 . He writes about liberties versus rights. He outlines three kinds of liberty: negative liberty, positive liberty, and republican liberty. (The \"republican\" does not refer to the political party of that name but to the form of government we claim to have.)\n\nNot all liberties are protected by rights. Especially when one person's \"liberty\" infringes on the \"liberty\" of another. And that is where republican liberty protects people against arbitrary treatment. \"the refusal of service to gay couples is itself an arbitrary act. It is an act of domination \u2013 just like refusal of service to black or Jewish people or inter-racial couples.\"\n\nWell worth the read.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "it unwinds a legacy of virulent homophobia. .... 1969 when homosexuality was decriminalised in West Germany.\n---\nGermans are very liberal people. I am surprised it took them that long to legalize gay marriage.\n\nAs for the \"legacy\". Guess when Canada decriminalized \"sodomy\"? 1969. We don't own the moral ground here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "there is no such thing as a trans anything, you are either a man or a woman, the only 2 possibilities.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I assume by mentioning \"natural law\" you are referring to pro-creation. A man and a woman do not need to be married to pro-create. Single people (both gay and straight) can pro-create by donors and surrogates. Gay couples can pro-create by donors and surrogates. Many married people decide not to pro-create. So obviously, marriage (same sex or opposite sex) has nothing to do with the \"natural law\" you are referring to...\n\nSo if opposite sex marriage has not gone the way of the hippies, why would same sex marriage?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Like no one ever accused Hillary of lesbian tendencies with those pantsuits she wore. It's called adult humor for a reason - not political critique.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kaepernick is unemployed because HE made the decision to opt out of his seven figure SF contract and test the waters of free agency.\n\nHe was wrong.\n\nThat should be the end of story, but of course the liberal media has got to inject racism and political correctness into it.\n\nNFL owners and coaches could care less about what color your skin is, as long as you can get the W's you will be playing.\n\nThis reminds me of the liberal media's quest to force NFL teams to sign Michael Sam, who was a terrible ball player but since he was gay the media disregarded his lack of athletic ability and instead blamed his woes on the NFL's supposed \"homophobia\".\n\nJust another case of liberal political correctness invading and destroying everything it touches: academia, Hollywood, music, pop culture, art, politics, the media, the military, advertising, medicine, religion, history, books, gender, race, sex... and now sports.\n\nIt never ends.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Supreme Court can not \"resolve\" anything in a manner which contradicts the Divine or natural law. My point is that I do not recall the Bishops, en masse, demonstrating against the legalization of homosexual marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "IF your gay brother was dying of AIDS, would you deny him the resources to save his life? If your sister attempted suicide, would your prefer that the paramedics let her bleed out? And if your overweight father- bless his soul- had a stroke or cardiac arrest, is it better that society just let him pass... given that he didn't look after himself and all?\n\nThis crisis raises no unique issues as far as society is concerned. First we try our best to save anyone in a life-threatening situation. If the same kind of life-threatening situation continues, we develop a longer-range strategy. The greatest danger to us all comes from those who would, in a panic, unwisely call for Draconian measures that would damage everyone. \n\nAs with health crises in the past, we will successfully deal with this one. In the meantime, please don't write off your brother, sister, father or anyone else who suffers from the human condition.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You mention a source: can you provide a cite or a link?\nPersons who oppose birth control, who want to make it more difficult or expensive to acquire, must accept that they are promoting abortion in lieu of or even as a method of birth control. It reminds me of the hypocrisy of persons who oppose same sex marriage and then criticize homosexuals for supposedly unstable and unfaithful relationships.\nYou didn't answer my question. Even if you were right that the leading cause of abortion is convenience: What strategy or policy does that suggest to you regarding a way to discourage or decrease abortions?\nWe have a militantly anti-life president who is advocating social, economic and health policies that promote sickness, death and abortion. How ought the \"pro-life\" movement respond?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the eyes of the state, they legally valid. When I was in Catholic HS sacraments class, as well as pre-cana, we were taught that the couple performed the sacrament and the priest was witness. If you check canon law, it will say that fecundity is not the requirement for marriage, only the ability to have sex. You may not like their sexuality, but that is because you are not gay. Sex is still a gift from God. Homosexuality is not disordered if you include being born gay as part of the natural order due to epigenesis. Of course, to understand any of this, you must place reality over authority.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Horrible horrible thing for me to say, but not many 14 year old boys would have an issue with a 26 year old girl jumping on them in bed; even if they got nervous and bolted. No doubt it would be with a tent somewhere. \n\nThis former kid is gay, maybe Spacey could recognize that in his drunken stupor... again a horrible thing to say as the main thing is the kid felt intimidated and harassed sexually (that supersedes all). But few heterosexual boys at that age would take umbrage with an attractive 26 year old female trying to kiss them. Just an analogy. It certainly would not be newsworthy and Rose McGowan would not take such umbrage. \n\nAnd yes I get that it was wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Facts, schmacts.\n\nThey will be flogging the same talking points trying to convince voters that he will outlaw abortion and gay marriage, up until the next election.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sorry, but that's not true. It is not a choice. The myth of \"choice\" is perpetuated in order to justify discrimination against homosexuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Purgatrix writes, \"I think I can safely say no \"gay people\" my age were ever \"bullied...\"\n\nOh really? So you have tracked down and asked every gay/lesbian person you went to school with if he/she were bullied for their sexual orientation? \nJust because you seem to have lived in blissful ignorance about behaviour and events around you does not mean others had the same experience.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. most people are not supportive of the \"transgender\" community. Most people are trying to ignore it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The only involvement in gentrification by the city should be to ensure that any new residences be in conformity with the existing character and aesthetic of the neighborhood. Single-family homes should only be replaced with single-family homes, and they should not be appreciably larger than the existing ones. Mansions in a lower- or middle-class neighborhoods just don't look right. There are plenty of places for mansions that don't detract from the existing neighborhood. I would honestly prefer to see people buying homes, fixing them up, and living in them like the gay \"homesteaders\" do. In this way, a neighborhood is improved, along with property values, without displacing anyone. I'm just not in favor of all this tearing down and building bigger.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgendered?Jackie during\"her\"(?)1960s-'70s career was never presented as a woman,always as a man,&never performed in,or wore on the street,clothes anyone would consider full drag. Jackie wore on stage slightly feminine looking clothing -pants,not skirts or dresses,&had a somewhat feminine looking hair-do,& some makeup. Jackie the singer was known as an effeminate MAN, not transgendered. Only later, when investigators tracked Jackie down years after retiring from show biz were there reports of supposedly \"living as a woman\" with her aunt. The article keeps referring to Jackie as \"transgendered\" but doesn't present any quotes from the 30 hours of recent interviews with Jackie that show Jackie considers Jackie transgendered. Maybe Jackie considers HIMself a gay male transvestite,not a transsexual woman. Since \"trans-chic's\" fashionable nowadays in the media,maybe the article's writer was tempted to too hastily toss Jackie into the \"trans\" camp. But what does JACKIE say?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "More to the point: what are police 'floats' doing in any parade. I have been entertained by and enjoyed police motorcycle display teams, police bands and equestrian displays but floats seem a little over the top. If the the gay and black communities don't want the police to be part of their parade, so be it. Police security is non-negotiable, and that is the most important role for them to play. This decsion will, however, promote barriers to healthy interaction.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It doesn't matter whether there was a lesser alternative or what he said about it. The couple certainly wasn't looking to buy generic cupcakes. Jack didn't serve them with their specific request because they are gay but he served others with the exact same request because they are hetero. That is undisputed by the parties--there's no need for a red herring. You may think it is important whether he sold alternative products but the Supreme Court doesn't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Quoting from the convicted killer of Matthew Shepherd: \"McKinney expressed that he had no remorse. \u201cMatt Shepard needed killing,\u201d he said. \u201cThe night I did it, I did have hatred for homosexuals.\u201d McKinney acknowledged that he\u2019d set out with the goal of robbery, but he said he targeted Shepard for a reason. \u201cHe was obviously gay. That played a part. His weakness. His frailty.\u201d This accusation is based on a book by Jimenez that is widely discredited. The Orlando gunman may have been gay, but he was also married. Self-hatred is often a cause for violence against the gay community. There is nothing that will change your mind. Ciao!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Definition of Christian is : relating to or professing Christianity or its teachings (and that is from the most liberal dictionary on the web - Google).\nIf the marriage you attended celebrating two women's love for another was claiming to be a \"Christian Church\", they are lying. Jesus taught clearly in several places about God's intention for family and marriage for that matter. I am sure you were touched and excited to see this, but neither the Church, nor the ceremony itself can be sanctioned as \"Christian\". I believe homosexual marriage is wrong, but under the laws of the land they are entitled to marry, but that does not make it right in the view of the Bible or God. If holding a Biblical view of marriage intimidates or angers you, that is your right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nope, but defining a transgender person as having a mental disorder is unacceptable in today's day and age. Mind you, that may still be allowed in the cave where you obviously live.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As someone with Jewish heritage (though not matrilineal) is multi-racial and bisexual, this man offends me on multiple fronts. I will not stand by as though there is nothing wrong with him. Although it has been years since I have taken part in anything with the intention of confronting nazi ideology, I remember the years that the ARA confronted the HF in Toronto.\nConfronting such a person in a family-friendly environment need not be in your face but it can be within earshot, especially if I was there with my children. I would say in a voice loud enough to be heard that the tattoos that man wears (with pride?) are symbols of people who wish me and my family harm and that my children should remember that those symbols are an attempt to cower us into submission - I will tell my children to be wary of such people and be grateful that they show their ignorance and hatred so publicly so that we can recognize the enemy without the dog-whistle politics of those who use 'alt-right' as disguise", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And even that does not mean that the individual, in good conscience, will agree with the Church's law. Where there is a conflict between a doctrine and one's formed conscience (and not just formed by the Church who has no more ability in that area then a good mother or teacher or gay neighbor or a Jew or Muslim), the conscience makes the final choice, and - as I just wrote elsewhere - is the absolute and final say, in the presence of God, and NO ONE ELSE.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Its not my group icon its just a group ... and everytime there is an advantage given to someone based upon their race then people are being given unequal rights...preferences, set asides, affirm. action are all inherently racist/sexist or whatever ist. There is a large and growing group of people who think there is a war on the racial make up of the US (mostly because its not exactly a secret) most of the people who were marching in charlottesville were marching to draw attention to the fact that just as there is black pride and ltgbtq pride that there is also white pride which isn't white supremacy or even white nationalism the way it's defined by the left by simply white pride ...if people can find a way to be proud of being gay certainly being proud of their own race shouldn't shock anyone. In Israel non jews and jews cant even marry ...because of jewish exceptionalism where is the outrage over this?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I must disagree, Elagabalus, with your conclusion. It matters a very great deal that the Churches do correct their theologies to embrace gay sexuality and marriage. I grant your observation that gays will \"largely be gone,\" but there are always future generations to worry about. The Church does have, it seems to me, a propensity to eventually get moral issues right--it just takes so damn long.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can I just say that instead of saying NO!! try to witness to them as a Christian. God created them too. I'm Christian and when I see gay people, I don't put my nose up so high I can't see, I am nice and try to witness to them. But, I guess every Christian is different.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Rs said the same thing about Obama and Clinton in regards to gay marriage, that they changed their minds due to political expediency.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "tell us which Arab country has Human rights\n\nArabs in Israel have more rights than Arabs in Arab countries\n\nGAY RIGHTS ( remember that you gay leftists in Canada)\nwomen's rights\nthe right to be an atheist\nI rest my case", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "At least Heidi is identifying as a Lesbian. Heidi is being Les-bian honest. That's a whole lot better than identifying as a AGENDER.............\n\nI am surprised Jaded is not all over this one. Heidi is kinda cute, AND, available..............", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For a man who claims to read so much, you obviously didn't read what I said in my post, only what you wanted to believe what I was saying. I said absolutely nothing about \"sexual preference\". XXY, XYY and other permutations are very common in people who experience gender dysphoria, a common condition of the transgender. I'm sure you will argue that dysphoria is a myth or fabrication. Feel free to argue it with those who have been driven to suicide by this fabricated condition, successfully or otherwise. Ignorance is often exlpressed as arrogance. Have a nice evening.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Canadian Courts have ruled that even in Church:\n\n\" If criticism of homosexual behavior is construed as criticism of homosexuals then a \u201csimple reading\u201d of the Lev. 18 and context clearly shows that the passage \u201ccould objectively be viewed as hate speech.\u201d While Canada\u2019s Supreme Court justices may not understand what is in the \u201choly text\u201d used by Christians, homosexual rights activists certainly do\u2014and they will expect the legal system to consistently apply the logic of the Court\u2019s ruling.\"\n\nEqually troubling is that Christian ministers who condemn homosexual behavior can be subject to hate crime prosecution. Canada\u2019s Supreme Court has determined that speaking out against destructive homosexual behaviors could be construed as vilification of homosexuals and therefore is prohibited in most circumstances. This is a radical standard that could severely hamper Christian witness. BUT THEY DON'T CARE!!\n\nGO TO ANY MOSQUE AND YOU WILL HEAR CLERICS SPEW HATE SPEECH AGAINST WE INFIDELS!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's ironic how Amendment 2 passed because the line - special rights was attached to the gays who merely wanted to live their lives free from then common discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think some readers are focused solely on the Pulse event as an act of gun violence. But the author is also writing about sexual aggression and her preference for gay bars as a place where straight women often feel more safe, free, and welcome to enjoy an evening of dancing (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/02/opinion/sutter-change-alaska-rape/). Because her LGBTQ friends have always welcomed her, her compassion for that community is intense. \n\nTrue, perception of fear and probability of harm do not always align. Just look at how people use anti-bacterial solutions or how citizens stockpiled guns and ammunition when Obama was elected. Many of my LGBTQ friends were psychologically stressed by the Orlando violence. They felt raw because they have experienced discrimination and hatred for most years of their lives. Now this. The author is primarily empathizing and offering her love and support to those who have supported her.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Solve this and we\u2019ll be some way to retaining RC youth.Early on, children are told they\u2019re daughters and sons of God; valued members of the Church. Post latency age, they discover sexuality and orientation.The heterosexual youth go on to conventional relationships, marriage and the children resulting from a healthy sexual life, all with the blessings of a relieved Church.There is no analogous path for youth who discover they are gay.As far as the Church is concerned, these intrinsically disordered souls are consigned to involuntary celibacy and left to come to terms with their \u201cdisorderedness\u201d without any blessing.The betrayal felt upon finding that being gay means no longer being valued as a son or daughter of God is crushing.Any wonder that they leave Church? These kids are in our families.Their parents, siblings and friends see how they are treated.They all then leave a Church they now see as protecting sexual predators and abandoning them. Give your pointy hats a shake!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, I think that the bishops know full well that actions speak louder than words. The bishops' actions toward gays, for example, demonstrate that they are fully aware of the maxim. I think that is one reason why so many disregard the words of bishops.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Joni Kamiya, Can you give an actual example of what you are talking about? The studies you refer to have been funded by pesticide corporations that have an interest in the results. Those who conducted the studies would likely want to continue to be funded by them so they likely came up with the results they wanted. Maybe turning gay wouldn't be so bad in developing countries, but people might get worried if their sex changed because they were eating food with too much of a certain pesticide on it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Pansy\" is a slur against homosexuals. Always has been. People use the slur to imply weakness or a lack of \"manliness\".\n\nAnd yes, constant negativity against governments and endless allegations of waste and corruption is part of the right wing agenda. Those in the centre and on the left believe that government is good. It builds common necessities like roads, education, consumer protection, etc. that most of us couldn't afford otherwise. \n\nAlthough it is possible for a government to be corrupt, the right always overstates the case. Government and its expenditures is generally a public good. Without it society begins to break down.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These same chefs wouldn't be ranting and raving against a Muslim refusing to serve them a bacon sandwich. If you don't like a business or it's practices, just shop elsewhere. I don't understand the need from the left to control and destroy everything that doesn't fit precisely within their worldview. \n\nAs a straight conservative guy, I don't hang out at gay bars. I don't think they need to be shut down, or made to cater to me. I think they're fine doing what they do, and their customers are probably happy. Good for them!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right. Gays both out and in the closet have been in Hollywood for decades. George Takei recently wrote that will filming The Green Berets John Wayne knew that he was gay and could care less.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Times have changed. I remember the big concern as to whether a Catholic could be a President. Kennedy did it. And the KKK in Oregon was nailing US Flags on the Catholic Church doors in Eugene just 30 years before that.\n\nEven four years ago, Romney's loss didn't happen just because he was a Mormon, although I'm confident some did vote against him because of that.\n\nI don't really care that Governor Brown says she is bisexual; I voted against her because she is inept and politically linked to whoever gives her the most money, Bloomberg, SEIU whoever. What or whom she does in her bedroom or in what combination(s) is irrelevant for me. \n\nShe can do everything in \"50 Shades of Grey\" or be celibate; neither makes her a good or poor Governor.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Joshua did narrow it down somewhat to the \"right-wing Christian anti-gay pro-gun\". A little too blankety still, but certainly not \"all American Christians\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "http://reverbpress.com/discovery/sexuality/here-are-3-non-trans-gop-politicians-that-have-done-creepy-things-in-public-bathrooms/\n3 Non-Trans GOP Politicians Who Have Done Creepy Things In Public Bathrooms (VIDEO)\nhttp://www.newnownext.com/zero-trans-people-have-been-arrested-for-bathroom-misconduct-but-these-three-republicans-were/03/2016/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If even BOLI \"dismissed a civil rights complaint that he had filed last year in regard to the alleged harassment. Agency officials investigated the complaint but did not find substantial evidence to prove Robinette\u2019s claims\", sounds pretty bogus.\n\nBOLI is the one who sent the cake couple into bankruptcy on gay discrimination, remember?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, it's those on the right who generally condone telling other people what they can and cannot do.\n\nThink of sexual rights, abortion, birth control, gay marriage, wearing of a Niqab etc.\n\nYou'll notice that those are things right wing supported, not left wing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Work Farce, I disagree that the political spectrum in the university campus has moved far to the right. While the old concept during the 60's of 'Leftist' as being pro-Communism (quite a big love-in to USSR, Castro and China when the catastrophe of Cultural Revolution in China was going on full force) and anti-capitalism, the new 'Left' of the 21 Century is what taken hold in the Canadian university campuses as written by Ms. Wente; the identity politics, the exaggerated grievance of the 'historical' victims (of white males), and yes, fringe social issues like the transgender bathrooms and how the transgendered or pan-gendered being addressed (with make-up nouns and forced other people to use it).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Leave it to you Mr. Crum to defend the indefensible. The lesbians were not denied service as lesbians, they were denied a lesbian wedding cake. Had they ordered anything else, they would have been served. The bakery refused to make a particular product regardless of who ordered it. Not covered under \"protected class\" legislation. But too subtle a distinction for liberals to follow. Denial of service of any kind based on political ideas is much more in line and consistent with anti-discrimination legislation. But never mind, blow it off. Never expect a liberal to be consistent or respect the rights of any except their \"protected classes.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not sure what specific law you are talking about, but I'll hazard a guess and say that it probably isn't a specific provision regarding protection of priests who engage in sexual assault. But I can understand canon law that seeks to insulate itself from secular laws, so maybe we're not talking about the law, per se, but how the law is being misused/abused.\n\nSt. Peter Damian had a lot to say about infiltration of the priesthood by homosexuals and pedophiles, but I don't hear too many railing about how canon law seems to be protecting homosexuals, so again, this sounds like selective use of canon law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about compensation for women that had their married lives ruined by men that came out gay after marrying straight and producing children while hiding out?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Doug Lamborn said above that \"There are too many unanswered medical, housing, readiness and deployment questions.\" That's exactly the same argument we heard 150 years ago when black soldiers wanted to fight. It's the same argument they used against female soldiers 100 years ago. It's the same argument we heard against gay soldiers 17 years ago. It's old, it's tired and it's wrong. I wish I was surprised by this obtuse, witless line of reasoning but Mr. Lamborn is a Colorado Springs republican and frankly I'm not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By virtue of the fact that he's employed in a Catholic church, your church's music director isn't a Mormon, he's an ex-Mormon, which means he's just as anathema to practicing Mormons as anyone who's not Mormon by birth. No practicing Mormon in good standing with the Mormon church would ever be caught dead working in any other religion without facing severe reprimand, most notably excommunication. Perhaps it's fair to say that your music director's treatment at the hands of his own church (probably being kicked out for being gay since there's a fairly large percentage of gay church musicians) has led him to be more compassionate towards others. That would be my bet. But's let's be clear: he is not, repeat not, a practicing Mormon if he's working in a Catholic Church. If he is, he's doing it on the down low.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And I empathize with your predicament having bought the anti-Zionist Kool Aid in denail of the inalienable right of Jews to self-determination in their historic homeland.\nBut they get no relief from criticism here for being apologists for indefensible Palestinian terrorism, gay apartheid and female segregation, honor killings of wives and daughters, female genital mutilation, and stabbings of innocent Israelis, women and children.\n\nIn the words of Jewish theologian Marc Ellis, \"Jewish empowerment is important and should be affirmed.\" Zionism does it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The notion that violence against homosexuals should not be surprising is predicated on the repugnant notion that homosexuality, homosexuals and their families and relationships are deserving of violence -- thus we ought not be surprised when it happens. This is filthy, despicable thinking -- and to the extent that it is rooted in Catholic teaching about homosexuality, it is evidence of precisely the point I made: that the teaching is untenable.\n\nBut I meant \"untenable\" in the larger sense that the teaching is widely and rightly rejected as inconsistent with what we know about human sexuality, and even more important, with what we know about our GLBTQ family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers. This ship has sailed. It has a way to go, of course, but there's no turning back. Thank God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To the Globe and Mail. I want to sincerely, and fervently, say \"Thank You\" for printing this article. (re-printing it, I guess. ) This article speaks to the issues that have caused so many Canadians to protest so strongly over the past months, particularly with Ms . Khalid's deceptively unclear \"anti-Islamophobia\" motion. (Motion 103) . Many Canadians from coast to coast to coast are working long, hard hours to raise the awareness of the fact that Islamic law , when applied in the traditional, repressive way, is brutal to women. Sharia law also calls for the death of homosexuals -- by throwing them from a high building, and then stoning them. Do we really want our country to go back in time about 700 years? \"Thank You\" for finally giving voice to the deep-seated and realistic concerns of many Canadians, who are NOT racist, or anti-Mulsim. Rather, who are pro-female, pro- gay rights, pro \"FREEDOM to live and speak as you see fit, if you are not harming others. \"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Political action must be gay focussed\n\nif Pride has achieved gay rights in Canada then fight for gay rights in the Middle East, Africa etc\ntoo much work to do\ndon't get distracted by non-gay politics\nPride is not the United Nations\n\nany group pushing politics that is non-gay should not march\nexample, Middle East politics", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well yah but: The Green Hair society doesn\u2019t\u2026(censored)\u2026apostates\u2026(censored)\u2026die. The Stetson wearers in Toronto guild\u2026(censored)\u2026gays\u2026(censored)\u2026tall buildings. The Quebecois speakers in western Canada union\u2026(censored)\u2026conversion\u2026(censored)\u2026all non Quebecois\u2026(censored). Please don\u2019t try to compare apples with oranges.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OS: As OldSchool pointed out above in his post, \" by using a 1950s phrase that's really a pejorative for a man whose gay \"trip\" you so despise\", Yes, \"light in the loafers\", means you are homo, gay, lesbian, Trans-mutilated, he/she, she/he, messed up. Not my cup of tea. \n\nI do not know what definition you have in mind about, \"are you heavy in your boots\", but you can call me whatever you want.............", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don't Christians believe that God created everything? If so, then God created gays. So do Christians believe that God made a mistake? What else did God make that was a mistake?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with your statement.\n\n One thing I don't know about the transgender is about the hormones they take - do they have to take them daily? What happens to their physical and mental state if they have to go without them for a long time?\n\nIf a person is dependent on drugs to maintain physicality or mentality, generally they are not considered fit for military service. Banning transgenders is likely more about their fitness for active duty than anything else, (although unit cohesion, especially in combat troops is critical for success).\n\nNot being fit for active duty would be a disqualifier under the merit category.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True. Not making homosexuality normal as normal means within the first two standard deviations. Abnormal does not mean sick, however. The two issues are separate, no matter how the Church hierarchy wishes to confuse the issue. Don't listen to the arguments of bishops who covered up abuse. Would ending celibacy end abuse? No, abuse happens in protestantism, including married men abusing boys.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Above, Rule and Raven says, \"The real issue concerns the Magisterial authority of the Church and acknowledging her Divine right and responsibility to determine that certain controversies are settled, once and for all, and are closed to further debate e.g. contraception, abortion, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, women's ordination.\" In other words, \"I'm right, you're wrong, there's nothing to discuss.\" One cannot have a dialogue with somone holding that attitude.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Uuuhhhh good order and discipline only exist in transgendered? I don't get your point. Are you trying to stick up for the minority as opposed to the \"rest\" of the group? That's not how the military works. I think you already know that.\n\n\"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.\" \"or the one.\" - Capt Kirk & Mr Spock (RIP)\n\nHere's another hurdle...as far as I know, sodomy is still considered a punishable offense if caught.\n\nAs we (CB readers) can all see, the left's attempts at normalizing aberrant behavior is working. Victimhood as a state of mind has infected our society to the point that everyone for every reason is a victim of some sort. This all started not as a civil rights issue. No. No matter how its spun, it was all about power. Pure and simple. \"I will make this happen because I can and you can't stop me.\" That was what was on Obama's mind when he did it. \"Fundamental\" \"transform\"...he told us what he was gonna do, and then did it. He's gone now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Regarding: \"You might say he approaches religious affiliation with the same commitment to personal autonomy that he brings to the study of economics, with similar peripatetic results.\"\n- This article makes a good case that how one is now is premised on the peregrinations in ones own life.\n- Seems that Sirico went from what would be imputed as liberal points of views (support of gay community and free flowing of the Holy Spirit - Pentacostalism -- to a point of view that exceeds liberality to become conservatism -- freely conserve that which preserves my own desires. \n- By way of a thought experiment: Consider that his own life is premised on a tax structure that enables him to promulgate his views, as well as on just employment and commerce laws that prevent oppression from becoming the crux of his own demise. What consequences would occur to him if the infrastructure and laws were not in place.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "hmmmmm1, yes your feelings count.\n\n\nFeelings however are what we don't base rational decisions on.\n\nUnless there are measurable reasons why a transgendered person couldn't be an effective contributing member of the Forces, then there's no reason not to allow them to enlist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What are you reading? Most articles and comments here are concerned with sexual morality and transgender issues. Any social matters discussed are the espousing of left wing causes which have nothing in common with Catholic social teaching.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "because the liberal elite believes in multiculturalism. They do not believe in reality. And if we are not willing to say that a certain religion is misogynistic and kills gays, then this is what we get. I mean, those poor dental students at Dalhousie were skewered because of their harmless Facebook page. But if you talk about a certain religion that wants to keep women in the stone age, heads covered (oops did I say that) or throws gays off buildings, then the whole world will come to an end.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By \"the Church\" you mean \"the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith\" which introduced the thesis of \"objectively disordered\" in 1986, in the significantly titled document \"homosexualitatis problema\". And the reference of that phrase is to the orientation itself not to sexual acts. That the CDF, like yourself, thinks of the orientation as an orientation to sexual acts and not as a vocation of love is the real \"problema\", thought up by men who are struggling with their own same-sex attraction. However, following Fr Martin's advice to dialogue only with those who offer a real ground for mutual understanding, I suggest we drop this discussion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you are discriminated against because you are white or male, that's race or sex discrimination. Try again.\n\nIt's amazing how many people suddenly became libertarian after gay people were included in the civil rights laws.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Libertarianism is a form of conservatism, some would argue a purer form than social conservatism which is often more theological than politically conservative. One cannot be a libertarian AND SOCIAL conservative, both - unless one is one of those very rare social conservatives whose own personal morality would be deemed socially conservative (drug use bad, homosexuality bad, unusual consensual sex practices bad, missionary position with spouse good, evangelical church attendance good, etc.) - but who also think it's wrong to dictate to others via criminal and other official sanctions what their OWN personal morality should be. Sadly, most social conservatives aren't libertarians but are dictatorial busy bodies who insist on running other people's lives for them by threatening them with jail if they don't follow their own rigid interpretation of\nwhat's moral behaviour & what's not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are likely right, monica. And things may have started sliding downhill with a change of leadership in the '80's, when the first of the non-alumni rectors were installed. Interestingly, the first three were Blase Cupich, now cardinal, of Chicago, Thomas Olmsted, now boshop of Phoenix, and Earl Boyea, now bishop of Lansing. (The only previous rector to be named a bishop was Henry J. \"Grimmy\" Grimmelsman, first bishop of Evansville, from the '40's.) Some 30 years back, our parish at the time employed a Josephinum student in its Hispanic summer program, who mentioned privately that many students there were gay. (He was not.) Even earlier, there were some glaring exceptions to \"typical\" -- David Heimann, an alumnus/faculty member who had a pedophile ring involving boys from the then-high school; Jack Bauer, an alumnus who produced pornography and ultimately died in federal prison. The attrition rate back then exceeded 90%. Hope this helps.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly, but don't expect the Globe to discuss the state of individual freedoms (or lack thereof) wherever the niqab is common. \nThe niqab is a symbol of oppression all over the world, without exception - the niqab is synonymous with social regression, authoritarianism, and lack of fundamental rights. \nThe Globe's attempt to normalize a symbol of misogyny is equivalent to suggesting a similar white cloak is just about different opinions. The niqab is not about cultural relativism, the fact that it's not common in Canada is a function of progress, Canada is an advanced civilized society and countries where the niqab is common treat women like second class citizens and have the death penalty for homosexuals. It's not a coincidence, the niqab is part and parcel of a mid-evil ideology of oppression and social regression. The idea of \"modesty\" is incompatible with gender equality, which is why the niqab is only common where women are subjugated as second class citizens: Iran, Pakistan, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Roy Moore is a birther, said Obama was a Muslim, was kicked out of the Supreme Court of Alabama...twice!. He called the first nation people of the United States \"reds\" and Asian-Americans \"yellows\" and believes Homosexuality should be against the law. He also claims that 9-11 was to punish Americans for our deviant ways (and was foretold in the bible). \n\nIn other words, he is perfect for the fine folks of Alabama. (With all due respect to those Alabamans who can't stand the guy and know him well).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homeless include gays, even white ones.\nWhat was your point?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're straight (I assume) and you feel free to judge a gay man and his relationship. What's the difference? He could adjudicate such a case because he is highly intelligent and knows case law and precedent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cWe would probably draw the line at leadership, seeing transgender persons as not qualified for leadership,\u201d Lambrecht said. \u201cIt is premature for the Northern Illinois Annual Conference to move ahead to commission M Barclay, given the present state of knowledge and the questions her commissioning will raise in the minds of many faithful United Methodists.\u201d\n\nI agree. Concerning how somebody who does not know who they truly are is given a position to make solid, definite decisions. I'm fine with the church accepting this person, but giving an administrative-like role is not right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can't work together with a culture that forces conversion or death. One that does not consider women equals, and one that believes homosexuality is punishable by death. What we are seeing in Paris, Rotterdam, Malmo, Cologne and Birmingham reinforce that this immigration experiment has failed. This is not a race issue, it is a culture issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I do not support white supremacy. But the Confederacy is a part of our history. Auschwitz is part of Germany's. They don't throw Christmas parties there, but neither do they tear it down. That blacks were originally counted as 3/5 of a person is in the US Constitution. We've corrected that. Confederacy memorials may mean different things to different people. The war was not just about slavery. There were economic and states' rights issues a well. If we can just accept these reminders of our past, then maybe our city parks can have nativity scenes. The 10 commandments can be displayed. Gay people can march. We can protest wars (and presidents). The mistake was on the part of those trying to make history politically correct by removing the monument, and a chance to learn. The riots were the result.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suggest we stop talking about this and just disregard what the hold-out hierarchs say. There are plenty of ex-priests who still have their state credentials to do weddings. Catholic families with gay kids should go to them to perform essentially Catholic gay weddings. (There are also probably gay priests who would privately bless such unions). Indeed, for solidarity's sake, divorced Catholics and normal Catholic couples should simply ignore the institutional Church until it apologizes and performs weddings for everyone. It won't take long. Weddings are big business for any parish.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry, but since the so-called \"Cardinal Newman Society\" shows zero tolerance towards our LGBT brothers and sisters, I cannot find any tolerance for them in my heart. As far as I am concerned, they are reaping what they sowed. \n\nFear and loathing for our LGBT brothers and sisters is NOT a Christian virtue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Technically, yeah. Munch carpets behind closed doors so there are no witnesses, you got nothing to worry about. Do we acknowledge the validity of \"gay marriage\"? Of course not. And I won't apologize for that. But will I waste any time \"judging\" you or otherwise worrying about what goes on \"below your belt? Nah. Not even a little bit. Not my job. On a scale of concerns, your 'intimate' preferences and practices are somewhere way down under the basement. We have FAR more important problems to deal with. Worriting about non-Muslims' \"nethers\" is a distraction from our obligation to resolve those problems. There are FAR worse things than illicit sex. Like mass-murder. Destruction of the environment. Usurpation of natural resources. Oppression. Unjustifiable wars for illicit gain that shed the blood if MILLIONS of innocent people. If you REALLY want me to care about what you do in your bedroom, come ask me again after we've addressed those other evils. But not till then.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I keep wondering where that dogma of Jesus is. \"Love your neighbor as yourself?\" \"Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone?\" Oh, I know: \"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.\" On another point, you do know that some women are gay, don't you? And that Nerinx is an all-female institution?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No too much demand for Lesbian-Yoga-Philosophy graduates in the tech-sector.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Black Lives Matter wouldn't allow him to attend a gay parade - they banned 'offensive' uniformed police in Vancouver and Toronto.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How much FGM happens in the US? Meanwhile, male circumcision is still done here. \n\n\nAnd how prevalent is the only \"people of color\" thing that you claim?\n\n\nIt seems you want every problem everywhere solved before someone can point out that homophobia is still going on at churches.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed.\nThe rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the middle class work harder to remain comfortable.\n This is a rigged economy that no honest, compassionate, hard-working person should accept.\n Sadly, it's an unavoidable fact that masses of immigration has a lot to do with depressing wages.\n This is corporate fascism by stealth. \"Defending\" women, gays, and immigrants while pushing the lower 50% of the population further down into wage slavery for the profits of the world-wide 1%.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What's it to you? Are you a female trying to be a priest or what? Why should it be an issue? Catholics got along with the fact that Jesus was a straight male. Are you a gay male trying to be allowed to be a gay priest? I mean who cares? What's your concern in this series of tendentious questions? What do you want us to say that will make you happy?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To children, yes, so that they are not aborted and because the market won't pay the kind of family wage that Pius XI said is required. Priests having gay sex inside of marriage (or hetero sex for that matter) does not desecrate the priesthood or the Mass, unless you believe in Continence, which is a rather misogynistic clericalist idea that should be crushed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The war on others not like the bigots goes on. Some go out of their way to suffer others not like themselves:\nSome are uncomfortable with their masculinity- Afraid they could be homosexual or bisexual\nBug dancing- Comfortable with going into bathrooms and doing their bug dances\nlatent homosexuals- Knowing they are homosexuals but fighting it and passing draconian laws against homosexuals as a way of punishing themselves for harboring such soul rending thoughts.\nNatural bullies- Always putting others down who don't have the same color, are less fortunate than they, or just want to go out of their way to push their own Trumpstering views on others.\nThese are the bigots that bastardize their Christian bible to morph into whatever bigoted message they want to send. \nI am a straight person, but have compassion for others who have been discriminated against by people in power who go out of their way to make life as difficult for others as they could without a thought of the suffering.others", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "heretic. The truth of the Church is shown that there are still those who would join it, and not just those from Anglican Ordinates who are fleeing female and gay bishops. Still, the Church is visibly changing around the Trads. They are dying off and Francis is replacing the John Paul bishops with spirit of Vatican II bishops which the Holy Spirit seems to have been hiding from the hierarchy (we were the altar boys in the 70s). The Holy Spirit is changing the Church, but she is moving with Francis, not against him. Indeed, She will move beyond him to renew the Church so that everyone will seek Christian unity, where the people have their just say over its operations and where none will be afraid of the Church taking over social services and education entirely from the government. The latter is impossible now, given the box Jesus has been put in. Slice the Magna Cappa it is wrapped in and let him out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting article, I'm glad Caitlyn met with some Republicans and supports the agenda. It also creates a dialogue for LGBT and transgender issues, something the Republicans are not generally allied with but it creates good exposure. I enjoyed the article.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "KRK,\n\nDon't hate America. We were the most progressive state in existence in 1776. A Bill of Rights and freedoms that didn't exist anywhere else. Our government was based on the societal and social norms of 1776.\n\nFast forward 241 years and America is still the best place on earth to be. As our society and norms change, our laws have changed to keep pace. We have universal suffrage. Racial discrimination is illegal. \n\nTransgendered people are the latest to push the boundaries. Right now our laws do not specifically give them rights. They generally define 'sex' or 'gender' as male and female. If you want the law changed, go to Congress.\n\nI don't dislike or hate transgendered people. I think that they are in for a hard life. It is not currently considered 'normal' in our society. That may change. \n\nLet the citizens make the choice, not the government. Obama tried the top down approach and got lots of push back. It should come from the bottom up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Recently, a philosopher called Rebecca Tuvel noted that the same arguments for transgenderism could be made for transracialism. Although her arguments were mostly sound, it enraged the gender theorists. Hilarity ensued.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_transracialism_controversy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "K: I wonder if Trump can imagine his future in the White House now that he won, above some kind of manic fantasy. I don't worry about the nuclear issue, the SECDEF has to concur. \n\nS: Trump can't undo gay marriage and with his Congress, there will be no ENDA. Most of the xenophobic stuff was playing to the crowds. Now that they have been fooled, nothing will come of it. Junking common core would be lovely. Of course, the prospect of authoritarianism is troubling, especially as the Donald meets a permanent bureaucracy which will not follow him into lawlessness.\n\nK : Trump is experienced in going with his gut, however if he has any kind of professional staff they will chafe at letting him. Of course, this gives us the prospect of clever Republican operatives playing him like a fiddle. Kind of like Cheney played Bush.\n\nThe question is, what will Trump do when he figures out he is being handled (and if he won't let himself be handled, what kind of disaster will ensue).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Joe, do you mean to say that you consider all homosexual acts to be 'adultery'?\n\nJust how? I don't comprehend your reasoning.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ryan Thompson has a long history of stalking and harassing people at Oregon State University and in the gay community in Portland. I have been a victim of his stalking and harassment. He has been kicked out of every gay club/bar in Portland. I don't believe for one second he is the victim in this article. His sense of reality is distorted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Surely not the worst we see online. The worst has been from those oppressively against gay men.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is that a slur on Burke's sexual orientation? You have given the impression of being beyond that. Gay jokes from an anti-homophobe. LOL.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This flap underscores the wide gap between those who wish to be open and respectful to the moral teachings of the Catholic Church and those who believe such teachings should be subject to ridicule. Among the latter are those who have embraced the dismissive term \"homophobe\" as if fear of homosexuals exhausts the reasons for questioning same sex activity. The word homophobe has been only among for 25 years or so. The words homosexual and homosexuality first appeared in the late 19th century. In scriptural terms, the assumption on the part of all is that human beings are heterosexual and that same sex acts perverted this assumption. Today, reasonable people must consider the existence of individuals who are innately drawn to those of the same sex. But it generates great controversy to merely assert it. The greatest controversy is between those who respect the teaching of the church versus those who hold teachings like this one in contempt. Thus it was, is now, and ever shall be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is why the instruction was issued:\n\n\"In light of this abundant teaching, the present Instruction does not intend to dwell on all questions in the area of affectivity and sexuality that require an attentive discernment during the entire period of formation. Rather, it contains norms concerning a specific question, made more urgent by the current situation, and that is: whether to admit to the seminary and to holy orders candidates who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies.\" \n\nIt's point has to do with the possibility of a man who engages in homosexual acts, has deep-seated homosexual tendencies, or supports the gay lifestyle, to achieve \"affective maturity,\" something necessary for proper exercise of the ministerial priesthood.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank God I am gay and dont have to deal with women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"no situation is completely resistant to love.\"\n\nUnless of course you're Catholic and gay, in which case you're supposed to resist love completely.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yours is a good point. But I would suggest that transgender folks are buying into the idea that each gender HAS a norm rather than accepting the totality of themselves as a different version of their sex chromosomes. Our culture in this issue has embraced that there truly \"is\" a female and male prototype. I thought we gave that up years ago when girls could like sports and cars and boys could like playing house - We are going backwards.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why not? The Catholic Church did it in their fight against gay marriage. They joined forces and money with the fundamentalsists, evangelicals and Mormons, none of which are friends to the church, especially the fundamentalists.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've known Big Glenn and his alter ego Mary Schultz for some time. He makes up a lot of stories to advance his multiple agenda of hate.\n\nEvidence of that agenda was ruled on in the case I provided the link to. Here's one bit of it - held to be his words: \"I believe no matter how or why you are a homosexual your life should be terminated.\"\n\nStill think I'm bullying him?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The video accompanying this article is a typical propaganda hit video! The video had nothing about the Alabama Senate race. \nThe power of the Left Wing Communist New organizations is in portraying someone as evil or good, as in homosexuals and Muslims, and shaping the ideas and thinking of those watching the video. \nMost of our Universities and News organizations are ran by anti-American Communist. The Democrats hide behind labels like Progressive or Liberal but in fact, they are Communists also.\nCommunism is the classic anti-God and anti-family form of government.\nThe ACLU was founded by a Communist. George Soros who finances Antifa and other anti-American groups is also a well known Communist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nothing you've said is true. But in this post-truth Trumpland world it's not surprising that people like you show up in these comments and spew made-up garbage.\n\nYou do realize that transgender people are both male to female and female to male. If you had you're way then ALL the pre-surgery female to male folks will be in the lockerroom with your 10 year old. That's right, women on testosterone dressed in carhartts with their moustaches and beards will be in there with your precious little snowflake. \n\nIt's a bathroom ... it's not a sex hangout. Apparently, you folks against equality don't get that. Wonder why? Do you have urination and defecation confused with sex? There are psychologists that can help you with that confusion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If she is bisexual but married only to a man, the state is discriminating against her for not also letting her marry a woman. It's all about love and who are we to deprive bisexuals of a marriage to a member of each sex?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Barry Manilow's gay? I definitely didn't see that one coming.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hey, remember the 20th Century, when our hearts were young and gay?!\nNow our hair is old and gray - and our hearts are married. And our lives are harried.\n\nMother-in-law! She's the worst person in the world. But, hey, she's politically correct.\nNo, Donald Trump is the worst person in the world. My mother-in-law is the worst neo-liberal politically correct person in the world.\n But my father-in-law... He's the worst politically incorrect person in the world. Worse than Donald Trump.\n It's been a slice. Good night. Drive carefully.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is odd that Charles would spend so much time on the sexual orientation of two candidates and leave out the fact that Albert Fogle is also gay. A quick look at his APOC report will reveal this. Fogle actively hides his sexual orientation from the conservative voters he is trying to court. And he is backed by the anti-gay forces in this town. It seems it would be a more interesting story to discuss a gay man who is a enemy of the gay community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Gays didn't have any more \"choice\" about it than you had in being hetero\"\nI think that the other side may agree with you that both are the same with respect to choice, but it is not that both did not have a choice, it is that they both did.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "None of us care about your perversion, so long as you keep it out of our faces. Why do the LGBT crowd have to keep pushing?\nIslam hates everything LGBT and socialist, except the bennies.\nGee, lets all be Europe and FAIL, lets let our women be raped, lets let the animals in--to get rid of the Christians, the homosexuals, the liberals--oh, yeah, that is the goal of Islam.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pence, along with Trump, is guilty of obstructing justice in the recent firing of the director of the FBI. Both Pence and Trump have broken their oaths of office to uphold the constitution -- covering up an obstruction of justice with the firing, covering up potential crimes of colluding with Russians in the recent election, and covering up Trumps lies about his financial interactions with Russians in his business. Pence has repeatedly lied to the American people . \n\nA man who left the Catholic Church after baptism and confirmation- like Sarah Palin, like Ronald Reagan --- is held up as model just for hating gays, abortion, birth control, assertive women? \n\nDoes Notre Dame really want to reward all of this?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The \"compromise\" in Kentucky was that the state legislature passed a law and the governor signed it stating that clerk's signatures were no longer required on marriage licenses.\nSo, the whole state now has to conform so that the Kentucky clerk no longer has to sign a marriage license for those icky gay couples.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And so it was a gratuitous, meaningless, hypocritical, cynical, dishonest attempt to differentiate homosexual candidates from heterosexual candidates.\nOr, as in your original post, it doesn't ask anything different of homosexual candidates from what it asks of heterosexual candidates.\nYou don't seem to have a fix on which of those interpretations of the document is correct. That's because the document itself is an exercise in gibberish.\n\nIn a different thread, only tangentially related to this issue, I posted some thoughts about this document. I'm going to repost them here as responses to this post.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here we go again. \n\nThe problem with Milo is exactly the same as the problem with Thomas Sowell, which is likely to become the problem with Camille Paglia: In the authoritarian world of identity politics, your politics are owned by your group identity.\n\nMilo is Libertarian and openly homosexual (as is Camille Paglia). His real sin is his honesty. Make no mistake, statutory rape is rape regardless of consent by the victim, because the victim simply is not old enough to consent. Milo had his first (homo)sexual encounter when he was 13 or 14 with a Catholic priest . Thirteen or fourteen is too young to have sex -- homosexual or otherwise -- but they're doing it anyway. Milo's politically unforgivable transgression was to explain that he was a willing participant and to describe the personal importance of the experience.\n\nHis account made me uncomfortable because it forced me to confront realities outside of my personal experience. That's one of the things good journalism does,", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Treating employees decently is better than harassing them because they're gay or black or muslim. Seems a reasonable principle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Police used to raid bathhouses in Toronto many years ago because gay behaviour in those places was against the law at the time. Don't blame the cops - blame the law. Things have changed a lot since then.\nPolice brutality is always inexcusable. Killings & violence against citizens is nothing like as bad here as it is in the US.. According to a couple of documentaries I've seen, the victims of such abuse in this country are just as likely to be white as black. BLM has no right to influence parades of any sort here. Perhaps they should use some of their energy trying to deal with ongoing gang problems in the black community\nPride organizers are displaying a weak kneed attitude to the bullying of this group.\nI would suggest that if this resolution is allowed to take effect at the next Pride parade, that fair thinking people stay away.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Francis uses the term \"gay\" ... I'm sorry that you have a homophobic condition or challenge.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Roy Moore has a fear of homosexual's , this is obvious... \"but\" as most people know the people who \"fear\" thing's to such an extreme are usually in denial to they're own true feeling's !! ( yes ) Mr. Moore is a latent homosexual or at least appears to be", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Neither of these specimens is a healthy gay man and both have a major interest in tearing down the LGBT community. Your facts are bogus. That you derive from these two accounts that gay men comprise a culture \"that sexualises and victimises boys as young as 13 years old\" simply means you're ignorant on the subject and apparently happy to stay that way. \n\nDo yourself a favour and get out and meet some gay families headed by men, meet their children, talk to couples who have been together for 20 years, talk to single gay men who have been out for that long and ask them the question you so offensively asked here, and you will get a much better picture of what is really going on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cory states he will make it clear when he agrees or disagrees, but won't cite one example. How about when Moore said he was undecided whether gays should be executed or not. Agree or disagree, Cory? Is that okay with you??????", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People aren't medically eligible to join the military when they take hormonal therapy regardless. A women with early menopause on hormonal replacement therapy is a No-Go to join. People with severe acne are disqualified because of the medications they take. People can't join with psoriasis but lets reset all medical, physical training, tactical and operational standards for a transgender? Likewise, people with medically documented psychiatric treatments are uniformly disqualified for a myriad of valid reasons. Any thoughts of suicide? Any history of taking anti-depressants? Any history of self-harm? So you want to have your genitalia removed? Perfectly normal responses? \n\nYour statements are in a complete factual vacuum and are solely motivated by politics. As a veteran, I'll continue to advocate for military readiness over contrived political correctness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're probably right. The Republicans have everything to gain by impeaching him. They get their party totally in control. And President Pence, hating gays, women and science, will be very much in line with their policies - though in a reasonable and reliable way that will not interfere with the prime directive of stealing money for the rich.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I see the comments here are largely anti-First Nations and are completelyavoiding the topic of transgender rights and Senator Beyak's obvious homophobia.\n\nI can only assume this is because they don't want anyone to google HOPE or the crazy conspiracy theories that the Christian Right cling to?\n\nOne cannot conduct one's own private Truth & Reconciliation Commission here in the comments section. That ship has sailed.\n\nAnd there's no building a revisionist backstory that White Christians were just trying to adapt children to modern industrial Canada. Ha. If that were true, why weren't we seizing Old Order Mennonite children, Amish children or the children of Hassidic Jews? No, the policy from the outset was clear: Destroy the First Nations by eliminating the next generation.\n\nAs for the Gay Agenda? Well, the Tories prefer to conduct that campaign through whispers and innuendo. And they cringe when someone lets slip the truth like Senator Beyak. That's hard to reconcile.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one is trying to get men into the ladies' room. They're trying to get women out of the men's room, and vice versa. So this is really exactly what you want - men in the men's room, women in the women's room. A trans woman is a woman. A trans man is a man. Grasp the concept.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the word \"homophobia\". A 'phobia' is a groundless fear -- fear of a culture that equalizes heterosexual and homosexual relatinships is not a \"phobia\" -- it is a fear based in reality. Without heterosexual / committed couples (ie. married) there is no 'next Gen'. There are simply 'outsourced' pregnancies, and children who do not know who their biological parents are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the \"gay scenes\" where cut out in Muslim countries. Heck, the movie was outright banned in some Muslim countries altogether.\n\nTolerance...is expected only if you're a white christian straight right leaning male.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think his 'homophobes and misogynists' was directed at the Muslim faith holding that women are always to be subservient, their testimony only one half that of a man, should not receive education beyond that needed to be a dutiful wife etc. and the absolute requirement that homosexuals should be severely punished up to the extent of being 'thrown down from high places to stones'. Just like ISIS did recently in Syria, as you may recall. And then we have the rape culture in Pakistan, India and in Germany by the Muslim refugees.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not once does anyone mention that the shooter told EVERYONE he was doing the shooting in the name of Allah. He posted it, he told 911 operators, he yelled it while he was shooting. Was the shooter gay? I have read news reports that he was. Why did he shoot gays or go to a known gay hangout and shoot at people? Some reports say he frequented that particular place. Why? \nI have found Anchorage to be a very gay friendly place. And I own guns because the Bill of Rights says I can. It has nothing to do with mass shootings, it is my RIGHT!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nah, don't think so. Tiffany Masunaga's mug shot just shows a female with a butch haircut. A fair giveaway is the gracile maxilla. That, plus shoulder breadth, relative average hand and foot sizes are everyday identifiers that remain pretty much unchanged no matter how much surgery a typical transgender is likely willing to undergo or how much hormone therapy is prescribed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That I can agree with. The only concern I have with it, is that the Rs used Obama growing and learning about gay marriage as a political club for years. I don't want to see the Ds do something similar, the hypocrisy would bother me to no end.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well he certainly has made no effort to hide his incessant projections of men sleeping together and male-genitalia imagery. Must weigh a lot on his mind, 'specially when all it has is a cat for its lap-gratification -- and that is all it will ever have. I have some gay friends, they'd never go anywhere near anything like this troll Roy. Just like men who see a single woman with a cat -- the very first gut-reaction is RUN-AWAY!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, if she's only gay at church...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How about starting with Saudi Arabia where gay men are not beaten but simply killed off. Or many other Muslim majority countries where penalty for being gay is death?\n\nWait, do we sell weapons to these countries? How ethical is that? At least we are not selling guns to Chechnya.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"taking so much away from women [but leaving viagra on the will pay for prescription list]?\"\n\nSMH. You know there's a reason why Viagra is covered down there (pun intended), right? Actually several. Here's two: \n\nOne, it is used for hypertension. In both sexes. My understanding of the US system is that this is actually the main reason it is included at all. \nTwo, governments have a vested interest in promoting birth rates. That means more tax payers (and less importing of foreigners). Which, if you haven't figured it out yet... is the exact same logic behind not funding abortions (ie: abortions reduce birth rates). Kinda like the real reason religions are against homosexuality... it isn't because \"gay is gross\", it is because they need more people to fight wears and pay tithes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clearly you know nothing about me and my tv viewing, so why do you make assumptions about me? The baker does not make unique cakes. Prove me wrong.\n\nArt is a distraction from the actual issue. \n\nGreat, roll out that cake. What does it matter if the caked is rolled out to a gay or a straight wedding?\nIf the baker does not know, how does it matter? The baker is asked to make a custom wedding cake by a wedding planner. It is elbaorate and costly. It took a lot of time to make. Then it is used in a gay wedding. The baker has no idea. If someone tells him after the fact does he stop having pride in his work? Does he choose to be offended? \n\nThe baker is choosing to be offended. That is not faith, that is being a whiney child.\n\nIf my cake is for a heterosexual wedding, then I take pride in that cake and it is a work of art.\nIf that same cake is used for a gay wedding, I no longer have pride in that work and it is not a work of art and I choose to be offended.\n\nThe baker is being a child.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay woman, I am much more afraid of an improperly vetted Muslim, who has been commanded to kill gay people indiscriminately, than I am of Jeff Session's personal opinion of gay marriage. Hillary Clinton was against gay marriage earlier in her career.....BTW.....the point is we all evolve. Politicians in our country whatever their personal beliefs will never be going into a gay nightclub and killing people. What they will do is help protect our border from terrorists or people of radical islamic beliefs - a common sense measure to protect all Americans. Hillary Clinton would not do that. Hillary Clinton wanted totally open borders. That means I am much more likely to lose my rights as a gay woman with Hillary Clinton than with Donald Trump as President. As far as the American flag goes......it stands for the many Americans who lost their lives to protect our freedoms who are no longer with us to speak for themselves. \"Free speech\" shouldn't mean doing damage to anything.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It should be a very minor housekeeping matter and should have been done decades ago when Trudeau Senior legalized homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Names are a convenience to refer to each other, it is what we do that sets us apart. It is not hatred on my part but those of the Gay persuasion that threatens suits and action against others as stated in this article. Do you not believe in democracy?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now, now, Don, it's all true. And I hope you are not a priest or you are in serious trouble. Our Lady of...... (choose any one) said that it's 70x7 the punishment for priests for category B sins, and the tariff goes off the scale if it's a cat. A. Double it if you are gay. HOWEVER, go to 9 Friday Masses (make sure they are consecutive) and offer them up for the Popes intentions, throw incense over your left shoulder, and some of the category B sins will be overlooked - but only if you are NOT gay. \n\nYip, Don, its all true.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's a distinction without meaning.\n\nPedophilia of young boys (or trysts with teenage boys) is always rooted in homosexuality -- or if you like, same sex attraction.\n\nHeterosexual men are simply not attracted to young boys. The only set of men who are attracted to boys are homosexual men.\n\nSome here seem to be arguing that the priests who molested boys were all straight men. And these straight men somehow developed a strange psychological condition that made them consumed with lust for boys.\n\nI say no to that silly idea. We have to first admit that the priests who molested all these thousands of boys were homosexuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So like the poster above, let me pose you a question, do you want a bearded hairy chested \"woman\" in the locker room because of a vagina? We, to include my self have all met transgender people that we had no idea what was going on down there. I am still lost how this whole thing is turned into some sort of sexual thing?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lots of gay people my age, especially gay men, are estranged from the Church because of how they were treated in parochial schools. Bullying against gays and using slurs was ignored.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those titles are all Combat arms specialties that I served in. \n\nThey mean that I spent twenty (20) years on active duty watching women who were too weak, too small, or too wimpy to perform combat tasks without risking the lives of others. \n\nTransgender is just another wimpy excuse to have sex changes paid for by the military for people who will be a hazard to those risking their lives in combat.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They are also very much interested in male pelvises. If you are male and homosexual, they have plenty to say about the region of your pelvis. And they are also interested in my vasectomy.\n\nMy brother describes God as \"an omnipotent, omniscient being with an inordinate interest in my sex life\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I feel as if I am in a worm hole, or something. Why all these pronouncements about sexual sins? Some of these comments seem, to me, so far right, so \"out there\" as to be disorienting. It's as if I woke up in an episode of Twilight Zone. It feels like the fifties. There is a vibrant, important Gay Rights movement in this country, just in case you didn't know. It's as important a struggle as any other civil rights issue in the USA. People are marginalized, beaten up, killed, discriminated against, fired or not hired to begin with, based on unspoken discrimination against homosexuals in the country. What hypocrisy I see and feel here towards homosexuals. And such ignorance. Where's the love, people? If you are not gay, please don't speak as if you are an expert on homosexual anything. This is a big deal to me because I believe a major cause of the clergy abuse crisis was and is hatred toward and fear of homosexuality. We don't talk about it... and we got the Crisis.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yea, but is she going to toe the party line and promote transgendered, sexual dysphoria to our first graders?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuals are men right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe he's sick of hearing from conservatives whining about gays and gay priests as if this is the problem at the base of the masses of Catholics leaving the Church. Except, in one sense it is the problem. About 30% of millennials leave because this is too often the default position on GLBT folks and they don't have the same knee jerk prejudice evidenced by the conservative arm of Christianity. I find it sad that three commenters who consistently bash gays are attempting to hijack this thread by bashing gays. Not too creative.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps Francis could find a way to get rid of all the gay priests that now inhabit the Catholic Church. I wonder how you could do that. Some of the treatment facilities that pedophile priests were sent simply asked the priests if they were attracted to children. If they said no, they were sent back to different Churches to minister to more children. After all, we know priests would never lie. Perhaps the pope could send out a questionnaire with regard to homosexuality. If a priest truthfully admitted to their same sex attraction, they could be laicized. If they lied, they would continue in good graces. I am a little confused though.If a priest is expected to be celebate, what difference does their sexual orientation make.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The gay men of Church St who created Gay Pride in 1981, are now personae non grata to city hall and Pride committee. We are told to shut up, but smile. Nobody is listening to our concerns about being treated like garbage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes it was. \n\nFrom wiki:\n\n\"In late 2015, Yiannopoulos began a campus speaking tour called \"The Dangerous F*ggot Tour\", encompassing universities in the United States and Great Britain. A number of his scheduled speeches in Great Britain were cancelled. Although most of his American speeches were not cancelled, some were met with notable protest ranging from vocal disruptions to cancellation via the heckler's veto. The journalist Audrey Goddard analysed his speech at the University of Pittsburgh. He concludes that Yiannopoulos spends the \"majority of the time voicing his opinions with little to no factual statements accompanying them.\"\n\nIt should be noted that Yiannopoulos is a self-hating gay person who pines for conversion therapy but will say anything for a buck.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"slippery slope\" is a logical fallacy.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope\nAnti-gay marriage folks claimed people would want to marry their pets. I haven't seen a lot of canines running around with wedding bands yet. I think we'll survive.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Trudeau spends our money with gay abandon. Ten million to Khadr is really a drop in the bucket to what he has been handing out to third world countries usually in amounts of 100 million. Eventually we will have a change of government, and it will have to clean up the financial mess, but it has happened before. Check out how his father left the Canadian exchequer!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Never seen the 1980 movie Cruising and don\u2019t plan to. I am too scared to see Al Pacino in black leather as an undercover cop \u2018cruising\u2019 M&M\u2019s gay bars and what might happen to him looking for a serial killer. Still getting nightmares after seeing the movie The Crying Game.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is a \"GD sub-group\"? I get mot of the letters you cited, but GD?\n\n\"Gay Danish\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Great point, so how does a business owner tell if someone is \"gay\" and refuses to bake that cake for their wedding. I am an outdoor hetro female who dresses in jeans and fleece. I have a deep voice, in fact on the phone I get a lot of \" yes sirs\" from strangers. I want a cake for my 4o the wedding anniversary and I go to the bakery and only based on \"profiling\" me since I \"could\" be \"gay\" they can refuse to bake me a cake . If one goes into a business and does no know it does for religious reasons not serve \"gays\" is there to be a test to see if a customer is \"gay\" or not? So if a person does not look or act gay they will get a cake baked and if the gay person who does not look or act gay ( according to the usual stereotype) does that gay person be charged with a crime of attempting to \"defraud\" a business since they did not tell the owners that they were gay? Can I sue a business owner who does not serve gays if they think I am gay but am not but refuse to provide a service to me?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have read it. The figures published there make it clear the vast majority of abuse was homosexual assaults on teenage boys.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My son is gay, but I do not support gay marriage.\nAnd neither does he.\nOut of three friends of his who have gotten \"married,\" all three have gotten \"divorced\" within 3 years.\nRidiculous.\nTradition and Scripture is clear: Marriage is for the betrothal of one woman and one man.\nAll the bishops and the pope agree.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good point.\n\nBut I suspect Cardinal Ratzinger's language here is more visceral than theologically objective. Which begs an obvious question: is he (y' know) a closeted gay man? It might account for that extreme denunciation : 'intrinsically disordered'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The NY Times staff wants low skilled immigrants to service the glory holes of the gay bars they frequent in NYC.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I presume were talking about the \"poor, innocent\" transgender Latina who stole a car and got shot? Has she stolen anyone else's hard earned personal property lately? No?\nSounds like a win to me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "According to many of faith, it must be because of the lesbians.\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/did-lesbians-cause-hurricanes-irma-and-harvey-god-knows/2017/09/08/638efbca-94bf-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e5a3f348e31d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sodomy in the legal sense is sex that is a crime. In Europe, North America, and South America, sodomy laws have been repeatedly struck down and barely survive in select quarters. Therefore, same-sex partners do not commit sodomy once married. Neither do the heterosexuals who freely engage in such acts without censure from anyone. \n\nThe sin of Sodom in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing to do with loving and consensual same-sex relationships. That \"sodomy laws\" have their basis in this story has more to do with the general obsession over a certain kind of sex act than the Sodom and Gomorrah story itself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds reasonable. The problem is, once somebody acknowledges publicly that their lifestyle and/or beliefs run contrary to what the Church teaches, the powers-that-be decide to make it their business. The rationale is that what people do behind closed doors is one thing, but when they go public they give scandal.\n\nThis sort of thing has led to ridiculous line-in-the-sand stances like firing dedicated gay employees, not to mention refusing Communion to pro-choice public officials and so forth. It ultimately alienates good people and makes the Church seem heartless, but that's what we've come to.\n\nThe lesson is, keep your yap shut. The truth gets you a pink slip.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is fake news, anyone who who has paid attention to anti-homosexual republicans through the ages knows one who acts as Roy Moore does he is actually a secretly wishful power bottom.\n\nSee Pence, Mike.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I meant \"adultery\" in the sense of sex that is deemed objectional ( I was in a rush when I wrote that one-word reply). But more technically, I would not call homosexual acts \"sex\" at all, and so my argument would be better stated that granting communion to those who commit unrepentant adultery opens the door to communion to anyone who engages in any unrepentant sin, including homosexual acts which, homosexualists would argue, are \"less offensive\" since there are no direct words from Christ about them as there are adultery. But I've no doubt that the drivers of this are the homosexuals in the Vatican.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My comment about Minnery was flagged by you and removed. It had no profanity and wasn't nasty. Just theology. \nI pointed out that Minnery's wife works - contrary to Biblical law. A woman's place is as a help mate to her husband - keep the home and bear children. \nI referenced a popular \"clobber\" verse that Christians use and I wrote that the same Bible book has more to say. For instance, a woman who is menstruating isn't permitted to sleep inside the home. I am certain that Mrs. Minnery sleeps in her bedroom when she has her period. \nThen there is the matter of their children. The clobber verses come from Leviticus which is clear about what to do with disobedient children - kill them. \nThe suit Minnery is wearing in the photo is quite nice. If it's made with mixed fibers then he is to be punished with the lash. \nThen there is the issue of shell fish. Minnery surely has eaten crab.\nJesus didn't say a word about homosexuality. Sorry but you can't have it both ways.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is no longer GAY Pride. We are merely hosts to a festival to which we are just spectators. The whole affair could now be moved to Exhibition grounds if \"pride\" is all there is. Will they ban drag if it offends feminists . Will they ban black leather if it offends vegans? I can't imagine BLM will give up domination of Pride without a fight, and certainly not to any group they do not approve of. They have stolen it and are not going to let it go. Next Year ought to be Police Pride to make up for the shame of this year's debacle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well done and helpful in understanding what is going on. I cannot fathom why the institutions are giving-in to the rabble rousers and cancelling speeches or not renewing teaching contracts. Here is the problem: each time an institution bows to the fringe outcry, they let that side \"win\", emboldened them, give the illusion that their voice was the most important voice to listen to. \n\nHow many times has Pope Francis said we need dialogue, we need to talk about issues that divide Catholics - including gay marriage, LGBT people participating in the life of the Church, contraceptives and women's health, women's and lay roles in the Church. These conversations need to include lay people, those who see so much more the church can and should do to play a deeper role in the life of the lay people, and to create a faith community that includes them as adults. \n\nOpen up the Church to include the laity in discussions and decisions. We are not stupid and we are not sheep.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As Pope Benedict said, the Holy Spirit always inspires (and never confuses) but men don't listen. The spirit that moves this pope to insult and confuse so many people is obviously not that Holy Spirit. Yet, it is clear that this pope draws his strongest supporters and apologists from the 50+% of US Catholics who support abortion, homosexual marriages/LGBT rights, and euthanasia, people who consider conscience, however ill-formed, as superior to Scripture and Tradition.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The best qualified candidate is not always the disabled native lesbian who has converted to Islam.\n\nFunny how that works.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your argument works in a hierarchical culture or even a despotic one. It fails in an individualism/libertarianism and in egalitarianism. Both cultures are legitimate world views. It is time to stop wondering why Humanae Vitae is so ignored, quit hopine all will repent or assume all will be damned and make yourselves useful and deal with reality, starting with the sexual orientation of the clergy through the years, which attracted gay and asexual orientees and led to a peculiar sexual morality. Jesus did not intend his miistry to be weird. Remember that he called married men, probably was himself and that the view that he was celibate is likely an asexual myth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Vietnamese boat people don;t go around killing gays in dance clubs, or shoot co-workers because they are having a Christmas party, or blow up subways, .or try to assassinate Canadian politicians. Vietnamese boat people joined in and participate. There is a difference between being humanitarian and being suicidal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Being from a Red state let me say that its about time! As a gay child that grew up in the state of Kansas in the 70\"s when my mother realized that I was gay, she and my family moved me to a rural area where they knew that they would not be questioned about the methods that they and their church used to \"combat evil\". Such is the reality of red states, they love their rural areas. where they can perform their dirty deeds like cook meth, and sell their unwanted children in to the sex slave market. Republicans love these areas because they are a hotbed for fake news to thrive and grow. Without an network infrastructure that can shine a light on the darkness that supports the Republican party, a darkness say greater than that of the KKK by 1000 times. Republicans will continue to manipulate the information going to these areas and the result is going to be more \"Trumps\" in the future. Blues outnumber reds and its time for the blues to start tearing down the reds playground!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "BLM, Pride's lesbians and active protesters are going call Tory a rich privileged white male who got his power as mayor on the backs of slaves. and many in the LGBT community will agree. . What will Tory do then? Apologize? City hall should withhold the parade license until the Pride Committee rescinds its support for the BLM extortion demands.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is your reason for transgendered folks committing suicide factually accurate or just your opinion? I have heard they have incredibly high suicide rates but have never heard nor read the explanation you give.\n\nI also notice you made a personal attack on another poster. I thought that was not allowed on this forum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Giveuptheghost - whatever you do, don't say anything about multiculturalism or how Islam treats women as second class citizens (requiring them to wear head scrarves, not letting them drive in Saudi Arabia, not letting them out of the house without their brother or father) or how they throw gays off buildings. The G&M censors don't like when that is mentioned. So please don't mention it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"many of the straights left long ago\". Probably to get married. And once married, JP2 ensured that they were locked out of not just priestly ministry, but also any of the ministries open to the so-called \"Laity\". Talk about \"Father What-a -waste\"!\nAnd here's the paradox: if a gay priest wanted to strike up a sexual relationship with another gay person (quite possibly another cleric), it would be possible to do so discreetly so as to stay under the radar. Maybe their bishop (possibly also gay) might be willing to turn a blind eye as long as it only involved consenting adults.\nIf a heterosexual priest, on the other hand, started a relationship with a woman (very likely a parishioner), it would be almost impossible to hide it. The inevitable \"laicisation\" would follow. If priests were allowed to marry this nonsense (and waste of talent) would cease overnight.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would like to know more about Charles Ryder's \"disagreement\" with the FACT that a gay married woman helped save Steve Scalise's life. Or does Ryder just React like a magnet to any affirmation of gayness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi Mike, I decided to do more research into Maciel last night. OMG! I often heard when I was younger the saying, 'the smoke of Sa**n will enter the Church and go to the top.' The Traddies who used this phrase aimed it at the Vat IIers or those who believed in a social gospel of justice. They said this while praising, and asking God's blessing, on JPII, Ratzinger, Sodano and Bertone. These four men - with their allies - have absolutely trashed our Church. JPII DID know about Maciel and sexual/drug taking allegations against him since day one of his Papacy. Bertone helped himself to Peter Pence money, sacked the guy who was heading the investigation into the Vatican bank, surrounded himself with corrupt clerics, built himself a palace. Sodano supported every murderous regime in South America. They allowed powerful groups of clergymen to overrun the Vatican, connected through homosexual parties or through seeking power.\nI'll post up a link to one documentary if I can. God help Francis!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "yay...common sense is making a comeback! And this is not a gay issue...it is a decency issue. A decency for normal people to continue to be normal and not be bullied by those pulling for abnormal people. simple really...turn this back to the states. If you live in a super liberal state, you should have no problem convincing the voters to give in to the transgenders, who are an infinitesimal part of the population. Must be nice to be easily pushed around,eh? And you have your activist judges to turn over anything that is voted, so what's the problem? Oh, it isn't going to be a national law", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay man, I would not take \"fey\" as a slur, but rather perhaps a backhanded compliment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Reading the article gave me hope for an even handed portrayal of the reactions to this horrific event. It started out in just that way, then veered into a subtle and not so subtle jab at those who are conservative/republican.\nIn a number of articles about the shooting and reaction to it, many comment about the hate that seems to be on display about all manner of aspects to the reaction to the shooting. \nThere is one aspect to the hate that is being displayed that is not addressed. There is the hate for gays mentioned, hate for Muslims mentioned, hate for different races mentioned, etc. The one hate on prominent display but not mentioned is the hate for anyone or anything conservative. Why does the left hate the right so badly? I have my own theory on that but will let others make their own judgements about this unreasonable hatred by the left.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Meant \"gay\" person, not \"guy\" person.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1}\"History\" has absolutely nothing to do with Divinely Revealed truth because God operates outside of time and space. 2} It is a Dogma of the Church that Divinely revealed truth does not change OR \"develop\". 3} Why do you presume to believe I am \"bigoted v. gays\". I am \"bigoted\" v. any kind of sin {including my own}. 4} It appears as though you are characterizing God as a bigot, based on His commandments and teaching. 5} The ultimate form of \"love\" is to pray and work toward the salvation of all. Those who die in mortal sin can not be saved. Accordingly, it is YOU who is the true bigot, along with your blasphemy and heresy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And then what have you to say of the LGBT and trans \"forcing\" the acceptance of their life style onto those religious people ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Or, I can research actual laws, which you obviously have not.....Too much liberalism can rot your brain. You ignore facts.\nSaudi law death penalty:\nSodomy, homosexuality, or lesbianism (If a man or woman is sodomized by their own consent, then they will also be sentenced to death along with the sodomizer)\nAdultery (Unmarried adulterers can be sentenced to 100 lashes, married ones can be sentenced to stoning\nFornication\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_Arabia\nIran:\nAdultery (zina): Unmarried(fornication), 100 lashes, death penalty for married couples. Mitigating Factor: repentance, lack of evidence, marrying partner, temporary marriage in some cases\nLesbianism (mosahegheh): 100 lashes; death on 4th offense \nSodomy (lavat): Rape, death penalty for rapist; Consensual; 100 lashes for active partner, death penalty for passive partner unless repentant (prior to 2012, it was death penalty for both). \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_system_of_Iran\n\n1st re-post", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ask kate she is the married person who outed her self as bi-sexual. Why is something i leave to you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Nope, poverty exists because people don't get heterosexually married.\" Where did he say anything even close to that, & why are you bringing heterosexual marriage, specifically, to a discussion that didn't include gay rights?\n\nAll the factors mentioned in your 2nd paragraph impact those who choose to follow the sequence of high school diploma, marriage, then children. Yet statistics show those specific choices differentiate those who are able to overcome those issues and those who don't. \n\nAs for \"poverty is people's own fault\" - poverty doesn't magically reach out & slap all poor at random. People who are in poverty make choices throughout their lives, just as people not in poverty make choices. Some choices are going to lead to better outcomes. Applying oneself to school, avoiding friends who drink, use drugs or commit crime, and pursuing a profession, whether through college or other formal training, will have a higher likelihood of a better outcome than choosing the opposite.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have no problem ignoring the USCCB on homosexuality. In many ways they are a Republican front group. I was referring to responses to my comments on Continence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not going to debate AL or the nature of annulments, I have set out my position which is in line with very many prelates and theologians.\nWhether homosexuality is is willful defiance of a fundamentally heterosexual nature is beside the point as it involves sexual activity outside of marriage which whether homosexual, heterosexual or autosexual is gravely sinful. Science cannot and does not pronounce upon the morality of an action.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well of course we have seen that here haven't we, the results of the deep critical thinking of the left. So far the deepest thinkers have given us such major accomplishments as transgender and weed legislation, as well as making human rights voluntary to new citizens. Certainly the high point of this administration.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"How can loving parents, even Catholic parents, support their gay child (who may be going through some very difficult times) if they don't know what it happening with their own kid?\"\n\nThey should try being better parents and pay attention to their children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If this is the true nature of the problem, then the solution is simple ... the church must embrace marriage for gays ... removing the taboo will normalize the situation speedily.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Voter turnout for this past presidential election was a 20 year low and Orange man still won. I pay taxes on two properties in Anchorage and voted for all the bonds. I'm not gay put have no problem with it. I smoke pot. \nGo figure. You must really hate guys like me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The State of North Carolina had the common sense law in place only to reconsider to repealing it because the State is losing millions of Sports money because they won't restrooms to be open to all sexes. The Democratic party in the United States will be judge by Almighty God for their evil moraless perversion act in letting this to happen to the whole country.\nMoney and greed has taken over and given in pressure to the homosexual activist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"A review of these releases also found that the rhetoric in the press releases on abortion and gay marriage is relatively mild, while the releases devoted to immigration, refugees and health care are passionate.\" \n\nThomas Reese, does anyone care, let alone read, what bishops put in their press releases? You use the wrong yard stick to measure bishops' political activity. What matters is what they do at election time and what they raise money to campaign on. In recent decades, they have told voters not to vote Democrat. They also raise millions of $ to fight SSM.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "On a theoretical level, the Church is not able to adopt the idea that a person's subjective experience is authoritative on the advisability of choosing chemical or physical mutilation. The Church's doctrine of the human person is unambiguously hylomorphic: a female body has a female soul. The Church believes that \"Nick\" has a female soul, and hormones and surgery can not change it.\n\nOn the practical level, the Church has a lot to lose if it is pressured to adopt the \"transgender hypothesis.\" Religious orders are sex-segregated, the most prestigious Catholic high schools are sex-segregated, youth ministry is often sex-segregated. In many parishes, even Bible Study is sex-segregated. (Paradoxically, many parishes have only a single restroom for mass-attenders, so this might end up being an easy one.) \n\nThe most reasonable solution would be for \"Nick\" to seek pastoral support in an Episcopalian or UCC community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The difference is that there are not thousands of people dis-placed, murdered, tortured and dis-membered by present day evangelicals. When is the last time evangelicals tossed gay people en masse off of a building, stoned or publically flogged a woman for adultery or cut the hands off of a thief? Or ordered the mass rape and abduction of school girls? Or routinely used female circumcision as a means of keeping their daughters \"pure\" for so-called \"marriages\", usually forced? YOU have a poor understanding of Sharia law. It is a horrible, regressive ideology. \"Conservative groups known as Daesh\"? You would compare conservatism with Daesh? I would respectfully ask that you educate yourself to the horrors of Sharia law. I would also challenge you to name ANY country that has Sharia law that is not repressive to women, religious minorities, or LGTB people....because there isn't one. As I said previously, read \"Infidel\". It will give you broader perspective, if your mind is open...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Stop with \"Trump's win bolstered right backlash\". This popular narrative has it completely backward \n\nHilary lost the election more than Trump won. The silent majority of normal people are tired and angry by leftist extremism, thought tyranny, and bullying. Obviously for Trump to win, this sentiment started before his election (duh), and Trump was the only outlet this discontent had. Hyper examining him as a man to interpret his win is misguided. He was the only choice against leftists so normal people held their noses. What if Trump weren't so bad? Hilary would have lost so badly the Democrats would be wiped out\n\nPundits completely miss how unhappy the center is with PC craziness that demonizes anyone not a victim of something. Now its hip to be identified as oppressed and thus free to be rude and aggressive with impunity to anyone white. Even the \"victims\" are infighting about who is a more oppressed victim - with gay women bad mouthing women. Some group claiming it worse than LGBT", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since Moira in The Handmaid's Tale is a lesbian, any reference to the Virgin Mary is highly ironic.\n\nWhat is The Handmaid's Tale about? Patriarchy and theocracy: that is, precisely the ideology that a significant number of Catholics and other Christians embrace. If Gilead violates Christian theology, it's fiction after all. Christians put the autocrat Donald Trump in power, and that is reality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Excluding those who are married, gays, and women from ordained ministry is more important than feeding the Church, than allowing God's family to gather at the Lord's table to break the bread and partake of the cup of salvation. That's the choice being made. Sad", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If anything, doesn't that suggest that He had little if any problem with the way the Jews dealt with homosexuality at the time (though I'm sure John 8:7 would apply here too)? If homosexuality was to be accepted as a good then wouldn't He have said so and not been silent on the subject?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So why were the comments shut down on the article about the altercation at the Gay Pridefest event?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Our First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion. Christians don't have to work on Sundays or on Christmas if they so object. Jews get holidays off without uproar. Why do we make an exception about Muslim-Americans practicing their daily religious practices? As for conservatives, I would never deny a person's right to believe political dogma of any kind.\n\n(For the record, I do know what [radical] Islam teaches. I also know that the Old Testament espouses abhorrent theology regarding women, gays, polygamy, slavery, incest, etc. Best to look in the mirror before disparaging others.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I love Fr Martin and his beautifully written & thoughtful columns. He gives me hope that our Church has/and continues to grow in love and acceptance. This ruse guy isn't fit to be listened to. We always taught our kids that God doesn't make junk & every person has dignity. Fr. Martin preaches this. Those of us with gay family members love our sibs, kids,cousins, wherever, unconditionally. Gay ppl don't destroy marriage, hypocrites who cheat on their spouses , have multiple affairs, disregard their own behavior as normal are bigger threats to marriage. It's a big tent, there is room for everyone. If you don't like gay marriage, don't marry a gay person, but don't deny two loving ppl who just want to be happy. You go, Fr. Martin, we love you and your kindness!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, it means that the Church should not exclude gays unless they are sexually mature and exclude straights with a childish sexual identity. It means getting rid of celibacy and continence, the last being a sexually immature attitude.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You reason with your conclusion in mind. Do some research. http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/deaconsbench/2010/05/screening-seminarians-when-was-the-last-time-you-had-sex.html states that the Church has been screening for gays and the immature, even while science shows no correlation between orientation and abuse. https://www.sharecare.com/health/sexual-abuse/what-causes-sexual-abuse-child Of course, beware of google searches, many of the results yield anti-gay propoganda from non-experts", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "False equivalency. If a group of thousands of gays descended upon a business, and if that group were armed (I know; it's not possible.), any business person would be within his or her rights to ask them to leave. This is not what happened at the bakery, and everyone knows it. We also know that a large rally of white supremacists could conceivably turn violent, regardless of who starts it, and therefore, a decision not to allow that on one's property would be a prudent one. Now, if one, unarmed, white supremacist (I know; it's not possible) were to ask to be accommodated, he should be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Joesf Stalin: A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. \n\nSure, Fidel lovers, what's a few tens of thousands murdered, hundreds of thousands exiled and how many homosexuals interred in re-education facilities? You who lick his boots, each of you, are apologists for evil. \n\nFrom Amnesty International: \"Over more than five decades documenting the state of human rights in Cuba, Amnesty International has recorded a relentless campaign against those who dare to speak out against the Cuban government\u2019s policies and practices.\" and \"Repression takes new forms in today\u2019s Cuba, including the wide use of short-term arrests and ongoing harassment of people who dare to publish their opinions, defending human rights, or challenging the arbitrary arrest of a relative.\"\n\nNone so blind as those who will not see.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "it's easy for me to grasp that however you want to stereotype, neither James nor the representative probably have knowingly met a trans person, ever in their life. trans people usually have it perfectly figured out who they are. it's cis men who have the hardest time accepting that trans people exist. it boggles my mind that y'all cannot get it through your thick heads; they are not confused, and want to live their lives in peace, like most people. what part of all of that common sense can't you all understand.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ".\nShe could always apologize in such a backhanded way as one of my conservative neighbors did to me after saying he thought I was gay, to others of his ilk, because I failed to embrace his advances; the apology was along this line:\n.\n\"I'm sorry if you felt badly after I told everyone in (name of larger town next to mine) that you s__k d__s. \"\n.\nAnd I'm almost quite certain most of those conservatives otherwise offended would go back to business &/or pleasure as usual. Most of that haters-ilk like to believe they have God in their pocket; when more often they have a bundle of sticks and coal as gift to their graven plastic hayzus.\n.\nWhen a public official offends the sensibilities of an entire region, why can't everyone evict them from office? ;)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank your for the hope you bring that things are changing in the Catholic church. If one bishops' conference can do this, can address the evil of bullying LGBT children, so can others. And so, too, can we begin to incorporate new knowledge of humans and sexuality. \n\nI recently read two articles that have helped in providing a view of LGBt as \"normal\" in a religious/theological framework and the issue of religious \"rights\" and the laws of the republic that protect everyone's rights and liberties. \n\nThe first is here: http://jamesalison.co.uk/texts/eng59.html , written by James Alison, a Catholic priest/theologian. Here are a few quotes: \"...there is a regularly occurring, non-pathological minority variant in the human condition-which we call 'being gay'. ...what we call being 'straight' or 'heterosexual' is not the normative human condition, but a majority human condition. ...it is not true that humans are intrinsically heterosexual.\" Much more.\n\nSee comment 2.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just look at California if you want to see the outside influence of wealthy entitites when there is an initiative process in place.\n\nThe very rich Mormon church singlehandedly got an anti-gay marriage initiative passed.\n\nIn 1956 the oil and gas industry spent $5 million (a huge amount 60 years ago) to try and get special lowered taxes.\n\nIn 1958 corporations got together to sponsor the union-busting \"right to work\" initiative\n\nIn 1963 the movie theater owners got a bill passed banning cable TV via initiatve\n\nOn the other hand, we have the County of Maui where citizens frustrated with no action on the part of elected officials (many of whom take money from the chemical companies) passed the GMO Moratorium.\n\nSo I guess there is something to be said for the initiative process in these days of Citizens United where only a minority of legislators represent the people rather than their big donors.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can't look closely at your quote in context because you don't provide a link to it. Even so, a rate of victimization doesn't say anything about who the perpetrators are, just who the victims are. It may just mean that more lesbians have been assaulted by family members. The point is you can't tell from the statistic you've posted.\n\nAnd it's another red herring being raised in this debate -- when the question posed was about sexual assault in same-sex relationships, your \"statistics\" on domestic violence doesn't answer it. They are different things.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Still waiting. And I didn't say \"I read a lot\". I said I took genetics classes. And cell biology. And organic chemistry. And comparative anatomy. And herpetology. The latter two classes given by one of the most prominent herpetologists in the western hemisphere, and who was so demanding and rigorous that all the other biology professors and graduate students I knew advised I never fail to include on any resume for a biological-science related position that I got straight \"A's\" from him--because that almost never happened. He was a valued mentor and one of two of the only professors under whom I studied who actually challenged me to THINK rather than merely disgorge information memorized by rote. It's primarily thanks to his teaching and influence that I seldom confuse science with wishful thinking. And he is \"gay.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The baker didn't have wedding cakes with 2 dudes on them on his menu.\"\n\nWhere in any story have you read did the couple say they wanted the cake to have \"2 dudes on it\"? The baker straight up refused to make them the cake ONLY because ti was for a gay wedding. It was not about spicific imigary that the couple wanted on the cake itself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Any \"weaponaization\" going on can be directly and solely traced to the homophobia and bigotry regarding transgendered people that are rampant in our society. If LGTBQ people didn't face so much marginalization, the need for militant advocacy would be moot. Sadly, only recently has society even begun to accept that LGTBQ people are just that...people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By golly you're right. I mean, there is no way any kid could form opinions or ask questions about anything political. It MUST be part of a conspiracy! Has to be part of the liberal agenda to defame any Repub amirite?\n\nIt's always part of the \"agenda\" for conservatives, or so it seems. The gay agenda. The black lives matter agenda. The illegal immigrant agenda. Apparently, everything conservatives don't like is being masterminded by some evil force, likely George Soros. \n\nEven kids can read about something and formulate questions all on their own.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh a trans-woman would be the wet dream. Its called \"intersectional victimhood\", wherein you get to claim victim status for more than one thing. I wonder if you can get merit badges to sew into your vest, to show how many ways the patriarchy oppresses you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Midgets are not specifically mentioned in section 15 of the Charter either. Does that mean their rights and freedoms are not guaranteed or included? Does that give people a license to discriminate against midgets? \n\nOf course not! The same is true for \"Trans\" people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not saying that at all. What I am saying is that once was wrong, is now all of a sudden right. Women now are allowed to attack, and are even encouraged, to attack men. That should not be. Especially if men are not allowed to attack back. I am not saying either should be allowed to attack.\n I am also saying that homosexuality does not lead to life. Does it not still take a sperm and an egg to produce a child? In other words, does it not take a man and a women coming together in some fashion to produce life? I admit that we have learned how to do it outside the womb, but it still takes both to produce the child. I know I am trying to push an ideal situation for a child, but should we not be trying for that ideal. The ideal of a child having both a loving father and mother. Or have we gone so far downhill as a society that we are concerned with only our own personal sexual gratifications? This is also part of what is behind abortion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My initial reaction was \"it's none of your business\", especially since it's you, Trid, and I could just see you responding \"Well, if he did/didn't do , he really didn't do it properly\".\n\nBut I shall answer. He kept the rules, he remained celibate, he went to Mass and confession regularly, he did volunteer work, he prayed. But he was rejected by many, especially in the clergy and by traditionalists, because he was gay. That is unchristian, to reject someone, not because of anything he had done, but because of what he was. Of course, being called \"intrinsically disordered\" in official documents hurt -- and don't kid yourself, it is homosexuals, not the so-called \"homosexual tendency\", that is being insulted here.\n\n The final straw for him was when this ar$ehole of a priest, who knew my brother was homosexual, gave a sermon on how acceptance of gay marriage was the number one sin besetting the US. \n\nNo, as I said, he did not fail the Church, but the institutional Church failed him", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So he wants to be gay, he is still a good actor!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why is it so important for you that there be continued discrimination against LGBT folks?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Three of your four areas of complaint against Francis are issues that concern women. Homosexuality CAN concern them as well. Women have demonstrated since 1968 that they don't care what any Pope or any other man states about those issues. That's the reality of the lived experience of people today. Any bishop/any pope that ignores that, pretends that this world is inhabited with people who think like the people of 1900 once did, is delusional.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps you're right. Who can say? As a gay person, all I know is that for many years I've been on the receiving end of other people telling me that my feelings of same-sex attraction are \"intrinsically evil\" and \"objectively disordered.\" From that experience I've learned not to accept what other people say my feelings ought to be, because I, and I alone, know what my feelings are. If a transgender person tells me that inside they feel like a person of the opposite sex then I believe them. I don't personally know what that feels like myself, but I trust them to tell the truth about themselves. For me it really is that simple.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Odd how social science becomes now \"hard science.\"\n\nNo one wants to take up the most recent John Jay report that shows more than 80% of priestly abuse cases involve same-sex attraction or the even higher percentage (90) of abuse victims who are post-pubescent. \n\nThose become inconvenient or immaterial facts here. \n\nBut the truly hard science is the medical evidence of common homosexual practices involving what is done in the matter of defecation and other practices. \n\nHorrific diseases involving deliberate use of the mouth and the rectum. \n\nNo concern among anyone here of the burden that these practices have added to our health care system.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Hollywood casting couch is an open secret in Hollywood, in corporate America, in the news and entertainment industry. Full of Mafia, beautiful mols, gays, gorgeous high class hookers and gigolos, crooked cops on the take, rich singers and songsters. and so on. It will not stop with Harvey babes. It will continue and we will make sure it does. We are the hedonists. For every girl who cries rape or abuse, there are ten more who became successful in the industry. They will not cry. They had what it took to get the job done. They attained the Hollywood dream.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ".....\"New law does nothing to guarantee that LGBT people will be protected from discrimination,\u201d.....Sure it does, like most places LGBT\u02bbs can use the same toilet that is your gender. If you have something hanging (men) stand up, if you don\u02bbt (women) sit down. No discrimination, same rights. How hard is that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Celibacy was done because of the teaching of clerical continence. This the practice of avoiding sexual intercourse before saying Mass which is based on the myth of messianic celibacy. While celibacy is promised (only chastity is avowed), it tends to attract people who are asexuals or seek an asexual ideal because they were born homosexual. St. Paul was likely the former but may have been the latter. Plato made asexuality an ideal in western civilization and we have not recovered since. Augustine may have been asexual, although he had a wife for a time, so he may have conformed to asexuality. He certainly championed its ideals. Aquinas was most obviously an Ace.\n\nTo deal with these issues honestly, clerical continence must go. It denigrates women and is based on unproven belief. Married people (including gays) need to be ordained and the ordained allowed to marry or remarry. Asexuals need to be encouraged to accept their rare sexuality and most importantly, ordain women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Christians claim discrimination all the time.\"\n\nYou claim that, but a search on the subject returns very few results--most about gays who claimed they were discriminated against. It's hard to find cases where Christians claim discrimination, though I'm sure there must be some cases.\n\nThe Christian in this case isn't asking for special rights, just the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Johns Hopkins and Fairfield Universities\n\nPart 2B of 6 parts\n\nPlus, I also dealt with soldiers of both sexes who unfortunately also had alcohol and drug-related problems/issues such as with marijuana and cocaine [Fortunately, I didn\u2019t encounter soldiers who had issues with heroin at the time.] Plus, of course, some soldiers also had problems/issues with finances, marital problems and PTSD, etc. Again, this occurred over a half-century ago even before \"Don't ask don't tell.\" Indeed, there was little, if any, tolerance whatsoever for gays or lesbians at the time within the U.S. military. Parenthetically, I memorably recall being instrumental in justifiably getting an attractive PFC WAC who was my secretary/clerk, e.g., discharged from the U.S. Army because she was unfortunately being unmercifully preyed upon by some of the [Lesbian] WAC sergeants. Really!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "no sin is unforgivable - unless you are divorced, remarried, and the church decides your prior marriage was \"valid.\" Or, you are gay, civilly marry your life partner, and want your life partner to be recognized as the love of your life. \n\nI am sure there are others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anthony Scaramucci\nWhite House Communications Director and former believer in climate change, gay marriage, Islam as a peaceful religion, the ineffectiveness of walls, strict gun control, Hillary Clinton\u2019s agenda, and abortion rights up until last week.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A one legged, multilingual ,trans, first nations, marxist should be appointed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The alt-right and skinheads are not a protected class of citizens, per the law, like gays are, so this argument is moot. It's really not that difficult to understand.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Orthodox do not ordain women; they do not allow their priests to marry once they're ordained (i.e. if a priest's wife dies/there's a church divorce); their bishops cannot be married and must have taken monastic vows; there are no female clergy in the Orthodox church.\nThe Russian Orthodox church, by far the largest, has radically shrunk its contacts with Anglicans, citing ordination of the openly gay and the consecration of females as bishops.\nAnglican academics may have warm feelings towards the Orthodox; many Orthodox regard them with suspicion.\nAnd we're talking about the effects of the ordination of women on churches, whether or not it leads to church growth-so far as I can tell, the verdict is still out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jim freely entered the Jesuits and is bound by what many consider to be, one of the most restrictive vows of obedience in any religious order. \nAs for the comment here about tolerance, the Catholic Church's teaching is a reflection of the love of all people. The teaching on the immorality of homosexual acts is a part of that love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ".\n\nThe author writes:\n\n\"This kind of anti-Christian sneer is nothing new for the Liberals\"\n\n--\n\nMacDougal makes the same mistake that so many others of his ilk do - he assumes that to be a Christian one must certainly share his particular rigidly fundamentalist credo.\n\nOf course, there are many Christians who are appalled and repulsed by the anti-gay, misogynistic, hate-filled xenophobia so often prevalent among evangelical Christians.\n\nMr. Scheer may or may not have these characteristics but enough of his brethren do as to facilitate Mr. MacDougal's hypocritical anti-Liberal rant for all to see just what it truly is, the same old same old.\n\nCanadians rejected hate in 2015.\n\nIf MacDougal is an example of the new CPC leadership's views, Canadians will again opt for tolerance in 2019.\n\n.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your types of examples are idiotic. Your example is nothing like what is going on in this story. The baker in this story makes wedding cakes all day long. The gay couple coming in asking for a normal wedding cake with nothing different other than they are a gay couple.\n\nYour example implies that the gay couple asked the baker to make something different than what he normally makes on a daily basis - which is not the case at all. The couple did not ask for a \"gay\" wedding cake - they asked for a wedding cake. If you saw the cake, you would have no idea it was for a gay couple. \n\nSwastika's are also a form of hate speech and a person can refuse to draw that image or write hateful words - again, NEITHER of which was the case here.\n\nCare to try again with another flase equivelancy?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "To the defenders of Trump, that 'he hires black people (Ben Carson, Omarosa)' is like the usual phrase when talking about homosexual or racial issues: I have gay friend, I have black friend, used as a shield of some sort. It means very little. What speak volume is his actions. His actions, as listed in this article, show that he is a racist and a basic bigot - product of the time/era during his formative years and he has not progressed since. Now shamelessly using race to divide the country just to strengthen his base is a crime against this country.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is coming from a homosexual pedophile who has more aliases than the sea has salt. All anyone has to do is \"do the math\", and figure out what name you had at the time of your sex crimes with the state patrol's background check. One of your victims killed himself, and you moved far, far away from here(smart move). You had to blame someone, so you blamed the one family who tried to help you. You tried to accuse my family, it was unfounded, and you can't hide from your sex crimes. So you sit, and baby cry cry to anyone who will listen, and no one believes you, because you can't make sense out of nonsense. I hope you get a big drink of ice water before you leave this world, you are going to need it where you are going! Later Champ!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree. CM reminds me that the Mystical Body does exist, and that toxic, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage liberals are doing their best to kill it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Huntsman, it appears that you are still heartbroken over Hillary. You say that transgenders not being allowed to serve is the same evil as race & sex discrimination, you could not be more wrong. Can a woman be born in a man's body? It seems possible, but in all probability it happens as often as conjoined twins. The whole idea that one can change one's sex at will is just stupid, and another progressive plan to just totally mess up the whole country. You can change your appearance, but not your sex. Teachers are demanding more money,( in order to be \"FAIR\") while teaching kids they can be a boy or a girl. Thanks Obama, Thanks Hillary. It makes me hope there is a Hell.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Do you mean the sin of homosexuality, or homosexual persons? The former, absolutely; the later, no.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I suppose you would prefer the liberal/democratic strategy which is to have us all unarmed and cowering face-down in a gay bar toilet waiting to be executed?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The first transgender I met in Alaska was in 1980. My Uncle was gay when I was growing up. Over the years I have met many gay people. Your exaggeration of the Transgender community filling the female locker rooms with \"balls and penis's\" is ridiculous and a real attack on the Transgender community in Alaska implying that after being a part of the Alaskan life as long as I have lived in state since 1978 that all of a sudden they want to share a female locker room and fill it up with their \"balls and penis's\" is ridiculously graphic. . It is this type unnecessary rhetoric that incites some to attack the LBGT community and cause them harm. Shame.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If a pedophile is male and abuses a boy, why is he not gay? I never have understood that. When the lgbt want gay leaders in the boy scouts and then beat up the boy scouts when a male abuses one of the boys.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Solidarity my foot. What we need is to be vigilant and look out for radical islamic terrorism, the forced marriages, the forced genital mutilation, the misogamy, and if you are gay watch out as you will be thrown off a building.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In the 1950s, the people running the country were white, Christian, straight males. Since then, women, non-whites and gays have all gained significant power. \"Christian values\" no longer automatically hold sway. So naturally many white, Christian, straight males feel things are worse. No longer do they feel the same sense of superiority. That's what \"Make America Great Again\" means to them -- put things back the way they were, so women, blacks, gays are all inferior to us again.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Defying episcopal egos is more acurate, although the teaching does need to change, both on the whole myth of a natural order not rooted in the real world and that all gay sex is wrong, rather than just promiscuity.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Once again the far right will support a sexual abused and claim moral superiority but want gay people in jail. Remember when Obama played golf once in a while? The right had a cow. What\u2019s the difference? Hmmmmmmm. Right wingers show their bigotry every day. Go ahead right wingers commenters prove me wrong. And don\u2019t bring up Hillary.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Legalize prostitution is an answer to rapes in Alaska. It takes 30 years for a male to prepare to make a living but only takes 18 years to become sexually mature. This a conflict that fools try to answer with outcries. No wonder there are so many Gays. You seldom hear a male yelling rape by another male.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You get an equivalent in Freeland stars for being protective of her virtues to free Chechen gays when western allies like Saudi Arabia torture, imprison and behead gay people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The priest represents Jesus is some respects in his role as priest. Jesus was a heterosexual, and so must all priests be straight. They must be straight because when Paul was laying it down for the churches he talked about the husband of one wife being priests, never did he suggest a gay man could be the leader of a church. I'm guessing here though, the chief thing being that Jesus was straight and so must the priest.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What I would love to see is every gay Catholic bishop, priest, deacon, religious, organist, choir director, etc. come out and then see who is left. There wouldn't be many!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You think dad are overpraised, are you serious? Look at every sitcom and commercial since the early 90s, dads are all portrayed as fat, immature morons unless they're gay or a minority and wives are portrayed as attractive, sensible and the voice of reason.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Israel has been very nice to Palestine\n\nshe has not wiped Palestine off the map\nsomething Palestine and allies want to do to Israel\n\nIsrael provides refuge to gay Palestinians\nsomething gay Anti-Israel leftists in Canada (professors, clergy etc) should remember", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You don't know your church history at all if you think it didn't argue against heliocentrism in favour of \ngeocentrism. Your arguing just emphasizes your ignorance of history.\n\nThe Catechism is filled with ignorant statements targeting women and the LGBT community. Again, your denial highlights the depth of your ignorance in these matter. \n\nThe church is growing percentage wise in Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions but declining dramatically in the West and Latin America.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Of course you are aware that the Church has formally condemned the notion of separation of Church and state. The State's primary duty is to act for the common good of the citizenry. The highest \"good\" is the salvation of souls. Since the ordinary means of salvation are not available to non Catholics, it is a fool's errand to believe that the State can function with out the Church's guidance. As for the Obama religious scorecard, anyone who so rabidly supports infanticide and homosexuality must be given an \"F\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You mean like Colorado-based pastor Kevin Swanson who preaches that the Bible says people should receive the death penalty for being gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This should bring some calm and rational comments.\n\nIn the left corner, wearing the sequined rainbow shorts weighing in at a svelte 175lbs THE RAINBOOOOOWWWW WARRIOR!\n\nIn the right corner, wearing the camouflage cargo pants pulled up to his chest, weighing in at 230 lbs, the Redneck Brawler.\n\nLadies and gentlemen and bisexuals and queers and transgenders lets get ready to COMMENT RUMBLE!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I see you're back. Welcome.\nBut I also see you still blame everything on Obama. Trump gets the whole blame on this. What kind of president kicks thousands of people out of the military, people who are doing their job, via a tweet?\nTrump's tweet is all about politics. Trump stuck it to transgender people. It makes people like you happy. It has nothing to do with military readiness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Politics is so much better than sports ;)\n.\n\"Transgender woman beats \u2018bathroom bill\u2019 sponsor in Virginia House race\"\nhttps://chicago.suntimes.com/news/transgender-woman-beats-bathroom-bill-sponsor-in-virginia-house-race/\n.\n\n\"Can This Guy Beat Paul Ryan?\"\nhttps://www.milwaukeemag.com/randy-bryce-profile-can-this-guy-beat-paul-ryan/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The starting point... is the Bible...\"\nI look at what I feel is the problem of worshipping a myth, and I post my own theses. Luther didn't reform the church, he just created his own power center. I post in the secular as the church would arrest me if I posted on its doors. I argue against using Martin Luther as an example of a decent human being.\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JoWviW2rBM\n\nI argue that the far right, which really includes the Catholic Church, is about hatred of gays, and is a prime example of an organization that promotes male supremacy and social inequality.\n\nBut I am not arguing against the existence of the Catholic Church. I am merely pointing out a door of liberation, available to those who are open to reality and rationality. One cannot reform from worship of Apollo, or Diana, one can only see that there are no Gods, no God, and work for social change in the secular world. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUYRoYl7i6U&t=2934s\nHugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Feels like the Canadians are upset that the US has pulled ahead of them in the virtue signalling contest recently. To all SJW readers, Martin Luthor King was opposed to gay marriage. You going to tear down his monuments next? Don't erase your past, learn from it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have never met a transgender person and given how few their numbers, it's possible I never will. \nWe hardly know anything about them. There are only rough estimates of how many and no one seems to have a clue on the breakdown between transgender men and women. We need to learn more. If there are men trapped in women's bodies that want to serve in the military I say maybe that's OK including combat duty. But I'm not so sure women trapped in men's bodies. There may be a role in the military for them but I'm doubtful it's combat.\nIt also seems that hormone therapy causes psychological changes which given the nature of combat doesn't sound like a good mix but maybe not. Are some transgender people only joining the military to get their therapy paid for? Perhaps only those that have successfully transitioned and pass the psychological screening for the military (suicide and disposition to violence) should be allowed in. I'll say it a second time. We need to learn more.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And yet we hear some who demand that gays be banned from the seminaries, despite those expectations of chastity and continence -- it would seem for some the attraction is in fact the issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Impact of Violence On The Homosexual Lifespan\nA pioneering study of 6,714 obituaries30 in homosexual newspapers across the U.S. revealed that 3% of 6,574 gays and 20% of 140 lesbians had died violently:\n1.4% of gays and 7% of lesbians were murdered (rates over a hundred times those of non-gays);\n0.6% of gays and 5.7% of lesbians committed suicide (rates dozens of times those of non-gays); and\n0.6% of gays and 4.3% of lesbians died in motor vehicle accidents (over 17 times the rate of non-gays)\nThese events, coupled with various STDs (especially AIDS) gotten from other gays, resulted in a median age of death of 40 among gays and a median age of death of 45 among lesbians. In the same study, comparison samples of married men had a median age of death of 75 and married women a median age of death of 79. For divorced or single persons the median age of death was 57 for men and 71 for women.\n\nGreat lifestyle choice, right ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A \"prudent budget\" would be one that reverses the outrageous deficit spending plans announced earlier with a set of proposals to limit the deficit to $10 B as promised during the election campaign and an attempt to balance the budget in not too distant a future. Canada does not have a revenue problem, to paraphrase another report, it has an expenditure problem. The era of monetarism is over as it is clear that it does not enhance economic growth. Prudent governments around the world are turning to fiscal measures, to Keynesian economics in order to jump start their economies, which in essence suggests that one could run a \"prudent\" deficit in tough times but must run a surplus and repay the deficit in good times. Unfortunately, everything announced to date by this Liberal government amounts to spending on social programs of little value to most Canadians: refugees, gay rights overseas, hundred and fifty plus people delegations to the Paris climate change conference, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Will I be allowed to directly ask what the Imam and his congregations view is on Sharia, women's rights and treatment of gays?\n\nWill I get a straight answer? Will that answer be consistent with Canadian values?\n\nWill I be able to assume that is norm across the entire muslim community in Canada when pew polls clearly suggest the majority of muslims do not share Canadian values that protect women and gays? Hopefully this community is different in Canada?\n\nBecause that would be great, it really would.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lately, in North America at least, we've been tolerating too many human rights violations (e.g., discrimination against homosexuals) in the name of religious freedom.\n\nIn a secular democracy, only those aspects of religion that do not infringe on people's human rights should be protected from discrimination (e.g., not eating pork, keeping the sabbath); the aspects that do infringe on others' human rights (e.g., restricting women's reproductive rights, inciting hate of homosexuals) should not be tolerated.\n\nNow, with Singh being both religiously orthodox AND the leader of the NDP, not to mention an uncritical supporter of the niqab and burqa, it is legitimate to worry that he may be overly biased toward religious freedom vs. all other human rights.\n\nSimilarly, it was to be expected that Harper, as an Evangelical Christian at the head of the Conservatives, would crusade against abortion (well, until the topic proved too unpopular).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's what's interesting to me, people (and who would have guessed from a silly story on Toronto real estate!):\n\nLots of \"fake news!\" screamers on the comment pages. That's not new. But this time, it appears almost everyone--real estate agents and their clients being the exceptions--agrees. Yup: fake news. Stuff like this has to be \"outed.\"\n\nBut there are screams of protest about those who yell \"fake news\" when comments are made supporting FN people, feminists, members of the Gay community. Or decrying \"rampant\" police brutality or \"A flood\" of Haitian refugees.\n\nGuess what's fake depends on \"where you're at\" as we used to say. And readers talk about MEDIA \"bias\"!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you think transgendered kids are not bullied? Why the \"supposedly\" in there?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Challenge: try to recall a single MSW column that had anything to do with family, marriage, or children. You know, the stuff that's at the center of Catholic moral teaching.\n\nFamily, marriage, children....these are of a world that MSW can't comprehend. And that is why he never writes about them. He can't relate to these things, he has no feeling for these things. His feelings are obviously outside these core elements of Catholicism.\n\nThis all points to one reason for why I keep saying that closeted gay men have no businesses being professional Catholic pundits. They simply have a different vision of the world, and this clearly colors their commentary on Catholicism, politics, and much else.\n\nIt's all well and good that gay men write for Catholic publications -- but they shouldn't pretend to be straight.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is an incredibly short-sighted, and damaging change in law. I don't say this to be mean, I don't say it to be hateful, but the transgendered population suffers from a delusion: they believe themselves to be the opposite sex. They're not. They can never be. There is no amount of surgery, or hormone treatments that can make a person switch teams. All it can do is mutilate a person, and develop secondary gender characteristics. This is not side-effect-free.\n\nThe last numbers I saw put the US suicide rate at about 4%. The transgender suicide rate was pushing 45%, and surgery didn't make much of a dent in that. That's abnormal. That's a problem. Black slaves in the US didn't commit suicide like that. The only other group that did on that level were Jews in Nazi Germany.\n\nYou don't tell a schizophrenic that God really is telling them to do things. You shouldn't tell these poor people they've switched sides. These people need professional mental help.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It appears to me a Supreme Court case over a Colorado baker and a gay couple says differently.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Phyllis did not lie. \nShe said that the ERA would enshrine abortion in a our Constitution, \nthat it would force women to register for the draft and force many into combat roles, that separate gender restrooms would be unconstitutional, and that it would lead to gay marriage. \nShe wasn't too far off.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When I was growing up transgendered people were known as in local vernacular chicks with d##ks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You don't get it, it is because they are confused that many of the faithful accept homosexual behaviour.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wouldn't call someone who can't recognize same-sex marriage a homophobe or a bigot. I would call someone those things who rejects people outright for being homosexual (as well as those who reject others because their belief systems don't allow them to recognize marriage between anyone other than one man and one woman). There's a difference rejecting who people are and rejecting what they do. But yes, be honest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So saying to gays, \"you can join us, but only if you deny your sexuality\" shows that you welcome them. Sorry, but an actual welcome is \"we accept you as you are\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You should read what they say about gays in Muslim countries.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Having lived and worked in St Petersburg Russia since 2004 it has given me the opportunity to meet with many prominent people who live there. Valery Gergiev happened to be one of them. I was working with Canadian companies wanting to do business in Russia some of whom were trying to get the contract for building materials for the then new Mariinsky theatre - Valery was very hospitable when we met and gave me the most wonderful tour of the facility - also having attended many performances given over the years by Valery he is an extremely talented conductor. His political ideologies should never even be questioned and Kate Taylor has no idea what she is writing about when it comes to Russia - there is NO anti gay law in Russia - it nothing more than the equivalent to our laws protecting children from alcohol and tobacco - Russia is protecting its children from homosexual ideologies and as it should be. I am honoured to include Valerie as a friend and agree with him on all things Russia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The argument csn not be made that gay marriage is offensive to most people. Polls disagree.\nIt does not matter.\n\nPolitcal groups and terrorist groups are not protected. It does not matter that they are offensive or not, not one has to make politcal or terrorist cakes. It is ridiculous to think they do. \n\nI really do not understand your point. \n\nYou can look up protected classes here:\nhttps://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dora/civil-rights/cases-we-handle\n\nI do not see political groups or terrorist groups in there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I had a feeling this would happen to a gay club at some point and time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "-not having as many suburban rednecks going downtown on the weekend to beat the crap out of them\n-the police and society opening up more jobs to them. back in the day, if you were openly gay, the only job you could feel comfortable doing was waiting tables. homophobia created gay ghettos downtown. that is not so much the case anymore.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many high school gay student suicide victims have had no sexual experience of the kind yousat deviates from the natural order. They are criminalized and demonized for their sexual orientation, for who they are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Moira in this interpretation of the book does not seem to be a lesbian but Ofglen (Alexis Bledel) is. But we will only know as the series spins out. Week five of ten is online as of today. Hulu has a 30 day trial period available.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The gay couple \"shopped\" for a baker until they finally found one that wouldnt serve them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When Lori has a PF named Persico he should really keep quite about issues gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "so your worried more about who uses what bathroom when in all actuality you have most probably shared one with a transgender and didn't even know it, yeah that was a GREAT accomplishment, you're a typical Trump supporter and will grovel and praise him till the cows come home you deflect the question and then go on another tangent, and as per usual Brietbart took something and twisted it into what they wanted. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/feb/23/breitbart-readers-take-issue-with-uw-tacoma-policy/nt you to see. that's the Spokesman Review out of Spokane not exactly a leftist newspaper, try reading that it might clear up some things but I highly doubt it. you say you're a patriot yet you support an administration that has been in violation of the Constitution from day one, and they are Russian sympathizers, yep you people are real patriots.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently immigrants can't read any other book to learn about Canada except the politically slanted versions of the Citizenship Guide. How did immigrants ever learn about Canada until the Harper Government came along, I wonder?\n\nAnd gay rights haven't been omitted by the Liberals in this document, like the exemplary version that Kenney produced to reflect Conservative -- er -- Canadian 'values', notwithstanding what some stupid Supreme Court might have said. Ah, Flanagan and his selective memory. Wasn't he recently honoured or lauded for promoting children's rights and protecting them from predators, or something to that effect? Such a qualified assessor of all that is virtuous and conscientious. God bless you for protecting our 'values', Tom, just like your sister-in-arms, Kellie Leitch. Amen.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is from the website you linked to:\n\n
If we go back to Locke, then, we see that the \"pursuit of happiness\" as envisaged by him and by Jefferson was not merely the pursuit of pleasure, property, or self-interest (although it does include all of these). It is also the freedom to be able to make decisions that results in the best life possible for a human being, which includes intellectual and moral effort.
\n\nI would interpret that as saying that Locke's \"true happiness\" for a gay couple would entail the right to marry each other. \n\nNo, you have not even come close to establishing that the founding fathers agreed with you on anything.\n\nRD, I have had courses in political philosophy. You clearly have not. Indeed, I wonder if you even had a high school civics class.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Outsider: The distinction was really quite clear. 'The bakery regularly made wedding cakes for heterosexual couples' wedding. They specifically refused to make a cake for a lesbian couple. Same service.....baking a wedding cake.....service provided for the heterosexual couples.....service denied to the lesbian couple. Discrimination against a \"protected class\" and a very clear case it was. You might research the question of discrimination based on political affiliation a bit. I provided a very helpful link for you. Take the time to educate yourself a bit. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I doubt it, seen it happen before and unless they were gay they weren't loving each other. They were ticked.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good question. Would Canada's Liberal/left/progressives tolerate the punishments prescribed for women and gays under Sharia law? Do they accept the notion that public stoning and flogging should be part of our culture? Or would it be 'Sharia Lite', a kinder, gentler version more attuned to their sensitivities?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He's a great guy. And to be honest, if you spent any time around him, it wasn't hard to assume he was gay, not that it mattered. And even if he had come out during any time during his tenure, don't think anyone would have cared. He was so good at what he did. Regardless of his sexual orientation, his commitment to his constituents was clearly evident. Very sorry to see he's struggling with health issues now when he should be enjoying a carefree retirement.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One of the most notable things about the whole Jordan Peterson saga is that the science behind the transgender issue is entirely undebatable. Even simply questioning the science behind current theories on the subject results in calls of hate crimes and spreading of hate propaganda. If the science behind this issue cant stand to open scrutiny then it has no business being placed in front of kids in the age group this production intentionally targets. Indoctrination through propaganda is unacceptable in elementary schools and this ranks right up there with the worst kind of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed. The very definition of multiculturalism in this district is the proclaiming of homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are plenty public \"gay\" behaviors that aren't \"bedroom\" behaviors. Being known as a couple, or married, or seen in public holding hands or walking with your family, like any \"straight\" couple/family is not \"bedroom-like\". Discussions about sex or gentiality of any sort should always be age-appropriate and young children shouldn't hear about it. If its on TV parents should turn off TV. Once a child hits puberty, they should \"hear about it.\" Tough if you don't like it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "GSA openly and proudly discriminate against 49.5% of the U.S. population. According to the Center for Disease Control 2013 peer-reviewed study: \"1.8 percent of men self-identify as gay and 0.4 percent as bisexual, and 1.5 percent of women self-identify as lesbian and 0.9 percent as bisexual.\" So unless you have a peer-reviewed study that systematically debunks the CDC scholarship?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The \"your kind\" comment assumes that gays are not interested in birth.....I know gays who have adopted, I know gays who care for kids in their extended families...I know gays who have had kids....\n\nI find your comment genuinely offensive. your lack of remorse is however, not surprising.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree: The Constitution, the Constitution, the Constitution: \"the foundation stone upon which our civilization is built.\" Nowhere in the Constitution did the Framers ever DREAM that by writing the Fourteenth Amendment, they were thereby REQUIRING the States --- in whom the regulation of marriage was reposed --- to alter the definition of marriage to include a \"consummation\" that almost ALL the States punished as a criminal act. Yes, indeed. Let's have the Constitution. The States would not be required to pass to enforce laws against gays, but neither would the States be REQUIRED to engage in charade of gay \"marriage.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If men who think, or just want to be women user the women's room, then you are wrong. Just because Trans people don't like their gender does not change the fact of their gender. \n\nIt is unlikely that trans gender people have been able to disguise themselves adequately enough to sneak into many bathrooms unknown. Most are easy to spot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why? When people use terms like \"manipulation\" \"control\" \"inequality\" \"misogynist\" etc, that tends to suggest an unhappiness with the way things are.\n\nWhen people claim they do not believe what the Catholic Church professes for belief, that tends to suggest unhappiness. The solution, it seems to me, is easy: if you want abortion, gay marriage, transgender, divorce and remarriage, open communion, contraception, sex outside of marriage, a democratically run church, go to the liberal Protestant churches that believe this and join them. Why stay in a Church that tries to \"control\" and \"manipulate\" you?\n\nThe Catholic Church will never adopt a liberal, secular, humanistic, atheistic ideology.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is pure misogyny. Most sports are designed for male-bodied people, based on size, strength, or speed. Women fought for decades to create female sports teams. Now a male athlete can put on lipstick, demand access to women's sports teams, and steal titles from actual female bodied people. I used to be a trans activist, but I cannot support this movement any longer. The contempt and disregard shown to women by current trans activism is horrifying. Female People Matter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You've got to really work at it to make that sleaze and \"Friend of Trump\" Greg Abbott look good, but Patrick has done it. He thinks teaching \"creationism\" should be mandated in public schools, he thinks that victims of rape and incest should be forced to carry their pregnancies to term, and just a few hours after the 49 people were murdered with an AR-15 in an Orlando mostly gay nightclub, he tweeted a photo with the words from Galatians 6:7. It reads, \"Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Klastri, he did not mention a transgender person molesting anyone. It was the \"pervert\" doing the molesting. As for the transgender, it was in reference to cost and the social and physiological effects on those around the transgender person will be required to conform to. Our society has become a society of snowflakes so focused on PC and afraid to call it what it is.\nPlease read the comment again, and take your time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You make a really good point. Why is she fighting the \"hate\" of Canada when there is none. Why isn't the author fighting against how these countries and Islam treat women as second class citizens, how they murder gays, how they do all sorts of nasty things to other people. Why doesn't she stand up against that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "so if homosexuality is opposed in your religion this means that as a member of your religion you shouldn't be homosexual, it doesn't mean that your religion that other people who don't believe in your religion can't be homosexual, your religion is about you and your life, not about using the government and law to force your religious beliefs on others who don't share your religious beliefs,", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting point. Here again the left has step in it. I think it is the same, refusing is refusing. The because is the issue. And with the left the because is they agree with gays, and not with supremacists.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm afraid the institutional Church will only \"realize this and be inclusive\" when it steps out of the 15th century and into contemporary life and culture -- and when it stops its own hypocrisy and openly recognizes with love the large proportion of homosexual clerics (many sexually active). Those are two giant leaps to make for a behemoth institution mired in the past and blinded by its ostrich-like stance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's what you get when you just let anybody in. But you can't say that because otherwise you are accused of being racist. But when you get a religion that is misogynist and kills gays, then, you gotta put on your thinking cap and wonder if it is not just one step further until they kill other innocent people, including children. But you can't say that or you are not multi-cultural.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have said it before and I will say it again ... every time I read her column it makes me glad that I am gay. My partner and I don't bi.t.ch and complain about our daily lives, we just get on with it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A limp wrist in an iron fist in a velvet glove. . I am gay so I can say that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Health care, taxes, infrastructure, NK - I guess those at state level see Congressional legislation on transgender military members higher priority.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe this is such a generational issue. Many under 60 have little to no issue with anyone of the LGBT community; for the older generations, in their youth, LGBT issues were a taboo discussion, that they could believe they did not know anyone who was LGBT. My nephews and nieces and their children, 30's and younger think the idea that it is a problem for anyone who is LGBT to be denied any kind of job/career/vocation is just ridiculous. Yes, we all know many wonderful gay priests.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've known several gay priests over the years. All were older, deeply closeted, and had originally entered the priesthood as a way of avoiding having to deal with the social pressures of getting married. All of them avoided coming out for the simple reason that they knew in advance that they'd be fired from their jobs if they did come out, celibate or not, just as lay employees are still getting fired from Catholic jobs in many cases simply for identifying as gay. Most of the gay priests I've known were very good at their jobs, some were just marking time until retirement and fed up with the church, but too old to get out and try to find some new way to make a living. That's been my limited experience, but I suspect it is not unique.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "dear professor x\n\nEither there is Universal suffrage and - all - people have equal rights or they do\n-------\n\ntell us which Arab country has this UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE you talk about\n\nArabs in Israel have more rights than Arabs in Arab countries\n\nGAY RIGHTS\nwomen's rights\nthe right to be an atheist\n\nI rest my case", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's interesting you asked this. There have actually been lots of questions on how to handle intersex people in sports for as long as the Olympics has been around. They used to do sex testing, but they kept (wrongly) identifying women as men due to the plethora of different human sex differences beyond the casually assumed binary. How do we handle intersex people who aren't clearly one or the other? How do we handle transgender people? \n\nLooking at the evidence is really the best we can do. Transgender women at least are expected to have testosterone levels within cisgender female norms for a enough time to bring their athletic performance within cisgender female norms. That is actually pretty reasonable. But even outside of transgender people, there are all sorts of outliers as far as hormone levels for all sorts of legit reasons. For some strange reason it's only an issue when transgender women are discussed though...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While I find his letter disturbing, I wonder if this is clear enough for the Trads. I have no doubt they will his judgemental statement \"refreshing\".\n\nPF's letter does not surprise as much as disappoint me. Without question, he is judging those who would offer their lives in service to God's people. This is not as Christ taught us in the gospels. Excluding those who want to come closer to the Lord is so tragic, not to mention those who are gay and already clerics. To be the cause of this unnecessary hurt is a burden that PF will need to bear.\n\nSo unnecessary and hurtful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1) I was never told the color of his skin, and it doesn't matter to me, especially since it has nothing to do with the issue being discussed. \n\n2) A person interested in providing any kind of social service to the public is not fit for the job if s/he is involved in any crusade against any segment on the population. Preaching in churches against the homosexual population is not exactly a good recommendation for public service. He should just look for a job that doesn't conflict with his own personal ideas about the issue.\n\n3) The other comments about my person deserve absolutely no attention since they are not part of the current discussion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, there are gays who have tried to get the LGBT community to be accepted. And they have had a great deal of success, although not complete success. I wish they would have more success. I hope that anti-gay bigots would learn to accept them as well, and not fear them.\n\nPerhaps you are unaware of my family. My mother was an Austrian Jew who managed to escape the Holocaust although other members of her family did not, including her parents. She taught me to hate bigotry and discrimination of any sort from my earliest days. My younger brother is gay and married. Two of my closest friends are a gay married couple. My daughter-in-law is black. My next-door neighbors are Muslim. I know these people as people, not as abstractions. I accept them as they are.\n\nYou say that you do not know the cause of \"same-sex attraction\", and then in the next breath you say it is chosen. No, it is not chosen.\n\nThe ones more likely to be on the road to hell are those who hate gays, not those who love them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you Ms. McLaren. You have once again reminded me why I am so very happy to be gay and no longer dating women!!!! The BS is just a bit too much!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are mischaracterizing this situation. They can buy cookies in the bakery, but the wedding cake, they're going to have to find someone who loves gay weddings. Sorry, but all Americans have rights and you do not seem to grasp what religious rights are. No one is attempting to prevent them from being married. Or discriminating against them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gender neutral EH. What is the point of photo ID if does not have gender and allows transgender cross dressing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I fully support civil rights laws, including sexual orientation non-discrimination laws. I know the history behind the establishment of such laws.\nMy point was, if people want to discriminate against gay people, they should open up discrimination to anyone. But of course, that's not what the uptight Christians want. They want to discriminate against gay people while being free from discrimination themselves. They want an uneven playing field. They want superiority over gay people, with the full approval of the United States Supreme Court.\nSo, I'm saying either we have a libertarian approach or uptight Christians can get over themselves, follow the civil rights laws, and if they open a shop, they open it to \"everybody\". Period.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm happy that you are content with your life choices, but providing the context earlier would have allowed us to judge your comments better. If it weren't for \"breeders\" you and your gay partner(s) would not be here to enjoy each others company. -)\n\nI remember back in the 1960s there were folks who thought that married couples should be forced to have children. Birth Control was in the Criminal Code of Canada from 1892 until 1967. GTA Wholesale Pharmacist Harold Fine was arrested, charged and convicted for selling Birth Control / STD preventing technology in 1961. \n\nHomosexuality was also a crime.\n\nFathers could and did have daughters arrested and sent to prison for living with a man without getting married.\n\nToday in Canada there is a lot more freedom to live your life as you choose, without the government sticking its nose into private matters based on peculiar \"Christian Values\". You clearly appreciate that freedom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why is it free speech is only acceptable for 1 side of the spectrum but when tables are turned it is not the case. Yes, there are rights and there are moral and ethical issues based on religious beliefs which get thrown to the way-side just because others feel these beliefs are wrong.\nAs much as I'd like to see equality for all, we cannot suppress our rights to believe whatever we want and as of late, religion has taken a huge beating from the liberal and forward-moving gay community.\nNuff already, if you want to be gay, trans, bi.......then fine, but, much like those with closed-minded beliefs, there are those whose hetero-beliefs should also be respected. I have less respect recently for those who lambast others based on their beliefs. So unfortunate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "ALL should be treated the same. That would be in the spirit and letter of the Constitution. No one should be discriminated against for any reason, including gays.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a brand new, High School graduate working at Cold Bay ( the only job I could find in the late '60s) I had the pretty sobering experience of going face to .357 pistol held by a drunk gay man. He shot one round past my ear to make sure he had my undivided attention. Be assured, he did. I survived the encounter, going home to college in the big silver plane and not the \"Silver Bullet\" as the aluminum coffin in the freight shed was referred to. But to this day I hold nothing against any LGBT person, it was simply a result of rumors and the time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Look people, Australia is no model when it comes to human rights, I have lived there. It remains a deeply insular country with a strongly xenophobic streak, it feels superior to other countries, it still doesn't allow same-sex marriage. In fact, police in Sydney are only NOW reopening and re-investigating the cases of the deaths of dozens of gay men in the 1980's up to 2000 as possible murders. Its social attitudes and norms are thirty years behind ours. Nice beaches and coastline though.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nice dodge.\n1) If someone is not Christian and they become Christian, they convert.\n2) If you accept Jesus of Nazareth's crucifixion AND resurrection, you are Christian. By definition.\n3) As far as I'm concerned, \"God's requirement to redeem mankind\" is between God and each individual person.\n4) Jews believe in repentance, Muslims believe in repentance, Buddhists believe in repentance, etc. It's not unique to Christianity.\n5) Lastly, and to the point of Rowman's comment, if a student threatens another student with Hell if they don't become Christian, that crosses into bullying. There have been documented cases of Christian students with Bibles following gay students around, constantly quoting Leviticus at the gay students even when they were asked to stop, and when the Christian students refused, they were charged by school administrators with bullying. Then the Christian students whined they were being persecuted. Wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not sure why you would necessarily equate love and gentleness to the transgendered community. I suppose many or even most transgendered people would hunger for love and gentleness, who would not? What soldier would say they uphold anything else?\n\nI think one could say, though, that people in the transgendered community would tend to be brave. They might know the importance of staying with the goal, no matter how many reasons there may be to give up. They would know the importance of showing up for one another.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Try this, all I said/argued beyond doubt that homosexuality (like hetero) has a subset behavior firmly resolved upon the construct of mere sexual behavior covering both pedophilia. It is common in both hetero and homo because it\u2019s sexual behavior differentiated based on gender preference. That, namely, homosexuality has the inclusive establishment of abuse of non-adult person\u2019s of the same gender preference. And that does satisfy the definition. Sexuality is an argument in as much as any biological tendency. A lion goes and devours its\u2019 prey. And crminal/perp violently kills an innocent person. That\u2019s pretty much the same premise. Obviously the lion wants to eat; the criminal wants to simply kills for his/her sociopathic makeup. But both are inclined by biological factors/inclinations/chemistry. We don\u2019t outlaw the lion because that\u2019s an animal. However, if it attacks a child, we hunt it down to protect other people as well. And likewise, we apprehend a murder.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Principle axioim, morality is to serve man in this life, not to placate God. From there we can look at what makes people happy in terms of better lives. Does following the natural predilications of Asexuals make everyone else happier? I very much doubt it. Does promiscuity make non-Aces happy? No. Do gays chose their orientation, does anyone, even Aces? No. Youcan keep going with the rest. It simply follows.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Children can be concieved medically for gay clients who can still have sex (even lesbians, indeed, sex is a strong drive-during the second trimester of pregnancy to build a unitive bond for the care of the child. It is natural and holy and so much fun). On sexual teaching, one must consider the source, If it is based on clerical idealism prompted by their own natural asexuality, then it is suspect for those of us not asexual. You are right about civil marriage for gays. At least no one is blathering about civil unions anymore. Still, the Church should take an interest in gay marriage because, as Judaism teaches, marriage is the union between two families. The genitals of those prompting the joining are not imporant and the Church promoting monogamous unions in Christ is a positive good. Get over the Stoic argument about the ends of sex. People have it for pleasure because that pleasure is good and comes from God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here is the problem: all of your words are just euphemisms that liberals bring out when they have no logical or rational arguments for their positions.\n\nIt is easier to call someone a homophobic then to intelligently defend gay marriage. It is easier to call someone a misogynist than intelligently argue the issue of women's ordination. It is easier to bring out the old myth of \"pray, pay and obey\" than have an intelligent conversation.\n\nIf you want to have a meaningful and substantive conversation on issues that divide Catholics from the secular world I would be happy to do so--but please--stop the euphemisms. \n\nI am surprised you haven't yet tried to redefine abortion as \"choice.\" Liberals love to do that too. \"Choice\" sounds so much nicer than \"Murder my unborn child.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cut funding\n\nlast time with QUAIA (Queers Against Israeli Apartheid) marching in the Parade and playing politics\nthe City did not cut funding\nthis time do it right and cut funding\n\nthe funding is for gay rights and gay pride politics\nand not for politics like Black activism, anti-Israel activism\n\ncut the funding and stop the nonsense already", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Flee sexual immorality.\" 1Corinthians 6:12 - 7:7 is the full passage, but that verse pretty much sums it up. In the Greek, that verb is very strong. It means \"run as fast as you can away from it.\"\n\nChristians are to avoid sin in all forms, but especially sexual immorality because of how it affects people at a deeper level than other sins. There are 5 other passages in the Bible clearly stating that God includes homosexuality among the sexual sins.\n\nIt's pretty much impossible to participate in a same-sex wedding and not be seen as approving of the lifestyle it symbolizes. In participating, Christians not only negate their own witness in all other areas of morality, but they also hold the entire gospel up to ridicule. Why should anyone believe our faith message if our lifestyles are steeped in sin? The idea that we're not guilty of sin when we only condone it and are to doing the actual deed is a compromise with sin that you will not find anywhere in Scripture.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He got the pardon only because the Obama administration, Hollywood, and major media promote transgenderism as normal. However, Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a \u201cmental disorder\u201d that merits treatment, and that people who promote sexual reassignment are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder. Dr. McHugh, these \u201cpolicy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.\u201d \n\n\n\nAs for Pvt Bradley Manning who has changed his name to Chelsea Manning. Many undercover Afghans in Afghanistan were killed by the Taliban as a result of his an Wikileaks actions and a lot of NATO soldiers too lacking intelligence assets within the Taliban.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh ... did you not know? Only \"right-wing\" (whatever that means) people can be 'populists! :))) Cretainly not Obama, especially after demonstrating his great charisma in psyching people into a trans-like state with all the \"Yes, we can do\" chants! \n\nBTW, the definition for \"right-wing\" around here seems to refer to 'everyone WE hate' :))", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The blood is on the hands of Trump, Bannon and the rest of the alt right fascists that promote racism. No words from Trump are enough to forgive the hatred he's brought to the forefront of our country -- against people of color, against gays, against Muslims, and in many cases even against women. \n\nI pray for the victims of this horrific act, and victims of all other alt-right actions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Poorly done Time article you referenced. It states \"Nearly 80% of transgender people report experiencing harassment at school when they were young.\" OK, compared to what?\n\nhttps://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-bullying\n\nquotes a study that reports \"90% of 4th through 8th graders report being victims of bullying.\" Bullying is more often physical than is harassment I would think. Does that mean transgenders actually have it easier than the general population? \n\nThe rest of the Time article is just as poor, throwing out claims intended to shock without giving any comparisons or context. Even the title of the article \"Why Transgender People Are Being Murdered at a Historic Rate\" is never answered or even approached in the article! In fact, one point is that the statistics available are poor. So how do they arrive at \"Historic Rate?\"\n\nEveryone is bullied, even the bullies. That's how they got that way. Shouldn't happen to anyone. And don't name call Republicans \"know-nothings.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I just checked English media...the Guardian and Independent...both peddling misleading narrative with no mention of Chechnya being around 96% MUSLIM which of course explains the homophobia!\nInstead they speak of ultra conservative RUSSIAN area.\nIncredible how much bias u find right across the MSM.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hear you. I have a great deal of respect for Anglicanism and have been a \"sometime Episcopalian\" for most of my life, what conservative Catholics would call a \"bad Catholic\" (not that I give a fig what they think.) Years ago I lived in NYC and was quite comfortable worshiping at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square which is a very high Episcopal Church with kind of a pre-Vatican II liturgy, in English. I'm told they've become quite liberal in their views on gay people these days even though that was not the case back in the seventies. But their liturgy and the music was so beautiful I probably would have converted had I stayed. Where I live the Episcopal churches are quite different and don't do much to inspire me, so I stick it out at the Roman Cathedral where the pastor is very nice, preaches well, and is very welcoming to the few gay people who remain in the pews. All the power to you. You've made the right decision.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Milo's greatest threat was to the old school right. Milo supported Trump and Trump is the President. Their old guard candidates of McCain and Romney got beat handily. The left hated Milo because he is a gay man who doesn't kowtow to leftist dogma. Can't have any gays leaving the progressive reservation so they attacked him. The old school right hated Milo because he helped the Republicans succeed where the old guard had failed. Perfect storm.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Persons doing business in a legal way, seeking services or products that are offered to the public, cannot morally, ethically or legally be denied access to those products or services, or even be inconvenienced in accessing them, because of the religious scruples of the vendor. Does your defense of bigotry in the name of religion extend to atheists? Suppose a \"Christian\" baker declines to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple because he claims that providing the service, even as a paid vendor (as opposed to as a guest), violates his religion. Across the street is an atheist baker who declines to bake the cake because he thinks gay sex is icky. Do you defend the right of the atheist to refuse the service even though the atheist makes no claim to conscience?\nMorally, ethically, and legally there is no difference between the Christian's refusal to provide the service and the atheist's refusal to provide it. And there is no practical difference.\nChristians should repudiate the bigotry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dr. Mugisha is a very brave man and needs our prayers. Here in America homophobia, like racial bias , doesn't put gays' lives in jeopardy at least under the law, but the prejudice shows up more in snide remarks and the like. It seems to me we should be encouraged to call that out just as we are encouraged to do in the case of racial hate speech.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you people NEVER going to get it that it is proven that gender preference is in our DNA - REPEAT AFTER ME...IT IS NOT A LIFESTYLE, IT IS NOT A LIFESTYLE...it is a life...and we are told to love one another as God, the loving creator of EVERYONE, loves us. I grow so weary of this anti-LGTBQ bigotry. Unless some person belonging to the aforementioned group has a gun to your back demanding you be gay when you're not, WHY DO YOU CARE? And check the catechism...\"they must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.\" Morlino is about as respectful, compassionate and sensitive as a bulldozer. And lest you ask, I am a \"straight\" woman married 40 years to a wonderful husband, have two \"straight\" adult children and a beautiful grandson. I leave any of that judging business up to God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "AS long as they do not join to get free surgery fine. If you are trans already and still want to join , do it. But can you do the job?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In my seminary days, the formation team knew I was gay. Sent me to see a psychologist and after his report, kept me in the system. When I left, it had nothing to do with my being gay. I wonder if the Vatican is going to start removing ALL the priests and bishops who are gay? If so, we'll have a lot less clergy. This is disheartening.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If she is a lesbian, it's not mine nor your business. I \ndo not approve of it and never will, but if she is and \nis willing to be an unbiased PM, then I will vote for\nher. But if I think for a moment she will push it onto\nus as a private agenda, I will vote against her, just\nlike I will vote against truedope forever for his\nprivate agendas.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some of out bishops should listen to a Catholic pro-choice politician, who should have the courage to explain to them the logic behind Roe. Law is about the reasoning and the precidents, not the result. Federal supremacy in equal protection is not going away (which also gives us gay marriage), nor should it. The cultural warrior bishops (and USCCB staff) have put Republican coalition poltiics above truth, which is bad for the Church and the bishops, who most of us simply ignore at election time. As for who should be elected president of the conference, the obvious choice is Cupich.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Was this the same dude who got into a fracas at the gay pride event on the Park Strip this summer? I haven't looked that story up, but I seem to recall an Amarillo connection there, too.\n\nI love this line: \"If I feel led to do it, I'll do it wherever\". I think I feel led to take a dump . . . how bout on your head, Pastor Grisham?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why do people try to treat all women the same, my daughter has a degree and she was a stay at home mother. She works now but does not really want a career as such. Taxing her so some civil servant can hire baby sitters does not help her or her three children. White males make up much of the bad statistics such as suicides and early death from disease and accidental death. Why are the problems that affect men and their families ignored by politicians and so called feminists. I think women love their sons and want a world that is safe and healthy for them and our daughters. There are to many people making a career by pretending to care about minorities. It has become a ticket to a life long career by pretending to care about natives, homosexuals, women or any other group that one can put into a box and sell as downtrodden. Any solution will do as long as it puts money into the right pockets and changes nothing substantial so we have an army of leaders who do nothing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "lescaine,\n\n Let's not be simplistic. We're not schoolchildren. We need to be critical thinking, free thinking, responsible citizens so we learn from history and develop better politics, a better economic system and an ethical code that works for all.\n In my opinion there is much to be proud of in our history but various things to be ashamed of. If we merely say, \"Canada is amazing, our history is awesome, we're the best\", we turn a blind eye to many things done wrong in our past.\n One example of what we should be ashamed of is Canada's attitude towards Jews in the 1930's and 40's. Anti-Semitism was rampant. Like the rest of the world, Canada was quite fascistic, in it's mistreatment of Jews, French-Canadians, First Nations, Chinese, gays, etc.\n The anti-Semitism of many nations was part of what encouraged the Nazis to come to power and perpetrate the Holocaust.\n Recall what Prime Minister King said in 1938, refusing a shipload of Jews from Germany: \"One is too many.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes you can, but many will try to silence you, I am gay and I have seen too many times the trans and other scenes within the LGBT community are drug induced fantasies that cause the person great harm mentally and psychologically. There are some rare people who are wired female brain in a male body, but generally the person is just a confused soul, having been told she/he is beautiful too many times.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Doubt he did all that yesterday although his minions might have. Signing law to repeal health care unless there are costs is just for show - how can that be assessed and enforced?\n\nYes, the rollback of LGBT, women and civil rights history is why millions marched, all over the world.\n\nThat and the militaristic bent the Trumpeters always pretended Trump didn't have. Didn't know North Korea and Iran were on verge of attack; George W tell you that? Enjoy your next bloody and losing war.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ok, so let me repeat myself... there are diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria which are not meet by simply being transgender...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Probably not. You know why? \n\nBeing Gay is something that you are and cannot choose, being Christian is a choice. You can discriminate against choices (for example, I don't have to serve a neo-nazi). That's called the free market, it's so that we can use market powers to disincentivize awful decisions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You wrote: \"Today, he is supposed to be happy and supportive [that his daughter was turned on to the joys of same sex fun.]\" \nA comment like that and a someone might wonder if the person saying it is feeling bad they are not getting enough action from lesbians. What do you think?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The dream is shattered when one of the kids is gay? Do gay people not deserve the ideal, or close to it? A loving, supportive spouse, someone to work with to build security, a companion in the golden years?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Welcome to 2016. People are gay. Get over it! He didn't come out to PROTECT his constituents, not to keep his job. Senator Ellis put the needs of others before his own, a sign of real leadership. Keep your morals, we'll keep fighting for equality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, Transgendered people are still people, and are entitled to human rights. Banks wants to dress up and pretend he's a lady? I don't care. He can identify as a goldfish, for all I care. What Transgendered people do not have is the right to force me to go along with their perceptions of themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As an old gay Catholic I have a certain perspective on this issue. What I see is the church under Pope Francis stuck in a holding pattern, what Andrew Sullivan called a \"period of respectful silence\" on LGTB issues. Given the church's official teaching on the \"sinfulness\" of gay sex, this is probably the best that can be expected. It is certainly better than the pattern established under the previous two pontificates which saw witch hunts against gay people and a hardening of the church's position on LGTB issues. As an old person I'm comfortable with my church-going habits, but young people are not so ingrained in their habits. What they see, and what is true, is a church which teaches that gay people are somehow spiritually deformed and are therefore barred from various sacraments. To young people this is not acceptable. New Ways Ministry may provide some comfort to old gay Catholics like me, but young people aren't as impressed. Like most gay Catholics they want a change in doctrine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Imago Dei is a large institution with political clout that condemns your mom as a sinner. I don't call that \"love.\" Imago Dei's anti-gay evangelism is different from my Aunt Agnes expressing discomfort with gay marriage over tea.\n\nMy goal is to make sure that Bailey loses this election. I won't change the minds of those who buy into Imago Dei patriarchy/homophobia trip and I kinda don't care.\nIf I dissuade someone from joining the group- well that is worthwhile and a possibility.\n\nPosting under a new screen name that is an alteration of my screen name annoys me.\nShow a little more originality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your \"collateral rule\" is ridiculous. If \"everyone else's beliefs\" must always be considered and must never be or seem to be challenged then everyone is frozen, no one may ever act because someone, somewhere will be offended.\nWe are not robots.\n\nOf course there are limits to \"be your authentic self.\" That would include, for example, actions of pedophiles, murders, thieves, liars, etc. I would also include people who make fun of others beliefs, treat people rudely, measure people's worth by a single characteristic such as skin color, ethnicity, sexual orientation. But that is just me. \n\nSomeone who recognizes that he is gay and admits it to others is not offending anyone by his admission. He is presenting his own feelings, beliefs, and opinions. The receiver may react but that reaction belongs to receiver. The two may agree to discuss the issue or either one may decline, especially if it appears that hanging around to debate the issue is not going to be worth the effort.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And you can have a nice little chat with all the girls who are molested by heterosexual men since one in five girls are victims of molestation whereas one in twenty boys are, as reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Children\u2019s Bureau. Since heterosexuals vastly outnumber homosexuals there are far more female victims of sexual abuse by straight men than there are male victims who are victimized by gay men. So go ahead - chat away.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can bet that If you filled out a form that revealed that you were a gay Man who smokes dope and wears a Tutu, that info would be required to remain private...maybe why this is always rising to the top constantly...the Bureaucracy has no Soul, and WHO can live without it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"1) Are the Christian kids getting picked on because they are Christian, or are they proselytizing and being told to buzz off by kids that don't want to hear it....because those aren't the same thing.\"\nAmen! But some Christians feel persecuted if they cannot have an unrestricted right to proselytize or tell gay people they're going to Hell.\nIf a student asks another student to stop preaching to them, and that other student continues, that's harassment and bullying. Period.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If said opposition to gay marriage is in fact \"thoroughly Christian,\" that's both very sad and very wrong! Evidently you are trying to work with the wrong \"facts,\" as though YOU control all Truth . . .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about mentally disabled transgender people?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Abortions and gay marriage, of course", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "well I'm trying to understand the basis on which you draw a line, and say \"that does not go\". Since you did not deny that gays can marry in the church, we can infer plausibly that you believe gays can be married within the church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry to say, my advice to a gay man who is discerning a vocation is \"Don't Do It\". There are many other ways to serve the Lord and His people that will be more welcoming and personally healthy and enriching. If church leaders want to see seminaries free of homosexual men they are getting their wish... as we now are experiencing seminaries empty and closing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It proves he's a ephebophile, as well as a homosexual. Pederasty is a long standing sub-culture within homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This had absolutely nothing to do with anybody being gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You stated: \"The cake baker did draw a line at the customizations that were requested.\" There is one problem with that argument There were no customizations requested. The couple sits down at the wedding cake table, and he goes \"I don't do gay weddings.\" There was absolutely no discussion on customizations.\n\nAnd if ordering a wedding cake is \"customizations\", then he was willing to do those exact same customizations for a straight couple. The only difference is that the customer for one cake is straight, and the customer for another cake is gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Mormon church is making itself obsolete. In the long run. This issue may cause a cysm in the church. Once side will accept homosexual and prosper. The other will die. Isn't this what the Bible says happens to sinners?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In other words: don't pee on my head and tell me its raining. Hillary tried to appeal to what she thought were united voters,: women ,blacks hispanics, gays, Muslims, and so on. She was eventually let down by those very groups she thought she had in the bag. Trump observed that a black unemployed factory worker has the same needs and concerns as a white unemployed factory worker.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think the laws should stay on the books as misdemeanors and unenforced (which was previously the case) in people's homes. That was how the closet was maintained, and that's what protected our children from hearing in public classrooms about same-sex sodomy being equal to sex, and all of the other things that homosexual activists have demanded to be taught to impressionable, sexually developing, and often confused, minds.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just because Libertarians believe that people should have the right to use pot doesn't make us all pot heads. \n\nWe also believe that the government should be out of the marriage business, does that make us all gay?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You make great points, I'm curious how this will all play out. My only concern is considering those who are gay a \"protected class\". This would be the only \"protected class\" based on behavior that I can think of. It's not like you can mark a birth certificate or deem someone gay based on anything else other than how they want to be viewed. Someone could claim to be gay to get the benefits of a \"protected class\" that they wouldn't otherwise have.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Indigenous writers, black writers, queer writers, writers of different abilities don\u2019t see themselves reflected in this union and don\u2019t want to become members. There is something more that needs to be addressed; I hope they do that.\u201d\n\nWhich has, I think, nothing whatsoever to do with the furor over the editorial. I hope. I haven't read the entire editorial (can any one read it, now?) I agree with this: \u201cI don\u2019t believe in cultural appropriation,\u201d began the editorial by Hal Niedzviecki in the spring issue of Write magazine. \u201cIn my opinion, anyone, anywhere, should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, other cultures, other identities.\"\n\nAbsolutely. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the writer has a duty and an obligation to do so. Taken to its absurd limit, this upset reminds me of a radio talk show host who interviewed me about my latest book. He chuckled and snidely suggested I had no business writing about women because I was male. Huh??", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think a four-hour erection would be a greater distraction while on mission than the trans person that has to wear the same combat gear as every other man or woman in the unit. Why are we paying for this?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where are the stories about retail businesses owned by homosexuals(or LGBT)? They have to be raking in the money.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is she gay? Divorced? Remarried? It doesn't say.\n\nCall that journalism!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You make no sense whatsoever.\nYou're saying that it's perfectly rational to subjugate and dehumanize women, homosexuals, and Atheists?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes that's why I used a balanced example of a white transgender female political figure and a half-black male political figure. The pinata was brought to class by a student so I don't fault the teacher at all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She just isn't a good speaker. And whence does she get those outfits? Doesn't she know any gay designers?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK if the author wants to equate the two: some homosexuals (and others) willingly engaged in unprotected sexual activity knowing full well the risk of HIV infection. Some addicts willingly ingest or inject substances purporting to be opioids knowing full well the risk of contamination and overdose.\n\nSo? Knowingly and willingly made a choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What does that have to do with liberals trying to normalize Islam while ignoring the number of Islamic majority countries that execute homosexuals or stone women to death for infidelity (which is often rape)?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It was once Gay Pride but gay men have been deliberately and systematically shut out, It has nothing to do with the men of the gay community of Toronto anymore, We are merely permitted to participate in somebody else's events. And there is no guarantees we will continue to be welcome at all, other than for the money we spend .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe. I suspect it has more to do with leaving that attraction behind rather than obsessing over it like the homosexual activists do. Many with SSA are married with kids living happy lives, reluctant to acknowledge that they have/had SSA. If I agree with Martin at all, it's that we should be more comfortable talking about people with SSA - as opposed to \"LGBT\" or \"gays\" or \"lesbians\" - so that those who have that compulsion or who overcame it would feel more comfortable talking about it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Even the Church does not treat sexual attraction as a bad thing in and of itself. It uses \"disordered,\" which homosexual activists have branded as hate language, but all it means is that it is anatomically improper (particularly anal penetration) and physiologically barren.\n\nWe should never hate ourselves, but we should wrestle with performing acts that are sinful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry Margaret, we deplorables have to accept that the progressive left are morally superior and must be allowed to decide when free speech is acceptable. That Catholic teacher or police officer must know by now that they should have more willingly discarded their religious beliefs regarding abortion and gay marriage while openly accepting every other religion's culture. It does not matter whether you have served in the military or worked for 30 years as a model citizen. As a deplorable you should know better than to think that such morally superior people would care to listen to you. You are to be lumped together with racists and Islamaphobes who of course may be challenged with morally justified violence. \n\nPlease raise your hand and ask a professor for permission the next time you think about saying something which is not politically correct.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "S/he who contends that \"fall in love\" is solely a feeling, an emotion, let him/her be anathema...or whatever. To use the term \"gay\" in the manner of this post is hideously inappropriate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They don't know why the movie is not being shown despite cutting out the \"gay moment\"? Ummmm, could it be because the movie is about beastiality? Even in America, why was the \"gay moment\" of any significance at all, especially where the focus of the film is love and romance between a girl and a beast? It's fictional, sure, but still .....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I do not condone what Pillar said but Kelly saying Pillar got preferential treatment compared to Escobar because Pillar is a better player is incorrect. Both unfortunately used homophobic slurs however Pillar said it out of anger in the spur of the moment, Escobar had obviously thought about his word as he was writing the slur in his eye black and therefore a deliberate thought out action. Typical Kelley, overreacting. However, if it is known the pitcher is a homosexual that changes the matter in my opinion. Then I would have suspended Pillar for a month. Also Kelley is wrong when he says Pillar should have included the term in his apology.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You realize news services provide the articles, not the headlines, right? Which is why the identical article will have different headlines in different papers. For example, the Chicago Tribune has the headline \"Trump tweets he will bar transgendered individuals from serving in the US armed forces\" and The New York Times has \"Trump Bars Transgender Individuals From US Armed Forces\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dave - if the 13 year old were gay or bisexual, Avakian would have imposed a big fine like the cake or the karaoke bar back when they filed the criminal case. I think avakians bias is already clear.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays do rodeo like no one else. It's actually very entertaining. But running stories like this just give negative people the opportunity to rag on them. Some people definitely need to get over themselves and lighten up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kasich does not believe in gay marriage. He believes that it is not a big issue and one worth fighting over. More importantly, he points out that the courts have ruled on this so no sense spending time on it.\nKasich does NOT believe in illegals. He thinks that we need to redo immigration and then pass bills to deal with the illegals here. In particular, he is not opposed to seeing non-voilent ones be permitted to stay (I think he goes too far, but he has right idea; COMPROMISE). \nKasich DOES support Common Core and he notes that it was developed mostly by BIPARTISAN GOVERNORS.\nKasich does not believes in expanding Medicaid, BUT he does not believe in simply dropping ACA. \nKasich believes in science/logic and therefore, yes AGW. More importantly, Most intelligent conservatives also support science and therefore believe that this should be addressed. LP supports addressing this, BUT WANT ALL to address it, not America. \nThe Kock bros ARE BAD. So is Soros. \nYOU are not a staunch cnsrvtve", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For all the moral aspersions continually cast out by the self righteous virtue signalling Trump haters I say the left today is itself morally and intellectually bankrupt. They ignore balaclava wearing leftist violence, support murdering unborn children at any stage of gestation and care only about power. Where are the big ideas they stand for? BLM? Transgender bathrooms? Really?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Would you have been crushing beers if the robustly pro infanticide, pro homosexual marriage Mrs. Clinton overcoame her legion of character flaws and conned a few more million Americans in swing states?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A United States District Court judge on Monday blocked a White House policy barring military service by transgender troops, \n\n...noting that the policy did not appear to be based on facts,\n\n...but instead on \u201ca desire to express disapproval of transgender people generally.\u201d\n\nThe judge noted in her ruling that the changes in transgender policy were \u201cnot genuinely based on legitimate concerns regarding military effectiveness or budget constraints.\n\nThe judge saw right through Trump's unConstitutional bigotry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Surely anyone who is sympathetic to gay pride should be allowed to participate. \n\nBy the way, the police shooting water pistols might not go down too well in the black community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If too many bishops appear to have one-track minds, perhaps the same might be suggested of the media? Example (which actually has nothing to do with Catholicism, at least of the Roman variety): last night BBC America ran a story on the Archbishop of Canterbury making common cause with the Anglican Archbishop of Rwanda about famine relief. A few seconds were given to that meeting of minds, then an immediate switch: though the archbishops agree on famine relief, said the announcer, they don't agree on the ordination of gay priests. The message was clear: famine relief is boring here at the BBC, so we'll change the subject as soon as possible to gay ordination, marriage, etc., even though it may have nothing to do with our original story. \nSex sells; hunger doesn't. (Actually I'm a great admirer of the Beeb.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder why so many liberals parents taught them to use name calling as a way to make themselves seem larger or their point stronger. I don't mind that people disagree with me . I just laugh at the way their brains are so small they think name calling makes them appear larger than they really are. People who have to call others names do so because they don't know how to make their point any other way. And it's just not me. Look how they called Sullivan names---Danny Boy , Ohio Dan and other names. It backfired. For reasons only known to them liberals think name calling or intentional mis-spelling a name helps their causes when it doesn't . With the gay rights vote they called everyone bigots and homophobes and worse . They were leading in the polls until the naming calling---and they lost. Think about it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No millennial would ever be caught dead at a CYO dance or some old fashioned square event sponsored by the Catholic Church and if a priest or another type did home visits, the milennial would probably be too busy or hostile.\n\nThere are activities and parishes that do attract milennials. St. Clements and Old St. Pats' in Chicago have younger attendees; both are less dogmatic. Also, Theology on Tap is very popular as long as the speakers are willing to hear criticism. Also popular is volunteering. PreCana and marriage prep classes are considered jokes.\n\nOf course, those are all superficial. If the Church wants to retain people, it has to change the way it treats people. Many milennials left because of the scolding and bullying they experienced at Catholic school and elsewhere. They have gay friends who were harmed by the Church. They witnessed the hypocrisy of the Church surrounding money. If the Church isn't going to change that, then it will continue to bleed members.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, I get that. Anybody can just order a cake and it'd be no issue (or should be no issue). But if a gay couple comes in and orders a wedding cake (for their wedding), then it puts him in a position of violating his religious beliefs. This is due to his religious views of marriage being deeply sacred event defined to be between one man and one woman. I hope that makes sense. And perhaps some of those blurry lines will be more defined by this supreme court ruling. I just want to point of the difference of saying, \"No, I won't sell you this service because you are homosexual\" and \"No, I won't sell you this service because it will clearly be used as a key part of an event that violates my religious beliefs\". And are we really ready to shut down all Christian, Muslim, etc. wedding companies for this reason? And if so, is that the role of the government and does that then violate the first amendment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If Francis is concerned about the health of Vatican staff....what about the health hazards associated with gay sex (including depression, AIDS, suicide) and cocaine use among Vatican staff?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lawyer Kim In-sook said the military penal code, which makes homosexual activity punishable by up to two years in prison, was unconstitutional because it tramples on basic human rights and dignity. Yes, chomping on someone\u2019s genitalia is really dignified.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People get HIV from unsafe sex and IV drug use. Yet I feel the subtext of your note is \"why do we have to care for people who get HIV.. it's their fault\". And this is the slippery slope. Why should I care for your heart disease, when you ate all that red meat? Why should I care for your diabetes, when you didn't watch your sugar intake? Why should I care for your skin cancer, when you didn't put on sunscreen? Why should I treat your HIV, when gay sex is wrong, and the condom broke, and you got HIV?\n\nI am reminded of a young man I know, long since passed, who spoke of his first sexual experience. He contracted HIV the first time he ever had sex. He was 18, inexperienced, and made one bad decision. \n\nRight now there are great programs that supply sexually active young people with counseling and prescription drug regimes that prevent HIV infection. These cost money. I'm sure the Trump administration will try and pull funding for this. And young men will die.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Really? Was the gay couple demanding to hold their wedding at the bakery? That seems odd.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Way too many Amy's got a gun running around. If APD doesn't arrest this shooter, than our community is in trouble with vigilanteism. The shooter is lucky she didn't kill an innocent bystander(s). Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here come the ammosexuals to the rescue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The average age of the victims was 10.5 for girls and 11.5 for boys.\"\n- from the Commission's statistics as reported by the BBC\n\nSo much for the tired claim that this was mostly gay priests and their teen lovers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay person, I'm going to take the unusual position of saying that as long as the Holy Roman Catholic Church is teaching (falsely, IMO) that being gay is \"objectively disordered and intrinsically evil\" it makes perfect sense to have a policy statement barring gay men from serving as priests. I mean, why would any sane, self-respecting gay man even want to be part of an organization which teaches that? \n\nOn the other hand, I think it's perfectly obvious that the odious 2005 instruction is not stopping gay men from becoming priests, it's simply forcing them deeper into the closet where their sexuality becomes warped, their emotional growth stunted (usually at adolescence when they discover that they're gay) and then they end up molesting children. Same old, same old.\n\nBut I always have to ask, what about those with \"deep-seated heterosexual tendencies?\" I mean, shouldn't they too be barred for not being able to restrain themselves sexually? That doesn't seem fair, does it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The term Islamaphobia infers that anybody who disagrees with any aspect of Islam is neurotic or psychologically impaired...and is being used to shut down any debate on Islam.\nThere are many valid reasons to question the existence of a belief system that subjugates and degrades women, homosexuals, Atheists, and those of other faiths.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anti-hate and zero tolerance. Now those are two completely orthogonal concepts. No wonder neither succeeds in the liberal controlled government schools. And forget diversity unless officially sanctioned as in proclaiming homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "His coming out is a presentation of another viewpoint. Under your way of looking at this, anyone who doesn't agree with the predominant opinions has no way to actually make his/her own case, because it is automatically considered an insult to even disagree with the powers-that-be the \"common knowledge.\" \n\nYou don't know what God intended us to be any more than anyone else. Not even the opinions and perspectives held by all cultures everywhere from the time of Adam know God's intentions. We can get close with following what Jesus said when He told us to love God, love oneself, and love one's neighbors. \n\nWhat Shepard Smith did in revealing himself as gay was to make it possible to know him without hiding the part that some people will find objectionable. Look at the whole person, not the sin. No one is without sin. If your sin is not being gay, it is something else. Who are you to cast stones, even under the cover of \"the wisdom of the ages?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Canada's once vaunted military is now a shadow of itself. This country has had a very proud history of its military and the military's warriors. Brothers-in-arms rarely turn on their own. I call bull hooey on this article. All of a sudden we've got gays, lesbians, trannies, minorities coming out of the woodwork, screaming bigotry, racism, yada, yada, yada.\n\nCanada's military is losing its edge. I put this down to the politically correct leaders. God forbid we have warriors to defend us.....rather lets fight our enemies from computers, where it's safe. Spare me. Let those who want to be a part of a real military, be our heros. Those that joined for any other reason need to find other employment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I find it hard to believe that you have the slightest sympathy for gays. \"Gays\" or \"LGBTs\" are the terms they use, so why don't you use them? \n\nACCORDING TO YOU, your sexual activity is for your own pleasure. If your wife enjoys it, that's OK, but your main interest is pleasuring yourself. So don't give this \"propagates the species\" stuff.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Gender issues\"\n\n<>\n\nhttp://www.pewforum.org/2016/05/12/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/\n\nThat is, like abortion, a MAJORITY of Americans support SSM.\n\n<>\n\nhttp://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/03/americans-are-divided-over-which-public-bathrooms-transgender-people-should-use/\n\n51%-46% of Americans support transgender persons using the restroom of their gender-identity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have not seen any nof you standing for God. ISA\u00cdAS 58:1 tells me to unmask sin, you guys do not care but condoning sin.\n\nThe thing you are missig here is that The church Is not trying to help gay people. The church is giving them green light to sin, and telling them that their lifestyle Is OK with God. That is not love, that is perversion.\n\nI dare you to read those documents I mentioned. And you know The fruits of those docs? Well, how about a transgender Elder in Hollywood SDA, an openly gay SDA church. \n\nDo not confuse love with sin (Eph. 5:1-77). Did you see what happened in Loma Linda:\n\n\"Heterosexuality is an ideal. Homosexuality is the reality because of Romans 3:23\"\n\n\"Jesus had two fathers\", we affirm the LGBT lifestye.\"\n\n\"The bible does not address the LGBT lifestye. Paul knew nothing about our sexual orientation today.\"\n\n\"The Bible cannot be taken literally, especially Leviticus 18:22\"\n\nDo you see any sign of help here for LGBT people or do you see perversion?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bill: \"Sexual violence permeates our culture, from violent rape scenes on hit TV shows to sexist dress codes that reinforce rape culture; from famous athletes telling young girls they\u2019re \u201csupposed to be silent,\u201d to near-daily stories of sexual assaults on college campuses; from a former Olympic doctor accused of sexually abusing more than 100 women, to a President of The United States who has been publicly accused of sexually assaulting more than 15 women and was recorded boasting that he grabs women \u201cby the pussy.\u201d \n\n\"3 The percentage of men who will be raped in their lifetime. \n90 The percentage of adult rape victims that are female. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sexual-assault-statistics_us_58e24c14e4b0c777f788d24f \n\nI invite you to read the entire article. BTW: Most of those rapes of men were, in fact, homosexual rapes...\n\nYour defense of men, while admirable, but very unfounded in fact. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK, let's make this a bit more real. I was sexually/indecently assaulted by a priest who was the chaplain for a gay Catholic group called \"Acceptance\". That priest is now in jail for having sexually abused thee boys before he was a priest. That priest said that at first he was sexually attracted to young boys but he 'developed' and became sexually attracted to older males over time. He himself was a victim of sexual abuse as a boy. Never the less, only a short time after his final profession, he felt 'free' to come on to me (when I was 20 - 1977) during confession because he believed that homosexuality was totally OK and that perhaps I should consider that I might want to be 'accepted', and by him, there an then. I didn't - it was the last thing I wanted from him.\n\nSo, tell me, what is behind this real world scenario: secular or Church homosexual theory (for or against), the sexual revolution, post Vatican II acceptance and experimenting: Was this 'systemic' or was he just a bad apple?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you prefer to stand by and do nothing to combat these evils because someone might help you fhangevatire? Talk about a cafeteria Catholic! But bet you would be one of the first to agitate for not allowing a trans child to use a rest room appropriate to their gender identity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's use this analogy:\n\nThere is a baker who is a Black Orthodox Jew. Three customers (a Neo-Nazi, a KKK, and a gay person) come in, separately, and they select items he has for sale and he rings up their individual purchases. \n-\nIs there any form of discrimination there? No.\n-\nThe next day, those same three customers return, separately, and they each ask the Black Jewish baker to decorate a cake they want to buy. The Neo-Nazi wants a cake decorated with swastikas and a picture of Hitler; the KKK wants the cake decorated showing a man being lynched; the gay person wants a same-sex wedding cake. He respectfully declines all three requests.\n-\nIs there any form of discrimination there, and if so, exactly what is being discriminated against?\n-\n\"Yes,\" there might to some sort of \"discrimination\"....but what is being \"discriminated\" is the \"artwork\" he is being asked to create with his artistic talents.\n-\nHe cannot discriminate against \"people,\" but \"offensive artwork\" is not \"people.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They are too busy fighting pro-choice, lgbt rights, and making excuses on what Trump \"really meant.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The safest course of action when discussing and debating gun laws is to try to not make gun lovers angry. I personally don't want a bunch of heavily armed angry and hostile gun lovers in my face. Especially if they are unmedicated mentally ill people who's medicines have been banned, people who are angry that women have jobs and are going to doctors, gay hating people etc... It's a dangerous world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why is the statement sick? Did you actually read it? \nAre you denying that homosexual activity took place between priests and teenage boys? I didn't accuse all homosexually inclined priests of the abuse and I also have known priests who I suspected of being homosexually inclined and who, I'm sure wouldn't dream of molesting children.\nSo what are you complaining about?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sarah, this is a remarkably good piece of writing. If it is coming back, you have perfectly captured an extremely compelling response: we cannot deny, this time, where this kind of thing is heading. Thanks to the scrupulous fidelity to ensuring the full story was told by your grandparents and their generation, willful blindness is bad faith. Not a one of us - not Muslims, not African Americans, not gays, not Jews... not a one of us should remain unprotected by those of us who have taken the obligation to the truth and to learning the lessons of history seriously.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course gays don't have special rights. Read your own link. You cannot discriminate based on Color. White is a color.\nSexual Orientation: Straight is a sexual Orientation.\nYou are making my point for me. It's too easy. The baker must bake the cake for the Gay couple.\nIf he is offended...to bad.\nThe Black Baker must bake the Cake for the Skinhead. If he's offended to bad.\nIf the skinhead is part of a terrorist organization that might make it different...but if he's not...like I said before...it's bake baker bake. You still have not refuted this basic concept. \nThe Little Guy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fr. Martin is becoming Moses-like. Pinning the snake of homosexuality and mounting it high on a pole. Bringing it out of the darkness of unconscious fear.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rock allegedly picked up more guys in gay bars than Trudeau 2.0 does selfies at fundraisers. This is how he contracted AIDS and killed himself. So he destroyed his life himself with his perpetual promiscuity. Zsa Zsa, for the record, was a friend of Mr. Hudson as was Ronald Reagan. Sorry if Hollywood was insufficiently politically correct for you in the 40s and 50s but neither it nor any other institution in those days could meet your exacting standards. Now you lefty loons have managed to force us to all pretend that gays in holy matrimony is perfectly natural and ordained and that people can self identify in terms of their sex and use whatever dressing room or washroom they desire and that over thirty made up crackpot names are more acceptable than he and she or mister and misses and other crazy crap. Congrats. Will you be making gayness compulsory and retroactive next if there are enough votes in it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Relax buddy...it's not the worst thing a whiteman has done. For one try thinking of goofballs who have used the \"N\" word? Yeah? Right, that's been around longer and ONLY recently has it been addressed. \nBut woooh...when it comes to whitemans' rights - if white retardedness, white handicap, white transgender....PRESTO....these guys get their due rights IMMEDIATELY. But minorities have to take a backseat....and wait....and wait.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Catholic laity are amongst the most supportive of civil marriage equality.\"\nTrue. However:\nIt is not the laity who are afforded greater respect & reverence by legislators, it is the clergy. Legislators (particularly o the right of the political spectrum) appear to bend over backwards to accommodate the will & thinking of the clergy.\nIt is generally not Catholic laity taking action in the courts on matters of LGBT rights. But the Catholic clergy certainly do (a perfect example of this was the constitutional court challenge to Uganda's toxic anti homosexuality law. Catholic laity were nowhere to be seen in that court case, but the Catholic clergy petitioned the court to stand in defense of that toxic and violent law).\n\nAll you have done is point out the human shield of \"nice people\" surrounding the more rabidly homophobic among the clergy.\nYou have deflected attention onto the cloak of disguise worn by the inherently homophobic core.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks Keiran, I knew you would at least reply. I believe it was indeed both, but the 'systemic' aspect was one which was based not on clericalism or conservatism, but on liberal sexual views about clergy and homosexuality which was and still is to a lesser extent, seeking to be the norm in the Church as opposed to traditional or conservative sexual approaches. And that's my point. Of course many chose not ot offend, but many do. Again, I say it: unless we accept that offending occurs because of errors in both conservative AND liberal thinking, agendas and approaches, the issue of clergy sexual abuse of both children and adults, will not be solved. I must admit that my emphasis is on abuse of adults and while there are definite parallels, there are also differences, especially in the general population of those who offend. Its a sweeping generalization but I have seen a trend in conservative clergy being child abusers, and liberal clergy being adult abusers. We have to address both.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please mind you bigotry. We arent doing the \"gay equality is bad because of my god derp derp\" stuff here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I asked above but didn't get an answer. Did the baker say he wouldn't serve the gay couple anything or he wouldn't bake a wedding cake for them? I can't seem to get an answer to this despite a lot of comments on here so people must know otherwise I can't see how anyone can make a non-emotion based decision. This is a vital piece of information as it takes this from a discrimination case to one of religious freedom. Those are very different.\nAnyone know?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's happening still. Curious, isn't it, that for generations Catholics who for whatever reason chose to be married at city hall rather than in a Catholic Church haven't been subjected to similar recriminations for having openly \"flaunted\" church law. Unless I'm mistaken, any marriage that is not approved by Holy Mother Church is considered illegitimate in the eyes of the Church and therefore, by definition, a \"scandal,\" which is the one reason given for the termination of legally-married gay Catholic employees. I suppose the truth of the matter is that straights can \"pass,\" just like they've been \"passing\" on contraception for generations. Everyone just turns a blind eye with a wink and a nod. Except when it comes to the gays - then it's time for the pink slips to come out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's attitudes like this that get our country nowhere. Kasich is moderate, as is Hickenlooper. And what exactly is the \"rainbow jihad\"? Some sort of gay-hate reference?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Any couple's sexuality is more than sex. It is mostly about affinity in daily life. Asexuals even have affinity, usually in the rectory, abbey or convent, although some are gay celibates (or not so celibate). Plato thought such affinity was the highest form of love, but he may have just been cheering for his own team not concious that he was wired differently from the norm. That is the problem with most of the Catholic hierarchy in a nutshell.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In this issue, Toronto's gay men and the police are allies, having a mutual enemy in BLM who wants to commandeer Pride , the police services and certainly with more demands for more power to come. Pride was incredibly easy for BLM to take over. POWER is all they want and Tory is giving it to them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump is just a 12-year-old school-yard bully from a rich family, looking up girls\u2019 skirts when they\u2019re on the swings and beating up on the short kid with glasses who is better at math than everybody else.\n\n\nHe thinks that will make him popular.\n\nAnd popularity is so necessary to someone who is internally vacuous.\n\n\nBecause of Trump's spite the courts will grant rights and it will cost more in time and money than if he'd just stuck with the promise he made when campaigning\n\nThe White House recently announced that President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of L.G.B.T.Q. rights, just as he was throughout the election.\n\nThey said Trump is proud to have been the first ever G.O.P. nominee to mention the L.G.B.T.Q. community in his nomination acceptance speech, and he pledged to provide protections for the community\n\nAs with every other promise Trump has ever made, exercising his most dominant trait, he lied about his intentions, and he failed to follow through on his promise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"NOT bad dudes list\":\n\nJeffery Dahmer--serial killer, homosexual rapist, cannibal\n\nIsrael Keyes--serial killer and rapist\n\nJoseph Houseman--drunk who brandished a gun at a cop\n\nJames Holmes--mass-murderer who killed 12 and wounded 80 in a theater\n\nBill Jones--shot two cops in an armed standoff\n\n\"BAD dudes list\":\n\nJonathan Ferrell--College football athlete shot ten times for seeking help after a car wreck\n\nAkai Gurley--shot while climbing stairs, unarmed, by a cop he didn't know was there\n\nAmadou Diallo--shot 19 times while attempting to obey cops' orders to remove his ID\n\nTamir Rice--12 year-old shot while playing with a toy gun on a swing set\n\nAiyana Jones--7 year-old whose head was blown off by a cop while she slept on her grandmother's couch\n\nThe IMPORTANT difference between the \"not bad dudes\" and the \"bad dudes\" is that the former were not killed by cops, and the latter were. You may not think this is important. If you could ask the \"bad dudes\", they'd probably disagree.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Re: \"The new proposal would repeal HB2 and leave state legislators in charge of policy on public multi-stall restrooms. Local governments also couldn\u2019t pass new nondiscrimination protections for workplaces, hotels and restaurants until December 2020.\"\n\nThus rendering this new bill un-Constitutional as well as blatantly discriminatory. It forbids cities from passing what works for them (and what, apparently, the majority of the citizens want, as well). It means that for THREE MORE YEARS, LGBTQ people can still be legally fired from their jobs, denied rental accommodation or even a hotel room while on vacation.\n\nGeez Louise, can't USians govern anymore? What are ya down there in N.C.? Stupid? Or just prejudiced?\n\nRe: \"That temporary moratorium, according to GOP House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger, would allow time for pending federal litigation over transgender issues to play out.\"\n\nNo. It allows 3 more years of prejudice and discrimination. Period. \n\n\"Sad!\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well I thank you for the compliment. Unfortunately, I must disappoint you. You know it's funny. If you just use a copious amount of large words, people tend to think that you are more mature and smarter than you actually are. It works with literature teachers and apparently with you too. \n\nAs for the lesbian who killed her \"bull-dyke\" partner, are you trying to say that people who are heterosexual and cisgender don't kill each other for cheating?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The issue at hand is not discrimination against a person, it is against an event. The baker did not refuse to serve the gay couple; he refused to make a cake for an event celebrating an event which goes against his beliefs. Had the couple ordered a birthday cake, or a generic cake, or ordered a wedding cake for their straight friend, the cake would have been made because it was not the couple being discriminated against; it was the event. \n\nCan a black baker refuse to make a birthday cake for a KKK grand dragon? Can a black baker refuse to make a cake celebrating a KKK anniversary? \n\nCan a Jewish baker refuse service to a neo-Nazi? Can a Jewish baker refuse to make a cake for a neo-Nazi protest rally? \n\nCan a liberal baker refuse to make a cake for a conservative politician? Can a liberal baker refuse to make a cake for the Donald Trump inaugural celebration?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Reposting from yesterday:\nChaput is either practicing *fake news* or being deliberately *misleading*.\n\nLatest CDC: https://www.stdcheck.com/herpes-2.php\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 776,000 people in the U.S. are infected annually with HSV-2, but they are not certain how many of these cases are oral herpes or genital herpes. \n\n- More than 80% of people with herpes are undiagnosed.\n\n -Overall prevalence by the time people reach their forties is 26%.\n\n -In the general population, one-fifth of women and 11.5% of men are infected.\n\nProven data indicates that 20% in a lifetime may carry the Herpes Virus - Chaput is manipulating this and blowing it out of proportion.\n\nChaput's continued *blindness* about the purpose of sex and homosexuality is actually just embarrassing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If he had been a muslim, lesbian trans person of colour there would not have been a peep due the prof being higher in the victim hierarchy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1) Pleased name one case where someone from the current blacklisted countries were involved in terrorist acts on US soil.\n\n2) Abortion is permitted because of the law....making it illegal actually goes against the law of the land. That is why it is legal, whether you like it or not.\n\n3) Please name even one \"special law\" that homosexuals have and that heterosexuals do not.\n\nI presume you can back yourself up. I'll check back in a bit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don\u2019t think you know many (or any) transgender people, adults or kids. I know what I am talking about. I know lots of trans people, several trans kids and am trans myself.\n\nNobody does this on a whim. And no parent decides to change their kid's gender. Most parents are anguished at first when their kid insists he or she is trans. Kids who display serious, consistent gender dysphoria need to delay puberty until they can sort out their feelings. Remember that puberty-blocking drugs are reversible. Stop taking them and normal puberty resumes if you decide not to transition.\n\nI hugely regret that I had to go through puberty before transitioning. It made it much more difficult, though I am still immensely happy with how my life has turned out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. You cannot discriminate against straight people, either. The \"class\" is legally called \"sexual orientation,\" not \"gay.\" And you cannot discriminate against white people, either. That \"class\" is called \"race,\" not \"black.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That\u2019s not the definition of homosexuality. Go to any doctor/medical office, employment manual, survey, and legal document. None whatsoever refers to the illustration you are proposing. Thus, not what it means. You are driving at a motive on the suggested tendencies/sexual preference for people of the same sex to justify the act/behavior. But, it doesn\u2019t acquit the definition from the preference of males preferring boys (whether you define that as immature or not.) The fact/basis is that men who prefer boys are homosexual on the subset preference from the definition itself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"confusing the faithful\" It's time for the hierarchs to retire that phrase. The faithful aren't confused and most of them accept gay people. The hierarchs are confused if they think firing and excluding good people leads to good. The faithful are on to them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hillary was not my candidate. I only voted for her as I felt she would at least be a capable president, unlike the Donald who is just a joke. I notice you still haven't posted anything specific about the Clintons. If you are going to make negative comments about someone you shoud be able to back them up immediately. Telling others to do their own research shows your position is just weak. \n\nAs far as more liberal or conservative, you wrote: \"I'm disappointed with how extremely liberal this party has become.\" I am just saying it hasn't become more liberal but less. It needs to be more liberal. We should have been number one in legalizing gay marriage. We should have been number one in legalizing marijuana. We should be allowing assisted suicide or aid in dying. We need to resist big brother telling us what we can or cannot do. Just say No to Orwell's Oceania.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You make it sound as if you think that transgendered people want to change their sexism on a whim. In reality, it generally takes them years, first to come to the realization of what they are and should be, and then to actually do something about it. \n\nI really believe that you don't understand what is involved here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Doesn't Mr. Trumka the AFL-CIO always support the candidate who is pro infanticide, pro homosexual marriage, and has an inherent Marxist bent; you know, the democrat nominee.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If I love my sister and want to marry her, or if I already have a wife but want to also marry another woman I love, all of that is illegal. I\u2019d pretty much have to sit back and do nothing about it (although there\u2019s nothing to stop us from living as if we were married). If I could be fired from my job because I\u2019m heterosexual, I probably would be more comfortable working somewhere else anyway. If I really had to have the job, I\u2019m sure I could go to work without raising the issue of my sexuality, which most people do anyway. I know some of my co-workers are married, but I don\u2019t know for certain they\u2019re not bisexual, or homosexuals married for convenience. Just as I\u2019ve never examined their privates to verify their sex. Most people just don\u2019t care about these things, until someone wants to make an issue of it. If someone told me to use the women\u2019s bathroom, I\u2019d use it. There actually have been times when maintenance is in the men\u2019s room, and I (after calling in) go into the women\u2019s room.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The issue isn't accepting diversity. The issue is the fact that Christensen said the bakers in Oregon had the right to discriminate against two women who asked for a wedding cake. When questioned about that stance, he then doubled down by announcing a plan he had to be able to do the same as the Oregon bakers which would include lying about their schedule, claiming they would be all booked up and unable to provide that service. No, this isn't about accepting diversity or even claiming to have \"gay friends\". It's about announcing to the world you think bakers have a right to discriminate and then announce how you will do it in order to not be blatant about it.\nOne more thing: behaving in a homosexual manner is not the same as *being* gay or lesbian. You either are or you aren't. It's not about sex, it's about who you are. LGBT typically have tried for a portion of their life to behave heterosexually - to be \"normal\". That behavior didn't make them heterosexual, it made them actors.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "martha, i agree with the cake baker. i dont agree with the cake baker that supports voter suppression, anti-lgbtqa legislation, racist policies and bigotry. dont sell a cake to a gay couple but please keep your religious beliefs inside your store and home. dont take them to the state legislature.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cynthia Thielen celebrates moderate Republicans, who tolerate every expansion of government that issues from Democratic Party policy shops. \"Social justice\" isn't justice. The welfare state is bankrupt. Homosexual marriage is a tax increase on married heterosexual couples and all single taxpayers. Minimum wage laws put on-the-job training off-limits to low-skilled workers. \nRepresentative Thielen calls advocates for constitutionally-limited government \"extreme\". For every locality A the term \"the government of A\" names the largest dealer in interpersonal violence in that locality. Advocates for expansive government are extremely fond of interpersonal violence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you read the article. The authors mentioned asexuals too but did not get the irony that those persecuting them are, in fact, aces. The hetero priests mostly left to get married. For asexuals the charism of chastity is an easy fit, though not automatic. How it affects them is not how it is for the rest of us. From Marcus Aurelius to Augustine (who was even briefly married) to Aquinas, and back to Plato and his sexual idealism, asexuality is apparrent. Do you think it does not exist and all the non-gay priests are really dedicated heteros? Do you know many priests? I thought the ones with the gentle manner were gay but I have revised my imporession on the nature of their God-given sexuality as neither gay or straight. Would it shake your faith if there was such a cause to their abberant sexual musings on the married and gay?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We're being told there are no differences-it's how you \"identify\". Fine by me. When will the US Olympic team be allowing transgender women sprinters? No big deal, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a parent I believe that kids should conform to the gender they are born with UNTIL they are old enough and mature enough to understand fully what all they are getting into. Some kids will mature and research these issues early on, other will not get their until a bit later. medically or chemically interfering with the sexual maturity of a person who is not sure who he or she is just seems wrong. As the research shows young kids who identify as tranasgender are more likely to be gay than actually transgensder and there is a big difference between the two!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Have these questions really been \"comprehensively\" answered? So, magisterial teaching is informed, at least in part, by the testimonies of committed gay couples? Well, this is what your declaration implies. Can you cite these testimonies? You should have no difficulty in doing so since you sound very much like someone in the know. I'd pay particular attention if you did, and I'm willing to learn from you, to be your pupil. Well?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Proud, you obviously live out your faith with service to others. Thank you for that blessing, that witness. The issues you struggle with raise these questions:\n1. Are all contraceptive methods abortifacient? Could you support an employees choice to use a non- abortifacient barrier method?\n2. Most of the studies I've seen shows no difference in children being raised by heterosexual or homosexual parents. Is denying a child the ability to be parented worth keeping them away from gay households? Why?\n3. Have you really had a restroom problem? Was a cross dressing man harassing/ogling abused women in a restroom? I would sincerely hope you had that man arrested, but is this really a hypothetical?\nPS I hate my #3 question. If you respond, I will believe your answer is truthful. Too many times these discussions devolve into arguing to win. I apologize for asking for a verification and do not doubt your faith or opinion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cThis gives us the opportunity to set a precedent for others in our community that violence against gays will not be tolerated.\u201d\nThis sends the wrong message that violence with the same severity is punished differently for select groups. Apparently District Judge Ben Leutwyler is not familiar with the United Sates constitution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is \"homosexual behavior\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hmmm....\n\nIf Aiona challenges Mike Gabbard, he'll be doing Gabbard a TREMENDOUS favor since the Hawaiian and environmental block is pretty pissed off at Gabbard (who is usually on the right side of these issues) giving in to pressure (I assume his chairmanship was at risk) and voting yes on HB2501 (the A&B water theft bill). On hating gays they are same-same.\n\nIf he goes for the Mayor position, he's not going to get the major pushback from the environmentalists (just look at his opponents)\n\nIf he goes for CD1, he'll split the GOP vote and insure Hanabusa's win.\n\nSo IMO, his best chance is Mayor ( you can thank me later Oahu, LOL!)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can't speak for him, but I this article makes me once again be happy that I am gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Meanwhile, in another Globe article from June 26, scores of posters are outraged that a gormless baker from the US had the audacity to refuse to bake a wedding cake for 2 gay men, with his refusal based on the grounds that he disapproved of their lifestyle. \n\nHe is facing a Supreme Court case where he could be sanctioned for failing to bow to the demands of the groom and groom, who maintain that in failing to bow to their demands, this private individual operating a private business committed a heinous discriminatory act. In essence, the baker and his skills must become a slave to the wishes of others.\n\nNone of those same posters (except for yours truly in a brilliant sarcastic post) pointed out the naked hypocrisy of claiming discrimination by the baker in question, but having no qualms on the banning of police participation in a public event.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually we don't \"thoroughly understand\" a single thing about sexual preferences, other than they are variably addicting!\n\nNice try.\n\nIn fact, epigenetics is finally being allowed to address the fuzzy nuture-nature middle ground without being shouted down by gay activists.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please get used to the fact that as you go through life you will hear a lot of things you may DISAGREE with\nDeal with it in a mature way\nBe tolerant of opposing views\n.\nThe left has become very intolerant\n.\neg. abortion, gay marriage, climate change\u2026.use CENSORSHIP to shut down all dissent\n .\n\"We the left will use INTOLERANCE to fight intolerance\" - motto of the left", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bill that Bathroom law as I read it said that those Trans people had to use the bathroom of their gender, meaning even though a fifty yr. old dude might want to be a woman he still has to use the men's Restroom. So no big dudes would be going pee next to little girls. but actually I don't know why I waste my time. You'll see it ho Fox news wants you to see it and that's that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many GOP senators are opposed to Trump's ban:\n\nSen. John McCain: There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military\u2014regardless of their gender identity.\"\n\nSen. Joni Ernst \u201cAmericans who are qualified and can meet the standards to serve in the military should be afforded that opportunity,\u201d \n\nSen. Orrin Hatch: I don't think we should be discriminating against anybody. Transgender people are people, and deserve the best we can do for them.\"\n\nSen. Thom Tillis: \u201cI would have significant objections to any proposal that calls for a specific group of American patriots currently serving in uniform to be removed from the military.\u201d\n\nSen. Dan Sullivan: \u201cI\u2019m all about training standards. High, high standards for whoever joins the military.\u201d \u201cBut my initial reaction is, if you can meet those standards, we shouldn\u2019t care who you are. So, meet the standards, and you should be able to join the military.\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those white religious protesters down South earlier this summer over the gay marriage thing come to mind, speaking of conservatives protesting. \n\nAgree on Reuters; up there with WAPost.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A VERY controversial film and at the same time a movie great as it does more. \nControversial from the START. There is nothing on the screen for at least 5 minutes. No image! As the sound of a soundtrack a bit 'pompous '. \nOf course the Viewer is not used, and he is completely distraught by the 'opening' of this film... as it will be crippled for the rest of the film also. \nThe viewer Gets a \"brick\" in the forehead! And for the first time in the history of Cinema, \na transgender gets one of the key roles and gets a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Actress in a supporting role for Gabrielle Tremblay (see Google for info)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What? We should be less descriptive of a criminal suspect in order to avoid offending some sensitive racists? The suspect might not have been a male, might have been transgender. Right? HPD should not be allowed to provide descriptions until after the criminal is captured and his description can be verified.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "tempersdue - \n\nMy comment and this article is about the events in Charlotesville.\n\nOn one side were the alt right - all white and largely male with a smattering of women.\n\nOn the other side - every other imaginable person in America; white, black, brown, Muslims, Christians, Jews, agnostics, straight, gay, trans and across the age spectrum. Today in Boston the anti-racists got even more diverse with Democrats AND Republicans protesting racism and hate.\n\nThat's why racism is America and Canada is skewed \"white\". \n\nTo try and divert with \"oh, but Africa, Asia ....\" seems disingenuous at best. We're not talking about those countries on this continent right now.\n\nBut for the record yes - every society in the world has an \"out\" \"other\" group that comes in for a shellacking. Tools used can be race, class, gender - anything. Doesn't let us look the other way for what's happening in our cities now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The CPC party did absolutely nothing for gay rights (and in fact opposed them for a long time) except jump on the bandwagon after the other parties had already fought for and obtained them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Catholic Church's teaching on the subject of homosexual acts is identical to the teaching of the Orthodox Churches, mainstream Islam and traditional Judaism. For example, Patriarch Kirill is, if anything, more adamant on the subject than any recent Pope has been. \n\nThe Catholic Church's teachings on the completely unrelated subjects of divorce and contraception are slightly different from other these religious traditions. But these teachings have in no way isolated the Church. Take a look at the pictures of the Pope with Patriarch Bartholomew; that is not a picture of isolation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is the exact reason why I cat-call other men. See how they like it! For all the men commenting who don't think it was \"that big of a deal\", what if a 6'4\" (extremely handsome) man started to hit on you? Not just on a plane where you can't escape from those hidden desires, but how about on the street? At the bus stop? In the store? In front of your own children? AT YOUR WORKPLACE? How would you feel? Unsafe? Threatened? Knowing Alaskans as I do, YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT, and you'd probably threaten me with those big strong guns you love to handle. You wouldn't want to think about me turning you into my own personal \"toy\" or \"play thing\", and you'd feel even more justified to gay bash me. Bravo to AK Air and this flight crew. Deplorables beware!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Historians piece together what they can, and what they have found is that transgender people have existed for thousands of years, however they can. But if the word \"transgender\" and treatments for trans people won't exist for 1000 years, and there is no paper, how do you get a suicide note to confirm the reason someone committed suicide? You can't. \n\nThere is an assumption that because we can recognize medical conditions / differences better, they are somehow more prevalent. They aren't though -- they are just better recognized. Many transgender people know they are different but needed the Internet to learn what they could do about it, as there is a huge stigma against them. \n\nAnd when I say brain bathed in testosterone, I am talking male levels -- voice dropping, hairy face, etc. If you're a woman and that was happening to you, it sounds like you would be more than a little uncomfortable. Otherwise, why would you transition? Or if you're comfortable looking like a man, why change?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, being that the United States of America is a REPUBLIC...then your statement is absolutely true. And if you feel that majority rules, then shouldn't Doug be suing our state for going against the 70%+ that voted against homosexual marriage? \"And to the Republic, for which it stands...\"; it's from the pledge of allegiance, btw.\n\nhttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2011/08/what-does-the-pledge-of-allegiance-really-mean/\n\n[insert Bruce Lee falsetto \"Hwaaahhhhaaahh!\" here]", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those folks were only protected when the Bush administration gave them unfettered access to our country to do what had been decreed. Most people aren't even aware of the expedited-visa process instituted for Saudi Arabia to allow them to come here without being scrutinized.\n\nYes, the governments of some nations are 2 centuries behind when it comes to gays, but the people accept us. It was only recently that our own government moved forward on the issue, republicans notwithstanding.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unless the opposing pitcher actually is a homosexual.....does it matter what Pillar called him? I know, I know........bad words.....imagine that in pro sports. Wonder what goes on in an NFL line of scrimmage? Or in an NHL hockey scrum. Lots of mother, wives and daughters insulted and threatened for sure.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Self-reporting is just an expression of what someone believes, not what is fact. Considering that all children have amnesia until age 7, there's a whole lotta forgotten environmental influences that likely account for what the homosexual perceives to be in-born. While there is likely some genetic/epigenetic characteristics that make some more susceptible to same-sex attraction than others, it is all learnable/unlearnable. And we know this as fact from people who have been one \"orientation\" and changed to the other.\n\nPederasty (opposite sex) is much more likely to be an inborn trait, as humans are able to reproduce much earlier than the laws defining \"pederasty\" consider.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The closet was not the best solution, especially since most would disagree with you on oral sodomy. As for kids in a marriage, they are already present in gay marriages because people in them are already parents. If not, modern science can make them that way. Like I said, I doubt it is the morals that concern you much, it is the possible fallibility of the Church on this issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can't just choose to ignore...\"\u201cOur military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail,\u201d\n\nbecause it doesn't fit your ideal. The WHOLE basis of the military discipline is conformity. Hence the \"STANDARDization\" of hairstyles and uniform. Even the spokesman says...\"\u201cThe military is often the last resort for people who can\u2019t find jobs because of discrimination,\u201d Rodriguez-Roldan said. She said the transgender community \u201cwill not stop fighting\u201d for justice.\"\n\nDoes THAT sound like people who conform?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "4/5\nI would rather try and illustrate with something like original sin, but you raised gay marriage. Perhaps the prime continuity inspired by the Spirit is natural law, the attempt to find moral guidance in nature. Our ancestors in the faith noted quite correctly that sex in nature is for procreation, and perhaps because \u201csexual jealousy\u201d is natural enough, and since human children need parenting for a very long time, they decided that monogamous pair-bonding is the proper context for sex and children. Without reliable forms of contraception, prohibition of sex outside of marriage was a pretty good rule with a view to society living in conformity with nature.\n\nCritically important, I think, is that in the world that devised those rules, human nature was understood as \u201cbody + soul\u201d (biology + spirituality). Today, because of the discovery of psychology, we thing more in terms of \u201cbody+ psyche + soul\u201d (biology + psychology + spirituality).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Perlmutter sidestepped a question on whether Polis is too liberal to win a general election\" So now, \"too liberal\" is polite speak for gay? That is what we are talking about here. Sorry folks, I firmly believe that there are simply too many bigots in Colorado to elect a, uhhh, \"too liberal\" Governor.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "this anchor character would have a fit if this were done to Gays.\nwhat ya think anchor.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mary, Jamie, Marianne, Thank you for this invitation. I accept. I am a straight Catholic woman living in community with a loving, couple who are lifelong public servants (one a physician, one a prosecutor of violent crimes). My friends are both women. One of them is also Catholic. I live with a family, with a couple who contribute great happiness to my life through the beauty and stability and generosity of their commitment and love for one another and through the reality that their loving life together supports their powerful contribution to the broader community through their service. When some learn that I live with a gay couple, the attention instantly goes to what happens in their bedroom and whether I am condoning \"that sin\" through our co-housing as if .the listener has heard nothing of my earlier words about my friends and our community (I am also a lifelong community servant through my work as a social worker and then a Catholic Worker). Ours is a gorgeous Christian home.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, yeah, we know.\nThe End Times are always just around the corner. And have been since the First Century.\nTry this, instead: The Sun (that big yellow ball in the sky, created 5 billion years -- not 6,000 -- ago?) heats the sunward side of the Earth. More at the equator, less at the poles. The Earth's rotation and the differential in heating causes counter-rotating bands of winds. Within those bands, air pressure variations form. From the low pressure variations off the coast of west Africa, hurricanes develop.\nCyclones develop in the Pacific from the same mechanism\nNo \"original sin\", no gay people, no Supreme Court, required.\nJupiter has a 300-year-old hurricane called the \"Great Red Spot\". So far as we know, there are no sentient beings on Jupiter, no sinful people. So why is Jupiter on God's \"naughty\" list?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not a stretch at all. He accepted money from people who either are gay/lesbian, have family or friends who are gay/lesbian, probably some folks that have had same-gender weddings or have been to same-gender weddings, but won't serve gays/lesbians who are having same-gender weddings and could, potentially order a cake from him for that wedding? Sorry, but once he asked the public for help to start his business (why not get a business loan from a bank?) he was giving the message he would be serving all the public, not just those whose weddings he likes or agrees with because of his religious beliefs. Because people trusted him with their money to do the right and legal thing, they also have a right to ask for their money back (if they so choose) when they feel they have been duped. And that *is* GoFundMe policy, from what I've learned recently.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Like many other animals, human males are just generally seeking to climax (witness a dog's lack of concern for sexual partner), and we know from history that sexual desire for other men is learnable behavior (see Ancient Greece). Different from other animals, humans were blessed with reason to distinguish between urges that \"make sense\" and those that don't. So I'm not all that swayed by the \"homosexual\" animal argument.\n\nFeelings have proven to be a poor way of selecting a mate. For thousands of years parents picked their childrens' mates, and with good reason: they know their children, they know marriage, and they know human nature better than their children. And most married people will tell you that feelings figure very little into how they manage their marriage and their lives. And, for that matter, sex. \n\nSo all these feelings and desire to engage in sodomy is really rather pointless, especially in light of sexual desire being learnable and love being non-sexual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's total cost. You assume all transgender people are taking drugs or going through procedures for their condition. If they're willing to serve and are physically capable, why bar anyone? It's how they perform under fire. Have you been in the military?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This again.\n\nNOBODY does irreversible physical intervention on kids under the age of 16. If a kid thinks he or she is transgender, at most they'll be put on puberty-delaying drugs. When they're mature enough to decide, that's when irreversible intervention can begin.\n\nAnd yes, kids should be believed. Cross-gender behaviour in kids is completely normal and not an indication of gender dysphoria, but any child showing severe distress over his or her assigned gender had better be believed or he or she will suffer miserably.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"An Ontario survey found two-thirds of transgender people have avoided public places because they fear harassment and violence. It contributes to isolation, depression, poverty, addiction and suicide.\" Hmmm... in Psychology class, we learned that people make choices, and, thus are responsible for their own actions. But this quote seems to blame us for the serious ills that transgender people fear. Frankly, a life-choice typified by a fear of 'public places' ain't a winner.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cool, I get it, no matter what is put in front of you regarding crimes committed against trans people you will attempt to minimize it away. The 21 trans people murdered in 2015 listed in the HRC report were recorded as single or multiple bias murders by the FBI. As far as the man killed in Vermont just a few days ago authorities have yet to determine if his transgender status was a factor. They haven't expressly said anything except that they were still investigating.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "David Brown 980. The Gathering Place not only provides a lunch program and food bank. People there work to change policies to fight for human and civil rights. The Gathering Place provides showers and a place to nap for people who have no place to stay at night. The Gathering Place is once of very few places where women, transgender, and children can go to actually be safe. It's not a perfect place, but much of what is there is a perfect example of what humanity should be like: Caring and acceptance. It's a place where the people who go there talk to each other and help find answers by sharing their own resources, like change for the bus, like a place to stay for a few weeks, like a friend to talk to, like a couch in an apartment to rest in for a couple of weeks, like a place to share writing, music, and art.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "someone like Justin Trudeau who marched in their parades with his tongue hanging out?\n--------\nlet him march in Chechnya's first pride parade and bring gay rights to that part of the world\n\nmarching in Canada is just too much \"safe space\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Gay men are being persecuted in Chechnya \u2013 but Canada says it\u2019s not our problem\"\n\nWith all due respect that is not the message Canada is sending. Canada has established generous immigration and refugee guidelines and will apply those guidelines equally to Chechnya/Russia as it does with Iran, Saudi Arabia and dozens of other countries that persecute LGBT people as well as other minorities.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To all those eminently qualified male Ph.D's: you still have job prospects:\nAll you need to do know is self identify as a gender non-binary hermaphrodite, and voila, you can apply under the diversity clause as a \"non-male\" and you're in. And because gender is supposedly fluid, you can just re-identify as male later on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is a quite serious comment. It's saying that if you disapprove of same sex marriage you shouldn't have one. But your personal disapproval should have no bearing on others having one.\n\nAnd don't give us twaddle about \"disapproving of rape\" or something similar. You know it's a false analogy. Married gays are not the moral equivalent of rapists.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, not because they are gay. As I said before, I think he had baked them cakes previously, perhaps for a birthday or something. I'm unsure. \nThey wanted him to participate in and condone a marriage his religious beliefs don't allow, that's the difference.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently this person is confused about the individual's right to free speech under the 1st amendment and the rules of the US Senate.... there are occupations and institutions wherein you agree to forego your free speech rights. The military is one, and the Senate is another. Warren is a very loose cannon, and was rightfully shut down for her disparaging statement of a fellow sitting Senator. Harken back to the days when the likes of Preston Brooks (a South Carolina democrat representative), entered the Senate Chambers and attacked Senator Charles Sumner (Republican Massachusetts) with his cane. Sumner was nearly beaten to death, and never fully recovered. I'm not sure what \"neo-nazi\" she's talking about...but if she's talking about the openly gay editor from Breitbart...I stillcan't imagine that individual as a \"nazi\" of any kind. Given the left's riots, extreme rhetoric, etc. we obviously need some restraints on the left, lest we have another War to \"preserve the union.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), \u201cThe President\u2019s tweet \u2026 regarding transgender Americans in the military is yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter. \u2026 There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military\u2014regardless of their gender identity. We should all be guided by the principle that any American who wants to serve our country and is able to meet the standards should have the opportunity to do so\u2014and should be treated as the patriots they are.\u201d\n\nSen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), who wields a lot of control over the Pentagon\u2019s budget from his perch on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee: \u201cYou ought to treat everybody fairly and give everybody a chance to serve,\u201d he said on CNN. In a follow-up statement to the Huntsville Times, he added: \u201cThe current policy is a big tent for people who want to serve. You've got to remember, our military force is a voluntary force.\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The real issue is trustworthiness of the news organizations, rather than the sources. Globe and Mail has lost much of the credibility after (1) blatant promotion of new refugees, who stubbornly refuse to accept principle of gender equality, homosexual rights, and secularism, (2) showing soft corner for neo-fascists, who oppose freedom of expression, (3) peddling US Govt. line of \"chemical attack by Assad\", though the ISIS rebels stockpiled chemicals, (4) circulating ridiculously-tutored seven year old girl's tweets from a war zone with questionable internet infra structure.\nThe list is very long.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What one woman may consider a frivolous flirt that she finds complimentary, a lesbian may consider an outrageous transgression of unthinkable sexual horror. The act itself may be perfectly benign, but the reaction completely hostile. How are police to balance the two attitudes towards one act? There needs to be a standard of what defines sexual assault based on intent and definable harm, not merely the emotional reaction to it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "SJWs at U of T have made laughing at trans-gender pronouns an actual criminal act, punishable by arrest, imprisonment and fines.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not a \"follower\" of Sirico or anyone else and I have no idea of who is chaste and celibate and who is not. I do know that he has publicly repented for his immorality. For that he gets my respect. He is a very gifted man who could have continued to live off the gay lobby, were that his choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Key West, a 3X5 mile rock where the Atlantic coast begins and Gulf of Mexico opens, is the perfect place for the basilica of St. Mary, Star of the Sea. \u201cCayo Hueso,\u201d the \u201cisle of bones,\u201d where pre-Columbian, Christian and current residents have shared a pirate\u2019s paradise and a sinner\u2019s purgatory,. The basilica has a history of Cuban-American collaboration and contention, a house built and maintained by pirates and sinners from its beginning to the present day, with stimulating shots of Cuban coffee.\n\tHarold Murphy and Fred Klaus were beloved island patrons and hosts of one of Key West\u2019s premier gay-friendly motels. They supported St. Mary\u2019s when it was just a church, donating the carillon to call the city to conversation, or at least to a morning bucci. They gave many other gifts anonymously. The seeds they spread are not only sprouting, they are flourishing.\n The bells are ringing. Bucci! Fantasy Fest! Fun! Fraternity! Fidelity! Cayo Hueso! Key West! St. Mary, Star of the Sea!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi Lizzy! I'm Pablito the curator of Mantastic. I really appreciate you mentioning the show even if it has a little sarcasm attached to it. I want to take the time to explain the mission of my show so you have a little more clarification. MANTASTIC NW is a select group of Portland based artists who celebrate the male form and body acceptance through visual art. As a collective of artists, our goal is to enrich the lives of people with our art and events. We are of the belief that art has a disproportionate amount of female figures compared to men, especially in nude forms. We are influenced by cultures that shame men for being bald, fat or hairy. We are also told that our genitals are shameful or inadequate. Mantastic NW is a group art show that wants to celebrate the male form and raise awareness of this gender bias within the art community and body shaming within the queer community. We are hoping to expand this show to women, POC and transgendered people who create male form art.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What attitude would that be now? The one about traitors? Or the one about a traitor suddenly becoming transgender to escape a full prison sentence?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not sure what else to say here. With respect to your point that \"I would interpret that as saying that Locke's \"true happiness\" for a gay couple would entail the right to marry each other,\" I did see perhaps a relevant, if dull, remark from someone else recently that might help you here: He or she said that a person was assuming \"that the founding fathers agreed with him\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While certain actions may be considered sinful (for example, murder), it is only God Who can judge who has sinned. Homosexuality is a biologically determined normal variant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This morning and tomorrow morning, several thousand transgender soldiers will load missiles on planes, write reports, repair and clean equipment, check their weapons, fly on military aircraft, and stand ready to protect us. An early morning tweet message from the President is not a policy order. Until field commanders receive detailed written directives, these brave personnel will do their jobs like those standing beside them. If and when they are yanked from service, the U.S. flag will fade in stature as a symbol of freedom and equality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You know, Anchorage has always been a very tolerant and giving City. There is certainly not a reason in the world for anyone to worry about people that ID themselves as \"gay\". In my eyes, I am much more suspicious of people that ID as \"progressive\". \nSomewhat paradoxically, the Anchorage government is going Left while the country and the State are still to the Right. It sort of makes sense because government jobs are the natural domain of the Left. And I have seen little energy from the Right lately in ANC. As long as we enforce the tax cap - things pretty much stay under control. And of course, the D's always try to thwart the cap. It's the front line in the battle between socialism and free enterprise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He didn't ever refuse to design a cake for gay couples. He just doesn't want to design a wedding cake that would go against his religious convictions. Someone suggested that Jack Phillips could decorate a nice, artistic cake minus any evidence that it was for a gay wedding. Then the couple could place whatever items they want on their cake to signify to their guests that they are at a gay wedding. Can you live with that? I can and I bet Jack Phillips could as well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My younger brother, who is gay, tried for years to be a Catholic. He was rejected, He did not fail the Church, the Church failed him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Serafim my friend:\n\nI agree enthusiastically that \"Assad should let free speech reign in Syria.\" \nIndeed, I would like to see free speech, including freedom of worship and self-expression, prevail, NORMATIVELY, throughout the MENA, from Iran through Saudi Arabia to Libya. It would be a wonderful experience for the Christian migrant workers in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, for the besieged Egyptian Copts and for Gay persons. For that to happen, the region needs voices like that of South Africa's Archbishop Tutu: No political leader constrained Archbishop Tutu from speaking truth to secular power; thus, he helped to avert a civil war in South Africa and the concomitant generation of desperate refugees.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People have short memories, Trump is intent on making America safe. As Hollywood and the Democratic sore loser states put it they don't recall any of the maladies you listed. When Trumps foibles get as numerous as those then they'll have reason to bawl foul. We have every minority group in the country convinced the Democrats had their their backs. Well pro abortionists have had their way for 25 years and that is about to change, homosexuals enjoy accomodation with special law provisions when Trump is saying the laws that stand for all of us is good enough for special interest groups as well. Trumps America will be safer, universal in the laws application and prioritizing America's needs with in their own borders. I think the US is fed up with being the worlds policeman and it is time for other nations or the UN heaven forbid to step up to the plate. America has footed 80% of the world costs for everything from feeding the disaster areas to feeding refugees world wide.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I want to laugh at some of the remarks that homosexuality is a mistake. Dear sweet Lord, what planet are you from. Heterosexuality, homosexuality, transgenderism is not a life style, nor is it chosen. It is who a person is. It is unique as one's eye or hair color. \n\nWhat many people do not realize too is that gender identity and sexual identity are also two separate things. An effeminate man can be heterosexual, and a very masculine man can be homosexual. Gender identity does not follow sexual identity or visa versa.\n\nIt is high time that the Churches recognizes the mystery and uniqueness of each image of God. We are variations of each other. We are not made from a cookie cutter, nor is our spirituality. The institutional Church needs to realize this and be inclusive, not be an exclusive country club. The Church Community is a place of love and acceptance, not a place of ridicule and hate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So toxic and off the rails I'd take a pass, but just to note the association socio-historically between women and gays has to do with male anxiety over dominance and submission.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...Get behind Transgender, homosexuals, blacks, native indians, hispanics, Muslims,\nJews and defeat Trump....\"\n.\n.\n.\n1. These people already don't vote Republican.\n2. Most of them live in districts (cities) that vote overwhelmingly Democratic already.\n\nGetting 100% of the groups you mentioned to vote, would only boost the margin of victory in a Democratic district from 75% to 90%...\n\nMeaningless...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sorry your mom said she wish she'd never given birth to you and happy to hear you two were able to talk at the end. As harsh as your mom's words were , I don't think you understand her disappointment in your choice. She came from a generation where everyone knew right from wrong. Not today's generation where wrong is celebrated and God is so openly mocked, and drug use is celebrated as well. Make absolutely no mistake ---deciding to be gay is a choice. The moment you are born , your gender has been decided. God picked your sex. He didn't intend for people to pick something else for kicks. The only difference is who you choose to sleep with. Instead of thinking about your mom's words to you , and how hurtful they were to you---have you ever considered how badly your choice hurt her ? You destroyed her so badly she said words no mother wants to say. Speaking of mom's , mine opposed the death penalty her whole life--until her daughter was murdered--then she changed her position.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is \"embracing and accepting\" their homosexuality not a lifestyle choice?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is amazing how the left keeps Russia as an enemy. I prefer to look at Russia as a great potential friend. In all wars they have always been on our side. Unlike Germany, england, Mexico, and Japan, Russia has never attacked us. Not once. So we have McCain'Graham on one side and opportunistic democrats on the same side each trying to start a war. Good thing Trump is intelligent. Here is how I think of Russia since 1988. (did you know they don't ban a cross at school?) This is a wedding photographer (would not be jailed because she wouldn't do a gay wedding) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cg6f-foLzc It is worth the 5 minutes", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Really just an amazing strange take on what's \"free speech\" by the progressive members of this forum...and on a story about the rights of free speech no less.\n\nMentions that last week a riot shut down free speech in Berkeley, and wonder why NCR refuses to acknowledge this happened...and the progressives here censor the comment.\n\nA Catholic 's right of free speech is shut down by violence....NCR ignores it, and NCR progs get very huffy if you point this out.\n\nCatholic progressives only care about free speech if it's speech with opinions they disagree with. If it's a gay conservative Catholic, well, we just won't mention that Berkeley right. Way to go NCR.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If someone has surgery, they are likely to be off work, increasing costs, vs taking a pill off duty that wears off in a few hours and does not preclude working afterwards. \n\nFurthermore, that $41 million includes the VA and retired service members, does it not? Can ED be service related? As a secondary symptom of another problem, yes. Look it up. Hormones and reassignment are not necessary because of military service. The Rand study is an estimate on transgender medical costs done when transgenders weren't allowed to enlist and before October when Carter said the military would pay for reassignment surgery. And if it's for active duty only, comparison should be made to active duty cost only for whatever medication.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don't be a poser; be your authentic self.\n\nThere is quite a good story in the Washington Post of a very public person, a newsman who worked diligently to find the \"truth\" about the news of public events, but used that search to avoid looking at himself.\n\nRead about Shepard Smith, Fox News reporter, here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/10/ive-got-nothing-to-hide-fox-news-shepard-smith-talks-about-being-gay/?utm_term=.2d8c26b77f5b\n\nHe avoided even looking at the fact that he is a gay man, which is \"antithetical to all that was okay.\u201d And why is that? \u201cA. You\u2019re going to hell for it. B. You\u2019ll never have any friends again. C. What are you going to tell your family? And by the way, you\u2019re on television on the craziest conservative network on Earth. They will probably put you in front of a brick wall and mow you down. Of course, none of that was true, but that\u2019s how it felt.\u201d\n\nThat is how it felt. Now he is no longer posing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's horrible... found interview, photos of tortures gay men, who managed to escape Chechnya on Russian website: https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/survivors-in-secret-chechen-prison-for-gays-claim-torture-beatings-and-extortion/\n\n(explicit content)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "allow me to play devils advocate The golden rule? Tell me, what is the difference between forcing a Christian baker to cater a homosexual event, and forcing a African American to cater a KKK event?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Also, continuing the post I just did, I think people who are Christians or Christians should have the right to hire and fire people that aren't living a Christian life. I agree with the conservatives that want to protect religious rights. The Bible says that the practice of same sex activity is wrong. It doesn't say being black is a sin or being disabled is a sin. I agree of protections for most groups because it's not considered a sin. Christians need protection just as much as LGBT. I think I'm a bit lost in my thoughts. I hope someone can understand what I'm trying to say. Just for general interest there is a website for those people who are liberal Christians: http://www.thechristianleft.org/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can appreciate your sense of frustration at the slow pace of change, but I also believe this pope understands that Rome wasn't built in a day. A few years ago I watched a podcast of the openly gay English priest James Alison giving a talk in San Francisco in which he was trying to convince the skeptical crowd that then Pope Benedict, contrary to conventional wisdom, was trying to \"loosen the nuts and bolts\" deep within the bowels of the ship of state, as it were, in terms of gently moving doctrine forward (where gay people are concerned), far out of sight from most people's line of vision. I wasn't buying it about Benedict, but I think that's probably an apt analogy when it comes to Pope Francis' approach to church governance. So, I think a little patience is in order, as well as no small amount of prayer that Pope Francis' pontificate is very, very long!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The paragraph you quoted and the one Elagabalus quoted are irreconcilable. The church should withdraw and apologize for the implicit -- nearly explicit -- justification of violence in the paragraph Elagabalus quoted.\n\nBut here's the good news: Very few people are aware of the existence of this or similar documents, and fewer yet take them seriously. The church's teaching about homosexuality is untenable and most of the Catholic world is moving on, just as it did with the teaching about contraception. Sooner or later, the pastors of the church will catch up; or not. It doesn't make a lot of difference.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The same people who resist gluten free waifers (I had no idea hosts had gluten, usually without leaven it does not form) also say that women are not appropriate matter to say the Mass. I can appreciate rules to keep the celebration of the Mass universal, but there is no need to be small minded on either front. As for dogma, that is ancient and is true because was a Church we agreed to it being true (not because we had some actual knowledge of God). Moral rules are good as long as they make life more human - easier. They must also be based on reason, not authority because authority that ignores reason has neither, as we found with Humanae Vitae and calling gays intrinsically disordered. That is sophistry, not morality. Some Catholic practices should be suppressed, like Continence, which is a scandal against marriage and women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In fact, \u201cthe sodomy offence,\u201d as the retired Australian judge Michael Kirby has argued, was \u201cEngland\u2019s least lovely criminal law export.\u201d\n\nSome Gay clips for French Immersion class in Canada\n(frm 10 to 15 year-old &+);\n(\".. .two girls who were the pair laughed so hard \nthat the most beautiful almost die...die of joy...\" \u00bb\nHolden- Madrid (w/ French Lyrics)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQmMjG-zUs\n(copy-paste in wb address)\n\nLaura Fabian \u201cComme Ils disent\u2026\u201d (w/French lyrics)\n(a song written for a Gay Man but \u201cshe\u201d is the female part of Him)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUngIQnkpWI\n(copy-paste in wb address)\nhere\u2019s the Male version by Marc Almond\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36x3YKH7gY\n(copy-paste in wb address)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All Kenney ever does is attack, attack, attack, but never puts forward his own platform. He's a typical angry, far-right conservative who offers more ideology than substance. His views against abortion, his plan to out gay kids to their parents and his continued support for temporary foreign workers flooding the job market will hopefully help to keep him out of the Premiers office. I wasn't planning to vote NDP next time, but Kenney has just changed my mind....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples hearing that Peter was there, sent two men (nothing about their orientation) to him with the request, \u201cPlease come to us without delay\u201d (Acts 9:38). How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me? (Psalm 116:12). By treating those with homosexual orientations with civility. \u201cMany of the disciples of Jesus who were listening said, \u201cthis saying is hard; who can accept it?\u201d (John 6:60). As the Faithful make their way through recognizing homosexuality as no a choice, but as an orientation that needs to be treated with civility. Liturgy of the Word, Reading 278, Saturday of the Third Week of Easter I", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Disinviting this man is just wrong. Lesbians and gay men are God's children, too. It's so prejudicial Please think about this...as humans we have a total of 4 blood types or 6 if you count whether you are RH negative or RH\npositive. I feel as if anyone, no matter what color their skin is or their blood type or sexual orientation is, I wager none of us would reject a blood transfusion from any of these people if you needed a transfusion to survive. Think about it...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You have not refuted the claim that LGBT are cruelly singled out by the covenant, you simply ignore the equality rights of LGBT to be married, as does TWU. All LGBT are unmarried to TWU by definition. But as all courts have ruled so far, just because it's legal in BC for TWU to discriminate against LGBT on religious grounds doesn't mean it's not discriminatory, and it is. And it certainly doesn't mean that the LSUC is obliged to endorse and accept discriminatory access to the legal profession contrary to their own fundamental principles and Ontario's HRA.\n\nAs for what the SCC has to say about it, we'll have to wait and see. I wouldn't be surprised if Alceste is right and they uphold LSUC's right to not accredit the school as well as the BC Court's decision that their law society did not act reasonably in denying accreditation. Also, the BC government withdrew accreditation pending the rights issues, and the new government might not be as motivated to accredit it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just noticed a typo in my above post, it is \" ammo purchases\" of course.\n\nMatthew, in case you hadn't noticed it is always responsible citizens who pay for the misdeeds of the irresponsible no matter what the subject, the cost of civil society is rarely paid for by the minority that cause the problems, or do you suggest a tip jar at these illegal ranges could fix this?\nThe term \"ammosexual\" jokingly refers to people who are madly in love with their weapons, people who forget guns are just tools, that it riled you up is interesting.\nThe leap you make from \"ammosexual\" to homophobia is non sequitur, I have no problem with you thinking that \"ammosexual\" is juvenile, thanks for giving me the opportunity to say \"ammosexual\" again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It isn't \"rigid moralism\" for the Church to be clear about what constitutes behaviours and attitudes that are unacceptable before God. And it's not an insistence on \"outward perfection\". Catholics believe that once we are justified before God in Baptism, aided by grace, we embark on a process of internal sanctification and seek to conform our lives ever more closely to Christ. We also believe God's grace can be lost through persistent sin. \n\nIt's good you are acknowledging that LGBT people are \"hurting, afraid ... often alone\" and \"broken\". All of us are sinners and everyone in search of support from a parish community and grace through the proper reception of the sacraments, are very welcome. As I understand 12 step fellowships, people who attend acknowledge their weaknesses and are seeking to amend their lives. Can this be said for all LGBT persons? Don't many want the Church to change her teachings and positively endorse their behaviours.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bannon is the Hiliary Clinton of the Republican party. An albatross who embodies the worst political stereotype of American citizens and brands the entire party as xenophobic, homophobic, backwards-looking, isolationist, hateful, and unwilling to separate culture from politics. It's like he wants the US to return to the ideals of the 50s. I'll hang on to my independent affiliation because the political will toward intolerance and power makes both parties -- intolerable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is funny. Interestingly Soho is the center of the gay party zone. Just walk North from the porno shops. Funny you can't buy it, but you can rent it. That makes California the best place to score porn. London is interesting because the gays are not showoffs. They do no walk around with weak wrists or wear dresses in public like our locals. They wear suits and work in Parliament. I went shopping in the famous shopping district which starts at Picadilly Square, and you point your nose north. Walked into a shop to buy a raincoat (London Fog, of course), and I was serviced by a blonde gay kid. He was yakking nonstop. Wanted to leave, but I noticed how so very handsome and young he was. His feminity was so unusual to watch. Go visit London. Super nice British mixed with an assortment of weirdly nice people who are fun to drink and talk with. Keep on traveling.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm just going to say that my extremely liberal Episcopal parish celebrates a nosebleed high liturgy with incense, full choir, traditional chant and Latin-language polyphony.... celebrated by priests who may be women, gay, or married, served up with a message of social justice and inclusion. In other words, high liturgy needn;t mean conservative social values.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Not to mention accepting over 40K Syrian refugees\"\nThat was entirely a political grandstanding move as part of the 'Canada is back' PR campaign. Even under those considerations the implementation was a fiasco with trying to bring them into Canada in a matter of weeks rather than take the time for vetting, refugees had to be families, orphans or homosexuals and to this day the Canadian government doesn't even know who among them even has a job. The Canadian population wasn't exactly embracing the political stunt overwhelmingly.\nAs far as your financial contributions, who knows where the amount stands compared to what you can afford or what other countries are doing?\n\nNot to mention none of what you mentioned is included in the article writers piece and that's what I was replying to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I completely agree with you. It is actually more frustrating, for these youth, to deal with a church leadership that tries to make them hope again that maybe they will listen to the real problems in our church, only to open up a survey and face a set of questions that clearly proves they won't.\n\nThe laity must stand up for justice and demand full equality, and women ordained the exact same away, thru the same exact sacrament as men, based on exact same criteria, solely on character, ability and skill, and not at all upon a person's flesh, just as Jesus Christ taught how we should treat all people as we wish, or we sin. \n\nWe must stop judging groups of people such as LGBT, feminists, etc. Jesus never valued the original apostles as special priests or ordained them differently than the rest of the Royal Priesthood, us, at least not according to any Gospel or the original 12's letters. Jesus called them to represent the Jews as judges, only, which makes clericalism pure foolishness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because in both cases the individual has little control over his sexuality or ethicity. A person has about as much chance of switching from being gay to heterosexual as a blackman of becoming white.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since 2008, Colorado - along w/ other states - provides protections for LGBT people in places of public accommodations (bakeries, restaurants, hotels etc). In other words, you hang up a shingle that says \"open for business\" in CO and you need to serve everyone unless they are disorderly or threating to others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I try my best to always speak and write the truth. The one who needs help is you, Pandora. You regularly show a level of immaturity that would shame most six-year-olds. You are very cavalier about the truth, and you will defend homophobia -- when it is preached by conservative bishops. You claim to be honest and not homophobic, but your posts do not support this claim.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not to mention having the first openly gay player in NFL history: Aaron Rogers...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am a charismatic Catholic and I love Holy Father Francis, and I don't believe he's ushering in a revolution, nor do I believe he thinks he is. He said he is a \"loyal son of the Church\" and he \"accepts everything in the Catechism.\" To me that is not a revolution. I think he's great at p.r.! Now if he changes the Church's teachings on abortion, homosexual behavior, or the indissolubility of Christian marriage, then maybe I'd agree with you, but he hasn't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "RD was defending their influence by bringing in the influence of Jesus, Peter and Paul. I was contrasting the two. Jesus, Peter and Paul were influential for their martyrdom, although Paul actually left behind a body of letters that are the core of the New Testament. The Knights are a conduit of conservative cash in hopes of focusing Catholic politics on wedge issues that are essentially settled and away from Catholic Social Teaching. I wish they would stop, but the funding says not soon, but time wounds all heals.\n\nHave you seen Animal House? Niedermeyer would have become a Knight. These were they guys who signed up for Viet Nam and served honorably. Their trauma has become ours in many cases, as they see the world in black and white, which it is not. They want what they want when they want it, like any baby boomers, but can't see the subtleties of argument on legal abortion and gay marriage that would let them be at peace with these issues or do something meaningful about them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The problem with the article is that it starts from a false assumption. Transgenderism is not a \"psychological problem.\" Current studies show that there's a biological basis to it. Therefore, it's not like bulimia. It's not a disease. It's a rare variation of a human being. I understand that transgenderism is difficult for non-transgender folks to understand because they don't experience it. Just like right-handed people don't understand how left-handed people can use a pen with their left hand. Left-handed people were once persecuted. Trans people are persecuted now. Hopefully the persecution will end as folks get used to us (as they did with left-handers) and realize we're not a threat.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "http://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2017/07/26/wounded-warrior-just-explained-trumps-transgender-ban-one-incredible-tweet-thread/?utm_source=thbreakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BreakingNews\n\nAmen brother! Try telling this to some of the people who comment on this site. They won't get it. And they shouldn't. It's just comments, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The problem with your logic is that you knew they joined. I assume it is because they told you. But honestly, what self-respecting parent doesn't know the clubs their kids are a part of.\n\nThis really should be a non-issue, because everyone at the school would already know who is in that club, including those kids' parents. So it is confusing why Kenney would have suggested \"outing\" kids in GSA's and it is confusing why there would need to be protections for hiding the kids in them.\n\nIf you join a GSA, gay or straight, everyone will know anyway. End of story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Senator Ellis....Johnny....my friend. I had the distinct honor of working as one of your staff for four years in the Legislature. Then there are the fond memories of singing together as \"Bear-A-Tones\" at Bartlett High School; I was happiest when we were paired up together. Ah...Those were the days! However, I have never been more proud of you than I am right now! Being gay is not who you are, Johnny, it's what you are. Who you are shines brightly in the 29 years of tireless public service you have given to Alaska. Who you are is a true champion for children, the disenfranchised and the elderly. Who you are is a man who truly loves Alaska and it's people. Who you are is a man greatly respected by his peers, constituency and friends. Even though you won't be serving in the Senate anymore, your legacy will long be felt in those hallowed halls. It took courage to share your personal story with us, but that just makes me love and respect you all the more.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who ever said that God had a \"plan\"? The Jesus Seminar thought Jesus had a \"program,\" which I suppose they thought corresponded to God's plan. Still, if God had a plan, we have to conclude he was a poor planner, or at least weak in its execution. Isn't that 'plan\" idea just an widely interpretive translation of \"oikonomia\" in Ephesians?\n\nWasn't Cardinal Newman himself a gay man?\n\nThe present church teaching flows from metaphysical definitions of gender and being human. But aren't ecclesial metaphysics just the current fundamentalism of church intellectuals?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Several of them here and not just about LGBT issues. I refuse to engage with them, no reason to feed the trolls. I just laugh at them and it drives them nuts. I see them as the boggarts in the Hary Potter books. If enough people laugh at them, they go away.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cupich hasn't moved to shut down AGLO, which does minister to gay people who aren't closet cases. He acknowledged the group and sent them a letter. He has apparently met with gay couples during his time in Chicago and has a very open policy regarding Communion. He has said that it is a matter of personal conscience and he would never deny a gay person Communion. \n\nIs he to the right of most people, especially most Chicagoans, on gay marriage? Yes. I doubt that a Catholic prelate would endorse gay marriage. But Cupich also doesn't condemn or exclude gays. Some gays might wish to have Church weddings but others are fine with state recognition as well as being left alone and not denied Sacraments, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Malony: Thank you for a kind and thoughtful letter. Several years ago I attended the first same-sex marriage held in one of Eugene's larger Christian churches. It was a wonderful celebration of two women's love for each other. It was also a celebration of the Church's belief in equality. During the wedding two cousins of one of the couple stood across the street with signs condemning homosexuality as a sin against God's word and condemning the couple to damnation. It was a graphic illustration of just how individuals, all claiming to be Christians, can have such different perspectives. \n\nIMO, we're fortunate as a society that vastly more individuals, including Christians, support the same views of equality as you do. My best regards, Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"there is zero evidence to support your claim that they aren't accepted.\"\n\nHow would you know that? Do you seriously think a soldier living in a barracks is going to put on a dress and lipstick for a Saturday night date is going to work?\n\nBeing a transgender doesn't mean there are no situations you cannot take part in. And to turn it into a human rights issue or a bigotry issue is just foolish.\nThere are height requirements to enter the army. A human rights issue?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sir, you are sorely deluded if you think the Church will ever do one or more of the following:\n\nOrdain women priests\nMarry gay couples\nAllow for contraception\nAllow for abortion\nAllow for divorce and remarriage\nAllow for premarital sex\nBecome a democracy/congregationalist or otherwise run like a Protestant church\n\nAnything I left out?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have serious moral qualms about an adult who would support a child in making such a drastic choice.\n\nChildren change - this is the nature of children. To support an adult in making a trans-gender choice is one thing, but to support a child in such a choice is something else entirely. Furthermore, even for adults, I have serious doubts that a medical procedure has the capability to make anyone _happy_. It is far better for people to accept who they are - to be happy in their own skin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The way I see it is that a motion should be implemented that states ALL Canadians must be treated equally. Recognition of special interest groups, be it religious, male, female or otherwise has no place in a civilized society. We are all Canadians first and as long as it does not infringe on the rights, freedoms and respectful treatment of other you can chose to be in your own home ...... religious, atheist, gay, etc. and you can enjoy keeping your own personal belief without trying to force it on other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Makes you long for the good old days when having a trans problem simply meant that your car wouldn't move...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Breitbart? I bypass to snopes.\n\nhttps://www.snopes.com/miguel-martinez-transgender-bathroom-controversy/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This dust-up is near to being \"internationalized\". Obviously what's driving it is agenda (official & other) of the upcoming Synod on the Youth. Whatever the stated summary the synod will be dominated by two \"issues\": youth and the refugee crisis & LGBTQ concerns. The notion of *journeying/welcoming* uniting the two.\n\nIn the running up the growing complexity of this controversy surrounding Fr. Martin is playing its part. The open question, now, is how will Pope Francis sweep into this dust-up to signal this & that?\n\nTo show his support for Fr, Martin Pope Francis can:\n\n1) invite Fr. Martin, as an editor of America, for a sit-down interview;\n2) con-celebrate with him at a Jesuit sanctuary in Rome;\n3) suggest a photo-op receiving Fr, Martin's book, \"Bridges\";\nor - the cake icing -\n4) task Fr. Martin to facilitate a working-group to review & revise those pesky \"gay paragraphs\" in the Catechism. This would set the tone and signal the anticipated end game for the upcoming synod.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is not our place to judge the bakery owners. I do not know if they hate, I would be much more inclined to say they disagree with marriage being between two men or two women instead of a man and woman, which God talks about. They have the right to disagree. Just like it is people's right to disagree with the death penalty. \n\nFor me personally some of my dearest most treasured friends are gay. I am also a Christian. And I am not gay. And for me, it is like so what. They are my friends, period.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The cardinal should get out of the house and meet some transgendered people. The best thing the Church can offer is pastoral counselling which meets transgendered youth where they are and helps them work through their confused identity. An encyclical that would condemn gender theory would just be a cheap, easy response to a phenomenon which needs a response on the ground. Moral condemnations just reinforce the view that the Church is out of touch and has nothing positive to offer. Let's get the smell of the sheep.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If NPR likes them it must be because they song songs of the oppression of the African-American in racist America and of the joys of being homosexual. NPR has one more topic but I won't bring it up just now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What was it that Jesus taught about homosexuality? The Church's teaching -- ALL of it -- represents nothing but \"opinion\", and an opinion not grounded in reality or evidence. Finally, the mandate from Jesus was to treat others with respect and kindness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True. I remember back in the early 90s when Cap Hill in Denver was the \"gayborhood\". Not so much anymore. But that's a good thing when gay people can live wherever they want in Denver and not worry about their safety.\n\nI'm more worried about everyone spending their lives staring at their phones.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The worst tyrant who ever lived\"?\n\nNCR tacitly endorses violence for the purpose of curtailing the free speech of a gay Catholic.\n\nFor people who profess to be on the side of Good and Justice, you don't show me much.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can someone please explain to me exactly what is meant by \"deep-seated homosexual tendencies?\" And while you're at it, will someone also explain to me why the church doesn't similarly bar those with \"deep-seated heterosexual\" tendencies from ordination to the priesthood? If someone's sexual orientation is considered so \"deep-seated\" that it interferes with their ability to minister, shouldn't that criteria be applied equally across the board, regardless of sexual orientation? Oh, and please also explain to me what the church means by \"gay culture?\" As a gay person, I'd like to know. Does it mean supporting equal rights for gay people? Going to gay bars (which no one does anymore anyway?) What? This language is insulting.\n\nI applaud the American priests for their objection to \"The gift of priestly vocation.\" As a priest friend of mine once put it, \"The church has run on gay power for centuries.\" It's about time the church begin to show some appreciation for that enormous contribution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, some LGBT people bore children before they came out. Are you against adoption? Adoption has its pitfalls but it's probably better than being in foster care. Maybe you should check out the research on LGBT families by adoption because one of its editors is well-acquainted with the psychological risks of being adopted (Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension in Family Diversity, Brodzinsky and Pertman, Oxford University Press--Brodzinsky is the guy I was referring to).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "and once again a comment from a gay, conservative (me) got deleted because it goes against the mainstream that a man can be gay and not jump on the liberal agenda. I will repeat my comment.\n\nI am a gay conservative and I wish the PM would apologize for taking money out my pocket each and every paycheck to support a liberal agenda that wants us to be dependent on the government. Don't bother about apologizing for who I sleep with. Apologize for spending my money on your liberal agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the American legal tradition the courts rely on the individual practitioner and not some external authority to determine what sincere religious objection is. If someone says she can't for religious reasons in good conscience sing at a homosexual \"marriage\" ceremony that's the end of it. You don't get to turn around and argue that she is getting her own religion wrong and therefore has no legitimate 1st Amendment rights to exercise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Imagine if on top of the normal pressures, you are also BORN with the added stress of not fitting in the bucket most people seem to be comfortable seeing. As many have pointed out, many LGBT children resort to suicide, self-harm, are more prone to depression and other adverse behaviors because they feel they don\u2019t belong. So what is your \u201cRight\u201d? That these children need to be invisible? That these children need to be denied the opportunity to feel normal because you deem they are not? Again, you have the right to raise your children however you like. It is NOT your right to bully ours, or make them feel inferior, or make them feel unloved. What letter will you write next? We should ban after school baseball because your kid may not be good at it and you \u201cfeel\u201d it\u2019s your right to not expose them to baseball at all? We should ban any clubs where children of a different race than yours attend because you feel that other races are inferior to yours?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wish she would have simply said, 'that's not an issue I am really knowledgeable enough to speak about'. I also think it's important to remember what context she is speaking from and something isn't sitting right with me as I watch North Americans line up to school her, especially white ones. How about signal boosting a Nigerian trans woman's response to her? When cis or straight people of colour make mistakes around LGBTQ issues, the privileging of responses from white critics risks reinforcing racialized power dynamics and erasing POC voices.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We know no such thing. Pederasty and homosexuality are two wholly different things.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well yah but: The Green Hair society doesn\u2019t decree that the punishment for apostasy is death. The Stetson wearers in Toronto guild doesn\u2019t advocate throwing gays off the top of tall buildings. The pidgin Quebecois French speakers in western Canada union doesn\u2019t preach taking the sword to the non pidgin Quebecois French speakers in western Canada. Please don\u2019t try comparing apples with oranges.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Once upon a time, middle class American women could stay at home, Starting in the 1960s or so, inflation, not feminism, meant that households needed two incomes to maintain the same standard of living. \n\nBlathering about \"lesbian feminists\" shows only your ignorance of feminism. Feminism arose when women realized they wete getting a raw deal. Part of that raw deal is that eomen eete expected to stay home, tend the house and raise the kids. You and people like you want to lock women into roles YOU define for them, which are not necessarily the ones they would choose for themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your first 5 points are straw man arguments and a complete waste of time. \n1) Hopefully Christian kids are not being \u201cpicked on\u201d. Many of the theological views they hold are mocked by teachers and students. Concentrate on the Beatitudes if you want an insight into Christianity. \n2) They should not be promoting any religion.\n3) Schools should teach the skills needed to survive in a very complicated world. Schools were not designed to provide social welfare. Teachers are not policemen, nurses, psychologists or substitute parents. \n4) Wouldn\u2019t it be easier to teach a transgender student that the world really doesn\u2019t care and isn\u2019t going to play the same games that their teachers play? \n5) Socialism is an economic system that puts community rights over individual rights. \n6) You got this one spot on!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because Gay men and Lesbians are discriminated against in housing and employment and because how we act is more important than who we are and if we get harassed it's our problem and if we get attacked we provoked it and if we raise our voices we're flaunting ourselves and if we enjoy sex we're perverts and if we have AIDS we deserve it and if we march with pride we're recruiting children and if we want or have children we're unfit parents and if we stand up for our rights we're overstepping our boundaries and because we are forced constantly to question our own worth as human being and if we don't have a relationship with someone of the opposite sex we haven't given it a chance and if we have a relationship with someone of the same sex it is not recognized and we are told our love in not \"real\" and if we come out of the closet we're just going through a phase and for lots of other reasons, I am part of the Lesbian and Gay civil rights movement.- Think about it Richard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you would that they get beat up or worse while serving? I say that is not an option at this time. How long did it take for gays to come as far as they have and there are still problems there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Probably not many, but there are certainly some in the community. But it's not just undocumented immigrants that feel at risk. Many people, including legal immigrants who have been here for decades, people of color, religious minorities, gays, grandparents with adopted grandchildren from other countries are terrified of what might happen and who might be targeted by an increasingly reckless, vengeful and unpredictable administration. Please come to the meeting and listen to their perspectives. The panel will include a a church leader, a representative from the ACLU, a representative from an immigrant organization. Helen Price Johnson will also be on hand to answer questions from the governmental point of view. We are working hard to create a town meeting that will be educational and informational, where all voices and concerns can be heard. I believe once people understand what is being proposed and have their questions answered, fears will be calmed. We all love this community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not smart to be cutting caring parents out of the loop if a kid has, say autism and isn't able to communicate well with his or her parents. Sometimes school boards need to engage parents more than average when kids have special needs and this communication can help parents to better serve their children. Nobody is talking about \"outing\" gay kids and neither is Mr. Kenney but there should not be a one size fit all solution here. The decision should be left with school boards to determine whether it is appropriate to tell parents or not, if school boards suspect that children may be subjected to an abusive situation at home then school boards should reserve the right to withhold this information. The schoolboards are the most qualified people to make this decision, though, not Ms. Notley and her authoritarian nanny state.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sir SAMUEL de CHAMPLAIN\nThe (real) \"Father of Canada\" (aka New-France)\nFirst Canadian Scientific (Premier Scientifique Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois)/ \nExplorer/ \nNavigator/ \nCartographer (he made the first accurate map of the coast)/ \nGeographer/ \nEthnologist/ \nDiplomat/\nDraughtsman/\nSoldier/ \nChronicler/openly Gay in Huronia Nation (Ontario)/ \nfounded New France and Qu\u00e9bec City in 1608\n\nCHEERS to de CHAMPLAIN !", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Human sexuality was created as a field of study by people who have psychological issues with sex. Guys like Kinsey, for example. It's been hypothesized that all fields of psychology are the result of people with psychological issues trying to diagnose themselves, and that psychology attracts students who are dealing with their own psychological issues. So it's no wonder that homosexuals are well-versed on how psychology can affect basic understandings about male/female and reproduction.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Agar Continued:\nIn my culture:\n-Regardless of a politician\u2019s popularity rating, he or she must stand for re-election on a regular basis\n-We do not fear our military, in fact most of us are proud of it and support \n- We won\u2019t force you to stay in our country if you don\u2019t want to do so.\n-The grievance a gay couple may have against a baker who doesn\u2019t wish to fill their order for a wedding cake may be a legitimate complain\n===\nTragic examples of racism, homophobia, misogyny and other evils can be found on a regular basis.\nBut those are perpetrated by individuals and likely to be against the law, not sanctioned by the state and the law, as they are in so many other cultures in the world.\nWe have a terrific culture if not a perfect society.\nSo take my culture, please.\nhttp://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/15/appropriate-my-culture-please", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Catholics, or at least a majority of Catholics, voted Trump into the office he now holds for two and only two reasons: to stop abortion and gay marriage.\u2014Elagabalus \u201cThese signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons\u201d (Mark 16:17) and there are demons aplenty in that budget and among the people forming a firm electoral base for Trump. \u201cFor ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord\u201d (Psalm 89:2). Some good things seem to be happening with the French elections. Maybe the Catholics in France can influence the Catholics in the US. \u201cBeloved: Clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another\u201d (1 Peter 5:5b) do let truth speak to power, stand up to \u201calternative facts.\u201d Oh, if the Church would only do as much.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nationwide, if gays can marry, we can carry. Happy Pride weekend!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "klastri> There you go again calling everyone that you don't care for a psychotic, especially the POTUS. Just because VP Pence has his beliefs that doesn't make him evil, even fundamentally evil as you put it. Since he doesn't agree with LGBT people and women's rights as you stated, doesn't mean he's a bad person. I sorta like the gentleman, even though he is much younger than I am. I like POTUS also and he is also younger than I am. Because I like them, are you going to take that step an call me a p______c person also? I hope not, then you will surely be showing your true colors. Be nice for a change!!! Might do wonders for you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In 1933 the Nazis, led by Hitler and his Reichsmarschall Goering passed the most comprehensive \"animal rights\" legislation ever seen--medical experiments on animals was punishable by concentration camp internment. Of course medical experiments on Jews, Gypsies, and Gays were allowed.\n\nAs documented in this illustration from the Nazi era. http://www.topinfopost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/3.jpg\n\nYou're all in fine company. You all even say the very same things that they did back then as quoted in that illustration. Catching on yet to who and what you really are? Is your mirror getting clearer yet?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cleaning out the bad officers will only make things better for the good ones that remain, who are the majority of the officers. Kudos to the Mayor for this appointment and kudos to her for not backing down. Both Thompson and maafala are heavily involved with their church and anti-lgbt, one has to wonder if that's why they saw nothing wrong with officer Harisons actions. And for the chief, maybe you ought to come to a commission meeting fully prepared to answer questions eh?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Charles: please see my response to GBA above. I can only speak for myself...... I can't change the past....I can't \"un-do\" what has been done. I can't change that my ancestors (some of them) were slaveowners. I can't undue the past Jim Crow America. I did, along with millions of other Americans, work for the Civil Rights Act, for voter equality, for equal opportunity laws and fair treatment. I do what I can today to support fair treatment for everyone....including as we've discussed, Ms Shurtz. No one should have to wait one single moment for equal and fair treatment. No one should have to tolerate slurs. No one should have to endure racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, etc insults from anyone. You know that, I know that, millions of other \"Americans know that. On the flip side, millions of other 'Americans disagree....they do see you as a \"second class\" citizen, they see women through the prism of misogynism, they see others as inferior to them.... my regards to you", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is a prime example of the fondness for authoritarianism that seems to be so much a part of Trump's political party these days. Dorothy says they should do their jobs, \"in whatever manner they deem fit.\" Chilling. In other words, she seems to be asking, do you want chaos, or do you want a thin blue line of jack booted authoritarians who will protect you...unless you're a person of color, or female, or gay, or Mexican, or they don't like your politics, or your RESIST bumper sticker, or they happen to be in a bad mood that day. So yeah Dorothy Kansas, I have totally made up my mind. Justice First.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A few comments. First the 1950s can be seen as an era of religious power. This was most likely acceptable because parents were raising a genearation of young baby boomers and when you have kids it is likely you go back to church. Also, we were still recoiling from the war, so survivors stayed tuned into the Church. When those kids got older, they rebelled - as did some veterans. The book 1959 explains this well.\n\nSecond, the march toward economic individualism comes from the return of capitalist power - which was ascendant in the 1920s and discredited by the crash. Union busting and tax cutting Ronald Reagan brought it back and Bill Clinton did nothing to stop it, leading to the great recession. Sadly, Obama has wasted the crisis.\n\nThird,the civil rights individualism is not individualism at all. It is groups demanding respect - from gays to women to BLM. Neither Loving nor Perry acted only for themselves, but instead for their entire class...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If we are smart... then all we have to do is look at countries like Canada and the USA where LGBT agenda's were implemented and you will clearly see the confusion it caused among the children, the perversion Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) has caused. No doubt the LGBT have good objectives to help their own - but I disagree with teaching children about homosexuality when children do not even know yet who they are themselves! Science proves that transgenderism is an underlying mental condition of a handful of possibilities - is South Africa really going to entertain this madness? What we need is to thoroughly educate the LGBT people on some of their submissions to the pledge and the harms it caused in the USA and Canada and not blindly blunder into a situation that might corrupt our society into the rubbish bin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wouldn't it be great if a journalist actually new facts about the person he was critiquing. But I guess research isn't a thing anymore. Also word police my butt. Fey's been used to disparage gay men since forever. Go look up the definition of f*ggot and d*ke too then get back to me with how those words are okay cuz they mean bundles of sticks and dam. I have never ever heard the word fey used in the same sentence as a gay man where it wasn't shorthand for f*g. But why let facts get in the way of all you angry peeps who think everything is about you being corrected as opposed to kindness, compassion, and being good at your job.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your view is that the hundreds of priests who molested boys....were all straight men with no homosexual inclinations.\n\nTry selling that on ebay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Paul was still a man of the Curia, which explains Humanae Vitae. The Curia did not make him do anything he did not want to do and he brought some of them into the modern world, until John Paul did all he could to bring it back to a more traditional bent - with Benedict continuing - especially with the translations of the liturgy. Could the Church have accepted a more liberal successor to Paul? Probably not. If it had, we would have liturgical gay marriage by now and would not have returned to the more literal translation of the Roman Rite. Still, he moved to ball forward enough so that Francis could pick it up again - although I don't expect that much change here either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, when Cardinal Burke makes blatantly homophobic statements, when JPII embraces child molesters and so on, they deserve criticism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is, that they support a culture where gay Catholics feel it necessary to stay in the closet.\n\nA big part of the reason why Milo Y. and Andrew Sullivan are popular (and MSW is not) is that the public can tell when someone is faking.\n\nThat faking colors their whole message, and tells the reader their pontifications are so much hot air.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was married to an Alaska native for several years also dated native girl after my divorce. I don't see any reason regardless of your political or religious views to think of Indians or Alaska natives as impartial to our human race. Some of them are even from Russia a lot of white people there right? I just think that we should love everyone for who they are regardless of color of skin you may think gay people are not born gay but people with different colors of skin are...so how does that make them any different from anyone else we were just as likely to be born with their skin color or their religious up bringing so what the hell do we need to burn churches for or hate people for lets pray for them instead do yoga meditate realize no one is different just because of their cultural upbringing we can compromise differences like adults please don't let this country go to waste lets start believing in love and forgiveness", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am disappointed in the Pride decision. LGBT rights have been enshrined in law but more importantly in Canadians hearts and minds. As an older boomer, I understand how unacceptable the behavior of some of my generation has been towards the LGBT community. We have come along way, basically due to the courage and advocacy of organisations like Pride. \nHowever, on this issue, we part company. Inclusiveness, means that you make room for all LGBT's, even if they are members of a group with whom you had an adversarial relationship. BLM should not be allowed to hijack Prides annual celebration, with their misguided politics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Michael ought to know better than to claim that tails wag dogs. He essentially belittles the Democrats' fundamental commitment to supporting women's, LGBT's, and other oppressed groups' rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Facebook revealed on Sept. 6 that it had found 470 pages and profiles linked to the Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency.\n\n\nSome of those fake accounts posted comments here, no doubt. Some are still posting here and elsewhere.\n\nFacebook on Monday turned over more than 3,000 of the Russia-linked advertisements from its site over to the Senate and House intelligence committees.\n\nThe ads and accounts were created to push false information and lies in order to amplify divisive political issues across the political spectrum, including gun rights, gay rights issues and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nWhen you read repetitive right wing talking points and myths, consider their source. Much of their narrative is created and crafted by our enemies.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This type of juvenile reporting is what we have come to expect from so called mainstream media. Democrats are basicly Communists who promote amything which can help destroy America and its' historic values. Homosexuality, trannies, radical environmentalism, false racism, assault on the 2nd ammendment, globalism, open borders, and rampant expansion of welfare are the Core Values of Democrats. America has realized that Democrats are basicly Communists and the elections in 2018 will show just how reviled Democrats have become.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So if a teenager thinks that they might be gay, and tell their parents in a loving and supportive setting you think they're just as likely to turn to a lifestyle of violence and drugs as a teenager who comes out to parents that abuse and disown them? You think that an LGBTQ youth receives heavy bullying and assault that it's because of a flaw in their soul that they turn to things most discarded youth do? Seriously, open your eyes.\n\nAnd don't even attempt to pretend you're going to convince me from some evolutionary or biological level. The fact that you're doing so demonstrates how ignorant you are of what's been documented not just in humans but in most of the animal kingdom. There are boys born as girls (who become boys at puberty), there are all manners of hormone imbalances in the brain that are well documented. Hell there are even examples of lionesses growing manes in the absence of males. Almost every animal from mammals to birds show no strict gender lines or orientations.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gee - what a tough subject because I feel for someone who genuinely feels trapped in a body of the opposite sex. But lets look at this from a military viewpoint - your basic fighting force. A soldier puts his life in the hands of the soldier next to him - and vice-versa. Depending on where a trans is in their conversion, their mind can't possibly be entirely on their job. In short form - because it's even more complicated - before their discovery/transformation, a trans is heavily conflicted (I could only imagine the scope of such conflict).....the trans process itself is a grueling ordeal with hormonal and physical challenges - and afterwards, there's a physical, mental and social adaptation. The entire process can last years if not decades. Common sense (not emotion - not hand wringing empathy) says that in many cases - maybe not all - trans people are not a good fit for the military. They have my sympathy, but we must do everything we can to NOT put soldiers at risk.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bill 13, also in 2012, compelled public schools to have gay-straight alliances and demanded schools combat \u201chomophobia\u201d and \u201ctransphobia.\u201d\nBill 77 in 2015 prohibited particular forms of therapy for minors who struggle with gender dysphoria or other aspects of their sexuality, against the advice of numerous psychiatrists and counsellors.\nBill 28, which passed into law in December 2016, removed the terms \u201cmother\u201d and \u201cfather\u201d from Ontario law, and permits \u201cpre-conception agreements\u201d allowing four unrelated and unmarried people to become parents. AND BILL 89 from none other than Justing Junior Trudeau. And then we have ridiculous parents who do this horrible stuff to their kids and we wonder why. Read the Bills above that's why and nobody is paying attention. We're not paying attention to our own useless politicians ruining our country. No Canada Day celebrations for me until Wynne/Junior are gone gone gone...........", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Holder of a Ph.D. in Victorian literature, a talented theatre critic, a university administrator and a gay man in the arab diaspora, Kamal Al-Solaylee has more than paid his dues. What he has written here is both dignified and blunt; it would pay people to think about what he has to say.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You wrongly assume that Jesus said nothing about homosexuality, and that the Church's teachings don't reflect Jesus's mind on the subject.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\". . . taught to little children. . . \"\n\nThe Cardinal and the Pope need to meet some gay parents and their kids to get a handle on how \"digestible\" this is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I still will never understand why same-sex marriage seems to be the most important issue to Christians in terms of what they need to rally against. Homosexuality was of such little importance to Jesus that he never mentioned it once, and you would think if it really was that big a deal he would've said something.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Follow the money. A maxim that never fails. As for gays and abortions? I would wager that the engagement in both by bishops, clergy, and religious is staggering.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am gay and I agree with Trump. Already several cases of men enlisting and then demanded the military pay for their reassignment procedures. It diverts millions from actually military functions. There is a time and place for anything, but the army is not the place .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It may be painful, but I think there is much more to be gained in the long run by the homophobe just being truthful. At least own it, and don't be a liar on top of bigotry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The transgender military are doing their job well in the military. As just one example, one of the hardest units to join is the Navy Seals. He is a strong spokesperson for the rights of transgender persons in the military. Remember, the military never asked for this from Trump. He got mad at them in a budget discussion and he then sent his tweet out. Some military leaders and veterans have said the transgender service people serve well. Maybe because they feel they have something to prove.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The whole of Goespel teaching on pharasees makes it pretty clear that we are to treat homosexuals with compassion rather than self-righteousness. Believe them when they say they were born that way and when science confirms this (which it has). Facing the implications of that for our own biases is what the Gospel demands if you take it as a whole. This is what Jesus meant about the difficulty of entering the kingdom of God and who it is difficult for. Not for the gays (pederastry is a separate case), but for those lacking compassion and perfect love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because liberal dissidents weren't just criticizing teachings that were on the level of prudential judgments. If liberal dissidents were disagreeing on teachings that were matters of prudential judgement, I don't think the conservatives would have had much of a problem. \n\nLiberals however dissent on things where there is no freedom to dissent. That is the problem. There is no freedom to dissent from church teaching on abortion, contraception, gay marriage, divorce and remarriage, sex outside of marriage, women's ordination, etc.\n\nWhen it comes to the death penalty and the application of Catholic social teaching, there can be a variety of views. Catholics are even free to hold opposing viewpoints from the bishops--and they are still in good standing. Why? Because these things do not involve intrinsic moral evils-therefore they do not have the same moral weight. In other words--there is an eternity of difference between support for the death penalty and support for abortion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As my gay brother was in ICU, dying of a stroke, his partner of 25 years was not guaranteed entry to be by his bedside. His partner could not release his body to the mortuary, could not be listed on his death certificate and lost the home they shared because he did not qualify for SS surviving spouse income. Why? Scalise and the GOP politically and legislatively opposed marriage equality - they essentially politicized my brother's living and dying. So let's just shut up about criticizing those on the left for politicizing Scalise's views on marriage while he's in critical condition. Scalise had no problem doing the same while my brother was in critical condition, why should Scalise be treated differently from the way he's treated others? Religious views have nothing to do with this - we're all tax-paying American citizens. We believe in justice for all. All!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When her estate trial comes to court the Princess will have to reveal what her sexual orientation is - lesbian, bisexual or heterosexual. Then the judge can determine whether her recent first marriage is legitimate or is it a ruse for estate purposes only?.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Real Women\" are actually using their \"Christian values\" to justify the imprisonment and discrimination of LGBTQ people? And they wonder why their brand of religion gets so much criticism these days. As a gay man, an apology would certainly go a long way toward acknowledging the past wrongs of our society, but it should also be accompanied by greater action to combat homophobia, bullying and ongoing discrimination. \n\nStrengthening the Human Rights Commission and giving it a more expanded authority would be a good first start, as would bringing back the Court Challenges Program that the conservatives shamefully abolished.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "RD - again to explain what you just don't understand - you say:\n\"No one wants to take up the most recent John Jay report that shows more than 80% of priestly abuse cases involve same-sex attraction or the even higher percentage (90) of abuse victims who are post-pubescent:\nNow 15 years after JJ reports started, the pool of abusers has been mostly addressed - what you see now is a very reduced number of current cases and old historical cases - so, your quoting 80-90% means almost nothing.\nSecond, JJ Report is based upon 185 bishops over dioceses - it is a self report. We already know from recent high profile, public reports that bishops continue to use legal means to hide, bury, and delay revealing pending cases based upon verified complaints waiting for charges, trial, etc.\nThird, the JJ Report is not able to use data from dioceses that make confidential settlements and seal all information.\nThe rest of what you state - guess what, ER MDs would tell you it is both homo and hetero.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cThe thing that I\u2019m concerned about is that he won\u2019t get the message,\u201d Jones said. I'm sorry but, what message? This is not sarcasm or a disguised insult. I have no idea what was being protested. Stop the war on women? President Trump has been President for 7 days. What war on women did he start. LGBT? The man worked in Hollywood. What has he done, actually done, to harm the LGBT community more than people calling us queers, which this article includes as an identifier for us. Minorities? I have never heard our new President speak one word against our citizens of any race. \u201cI am here because I want to show that I\u2019m not afraid,\u201d said Sunya Moss... a United States citizen. What should she have to fear, she is a citizen. One of us.\nHonestly, all I have gotten out of this is \"We are angry\". So is the rest of America, that is why we rejected those who have been running things and went with something different. How is everything suddenly his fault? \nMob. Roar. OK, so?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your bathroom?\nAre trans people coming into you house and using YOUR bathroom?\nI thought we were talking about PUBLIC bathrooms, which by definition are for the PUBLIC, not for your personal and exclusive use.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Immediately, Trudeau orders his subordinates to find him a trans he can appoint to something, somewhere, with a photo op to boot!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"They wanted him to participate in and condone a marriage his religious beliefs don't allow, that's the difference.\"\n\nWhat are you even talking about? How is having him make simply make a cake equate to \"participating\" and \"condoning\" a marriage? \n\nDoes this same baker ask his straight clients if they have ever been Divorced before, or if this is their first marriage? Does he give every single one of his potential customers a checklist that they must go through to make sure he only sells his goods to people that conform to his specific religious beliefs? No - he just wants to discriminate against gays.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good question, Noel. You may want to run that by Sheila Hodgers who was refused treatment for cancer in Catholic controlled Ireland because she was pregnant outside marriage. Actually you can't ask her. She died, as did her baby that the pro-lifers care so much about.\n\nOr get an opinion from Eileen Flynn who was sacked from her teaching job because she was pregnant and not married.\n\nOr ask any gay Irish person who was criminalised for their sexuality, or any woman who had to travel to a foreign land for a termination, regardless of the reason, or any Irish people who were not allowed to access contraception, or any amount of women in the Industrial schools or laundries run by the Church, or any of the abused kids or the families of suicide victims who weren't allowed to be buried in 'consecrated' ground.\n\nOr just ask any Joe Soap who can't get a pint of Guinness on Good Friday because the Catholic Church had such control over every aspect of Irish society that it shut the pubs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Way too cool. I guess it would be too much to expect to see this kind of innovation so soon here in Canada. Too much preoccupation here with more pressing issues like getting the framing right for selfies at promotional events such as Gay Pride. Nevertheless, won\u2019t it be swell when we finally do witness the last gasp of the ICE here on Canadian roads?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Levin is writing from a libertarian/individualist perspective and is blind to the existence of other world views. Many economists also share this blindnerss. He sees the egalitarian movements of the sixties and seventies-as well as the hierarchist/authoritarian movements on the right (such as the Moral Majority and the pro-life movement) as actions of individuals. They are much more than that. The civil rights movement still lives in the SCLC and Black Lives Matter. Occupy is a quntessential egalitarian movement as is the gay rights movement. He is blind to the nature of collective action, however, so he misses a lot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. Jesus actually explained His teachings to His disciples and promised the Holy Spirit to lead the Church into all truth. For 2000 years the Church has done so over marriage, adultery, homosexuality, contraception/abortion and ordination. Was the Holy Spirit wrong because He didn't understand the nature of man and sin .... because science hadn't developed? Or don't you think that, being God, both He and Jesus knew what they were talking about and revealing?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I keep thinking, even if I were trans or something, I would not want to go through life with the task of introducing my pronoun to everyone. Surely a single recommended non-specified thing would be simply more useful, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Married gay couples are one flesh as well, especially from a legal perspective. Catholic hospitals did not respect this and exiled partners, which is why the marriage movement started. BTW, Jesus was quoting Babylonian Rabbis who attributed the man-woman passage to Moses. Moses did not say it. You are essentially appealing to authority rather than reason. If reason wins, that is the side Jesus is on. If you don't understand that, take up knitting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe I made the first post on this article. Just the timing. I have received more feedback, by far mostly positive on this posting than any of the many others that I have made on a wide variety of subjects. Also, interesting how many comments there are. I stopped at four pages. Seems to me to be kind of a fringe issue really. But then again, I'm neither a fundamentalist Christian or a Trans.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How does \"LGBT\" relate to a temporary stay from deportation (DACA) ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In reviewing some of the legislative history larceny that went on in the Parnell (R-Conoco-Phillips) administration, I was reminded that it was not only Micciche and Myers (both R-Conoco-Philips), and their crime partners, the nine Senators who passed SB21, but Ohio Dan Sullivan, the Commissioner of DNR at the time, and Joe Balash, his Man Friday, who succeeded him there. Balash is now chief of staff to Danny Boy. \n\nI was also reminded that the way they removed Mark Begich and substituted Danny was the usual: Cry \"homosexual!,\" and \"abortion!,\" and the low-info Prevoite voters will fall right in line, voting 99% for the worst of the bandits, just like in the old Soviet Union.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We don't need to go to the Third World to find Catholics who condemn homosexuality. It's official mantra right here at churches and in publicly funded Ontario schools right here at home.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender individuals require hormone replacement therapy, they require psychiatric care during transition, and if they elect to get surgery it can take 2-4 years for them to recover to the point of being eligible to deploy. On top of that, after the surgery they are at a higher risk of infection for the rest of their life, which complicates any attempt at sending them to the field to train where hygiene isn't always able to be pristinely maintained or overseas. An overseas deployment also puts the individual at risk because they may not have steady access to their hormone replacement drugs, which leads to withdrawal and hormone imbalances as well as health problems. So, just like diabetics and cancer patients and individuals with physical or mental disabilities, it just isn't feasible to accommodate these people so that they can serve.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not interested in what \"could have helped this [*terrorist*],\" I'm interested in what could have saved these people.\n\n...like not having this animal in their country in the first place.\n\nIf Muslims want to blow up people for being gay, execute children for being Christian, and burn women alive for wanting to learn how to read, then they can stay in their own parts of the world and do it to themselves to their hearts content.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How is baking a cake for a gay couple exceeding his obligations?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The methods that BLM employed in this situation were disgusting. Pride caving to it, almost more so. It is neither anti gay nor anti black to say that. Enough with this PC \"can't criticize him or her because they are part of a marginalized group\" nonsense. I both support equal rights for all people, and support Pride (or I did support Pride before this embarrassment).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Scientific American cites studies saying that the additional medical cost of transgender soldiers is between 2.4 million and 8.4 million per year. That is literally nothing, less than the cost of toilet seats.\nhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cost-of-medical-care-for-transgender-service-members-would-be-minimal-studies-show/\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/26/trans-health-cost-us-military-budget-pentagon", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, if you called out a Muslim for their intolerant views on same sex marriages, abortion, women's rights or being anti-gay, you shouldn't be accused of Islamophobia. If you singled out Islam, implying the Old Testament and Torah it was based on aren't filled with the same, you would be.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The idea that gay people are given the gift of sexuality, but after being told how wonderful and beautiful it is, are also told that not only can they never use it, but they can't even unwrap it, is both evil and perverted. A god that would do such a thing is not an entity that I want anything to do with.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not sure if you're trolling, or joking, or haven't watched the news in the last three years. But I'm feeling saucy today, so I'll take your bait. \n\nPutin, let's see his list of horrifying atrocities... where to start!? Maybe arming rebels with military anti-aircraft gear who shot down a civilian airliner, killing 283 passengers and 15 crew on board? Maybe the invasion of Crimea? Jailing gay rights protestors? Maybe having political enemies (abroad, no less!!) murdered by state agents (Viktor Yushchenko)? Maybe his support of Assad, who is slaughtering civilians in Syria strictly for political advantage, bombing hospitals and schools? I could go on for a few more hours...\n\nHe's practically a saint, that PootyPoot. Him and TinyHands Trump would be best buddies. They're the literal cartoonish personification of evil James Bond villains.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Still no science to support the \"transgender\" movment, prounoun or otherwise. You wish to change teams go right ahead but don't expect the entire universe to shift to accomodate you. Sooooo much MSM time has been allotted to this subject when it actually involves a fraction of a fraction of society. Luckily as with immigration, the left along with MSM keeps beating this horse until enough gullible and ill-informed people take the bait.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I can see both sides of this debate, in theory. But there is one practical concern.\n\nWhat if straight white males, in responce to those new policies, begin presenting themselves as gay, transgender, or related to minority groups?\n\nThe claim of being gay or transgendered can't be legally disproven. Nobody has to disclose their marital status or details of their sex life in the job application process. The definition of \"visible\" minority becomes increasingly vague at the times of interracial marriages, and especially marriages between people born in interracial marriages.\n\nIf a rule cannot be applied with any degree of consistency, then why bother establishing that rule?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If a gay person is traveling and a hotel or B&B refuses to accommodate them, it's harmful discrimination. It can kill. If a doctor refuses care because you are gay causes real harm. An exterminator who allows a gay couple to live in filth but not a straight couple is discriminating. When you open a business, you agree to follow the rule not to discriminate.\n\n\"Refusing to associate\" is different from discriminating. Religious people don't have the right to use their religion as an excuse to harm others who only want to do business with them. Making a cake is a baker's job. Marching in a pride parade or having a beer with someone is \"associating\". Just to be clear that discrimination, not refusing to associate with them, is illegal.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "U gay?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is the best comment I've read on a fairly obnoxious article re-hashing equally obnoxious, condescending media drivel about men and all their flaws (imagine if you can an article in the Globe focused on women and all their inadequacies). Never been a better time to be gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I could swear the protesters of the 60's-70's-80's-90's-2000's are the same pot smokers, hallucinogens\nusers that was characteristic with the pro-Vietnam make love not war demonstrations, later on the gay and lesbian movements as it was the women's pro abortion as a contraceptive method protests. Can't all be the same ones but sure the younger ones seem had inherited their pot smoker parents propensity to hate any thing civil, unable to distinguish between government narrative of climate change and the reality they're all been taken for the biggest scam of carbon tax ride since climate began its own natural cycles.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Given how the stories of these shrieking anti-gay moralizers tend to go, the only thing that surprised me is that his victims were girls.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Tom Cotten is exactly right. Manus was a terrible service secretary, but he had stiff competition from Debbie James at Air Force, whose only contribution was \"social engineering\", and Eric Fanning at Army, whose major claim to fame was being gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "1) I was referring to his threats to \"open up\" libel laws to make it easier to sue the media. He made these threats after the Times published the stories about the women accusing him of sexual assault.\n2) The statements that Trump has made about women and how he has treated them indicate to me that he does not see women as full human beings, equal to men. \n3) I have never claimed that Hilary was faultless.\n4) I truly don't know what you think in \"mainstream American culture\" has been under attack for the past 50 years. If you are referring to gay rights -- well, for centuries people believed that slavery was part of mainstream culture in much of the world. \n5) Since you have actually called me a liar -- no, I know you did not use that word, but \"untruthful\" is the same -- I guess that our cordial conversations have come to an end. And that's too bad, because we were able to communicate, even though we disagree on much. However, name-calling is a game-ender for me.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I covered the \"blame on the gays\" in my original posting. Are you defending the right of heterosexual or bisexual priests to keep their orientation secret from their parishioners? I'm sure you are not alleging that all gays are pedophiles, and certainly you couldn't be proposing the opinion, discounted by professionals, that pedophilia is a product of sexual orientation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "New rules for male etiquette. Don't put your arms around or touch women, don't stand next to them in photos, don't talk to women unless there is another observer in the conversation, don't look at their body parts, don't compliment their clothes, jewelry, or their figures, and don't smoke around them. They are now dynamite. Go Gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Fixed it for ya:\n\"Doubters need only read the laudatory assessments in the progressive left wing foreign media.\"\n\nUnder Harper, Canada's was seen as one of the to countries in the world to live, by any measure. \nPandering to the Muslim voting block in the corrupt UN has not enhanced our reputation with our key allies such a the USA, GB, or Israel. Selling arms Saudi Arabia and adopting the divisive M-103 probably enhances our reputation with those countries who subjugate their people, will not allow women to drive, behead convicts, and throw gays off buildings.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Please - the \"transgender\" skeleton - They found the skeleton of a man who was buried with things traditionally found with women in their burial plots. All that means is that he was buried with women's things. He could have been gay, he could have been thought a coward and this was a final insult - there is no way to determine what he thought about himself. After all, as he was the dead guy, he wasn't the one who put that stuff in the plot with him!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Not here for a semantics debate, especially when the meanings and connotations of words change rather quickly nowadays. Hope you have a gay day.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This clarifies the situation - or does it? Is the Queen gay?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is it homophobic to agree with the Church's teaching that homosexual activity is gravely sinful?\nObviously you disagree with this teaching, so who should a Catholic believe, the Church or you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How is saying the homosexual lifestyle is wrong, hate speech?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "To say that Hillary Clinton supports infanticide is a damnable lie. And how does her support of gays marriage affect you in any way.\n\nYou want character flaws? The Donald has them in abundance. A disregard for such trivial things as facts, blatant sexism, racism and so on. Compared to him, Hillary is a paragon.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Fine. But he did put people in jail for being gay, and refuse to allow Cubans to vote.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am tired of those two groups pushing their agendas. Pride - Gays and Lesbians have achieved much by being on centre stage for such a long time. It is time for some other worthy cause to be given attention. Canadian blacks have imported the anti-police mentality from the USA. Yes, we all must work to ensure there is no discrimination, as we also recognize the need for blacks to clean up their communities which are often high crime areas - in this we support them. But, baring police from showing support for any group is unacceptable and NO PUBLIC FUNDS should be spent on supporting the parade.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yippee! And the point of this is what exactly? To trivialize homosexuality even further? I'm thinking opening the first all-gay lawn care service. That will make me \"courageous\"!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You should be far more scared of the religion that you refuse to name that is the cause of the last two incidents. The members of that group, gangs, and cartels hardly care about any law you have. If you disarm Americans, it just makes all of us an easier target. The CDC in a study created by an Obama executive order, estimated that every year, 500,000 to 1,000,000 violent crimes were terminated by a citizen lawfully using a firearm. No doubt among them were many gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry you lost your job, friend. If you were female, gay, or a visible minority, I'd give you a free selfie!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That's why Obama and Hillary lost. People are not comfortable with transgender protect the country just yet. The only famous transgender in military is Manning and he was in prison for leaked information. Transgender need a great hero in military first. I have gay nephews and I know their most concerned is to be accepted in love not fighting.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I propose the WNBA all replaced with transgender women. Surely not a problem, no?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Many women do. Admitting it is your first step to recovery.\n\nAh the liberal lie. If you're against the importation if illegal cheap labor, or opening yourself up to terrorism your xenophobic.\n\nI wonder if the gay community in Miami was xenophobic.\n\nThe left wing lies just don't carry the same weight they used to.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks Fikile, it's nice to know that on Women's Day you spent copious paragraphs telling us about how great the ANC is and how the motion of no confidence was always doomed to fail - instead of maybe focusing on the heinous crime and (presumably) strong investigation into a deputy minister from your party who beats a woman in public, for the terrible 'crime' of calling him 'gay'....\n\n...It's always good to know you have your priorities straight!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That is what is both implied and assumed by the person saying it and receiving it. But that is not ANNOUNCING that one is heterosexual. What if a lady is married but also has homosexual relations with women? How is saying \"my husband and I went to dinner last night\" announcing that she is hetero? Like I said, don't make it more complex than it is. All one is saying is who that person is in relation to them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He is not refusing to make cakes for gays. Yes, they are knocking on his door to make offensive cakes. That is the part that you fail to understand. Again, what you fail to understand is that putting two men or two women on this cake IS the same as putting a racial slur on the cake. Again until you understand that concept, you will never understand the problem. I suspect you are also one of those that wants to force pharmacists to be accomplishes in the murder of unborn babies also?\nAgain, why are you FORCING your belief system on people? Why are you bigoted against conservative Christians? That is also a concept that liberals fail to comprehend is that many conservative Christians do feel discriminated against. We feel it every time you try to FORCE us to accept your belief system. Every time you say homosexuality is not a perversion. Every time you say that life just happened. Every time you call us misogynists or bigots. Yes, there is discrimination.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Church is practicing deliberate ignorance because were they to accept the scientific reality, they would have to recognize gay sexuality as homo-normative and perform gay marriage. Curial sexual dogma is junk religion. Most of the promoters of it in the Church are themselves sexually abberant, having the asexual orientation. If they had any self-awareness they would realize that they were the diffferernt ones whose experience of sexualtiy is not the same as the people they pontification about, both gay and straight. Telling someone who is gay that they must behave as hetero is moral torture for both the gay person and anyone unlucky enough to marry one. If you assume that God is not an ogre and wants people to express their sexuality in ways that are normal for them, there is no reason for the Church\u2019s current teaching except pietousness. It certainly is not pleasing to God to torture gays. If you fear Hell, you should not promote it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Most of us have grown up and no longer refer to gays as icky. Time to move into the 21st Century.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The trans movement is driven by man-hating feminists who want to save boys by convincing them that they're really girls. We're so horrified by female genital mutilation in foreign lands but in the west we're enacting constitutional protections for castrating boys on a political whim. I feel like I'm a black man trapped in a white mans body so where's my government funded racial reassignment surgery?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Seriously? Some (gay) guy gets roughed up at 3:am\nby a person he describes as \"some drunk redneck\" who spewed a few gay slurs in the process. So the vigil is about him and Oh, by the way, about the shooting in Orlando too?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This does not represent the majority of liberals any more than using a gay slur represents the views of Trump supporters.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Its really quite simple: If I only have to follow those laws that comport with my sincere and deeply held religious beliefs, I'll be murdering and eating your children (my god sez it's ok and I'm trying to get to Valhalla).I'm wondering if supporters of the baker would be as sympathetic if he had refused to bake a cake for an interracial or interfaith marriage. Or where one of the newlyweds had had a divorce or an abortion. Would he make a cake for a polygamous marriage for a fundamentalist mormon? Could he possibly support the marriage of anybody who doesn't share his particular faith like Jews or Muslims? Yes.This couple could have taken their business to another baker; but what about the couple in a small town without choices? Once they are cut off from the only baker in town, what options are left? A business owner benefits from state regulation, public transportation, police and fire protection, etc. Gay couples also pay for those things, making his business possible.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, I think probably the greatest threat to the US right now is the rabidly self-rightous religious fundamental sects - of all varieties. Raising children in ignorance, condemning those who believe differently, slaughtering the innocent in women's health clinics, murdering gay and trans people singly or in mass, . . . . .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Radicalization is taught at home, around the dinner table, as the family enjoys mom's good home cooking, while the grown ups discuss destroying Israel, eradicating homosexuals and the evils of dirty infidels It is drilled into young minds with every tale of glorious martyrdom for Allah in every mosque in every city around the world. Extremism for Islam is taught the same way Christians are taught about Jesus and his message of mercy and forgiveness, while enjoying mom's home cooking. It is not at odds with the teachings, but is central to the religion", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If probably more than half the priests are gay why are they against gay people and their marriage rights? Are they angry they can't gay marry?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The homosexuals have got to realize the Left has sold them out in favor of Islamist who want to throw them off of roofs; and thus have no choice but to vote Trump and Republican to save their own necks.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "By allowing abortion to go unimpeded, the four which Abp. Chaput mentioned are MORE culpable than those with an unapologetic bloodlust, such as the directors of Planned Parenthood and NARAL. These four have forced countless Pro Life Americans to fund the evil of abortions. They are more culpable because of their abuse of power in making us accept the aberration of homosexual \"marriage\". They use the power of the Federal Government, which in turn resigned its authority to do what ought to be done.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Unexamined assumptions about one group of people or another are very often fraught with witless nonsense.\n\nSome might blather on about what gay men like to do, or are suited to do. Then along comes Alan Turing who helps to create the discipline of modern computing science, and helps wins the war against Nazi Germany.\n\nOthers might blather on about what women like to do, or are suited to do. Then along comes Ada Lovelace. And Grace Hopper. And Marlyn Meltzer, Betty Holberton, Kathleen Antonelli, Ruth Teitelbaum, Jean Bartik, Frances Spence, Adele Goldstine, Adele Goldberg, and...and...and...\n\nSurprise! Humans exceed, and fall short of our expectation all the time.\n\nHere's my own very, very biased little judgement:\n\nI took one look at a public image of Mr. James Damore and all I saw was a 20-something who can't get a date.\n\n'Nuff said. My bad. I can admit. Can Mr. Damore?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Without Somali, Sudanese, Yemeni, Syrian, Libyan and Iranian scholars at the table, we have scant chance of understanding these crucially important parts of the world.\"\n\nSo you have an assigned task, so to speak, and you tell your boss it's not possible for the above reason? And the only way you can complete your project is if the U.S. changes its immigration laws? I can't speak for the Canadian experience but in the U.S. you're marked for the first round of the next layoffs.\n\nHave it in Iran. Make antisemitism the first topic after introductions and follow it up with stoning homosexuals to death to keep interest high.\n\nSpeaking for myself of course, a person of average intelligence, \"who do you think you're talking to\"?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't know that! I've heard that hammers have been used as weapons. Being as logical as you are, I think I'd rather face a hostile with a hammer over an AK, AR, SKS, HK and etc. Imagine the headline! \"Deranged man enters gay nightclub in Orlando Florida, with large hammer and threatens partiers.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I guess not, that sort of scandal, gay-fuelled orgies involving progressives in the Vatican is not something NCReporter dwells on. I don't know who owned the apartment except that it was in the Holy Office building.\nThe cardinal must have known his secretary was homosexual unless he was very naive which is unlikely. \nThe Pope seems to be more intent on clearing out those who disagree with him than those in his employ who are dragging the Church through the gutter.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well, we've already had one film actor in the White House (who arguably wasn't all that bad) so why the heck not? Me, I'm holding out for a female, lesbian and Jewish candidate with a domestic partner as a spouse.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mormons cannot possibly be gay. We just can't have this, and that's the end of that. /s", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're the most ruthless of all when you have a \"real\" name to toss around. You're just plain mean regarding gays, 'illegals', trans-genders - just about anyone who isn't cut from your fabric.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Two state solution is Hypocrisy\n\nit is diplomatic nudge nudge wink wink\n\neveryone knows that Palestinians want ONE state, that being Palestine\nProof?\nthey and Arab allies and cheering leftists in the West waged wars to wipe Israel off the map in 1948, 1967, 1973\n\nif they had won those wars today there would be ONE state, Palestine\n\nPalestinians won't admit it but surely gay leftists and women in Canada would after all it is in Israel where gays and women have RIGHTS\nnot in Palestine\n\nthe truth hurts", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well, you see treating your brothers and sisters in Christ like they were dirt as being Christian. Your claim to being a follower of Christ is dubious at best. You take Matthew 22:39 as \"You shall love your neighbor as yourself, unless your neighbor is gay. That neighbor you shall loathe.\"\n\nI think that God looks upon lack of love for others as far more serious a sin than sexual contact between two loving people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "American morality in the 21st Century: Based on rumors of what some 2000 year-old dead guy might say about gay sex or transgender...if he were actually here. Ms. Moore, during his estimated life span there was nothing written by or about the obviously human individual upon whom the biblical character of Christ was based. It\u2019s all hearsay! \nAs to the makeup of the human family of Christ addressed in some comments\u2026too bad there was no DNA test. The very nativity myth is obviously fake since it is based on the phony census\u2026we certainly have no idea who the father was. However, if the hearsay is correct, then we know Mary had a human baby and was therefore not a virgin. If Joseph was not the father he was a cuckold\u2026or maybe he was \u201cthe virgin.\u201d This preposterous nonsense reveals one good reason why America is such a confused nation\u2026raging superstition applied to politics.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If I believed that homosexual acts are not learned/learnable, and that same-sex attraction was not learnable and not reversible; and if I believed that homosexual men were generally able to be monogamous, I might give your suggestion some thought as a matter of cultural adoption, Catholic teaching aside.\n\nBut I genuinely believe that all people are capable of forming deeply loving, opposite-sex relationships and that our culture should encourage those types of relationships exclusively. As my Mom used to say, \"Everyone has their match.\" People overemphasize sex and under-emphasize the importance of of love and children in this life. Indeed, many don't even know what love is.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That's a key point: these priests are staying in the closet, which may mean trying to hide their actual personality from the laity.\n\nHowever this situation is parsed, the fact remains that these gay priests are living a lie, and the laity is increasingly aware of this pretense. \n\nHow can this be a good thing for all concerned?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "White men, gay or straight. Tory will just as easily be told to stay out and the police.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is just more propaganda and terminology from your \"Courage\" (oxymoron) playbook. Your group purposefully avoids using the terms that LBGT people like to use for themselves (gay, bi, lesbian, trans, etc) and substitute their innocuous terms (same-sex attracted) in order to weaken the perspective that being gay, lesbian, etc., is an orientation (with connected and integrated attractions, behaviors, aptittudes and proclivities, and now, biological differences measurable intero at least in the second trimester). Yours is a war for representation. You desperately want to gain control over how various groups are represented. You want to remove a group's power to represent itself and expect outsiders to recognize, acknowledge and speak in its own language. It is and has been a clear tactic of the dominant pharaonic, kyriarchical power structures for centuries and certainly since the colonists came to America.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They are not even prominent chefs..just trying to get on the band wagon. I know bakeries that refuse to do x-rated cakes. Its just a body part..why no challenge there? These gay men are just disgusting in forcing someone to do something against their beliefs. They want to force others to accept them, but they have no respect for others.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "MeThinks that what he really meant to say was that if these so-called refugees tattoo a 'gay rainbow motif' on their cheek like Junior wore today then they're a SHOO-IN to get permanent landed immigrant status.\n\nUsing the words 'Trust' and the 'Government' in any sentence is an OXYMORON.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A safe-place Catholic forum for students to talk out their anxieties and fears...to embrace their sexual identity ...to share concerns...to provide mutual support...to offer comfort...to ease pain..to develop a framework for issues dialogue----you're so right(eous) to ask, what \"great good\" can possibly come of that kind of seditious \"group?\"\n \nHow would you answer this question: if just ONE student can be helped, who can be against it? \n\nAre you a parent? What if one or more of your self-loathing, guilt-ridden, suicidal, fearful, bullied, and taunted gay or lesbian sons or daughters needed this group? \n\nClose that club door to them!!!!! Talk about an intrinsically disordered, unnatural act engaged in under the false guise of sharing your love!!!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So let's see . . . You'd advocate the government's giving everyone a certain amount of money, unearned, every month or year or whatever, and also have no problem with a priest openly having gay sex. You're a hoot. You're why Trump won.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your hypothetical suggestion is a depiction that IS against the law--sex assault/child pornography. Homosexuality is not against the law, despite what the right-wing, religious, bible thumpers may believe.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hope everyone can find a home in the RCC. They should also thoroughly understand the Church's teachings against sin, including homosexual behavior.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You mean, of course, stating facts is completely proper. That you don't like said facts is simply too bad. You blow off my statement that you support arbitrary discrimination based on sexual preference. You are another who says \"You shall love your neighbor as yourself, unless that neighbor is gay. That neighbor you shall disdain.\" That is your view, and, as I said, it is not Christian -- but then, you conservatives hold to a view of Christianity that is not actually Christian.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "1) The response of the assaulted person to the hateful speech/actions is exaggerated or the language isn't as extreme as people interpret it to be? Which do you mean? \n2) Words do hurt. That childhood rhyme doesn't do a lot to help. Going to church and hearing the language of objectively disordered from the pulpit or seeing it in the bulletin, coming from men who claim to have more direct access to God than you, hurts even more.\n3) Folks who are in the closet for whatever reason still hear the language, read about the murders (Matthew Shepherd, Wyoming, and massacre at the gay club in Orlando, FL are just two examples) know about the firings of gay folks. It doesn't have to be a direct personal attack to hurt.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't see where the public was consulted on the matter. The homosexual movement is powered by big, perverted money; groups wanting to destroy the traditional family, the greatest protection against tyranny and Communism.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Canada taking in these gay men from Chechnya is the right thing to do, and we should be proud of that. \n\nThis however: \"...vengeful wrath of the Canadian ... justice system shall be visited upon you\" must be a typo. On a scale of \"slap on the wrist\" to \"vengeful wrath\", when exactly is the last time the courts handed out the latter ? Canadian courts are soft on criminals. You can agree or disagree that's the correct approach, but you cannot describe it as \"vengeful\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Does that cover pictures as well? That would be the solutions to what I am asking to protect EVERYONE and not just gays. No words or images are required. When the skinhead comes into the black baker's shop the black baker would obviously have to make the cake but nothing offensive can be placed on it. If that's true...then OK.\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That's a pretty good argument. Why does the government have to pay for sex changes when it's not essential to serving the country? Will the government start paying for cosmetic surgery too just because I don't feel pretty enough? How about breast implants? Because we all know how important those are in serving the country. How about liposuction? In that case, sign me up! Feelings of fat folks like me can't be ignored! It's my right! Why does the homosexual community get special treatment and we fat folks don't? By the way, it's not my fault I'm fat. It's genetic, \n\nI've also heard from a friend of mine who's in the medical field that the maintenance after the sex change (check ups, medication, possible treatment for complications) is financially significant. Does the government have to pay for that too? Wait, I pay taxes, am I paying for people's sex changes? If someone wants to have a sex change, that's up to them, but I ain't paying for it! \n\nWelp, who cares. I'm only a tax payer.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You have no idea what you are talking about.\nPolitical thought is not a protected class. No one has to make a Nazi/Liberal/Conservative/Hillary/Trump cake.\n\nHow would you feel if the baker decided to not make cakes for white people?\nWhere is this \u201cgay baker down the street\u201d? What if you were injured and a doctor refused to treat you? Go down the street and find a conservative/liberal/republican/democrat doctor?\nEvery post that has the either one of the words liberal or conservative is usually very bad. Congratulations.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\" McCain is one of few Republicans willing to stand up for the American story.\" Unfortunate that Brooks couldn't resist partisanship. It is that very partisanship that provides the foundation of our currently dysfunctional political environment. McCain is an American first, a republican second. Whereas Brooks is apparently the opposite, i.e. a democrat first and an American second. It is hard to imagine how the modern liberal came into being. The liberals who view Americans first as members of their racial, ethnic, religious, or gender groups rather than as simply Americans. The modern fake liberal is death to universality and solidarity. Some day they will have all of us fighting between our little perceived groups, white supremacists, white males, feminists, blacks, illegal aliens, gays, and the list goes on. Identity with the little group rather than as Americans.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What happens to the gay priests (bishops, cardinals) that are already in the Church? I've seen estimates that range up to 20%....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is despicable. How dare you erase women's accomplishments! Women were not permitted to join the military or partake in public life in general back during these times. They often had to resort to dressing as men out of desperation due to the sexism of these institutions at the time. You are erasing the work women have done throughout the centuries by misgendering this woman who is not around to correct you. You disrespect her legacy and you deficate on the women's civil rights movement in doing so. Your movement is like the Mormon church, converting people after death when they aren't around to give their say in the matter. You people are sexist. You can't just admit that butch, lesbian and masculine women exist and that they are just as capable as any man of doing any job. Your ideology is sexist garbage. Women can do anything men can do. They don't have to become men to do so.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "None of the programs that Pope Francis is talking about discuss transpeople at length. The French program that Pope Francis condemned is about gender equality. The real issues is that Pope Francis wants women to be broodmares for Jesus.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Personally, I think that the United States would have been better off if an equivalent to the British Penal Codes had been adopted here. The suffocating influence of Catholicism AND radical evangelism would have been nipped in the bud to the greater good. One can note that although New Zealand had different areas sponsored by different Protestant missionary groups in; Anglicans and Presbyterians, LGBT and contraceptive rights in society there have been settled, unlike in the United States where so called \"Christian Conservatives\", have made a Faustian bargain with the pro Neo Nazi, pro KKK and Non White, anti Woman (calling any non kitch, kirche and kinder ONLY woman a man hating, lesbian \"feminazi) , LGBT loathing, war mongering POTUS called TRUMP to impose their Christianity on others!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "@Michael Archer Re: discover they are gay is a false description of sexual confusion. Michael, I never mentioned sexual confusion. Being gay is not synonymous with being confused. I haven\u2019t found those who identify with gay sexual orientation any less clear about it than heterosexuals are clear about their sexual orientation. Admittedly, some may well be confused regarding their sexual orientation.Resolving such confusion sounds like true torment to me. Your position as stated, is the default Church position. It is a rejection of anything that isn\u2019t heterosexually normative. There is nothing voluntary about the celibacy you describe. My post challenged all of what supports your stance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The gay men of Toronto had established a good rapport with the cops despite what BLM and the womyn o Pride say. Many gay guys like the sight of cops in uniforms, even if BLM said it disgusts them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I had cancelled receiving e-mails from Brad Trost and most of the other Conservative candidates because I was getting way too many of them. However, it was easy to track down the video that La Southey complained about. Since she was too busy sneering to summarize its content, it made two points. First, some of what is allowed in the Gay Pride parades in Canada is too lewd to be allowed in a public place. Second, the Gay Pride parades are subsidized by the taxpayer. If they are to continue, they should be made to pay the full freight. If La Southey thought these were ridiculous contentions she could have told us why. They certainly don't seem to be virulently homophobic. This was really a failed effort at journalism.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I will add.\n\n5. The benefits of multiculturalism. Let's learn about new cultures coming to our county (which I think is a good thing). Report on all the bad things that traditional Canada does to these cultures. But never report the bad about these cultures. For example, a religion that requires women to cover their faces and bodies from head to toe (isn't this misogynistic); a religion that throws gays off buildings and murders gays and lesbians (isn't this homophobic); a religion that says woman cannot go to school (isn't this misogynistic again).\n\nNot saying that all people ascribe to this hateful, misogynistic, and homophobic view, but a lot do. Why doesn't the media report on this. Why doesn't the media talk about the people coming to our country that hold these views. Why aren't we warned that there is a religion out there that is different from our Christian values that we are being asked to assimilate with - and that could put our safety at risk (e.g,, if you are gay).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think that the sexual orientation of a priest does not matter. For one, how is it possible to enforce or police a policy that says \"no gay priests\"? It's absurd.\n\nWhat is important is this: is Father faithful to his promise of celibacy? If so, then sexual orientation is immaterial.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I suppose you think you are being witty and clever Caldera, but from the view of this 75 yrold white gay cis-man, this is the kind of FUBS that comes out of the mouth of every bubble-privileged, \"I am the center of the universe\", white supremacist man who just doesn't get the effects of the oppression he is flinging around.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not sure it does. Many of them have the same likes and behaviours after as before. I think Caitlyn Jenner is something of an anomaly in her love of fluffy female things--I can't explain it and it does unsettle me, especially after you've already lived as a white male celebrity . . . wow if you wanna pose on Vogue in your pink baby dolls, go ahead but don't ask me to get excited about it, even if I will stick up for your rights. I understand what you're saying, and I think the categories of male and female do NOT, in fact, necessarily align with any behaviours except those that are culturally conditioned. We cannot underestimate its influence. As sexes we apparently are different in size and strength, aggression, and nature of sexual arousal. After that, it's a giant toss-up. There is NO theory of personality based on gender. But something is happening in the brains of the transgendered that makes them perceive themselves as the other sex.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not sure what \"mistake\" Marcia is referring to... that a person could be born with male chromosomes and female neuron wiring? If that is a mistake, what does she think of Zika virus? Or Onchocerca volvulus, breast cancer, or children getting beaten by alcoholic fathers? Is Marcia's God perfect except for transgender people?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Depends. The churches enjoy tax-exempt status and are therefore subsidized by all of us. They're ripe for human rights complaints and lawsuits, I say. Discriminate against gays and women in Canada in 2017--because your magic stories declare them sinners or inferiors--and you deservew what you get.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree with you about the nature of transgender people, but ...\n\nWelcome aboard!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Colin Kaepernick ought to talk to Michael Sam.\nSam was a top prospect, until he came out as gay. No NFL team has hired him.\nTo pretend there is no collusion is utter nonsense.\nSeveral teams seemingly allow players to express their conscience by kneeling.\nIf any of the kneeling players' contracts are coming up for renewal, or if any of them are becoming free agents, it'll be interesting to see how few get offers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some comments were posted BEFORE the story was updated. Suspect the original story was somewhat different. That's one thought. The other thought (and we can see proof every day) the subject of a story and the subject of comments don't always dovetail. All it takes is one somewhat controversial comment and...the pack is off, spiraling away from the topic with (not always gay) abandon.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is a much larger issue here that Konrad tiptoes around.\n\nPerhaps using science and reason would help describe the magnitude of a problem which is pan-European and worsening. \n\nLook at polling data across Islamic countries and Europe on the attitudes of Muslims to a broad range of issues and its not hard to see the problem. A significant proportion of this community is diametrically opposed to many of the common ideas our societies cherish. \n\n% support for sharia law, honor killings, subjugation of women, rights for homosexuals, violence against those critical of Islam, support for terrorism in the name of Islam..... and then do the math and the results should make us all uncomfortable. \n\nI put two links below as a start. \n\nhttp://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/c4-survey-and-documentary-reveals-what-british-muslims-really-think\n\nhttp://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-morality/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So who will be representing the church in this dialogue? Martin? That would be homosexuals talking to homosexuals. Martin talking to Church officials? That would be homosexuals talking to homosexuals. \"Straight\" Church officials who side with homosexual activists to change Church teaching? Still more people talking to themselves.\n\nLet's bring an uninterested party to the table instead. I mentioned elsewhere that Michael Voris would be an excellent choice since he credits his move away from the homosexual lifestyle to the compassion of the Church's teaching. Or, perhaps, one those who took advantage of the Courage Apostolate who has embraced the Church's teaching, not felt alienated by it.\n\nThe fact is it is the homosexuals who refuse to have a dialogue; they want to debate and win, not discuss open-mindedly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump is under the opinion that transgender \"bathroom rights\" is an issue to be regulated at the state, not federal, level which I believe to be correct. The Feds have many issues to confront, where a child goes to tinkle at school shouldn't be one of them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually the very statement about the Old vs. New proves the point that Christians do not have the \"right\" to force their religion on everyone. By the way, homosexual relations were considered an act of war/aggression back in Old Testament days. It is something that conquering soldiers did to humiliate/subdue their enemies, like prison sex. That kind of nonconsensual rape is condemned by most rational people, but consensual sex between two adults is totally different.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When it came out, I thought the Vatican document was absurd for stating gay men do not know how to properly relate to women. Gay men treat me (a woman) as an equal, respect my personhood, do not convey attitudes of superiority/insecurity, are free from forming a sexual agenda with me. This is what women want from any man, gay or straight. I can only conclude that the writers of the document have little personal experience with actual women or actual gay men.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"What difference does it make\"\nThe difference is that as a choice you make, you have no right to force someone to accept it. That is why the gay community claims it is decided by nature and not individual preference, so they can maintain the force to make people like them.\nYou are right about how laws change how people are treated. But forcing people to think the way you want them to does not make a just law either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trid, I don't think that's a fair statement. I think there are legitimate questions to be asked about acts appropriate to express the love of one human being for another, but I don't think we can automatically assume heterosexual acts are all \"ordered\" and homosexual acts \"disordered.\" I don't think many couples of any orientation engage in sex while saying to themselves \"I'm doing this to build the kingdom of God.\"\nWell, maybe in Great Britain....:)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You lost it about the second sentence. I grew up in anchorage and there was a gay bar downtown. We avoided it and couldn't care less. What you describe is bs. I don't buy any of your rant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Given that Ms Fukumoto voted against Marriage Equality, against helping the victims of rape, and pushed bills asking for religious freedom which are actually a way to exclude gays from the community, it is hard to understand why she is a RINO. What is true, is ,if she becomes a Democrat she will be a DINO.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wouldn't make a recommendation to a client based upon an immutable characteristic of a judge, such as race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, etc. unless I had specific and real evidence of bias. In a case like your hypothetical, I'd worry more about things like a judge's record on getting reversed on denying suppression motions than whether he was gay. I don't give much credence to the old lawyer gossip you cite, which is just the same innuendo still applied by old lawyers to other judges who aren't white, old, heterosexual men. I know lawyers who always bump female judges because they think they'll be unfavorable to men. I also know lawyers who bump black judges for similarly baseless reasons. It speaks volumes about the lawyer, nothing about the judge they're preempting, and they don't seem to get better results. \n\nI routinely preempt judges who have displayed biases that their \"lifestyle\" would not telegraph. \n\nJudge Carlson is more or less right: little has changed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The you would be OK with 2 gay folks who are married in a state that allows it, to have that marriage recognized in all 50 states, with no reservations and without the Supreme Court having to step in?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I avoided the thousand-comment tempests on Amoris Laetitia and have no interest in getting embroiled in a debate about the Great Papal Footnote. But come on. There are exceptions to the indissolubility of marriage in the gospel itself and in Paul. Annulment is also an end run around the indissolubility of marriage. Amoris Laetitia is consistent with this timeless Catholic tradition.\n\nI have often pondered, as I witnessed certain vicious rats scurry up to the communion rail and fall on their knees to receive, how arbitrary is the doling out of scarlet letters. For all we know a divorced and remarried couple are the closest to God of anyone in the room.\n\nScience offers understanding of the nature of reality, and for religion to remain relevant it must resonate with reality. Homosexuality was once believed to be willful defiance of a fundamentally heterosexual nature. We know that's not true.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ahh yes...NcR (condemned by its bishop since 1968) which enthusiastically supports abortion, homosexual activity, euthanasia, and strange men enjoying the protection of the federal government when exposing themselves to little girls, now sees itself fit to define what is \"normal\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sometimes I wonder what can actually come from this exercise. The \"door is closed\" on women's ordination and PF himself has stated he does not want gay people in the clerical ranks. Doesn't seem to leave much room for change ... just a lot of hot air. Alas, hope Springs eternal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hear you & agree with much of what you say. But don't underestimate Trump, as I have done. It's a steep learning curve & he may get it yet, despite 24/7 hammering by a biased media. I too have believed to an extent that it would either work or be a disaster - with little in between. And he indeed has been his own worst enemy. But under-the-radar much is going on & I disagree about his performance on regulatory reform - a half dozen or so significant changes are happening each week - a painfully slow, but steady dismantling of the regulatory state.\nAnd about one of these half-dozen issues makes the front page (and is significant even if overshadowed by his latest tweet or other news) - this week DACA & the DOE revisiting the college kangaroo courts on rape (alleged rape) where the defendant seems automatically guilty & is denied due process, Last week it was reinstating the welfare work requirement. The week before, transgenders in the military. Need I mention SCOTUS?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have never seen any of that from Jason. Citations please. Also he does not want to 'out' gay kids that is but a spin that NDP ideologues want to make stick.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, the Church's attitude to women is only a problem for strident feminists.\nA sin is a sin whether it is committed by a homosexual or a heterosexual, the Church doesn't distinguish between them. Certain sections of society for no religious reasons find such behaviour abhorrent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" outward behavior \" Homosexual or heterosexual,outward, inward or up side down anyway one slices it 'behavior\" is a CHOICE not a so-called orientation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unlike the GOP, who feeds on issues like abortion and gay marriage, which are out of its control, the Dems actually to to enact things like health care reform and higher taxes on the rich. The only real GOP stances are defense pork and lower taxes-on the rich.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In other words: He's not gay! Right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Then you are being played, because gay rights have been constitutionalized (even employment non-discrimination and housing are being taken up by the Court) and Roe will never be repealed. The best the GOP can get is a congressional compromise at 25 weeks, and that would end the debate for enough people to end the issue so you are supporting nothing but a litmus test with no progress in the offing. MSW suffers from the same delusions on abortion.Disagree? What's the plan that shows there are actual options and strategies on abortion?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Men, or women for that matter, who have sex with children, rarely are interested in having sex with adults, therefore they are incorrectly labeled gay men, but correctly labeled pedophiles. As for your charge that \"the Gay community\" is protecting the pedophiles in its midst is a label of gross exaggeration. First off there is no monolithic Gay Community, secondly what does exist are small specialized organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, the Lambda Legal Defense and the Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. These are not organizations that exists to protect or defend pedophiles. To the contrary, they try to defend Gays from blanket charges of pedophile such as you are implying. I can only hope you will eventually see that taking a small exception and spreading it to a whole class is not only unfair, but inaccurate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Hirono, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, 'Transgender Americans serve our country with honor and distinction.'\"\n\nAnd their names are???..........", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bill: I asked myself which would be more fun? a) trying to have a rational discussion about evolution, abortion, sex education/birth control and homosexuality with a hard-core fundamentalist Christian or b) running headfirst into a brick wall. Excuse me, I'm going out to find a brick wall. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I (don't) know why, please inform me! That is why I posted my comment. It is not due to gay issue because the Boy Scout USA had already agreed that the Churches can exclude Gay troop master's if they want to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because it's impossible to align a transgendered individual's mind with their body.\n\nMale and female brains are different - they're composed of different types of cells and they think with different parts of the brain.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And those people do not understand the issue.\nNo one is forcing the baker to do anything. Offer the same services to all protected classes or do not offer them at all. It is very simple. \n\nYou love hypotheticsl situations, let\u2019s do one. (This one will be realistic, sorry if thst offends you)\n\nWhat if a guy goes into the bakery and orders a wedding cake for Leslie and Kim? What does the baker do? Does he ask the guy if Kim is a man or if Leslie is a man? Or wait, does he ask if Leslie and Kim are two women? What if it is a man and a woman?\n\nIf he does not even know he is making a custom cake for a gay wedding and he does it, will he go to hell? Does that mean the baker is complicit with gay weddings? Jesus knows the baker hates gays in his heart. Isn\u2019t that what matters?\n\nThe baker is refusing to do a business transaction for people because they are gay. That would be legal in 20 other states, but here, he broke the law knowingly. Religion is not an excuse for discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My first thought reading the \"...Catholic intellectual apostolate...\" sentence was, the Catholic intellectual apostolate had better work darned hard to get its own house in order first, with issues like exclusion of women from consideration of ministry and meaningful leadership, the hypocritical stance of a close-majority of gay clerics still waging war on gay relationships among the laity, the yet-to-be disciplined supervisory bishops who protected sex offenders, the wanton use of donations for a) political causes, and b) plain old greed. Oh, and let's not forget the practical, if not named, schism of Traditionalists vs Progressives. \n\nOur house is in many ways as offensive to those who view the world through the Gospel as is any political movement's.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Could you clarify, something for me? If a person is born with a penis and testes, it is male, right? And if a person is born with a vagina and a uteris, it is female, correct? As far as I know, the physical attributes each human is born with is not a matter of choice. After birth, humans have many years to make a decision as to what their sexuality will be or even may be born understanding what their sexuality will be at sexual maturity. Some may even identify as being a different sex than at birth. I agree that there are perhaps lesser or greater variations of bi-sexuality that permeate all human beings to a lesser or greater extent. The exploration and discovery about ourselves continues and will be either exciting or dreaded, depending on your views and experiences.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thousands of transgender members are CURRENTLY serving. And, in a tweet, Trump just ordered all of them to be thrown out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "GBA: In the Lesbian world usually the one who is the most aggressive or out spoken of the two Lesbians is the one who tries to look like a man. Hence the term, \"BULL DYKE\" surfaced.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think that the accusation against Spacey - that he was a powerful gay men preying on underage straight boys - fit the negative stereotype that the gay community fought for decades a bit too close for comfort, so I believe he'll be cut off if only to avoid potential damage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Once women are ordained, the claim that anything but our witness to the Resurrection is unchangeable is mute. Of course, we can\u2019t just ordain celibate women with the same bent toward asexuality that many celibate men have (or the acceptance of it by gays running away from their sexuality, other gays simply honor the promise by not marrying their lovers). If we ordain women, we must ordain single and married, gay and straight (and, yes, asexual) women and men. We cannot join the sexual revolution in only one aspect. This focus on otherworldly chastity must end for all but those created to pursue it, because sadly Paul, while he dealt with women as equals, brought his personal sexual quirks with him into his teaching. We can honor and respect that, but we need not perpetuate it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transexualism is a medical and probably a psychological issue, although I have a few friends who are or have transitioned that were psychologically fine. I have met others-who are not. Regardless, we are not going to drag down the 2000 years of unchecked teaching by asexual bishops who were so self-absorbed in their own sexuality and stoic idealism just because transexuals are part of the package. They really are not. An error repeated is still an error (like ending the equality of women in ministry, an entirely Roman thing, not Catholic one). There was no Platonic ideal of sex in Judaism and Leviticus really was an exercise in national building while the Jews were in exile. The people have already voted with their feet and the John Paul priests are bumping up against the Franciscan ceiling, so change is afoot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Patterning makes the pederasts. In the seminaries, some gay men simply come out while others adopt the asexual ideal imposed on them as a way of regaining latency.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church's current teaching on homosexuality requires same sex attracted men to be celibate. It is therefore understandable that some of them might consider the priesthood or religious life to be an appropriate life choice. The report states that there are many gay priests and religious who live exemplary lives and do not abuse children, and they are the ones who have become psychosexually mature enough to take on celibacy. The report states that the Church's homophobic attitudes does not help this maturing process. Benedict's branding of them as \"inherently disordered\" and as unsuitable to be priests simply because of their sexual orientation only has the effect of driving them further into the closet with all the conflicts that this brings. They are required not just to be celibate, but to live a double life by hiding their orientation. If some estimates of the number of gay priests are correct, your solution would halve their number.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes I understand we are all susceptible to sin because of the Fall. But right out of the gate, someone with SSA (not one who acts on it) has two strikes against him/her because the Church has already labeled them immoral. I know you will disagree but as I said, I've had SSA all my life and since I didn't choose to be this way I don't consider it to be an immoral state of being.\nAnd I do disagree also that those with SSA are not labeled \"disordered\" \"trash\". The Church may not use those terms and it may not mean it but at the street level it is interpreted that way and the Church has a terrible history of defending gay people when they have been bashed, killed, ostracized, criminalzied. And then there are those families who have lost sons and daughters to suicide because they were bullied for being \"different.\" No, Mr. Rule and Raven I don't agree with you and most likely never will. I read your posts and you know your theology but I have never sensed compassion and empathy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Senator Karl Rhoades used to be the chairman of the House committee that gave us state-sanctioned homosexual \"marriage\". He is a Seventh-Day Adventist who cordially welcomed a small group of us into his office at the capitol at the time.\n\nThe problem is that Mr. Rhoades would not submit to the clear prohibition of such legal insanity from the very Holy Scriptures which lay on his desk. Now he is promoting another bill of a moral and ethical nature that flies in the face of the Faith that he supposedly adheres to. What does that tell you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Could be Canadians, could be Dems. Could be potheads - I mean \"recreational cannabis users\" - needing money for the now-legal pot. Could be organized liberals, bands of disgruntled gays, maybe Muslims. I just wonder, when these marauders go pillaging, where do they park their cars so as not to make noise?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Such as last week when he supported the Catholic's right to teach children that being gay is morally wrong. In 2017 that is an extremist view.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I choose the BIBLE........................\n\nAnd YES, there is NO question that HOMOSEXUALITY, is a SIN. I am NOT saying you can NOT tell people who they can love or what they can do or not do in the bedroom. What I am saying is these people should NOT be afforded more protections then any other group of citizens in the US. And as far as the bedroom, KEEP IT THERE, NOT out in PUBLIC..............", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Plus, how is it racist to question a religion that tells women they are not equal.\"\n\nWe live in a nation where it is illegal to discriminate against homosexuals and they have all the same rights and freedoms everyone else has. How does one reconcile that with the HEAVY anti-gay sentiment in western Muslims in polls? Can I safely call out that bigotry, just like I call out the anti-gay bigotry of many Evangelical Christians, without fear of being smeared as a Islamophobe?\n\nI sure hope so, but not many people can separate critique of the acts or the beliefs from critique of the actor or the believer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you not see how unfair it is to make assumptions about people before you learn about or understand them? Judging people before you know them is called prejudice. Does your prejudice and presumption know any bounds? \n\nThere is lots of evidence to support allowing trans women to compete with other women. It isn't just being taken at their word they aren't as strong -- that was your assumption. It's also your assumption that cisgender women are all losing to trans women. The evidence says otherwise. The list goes on. \n\nThere are also trans men along with trans women. So trying to call trans women \"men\" either shows your malice or ignorance. \n\nMaybe you should try to learn about the subject before you have a strong opinion? There are very real evidenced based reasons the Olympics, NCAA, and other sports organizations allow trans women AND men to compete. Shouldn't you try to understand them before you assume? \n\nEither way your false assumptions are easily disproved by the facts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly, Cholo. My point was (Contrary to Klastri) , it did not matter if someone was gay or not. If they did their job, did not compromise the mission and had my six, I could give a rat's behind if my brother in arms was, gay, straight, green, etc..\nSexual preference should not be an issue. Period. I don't need to know.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your headline, \"Canadian pride,\" i thought this was a commercial about gays grocery shopping. The language is not the same anymore.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh relax, people. It was like this in the 60s with student protest groups shouting down profs while not buying the free speech argument when that argument was used as a defence of a lousy status quo. \n\nMy, people romanticize and de-historicize universities far too often, including Wente, who seems to forget that universities did used to be about dangerous ideas--some good but some like the supposed unfitness of women for tenure, the supposed superiority of the Western world, the supposed depravity of gays, etc. on which many department cultures and disciplines were based. Radicals that pushed against that stuff sounded exactly like the ones today that everybody is mad at. Besides, the idea that free speech should not hold in cases where its exercise normalizes discrimination IS a dangerous idea. Maybe good. Peterson doesn't go after laws that support respect religion, even though there is no scientific proof of a god. His invoking of science is selective and supports discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He\u2019s not only gay and a visible minority, he\u2019s also just 38 years old, meaning he\u2019ll be the youngest Prime Minister in Irish history.\n***\nI am thinking Michael Collins was the youngest leader of Irish free state/Ireland.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those who yearn for the \"peace and stability\" of the 1950s should remember the daily fear of nuclear war that shadowed that decade, as well as the atrocities inflicted on African Americans in the South, the professional restrictions on women, the code of silence regarding homosexuality, and the political constraints on Jews and Catholics. Adlai Stevenson used to joke about \"people who want things to be the way the used to be, only more so.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ">>>wedding in Cana of Galilee, thereby tacitly approving of marriage between a man and a woman\n\nI don't see how attending a straight wedding disavows gay marriages, though I doubt it gays were looked upon kindly by many people back in those days. I just think a church should be welcoming of all people, regardless of sexual orientation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "[The Gay Refugee Lawyer]\nSo not the MSM. Great job proving yourself wrong.\n[Muslim travel ban]\nAt best we are both right based upon this.\n[NIAC Panel]\nAnother non media source, ie. proving that it isn't MSM.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When it comes to voting habits, conservative evangelicals are indistinguishable from conservative Catholics: two, and only two issues matter - abortion and homosexuality. The best comment I've yet read about conservative Christians and their decision to let abortion trump literally every other issue comes from one of my favorite commenters at the New York Times who goes by the screen name Socrates. As he put it, \"With regard to conservative Christians' one-dimensional support of the in utero sacrosanctity of renegade male sperm, their collective, blind ex utero support of Republican economic torture for every birthed child belies their bipolar 'pro-life' fraud and stunted morality.\"\n\nI couldn't have put it better myself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cheyenne Mtn Resort has a legit legal argument that hosting a known hate group in the current political environment would require undue security accommodations that a private business cannot reasonably be expected to make.\n\nIf you want to argue that a transgender conference or a gay wedding poses a similar security risk be my guest...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "#FakeNews & #RevisionistHistory : there was no such thing as \"transgenders\" in the 1600's, the 1700's, the 1800's, even the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Cross-dressers and drag queens, sure. Rosie the Rivetter wasn't transgender, she was just a woman who wanted to work. Exactly like patriotic women who wanted to serve in the military, or just act on the stage, but couldn't do so naturally, due to sexist dogma and stereotyping; That era died well over 40 years ago. This transgenderitis nonsense, where Gender is but a choice, that's an invention of the 1980's, by people afraid to say, \"no Bruce, you are a boy\" or \"No Renee, you are female\" and there is nothing wrong with being born either! Everyone knew cross- dressers and drag queens were in costume - like Liza and Cher impersonators, they knew they were dressing fake; the problem today is one of mental delusion: my body's gender does not match my mind's error, so I have to butcher my body instead of correcting my mind!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Baking a plain, undecorated wedding cake, is speech.... because why?\n\nIf he was required to bake a pro-gay marriage cake, replete with rainbows and flags, you'd have a point. he wasn't, so you don't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And no where near as scintillating and apparently titillating as gay marriage initiatives so fer sure I won't be looking for the 'Keep It Zipped' campaign anywhere in the near future.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So why is it that many so-proclaimed Catholics who support abortion, homosexuality, and euthanasia also champion the false science of climate change, which ultimately seeks to reduce human population? \n\nNotice the pattern? That methodical denial of objective reality -- life does not begin at conception, gender is not fixed, taking your own life is not a sin -- culminates in the fanatical belief that a complex non-linear chaotic system can be controlled by toggling the amount of carbon dioxide which accounts for less 2% of all greenhouse gases on a medium-sized planet, 71% of which consists of water.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Problem is, that nearly all of the racists, bigots and homophobes belong to your group and you do not care. \nU do not want to be painted that way, yet, you allow them to remain inside your group and then wonder why so many of us dislike the GOPs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "PoiDoggy, it is not a civil rights issue; it is a mental health issue. Stress, anxiety and depression are common problems suffered by transgenders. They are disqualifiers for enlistment and commissioning and for continuing on active duty. Military personnel diagnosed with these mental disorders are normally discharged and receive free VA health care and disability compensation for the rest of their lives. It borders on insanity to knowingly allow a class of people with mental disorders to join the military services when many already serving are discharged as unfit when diagnosed with the same mental disorders.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clinton was a bad candidate: not likeable, elitist, a poor speaker, and tone deaf. She would have been a good president, but was a bad bad candidate as no one could relate to her. The Dems need to stop pandering to whining tiny minorities and work on the bigger problems that hurt everyone including those minorities. Is it more important to emphasize and strongly push LGBTQ issues or is it more important that we improve secondary education, drug abuse, poverty, and health care? I am not anti-LGBTQ but concentrate on the biggest problems that face the country.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My grand-father's cousin wrote a book about a country boy who ran away and traveled with-a runaway slave named Jim. Huck came to the conclusion that his friend was a friend and not property and so he would go to Hell rather than turn him in. Before he came to that conclusion his faith was a mere act of loyatly to what he was taught. When he changed his mind, even at the risk of Hell, he found real faith. Cousin Sam was good at coming up with illustrations like this. This issue was not slavery, but loyalty v. faith. The Church has show precious little faith in dealing with either theologians or gays and lesbians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"There are going to be detractors from Trump (who) are going to try to make it sound like all the conflict of interest and all of that, and I don't think people are really concerned about that except just the activists you run into on the Hill,\" said Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla.\"\n-----------------------------------\nHe's right, you know. As long as Palin-Americans think Trump's Stiggin' It to those they blame for the personal failures (liberals, gays, Mexicans, Mooselimbs, etc.), they couldn't care less how corrupt he is or what foreign powers are influencing him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The \"recruitment\" explanation for homosexuality never did make much sense, and still doesn't. There are more VISIBLE lesbians today than ever before because it is much safer to admit you are lesbian (or gay, or bi, or trans) than ever before.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First of all, I thought it was God calling a person to serve His people.\nSecond, it is appalling to me that you consider a gay priest a person with \"high probability issues\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Duddy was one of the first to speak up when priests who abused kids were being labeled as homosexuals. When Seattle had a classic case of this and the priest died, the gay community and Dignity helped to stage one of the largest funerals they could. Then all of the gays and Dignity members quietly walked away after this spectical became front page news. Jaeger at one time was a presider for Dignity masses which were held at St. Joseph Church at the time. Later some of the Dignity members broke away and held their celebrations weekly in a Protestant Church (while several gays still quietly gathered at St. Joe's every Sunday for their mass). Jaeger came across as a very welcoming priest to the gay community but he also had a history of previous abuse. Dignity and the gay community seemed to wink and look the other way at what he did several years earlier. Duddy always likes to chime in when it comes to gay priests and the Vatican, maybe she should try silence and some prayer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's ok Jones, another cruise ship just pulled into Seward, and we have been informed that your cabin was sold to a nice gay couple with three adorable adopted Mexican children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was confused by Popes JP2 and B16. Their focus was on church teachings that differed from the loving message of Jesus. An example is excluding gays as disordered. Pope Francis has given Jesus the priority and his loving message of the Kingdom of God with its compassion, mercy, forgiveness and ecumenism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These priests lack a solid theogical education. The idea of inclinations comes from the Summa, I II Q 94 art 2. Also, celibacy is not the same as chastity. Celibacy is the renunciation of one's desire that flows from the natural inclination for sexual acts and the education of children. A man with \"deep seated inclinations\" of homosexuality lacks the desire that flows from the inclination to engage in a sexual acts with a woman and raise the children that may result from that act. \nA promise of celibacy is first a renunciation of the natural right to engage in the conjugal act with a woman that is founded on a natural inclination and desire. Men with deep seated inclinations of homosexuality lack that desire as a result of an improperly ordered inclination. There is nothing for them to renounced. This is also an essential aspect of a male only priesthood.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So your definition of Islam as a political ideology influenced by a prophet preaching the word of a higher power (to paraphrase your definition). Hmm. That sounds exactly like the definition of a religion. Please scroll up to see the Biblical verses that demonstrate the equally disturbing ideals on how to deal with homosexuals, unruly children, and non-believers. But thanks for showing all your cards to the group.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality,\" he said. \"This, is not for the servants\" of God. \n\nGee....I wonder where his son learned intolerance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nine years into our \"recovery\" the only group who have not benefitted from the \"growth\" are working people. Their wages continue to be depressed. Corporations have piles of money and the rich continue to get pull away economically. These conditions have been brewing for over thirty years. A large cohort of profoundly anxious people, who are not necessarily the economy's losers, chose to express their poorly understood and articulated angst by electing an incompetent to the presidency, just to create confusion. They blame the same people who did what their parents or grandparents did, that is immigrate to this country. They become ever more tribal as they look for new people to blame - in addition to - liberals, African Americans, Mexicans, immigrants, agnostics, LGBTs, while not comprehending the real causes for their condition. They flail impotently as they elect people who have literally no interest in making their lives better.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All beta are off thanks to the huge intangible next election--mail in ballots .There is zero doubt there has been voter fraud in the past . Heck , we even had an APD police officer who was an illegal and collecting a yearly PFD check--who probably voted. With mail in ballots the odd's of voter fraud go up to 100 percent . Liberals wanted mail in ballots so everyone could vote , and I mean everyone. With no way to check if the person mailing in the ballot is the one who the ballot was mailed to , anything can happen in the election. Liberals hope and pray this will erase conservative taxpayers input on elections . But they fail to realize it's a two edged sword . The reason it appears the city has changed is because too many conservative taxpayers stayed home. Many are older and don't easily get out to vote. Now they will cast they're votes , so proclaiming us a liberal sanctuary city is putting the cart ahead of the horse. The gay rights petition shows things aren't the way they seem", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have known many 'gays' as you call them, living together but do not judge them because they keep to themselves.\nThose who publish their relationship as homosexual via a civil partnership or via a 'civil marriage' know that they are doing. Under no circumstances whatsoever can they be employed in any Cathlic institution.\nHow can the Catholic Church possibly permit homosexual relationships to be on a par with marriage between a man and a woman when since Mosaic times such relationships have been regarded as intrinsically evil?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As another old gay man, I shook the dust of the Roman church off my sandals years ago. After receiving orders in the Old Roman Catholic Church (valid but illicit!) I was excommunicated and happily so. At that time I vowed that that I would administer the sacraments to anyone requesting in good faith and I have done so. Even now, when no longer affiliated with any church, I do the same. The church and the sacraments do not belong to the clergy or the Curia or even the pope. And they need to be reminded of this often. After all of the soul murdering sexual, physical and emotional abuse over the centuries, the hierarchical church has no moral grounds to speak on most moral issues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We get that you do not want gays subjected to the death penalty in other nations. The issue here is the US wanting to maintain sovereignty when it comes to our own death penalty laws. Its about our rights as a nation and not about what happens in other nations. FYI: the US ambassador represents the US (not the LBGT community) and some of us do not feel the same way about gay rights in the US or abroad as you do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If protest/demonstrations are good for social justice, then I have an idea.\n\nNext Aboriginal Awareness Week, why don't we protest the corruption, fiscal mismanagement, violence and anti-democratic power-thru-heredity practices found on reserves? Shawn Atleo negotiated a deal for enhanced education support and the Chiefs voted it down because they didn't want any oversight or accountability for the money given to them. Who suffers for that? The people. And why not set up a protest at the tepee on Parliament Hill for Canada 150? \n\nThere have been social injustices perpetrated by government against indigenous people (as well as the Chinese, Irish, Ukrainian, and gay people). There have also been many social injustices perpetrated against the indigenous by their own people. If demonstrations are good at bringing light to social injustices, then this should work both ways.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My gosh Michael, do you not realize that you are implicitly suggesting Nature is taking vengeance on homosexual males because She objects to their sexual practices. That is less that half a millimeter away from holding that disease is God's punishment for humanity's sins. \n\nThe magisterium has reasons (inadequate, but at least reasons) for condemning homosexual practice, but no where will you find the magisterium propounding anything as absurd as your approach. Please think through the implications of your arguments before posting if you want to avoid having them subjected to \"reducio ad absurdum.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is nothing more than an autocrat stirring up hate to deflect from the investigation of his own \"activities.\"\n\nRationale people understand that differences among people are natural. Some people are Caucasian, others born of color. Hermaphrodites are born with both male and female organs. Transgenders are born in bodies inappropriate for their gender. Homosexuals don't choose to be homosexuals any more than heterosexuals choose to be heterosexual (homosexual tendencies are often observed at the toddler stage in children with no knowledge of sex).\n\nTo denigrate people simply for being different from oneself is the height of arrogance, filling some sort of need to feel superior to others IMO. \n\nFor a supposed leader of our country to stir up divisiveness and bigotry to serve his own interests signals an autocrat, who deserves to be impeached. Pence also is unfit. His support of bigotry proves his inability to serve all of the American People. \n\nGod bless all who serve!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Whats next, we are going to start telling anorexic people that they really aren't dangerously thin?? They look in a mirror, they see see a body that is nothing more than skin and bones yet their mind tells them they are fat. It's a psychological or physiological illness just as Transgenderism is. The top psychiatrists will tell you this however their opinion has been pounded into the ground by the \"progressive\" left.\n\nI guess my comments would be considered Hate Speech if the Left has their way in silencing any and all opinions they disagree with.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for the confirmation of my supposition that he was a bullied loner. Madman? Guess it depends on your definition, While he might not fit the legal definition; i.e., incapable of distinguishing right from wrong, I would submit that anyone who commits mass murder is a madman. As to arbitrary target.....I am aware that he targeted Muslims knowingly. But there is no reason to hate Muslims or any other identifiable group, since they are composed of individuals, some worthy, some not. This is why I maintain that Xenophobes in general choose targets arbitrarily. \n\nAlexandre could just as easily have gone after women, blacks, homosexuals, or white Christian men, for that matter. His particular illness pointed him toward Muslims......for arbitrary reasons, since his hatred was in no way based in fact.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1 in 2 transgendered persons experience mental health issues. This fact alone could pose a serious problem for \"battle readiness\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It gets really amusing when he blames gay marriage and transgenderism on The Pill. If you can connect the dots on that one, you're a brighter star than I. \n\nhttp://www.ncregister.com/blog/alkresta/archbishop-chaput-is-right-we-are-strangers-in-a-strange-land", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One thing I notice is that no Trump lovers are talking about how Trump bowed to the Saudi King Salman for HIS golden chain, even though Trump had mocked Obama for doing so. In fact, right wing media are furiously denying the trump \"curtsy\" even though it can be seen in video. But even more disturbing is that, while Obama gave the Saudis short shrift in aid while the Saudis torpedoed the US oil industry (and continue to do so), Trump has sold the Saudis advanced weapons, rolled over on the oil glut, and joined with the Saudis is sanctioning Qatar, the host of the largest US military air base in the Middle East. And to think, only last week Trump was praising Qatar as a staunch US ally, which it is.\n\nAlso, Trump didn't tell King Salman to stop beheading gays and female adulterers. But never mind, a lot of you guys probably approve of that. Come on, now, be honest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for clarifying the typo. Happily, I sincerely doubt anyone would misunderstand that 1942 use of the word; I know that no one in my house - a community of straight and gay women - would mistake the meaning. Indeed, I bet the short story and its title have the same meaning they had back in 1942 because people are educated from the start to read comprehension and part of that is about context, right? I looked up the story and it sounds like a gay old time.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "With very few exceptions, humanity lived in patriarchies. I will let the anthropologists (and not the neo-liberal politicians) to justify the reasons for it. However, when a strongly traditional patriarchic society needs within a short time to miraculously transform such notions into feminine equality, and even experience the arrogance of feminists, the backlash is this terrible scourge of violence against women, the \"gender confusion\", the new laws of gay marriage, etc.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "and that agenda would be what exactly? To destroy Christianity and to encourage us all to be gay?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nonsense - \n\nhomo-\n1.\na combining form appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it meant \u201csame\u201d ( homology); on this model, used in the formation of compound words ( homomorphic).\n\nHomo means \"same\" and always has in this context. And are you actually claiming the word gay written in the 16th century yuletide song is referring to homosexuals ?\n\nThis kind of militant revisionist nonsense wins no points in the heterosexual community, fyi. At least have the courage to be honest about your identity.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well as we well know, most of them are Gay activist as not one else hates normal America so much. They will be blowing fuses as Ann approaches Ak.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your arguments against Obergefell are dependent on your disapproval of homosexuals. Oh, you don't approve of the right of privacy either, but that is not what Obergefell is based on. Obergefell, just like Loving, is based on the 14th Amendment.\n\nLawrence v. Texas, the case which struck down sodomy laws, is based on the right of privacy. Should that be the case to be complaining about?\n\nIf you did not disapprove if homosexuals, then why would you disapprove of their marrying civilly? How does gay civil marriage affect you in any way?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And yes young lady this IS how most men talk I have been around men all my life sports military so on nothing new hear gay men who I have no problem with that the left loves so much are even worse and believe me when you get older you will hear crude things from your girl friends what a joke the leftist are all of a sudden the moral voice of America hahaha what a joke", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The fact that you cannot think of a single homosexual who has been lynched is quite revealing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This marine died because of the gay pride parade in Waikiki took extra resources from HPD. How stupid is the HPD brass to take away manpower away from a high crime district?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If someone has testicles they are NOT a \"transgender woman\" but a male pretending to be a female. End of story...stop the PC lunacy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Besides the \"homosexual-pedophile\" angle is hardly better than the \"homosexual-pedophile\" angle.\n============\nOops. It was meant to be \"Besides the 'homosexual-pedophile' angle is hardly better than the 'heterosexual-pedophile' angle.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I've already popped the pop corn. How will Francis deal with this magna cappa pirate. (There is gay humor lurking in this analogy somewhere!)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What, you think guys with effeminate characteristics like Martin and other gay men are new in society?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Don't be ridiculous.\nEven in the 21st century an atheist or a gay can't run for President because the right wing Bible thumpers would refuse to vote for them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Folks don't you just hate it when some don't get the humor of sarcasm. That thing about the urinals was to show how ridiculous these edicts are from the white house on title 9 for transgender girls demanding to use the men's bathroom. Do we have to identify humor and sarcasm or is there still adult supervision out there? The thought came from a retired judge of long standing. I borrowed it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No one is torturing and burning anyone. But I don't want public schools teaching my daughters that anal \"sex\" and oral \"sex\" are admirable acts of love either. It's not proper for introducing into public discussion, and when we say, \"love homosexuals,\" that is precisely what we're doing, implying that those sort of acts are appropriate conduct. Yeah, they might or might not engage in those activities, but you can bet that if the school teaches that it's a-ok, it's more likely that they will.\n\nIt's none of my business what kind of perversions people engage in in private, but when they demand to tell my kids and the society in which they live that suck perversions are acceptable behavior for civilized people, I have a problem with it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How do you tell if a cake is homosexual or not?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They're mentally ill and the mentally ill don't belong in the military. Enough said in the matter!!!\nCredible source:\nTitle: Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is \u2018Mental Disorder;' Sex Change \u2018Biologically Impossible\u2019\nSnippet from the article...\n\"Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a \u201cmental disorder\u201d that merits treatment, that sex change is \u201cbiologically impossible,\u201d and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.\"\nhttp://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Any stats to back your statements?\n\nVery few Catholics adhere to strict interpretation/practice of their religion in this day and age, especially the belief that being gay is a sin.\n\nOne doesn't hear much if anything at all about fundamentalist Catholics. \n\nFear of Catholic parents being incapable of showing their child compassion and understanding due to sexual orientation is ridiculously overblown.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "But those rules are hard to follow because I like to do those things, I guess I will just concentrate extra hard on not doing the ones I already dislike (like gay sex) and persecute those who engage in them. Maybe that will satisfy god and he wont notice how I pick and choose which rules to follow.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Appropriatre to how God made you. If God made you gay, its sodomy. If God made you asexual, it's celibacy, which does not include forcing yours anhedonic sexuality on others. The sexual problem in the Church is not the gays, its the asexuals in the clergy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly. Trump is corrupt, incompetent and unstable, and it is easy to see how impeachment could become necessary. But impeachment/conviction would give us a president who has been corrupted by his loyalty to Trump and who is a true ideologue: a right-wing extremist who has a history of opposing gay rights, immigrants, etc.; in short, a culture warrior.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trid means, of course, \"The Catholic Church has bent over backwards to reject homosexuals\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Seems to me you right wingers only managed in the last 5 years to accept homosexuals; so can't we grant them some slack and recognize they will in due time (while I am sure many have already). Con bots are like reformed cigarette smokers when it comes to homosexual rights. Took them forever to quit but when they did watch out. Of course there are many right winger Christians in the states still wanting to kill for their own good homosexuals....thoughts there greg?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that many voters choose style over substance. Women the gay community and of course the life-long liberals and their associates and families. \n\nTrudeau may be younger, better looking, but that's all there is. He is not very bright, dwells on his laurels and is out of touch with the average Canadian. \n\nHe is an opportunistic, disingenuous hypocrite that is about to be eaten alive by the consequences of his own poor judgement. People remember the words that politicos speak and so too shall Trudeau be hoisted on his own petard some day soon.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A tired old gay insult and 8 Globe regulars like it and another thinks it's funny.\n\nHuh.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So which is it here? Is the inappropriate behavior because of a character flaw or because he is gay?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Him gay? Not...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I find it hard to believe that one of my gay friends had to post on FB how Christians are worse than Muslims. Remember, a liberal is a liberal first and then whatever else they are.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": " Allan please calm down a bit. \nYes I mean it is the height of cruelty to play on immature and confused minds towards irreversible gender reassignment surgery. And No, christians don't \"vilify non-hetero students\" , tell them that \"God hates gays\" or 'ignore contraception'. Where on earth did you get these ridiculous ideas ? Talk about hyperbole and fear mongering.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I guess this development gives us some background for the bisexual threesome that was stuck into House of Cards for no apparent narrative purpose.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "True. Unless of course the skinhead said he was gay. Then it's bake baker bake.\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thats not what I suggested at all and im not really sure where any of what you said came from. Again, the issue is that Trumps stance encapsulates ALL trans people. If someone is just post-op and is still going through a lot of medical issues - I can totally understand why they should not be accepted at that time...just as I would expect an otherwise healthy individual who just broke their leg to not be accepted until they are back to being 100% again. \n\nBut to deny a trans person who has been post-op for years and is no longer needing medical procedures done or anything like that - thats just wrong. If they are physically capable of meeting the minimum standards for joining the military, then they should be allowed to join. Trumps policy statement suggests that he does not care what the health is of the trans person is in any way; just that the simple fact they are trans, is a disqualifier. Kind of like how being black, or a woman, or gay used to be.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Then there are those who defend the right of gay priests to keep their sexual orientation a secret from their parishioners.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Catholicism is everywhere, gay men are everywhere, and gay men will always be unduly attracted toward the priesthood. The dam has broken indeed; but obvious as the source of the problem is, few still get it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I find this rather ironic, especially since there are members of the gay community who find rappers, predominantly black, to be quite angry, homophobic and disrespectful to the gay community... not to mention the Caribbean and African nations (again, predominantly black) that openly promote violence and even killing of gay men.\n\nI'm still waiting for BLM to issue a response on this topic (which they curiously seem to gloss over). The irony of the situation is disgusting!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gee that's terrible. Men are everywhere so how can she ever expect to work at all? . Let her find one man who will do the work so she can stay at home. Or tell her to work in a lesbian managed restaurant. She will still get grabbed and groped, but not by men.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why in nature are some animals \"gay\" and have to go with it or die and when some humans are \"gay\" the religious say that it is not \"nature\" that made a human gay but the human chose to be that way?\nMost barnacles are hermaphroditic. (Each individual barnacle both male and female).The ovaries are located in the base or stalk, and may extend into the mantle, while the testes are towards the back of the head. \nSo if animals with no ability to reason have no choice in how they are designed by nature sexually then why would humans have to?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It seems people are willfully misreading this article and the spirit behind the legislation. The trans community, through this bill, will be afforded the same workplace rights the rest of us enjoy, to feel comfortable and not harassed at work because of who they are. It will also protect them further by offering the courts an additional level of sanction when dealing with crimes committed against a member of their community, similar to protections offered to other marginalized groups. If you choose to be a jerk who does not want to treat people with respect, you are not going to jail for it, but karma is a ...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The myopia of catholics in the developed/wealthy world leads them to ignore places like eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, where they've ordained married men for centuries.\nIt's the same thing with gay clergy/religious; you think that North America and western Europe (and the middle class parts of those) are pretty much the whole church.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"But we are probably more tolerant than any Western nation\"\n\nThat's ridiculous. You have twice the rate of hate crimes as the U.S. does. You are probably the only Western nation to be found to be denying the human rights of your own citizens. None of your minorities reach critical mass as far as pct of the population is concerned and as the writer of the article states, the majority in Canada is in firm control. You're locking up your largest minority as a percentage of the population at a rate in excess of blacks in the U.S.\nYour immigration policy would be unacceptable in probably every other Western country as it would be considered 'discriminatory'. Your 40000 recent immigrants were limited to families, homosexuals and orphans but they are bandied about as if your tolerance and inclusion is due to your genetics.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That we are as much in need of salvation as the gay guys. Romans 2.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Such a beautiful view of Padua...grace and (past) virtue building on nature to create such beauty, contrasted with the ugliness of sin, misuse of the gifts of sexuality, unfaithfulness to God, and the self seeking of these orgiastic gay priests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I find it puzzling that the LGBTQ---add your perversion, are screaming impeachment for a president over bathroom assignments. Were it up to Trumpians, the Orlando shooter would never have been born in America.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "After reading the above column, it is becoming far more plausible to me that you're right. At first, I thought he was doing Christ's work, ministering to gays who were repentent, as I would want him to mister to me, also a sinner. I'm beginning to see, however, that he tacitly condones gay sex and communicates that to the gays to whom he ministers. This is the opposite of love. He is false to the Church and a danger to those under his sway.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is your bubble large enough to include say, Muslims, Mexicans, gays and women?\nLike, they have the exact same rights as you do?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Biologically, women like that are an outlier in mammals. As the sex that bears the children, they have to be more selective in their sex partners. Stereotypes exist for a reason; there are exceptions to every rule. Peruse some of the dating sites and see who is trawling for sex; it's not the women, except for those who are selling sex. Male prostitutes? They're for gay dudes, not women.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "While Muslims excoriate us about supposed Islamophobia, we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, Judeophobia and antisemitism, , Christophbia, Europhobia, Americanophobia, democraceaophobia, iconoclasm, and even Islamophobia against each other. Ancient hatreds and wars of extermination between Kurds, Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabi, Druze and other Islamic sects are worse than anything expressed in the west, even by Trump", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You forgot another primary vector....bi-sexual men and prostitutes. Many of whom are found near gambling locations. \n\nI once did a Request for Proposals for DHS to seek ways to reduce HIV. One of the proposals I got was to get a $50,000 grant to teach prostitutes how to put condoms on their customers. They proposed to instruct 250 Portland area prostitutes. That would have been $200.00 per prostitute. \n\nWe gave the grant to someone else.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What is it about Republicans and Hypocrisy that seem to go hand in hand?\n\nRemember the anti-gay rights crusader having sex in the airport washroom?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Now the homo migrants will be able to marry one another, but it would be advisable not to visit their old country as a couple. ;)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My party doesn\u2019t exist anymore,\u201d she said.\n\nThat about sums it up.\n\nThe Progressive Conservatives have been taken over by the Reformers, a party associated with far right lunatics, racists, anti Semites, anti gay marriage, anti Muslim, anti Climate Change, anti science, anti education/educated, anti pension reform, anti increased wages for Canadians, anti anything and everything this country/Canada stands for\n\nOh well..........at least we'll have a 10 to 15 year reprieve/rest from the Reformers. Their chances of \"unseating\" Trudeau are ;\n\nzero to none\n.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Where are the bodies from this wanton unchaining of business? Surely someone somewhere has been destroyed by now.\n\nCan 't think of anyone. However, I can think of several folks who've been destroyed by government regulators and lawsuits by resentful gays who demand wedding cakes.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The pope is good at pointing attention away from his own mess of immorality....gay orgies in the Vatican with cocaine usage (fact), and worse, these same sort of priests are allowed to remain in the active priesthood while they are predatory abusers of boys, and some girls.\n\nThese \"possessions\" are actually causing more daily harm than nuclear weapons.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder if anyone will dare to ask Singh, who portrays himself as a devoted Sikh, how he can be devoted to Sikhism and yet support the NDP's pro abortion and pro-gay rights agendas. Sikhism is very clear that abortion is only to be considered in extreme circumstances like a threat to the life of the mother. And Sikhism's spiritual leader has declared homosexuality to be wicked and sinful.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And you want everyone to ignore the thousands of Muslims who are killing homosexuals under their sharia law. And killing the adulterous under their sharia law. \n\nThe Christian nut jobs in this country don't have the law enforcing their barbarism like Saudia Arabia, Iran, Qatar etc. etc.\n\nThe whole point of the anti-sharia marches yesterday is that we in the US will NOT tolerate it here!\n\nYou apologize for barbarians just because they only do it in their countries.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I feel it's important to point out that the rally in Charlottesville was not just racist. It was anti-Semitic and it was anti-LGBTQ as well. The slurs the Nazis and KKK were using moved from racial slurs to gay slurs to anti-Semitic slurs with frightening regularity. They wanted to make sure they terrorized certain groups of people and they did just that. Jewish folks, LGBTQ and people of color are now feeling trepidation when walking home alone at night in Charlottesville (and many other areas of this country). \nI only mention this because Trump has already broken his word on \"supporting LGBTQ people\" and it makes me wonder if that's who he'll hit next in order to rally his base AGAIN. Since the Nazi's were very vocal in their gay hate rhetoric in Charlottesville, I think it's a subject that should be discussed openly and honestly before something bad happens and Catholics wish they had spoken against the homophobic rhetoric being spewed by the Nazis. \nMy two cents worth.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In light of this slaughter by a Muslim, will gay bars be allowed to profile young male Arabs?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Equating buying pants/your neighborhood with deliberately joining Fundie Baptist church as an adult is gonzo. There are limits to tolerance, you know. Jules Bailey believes in female submission, that gay sex is sinful and that Pastor McKinley talks to a sky god. And, Bailey doesn't have the guts to affirm the church's doctrine or explain why he doesn't attend a less bigoted denomination.\nBailey tithes to a bigoted church because he supports their fundie Baptist message. Giving money for an obnoxious golf shirt is not \"tithing\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Unfortunately religion has been used to justify really bad policy. It's supported discrimination against gays, lesbians, the transgendered, hiv-infected (as punishment from god), other Muslim races, etc. \n\nGovernor Burns was aware of the hypocrisy of Catholics but respected the church. Perhaps the same can be said of the Pope. It's different with a fervent belief coming from religious lies.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And I've been replying, essentially, that Cupich is wrong to assert that people should be called what they want to be called, especially when what they want to be called is a propaganda device designed to bury their bad acts. It does the person no good but to reinforce their bad acts.\n\n\"Gay\" is the term designed to \"make people more comfortable\" with the sins of people with same-sex attraction. Referring to someone as having same-sex attraction is not a \"term\" at all; it is a factual description. Why would someone with same-sex attraction be offended by someone referring to them as someone with same-sex attraction?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(Edit: I intended this as a response to John David. I guess I need some practice here.) \n\nI think your point is well-illustrated by the response of both conservatives and liberals to Amoris Laetitia. Conservatives wanted a strong and unambiguous affirmation of the existing law, with no wiggle room; liberals wanted a clear and unambiguous change in the law. But Francis insists that the law itself is not the issue or the problem; he calls us to an adult response to the law. His emphasis is always on the person in his/her situ en leben, situation in life. I think this emphasis on the person is at least part of the reason that what he says about transgender issues seems off-key, but what he says about transgender persons is right on the money.\n Mike AA\n (the poster formerly known as Mike A)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How does this work if I am transgender ...\n\nWas a man, now a woman, so should I have a leg up based on my new body parts?\nOr I was a woman and now a man, so I should get a quota based on my old body parts?\n\nThis is a serious question, but I bet I get some frowny faces!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My own personal \"gay lifestyle\" usually involves nothing more than waking up every morning, going to work, coming home, playing with my cat, fiddling around online, going to the store, going out to eat with friends, occasionally going out to the movies - you know, gay things like that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If one's attraction, in-born, leads one to find a love of a lifetime, straight, gay, lesbian, bi-, in that sense, could it not be said to be gift (of God)? I agree generalization might be inaccurate on debernardo's part, but forgivable. I agree we must ourselves raise our relationships (love, friendship, work, play, helping, service, group) to a sacramental level if those involved agree. We don't need official priesthood to do this. Done by intention and good faith.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So? They're all conditions which are managed individually based on their situation. Why couldn't you do the same with transgendered? Jeez, they're people who WANT to serve their country, unlike our Commander in Chief...lol....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Milo Yiannopoulos is a case in point. He is called a racist, misogynist, homophobic hater, despite standing in defence of the rights of all people. The far left, fascist armies of SJW, universities, colleges and meda hate him because they can not refute him with logic. He speaks exactly what can be verified with published information That is why his enemies hate him so much: he pokes the bubbles of their fake news, and does it with such wicked humour and gay naughtiness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nigel, while I'm not a supporter of gay marriage, it is the law of the land, at least according to the Supreme Court. I'd like to find a better analogy, but firearms carry seems to be the only State licensed individual action that other States don't recognize. Every State recognizes every other States drivers license. Some even recognize business licensing across State lines.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is this \"fighting for basic human rights\"? What right do gay people not have now-a-days? What does Police shootings in the US have to do with Canada? If you can give me ANY sort of debating points I would be happy to listen.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unless one is employed by the Roman Catholic Church, then to come out is the quickest way to losing one's job. This surely is an anathema as we all know priests who identify gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Attaching the word \"science\" to the vast majority of output of transgender, critical race theory and feminism is an insult to real scientists. These are at best justifications for utopian ideologies. All these departments are not seeking truth. Their starting points are ideological points and their rationale for existence is to support them. It is not science, it is a religious cult. They would not last a month with their ideologies served as a political program for election campaigns. Instead they infiltrated academia and now sheltered by public money and prestige of \"scholarship\" they are trying to impose their false ideas through back doors.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Define \"being gay.\" Really elaborate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fantastic idea. I think an even better one would be to have a group marching demanding rights for the gay police officers in the TPS.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well then, why do people adhere to parts of it?\n\nBigotry against homosexuals is not an abstraction. It can and does kill.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most military households say transgender people should get to serve", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What does the gay community look for in a political leader?\n\nSomeone like Stephen Harper who quietly who saved other members of their community by allowing them a speedy entry into Canada or someone like Justin Trudeau who marched in their parades with his tongue hanging out?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Once again....We are not talking about people being descriminated against for being black, women, or yes even gay. This baker didn't want to participate in a ceremony his religious beliefs say are not acceptable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I meant to comment on this thread last night, but put the entry on the other Fr. Martin story. Fr. Martin is more apt to be an asexual than a homosexual (celibate or not) or rather is equally as likely. Since he is not taking an out and proud tone, I suspect he might be an Ace, which can also make someone appear effeminent. Cardinal Burke certainly has such traits as well. Aces have a certain gentleness and niceness to them, but not the empathy to realize that everyone is not like them - especially those who are unaware that they are not simply chaste heterosexuals. As for Ebes64, I cannot say. Whether one is gentle or not does not come through on posts. You can be Ace and still come across as a hetero doctrinaire bully online. He certainly sounds homophobic, but my gay friends would say that methinks she doth protest to much. That good just be a fancy comeback. I frankly don't care. If I were gay or bi (and I am not), I would not date him. (Am I being bad?)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can we tolerate an outfit that preaches taking the child's life before first breath is morally ok? At what point, does your belief system claim the baby should get human rights? Shouldn't it be when it gets it's gender and dna and can be hurt by big people? Why do we stop the mother from drinking, but then ok her decision to kill it? Philosophies that support abortion make women cheap, accessible, and exchangeable to wicked men, who are using women as toys without any commitment, without taking responsibility, and without being considerate. Why does planned parenthood claim sex outside of marriage is morally ok? Why do they claim homosexuality and transgendering are good? Where do these beliefs come from and why do they want to preach them to our children?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, those schools have been taken to court by teachers and other WHO WERE FIRED for no other reason than they got married. The CCC you traditionalists love so much says that homosexuals should not suffer \"unjust discrimination\", a statement honored more in the breech than in the observance.\n\nKim Davis was put in jail for refusing TO DO HER JOB when a judge ordered her to do so. If she felt that strongly, she should have resigned. \n\nNo, your fear that you are going to be persecuted if Clinton wins is over the top. And you know it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Instead of giving a reporter lame legalistic justifications for Francis upholding the ban on gay seminarians, because he's worried that giving an inch to such reporters might remove Francis \"from his pedestal.\" I think MSW would simply do better to give honest replies to the press.\n\nBy trying to argue that reporters should be unbiased, and then admitting he practices bias because he feels if he doesn't, his side will lose....MSW is blatantly contradicting himself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Same-sex marriage will likely continue; the direct result of laws being changed to make \"marriage\" ALL about the money, first, last, and always. The horrendous 2013 Colorado legislature completely re-wrote Colorado marriage law, and made the changes retroactive to existing marriages. Check out Colorado House Bill 1058, pay close attention to the sponsor list and the automatic bill you will pay if you are divorced against your wishes and your private marriage agreement: http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2013a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/DF14C3B93C0EBF9387257A8E0073C4E0/$FILE/1058_enr.pdf", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps you could actually \u201ctry\u201d to understand trans folks? Perhaps see a trans man as a man and a trans woman as woman. That is really really all they are, just women wanting to live their lives. They aren\u2019t out to get anyone. In fact feel free to get to know me by searching Carly Lehwald on FB. We are good people, the privacy issue being raised is not about privacy it is about the disdain of trans folks. AFA, FRC, LC are those behind it all and it\u2019s not about privacy for them... They just don\u2019t like us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I will definitely sign up. I lived in Salt Lake City for ten years and was amazed by the number of lesbian relationships. The reason: 'Sister wives.\" It taught me a great deal about relationships and sexual response about women's relational ability. I could add more about the current state of understanding the relational differences between men and women, but I will let the transgendered of both ways, have their say first.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think the only one here pushing Dr. Who's new iteration as a \"transgender issue\" is Jon Caldara. This isn't the first time, by far, that fiction has explored gender shifts in its stories. Captain Kirk swapped bodies with a woman in the original 60s TV show. \"Some Like It Hot\" had Jack Lemmon in drag. \"Bosom Buddies\" made it a premise as a sit-com and launched Tom Hanks' career. Eddy Izzard did his comedy gigs in full makeup. Mr. Garrison spent a year as a woman on \"South Park\". Kathleen Turner played Chandler's dad on \"Friends\". Hilary Swank won an Academy Award in \"Boys Don't Cry\". We've lost count at how many times Bugs Bunny wore dresses. And that's only scratching the surface. But now\u2026 NOW\u2026 suddenly, Dr. Who goes female and it's because of some dastardly transgender agenda. C'mon, Jon\u2026 seriously? Spend less time searching for hidden messages on your cereal box and more time thinking up a thoughtful column.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, where's the magic threshold for when something should be addressed?\n\nMy school in rural Kansas (town of 2800) had an LGBT student that graduated last year. Very bright...4.0 student. Only known gay student in the building. Occasionally subjected to slurs. \n\nTell me.....should the school just simply have ignored it, since it \"isn't even widespread\".\n\nWhat about the biracial kid that had \"Stupid N_____\" written on his car. He's only one of a few non-white kids in the building. Again....should we have just ignored the issue, since it \"isn't widespread\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jason will be the next Premier regardless of your feeble attempts to vilify him. That said you are not representing your prejudice fairly. I can tell you I like most conservatives I know, we are good with the whole gay thing. We just simply want a leader that balances the books and stops with the sexist quotas and policies in government. You know like the divisive policies practiced by Justin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Consider a series, like the \"Global Sisters Report\"?\nTwo scenes as context:\nLovely August night in Berlin's city hall square. An outdoor presentation of a Shakespeare work. Sitting in front of us was a young male couple, one ghostly pale, thin, wrapped in a blanket obviously very ill. His partner lovingly solicitous, attentive, concerned. My presumption: same-sex partners, AIDS, love. Right or wrong it firmly established in my heart a journey, already initiated in principle, towards reconciling my \"enculturation\" with reality that genuine love is not excluded from \"gay\"(please excuse my terminology).\nScene two. Leading up to the extension of the legal def. of marriage in Canada a massive ad appeared paid for by our ABishop against. All of the \"natural law\", catacetic, biblical, \"complementarity\", pious \"stuff\" that could not stand my tests of fact, reason, compassion, experience- conscience. But enculturation of dictate and emotional conditioning of tradition? That takes time, work.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Will it be gender neutral? Open to trans?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A Muslim once told me that Islam would cure all of the ills that are plaguing American society. He likened America to being a disease, and that Islam was the cure for that disease. If America would only convert to Islam, then he said that poverty, social unrest, alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution, adultery, mental illness, HIV, divorce, homosexuality, murder, suicide, and even juvenile delinquency and rebellion would all end. \n\nIslam is the world's salvation, he argued. He viewed America as being a horrific cesspool of immoral vileness: a hideous place to live in. He stated that the biggest failing of our schools is that they do not teach obedience to God. Without a proper religious education, he argued American students had no moral foundation to build an education upon. He said that they cannot learn knowledge, without first learning God's will through his prophet. \n\nAmerica's secular society will eventually cause our own destruction from within, he predicted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From the party platform: \"We support the legal recognition of marriage as a union of one man to one woman for life.\"\n\nSorry, but as a gay person, no can do. Couple that with your party platform's insistence on breaking down the wall of separation between church and state and that cinches the deal for me. I like the wall right where it is. Your party sounds like Republican lite - all the religious intrusion into public life with maybe less emphasis on tax cuts for the rich. I do like the advocacy for a single-payer health care system, however, and a few other things. All the same, I'll remain a Democrat, thank you very much.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This reflects some comments I heard from some young Polish Catholics: that they believe in the Catholic faith but not in the Catholic Church. That's very revealing coming from such a staunch Catholic country as Poland.\n\nIn para 3, Bishop Tobin states: \"For starters, a high number dropped out because they are unhappy with the church's teaching on sexuality \u2014 abortion, homosexuality and birth control.\" Note the order he put them in. I think the priorities for young people should be the reverse order. One of the major mistakes made by the Hierarchy and ultra-conservative Catholics is to assume that anyone who is pro birth control is also pro-abortion. It does not follow.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Western Slope small-business people are saying their objections aren't related to her being a lesbian.\nBut, you do object to her being a lesbian?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That sounds nice but freedom of speech is only useful in societies where people can vote for the rules of society they like. What about my vote on abortion, gay marriage and racial issues? If were going to live in a dictatorship then freedom of speech is probably a bad thing. Thanks, Trudeau.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah whatever Sher-e, would you mind not repeating the same mantra gushing out of the slurpee machine day in and day out? Who was the lovely young lady who processed my order at the Japanese-Made pantyhose factory? Who was the young man picking up the box and driving it to the hub, who is the guy adjusting and programming the robot, who is the trans-gender individual oiling and maintaining the robot: Japenese, Japanese, Japanese and.... Japanese HUMAN. Try again, with your OWN arguments why don't you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This writer is deep in the Orwellian logic that provoked so many to vote for Trump. She thinks a nation deciding who may enter is a \"hate crime\". Give me a break. Every non-western country in the world has a list of nations who may not enter. It's called national sovereignty.\n\nWe tried the nice way for 15 years - praise Islam after every slaughter, condemn terrorists who explicitly tape videos saying their crimes are inspired by Islam as \"no connection to Islam\", keep the muslim immigration door open, and what did it get us? \n\nIt got us 15 years of steadily increasing terrorism, the attacks getting ever more bloody and spectacular. It got us the Bataclam, priests butchered on their alters, the execution of cartoonists, the execution of a nightclub of gay men, and so on. Your way failed. Your way coincided with more and more attacks.\n\nNow Trump is trying a new way. Maybe it will fail. We don't know. But we know the liberal way has failed, failed, failed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He supported Rabbi Shemmai and decreed that the family of origin should not break up a marriage (\"When a man marries, he leaves his parents and clings to his wife, indicating some kind of family interference was happening in his day as it happens in ours with gay couples - or rather happened, since Catholic Health Association guidelines now prohibit families of origin from messing with the rights of gay marrieds, or even gay companions.).\n\nThe_priests_were_at_least_in_active_ministry._These_Cardinals_are_not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The percentage of transgender within the total population is three-tens of one percent. So what the population in the military? \n\nHowever here again we see what this is all about GIMME, GIMME, GIMME. The military provides viagra, because there are higher numbers of able body men in the military. If serving in the military is so important to the transgender community, then have any medical procedure before enlisting? Or is this more about getting any procedures done at the tax payers expense?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are making a distinction that ignores the Church's idea that thoughts are forms of sin. A homosexual orientation, as so famously described by Benedict XVI, is considered a form of intrinsic disorder. How is one forgiven for being the intrinsically disordered person the Church condemns you for being? Heterosexual adultery is still 'objectively ordered' and so forgiveness of sexual activity is easier to accept because it's easier to make the distinction between acts and self. That was not an intellectual option for gay men of David's generation. The sin was in who they were because they had the thoughts they couldn't stop.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Back in the 1990s during a sex/rape scandal, a blue haired lesbian feminist lawyer in Halifax said on the CBC \" It is better for an innocent man be jailed for rape , than guilty rapists go free on legal technicalities.\". The CBC hostess (Wendy Mesley?) grinned and nodded in agreement.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Great news. Sanity is being restored in the military services. Since Obama ended the ban on transgenders in the military, the military services have diverted much time and attention away from combat readiness to transgender education and indoctrination programs to force their acceptance and have spent a lot of money reconfiguring living accommodations in buildings and on ships to accommodate them. The decision to provide them medical care and medical procedures to change their sex at taxpayer expense was even nuttier. Sex reassignment is a lengthy and expensive process during which those undergoing the procedure are away from their jobs for medical consultations, pre-op procedures, hospitalizations for multiple operations and lots of time off for recovery and post-op treatments. The primary mission of the military services is national defense. Guys like Clinger were fine for MASH, but not for the real Army. Social experiments need to stay in the private sector.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many traditional conservatives, like myself, believe that the alt-right was created by the extreme views of the left. Since the late '60s, the left has worked very hard at denigrating and changing the traditional mores and the culture many Americans have held dear. Therefore, many blue-collar, working class, \"white ethnic\" Democrats and Republicans through out the South and Midwest have turned to the alt-right for answers as they have watched the slow obliteration of their cherished ideals. Many things in our culture needed reformation: Minorities, women, and gays deserved their rights, but at the same time, these hard-working Americans, aforementioned above, should not have been required to pay the bills for, or suffer due to, leftist projects: welfare, Medicaid, race-based affirmative action, illegal immigration, etc.\nAlthough I believe in minority, women's, and gay rights, I do not believe that our cultural values should be decimated and our government should grow out of control.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Every time some Trad says that a woman with a heart defect cannot be sterilized because a pregnancy would kill or and every time someone objects to homosexuality because a baby can't result, the old bad attitudes are reaffirmed. Things is, sex is not that important. Marriages are what happens at all the other times of day.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder what our ancestors would say when they saw how many \"Catholics\" today support abortion and homosexual behavior. I'm sure they'd be disgusted. And rightfully so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "P.S. It's clear that you're parroting Trump's most recent TV commercial which attempts to deceive gay people into thinking that he's pro-gay when he's clearly anything but. Trump has consistently opposed marriage equality since 2001, and has promised to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will overturn the historic Obergefell decision. Trump several times, including recently, said he would support the First Amendment Defense Act, a bill in Congress introduced by anti-LGBT members and which would allow discrimination against LGBT people. \n\nSo you can pass along the lie that Trump supports gay people all you like but the rest of us will not be fooled by his cheap tricks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Limited government\" is the phrase the right-wingers themselves use, in order to distinguish themselves from anarchists, who believe in \"no government\". A more honest phrase that some right wingers use is \"small government\". (Even \"small government\" is often used dishonestly, by \"conservatives\" who seek reduced taxes and business regulation, but want prohibitions on abortions, on drugs, on gay marriage, and on any other basically private behaviour of which they disapprove.) This can be distinguished from the centre to centre-left \"medium government\" and \"big government\" positions and the extreme left \"totalitarian government\" position which you refer to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How did these five individuals come into contact with one another?\n\nWhat percent of CSIS employees are muslim ? Were other muslim employees targeted for abuse, or only these three?\n\nSame question for gay and black CSIS employees.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But let's also be clear that there are plenty of faith groups that support LGBT. It's not gay-vs-Christian, much as the Evangelicals and conservative Catholics want to make it, and we really should push back on that simplistic framing.\n\nAlso Remember Catholic laity are amongst the most supportive of civil marriage equality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by public or private agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples.\"\n\nIn the USA, if it CAN be done, it WILL be done.\n\nWe can safely rewrite the paragraph:\n\n\"Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas will soon be rejected by public or private agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree, we must support ordinary peaceful Evangelicals and the tenants of their faith that subjugate women, stone gays to death.\n\nOh no, wait...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"In private, however, he was living with Charles Chiarelli, his lover since 1965.\" That sentence says it all. Fr O'Neil was an active practicing homosexual priest. I don't think you should compare Fr Martin to this fellow Jesuit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Science is either out to get you or the Church or you may be the one misunderstanding. Even the Pope bets on science. That world of moral superiority being the highest truth? It got deleted. There is no abortion law or homosexuality law, rather their are judicial decisions that precent jmaking such law and support or opposition is meaningless. There is no such thing as doctor mandated suicide. As for global warming, your penance is to write a check to Puerto Rican relief.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dan Sullivan did a good job. Alaskan's should be proud that one of our own got to speak . I get a kick out of those still so upset about Begich losing that they still have to resort to name calling. Calling the guy Ohio Dan---are you kidding me ? Name calling help cost Begich the election . We don't call Berkowitz San Francisco Berkowitz do we ? When the gays sought special rights in an election polls showed they were going to win. Then many gays and their supporters started calling everyone who didn't go along with them bigots and worse . It cost them the election. If Sullivan's heart was with Ohio he wouldn't have supported changing Mt. McKinley's name . That there should of been proof positive he's an Alaskan now. The bottom line is Sullivan's speech showed that Alaskan's made the right choice electing him. Houston is looking for a new fire chief----Begich would be a fine choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He did not addressed the wrong spouses, but Shammai did. You know the whole thing about scripture and tradition. The debate is part of tradition and useful in improving doctrine.\n\nTwo men clinging to each other (or two women) are freed of their families of origin by the same saying. For decades, Catholic hospitals, indeed, all hospitals, shut them out. That is now illegal and even before the law changed, Catholic Hospital Association members started treating gay spouses justly. Had they done so 30 years ago, the drive for marriage equality might never have occurred.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My surmise differs somewhat. Clerical/priestly life was, before the abuses became evident, the best and most honored profession within Catholic communities. So I surmise that many heard that call as from God. If one was aware of gay desires, priesthood would be even more attractive because it embedded one on a community of committed men. I doubt if any gay person ever entered seminary with the prospect of abusing boys somewhere down the road. Which is why the percentages far outstripped the low percentage of gays in the population: one could just avoid temptation and count on supernatural grace. During seminary days that worked for the most part. But when stuck in lonely parishes with perhaps less congenial pastors and curates, priests began to look elsewhere. Gays to boys or men, straights to women. Nevertheless, the church does itself a disservice to pretend gays are few and identifiable, doubling down on its refusal to acknowledge sexuality as quite human for everybody. Pax.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dennis, I don't think we are in much disagreement. To define terms, of course homosexuality, heterosexuality, and asexuality are all normal expressions of gender, asexuality being the gender/orientation wherein the person has natural absence of or minimal sexual attraction to others. There are many variations to gender/orientation, thus a spectrum. Each person is different from the next, thus a spectrum of expression. The celibates want the freedom to live according to their asexual nature. Maybe give the gay people the freedom to live according to their nature and stop discriminating against them? I do not believe that the expression of one's innate tendency to be asexual makes one 'holy,' but many seem to accept that as fact and the same clique stays in power.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm showing in this art show. It's not really about creating a safe space or anything as political as that. I'm gay and I like drawing dudes. I'm allowed right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think part of the problem are these fabricated categories.\nThere is no such thing as transgender.\nDifferent people have different personalities, experiences and inclinations.\nForcing people to \"identify\" with a category is like trying to force a set of a 1000 different shapes of pegs into a set of only 4 different shaped holes.\nYou are forcing them to declare being something they are not and they may then embark on a campaign to convince themselves that this is who they \"are\".\nBut no-one \"is\" a category, a category is very crude abstract description that often matches no-one. It is a comic book view of people.\nSuppose a girl dreamt of being an NFL football player. Suppose she is slight and there is no chance of this. She wishes she were a large athletic male.\nThat is the end of the story, she is not \"transgender\".\nThe practice of forcing people to believe that words are reality and they \"are\" these words can cause serious mental damage", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you're being very selective in what you recognize as being Republican values. They care very much who marries whom, and of what value is a marriage if it isn't legally valid? (Remember DOMA?)\nWhat the GOP has managed to get passed as legislature has no reflection on what they would pass if they could. You don't think they wouldn't pass an anti-defamation flag law if they could get it through Congress? An anti-gay law? They're still trying to limit access to abortions at the state level, even though the Supreme Court has ruled women have a right to an abortion if they choose. I suspect, although in fairness I have no proof, that they would also outlaw Islam if given the chance.\nBut yes, both parties are very interested in what we put in our bodies, but you stated that it was only Democrats doing so. I think there's ample evidence against both sides.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "MPX: You bring up the issue of, what services or benefits does society owe its citizens?\n\nHealth care, and health care spending, can be unlimited. Hence every nation limits their national health care system somehow. IMHO there should be a basic health care level in the U.S. for every citizen. As an American, perhaps we should offer a basic $$ amount and have people choose their policy. \n\nHowever, the reality of today in the U.S., under standard health care policies and Obama-care, is as soon as some minority group screams, you have politicians such as the California state government insisting (no joke) that sex reassignment surgery for transsexuals is part of the mandatory standard package for all, and in vitro fertilization services must be covered in policies for 65 and older couples.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pierre Trudeau was Catholic yet he decriminalised homosexuality. You're right though in the sense that the Catholic church may have had more lobbying pressure in Germany than here. Also PET was very tough-minded.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cI\u2019ll sell anyone any cake I\u2019ve got,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut I won\u2019t design a cake that promotes something that conflicts with the Bible\u2019s teachings. And that rule applies to far more than cakes celebrating same-sex marriages. I also won\u2019t use my talents to celebrate Halloween, anti-American or anti-family themes, atheism, racism, or indecency.\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The US bishops have not said much about transgender ideology. The Polish bishops are against it and Pope Francis agreed with them. The US bishops only said that Obama shouldn't make it illegal for churches to tell transgendered people to use the bathroom of their biological sex. Pope Francis would agree with that. In the Vatican men can't use the womens bathroom either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Should the Canadian government issue those visas? There is a good argument that it shouldn\u2019t. Homosexual acts are illegal in 73 countries; in several of them, the death penalty applies. In other countries, women are at daily risk of rape and religious minorities face discrimination. Why should these Chechen men go to the front of the line?\n\nI didn't find the article presented a sufficiently compelling reason to reject the good argument.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I-Pi, I assume that Neighbor99 is someone connected to the church or Jules Bailey and that they signed up just to convince me that the LGBT community can feel safe with a man who attends and supports a church that is anti-gay and misogynistic. \n\nWe have accused each other of intellectual dishonesty- but that doesn't translate to dishonest acts. I am sure you wouldn't steal my paper, and I would never clip your flowers.\n\nBTW- I believe that some issues have gray areas- but reject the kind of \"moral relativism\" that allows for people to say that some patriarchy, some denial of civil rights to gays- is okay when sprinkled with pretty words. It ain't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not sure what world you're living in, Ms. Wente, but I find your broad claim that leftist extremism is on the rise a little questionable??? Given that our downstairs neighbour just elected a living, breathing embodiment of right-wing extremism. Look, hey, I get it - I'm just a young lesbian feminist, taking a degree in the social sciences. You hate all of those things. You'll, just by virtue of that, probably discredit everything I'm about to say after. But I think maybe that's your problem - every 'article' of yours I've ever read reeks of the fact that you've never tried to actually talk to any of the people you so willingly attack. You're old, white, wealthy - those things in life afford you privileges not available to everyone. They also make you blind. The things you decry as unimportant only seem that way because you've never experienced them. \n\n And for the record? Academia has always swung left, Ms. Wente - that's what happens when you educate people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Francis is probably on the way out . . .\n\n1) Pope Benedict was COERCED into retiring, rendering the act invalid. Remember, Pope Benedict became Pope Emeritus, the contemplative member of a novel papal ministry, which could just as easily have a novel way of dealing with an invalidated pope. \n\n2) Pope Francis was never a valid pope to begin with because of the lobbying efforts of the Sant Gallen mafia, as first disclosed by the papal biographer himself, and later confirmed by one of the Cardinals in his biography. Under St. JP2's Apostolic constitution, this renders his election NULL and VOID automatically.\n\n3) A pope ceases to be pope automatically once he manifests just one heresy. Pope Francis has the unfortunate luxury of many heresies.\n\nWhat I find really interesting and, frankly, quite scary is that Pope Francis's strongest support among Catholics come from people who support abortion, homosexual marriages/gender ideology and euthanasia. Like I said, scary.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bob, This has nothing to do with our brothers in the Episcopal Church. It has to do with the spirit of the Faithful and the Holy Spirit guiding non clerical catholics. Obviously many Bishops are ignoring Her more loving views on life and death. These guidelines or rules are indeed horrible. We must bury our dead gay and lesbian humans as we must bury dead bishops who eschewed clerical rape. The Bishops in the US are way out of line and they would do much better if they would understand that the Holy Spirit Guides all of us. When the Bishops pretend that only they have access to Her, They indeed are ignoring the whispers of our Great God. It has become time for the laity to speak out again and again against such poor uncharitable behavior that is not at all Christ like by our Episcopal leaders. Every one of us do things that our wrong, the Bishops are quick to jump on what they view as wrong in others but do nothing about their own faults. To Shame!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's just silly. Consider what if there aren't any women interested in being priests? Should we recruit to even the numbers? Forced \"equality\" is unnatural social engineering. It leads to things like huge numbers of women lamenting the fact that they are unable to afford to stay home and raise their children because some lesbian feminists decided that men had the better deal of going to work 5 days a week and leaving the house behind.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So gays cannot have \"childish sexual\" identity?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The problem occurs when the lawyers won't tell the Church no or tell them to do things that are in their particular financial interest rather than of all the faithful (as in the cases of abuse). Mainly, they are getting bad advice on whether Roe can be overturned. It can't, not with this Court or without overturning everything from civil rights for Latinos and southern Catholics (who the majority believes are followers of a paper anti-Christ) to gay marrieds, hetero and homosexual sodomites and contraceptors. Overturning Roe on jurisdictional grounds (abandoning federal supremacy) brings back rule by state religious mobs. There was one Justice who believed in doing the latter. He died. We may never know if any of these matters come up again - it takes four votes to do so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a free thinker who studies subjects before making decisions, I pride myself on having the ability to do so. Leftist, rightist, conservative, liberal, whatever. I am a Native who sees through the haters that use their bullying to get what they want. In the end, we all pass on to our next journey, and we all have to answer to our lives actions to our Creator, whatever name we have for the Creator. I would rather have a life of compassion to better the lives of my fellow humans, than to have to explain that I lived as a hater who didn't care how many people suffered and died as a result of my hate, or though I mouthed the words of jesus, that my life was filled with doing hateful, unjesuslike things, to my fellow humans.\nBesides most of the haters are latent homosexuals who do the bug dance and pass draconian measures against gays and lesbians because the haters want to punish themselves and others like themselves, for having homosexual thoughts.. Like flagellants flailing themselves", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes - an odd and bizarre story, to say the least.\n\nBut....why do you not mention that the lesbian daughter - Barbara Johnson - was later found out to be a Buddhist? and therefore not really \"eligible\" to take Communion?\n\nAnd, the priest involved also issued a statement - would have been fair to include it, don't you think?\n\nhttp://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/father-marcel-guarnizo-i-did-only-thing-faithful-catholic-priest-could-do\n\nhttps://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lesbian-denied-communion-at-her-mothers-funeral-is-also-a-buddhist", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It appears the Conservative Leadership campaign has boiled down to Guns, Gays and Making Canada's Values Good Again.\n\nWill Kevin be home alone at Stornoway and weekend in Boston...or will it be in \"Brad We Trost\"?\n\nWill Dr. Kellie Leitch be invited to the USA by the Trump Administration after she loses to implement a Health Care System reflecting Canadian Values?\n\nErin O'Toole described as a \"moderate\" is sounding more and more like Wayne LaPierre of the NRA posting on Facebook March 30th, \"I'm the only Conservative leadership candidate whose firearms policy received an 'A' grade from the National Firearms Association AND the CCFR.\" The latter promoting concealed carry in Canada!\n\nWhy doesn't Conservatives prison reform promote minimum sentencing of Canadian criminals to male/female cohabitation prisons rather than exposing them to \"alternative lifestyles\" in facilities that risk forever turning them to the left?\n\nSo many questions we really don't need to discover the answers too!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's not the definition. You are drawing a conclusion. Your conclusion is that not all gay priests commit the heinous act. Which is observed. However, the definition is not made by choice, but by ones tendency/orientation which encompasses boys by definition. And thus my conclusion stands on the premises/definitions set before you. Not really a valid point you've exhibited, but a defense for the homosexual lifestyle rather than the life of the priesthood. Which is contradictory to defending men to be in the priesthood if they prefer their lifestyle over it. And would, hence, be a good reason they shouldn't be in it in the first place.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's make proper assumptions, lest we get off on the wrong foot. \n\nFirst of all, the Church is not essentially a non-profit institution. That is only a secondary categorization, for the purpose of organization vis a vis the government and its rules for incorporation and taxation. The Church is essentially the Bride of Christ who enjoys mystical union with him -- a metaphysical reality that is reflected, however hazily, in the sacrament of marriage. Even if you are talking about the legal organization of the \"Church\", you need to make clear which Church (denomination, parish, etc.) you are referring to, and you need to cite the wording of such articles or by-laws that bind it.\n\nThe nasty word \"discrimination\" did not always have a negative connotation. It used to be a common understanding that a \"discriminating customer\" was one who knew the value of fine products and was commended for his/her good taste. Homosexual \"marriage\" is not a fine product, but rather a cheap counterfeit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Welcome to the club. He also told transpeople, gay people, and feminists on Saturday that they were waging a \"war\" against marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Traditional Islamic dress advertises a certain rigidity of belief e.g. homosexuals which may not make them the ideal candidate for certain jobs, particularly the many which require an open tolerant mind.\n\nhttp://boreal.ca/Canadian/muslims2016.htm\n\nA Muslim friend of mine who runs a small Persian carpet repair business hired a young chador-wearing Muslim woman as a receptionist. All was well until she found out that one of his part-time employees had once been a stripper. She insisted he fire her or she would quit. She quit.\n\nThe government by being overly tolerant about the way people dress because of their faith is inviting problems which could be easily avoided by a more realistic policy concerning religious attire in the workplace and in the delivery of government services.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The common thread is that Theocratic countries are down with murdering gay people. Nigeria is half Islam, 40% Christian, and 10% indigenous beliefs. I'm betting it is not the indigenous portion that let to the anti-gay laws, and considering Christian missions have been actively pushing anti-gay rhetoric in many African nations http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html it is just as likely that they are responsible for the laws. \n\nThe objective fact is Theocracies are never good for a given portion of the population. If the 1st Amendment didn't protect us from the the Family Resource Council and their ilk of \"Christianity\" we would also be a Theocracy on that list.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You don't get to tell gays what is homophobic and not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cardinal DiNardo said he had \u201cbigger fish to fry\u201d early on when Francis reached out to remarried divorcees than worry about Francis\u2019 declaration. There is a moral problem with Cardinals in Burke et al refusing Eucharist to some politicians\u2014that\u2019s really judgmental. In addition, gays are not the luxury of civility but raging dogmatism. NOW divorce is ok, but other outdated human sexuality and women priests are not\u2014judgmental is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's cut to the chase : Gays and their supporters demand tolerance , yet have none for anyone who disagree's with their chosen lifestyle , regardless of the reasons. This issue would have been behind us had the assembly just added a few common sense protections like making illegal for men dressed as women using the woman's public bathroom or public pool showers. Just saying trust me, isn't good enough . For the assembly who lacked common sense it was . There would be no talk of another vote on any of these issues had a few minor additions been made.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It seems that when I read articles such as this, it is the author, who is reading its thoughts into this...\n\nAlthough the list is multifarious I have some thoughts;\n\n1. The church is not what it says it is.\n\n2. The church uses many phrases which seem manufactured; e.g. 'the Word of God'. \n\n3. The church's doctrines and dogmas are representative of a time when the world was deemed static and unchanging.\n\n4. The church's beliefs of the first few centuries are accepted as proofs despite evidence to the contrary.\n\n5. The church labels. Gays are called objectively disordered. Contraception which Catholics use is called 'intrinsic evil'. Add many, maybe all of the paramount social issues of the day, and the church opposes them despite the preponderance acceptance by the flock.\n\n6. The church is becoming increasingly irrelevant and distancing itself from our concerns.\n\n7. The bishops don't listen or truly care.\n\n8. Truth matters...science seeks truth, religion does not has belief", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am always intrigued when the theme of 'it wasn't the sexual revolution or Vat II or homosexuality' comes up. I always ask why these three issues in particular need to be cleared. They are part of the 'barrell' as well. Never mind. This is an excellent report but something kept jarring on me as I read it and the same thing has jarred me when reading almost any critique of the sex abuse scandal (involving children, not adults as my own study does), is that the whole issue is a 'systemic' one, but then there are, especially in this study, the constants referrals to \"psychosexually immature men\" especially in relation to the three issues above. My question is, what was it, 'systemic' or individual 'bad apples'? Personally I prefer to approach this whole issue, including the sexual abuse of adults, as being a problem of all three: bad apples (psychological/individual), bad apple barrels (sociological/cultural) AND bad apple barrel makers (canonical/heirarchical), not just the bad barrel.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"They recognize that they have a disorder....\"\nHomosexuality is NOT a disorder.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You were warned for not saying uncivil enough? My methodology used to be to just click yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and be done with it. That lasted until I heard from Dr D that Old Soul had caused him to get a warning for making uncivil comments which ticked me off so after that I put the Nuke on every single comment espousing liberal nonsense. The reason that civil comments is such an abject failure (but probably very nice people with the guts to take their idea and run with it) on this platform is simple: The stable of regular comment writers is far too small. Read through all of the comments on all of the letters and you get the same people ...Motley, JJP52/eric, Old Soul, Listening 2, Nate, outsider, JJ, forgot her name but the lesbian, always kind Lynn Porter, Paul Scott, Dejain, DunthorpeMD, Remington, GBA, and several more ...not 100's more. Give me a comment and I can tell you who wrote it without being told. BTW I used to be Iamalwaysright", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Okay...LGBTQIA??\n\nPlease believe me, I do not intend to sound snippy. But how many more letters are we going to add to this appellation? And I looked it up in the Urban Dictionary and even the University of CA, Davis....The \"Q\" stands for \"Queer\"? I thought that was a taboo word now. And what is \"Intersex\"?\n\nAnd can anyone tell me what equal \"treatment\" the LGBTQIA are looking for at Catholic U?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We have witnessed several denominations agonize over whether women and gay people should be welcomed as full members in their church. I cannot help but admire such open discussions with allowance for contributions from their members. After all, doesn't the Spirit speak through each one of us. Or do we think that the Spirit only speaks through bishops and cardinals (and pope).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lord help us... another lefty millionaire is going to buy himself into the governorship. This guy is going to force Coloradoans to pay extremely high energy bills and use Chinese built solar panels and Chinese sourced wind farms. We will still need to run natural gas power stations 24/7 to supply uninterrupted power for the overcast calm days. Living in a recognized \"hail alley\" we will have no worries about replacing solar panels due to old age because most will be replaced every few years. This will be great for our insurance premiums. Say goodbye to the tax benefits for our schools, roads and the poor when his extremist agenda against natural gas and fossil fuels take hold. The guy hasn't ever had to sweat paying a utility bill in his life so how can he care about about your budget?\nHis plans of institutionalizing our children at age three is another leftist dream to make sure they have a constant crop of fearful voters for years. Who cares if he is gay? He is a radical. Beware.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In your view, homosexuality only exists when it's defined by acts with men over the age of 18?\n\nIt must follow from your view that it's not just priests, but straight men everywhere, who are attracted to teenage boys. \n\nFrankly, I find your views to be a bizarre take on male sexuality.\n\nI have what I think is a much more rational view:\n\nEvery priest who molested a boy is a gay man.\n\nIf progressive Catholics really wish to understand the sex abuse scandal, they have to acknowledge that basic fact. To suggest, as you do, that abusing priests were all straight men, and that straight men often lust after boys, is simply a wrong view and not helpful to preventing this kind of thing from happening again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "yes along with gay people and disabled people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I read a link to Bloomberg's article. Since 2013 the Israeli Army has know five (5) trans-gendered individuals. The folks in the US claim there are 10,000. It remains an experiment and one not yet evaluated in combat. Given the $125K-$250K per transgendered person and the fact that over 40% have attempted suicide it is a very stupid experiment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Most Gays are smart enough to know that the official church cannot PROVE scientifically, medically, or psychologically that either Gays or their actions are disordered.\"\n\nMaybe. But then most pedophiles are smart enough to \"know\" the same thing.\n\nYou say, \"The church continues to use the Bible as the basis [and then any church teaching supposedly based on the Bible] as the main proof for the church's argument against homosexual acts.\" \n\nWrong. Read a bit on what \"intrinsically disordered\" means. \n\nYou obviously have surrendered to a defining myth of our age, i.e., that nothing is knowable unless scientifically provable. But not all truths are scientifically provable. Prove scientifically, for example, that murder, racial discrimination, and rape are wrong. You can't do it. It is thus absurd to demand scientific proof of moral truths. It is not the Church who is the fool.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"but the Russians seem to be lapping it up and are always anxious to talk about the \"imposition of the homosexual way of life\" on everyone else.\"\n\nTyrants always need their scapegoats, don't they?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"I raised a possibility based on historical patterns.\" BS, you raised this \"issue\" because of your ongoing bigotry and homophobia. An attack on a charitable act by gay men is undeserving, but you turn it into \"grooming\". Absolute rubbish.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your position, and your term, leads to the following undeniable conclusion, The Tridentinus Effect:\n\n\"Two heterosexuals engaged in 'homosexual activities' makes them active homosexuals.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The suspect remains at large armed and dangerous\nIf the victim was black, gay or transgendered this would be big a hate crime", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"The Atlantic\" --- no hotbed of conservative gay-bashers --- has said as recently as October 2015 that science has not discovered as \"gay gene.\" Do you have any better information? No? Well, then, scientist, since it's not scientifically proven that homosexuality is determined by birth, why doesn't your whole argument go poof? \n\nYou also say that because homosexuality is found in the animal kingdom, it is \"natural,\" and therefore, morally permissible for humans. But so what if some animals engage in homosexual acts? They also commit bestiality. (Oh, get a life.) Absurd? Of course, but since your argument is reducible to absurdity, don't blame me. Point is, we humans don't gauge the morality of our sexual acts by the conduct of a (probable) minority of the animal kingdom. If we did, then screwing at the zoo along with the giraffes and hyenas would be just fine.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes of course Chess and gay sex is the same thing. Anyone going to chess parade this summer at a city near you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is no \u201ctransgender\u201d; that is a sick libtard construct. There is only male and female: all else is mistake of nature or freak!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Deleted my post? Yes - because CC deleted yours.\n\nInteresting how everyone is so rabidly interested in the Gingrich's personal lives...all the while decrying the commentary on the personal lives of, say...homosexuals. Double standard, perhaps?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why is there no mention of \"Who am I to judge?\" regarding all LGBTQ people? Why are they not included in this letter, especially since Trump has already signed an order that allows Americans to discriminate against LGBTQ people and Vice-President Mike Pence is a monster with his anti-gay feelings and opinions.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "But will she design a gay wedding cookie?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "African culture has its own issues. Here in Western culture with a supposedly educated, enlightened population with no prohibitions on sexual protection and the understanding that AIDS is virtually 100% preventable, there is a growing epidemic of the disease predominately in the male homosexual population. Courtesy of a public school system that has adopted the \"do whatever you want\" and \"religion is oppression\" mentality of the 1960s. \n\nFreedom of stupidity and self-gratification over common sense and respect for self.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, Jesus might have done that. \n\nOn the other hand, I doubt he would have thrown the baker in jail for refusing to bake the cake. Or flipped him half the peace sign, as the gay couple did.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And how the usual suspects will post: what of the many, many, poor priests wrongfully accused? It's all those greedy lawyers doing! SNAP is bad! Elitist media! Let's blame the gays! Vatican II and liberal priests! It's all been fixed! It's anti-Catholic to criticize the church! \n\nThere, got that out of the way.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Scientific evidence, empirical data, and peer reviewed sources for your claim that the transgendered are mentally ill? Otherwise, you're simply begging the question.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Typical ploy of the left is to insult anybody that does not believe the way they do. For Hillary, anybody that was not voting for her, they were 'deplorables', for people that do not believe in homosexual marriage are 'haters'. There are other insults they love to through around.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Given the huge amount of homosexual priests, Bishops and Cardinals, the position of the Church is dishonest and risible.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I hope none of you claim to be Catholic, lol. If you support Hilary or vote for Hilary you cannot be Catholic. Sorry culture warriors, the farce known as global warming and victimization of the poverty issue are not even in the same conversation as abortion or truth about homosexuality. Hilary has a deviant and evil record as well as her mistreatment of the women her husband Bill raped and molested. Trump was right on bringing Bill's sex-capades into the mix because Hilary supported him and dehumanized these women. Michael Winters is a dishonest \"Catholic\" and journalist, who needs an awakening. \nYou all need to properly form your consciences and actually learn your Catholic Faith, because reading this crap makes it pretty bleak for the future of the Church.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "but I thought this was about children. Does bullying mall boys with a \"low masculine quotient\" make them any less likely to grow into active homosexuals? - unless it kills them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Don't forget Pius IX. A true idiot, and Pius X, an authoritarian paranoid. More seriously, the two popes listed claimed to love Vatican II while working against it. The bishops cited have tried to turn the Church into an arm of the Republican Party. There is much to ridicule in that. Their archaic view of homosexuality in a time where it is not disorder but simply a natural variation is not the charity the Church stands for. We are not operating under some kind of PC dream when simply stating the truth that the Church was in error in condemning their sexuality (both as a trait and as practiced).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are you advocating that \"bearing false witness\" by lying is perfectly acceptable to Christians? What is your evidence that the \"gays were deliberately trying to sabotage Phillips?\" Or, are you\"bearing false witness\" to make a political point?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am not stupid, or racist, nor homophobic. I believe in enforcing the laws long on the books concerning borders and immigration. I believe our president should follow the law and address Congress, not the UN, when deciding major issues that greatly affect our Country. I believe globalism is the death of America. I believe that the 2nd amendment is a God-given right. It's not about deer hunting, that is a stupid. And I believe that calling people who you do not understand nor agree with racists and other names are simply bully tactics the left has used successfully for years. But the folks who earn taxes to pay for the social and global programs that the left (and \"right\") shove down our throats are about done with that.\n\nAnyway, I'd rather be thought of as stupid by people who love obama than be thought of as smart by them. My gay friends and black friends agree. And the gal at the Target wearing a hijab asked me to pray for her son, after noticing my cross. Or was that Taqiyya...?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "One does not need to \"fall in love\" with Christ (That's so gay). Love God. It's a command not a feeling.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My reading of the early chapters of this research, dealing with history, is that the predominant issue bedeviling the Church has been that of homosexual men abusing one another and teenage boys.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "1/2\n\nWhat an incredibly stupid thing to say, even if Sheen said it -- which I doubt. Would you care to cite a source? (I know you're not big on citing sources; I'm still waiting for the one I requested about the Vatican Communications Office.) Let's look at the sheer stupidity of the quote you attribute to Bishop Sheen:\nI disagree with church teaching about the ordination of women; but I'm not a bishop, and so I haven't ordained even one.\nI disagree with church teaching about homosexuality; but I'm not gay and so I'm not violating the teaching. (I like to think that if I were gay I would have a full, vibrant sex life; but it's a moot point: not that's any of your business, of course.)\nI disagree with church teaching about birth control -- but I'm old; that ship has sailed. I regret that there was a time when I thought I had to follow that teaching, and I did; but I got better.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Its not the gay mafia that concerns me, its the asexuals whose Platonic idealism is a function of their rare sexuality and not general human nature.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sodomy was condemned by the Church and by saints as a grave evil, an abomination, one of the four sins that cries to heaven for vengeance. In Catholic civilization and culture people regarded sodomy with revulsion, and Catholic governments had sodomites put to death. People today talk about homosexual orientation, but that is misleading. Everyone is created by God to be sexual complimentary to the opposite sex, regardless of whether or not they are sexually attracted to the opposite sex. It is God's plan of creation and it is natural law. He made men and women to be suitable mates for each other. For people to behave in a sexual matter with others of the same sex in ways that are only appropriate for those of the opposite sex is contrary to the order of creation and to nature, and gravely offensive to God.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What a disappointment! It also shows how completely delusional the hierarchy is, right up to the Pope on matters of homosexuality. Geeze, have you ever been to a gathering of bishops? Not all, but if you have your gay'dar on, you will note a huge number of these men and the sycophants with whom they surround themselves are gay! Now they maybe and are quite likely are chaste, but all the sexual energy is being poured into that gay clerical subculture of power that often finds itself situated in the chancery offices. How ironic.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nobody with a brain in their head wants a dude in a dress in the locker room with their 10 year old daughter. \nStudies have shown that nearly 70% of transgender people have an underlying psychological disorder which has created their gender identity confusion. \n50% of those who undergo the sex change surgery commit suicide. \nJust because there is a group of people who have a psychological disorder their sickness doesn't trump my wife and daughters right to privacy from said sick people. My wife doesn't want me in the bathroom while she's doing her business, she really doesn't want a strange man in a dress in their. This upside down backwards nonsense needs to stop!!!!!!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't say \"gay makes you a pederast.\" You keep drawing that conclusion. I did say that men who have tendencies for boys are homosexual. And that is exactly a subset of homosexual behavior. Likewise, if an adult had tendencies towards children of opposite gender, the heterosexual classification still applies. Both straight/gay alike who want' to act on sexual tendencies, are, hence, both called to lead celibate chaste lives. The Church specifies deep-seated homosexual behaviors as they differ. When a man sleeps with say a woman, they generally have a child - most often/common. Deep seated homosexual don't result in having to raise a child/children. Since people with preference of same gender cannot have children together. So the Church explicitly points out these actions do not follow from Christ's birth. Nor the necessity of life for Baptism. Also, the function of marriage between one man and one woman. That is why the homosexual act is scandalous, but isn't the worst of them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Let's just get REAL right now! \nSeattle has been harboring and enabling rapes of teenage runaways and troubled youth for years.\nTarget areas are Westlake, Pike Place, Capitol and First Hill..\nOffering a place to stay ..Or a meal for sex and or live in bfs...\nUsually these teens end up being taken to LGBT clubs in Capitol Hill...Slipped some drugs (GBH) and then raped...Sometimes transferring HIV ...\nNo secret !", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What scares the dickens out of gay marriage is not the gay sex but (which is natural for people born gay through epignetics, no one choses it) that no one is in charge. The Christ as bridegoom model has the hierarchy stand in for the husband with a subservient laity. No one is subservient in gay marriage and no one should be subservient in the Church either (except for the hierarchy - or have you forgetten Holy Thursday's washing of the feet already?).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "None of the rest of us, gay and straight alike, obsess about sodomy the way you do. In three or so years I have been on this blog, I have seen the word used by you more than by everyone else combined.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you want to argue that there is a \"biological basis for transgender identity,\" then this common notion that gender is simply a \"social construct\" that is mutable, changeable, and fluid can't also be right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course you know that your pressing is purposefully designed to reduce this conversation to the \"mechanics\".\n'Homosexual activity' is well understood without me having to describe it in detail and you are well aware of this and such a description would not be judged as 'civil' on this website.\nI knew exactly what Jim McCrea meant, so do you and so does everyone else on this site.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What makes you think they are not, already? It's not about gender, it's about behavior and respect for others in the same situation as you. If trans are expecting special attention and accommodations for their chosen sexual identification, then they are more an inconvenience than worth the effort. If the trans is only about sex, than what's love got to do with it? Why are women treated differently? Why does the men's bathrooms have urinals? Why stock the military inventory with sanitary napkins?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While agreeing with you that merely being gay is no sin, and that the Church owes a special love to those who carry that cross chastely and in celibacy, the priesthood abuse scandal does show how imprudent it would be to open up that whole thing up again. And don't say that most of the abuse was pedophilia. Most of the cases involved older boys beyond the age that marks the act as one of pedophilia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Somone triggered the thought when they said that everyone, including the married, had to be chaste. Absolutely not., By the way, that was a deflection. He is either a self loathing homosexual (or thought he was) or an Ace.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Could it be the draconian view of homosexuality in the Hebrew scriptures arose from anxiety over tribal extinction.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"People who are homosexual are not born that way, and it is a choice\" May I recommend Dan Savage's excellent book \"American Savage\" which includes a chapter on just this topic. Sexual orientation is not a choice. Religion, however, is a choice, and it's still protected under the laws of our state. The difference being, you just can't use it to justify discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A deep breath might be in order. Heterosexuals are in no danger from LGBT people. Your fears ARE groundless. I have yet to meet a gay person who has even tried to persuade heterosexuals to change their sexual orientation. Yet, I know a good number of heterosexual folks who have tried to do this to LGBT folks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Me, you, everyone. You must question your belief in a religion if it incites violence based off ones interpretation. \n\nChristian\u2019s blame all Muslims for how a small % interpret the Koran. The religious right follows their interpretation of the bible written by a man supposedly from God\u2019s words; yet the same religious right make mock Mormons for Joseph Smith\u2019s \u201cvision\u201d which led to the creation of the Book of Mormon. Westboro Baptist Church protest of military funerals, anti-gay picketing, and protest Jewish institutions, all under the name of God. \n\nA supreme being is seen in many forms, God, Buddha, Allah, Krishna, and each has zealots. If there is a supreme being, which one is it? Who is right and who is wrong? And as man, who are we to decide when we cannot even agree what \u201cour\u201d good book says?\n\nMan makes God, but man can never live up to Gods expectation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is a little off-topic since I addressing how science and morality are not in competition. \n\nGod makes hetero and homosexual people and we are to think that He only wants the heterosexuals to share a life together? A transgender person can get an operation to live the life that matches their psychological makeup (gender identity) and removes the daily stress of living a pretend gender. Are we to think God would not want this? If the moral teachings ignore these realities of life, then the teachings are not from God, in my opinion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "An unresponsive response. I asked you a question, RD. You say that duties come before rights. So what duties do LGBT people have that differ from the duties that I have as a heterosexual?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hopefully justice will prevail and the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the cake baker. He did nothing wrong by refusing to make a custom-made cake that goes against his convictions. He didn't refuse service to the gay couple, they could have bought any cake that he had available in his shop and he would have sold it to them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're driving at a skeptical argument to suit your cause/view. Not all boys who were abused were altar servers. Thus, that already is a damaging blow to your argument. If you want to make homosexuality a pristine inviolable contact of sexuality where no man/woman with those tendencies would ever do that to a child, that's on you. \n\nDefinitions are the rulebooks we apply in life. Contours of lines drawn on the road to separate traffic for everyone's safety. Lines drawn in the sand, so-to-speak. The word \"homosexual\" means orientation to someone of the same sex. That can be by choice or by tendency. Thus, someone who prefers children of the same gender falls under that definition. \n\nAs I said before, my argument isn't all homosexuals go after or have an orientation towards children of the same sex. So, it isn't generalized. Straight men are just as much required to not engage in hetero relations as a Priest. So the rules are the same.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All these 'phobias' of late - why is this suffix so liberally being misapplied to social issues which have absolutely nothing to do with 'fear'? How can anyone be fearful of islam, or homosexuals for that matter ? \n\nI know, I know..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps he could consider another farmers' market. \n\nLike gays are told to go find another baker or photographer.\n\nHe has an orchard -- perhaps he could start his own farmers' market.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wrong. https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/index.html\n\nMy replies were to Monica who said that the same-sex movement essentially ignored the Church and followed secular culture. It was a bad choice, but that seems to be the way it goes for homosexual men.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No EFC, I never said that was \"good.\" Nice try.\n\nI DO however, believe that the bishops lost a LOT of credibility, when they chose to ignore the counsel of the married laity, and went with the ban on ABC. If the argument there is that it wasn't all the bishops, just Paul VI, then the question becomes that same \"silence is assent\" argument that cost the so much of whatever credibility they had left when the scandal broke, and they chose (and continue to choose) to remain silent, rather than demand accountability from their brothers.\n\nThey lost credibility when they said all they've said about gays, and yet left the 40% or so of their own ranks who are themselves gay, stay in their positions in the church. \n\nThey lost credibility in the way they have long, and CONTINUE to treat women in the church.\n\nOne can believe in the responsible use of abc, without condoning abortion, or all of the other ills you see out there. The bottom line is that the bishops HAVE lost credibility.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There were a lot of folks against mixed race marriages at one point. Some even used the bible to justify their mislead ideas. Where does it stop? Its not even a true religious issue. Making a cake for a gay couple isn't engaging in any homosexual activity. What if a casino came and ordered a cake from him? Do Baptist cake makers refuse to make a cake that might be served at a dance? Its just closed minded ridiculousness. If we let stand an exclusion based on religion there is no end to where it goes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why would anybody want the po po to disappear during the gay pride parade hmmm.\nWith legal weed could you imagine the party !!! It would make the slurp ramps at the bathhouse look entry level. Yes nothing to see hear folks, move along.\nNot sure if the organizers really want the parade to go that direction, it may send the wrong message.\nJust saying.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is a pattern of chorus members grooming children in shelters that they might at best see once and they live hours apart? Or are you just saying that generally speaking, men do groom children, so it is a possibility here? Would you raise that particular point with any gift involving men and youth, or did you just decide to bring it up here for this particular case? You can call it liberal knee-jerking about a protected class, but you are making wild accusations without any actual reason and we're calling you on it and you are falling back on \"liberal knee-jerking\" as a defense for your crazy theory. Your theory is truly crazy. A chorus gives money, and \"grooming\" is what you decide to bring up as a reason. Never mind that gay men are more frequently runaways and users of shelters, or that they might have a kind heart, or are looking out for fellow humans. You insult them, casually and without logic or reason, and then dismiss arguments against your ludicrous idea as knee-jerking.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with you, but to be fair, the Chechens who choose to leave their province would also face harsh treatment elsewhere in Russia, which, while it is more tolerant of homosexuality, remains largely very conservative. And there's no love lost there for the Chechens in general, whether they are gay or not. They do not assimilate well in non-Chechen communities, and tend to gravitate towards their own (a distinctive feature of the clan society they grow up in). And that is yet another thing not mentioned in the article. I think they might represent a radicalization time-bomb due to inability to integrate, and thus a security risk to Canada later on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did it ever occur to you that Cardinal Caffarra truly believed that anyone engaging in homosexual relations would be risking his/her salvation? Is it possible that Cardinal Caffarra was only concerned with souls getting to heaven, and believed it was his duty to educate others on the teachings of the Church, which he clearly had faith in. The good Cardinal was a believer in the Fatima apparitions, which according to Sr Lucia, our Blessed Mother stated more souls go to hell due to sins of the flesh. \nYou and others on this forum attempt to paint him as a homophobe, which clearly he was not. He simply followed his beliefs, which happen to be the beliefs of the Catholic Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why are gays getting special treatment for having been allegedly persecuted by what, at the time, were legal laws in a free and democratic country? That moral attitudes have changed should not change the fact that the law was legally the law regardless of who might today find if morally repugnant. Start this kind of retrospective justice and you'll always be on a treadmill of trying to undo what was thought proper 50 years in the past (yes kiddies, hard to imagine but 50 years from now there will be many who think that Junior was a savage and uncouth brute). The prospect of retrospective justice also leads to scofflaws thinking that there's no real need to obey any law because it's unjust and someone will change it if we wait long enough. What about all the people who were hanged for crime in Canada before that was abandoned; have we apologized to them?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rumor has it that Pence also met with Jim and Kim Minnery to discuss final solution strategies to deal with Alaska's homosexual and transgender \"problem\". Wouldn't surprise me at all if this indeed occurred...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes. Guns, like many things, are tools.\n\nYour justification is incoherent. You didn't recommend that all \"responsible citizens\" should pay an additional tax for the clean-up. Nor even all area users. No, you targeted with a snide juvenile slur, explicitly used to parallel \"homosexual\" by, ironically, the same \"tolerant\" people who stereotype merely appreciating firearms, and taking the civil rights involving them seriously, as somehow being negative and unnatural.\n\nAnd the puerile troll tactic of \"ooh I got a rise out of you\" is merely a distraction used by immature folks who won't speak plainly but hide behind snark and irony.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Two thoughts:\n\na) Women get online revenge in other ways, so I'm a little odded out that only an angle typically exploited by men is being explored as problematic. Where's the article on fraudulently claiming someone's a pedophile? Telling everyone's Facebook friends he's got an STI? Calling him a cheater to thousands of people? Telling everyone he's lousy in bed and has a small member? Hijacking his Facebook and locking him out? Masquerading as him and signing him up for gay porn sites? Contacting his employer to smear him?\n\nb) The primary vector for these young men to even obtain these images in the first place is the massive volume of female generated nude selfies. I've yet to read a study on sexting or nude selfies that doesn't show huge majorities of these images being generated by women, specifically to use to solicit male attention, online. Is this a 'live by the sword, die by the sword' situation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Er, Scheer is on pretty cut-and-dry video record stating he thinks gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry and abortion shouldn't be allowed- but no, no, he won't touch it politically. I think it's a bit too late to put the socially conservative cat back in the bag.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Testosterone in utero is simply one period of exposure, during infant/childhood development the differences between the sexes on testosterone exposure can be vast.\nIt comes down to this, the claim of \"equality\" is reflected no where else in nature, and does not fit evolutionary theory. So onus has always been on those making the truly extraordinary claim of equality to prove their case, not the other way around.\nAt this point the quibbles which continue to fall away as we discover more simply remind me of the \"god of the gaps\" defense of the creationists.\n\nAnd really, the left should reconsider their attempt to make all things the same, when their entire basis for gay rights was \"born this way\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Personally, this gray area of what's truly fair in competition when one is transgendered leaves too many variables on the table to determine the truth. There was a transgendered motocross racer who managed to get into the woman's MX class, and he/she was cleaning house. There's a noticable difference between speed on an MX track between the best men and the best women. He/she was displaying the type of speed found more so in the men's class. I have no dog in the fight anymore, but if my daughter was racing in that class, you're darn right I'd be ticked off.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Little bit of a double standard here. If you are a guy that makes comments and has great knowledge about Women's fashion you will either be called gay or they will say you are \"in touch with your feminine side\" and I guarantee nobody will be expected to apologize to you.\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you treated gays as part of your we you would listen to them on whether having a sexual realationship with an opposite partner is natural for them or not, If they are bi, it could be. But gay, let them tell you. You don't have either the right or responsibility to tell them. They are beautifully made, differently ordered and sciende is close to explaining why, but trusting their testimony is enough if they are WE and not THEY.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let me be clear: If Masterpiece Bakery and/or Jack Phillips refused to sell already made bakery items that were on the shelves to any person (gay, black, Muslim, etc) he would be in violation of common sense, decency, and The Law.\n-\nBut must - must - Masterpiece Bakery and/or Jack Phillips produce a \"pro-Nazi\" for Nazis, or any \"decorated artistic edible work of art\" for any customer when the customer asks.....no matter how \"offensive\" the \"artwork\" he is being asked to create is offensive to him or even to society as a whole?\n-\nCan The Government and The Law require - require - all \"professional artists\" (painters, photographers, music composers, graphic art designers, etc) to \"produce/create\" \"artistic masterpieces\" that depict or celebrate or glorify something/anything that the \"artist\" themselves finds \"offensive\" and that, we in general, might find \"equally offensive\"....just because \"a customer wants them to\"?\n-\nDoes \"offensive art\" enjoy \"special class protection\" status?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK. So now you're talking special rights. Right? More rights than everyone else has. I'll go slow so you can follow along. Can a gay man marry a woman? yes. Just like a straight. Seems equal to me. Oh, but wait...now its more than what is already the norm. In my view, the left is not promoting tolerance. We already have laws that forbid intolerance. Now the left is forcing acceptance. Whether one agrees w/ it or not. By fiat and by legislation. Is that freedom? Or is that totalitarianism? To force a person to accept something they don't want to. For whatever reason. Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Broad and general in scope. Let me ask you. Do you have or do you know anyone w/ young daughters? Were you ecstatically celebrating the fact that any male, regardless of age, can now walk into the little girls room at elementary school? Let's see what the other parents that read CB say. Or will this response be stuffed. Gotta jet man. I'm boarding now. cya", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Has anyone in the government considered the potential risk to transgendered folks who might choose to use and X on their passport instead of an M or and S? In Trump\u2019s America, and in many other less progressive countries in the world, the X may be a trigger for government officials, preventing a transgendered person from entering a country. Even if they are allowed in, the X may put transgendered folks at risk of persecution while they are abroad. Is it worth the risk?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Olrun, proven fact that homosexuality occurs in every species of animals on the earth including humans but only humans are homophobic. Why is that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nor does banning gays from seminaries.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The latest tax dodge! Form a \"Christian\" church, live the life of the Trump and not pay taxes, in addition to the more traditional denying of services to gays or anyone else you don't like.\n\nStephen J. Remington", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" They can pick a school that best meets their children\u2019s needs without attempting to change the system for everyone.\" - Try that on the Eastern plains. \n\"Imagine if we didn\u2019t have to fight over standards, testing, pedagogy or school start times and everyone just made their own decisions like they do when selecting a college, a preschool, a doctor, a job, a home, or dozens of other weighty life choices.\"\nYes, we could return to segregation, religious nonsense, gay exclusion......", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This baker wasn't \"discriminating\" based on these people being gay, apparently he had baked cakes or done business with them before. His religion says homosexual marriage isn't acceptable, despite the fact that this country gave them the legal right to marry a few years ago. IOW, it's not like discriminating against a black person a woman, or even a gay person, it's deciding not to partake in an act that the baker finds unacceptable according to the tenets of his religion. This couple could have gone down the street to buy a cake for their wedding, there was nothing saying they had to give this baker their business and force him to do something which was against his religious beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're nuts. If you had ever spent any time in a high school after having graduated you would know that there are a number of gay kids in every school. They didn't choose to be, it's not a 'lifestyle.\" Mitigating their health problems as cited in the article, depends on adults becoming smarter and more supportive. Generally, kids are pretty accepting, it's the grown-ups like you who make life difficult for these children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If I were a transgender I wouldn't announce it to the world. I would try to make it discreet, and especially not bring it into my political campaign if I were a candidate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Same thing for sex wishing marriage. Don\u2019t make me subsidize your spawn . I\u2019m gay and will never have children, why should you tax breaks for kids since you CHOSE to have them. Likewise, why should my tax dollars pay for Theo schooling, since having them was YOUR choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Next is Israeli to make gay marriage legal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sorry you don't understand the difference between being gay and being a terrorist (...rolling eyes...).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My beef is with HRC, not gay people, who feared winning or the makeup of the court. The resulting 8-1 decision shows why they should have filed suit sooner, like against the Virginia anti-marriage rights amendment. The entire federal bench, save Scalia, supported gay marriage. I share your position on gay marriage v. the rights of the Catholic mob in state legislatures.\n\nMy comment was that Blaine cannot be overturned until someone files suit. It should have been done decades ago. Sadly, tension with the teachers unions is a problem. If the bishops promised to unionize, we could do this in a weekend.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For those who have given a reaction of agreement. Here is your agreement with Michael Blinder\u2019s argument:\nYou believe that men who abuse non-adult males are not under pederasty. Thus you exclude/give preference to homosexual men for abusing boys (non-adult males.) That is what you contend/agree on the subject.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Donald Trumps states people should \u201cuse the bathroom they feel is appropriate.\u201d (April 2016)\n\nDonald Trump revoked landmark guidance to public schools letting transgender students use the bathrooms of their choice. (Feb 2017)\n\nSo which news is fake Donald?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because that is far too narrow an interpretation of sex. There is \"unnatural\" about homosexual sex, and to say that procreation is the primary reason for heterosexual sex shows a profound misunderstanding of why people have sexual intercourse -- the sort of misunderstanding that only the celibate could come up with.\n\nNo, in this, as in most of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI showed that he didn't have a clue about what he was talking about. You want to see men denigrating women? Simply look at the Merrie Men of the magisterium with their belief that women are inferior to men.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How many abortions do you think Trump has personally paid for? And really to all my friends out there who are concerned about this, Trump doesn't care about social conservative issues like abortion and gay marriage. His election is way scarier to me because he unleashed some really toxic and ugly forces in this country and has said hateful things about minorities.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The league is asleep at the wheel. Either way, this was going to end up in court, so instead of having to deal with controversial transgender politics, they should have simply disqualified Beggs on the basis of her/him using a banned performance-enhancing substance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Charles! Hello from London. Jay in London. Weren't you involved in some way with Rep. Elaine Noble's visit to ANC in 1977 when folks got inspiration to start the old Gay community center? Wasn't there a march or something connected with that was the first parade/march? Hoping you or others who were part of that might tell the story. The ADN article refers to 1978's march -- not quite 1977, is it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't get why people have a problem with polygamy (between consenting adults) when they are totally fine with gay marriage or a man who wants to turn himself into a woman. Or the whole non binary I'm a man one day and a woman the next two days, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"And now I see, as if through a glass darkly.\" Paul gets a glimpse into God's wisdom but admits that he will never know it all. Even his own conversion was not instant. Yes, he was knocked from his horse but, he had to be nursed back to health (grace?) by Ananias. It was not instant. \nSecond, the Church pounces on all sins pelvic (except their own) and yet I wonder if the \"challenge\" isn't to gay people at all (because they are not disordered but God's own children). Rather the challenge is to the hetero to \"judge not lest you be judged\" and to \"love your neighbor (all men, everyone, as told in the Good Samaritan) as you love yourself\". We are never told by Christ to love only those who are just like us.\nThe folks in Twelve Step recovery groups offer the idea of \"spiritual progress, not spiritual perfection\" similar to that which is taught in the parable of the Prodigal Son. We could take a page from their book.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We agree on homosexual not being an insult. Yet, as I noted, the term was invented by self-described \"liberals\" who thought it a cute way to insult the -stereotype- they held of gun-owners as uniformly \"right wing bigots.\" Which is why no non-bigoted person should use it. If I were you I wouldn't, lest you endorse said bigotry by association.\n\nAnd again, your position is incoherent. Your reasoning is group punishment for the -criminal- actions of a few. It holds only a sub-group of users liable for actions they do not take, nor have any way of preventing. Your \"air travel\" analogy would be apt only if you extended your proposed tax to all groups, 4-wheelers, hikers, campers, etc, who use the grounds and of whom some criminal subset might be contributing to all, not just the shooting, damage to the area. Or are you saying only shooters tear up trails and throw porta-potties?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, protecting trans-gender people does not mean protecting pronouns.\n\nGet a life and move on!\n\nThis is just one other manifestation of what is wrong with this country. Instead of worrying about productivity and all the other financial measures of success and wealth for all of us, we are confounded by what to call someone besides \"he\" or \"she\". If people don't want to be called \"he\" or \"she\" they can let others around them know, but we don't need a law to enshrine this.\n\nNothing to see here, move along, go about your business...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you had your penis cut off, they did it wrong, and I feel sorry for you. If you were actually trans, you would know that the difference between reassignment surgery (which reconfigures tissue but does not remove it) and FGM is CONSENT. The people are doing this to young girls who have no issue with their bodies, and don't want it (or go along with it because adults tell them to). Trans people have serious problems with their bodies mismatching who they are, and the surgery corrects this if someone wants it. BIG difference there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From his statement -- \"There was not the racial prejudice, the gay prejudice or any other kind years ago because our parents and school teachers would not allow it\" -- I am compelled to deduce that Mr. Granas is African American and gay. How else could he state the case so confidently?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A gay relationship - the safest place for a man to be - literally!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm convinced that campus \"diversity\" is a concept that is more prized as an icon than as a actual social reality.\n\nI attended one of the most liberal universities, and was curious about how diversity would affect campus life. I expected everyone blending together in social harmony, but instead, everyone split off into separate ethnic groups of Cambodian, Lao, Jewish, Gay, Filipino, Taiwanese, Ecuadoran, Japanese, Chinese, Chicano, Black, etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Typical liberal rationalization. Once again you prove my point 100%. \" You seem to have this continual need to speak to this subject, which seems to be part of a complicated sexuality.\" Possibly you can provide some actual evidence to prove your accusation? You complain about other's \"bullying\" but fail to see your own clear intent. You want to get a rise out of me, good luck with that, if anything I am very thick skinned. My original comment dealt with Fr Martin claiming exactly what you are claiming now. Both his and your intent is very transparent. You have now triggered a hidden part of my psyche and I now know I must suffer from the delusional thinking of being transgendered as well as homosexual, but wait if I am a transgendered female who still is attracted to females it would make me a lesbian. Oh the horror. Now that really is not \"cool\". Good grief the hypocrisy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If she said she was gay, you would built a monument to her! Complete with an ACDC restroom!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about equal treatment for the majority, I'm guessing you believe in the Constitution as long as it suits you , how about the second amendment you believe in that, there is plenty of room in the world for everyone, if I own a business and refuse to serve a white redneck, would there be a lawsuit and lose my business, if I was gay I would not want a cake baked by somebody who didn't want my business, its pretty pathetic that some people need the government to force a another's lifestyle upon them and gain legitimacy by government intervention, this is not the way to gain legitimacy, that is gained by actions not political activators.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clearly I am defending the obvious truth when rumor is that someone burned Mr. Sparhawk's flag. Read my other posts today, please. You will see that I have uniformly condemned the actions of those few demonstrators who damaged Mr. Sparhawk's pickup.\n\nI don't consider those breakaway demonstrators to be fascists at all. I don't know what they are except vandals in this case. Nit pick? That's a silly conclusion, since I used the R-G reporting, along with the video, to make my points, which found fault with both Mr. Sparhawk and with a few breakaway individuals from what was otherwise a peaceful protest march. The only bigotry I saw in the video was when a demonstrator called Mr. Sparhawk a \"fascist\" and when Mr. Sparhawk used an obscene epithet for homosexual to insult a demonstrator.\n\nI support peaceful demonstration whether by liberals or conservatives. I don't support vandalism, threats, or violence. If by \"left\" you mean liberal people like myself, of course I support myself - cont'd", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Non solution to a non problem. The only motivation transgendered people have in going into the bathroom is their need to pee. Stop inventing prurient motives on their part.\nBut then again, Minnery needs to get paid to push small government solutions like the bathroom law. Hey bonus we might be distracted talking about this while Alaska (and soon the nation due to Ryan's tax cuts) goes broke!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In 1938 how comfortable would you have been with Adolf Hitler having thermonuclear ICBMs while threatening repeatedly to \"annihilate\" America?\n\nHitler and Kim are both fascists.\n\nEach thinks his race is superior to all others.\n\nHitler exterminated Jews, Slavs, gays, political opponents, and gypsies.\n\nKim wants to exterminate Americans, Japanese and political opponents.\n\nBoth subscribed to extreme nationalism, socialism, and the complete subordination of ordinary people to the state.\n\nBoth believed in a reign of terror as well as militarism and war to accomplish their imperialistic goals. Hitler wanted Lebensraum & Kim wants SK.\n\nBoth nurtured a cult of personality of a \"Supreme Leader\" to whom each person must give unquestioning loyalty and obedience or be killed.\n\nBoth used concentration camps to enforce their fascist rule.\n\nIf Chamberlain & Deladier had stood up to fascism in 1938, millions would have been saved.\n\nTrump shall stand up to fascism because appeasement always fails.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A bigger concern: With Sessions this new administration sounds like \"Big Government Conservatism\" with lots of people and lots of resources used to control our behavior if possible-- not just marijuana, but also look for a rollback on women's freedom of choice, LBGT rights (as gay marriage), more police and private prison guards to \"crack down on crime\"and then the huge increase in border guards -- plus a big military increase.......all paid for by a cut in taxes......", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First, the fiasco of taxing the employee discounts. Somehow, the Liberal government was asleep at the wheel.\n\nNext, the cutback of benefits of injured JTF2 soldiers. Again, the Liberal government was asleep at the wheel.\n\nNow, Canada doesn't even show up to the TPP meetings, long after Prime Minister Harper had finalized the deal?\n\nThis is a true embarassment to Canada. If it wasn't for just plain ineptitude or laziness, the only other fallback excuse Justin could have is that the trade deal does not mandate transgender rights or require fair trade in the coffee bean industry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One, interracial marriages doesn't re-define the the definition of marriage. So that argument is baseless.\n\nSecond, \"Thus, Phillips creation of a cake doesn\u2019t \u201cendorse\u201d homosexual marriage. His beliefs end where others\u2019 rights begin.\" \"Endorse\" equal support of homosexual marriage? Most on the left endorses the left wing media's witch hunt of Trump, because they believe the election was stolen, supporting what the media is doing, regardless of the evidence or lack of. The belief in political correctness is to infringe on the RIGHT of free POLITICAL speech, so rights of many are being tramped on all the time, base on beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't want to give you a heart attack, but I am proudly gay and Catholic. I attend Mass weekly. Say the rosary daily. I am an avid reader of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and yes, I am in a loving, committed relationship with a man. It's been my salvation, in the truest sense of the word. Oh, I teach in a Catholic high school.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clericalism might be at the root of cover-ups but is it as the root of the actual offenses? My theory is much simpler: lots of clerics act out their sexuality belatedly and without savvy, so in the case of gay clerics (a majority perhaps) they may reach out to the objects nearest to hand, namely male teenagers. It's much the same as the case with professors in Oxford and Cambridge when they had to be celibate: a huge proportion were gay and their object of desire, inevitably, was found among the student body. (Or perhaps the same thing extends to public schools back then.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your doctorate is obviously not in a field which requires much writing because your prose is disjointed, at best. Are you suggesting that there is no \"dogmatic source\" for the proposition that homosexual acts are sinful? Or that man is simply unable to discern what constitutes a \"homosexual act'? Or are you simply displeased that certain theologians who have taught cintrary to this teaching have been \"censored\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A report like this is simply de rigueur boiler plate.. Does anybody think a militant feminist in charge of writing a report about any organization that is 95% male find anything but a cesspool of vice? It's not unlike BLM claiming the white gay population of Toronto is a cesspool of racism. It couldn't be anything but.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ask Jim McCrea, I was replying to his comment in which he used the phrase, \"homosexual acts among opposite-sex couples.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're quoting the Old Testament. The Old Testament is nothing more than the history of God's people. Christ came to be the New Covenant, i.e. the New Testament-which supersedes the Old-but I would point out that the New Testament condemns homosexuality in much the same way the Old Testament does. In short, all those laws in Leviticus, about which you complain, no longer have any force-unless you're Jewish.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True Motley, conservatives can only hope he \"will help their agendas,\" including a big military, cheap labor costs and a lowering of taxes and controls on the rich and the big corporations, as well as social conservatives' goals of restrictions on abortion and homosexual rights.\n\nTrump's simple \"ideology\" strikes me as that of the typical teenage boy, to \"do whatever you can get away with\" which is fleshed out by Bannon's full-throated \"it's a battle to the death out there\" Social Darwinism, radically different than the Republican Establishment's classic \"Functionalism.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "5/5\nIn that former world, the fact we have free will, meant that anyone who violated those norms, be it extramarital sex or homosexuality, was freely choosing to violate nature. Now, in our current world, when we ask what is \u201cnatural\u201d in terms of sexuality, we get very different answers. We are profoundly aware of psychological compulsion, so we are able to distinguish biological sex from sexual orientation, etc., etc.\n\nSo our dedication to natural law as a moral guide can be retained re sexual morality, but we understand our sexual nature differently, so we must be open to re-conceive the guidance of the Spirit. Sure, the episcopal magisterium is stuck in the old worldview, but theologians and most educated laity have move forward. Since the Church is all of us, we can and should say that the Church has grown organically primarily in our generation and that of our children and grandchildren.\n\n(Sorry, Lesia, sometimes my fingers just won\u2019t stop. My wife calls it pontificating.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(c)In summary, findings from this nationwide online survey\nreveal strong links between age at first anal intercourse and\nfuture sexual health and behaviour. In the sample presented in\nthis paper, those who became HIV positive, engaged in higher\nrisk sexual behaviour and reported other poorer sexual health\noutcomes tended to have had their first anal intercourse at\na younger age than other men. With the median age of sexual\ndebut continuing to decline, clinicians and other health service\nproviders, as well as researchers, need to pay particular attention\nto gay men\u2019s earliest sexual experiences. In particular, men who\nreport having anal intercourse at a young age are likely to be at\nheightened HIV vulnerability and therefore require additional\neducation and support for ensuring a healthier sex life. Further\neducation around safer sex practices that specifically targets gay identified\nyouth may also be required to ensure their sexual\ndebut does not lead to poorer sexual health outcomes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "'Reparative (conversion) therapy' has been proven to work in many cases. The deliberate censorship of it, is un-charitable. Homosexual sins are sins just like any other bodily abusive conduct. Any way we can stop abusive carnal or addictive sin is pleasing to God our Almighty Father.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Father Hall, look on the bright(er) side. You could be ministering to the Catholic faithful on the other side of the Delaware River in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. \n\nYes, indeed, our current spiritual leader, when he was leading the Catholic faithful in Denver, Colorado, deemed it necessary, right, appropriate, etc. to support the local Catholic elementary school's pastor decision to deny enrollment for children registering for the elementary school because their parents were lesbians. Of course, a similar incident, i.e., of kicking an excellent religion teacher to the curb because of her homosexual relationship, occurred at Waldron Mercy Academy in June 2015.\n\nBishop Myers and Archbishop Chaput - perfect together !\n\nFather, thank you for your work, diligence and service to all people of faith.\n\nMichael Skiendzielewski\nCaptain (Retired)\nPhiladelphia Police Dept.\nSt. Joseph's University, 1974", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She looks transgendered.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "MSW in no way states that he is afraid that criticism of the ban on gay men in the seminary (which was not signed by the Pope) would hurt any environmental concerns expressed by the Church. Get your facts right!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The homosexuals abused 80 of the child victims, and those who believe the church's teaching on homosexuality are the villains.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What a difference a day makes. Cruz gets mortally wounded and gives up the fight. Kasich as reported this morning is tossing in the towel as well. Nobody, Nobody saw this outcome a year ago. Few would buy into it as little as a week ago. Hillary was spouting in her stump speech that the repubs were headed for a contested convention, a jab if you will on her part. That in itself makes her look kind of stupid considering her big dollar team running the show. \nWhat the media and the pundits fail to get is this country is tired of the pc crapolla, the direction, the racist dividing and in general the results of the past 8 years. Make that 30 years, same ole same ole out of both parties, trading spit and sticking it to the people. We've spent the past 4 years on gay this that and the other thing, bathroom choices, and all the ghetto issues that won't go away. How about we focus on jobs, education and all those things that matter? I can only hope this is a beginning.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Young lgbt persons, as you put it, are only vulnerable because they deviate from the natural order of God's creation. Their immortal souls are in true peril so it doesn't help them when you have shepherds like Martin, Cupich, Dolan and their ilk encouraging them to keep on going down the path to perdition.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CFHR is a religious based entity as you note.....SPLC, the Anti Defamation League, et al are US non profits with an extensive history of protecting the civil rights of \"classes of citizens\" .....Jews, blacks, women, gays etc....from \"class discrimination\".... If the Church was discriminating hostilely against a \"class\" in the US then I would certainly identify that as a hateful....and if the UN was attempting to protect the rights of gays and CFHR was objecting...I would find that hateful too.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If alcoholism is a \u201cdisease\u201d, then why can I not catch it from another person, and why are there no alcoholism epidemics? What bacteria or virus is supposedly the cause of this \"disease\"?\n\nThis is just another case of authorities and those in power undermining the very idea of personal responsibility. And remember, this is the same American Medical Association that for many decades officially considered homosexuality a \"disease\" as well, and that is currently trying to pressure doctors into declaring those who oppose the current corrupt and elitist status-quo in any meaningful way as suffering from \"oppositional defiance disorder\", in the best tradition of the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes in the Stalinist USSR.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For me, this is irrelevant. It's a good idea, and properly implemented it could help keep the sitting government from advertising for itself using public funding, but the reality for me is that every other concern suddenly shifted to second place when the BC NDP passed an internal policy restricting straight, white males from running as candidates. Unless you can demonstrate you're part of some minority status, you literally can't run for the NDP nomination. \n\nThe policy forced a man looking to run in a riding to \"reveal\" he was bisexual in a secret meeting with the party, and when his win was contested by his disabled, female competitor, that secret meeting became public so he could justify his presence in the competition. It's pretty clear his sexuality was invented so that he could circumvent the restriction.\n\nThat kind of bigotry has no place in Canadian politics, and any straight male in BC that votes for the BC NDP needs their head examined.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The University could have some sort of campus ministry to people who have a homosexual inclination, so that they can understand the Church's clear teachings, and learn to integrate the teachings of the church into their lives.\"\n\nSpoken as though there's not a soul alive on planet earth who needs to be told what the church's clear teachings are on homosexuality: go forth and live a celibate life devoid of love, affection, companionship, with a built-in support system and all the other things that make life worth living that straight people take completely for granted. We got it. No need for a special campus ministry to tell us all about about the \"joys\" of living a dour life of forced celibacy (which is unlike the chosen kind joyfully opted for by priests and religious.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dear Fr. Thomas,\n\nThank you for writing this article. Of course, the identity of the Church's priests is a very important thing: they are first and foremost servants of God. What I can't understand, then, is why sexual orientation need be an important aspect of that priestly identity: you seem to agree, insofar as a man should not be turned away from seminary based on sexual orientation.\n\nAt the same time, would the irrelevance of sexual orientation in selecting priests not also carry over into the active lives of the priests? It is perfectly irrelevant that a man is attracted sexually to this or that category of people when that man is a priest. Hence, there is no meaningful classification of \"gay priests\" or \"straight priests\", but only priests as such. What good is to announce one's \"identity\" as a \"gay priest\" if that is irrelevant to his duties as a servant of God? That only exacerbates issues through the prism of identity politics and needless sensation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Again, what's with the personal attacks and the refusal to address the substance of the filial correction?\n\nAlready, the San Diego bishop has already extended the logic of AL to include active homosexuals. Some bishops in Canada have already extended the logic of AL to include final communion for people who choose to kill themselves by euthanasia. \n\nNotice something? Instead of the age-old teaching that one must use the sacrament of confession to be in a state of grace to receive the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, this pope is gradually reducing it to a symbolic meal, regular medicine in the field hospital of life. But what kind of medicine is it really if you can't even be bothered to change your sinful ways to receive the real Presence? What makes it diabolical is that this pope is actually encouraging people to compound their original sin with the sin of sacrilege by using their conscience as the sole guide to determine whether to take communion or not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As gay man, I remember the first Pride Parade in Calgary in 1991. Many of us wore masks. There were no cheering crowds or corporate sponsors on hand- only hostile religious protesters, one of whom set their Rottweiler against us (the owner was arrested). The Mayor received death threats for supporting the event, and the whole thing was a huge controversy in the media. \n\nNow, the Calgary Parade is one of the biggest festivals in Alberta, attracting more than 60,000 people each year. What makes this event so popular is the fact that EVERYONE is included and welcome to attend. I would have hoped that the Toronto Parade, which has been going on much longer than Calgary's, would recognize the importance of inclusion more than anyone. It seems to me that Toronto Pride has allowed themselves to be intimidated by the agenda of one group, and that is not a good message to send to the country.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not saying I agree with the baker, but I'm saying in a free society with free speech, he should have the freedom to serve anyone he wants, or not, for any reason, or none. If he wants to turn away clients, he can do that. \n\nSince all of this in the news, I guarantee that numerous gay couples have boycotted this bakery. They have the freedom to do so. It works both ways.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You forgot to include that Paul McHugh, the psychiatrist had his research disowned by the rest of John Hopkins and they reopened their trans clinic-- a clear rebuke of his ideas. So, take that source out, and you literally just have the opinion of Nicole, who is not a psychiatrist or doctor. Good try tho buddy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, we tyrants who believe that we should not discriminate against our LGBT brothers and sisters. How terrible we are to actually practice Christian love. No wonder conservatives oppose us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Although I have been heartened by Francis's more pastoral approach to LGBT persons, I have come to see that he must formally remove the \"intrinsically disordered\" label with which magisterial teaching has burdened our gay brothers and sisters. It has used as a cudgel against them for far, far too long.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Canadians are about to lose their Right to Free Speech as parliament gets set to vote for, Liberal MP Iqra Khalid\u2019s M-103 bill!\n\nThis bill will criminalize all criticism of islam and sharia law and force Canadians to accept sharia law limits on everything!\n\nCriticize islam for killing homosexuals? Sorry that is now hate speech!\nCriticize islam for female genital mutilation? Sorry that is now hate speech!\nCriticize islam for allowing men to beat women? Sorry that is now hate speech!\nCriticize islam for honor killings? Sorry that is now hate speech!\n\nWant to maintain your Freedom of Speech Rights, then contact your local MP and tell them they are totally wrong forcing sharia law on Canadians!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yiannopoulos chose a difficult market niche to say the least, designed to disturb and provoke. Many conservatives didn't like him being gay, and many gays didn't like him being conservative. Liberals in general were driven crazy and some to violence by this combination, not to mention his association with their most hated news outlet, Breitbart. No one, and I mean no one, but pederasts liked him or anyone else advocating pedophilia. He needs to deal with his own victimhood in a more private way, and reassess his life in significant ways. But I hope he stays conservative and uses that in a more grown up manner. He's a smart guy with many abilities that should not be wasted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps because it isn't our problem anymore that it is for the LGBTs in 10 countries have the death penalty for being gay that M-103 now says has nothing to do with religion....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe when we have a World War or a Civil war against the views of baking a cake for a gay couple, and that side wins, will this be an equal comparison.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, but more. Science also explains why there are two sexes (and not three or more), and also offers explanations to why not every component aligns 100% of the time. They are rare misalignment (\"error\" has negative connotations) from typical development following the mathematics of natural selection and reproductive success, whether genetic cases (e.g., XXY instead of XX or XY), physical development (e.g., hermaphrodites), different psychological gender identity (e.g., transgendered, non-binary), or even sexual orientation (e.g., homosexual, bi). Understanding why these cases occur, currently to varying levels, doesn't negate the underlying principle of binary sexes. Likewise, the existence of different types of colour blindness doesn't mean there aren't 3 primary visual colours. \n\nThere's nothing morally wrong with any of the exceptions, and they have equal individual rights against discrimination, but nobody else can compel speech or ruin careers over individualized pronouns.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm an NDP and Green supporter, have been for years. I have walked in protests for Gay rights among other things. Planted trees across this country... and met Jordan Peterson. I have his book Maps of Meanings signed by the man himself. I've watched dozens of hours of his lectures. This article is a dishonest and manipulative hit piece. There are so many half facts specifically chosen to make him look bad. The whole thing is a joke. I think it's unfortunate that you couldn't find a more balanced way to approach this story, his supporters are not all right wing nut jobs. Not by a long shot and neither is he. The Globe and Mail must be held to a higher standard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...profoundly respecting the persons in question....\" \nAnalysis: Oh, oh, looks like a typical hierarch \"intrinsic\" contradiction coming....\n\"...cannot admit those...who practice homosexuality...\"\nAnalysis: It requires \"practice\" (attempt at humour)? This is a veritable \"trumpian\" license to examiners to release their inner homophobia and repressed self-hatred projected on victimized others. Until it is applied equally to candidates who have \"practiced\" heterosexuality it is sinfully discriminatory. \n\"...present deep-seated homosexual tendencies...\" \nAnalysis: Okay. If any candidate \"presents\" a \"deep-seated\" tendency to violate the promis/vow of chastity is treated equally. Sounds like a \"wink, wink\" license to \"man-up\" the clergy- Burke wins! Just google the \"mangelization\" web site to be sickened. \n\"...support the, so-called, \"gay culture\"\"\nAnalysis: another \"burkian\" license to \"man-up\". This, to me, is the most dispicable point. Anything and everything is reason to exclude.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "About 20 years ago, a help-wanted advertisement ran in the UO student newspaper for a position that was publicly funded. The ad included the boilerplate proclamation that the university proudly adhered to EEOC hiring practices and ended with the phrase \"women, gays and lesbians, and minorities encouraged to apply.\" As a member of the only subset implicitly discouraged from applying, I called the campus EEOC office to inquire. The \"gulp\" on the other end was audible. Sometimes the clumsy just can't help it.\n\nTwo decades later, that local legacy is in the right left hands.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The third was removed because it doesn't lead to \"any behaviors\" other than the behaviours consenting sex between adults generally leads to. There is no psychological defect and no social cost. The social cost was in the criminalization of homosexuality and its associated discrimination. This is clearly not the case with kleptomania, which is a compulsive disorder that has a moral and social cost, and alcoholism which is a disease that kills people, both the victim and other people the victim may come in contact with when under the influence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Self- (or is that \"selfie?\") fulfilling prophecy.\n\nThe trans community (and yes, I agree, they suffer a lot) likes to say we are \"assigned\" a \"gender\" (sex, really) at birth, as if it were an option like a hotel room - 428, versus say room 506.\n\nThis move will be a step towards real life bending to a fiction...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The KofC's politics are the mirror image of the hierarchy's dark politics - only the hierarchs can't say those hideous and repulsive things in public. All these associations with really dark political forces - especially on the political right-wing - reflects almost perfectly the political activity and ideology of the hierarchs that is always just below the radar of most Catholics in the pews. \n\nChief among them is the hierarchs' anti-feminine, misogynist ideology that demonizes and tries to shame all things female - and to support their self-loathing homosexuality which they must be suppressed for public consumption. \n\n[The hierarchs' sappy adoration of the Virgin doesn't count because they have leached all the real humanity/femininity out of the Mother of God - making her the perfect feminine placeholder they need for their pantheon of the demigods they worship. Don't look for the Gospel to have any sway with them.]", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"In some sense, the pope, like the president, is responsible [for the ban on gay seminarians], but it is not earth shattering....Interest groups are capable of making something that is not that important seem earth-shattering and, conversely, minimizing the downside of the proposals they advocate.\"\n\n\nSorry, but if you're a gay man who seriously believes you are being called by God to be a priest and the church tells you you either have to lie to your superiors about who you really are in order to proceed with your ministry or forget about it and do something else with your life, that is earth-shattering for the people involved. And since Pope Francis did verbally reaffirm B16's ban on gay seminarians, it matters not that he didn't sign any document to that effect - the ban still bears his imprimatur. That local reporter was right to ask MSW about that story because it is indeed newsworthy and MSW is wrong in downplaying its significance simply because it makes him uncomfortable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clerics and Rabbi made the rules speaking for God. Whether they were listening properly when doing so is a very open question and depends on natural law analysis of what they came up with. Unprivileged natural law teaching on homosexuality is not looking good for the Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"They support ...church teaching about love and marriage, religious freedom...\"\n\nThat all sounds so innocent until you realize that \"supporting church teaching on love and marriage\" means spending over $6 million to fund efforts to deprive gay citizens all over the country their guaranteed right under the U.S. Constitution to civil marriage and the 1138 rights and privileges it affords, many of them financial, or that \"religious freedom\" means the ability to fire, evict, or refuse service to people in the public sphere simply on the basis of their sexual orientation. Then it doesn't sound so innocent - for the simple reason that it isn't - it's mean.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"and Goebbels Cheney\"\n\nYou don't get it. The Cheney ship sailed away with Hillary. She was the neoconservative interventionist. She wanted a no-fly zone in Syria and war with Russia. That's not happening anymore because Trump won. He wrecked those plans. He upset the established order of permanent war in the Middle East. He decided to ally with Russia against the terrorists. \n\nI know, I know, \"our allies.\" Poor Saudi Arabia cannot accomplish their goals. Their $20 million donation to the Clinton Foundation was based upon their honest, genuine, heartfelt support for women's rights and gay rights in Africa. I'm sure. \n\nI'm sorry that the \"evil dictator\" is still in power in Syria. If only we could have \"spread democracy\" there like we did in Iraq and Libya. Those were such glorious and righteous causes! If only we could have let the radical Islamic jihadists take over Syria too, then everything would be so much better like it is in Mosul or Benghazi!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"traditions die hard in the military\" Really? Desegregation in the 40s? Women in the military with the same pay in the 70s? Minority and women generals/admirals in the 70s? Women in combat? Accommodation for pregnancy in the 80s? Recognition of gays and gay marriage? I think if one really looks into it, one will find the military is in the vanguard of social change and why would that be?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you know what my problem is with all of this? It's not that I think the emeritus professor was right to speak the way he did - he wasn't and he's obviously quite a bit out of touch for speaking that way. My problem with this, as a gay person, is that I've had to put up with so many comments like this in my life, but I just took them and tried to gently educate folks who said things like this to me. I never ran to my bosses or to the media. I took it and became an ambassador. And many of the folks who spoke to me that way in the past would give me the best reference you could imagine today. I feel like I've climbed really high in the world because I was willing to forgive and educate rather than lash out at these people. Maybe I'm doing it wrong...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But Ashley Lukens says only large agribusinesses would be affected?! Good to see you catching on now. If RUPs are sold in 5# containers and you need one for your farm in Waialua and another in Punaluu, but your field borders a school yet your less than 30 acres, you still have to notify all people and should you miss one person, that one person can cause you to be fined and even taken to court. \n\nGlad to see you actually catching on now. As for your frog comment on pesticides, repeated studies have come out without seeing the same result. The developing world thinks that the single study equates to chemicals turning humans gay, which is still a death sentence in these countries.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I taught and counseled at a residential facility for juvenile sex offenders...both heterosexual and homosexual. The psycho-pathology of sex offending is unique and complex. Simple incarceration is of little, if any, use in any rehabilitation efforts. If the young man is guilty I hope he's placed in a program which will address his issues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is very much what authoritarian leaders do to take people's attention off the self-interested behavior of the leaders. \nStart talking about how crime-ridden our streets are, and no one will notice that one of Trump's first actions was to stop an insurance premium cut for FHA-backed mortgages. Of course, his millionaire friends have no need for FHA-backed mortgages. \nFew will notice that he is putting off the govt's push to challenge a Texas voter ID law that, arguably, intentionally discriminates against Latino and African-American voters and to delay an initial hearing on a deal to address systemic problems in the Baltimore Police Dept. and to get rid of the White House website pages about climate change, LGBT issues, civil rights, and health care. \nWhy would help for police have to come at the cost of diminishing attention to civil rights and LGBT issues and climate change and health care?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is nothing wrong with counter-protesting and the proud boys are openly anti-gay and while they claim not to be racist they aren't shy about throwing around ethnic slurs.\n\nThey claim they're \"alt-light\" instead of \"alt-right\" and they recently formed \"a new group of right-wing street fighters, called the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (or FOAK), dedicated to 'defense and confrontation' in the streets.\"\n\nThey are recruiting people who are \u201ccomfortable in fisticuffs\u201d. They're looking for fights is what they're doing.\n\nhttp://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/alt-right-hopes-to-organize-street-fighting-goon-squad-is-it-more-than-macho-posturing/\n\nThese guys may not quite be the KKK, but many of their views seem to align. Would you object to people protesting a Klan march?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To me, no.\nBut we're talking about the Catholic Church here, a religious organization protected by the First Amendment.\nAccording to the Catholic Church, racism is a mortal sin and so is homosexuality.\nI didn't make the rules, the Church did.\nWould you prefer this example instead: \nWhat if I wanted to form a group which promoted abortion? \nNow, as a conservative civil libertarian, I'm pro-choice, but I don't expect the Catholic Church to support my views.\nIt is a private, religious institution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "According to these same \"experts,\" transsexual gender identification is not a mental illness.\n\nIn any case, if what they experts say about priests raping boys *not* being an indication of homosexual orientation, then wouldn't we expect to see the same high rate of men interested in boys in some other area of society besides the Catholic church?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Y'know, many of the Church Fathers like St. Jerome taught that when Christ was born, all peoples practicing homosexuality died to purify the world for the Incarnation. Lux orta est iusto.\nMakes you think.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now you are just going off topic. You are now talking about things not being natural, but we were discussing issues relating to homosexuality. You then start rattling on about wanting to play shopkeeper and somebody called Sue Springsteen. I've never heard of her, and I'm a little old to be indulging you in your odd obsession with wanting to work in a cake store.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You just did by saying they went into the bakery with an agenda. Many movements started with \"agendas\", and as such, it should not diminish what happened. \n\nGays like to compare their movement to blacks because it is the most relevant movement from recent history which comes anywhere close to what they are trying to do. Is it the same? No. The history of blacks in America is horrifying and not really anything close to what is going on now. However, can you name me another point in American history when a specific subgroup of people were being denied services based on things like \"religion\" or beliefs that was not later determined to be unjust?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She was a \"deeply flawed person\" because of her actions and her choices - private email servers and more than 33,000 deleted emails; allowing American embassy personnel (including the ambassador himself!) to be viciously murdered in Benghazi, despite their repeated requests for more security; decades of controversy and investigations tied to her and her husband.\n\nBut more seriously, she was \"deeply flawed\" because of her political positions: pro-choice, pro-late term abortion, pro-gay \"marriage\", pro-Obamacare, pro-embryonic stem cell research, pro-tax, anti-religious liberty, anti-Catholic, anti-free market, anti-business...she would have continued the trend of pushing this nation and its citizens to the extreme political left, all the while demeaning and insulting those who disagreed with her (\"deplorables\") and never once trying to persuade, just use the power of government to coerce and impose.\n\nHer flaws had nothing to do with her gender, and everything to do with her character.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Judah: Your comment just screams \"trolling\". Especially such a flippant last sentence. I have what I believe to be a realistic expectation that \"your kind\" will eventually form PACs, much along the line of what the LGBT's did, and get some \"protective\" legislation passed. However, Farmers don't kill all the snakes on their property, because they help keep the rats in check. The LGBT's have pushed for tolerance of different lifestyles, which is a good thing for our state, and a sound reason for tolerating them. I find it difficult to see exactly what benefit \"your kind\" will bring to Alaska, some rational which would persuade the majority of Alaskans to refrain from instinctively wanting to eradicate them. If you really are \"one of them\", you might want to refrain from such flippant remarks, because it will not take a lot to provoke most Alaskans into finding legal ways to put \"your kind\" out of their misery. Alaska is but one serious provocation away from Civil Commitment Laws!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, the best thing would be for the priest to show that though we are all sinners, we are also part of the faith, all of us. We don't kick sinners out - or there would be no one left. Don't focus on one kind of \"sin\" - as if there was only one or two that were worthy of kicking someone out of the parish, out of the faith community, for breaking. People get divorced, have affairs, cheat, steal. They even commit child sexual abuse - which does not involve consent between two individuals but coercion of another. But child sex abuse doesn't get someone kicked out of the parish. Gay marriage? Wow. That is what does it.\n\nIt is all a mess because of this focus on gay marriage as if it were some ultimate sin. He didn't denounce his faith - his faith, through a priest and a bishop, denounced him as a child of God. There is no walking a path of faith and redemption with someone you kick off the path.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, but not *only* LGBT people, which is the real newsflash for you. The LGBT community is not the only constituency affected or potentially affected by this treaty. Constantly trying to frame every issue as solely or primarily about the LGBT community results in a \"sky is falling\" impression on the rest.\n\nWhether or not this is a toothless ban is entirely beside the point. Anybody familiar with the workings of international law at the UN understands the paving stones that ultimately lead to action. The US should be consistent *from the beginning* that it opposes an international law abolishing capital punishment. And it is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I enjoy their acceptance of gay people and their ordained female clergy myself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe the John Jay report made clear that by far the most pervasive problem was homosexual acts toward preteen and teenage males. So the reference you make to Cardinal Burke does not indicate bias on his part, but rather an acknowledgement of the facts as they have come to light.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "may their memories be eternal. and may the sins of the church and her leaders toward the Jews, the Muslims, the gays, women, transfolks, and any others never be forgotten either. never again, never again, never again!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Had he made this comment about an African American, a Latino or a GLBT, he would have been fired on the spot...it's still ok to make racially insensible remarks about Asians (see Colbert or Biden)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, what I said was in error. My reply should read: She told her constituents she was anti abortion and anti gay and voted accordingly. Now she has become pro choice and pro marriage equality. Sorry for the confusion. Those are pretty serious transformations to be making in so short a time, OR was she being untruthful to her constituents?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is intellectually dishonest to pretend that everything has a gray area. I reject your twisted rationalizations for bigotry. Homophobia is evil. Misogyny is evil.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for the apology. The fact that John Doyle didn't know Mr. Levy was gay, and further didn't know that \"fey\" was a age-old homophobic slur, makes the point that he is out of touch with the world in which he is charged with critiquing. It's time for new blood.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You guys sure seem to be fixated on the transgender thing. Who knew this was a $125 billion issue?\n\nFrom what I gather from you, every morning at his security briefing he'd say \"Before you fill me in on the situations in Syria, Afghanistan, the South China Sea, and streamlining our operations, let's spend an hour or two discussing transgendered troops.\" Sound about right to you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're missing the point. Pastors, Bakers and photographers don't want to do your gay wedding. That's their choice. Go somewhere else that WILL. \n\nI'm perplexed why gay people would want to support a business that doesn't even support their gayness anyway lmao", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We all know your views on gay men. Though I have to wonder, how does the life choices(which it's not a choice) of gay men effect you. Are you at risk for HIV infection from either a gay man, or injection drugs?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, and the buttercups at Berkeley rioted in protest of Milo's mere presence. They must really hate gay people there. Did not know so many homophobes went to college in California.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The whole point is to change history, not to get revenge for it.\nThere is nothing to show that blacks or gays are specifically mistreated by police today in Canada.\nThe Chief of police in Toronto is Black and the force is full of Gay officers.\nJust because BLM has formed in the USA doesn't mean it belongs in Canada.\nBLM and Gay pride have almost nothing in common and it is ridiculous that they share any values like this. Public dollars should only go to events that are open to all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know the Nazis murdered homosexuals. How does that help your point? All this law would do is legitimize bigotry. That's unamerican.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Once again a false equivalency. A young woman acknowledging she is a lesbian is in no way comparable to a woman being coerced into a sexual relationship with a boss. Actually, it's really a waste of effort to discuss this with you....I'm sorry I bothered. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First, transgendered individuals are not transvestites - the two are completely different.\n\nSecond, it's impossible to align a transgendered individual's mind with their body - any treatment has to be physical.\n\nMoreover, in an ever growing number of Canadian provinces and US cities and states it's illegal to subject minors to so called \"conversion therapy\" (which is a blanket term for any treatment that is intended to change an individual's gender identity or sexual orientation). Not only doesn't it work but it's actually harmful - if in doubt, google \"Leelah Alcorn\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She said she would accept the primary results, which was a lie. She bought union and native votes with a write in campaign. She got Democrat votes from Scott McAdams, he only got 20% of the vote with 40% of the state Democrat. She \"evolved\" on gay marriage, abortion and other liberal issues. She sold her Kenai River property for close to a million dollars profit. She was the \"most qualified\" to replace her dad from over 30 candidates. It was NEPOTISM. I do NOT trust her, she leans left, I wouldn't put it past her to switch parties from RINO to dem", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Would you homophobes stop pretending that pedophilia is linked to homosexuality. Or is your fear and loathing of gays such that you either can't or won't?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is the problem with transgendered people. /s", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First of all, I'm not aware of any gas stations that still pumps gas for you. Second, pumping gas for a gay man is not actively participating in him being gay. If he was forced to decorate the man's car and write \"Just married\" on the back window, then he should be able to refuse it. The key is whether or not he is required to actively participate (those are the key words) in something that is against his religious beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are homosexual acts among opposite-sex couples intrinsically evil? If not, why not?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I grew up in Anchorage in the late 1950s and 1960s. Homophobia was systemic and ugly. Gay men had to hide behind fake relationships/marriages with women. Getting fired for being gay was a sport. When the oil patch right-wing gay haters invaded in the 1970s, the dominionists among them gained power and turned the state into a pathetic version of Oklahoma with mountains. Of course conservatives never talk about the men murdered, beaten and harassed for being--or perceived to be--gay in Anchorage back in the day. Alaska politicians (until the Honorable Mayor Berkowitz), like most GOPtp folks, pander to the haters. I left Anchorage primarily because of the fact that it was hard to get decent (or any) medical care for seniors. The other reason I left was the barbaric treatment of LGBT by the State of Alaska, law enforcement, and the whole GOPtp roster of hateful, pandering political office holders. There are the so-called religious \"leaders\" some of whom believe LGBT should be murdered.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you kidding me ? While due to the new system we no longer see the faces of who's commenting , nearly all who use the racist tag are those of color or those who support them. Just as when the issue of gay rights comes up--it's the gays and their supporters calling everyone who won't go along with their agenda homophobes and bigots. If one dares to discuss race and isn't in full agreement with the position of blacks---they are called a racist. No wonder we can't have healing discussions on these issues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, it wouldn't. Again, he didn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding. The issue wasn't serving them at all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Re: \"Where did the pastor say that banks and jewelry stores should not let gay people in the door and should refuse to do business with gay people?\"\n\nIn the \"we don\u2019t have to do business with them.\" part.\n\nIn America, public accommodations laws require businesses to treat ALL customers equally so long as they're dressed appropriately and are not making a disturbance.\n\nLearn a thing or two before you post uninformed drivel like this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It doesn't fire people just for being gay. It fires employees who wantonly and publicly challenge or reject its teachings. The public act of contracting a so-called same-sex marriage is one instance of this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"His right-wing, fear-based campaign also portrayed the peace accord as threatening family values because it recognized the rights of gays and lesbians.\" \u201c[A]nalysts reiterate that the \u2018no\u2019 campaign backed in the name of the family, mustered consensus among parishes and Catholic organizations and movements.\u201d (lastampa.it/vaticaninsider/eng/) \n\u201cPope Francis\u2019 blistering attacks on \u2018gender theory\u2019\u2026 is emboldening Catholic bishops in Colombia.\u201d (cruxnow.com) \"Uribe campaigned against what he framed as attempts to promote a \u2018confused gender ideology\u2019 \u2026. \u2018Saying that one is not born female or male, but that this is defined by society, is an abuse of minors, a disrespect of nature and of the family,\u2019 Uribe stated.\u201d (Washington Post) \"Pope Francis has commented a number of times on the \u201cideology of gender\u201d and even the \u201cideological colonization.\" All men and women are called to accept their sexual identities.\" (USCCB)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump was going to ball all the transgender people? Who knew he had it in him?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It can probably be refused -- because being Hitler is not a protected class. However, if the baker said \"No, because I don't bake cakes for Germans,\" that would be illegal. Bakers can turn down any business, practically speaking, if they are careful about it: \"I'm all booked with weddings for that weekend, sorry\" is ok; \"No, I don't bake cakes for women/gays/Christians/Asians, get outta here\" is not ok.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just another Lot in contemporary Sodom. The homosexuals always end up banging on the door to force their immoral acts on society. Leave and don't look back Stephen. Open up your own market; good people will come to buy your products.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What you allege, that I would discriminate against people who are as you call them LGBT. I never said that at all. I said supported the baker refusing to decorate a cake with pictures or script which he found offensive on account of his religion. Personally, I would have no objection to selling anything to homosexuals as long as I was not asked to design anything which promoted homosexual activity. In the same way I would defend a homosexual's right to refuse to design anything which he would find offensive, the same with a Muslim or a Jew. \nThe nicest neighbours we had in one place where we lived were Jewish and I and my children used to light and look after the fire for them etc on the Sabbath. Would you call that discrimination or antisemitic?\nMy 'opinion' is that buyers and sellers can refuse to enter into contracts with each other without having to give a reason. The Law should not be involved until a contract is actually in place: note, this is my opinion only.\nContd....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now you are moving the goalposts.\n\nChanging the defnition of discrimination is not conducive to debate.\n\nYour position is to allow discrimination in the name of religion. The government is trying to prevent discrimination and asking business owners to be fair.\n\n\nNice try.\n\nThe baker chooses to be offended. Once gays are involved, he melts like a snowflake, unless he does not know.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When a progressive cause is silenced with a ban, NCR publishes a story decrying a curtailment of free speech on the American campus.\nBut when a violent mob shuts down the free speech of a gay Catholic at UC Berkeley (as happened last week with Milo Yannapoulis) NCR won't even bother to mention it.\n\nMy conclusion is that NCR sides with the thugs who use violence to stop the free speech they don't like -- and so do comboxers who react to this post by banning it from the forum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because it is engaged in by same-sex and opposite sex couples, and is sinful in both cases, it makes sense to use one word. \"Sodomy\" has only taken on a caustic sound because it has been buried by homosexual activists, substituted by more benign, normal-sounding \"sex\" terms, e.g. \"anal sex.\" But caustic terms are appropriate for sinful acts.\n\nCall someone a \"liar\" and you'll grab attention; say someone \"stretched the truth,\" and you're hiding evil conduct under benevolent words.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, so those \"actual gays\" should be just fine with chastity, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the deflection begins again!\n\nAnother shooting, this time part of the 3.5% of the population was the target. So the typical outcry is eliminate guns or eliminate discrimination or more hate crimes laws. When the real \"cause\" had nothing to do with firearms or discrimination. The base cause is cultural. The shooter's culture vs American culture.\n\nShooter's Father is pro Taliban, anti American. As a Muslim is anti gay and no doubt expressed that at home. Shooter claimed to be ISIS supporter via reported 911 call before the act. ISIS announced an attack 3 days before. Shooter's ex wife now reports shooter was erratic. These are the storyline so far.\n\nHe and his Father were known to the FBI and \"on their radar\" but the FBI couldn't tie them to any terror cell. Just like the Boston bomber and the San Bernardino shooters. The FBI was useless or complicit. \n\nAccess to firearms? If he was on the FBI radar, why was his background check cleared by the Feds? Think a little.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "and to priests whose past sexual experience presumably did not show homosexuality. Some certainly are, but pederasty is like prison sex, its a form of control and abuse. We know from prison data that most of those who are forced into sex in prison are hetero, and so are their abusers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And, no, I am not advocating for the mistreatment of gays and transgendered. I'm demanding the right of every human being not to be sexually harassed in a public bathroom. Unfortunately, I've had experiences that have taught me that many transgendered males cannot be trusted to act with decorum when they have the opportunity to look over the stall at women. The whole reason for stalls is privacy and laws like this, designed to make the lives of 5% of the population easier, destroy that right for the other 95% of the population..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I couldn't agree more. Where I live in PA, people only consider abortion and anti-gay marriage as their criteria for voting. And much of this is from what they hear from the pulpit. Meanwhile, we are looking at Klansmen now marching without their robes because of our vile President, and we're actually looking at the possibility of nuclear war!!! Trump showed us who he was for 2 years on the campaign. Wait until Mueller gets him on obstruction of justice and/or racketeering. Kind of puts in perspective gays, e-mails and oh, Benghazi. Plus, the rate of abortions always goes down under Democratic administrations. I guess I look at \"pro-life\" in a completely different way. Trump is NOT pro-life.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But that's not what they are saying, John. What they are saying is. \"We believe that same-sex acts are ok, and you must accept that.\" That's a lot different from saying, e.g., \"We have same-sex attraction and you shouldn't treat us differently because of that,\" which I would have no problem with. \n\nThere's enough sexual obsession and perversion in public now with all the porn that is readily available. Fortunately, that is still considered a private matter by most people; few people in civil society are comfortable talking about their porn habits, and rightly so. Yet homosexuals are demanding that with respect to their acts that society be exposed to them - if not literally in their parades - then verbally in our public forums and our children's classrooms. \n\nAnd God forbid if you make a suggestion that same-sex acts are sinful or disgusting or call it \"sodomy.\" Because then you will be attacked and shut down by the activists, like Fr. Martin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cI am not saying that transgender people are predators. Not by a long shot. What I am saying is that there are countless deviant men in this world who will pretend to be transgender as a means of gaining access to the people they want to exploit, namely women and children.\u201d\nDeviant men and, to a lesser extent, women may be in drag, but that is not the same as being transgender. The former is a tool, a lark, a foolishness - transgender is a life.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm also sure that the Dem support of bathroom options for transgenders didn't help. Biological males have no business being in female-only spaces. No means no always - no exceptions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fake news also includes the omission of pertinent facts. This article is fake news on two grounds.\n\nFirst it omits mentioning that the population of Chechnya is about 95 per cent Muslim. It thus fails to address the fact that this explains, in large part at least, the persecution of gay men. \n\nSecond it omits to mention that Russia is the largest country in the world and that Chechnya is tucked away in the remote SW corner. This suggests that an Internal Flight Alternative is readily available and consequently there is no need for Canada to offer asylum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The other one that he forget was prosecute for hate crimes against women and gays, which is a big thing for Islam (I mean the radicals) - forcing women to cover up and throwing gays off buildings.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You practically went airborne in your haste to condemn me, John. That's not Christian, is it? You failed to note that I limited my remarks about gay married couples to instances where the couple was so to speak \"in your face\" and one or both was in a position of prominence. Such people have disdain for the Church's teachings and for those who adhere to those teachings. Don;t be coy or hypocritical; you are among those who disdain adherents to Church teaching on this point.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Again with the irony andy, suggesting that I need to \"calm down\". You're the one posting hyperbole and fear mongering saying that the school's sex ed curriculum is leading to \"gender reassignment surgery\". Seriously? What next? You worried that dancing will lead to sex standing up?\n\nCurious that you're now talking about \"christians\" and not \"Catholics\" when the topic here is Catholic schools. There are numerous Christians who support LGBT rights and equality. There are also Christian fundamentalists including such extremist groups like the Westboro Baptist Church who very clearly do vilify homosexuals. To claim otherwise is either wilful ignorance or self delusion.\n\nThe Catholic Church has this to say: \n\"homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity\"\n\"homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered\"\n\"contrary to the natural law\"\n\"Under no circumstances can they be approved\"\n\"is objectively disordered\"\nthe above courtesy of\nhttp://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nowhere in this article is mentioned the denigration, harassment, and ill-treatment of males by Feminist \"instructors\" and their brainwashed proto-lesbian followers who are ready at the drop of a tampon to cry \"RAPIST!\" If I were \"college age\", I definitely wouldn't go to a campus under those conditions! Unfortunately, according to recent \"news reports\", even \"Community Colleges\" are becoming anti-male cesspools.\n\nAs was mentioned in the article, males are preferring to become \"self-taught\" at a trade. Another way is to do \"on-line\" college programs, which are way cheaper than \"brick and mortar\", or \"Technical Schools\" (i.e., ITT, DeVry) for trade degrees.\n\nLet all the anti-male Feminists and Lesbians \"have their way\". It won't be long before they find themselves TOTALLY ALONE in the world, with NOBODY they can call on for any kind of \"support\"...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In protest, Jeff will be tuning in a gay sitcom on Monday nights with his snowflake friends.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People only refer to themselves as \"straight\" to distinguish them from \"homosexuals.\" There's no need for the word without homosexuals, because it's not an organized group of activists. We're just men and women; the rest is intuitive.\n\nYears agog I recall people referring to people who were \"that way,\" presumably used to completely take the word \"sex\" out of it, because it is the sex acts that are the issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Americans better wake and now. Lets take a Canadian Communist Cuban Bred Rafael Edwardo Cruz. #1 he has sealed all of his mother and his records, she is a Canadain, Cruz born and raised in Canada until 7yrs. old. #2 never applied for U.S. Citizenship papers until 2015 and have not been yet. I checked on this. #3 Heidi Cruz works Goldman Sachs/Citibank she is a manager for them in the Southwest Region of Texas, She got millions from them for Ted on a signature loan. This was never filed with the Federal Election Commission. They did this hoping Ted will be President to protect people like Robert Mercer owes 10 Billion in taxes, at least 20 more just like Mercer. They gave Ted $100 Million. #4 Penelope Cruz' sister killed her self involved in drug sales etc. #5 Deborah Palfrey Washington D C madam phone records show Cruz contact, now she \nis found murdered . Phil North Ted Cruz Pastor wants all gay people killed.#6 His Dad fought with and for Fidel Castro Army . Rafael Bienvenid Cruz.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think that's a yes.\n\nBut he made wedding cakes. If he won't make a gay wedding cake for anyone is he protected? That's where we need a lawyer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One in 5 reported abuse victims is female, including Marie Collins, and the victims of Shawn Ratigan, and the intended victim of seminarian Joel Wright. Twenty percent is not trivial. And the female victims of male clergy cannot be dismissed as an issue of homosexuality. Apparently, heterosexual clergy have abused at a percentage that cannot be considered trivial, especially to those females who were victims. Seminaries could also screen out heterosexuals to prevent abuse of female minors, but then we would be left with just eunuchs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sometimes, civil unrest and an extreme action is called for to get the message heard. That you would devalue the struggle of blacks and gays to receive equal treatment under the law, by referring to them as \"malcontents\" is exactly the reason why BLM and Pride took this action. Frankly it's bigoted to refer to minority groups as malcontents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh ya, it's the liberals who promote \"fear, hate, and anger.\"\n\nRemember when conservatives said allowing gays in the military would undermine unit cohesion and cause a mass exodus from the military?\n\nRemember when allowing same-sex marriage would undermine hetero marriage, and destroy the family?\n\nNow, they are trying to scare us about transgendered people using public restrooms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Canada\u2019s Defence Minister reminds me of that fellow down south, who would also fight wars wherever he could. I think they call him John McCain.\nOr maybe Justin wants to extend the mission to have time to persuade Iraq officials to allow gay parades...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is another evidence President Donald Trump is Not a \"political correctness\" leader. He is a plain \"common sense\" individual that this country values once held. The Liberals and Liberal Democratic party are not common sense folks, so you will hear a lot fire coming out of this political correctness people. Go back to the President Bill Clinton years when he open the Military to homosexuals and lesbians over the objections of practically all the Military leaders. When you have a liberal Democrat in the White house , they are always not supportive of our military. Than came along our Muslim liberal Democratic leader Barack Hussien Obama who approved transgenders in the military. What's next for this country, polagamy marriage in the Military? President Donald Trump is a true American who cares about Americans and a person who cares of our American Godly famiy values that this country once held.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I just believe that the church\u2019s fixation on defining us by a sexual act\u2014a nonprocreating sexual act\u2014to be [an] absurdly myopic, viewed the wrong way down the telescope. And I think it\u2019s sustained, unfortunately, by a lot of emotionally crippled gay men who run the church. And they\u2019ve done a great job in the last ten years of making sure that no one with an independent mind or spirit can really enter the seminaries.\"\n\n\" . . I\u2019m not a Catholic because of issues like gayness. I\u2019m a Catholic because of what I believe to be its revelation of the truth about everything. And either it\u2019s true or it isn\u2019t. And it\u2019s possible for it to be true on some core levels, and yet mistaken, and misplaced, and misguided in other areas. And if you look at the history of the Church, it\u2019s full of it. So I try and hang in there, and let God do the rest.\"\n\nAndrew Sullivan", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My argument about homosexuality isn't a moral one. And frankly, it doesn't affect me what two people do in private. My concerns lie in our culture and our society: what our kids are taught and what gets passed down to future generations. Once my kids get married (to the opposite sex) and settle down, I'll be less inclined to spend the time that I spend here, although I will have concern for my grandkids. \n\nBut I also have concerns for how such radical notions on the most basic yet consequential of acts between humans will impact the world on a greater scale. For example, if the West continues its trajectory of gender-bending, feminization of males, and sexually perverse activities (and all its ills), and the East remains aggressive, sexually conservative (and reproducing/creating more aggressive males), what does the future hold for the West? \n\nNormalization of homosexuality is not new to the world; but wherever it's been tried, it's has been shut down. I assume with good reason.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Man removes testicles of Trans Woman? Other headlines that make as much sense as that are : Monkey Does Shakespeare In The Park, Mute Man Screams For Help, and BigFoot Holds News Conference To Confirm That He Does Not Exist. Can we please get back to some form of normalcy? Is that too much to ask? Obviously, everyone involved seems to be just tad bit off.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The RCC was interpretated by males for males only - nonsense! The model is wrong by excluding women and LGBT as then it attracts some males who supress their sexuality - gay or pedophile or misynogist tendencies. Church needs to evolve to become inclusive and have proper screening to accept genuine dedicated priests (male & female) to follow in Jesus Christ footsteps. Institutional hierarchal church is so far removed from society to understand or practice what love mercy or compassion means. Can it honestly say it did its best on judgement day?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Our city celebrates slugs and trans.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thomas Morse: It's not always nature that people have different needs for like sexual partners. Sometimes it can be nurture, possibly from a parent or people that has power over a child and abuses this kid. The Bible says it's an abomination for a man to lay with another man in the way of a woman. There are some other references in the Bible that I don't believe they are being interpreted correctly by believers. As far as I know, there aren't any references to the Bible that it's an abomination for a person to have dark skin or to be fat, ugly or to be physically handicapped. Your argument doesn't hold water. I believe that a Christian has a right to follow their religion. If they don't want to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple then they shouldn't have to. My thought...the LGBTs have gotten the right to get married. How much more are they going to push for. When are they going to be content with the progress they have gotten? That they are pushing for more pisses me off!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I should have said you can't assume all immigrants are homophobic or hate women. \nAs to background checks, they should be thorough. But how do you discover prejudice if there is no record of discrimination? Do we not already have homophobia and mysogeny with American citizens? Should we deport them?\n\nI do support tough screening but I think that's being done with what resources we have.\n\nNo screening will be perfect in stopping a person with motivation, money and connections. If we could do that,!we'd be the police state you fear.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "and I remain anonymous because the angry conservative \"Christian\" right have targeted gays for centuries - with death and violence and incarceration. Not just gays, but atheists as well. Non-believers. People of different religions or faith, including the rant against Jews earlier in the thread. Jews! That kinda cracks me up.'", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "THE Message is clear - Dems support any policy that harms the US. Open borders, sanctuary status for all illegal aliens (even those who kill), policies that allow voter fraud, protests that turn violent, and transgenders in the US military. Makes no sense to force the rest if to accept the mentally ill as normal and fit to engage in combat.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Weakening what standards? Either you are in complete denial that transgenders might serve capably and honorably, as McCain, Gabbard, and others claim, or you mean to include blacks, women, and gays as evidence of weakened standards. Yikes!\n\nAny word on Trump following up the tweet with an order?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He needs to realize two things.\n1) As a buisness owner discrimination against someone's sexual orientation actually is in contradiction to the Equality Act and therefore is illegal. This was upheld by the State of Washington. So sure, open the door for lawsuits. I am sure that those lawyer expenses will do wonders on his expense ledgers\n2) The freedom he has to practice his religion stops when he is trying to impose them upon others. He is providing a public service as a buisness owner. He losses the right to say he will refuse to serve anyone, based on that. \n\nHe also needs to understand that individuals in the community can also ensure that others are made aware of his bigotry and refuse to patronize his buisness. And if it goes under, I would shed no tear. He can then enjoy explaining to his creditors why their investment went under. \n\nAnd for those that say he has a right to serve whomever. Replace gay with African American or Hispanic, and ask yourself does this sound bigoted?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My husband and I are millennials (although he wouldn't classify himself as one... Born in '80) who voted for Trudeau in the last federal election. I can honestly say now that we both sincerely regret our decision and wish we had voted for Harper. Although he was corrupt, at least he had some of our interests in mind. What has Trudeau achieved so far? With the \"Transgender bill\" C16 and the Islamophobia bill M103 our freedom of speech eradicated has effectively been eradicated. Nothing but SJW nonsense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "500,000 lesbians is not a majority\n175 million women in the US, makes about .002%\nFake news full of oligarch wives who are now unemployed under Trump", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Weren't people like Alexander the Great and Napoleon supposed to have been gay. I'm sure you can find more. Marlon Brando played a gay military person of rank in one of his films at a time when gays were closeted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The issues is \"Should adults have the right to enter into contracts with a school that requests certain conduct in line with the social standards of the school?\" The rule is universal with one exception: anyone is free to agree or leave . The actions of the LGBT justice warriors is an attack on free choice, as they try to force their own biased view on others. Would LGBT interveners go after Muslim Islamic schools that actually teach homosexuals should be killed because they offend Allah (as happened in Orlando)? No certainly not. That would be called Islamophobic, even by the LGBT community. Christians, though, are easy targets. This enters the realm of persecution rather than equal rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unless he has really well documented and explosive dirt on Brannon or Trump, which I doubt, as the Court Jester is rarely involved in such things, Milo will get short shift on the left. The gay community will have nothing to do with him as he is seen as a quisling. No one with any sense will touch this man with a 10 foot pole.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What a pathetic rant. Really. Do you want to know who is really living in life and death situations today? The Christians living in the Middle East who are fleeing for their lives, literally. Or the Mexican families (who I met recently) who are fleeing their homes due to the violence and personal threats from Cartel gangs that has really been ratcheted up in the last few years. I am well aware of what groups of people were sent to concentration camps- over 60 years ago! What about those who today are living in refugee camps in foreign countries? \nSpare me your rant over the \"plight\" of today's homosexual. They are doing quite well actually and seem to be winning most, if not all the suits they are filing against those who will not bend to their will.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Holy smokes!\n\nThis is confusing because we were told repeatedly by Ted Cruz\u2019s family that God TOLD him to run and now he\u2019s up and quit. I\u2019m no theologian but it seems to me that folks who disobey direct orders from God never come to a good ending. There very well could be some smiting in Ted\u2019s not-so-distant future. All I can say is that I wouldn\u2019t want to stand too near him in a thunder storm.\n\nAnywho\u2026 More importantly to America, where does the Christianist vote go now?? Surely not to Donald Trump, who has already extolled the virtues of Planned Parenthood and a desire to not kill off all The Gays. It\u2019s a bit of a conundrum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What the laity cannot change perhaps the priests can? \n\nThis is beginning to set up as a rather interesting battle line in the church. Funny how all of this was a non-issue, until the priests themselves found themselves in the cross hairs...\n\nAnd of course, there's that large percentage of gay bishops...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you would predicate your arguments on biology learn something of it. \"Homosexuality\" among vertebrates which reproduce as we do seldom occurs in nature, except in severely stressed and/or captive populations, or 'symbolically' as expressions of dominance.\n\nAmong animals with alternate reproductive strategies 'homosexuality' simply doesn't apply. Fish called wrasses (family Labridae) start out life and reproduce as females but later transform into and reproduce as males. This transformation is no different than what occurs in most vertebrate embryos, except that in most species the transformation takes place in-utero and before onset of sexual function.\n\nEarthworms, snails and an odd little fish called a 'hamlet' (Hypoplectrus spp.) have both sets of genitalia and gametes, and take turns fertilizing each others' when mating. It's not 'homosexuality', and it's 'normal' for those species.\n\nYou accuse religious folks of 'superstition' while clinging to your own wishful thinking.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is baloney.\nIf a straight white male believes he has been fired because of his age, he can file a discrimination complaint. No different from someone who feels they were fired because they are gay or Christian or disabled.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not surprising Nikki, considering that millions serve and only a very tiny fraction are \"trans.\" It is using statistics to make a false point.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some Gay clips for French Immersion class in Toronto & Canada\n(frm 10 to 15 year-old &+);\n(\".. .two girls who were the pair laughed so hard \nthat the most beautiful almost die...die of joy...\" \u00bb\n(onYouTube)= Holden- Madrid (w/ French Lyrics)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQmMjG-zUs\n(copy-paste in wb addres/ same for below)\n\n(onYouTube)= Laura Fabian \u201cComme Ils disent\u2026\u201d (w/French lyrics)\n(a song written for a Gay Man but \u201cShe\u201d is the female part of Him)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUngIQnkpWI\nhere\u2019s the original (English) Male version by Marc Almond\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36x3YKH7gY\n\nDanielle Messia \u201cDe la main gauche\u201d (w/French lyrics)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7WAtnfq6Y8\n\nPatricia Kaas - Mademoiselle Chante le Blues\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7npqBBa4o", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dennis, what makes this such a shameful area for the church is that so many priests, Bishops, Cardinals are gay.\n\nIf we are going to lie about such a fundamental, core issue, then we will lie about women, about evil behaviour towards children, we will cover up that evil. \n\nA priest in Dublin, Ireland came out to his congregation the Sunday before the referendum on gay rights. He was given a lengthy standing ovation by his congregation. These people clapped, and very emotionally, not because they shared a common view on the issue, but because their priest had taken the risk of trusting them with the truth. \n\nWe've had Benedict and Burke dressing themselves up like drag queens while attacking homosexuals, (gays don't even get offended by them now, they just howl with laughter.) I even heard an interview with a member of the hierarchy who claimed he hadn't had a sexual thought in 75 years of living.\n\nYour 3 points will happen because the truth always trumps lies.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps, although I think it's at least as likely that there's an ancient taboo against the use of the anus as a sex organ, and that taboo has tended to overwhelm the discussion of same-sex relationships over the centuries. For example, many people are less resistant to same-sex relationships between women than they are to relationships between men. \nI think we have to be careful not to turn a taboo into a revelation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When BLM staged its extortion coup d'etat against the LGBT community of Toronto, Wynne, Tory and Trudeau were all at the Parade but abandoned the actual \"GAY\" community to BLM. They even tacitly agreed with BLM that the white gays of Toronto really are a pack of racists. As always, the gays of Toronto were thrown under the bus for political convenience. It\u2019s like the 1980 bathhouse raids all over again as elected officials refuse to fight this injustice done to us homosexuals. Ironically, the cops are now our only ally. Not even lesbian Wynne would dare come to our defense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"So how is it that someone who received five deferments during the Vietnam War and thereby never served in the military can decide that any American willing to serve is unacceptable for military service?\"\nBecause \"that someone\" is president of the United States, he has a phone and a Twitter account, and he'll throw GLBT people under the bus anytime it suits his mission of keeping religious conservatives happy.\n\"Where are the voices of military leaders (active duty, reserve and retired) speaking out against this ignorant, discriminatory, un-American action?\"\nThey have spoken out. And the heads of the various military branches have said the status of transgender troops currently serving is unchanged until further notice and have said discrimination will not be tolerated. And Secretary of Defense Mattis has also put off any formal change for six months until a study is completed.\nI think Trump's transgender action was repugnant, but he IS president. Elections have consequences.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wishing to be fair, I went over Father Martin's YouTube talk and realize that, although Father Martin did talk about the doctrine that gay persons must remain celibate, not being \"received\" by the gay community. He never said that this then \"disqualifies\" it as doctrine; Father Martin is too smart for such a statement (I think). He did however, amid much circumlocution, suggest that this situation was analogous to the church's Humanae Vitae encyclical which has been largely been ignored by much of the faithful (not all). He then says that the gay community should perhaps speak with their bishop. I get the impression that he might be suggesting that the gay community may similarly ignore this teaching as many have rejected Humanae Vitae and the teaching of no sex outside of marriage. My comment: although these teachings are ignored, they are still \"on the books.\"\nI make this new comment because I want to be fair to Fr. Martin - bearing false witness is a serious offence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How the instruction was to be accomplished was not detailed . Needless to say, there was no shortage of humorous comments from those evaluating the RFPs. Especially from the LGB members. (Sorry, transgender hadn't made it into the 'special rights' group yet).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unlike Down Syndrome, which, like homosexuality, is unusual, right? Unusual = not natural, right? Snow in Miami is unusual, so it's not natural, leaving it to be caused by man, aliens, or gods, correct?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is this sarcasm? If not then wow, I mean you are defending a symbol of female oppression that is only common in countries where Canada's liberal values are non-existent: gender equality, freedom of association (people are killed for apostasy and blasphemy), LGBT rights, and freedom of expression (people are lynched for religious satire and comedy). The niqab is synonymous with social regression and a lack of fundamental rights Canadians take for granted. It's not a coincidence that in every single country where the niqab is common that women are subjugated as second class citizens (often under the threat of violence). There is rich irony in defending the niqab while simultaneously raising concerns about homophobia and anti-semitism as wherever the niqab is common, the LGBT community face the death penalty for being outed and hostility towards Jews is a badge of honour. \nThe niqab is synonymous with social regression, division, and community segregation, without exception.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So tolerance? Hmm, the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ have been demanding \"tolerance\" for how long? Now the cross dressers are in womens bathrooms, all about \"tolerance\"?\nThose killed in Orlando, were Americans, who were peacefully assembled at a public place. A terrorist saw two opportunities, one to kill non-Islamics and two to kill gays etc. \nSo, the intolerant LGBTQ community, the intolerant Extremist Liberal Socialist now want \"tolerance\"? So who are they calling upon for \"tolerance\", the Islamic community? Or is this call for \"tolerance\" for us straight people whom oppose cross dressers, oppose the blatantly intolerant gay community?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"We all belong here regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, or immigration status.\nOur diversity as a nation not only makes America great, but is what makes us Americans.\"\n\nI guarantee you that the average American before the 1970's would disagree with you on every conceivable level. The founding fathers sure as hell didn't believe in any of that liberal bullshit. You think the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy were fighting for gay marriage? Give me a break.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Will the Canadian patriotism be merchandised kind of like the three minute safety video on an Air Canada flight?\n\nYou know, where they prominently show you something like the following people in the following order:\n\n1. Two gay men (45 seconds).\n2. An India-origin single mom with her daughter (35 seconds).\n3. A Chinese-origin business woman with her power suit (20 seconds).\n4. A native Canadian woman (17 seconds).\n5. A white female airline stewardess (9 seconds).\n6. For three seconds at the very end, a white male (gasp) who is alone and might be straight (gasp) and maybe might even be a WASP (gasp).\n\nI guess they do that order to protect the children from the horror that appears in the last three seconds.\n\nOh Canada...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump has made the right decision. People with mental disorders, of which there are many, are routinely disqualified for military service. Transgenders suffer from \u201cgender dysphoria,\u201d formerly known as \u201cgender identity disorder,\u201d which is classified as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association, so don\u2019t blame me. The typical conditions suffered by people with gender dysphoria are stress, anxiety and depression, each being a disqualifier for enlisting or commissioning in military services. Moreover, when such conditions are acquired by military personnel while on active duty, they are normally discharged for being unfit. It makes no sense to grant an exception to military mental standards to allow a class of people to join the military when people who contract the same mental disorders while on active duty are being discharged as unfit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not talking about ISIS,I'm talking about a religion that in 2017 is light years behind the Judeo-Christian world in tolerance of gays,Jews and women.Incidentally,not exactly values we espouse in the West.If you don't see any truth in the above statement you are just another leftist truth denier who'd rather take the politically-correct road and not have a truthful open discussion for fear of being called a bigot,a racist or an Islamophobe.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well thank God. I will sleep better knowing the characters in movies were chosen with everyone's tender feelings in mind. It gives me strength seeing an Asian playing an Asian character. Hopefully we can get to the point where only gays are cast as gay and no more whites pretending to be blacks/others. Yeah. Don't get me started on transgender roles.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Disney plans to have one of the main characters on their popular tween show Andi Mack come out as \u201cgay\u201d in this week\u2019s episode. Oh \u2013 and it\u2019s a 13-year-old boy who\u2019s got feelings for the main character\u2019s crush.\n\nOf course, the character\u2019s coming out as gay doesn\u2019t to do with moving the plotline forward so much as it pushes the pro-LBGT agenda the media are determined to cram down your throat \u2013 or, if that fails, your kid\u2019s.\"\n\nMr Riverhead and his friends support this effort to indoctrinate. Shameful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "An interesting read. Banishment has been a practice for centauries. And it is alive and well today. The GOP seem to have a list of them. From Trumps Banish all Muslims, when they try to come here. To their other little hatreds Abortion and Gays. If they could banish those so afflicted they would be so happy. But Paul did not forget his biggest wish. To banish the Democrats. Obviously he has issues that he really needs to deal with", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't get it. God made us all in his image: men, women, straight, gay, white, black .. whatever. And whatever God made I assume to be good and a blessing. I guess its not surprising that the Pope would not permit a gay man to be a priest since he can't accept women as priests. It always been about we - they. Doesn't seem very God-like to me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Funny thing is if you like at Theresa May's domestic policies they have been quite different than Trump. Although she is committed to Brexit, she did vote to remain not leave. Also she voted in favour of gay marriage and was the equality minister when legalized under the Cameron government. True on immigration she has taken somewhat of a hardline, but Britain still accepts refugees and doesn't have any blanket bans. Also to be fair unlike Canada, Britain doesn't have the space to grow its population, whereas we still have lots of room. Even with much of Canada uninhabitable, we should have more not fewer people than Britain.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Illinois is a perfect example of my point...Gay adoption issues caused the Feds to REDISTRIBUTE large sums of money FROM catholic chairities in that state to other service providers....in that state....\n\nThe only change? Local Catholic Charities which had received very substantial funding...no longer did. The services continued and staff relocated.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Inspiring!! First transgendered woman in the pagent!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The entire conference was pretty to the left. Didn't they back nuclear freeze? And as late as 1997, they put out fairly moderate language about gay people - \"Always Are Children.\" (Remember this was in 1997, so the US bishops were probably more moderate in their tone toward gay people than a vast majority of the country including the Clinton administration.) It wasn't until the last 15 years or so that the conference has veered right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Heterosexually normative?\" Oh, you mean \"normal.\"\n\nWhen I say \"confused,\" I don't mean unsure of which to choose; what I mean is the anatomically/physiologically disoriented sexual attraction to people of the same sex when they are clearly constructed for engaging with people of the opposite sex. That is, they are confused in having sex organs made to do one thing but wanting to use them the wrong way on the wrong kind of people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Before we spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to stop hate crime, I would challenge us to DEFINE what a hate crime actually is?\n\nFor example, in this state its apparently a hate crime for a bakery to openly reject gay customers, even if it conflicts with the bakers religious views. In New York its apparently a hate crime now when someone refuses to address another person by their chosen pronoun. And where does it end? What if I told a stranger they had a bad hair cut, and then asked where they had it done so I could avoid that business? And what if I \"TRIGGERED? someone by knowing, or unknowingly having invaded their personal space? Would those actions also be considered hate crimes? \n\nIn other words, the pattern now seems clear, that when someone sees or hears something they dislike, they simply exclaim those undesirable things as hate crimes, even if those things are not crimes unto themselves. And is this how we truly wish freedom to look like?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry, but that might have been true at one time, but now its just a fantasy. It wasn't the military that reversed legal racial segregation. It was not the military that gave women the right to vote. It was not the military that has helped give gay people the civil right to marry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kevin Spacey comes out as Gay after stories surface of Him being inappropriate with Child Actor.\n\nLike his House of Cards character, he\u2019s trying to bury the story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The baker was asked to make a cake that he has made for countless other folks, and he refused because the couple was gay. If the baker was asked to decorate it in a manner that he found offensive (and by that, I mean more than just 2 guys' names), then I'd side with the baker, so long as he still offered to sell them a cake and the supplies with which to decorate the cake. In other words, refusing to sell the gay couple #4 from the catalog because of the couple, or the event, would be discrimination.\n\nTo answer your other questions....the same holds. If the request is for a run-of-the-mill cake birthday cake (say, #15 from the catalog), then the baker should provide the good. If the customer wants the cake decorated in a manner that the baker find offensive (swastikas, political logos, etc.), then they can refuse, so long as they still offer to bake the cake and sell the customer the materials for which to decorate it themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That may be so but it is DoD money in DoD's share of the budget. My guess is that the previous transgender policy was determined without a thorough analysis of the implications because it met the previous commander-in chief's social and political agenda/beliefs. Those briefings are now occurring. Since I am not privy to them I have no means to speculate on motives for decisions. But when I do take the time to look into current issues and policies concerning president Trump, I do find one consistent theme, a consistent and constant knee jerk anti president Trump reaction by many without any real thought or analysis of the plan, policy, and their implications.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She also advocates for policies that are fundamentally opposed to our faith, such as abortion and homosexual marriage. She said that one of the things she would look for in a supreme court justice would be support for Roe v Wade. (Interestingly she mentioned nothing about these hypothetical justices having a good knowledge of the constitution. Legislating policy from the bench is not a good idea.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can believe as you wish, Dave. You have a closed mind and a liberal one, I expect. So you think forcing Christian businesses in this country to violate their consciences is OK as long as the ones expecting them to cave in to their wishes are given their due? Due to homosexuals in Oregon, the Kleins had to finally close their bakery for good. These people are deliberately picking on Christians that they know will not do as they ask so they can sue them; it is nothing about hurt feelings. And how about the Christians in the mid east? You think they are treated well? Well, they are not. If you convert to Christianity, you can expect a very short life there. Thanks to Obama and his Muslim agenda, we have more Muslims here now than ever, and they are not our friends. They want to impose Sharia law here, which fortunately has been struck down. They blow up our buildings and kill our people. Finally, you don't know what I read, but I'll bet it's a lot broader than you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Catholics aren't murdering gays. End of story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You really might want to find a dictionary and read what socialism is. What you blast Kasich for, not one of those things is socialist. You may not agree with them, but not everything you disagree with is socialism. \n\nHere is the definition of socialism. \"a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.\"\n\nHow does that mesh with thinking that gay people should have the same rights as the rest of us? How does that mesh with believing in man-made global warming? You might and I mean might be able to stretch it to cover amnesty for illegal immigration, but that would take some serious mental gymnastics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe that each person should study a teaching, pray for guidance, and make up his or her own mind. The Buddha said, \"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.\" I think that is a rational, adult attitude, not the \"whatever the magisterium says is not to be questioned\" attitude you espouse. Because, even though you don't want to admit it, the magisterium has changed its teachings.\n\nYes, I accept my gay brothers and sisters. I cannot do otherwise and continue to call myself a Christian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We spend millions on selling weed, millions on gay this that and the other thing bathrooms and ordnances. Need millions more for cops to deal with the weed thing, new jay walking laws to deal with stoned weed hackers, and don't get me started on obammas visit and the endless cost that was.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not common in male homosexual culture. Which of the bars are you hanging out in where you see that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Richard, codes of conduct are unilateral to start with. Some institutions, professions, etc also call them agreements, but if you have no real choice about \"agreeing\" - they are rules.\n\nIn the 2001 Trinity Western decision, the Supreme Court of Canada used the same language: \n \u201ca homosexual student would not be tempted to apply for admission, and could only sign the so-called student contract at considerable personal cost.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True, but in Hawai'i the Democratic Party will blackball people, will not give them contracts, will prevent them from being able to run, etc. One activist was threatened by a higher. up that their house would be burned down for speaking out on gay rights. Then there are police who will seek retribution for let's say videoing their illegal actions, or uncovering their illegalities. There are inmates who have received retribution for speaking out about conditions or illegalities. There have been individuals singled out for government harassment on the local, state, and federal level due to speaking out about their political beliefs. Then there was the Carroll Cox attack. The list goes on and on. That happens in Hawai'i - not back 50 years ago, but in the recent past and likely continues to this day. So yes, anoniminity is just as relevant today - which, incidentally is why I oppose campaign disclosure laws and efforts to say that money is not speech.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "More than one political pundit predicted that the hotter the Russia investigation got, the more red meat Trump would start throwing to his base. And another has pointed out that transgender people show more courage simply by leaving their homes each day than Trump has shown, ever, forget about serving in the military.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Suppose the tables were turned 180 degrees. A straight couple was denied service by an all-gay bakery. Since straight couples aren't a protected class, they would have no recourse. What you're calling \"equal treatment\" is really \"preferential treatment\" for a nannied class. By the letter of the law, the bakery will probably lose this one. This is why I think protected classes should be defined with an abundance of caution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree that it \"would make a lot of people uncomfortable and angry\". Maybe they're just angry, uncomfortable people to begin with.\n\nRemember, it is they who have the objections to your sensible solution, \"Pick the sex you identify with and go to that bathroom\".\n\nGoogle BuckAngel - who is a FTM trans-person who you definitely would NOT want to force to use the women's washroom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The West is changing. Calgary has a gay Muslim mayor, while Toronto had Rob Ford and MOntreal had the corrupt Michael Applebaum. Newcomers to Alberta will vote more frequently for NDP or Liberals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Racist and there has been a number of them who express themselves as Dalton repeatedly has are protected by the RG, I'm not sure about the CC site monitors. But perhaps the better question is there actually a difference? Is EN even male? I'm not so sure. If you think back jjp58 claimed to be female, however, in hind sight maybe transgender would be more accurate? To be clear I'm questioning not attacking.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Scheer owes his win to social conservatives, anyone who watched the convention saw that for themselves. They will be pouring on the pressure and since he is a strong social Conservative himself , anti abortion, anti gay rights and seemingly opposed to any measures to address climate change. Voters will draw their own conclusions,. \n\nIt could not be clearer that the the PC wing of the party has been routed and is now a powerless fringe. Their influence is gone and they have lost their name to the Reform/Rebel Party.\n\nScheers campaign manager is a director of Rebel Media.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's called the FREE market. If 1 shop decided not to make a cake for a gay couple, then it would be great opportunity for someone to open a cake shop who would. There is no shortage of gays and no shortage of shops who cater to gays. No reason to force anyone to do something against their religious beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Senator Ellis, you may have been closeted, but you always bravely voted \"right\" on gay issues, rather than taking what would have been the less risky neutral or negative position more expected in such a \"red state.\" While I did not have to suffer as much in my private life as you did, I did have to be quiet about myself in my public service career, and I heard along with you (without being able to respond) all the vile things said about gays during floor debates and legislative committee meetings, and written in news columns and letters to the editor over the past decades, questioning our values and our worth as human beings. And my children had to hear how their mothers were supposedly perverts, incapable of family values. It was tough, to say the least. My thanks to you for sticking it out for so long and always, always doing the intelligent, compassionate thing when push came to shove.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Social justice isn't justice. Homosexual marriage is a tax increase on married heterosexual couples and all single individuals. Minimum wage laws put on-the-job training off limits to many low-skilled people. The welfare state is bankrupt. Senator Thielen may call these assertions \"extreme\". I call them \"obvious\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oldertimer, you must actually be very young. lol The democratic party in Hawaii has become more conservative over time. Have you forgotten that we were among the first to sign the equal rights amendment? We were among the first to legalize abortion? We had Pink Mink and Sparky Matsunaga as representatives. We were far from the first to formally legalize gay marriage although we should have been. We have not legalized marijuana fully. \n\nYou are right the Donald will be attacked regardless of what he does. As for Comey, I disagree a bit. I kinda felt sorry for him and bought into his excuse of damned if you do and damed if you don't. Not that I was enthusiastic about it but at the time, I really wasn't concerned about him. \n\nYou mentioned Clinton's extensive criminal activities but you offer Zero back up. Typical republican, repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. Well it doesn't. Let me remind you, your own hero, the Donald has dropped pledge of lock her up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Convert, God does not read labels. God considers each of us His children, gay, straight, young, old, Christian, non-Christian, male, female, black, white, yellow, red, or brown. Ignore the \"disordered\" nonsense and rest in God's love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is a case of civil rights being in balance. Yes, gay couples have rights under the law. They can marry. But religious freedom is protected by the Constitution. And unless you are a religious person who knows the teachings comprehensively and understands what conscience is all about, then you are not in a position to understand that asking any religious person to participate in any way to a gay marriage that they believe is wrong, is trampling their rights. Gay couples can marry under the law, and religious people are not attempting to prevent them from doing so. They also are not discriminating against them, because they would be happy in a bakery, to sell them muffins and pies. The government should not be able to force religious bakers to participate in gay weddings in any capacity that is against their conscience. And it's not just bakers, but photographers and wedding planners, etc. Courts need to protect all rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know what happened to my reply to Mr. Binder; I will re-post.\n\nI'm equating sin with sin; I could have used any sin as an example. I chose open adultery because it, like homosexual sodomy, is perceived as a victimless sin. And a perceived lack of victim is oftentimes used as the rationalization for something being deemed non-sinful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The evidence is all around us. We don't have the \"gene\" identified for heterosexuality but we know it's there. It's obvious to biologists that homosexuality is an evolutionarily derived adaptive trait. It's people with narrow minds and don't understand that homosexuals still can pass their genes on indirectly thus fulfilling the biological imperative Christians\u200b are so obsessed with.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is this the last post that you (MSW) mentioned? As I wrote at the time, don't bother. You are down to 20 responses (half of which are from the same people). If you want to get the numbers up then go for an article on homosexual marriage or ordaining women - always a winner at NCR.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Palatable, handle the diction duties and provide a suitable word replacement. BTW, hate is not the argument. Instead, it's that there is no known problem with transgenders serving in the military. Over and over we've seen your kind say that allowing blacks, women, gays, et al., serve in the military would cause a significant problem, yet these people have served and there is no problem. So Trump's ban on transgender in the military is the problem. Again, it's the Trump's bans that are the problem. Get your GED and learn to understand what you read.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, once again the liberal snowflakes flagged my comment, so here it is again.\n\n---\nI have said it before, and i will say it again, every time I read Leah's column it makes me even happier that I am gay. Unlike Leah and her husband, my husband and I just get on with life; we don't complain about this or that, we just get on with it. Sorry if that offends people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Reviews TV shows and now has become an expert in politicians and their \"message\".\n\nFunny, but when I watched Andrew Scheer on Saturday his message was very clear to me - balanced budgets, reward hard work not envy, stop extorting money for carbon taxes, no interest in revisiting abortion or gay marriage and responsible, smaller government. And, more work, less selfies....\n\nJohn must have been grabbing something from the fridge when Andrew laid these things out in his acceptance speech and on the requisite CBC interview. \n\nProbably best for John to stick to reviewing the latest episode of the Bachelor.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I admire you for considering your situation as you do, and especially for giving such high regard to the interests of your son, and showing him loving protection.\n\n\"Hell-bound\" strikes me as too pre-emptive a condemnation, on the church's part, for it to be strictly accurate; Catholic moralists usually speak to the effect that no one is destined to damnation, and there's hope for everyone, provided due repentance (and self-obliteration?) precede. But in fact I don't know the actual \"teaching\" on transgender people, which could be distinct from what is said about gay people.\n\nMuch more important, though, is the actual respect you are or are not receiving from the Catholics around you. And if it's not there, or you can't count on it, then you do the right thing to seek out a truly welcoming Christian community. Best wishes.\n\nInteresting that you're in Charlotte, which has sort of become Ground Zero for transgender rights. How your government has betrayed you!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Natural Law argument was worn out by the Catholic Church. But this \"law\" was concocted by the church, not by God. The very fact that God creates within every species of animal [including humans] some members that are 'homosexual' [for of a better term] is evidence enough. This fact has been researched with hard evidence. The so-called 'natural law' is purely artificial.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Liberal and conservatism are also country specific. Even liberals in the USA didn't support gay marriage till recently. Canadian liberals sorted that issue out a decade ago.\n\nIf I look at viewers of Fox News, and I have had the tragedy of meeting several, then conservatism in the US is going very strong. they do use liberal as a pejorative.\n\nAnd I lived in a small city in Alberta and found many conservatives there. Again, still going strong in rural Canada too.\n\nAnd the intellectual heartland of the west, its universities, are liberal. As they have always been. The divide in the US is more urban versus rural, than the South versus the North. The urban areas are liberal, and the rural areas are conservative. In California and in Alabama.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Except no. Your book purportedly states that committing homosexual acts is a sin. It doesn't state that baking a cake that will be used as dessert as part of a meal celebrating the wedding of homosexuals is a sin. If one does not participate in physical acts with another of the same sex, he/she isn't actually doing anything against your book's code of rules. So, you are in fact filled with imaginary fears and beliefs about your own book.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There's a difference between mandating legally equal treatment for all students, transgender included, and a government supported and funded dogmatic program to train students into a specific ideological viewpoint as part of their mandatory public education. Teach them HOW to think, not WHAT to think should be the mantra.\n\nYou want to include a program to encourage students to accept difference? I'm your man. You want to include a program that mandates that staff HAVE to use fabricated terms like 'xir/xe/xim' and cater to student whims on how they get addressed, officially, under threat of fines or dismissal? That students be ideologically trained into the generally NOT scientifically accepted belief that gender is 100% social performance? I'm not your man at all.\n\nMy support drops astronomically once you cross that line into publicly funded ideological experimentation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Have you ever considered\" that infanticide and homosexual marriage--sins which cry to Heaven for vengeance--will almost certainly be permanently enshrined in our law should Mrs. Clinton prevail?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Again, nothing to do with anti-abortionists, except they have no chance on either gay marriage (or any other gay equality issue) or on abortion in federal court. Promising differnently is fraud but none of this has anything to do with parish pastoral care (until people start demanding Catholic gay weddings).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, let us assume that Milo has an excuse for his views on the gay love. I wonder what's Bill Maher's or Samantha Bee's excuse for being crude and hateful?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now that criminal law enforcement personnel need not fear the consequences of their actions, a true fascist police state cannot be far behind. Black, white, brown; citizen or immigrant; legal or undocumented; gay, straight, or any combination - no one is safe now. And the 37% who think Trump is right? Don't think for a New York second that the Left doesn't know how to protect itself in a pinch. Beans, bullets and band-aids, baby. As Bush II was so fond of saying, \"Bring it on!\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When Muslims, gays, and immigrants get attacked, the Liberal Left blames Trump for fanning the flames and fueling the fire. But does The Denver Post, Stephen Colbert, Cooper Anderson, and company ever think they fanned the flames and fueled the fire of Hate and Violence with their Hate, Contempt, and Disgust of Trump and the GOP that may have lead to this shooting?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That a high school kid and hockey captain from Soldotna has made what the school said were hateful comments about Alaska Natives and gays on his Twitter account assures us that racism and bigotry remains one of Alaska\u2019s hot button issues. The only thing is no one is paying attention to the putrid stink of the access that is still here.\n\nThis kind of hate, especially against Alaska Natives, the largest private landowners in the state and one of the state\u2019s most active and generous economic powers, has been with us for generations. And once again, I call on the Alaska Federation of Natives to exclude Anchorage and the Southcentral region from its convention schedule until such time that we feel welcome on our own homeland.\n\nI'm posting here because the ADN omitted the comments section from this story, and owes us an explanation why it does so whenever a news item about Alaska Natives graces its pages. I trust it is because hundreds of the comments would echo the high kid's hatred.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think there are various reasons for this: the abuse did it for some, loss of faith (for me related to the abuse), lack of concern about gays and women's issues, the lack of concern for the feelings of parishioners under the JPII and Benedict pontificates, the horrible translations of liturgies forced on American, and just not caring any longer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trudeau says \"I don't think it should be the government's business to tell a woman what she should or shouldn't be wearing,\" \nBut he thinks it is ok for a religious organization to tell women what they should wear and what thy should think.\nThat is not freedom either and in fact is one reason why this is discrimination against men who are not allowed face coverings unless they become transgendered.\nOf course it is not anything about freedom it is about abuse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who started the war?\n\nRevisionist history of the Left\n \nLEFT history not right history, pun intended\n\nUN PARTITION of 1948\ncreated\nIsrael and Palestine\nPalestine went to war with its Arab allies to grab all the marbles and lost\nand that is the root of the conflict\nThis is NOT to be disputed except by Ahmanidejad of Iran and his ilk\nit is a FACT universally acknowledged by ALL men and women and transgendered people of honour, integrity and nobility\nto deny it is to put you among terrorists, radicals, and the lunatic fringe \nthese are facts not open to \"thumbs up\" and \"thumbs down\" like a popularity contest\nfacts are facts\nis is troubling to see people using their thumhs to deny history\nscary\nend of story\nthere is no point debating people who refuse to accept historical facts \nand the only thing we can do is to poke their Conscience", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He tweeted at 9 am \"after consultation with his top generals\"?\n\nYeah, he was consulting in the am with his top military about the \"critical\" issue of transgender in the military. \n\nMeanwhile his key promise was being blocked by 7 of his GOP Senators not getting behind his bill. \n\nLike I said.... his low low information base will eat it up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do tell this to my great-nephew. I can assure you that neither emotions nor appetites (such a wonderful, cathechismical word!) have caused him the struggles he faced prior to recognizing his transgender situation. Gender dysphoria is real. Pontificating from a position of superiority, without lived experience, continues to be an issue in the church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The heteros is the clergy largely fled. The gays, both celibate and sexually active know who they are and mostly at peace. It is the Asexuals who simply think of themselves as chaste heterosexuals that are causing all the trouble because they try to impose their personal predilictions on the rest of us. Sadly, there are also the priests who were abused as youth who were patterned to abuse again. They can be any of the three. The Aces, of course, blame the culture rather than the reality of pederasty. Short of interogating seminarians about their own histories of being abused, there is nothing to do but keep vigialent. That, and convince the Aces that what they think of as holiness is in their nature and not true for anyone else.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A Gay Pride Parade! What have the Gays do to be proud of that the rest of us don't, weare what God made us, no need to be proud of it as if we had made it ourselves. \nCan you imagine that is the rest of us was to hold a \"Proud to be an Heterosexual\" Parade' the gays would be out cheering and supporting us?. Not a chance -", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most fans suspected that so it's no great surprise and him being gay doesn't take away his music talent at all......", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay marriage is too recent a phenomenon to be addressed by any Council. As for trusting the Church, if their arguments depend on papal infallibility and not the facts on the ground, they are not to be trusted on natural law matters. Doctrine on the actual faith is a different matter. It evolved when Rome was an Aryan backwater that did not attend the great councils of the fourth century and it was made up of democratically elected bishops who voted the same way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because we all know that criminals sign their work, right? Just another in a long line of Hate Crime Hoaxes... Here is 2016 so far:\n\nBlack activist in Seattle defaces African-American cultural center with racist graffiti\n\nAfrican-American students at the University of Albany falsely claim to be victims of racial abuse by fellow passenger on a bus \n\nPastor in Austin, Texas claims a local Whole Foods store wrote \u201c@!$%#\u201d on a cake he ordered for a gay congregation member, but surveillance footage shows he tampered with the cake himself\n\nMuslim woman in New York City admits to faking knife hate crime attack", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you ask the question \"what is 4+4?\" and 12 people tell you the answer is 10, then those 12 people are still wrong. I have heard that the baker can not be compelled to write anything on a cake. Few people said anything about images and those that have, lacked the proof to back up this claim.\nI have heard that homosexuals are a protected group. Anyone can say they are homosexual.\nI have heard that a baker is not compelled to make a political statement. The Grand Cyclops of the KKK is not a political figure therefore his image is not political. One person said \"political or terrorist\" group but they didn't know the KKK was a terrorist group until I pointed it out to them so I am dubious of their knowledge. So what else you got Patrick? \nThe Little Guy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did He not show that love to the adultress in John 8? Including the parting exhortation to \"go and sin no more\"?\nIf your argument, as well as bootie's, is centered around \"christians\" and their frequent abusive attitudes towards other sinners besides ourselves, then we have no dispute. However, if, like bootie, you're implying that Christ approves of homosexual \"marriage\", then we indeed have an issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The issue is not who the customer is, but who the bakers are. They are a Christian couple who do not believe in same sex marriage and cannot morally participate in it without offending their deep beliefs. The gay couple and the state should respect the 1st Amendment rights of the bakers and find another baker as they easily could have. Then everyone gets what they want, instead of the bakers being fined $125,000 and losing their livelihood. That is discrimination against Christians, basically forcing them out of any business that involves weddings. So it\u2019s not about them disliking and discriminating against gays, but about being allowed to follow their own religious beliefs, which was why Europeans originally settled this continent if you will recall. Where can they now go to be both Christians and bakers? Nowhere. But the gays could have found another baker and all would have coexisted just fine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay man I live my life openly, honestly, and authentically. I am true to myself, those I love and those who love me. I will not own, nor will I accept, your shame and condescension. My life is joyful, rich in experiences, and full of love and light. You keep posting a link for people who loathe themselves, who are incapable of being true to themselves, and who insist on living their lives in ways that conform to the views and expectations others have of them. It's an ugly way to live and I am overjoyed to see so many people, especially our youth, cast off the shroud of shame and self-hate you offer them. As each generations passes, we bury their perceived stigma and their judgement with them. Someday your views will be nothing more than an ugly stain that marks days long past.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Yet some wonky bakery owners don't want to bake a cake for 2 gay guys and this ends up with SCOTUS?\"\n\nIts ending up at the SCOTUS because, if you hadn't noticed, cases like this have been popping up all over the country - specifically surrounding businesses denying services to gay couples. Can you name me another point in recent time when a specific group of people were being denied a service based on some inherent trait associated with them? Obviously, blacks had a lot more issues surrounding rights and being treated equally than gays are now - but even allowing a little discrimination can open the floodgates to allowing all sorts of other things to discriminate against.\n\nThe President has a lot of power if he has the brain to use his power correctly.\nThe SCOTUS has a lot of power which depends heavily on who the sitting justices are at any given time.\nCongress has a lot of power also, which again depends heavily on who has more seats.\n\nAlmost like there's a separation of powers...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're just making up facts now. Quote me anything from any article written about this issue over the past 5 years that says the couple asked for ANY words on the cake. Or even better, why don't you go and read the public cases about the issue where multiple judges have already ruled he was in the wrong. Ill save you some time, they never did. It has always been about just making the cake itself for this couple to use in their wedding. Absolutely nothing to do with any specific writing or any specific images on the cake. He simply did not want a cake he made, to be used in a gay wedding. That's it.\n\nIf they had asked him to draw or write something specific that he found offensive, then that would be different. And i would be on his side. But by all accounts, this couple just wanted a normal style \"wedding\" cake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is very interesting and I think people are missing something here.\nThe cake baker didn't deny them service, he would sell them anything in the store. He did; however, decline to use his god given (his belief) talent to decorate a wedding cake for a gay wedding which violates his religion (again, his belief). You can't tell someone how to practice their faith or what the dictates of that religion are, but, you cannot discriminate in the state of Colorado based on sexual orientation. This was settled with amendment 2 back in the 90's.\n\nYou have a state law saying you cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation vs the 1st amendment of the constitution. Should be very interesting to read the decision. Remember, the bill of rights is a negative law, this tells the government what is cannot do. So the question is, can the state force an artist to create a work of art that conflicts with their beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the left seems hostile, it is because the right is seeking power in our name too and we don\u2019t agree, especially when they lie about their program for the unborn, which is about votes for the Republicans, not actually stopping abortion. MSW, call a lawyer. Roe was rightly decided based on 14th Amendment law. The Rule of Law is about process, not results, which is also why gay marriage was correctly decided.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...State needs is the return to a true \"multi-party political system\" that embraces all points of view, and one that embraces the diversity of culture, that embodies our state!...\"\n\nWon't ever happen in Hawaii.\nThat is a fact.\nLeftists are the most intolerant people on the planet.\nThey LOOK like they celebrate diversity - they LOOK like asians, gays, browns, whites, women, men, all the genders, etc etc etc. They LOOK like different. But they truly are NOT different not one iota different. THEY ALL THINK THE SAME.\nThey all think the same on EVERYTHING: welfare, big government, high taxes (except for the half that they don't want to pay any so they can keep the votes), Big Govt, Godless, only fiv of the twenty something Amendments, etc etc etc.\nDiversity is really an illusion on the Demokrat side. They have made us all believe that they are diverse.\nProblem is their diversity is only in looks. If you actually THINK diversly, they don't tolerate. Look at their college guest speakers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm equating PKP's use of a theoretical argument about cost with the cost of other human rights issues. Since you use an argument based on physical abilities can you say with any certainty that a transgendered person can't meet the requirements you list?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is estimated that 45 will cost american taxpayers 60M this year to go back and forth to his 'estates' every weekend; the cost of medical treatment for transgender service members is 8.6M max; cost of viagra for service people 41.6 million annually. Even the republicans were thrown by this announcement because they were debating a budget bill and questioning the amount of money spent on transgender medical services (apparently no concerns about his 60M wknd travel costs); banning these citizens from service was not their intent, not all of them anyway, cant say the same for Hartzler.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What services do Christians have to worry being denied simply for their beliefs? Where does this bigotry manifest itself?\n\nI have NO issue with Christian beliefs or lifestyles. If you never want to consider birth control, gay marriage, or sex outside of marriage then there is NOTHING stopping you from doing so. But if you're someone who doesn't believe a collection of identical cells has a soul, or that two consenting adults who are the same gender can choose to be together suddenly you're met with a world full of bigoted Christians slamming the door in your face and passing intolerant laws to FORCE you to adhere to their belief system.\n\nNot to mention public schools. It's not enough to believe in creationism or that sex education is taboo. Christians push for policy-level changes that forces their belief system to be taught. \n\nSo excuse me - because people simply aren't Christian they are somehow bigoted? That is what I'm hearing.\n\nIntolerant actually means being \"illiberal\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a neuroscience graduate, I can say that hormones play a huge role in neurological structures. It's not societal roles that great brain differences but the actual hormonal make up of a person. In transgender research, they only use pre-hormone treated individuals because those artificial hormones create a difference in the person's brain.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, Pandora, you do get to defend yourself against my entirely factual statements. Your defense of Burke, Paprocki's and Love Saxa's homophobia demonstrates that your share in it. That, madam, is the truth. Your \"defense\" is more evidence of your dishonesty.\n\nYou may claim to love gays, but your staunch support of those who do not love them shows this claim to be false. And now you are taking a page from your hero, Trump, and saying that those who reject discrimination are as bad, if not worse, as those who discriminate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know what our generals (they are not Trump's generals) think about this. Nor do I really much care, Most current general officers - especially those at the highest reaches of the military - received their constellation of stars from the Obama administration. It's no wonder many disagree with Trump on this issue. If there is a Deep State, they are part of it.\nOfficers at lower levels of command - the ones who have to deal day-to-day with personal relationships among their subordinates might have an opinion different from those at the top who spend more time dealing with politicians.\nSurely most of them would not welcome transgender concerns to their list of on-the-job issues. \nThey already have their hands and days filled with dealing with issues in the supposedly private lives of their troops: fights between husbands and wives, alcoholism, drug abuse, dear john letters, potential suicides, DUII's, interracial tensions. ... \nWhy would any of them want to add more issues?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Disclosure: I am not gay. Acceptance of any kind is difficult but it most be excruciating for young gay men in the closet, especially in 2017. I am like the author, of a certain vintage. I remember gay rights as less a celebration of oneself and more a struggle for acceptance. Whether the dragging laggards of the mainstream like it or not acceptance of the gay rights is here and now and going to stay. Staying this it seems to me that the older gay generation have no mercy or time for all the young Susie-cream cheeses, with one foot in and one foot out of the closet, who don't have to face the outward hatred they did in the 70's and 80's. The gay man's: \"I remember when...\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's be honest muck. There just isn't any amount of evidence I could provide you that would cause you to change your vote.\n\nI haven't provided you any evidence that a gay bar in Orlando was attached by an islamic extremist. But I bet you believe it. CAIR would deny it and say there isn't any evidence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good point. I hope this doesn't sound homophobic, it's not meant to. But doesn't gay culture incline more to the artistic, dance, indeed. That being said there should be no barriers to participation in sports for anybody and LGBT's should be encouraged and accommodated, if that's their desire.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dennism has it right. Morality is rightfully a church role, however, the church must view Morality in agreement with what science teaches us. They (science and religion) are not in competition. Science teaches facts. If science teaches that some are homosexual or transgender, those are facts and there is no right or wrong to it. But if the church wants to call it wrong, then Houston, we have a problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is cruel and inhuman to advocate the life Courage preaches in the name of God. Fortunately, information to lead a healthy life as a homosexual or heterosexual is widely available and offered by those in clinical practice. The fact that the church still advocates this position is just one more instance where it has strayed from Christ's path. God gave us all our sexuality so we would be encouraged to love each other on another very profound level. Thank goodness the number of victims are small this time...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgenders suffer from \"gender dysphoria,\u201d previously known as \"gender identity disorder,\" which is classified as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. Severe distress, anxiety and depression are the most common symptoms. Many straight service members are diagnosed and treated for such symptoms while on active duty, which often times become disqualifying medical conditions for continued service in the military. When that occurs, service members are either discharged or retired for medical reasons and receive life-time compensation for their disabilities. It makes no sense to allow transgenders with gender dysphoria join the military services when service members who exhibit the same mental conditions are being discharged as unfit. Gender dysphoria should be a bar to enlistment in the armed forces just like other mental disorders.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Correct, but it did prove that TRAP laws were falling fast. You are running out of ageda items on abortion. Roberts and Alito still vote with Kennedy on overturning Roe. Thomas is the last Roe should be overturned Justice on the Court. There was only one anti-gay marriage/anti-sodomy justice and he died. It\u2019s not the liberals who are whacko on gay rights. It was funny that everyone thought Roberts would vote with Scalia on that, but was actually involved in prepping his firm to argue Roemer. You don\u2019t put yourself in that role if you are against your firm winning.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Obviously you don't know or have rejected the scientific research evidence that has proven that Genetics are the basis for people who are LGBT. \"\n\nThere has been a hunt on for a \"gay gene\" for many years, but none has been located. Check anywhere. Perhaps one day a genetic cause will be discovered, but it hasn't happened yet. (That is not to say there is no subconscious psychological cause.)\n\nAs to what must be the most quoted-out-of-context quote in the history of journalism, what Francis actually said was: \"If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "promoting abortion is a sin. Supporting the inability of states to police it is another matter. Really. Gay marriage is not damaging the Church. Resistence to it is, because on natural law grounds, the marriage side is correct. Gay rights no longer relies on testimony from gays that they were that way naturally, there is now scientific proof. The logical dominos fall from there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Danica Roem, elected to Virginia\u2019s House of Delegates, became Virginia\u2019s first openly transgender elected official . . . \"\n\nThe right and proper response from a society that deems itself gender identity enlightened is \"Yeah, yeah, nice. Is 'Pawn Stars' new or a rerun tonight?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good catch. It appears that when Quebec amended the Constitution to eliminate Catholic and Protestant school boards, it used the notwithstanding clause to allow a transitional period of instruction in those two religions - its temporary use being foreseen from the beginning.\n\nWhether or not it's used for a negative purpose is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? Ask gays and lesbians what they thought of Alberta's effort to stem the tide of same sex marriage. \n\nAnd I understand a lot of Quebec anglophones were pretty unhappy with early versions of that province's language laws. In fact, that's precisely what gave section 33 such a bad name in Canada. You know, the kind of thing that prompted that guy to call it \"an ugly boil on an otherwise beautiful document.\" \n\nIt may have been a political necessity, but I wouldn't expect anyone in favour of rights and freedoms to be happy when it's used.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I watched the analysis on both MSNBC and FOX after the press conference.\nBoth said that the questions were softball and Trump should have been asked about his security adviser and North Korea. FOX said the U.S. trade with Mexico is far greater than with Canada.\nBoth made the obligatory 'Canadians are polite'. Neither knew that the Syrian refugees you took in were families, homosexuals and orphans and left the viewer to just assume the pictures of the desperate people going to Europe is what Canada dealt with. MSNBC spent more time talking about Trump and his problems than Trudeau. MSNBC had a former Canadian ambassador who did most of the talking with the usual sound bites. One of them mentioned (as a dig at Trump) that Trudeau said he would take those affected by the travel ban not knowing that the reality is different as in Emerson.\nThe consensus on both was that it was just a 'safe' appearance and meeting for both. \nTrudeau served the purpose of a Canadian logo that talks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is \"don't fear people who claim to follow a religion with frightening doctrines but, in fact, really don't believe.\" I agree. But fundamentalist Christians openly condemn homosexuality on very good scriptural authority. Nothing to worry about? Well, some like to call it hate speech. The Pew Research Centre survey of American Muslims found that 59% believe that following the Quran and Sunnah is essential to their identity as Muslims. So that includes the punishment of stoning adulteresses, and don't even think about fornication! Although the Islamic Supreme Council of America helpfully points out that the standard of proof for an accusation is so high that it's hard to get a conviction. Africa contains 1.25 billion people. In Pew's survey of countries with Muslims, most wanted Sharia as the law of the land (1 country @ 35%, 2 @ 47%, the rest 50% + up to 86% in Niger). As a convinced secularist, I think that I should be wary of irrational, absolutist beliefs and the believers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why wouldn't Dave Chappelle talk about racism and homophobia 8in Portland? It's the whitest city in America (30 years running) with no sign of change.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Ireland metaphorically barred the door on the church's influence on public policy when citizens voted overwhelmingly for the legalization of gay marriage in 2015, making it the first country in the world to do so by national referendum. Now some devout Catholics fear that door may be locked ... .\"\n\nPerhaps it was in fact rampant Irish ecclesial arrogance, clericalism and overreach which ultimately barred the door on the church's influence on public policy?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The obvious question is why someone would want to attend a school whose very validity (existence?) is being questioned. As an employer I'd be asking myself that very question when reviewing resumes. Is it because this was the only school that would accept them or do they really buy into the terms of that covenant? If the former that says something about the applicant. If the latter I'd have to wonder how he/she will get interact with coworkers or clients who are gay, trans, or living common law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The difference is that transgendered individuals are quite capable of performing their duties. After all, 18 countries including Canada, Israel, Australia, Britain, Germany and France currently allow transgendered individuals to serve openly and it doesn't seem to have impacted their military readiness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Native are the only people on earth who would sneer at the building. All other racial groups, ethnic communities and organizations like LGBT would be thrilled to have it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "90% of this article is a strange interpretation, well, strange from the standpoint of an orthodox (Roman) Catholic, although perfectly understandable from a liberal Protestant viewpoint. That part would be the bulk of the article that focused on homosexuality and women with regard to ordination. The other 10%, dealing with the ordination of married men, on the other hand, while very interesting and perhaps a likely expectation, is nonetheless a speculation, at least as it concerns the Roman rite. Eastern Catholic Churches, readers and NCR should be reminded, ordain married men. And even in the Roman rite, there is a growing number of married priests. The indicator of a large shift allowing married men to become Roman priests will be when the Latin Church drops the modifiers when referring to deacons. We will no longer have \"permanent\" or \"transitional\" deacons. We will simply have deacons. Some will be married, some will not. Some will go on for ordination, some will not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "2/2\nIssues we discuss and debate here are settled for the overwhelming majority of people: They see celibate men dictating to married couples about the most intimate aspects of their lives; effeminate men worrying about the \u201cfeminization of the church\u201d; gay men trying to exclude homosexuals from the priesthood: and they dismiss it all as preposterous, which it is.\nThe magisterium needs a renewed theology of human sexuality. To achieve it, the magisterium needs to abandon its old presuppositions and start to listen to the experience of the People of God and access the insights of the sacred and human sciences.\n[This is the second two-part response I've posted to you in less than twenty-four hours. I'm sorry for being a bit verbose; I'll stand down now.]", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have often wondered about this dichotomy. Indeed, with the stated conservative principle of \"equality for all,\" why do republicans persecute gay people so fervently?\n\nUntil recently, her husband was one of the ideologues you describe--party before anything else. There must have been some interesting discussions in their household.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Under Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II, discussions about women's ordination to the diaconate or the priesthood were actively suppressed. In Francis's papacy, they are occurring without apparent fear of repercussions.\"\nEnding the former Gestapo way of immediately silencing all dissent is a major positive development. As I wrote a few days ago, the English priest James Alison once tried to convince a skeptical, mostly gay audience in San Francisco that Pope Benedict was quietly loosening the nuts and bolts deep within the ship of state, as it were, in order to slowly move doctrine forward on LGTB issues in the church. I didn't believe a word of it about Benedict, but I think that's indeed what Pope Francis is doing on many fronts and I believe he should be given a generous amount of time in order to continue the work he is quietly performing behind the scenes to move this church forward. I agree with Sr. Shenk that he deserves to be given the benefit of the doubt on this issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Correct. Matthew 19 without an understanding of the debate between Shamaya and Hillel is out of context. Sadly, the Church often misses this for the same reason that Leviticus condemned homosexuality - brand identification.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Joe, the Republican, called attacking Obama on policy racist? \n\n\nThat's weird, I didn't see too many R's actually substantively critiquing Obama. They seemed too busy with conspiracy theories about long form birth certificates, or him being secretly gay and/or Muslim (!), or Michelle being transgendered, etc. Much of that was definitely racist.\n\n\nTo find serious criticisms of Obama, one had to turn - as usual - to more serious media like liberal outlets. Actually liberal outlets, not MSNBC, NPR, PBS and other corporate outlets that count as \"liberal\" to the far right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "that is to say her public and private stances - which vary over time - on same sex marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I remember this. I have several gay friends and hope that I live long enough to see the villainy of the Boyko's of the world diminished. I say lessened because I fear it will be past my days before LGBT people are truly treated equally. It can only happen when the religions that persecute this particular way of being are stripped of their power, and that will take time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1/2\nFor centuries, it was assumed that the call to priesthood was predicated on a simultaneous call to celibacy, and that the call to celibacy was binding equally and similarly on all candidates for priesthood, prescinding from sexual orientation. In these latter days, the Vatican has discerned a way to scapegoat homosexuals for the sex abuse crisis.The Instruction institutionalizes that hypocrisy. It creates a problem for all candidates for priesthood. The language of \"intrinsic disorder\" is not just wrong; it represents a dangerous and false understanding of human sexuality that will be troubling for any mature and healthy person contemplating priesthood. To the extent that the 'powers-that-be' intend to implement this directive, to that extent Catholic seminaries will be increasingly unhealthy places; the priesthood itself and the whole People of God will suffer accordingly. We should not pretend that the Instruction is a sane, safe or serious approach to priestly formation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This guy is too much. When confronted with Benedict's explicit ban on gay men in the seminaries, he gives a legalistic dodge to the press, and declares that the ban is \"no big deal.\" \n\nWhy? Because, MSW explains, he's afraid that if he criticizes Pope Francis even a teeny bit, it will hurt the progressive Catholic crusade for the environment!\n\nAnd in an essay about the awful reality of \"media bias,\" and people with \"an agenda\"!\n\nYou can't make this stuff up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I cannot think of a transgender conference or gay wedding that devolved into a riot and murder. There is no comparison and CMR did the right thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh look, someone ghost wrote something from Alaska's number one Trump stooge.\n\nHey Lisa, was confirming an adulteress to be Ambassador to the Vatican a way to show your principles?\n\nhttp://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/pope-francis-should-reject-callista-gingrich-as-ambassador-for-adultery/\n\nPope Francis Should Reject Callista Gingrich as Ambassador (for Adultery)\n\n\nThe pontiff rejected a French ambassador just because he was gay; surely, he should reject Trump's pick for her sins.\n\n(\u2026I'm waiting for an answer from Lisa on why she didn't reject the adulteress instead of confirming her.\n\n\u2026come to think of it, why have you confirmed all of Trump's worst picks, eh? )\n\n\n Lisa? \n\nOh Lisa?\n\nInquiring minds want to know\u2026\n\nWhy are you stooging for Trump \n\nTell me it's not the ANWR payoff money you're expecting \u2026 \n\n...? \u2026 (\u2026.I know you or one of your aides are reading this so, \u2026care to make a public statement? )\n\n\u2026\n\n...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Regardless of where one stands on the transgender persons in the military issue, you have to admire someone who stands up for their convictions when it is difficult. I'm glad Ken bucked the system, and that trumps politics any day.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Absolutely!! The military suicide rates when they return home are skyrocketing! That is horrible! How are we failing our vets so bad? How many know elderly people who can't afford some of their medicine? We have to do better by these people. We have to find a way to take care of our own. I joke that if I ever get serious medical diagnosis my plan is to go to prison where I can receive healthcare. The sad part is, that's reality. Organ transplants? Prison. Immediate medical care where the patient NEVER sees a medical bill? Prison. Transgender drugs? Prison. Mental health pills that unless you have really great insurance you can't afford? Prison. \n\nNO ONE IN JAIL OR PRISON IS EVER BILLED FOR THEIR MEDICAL TREATMENT. \n\nNot even suicide attempts. Not even self harm. Not when they try and kill each other. Why is that?? Do career criminals, child molesters, rapists and killers deserve free medical when law abiding citizens cannot afford theirs? What is WRONG with AMERICA?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Real democrats, hah!\n\nAre these the same real democrats who finally came out for gay married in like 2012? \n\nAre these the same Dems that still aren't all for universal health care?\n\nAre these the same Dems that still take hug donations from wall street?\n\nSounds like a cool club. How do I join?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The key factor should be, must be, military readiness. Transgender personnel require continuous drug treatment and medical care. Many as a result are non-deployable to combat areas. This results in additional burdens being placed on the rest of the force. When a tattoo, or overweight status can result in being barred from service, the problems with gender reassignment should also.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Funny how some people are only concerned with radicalism by one side. She champions the right of one professor to dismiss transgendered issues (I mean, its not like transgendered kids face any discrimination out there right - we have to worry more about the poor professor having to us a pronoun he feels uncomfortable with)., but doesn't raise the point that since Trump there is a wave of homo-phobic, antiMuslim, antiSemitic comments and actions on campuses. There is a right-wing group recording professors lest they dare say or do something that offends conservative values. No comment on that from ms. W.\n\n\nThere are probelems on bith sides - though I note the leftist ones tend to be e less threatening in terms of potential violence. But i've read this individual many times, and am not expecting anything like balance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hope that the Supreme Court, prior to ruling on this case, will take a moment and consider a fundamental problem with the notion of religious freedom in the United States. You want to talk about a slippery slope, how about the fact that I've had talks with as many Biblical Scholars as I can find, and very few of them agree that the Bible condemns homosexuality in the way one constantly hears and reads about in the conservative media and among conservative Christians. In fact, the condemnation of adulterers and divorced people is much more prevalent. Meanwhile, what is a religion? Is it just Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity? Could anyone have the legitimate right to make up his or her own religion and practice it? And would that person have the right to do whatever he or she wanted in the name of that religion? Where does it begin and end? If I believe in Shariah law, and it's my religious law, should I be able to apply it against you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Elagabalus, I'm in agreement with much of what you say. However, my analysis of priests who abuse children is slightly different. Many abuser priests attended junior seminaries. It didn't matter whether they were heterosexual or homosexual or too young to be anything. The crucial factor was that any and all expressions of, or references to, sex or sexuality, were frowned upon or even punished. This led to young boys growing up with no experience of sex whatsoever and turning into adults who were actually terrified of adult/adult sex. Obviously their sexual impulses and drives were still present. They simply directed them towards those who posed no threat to them - children. It was as much about power as it was sex. \n\nEvery abuser priest in my part of the world attended junior seminary. I can't believe that's unique. The Church's attitude to sex has caused havoc. Deeply in denial, screwed up, old men formed it. It should all be binned.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah I do, our military did quite well before Obama created gay, gender bender anything and everything goes pride month. This will not be the destruction nor degradation of our military no worries our military will now flourish. Signed \"A vet who served with honor\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK so it seems there's a lot of manufactured fear out there because Trump got elected. It's actually an unfounded, hate based phobia similar to homophobia.\n\nIn PC liberalspeak, the proper term would be \"trumphobia\", right? I would say then, that the RG qualifies as a trumphobe, along with all other Trump hating fearmongers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Really? I guess you could just flood your data base with fictitious information and aliases but heaven help you if one of your aliases turns up being wanted by law authorities. Maybe the trans world where you can be \"fluid\" has some merit (eyes rolling).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump's banning of transgendered people was certainly arbitrary but I don't think it will have a drastic effect on LGBTQ rights, especially not in Canada.\n\nTheir rights are too entrenched now. They have become unshakeable like the rights of women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, Father Reese, do all these reborn \"Papal Loyalists\" now accept Church teachings on: contraception? On abortion? On homosexuality? On divorce and remarriage? On women's ordination? On papal infallibility? On the reality of Judgement and eternal damnation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "AlwaysThere: Great Point, where is DHS anyway??? I believe DHS is looking the other way. As you stated earlier, the TRANS whatever folks are at the top of the PROTECTION LIST...................", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Too often this is a life or death matter for gay teens. Last I checked the suicide and homelessness rate for religious teens wasn't even close to the same numbers for as it for gay teens. When that much pain is involved in an issue, compromise with the forces causing the pain is more akin to betrayal than anything else. \n\nHowever, I doubt the LGBTQ community is going to isolate itself as a special case from other communities which will come under attack during the Trump administration. There will be a coalescing of groups who join together to protect everyone's rights....even Islamic religious rights. The gay community is in some respects uniquely positioned to provide leadership in this joint effort. This is now a time to stick together, not necessarily stick out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This put down might have worked if I were a kid in fact, rather than in heart. As it is, not my first rodeo, and with all due respect, I'm not impressed. Who can look at the \"leader of the free world\" and not conclude that world is for sexism, homophobia, and throwing more gasoline onto the fire of anthropogenic global climate change. \n\nI'm okay with rainbows and unicorns. Maybe it's past due time to end open hunting on the latter! ;) What are you going to do when the suppressed generations sweep your arguments aside and build the first days of a better nation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "don't blame LGBTQ for low birth rate\nwhat about abortion by heterosexuals?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "@HypocriteHunter - I have learned from experience on this board that if you post anything about LGBTQ rights you have a very good chance of having your post deleted. Even if you are championing those rights, as I have done so, having family members who are gay.\n\nThis is not in defense of the alt-left (as you make some valid points in your post), but the moderating system here makes it very easy for censorship.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Wohlforth I was looking forward to a column on free speech as promised. Instead you have launched a scurrilous attack on Mr. Minnery ( who I wouldn't know except you also published his picture). You went down several degrees on my respect meter. Free speech is mentioned but you twist it to apply to baking cakes for \"queers \" (your words not mine)which is really about religious freedom. You are advocating for LGBT laws to trump religious freedom rights. Many people of all religions and beliefs could care less what moral values or choices that others choose to follow, but many also have deeply held beliefs that they should not personally be involved. As in your examples LGBT laws will give LGBT a superiority over other classes. That is why it all must be reconciled so that photographers, bakers, counselors, etc are not forced by the government to labor for or serve any class that they have deeply held opinions and religious views against. This is probably Minnery's opinion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, not end of story. The leadership (but not all) are officially homophobic, but there are gay positive groups within the Church trying to change it from within. There is also The Old Catholic Church which has a very gay positive attitude (some variance from nation to nation, but all except the Poles are quite liberal). (Full disclosure, I'm not Catholic.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you present a false dichotomy.\n\nThose who sat in judgement of those they accused of dissent are now guilty of the very \"dissent\" they claimed to abhor.\n\nWhereas those who applied their minds to careful consideration of each particular \"church teaching\", using their God-given faculties (the very ones which cause us to be labelled Homo Sapiens), and came to reasoned conclusions about any given matter ... well, they simply continue to utilize this scientific method with each individual case which presents itself (be it use of artificial contraception as a means of family planning, be it support of married gay couples, be it reception of communion for the divorced and remarried, etc). \n\nThat they might derive a little schadenfreude out of seeing self-proclaimed loyalists engaging in acts that they would under a previous pontificate have labelled as flagrant dissent might count as a mere venial sin, no?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's a link to both documents. Analyses are in Spanish, but all the original text is in there: http://www.cristoverdad.com/docs/comprension.pdf \n\n I give you this bi-lingual version because it has highlighted areas of interest that you can follow in the English language. All original links are there. You may find useful if you read Spanish or if you can have someone translate for you for the analyses here will give you all the resources you need to open your eyes and see this programmed LGBT agenda that's coming all the way from the top. In his last two sermons, Andrew Henriques addresses the issue:\n\nTo Support LGBT,SDAs & Loma Linda Leaders Burn Bible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP1v8IP8cbM&t=434s\n\nSDAs & World Make Open, Avowed War On Bible. Pope: Remnant Must Lose Freedom Of Press https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y9tgZN4b4&t=5629s\n\n16 because it is written, \u201cBe holy, for I am holy.\u201d \u20141 Peter 1:16\n\nThere's no such thing as love if there's no holiness, for our father is holy!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alceste, to your question, I have to add: And if not now, when? The wounds of police actions towards gays have largely healed, and police participation in Pride was a welcome salve. \nI get a sense that BLM will grind away on their axe until all that's left is filings. \n\nAnd yes, the 'last minute agenda addition' comes off sounding like skullduggery.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I too offer my highest praise, thanks and blessings to Marie Collins for her courageous attempts to solve this problem of clerical abuse in the church. What she and the other lay person must have put up with is almost too terrible to contemplate. \nIt can't help but think they must have been threatened with excommunication and /or eternal hell. I am also very saddened by Card. O'Malley. I once had the highest regard for him. No longer. \n\nHaving said all of the above comments I cal also say with certainty that the two bishops I knew (Walsh, Hughes -- a close friend) would never have condoned this in any way. They both were strong enough and independent enough that they would be critcal of this situation. \nBTw, BP Hughes was one of the earliest bishops to celebrate Holy Mass for the gay community and the immigrant community -- way back when. I remember helping him wash his car on a few occasions. \nI also remember Frs. Murphy, Stenson, Gallagher, Sargent and all... \n\nBelow --", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, \"Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man\" -- Genesis 27:121 That biblical verse is just as apropos when it comes to acceptance of our LGBT brethren and sisteren.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The military shouldn't be used for social experiments. My guess is that the top generals and other policy makers experienced in this realm have weighed in and that this new policy reflects their broad consensus. Having a son in the military who did three \"tours\" of duty to Iraq, I know first hand how frustrating and maddening it was for rank and file soldiers to have politicians lacking military experience make military policy (e.g over-reaching rules of engagement, premature withdrawal from Iraq.)\n\nI personally have empathy for trans people and in fact acknowledge their courage in trying to live the life that they want to live. However, I believe that the military is different from pretty much every other institution in our society and that priorities must be on mission readiness and cohesion. I'll bet the folks that recommended this to DJT were thinking that when they made their recommendations.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Comment 3\n\nIf the cake baker can refuse flowers for a gay wedding, can flowers be refused for any wedding involving an arranged marriage (common southern asian practice), or for any wedding involving a minor, or for a divorced person, or for two people who are not virgins, or for a wedding involving someone not born in the USA, or for \u2026 \n\nWhat is it about protecting people of different skin colors or religions different from discrimination in the public market places that does not also apply to LGBT people who want to get married?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hard to judge the importance of the trend noted in the editorial since no actual numbers of those who might have died prematurely are given. The rates given are not easily translated into actual numbers of humans who have died early. But yes, the democrats don't care about the people highlighted here. The democrats are for gays, transgenders, sometimes women, but certainly not about blue collar men. Despite the tendency of democrats to view themselves as compassionate, in truth, they are only compassionate within their narrow focus areas and quite callous beyond it. The editors could not resist a jab at Trump as they closed, but in fact, Trump, may actually stir the pot in ways that do help blue collar workers. He certainly has more focus on such issues than a Hillary would have.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can we still can the bathroom the John?\n\nSeriously, Trans rights arte covered in The Charter of Rights and Freedoms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Littoral. Not made for combat protection. More for minesweeping and coastal patrol. NO GUNS at all. If needs to fight might have to just ram the offender with her nose. Get this. GG hated guns. Navy changing away from the culture of violence. Navy\u2019s new motto of Semper Modestis\u2014 always considerate. Also vegan-friendly galley, unisex uniforms for the whole crew, and numerous \u201csafe spaces\u201d throughout the ship. A true girl's ship. Maybe gay, too. Read this article. Didn't know Gabby could swear like a sailor. So funny. :)\n\nhttp://www.duffelblog.com/2015/06/uss-gabrielle-giffords-christened-gun-free/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perfect split, nobody can be offended. None of my business, but I do hope 2 of them are LGBT. But please, why Rosie \"goo goo for Gomer\" Barton?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Really? Here are Kristin Beck's own words to Trump:\n\n\"\"Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy,\" Kristin Beck, a 20-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, told Business Insider on Wednesday. \"Transgender doesn't matter. Do your service.\"\n\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/kristin-beck-trump-transgender-ban-2017-7\n\nEnjoy eating crow, buddy. :)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You wrote, \"What I don't understand about those who want to deny service to LGBT people, is why they aren't equally selective about 'other sinners'.\" \nDo we take it that you regard LGBT people as sinners?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This issue is framed, incompletely, as 'religious freedom against gay and lesbian rights'. To be clear, TWU's Community Covenant also denies entry to heterosexuals who do not subscribe to the university's prohibition against sex outside of marriage. \n\nReligious freedom includes the right to be agnostic. Section 2 (a) of the Charter has been interpreted by the SCC to include protection from the imposition by others of religiously motivated sanctions against conduct that is otherwise legal. The covenant infringes therefore on the rights of heterosexuals broadly, and - given the obvious double standard governing premarital sex - discriminates against women in particular. \n\nTWU, of course, claims exemption on the basis it is a private Christian university. What the SCC must decide is whether that exemption compels the legal profession and justice system, which ostensibly stand for fairness and equity, to accept the graduates of a university that openly repudiates those principles.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"although if you want Mary on your side, quit seperating her from her other sons, Thomas and Phillip.. She proably sees your desire to do that and make her out as an incomplete-wife with your desire to deny sexuality to gays and lesbians\" \nWhat can I say? You very conveniently bring up Church teachings when they happen to support your cause, such as private revelations, yet have a complete disconnect on others. Our ever virgin Blessed Mother now gave birth to two other sons or otherwise is an incomplete wife? I don't recall if you are a practicing Catholic, but what you just implied is sacrilegious. Have you ever heard of the Five First Saturdays of the Month Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. They deal with reparations to her for what you just implied. \n What would it mean if Mary did state most souls end up in hell due to sins of the flesh? How would that change your views?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "lol, Ludicrous, the Liberal Democrats raising the bar: \n\"California's attorney general blocked state-funded travel to Texas and three other states on Thursday in response to what he considers anti-LGBT rights laws enacted this year.\"\n\nMakes me wonder who the State of California was funding to travel to Texas and 3 other States, the Homeless, LGBT's? Yikes!\n\nWaiting for Chin to follow suit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Go Kellie, you have my vote. I got the party membership to vote for you. I am a new immigrant but we respect the Canadian values, we respect the rights of gays and lesbians and anyone to live their life as they want as long as they respect the law. We don't want Canada to move to the wrong direction and create ghettos where Sharia law is applied (like in Britain) where gays and lesbians are discriminated and women are covering their faces and treated as second class citizens. We don't want carbon taxes in the name of new religion of global warming. GO KELLIE!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The HPD spokesman said on the news yesterday that the reason there were fewer policemen on duty Friday night was due to the need for manpower at the gay pride parade. The issue is simply the allocation of manpower and the lack of common sense by the HPD's upper management in putting the public at risk at times when they know when trouble occurs. Friday and Saturday nights between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. are the prime time for trouble on the streets of Waikiki. It has been like that since WWII. \n\nIt just shows you how really stupid the commanders, deputy chiefs and assistant chiefs are in failing to allocate manpower to Waikiki when violent crime is exponentially rising since the beginning of this year. I grew up in Honolulu and have lived in Waikiki for over 20 years. My family has had a business in Waikiki for over 35 years. I know what I am commenting on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Finding a parish to call *home* is so crucial for LGBT people and their supporters. When I've switched parishes, I've asked in advance: do the preachers treat the pulpit like their personal thunderdome to rail against sexual diversity, feminism, contraception, and single parents? . . . a lot of the stuff that blessed my life? Usually, you can suss this out pretty quick.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You must be new here. Any comment that supports the Church's position on homosexual acts is considered uncivil here. And you're on the edge if you make a comment that women should not be priests or that the homosexual priests who molested young boys should be held accountable for their acts instead of the Bishops who shuffled them around.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The danger with political protests is that you motivate half of the country while turning the other half off. And it cuts both ways. But it's not a symptom of the football community. It's a symptom of America at large. Cheryl has it right. There is injustice in our country, and a good part of that is caused by people looking for reasons to hate other people. America's heart is corrupted by hate. There are people who hate gays, straights, Blacks, Whites, Northerners, Southerners, Liberals, Conservatives, and so on. But the real fundamental problem is we look for reasons to hate on people. The guy who wants to move into your lane. The guy who cuts you off in traffic to keep you from merging. The guy who has his shopping cart blocking the entire aisle in the supermarket. The guy who gives you a dirty look while you're blocking the aisle. And so on. This protest debate is just a new reason to hate. Let's stop hating so much...who am I kidding. That's a bridge too far...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can not be in the military it you are color blind either and since the suicide rate for transgender is running at 60% I dont think they should be hired. Also the cost for the operations and medication is paid for the military and since they can not afford the cuts they have this is not a good idea. ADN restricting an account because of biased voting is the way to control your views and thank god you do not run the elections more that you already do, so this is my one restricted view for 24 hours see you tomorrow.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "License is provided by law. Tolerance is part of a peaceful heart. God expects his Church to not be like the Pharisees in their personal purity and unworkable teachings. He even said so. Don't confuse the twisted sexuality of an asexual hierarchy (gays rarely become bishops) with the-will of God. As for the moral order, Jesus never talked about it. It is a philsophical contruct from Plato and Aristotle accepted (along with stoicism) by Paul, Augustine and Aquinas. They should have left such mental masturbation with the Greeks. Indeed, the moral order should be denounced. It is a construct to deal with the problem of perfect God not being able to be harmed by sin (which Plato got right and Anslem missed). Then, God is enforcing the moral order out of justice, not some harm done to Him. Baloney. The concept of the moral order is make believe. What exists are people, ourselves and others, who are hurt by sin. Jesus taught forgiveness as the remedy for that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, I think the author makes a very valid point. Children today should not become slaves to the gender roles society places on them. That can actually do more harm in the long run. I live in a smaller city, where young people drive themselves crazy trying to look and act according to their gender expectations so they are not rejected by their friends. I often wonder how many gay and lesbian youth actually feel pressured into relationships with someone of the opposite gender just so they can fit in with their peers.\n\nI have heard many stories of this happening, and the result is inevitably disastrous, leading to suicide and/or substance abuse down the road. In 2017, everyone should feel comfortable being themselves, and I don't think having her son take ballet classes is forcing anything on him, but just showing him that when it comes to life, ones gender should not even be an issue, or an impediment to their interests.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sorry, you must be pretty young not to have heard about all the failures of the various gay conversion programs. I expect people to be relatively informed of what is going on in the world. Do I have to document that the world is round? Try and find a conversion product who has been straight longer than a coupld of days? Show me a gay conversion success who is still straight after 10 years. Good luck.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, I don't think so. I think as a country we simply have an ingrained view of good citizenship as also not interfering too much in the personal life of a neighbour, and so groups like Lifesite News are more of an aberration than the norm. Also, social conservatism has been rejected even by our Conservative Party. They recently dumped their traditional social platform, which most of them didn't believe in, and pledged to support and enhance LGBT rights at their last national convention. This would be like the Republicans doing same. Not bloody likely, eh?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "it is absolutely disrespectful to the flag and what it stands for to kneel during the anthem. The protesting athletes might want to open a history book at take a look at the flag that flew over the Union soldiers during the Civil war, and the flag that liberated the world from tyranny in WW1 and WW2; because if Hitler had won, there would be no blacks left on this planet, or Jews or Gypsies, or gays. America isn't perfect, but it is a hell of a lot better than most places in the world today for freedom of expression, freedom to live, love and worship as you want. \n\nNow, if you athletes want to make a difference, protest the violence and poverty in the inner cities, protest the destruction of the Black family, protest the culture that demeans learning and hard work to get ahead in the world. Protest the culture of 'victimhood'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What would be hypocrisy is offering a funeral service to a person who knowingly and defiantly acted contrary to Church teachings. Your \"what a bout\" logic is not relevant to whether known homosexuals, who publicly persisted in a sinful and died unrepentant, can be afforded a Catholic funeral service without this signaling support for this by the Church. \n\nThe Church isn't there to make sinners feel good about themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The writer of this article seems to be anti-Christian. Their assessment of the debate is flawed in so many ways that it is almost worthless to comment. Civil rights are natural born rights, which we all have. A person is born either male or female, excluding birth abnormalities. The falsehood is the assumption that people can simply \"identify\" as the opposite sex or both (homosexuals) and are naturally entitled to civil rights for their new concoction of themselves. It's time to get out of lalaland. No special rights should be given to anyone based on how they self identify. A black person cannot simply identify as a white person, just like a man cannot simply identify as a woman and expect a reasonable person of faith to accept it as normal. As Christians, we follow THE TRUTH, which cannot be debated. The truth is marriage was created and implemented by God as the union between male and female. Genesis 2:24-25. Same sex marriage is a falsehood unlawfully imposed on America.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're stretching the \"bride\" metaphor to an absurd and, frankly, perverse extreme. Forgive the bluntness, but Christ does not have marital relations with the Church. This \"marriage\" is not a sexual but a spiritual one.\n\nThis sort of linguistic tap dance is symptomatic of the duplicitous way some in the Church deal with the language of Scripture and Tradition. They're fine with symbol and metaphor when it suits them but can turn on a dime when it's to their advantage to interpret something literally. But when it's something as clear and forceful as Jesus' admonition to resist creating a culture of religious paternalism (Matt. 23:8-11), they write it off as hyperbole. Incredible.\n\nThis will be my last post on this thread, so respond or not as you please. I will only say, in parting, that I personally know several gay priests and they are holy and dedicated servants. I can say, without hesitation, that they are in no way impeded from \"espousing\" the Church as Christ does.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think the panel, as reported, and even the many posted comments are an important part of the churches not simply following the culture, but attempting a difficult discernment which both enlarges traditional Christian understandings and seeks to serve the larger culture by bringing such traditional and developed Christian understandings into an often (even typically) simplistic cultural debate and movement. I just wish there was as much passionate discussion about support for the kinds of marriage and childbearing that the vast majority of people in our culture still seek. Yes, developing our understandings is crucial for our LGBT brothers and sisters, but tremendous focus on their good has tended (in my judgment) to derail sustained attention to the far larger and far more important crisis in sexual-marital-familial relationships among the rest of us. Francis' \"Amoris Laetitia\" has given us a context for such attention and discussion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Number of Trumps that have ever served: 0, ZERO. Number of transgendered service people currently serving: 20,000est. Nobody in the military has called for this. He never consulted his military advisors about this. I suppose its because he has said that \"he knows more than the Generals do\" despite never having served a day in his life....smh....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From one of his many campaign tweets - \n\n\"Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.\nJune 14, 2016 1:31pm EDT\"\n\nAt least the Donald is being consistent - as Sessions has already found out - Trump wants to be loved by everybody so he is always your best friend - right up until show you that he isn't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's a very large generalization. So if I say \"My friend Joe and I went hiking...\" I'm accused of telling everyone \"I have a friend??\" That's laughable. Saying \"I went hiking with my GAY friend\" is a proper analogy. When a hetero person says \"my husband, wife, gf or bf\" it is not announcing their sexuality. They're announcing WHO THAT PERSON IS in relation to them. Stop making it bigger than it is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What then are the tenants of Progressivism? I know that Woodrow Wilson, a Progressive, wrote that the U.S Constitution was outdated and needed to be effectively interpreted to the point of rendering it null and void. He did not believe in limited Government. Are you saying that Progressives do not support a woman's \"right\" to abortion or that they do not support gay marriage. Progressive writers like Croly supported socialism and Dewey was an avowed atheist who has had an enormous impact on Progressive thought?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suspect with this decision that Trump may have expanded his support a little. Not only has he appealed to his base, but probably also to a lot of mainstream voters, uncomfortable with the current trans movement.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wednesday May 17 is the international day against homophobia and transphobia, I encourage everyone to do something in their community to raise awareness of this issue!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Where is A. Huxley when we need him.\"\n\nI've said many times that we're living in A Brave New World. The book had genetic echelons like Alpha Minus or Gamma Plus, but we have genetic tag driven categories like \"cis, straigth, white, male\" or \"trans, gay, black, female\". The book had soma to calm everyone down. We have social media. The book used orgiastic weekly rituals to reinforce everyone's connection to the society and to reinforce group weal over individual benefits ... we have virtue signaling. They banned most books, we're starting to remove writers from universities for having the 'wrong' genetics.\n\nIt's a sick, sick, world we live in at the moment. Social Justice is plain and simply toxic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I get what the bishop means by a significant \"structural response\": it is potential focus. I doubt that it will be used to its potential and it is missing the point. This COULD have been an efficacious instrument for the bishops to confront the eruption of the Trump phenomenon which is most offensive, to the widest swath of people of good will without changing their position on abortion, same sex whatever. But they missed it. \nOf course racism is vile, but the racism that has been refurbished, enflamed, armed and set loose by Trump is set within a spectrum of \"HATE\". What really is the sense of objecting to racism, when the \"bully pulpit\" is also enflaming violence, homophobia, misogyny, deceit, lies, manipulation of the information deprived, the logic deficient, all underpinned by an egotistical hate and disdain for decency?\nOne can believe that homosexuality, same-sex marriage, is outside the norm, be against abortion, but respect the intrinsic right of other to be and be in peace.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry but I gotta make a correction. It was same-sex marriage. And he lost his job because he couldn't reach the mic on the podium. \ud83d\ude0a I predict that Ige will be another one-term governor.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't pretend to psychological babble talk. When I took psychology at Duck U, there were the \"Rat psychologists\" and the \"People psychologists\".\n\nOne group was loosey goosey and had all sorts of theories (at that time Homosexuality was a mental disease of defect--took two separate votes a few years apart by the APA to change that 'diagnosis'). (Votes are how diagnosis standards are set.) \n\nThe other group had replicable results to support their theories. \n\nRat shrinks - One; People shrinks - Zero.\n \n\"Critics assert, for example, that many DSM-5 revisions or additions lack empirical support; inter-rater reliability is low for many disorders; several sections contain poorly written, confusing, or contradictory information; and the psychiatric drug industry unduly influenced the manual's content.\"\n\n\"Of the DSM-5 task force members, 69% report having ties to the pharmaceutical industry, an increase from the 57% of DSM-IV task force members.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Com: Indeed, fifty years ago possession of pot could get you a prison term. In the early 60s a good friend of our family was \"caught\" having homosexual sex with another consenting adult. He went to prison as well. Until Loving v Virginia 1967 state could (and some did) prohibit inter-racial marriage. Guess what, CleanupEugene, times have changed. Today an inter-racial same-sex couple can marry and grow four pot plants at home for their own use. We have, indeed, \"come a long ways.\". Obviously, we've not \"there\" yet. Racism is still \"alive and well\" as is homophobia and some folks would still lock up anyone who dared to smoke a joint or eat a marijuana cookie. Some advice from an old guy....I'm 75, I think your Dad would be 82.....don't let the trolls get you down....and, the next sunny day we have, go downtown and \"join\" your Dad and the grandkids for a few minutes in the sunshine. my best, Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wheres your list of transgender incidences with children in bathrooms. Your whole issue is a fictional scenario that is very unrealistic most chomos identify as being straight, and christian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Very true John. \n\nI read in the tablet today that in Britain there is a Catholic School that would not promote its acting Head Teacher permanently to his position because he was divorced and remarried. All I could think of is all the LGBT that have been fired for reasons of irregular marriage too. This teacher had several hundred teachers, students write into the Bishop to please hire him back. The Bishop refused and the school lost an amazing teacher. \n\nI wonder how perfect will lay people need to be to be allowed to work in Catholic positions. It amazes me how we pretend this isn't condemning the person. A different teacher, in the same school, might have 12 corpses in his basement but because we can see the remarriage we must squeeze out the sinner altogether.\n\nWe are getting worse not better. God reminds me \"don't worry, it is always darkest before the dawn.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Never saw an intersexed baby? As for homosexuality, it is not visible. Epigenesis happens before birth, however, so your conclusion is off. Also, equipment has nothing to do with gender dysphoria, which is a medical issue, not a moral one. Being trans is not a variation of being gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Pederasty, which is sexual contact with pre-pubescent children, is an ancient and current practice among homosexuals where an older man will teach a young boy about the world and also sodomize him. \" This is what PEDERASTS do, not what homosexuals do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No wonder people join the Episcopal Church. It is so much more tolerant than the Roman brand. It is open to high Mass facing the altar with ornate vestments, incense and chant. It is also open to modern innovations with a \"cosmic\" liturgy. It is gay friendly, women clergy and yet kneels for Communion and sings glorious traditional hymns on the organ with boy or girl vested choirs. Some parishes have Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, private confession and Marian devotions. Other prefer Morning Prayer and simple vestments. Why do Romans fight each other over preferences in liturgy, etc? Why not look at the tolerant, gentle acceptance of different views in the Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Church welcomes you!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "i love diversity. i like rep. tupola. i dont like elected officials making laws that a minority of the citizens want. especially laws handed down from god, through elected officials, that affect the majority. polls show a majority of hawaiian adults approve of same sex marriage, abortion, transgender, minority and immigrant rights. rep tupola actively campaigned against most of these. she has shown she will disregard the wishes of the majority and take her direction from god. she will not be my governor if elected, even if i vote for her. sad.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Boots, I also agree that every person has their rights to believe in anything they want to, just like anybody has the right to be gay and free of oppression. But, if we are going to honor the rights of the LGBTQ people, why are we not extending the rights of those who believe in what their religious guidelines are.\nFreedom and rights are very much like beauty, meaning beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or quite simply put, your freedom of speech and expression is as sacred as his.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The article does not mention that the majority of America';s Catholic Bishops, especially Cardinal Burke, wholeheartedly supported Trump -- Burke claimed there was only one possible Catholic choice. Our Catholic bishops sold out the African-Americans and Hispanics with full knowledge of Trump's racist statements throughout the campaign. The deportation of 800,000 children is an intrinsically evil act against human life, just as abortion is. The bishops picked three issues -- abortion, birth control and gay marriage -- and ignored the person of Jesus, the Gospel, and the \nBeatitudes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, that was under George, not Cupich, but Cupich hasn't been great on that. That is my one disappointment with him. Chicago, however, does have AGLO, which is its LGBTQ outreach started under Bernardin. They are pretty open about being out and in relationships. They even have activities on Pride Weekend. There are quite a few parishes in the Chicago dioceses that are considered gay-friendly and everyone knows about them. Cupich did send a nice letter to AGLO after the Orlando massacre; he also used grown-up words to discuss Obergefell unlike many of his colleagues in the USCCB.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let there be absolutely no confusion on one important point stated in this article: in ALL of the major mental health associations, any form of \"reparative therapy\" (meaning conversion of homosexuals to being heterosexual. or even \"chaste\" meaning abstinent) are harmful and constitute emotional violence under the guise of being \"therapy.\" Real therapy never harms, never views an entire class of people as disordered or needing \"repair.\" That this so-called Courage is now \"neutral\" regarding reparative therapy doesn't say much for it. This is hate masquerading as compassion. But we know snake oil when it's being foisted on us. This is another aspect of Catholicism to reject outright, and keep funding away from.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/23/twenty-stories-proving-targets-pro-transgender-bathroom-policy-danger-women-children/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tobin comes from a legendary YUGE Irish RC family. Statistically, gotta have gays members. Usually persons who have close contact with a gay family member, friend, etc. tend to be less rejecting of gays. (Exceptions of course, like the RC perennial political candidate Alan Keyes who rejected his lesbian daughter.)\nRE: Parishes in Howell, NE. Finally, ecumenism comes to RC parishes - because of dwindling numbers! So, so tribal these many years. More faith in the tribe than the Jesus. Reminds me of two Polish parishes in Pennsylvania. Immigrant members from same part of Poland but different sections. So they had separate Polish RC churches in same town with only a parking lot between them.\nMethinks with dwindling numbers only parking lot is left!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bakers and doctors are different. Not wanting to participate in your wedding is different from giving you a stitch or aspirin.\nYOU don't get to decide the \"christian\" position on anything. Some Christians accept the gay life style, some do not. The Christians that do not hold that Christian position.\nThis is not racial discrimination, you should avoid making such comparisons because what is at issue is a lifestyle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fine. Good for you that you followed your conscience and joined a church that believing Catholics -- millions of men and women -- don't believe is the right church for them, in a deeply moral and ecclesial way. \n\nCatholics women (I know) also don't feel shriveled to reflect positively on their own church's self-evaluation as the Body of Christ. Nor do they feel the need to go to Protestant Episcopal posts with frightening almost narcissistic projections of their own \"despair\" that Episcopalians are doing harm to marriage and family (owing to their position on gay marriage, among many, many other moral issues). \n\nI also know some former Episcopalians who would never think of going on an Episcopal post as you do (on a Catholic post), however much they are shocked at the moral direction their former church is taking. The door swings both ways. To the credit of former Episcopalians (in over a dozen US Ordinariate parishes), you rarely see them with their visors down attacking the EC.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "<\"If you are right you will still be right no matter how much discussion.\">\n\nEqually, if you are wrong you will still be wrong no matter how much discussion. \nThe real issue concerns the Magisterial authority of the Church and acknowledging her Divine right and responsibility to determine that certain controversies are settled, once and for all, and are closed to further debate e.g. contraception, abortion, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, women's ordination. \nGod's unending love and mercy should not be used as a Trojan Horse to dress-up sinful lifestyle choices as acceptable by diminishing personal culpability and human freedom of will because situations are \"complex\", need to be \"discerned\" and the Church must be \"pastoral\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As long as you do not require me to bake a cake for an obscene event, there should be no problems. BTW, there is a good chance that we should win a Supreme Court battle over this. Gays have never been treated with disrespect by this baker. He acted like he would have acted if he had been asked to bake any other obscene cake and said no. You can also say pedophilia is victimless. Show we also make polygamous 'marriages' legal or how about brother and sister, or adult child and parent? BTW, I did not think Johnny Carson was so bad, unlike certain obscene late night hosts. How do they manage to stay on the air with insulting the people in most of the country? I have not checked the ratings in different parts of the countries, but one host in particular, should have next to nonexistent ratings in large chunks of the country. Also, not everyone can afford cable which is where you find most of the networks that you mention.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In making this pronouncement, Trump is infringing on the right of transgendered folks to serve in the military, in clear violation of the second amendment of the U.S. constitution. Not that the NRA, or Republicans, or even the Supreme Court will call him on it. For reference the wording of the second amendment is:\n\"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Neither did I. \nDoesn't mean Kenney has a magic solution like many of his supporters seem to believe. HE says he's magic: he threatened to cut sending gas and oil to B.C. if B.C. blocks pipelines even though he can't order private companies to do that; said he would have a referendum to renegotiate equalization when equalization is in the constitution; and oh yeah \"clean coal\" is a thing because he said it is. AND he wants Catholics to be free to teach anti-gay stuff in schools because, well, a magic cosmic force doesn't like those people. Magic man.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not killing babies in the womb and being against gay marriage are Christian values. To support Levesque and his cause is anti Canadian. How can Liberals tolerate this ? Junior said Quebecers are better than the rest of us. Junior thumbs his nose at Canada even Quebec.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Be it known: Congressman Dave Reichert proudly boasts of his support for the National Defense Authorization act, which he signed. I wonder how proud he was in helping to defeat an amendment to it that would have not allowed our military budget to fund sexual reparation surgery and therapy for supposed transgender soldiers to meet their sexual proclivities for gender change. This would cost millions of dollars over a five year period. I would think in a time of high government debt we would be using our money for salaries, equipment etc. Since Dave votes so often with the Democrats, why don't he become one? Another one to our cadre of Dems won't make much difference here in Washington state. The military needs out of the social construct business and do what it is supposed to do, secure our nations safety. Craig Shoemaker, Auburn", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How about we start at the top, Daca are illegals whether Obama or liberals think so or not, he didn't end it, per say, he is giving the authority where it belongs in congress not Obama's pen.\nTransgender's flocked to the military to have the tax payers pay for the gender reassignment and its costly and with 8 months recovery time they are unable to deploy and do their job\nWhy should a businessman be forced to sell services to gay couples, life is about choice, gays have a choice and so do businessmen.\nSexual violence in the universities is up to the university to solve it not the president, liberal universities seem to have the attitude anything goes and they don't want to upset the money bucket. \nRefugees he made the right choice or do you just want to ignore what is going on in Europe, my daughter is in Germany right now and some of the things that are going on that don't hit the liberal media is shocking.\nThis is why Trump was elected because that is what the country wanted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is the chefs\u2019 and bakers\u2019 business. They are in the business, so it is their business.\n\nWhy did Jack Philips choose to disoby the law he said he would obey in writing? When you sign a business application you agree to abide by state law. Jack Philips knowingly broke the law.\n\nMaking a cake for a gay wedding does not mean he is complicit with or in favor of gay weddings. Jesus knows how much Jack Philips hates gays, so that is not the problem. \n\nJack Philips is not even good at being Christain. He is cherry picking parts of the bible to follow. \nHis rights are not being restricted, he could choose another profession or not make wedding cakes. It is very simple.\nWhy do you hate equal rights?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The idea of harm should feature prominently in any discussion of LGBT rights but it has faded into oblivion here. Charles Wohlforth writes that \"Judge Victor Carlson's career was destroyed because he was gay.\" Now that's real and long-lasting harm. Being denied employment because you are gay is real harm. Being evicted or denied a place to live is real harm. Living in fear that you will be mocked and vilified is to suffer real harm. Being mocked and vilified is even worse. Judge Carlson very probably refuses to name his husband because of the harm he fears the man might suffer. My guess is that Judge Carlson allowed himself to be interviewed because he feels he is economically secure and less vulnerable to harm than other members of the LGBT community. The national debate about wedding cakes isn't really about speech, it's about harm. The fight isn't about whether anti-LGBT views will remain socially acceptable -- it's about whether they will continue to cause harm.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From November 29, 2016, online published Crux Article , \" Vatican judge says cardinal-critics of pope could lose red hats\", the head of the Vatican\u2019s main working court, the Roman Rota. Father Pio Vito Pinto said. \u201cWhat they [the cardinals] have done is a very grave scandal, which could even lead the Holy Father to take away their red hats, as it\u2019s happened already in some other times in the Church,\u201d \nFather Vito Pinto said. \"Faced with what the Church calls \u201cirregular situations\u201d- which he didn\u2019t specify, but which could run from divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to gay Catholics in a civil marriage - Vito Pinto asked: \u201cWhat do we do? Turn the Church into a prison? Stand at the door of the parish and say: \u2018You yes [can go in], you no?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cZiggy\u201d\nThe song is about a guy she met out of nowhere one night\nVery handsome guy, very funny, very charming, they went for coffee\nShe saw him very often after that night and she knew...\nhe is not like the others guys\nHe\u2019s Gay, it doesn\u2019t matter to her...it\u2019s her best-friend \nand she knows He will nerver Love Her\n(A long time Favorite song among Francophile around the World-\nEven today)\n(onYouTube)= Celine Dion- Un garcon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmhfcjO81k\n(copy-paste in wb address)\n\n\nand see the original & official clip back then in 1991=\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZXJijki9ik", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church probably will and it will hopefully apologize to those who felt natural being gay but thought they had to make a choice between Heaven and their own natures.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for your question. Catholic Answers' sources are: Evangelium Vitae 73 (abortion and euthanasia), Pontifical Council for the Family CRF 4b (embryonic stem cell research), Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith RHL 1:6 (human cloning), and Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith UHP 10 (homosexual \"marriage\").", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "or some folks are born intersex or transgendered,,, accept it", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The violence and demonization, the implicit and sometimes explicit egging on of cruelty, discrimination, and bullying, is, as far as I can see, in one direction: from religions attacking LGBT people. This is another reason why the idea of a compromise on LGBT civil-rights issues violates ethical principles and ideals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To force a woman sent by his father to disuade him from the priesthood out of the room shows he was either asexual or homosexual. Is piety suggests the former. A heterosexual would have simply asked her to leave and not freak out. Or would have let her stay.\n\nStill, I like Thomas. He gave us back Aristotle, which has been somewhat a mixed blessing but it gives us a good understand of the soul. Not the multi-stage version, which was wrong, but its relation to the body which is still applicable today and could be used to reason out why life begins at gastrulation, not earlier or later. Getting society to accept not later is probably has hard as getting the Vatican to accept not earlier.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And did *you* read the whole resolution? It didn't outright forbid the death penalty. It seemed like the State Department didn't want to be held accountable for any of the US's questionable uses of the death penalty and was okay screwing over foreign LGBT people as a consequence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The SPLC will not designate a \"hate group\" if there is any possibility that doing so will anger, rather than agitate its largely Progressive donor base. Money is everything.\n\nIn 1998, the Boy Scouts banned gay scouts and scout leaders from its organization and restated its commitment to exclude all gays from its ranks in 2002:\n\n\"The BSA reaffirmed its view that an avowed homosexual cannot serve as a role model for the traditional moral values espoused in the Scout Oath and Law.\" \n\nDespite claiming that ALL gays lack the morals to be Scouts, the SPLC said nothing on the matter until 2011, and then only said \"The BSA doesn't mean to encourage bigotry.\"\n\nhttp://wp.me/pCLYZ-1c\n\nWhy the double standard? Because many of the SPLC's donors were scouts or the parents/grandparents of scouts and tying the almighty donor to a \"hate group\" is bad for business. \n\nIt's the same thing with antifa. Too many SPLC donors support the thuggery.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When you accuse someone of being homophobic it is because in line with the teaching of the Church, the Catechism and both Testaments of Holy Scripture they consider homosexual activity to be gravely sinful. \nNo one posting here hates homosexuals or advocates that they should be hated. On the contrary, the Church offers forgiveness and reconciliation to all sinners who repent and try to amend their lives according to God's Will.\nYou belong to a Church which teaches that homosexual activity is \"intrinsically disordered\" a teaching which only recently Cardinal Tobin endorsed. You haven't condemned him as a homophobe or a liar. Why is that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hillary and Obama were anti-gay marriage before they were for it. You don't see that as political expediency?\n\nThe Democratic party was for controlling immigration to protect low-skilled American workers and in favor of a border fence before they were for lax enforcement and talking about open borders. Heck, Harry Reid was once proposing to get rid of birthright citizenship.\n\n\"But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws.\" -Sen. Barack Obama, 2006. Sounds a lot like the Trump campaign of 2016, doesn't he?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If only we could get the same wealth pool to support gay marriages in the Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your post is irrelevant. Political thought is not protected. Not serving a cop may be disgusting, but it can be chalked up to political reasons. Legal. No shirt and shoes? That is a health issue. Who does it discriminate against? Everyone, not just one group or person. You want to bring firearms into this?\n\nIf you own a business you have the right to refuse entry to people carrying a firearm. That is your right. \nI own many firearms and completely agree with property owner\u2019s right to not allow firearms on their property.\n\nYou have faild massively in understanding this issue. All of the forms of \u201cdiscrimination\u201d you mentioned are legal. Refusing to serve a gay in Colorado is illegal. See how that works?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Eventually all \" social justice \" movements and \"politically correct \" movement go to war with each other . They only exist on the basis of being victims, and so have to fight to be be worse off than the other victims. It has been a traditional assumption that gays and feminists are on the same side. As it turns out they are not alleys at all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can choose to defend your self. I don't see how that is offensive. I heard that there were some LGBT in attendance for the very purpose of learning more about this. Every American has the RIGHT to armed self defense. Don't be a bigot. Anti gun is Anti self defense is Anti Gay rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This isn't about women in combat, its about transexuals in combat. The women in combat ship sailed long ago.\n\nBut hey, keep screaming on the dock if it makes you happy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Give it time. The homosexuals are just warming up. What, you think this whole gender confusion movement is self-financed? It's momentum from homosexual \"marriage.\" When your 5yo kid or grandkid comes home and wants to be the other sex and no parent has any say over that decision, think about your comment about how same-sex \"marriage\" has had no deleterious effects on society.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why is conservatism and hypocrisy so inextricably linked?\n\nIt is not xenophobic or \"racist\" to fear fundamentalist Christians. Their holy book teaches them not to love their neighbor but to convert that neighbor and impose the medieval system of oppression known as Christianity. \n\nLet' s say that the fundamentalists are a small minority of right wing evangelicals. \n\nWhy do they always quote their holy book, the Bible, when they do the most heinous acts you could ever imagine? Murdering doctors, wiping out entire cultures and ethnic groups, hanging and imprisoning homosexuals, and wiping their religions and languages from the earth all in the name of Christianity!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Good point, however, but how far can the government go to enforce non-discrimination laws? Like most laws, they are not absolute. \n\nThis case is totally different then the civil rights struggle and this is no lunch counter. The cake baker offered equal access to this product. He did however draw a line at the customizations that were requested. how far con society go to force it's beliefs on the individual? Can they force you to utilize your talents to create something you don't believe in? Then force you into a re-education class so you learn what are societies accepted values? \n\nFlip this issue, if society demanded complete acceptance of religion, would it be correct for a gay cake maker to decorate a cake condemning homosexuality?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Verses in the Bible call for stoning to death unbelievers, homosexuals, masturbators, witches, adulterers, and more. King David and King Solomon took child \"wives\" along with slave concubines. As far as sex with animals, there is a lot of that right here in the good ol' USA.\n\nMost of us look down on all that stuff; but let's not attribute it exclusively to a religion that some of us, unfortunately, despise with little good reason, while upholding the \"purity\" of Christianity. People are people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Guy who wrote the bathroom bill loses to a transgender opponent.........delicious.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "One could infer from your comment that you think all homosexuals take part in anal sex (even females?) and NO heterosexuals do, and thus \"being homosexual\" simply means taking part in such activity. Naive, incorrect, and incredibly insulting presumptions like this are proof that the dialog proposed by Fr. Martin is very much needed.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, the SJW industry. Is that anything like the gay agenda?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "lifestyle choice? And when exactly did you choose to be straight instead of gay?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Don't cry too hard. This years there is a growing backlash against the BLM piracy of Pride and the Parade. Many gay boys will be boycotting the events, doing other things and going to other parties. There may be many fewer perverts for you to be offended by. Sorry.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wow! Big mistake, IMHO, not allowing uniformed police presence. Ruling out particular groups of people seems to run contrary to goals of inclusion. If anyone could understand that, I would have thought it would be the gay community.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality,\" he said. \"This, is not for the servants\" of God. <- root of the problem. What an ugly, hateful sentiment.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think the biggest gay concentration is in Toronto not Montreal but that doesn't matter,because in Justinians mind doesn't concentrate on the foul taste in his mouth just take a deep breath and savor the sacrifice for the win.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"The Catholic Church and other Christian bodies are \"hemorrhaging its children,\" who no longer are involved in religious groups that say that God created men and women, with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people marginalized, she said.\"\n\nMillennials see these ostracized groups as natural variations. The traditional Christian teaching that these people are \"intrinsically disordered\" is leading to the growth of the \"none\" population.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Right next to the part that says gays and lesbians can marry.\n\nAnd right next to the part that says the word \"Penalty\" means \"Tax\" in Obamacare.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Soon men won't bother with women, they will become gay by choice.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Rule and Raven\n6 days ago\n\"While there have been priests who were pedophiles, the overwhelming majority of cases involved a disorder called ephebophilia, a term that refers to sexual attraction to minors who have arrived at puberty ... But we shouldn't give a false emphasis to the clinical term ephebophilia, because it masks the real nature of what is occurring: priestly homosexual activity with under-aged males ...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am old enough to remember in the 70's when once again the cops were under attack for their alleged bias. Stickers appeared on their cars \"Next time you are in trouble , Call a Hippie\" \n\n Now they should put on their cars \"Next time you are in trouble, Call a Gay\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Cardinal Tobin's invitation to LGTB people is certainly welcome news, but until the Catholic Church stops treating gay people as defective second-class citizens, the cardinal's welcome amounts to little more than saying \"come, have a few leftover crumbs from our banquet,\" as the favored ones, the straight people, retire to the parlor for cigars and cognac, leaving the gay folk to distribute the meager crumbs amongst themselves. But a start is a start, and when the starting point is absolute zero, that's something, I suppose. \n\nMeanwhile, several other Christian denominations have been saying to gay people for a couple of decades now, \"come, enjoy our fine wine and the full fruits our banquet has to offer.\" When choosing between the two, the choice for gay people is rather easy, and many have made that choice. The Catholic Church has a long, long way to go before it finally catches up with other branches of Christendom in that respect. Sadly, I will not live long enough to see that day.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Paul McHugh has been discredited. Can you not come up with a better source for your bigotry. \n\nNext, transgender is a state of existence. It is something you are or are not. Parents cannot \"disallow\" someone to be transgender and more than they can disallow their child to digest the food they've eaten.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The far right has lost the battle on gays serving in the military.\nThey've lost the battle on same-sex marriage. \nSo now they are picking on trans-gendered people.\n\nEverytime they lose they \"retreat to a new, smaller hill that they say they absolutely must defend if society is to survive. Okay, they say, we can live with gay people not being banned from teaching, but if they can get married, that\u2019ll be a disaster. Then: Okay, we can live with gay people getting married, but what really matters is that bakers be allowed to discriminate.\"\n\n\"Again and again, the massive social disruption that conservatives have predicted when gay people are granted civil rights has failed to materialize.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A bit off topic but, i think, relevant: men who are even inclined to have sex with men are excluded but if it is \"only\" women, it's okay? \nEvery time the church \"opens its mouth\" it demonstrates its homophobia and misogyny. I suspect that deep down the church still equates homosexuality with \"girlishness\". Stand tall gay guys, get \"ripped\" and \"manly\" and you'll be fine in our church(?).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You've yet to establish being transgender is a mental illness. As the clinical diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria clearly states, the issue isn't with transgenderism in general but rather potential psychological afflictions (depression, stress, etc) as a result of which and that may manifest for any number of reasons. Now substance abuse disorders are real, and the poor are more likely to suffer from these disorders. What your essentially arguing is that the poor could potentially be excluded or treated differently for the sole fact that they are more likely to have psychological issues, not that any given person does or will have such problems in the past present or future.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "ROTFL. So there are no black gay people then? Like there are no black feminists? Gaad, where exactly is that world you live in?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "<\"Leaving aside the whole debate about whether homosexual acts are intrinsically sinful in a way that heterosexual acts are not .... \">\n\nWell, no, let's not leave this central issue to one side! \n\nA person who dies unrepentant of willfully committed grave sin, with full knowledge and assent, is, according to Church teaching, facing God's judgement and eternal damnation. Their lives have been lived outside of God's grace and their eternity will be the same. \n\nTo offer a Catholic funeral Mass for a person known to be publicly embracing a gravely sinful homosexual lifestyle cannot but fail to give a false message to others that God, in His mercy and compassion, judges nobody and that homosexual sex acts are acceptable.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The homosexual leftist got into bed with the Democratic Party and worked feverishly to destroy Republican candidates throughout the country. They have spent time and money promoting only Democrats and were rewarded with political and economic rewards. No wonder the Republicans are not at their beck and call. Advocates for other more common diseases (all cancers, leukemia, MS, heart diseases, etc) saw their Federal funding concerns proportionately ignored. Politicizing a disease is unfair to the people afflicted with the disease and to those who have a disease with no party affiliation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lesbian trapped in a man's body! Been one my whole life.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I have cited this piece 3 times here. Those who are open to reading it will--but probably don't need to. Those who aren't won't. The state of research about lesbians and gay men raising children is also out there for anyone to find. So far, no disadvantage has been conferred on the children of same-sex couples. The feeling among sober scientists is that this does not mean some disadvantage might never show up (theoretically) but that since it has not so far, it is not likely to. \n\nSocial sciences are sciences. Psychology is considered a life science at the university my daughter attends (rated one of the top 20 in the world) and is taught that way. People who think this stuff is fluff don't know what they're talking about.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Phew...and here I thought in 2017 that making fun of gays was wrong.\n\nI guess the key is to be a progressive...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The statistics: 50.9% were between the ages of 11 and 14, with 27.3% being aged to 15 17 years. That's 78% either on the cusp of puberty or pubescent. Male victims tended to be older than female victims. 16% were 8-10 years of age and nearly 6% were under age 7 years. \n\nThese facts speak for themselves. We're looking at prepubescent and pubescent boys being victims of homosexual assaults.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In Name of God, sound the Alarm! Cakes are being baked for sin! Send a protest Hate Cake to the astroturfers 'A Few Alaskans and traveling Busybodies for Prosperity,' Aim-y Fembotski, Duntzleavey and AM Burnadette. They are asking for Cake \nMany bakers and photographers in Alaska could be gay or trans and you already ate what they baked", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My My My all this violence against Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos who is openly gay simply because of his conservative views. What homophobic hypocrites the anti-Trummpy snowflakes have become throwing bricks and paint at attendees and law enforcement officers. Tisk Tisk Tisk, riots, property damage, violence against others. Is this the diversity libs preach?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "More sitting Republicans have gone to jail for getting freaky in bathrooms and for other sexual misconduct than the Trans community. Does the name Dennis Haster not ring a bell, he was only molesting the same sex in the boys bathroom. \n\nStop spreading hate and fear that have no basis in reality. In reality you would want to keep Republicans as far from your children as humanly possible.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And then, there are those who will sinfully and without just cause attack other human beings; many I've known in Alaska\nwho hide behind their Bible and Flag, are like bullies who will do whatever they wish so long as they come out on top. \n\nCharacter assassinations and the whole ego power trip, to include labeling others who are no less Christian (or often moreso, that's the rub) as gay, liberal, or any number of odd things to distract from their own imperfections, lies, hateful and ungodly unchristian acts of vulgar mean-spirited spite. \n\nI'm one of those closet christians whose life has been forever muddied by your 'faithful bigot Christ R US' materialistic gain society. OK to rob us of dignity, huh? \n\nCall me gay or queer, and sell the idea to keep me from a full life in a small population state. Can I class-action sue all of you Posers in Christ? I won't because God is watching. LOL :)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Canada has more than enough challenges right here at home. While I feel for the Chechnyan gays, they are simply not a priority for our tax dollars.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lots of kids are hated and bullied, some who are accused of being gay but are not, among many other reasons. The worst I've seen is the bullying of fat kids and the kids with lisps. That is, the sex acts - of which the word \"gay\"implies - have no place in the classroom. If the schools want to teach anti-bullying, especially to kids of sexually inactive ages, then they should teach about bullying against, e.g., effeminate boys, boys who don't like sports, boys who like dolls, etc....NOT boys who seem to have the characteristics that will lead them to desire to engage in sex acts with other boys when they reach puberty.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The title of this column is \"Teaching Civility In The Time Of Trump\" which infers that it is he that is causing the rift. And yet, all these hate groups existed before he came to office. \nThe big division started with Hillary's divide and conquer campaign.\nShe spoke of white against black, rich against poor, man against woman, straight against gay. Now the media has continued to carry the same flag and stir it up in an attempt to blame Trump and so the Republican Party, and all that voted for President Trump. Sad.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I can't imagine a transgender female going in to a men's restroom.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well that's a surprise from you of all people..\n\nYour homophobic bigotry and misogynistic attitudes towards this gay women make you strange bedfellows for intolerance and hatred.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Do you still beleive that a German or Austrian has the right to force a baker to make a hitler cake?\nI read some ridiculous things in here, but that has to be the most ridiculous opinion possbily made on Denver Post forums.\n\nIt would be great if you realized that no one has special rights. No member of a protected class has any special rights.\n\nYou are a member of at least three protected classes, did you know that?\nRemember when you said that gays are not a protected class in Colorado?\nI am still waiting for you to explain that silliness.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What about going to the bathroom and dressing in public places where - gasp! - lesbian women are allowed to go? I mean, trans women are women and like men. Whereas lesbian women like women. Then there are your bisexuals and a whole lot more people that look to be female or male, but...\nDo you have any idea how ridiculous you're being? If you're that concerned about personal privacy, dress at home or carry a portable privacy curtain. As for going to the bathroom: make sure the toilet door is locked.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A new definition of irony, hypocrisy, hidden agenda resulting in total lack of credibility and revealing a cluelessness rarely seen at the executive level:\n\nThis muslim radical terrorist \"self identifies\" on facebook, phone calls, texting etc as such and tbe Administration / AG now redact and inexplicably try to dilute the hard facts-just like Beghazi et al. Fact. \n\nThe same Admin wants transgender rights for those that \"self identify\" as another sex and decry those questioning the slippery slope as bigots. Fact. \n\nSo what's in a phrase? Hmm. \n\nThe gay community is admirably and understandably proactive in defending themselves-much like Israel on the world stage. And owning a gun (or mace, taser, etc) is the best way to assuage the helplessness and mitigate a nightmare scenario that arrises from such tragic events. If you live in bear country (or VC as we used to say), the cops are only good for counting the body bags.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We're ALL blatant sinners. You do NOT get it. Gays think gay sex should get a pass, when in fact it's wrong for two reasons rather than one. Not that anyone's counting. But just out of curiosity, why do gays who engage in that sin find it incomprehensible to admit sin? Maybe the biggest sin they commit is pride, in that they consider themselves above sexual sin, when normal heteros don't.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"LGBT students may be expelled if they express same-sex attraction in a way that causes \"confusion or distraction\" or insist on following gender norms of the opposite sex.\"\n\nThere you have it - in a nutshell the reason all the contortionist rhetoric and pretzel-twisting attempting to bridge the wide gulf that exists between the LGTB community and the church is ultimately pointless. If concern over \"confusion\" about church teaching trumps gay people's ability to be ourselves and lead normal lives in which love and yes, sexual attraction are as much a part of everyday life as everyone else's, there is no hope for any kind of reconciliation. The church should simply be honest and just come right out and say there is no place for gay people in the Roman Catholic Church - because the truth is, there really isn't.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Re: \"The society sent the government a letter saying such alliances are incompatible with their Christian beliefs and the mission of their schools.\"\n\nI'm all for freedom of religious belief, but in this case, they don't get to call them \"Christian beliefs\".\n\nChrist Himself was silent on the topic. \n\nBut I know of no Christian religion that has, as a tenet, 'Thou shalt not associate with My gay and lesbian children!'", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump, with this action, confirms what we all know that Trump is a bigot and a racist unfit to serve as President. Secondly, it is okay for transgenders to die for their country but not fight for their constitutional rights. When will Trump be wearing a black shirt and be taking the salute with an out stretched right arm.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There must always be an ongoing review of standards relating to fitness to serve. We need the best and brightest to protect the interests of our nation, and where certain characteristics might affect performance, at the very least, allowing active service should be delayed until the answers are certain.\nHowever, I think the questions about transgender individuals have nothing to do with their being transgender. The question should be can they carry and shoot a gun, and perform the tasks assigned.\nBetter topics of review would be: \"Should a narcissist be allowed to be President?\" \"Should a liar be allowed to be President?\" \"Should someone who lies on an SF86 form be allowed to work in the Whitehouse?\" \"Should someone using a Federal position to pursue personal private business interests be allowed to work in the Federal Government?\" etc.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "> I don't think having her son take ballet classes is forcing anything on him\n\nIt's her idea right? And did he show any vague interest in dancing in any form for her to decide he might be interested in ballet? And can he just stop if he decides he doesn't like it?\n\nNo, it sounds like he is in ballet to satisfy her fears about her son being too masculine. Maybe he'll take the hint and turn out to be gay. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is nothing but red meat for the hayseed, single-issue primary voters. Republican legislators know they dun screwed up bad on the budget and giving away our oil wealth. \n\nAs long as they stick to the holy Four G's (god, guns, gays, and gabortion) they will get through the primary and then they're shoe-ins in the general.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So, you pick the Family Research Council as a source? They are one of the most anti-gay organizations in the country. The Federalist is about as far off the deep end to the right as Huffington is to the left. The Daily Signal is run by the Heritage Foundation, yet another organization that isn't real receptive to gays. Try finding a source that isn't quite so biased and you might have a touch of credibility.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Then why does it fire people just for being gay - when the church says that being gay is NOT a sin - just gay acts are sinful? The church SHOULD be treated as a business as long as it is enjoying tax exempt status.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I've witnessed one gay pride parade; how many have you seen? The one I saw was G-rated; I know they haven't always been and maybe they still aren't everywhere, but the fact that you think you can build an argument on a parade reinforces how preoccupied you are by the physical acts associated with sex, especially with gay sex. \nI received notice yesterday of a post from you that I can't find on the board. In the snippet that appeared in the notice, you write that \"people get mad\" at you when you refer explicitly to sex acts. Maybe some of them do, but I doubt it; mostly I think they are just commenting on your pathetic (a popular word for pathological) preoccupations.\nAlso missing from the board is a message you posted referring to the sexual orientation of a priest who writes on these topics. I suppose the moderators thought your speculation was inappropriate. Without repeating the name: On what basis did you speculate about his sexual orientation? Why did you think it was relevant?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Part 2\nGiven these tea leaves, I imagine what we have here is a gay priest or perhaps a sexually confused priest making a foolish unspecified sexual overture to a young man which was refused and not pressed. There are no reports of any further sexual impropriety with this minor or anyone else. Forty years later the incident is reported to the police and presumably was made public. The police presumably investigated, and did not find any evidence of the sort of persistent sexual abuse with this accuser or any others that is almost always there when we are dealing with sexual abuse of minors.\n\nI sense, Mokantz, that you have been following this case. If so, prior to considering the stupid bishop's actions, are there any good reasons to imagine a different set of underlying facts? If so, then everything then please ignore everything that follows. \n\nIf these are more or less the facts, how ought the bishop to have acted? What would I have done in his position?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Darn right the liberals don't really like choice.\n\nIn the end liberal \"choice\" amounts to two things:\n\n1) The right to an abortion\n\n2) The right to be gay\n\nThey don't believe you should have the right to choose to keep and bear arms. They don't believe you have the right to choose your own school--and empower the poor when it comes to education. They don't believe you have the right to choose your own health care--and so on it goes. Liberals indeed detest choice because they detest freedom. They prefer government control.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So it is ok for homosexual priests to sexually abuse teenage boys, is that what you are saying?\nOh, and by the way, slander is making a false statement about someone. It is a true fact that the priests I am referring to engaged in homosexual activity with teenage boys or do you deny that?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "New flash... White men have always made a way for them to be included. You can choose to be gay or transgender, and become a Minority too. Now you can apply for those same scholarships or special grants.;) Also they'll choose you over a female or any skin color. Potentially whites can afford it again when they get the financial help that minorities get.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What does Abernathy admire about Trump?\n\nHis attacks on AG Jefferson Beauregard Sessions?\nHis humiliation of Reince Preibus? \nHiring the foul mouthed Mooch for 10 days and firing him?\nHis crafting of a false statement for his son, in the Russia investigation?\nLying about the size of his inauguration crowd?\nLying about Obama wiretapping Trump Tower?\nThe fake Time magazine cover?\nHis attacks on the US intelligence community?\nHis banning transgender people from serving in the military?\nHis pussy grabbing comments?\nHis divulging classified intelligence to the Russians?\nHis failure to release his income taxes?\nHis firing of James Comey?\nHis intention to fire Robert Mueller?\nHis saying he can pardon himself?\nHis political speech to Boy Scouts?\nHis speech to the police telling them to rough up suspects?\nHis breaking of his campaign promise not to cut Medicaid?\nHis attacks on John McCain's war record?\nHis cozening up to Putin?\nHis weakening of NATO?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are you claiming that straight married men are \"homos?\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If the priest has a husband, (actually, it was a Church employee who got married), no problem at all. About half of priests are gay and a significant number are not chaste, so it would be better to get rid of celibacy so they can be married rather than on the down low. As for giving money, yes, to every child regarldess of parental wage.+You should too if you claim to be pro-life. Ever here of Milton Friedman and Pope Pius XI? They agree. i would rather be in the part of the Catholic cafeteria that does justice rather than the one who persecutes what they do not understand.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"...I think the POINT is that artists who are privileged - that is - white straight males - ought to be consulting...\"\n\nIn other words lesbians are free to do as they wish.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I see your point, but Nazi Germany strengthened the laws against homosexuality (which then remained officially on the books until the late 1960s), and considered homosexuality a violent sexual crime against nature and against the State. Every man and woman was expected to make babies for the Fatherland.\nSo I think Mr. Wilde us saying that, since anyone can check out the sex offender registry, and since some elements of the media warn darkly that registered sex offenders may live in your neighborhood (oh, my!), it serves as a digital \"scarlet letter\", equivalent to having to wear a pink triangle.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Males who identify as transgender are winning against females in cycling, weight lifting, basketball...and taking scholarships to college from females. Blokes in frocks can be transgender, foine, they do NOT become women because of their feelings and personality preferences.\n\nPhysiology confers benefit to males in muscle fiber, O2 carrying, bone structure...and, it's disgusting to see a Fallon Fox end the career of a black female boxer inside a couple of minutes in the ring - smashed her eye orbit. Many fans were there to see black lesbian get beat badly by a guy.\n\nThis is not sportsMANlike. Transgender should compete with each other not against the opposite sex. \n\nI think we have like one female who identifies as transgender winning against males - mostly this is natal males showing up female athletes. \n\nIf female athletes don't boycott, we might need to hit advertisers. Women earned Title IX for a reason, it's being destroyed by genderists.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay person, I don't \"...suffer from same-sex-attraction...\", as you put it. It's simply an attraction that I have, much as you might be attracted to person of the opposite sex. The suffering that I experience is the bigotry and hatred both in society and in the Church. I've said for 30 years or more that if God created me in his image and likeness, and he created me gay (it's NOT a choice), then he won't condemn me for who I am. It's bigoted comments like yours that cause more suffering to me than being attracted to other men.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The editorial is well written and will be compelling to a lot of people. I do not, however, agree with giving Khadr a nickel. It is all well and good to say that we should treat terrorist prisoners kindly but that is not particularly effective or even appropriate for people who think that its OK to decapitate prisoners, throw gay men off rooftops, burn prisoners alive, cut their throats on line, etc. In my view, the norms of a civilized society should not be extended to terrorists and the rules of the Geneva Conventions should not apply to them or to anyone else who ignores those conventions. As far as the fact that he was a 15 year old is concerned, I would note that when I was 15, I lied about my age and joined the Canadian Army Reserves (militia) and I understood fully what I was doing and have no reason to suppose that Khadr was any less cognizant of things than I was.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah. Remember that Jesus told us \"Love your neighbor as yourself. Unless, of course, if your neighbor is gay; him you shall reject as intrinsically disordered.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How can you say \u201cgay\u201d to a good ol\u2019zulu boy, eh??", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The mother nature equivalent is in private where theres a direct connection. Good, bad, or awkward. In private, alone, they could have 'fell in love'. But he would have told his friends like we all did. Her too. At least she can learn a lesson on good men through a quick forgettable bad instance. Boy can learn, too. When I was in 7th grade I handed out a bunch of those prostitute tradings cards that are all over Vegas. Was so new just new media and weird. No one texted pictures then, or had phones to do so. If we did... Its just an unfortunate part of the internet. You have to take the good (memes, and um ?) For the bad like porn and the industry growth, conspiracy, desensitization, ect. When I was in 7th grade, I found a playboy, maybe a lot riskier if I was lucky. Now, the first site they go to for the first time to see porn, probably nudity, definitely sex, its front paged with anal, trans, lesbian, threesone, gang bangs.\n\nAnd what's with creepy picture of her? Not necessary.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If those Church teachings are wrong, and should be corrected, then the thousands of gay priests aren't working toward progress one bit if they stay in the closet. By staying in the closet, they're only reinforcing the notion that being gay is too shameful to admit. \n\nIf they truly believe being gay is OK, and there's no problem with a gay pastor giving marriage advice to straight couples, then they should just be honest about their orientation. The Church wasn't set up to serve priests, but for priests to serve the laity.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hamas is a terrorist organization that pays off the families of rabid animals who stab pregnant women while they shop for groceries. Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by Canadian and US governments. Interesting to see the support for rabid Islamists when Hamas kills homosexuals in the streets in public executions (but their western supporters don't like to talk about that, cultural relativism etc.). Hamas forces Palestinians to stay in their homes prior to airstrikes in order to use dead civilians as propaganda. They hide rocket launchers in schools and hospitals for the specific purpose to increase collateral damage. Hamas is a cancer and should be treated accordingly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He said he would not make a custom cake for a gay wedding but he will make a custom cake for a heterosexual wedding. \nIt does not matter if he has served them before.\nIf a man comes in my shop and I do not murder him, that does not guarantee I will not murder him in the future.\n\nWhat is the point? Wow.\n\nWhat if your wife was dying and needed emergency medical treatment and a doctor told you that he can not give treatment to a woman due to his religious beliefs? No big deal, just go find another doctor, right?\n\nWould it bother you if the baker refused to serve white people?\nThat is what he is asking the court to allow.\nHe wants to be able to legally discriminate based on his religion. \nIf true, I can argue that it is legal for me to sell my foreign neighbor into slavery. The bible says it is okay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Muslims aren't the only threat to BLTs now.... if they openly support Trump, they're likely get beat up.\n\nhttp://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lgbtrump-gay-men-voting-donald-trump-n594691", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My comment and Vatican quotes are still up. It appears you relied but your post is non existent - flagged as inappropriate possibly.\n\nHowever when you say that Vatican comments such as these:\n\n\"homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity\"\n\"homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered\"\n\"contrary to the natural law\"\n\"Under no circumstances can they be approved\"\n\"is objectively disordered\"\n\nhttp://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm\n\nare \"accurate, reasonable and compassionate\" while accusing others of \"intolerance and bigotry\" then I can only shake my head in disbelief and awe at the extent of your lack of self awareness. I've previous pointed out the irony in your posts but this now pushes the limits of rationality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I did not say that anyone was forced to be celibate. What I said is that it is very wrong for an institution to require that someone deny their sexual orientation.\nBoth gays and heterosexuals can choose to be celibate. The harm occurs when the Church states that gays are to pretend that they are heterosexual.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How are they whining? They're writing into a Q and A column asking about it. Have you ever been asked to have your phone searched?\n\nThere are no fines when you're banned at the border. There are no criminal charges.\n\n Just this week, there was a report of Canadian who says he was turned away because of sexual messages in gay sex apps on his phone.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Think about the nature of the fathers comments.. \"A good son. An educated son.\" \"God will punish homosexuals\".. These radicals consider themselves instruments of God. How much longer will we ignore this kind of hateful rhetoric..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Apologies, I missed some people out:\n\n\"Do not be deceived, neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers, will inherit the kingdom of God.\" (1 Cor 6:9-10)\n\n\"[T]he law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.\" (1 Timothy 1:8-11)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This article brought back a lot of old memories. It's just a fact that nearly every word can be held in question as to it's correctness, socially and politically. I separate socially and politically because there is a huge gap between the two. Now I've probably offended folks already. Maybe the word, \"Folks\", was enough to anger some? I remember when being gay, was to be happy and a Fag is what we called a cigarette. The fact is that we've become such a sensitive society that the only safe thing is not to say anything. Now, I've just violated that! Life gets tougher, harder, unbearable, etc. but Hillary is very hard on my ears. Maybe my ears are just too old?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wrong girly. The legislators need to REPEAL BS21. If legislators can keep tinkering with repealing Roe v. Wade or same-sex marriage, then why the hell can't they REPEAL this ludicrous legislation? Wake up voters that voted to keep BS21. This is your doing too.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I can tell you that I have a real problem with infidelity Gary ...it's just not normally considered to be a value the gay left recognizes or respects. Most of us on the right value life, value monogamy and value the nuclear family. The problem for Christians like myself comes when we are asked to choose between competing values but in this case and I'm sure Crispina will agree I would rather have an adulteror in the white house than a serial killer", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As the proverb has it, to a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail. No matter what the subject is, James Martin always manages to turn it into a personal melodrama about homosexuality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "_Weary Taxpayer\n\"Nope, but defining a transgender person as having a mental disorder is unacceptable in today's day and age.\"\nMedical documentation show transgender persons have higher rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse compared to others. That alone would make them unqualified for military service, or is that also not politically correct enough?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please- different points of view are not the issue here . Presenting them with a basic civility is. Freedom of speech in this country is the right to speak freely without censorship by the government- that does not include \"yelling \" at others in a public forum on a privately owned site.\n\nAnd please -many of your further remarks on this story using the false dilemma argument saying all men talk like Mr Trump did or they are lying or gay is not dissent. It is a rhetorical device . \n\n\"A false dilemma can arise intentionally, when a fallacy is used in an attempt to force a choice or outcome.\n\nThe false dilemma fallacy also can arise simply by accidental omission of additional options rather than by deliberate deception. Additionally, it can be the result of habitual tendency, whatever the cause, to view the world with limited sets of options. Conversely some believe free will is the ability to choose from beyond apparent options.\" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think this is as clear cut as people on both sides of the debate seem to think. \n\nWe do have freedom of association, but then we have had to legislate equal rights for minorities. Should homosexuals be part of a protected class? I don't know. \n\nWhat I do know reasonably well is what the Bible has to say. Although it makes clear that homosexuality is a sin, it also says very clearly not to judge and to love your neighbor. It says nothing about selling a cake to a gay couple, not even in the message version. Selling a cake is just commerce and if I were the baker, I would not have refused. I would have simply made the best cake I could make. Heck, if he wanted to do so, he could have given them a free bible with the purchase. \n\nAgain, I don't know if he should be legally able to refuse to bake the cake, I just don't think Christ would require it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, since there are teams that are 100% straight, it is equality to have a team that is 100% LGBT. And it's not misguided, it is necessary if gay players face a litany of abuse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Progressives are hypocrites when they say they 'don't judge others' or that they aren't 'intolerant of others.'\nLet's put it this way: Conservatives don't go around saying \"Who am I to judge?\" \nThey judge. They admit it. They are NOT hypocrites!\nBut here's the rub, progressives claim they don't do those things as they are loving, open minded, and accepting of others.\nPhooey! \nI'm not a religious conservative: I'm pro-choice, I accept civil same sex marriage, I'm pro-contraception, I support married priests, the Pauline Mass, etc.\nBut I disdain 'progressives' who attack conservatives PRETENDING that they are standing on high ground when they are no better than conservatives when it comes to intolerance and judgmental behavior.\nI respect Holy Father Francis, but he judges people while claiming not to. \nHe judges conservatives and traditionalists while at the same time he says about celibate, gay priests, \"Who am I to judge?\"\nA bit of hypocrisy?\nYes.\nPar for the course.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...When you\u2019re open to service to people, you can\u2019t decide who to serve and not serve,\u201d said Falkner.... BS. Cops have not been served because of who they are/what they represent. No shirt, no shoes? Discrimination. Concealed carry or open carry? Don't come in. Plenty of other instances where a business has not served a customer for one reason or other. This one is hot topic because it has religious connotations, and the left hates religion. Surely there is a gay wedding cake maker in the Denver area?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about treatment of homosexuals in Saudi Arab, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, and other Muslim-majority countries?\nYou half-pundits raise hue and cry against \"Muslim travel ban\" on seven countries, but are totally mum on homosexuality-ban in the Middle-East including Palestine.\nAs a bonus, G&M has censored shooting incidence(3 dead) in Fresno, California.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Remember when the stock market was going to crash?\n\nRemember the \"gay internment camps?\"\n\nRemember when legal immigrants were going to be ripped from their homes for some reason?\n\n\nThe media still pushes this junk today. They're currently working on \"WW3 with Korea? Well... it's possible!\" They have the Iran angle, that they're pushing as if it's a celebrity breakup.\n\nThey love the doom & gloom about healthcare.\n\nOn the front page of this very paper: Pro-Trump states most affected by his health care decision\n\nThat's one of their favorite tactics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Google the term \"protected class\" and let me know what you find. \nHomosexuals are legally protected from discrimination. Pedophiles are not.\nThat should answer your question...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But do you claim to be the moral guide of the entire world? The Catholic Church does. Is it too much to ask that they live up to their own billing?\n\nGays are rejected by the Church. \"Intrinsically disordered\" iso universally seen by homosexuals as an insult, as indeed it is.\n\nIf you are a Church employee who marries a member of the same sex as you, you can expect to be fired, even if your marriage does not affect your job in any way. If you are an actively pedophiliac priest, you at least used to expect to have it covered up. Granting, for the sake of argument, that same-sex marriage is sinful, is not pedophilia a more grave sin? Besides which, if the Church were to fire all its sinful employees, there would be no one left. \n\nThe institutional Church treated my brother is a wholly unloving manner, and my son left because the Church did not practice what it taught. Do not blame either my son or my brother for the failings of the Catholic Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "False equivalence. The gay couple didn't plan to host a rally on the baker's property. If a white nationalist wants to stay at Cheyenne Mountain Resort and use its facilities like any other paying customer, without turning the premises into a pulpit, the resort will accommodate them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "uh ...it is well known that she has had a string of lesbian affairs and even fathered a child of Web Hubbels", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is the crux...many think the Church's teachings about sexuality are wrong, for both straights and gays. I'm not sure of the exact figure, but more than 50% of US Catholics don't think homosexual acts are immoral. If there is a failing in Fr. Martin's book, it's that he doesn't call on the Church to change its teaching on homosexuality. It's understandable. The Church hasn't changed its flawed teaching on straight sex, let alone gay sex. It's also true that in many countries Catholics don't accept the morality of gay sex. A number of people like joanp have said the problem is the Church hasn't been forceful in teaching about sex, but if they were, it wouldn't be accepted. It would be interesting to know how many religious actually believe the teachings.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A few replies to your comments:\n\"He is 39; a mandatory minimum of 30 years would be a good start.\" - Without doing into personal details, I would say 50 years would be a good start. My experience says that there is a very low possibility of remediation for such offenders.\n\"Of course, I also understand that gay men are not pedophiles. It just seems that way when this sort of thing happens.\" - I am assuming that your definition of \"gay men\" are men who have sex with men, then they are, obviously, not pedophiles.\n\"We still need to keep the gay men as Scoutmasters, school teachers, Sunday school leaders and other places where children are found.\" - I have my greatest problem with this sentence. With the use of the qualifier, \"need\", this sentence almost sounds sarcastic. As a gay man who has been a teacher and a scoutmaster, I can assure you that there are many honorable and excellent gay men who fill these positions and some of them are parents who will take umbrage with this comment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I stand corrected. You are correct, they did have transgender rules in the 1960s. In looking up the information I also found that there were transgender people serving in the civil war. My guess is that even though surgeries became available in the 50s, it was not very common until the 80s. Mostly in the service you'd be talking about women that dressed and lived as men. Just considering the realities of society. \n\nRegardless, any civil rights act could be treated the same way by that standard. If we did it for 50 years it should be more right than something we changed recently. That is faulty logic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The truth is Nicholas this sounds like the defense men are giving to prevent transgender's from using the Ladies restrooms and it goes like this, \"imagine your a young woman or your daughter in a public bathroom and some transgender shows up dressed as a woman and your daughter is so offended that she complains loudly to the dozens of other females she is sharing the restroom with and she forgets to pee\". Welcome to the nation of FEAR. LOL", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What's so good about the Dems or Repubs? Budget deficits? Lousy government programs that aren't funded properly or cost controlled? Failed government programs like the war on drugs that cost us billions? Failed wars in the middle east that cost us trillions?\n\nOr, maybe you'd like to talk about the half hearted attempts at gay marriage or legalization of marijuana?\n\nYou don't have a leg to stand on, pal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "-1967, Pierre E. Trudeau, Minister of Justice of Canada introduced the Bill Omnibus to abolish discriminatory laws on homosexual acts between consenting adults;\n-1969, Canada; decriminalization of homosexuality /a first in North America;\n-1977, \u201cDiscrimination based on sexual orientation\u201d has been prohibited in Qu\u00e9bec (Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois)/ with that change, Qu\u00e9bec became the first jurisdiction larger than a city or county to prohibit anti-gay discrimination in North America;\n-June 1992, like Qu\u00e9bec and British Columbia, Ontario declared unconstitutional laws and common Law provisions which provide that marriage can only unite people of the opposite sex. These courts have decided that a definition of marriage that excludes the union between persons of the same sex violates article 15 of the Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms, which prohibits discrimination based on gender;\n(more to come)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Imagine, a boys organization thats mostly boys, how frustrating that must be for the cisgendered male hating left.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting take. I'm sure you won't have a problem with US track and field sprint/power events being taken over by trans women, then?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You can have those thoughts, but don't take them to court for proposition 8 with my money with any assurance that I agree with them. Don't speak in my name without asking me. Quite a few priests will do gay marriages, by the way, for the obvious reasons, starting with performing them for each other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, you tell me why nobody would choose to be a homosexual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mark is always looking for a fluke. His only support is welfare folks that want to make welfare a career, gay and lesbian (which would only out Miller), his funding will come from just a couple of union bosses that he has played Santa Clause for with tax payer money. So even with his sad government dependent constituency it is still going to take a fluke.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are several unfortunate contradictions in this article, not the least of which is anytime you are including or excluding anyone based on factors they don't control (such as being a gay, aboriginal woman OR being a straight, white male) it is the very definition of discrimination. I'm not sure why we would modify it with the word \"reverse\". \n\nIf we're serious about eliminating discrimination in all forms, then we need to look at the multiple and complex root causes of the problem, rather than thinking that we've solved it with a simple \"solution\" like setting quotas.\n\nThe Prime Minister, for example, deserves credit for his gender-equal cabinet, but he has not solved the problem of gender inequity in politics. There is much more work to be done.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "FYI, a dyke is a slang reference to a homosexual woman, which most homosexual women and people do not find offensive. To educate the moderator further, Peter did not have enough fingers and toes to prevent leaks in the seawall (dike). Do you get my simile, moderator?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "False equivalence. You ignored M. Binders' comment about HIV underscoring the need for fidelity within relationships and now you are equating my committed, monogamous gay relationship with non-monogamous relationships. Perhaps it's actually homophobia that's driving your thinking.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You cannot open a business to the public based on bigotry (an intolerance for views that are not your own).\n\nBill. I fully understand the mind of the baker. I used to be opposed to gay marriage. I get the \"love the sinner hate the sin\" thing. I do not think that this baker \"hates gays\" or was rude to them. I get that the baker sees gay marriage as a fundamentally immoral thing. You are not making a strong argument by saying \"You just don't understand the baker. He's a good guy who is being bullied for his faith\".\n\nThe thing I'd argue that you're being blind to is that you are only on his side of the issue because you happen to agree with the baker. As soon as the tables are flipped you'd cry discrimination.\n\nIf a baker can deny services to people based on who they are then anyone would be allowed to do it. I could join the church of satan and open a daycare that doesn't allow Christian parents and children.\n\nYou don't understand the precedence you're setting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not all transgender people have gender reassignment surgery.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"re-reversing\"? It's called \"evolving\" now in proper liberal vernacular. Surely you remember Obama evolving and re-evolving on gay marriage?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I look forward to your free speech column, Mr. Wohlforth. I think I know how that will go. The free speech that Americans enjoy allows you to express your opinions several times per week. I will reserve judgment until you make your case. I fully advocate for you to say what you want, but don't publish a hypocritical article next week saying that free speech should only be one directional , whether in the issue of homosexuals or any other and that those who disagree should be silenced. Punishment of free speech no matter how offensive it is or how small a minority it represents must be preserved.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I personally see the sexual offender registry as the digital equivalent of the pink triangles that were used to identify homosexuals in prewar Germany.\"\n\n===\n\nI'm pretty sure Mr. Wilde didn't just equate a heinous felony, a choice to violate another human being, with homosexuality. \n\nDid he?\n\nNah, couldn't be...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What happens when transgendered people go off their hormones? How does that affect their fitness for active duty?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have REGULARLY caught you lying. Starting with your wholly mendacious claim that when Cardinal Burke told parents to reject their gay children, he was not beige a homophobe. That was just the first lie in have seen from you.\n\nYou will now repeat that lie, won't you. Of course, by doing so, you merely demonstrate that I am correct about you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unless it exists as a natural phenomenon. If it does, gays, like all people, have a right to sexuality. Nothing obscure about that. This is why the CDF did obscure the issue by calling homosexuality disordered, not the behavior, the actual state of being gay, because if it is natural there is no moral bar to sodomy in a natural law setting. You can still look to scripture, but then you need to divine the intent of the scripture. Was it universal moral law? (no) or a way to build a national morality for the Jews in capitivity? (yes)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Canada is already recognized as a champion for the world\u2019s most vulnerable people, welcoming around 40,000 Syrian refugees since November of 2015\"\n\nBut what if someone finds out that these 'refugees' are limited to families, homosexuals and orphans? Doesn't that expose you as simply using these people to grandstand next to the countries taking in the desperate refugees? Look at the illegals crossing your border with the U.S. America has over 10 million of them having crossed from our southern border and you've called me and everyone else in the U.S. racists for wanting to control them. Yet a few hundred sneak into Canada and its a national calamity.\n\nI think you have a bit of a credibility problem and are the last people to take the lead.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Buttercups didn't get all churned up because of Milo's \"gayness,\" whatever that actually is, and you know it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm really not concerned over the issue of whether homosexuality is a choice---And I've never in my life encountered anyone encouraging anyone else to be \"gay,\" though I've had lots of gay friends. Far from it: For many years, the members of the LGBT community I knew were subjected to almost universal opprobrium by the society they grew up in. \n\nThe sexual orientation of the people I encounter and deal with on a daily basis doesn't especially concern me, beyond what they want to project: What happens in their bedrooms is their own business and not mine: To me they are human beings first and foremost.\n\nEven if you believe homosexuality is evil, that's for your God to decide and act on, as stated many times in the Bible (Judgement is the Lord's...), not you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wave- to correct your post, a 'He' (capital 'H' is the correct and proper usage for God's pronoun. I understand you're interested in using the right one, and all...\n\nOh- and it's good that only a miniscule percentage of the animal kingdom shows homosexual behavior- there would be no kingdom if they all were.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The premise that \"gay friendly\" parishes are those that embrace homosexual acts is wrong. Parishes that are truly friendly to those suffering from same-sex-attraction are those which help these people resist sins that they are inclined to commit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good article Jonah, these protests are simply to forward a false narrative that America is a racists country. While critical analysis of that concept so easily destroys it, a large portion of American's have been duped into the fallacy. Imagine the concept of millions of Black and Brown persons risking their lives to get to a place where they will be victimized by racism, absurd or how about the 50 years of law we have created making Blacks and gays a protected class? No, the false narrative is not to educate us on racism, it is to further indoctrinate us into their collectivism, I'll pass !", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly.\n\nWhat this tells us is that Pride is no longer about the gay community. \n\nInstead, Pride has morphed into an institution for those holding a grudge, and in attempting to leverage Pride's decades of positive accomplishment, the leadership of Pride has cast off the noble and valid principles you have identified.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right, because wherever the niqab is common - homosexuals are killed after being outed - but only \"old stock\" Canadian would be opposed to a symbol of oppression that is only common where women are treated like second class citizens and there are no individual freedoms. The niqab is a symbol of social regression - just like the KKK cloak, it should be opposed accordingly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You clearly are not a one issue voter as you support abortion, gay marriage, gender fluidity, socialized healthcare, taxpayer birth control, euthanasia, and the fact that humans are able to manipulate the coarse of the planet. Way to go Bill! you are the star of the liberated Catholic voter! All Catholics know that the doctrines of the Catholic Church are way out of step with the culture!\nHey, wait a minute. I don't think I just properly described the Catholic faith, sorry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You have no such thing for starters. And getting opposition research isn't a crime except in your mind. Everyone with half a brain understood this was a lie from the get go. Trump's going to ramp up energy production and Trump favored this...LOL Right.\n\nJust the fact that you think its OK to investigate someone without citing a law/Statue is more telling of how bitter and angry you are. Speaking of weird, abortion and homosexual marriage is what you guys are all about. SMH", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Another land mine in the life of a catholic gay(me); not being invited to the burial of my beloved Aunt Mimi. I can't help but think of Luke 9:60: \nJesus said to him, \"Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "IRT Boots - You my friend are factually wrong. There has never been a study that concluded any person with X&Y chromosomes did any better as a woman. In fact the leading pioneer in transgender research has stated emphatically; \"the change more often does long term harm.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A shining example of a man incapable of thinking for himself. Dithering over whether to support Rebel media shows Scheer merely wants to flap in whatever conservative breeze happens to be blowing at the moment. The Mulroney example is telling \u2013 while I didn\u2019t approve of most of his policies, he showed remarkable resolve and an ability to stick to his own principles.\n\nScheer hinted at moral equivocation with his gormless statements on homosexuality and abortion and has cemented my suspicions of a spineless opportunist with this anecdote. If the centre right wants a shot at regaining power, they need a leader, not a puppet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Being a pedophile is NOT the same thing as BEING Gay. But you [a black/white thinker] don't see the difference. A pedophile may not be gay. He or she may be someone who wants to exercise their authority and power over a younger weaker individual [a child or youth]. This is against the LAW of God. And this is a selected behavior.\n\nBeing conceived a homosexual is not chosen or selected any more that being born left-handed and with green eyes is. There is no \"myth\" about it. It has already been proven scientifically [without any rebuttal] that every animal species on the planet has members that are 'homosexual' same-sex attracted. This is not a matter of choice. Humans [who do not belong to the Plant kingdom, but the Animal Kingdom] are governed by the same elements of conception---and do not chose their sexual orientation.\n\nIt is not absurd to demand the church prove its position. If it is based on biblical teachings, the Church has been WRONG before and it is WRONG now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In answer to your other question, Dennis, my guess re the percentage of gay clergy is that it is considerably higher than 50%. The number of practising gay clergy is probably nearer your guess 20 - 45%.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This statement captures the assumption: \"I object to the idea that a male can decide he\u2019s a female and that\u2019s enough to make him one.\"\nThis is the same argument of \"choosing\" or free will that has been largely put to rest in regards to homosexuality. It's just resurfacing in the transgendered debate.\nNot being an expert, I have to admit to guessing there is a transgendered range from radical transition as in surgery to demonstrating behaviors of the gender one feels comfortable in. Regardless, I can't imagine why anyone would want to suffer the social stigma, let alone surgical trauma to be able to enter a woman's bathroom. But the crux is that this is seen as a choice, not deterministic. As such, it goes to the root of the biblical \"bad seed\" who intentionally commits a sin.\nBut why not worry about lesbians in bathrooms? Just because their biology is the same, they still find themselves interested in women. Why are they not a threat, but a transgender person is?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus Christ was dogmatic. That's where our dogma comes from. Secondly, the Catholic Church and healthy society can never promote or condone the use of reproductive organs in the way gay men use them. That will never change. The Church has always been opposed to sexual sins of that nature.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The biblical view in the Torah, especially Leviticus, was designed for a nation set apart, differentiated from the Persian and Babylonian cultures that held the Jews in capitvity. Moral separatism is neither divine will or natrual law. Unless you are infavor of stoning adulterers and people who eat scalops wrapped in bacon (which should be standard fare at any gay wedding), forget the archaic scriptures, especially if you cherry pick them. Logic does not seem to work. Ridicule is therefore appropriate.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSXJzybEeJM", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First, I have an issue with way that Pope Francis chooses to discuss whole swaths of people. His words are offensive and hurtful. I doubt that many gay people are lining up to be \"accompanied\" by the Catholic Church after hearing that they are apparently waging a war against marriage. He could take a traditional stance on marriage and discuss the situation in measured tones rather than hyperbole. \n\nSecond, with \"gender theory,\" we are discussing programs for women's rights. What is causing Pope Francis vapors are attempts to decrease the wage gap and tell girls that they don't have to be housewives. I didn't know that this is at all controversial. Being opposed to professional women is so far out of the mainstream that any conservative backlash should be ignored.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps you can explain why the Fourteenth Amendment, and the First Amendment, does not protect the religious belief of those who believe that gay marriage is moral and valid?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "and many not so wealthy men and women. Especially remember, for every man's adventure a women was there too. ( I know I am dissing the gays, be so be it.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I was talking about the high period of clerical child abuse, viz: the 70s and 80s. Sadly the taboo is well into the process of being of being removed thanks to the media and the behaviour of those in the entertainment industry. With a majority of so-called Catholics in the US approving of same-sex relationships there is no need for homosexuals to enter the seminary to hide their sexual preference when they can remain in a world which f\u00eates and adulates them on account of their publicly proclaimed preference.\nOnce upon a time it was the prayer of every Catholic mother to have a son a priest and/or a daughter a nun. Ere long her proudest moment will be to announce to the world that she is the mother of an homosexual son or daughter in whom she is well pleased and be lauded for her acceptance of diversity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the fact that the Federal Government can force those on active duty to follow any new social experiment to its conclusion because those serving their country can either 'shut up or get out' if they don't like it.\n\nThere is no 'discussion of opinions' on active duty regarding homosexuality, gender equality etc. Orders are given and will be obeyed. Don't like it? \n\nShut up or get out. Dissension is not permitted. The politicians in Washington D. C. have spoken.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is a binary choice. Hillary and Bernie created the Democratic platform together, and we have both of their commitments that they will execute it. We do not have an imperial Presidency, so Congress will have to cooperate just a little. But to vote for Johnson or Stein, or to stay home and binge-watch Netflix, is so grossly irresponsible. \nTrump is truly a horrendous barbarian. He will stack the Supreme Court with Scalias, and we'll live with 30 years of Roe overturned, ACA overturned, gay marriage sent back to the states, Citizens United upheld, voter suppression in every GOP stronghold, a tax plan that will further widen the wealth gap, trickle-down nonsense and a fifties social policy. You want to sit on your high horse and buy into the GOP false equivalence argument, that the two viable candidates are \"equally awful?\" It's beyond me. It you don't vote for Hillary, you risk handing the US to the most dangerous candidate in history. That's not a protest vote, it's a suicide mission.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Null, your remark is a non-sequitur, charitably because you have lost the thread of our exchange. \n\n(1) In reply to your now deleted comment, Monica said:\n\"Please look up the difference between homosexuality and ephebophilia. The great majority of child sex abusers are neither priests nor gay.\"\n\n(2) Dennis replied to Monica:\n\"You express deep wisdom in few words, beautifully, Monica. Problem is, the agility of mind required to unpack their meaning is not likely to be found in those who confidently deny them. ;-}\"\n\n(3) Null replied to Dennis\n\"Her \"meaning\" indicates are very strange understanding of male sexuality.\nStrange to straight men, anyway.\"\n\n(4) Dennis replied to Null:\n\"This straight man grasps her meaning and concurs 100%. I presume you grasp that my remarks hints at you failure to understand?\"\n\n(5) Null replied with a complete non-sequitur:\n\"You believe that straight men think teenage boys are hotties?\nI yi yi, who are you people?\"\n\n\"You people\" can follow a chain of thought.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "BTW, I am not being disrespectful. Gays deserve church weddings and love the pageantry. If they can perform them they should certainly be able to be married with them. When I married a woman, we were had to assure the priest that we were sexually functional. We had to be open to children, but did not have to be fertile (luckily we were, but at our age, it was not for long). We were also taught in pre-Cana that we performed the sacrament and the priest was the witness for the community. All three of these tests could be passed by gay couples, save for the fact that some heterosexuals think their sex is icky. Thinking that is part of being heterosexual - love can overcome such prejudice - indeed, Christ came to help us get beyond such mental mortal sins driven by our instinctual drives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unfair persecution of anyone is wrong, but half of the world still persecutes gays ...especially in Africa and the Middle East. Seriously we will have to become the sexual orientation world police to combat such a problem. Very lame article.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I do realize that queers would find it offputting to find a potential partner packing heat, but I feel sure that there must have been some straight persons present.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are scholarly/credible/etc. sources who say the gay priests, seminarians, bishops, et al. do NOT live celibate lives. Why does it matter?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Asked about whether same-sex marriage should be legal in his country, the priest expressed dissatisfaction with the church's teaching on homosexuality.\"\n\nAnd so we get to the heart of the matter: always the same old thing. As a wise gay man once told me, \"I've grown weary of people debating my ontology.\" That was over thirty years ago. I can relate. It gets tiresome.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus well understood the Jewish teachings concerning homosexuality, and apparently did not feel the need to say anything specifically.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Evidently, Layla is perfectly fine with the LGBTQ community not being represented in any manner.\n\nBut fortunately, the Supreme Court is not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where have all of these transgendered children suddenly appeared from? Is it something in the water, the atmosphere? Or, is it the SJW parents telling their 8 year olds that they should be........... Get real, give your children a break and let them grow up without imposing the current hysteria on them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Conservatives love Milo because he's against marriage equality for Gay couples. They love him because he's a provocateur who loves to poke the LGBT community in the eye; it seems to be how he gets his jollies. They love him because he fits the stereotype of a preening, promiscuous homosexual with a taste for well-endowed men. But is there anything truly redeeming about him? I don't think so. I wish he would simply be ignored, rather than giving him the attention he so desperately thrives on. Conservatives DON'T tell him he needs to find Jesus and change his wicked ways, because he's more useful to them in his current role.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sexual Education is something everyone learns at one point or another in their lives so whether it's taught at home or at school should not matter. Some parents say they would rather teach their children at home but the vast majority most likely will not due to it being too 'awkward'. \nThese protesting parents also need to take into consideration that they are depriving their children of the fact that they need to learn these important aspects of life. Not only will they learn about it but they will experience sexual tendencies for themselves. \nAnother important factor about students learning about SexEd is they will understand what is good and bad, including rape and sexual assault. Instead of teaching students that homosexuality is wrong, they should focus on teaching them that no one is \"asking for it\" because rape is rape, and it's wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hate bigotry of all sorts. My Jewish mother lost many members of her family in the Holocaust, including her parents. My younger brother is gay, and has been discriminated against -- and was chased out of the Catholic Church -- because of it. My daughter-in-law is black; both she and other members of her family has known racism. Even though I, myself, am a straight, white, Christian man, those near and dear to me have been affected by bigotry. My mother taught me to abhor it, my Christian religion teaches me to abhor it.\n\nYou have been explicit about your support of bigotry. You sometimes played shabbes goy -- whoop-de-hairy-do. Just the other day, I held a door open for a black woman, which by your standard proves that I am neither racist nor sexist.\n\nYou said that you approve of those who would refuse to deal with others for any reason. \"Any reason\" includes bigotry. Thus, you, yourself, say that you support bigotry", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe since gay youth are treated so poorly in our culture the Gay Men's Chorus has an understanding of what the youth being served are going through and just wanted to help. \n\nNot everything is political and not everyone has an angle. There are good people out there doing good work simply because they wish to help other people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You mean like your writing not being up to snuff?\n...... when Cardinal Burke told parents to reject their gay children, he was not \"beige\" a homophobe. That was just the first lie \"in\" have seen from you.\nPeople who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.\nAnd incidentally Cardinal Burke did not tell parents to reject their gay children, that is completely untrue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unfortunately, the hierarchy seems to have no interest in having a dialogue with the LGBT people. They can't even bring themselves to get rid of the odious \"intrinsically disordered\" in the catechism. Firing gays for getting married is standard operating procedure for bishops.\n\nHow long are gays supposed to wait for the institutional Church to get off its collective behind and start acknowledging that gays are truly children of God, to be accepted on their own terms? I know that if I were homosexual, I would be tired of waiting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Amazing what chemicals and surgery can do to make a man suddenly pretty. Even the voice is changed. Before he was just a short-statured nerd with glasses. Surprised he got the surgery for free. At's why so many gays are protesting their sudden exclusion into the armed services. Good luck if he can get a paying career speaking about his interesting life just like Christine Jorgensen. I think he may succeed once the legal blockades are dealt with. This treason business is booshite. All the Presidents and members of Congress do it. Cops, lawyers, judges, doctors, mayors, and government and private workers do it and get away with it. We are all corrupt.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Detail: Customer walks a bakery owned and run by an LGBT/womyn/person of non-pinkish-beige color and orders a Ku Klux Klan cake. Or and American NAZI Party cake.\n\nShould the baker be forced to bake the cake?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The neocons have demonstrated that yhey are driven by ideology rather than spirituality. When we LGBT Catholics were pleading for dialogue with the hierarchs (rather than incessantly being spoken down to) the neocons told us we could leave the church. Now that Francis calls for dialogue and pastoral accompaniment, the neocons call him a h#retic! The problem lies with the neocons and their inability to read the signs of the times ... with their failure to discern the prompting of the Holy Spirit. So very sad.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays, Democratic donors and Gender differences?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not fact. Scapegoating by the hierarchy. Pederasty is not homosexualty. Spartan soliders were pederasts and had wives. Pederasty is a crime of access and its usually vulnerable altar boys. Now that we have altar girls, I am sure the figures will even out and the priests will pay for the abortions. Its not a gay thing. Do you even know even know enough gays for an opinion on them?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "At least the USSR, on the surface anyway, espoused equality - which is the exact opposite of SJW identity politics.\n\nC'mon, gimme a \"snowflake\" and \"gay agenda\" and I win alt-right bingo for the day.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Not at all. Transgender troops have served America well since the 18th century hon. Trump's orders will be ignored by the Pentagon. He is a nasty, truly immoral President who has set us back decades.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "First, you drew certain conclusions from that comment. PHTest did not say anything on that count. But you drew certain conclusions. So that says something about you, or your insecurities.\n\nSecond, if it really is an issue about Kenney being gay, then I suspect the comment is from an intolerant social conservative (although it is hard to imagine someone more socially intolerable than Kenney), rather than a left winger (aren't they supposed to be all in on the gay agenda thingy?).\n\nYou may want to check your gaydar thingy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's official: Donald Trump is more accepting of gays than the Catholic church.\n\nRejoice! Despair? Your choice.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Don't worry.\nTrump has already played the transgender card to please his base. He's got GLB remaining, as well.\nIf the heat gets too high for Trump, if he's not feeling the love, he'll make sure Hillary Clinton does the perp walk.\nThe ratings on Fox will be yuuuge.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "UC Berkeley Student Paper Publishes Five Op-Eds Defending Violent Riots\n\nA riot that shut down the free speech rights of a gay Catholic.\n\nThis is the most violent assault on free speech and Catholicism is decades, but NCR refuses to even comment on it. It would rather allow voices to justify violence in the name of silencing Catholics.\n\nhttp://www.mediaite.com/online/uc-berkeley-student-paper-publishes-five-op-eds-defending-violent-riots/", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You disapprove of the transgendered and shoot us gobbledygook to support your disapproval. All you have shown us is your lack of love and support for the transgendered. And you undoubtedly believe that your lack of love is Christian.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is no winning here on either side. If the cake baker wins, it opens the door for more of this crap by so called Christians. If the gay couple wins, it opens the door for forcing businesses to do things they don't want to do. In the end, no mater who wins, this will be a pyrrhic victory.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ummm, they aren't. They are just asking that you not treat them like dogs. Seems fair to me.\n\nThey are NOT trying to force YOU to be gay, like you seem to think, but YOU and YOUR KIND are trying to force EVERYONE to say christian prayers and live by christian doctrine (10 commandments at state capitols, etc..) And that's just WRONG of YOU.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for this calm, rational statement about sexual orientation. I don't understand the terrible myth out there that gay priests are responsible for the sexual abuse crisis. If anything is responsible for the clergy sex abuse crisis it is homophobia in the Catholic Church. Just my humble opinion...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is this really how this woman thinks sexuality works? \"Woe is me. I have been dumped. Thank goodness I have this club to inform me of alternatives. I shall now try teh gay.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Progressives are the ones dividing the country. Policies that want to take away guns, marginalize religion, kill the most innocent and use gays are being stood up to by conservatives.\"\n\nROFL\nHowever, if you're channeling Pat Robertson, you left out practicing witchcraft.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think Weiner is toast - repeat offender, etc. Spitzer may not be a good tv host but he's smart, articulate, has great political credentials, knows how to define a talking point and can roar in the manner I believe necessary. I also like Gavin Newsom for the same reasons but not so sure America is quite ready for a gay president.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are you saying that Nick should leave the Catholic Church because he is transgendered? I suppose that he can expect damn all support from the institutional Church, because it refuses to accept him as he is.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Take it from me (a bi guy who prefers men to women) not in a million years.\n\nLike a straight guy once said, \"if gays want to get married and be miserable like the rest of us, then go for it.\"\n\nTo me, that sums it up.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's ironic to sterilize homosexuals. They won't, by their OWN nature, have sex with the opposite sex. Thereby not contributing their genes to the pool. That is why homosexuality, scientifically speaking, is considered a fatal genetic mutation. (ps I'm still waiting for fallout on my mutant comment) haha", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Tinkerbells.\" You can change your online name all you want. Your bigotry towards homosexuals and anything left of a Central American military dictatorship is the dead giveaway. \n\nI take pity on you, Duke. You're the fly I occasionally brush off the comments of less hateful people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Last year at Pride, when Black Lives Matters accused the entire LGBT community of Toronto of being nothing but oppressor class racists, did the Globe, CBC or Star stand up in defence of the gay community who have traditionally been open and accepting of all people. Did any politician ( Wynne, Trudeau, Wong Tam, Tory) speak against the sweeping slander of BLM? No of course not. They all tacitly agreed with BLM by refusing to refute the allegations. In white man's media , white man is always guilty. Appropriations just one more sin we carry in our souls.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Excluding transgender people from RCC institutions is just wrong and so judgmental. How can our church hierarchy pretend to spread the gospel of Jesus and the act his way. In what way is this walking the way Christ taught us. Shameful.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are absolutely right Utilitas. I have been more than a bit angry about these kinds of duplicitous situations myself. The treatment of Father Hall by his fellow priests is despicable, but I saw the exact same thing happen to a priest friend of mine after he was removed from a teaching position at a Catholic college for being gay. Twenty five years down the drain and only a handful of his fellow priests and less than that of his fellow professors called to see how he was doing. We both felt the lack of response was due to fear by association since he knew half of his brother priests were gay. It still sucked.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well I have no problem with gay priests but I do have a problem with hypocritical men who criticize the pope for attacking the human dignity of one group of people while they fully support the attack against the human dignity of all women. \n\nThe AUSCP who wrote this comment/article don't believe women should be ordained priests. The group only barely managed to get half their group to support ordaining women deacons. \n\nThis is not hypothesis - this is the response I got from the leaders of AUSCP only 3 years ago & as of 3 months ago their leader told me they still will not support equal ordination for women in our church. \n\nSo this group does not even support women as much as the majority of priests put together outside of their organization. So why take advice from selfish self-serving men who write only because their group includes many ex-priests who broke their vows and married and want back in, & some others of them are probably gay since appx. 40% of all priests are gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When the institutional Church teaches the hogwash that is Humanae Vitae, when it treats women as second class members, when it actively discriminates against gays, when it covers up clerical abuse of children, when it excommunicates the divorced and remarried, when the Vatican is shown to have hundreds of millions in slush funds, when it actively lies to us , why do should people listen? \n\nTwo of my sons have rejected the Church. I didn't cause it, the institutional Church did.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for the clarification. You are just flat out wrong on your first statement. The molestation occurred because the perpetrators were pedophiles, not because they were homosexual. There is a ton of research out there that disavows the linkage you are trying to make.\n\n\nThe priesthood has long been the haven of gay men. This is not some recent development.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I spend some of my time at religious websites because I want to see if all \"Christians\" are like the homophobic, misogynist, racist, brain dead ones who voted for T rump. Thankfully, I find many people here, who are of good heart, judgment, mind, and concern for their fellow men and women; despite being Christian or not! Good people are good people, doesn't matter whether they are Christian or not. Some people who are deeply religious are inspired by their faith to super human feats of service and love for their fellow man. Others (Bible Thumpers) cherry pick any verse in the Bible in order to demonize people such as LGBQ. I find a mix of all kinds here and whether I agree or not, I want to hear what people are thinking.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There was virtually no media coverage of Trump's many rallies during the election. In every crowd, in every city, in every state were the most despis'd and curs'd white males, whom we are told are the bane of America. However, they were there with their wives and girlfriends who were dutifully labeled \"male\" or simply ignored completely There were blacks who were labelled \"white\". and gays who were labeled racists. There were Hispanics who were classified as \"white\" or called \"ignorant \". They all knew they were being lied to, and lied about, by everybody but Trump.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Aaaaannnd ISIS claims responsibility. Pretty sure Allan Ross is the only one who didn't see that coming.\n\nAlso 'can't separate the fanatics from the regular people??' Are you serious? What's regular to you about a religion that encourages in it's texts (quaran, hadith) and religious law (sharia):\n\n- the murder of homosexuals\n- the subjugation of women\n- cutting off limbs\n- beheadings\n- child marriage", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Tory knows BLM will accuse him of being a racist if he asks for the funding to be cut. No matter how blatantly ignorant such an accusation would be, Tory knows the politically correct media of Toronto will not come to his defense, any more than they came to the defence of the gay community when BLM accused the white LGBT members of also being racist. Tory is a coward and /or an idiot to let this continue as if there is good will from BLM. Certainly the communists and leftists on city council will side with BLM, leaving the gays of Toronto under the bus once again.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are quite right:\n-God created women to serve the sexual \"needs\", reproductive requirements and otherwise serve men -\"..in the church and in the world\" (CDF Prefect)\n-\"Every sperm is sacred\" says the church. God says 1 in 250 million, +/- per try (or not)\n- ANY abortion, for any reason is obj'ly evil; personal sin. God say 40-65% of conceptions terminate in natural \"abortion\" so early they are not perceived. \n-EVERY egg is sacred says the church. God says 1millian at birth, 300,000 at puberty, 400 ovulate. OMG! \n-Being Gay is an \"intrinsic disorder\". God creates/the church condemns. Wha?\n- Bishops build and own/I pay\n-Should we go on?\nYoung people are discovering the connection between clerical institutionalism and used car sales\"men\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You mean like the sleaze bags that protest and disrupt gay funerals? Or the ones that kill doctors who work at Women's health Clinics and block access to them? How about the Neo nazi parades and dusruptions and KKK protests? Don't forget they are your people now, fellow Trumpets.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Read your history. The KKK was a para-military branch of the democrat party. And don't give me that southern democrats turned into republicans drivel. The democrats have always been the party of control at least as far back as Andrew Jackson. When the South became a better place to do business due to less control, their economy improved. people became less dependent and they went republican.\nRadical groups? Ever hear of the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers,the FALN? What side has been doing all the rioting over the last eight years under Obama. What party seems to coddle the Mosques that produce our own homegrown terrorists, while hammering little Christian bakeries over gay wedding cakes.\nBetter look at who got the most donations from the dreaded Top 2 percenters while you're at it. It wasn't Trump.\nDesperate uneducated? I long ago learned what the term educated idiot means. Book smart; real world challenged, to put it nicely.\nAlt Right? The latest democrat, boogeyman buzzword.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Religious Right Wing nuts have lost every cultural battle:\n\nThey opposed women being able to vote.\nThey opposed birth control.\nThey opposed mixed race marriages.\nThey opposed abortion.\nThey opposed getting Christian Prayer out of public schools.\nThey opposed gay and transgender rights.\nThey opposed same sex marriage.\n\n\"They are like an animal that knows it is dying. ... That makes them more dangerous\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, a sweet piece/peace!\nHorrible irony that a person who would give his wealth for homeless would die a pauper! Should \"Go sell what you have & give it to the poor\" be taken literally?\nConfused by sentence: Coury is the retreat house director. Tom first told him of the dilemma, that there was no money for Richard's burial. Tom is introduced here without previous reference. Who is Tom?\nMeanwhile, in Springfield, IL bishop Popcocky has issued decree no funerals for gays. So, Tom the artist who hopes to be able to say mass once more, in Springfield, no funeral for him. Will be interesting how many bishops follow Popcocky? Isn't one of the works of mercy to bury the dead? Not in Springfield if gay! No way! \"The quality of mercy is not strained\"? Evidently in S. 'tis!\nBut Shakespeare was no theologian; he's clueless!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "AlwaysThere, yes SAD indeed. I wonder how much that woman paid some guy to IMPREGNATE her. Looks like there is a NEW job market starting up, Titled: Any Man, Get me pregnant, my Lesbian partner can not.\n\nDIS-CUSSTING....................", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Church must accompany couples before, after marriage, pope says.\" \n\n* unless you're a gay couple, in which case we'll accompany you right out the door.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"It will serve as an example to gay people that there is no shame in declaring yourself to have ss attraction.\"\n\nSure, that sounds great in theory, but like most theoretical things is unlikely to happen. Since the church still officially teaches that being gay is \"objectively disordered\" and \"intrinsically evil,\" thereby intentionally instilling shame in those so \"afflicted,\" few priests will ever admit to being gay if they still want to collect a paycheck, which the vast majority need to do in order to survive in this cold, cruel world. Even on National Coming Out Day (whenever that is) such a mass exodus from the priestly closet is highly unlikely. Now if the church were ever to change its tune in terms of doctrinal teaching then I suspect such an exodus is more likely, though it would probably begin more as a trickle than a deluge.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "True. And if you have been persecuted for being gay, justice is blessing your marraige. If your wife dumped you and divorced you, justice is marrying again. If some pious idiot told you that going to commuion with a \"mortal sin\" on your soul (as if this was something you could casually do), justice is the Church coming to the conclusionn that Paul was talking about receiving without believing, because there was no confession for all but the worst sins and no concept of mortal sin. There was excommuication and sins you confessed to a fellow saint. If certain hierarchs persecuted theologians because of brand loyalty and then are ignored by the Pope when they are disrespectful, this is justice at its sweetest. Other Popes would have simply defrocked all of them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, those acts are sinful and disgusting, except, perhaps, to the extent that they are helpful in leading to actual sexual intercourse.\n\nWhat does \"gay\" mean? Sexually attracted to the same sex, i.e., homosexual. Not a very big leap to the bedroom from there. Same-sex attracted, oth, has no sexual connotation and could mean male bonding, platonic love, etc.....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Try talking to someone that's gay. Every one of the ones I've talked to said they knew as young as 5 that they were different. You honestly believe it's a choice? Yes, sign me up because I want to be treated like a second class citizen. I love being told I'm an abomination and will rot in hell. I love being beaten up because of who I am. Again, when did you decide to be hetero?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I freely admit I'm going out of my way to address your ludicrous \"arguments.\" Tell me, oh wise one, exactly how are you going to discern that a person is an adulterer, wife beater, etc.? Do you think they wear signs? For an answer, please refer to my original post. P.S. We all know what your real problem is. P.P.S. Do trans, gay etc people get to discriminate against you based on the fact that your beliefs clash with theirs? What if their religious precepts make you into a sinner? Uh oh.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What people miss is that this law makes sexual orientation synonymous with race. Dislike a gay-dislike a race. Under the law, gays ARE a race of people. Based on the notion that people are born gay and others are (let's say) Asian. Therefore to discriminate against a gay person equals being racist against that person. Many people do not believe sexual preference constitutes race. It has not been proven people are actually born gay and therefore ARE technically a race of people by DNA etc. What the law has done in business is to create a war in the workplace. The pecking order works like this: Gay women create cliques and take over the business. Straight women are second class citizens. People of color (gay or not) are 3rd class citizens. All straight men must be eliminated from the business-especially white males and gay males are considered for ejection on a case by case basis. I watched this happen to a city business. The gay staff eliminated 50% of the straights without opposition.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They should get hitched! Allie a devout lesbian and Caitlyn Klastri Jenner, now a female, would make a perfect lesbian couple! Better hurry and marry you two before our new Muslim refugees outlaw same sex marriage as it's prohibited under sharia law! LOL", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Integration never works. Why should it? Did the Europeans who came to these shores integrate with the Natives and their lifestyle? No.\n\nThe Muslims will never integrate. Why should they?\n\nCultures are like genes, the strong ones dominate. The Western culture is a weak one, bending backwards before all others to accommodate. In sweet terms it is called \"political correctness\". In reality it is unwise. \n\nWhat makes the West weak is its rampant materialism and wasteful capitalism, and what makes Muslims strong is their frugality - they get more bang for the buck. Islam is efficient. Muslim lifestyle makes them tough - prayers, meditation, fasting, better able to answer to the Primal Question of Existence - Survival, Growth, Evolution.\n\nThe Corporate Capitalist West is repeating the same mistakes Muslims made in centuries 7-14 AD after Mohammed died - materialism, colonialism, racism, misogyny, pornography, same-sex unions. The West should learn from debacle of that Islam to reform itself.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Will end up with a disabled lesbian trans-gendered immigrant youth at risk who knew someone that lived close to store that sold an astronomy book once.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My hope is that this whirlwind will catch up gay males who make unwanted overtures to other males like PDX mayor Sam Adams and Seattle mayor Ed Murray and Kevin Spacey have. I guarantee you it's a big problem that goes unreported by the leftstream media. These men are no different than Harvey Weinstein.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You have a poor understanding of what Sharia law is. Sure it can be used in a conservative way to impose draconian viewpoints like the conservative groups known as the Daesh, and the American supported Nusra Front, but properly interpreted it can mean giving to charity, respecting your neighbours, following the law and caring for your fellow man. You wish to interpret it in a conservative Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) way like \"God is with us as we go to war and kill other nations\". Look at some of the Evangelicals who would kill homosexuals for their own good. Tell me a difference. Why not choose to interpret it as intended to help humankind", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My gaydar was also alerted. Gee, the legislature is only 3 blocks away from the Gay Village so maybe he'll wander down there to prove he's not a homophobe.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"LGBT identifying individuals **with the exception of lesbian women** are more likely to experience sexual assault on college campuses than heterosexual individuals.[59]\n- 1 in 8 lesbian women and nearly 50% of bisexual women and men experience sexual assault in their lifetime.\"\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault\n\nThat statistic, also from from Wiki, says that lesbians are actually less likely to experience sexual assault than women in general. Just sayin'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fun...but not funny . Gays, woman, jews, atheists, christians, buddhists, hindus, kurds............and on and on and on down the list.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is Caldera \"channeling\" Jerry Falwell - who proposed that Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby, was a gay role model because the character was purple (which Falwell claimed was a \"gay pride color\" - perhaps Falwell should explain that to the Minnesota Vikings, aka the \"Purple People Eaters\"), because the character's antenna was a triangle (which Falwell claimed was a \"gay-pride symbol\" - you know, like the PYRAMID on the back of a dollar bill) and because Tinky Winky carried a \"purse-like tote bag\" (kind of like a laptop bag)?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not just looking at the face of your beloved child, who is kind, intelligent, compassionate, artistic, articulate, loving and seeing his tears. It's watching him become suicidal as he struggled to reconcile his orientation with the faith traditions of his parents. People tend to focus on the physical aspects of the gay relationship. But for him, the idea of living a life without companionship was more than he could bear. He continues to struggle with loneliness. We live in a state with a very high teen suicide rate. Many of the successful suicide victims underwent the same struggles as my son, but often their families pushed them out or pushed them into damaging reparative therapy. Every time I hear of another suicide by a gay young person I realize that it could be mine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Two days, two transgender stories. Some hard-hitting news here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A tremendous and dedicated servant to the public, his district and Alaska overall. You never had to question where Johnny was coming from. I remember in the 1980's when Johnny was running and there was a very dirty whisper campaign about him being gay being run by an unscrupulous campaign consultant who is still in the business. My parents, long time residents of Fairview, both stood up for Johnny and let him run their picture in his campaign literature along with a personal statement of support. My dad died when he was 90 but my mom, Helen is still alive at 96 and often mentions Johnny when I see her. I was always very proud of them for that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Current science indicates that transgender children are born that way. How do you go about not \"allowing\" a child to be transgender? It's not under their control.\n\nRegarding your claim that gender dysphoria can be treated psychologically. Doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, pastoral counselors and therapists of all stripes have been trying for generations to do that and have utterly failed at coming up with a way to do this. If you have a way WHY ARE YOU KEEPING IT A SECRET? Please tell us how to do what so many professionals have been unable to do!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tory will eventually have to decide which side he is on: BLM or the LGBT gay community. I am not optimistic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Parrot, are you aware that there are animals living in the wild that are homosexual? Shocking isn't it? So much for your belief that \"nature dictate it is not normal.\" Wonder what God had in mind when he made it possible for animals to be homosexual. Splain that one, Parrot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Seminarians are not little boys. They are adult men---who will soon be out ministering to people in parishes---listening to people's confessions OR meeting with parishioners to discuss with them personal issues. Hiding seminarians from discussions of sex, whether heterosexual or homosexual is NOT the way to prepare them for their ministry. \n\nBecause sexuality was NOT DISCUSSED EXTENSIVLY in past years--young priests and later, Future Bishops---were ignorant of the sexual ramifications for straight and homosexual couples, they knew next to nothing about women's issues [many of these men in years past entered the junior seminary right after 8th grade], and the seminaries then gave shabby or no biology classes in the high school junior seminary. Ignorance of issues--on both sides of the issue is not the way to prepare anyone in the Church for a Ministry of Service.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "C: Misinterpretation is a skill learned when trying to make a point that has no factual support. You are a master. The same references you cite also applied when President Obama mandated transgender military acceptance. He had no more or less authority than President Trump has in reversing the policy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Morality? Politicians? Lets be real, respectfully TOPSY, Washington has no morality, either party, going back as far as I can remember, and I am just over 60! Wilbur Mills and Fanny, ABSCAM (lot of Democrats nailed there taking dough from what they thought were foreign concerns, no charity needed) Watergate, Iran-contra, homosexual acts with underage house pages (Stubbs and company), Barney Franks having a full fledged \"Molly House\" of prostitution going on in his Washington domicile, etc., etc.., etc., the list just goes on and on. Washington is anything but moral! I leave Bill Clinton out because I voted for him on his second run. LOL~\n\n\nNeither candidate from the two parties this last election for president, has the moral high ground! Who today in Washington, including now Mr. Sanders, whose wife is now under investigation, isn't tainted? \n\n\n\n\"Drain the swamp\"? It's such a toxic dump, there isn't a superfund big enough to clean it up!\n\n\n\nThanks for your reply, have a great day!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you even read the article you linked to? The closest it comes to your thesis is: \"This work suggests that common genetic factors may underlie the expression of both.\"\n\nIt says one sociological survey \"suggests\" genetic factors \"may\" underlie homosexuality. It's social-science-speak for \"Oops, we spent a lot of money and didn't find anything our sponsors could use in their political campaign.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So was JPIIs blue-eyed boy, Marcial Maciel Degollado, a gay man? He sexually abused underage minor seminarians and yet was fathering children with a female paramour or two. Being a sycophant, he was able to swindle vast sums of money from traddie multimillionairesses and funnel it into Vatican coffers. When the charges were brought against him the catholic neocons besmirched the victims as liars ... the Neuhauses, Weigels and Donohues spoke of this pedophile as a man of radiant holiness and trumpeted his innocence as \u201ca moral certainty\u201d... all while JPII extolled his work with the youth! Your repeated, vile and vituperative invective and calumny against gay priests has been flagged yet again, Ken. https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/john-jay-report-not-blaming-homosexual-priests", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you understand the difference between homosexuality and pedophilia/ephebophilia?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is a thoughtful article by Kelly. Pillar made the comment in anger and delivered what he thought was the most insulting, derogatory, slur a man could make against another. Unhinged, provocative, inciting anger, a challenge to take it to the next level which is violence. These are also the conditions for a hate crime to take place. \n\n Toronto has a healthy, thriving, homosexual community, many of whom who are Jays fans. They would rightfully feel offended by a player articulating himself in a manner that reflects them in the lowest esteem. If Pillar can do it, the sports role model that he is, why not everyone. This is an issue of Pillar's own making. The cop out is a meaningless apology because he has to. He has to reach out to the gay Jays community in a meaningful from the heart kind of way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trost is a dinosaur in his views on gay rights. He would be more at home in the Christian Heritage Party and should go join there. People like him is what will keep the party in opposition and the party would be best to tell him to take a hike.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bad at delivering a coherent message, but good at selfies. Just ask organizers at the last gay pride parade.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If I am speaking of more than one transgender person, \"they\" meets the reality of the situation and the niceties of proper English grammar. If I am speaking only of one transgender person and that person wishes to be called something other than \"him\" or \"her\", the English language offers a grammatically-correct alternative--\"it\", which is completely non-gender-specific.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not anti-gay. i am for gay rights as long as they are not superior to rights of others. Neither of these two facts are evidence of support for the assertion of choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Basically, the SSM ruling is a non-ruling. It is impossible for two justices to participate and officiate in a same sex marriage ceremony, then go into chambers and rule for what they just participated in. It can't get more conflict than that. Without those two conflicts, SSM would not have passed. Also, Justice Kennedy cited 40,000 children in SSM, without comparing it to the hundreds of thousands of children in common law marriages, and in the same boat as homosexuals. The 14th Amendment cannot be used for equality because it cannot compare apples with oranges. People married to people not married. Male and female to male and male. SSM is a form of discrimination, where only one gender can enter and bar the other. SSM is there for unconstitutional. Our Constitution CANNOT recognize an orientation, it is an", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cIt seems to be part of a nationwide trend,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want bigotry-driven violence to get a foothold in Island County.\u201d Well done! This kind of hatred has no place on the island, let alone the world. I'm so glad this issue is being taken seriously. On that note, if the student is identifying as a male, the author should consider changing the female pronouns out of respect. It may seem petty to some, but in the transgender community, having their identities validated speaks volumes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Once Republican lawmakers get the backing of Catholic bishops in an election over opposition to abortion and gay marriage they're done with them - at least until the next election. In the meantime it's all about tax cuts for the rich. That is literally their one and only concern. They couldn't care less about health care for the poor. If Catholic bishops are so na\u00efve as to still not comprehend this then they're even more out of touch with reality than I thought.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My friend, in his fifties, had a stroke during the George W administration. He was treated and sent home from the hospital, didn't receive follow-up care, didn't qualify for aid, and couldn't afford the drugs he was supposed to be taking. He died a year or so later. His family loved him. I have another friend, in his forties, who had a massive heart attack last year. He survived, and he is receiving care. His family loves him. If the Republicans win, they will try to get rid of Obamacare. My friend will never get insured on the open market. If Obamacare goes away, people will die. It's that simple.\n\nIf the Republicans win, the environment will take an extra big hit. The Supreme Court will shift. Do you know any gay people? They don't think the parties are interchangeable. Notice all those dispensaries around town? We keep voting for the better candidate, and things ARE changing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "there were several such quotes and they all match what most people see as self-righteousness, which is essentially the belief that correct moral beliefs are more important than empathy. Mercy is the antidote, although sometimes mercy is honesty - admitting what you believe may not be necessarily so. BTW, it was not homosexual activity that Ratzinger called disorder, it was being homosexual that was outside the natural order. That depends on how you define that order. If nature makes some people gay or lesbian, then Ratzinger is wrong. if sexuality is a gift of God, then even the conduct equivocation is wrong. Indeed, the Church was headed that way full speed ahead toward inevitable doctrinal change when Ratzinger, for St. John Paul, put on the brakes, or thought he did. Most of us are not convinced and those younger are really not convinced. May you live to see the change and may I live to gloat about it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For clarity, he said he wouldn't bake this particular cake, which is different than saying he wouldn't serve gay people. There are distinctions to be made. My understanding is that they had been customers before this inquiry about getting a cake for their wedding. So, you can't really argue he discriminated against them if he's served them before. If a straight couple came in and wanted a gay wedding cake, he wouldn't have baked it for them either. So, he's not discriminating against a particular group of people--he's just not baking gay wedding cakes. Anyway, what's the point here? You want to force someone to bake a cake for you? It's 2017, go somewhere else and get your cake if you're that offended. Hope he wins in court. Gay man here, who bakes. Thanks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1) How was this gay couple harassing the baker? They wanted a good. Not the same as harassment.\n\n2) If a group of skinheads or neo-Nazis wanted non-kosher meat from a Jewish deli, and that deli doesn't carry non-kosher meat, then yes, that deli owner would have every right to say \"sorry, but I don't carry non-kosher meat\". The baker in question was denying a good that a) he carries, and b) he sells to other people--simply because of who the couple was. See the difference?\n\n3) If the couple wanted a cake decorated in a manner that the baker found offensive, then I would defend his right to refusal, so long as he offered to sell the couple the product he carries (the cake) and the materials with which to decorate the cake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It breaks my heart to think Judge Carlson was not allowed to be happy or secure in his career or life just because he is gay. I don't get it. His being gay does not harm us in any way so why can't we just live and let live?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Masses were packed in prior generations because the belief in a belief in God was common. Whether true belief ever existed is always questionable. As for sexuality, yes they largely disagree with the Chruch\u2019s treatment of homosexuals (they are correct, but I wish they would stay and fight), on abortion they are mostly pro-life, but when they become sexuality active, they learn to keep this to themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not going to prove your contention for you. Nor am I going to engage in your semantic arguments.\nYou said that gays are not a proected class, you are wrong. Deal with it. \n\nWhy are you afraid to talk about how you think a German can compel a baker to make a hitler cake?\nThat is some of your best stuff.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Something to hide?\" \"A Threat?\"\n\nWould I have something to hide if I were transgender? Or standing in opposition to a despotic authoritarian attempt to take over our way of life? Or Muslim? Or brown-skinned? *drawls* Or hell, just not from around these here parts?\n\n\"3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc...\n\n7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.\"\n\n12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism.\"\n\n( from \"Fourteen Defining\nCharacteristics Of Fascism\" http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm )\n\nNO PLZ.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Could it be it is because gay couples are not discriminating against bakers, gay teachers are not refusing to teach in Christian schools or governments forcing church's to put up secular symbols.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So why do we need a law? Why not just let those businesses who do not wish to provide services to gay people, muslims, etc. \"out\" themselves by posting a notice in their window saying which groups and which members of society they do not wish to provide any service to. \nI am sure no friends/family of gay people, friends/family of muslims, etc. would want to inadvertently support these businesses anyway. \nAny business that does not post their biases would be assumed to be willing to treat all customers equally.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lassie was a cross dresser female?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is for homosexuals. It is not gullible to think so, it is judicious. It is gullible to think that just because you were taught something that it has to be true, even in the face of contradictory evidence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The military spends five times more on Viagra than it does on transgender troops medical care. Makes sense. Letting the little head think for the big head...\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/26/the-military-spends-five-times-as-much-on-viagra-as-it-would-on-transgender-troops-medical-care/?utm_term=.6f9aef80fcde", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How many commenting here, including Wente, have any experience with gender dysphoric children? \n\nWente portrays Zucker as a friendly soul taking a rational approach to gender dysphoria, but fails to note that his 'treatment' amounts to shaming children: \"for children assigned as males at birth, Zucker asks parents to take away toys associated with females & instruct the child not to play with or draw pictures of girls,\" Wikipedia. Parents were also advised to shame their kids if they transgressed these rigid gender lines.\n\nGender is a construct, not innate. If you simply love your kids & let them be who they are, they will figure it out - & still have self-esteem. Most kids who are strongly identify with the opposite sex grow out of it, but sometimes not until their teens. Some will grow up to be gay, some transvestite, & some will grow out of it altogether. A small percentage transition. \n\nThose who are upset by this are too invested in outdated gender constructs. GET OVER IT!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've been saying a singular \"they\" for over 20 years when unsure of a person's gender. I'm not sure what the big deal is. I know there was a fuss at one time that it was a plural, but I haven't heard that argument in a long time.\n\nIt reminds me of the fuss when \"Ms\" was first introduced. Men had conniptions over the new title which was neither Miss or Mrs. That soon passed and I haven't heard any more about it.\n\nMind you, I don't know how often one would use a first or third person pronoun when discussing things with a transgendered person. The second person \"you\" would be more likely and it has no gender. And professors/teachers could do a Harry Potter and just refer to students by their last name: Weasley, Granger, or Malfoy.\n\nThe Free Speech issue is just the Right trying to stir up trouble. I mean, it has to do with how someone wishes themselves to be referred to. If someone wants to be called Miss Smith and not Mrs or Ms, I'm obliged to follow her wishes. It's called courtesy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For what it is worth, Pixar produced a movie with a transgender character a few years back and no-one seemed to notice or care (Marvin in \"Finding Nemo\").", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Looks like Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-- Marine General Joe Dunford is telling US military that there will be no change in treatment of transgender on the basis of Trump's tweet. Other Military officers have spoken out against any change as well. In Congress, key Republican conservative leaders, including Orrin Hatch say they will not allow Trump to discriminate against transgender troops. Secretary of Defense Mattis is angry, and will not comment-- he was not consulted. This may be the last straw between Trump and the military-- Mattis and McMaster are already upset that Trump is turning to Steve Bannon for military advice while ignoring them and the joint chiefs on strategic recommendations. If this keeps up without some change by Trump, we could have a military coup.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually Tom, for the record, the church's teaching is officially not to support abortion or all Catholics must agree abortion is immoral and wrong. I actually do believe it is both immoral and wrong and sin regardless of why a women gets one as certainly it can never be considered a faithful act and so must be a faithless act and therefor sin. However, our church's teachings do not outright demand we agree on the best way or method to seek abortions end in our world. Our laws do not outright state that me must believe illegalization of Abortion is the best or even a good way to fight abortion. Given the facts, this method increases rather than decreases the immorality so I am choosing a different method of fighting against abortion which I have stated previously. As for our teachings on homosexuality, we do not state to condemn homosexuals themselves or anyone else, including women who have had an abortion. We are all supposed to forgive each other -that is Christianity 101.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For me, abortion was not an issue.\nI'm pro-choice and pro-gay rights and I voted for Donald Trump because I believe we need to protect our Western heritage and capitalism; I do not believe that Hillary Clinton wanted to preserve either of those things.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The reason we have a 21 year old alcohol rule in this country, unlike the rest of the world is because there was a threat of the loss of Federal Funds. The reason we lowered speed limits in this country is because there was a threat of the loss of Federal Funds. The reason Obama's Education Department decision about transgender bathrooms has caused so many State lawsuits was the threat of loss of Federal Funds. The reason the University of Oregon requires male students to show proof that they have filed for the draft is because of the threat of loss of Federal Funds. The reason Title IX for women sports works is because of the threat of loss of Federal Funds.\n\nThe US immigration laws do not recognize 'sanctuaries'. \n\nWhat will President Schill do if the U of O is threatened with the loss of Federal Research Funds for attempting to keep Armed Federal Immigration Officers from enforcing the law?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have close friends in the same business as my family who have spent decades working in the Middle East and there are gay people there to. Although homosexuality is not officially \"tolerated\" in the Middle East it does have a place there where for the sake of public decency on the site I will spare the details. So saying that homosexuality in the Middle East is not as \"unaccepted\" as people would think and your statement is a real \"blanket\" statement when it comes to referring to the ideology and the general customs of any culture. Simply, we know in this nation that all that practice \"Christianity\" are not all alike and some do not share even some of the most common beliefs about the tenets of the Christian religion. Therefore you have no argument and you don't even have any proof that most Muslims hate \"gays\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No....it is just the way you want to see it. I'm pretty sure I laid blame on both sides on several issues, and yet that wasn't good enough.\n\nI also seem to remember Tea Party types back in 2009 and 2010 shouting down Democrats....and a few Republicans.....at town hall meetings.\n\nThere is a right to free speech from government intrusion. There is no guarantee of free speech having to be heard.....and no, I don't agree wth people being shouted down (which happens at very few colleges...but feel free to apply Berkeley to every other public university if it makes you feel better).\n\nI also don't see lefties wanting to be able to refuse service to gays based on their own religious beliefs. Serving a gay person has zero impact on one's ability to worship as they see fit.\n\nFace it....the left doesn't have the market cornered on lousy behavior...no matter how much you want to believe otherwise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So do you believe that adult agendas should be forced upon children? I have no problem with gay people and fully believe that there is no choice in sexuality. However I don't think it is a subject that should be forced upon children and that naivety isn't a bad thing for kids. It's like Santa, sooner or later they grow to understand he doesn't exist but we don't need a government enforced spoiler department to ruin it for them.\n\nSome kids grow up faster than others which can sometimes be brought on by adult intervention. I'd rather let kids be kids.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A guy from my hometown served in the military and later in Peace Corps; a credit to our state and country. Many credible people served as well as draft dodgers and chicken hawks. \n\nUse of \"org\" implies that Peace Corps is an NGO or private non-profit. It isn't. It's a US government entity subject to all the machanizations of government just like the army. So will Transgender people be pulled from Peace Corps next?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're right, Ed. This is somewhat like locking the stable door after the horse had bolted. I've heard another pro-gay priest advocate estimate that he thinks it's as high as 50%.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I read the article and I don't think the author makes his point at all. To keep my comment short, I will give one example of what I see as the usual double-standard :\"But more importantly, the refusal of service to gay couples is itself an arbitrary act. It is an act of domination \u2013 just like refusal of service to black or Jewish people or inter-racial couples. \"\nSo, isn't it an act of domination when a photographer or baker, etc., is now forced to provide their services for a same sex wedding by the government? Refusing to provide your services for a same sex wedding is not even close to simply refusing to serve those same persons in the usual day to day dealings in life.\nAnd why is it just a problem of people drawing lines only from a religious standpoint? Plenty of people have refused to serve certain people or groups for political reasons and no one says anything. But refuse on religious grounds and people get sued. This is flat out wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since the gays were deliberately trying to sabotage Phillips, he should have refused them service for some other reason - like bad hair or BO or anything else.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Great link John. And of course the very last line is a bullet.\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/kristin-beck-trump-transgender-ban-2017-7\n\n\"It's a leadership issue, not a transgender issue.\" \n\nI wish Trump would take her up on the offer. LOL", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Including the right of gay couples not to be discriminated against.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. And no. This is a no-brainer. I would like to hear anyone who has a rational argument that could justify special protection for a religious group. One rule of law, governing one country. This opens the door for regressive behaviours and beliefs. Namely Sharia law. Name one country under Sharia law that is progressive in it's treatment of women, LGTB, and transgendered people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fact that you said the word \"gay lifestyle\" means you know nothing about the subject. So is the fact that you allowed your \"abhorrent\" comment to stand without distancing yourself from it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Baker will win this: piece of cake. Here's my take on the baker and the gay couple. \nhttps://kazolias.com/tag/supreme-court/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, I am \"fearful\" of Donald Trump becoming president. I want gay people to continue to be able to get married, I want women to be able to continue to get abortions, and most importantly, I want climate change to be addressed. The official Republican platform would ban gay marriages, ban abortion, and do absolutely nothing about climate change. Climate change is by far the greatest threat to the world and will negatively affection hundreds of millions of people if we do not start acting. Millions of women and homosexuals will be negatively affected by marriage bans and abortion bans.\n\nSo yes you are absolutely correct, I \"fear\" that the official Republican platform would be implemented, which in turn would have a very negative, very real effect on millions of people's everyday lives. In my opinion, Obama has done a fairly excellent job, implementing near universal health care, granting civil rights to homosexuals, and turning around the economy. I'm fine with more of that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can someone please explain where, the people who purport to represent conservative values feel, trans-gendered men/women should use the toilet in a given public or private establishment? \n\nThe point being made in the article, even by the bill's drafter, was that they wanted to codify what happens naturally as it is. It only becomes a civil rights issue when some zealot cries foul because misty, turns out to be a boy and suddenly a proprietor/citizen doesn't want them around their 'family' or 'family business' out of pure bigotry. \n\nThe fact is you probably have no idea who among you is trans-gendered 90% of the time. And those same people walking among you need protection from that kind of discrimination because it is a basic right for them to be able to live their life as they see fit (see also: life, liberty and pursuit of happiness). These are not things that can or should be left up to popular vote.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Manning is not a she. He was born a male and will always be a male despite surgery to make him look somewhat like a female, despite squatting to pee, and despite liberals saying he is a she. How did the country get so screwed up?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sunny beautiful day and the sun has not changed. Doesn't seem like Hawaii is any better or worse than it was yesterday. It feels the same everyday in these beautiful islands. Maybe others feel different. Coffee at Starbucks or McDonald will probably be the same. I'm not sure how I feel about women, gays, Latino's, Asians or woman choice anymore. Although, there is no apparent difference, I'm not sue if I have changed. But it is still early and I have not left the house yet. Don't really know what's out there. I hope I haven't changed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is \"a biological son\"? the phrase must refer to a son by another woman, but really, how does \"biological\" help? Could one have a non-biological son? Maybe a daughter or a hermaphrodite would be a biological non-son.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently, the gay couple flipped the baker half the peace sign on their way out the door. For that alone, the baker should have been within his rights to refuse to bake them a cake. \n\nBut I suppose flipping half the peace sign is protected free speech. As hands can be expressive, so too a cake can be expressive. The baker didn't want to use his hands to bake a cake that would express something he disagreed with. His hands should be as protected as their hands. \n\nThat the SC took the case indicates they see a legitimate issue here to be resolved.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dan, I think that the GOP Senate is looking into the next year and have worked on a recent bill to fund Labor-Health and Human Services they brought up bipartisan by US Senators, a Democrat (Patty Murray, WA and GOP Roy Blunt , MO that fund (gasp) the ACA , women's services and it has no silly \"rider\" inserted in it to stop abortion or gay people from marrying or women working in the senate from wearing short skirts, items that often cause arguments between parties that stall the bill. The comment from one senator is that this bill would infuriate Ted Cruz and that was a good thing, they are sick of him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay people largely aren't \"sharing\" any more than hetero folk take for granted they share. So if you're a man and you're dating a woman or married to a woman you never talk about that? That would be revealing you're hetero. You've never said \"Last weekend my wife and I went to the movies\"? That's revealing you're hetero. If your wife is pregnant, you didn't talk about that? That's confirming that you (presumably it was you) had sexual intercourse with your wife. When you were first becoming sexually active you never talked with your friends about what that was like, asked for tips, advice, etc? You never asked a friend if they were dating? That's showing you had an interest in their \"proclivities.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You don't really have the facts quite right. He said he would sell them any off-the-shelf products, but that he would not make them a custom-made cake for a gay wedding because of his religious beliefs. He did not refuse to serve them. He simply refused to enter a contract to make a special cake. \n\nBecause a cake can be expressive in nature and artistic in nature, I think he was within his rights to say no. Making the cake meant expressing something he did not approve of. It also meant participating in a ceremony he did not wish to participate in.\n\nI'm hoping for a \"live and let live\" outcome here. Gays can marry but people who don't want to participate in those weddings don't have to. That seems a more reasonable conclusion than \"bake a cake or else.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Andrew Scheer is a relatable guy.\n\n==================\n\nRelatable to who? People who are anti-gay? People who want to take away a woman's right to chose? People who want to continue Harper's policies of failing middle-class Canadians to enrich the 1%?\n\nHe certainly isn't relatable to a majority of Canadians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He doesn't HAVE a social conservative agenda. Not only has he promised, as Harper did, not to bring in legislation restricting abortions or gay rights he's also promised not to allow private members bills on such things either. He also got nearly as many votes from Quebec members as Bernier did.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What most dont realize is Murray landed in Ont fresh from Winnipeg and still won in Rosedale with no connections other than the fact he was openly gay. The GreenNH3 scientists repeatedly tried to get a reply from Murray and Wynne, and for 6 yrs could not get a reply even to registered mail. This is a terrible way to treat honest scientists with a patent which will change the world completely.\nhttp://hansardindex.ontla.on.ca/hansardespeaker/40-2/l118-817.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you actually read your posts?\nI was answering your question \"What would be the wrong body parts to become the first female president?\" My answer was clear, male body parts. I was not saying Secretary Clinton was trans.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nobody is making the argument that the players don't have the right to kneel. I haven't seen or heard that at all. They're arguing that their boss should fire them for disrespecting millions of the people whose money pays their salaries. Like when the owner of Chick-fil-A said he thought marriage was a man plus woman type deal. Or the owner of Hobby Lobby said something to the same effect. Or someone didn't want to make a gay wedding cake. Or said something off color on Facebook. Or wanted to speak his or her political opinions at Berkeley, they wanted his book deal taken away. Now that you mention it, it appears that the Left is a tad jealous that someone is using their go-to tactic and it's working. \n\nOdd that a bunch of racists would idolize and buy and wear the jerseys of black players in a sport that is 70% comprised of blacks. Just a thought here, but maybe they disagree with the claims concerning the police made by groups like BLM. Maybe there are some numbers that support this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I'm looking for in political representatives are people who put people first; muslim, christian, atheist, gay, straight, man, woman, trans, ---The people who actually make up our nation and our world. I don't want someone who views his or her office through the narrow confines of ANY religion: The law and the constitution have to come first in that job, and the ability to represent all people who happen to be citizens on that criteria alone. Our ongoing experiment in liberty is too important to have it otherwise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Simply telling the ordinaries in Uzbekistan and Philly that the meaning of AL is as written and if they cannot abide the bishops cannot abide they can retire early should clarify things. Chaput needs to go anyway. Burke playing the Pharisee does not change that. Personally, I would love it if Francis did answer the Dubia along the lines I mention, but Francis is more of a gradualist. He is not seeking a basic debate on those issues. He and Synods essentially clarified actual current practice over recent decades. Catholics married a first or second time in other religions or civilly whose marriages have endured have had them blessed in the rectory for a while now, with a return to Communion (assuming it stopped). AL does not break new ground. I suspect gay marriages will be accepted the same way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Head scarves and robes covering women: All muslim women except some in the west (for those who rebel)\nNot allowing women to drive: Saudi Arabia\nNot allowing women out without fathers or brothers: Saudi Arabia\nThrowing gays off buildings: Many muslim countries\n\nThis is not bigotry. This is stating the facts. As a gay man I am not going to sit back and say everything is peachy with a religion that preaches this kind of misogyny towards women and this type of hatred towards gays.\n\nYou may disagree with me and I respect that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Funny to read all the praise for this writer when it was less then a year ago, this same writer was being called to task for his words , and his performances of songs that were derogatory towards women in general, as well as gays and lesbians. To be sure he apologized, what else could he do, he was running for the NDP. However the fact remains this wasn't a youthfull indiscretion, as he was old enough to know better. But I guess it was all the fault of the residential schools, I believe that entered into his apology, sort of a get out of jail free card. Consider the source when you are heaping praise on a individual who did a great deal of harm, and walked away unscathed. Boyden has done far less, but then he may not be aboriginal,so he has no excuse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is it a coincidence that the majority of the commenters that found this comment funny are openly homosexual?\nWhat does that statement, made by our blessed Mother to Lucia refer to exactly if true? A family that consists of a mother, father and children, raised in the faith? Marriage between one man and one woman? Single parent households with children born out of wedlock? The delusional thinking of transgender adults and children? Divorced and remarried receiving communion in a state of adultery?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fleece Johnson says : \"Statistically, lesbian couples are the most violent towards each other\". Would this person please cite his or her sources. Not saying he/she is wrong, but statements such as that need to be substantiated, in my opinion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have a source Gary - and it is based on the same methods we govern the country, there is no difference whatsoever. Marrying Homosexuals is a law of the land, but is not part of the Christian Church that Christ said he was building in Mathew 16:18. Homosexuality is clearly condemned numerous times in the Bible, and what is most shocking to me is the fact you refuse to accept this document (the Bible) as the governing principle in the Christian Church, I have even conceded that any other \"Church\" can marry whoever they please under the laws of the land, just don't refer to it as the Church of Jesus Christ. It is clear you do not like it, that is fine, but don't claim to be an authority on the Christian Church or Biblical Doctrine on this matter, you are not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The article is mostly correct. I've seen several critical comments here, but a few points. Jeff Sessions will do far less damage than a Clinton administration would, and as for this statement \"Zero accountability by police, in fact, MORE citizens are being killed this cycle.\" what is your evidence? Seriously, in spite of some rather stupid comments made by Trump, do you really think that police are just running amuck? Whether there are more fatal shootings by police or not this year, one needs to look at each and determine if it was justified or not. Numbers by themselves mean little without context.\n\nAs for the threat from the left and elite institutions, it is real. Forcing small business owners to participate in homosexual weddings against their conscience is not an expansion of liberty or freedom, it is an expansion of state power. Any thinking person should be able to see that such cases are contrary to the 1st amendment. And is only one attack of many on liberty by the left.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If Catholic institutions are going to fire gay employees for being gay or for getting married in a civil court, which according to those doing the firing amounts to \"scandal,\" then the church should at least acknowledge the fact that many, many heterosexual employees are able to \"pass\" when it comes to their under-the-radar use of contraception. I know a few people who work for the Catholic Church in my area who have admitted to me that they lied on the form they signed agreeing to abide by the church's moral standards. But of course these people are able to keep their jobs, unlike their gay colleagues who cannot \"pass.\" This discrepancy is the real scandal, if you ask me, and to this day the church refuses to acknowledge it. Then there are those straight people who have gotten divorced. Back in the day that was considered a scandal. Not anymore. When was the last time a straight church employee got fired for the \"scandal\" of being divorced?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is there to miss about the old \"values\" of America where I was raised deep in the heart of the old white Catholic Church were it we were taught to be the only true religion and were not allowed to associate with non-Catholics. America where there was deep poverty, low wages and many children went to bed hungry. Where my talented mom was not expected to get a job. Where my dad ranted on all sinners and minorities while he cheated on my mom on the side. While we had a lot of subjects like sex we were not allowed to talk about and my high school friends went off to Vietnam to die before they had a chance to live. Where my wonderful gay uncle had to hide in a closet. Where my dad was born to an unwed mom and could not talk about his own father so I never knew my own grandfather. Where divorce was impossible to get and couples who hated each other stayed married. Should I go on? The America that citizens dream to go back to was a bigger myth than anything Disney can come up with.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Again the policy change wasn\u2019t made to increase readiness or anything else. If they were increasing readiness rather than playing political games great. But you don\u2019t play politics with the military and have it turn out well. \n\nMy standard from day one has been if you meet the standards you\u2019re in. You don\u2019t meet the standards you\u2019re out. \n\nBut the POLICY implemented at the last second should not \u2018automatically\u2019 be upheld when a president reverts to a very longstanding and tested policy. Even if I disagreed with the policy the court should give deference to the longstanding policy over the hastily thought out and not implemented yet policy. And yes those members in the military that are transgender are STILL in violation of policy and have been the entire time. And no they can\u2019t claim they didnt know.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The facts say the exact opposite. According CDC 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey reports on the lifetime prevalence of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner gives the following rates by sexual orientation of the partners:\n61.1 Bisexual women\n43.8 Lesbians\n37.3 Bisexual men \n35.0 Heterosexual women\n29.0 Heterosexual Men\n26.0 Homosexual Men\nTo repeat that is violence by one partner on another. It is pretty clear which is the safest relationship for women. And for men that matter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Male opposition to women priests endures because they are seen as temptators in sexual matters, which also justifies the unnatural positions the Church holds on sex, marriage and homosexuality. With time (we already have the knowledge), these positions will all change and a female priesthood is a good place to start.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\n\"Person with same sex attraction\" may be an accurate descriptor of one aspect of a gay person's life; but it reduces her or him to that one aspect. It would be like describing you as a \"person with avocado attraction\", accurate but reductive. Of course, human sexuality goes to the core of the human person --which is why you are not offended, or less offended, by pejoratives that don't pierce your self-understanding.\nI'm really not sure why Cardinal Cupich's insight and suggestion about this is meeting any resistance. I sense that it has less to do with the suggestion itself and more to do with resistance to the cardinal personally (he seems to be a lightning rod in some quarters) as well as with the full, deliberate and willful intention to offend gay persons who have the temerity to claim the right to self-understanding and self-determination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "PTSD arises from all kinds of sources. A transgender individual may not have PTSD at time of enlistment or even understand they have gender dysphoria at time of enlistment, but may still incur it during conflict or aggravate it during conflict. There are many combat veterans who never realized they were trans until they joined the service.\n\nI'm not making the argument to take away Viagra from vets who need it. But Viagra in this case would be used to facilitate secondary symptoms of PTSD that include depression and anxiety, particularly if E.D. leads to problems at home. Otherwise, what is the necessity of it?\n\nThe point is, what's the debate on how we cover military medical? Bare bones basic or do we allow for mental health? If so, you can't exclude one group in favor of another.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender, or what ever your sexual orientation is just who you are. You can not change it anymore than you can change being short or your skin color. \nWe have to learn more tolerance and acceptance before we slip into fascism. Love is radical.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If Trump never brought it up and made a unilateral decision that he didn't even consult with his top Generals about (not just \"his generals\" whomever that might have been....General Motors? Maybe he talked to his car.), then this would not be in the news and transgendered people would fade into the background, serving alongside other men and women. Think about 70 years ago....after Truman integrated the military, what if suddenly the next president said, \"No, black people can't serve in the same units anymore.\" Do you even think there wouldn't be attention drawn to that issue?\n\nI think you're right - people should keep their private lives to themselves. However, this \"president\" messed the situation up. He's the guy who LOVES drawing attention to himself, remember?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It strikes me as odd in a supposedly free country, people spend so much of their time trying to control the words, thoughts and actions of others. Disrespecting the flag or the anthem. Politically incorrect comments. Gay Marriage. Religion. \n\nI don't have a problem with religion, but don't expect me to stand for the Lords' Prayer unless I'm inside a church. I will stand for the Canadian anthem, but I don't much care if you do or not. If a gay couple want to get married, that's none of my business. If your religion says homosexuality is a sin, nobody is forcing you to be gay.... but that doesn't mean you get to tell gay people what to do.\n\nAs far as I'm concerned, freedom is about choice.... and I'm tired of extremists on BOTH sides of the political spectrum trying to take my choices away from me. As long as I'm not causing anyone harm or threatening anyone with harm and I'm not breaking the law, what I do or don't do is none of your business.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A lot of gay people should order cakes from this guy but only tell him afterwards, sending along a few wedding photos.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is all so easily fixable--except when someone wants to cause a merchant misery because he won't knuckle under to their demands. \n* Are there no gay-friendly bakers in town?\n* Why is this couple illegally discriminating against gay and gay-friendly bakers by so steadfastly refusing to give any one of them the revenue? \n* Perhaps this baker could sell them a \"non-wedding\" cake they could get decorated elsewhere.\n* The parties could shake hands and politely agree to disagree. \n* Baker offers a box of donuts to smooth out feelings. Or offers their next non-ceremonial order at $20 off. \n\"Can't we all just get along?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The ban literally makes no sense unless the people against Transgenders being in the military are admitting that they are more fragile and sensitive to these issues than places like Canada, the UK, and Israel (along with 17 other countries)...all of which allow transgenders to serve in their military's. \n\nThe ban has nothing to do with costs, as it has been shown medical costs for other things (like Viagra) cost much more per year than the cost of things like dealing with an officer who is transgender. We also spend ungodly amounts of money on things like defense and the military in general - more than any other country in the world by A LOT.\n\nIf anyone that is for this ban can explain to me why nearly 2 dozen other countries (all of whom we consider to be good allies with) can accept transgenders into their ranks, but we as the \"world leader\" are unable to, I would love to hear it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I detest the implied message in this column that conservatives are homophobic.\n\nAs a card carrying conservative, I know this is not the case. While Brad Trost has stated his opinion on the subject and is free to do so, it in no way, represents any significant share of members viewpoint.\n\nMr. Trost will get very few votes to be leader and thankfully so. I and, I suspect, very many other conservatives would not be able to support the party with him as leader.\n\nThe CPC supporters I know, are fiscal conservatives but in the social mainstream , on the issues of gay rights and women's rights.\n\nGone forever are the days where ignorance and intolerance will carry the agenda for any party who wishes to govern.\n\nBigots are a shrinking demographic. They are not extinct just yet, but the are definitely waning in numbers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Come one Allan, we all know your #progressive bonafides are beyond reproach. 57 members of the OIC, how many respect homosexual rights? How many protect gender equality? I notice you brought up Orthodox Jews, I was shocked to see there were no pride events in Tehran this year - cultural relativism or are there no gays in Iran? And Catholicism, I agree the official position on birth control is inexcusable but is it any different in countries \"governed\" by Islamic law? If anything it's worse, especially for victims of sexual assault. Are we talking about politics, culture, or religion, I guess with Islamism it's the same thing, perhaps we should give a 500 year grace period because of Salem witch trials and Inquisitions etc. I mean women can drive in the Kingdom but meanwhile Erdogan is rolling back 90 years of secular progress in Turkey so it kind of cancels out. Ontario religious schools teaching boys and girls they are forbidden from physical contact with the opposite sex, #diversity?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wrapping candies was never a criminal act in Canada, and neither has being gay, unlike some parts of the USA.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You talk about all this \"obstructionism\" & yet gay marriage is legal, tax rates have been increased, Obamacare passed (and protected by a Supreme Court Justice appointed by the last Republican President), Dodd-Frank is law, the Keystone Pipeline was killed, several big mergers were killed off...I'm at a loss for what exactly Pres. Obama wanted that he didn't manage to get? TPP which is opposed by the majority of his own party & the nominee who wanted to succeed him? I mean I get it; I'm not overly pleased by the result, but this strikes me as a dangerous view that you wouldn't tolerate in others if the shoe were on the other foot. If the last 8 years have meant anything, it should mean we are better than this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From article: \"Re campaign finance reform, BC Libs should) Get ahead of public opinion, or, just catch up with it.\"\n\nPUBLIC OPINION IS often the same as RULE OF THE MOB... NOT NEEDED in British Columbia!!\n\n& since G + M editorial writers are proponents of blindly following \"public opinion\": \n\nWould you choose to emigrate to Saudi Arabia where \"public opinion\" is staunchly against affording equitable human rights for women, minorities, gays, et cetera??\n\nPublic opinion is not always \"ethical\" or \"right\" or \"just\".... That's why we have a system of laws and courts, and a Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada- to prevent \"public opinion\" from over-riding the rights of individuals...\n\nLAWS AGAINST CORPORATIONS & WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS DONTING TO POLITICAL PARTIES ARE (& IF ENACTED IN BC WOULD BE) UNCONSTITUTIONAL: IE: WOULD INFRINGE SECTION #2 (FREEDOMS OF EXPRESSION & COMMUNICATION) RIGHTS OF CANADA'S CHARTER OF RIGHTS & FREEDOMS!! \n\nhttp://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "really trying to say trump hates gays cause of a minister etc? that is the true stretch when you clearly are 100% wrong. trump said in his speech he didn't care who anyone slept with etc.. get over it, trump cares about money and the economy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The point is, is that some conservatives try very hard to restrict things like who can adopt. The fact is, is that this bill PASSED in the Texas Legislature, and similar bills have also been passed in 5 other Republican-controlled (shockingly) states. It doesnt matter if the bill would actually effect adoptions, the point is the intent behind the bill, and the many, many statements from Republicans in the past which have made it clear many of them dont even want a Homosexual within 100ft of a child, let alone be allowed to adopt them.\n\nAgain, its all tongue-in-cheek. You took my initial comment way to seriously when it was just an over-generalized \"list\" of common things many Republicans rally against. Everything I listed is a pretty common far-right Republican talking point.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender individuals are already covered by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, did you not read what you posted?\n\nTo help you out look for the three letter word between religion and age in section15.(1) of the Charter paragraph you posted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Race, sexual orientation, psychosis are all different issues. To compare and contrast race (ethnicity) w/ sexual orientation is a strawman argument. You can't choose to be black. You can choose to be gay; or straight. If what you mean is what are those characteristics that disqualify someone from military service? There are many. Ask a recruiter. It could be financial, it could be criminal record, it could be affiliations w/ known orgs that hate america...not liking a hiring policy?...there are processes to change it. This venue is not one of them. Congress employs, Exec deploys, then checks w/ Congress before 90 days or so, so that the check and the balance is daijobu. Obama allowed transgenders via his \"power\" as President, Trump can disallow it via his \"power\" as President. If the SecDef one day decides that only left handed pilots can fly attack planes because left handed people feel marginalized from society..........!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Accepted psychological understandings\" do not render sinful activity as sinless. I've no doubt that accepted physics understandings would say that the bread and wine does not become the body and blood of Christ at mass. So shall we ditch that little tidbit of Catholic teaching?\n\nThe high numbers of homosexuals and homosexual apologists in the psychology community is well known. It's all political to force acceptance of same-sex relationships on society. Sympathy for people who accept homosexuality as an identity has proven time and again to be destructive. Look at what's happened to the priesthood and their pubescent boy victims.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Frank have you traveled to foreign countries lately or been exposed to wild animal bites? You sound quite RABID.\n\nHilary Clinton supports murder of Gays and mistreatment of Women? Can you provide a non-FOX news link to support this? \n\nHave you ever closely inspected your personal beliefs for inconsistencies, irrationalities, prejudices, or flat-out lack of basis in reality? Do facts that counter your beliefs make you angry or do you simply ignore them? If so, you may be suffering from TRUMPISM.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "so much anger in the church between trads, liberals, no common ground possible it seems. I try to reach out to liberals they shut me down, ditto with trads. I attend a sedevacantist mass but I am not a sedevacantist, but because of the beauty and reverence of this mass of the ages, which has bound all catholics together for so many centuries. From trads I get this narrowness and disrespect for science and progress, from liberals I get dismissed as too conservative because I don't think gays should be married in the church. woe is me, woe, woe...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1. Severe allergies actually would disqualify someone from military service, so on that point you're proving your opponents right. \n2. The military cannot select for \"potential divorce at some point\" because literally everyone would be excluded. The military can only do so much to include and exclude people and still maintain necessary numbers in the ranks. This is why nations in times of war tend to relax the requirements re: weight, age, criminal record etc. \n2. You propose making accommodations for trans soldiers going through tough times - duty reassignment for \"appropriate\" (i.e. easier) duties. Well, maybe that's an accommodation the military doesn't want to bother with because it doesn't need transgender individuals in the first place to meet recruitment targets. This is about reducing risk, reducing cost, increasing efficiency and battle effectiveness, etc. It is not about accommodating people unnecessarily.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, yes! 'Consensus science'! \n\nLet's all vote on what we believe the science is!\n\nPsychologists vote at their conventions what a mental disease is or is not (homosexuality used to be one but after two votes at two conventions it wasn't anymore); Climate science is done by counting noses, and the \"Dismal Science\", as it was known when I studied it at Duck U, is even more loosey goosey than either of those!\n\nMacro-economics and 'science' don't even belong in the same sentence!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What have Black and LGBT people have to do with bicycle licensing? Methinks you might have some other issues to think over. Cyclists aren't the only group you seem to hold in disdain...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The heir and successor to Anne Coulter. \n\nHer schtick was \"oh, we can't get mad because she'd an educated and empowered women slagging women and minorities\". \n\nHis seems to be \"oh we can't get mad, he's a flamboyant homosexual and apparently a victim of child sexual assault, slagging LGBQT, women and minorities\".\n\nA bizarre man. Spewing whatever he needs to in order to get attention and generate sales.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Our culture has become more accepting of LGBT lifestyles, and yes \"there are a number of gay kids in every school\", but the harm of this lifestyle is something that needs to be warned, not ignored. This should be addressed as a medical issue and not promoted as a healthy expression of one's unalterable traits, because it is not. Many kids in high school who are gay, later become straight, and vica versa. This is a medical condition that needs to be treated seriously.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The irony here is by creating all of this drama, this individual is making the hiring of transgender people into a sideshow, which hurts their cause.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, Trump has said trans gendered folks can use any restroom they want in Trump Tower.\n\nHe does deserve a \"courage award\" for that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Which bible? Old or new? Mormon? Seventh Day? King James? Something in a language that predates English?\n\nThe Bronze Age is over, isn't it?\n\nThe idea that gays and lesbians get more protections than straights is laughable and an insecure point of view, to be polite.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Eric: I agree. Ms Edwards relates a story which must be very painful for her to share. I admire and respect her courage in doing do. As you state, some of our poster-friends either attack her, trivialize her story or deflect the conversation into an attack on gay men. \n\nHey guys, how about, instead, engaging in a civil discussion of the very real issue of men's sexual abuse and sexual harassment of women. Do you want your female relatives; wives, sisters, daughers, grand-daughters, et al, mistreated by men? Do you think it is not a problem? What are your real thoughts on the issue? Is that asking for too much? Thanks, Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, where to start?\n- so-called expert advice and the opinions of the chattering classes -- Like Preston and his Manning Center?\n- So how do we deal with would-be immigrants who do not share this value or others enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? --Like equality between the sexes that allow gay marriage, opposed by 20% of Canadian Conservatives?\n- who are tired of being hectored and propagandized rather than informed by such media. -- Like the propaganda coming from Sun media and Fox News?\n- includes granting those with whom we strongly disagree the right to be heard and respected. --Manning should check out the Alt-Right comments sections to see what a lack of respect looks like.\n- without embracing the negative aspects that may accompany that phenomenon. -- right wing populist uprisings are by their nature negative. It takes a Trump and leitch to fuel and stoke those negative sentiments.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "JP2, using Ratzinger as his henchman, suppressed ministry to gay people in the USA and silenced many liberal-minded theologians. We don't see that happening with PF, in fact just the opposite, PF is inviting open discussions in a collegial atmosphere with all voices being heard.\n\nThere is a difference and it is quite profound.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The guidelines also include instructions for talking to people in various \"scenarios,\" such as an unmarried heterosexual couple wishing to enroll their child, a same-sex couple estranged from the church, or a current student coming out as transgender.\"\n\nJust tell them the Protestant Church is right down the street.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since Avakian was so bombastic that a Republican actually became Secretary of State, that does show that excessive partisanship is recognized even in Oregon.\n\nHaving said that, his quasi-judicial rulings like the 'gay cake' issue would be better separated from partisan politics, however, IMO.\n\nHis 'fine' in that case was clearly excessive, political and designed to get votes for his run for Secretary of State. His campaign for that office also sounded like he was running for Governor; he could no more meet his campaign promises if he had been elected than fly!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Their behavior was scrupulously moral. He denounced the scrupulous moralism that they imposed on the people.\n\nCatholic sexual teaching has been bad for a long time, due to the idealism of Plato, the asexuality of Paul and guilty conscience of Augustine. Attributing the body of teaching to something other than pharisaic piety (say the asexuality of the teachers) is an advance that won't be ignored, nor will ideas of healthy sexuality - or evolution and the lack of an Adam and Eve, as well as the inadequacy of any first homo sapiens parents as candidates for an Eden golden age. You can call resistance to change traditionalism or conservatism. Label yourselves as you like, but give gays and lesbians the same privilege.\n\nJesus being humble of heart is God being humble of heart. Not wimpy, but not the point is, not self interested in morality. He wants it human centered. God does not need our morality nor does any hypothetical natural order.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"And I think it's gonna be a long, long time...\" President Trump's allusion to Elton John's \"Rocket Man\" will cause the analysts some consternation in Pyongyang. They are aware of the severe shortages -- e.g. \"Long gas lines...-- resulting from their dysfunctional, criminally-insane fascist regime's numerous UN sanctions, but drugs, bisexuality, ennui, loneliness attendant to \"Rocket Man?\" Whaaat? \n\nIt may be similar to their reaction to \"The Interview.\" As you may recall, Kim threatened Sony Pictures and got the film release to theaters cancelled. NK also hacked Sony and releasing lots of embarrassing information about Sony.\n\nKim has or will soon have the thermonuclear capability to destroy any country on earth.\n\nGeneral Mattis recently stated that: \n\n\"There is no more road to kick the can down... and We are out of time.\"\n\nHence Rocket Man should be afraid, very afraid.\n\nPresident Trump is giving diplomacy once last chance. If that fails, then Rocket Man will be killed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You statistic is on \"victimization\" -- it indicates that lesbians are more likely to be victims of sexual assault, not that lesbians are more likely to be the perpetrators.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I criticize, in the strongest terms, the blatantly political nature of Chrystia Freeland's action, and I condemn Canada's hypocritical unwillingness to take any action against countries that are far worse violators of the human rights of homosexuals.\n\nIn Chechnya, we're primarily seeing a government name and shame attack on homosexuals, who are then vulnerable to violence even from their own families. Yet in Saudi Arabia, homosexuality is punishable with death by public beheading. (As are blasphemy, idolatry, apostasy, witchcraft and sorcery.) These aren't discredited laws that are never enforced. Those 'crimes' are actively prosecuted and punished.\n\nSo why does Saudi Arabia get a pass from Chrystia Freeland and the Liberals? Because that country buys billions of dollars of weapons from Canada. Which it then, recently, used on a religious minority as well. There's no human decency underlying Freeland's act. It's just a political poke in the eye to Russia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The point of Job was much more dramatic that an invitation to patient suffering. It challenged the fundamental underlying assumption of Hebrew society that the faithful prosper and the bad do not. That assumption is grounded in the fact those Hebrews did not the notion of a heaven versus hell, for their Sheol was the single post-death place of repose for all, and Sheol was less desirable than this life. It was not until the very last layers of the OT that the notion of a positive life beyond the grave emerged. \nDivested of that notion of punishment (which I do suggest is very much implicit in your prior comments), I do agree with you that we have to learn from nature. The way you are not putting it, you are, it seems to me, postulating the foundation for the notion of natural law. And based on that law, homosexual and heterosexual behaviour are equally natural; and both suffer STDs. And, yes, as you say promiscuity plays a role. Ego, monogamy, gay and straight, is a good thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nice cliche CivilSociety ... does nothing except show you don't have any real words to make a point.\n\nBut the point is this. Muslin faith and society has a lot of things at it preaches as hate - gays for one. No rights for women. Etc. That should be the story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Beck didn't \"transition\" until he left the military. He himself has said several times he didn't dress as a woman or begin hormone therapy until he left the military. There is no evidence that he was \"transgender her whole life\". Just as there is no evidence Bruce Jenner was transgender his whole life.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Judicial Watch was instrumental in getting Pres. Clinton disbarred from the Arkansas Bar Association. And, who cares if they are funded by \"fat cats\". I have also funded them. Tom Steyer has funded the environmentalists wackos. That is his treasure. Let him spend it how he wishes.\n\nThe Democrats in particular, and the Left in general is extremely disciplined. There is no dissent in their camp. One must be pro abortion, espouse \"climate change\" or whatever the next idiom is, make all accept homosexual \"marriage\" as normal, not allowing gov't to shrink in any way, shape or form.\n\nBut, the Left is shooting itself in the foot by constant outrage. Kitchen Aid made pink appliances to bring attention to breast cancer awareness. All the Left saw was sexism.\n\nIt is becoming humourous. Don't stop.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Add to the fact that the Catholic Church is against gay marriage, abortion, assisted dying, and the ordination of women priests. \n\nIt's hilarious seeing Kathleen Wynne and her supporters attack social conservatives for their beliefs when the province of Ontario spends billions funding Catholic Schools.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some of the scientific assertions in the Jefferson City document are questionable. At one point, it advises playing the \"waiting game\" with trans students: \"Research indicates that most children who explore gender identity conform to the sex assigned at birth by mid-twenties.\" A more accurate statement is this one, from Pediatric News: \"Finally, children who have gender dysphoria beginning at puberty or persisting after puberty generally have persistent gender dysphoria in adulthood.\" (citation: Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2011 May 17;7(8):466-72.)\n\nAlso, the statement that \"Students with gender identity concerns tend to have higher rates of attempted suicide\" masks the real finding, that \"the incidence of mental health problems among transgender and gender nonconforming youth is higher . . . [and] this is especially true if they are unable to live as the gender with which they identify.\" \n\nI find it quite reckless that diocese is willing to distort some of the basic research this way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Such a fine article. And doesn't It speak to so many Catholics who grew up in the tradition of Catholic social teaching, in the spirit of Dorothy Day who saw no difference between herself and the least of these, who was ultimately hospitable, and who love those who happen to be gay, lesbian, transgender, however they were made by God. There are those Catholics, God love them, who think they are God, and know exactly how to judge others. There seems to be only one category of sin that obsesses them, regardless of what scripture may say. I don't know God's mind, but I cannot imagine such cruelty is in the Spirit of Trinitarian love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One comment about LGBT rights: I'm nor sure why the B is there. Do bisexuals face the same kind of prejudice as LGT? \n\nI've never heard of discrimination against bisexuals per se--perhaps it occurs only in their homosexual relationships, which comes under L & G.\n\nSo maybe for clarity, B should be dropped.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, normal people celebrate kindness and love. Normal people feel joy when they see two people enter into a loving, committed lifelong union. Normal people have gay neighbors, colleagues, son, daughters, and children, and they want the very best for them. Perhaps most importantly, normal people have dragged themselves out of the dark ages and joined contemporary society.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It isn't useful to include St. Pope John XXIII in this, as the scientific research on homosexuality was just getting a start at the time of his papacy, with nothing of worth to report until after he was gone. But every pope since John had the benefit of the research and chose, repeatedly, to ignore it and instead provide every ignorant statement and teaching about it, when the Church's own backyard (and front and sides) were full of homosexual priests and religious - some chaste and celibate and the best of our ministry and some not - that the blind eye of Catholicism simply made believe was non-existent. While St. John XXIII was without question ahead of his time, he was a bit too early to have the full benefit of much of what science found of God's wondrous creation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Teaching is authority. Under natural law it not immoral, which is why Benedict called gays disorderd. The natural order is a sophistry. It exists only in convesation, not on some mystical moral plane.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "NO! It is the hierarchy which refuses to hold a dialogue with gays. The LGBT spent decades begging the hierarchy to talk, only to be rebuffed. Many, if not most, jave simply given up on a Church that has made it quite clear sees them as \"objectively disordered\". Don't do the \"It's the 'tendency' that's disordered\". Gays know that it's them the Church is speaking of. The institutional Church rejects them; so it's not surprising they reject the Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are actually preaching to the choir here, so I have no idea what you are attempting to polarize here. My statement is not an argument for or against any stated position. Just as Corporations are \"individuals,\" I am simply stating that under the law Gays and African Americans (as an example of a race) are both legally equivalent classes or races of people. Therefore, mere sexual preference with regard to discrimination in the workplace is the same as discrimination against race or religious affiliations. I disagree with this idea because there is no proof that people are born gay as a black person is born black. BTW, region is NOT a protected class. Religious freedom is a protected activity under the constitution. You can worship whatever religion you want. I have no position on religious denominations rejecting individuals or groups based on race or sexual identity. I only know God loves everyone-I would like to think equally. Religions all have unique requirements.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Switch the subject, lie and deny.\nDo anything but talk about Trump and the Republicans attacking planned parenthood, access to abortion, gay rights, education....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ". \"As long as the electors themselves are not elected by the people and are free to vote for whomever they choose, the president does not represent the people.\"\n\nThere are 51 elections for president in the United States of America. The PEOPLE in each state vote and the winner of the POPULAR vote receives ALL of the Electors in that state. The Electoral College then votes for the candidate as reflected by the popular vote of the PEOPLE. Electors are NOT free to choose whomever they want despite the ridiculous 2016 attempts by Progressive Democratic Socialists to persuade the Electoral College to vote for \"whomever.\" The president-elect DOES reflect what the people in each state want to represent them.\n\n2. \"Who are these electors? What are their names?\" IF you really want to know a simple Google search and the answers are right there.\"\n\n3. \"What religion are they? What do they think about climate change, globalization, monetary policy, abortion, or gay rights?\" Totally irrelevant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I laud these parishioners who instead of leaving are fighting back!\n\nWe must protest outside churches, Chanceries & Seminaries and protest against funding seminaries that teach this horrible version of clericalism. We must demand equal ordination & sacraments be made available for women and then married people. \n\nWhat this church needs is a revolution within, even if it ends up as a sacred civil war. All leaving does is surrender our church & religion to the sexist traditionalists so they can continue to use their example of hatred to create poverty, oppression, violence, child abuse, slavery & even terrorism in our world. \n\nWe need to fight for our church because all that is necessary is our church to just fix the few things it does wrong, which could result in mammoth changes for good in our world. \n\nEnough of sexism, fear tactics, homophobia, clericalism, & arrogance in our leadership. It is time to take back our church & make it a truly Gospel based, Christian Religion again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The petition would enlarge the male-only exclusive priesthood to include most qualified males, to the extent that men are willing to marry (and a lot of couples don't marry these days), and to the extent that gay men are willing to deny their sexuality. Wouldn't that be inadvisable to deny one's God-given sexuality? !!! The petition is a disappointment because it furthers the oppression of women. It is not inclusive of all.\n\nCan't the discussion rather be focused on the inappropriate Vatican documents that promote clericalism (\"in persona Christi\") and deny women the priesthood? What are the ways that practices can be modified to achieve equality and be in conformance with Gospel ideals of inclusiveness and service? That is holiness worth striving for.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't believe \"cis\" and \"trans\" have substantive content. I do not believe that a male, with male anatomy from head to toe, is a \"woman\" simply having stated that he identifies as such. I also do not believe that genital mutilation surgery makes a male any more of a woman or vice versa. I simply do not believe it. The scientific community is divided on whether 'transgender' identity issues are rooted in mental illness or not, and of course the sociological and philosophical worlds are sharply divided between postmodernists and realists, the former believing that things like \"man\" and \"woman\" are \"social constructs\" while the latter tend to believe - in my opinion with far greater evidence - that gender identity and biological sex do not vary randomly but in fact tend to match overwhelmingly, with extremely rare exceptions. There is no 'spectrum'. \n\nLong story short I do not believe these new \"identities\" are legitimate. That is my opinion. Will the law FORCE me to say otherwise now?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Abuse of power is rampant. It's ubiquitous and omnipresent. Sexual abuse, economic abuse, political, racial, personal, corporate, etc. - it's everywhere. We've been raising awareness of it for decades.They call it the Establishment. That's why they call the Establishment a swamp.\n\n Wherever there's a power imbalance, there's abuse of power. In our increasingly unequal society, abuse of power is the most extensive issue, the most pressing problem of our day.\n\n Once in a while, we get collectively upset about abuses: protests against racism, homophobia, and xenophobia, protests against unlivable minimum wage, solidarity against bullying, outrage against the \"culture of rape\" in universities and the military, etc.\n\n In some cases we've made good progress despite backlashes by the powerful. With many other abuses the backlash has overpowered progress. The Establishment (when women were really serious about stopping sexual abuse they called it The Patrimony) does not like change.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a fellow gay man, I applaud that you have found 'wholeness' in the path on which the Spirit has led you. I would invite you to trust in perhaps other paths that the Spirit may lead others, in conscience.\n\nYou words on mercy and justice strike me at variance with the message that our Holy Father has been proclaiming in this year of mercy. I do not recall even remotely similar words coming from his homilies and exhortations this year.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "cont'd\n\nThe right to sexual expression and mutual support afforded by \"suitable partnership\" is exclusive, denied to countless of individuals and couples because the Church finds \"homosexual acts intrinsically disordered\" (Catechism of the Catholic Church #22357), even though heterosexuals practice the same acts.\n\"Catholic teaching on other matters of sexuality\" is still in an adolescent stage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True dat. Here's another conundrum: why do we insist that people \"accept themselves\" as they are, yet celebrate transexualism?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you have hit upon the reason for much of the acceptance of LGBT rights: The realization that who they are and how they behave is simply none of our damn business. I keep asking those straights who complain about gay marriage how such a marriage affects them, and I have yet to hear a meaningful answer.\n\nMike's \"When your 5yo kid or grandkid comes home and wants to be the other sex and no parent has any say over that decision, think about your comment about how same-sex 'marriage' has had no deleterious effects on society.\" is out of left field. Does anyone think that a five-year-old is going to say, \"Hey, gays can get married. I think I'll have a sex-change operation!\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not hard to know why many are leaving - they have told us over & over. \n\nWe are Sexist in our ordination practices, we are Clerical and make lay people feel less important than clergy (often thru our liturgies, & by giving ordained deacons work over laypeople), we protect pedophiles, we don't allow married clergy, and gaybashing.\n\nAlso, a side note, if NCR itself is really interested in seeing less people switch away from Catholicism to the NONES, they might consider no longer accepting advertising support from groups like the AUSCP, Association of US Catholic Priests . This group seeks optional celibacy but not equal ordination for women in our church. This would result in complete gender segregation of rule and sacramental power in our church, and would represent the most heinous version of sexism in our church's 2000 year history. This is true because the last time married men could be ordained priests there were women presbyters leading parishes and presiding over Eucharist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True. And, generally all of those people (except Jews) shared a common religion, Christianity, and as a result, similar shared morals and values. (And even as between Christians and Jews there are significant shared values). The acceptance of woman in society during the 20th C is a great example. For sure, these shared values helped with integration. To a large extent, the same isn't true with Muslims and I think we're seeing a clash of values, and I'm not sure that it will ever be fully reconciled...in many ways, this is uncharted territory. Views and tolerance of woman, homosexuality, shame, freedom, to name a few, all require a great evolution in thought.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A Chechen gay man living in the Russian Federation can easily move to another city or region within a state which covers 1/6th of the earth's land surface. By doing so that person will escape from the local discrimination or persecution they reportedly are suffering at present (although the Putin regime denies gays are persecuted within the Russian Federation). This is referred to as seeking an Internal Flight Alternative (IRA). Being discriminated against because you are gay is not a sufficient grounds for seeking refugee status or protection.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" . . . a nostalgic trip to the country where Obama lived for several years as a child.\"\n.\nah, the memories it must bring back: no gay blt rights; gay sex punished by caning; sharia law in aceh.\n.\nmeanwhile, california's moonbeam prohibits state travel to states that keep men out of little girls' rooms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most of the nine groups initially given status are tied to the legal profession; a few were religious in nature. None of the LGBT groups that applied were granted status. The perception clearly is that were not 'enough groups representing both sides'. \n\nAppeal courts have previously ruled that a key criteria for inclusion is the probative value of the input likely to be offered. Ostensibly Wagner took the view that the position of the LGBT community was already well documented in the submissions before it and, hence, that any additional argument was likely to be redundant. But the public doesn't always understand these nuances; and so as not to give rise to any apprehension of bias, it would have been wiser had some of LGBT groups been included. \n\nBut two wrongs don't make a right. Better the court had issued the aforementioned explanation than to open itself to criticism that it could be swayed by whichever groups shouts the loudest. Its independence and integrity are paramount.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I support LGBT rights and women's rights in the Church but seriously. The Pope was joking. People hang way too much weight on every single statement the man says. Maybe people should realize that sometimes when he says things it isn't some calculated ideological plan. He's just being himself, speaking in normal conversation. So that point in the article I really don't buy and just seems like a petty reason to critique the Pope over nothing. Criticism of the Papal document he just signed could have come without that unnecessary bit. \n\nAlso....why are people surprised about Pope Francis's stances on these issues? He's made clear that he is a \"son of the Church\" and adhers to all of it's teachings. So he adheres steadfastly to the Catholic Church's teachings on the Preferential Option for the poor(earning him praise from liberals). He also holds steadfastly to the Catholic Church's views on Gender and Sexuality(earning him criticism from liberals). One thing you can says he is consistent", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is one example, that if true, I would agree with you is not appropriate: for straight or gay people. That is not indicative of gays more than it is of straight people. Them being gay had nothing to do with it. There is not a single outwardly behavior that defines all gay people. That is the kind of idea I am against. The fact that you bring up ONE example as your justification is absurd. \"I met a white guy once and he called me a name, why are all white guys bullies?\" that is basically what you're saying.\n\nIf they were doing something you wouldn't have noticed a straight couple doing, and you reacted that way, then you're in the wrong. Very few people would defend the behavior as you claim it: FOR ANYONE.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I expect he was being gracious to the memory of the Cardinal. May he rest in peace. The correct term, by the way, is He's not on board yet. I don\u2019t expect him to jump on the surrogacy bandwagon, but it at least invalidates the contention that gays are never open to children in marriage. The whole nuts and granola approach to procreation is quaint, but behind the times.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What's her stand on birth control, abortion, gay marriage, the failed drug war, the train, separation of church and state and many more issues ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't doubt that people are suffering, but i am honestly baffled by the description of being in cis vs trans with one's physical sex. My inner me is a spirit and has no sex...and thus it matters not a bit to me what container I am in. While I have always taken this for granted, it seems it is not the experience of others, though it strikes me as odd that the neither cis nor trans view is missing. Is there a third way, especially for kids--celebrate who you are, live as you want, enjoy the fluidity of trying out genders, but wait on the irreversible treatments until adulthood? As parents, we love you no matter what.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Natural law theory is supposed to be based on the observation of nature. When it comes to homosexuality, the church stopped observing nature about the time Thomas Aquinas died. If it had been more observant the church would have noticed that homosexuality is extant in all species of the animal kingdom. As for reason, if Holy Mother Church had observed nature a little more carefully she would have used her capacity for reason to arrive at the very reasonable conclusion that for a small segment of the human population homosexuality is a natural variant and therefore not in and of itself a sin.\n\nAddressing your earlier comment, allow me to say that gay people are just as capable of sinning sexually as straight people, even those within lawful marriages, when we objectify our sexual partners for our own satisfaction at the expense of our partner's personhood. Your unspoken thesis suggests that gay people are asking for special exemption. We're not. We're only asking to be treated equally.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good column.\nKenney knows from experience how hard it is to battle the Leftie straw man regarding the social conservative \"hidden agenda\". \nIn Ontario, Patrick Brown has already warned potential PC candidates that they aren't to spout off on any personal so-con ideas they might hold because they won't be part of the Party platform. \nThe NDP in Alberta, and the Liberals in Ontario just love to exploit this stuff to deflect the narrative from their own sorry records. \n\nAs an aside, the proposed \"outing\" legislation sounds interesting. \nPrivacy issues regarding a child seeking professional counselling or medical advice/assistance is one thing but the GSA is a club. \nused to be Gay-Straight Alliance- now they prefer Genders and Sexualities Alliance.\nAdvertised as a support group but essentially a political activism club. \nNo problem.\nSo why the secrecy?\nWouldn't most parents be interested in knowing if their child feels the need for a support network?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mark...do you agree or not with a professor being pressured into resigning and being called a racist and a misogynist for walking out of a meeting...or for another being threatened and called a threat to the LGBT community for not agreeing to use made up preferential pronouns ?\n\nas for Engineering and science and mathematics....when the professors and students in those programs come to demand that 2 be called 3 and that a lever be shortened to move a heavier rock, then you might have a point.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The rejection of much of what Christians believed regarding Faith and Morals. \nAbortion, contraception, divorce and remarriage, co-habitation, sex outside of marrriage, homosexuality are now accepted in society. The same with lying and cheating as long as one gets away with it and especially against the State or large Corporations. These things always went on but were recognised for what they were, wrong, sinful. No longer is this the case.\nWhat is wrong with obedience? Obedience is submitting ones will to the will of God out of love of God. The most sublime example of this is Christ bowing to the will of the Father, \"Not my will but Thine be done.\"\nSt Paul tells us that, \"Christ became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, because of this God exalted Him and gave Him a name which is above all other names.\"\nWhy is it different now? Do we no longer have to obey the will of God? How else would we know the will of God except through the His Church?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm curious why so much misinformation was spread about this.\n\nPolice who are LGBTQ were always welcome there as people-- just not official police as part of the parade. And of course police out of uniform were welcome to watch the parade as well.\n\nJohn Tory gets kudos for his handling of this so far.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Re: Australian church warns of same-sex coercion for schools.\n\nI couldn't access the story due to a pay wall. But, I have been reading about the arguments going on in Australia re gay marriage and the wildly round-about approach their national government is taking to determine if the people want to approve of it. Of course, all kinds of national polls say an overwhelming majority of people do support legalization of LGBT marriage. The \"round-about approach\" is designed to make it difficult for that truth to be shown. Especially since those who oppose gay marriage are saying that approving gay marriage means a loss of religious liberty.\n\nHere is another story on this subject that you might find interesting, informative, and helpful in debunking this absurdity of equating legalizing gay marriage with debunking religious liberty: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/14/marriage-equality-paul-kelly-churches-lgbti-rights-david-marr?CMP=soc_567", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You stated beautifully what I was thinking. What most offended me was saying that we're concerned, as Catholics, with \"religious liberty,\" which is code for \"hating gay people.\" What MOST concerns me as a Catholic is income inequality, private prisons, nuclear proliferation, and global warming. He's trying to do the whole \"Evangelicals and Catholics\" artificial grouping that Evangelicals try to do when attempting to appeal to my sensibilities. It's obvious after reading the letter he's never spent any time ever actually talking to Catholics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "are you talking about Justin Trudeau?\n\napologize to First Nations for historical cultural genocide?\napologize to immigrants, refugees for historical so-called racism?\napologies to gays for historical violation of rights?\n\napology as a strategy for votes\nnot really sincere from sunny heart", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality and sodomy are not the same thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thr 60's have returned. It is true history does repeat. Once again I am stumped and yet strangely entertained by these marches, disruptions, protesting who knows what but demanding none the less. The technique of protesting based on noise and disruption of lives along with the occasional vandalism and looting is justifiable for the cause. No it is not! It is misguided selfish mob energy where you get high on the excitement of acting out and being defiant. This is nothing more then adolescent behavior....i want, you must do this. Really? Protesting today there is no issue but a parade of issues: Pro abortion, BLM., Standing Rock, Womem's Rigts, Support Tran's, Nasty Woman, LBGQT, No Pipeline, Immigrant Rights, No Wall...all these issues at one gathering. Get an issue to protest or stop making demands. There have been 3 successful protests in the last 100 years. Womens vote, vietnam/no draft, civil rights. Why did these protests work? Single focused issue, that's why.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Projection - is exactly what you are doing now, ToTL. Also, you are attempting to deflect the conversation from a reality that you seem unable to accept, that Mr. Sparhawk told the R-G that he saw drivers ahead of him safely driving around the marchers, but he instead, confronted them head-on, literally, with his two-ton pickup. In short, Sparhawk deliberately and aggressively confronted them in a physical way, with the obvious threat that he would run into them. There is no other way that those marchers could have perceived his aggressive intent. The marchers smacked his car with the flat of their hands, making noise but doing no damage. The damage came later, when Sparhawk four times jumped out of his car, chased individuals, and cursed them and called them crude names for homosexuals. Sparhawk made several aggressive and threatening mistakes. In that sense he brought his minimal injuries on himself. I have zero sympathy. He could have driven around them like everyone else.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Great piece. Too polite to point out that the problem with marriage in all its forms is religion. Religion has ever spiritually justified the subjugation of women inside property rights through marriage and promoted the ownership of them sexually. Religion has always demonized sexuality instead of sexual jealousy so has entrenched monogamy as next to godliness. It decided a cosmic creator loathes LGBTQ and thinks it knows best on matters of marriage, as well as women's reproductive choice and sexual activities outside of holy matrimony. So, so tiresome, this vestigial nonsense from centuries ago. I love that signs are everywhere to change relationship traditions. Help women first on this file then men. Exciting days.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's not surprising that Holy Mother Church would support a ministry for gays who hate themselves. HMC is very good at instilling shameful self hate around sexual issues. It worked with most Catholic women as well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm afraid Archbishop Chaput is lazy. He really didn't study the documents of Vatican II. The most radical declaration of Vatican II is its definition of the Church as the People of God. The Church as the People of God is NOT the monarchical and totalitarian structure that the church had developed in imitation of imperial Rome and then of medieval feudalism. It is not the vertical structure in which power was invested in a single monarch [John Paul II's concept], his authority divinely ordained, who, with his his court [\"Curia' means court], rules over obedient lay subjects.\n\n\nCatholics, for the most part, do not dissent over the essentials of faith---proclaimed in the Gospels and articulated in the Creed. But they do dissent over restriction and prohibitions in clerical celibacy, women's ordination, contraception, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality and same-sex marriage. NONE of these areas affect the Creed that we Catholics all profess.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Better check your stats, again. The last (and only) time the same sex marriage issue was put on the ballot, our state overwhelmingly said no in 1998. I believe it was ~73% of the voters who voted said no. Then gov Ben did the bait and switch/sleight of hand w/ civil unions. Of course it didn't pass until 2009 - 2012,but I'm pretty sure there were many Dems who made up part of that 70%+ figure, so your comment is inaccurate. Blaming the Republican party for Democrat party failures is called transference. Its a typical Alinsky tactic (e.g. Trump-Russia collusion, when it was DNC/Hilary/Podesta/Obama-Russia collusion).\n\nFor your comment to be accurate, the issue of same sex marriage would need to be put on the ballot again, voted on again, and THEN the outcome would be clearer. Abercrombie railroaded it on us, despite public outcry against it. And a statewide vote, to boot (i.e. 1998).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If this particular mess can be limited to only diocesan priests, they will be somehow neutralized, whether that means they are laicized, or kept on in a \"different capacity.\"\n\nI think that there are scandals within scandals here. At a higher level. This stuff really suggests a deep and disturbing mindset, one that is so much deeper than just some messed up teachings on human sexuality, or some abuse scandals. There is something really crazy going on here. For every group like this one, I wonder how many others are out there? Why is it that Rome seems SO ADAMANTLY against rethinking some of its teachings on human sexuality, on women, on gays? The pieces of the puzzle just don't fit...\n\nWhen push comes to shove, so many of the bedrock virtues seem to be evaporating. Francis cries for mercy, but has effectively changed very little on the abuse scandal... He talks about compassion, yet Muller can state they won't even answer victim's letters... What's going on in the church?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think so. Married priests could increase the number of heterosexual men in the priesthood and diminish the influence of gay priests. Many gay priests have a theological world view that is very similar to that of NCR and the majority of its audience.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It\u2019s easy to get caught up in the deeply flawed character of Donald Trump. We also need to recognize the policy catastrophe of this presidency.\nThis past week Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shielded around 800,000 young undocumented immigrants \u2013 often called Dreamers \u2013 from deportation under what\u2019s been known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.\nLook at other of Trump\u2019s recent policy decisions and you see the same arbitrary and unnecessary cruelty. What\u2019s the point of banning transgender people from military service? Of siding in court with a businessman who doesn\u2019t want to sell his services to gay couples? Of weakening the standard for responding to sexual violence in universities? Of banning Syrian refugees and reducing by half the number of refugees admitted to the United States?\nThere is no point, in terms of policy. None of these decisions makes America safer or economically stronger or fairer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "FC Says, \"Why do liberals get to impose their belief systems on others if I don't? Why do liberals get to force institutions to cover contraception? Why do liberals get to impose abortion and gay marriage on the country?\nYou talk about not insisting that other's believe what I believe. The other end of that is that others get to impose their beliefs on me.\"\n\nContraception is part of good prophylactic heath care. No-one is forcing you to believe this but most physicians and most people in Catholic pews use BC. No one forces you to use BC pills or other devices, no one forces you to have an abortion. What most want is the right to decide for themselves what to do. Good contraception comes in many forms and each form should be available to a man or woman. After all contraception does decrease the abortion rate...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the Synoptic gospels, Jesus quotes these words from Genesis 2 in the context of whether divorce should be condoned. For cultural reasons, only opposite-sex couples were married in Judaism, so Jesus bases his prohibition of divorce on that circumstance. It is mischievous rhetoric to misinterpret the words to imply a condemnation of same-sex relationships.\n\nThe historical Jesus likely had the same prejudices against such relationships as his Jewish contemporaries, but who knows?, he held a number of surprising counter-cultural opinions. And he foresaw very little, actually, since he was a true apocalyptic, and expected the arrival of the Son of Man at any moment.\n\nThe Jesus of the gospels says nothing about LGBT issues and rights at all, though he says plenty in general that ought to give us a firm moral foundation for treating LGBT people with justice, peace, and love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A big part of the reason why Milo Y. and Andrew Sullivan are popular (and MSW is not) is that the public can tell when someone is faking. \n\nThat faking colors their whole message, and tells the reader their pontifications are so much hot air.\n\nThat is, they don't support closeted Catholicism, closeted professional Catholics, or a culture where gay Catholics feel it necessary to stay in the closet.\n\nFunny that some progressives feel otherwise. mm mm mm!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one who supports charter schools and voucher schemes could be considered \"hard left.\" Outside of gay rights and a few other social issues (regulation of legalized marijuana springs to mind), Polis resides in the Oligarchic Center of the spectrum, where decisions are made not based on ideology, but on the potential for profit and loss.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no exerimental treatment. They are probably judge shopping. Sometimes children die and it is tragic. Grasping at straws simply keeps the child away from Heaven longer. I have no use for a pro-life movement that is more anti-death. We are a Resurrection people.\n\nChaput thinks he is saving gays from Hell. Their lives are not Hell in either this life or the next. Monogamous married gay sex by gay people is not sinful. Chaput and his ilk still think being gay is a sexual revolution style counter-culture choice. He is fighting for a way of life that rejects modernity and yearns for a more politically powerful Church and gays are in the way. That power is long gone.\n\nThere is something to be said for keeping artifacts from Daesh, as long as they don\u2019t end up in your private collection.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LGBT communities across Canada have become as intolerant and bigoted as people they protest against. By rejecting LGBT police in uniform, you have sullied the very concept of tolerance. What\u2019s next: ban muscle boys because it offends twinks? Ban leather because it is just too cis-gendered? Ban drag because it offends the dykes?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mary, thank you and your fellow protesters for engaging in our political process. Now it's time to take that energy and commitment and organize, focus, and sustain it for the next 21 months and beyond. You'll need to make some compromises. If you're all going to gather and demand...pick your favorite topic (LGBT rights, equal pay, pro-choice, violence against women...) and then go home and vote for Bernie or Jill or some minority candidate who stands no chance of winning, you'll end up with a second Trump term, along with his enablers like Sullivan.\n\nYou'll need to compromise. Better yet, run for office yourself, even at the local assembly level. Do what it takes to make an incremental step forward.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bad urban planning destroys cities. Read Luke's Gospel when the disciples asked if there was some sin that condemned the people who died when the tower of Siloam fell. Jesus said no. His statement can be applied to those five cities. Complimentarity is a philosophical concept, not a natural one. What happens in natural is what is natural, including a certain number of people being gay and a certain number being asexual, with the vast number being hetero. About half the priesthood is asexual. If you are a seminarian with that orientation, please quit assuming that everyone else is not wired like you, it will be better for your flock and the Church as a whole. And please examine your sexuality in a mature manner in a supportive community so that you deal with others charitably. Oh, God cannot be offended. God is perfectly happy. The natural order cannot be offended. There is no such thing outside human discussion. There are only people and what you say is hurtful to them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Except that the purpose of marriage in the Orthodox Church-- also part of the Judeo-Christian tradition--is not procreation. Also, some gay marriages protect children already born and allow the other partner to adopt them for the first time. Surely this can be considered supporting family, not overturning it. \n\nIt is still difficult to see how the dilemma facing a transgendered person regarding sexual reassignment (or the parent of that young person) incites marriage breakdown. The notion itself suggests an unfamiliarity with how either situation works.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Definition of conversion therapy:\n\n\"Conversion therapy is psychological treatment or spiritual counseling designed to change a person's sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual.\"\n\ncnpp....you are using the term incorrectly. Gender reassignment treatments and conversion therapy are different things. The first is a bona fide medical treatment, the latter is pseudoscience.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What opened Pandora's box was the lack of faith in the Conclave by JP II and Benedict. If there was an underdeveloped or \"evil\" change it was the refusal of these two popes to have faith in their own church to change in the necessary ways pointed out by Vatican II. This did begin when Cardinal Otavani convinced Pope Paul that the church should not accept Birth Control Medications. It is very interesting that you continue to bring up sexual license, promiscuity and homosexuality as all were part of the terrible clerical scandal that JP II attempted to eschew. These two Popes very much decreased the hope of the laity. However in the story of Pandora, remember that Hope was kept in the box. There are hopeful parts of our church today that are so often obscured by the condemnation by so many reactionary thinkers so fearful of proper changes. Of Course these two Popes did nothing about the laundering mafia monies in the Vatican Bank. Lots of hope lost there.....!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is it with reactionaries who create institutes in the name of those who oppose them? Susan B. Anthony must be rolling in her grave at the use of her name by the anti-feminist Susan B. Anthony Fund. Lord Acton, who publicly condemned Pius IX and his notions of papal infallibility would likewise cringe at the use of his name by Sirico. Francis is simply not a pope he would criticize. No futher comment seems necessary. As a libertarian, if he stuck to his old social libertarianism and ministered to gays in the Church, he might have a worthwhile witness. That he has taken the Prosperity Gospel of the Pentacostals into the Roman Church serves no one. While he is right to educate the Church on liberty, most don\u2019t care about the factions, just the distinction between social and economic liberty. Francis may be more of a social libertarian than we have seen since St. John XXIII. He is not at all an economic libertarian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Feel free to peruse my several posts containing Exact Trump Quotes that clearly reflect the fact that he is a racist and bigot. But aside from direct quotes, there's plenty of evidence to point to the fact he's racist, from the fact the he refused to rent to blacks in the 70's to his rants about Mexican and Muslim judges today. The fact that he has consistently denigrated women in word and deed cannot be denied by any truthful person. Nor can the fact that he dislikes gays, made fun of a disabled man ( captured on video) and done and said countless other disgusting things. \n\nIf you \" do not see where he has ever made any direct statements \" such as I and literally, everyone on the internet, who owns a television, tweets, reads and/or ownsany kind of media device whatsoever, then you are in true denial, the kind where a woman starving to death from anorexia sees a fat person in the mirror.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The harm you describe is not one sided. Being \"mocked or vilified\" happens to both side from both sides. The national debate about cakes is in fact about rights. Do the government have the right to force someone to labor? Suggesting that a gay would not be able to acquire a cake because one baker did not want to make is is false and as such, aside from felling like you are not liked by said baker, there is no harm. If you want to see harm, force a baker to make you a cake and then imagine what said baker did to it while you were not looking. I will take my business to someone who wants it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Brown vs The Board, Roe v Wade, Obergefell v Hodges (2015, legalized same sex marriage) the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments . . . \n\nAmerica has decided. History has decided. These are not \"liberal views\" or subjective judgements; they are historical values judgements that are written into the body of American law and they have the effect of doing exactly what I said: making white supremacism, misogyny and homophobia illegal in the public sphere.\n\nMy point of view is not universal, but on those points our nation has decided. We also decided a long time ago that there would be a firewall between church and state, that the USA would be a secular nation. In fact, that separation between church and state is a PRIMARY ASSUMPTION (Amendment 1) of our national identity.\n\nSo if homophobic theists what to gay bash they certainly should not do it at state institutions like the UofO campus. That's would be Unamerican . . .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By \"free exercise\" I mean \"free exercise\". As in, for example, a right to not be pressed into service to celebrate a homosexual \"marriage\" with expressive activity, or a right for the Little Sisters of the Poor to not buy insurance policies covering abortion.\n\nBut you'd go further than that kind of oppression. According to your post scorn--an attitude--is not a right. So not only is the exercise of religion off the table, but some thought is forbidden, too. \n\nNow as orthodox Catholics we don't \"scorn\" gays who attempt marriage but we do detest the sacrilege and maintain the belief that marriage between a man and a man is simply impossible. Perhaps you'd forbid those thoughts, too?\n\nNot here. Never, ever again.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Having looked at the actual report and accompanying graphs one might ask why the inflection is so sharp for bisexual girls and gay boys (compared to the other categories). \nAnd dance requires quite a bit of physical effort and is probably just as healthy an activity so why isn't it included as a sport?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "AT: Actually all those Churches are the ones defining themselves as Christian Churches. I simply refer to their definitions....I don't provide them. You and your particular Christian denomination (a recognized autonomous branch of the Christian Church. synonyms:\treligious group, sect, cult, movement, body, branch, persuasion, order, school; church \"a Christian denomination\"\" from Wikepedia.) You, it seems, define your particular denomination, or perhaps others who belief exactly as you do, as the only \"true\" Christian Church and exclude all the other Christian denominations who don't have your particular beliefs.....including regarding homosexuality and same-sex marriage. \n\nWere I teaching \"comparative religion\", indeed, I would teach the there are numerous denominations of the Christian Church and their beliefs differ regarding many topics. That is the FACT I would teach. cont..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cIt\u2019s our faith that informs us how to treat all who come to our farm and the farmers market with dignity and decency \u2026 serving customers of many races, religions, cultures and those who identify with the LBGT community,\u201d\n\nsaid by the guy who will sell apples to customers at the Farmer's Market but will not \"sell\" use of his farm as a venue for a wedding ceremony that he does sell to non-gay.\n\nSelling apples and selling venues for weddings are both products bought and sold on public markets. If he limits who he will sell \"venues\" to then perhaps he should also be limited in who he can sell apples to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "ClementsKen, many conservatives of conviction and principle also lamented the secrecy gag on that eco research and the foolishness of that hotline. And many are fiscally conservative, socially progressive, decrying weird religious proscriptions against gays, birth control, etc. Andrew Scheer understands what you obviously don't. He will work hard to contain what conservatives themselves in Alberta call \"bozo eruptions\" because the majority of Canadians aren't down with that stuff. But hey, if government secrecy, intolerance, and fundamentalism make your coffee taste better, well, you be you. Don't pretend you speak for all conservatives though.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Once again, there are confused ignoramuses who mistake the legal secular definition of marriage (hetero & homo unions) with the religious definition of marriage, otherwise known as \"MATRIMONY\".\nThe US Supreme Court left MATRIMONY ALONE & IS NOT TELLING THE CATHOLIC BELIEVERS WHAT TO THINK!! It is just reminding them that their behavior can't be discriminatory under the guise of religious practise... they ought to practise the tolerance towards people that Jesus Christ modeled throughout his life...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Focus on the Family is not only anti-abortion, it is anti-gay and anti-contraception.\nIt pines for the \"good ol' days\" when men were dominant and the family's sole income, women were silent in church and housewives at home, and children were never seen and never heard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who decides what roads are taken? You decide for yourself JKirkLVNV. And it is okay for you to decide that you do not want to walk in company with LGBT people. That is fine and I wish you well in life. \n\nBut your attitude doesn't speak for all Catholics. The majority of Catholics of this country do not support or live by the \"teachings\" of the magisterium on a number of issues. Some of \"us\" do want a more inclusive Church, we do want and need that dialogue to better understand the non-heterosexual viewpoint, experience, and how life can be lived well and faithfully. We do think the teachings and understanding of the Church on human sexuality are way out of whack. \n\n More, we need theologians, bishops, priests, straight and LGBTQI people, women, scientists, social scientists, medical professionals to join the conversation. Mostly, what is needed is people who don't think they already know it all, people open to finding they may be wrong and have a lot to learn. Can you do that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LGBT feelings are Civil Wants! \nScientifically proven and sociologically sound; Gender or Genealogy are Civil Rights...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hey Jon-\nThanks for your thoughts. Re CPR, gays, women, race are what people are born with. Ideology is learned. I don't think they have any nazis on their payroll either. How many people believe the Earth is flat? Should they be represented too?Doesn't this say something about education instead? Re the Paris Climate Accord, and budget- seems CPR's job is to report on what will affect the most people most severely, NOT to pander to the rich individuals who may be affected financially, but who will not suffer bodily, as will be the case with the health care act, and climate change, and the Trump budget. Thanks for standing up for those whose lives will really be unaffected by trumpian policies, they really need the help.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Walls are coming down. It has nothing to do with readiness. My father was a vet, he says there were gays around before it was legal. It doesn't matter, its about readiness. The same with women or transgender people. \n\nIn the military, more people are standing up all the time as they find themselves serving with people that have their backs, regardless of societies preconceptions. \n\nI'm a white American man. I'm not saying this for my benefit. When your so called \"standard\" goes beyond readiness, its time to change. \n\n\u201cWhen less than one percent of Americans are volunteering to join the military, we should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve our country,\u201d McCain said in a statement. \u201cAny member of the military who meets the medical and readiness standards should be allowed to serve \u2014 including those who are transgender.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for a great story. The LGBT community has indeed come a long way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1/5\nLesia, that\u2019s two questions really\u2014(1) elaborate on the theory, and (2) apply to gay marriage.\n\nI\u2019ll tackle the first, and either duck or take a limp stab at the second.\n\nIf we assume that the Holy Spirit has been trying to guide our theology from the beginning, but that since we are constantly evolving (intellectually, not biologically), she has in fact adapted her message through time to our capacity to understand, then wisdom dictates that we respect past theological positions because somewhere in there is prior divine inspiration. And further, I would argue, the best way forward (that is the way that is most likely to survive into the future with respect) is to strive to identify that trace of the Spirit to be found in our past rather than just throw it out for something new. That is, we should strive to find the thrust, the trend, the movement, the directionality that we presume the Spirit has left throughout our past. \n\nThis gets really complicated in practice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...the reasons that people are leaving the church....\"\n\nBut people are leaving all churches -- whether they have gay or straight clergy, married or celibate clergy, actively gay pastors with partners or single pastors, etc. My Lord, in UK this summer and the Anglicans church which allows nearly everything has dropped to 18% (or people who wish to identify as Anglican) and the Southern Baptists continue to drop in our country. \n\nThe future of all churches need to raise serious questions, questions one could fill a hundred post with.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well if it's inclusive then who can argue with that? Especially if it helps women and the LGBTQ2S community and other racialized groups..oh and I guess most importantly as the writer noted, menstruating women (I suppose for these women, it shouldn't come as a surprise as I hear it is generally a monthly occurrence..).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not true - did you read the article? Several religious organizations were allowed to intervene, but none from the LGBTQ community, whose rights are under threat.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with you. However, I do think churches and church institutions have the right to use religious criteria in personnel decisions regarding those positions that are properly ministerial: clergy and catechists. Beyond that is a slippery slope and I think the church is best advised not to straddle the slope. Terminating choir directors, Eucharistic ministers, etc. may fall within what they can legally do -- but it falls far short of what they ought to do. I read recently about a gay man who was not permitted to sing the Ave Maria at his grandmother's funeral -- despite the fact that the man is a life-long Catholic, was not in a relationship, and was known to the priest. What enormous damage this priest did -- and not only, or even especially, to the young man and his family. He inflicted a wound on the parish and on the church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ",\"but church institutions would retain the right to employ and serve on the basis of their faith claims.\"\n\nThis point needs clarification. \n\n Religious groups operate many social services as contractors for government. They respond to RFPs, which specify the work and all related requirements. Discrimination in employment is forbidden. The RCC receives billions of $ every year of taxpayer money as a government contractor. The RCC has argued that it should be permitted to discriminate based on religious beliefs (funding contraception, hiring gays etc). It is absolutely wrong in this. \n\n If the church wants to discriminate in employment, health benefits, or in choosing who it will serve (such as gay couples seeking to adopt), then it must self-fund 100%.\n\nThose in the for profit private sector should not be permitted to discriminate either. Choosing whom to serve based on sexual preference is just as wrong as choosing not to serve those of a different race or religion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's a guy saying we should fall in love with a guy. Sounds pretty gay and appropriate to me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pride should be reserved for personal achievements and accomplishments. Being gay isn't a skill. The pride parade is in real need of rebranding. Call it something more akin to the hedonistic, histrionic romp that it actually represents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(i)He didn't compare being Transgender to Nuclear warfare. That's just not true and that's a meme that's been floating around on the internet that's false. (ii) His comments on Gender and Sexuality Saturday from my perspective were wrong but lets be real here. He was having a one on one conversation with an individual in Georgia who asked him a question on the subject. What do you expect the Pope to do? It's easy to criticize the Pope from the sideline when you don't know what it's like to be in his position and have all the pressures that he has to deal with as Pope.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Federal Law and Private Businesses\n\nTitle II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- the federal law which prohibits discrimination by private businesses which are places of public accommodation -- only prevents businesses from refusing service based on race, color, religion, or national origin. Federal law does not prevent businesses from refusing service to customers based on sexual orientation.\n\nSo, in this thread, only the coffee shop owner who refused to serve Christians is breaking the law, technically.\n\nIf all shops refused gays, let me know. I'll open up a bakery that serves gays and make a heckuva business.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A reporter for Axios asked a Trump White House official the reason the sudden transgender ban and was told: \u201cThis forces Democrats in rust belt states like Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin to take complete ownership of the issue,\u201d the official said. \u201cHow will the blue collar voters in these states respond when senators up for reelection in 2018, like Debbie Stabenow, are forced to make this a key plank in their campaigns.\u201d This outrageous, bigoted and hateful decision was made for political reasons, not the stated ones. And, apparently the Pentagon was completely surprised and has gotten no information about a change in the transgender policy, other than Trump's tweets. Trump must go.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay man, how safe would you be in an Islam-majority country? Would you be employed as a journalism professor in a university? Or would you be hiding that part of your identity? Any benefits to you from living in a multicultural society that you personally would not be experiencing in another cultural setting? Some perspective please.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I have heard the most vile words come out of the mouths of suburban teens talking about indigenous people, people of colour, and the LGBT community.\"\n------------\nSo true. \n\nBut you forgot to mention that \"the most vile words come out of the mouths of suburban teens talking about indigenous people, people of colour, and the LGBT community\" also come from minorities talking about other minorities. Lack of civility and hatred knows no boundary of \"identity\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't believe that USCCB Presidents bring their own staff, which is why you have a consistent group of Republican leaning staffers who nourish their relationship with the GOP on the pro-life issue. They are true believers who seemingly don't understand that Roe will not be overturned in such a way as to turn it over to the states (nor will gay marriage, sodomy, Latino rights, etc.) - and that the GOP mostly uses them to get out Catholic conservative voters from the pulpit.\n\nSecularization is a sign of an emerging middle class. Using guilt and self-mortification was how the American clergy tried to deal with these issues in the 50s. It was a miserable failure. Raising up the poor and the other is much more in line with the Kingdom of God that Jesus announced.\n\nOssoff should try to not sound like a cultural elitist. Still, a pro-lifer is not the ideal candidate. Putting abortion into perspective as a non-issue will work better. Obama won on it. Attacking Trump should do the rest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays cannot be refused employment in Colorado. We are among the 20 states there.\n\nAs for \"state anti-discrimination laws to protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression\"... did Colorado join these states now? \n\n* \"As of 2016, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Florida, Arizona, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Idaho are the only states with campaigns working in 2016 to amend existing state anti-discrimination laws to protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression...\"\n\nRead more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_employment_discrimination_in_the_United_States", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, the Harper government repealed section 13.1, but it had served a valid purpose. The case of Warman v. Glenn Bahr and Western Canada for Us, is just one example of the people targeted by hate purveyors like this:\n\n\"Insofar as the nature, circumstances, extent and gravity of the discriminatory practices are concerned, I have found that Mr. Bahr repeatedly communicated or caused to be communicated, messages regarding Jewish people, homosexuals, the mentally disabled, blacks and other non-whites that were vicious and extreme in their characterization. ...\n\nhttps://www.canlii.org/en/ca/chrt/doc/2006/2006chrt52/2006chrt52.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAMImdsZW5uIGJhaHIiAAAAAAE&resultIndex=1\n\nThat said, the cases under former section 13.1 have little to do with the concept of dealing with lesser sexual assault through civil tribunals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fact that he got the title of the show wrong makes me suspect he's never actually seen an episode of the show. Which in turn makes me think he was out of ideas as to how to smear transgendered people (and for some reason Colin Kaepernick) in his column.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is it about the homosexual agenda that you find unsettling? Is it when we set our alarm clocks to get up in time to get ready for work? Is it when we make plans to go hiking on the weekend? Is it our Netflix queue?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And if they ever got the power, would have us in front of the firing squad right alone with environmentalists, atheists, queers and other undesirables. They are not friends to Catholicism, any more that our traddies are theirs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Chuck and Larry. Mr. and Mr. Smith. Take your pick. Words on a cake to make them fit the occasion.\n\nWhat you think he suggested is not what he said. When you have a basis for it other than your instinct, holler back. On the basis off what he said, you claim agreement.\n\nOf course this is discrimination. The question is whether or not it is protected, just as gays are a protected class. This is a conflict of rights, not the garden variety discrimination you think it is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know your American-Catholic experience, but I do see what's going on:\n\nWe rationalize cozying up with those who condemn our theological essentials just because they agree on the cultural non-essentials. Our ancestors wouldn't like that. At. All. \n\nAnd our ancestors would fight to defend the Catholic family where folks at the table disagree on the Church non-essentials all the time. So, they'd fight (probably literally) against, say, a cardinal who suggests they not invite a gay family member and his partner to THEIR Thanksgiving dinner. \n\nYes, some of our ancestors followed Father Coughlin. But most--by a long shot--despised the Right's interference with their culture...their faith...their family values.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think there's also a combination of factors at play. The first is that in American politics abortion, gay marriage and gender politics are more touchy, hot button issues than others like food stamps for the poor, climate change, or even immigration and gun control which can be hot button but still doesn't rise to the same level. So if a Bishop says they are against Marriage equality, that gets more media coverage than a bishop who stands with undocumented migrants. \n\nThe second i think is the nature of Catholic social teaching. It doesn't fit neatly into liberal-conservative, left-right categories. It's conservative on reproductive issues, marriage, the family, gender, sexuality which are all the hot button issues in American culture. It's liberal on social justice for the poor, workers rights, the rights of immigrants, abolishing the death penalty, being anti war, etc. So it also depends on which issues you might prioritize in how you look at the Catholic bishops.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Muslim Brotherhood thanks you for your service. Tell us Alceste, is it \"Islamophobic\" to point out the fact that gender equality, freedom of expression, and freedom of sexual orientation are absent from every society \"governed\" by Islamic law, without exception? I missed the pride parade in Gaza this year... oh well, the irony of defending a system of beliefs that criminalizes homosexuality seems lost on the self-titled \"progressives\" who's useful ignorance furthers the goals of Islamists who believe society should be governed by religious codes. Monty Python, South Park, and Family Guy can make jokes on Christianity, Jesus, Judaism, Moses, Buddhism, Buddha but not Islam or any \"Prophet\", because it's 2017? Maybe you can try the cultural relativism angle that tries to defend female subjugation as different cultural norms and ideas of \"modesty\". 57 members of the OIC - all just beacons of human rights and individual freedoms... oh but we can't talk about that, again #it's2017?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The crisis of manhood in our society is also determined by the ideology be accept and reproduce.\nWhat sexual and parental identities are promoted in our culture? Try this:\nDraw 2 X/Y axes. The X axis is a continuum from 'hooray' to 'boo'. The Y axis is a continuum from 'protect' to 'reject'. In any of these four quads, place the following terms as you FEEL about them: boy, girl, mother, marriage, family, lesbian, single-mother, divorcee, gay, queer, [add own terms] ... MAN.\nHow are these terms positioned relative to each other? You may link these terms into sets.\nThat gives an indication of the kind of ideology that defines MANHOOD today.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Errr ummmm, right. Check out the chromosomes, she's a female. If she wants to dress like a man, grow facial hair and fart around her friends, that's fine. But she's a woman. She even said so on her drug screen. And my analogy is spot on. It's just those that feel that they are so \"open minded and accepting\" who feel this superior ability that they can pick and choose what to judge and then attempt to justify it. Some customers or coworkers may feel just as uncomfortable around a transgender person as you would if you worked with a coworker who didn't shower and had bad flatulence all the time. But in the former, it's no ok for people to feel this way, in the latter, you find it perfectly reasonable. And fwiw, I don't have a problem with transgender folks. However I am open minded to those who do. I also support gay marriage, but understand why there are those who don't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\nI rarely disagree with you, Steven, but on this point, I do ... sort of.\nI think the manner, tone and content of the bishops' (and of other leaders of the religious right) opposition to same sex marriage contributed to the advancement of same sex marriage. I think many good and decent people who otherwise didn't have a dog in this fight became supporters of same sex marriage because they did not and do not want to be associated with the arguments of the opponents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Categorizing the sins of other is above your pay grade, which is why the church has done that for you. As to the demands I mentioned, I'm glad you clarified it because I thought for a moment that progressive catholics were demanding female ordination, nuptial masses for gays, and communion for those who are shacking up. I'm relieved to hear that they are not demanding these things.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How ironic--any HINT of questioning Coulter's true gender based in his/her physical appearance is IMMEDIATELY consigned to the \"uncivil zone\". But I thought right-wingers were all for \"FREE SPEECH\"! Apparently not when it comes to their \"demi-gods\".\n\nWould they object to her using the ladies' room? Or does she get a pass as one of a \"protected class\"? Here's my \"uncivil\" post:\n\n\"And to top it off, I see a YUGE 'Adam's apple'--bigger'n one of our POSUS's itty-bitty hands! What's wrong with this picture (besides the obvious)?\"\n\nIt's obvious enough to Coulter that she said, \"...in the interest of protecting myself and those I care about, I hereby announce that I will sue every single person, internet provider, website and TV station that say or refer to me as transgender in any way.\"\n\nPerhaps why any reference to this keeps being deleted. What was that the mighty, righty, tighty-whities said about \"free-speech\"? Hitler liked Ernst Rohm until his sexual preference became public, too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your gay thats ok but I am sure your co-workers don't understand how you feel so tell them. saying nothing does not help a straight guy like me understand you, please be an adult and talk about it, if I don't know I hurt your feelings I can't fix it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Q stands for Queer. \n\nThe word \"Queer\" is said loud and proud around the world, unless it is said by you. If I say it, I am a progressive, and non judgemental. If you say it, you are a hate filled homophobic redneck. That is the central logic of the court case. If \"Live and let live\" were to exist in LGBT politics, this court case would simply evaporate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cI could see this coming so I went to city hall to try to get a permit to hold a pro-straight event but was turned down,\u201d he (Johnny Gallego) said. \u201cMostly I went down there to see what my rights were.\u201d\nMust have missed the anti-lgbt part. Think he wanted to find out his rights and guess he found out. If I went there and found out it was a lgbt bar, my basic choice would be to leave and not return or to accept and stay. Would I take to FB or Yelp to tell the world not to go there? I think not. Time people accepted where the best beer was or was not and move on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not sure where you are getting your version of events - lifesite or some other unreliable source? \n\n Find a legitimate source - much of what you relate is untrue. His background and activities are both fascinating and frightening. He did learn that she was a lesbian before the mass. He did refuse to give her communion. He did leave the altar while she gave a eulogy for her mother (permitted). And he did refuse to go to the gravesite. He did not attempt to find another priest to help the family, but one was found by someone else, a priest who understands what being a priest means. He is from another country; he was removed from the parish by the Archdiocese. Cdl. Wuerl has publicly stated that he opposes denying communion to Catholics. Wuerl has refused urgings from the Catholic right to deny communion to many Catholic politicians living in the DC area who are pro-choice (which is not the same thing as pro-abortion) and who also regularly attend mass and receive communion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sure being Randy Gay must have gotten you some stick at school, but don't turn your hate on others. Get out a bit more. And think.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A few months ago, the communist Chinese foreign minister came to this country and insulted a Canadian reporter for asking questions about the appalling human rights abuses committed by China in foreign countries as well as towards their own people. The Canadian foreign minister stood by and did not intervene to defend this journalist. The same foreign minister demanded and received audience from the PM, and in both cases showed deference to the Chinese government. The communist regime kidnaps and imprisons people for daring to criticize these crimes committed by their government. This includes an editor revealing that Chou En Lai was gay, or the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo telling the truth. The communist regime has displayed belligerence and aggression in international waters which has been an implied threat towards international trade and commerce.\n\nAnd now our government wishes to release high security technology to a regime committed to the downfall of the west. Shame.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "'Most reputable scholars keep their personal religious beliefs for the most part private, especially in the work setting.' Now if we could just get them to keep their sexual orientation the same way. \n\n One of the letter writers this week was recommending a candidate and found it necessary to describe herself as a \" lesbian, mother and environmentalist\" to let us know that those were her qualifications to convince us to vote for her candidate. Why?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have a genuine question for those who reject the Church's teachings on sexuality and homosexuality in particular: Do you hold that for 2000 years the Church has had it all wrong? If so, on what authority do you base that? Furthermore, in your opinion should the Church - which should be a bastion for truth - simply change with the ever changing whims and proclivities of society?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jerome would rather advocate for transgenderism to kindergartners like they do in Washington. \n\nhttp://www.k12.wa.us/HealthFitness/Standards/HPE-Standards.pdf page 29", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "how about apologize to all immigrants for deceiving them - they did not know their taxes had to pay for apologies and compensation to\n\nFirst Nations, gays, etc. etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But you can have female priests and gay weddings! There are so many Christian denominations offering this why not join them!? I simply don't understand, is it a pathological need to have everyone do what you do and think? Why can't Catholics remain \"backwards\"? \n\nYou don't believe in any of the dogma anyway, why persist? Please explain I can't understand.\n\nAlso as far as I know the Orthodox don't have female priests or gay weddings, are you thinking about Anglicans?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He chose not to be offended everytime he did not know he was making a custom cake for a gay wedding. \nHe is a triggered snowflake except he only melts when he knows it is sunny and warm.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Statues, kneelers, etc. do not constitute the FAITH. Imitating Jesus in our lives DOES. The term the \"Holy Sacrifice of the Mass\" came much, much later in church history. Do you believe in a god who is so blood-thirsty, that only the blood sacrifice of a BELOVED Son could appease him? When did Jesus present his Father that way?\n\nSince July 25, 1968---when 'Humanae vitae' was promulgated by the church, women---by the thousands LEFT the church and took their families with them. These women, now, are senior citizens. Neither they, their children nor grandchildren are registered in any church. The \"Stone-wall riots\" [June 28, 1969], came to symbolize the inaugural movement of the gay liberation movement. And this has continued on for 5 decades. People have left the church because of the hierarchy's pronouncements concerning \"intrinsic disorders\". \n\nSadly, you associate \"having faith\" with the hierarchy's[and JP II & Benedict's] obsession with the \"below the belt\" mandate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is well established in American law that religious bodies can set their own rules about who is to be married in their churches. \n\nNo, it is saying that if you want to fire an employee because you find his or her civil gay marriage offensive to your religious sensibilities, the former employee cannot sue you for wrongful termination. This is something which American bishops do far too often.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For your convenience, and my own, I'm simply going to re-post what I wrote to another poster in this thread:\n\nViolence against homosexuals is rooted in bigotry about homosexuality. We should find that violence both surprising and shocking.\n\nThat the author of the document in question thinks it unsurprising, that he thinks that homosexuals should be unsurprised by violence against them, that he also thinks that the rest of us should be unsurprised by it, too, reflects the moral bankruptcy at the very least of the author of this document. After all, homosexuals could avoid the violence -- couldn't they? -- if they just stayed in the closet.\n\nThank God almost no-one pays any attention to this drivel. We probably shouldn't either -- we've already given it more attention than it deserves.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wow. a few months ago you were a stalwart defender of women when you feared transgendered people in the restrooms. \n\nNow you wholeheartedly support a guy who brags about sexual assault. Strange guy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They are NOT Gay. They are self-denying, self-suppressing, self-hating homosexuals.\n\nThere is a YUGE difference!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A clear example of a hateful post, that G&M refuses to take down. Replace \"Christian\" with \"gay\" or \"muslim\" in the above comment, and it will get removed. I tried it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay culture alleges a gay cabal in the clergy and/or being out and proud. Persecutors hate those who throw that persecution back in their faces.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Russia is a safe and politically correct target. The same government doesn't have a similar list for Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, etc. Countries where women are second class citizens, gays are oppressed (death penalty in Saudi) and religious minorities are oppressed and even banned.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's Sharia creep, as those who've been paying attention know. The thin edge of the wedge, bit by bit. Listen to the Muslim immigrants who attended The Rebel's freedom-of-speech meeting on Tuesday\u2014they know - http://tinyurl.com/zpcco5n. Watch this analysis of M-103 - http://tinyurl.com/hhxdukm \n\nConsider this: more hate crimes perpetrated against Jews in Canada than on any other group. And this: around the world, more Muslims are killed by Muslims than by any other group. As for Islamophobia, if it means fear of radical Islam\u2014beheadings, live incinerations, stoning rape victims to death, forcing women into wearable body bags, throwing gay people off rooftops, etc, etc, barbaric practices, etc, etc\u2014what sane person of any nationality, religion, race, colour wouldn't be afraid?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Did you even read the article? \n\nWhen you are not permitted to play hockey or mow lawns simply because you are gay, then there is a point to all this. \n\nIt SHOULD be unnecessary, and perhaps one day it will be, but so long as one is pushed off the team just for being gay, yes, there's a purpose.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't bring up the subject of gays, your guilty conscience did.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I doubt that President Trump knows what transgender is.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for writing this. The trend of brutish behaviour by women in gay bars needs to stop.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If we're going to talk about which group is being demeaned as evil and demented I think it would be the one who you're calling baby-killing communists who hate America. Just a guess.\n\nA gay marriage is not obscene. If you don't like the idea of making cakes in a country where gay people have the freedom to marry then move to Saudi Arabia.\n\nIn regards to your broken analogy nobody is telling Jews to serve non-kosher food or Muslims to serve pork. If they DID want to serve those things, then they should serve those things equally to every customer.\n\nNow, if a pharmacy doesn't want to serve the morning after pill they shouldn't be forced to carry a product they don't want. I agree with you there. But when Christians pass legislation to limit the choices for everyone, that I disagree with. We cannot make a world where Christians never have to encounter things they disagree with. That is a world of special privilege. He did not make the cake, he chose to stop making cakes all together.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The top six American male serial killers were all Homosexual:\nDonald Harvey claimed 37 victims in Kentucky;\nJohn Wayne Gacy raped and killed 33 boys in Chicago, burying them under his house and in his yard;\nPatrick Kearney accounted for 32, cutting his victims into small pieces after sex and leaving them in trash bags along the Los Angeles freeways;\nBruce Davis molested and killed 27 young men and boys in Illinois;\nA gay sex-murder-torture ring (Corll-Henley-Brooks) sent 27 Texas men and boys to their grave; and\nJuan Corona was convicted of murdering 25 migrant workers (he \u201cmade love\u201d with their corpses).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Black women in prostitution who use IV drugs are where the spread is now. Needle exchange stops that. Immorality, of course, is millions of years old. It predates religion._The article is about female ordination and gay marriage among other things. Gay marriage means monogamy, not STDs. Female ordination means men need to behave better in the Church. A plus.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A pretty obvious attempt to cloak himself in the protected class of gay to avoid the criminal class of pedophile.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "1) As far as the Tobin article (\"Is Cardinal Tobin's Outreach to LGBT Catholics About More Than Optics?\") is concerned: Tobin is a good company man. As long as Francis is pope he will appear open to the gay community, but if a conservative pope is elected he will keep his distance from the gays. He'll go where the power is.\n\n2) As far as shorter and pithier homilies: I'm all for them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I find it sad that the phrase \u201cknown homosexual \u201c has been used in this discussion as if this were the McArthy days and we were discussing \u201cknown communists\u201d. Really senator, at long last, have you no shame?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"70,000 years\"? How do you depict a transgender person with a cave drawing?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"...The Denver rally was one of more than two dozen held in U.S. cities Saturday, organized by ACT for America, which claims Islamic law \u2014 namely Shariah \u2014 is incompatible with Western democracy...\". \nOf course it is compatible if we remember that our Constitution is a \"living and breathing\" document. America is multicultural and with a few tweaks here and there everyone can feel welcome. Killing Homosexuals by throwing them off buildings can be very dangerous for pedestrians below so perhaps limiting the toss to 3 stories is in order. Shame-killing your own family members should be allowed but only in the privacy of the father's home. Jew killings should be limited to only certain holy months. Infidels should only have to worry about being slaughtered if they offend but otherwise should be left alone. The authors of our Constitution were too darn prejudiced to consider the feelings of our sharia neighbors but we can rectify that if Trump doesn't get another Supreme Court pick.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trump is a fool. When he should have been working with his own GOP Senators ahead of the critical vote, the man is tweeting about transgender in the military. Not to mention prioritizing the repeal of Obamacare when they did not have any plan for replacement - all driven by his obsession to \"get\" Obama. Of course, his base will blame \"the swamp\" when the reality is, Trump is incapable of leading. \n\nYou have to wonder how Trump ever became \"successful\". Surely it can't be just from declaring bankruptcy multiple times and stiffing contractors - then claiming the tax benefits in future years?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You claimed sexuality is a choice: \"Of course sexuality is a choice.\" The point you missed is that you didn't choose. Neither did homosexuals choose to be homosexuals. You contradict yourself in defending bigotry.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "People with same-sex attraction are preoccupied by \"sexual\" acts. Witness gay pride parades.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Again, there is a significant difference between the straw-man argument that you're outlining, and what happened here.\n\nIn your straw-man argument, it's all about the way that the cake is decorated. You state that \"racist message\" on the cake. The baker would be well within their rights to deny that cake, as long as they don't make that cake for anybody.\n\nNow, in the case of the gay wedding cake, the has nothing to do with how the cake was decorated. The cake decoration was not brought up at all, and the refusal to make the cake was done before any decoration had been discussed. He could have made the exact cake for a straight couple a week ago, and he still would have denied the gay couple that exact same cake.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In American law. If you want to change the law, put together a proposal that can pass Congress. If you can't, quit advancing idiots like Donald Trump and Sarah Palin for high office because they promise to support your issue.\n\nEqual protection is not about inconvenience. Sicking the state on doctors and women (and lying about the reality of doing the latter) is not inconvenience, it is about how you want society to look. Accept the inconvenience of higher tax rates, lower tax benefits for non-parents and what the Communio movement calls the necessity of the Gift (see Caritas in Veritate) if you really want to end abortion. Of course, ending abortion would destroy the political advantage of the GOP with working class voters who should be voting Democratic anyway (since the whole gay issue is quickly fading away).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm of firm belief that the vast majority are born gay. I have no right to judge, I'll leave that to God. As far as sex, I see it as a great gift from God, not just for procreation, but an act of Love between a man and his wife, besides being great fun. Thank you Jesus. Since my wife is beyond child bearing years, it seems that the Church would rather you quit. No thanks. It's time that the Hierarchy get their head out of there ignorance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The authors of the JJ report insist that homosexuality played no role in the abuse crisis, but their own data undermine this conclusion. For example, they plainly admit that \u201c81% of the victims [between 1950 and 2002] were male,\u201d and that 78% were post-pubescent.\n\nSo if the abusers weren\u2019t pedophiles, and the victims were mostly adolescent males, wouldn\u2019t that make the victimizers homosexuals?\n\nWhat else could we possibly be talking about if not homosexuality?\n\nWhy can't you answer this question?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "To say you never heard of gay people once upon a time reminds me of the time Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told students at Columbia there were no gay people in Iran, which was met with howls of laughter. People might not have bullied people for being gay when you were growing up, but they certainly bullied boys for being too effeminate or girls for being too tomboyish. As always, your smug indifference is as ugly as ever.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In theory, yes. Religious types say they can't make a cake for a gay couple because it violates their beliefs. These venues kicking out white supremacists are doing the same thing, denying their services to those they don't agree with.\nI'm simply using the alt-right's logic against them. They cry \"discrimination!\" or \"censorship!\" when a venue kicks out a hate group, but see no hypocrisy in doing the same thing to gays.\n(Apparently I've been misunderstood. It's dismaying to see Archie Bunker agreeing with me.)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are a poster child for why gay people flee the Roman Catholic Church. Congratulations. I'm sure that makes you happy - and I mean that seriously.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The majority of the trans movement is being driven by man-hating feminists who want to save boys by convincing them that they're really girls. It's curious how offended we are by the mutilation of female genitalia in Muslim countries but in the West we're enacting constitutional protections for chopping-off boys penises. I feel like I'm a black man trapped in a white mans body, where's my government funded racial reasignment surgery?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yep, many of the worlds top and most respected psychiatrists state the same yet stupid tries to tell us they're perfectly sane because extraterrestrial aliens told them so ;-) LOL\n\nJust one of many countless sources...\nPsychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital: Transgender is \u2018Mental Disorder;'\nhttp://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "SD, What I find interesting is how this discussion has moved away from the transgender issue and folks quickly begin insulting one and another. Kind of like a mini-Charlottesville. I'm not really paying much attention to the Russian investigation due to it being investigated (had to throw that in). I'll wait for its conclusion and results before forming a final view, until then, it is all politics as usual for me. Senator Blumenthal is a big boy, I'm sure he and his supporters can handle his lies just as president Trump and his supporters can handle his lies. And their non-supporters will continue their outrage over their lies, that is the cycle.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Two Federal jury verdicts involving black plaintiffs in the same week here in Eugene.\n\nI will always disagree with Judge McShane's gay marriage decision, primarily because he is a gay man in a relationship and could have recused himself. \n\nBut he certainly isn't a right-wing racist nut job. \n\nI'm betting his dismissal of the race card charges stands, even in the 9th Circuit.\n\nHere is yesterday's 9th Circuit case involving police a Taser, a death and a crazy person.\n\nhttp://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2017/10/02/15-17065.pdf", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When BLM staged its extortion coup d'etat against the LGBT community of Toronto, Wynne, Tory and Trudeau were all at the Parade but abandoned the actual \"GAY\" community to BLM. They even tacitly agreed with BLM that the white gays of Toronto really are racists. As always, the gays of Toronto were thrown under the bus for political convenience. It\u2019s like the 1980 bathhouse raids all over again. Our elected officials refuse to fight this injustice done to us primarily because we are still just a bunch of queers and we don't really count do we. Ironically, the cops are now our only ally. Not even lesbian Wynne would dare come to our defense.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sir, who has told gay people they are disordered? What is disordered is the same sex passion, not the person. Or do you want to reduce people to their passions and sexual appetites? \n\nThe Church does not reduce people to a sexual attraction. The person is fine--it is their passion/sexual appetite that is disordered. So what? Many people have disordered passions, attractions and appetites. Alcoholics have a disordered attraction towards alcohol. A married person who is attracted to someone who isn't his or her wife has a disordered attraction, etc. The key, sir, is to master our passions. We are not animals. We can reason and think. When our passions and appetites draw us to sinful or disordered behavior, we can choose not to engage in those actions--because we can think and reason.\n\nWe can either master our passions, or our passions will master us.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, yes... a male person agreeing with another male person... why, this kind of agreement must have something to do with being gay!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Please... some of us who have been around since the 70s. He could have helped the gay community, but selected NOT to for his own personal gain. They could have had a strong figure on their side as they fought battles for years on end. Now that it's politically correct to be homosexual, and he's at the end of his career because of illness he decides to come out of the closet. I wish him no harm, and it's sad about his illness. But why mention his homosexuality in the article? Almost everyone in the state knew he was gay, and the rest weren't upset about it!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Retired Commander Smith is on point.\n\nTransgenders in the armed forces? No I don't support it at all. Frankly, the gay members of the military are snickered at behind their backs by hetero co-workers, so there is no \"real\" respect there, just political posturing to conform with what the government requires at the moment.\n\nThe purpose of the military is to defend our country against all enemies, foreign and domestic, not run some sort of PC social experiment at government expense. This is one of the many reasons I retired from the DOD, the military has lost it's way, due to insane political representation. I say this also as a veteran, who earned the right to criticize, I hope all of you did also.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "True. The main difference seems to be in their gender preferences for victims, however. The heterosexuals seem to go into teaching. The male homosexual pedophiles seem to prefer the priesthood. \n\nThe local example so far this year is Ms. Rodakowski over in Springfield. I just checked on the Oregon Department of Education database that the Oregonian had to force ODE to reveal and her license has been revoked.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "but gary, let's be intellectually honest, just this once. It is NOT just \"bake a cake.\" it is a custom cake ordered. Had the LGBT simply bought a pre baked cake for sale and put whatever they wanted on it, we don't have a problem. Curious to note...why didn't the LGBT give their business to a baker that wasn't a Christian? This was IN YOUR FACE.\n Now, to address the issue you keep avoiding. Shoe.com called 15 bakers, and tried to place an order. They were not just denied service, their orders were denied in a hostile manner. Where's the prosecution, gary? Where are the heavy fines? This is a vulgar double standard that is political and has nothing to do with equal justice under the law as puked about this in your face BS targeting Christians.\n and of course you do into denial when insulting Christians like my grandma as I am now expecting such intellectual bankruptcy from your hypocrisy,", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Being a master swimmer for decades and swimming not only in Alaska but many other states I have yet to see a transgender woman with male anatomy take a shower with me. Transgender people generally do not want or need the attention. We are lead to believe they do by some dummies who never even stepped foot in a real ladies locker room. I am positive at times I swim with women who must be Lesbians since I have swam weekly for 18 years, many times in big cities and tourists stops the odds have to be that I have been in their company at some point. So what now, do you feel the need to \"protect\" me from predation by my own female sex? Spare me. Not every LBGT person is after your body, it fact it is so demeaning to even think that.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The 3,000 \"pastors\" who sent letters to Congress are primarily non-Churchmen, meaning homosexual \"pastors\" and Muhammudanists: look at them in the article picture. \nMany have fuchsia fever, wearing the reserved color of bona fide bishops in the Historic Church. \nNoteworthy is the bearded mullah with a uniform to emulate that of the somber Episcopalian (or Methodist) in the full Anglican collar (sporting a gay stole). \nRemarkable also is the Afro hairstyle behind with cross earrings. The cross is not meant as an object of adornment, jewelry, particularly in presumably a woman's ear.\nSo: this display is all about costumes, and not about Jesus.\nIf the pastors were all about curing souls, they would encourage illegal immigrants to comply with the law of the land and become legal immigrants. Too bad the Bishop of Rome aligns the RCC with these miscreant \"clergy\", proof that social action issues are not what the Historic Church is all about, but, rather regular, valid Holy Communion.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Promiscuity harms everyone. AIDS comes from promiscuity, not homosexuality per se. People acting out their natural sexuality appropriately harm no one but the reputational authority of those who care more about their doctrinal consistency than gays and lesbians, who often lose heart on religion because of such bigotry. (A correct term, because it is scorn ignorant of knowledge).\n\nPederasty is the most sinful thing because it is a form of rape. It is mentioned in the Bible. Do you really think that when Jesus said any who lead one of these little ones astray, he was talking orthodoxy? It did not exist. Pederasty did.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Im sure most homosexuals would say similar, that despite the cultural pressure to feel as you do, they felt the opposite or some shade in between. May take some time for them to come to terms with it but all the LGB people I know felt the way they do \"from day one\". The myth that people \"choose\" to be LGBTQ is one of the most evil lies that is still commonly spread, it is the foundation of homophobia in Russian and eastern Europe as well as much of the Arab world. It is akin to the anti-semitic tropes of jews and greed or money and similar. \n\nFreedom against arbitrary discrimination is one of the underpinnings of our society socially, politically, and legally. To suggest that it infringes on a business owners right to free excersize or expression requiring them to serve LGBTQ people or to provide birth control coverage is just a re-run of the Jim Crow laws the southern states used to oppress black people for decades, the targets now are women and LGBTQ because...well, ignorance!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Fish: I do believe that LGBTX people, (Lesbians, Gays, Bi-Sexual, Trans-Gender Mutilated, and people who mark the box with a \"X\"), are angry and can be just as violent as anyone else. Why are they angry? Because they want society to accept their way. Not gonna happen. The only ones in society that will accept their way, are the ones just like them. To many obstacles to overcome, LIKE the BIBLE....................", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am glad I am gay. The worst that happens after a two guy have a night of drunken sex is the guy doesn't leave in the morning , or if he doesn't call.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And gays, that is a much more pressing issue for both of them.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"I know of homosexual priests who live chastely. They recognize that they have a disorder, and they succeed in working around it ... Such priests deserve our respect.\n\nOn the other hand, there are homosexual priests who are \"gays\"\u2014they have chosen to live the homosexual lifestyle. It is from the ranks of these priests that most (not all, admittedly) of the abuse cases have arisen. The priestly scandal has not been so much about priests abusing children as about homosexual priests acting out their homosexuality with teenagers and young adults ..... \n\nIf the priesthood in this country were healthy, little or no harm would come from ordaining chaste homosexuals whose homosexuality is kept private. But we do not live in ordinary times. We live with a priesthood that has been damaged by \"gay\" homosexuality. Until the damage is repaired, we should operate conservatively.\"\n\nhttp://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/the-gay-priest-solution", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In 1922, the pope at the time was a \"prisoner of the Vatican,\" and felt he and the church was under siege, but there is no reason to have that secrecy today, in 2017. \n\nOf course, this report will only provide more ammunition for bishops to screen out gay seminarians:\"...when gay seminarians don't come to terms with their orientation....\" Poor gays are always the scapegoats.\n\nThank you, Kieran.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is a Gay Liberation Monument in a NYC park and as a hetero man, is offensive to me. My ancestors were all straight and I think it dishonors their beliefs. I think it should be taken down and placed in a museum where one can visit and reflect on the history of the gay rights movement. When will that happen?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The myth of the moderate Muslim. Is that like the well adjusted KKK member or the non-racist Confederate?\n\nHow can a moderate person associate with a religion that believes women are property and that homosexuals should be executed? Do you think a moderate person can proclaim allegiance to a religion that was responsible for 30,000 acts of terrorism last year alone?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Personally, I don't agree with Kenney's politics or social values, but it would be interesting to see Alberta with its first gay Premier. Definitely something to talk about.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "2000 years of Holly Wars is not hard to look up. For that matter you can bet the Enola Gay was on her mission with a Christian prayer. Native tribes 'converted'. Protestant/ Catholic wars. How much more do you need?\n\nI'm not justifying Muslim violence at all, it's horrific. But Christians don't have the right to be self-righteous looking at a longer history of each religion. \n\nYou can preach a ton of violence, rape, mysogeny, racism, all found 'endorsed' by various Christian sects if you look.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is interesting that the Left with its frequent attacks on the Right for being racist, turns around and denigrates people based on race. I believe that is what is meant by the term 'racist.' \n\nImagine what the 'fall out' would be if some one referred to the angry, or fat, or lazy, or (insert any term) Black men, or Native men, of homosexual men. \n\nWhen one cannot defend ones political stance, slurs must substitute for reasoned debate. The degradation of civil discourse is a characteristic of most political discussions these days, and is unfortunately used by all, left, right, center, and off the wall.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Only if we can dismiss the word; heresy, and while at it all the other labeling. That would include calling gay Catholics 'objectively disordered', calling contraception an 'intrinsic evil' and so forth. If so, that might be a positive.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is very little sanity or charity on this website from conservative straight males when it comes to gay men. The favorite word for them seems to be sodomites who engage in sodomy. They are the ones putting same sex male couples through the ringer and always in the name of the eternal teaching of the Church. They never ever mention lesbians. Gosh wonder why that is. \n You are being totally disingenuous. Faux outrage is best left with FOX news and Breitbart.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Like the letter writer I have no knowledge of \u201cpoud boys\u201d. Is it a gay group? Or a group protest how white males have been treated in the country? Or is it group of college boys out for a good time, hoping to get the attention of girls?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sylvia__s, I assume you're referring to Hamas, which rules Gaza? \nA group whose raison d'etre is to kill Jews and which has not only outlawed homosexuality, but also punishes that \"crime\" with death.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I would like to hear the couple's version of this story, but given that being quoted saying \"drunk redneck\" is apparently not a racial slur or hate language against white males, while alleged \"gay\" remarks apparently are hate language in the current politically correct climate, I find it unlikely the couple will take the chance of surfacing. As long as one party's version of the story is believed only because of their special status in our culture, we have made no progress towards equality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't see how the Liberals are being anti-Christian here. They are being anti-social conservative. They would be against the same anti-choice, homo/transphobic views if espoused by a Jew, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, those schools have been taken to court by teachers and other WHO WERE FIRED for no other reason than they got married. The CCC you traditionalists love so much says that homosexuals should not suffer \"unjust discrimination\", a statement honored more in the breech than in the observance.\n\nJohn,\n\nHomosexuals should not suffer \"unjust discrimination\". I agree, but isn't the employee who does not agree with Jesus' teachings on marriage discriminating against the Catholic School/Church by forcing them to go against their own Mission. (In other words, teach that Jesus said, \"You have heard from the beginning that a man shall leave his mother and father and cling to his wife and the two shall become one..........\" and then condoning the actions of teachers in a same sex marriage. I believe when an employee of a Christian / Catholic School, University / Organization / Institute, etc. does not agree with its teachings/Mission, they should not take them to court because of their beliefs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He most certainly did not. He may have consecrated the \"whole world\" to the Immaculate Heart, but not Russia specifically. What, exactly, do you mean by \"messing with gays\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I never said that the Church was responsible for the estrangement of homosexuals from the Church. I said it was because of their chosen behaviour that they became estranged.\nWe can, of course, rewrite Holy Scripture and expunge all reference to this sin but we cannot change the truth of Scripture and Tradition.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"President Donald Trump is barring transgender people from serving in the military 'in any capacity,' citing 'tremendous medical costs and disruption.'\u201d\n\nThis is not just a Trump move, it's a Republican move, as well.\n\nThe GOP's famous Religious Right, of which VP Mike Pence is a charter member, finds justification for all sorts of antediluvian social policies in certain primitive and often-violent favorite passages of the Old Testament.\n\nThe libertarian wing of the GOP and actual Libertarian Party members should be outraged by yet more social meddling from the Republicans.\n\nSolution: either vote Libertarian or vote Democratic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lets put it to a National vote. While we are at it lets add in Transgender. gay marriage and abortions. Lets just vote once and for all and actually see just what the voting public thinks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just be careful how accurately you imitate women. Some of the local boyz won't appreciate your artistry if you lure them into the backseat where they discover your \"little secret.\" Port Angeles obviously appreciates your business, whatever the long-term effects of becoming known as the Transgender Capitol of the World may have on our economy and what remains of our self-respect, so eat, drink & be Mary, for tomorrow we install TG parking spaces.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, it isn't the \"same old world\" This is a gender issue that you are trying to politicize so you can vilify and sneer and feel like you are superior, huh? Awwwww - you think we lefties are trying to destroy the world by being inclusive and tolerant.\n What does it matter to you if someone is transgender? How much effort does it take to acknowledge that their gender identity is not the body they were born with. As a physiologist, it makes complete sense. It is not a choice. Oh - that's right. It hurts your hate and intolerance of people who are different than you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Benedict XVI also stated clearly that Men with homosexual tendencies should avoid to bseek for priesthood ordination and spiritual counselors must discurage the seminarist with that condition. Please Follow the Pope or stay away.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is because many are concerned that the Gabbards are part of the rabidly anti-homosexual Chris Butler cult in Kailua. Not fair to say it is due to their religion", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can't blame just the Christians, \n\n The Jews have their anti-homosexual passage right next to their Ten Commandments. Right next to their pro-slavery and anti-witch passages. And the Muslims followed their lead on that.\n\nMillions of people now living disagree with homosexuality and they aren't all \"angry conservative \"Christian\" right\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These people weren't elected to protect the financial interests of the people of Alaska. They're down there in Juneau to promote the interests of big oil, protect the 2nd amendment, stop the baby killers, get tax dollars for religious schools, and put the brakes on the homosexual agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hope that one day a journalist (or a gay historian) will tell us the reasons that led Harvey Milk, 39, and his lover to leave New York abruptly, his hometown, immediately after the events of the riot at the Stonewall Inn in June 1969. What municipal authorities (police department) who have served on Milk that he was \"non grata\" and leave New York within 24 hours? What was the participation of Milk, lawyer, very well-known agitator from the authorities for the defence of the rights of gays, within three days of rioting of the Stonewall, the only gay bar 'authorized' of the city and held by the New York mafia ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Disgusting. No one who wants to serve their country should ever be forced to hide, explain or defend anything about their personal life. I've seen gay people in the military who served beyond distinction and their orientation was never a factor and had no impact on the morale of the peers. Quite the opposite in fact. Their dedication and willingness to put their lives on the line only raised morale.\n\nI'm not a fan of Trump personally, though I do identify with a lot of his policies, namely those that reduced taxes, regulation and government interference with the economy. But he is most often wrong on the social side of things and he is VERY wrong here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Isn't your denial also filled with \"loads of agenda?\" \nNo. I only ask for proof - not allegation.\n\nFunny. The Polish Msgr Charamsa, an avowed homosexual, stated that there is NO gay lobby in Rome. Shouldn't he know?\n\nPersonally, I don't have a problem with homosexual priests. If they are able to keep their vows, maintain chastity and continence, and minister to the people. Just like I don't have a problem with heterosexual priests.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Yours is a war for representation. You desperately want to gain control over how various groups are represented. You want to remove a group's power to represent itself and expect outsiders to recognize, acknowledge and speak in its own language.\"\n\nDo you seriously deny that all this applies to the \"gay rights\" movement?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not surprising in the least bit. Homosexuals are a special protected class. They are afforded more protections then any other group of citizens in the US even when such protections pertaining to sexual acts clearly are a violation of the law. Reminds me of an article written a few years back entitled; \"What Homosexuals Won't Tell You: Exposing Common Falsehoods.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Funny. They don't recruit. There are plenty of hetero couples to pick up the slack. Unless they have sham marriage to make babies and have gay sex on the down-low, homosexuals will not take anything away from generational fecundity by having sex that is natural to how God created them as gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think it's wise for Pride to cut its ties to the police and alienate the more moderate members of the rank and file. Officers who have contempt for gays or who refuse to recognize incidents of gay bashing for what they are, will continue to be recruited by police forces. Pride reaching out to more tolerant officers probably results in them being more likely to show no tolerance for their bigoted colleagues. They may be less likely to speak out now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You don't have to be sexually active to know whether you're gay or not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Paceti, if the US Supreme Court upholds Masterpiece bakery, there will be shops all over this country refusing service to gay people.\n\"We support family values! No dogs or homosexuals allowed!\"\n\"This is a God-centered business. No homosexuals need apply!\"\nThe reason numerous states passed laws banning discrimination against gay people in the first place is because of discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...the proposed Catholic curriculum which suggests that gay people are going to burn for all eternity in a lake of fire....\"\n\nThat is an outright LIE.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why this ANC government is in support of legislation for homosexual marriages:\nprostitute with taxpayers money. How much further will this cANCCer disease go?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bisexual-look it up", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They may have changed positions on gay marriage as they grew and learned. Not everyone is stuck on an idea and can't learn from their mistakes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He wants gay children outed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just what do you mean by rioting? So far Anti Trump rallies have been overwhelmingly peaceful. \n\nMore examples of right wing violence...How about \"gay bashing\", burning crosses on people's lawns, painting swastikas on synagogues and mosques. What about the trolls who engage in slurs and name calling on these very pages?\nThe alt right is instrumental of spreading lies and radicalizing hate. When you do that apparently what you get is \"vulnerable people\" picking up guns and killing other people for just being \"other\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fed govt that conservatives hate when it intrudes on their states rights for guns, religion, eminent domain, etc. is the same fed govt that progressives hate when it intrudes on marriage, marijuana, gay rights, immigrants etc. Both sides have more in common than we think, states rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "DBainard, Clinton saw hate and called it for what it was. That's maybe why more Americans voted for her than than did for Trump. (What would you rather have people call you--those charming things the deplorables called Clinton or just the word 'deplorable'?) Clinton was talking about the worst out there, you know it, I know it: she meant the folks who want to hurt gay people, Muslims, blacks, and women. She wasn't talking about conservatives generally. If someone panders to the aforementioned desire to hurt those groups? Like Leitch does, as she stumbles and equivocates to simply define which Canadian values she's invoking as she calls for vague action against a certain 'kind' of immigrant? Then that someone is deplorable. Textbook, actually.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So how do you classify Kevin Spacey? He says he's homosexual not a pedophile. The research you're talking about comes from the psychology arena that I spoke about earlier. It's all biased, weak research.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sara, here is a small sample from A.L., paragraph 259 \"There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God\u2019s plan for marriage and family.\u201d Emphasis on the \"and family\" part.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sylvia needs another lesson, sigh.\nThe word, \u201chomophobe\u201d comes from the word, \u201chomosexual\u201d and \u201cphobia.\u201d\nI am going to assume that you know what, \u201chomosexual\u201d means. \nA phobia is basically a fear of a non-existant threat. It is basically anxiety. No big deal.\n\nYou turned it into hate and incorrectly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow...that's 'funny', I wrote essentially the same thing yesterday and it was not approved:\n\n\"\"If the superintendent were a man and the relationships heterosexual, you can bet the teachers union would be yelling for his head.\"\n\nMs Parent is a sexual predator! Yeaaah, and That Truth will fly about as well as the case with that well-known gay man who was acquitted after his \"affair\" with a 15 year old boy.\n\nIt's \"different strokes for different folks\"....Unless you are a Hetero Man! Then it would be,\"CRUCIFY HIM\"!!!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays are not a protected class in Colorado or Federally.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no such thing as transgender in the real world.\nIt is a made up category used to very crudely describe certain kinds of behavior and impulses.\nHuman reality is made up of individual human beings with their rich diversity.\n*\nPeople who have been brainwashed by their experience in certain kinds so called higher education come to believe that reality consists of these word structures that they have memorized in their course work and spouted back on their exams.\nThe accolytes take these made-up abstractions and then attempt to force them onto the world.\nDon't expect them to change, they have been intellectually damaged to the extent that they cannot escape their fabricated world of categorical pronouncements.\nIt is their world and any attempt to enlighten them is an existential threat.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You think Jesus would bake the cake & put his stamp of approval on the false ceremony? Doubtful! He would most likely convince the 'couple' to repent, pray to God for the strength to at least attempt to live righteously. Nobody is \"afraid of a cake\", but being forced to be a hypocrite by accepting $ in exchange for a symbolic stamp of approval on a ceremony that God considers an abomination is a very scary concer for a devout Christian. Scripture is very clear about God's view of homosexuality. \nI personally would not want someone making a cake or providing me any services for my wedding if for any reason those service providers had issues with doing so. \nIf you are going to force me to cater your wedding against my will, do you really want to eat the food - lol good luck with that", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since the values of our youths are being shaped in school and since schools are where knowledge takes precedence over ignorance, \nGRIS-Montr\u00e9al focuses most of its actions in the school system, providing demystification of homosexuality and bisexuality workshops to establishments in the Greater Montr\u00e9al Area.\nFor More Information see Google for GRIS-Montr\u00e9al\n(and look for \u201cEnglish\u201d)\n-\nSome Gay clips=\nLara Fabian \u201cComme Ils disent\u2026\u201d (w/French lyrics)\n(a song written for a Gay Man but \u201cshe\u201d is the female part of Him)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUngIQnkpWI\n(copy-pate in wb address)\n\n(english version)\nMarc Almond \"What makes a Man a Man\" (w/ Engl. Lyrics)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36x3YKH7gY\n\nGeorge Daniel Long \u201cWhat makes a Man a Man \u201c?\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZR6L7TSYYc", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It was the only defense against the advancement of science, which was finding that being gay was not a choice. Intrinsically disordered refers to the sophistry called the natural order, which is a stand in for a metaphysical reality that can be damaged by sin because God cannot be. It is a human creation and sham.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your analogy doesn't actually cover what the case is. Your analogy seems to be focused on the decoration of the cake, rather than the fact that they are, in your words, \"a Neo-Nazi, a KKK member, and a gay person\". If he denies it based upon the design of the cake, then there is no discrimination, as he wouldn't sell that cake to anybody.\n\nHowever, let's take your last example: a same-sex wedding cake. At the point that Mr. Phillips knew, there was no discussion of the design of the cake at play, so you can't say that it was going to be designed some way that would be offensive towards Mr. Phillips on the design of the cake itself.\n\nFurthermore, what exactly differentiates a same-sex wedding cake from an opposite-sex wedding cake? Can you tell a same-sex wedding cake just from looking at it? I sure can't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Alt Right (allies of Trump) are noted by the Southern Poverty Law Center for their association with hate groups, neo Nazi, white Supremecist, anti gay, Klan, et al......the NOM has been so designated in the past as have many of its associate groups, one of which was heavily involved in the Kim Davis deal with the USCCB....\n\nIn a follow up link I will note who in the Church leadership has been associated with these groups, as recently as 2015.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "JeffSpooner: I agree with you although we know very little at this point about the shooter's actual history or his motives. Many thought the Orlando massacre was an act of religiously motivated anti-gay hatred until it became apparent that the shooter was a conflicted young man, thus rendering his motives more complex. On another issue, it's quite troubling to me that a comment in this string raising a Canadian blasphemy law - apparently, even if inelegantly, referencing Motion M-103 - was deleted by the site moderator. Motion M-103 is currently before the Canadian parliament and is therefore a patently legitimate matter for public commentary, assuming we still live in a democracy. People should research the motion online and/or read the recent Toronto Sun article on the matter.\n\nhttp://www.torontosun.com/2017/01/28/canadas-so-called-anti-islamophobia-motion-is-nothing-but-trouble", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Abortion? Gay rights? Seriously?\nOne last kick at the can for social conservatives. Good luck with that. The rest of the world has moved on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Leviticus has more to do with Jewish law than with Christianity. Leviticus also prescribes various dietary laws which Christians don't observe. Leviticus also demands that prostitutes be executed, but Christ saved one by suggesting that a sinless member of the execution mob should cast the first stone. Generally speaking, most Christian groups view homosexual acts as a sin, but not as a crime warranting death.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgenderism is not an elctive behavor. Nor is being gay, lesbian, or straight.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I cannot wait to see if pimping underage girls will result in a larger fine than declining to bake a cake for a gay wedding. It will provide insight into Avakian's priorities.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The positive news in all of this is that because of fRANCIS's near daily high profile....taking a loud (albeit often double-sided) stance on every this or that topic, every single case like this one mentioned in this article...every child porn possessor, every \"gay-cocaine bust at the Vatican\", every high profile priest plucking the single string, will get attributed to fRANCIS in one way or the other.\n\nSadly, but probably good for the Church given all the confusion he's sown, this will make infertile his voice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To understand the difficulty in approving gay seminarians\u2013priests, one needs a broader context. Please read the important work of Fr. Dariusz Oko, Ph.D., \"With the Pope against the Homoheresy\". Doing a web search for that title, in quotes, should return as the top result a link to the English translation of Fr. Dariusz's article, as posted to the Rorate Caeli blogsite on 2 Feb 2013.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Has not most of Sam Adams's notoriety, and contribution to Portland, been of the sexual impropriety nature, homosexual impropriety in his tedious case, but improper to be sure.\nIsn't that why he is not Portland's perma-mayor? I certainly agree that this news is not about homosexuals, or their perceived special rights, or endless, trendy media exposure.\nThis is about a dirty, boorish little man! \nI have homosexual friends whom I admire and hold in loyalty, they are the last people I would call \"gay\". \nWithin a century or so, if science still exists, researchers will find a genetic cause for the unfortunate wiring mishap that lies at the base of homosexuality, let's call it the \"sin gene\"\nIt could well be found to be analogous with autism, another wiring problem, most likely neonatal. This outlook puts me at odds with religionists and militant homosexuals, a position that I trust", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Part of the societal issue is that when some people hear \"gay\" or \"gay lifestyle\" the thought immediately goes to sexual activity. We don't do that when we hear \"straight\". When I was in the seminary we were told that if you were gay you cannot go to \"gay bars\". However, the straight seminarians were not told they can not go to straight bars. The fact is that some people go to bars to \"hook up\" in straight bars as well as gay bars and some people go to bars to socialize in straight bars as well as gay bars. The thought in the seminary was that if you were going to gay bars you were looking for sex but if you went to straight bars you were not. \n\n A parishioner commented to me that even though I was gay it didn't matter a long as I was celibate. You see, that is confusing sexual identity with sexual activity. I have kept my promise of celibacy but that does not mean that my sexual identity \"doesn't matter\".\n\nPS: The archbishop denied my requests to meet to discuss this personally", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Beautifully stated! All people, both straight and gay, are capable of sinning sexually when we objectify our sexual partner, even if that partner is our lawfully wedded spouse. Thank you for pointing out the kind of sexual ethic that really matters - for everyone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "that is not a counter argument and none of the doctrine I stated is either false or not in concert with natural law, which also has to take into account that gays to not chose their sexuality, it is chosen for them by God in the womb in a process known as epigenesis.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are suggesting that there isn't a correlation between violence and moral ambiguity with islam. I would disagree, and for the same reasons I provided in another post (views on women, homosexuality, lying aka \"taqiyya\" etc.). It would be bigoted to suggest that one type of people is bad, but I think it's delusional to deny that the culture surrounding islam contributes to events such as this one (and the general occurrence rate statistics of rape, violence etc).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"No shirt, no shoes, no service\" does not violate the civil rights act. The law says you cannot discriminate against people based upon race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. \n\n\"You must wear shoes\" is not a discriminatory act. However, it is illegal to say \"we don't serve mexicans,\" or \"we don't serve christians,\" or \"we don't serve women.\"\n\nThe issue of businesses denying homosexual people comes into it because it is sex discrimination. Saying \"I won't serve you, because you're the wrong sex\" is wrong, whether you're pointing at the customer or their spouse.\n\nTo make another example, let's imagine a pair of restaurants across the street from one another- one Kosher, one Halal. Either owner can decide not to eat at their neighbors restaurant, as is their right. But neither can refuse to serve the other based upon their differing religions. \n\nDoes that make sense?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I think one of the reasons that gay clubs are so welcoming is that they are sort of like a VFW\". Ah, not even close", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, indeed so much more effectively that Catholics there now tolerate abortion, contraception, divorce, homosexual unions with euthanasia just around the corner.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder how many of BLM are actually LGBTQ. Gay Pride has worked hard to gain respect and validation within society, to the point where LGBTQ members of the police, like LGBTQ members of every other section of society, feel that they have a place within the community. BLM, on the other hand, have had difficulty getting their message across. Canadians just do not believe that their police officers are trigger-happy racists randomly killing blacks. So their strategy is to use Gay Pride to validate and promote their views. \n\nAnnual General meetings are always at risk for takeovers by small groups of determined individuals. The answer, if Gay Pride does not want to be split into a hundred feuding pieces, is to arrange a special meeting and make sure that there are enough LGBTQ members from all parts of society to reverse this divisive decision.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I do like a good tongue twister. But the rest of your comment, to me, can be easily judged by a simple test. A child can't give consent to sex because they are young enough to be manipulated. We make this act illegal to prevent a child being taken advantage of. \n\nIf a person's brain is wired like the opposite gender and they want to act on that and they are old enough to consent to their own actions, is there a problem? I don't think it should be an issue just because of slippery slope sliding. \n\nThe problem is if, as you say, everyone else has to go along with it despite believing it is sinful or weird or dangerous. People that think having a transgender person in a bathroom is dangerous probably thinks transgendered are perverts and likely to attack a child. This is demonstrably not true. They may be uncomfortable because of \"the different\" and I have some sympathy for that... humans need time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Archer45, you may be talking about the case of 'comedian' Guy Earle.\n\n1. Earle started abusing two lesbian audience members after one kissed the other. (What he actually said wouldn't make it past the moderator.) He continued with similar abuse after his act, cornering one of them as she she returned from the washroom. He physically intimidated her, grabbing and breaking her sunglasses. \n\n2. The Tribunal did NOT fine Earle - it's a civil tribunal - it ordered that he pay $15,000 total to the two women he abused.\n\n3. Earle appealed the Tribunal decision to the BC Supreme Court. He lost. If you or the people who liked your comment want to read the 360 paragraph decision, it's at:\nhttp://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2013/2013bcsc1079/2013bcsc1079.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAQY29tZWRpYW4gbGVzYmlhbgAAAAAB&resultIndex=2\n\n4. You really shouldn't get your information from right-wing blogs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hate can exist on either side. And yet it's the left that only wants the blame, their MO, one side for all the hate. The left wants to blame the Russians for helping in stealing the election. The left wants to blame America for all the problem throughout the world, especially now. And the left blame us for climate change. The left never blames themselves, or looks into the mirror as to why in the past eight years they've lost election after election.\n\nAll this about white supremacist is the left wanting to delegitimize the countries History, as a means of rewriting it, to how they think it should be. Yes America was a slave country, but it fought a war, and ended slavery, and that is the History that needs to be rewritten. America isn't racist, bigoted, sexist, or homophobic. Yes we have difference, but differences isn't hate. Unfortunately this is the left's rewriting to the definition of differences, so with the left differences is now hate. While they exempt themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have this feeling that a short time in the future, the hierarch will become aware that there are very few people left in the Catholic Church. They will then be flabbergasted. It will never occur to them that their positions re gay people and women had anything to do with the situation. None is so blind as one who will not see.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Christians claim discrimination all the time.\nYou like the unequal status between gay people and conservative Christians.\nEverything conservative Christians have done recently in the area of gay rights is about conservative Christians wanting to discriminate against gay people or couples under the guise of religious freedom.\nBut anyone who discriminates against conservative Christians would be violating discrimination laws, based on religion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While the Russian press is noted for treating propoganda as news, in the case of the eleciton, they simply hacked what was embarrassing to Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Some people can be forgiven for fake news. People speaking for the Church, like the inaptly named Susan B. Anthony Fund, cannot. At some point they are knowingly committing evil. Sadly, the bishops let them get away with it. Of course, some would say on the left that doctrinal errors on gay marriage (and ordinateion) and birth control are also deliberate falsehoods undertaken for institutional reasons, even when the truth is obviously the other way. Faith is where we realize that the truth wins in the end.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "KDVR is Fox affiliated, so it is already conservative. I don't know whether KWGN management has a political slant, but I doubt the four people watching its newscast will notice much difference.\n##########\nJudging by his second paragraph, I think Mr. Dixon's been hitting the Jack Daniels a bit hard.\nConstitutional purity? From a TV station? LOL\n\"patriotism, religious freedom, freedom of speech, strong families, morals, reverence for God,\" In other words, Mr. Dixon doesn't care for people and movements he disagrees with. If everyone has religious freedom that doesn't necessarily equate to reverence for a specific God. Liberals are just as patriotic as conservatives. Freedom of speech -- as long as Mr. Dixon approves. Families can be strong without a mom and dad and 2.5 kids. Morals -- as defined by Mr. Dixon. Gay people need not apply.\nIn other words, get off Mr. Dixon's (meta)physical lawn!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Having traveled to a lot of countries, I noticed that many nations consider LGBT people as deviants or even criminals --with some brandishing the death penalty. Travel books warn about these cultures and recommend to hide personal orientations and behaviours in public. All Muslim countries,\nall of Africa, most of South America, Russia and former Soviet satellites, some Asian too are\nLBGT phobic,often based on customs, religion, history.\n\nBut should it be Canada's duty to reform these foreign cultures, religions, laws...Who are we to meddle with over half of the world? with liitle or no chance of changing anything.\n\nLet the Chechens and others do it themselves. It's their problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where are all the men in human resources? \n\nMost were simply never hired, because they didn't fit the politically correct, affirmative action quotas for ensuring everyone hires enough women / visible minorities / handicapped / aboriginals / Quebecois / lesbian-gay-transexual-bi-questioning-asexual-etc-etc-etc. Of course these quotas don't \"officially\" exist on paper, but the HR departments of most large companies and certainly all government officess bend over backwards to ensure their workforce looks a certain way. If these people are actually qualified to do the job, so much the better. But make no mistake - appearances trump qualifications every time.\n\nThe white English-speaking man, who allegedly has the world by the tail, can't even get an interview. Nope, no discrimination in this country.\n\nSorry kids, but the truth hurts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Winston Smith writes:\n\n\"It is pathetic seeing MSM beating the Russian drum when it is apparent to all that the majority of hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center came from Saudi Arabia.\n\nHow about investigating Saudi Arabia's abuse of human rights, women's rights, gay rights, sponsorship of terrorism?\"\n\n--\n\nHere's a crazy idea......,....How about investigating the abuse of human rights, gay rights, sponsorship of terrorism by both Saudi Arabia AND Russia?\n\nMost \"MSM\", can do more than one thing at a time.\n\nWell, there's Fox News that only seems to be able to boost the Republican Party, 24/7, but most other media can actually cover two issues at the same time!\n\n.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Slate is very left wing; I don't believe its \"facts\" anymore than you would put credence into things that Breitbart \"documents.\" I guess you also disagree with Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, a famous African American, feminist, lesbian, disabled, liberal Democrat.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pride does not want police participation at their private event, that is their prerogative. Would you want your historical abusers to walk side by side with you when they have never shown remorse, apologized or made any manner of conciliatory efforts regarding their historical treatment of gays? Or blacks?\n\nHave you spoken to any openly gay officers to find out how the have been treated by their fellow officers? To this day? How about female officers?\n\nThe police approach the community with an us vs. them attitude, so it's perfectly understandable that Pride would reflect the polices very own approach to the public.\n\nThis move by Pride should send a very clear message to police, that the police have though their very own voluntary actions, broken the social contract and the gay and black communities do not trust them to behave lawfully and respectfully with their public employer. \n\nNote to police, if you violate the constitution, you will be treated accordingly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They're both sins in the Bible. Also, see eating shellfish and wearing of mixed fiber clothing. But only the gay thing is \"controversial.\" Why? Because it's based on bigotry, not actual biblical beliefs. If it was, they'd treat divorcees with the same level of scrutiny. Also those who had sex before marriage. Hypocrisy and pick-n-choose dogma reigns.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly! Nobody I went to school with had never heard or had any concept of homosexuality. In my early teens I was shocked to learn of sex between man and woman. \"My mother and father would never do that,\" I remember shouting out.\nI learned about homosexuality later through men coming on to me. I encountered men who I would now describe as 'camp' but had no idea what they got up to. Something, instinct, sixth sense or Our Lord maybe, preserved me in my innocence from the advances I was subjected to. None of these advances were from priests or teachers I might add.\nIn school those picked on were as you say the fat boys, the smelly, the unathletic, the unusual, etc. Now this did not include all the fat, the smelly, etc, which means that personality also played a part.\nBritish Catholic bishops, apart from a few, are card-carrying members of Corbyn's Labour Party, especially Cardinals Nichols and Murphy-O' Connor, the latter a member of the Sankt Gallen 'mafia'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where did I condemn anybody ? Or is this just more spin ? I said they are free to marry, did I not ? The Bible \"condemns\" homosexuality, not I. It is a forbidden act, and one that may very well be based on how God created man and woman for a specific purpose (which is to multiply) and not necessarily the methods of Sex. You have no idea of the hidden things of God (nor do I) so if you want to become more familiar with him, how about not being so presumptive on God's motives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He was \"fired\" because he said he was in an active homosexual relationship and that he intended to leave and to marry. And wrote a letter to the Vatican describing his intentions to do so? What do you call that??\n\nTell me - how many priests do you know, gay or straight, hold public press announcements claiming they are going to marry - and remain a priest? Have they changed the rules on marriage? gay or straight?\n\nNo....not just because he said he was a homosexual, no matter how you want to interpret it", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is particularly Christian about being anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-trans? Why not anti charging interest, or anti war?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This type of ridiculous punitive behavior from the LGBT community is going to back-fire. They are not the only citizens with rights. This man listed circumstances where he would not create a cake. His objections are based on religious and moral beliefs shared by tens of millions of Americans. They can not compel him to do something that is against his conscience. If they don't like his policies, then send out an email blast to family and friends and encourage them to not give his store business. These people are looking hateful and mean to a person who has done nothing to them, except live by his principles and his conscience and not be a part of behavior that he considers immoral. And that's what's really going on--accept us, or we will destroy you, and use the government to do it. That is utterly un-American.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's time to re-think security in this country. In this day and age Paul Blart \"mall cop\" and his trusty sidearm is not effective security in a building with 300+ patrons. The correct firearm and strategic positioning could have minimized the carnage in Orlando. We need to fight back. It's obvious that this country's current administration wants us all un-armed and cowering helplessly face-down on the restroom floor of a gay bar.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Either way, it cannot be demanded as the price of salvation. It must be a free choice. Again, you are confusing personal piety, which is fulfilling, with using your brain on hard issues, like a pregnancy that has no chance of coming to term and is endangering the mother, needless end of life suffering and the requirement that gays deny all sexuality when they are, by nature and God's design, not only beings but homosexual beings. Love means seeing their plights with acceptance, not inflexibiltiy and pietousness. The Law is for people, people are not for the Law. I understand the Gospel just find. That is the essence of the Gospel. You confuse stoicism, pharasaic legalism and neoplatonic absolutism with Chist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "None that I am aware of. Is that the difference to you? Both religions have central texts that \"forbid homosexual acts under penalty of death\" but if one beheads the other then the other is all kittens and rainbows?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I\u2019ve condemned many different groups. Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me.\" True. \n\nHe also condemned Mexicans, Muslims, transgenders, judges, his attorney general, his (former) director of the FBI, the CEO of Merck, environmentalists, a whole bunch of senators, the special counsel, the NSA, CIA, reporters, the Chinese, women who have accused him of groping, students who sued the Trump University . . .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lucky for the way this turned out and thanks is differently in order for Springfield PD. The homosexual lifestyle includes a more often violent lifestyle largely hidden from public view by the media and LGBTQ agenda.\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/06/us/silence-ending-about-abuse-in-gay-relationships.html\n\nhttp://www.therainbowbabies.com/DomesticAbuse2.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree, Elagabalus. It's clearly a vendetta against gays. And I consider the firings to be very violent acts. \nI find this entire thing to be very upsetting. Talking about being against violence is not the same as stating clearly that LGBTQ people are God's children and no different from those who are heterosexual, created by God to be as they are, and stating clearly that homosexual expressions of love are no different from heterosexual expressions of love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" A military unit at maximum combat effectiveness is a military unit least likely to suffer casualties. Winning in war is often only a matter of inches, and unnecessary distraction or any dilution of the combat effectiveness puts the mission and lives in jeopardy. Risking the lives of a military unit in combat to provide career opportunities or accommodate the personal desires or interests of an individual, or group of individuals, is more than bad military judgment. It is morally wrong. [emphasis added]\"\n\nhttp://thefederalist.com/2017/07/28/6-ridiculous-arguments-favor-transgender-soldiers/\n\n\"If race and sex are equivalent, why does the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have rules for transgender athletes but not for black athletes?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps these miscreants uttered death threats, or worse. Already crimes under our criminal code.\nOr alternately a group of rational adults pointed out that within the basic defining scripture of Islam.... is pure unadulterated misogyny, homophobia, and worse. No different from Christianity.\nIs there a responsible reporter out there whom might provide facts before castigating judgements??", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ref to Guilbert de Corbeil:\n\n\"Stalin was an ally of the US...\"\n\nFrom about 1941 - 45 that's true.\n\nFrom 1945 until his death Stalin was not an ally of the US.\n\nThe clearest examples of this is Stalin giving the green light to Kim IL sung to invade SK in 1950 as well as the blockade of Berlin which accelerated the Cold War.\n\nWho killed more people, Stalin or Hitler?\n\nHitler killed about 7 million Jews, gays gypsies, and political prisoners in his concentration camps, about 5 million Allied soldiers, about 1 million Allied civilians and at least 21 million Soviet civilians (probably more).\n\nStalin killed about 5 million fascist soldiers, about 500,000 German civilians, about 10,000 Polish officers, and about 10 million Soviets he deemed as undesirables.\n\nBoth were totalitarian monsters.\n\nBut Hitler certainly killed millions more people than Stalin did.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder listed by the world recognized...\"\n\nAnd less than a century ago, there were many learned organizations and individuals who insisted that homosexuality was a form of mental illness and those inflicted with this condition were in need of treatment. \n\nLess than a century from now, we may look back on this issue and say ... (fill in the blank.)\n\nConclusion: we just don't know enough. To make it more complicated, we're dealing with human beings and that means many will defy \"standardization\" or \"generalization\" or \"approach.\"\n\nSo, I think for that reason, the headline's question should be changed from \"Who decides\" to \"When to decide?\" Ans: at age of majority. Which automatically means, the person him/herself. \"And thanks, Mom and Dad, for allowing me to make my own decision.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Concedo: I may be overreaching in assigning these qualities with such specificity to a man I don't know. Still, it's not true that there's no evidence to support the judgement. Archbishop Nienstedt's private behavior was at odds with his public rhetoric, and his anti-gay rhetoric was especially harsh, even for a bishop. \nSo, I'll withdraw the first sentence of my post, but I stand by the rest of it. I don't know for a fact that Nienstedt has been ostracized by his brother bishops, but I bet he doesn't get a lot of dinner invitations.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suppose it's nice to know that the one thing all Catholics can agree upon is that we gay people shouldn't be beaten to a pulp. How reassuring. Affirming the basic dignity, worth, and fundamental humanity of any marginalized group is usually the first baby step toward changing things for the better, so the statement of the Network of Reform Movements is welcomed and to be commended.\n\nOf course, American society at large began having this conversation almost a half century ago at the birth of the gay rights movement - the Church simply didn't want to participate in that conversation, except to offer blanket condemnation. But better late than never, I suppose. We'll gladly encourage whatever tiny little tiny baby steps the church is attempting. Who knows, perhaps fifty years from now the church will even deign to let gay people hold hands at mass the way you often see young newlyweds do, flaunting their heterosexuality before God and impressionable youth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Man's paranoia> I thought it was you libbers that say we are afraid of everything and everyone? Homophobia, Islamophobia etc.???", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nonsense. Although at least 50% of our priests are gay, they are publicly mostly deep in the closet. Thus, the discussion can and does sometimes take place without the gay voice being heard. We are very fortunate in this forum that we have a significant number of elegant gays making their voices heard, despite the fact not all honour them with the respect they deserve.\n\nAnd as for you sentence in brackets, please rethink this. Because we still have \"moribund antediluvians\" (your term!) who manage to pass down their rejection of homosexuality to their children, young gays (who the majority of young people accept) are still subjected to anti-gay bullying and some commit suicide. Therein lies not logical contradictions--just the very sad fact that \"moribund antediluviands\" (again YOUR term!) by refusing to wake up and smell the flowers and appreciate all that nature produces manage to extend the range of their blindness via their children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The \"specific message\" he is against that he will make wedding cakes for everyone. He wont, obviously. He only wants to make them for straight couples. That seems to literally be his only requirement. Which, is textbook discrimination.\n\nAgain, the cake they were asking him to make was a normal wedding cake. No writing on it. He is suggesting that just the process of making a cake that is used in a gay wedding, goes against his beliefs. So, if he can say that, why couldn't anyone else say they wont sell someone a product because they dont agree with the couple being interracial? Or Jewish? Or Muslim? Its a slippery slippery slope. \n\nMaking a cake that \"promotes\" something is a little different, in my opinion. That would include writing or specific decorations. For Halloween, for example, \"Happy Halloween\" or a picture of a Jack O Lantern. For THOSE things, you cannot force an artist to create something they are against. I agree with that. \n\nBut this situation is different.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What a shame. Fame and money got to his head. Should return. He is talented. The kid turned into a gigolo in over drive. Give me more money or I'll tell! What a schumuck. Reminds me of that Filipino gay killer Andrew Cunanan. Killed Versace.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a \u201cmental disorder\u201d that merits treatment, that sex change is \u201cbiologically impossible,\u201d and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.\nhttp://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lucky for the way this turned out and thanks is differently in order for Springfield PD. The homosexual lifestyle is more often a violent lifestyle largely hidden from public view by the media and by LGBTQ agenda. I read some where in past there are nearly 3 times as many domestic abusive help centers for homosexuals in San Francisco and L.A. then heterosexual domestic abusive help centers.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I guess the war on women, gays. \"libertards\", and anyone else who are not cards carrying members of the exclusive neocon hate group has grown old. Today the target is sick people. Who knows who'll they'll go after tomorrow. They are a vicious bunch.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Our sources confirm that the elite wiretapping suspect is the American's very own gay CIA kingpin codename: \"Deelite.\" Obama's personal leader.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That is exactly the flawed reasoning rejected by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. You're describing a distinction without meaning, because refusing to design for the \"event\" of a gay wedding is the same thing as refusing to make wedding cakes for gay people.\n\nYou should read the decision in that case, as well as the three others where activists attempted to buy cakes from other bakeries with anti gay messages. Those bakeries offered to sell the activists whatever cake they wanted, but refused to design the requested message. THAT is the appropriate remedy for the \"Christian\" baker.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "GBA, I take you have an issue with \"gay\" sitcoms, or is it just gays as a whole? It is \"snowflakes\" like you that use \"America\" as part of you online name so you can post hate without any fear of reprisal.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You will note that catty Tabby makes no mention of the Muslim unease with the whole Gay thing. Or that Gays are hung and discriminated against for well being gay. But I suppose that would be considered racist and Tabby is part if the effete elite who turn a blind eye to real horrors when it is politically correct to do so", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cWelcome to the big gay party ...\u201d", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He begins: \"When the U.S. Supreme Court FINALLY legalized same-sex marriage in 2015...\"\n\nYou kidding me?\n\nI can't get through the first sentence of a book review without an asinine pot-shot against the USA?\n\nFor crying out loud, let's look at the history of high courts striking down laws over this marriage issue, shall we?\n\nHawaii 1993\nMassachusetts 2003\nOntario 2003\nUS Supreme Court 2013\n\nGet it? High courts in Canada AND the USA, in same recent stretch spanning about a decade, have struck laws over this marriage issue, all at the late date of what, HUNDREDS OF YEARS after the urbanization of this continent?\n\nAnd yet we get an oh-so-Canadian pot shot is against JUST the USA?\n\nWhat!?!?\n\nHey, columnist dude, look at THESE rulings:\n\n2010 European Court of Human Rights REJECTS gay marriage\n2017 Israel Supreme Court REJECTS gay marriage\n2013 Australian High Court REJECTS gay marriage\n2006 England's High Court REJECTS gay marriage\n\nGet it? Your targeting the USA is PAROCHIAL nonsense!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is it any coincidence that religious countries are so toxic? The Saudis export terrorism. The Philippines have death squads for alleged drug users. The Chechens are rounding up and torturing gay men. The U.S. is now officially committed to destroying life on the planet in the name of MAGA.\n\nReligion is the problem. Atheism is the solution.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Easy. The transgendered don't know who to molest.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Part II:\nAnd if SCOTUS sides with Masterpiece Bakery, the conservative Christian viewpoint will prevail over other religions in matters of how the law treats gay people.\nConservative Christians will be able to discriminate against gay people, by proclaiming religious or artistic freedom, but conservative Christians will be protected from discrimination by the very same civil rights laws conservative Christians want to deny to gay people.\nAlso, as at least one judge has pointed out, people who claim no religious freedom right to discriminate against gay people could still, in theory, be subject to civil rights laws that include sexual orientation. Of course, the result will be that everyone who doesn't like gay people will simply claim religious freedom. But gay people won't be able to claim the religious freedom to discriminate against Christians.\nThis is all about power.\nConservative Christians want the right to have an exclusive monopoly on what is moral -- backed by the government.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Same-sex acts are purely (should I have said impurely?) for the purpose of self-gratification, pleasure for the sake of it. I don't doubt that two people of the same sex can love each other but homosexual activity is the basest way of expressing that love.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, he was a gay man. How do I know this? Because he raped young boys.\n\nStraight men don't rape boys. They don't fantasize about boys, or men. Ever.\n\nThis is something I apparently need to explain to some of the women and gay men of this forum....as many of them apparently believe that heterosexual men often find young boys hard to resist. Sorry to break it to you, but it's not true.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "enough of pondering to the gay etc community\nstraight people are the majority and should count not constant kissing up to the perverts", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why are cat-lickers and so-called \"animal rights\" zealots ALWAYS obsessed with any imagery of human male genitalia? Often the very first thoughts of theirs that they feel the need to, and are compelled to, project to the world. Why is that?\n\nI surmise it is because anything with male genitalia has avoided being near these unwanted cretinous fools throughout their whole sad, sorry, and meaningless lives. They are obsessed with thinking about what they can never ever have in life.\n\nSomeone wise once said, \"Dear single girls, please stop saying you should give up and get a cat. If no man wants you please don't force an innocent cat to live with you either.\"\n\n(Though, due to the overwhelming preponderance of man-hating lesbians who \"love\" cats and use their cats to try to assert some kind of misguided authority in their ineffectual lives, I suppose that should be edited to say, \"If no human wants you ...\")\n\nP.S. For the record, I \"drive\" a gas-guzzling peddle mountain-bike everywhere.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If you want stories of lesbians' lives, start with the nuns. \n\nAnd you should explain why you remain in an organization where \"We simply do not have the conditions for a useful conversation if churchmen talk with one another and at or about the rest of us.\" By doing so, you're complicit in the ongoing degradation of women, whatever their sexual orientation may be.\n\nAnd, as you know, the percentage of gay men in the priesthood is enormous. Why pretend that a \"conversation\" with these men about this FACT is worthwhile?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The white gay boys of Church St will need the police to protect them from BLM.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ethical? Ok so if it\u2019s ok for one business to discriminate against a gay couple, why not a Christian one? Or a white one? Or an internet troll?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Except if you were female, a person of colour, or gay, then you ran right up against discrimination everywhere from the workplace to society.\n\nFN didn't even get the right to vote until 1960. \n\nAwesome...for some.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "gay bakers can certainly deny ordering a two grooms cake topper, but they have to bake the cake", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Contempt for the military?\" Damn straight.\n\nHow'd \"the military\" discover they weren't going to add any more transgender'd personnel? The same way, at the same time, everyone else did: through a Presidential tweet. \n\nI'd hate to be a member of the Joint Chiefs right now.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If that's the case, all the male members of the church must be gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Part 2\nOn the other hand, your attempt to attribute the clerical sex abuse scandal to the phenomenon of gay priests is spurious, IMHO. The fact that most of the victims are male, which appears to be your essential evidence, is just not relevant. Frequently sex abusers, straight or gay, are essentially sexually underdeveloped, sexually immature, even to the point if some cases of not having yet figured out with clarity their own sexual orientation. Sadly, pubescent boys are simply the most readily available objects for their immaturity to express itself. Also, given that at least 50% of our clergy are gay, as I have suggested, we would expect 50% of sex abusers to be gay IF THERE IS NO CORRELATION BETWEEN SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND SEX ABUSE. Since the population at large assumes far fewer priests are gay, its not hard to see how the delusion associating gays and sex abuse can arise--anecdotal impressions regularly mislead us.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You reject the Church's condemnation of artificial birth control, homosexual activity, for a start and you refer to those who do accept the Chirch's teaching as fools, unabl to think for themselves, intellectually stunted and lacking in mercy.\nDo you deny this?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The so called incriminating photo of this assault showed nothing. Mueller does not have his hand on swifts rear, her skirt is not lifted up in photo as she says. Swift, Mueller and third woman in photo were smiling. The third woman in photo said she saw nothing. If this photo was the assault photo why was Swift smiling? i think the jury believed a spoiled celebrity and the 'little guy' went down.Swift is a snob and should be ashamed of herself. She is more than likely a lesbian. She sure seems to hate this guy for no reason.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed, there is no real difference between Christian and Muslim extremists. Misogyny? Check.\nIntolerance? Check.\nAnti-gay? Check.\nPatriarchal? Check.\nTwisting their religious teachings to induce hate? Check.\nRely on the ignorance of their followers? Check.\nYup, two peas in a pod. \n\nCongrats faux Christians, you are building your very own Caliphate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This all stems from BLM's hatred of cops and making cops squirm, and dance to their tune. This is about power over police and the gay community of Toronto is the victim of BLM's racism against white police officers.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Give them the money. After all gays pay city taxes too. But at the political level signal the displeasure. For example, Tory should send one of his deputies and not show up himself.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't understand why pointing out the obvious seems to trigger people such as yourself. \n\n\nI suspect it's easier to engage in hairsplitting about how Donnie is not exactly like Hitler or Mussolini, or what is different about right wing authoritarians that support Donnie vs. those that supported fascists of the past, rather than confronting what your party has become, and either working to FIX IT, or find another party to affiliate with - I think to ignore it is to put our country in peril, and so I won't ignore it, and I WILL NOT stop speaking plainly about it, no matter how politically incorrect you and others like you seem to find it.\n\n\nBTW, many of the skinheads, Breitbarters and 4channers very much want those they consider the enemy (gays, blacks, Jews, Hispanic, Asian, non-xtians, union members, and \"liberals\" - meaning, anyone who does not give full throated support to their Idiot God, including \"cuckservatives\", to be subjected to the worst that the Third Reich had to offer.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Saying Mr Trump's base \"fear African Americans, Muslims, LGBT people in one sentence, and then calling out Republicans for \"demonizing the opposition into an art form\" is a very interesting form of hypocritical irony.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "JK doesn't understand that outing a gay kid is not smart and in many countries that kid maybe killed. Canada doesn't have many gay deaths by murder, however, we still have violent acts against them. Plus the suicide rate is still very high. Why would JK take a chance with someone else's life?\n\nHere's a piece from a news article last year.\n\"\"In absolute numbers, there is no deadlier place in the world to be an LGBT person than Brazil, according to Transgender Europe, which tracks hate crimes targeting gender-diverse populations. The group logged 845 reported murders of LGBT people in Brazil \u2014 a country of some 200 million \u2014 from 2008 to April 2016. Mexico, with a population of about 122 million, is second on the list, with 247.\n\nHuman Rights Campaign, which advocates for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, logged 326 murders of LGBT people in 2014.\n\nThe NGO Grupo Gay de Bahia says 1,600 LGBT people have been murdered in Brazil since 2011.\"\"\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": ".\n\n\"Make America Great Again\" -\n\nRefers to the period when America was really, really, unbelievably, terrifically great .........for white males.\n\nOf course it wasn't so great for everyone else - women, minorities, gays, blacks, non-Christians.\n\nWhite males (of which I am one) have to get over their aversion to a new social order in which all are treated equally and being a white male does not automatically guarantee you access to the front of the line ahead of those who don't share your gender, race and orientation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Isn't it just like those lesbians to spoil a good time? They've already ruined Christmas and St. Patrick's Day. Do they also need to wreck Pride?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If this DB is allowed to discriminate against gays what is next? \"I don't serve African Americans or Latinos because my religion says they are sinners\" where does it stop? \"Oh you have been divorced and now your remarrying? Can't do it, bible says divorce is a sin\". This guy is just a homophobe and probably a bigot and anti semite as well. If you don't want to serve half the populace then don't go into business.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Poor baby. Those Kardashians have it so rough. Pretty soon Kanye will be announcing he is transgendered just to get attention.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Here's some food for thought when it comes to whether it's reasonable to focus on sex with the same gender. Our prisons, addiction centers and mental health centers are not full of people who were abused by homosexual sex. They are full of people who were abused by heterosexuals. I personally would prefer we admitted where the real harm lies when it comes to selfish sexual acts.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Who said one's genitals are a TOY???\n\nThank you for shedding a bright light on the fundamental wicked delusion of the LGBT movement. They think the human body is a toy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What does any of that even mean: \"practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called 'gay culture'\"?\nWe don't talk about people \"practicing \"heterosexualilty\"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nWe don't talk about \"deep seated heterosexual tendencies\"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nAnd \"the so-called gay culture\" is another one of these memes dreamt up by cultural conservatives to create a bogey-man where none exists.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You think this was maybe a gay lovers' quarrel Richard? Perhaps fueled by drugs and anxiety over the legislature's refusal to face the financial music? These people don't move here for the PFD, they're here because the drug business is good. If Alaskans like yourself would stop buying street drugs these hoodlums, gay or not, would go back to Bakersfield or maybe Colombia. The profitability of opioids has brought some new people to town and they're trying to sort out turf with the local thugs.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not for schools going out of their way to tell parents what clubs their kids belong to. But I don't think it should be a secret either. As you point out parents can find out what their kids are doing in many other ways. My kids used to complain the \"mom network\" would usually find out what was happening in their group before they did.\n\nThe idea that a parent might beat a kid for being gay is possible. But I would bet that kind of parent would beat their kid for any number of reasons.\n\nKenny should be viewed as someone who is ignorant than most Canadians and be encouraged to evolve his thinking - not be vilified.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "PI apparently never heard the epithet which has resounded across the schoolyards of English-speaking nations for decades: f----t, used not only to mock homosexuals but to humiliate boys with a perceived low masculine quotient. Wonders never cease.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your last sentence is flat out untrue.\nNot all rules are good or useful or healthy.\nBeing gay is no disqualification to be a good priest, regardless of any \"rule\".\nThe fact is that many in the hierarchy are gay. If the Church actually got rid of all of its gay clergy, we would be left with very few.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Pass the freakin law & refuse to provide any services to these folks that try to hide their prejudices behind their so called faith. All you would have to say is that you feel that they are LGBT...................", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think this \"access\" meme is over-used and unconvincing. In any case it really applies only to some true pedophiles (attracted to prepubescent kids). That priests are overwhelmingly gay and that their attraction to teenage boys (to whom indeed they had privileged access) is of a piece with their gayness rather than with pedophilia or even ephebophilia seems pretty obvious to me. Especially in the case of behavior reaching back to the 1970s, I think that gays were not very worried about age barriers back then, and even if they were, legal discrimination against gays as such may have led many to say \"might as well be hung for a lamb as for a sheep!\" Now memories have been sanitized, with the help of political correctness.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Who would have guessed, from the evidence of these posts, that so many men hate women and refuse to see the reason for this march, namely \"Trump\u2019s stand on such issues as abortion, health care, gay rights, diversity and climate change. \" Women, and men, are rallying around the world, \"from New York, Philadelphia and Chicago to Paris, Berlin, London, Prague, Sydney and beyond\" to protest against the men who want to control their bodies and their lives, epitomized by Trump who has repeatedly demonstrated that he has no respect for women. Shame on the men who abuse women, and shame on the posters who aid and abet this abuse through their thoughtless posts.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why does it have to be bisexual men and prostitutes? How about an IV drug using prostitute and her married john, then his wife and her male lover and then his wife and her male lover?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why should they have an event or parade of their own? They are activists fighting for the inclusion of POC in Pride who are members of the LGTBQ community. With all due respect, you seem not to understand the issues at all. And why on earth would Pride not exist in 10 years? Because angry white gay guys are upset that they can't exclusively call the shots anymore? Pretty sure our city is one of the most diverse in the world.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, someone else who says that homosexuality and pedophilia are the same.\n\nMost child abusers are heterosexual men abusing their own children. Thus, it makes more sense to equate heterosexuality with pederasty.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How is Leviticus revelation? It did not come from Moses, it came from Levites writing a moral code to distance their ppeople from Babylonian morality. I believe in revelaion, but can tell the difference between it and natural law reasoning and its context.\n\nJesus is the one who his yoke is easy. If you have a problem with that, take it up with him. It was about the law serving the needs of humanity, ot piety.\n\nPaul knew he was flawed. He did not know his views were clouded by his perculiar sexual orientation. He was writing pastoral letters, not dogma for the ages.\n\nWhether you and I agree or not, the reactionary nonsense you call sexual morality is falling away with a newer generation, especially on gays and lesbians. You can guide the juggeraut but you won\u2019t stop it, nor will our Lord.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"We do get it. Unlike the celibate hierarchs, we know that procreation is not the only acceptable reason for having sex. We also have friends and relatives who are LGBT, and we realize that they are not the blatant sinners we are told they are.\"\n\nHeterosexual Catholics readily admit the sinfulness of normal sexual acts committed outside of marriage. Gays insist that their sexual acts are sinless. What a strange twist on sexual morality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"...The dignity of all people ... which we are born with.\"\n\nUntil the Church hierarchy starts recognizing and acting like the dignity of women, gays, transgendered, remarried, laity, etc., is as real and matters as much as that of your basic white-bread straight male cleric, these words are sanctimonious hypocrisy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Kenney did not touch any social issues in his 10 years as a senior cabinet minister in the federal govt. Notley is trying to paint him with this issue and scare minorities and gay people because she wants to deflect the fact that her govt has been a massive economic failure.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The conservative mind is truly a mystery. On one hand they do everything to block gay rights and on the other they fawn and giggle over a drag queen whose only talent is to regurgitate tired prejudices.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "GBA- I would think you would be comfortable being on the carpet with garycrum for not calling out \u201cCharles Dalton on the carpet for his blatant racism\u201d, it fit nicely with your homophobic beliefs for people that don\u2019t watch football. So, is racism bad or good, I am not sure where you stand, are you defending racism by pointing out the hypocrisy of Charles Dalton? How about defending your comment on snowflakes \u201cwatching a gay sitcom\u201d instead of football (before it was deleted). \n\nI am in no way defending any one commenter in this thread, but I feel I need you should clarify your stance for all so we can better understand your point of view.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many people cite the accommodation law but do not apply any logic to it. It is only logical that the law was meant for the day the business is open for business, that no one is turned away. But this law does NOT say that a business must accommodate anyone, tomorrow. If you say that it must, then the business cannot refuse someone that wants it 1 week from now, 1 month, 1 year. 5 years. No, a business do not have to accommodate tomorrow. He does not even have to open tomorrow. It is only logical that a business can't sell what he has not made yet. Logically, no one knows whether they will be alive tomorrow. It is only logical that anything for a future date needs a contract and logically, no one can be forced to sign a contract with anyone. In this case, the gays wanted it for a future date and they did not enter into a contract. It can be refused. It is also plain logic that an orientation CANNOT be recognized in ANYONE. To just say it, means nothing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No I'm not. Let's see...the military can kick you out if you made a personal choice to do drugs...if you're an officer, and you made a personal choice to date a subordinate they can kick you out....if you're married and you made a personal choice have an affair, they can kick you out. Unless these people claim that they can't help it because they were born to do drugs, date subordinates or have extra marital affairs then it's now a civil rights issue? Sorry ain't buying this.\n\nI have relatives and friends who are gay...I love them but don't agree with their choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Compromise is neither solution nor resolution. The issues of \"gay rights and religious freedom\" need to be re-addressed taking into account what advances in biology and psychology have revealed about human sexuality, socially, theologically and politically.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where does the Bible say not to bake cakes for a gay couple's wedding?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Writing as if the \"Christian Church\" is one united faith is just wrong. Many Christians and Christian denominations read the same bible and follow Jesus and are in full support of gays and gay marriage, believing that cherry-picking a few lines from the bible to justify the homophobia you were raised with (while ignoring all the other ancient rules of the bible you regularly violate) is just wrong and against Christ's true teachings. God creates gays and God doesn't make mistakes. And while we're at it, let's remember that there is no indication that Jesus himself was married, that there was one certain male apostle that he loved in a different way than the others, and that when he was arrested in the garden he was identified by the authorities because he was being kissed by another man. Just sayin'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You judge too quickly. The only transgendered person I've know personally, is a man who was born with sexual equipment of both genders. His parents picked to raise him female, he chose to be male at great expense and deadly risk of transformative surgery (30 years ago). He used the men's restroom in our very blue collar factory, without conflict during the time that I knew him.\n\nWhat determines 'maleness' for you? Size of reproductive organs, hair growth, muscularity, height, weight? Are some men more or less male based on their physical characteristics? Can anybody be judged by physical appearance alone?\n\nThe conflict is not as clear cut as you, or the administration, is making it. It would seem that a bathroom can be designed for more privacy, and I suspect that's mostly true for women's restrooms already.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"We need to have the conversation about how to stop gun violence,\" Ahh, completely true, based off of a \"wrong\" agenda of focusing on a \"tool!\" That \"conversation\" has to start with WHY. Why has there been such a catastrophic \"moral decay\" in America? Every statistical American cultural norm, from birth to death, are in the toilet! Want to \"never let a crisis go to waste?\" Think that 59 dead with 527 injured is some WILD occurrence? Consider ONE lonely cultural stat: On the same day that 59 died violently, 2,488 (two thousand four hundred and eighty-eight) abortions were performed, just in this country! That happens EVERY DAY of the year!!! A portrait of America's scary decline: Positive responses are at record highs for moral acceptability of divorce, out-of-wedlock births, homosexual relations, sex between the unmarried, abortion, and pornography! How laughable is the concern for having some \"conversation about how to stop gun violence?\" My concern is for my grandchildren's future!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dont discount the Liberals in Ottawa or Toronto. Game plan, stress tolerance, multiculturalism, anti-racism,\nIslamphobia, Anti-semtism. Respect for Transgenders and Gay marriage.\nLiberals are the champion of democracy and respect for others.\nMention that boat that was turned back in May 1939 which resulted in the Holocaust.\nFinal report: Liberals in Toronto win Minority, Ottawa Liberals win majority.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, but you can\u2019t conclude from those figures that the sole cause is male same sex attraction. Otherwise you would have to conclude that homosexuals are responsible for all rapes in jails \u2013 where the offenders and victims are 100% male. Such a conclusion ignores opportunity and the fact that sexuality is not a black and white matter, but is in a spectrum. That\u2019s one of the reasons the report refers to the difference in figures when altar girls were introduced, as well as the sharp drop off in offending with the withdrawal of the Church from boarding schools and orphanages. After discussing the various studies on the issue, the report at p. 248 states: \u201chomosexual orientation is not directly correlated with the sexual abuse of children but is a significant risk factor in those priests and brothers who have not satisfactorily resolved their sexual identity in a mature, adult manner.\u201d I\u2019d be interest in your comments after you have read that part of the report.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is Trudeau GAY ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A lot of the usual buzz words and standard reactionary phrasing happening there Chuck. However the basic mistake in your argument is that you don't show any correlation between Canada and the various examples you provide as evidence to support your position. Specifically:\n\n- European countries - how is the European situation equivalent to Canada's?\n- strategy of doing nothing - just because we're not being as hardline as you'd like doesn't mean we're \"doing nothing\"\n- failed conclusively - claiming it's failed is not the same as proving it has - show your work\n- countries where the niqab is common - irrelevant - the issue is about Canada, not whichever foreign country that has drawn your ire this week\n- homosexuality - also irrelevant\n- Europe's regression - again, making a claim about something does not make it factual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender persons suffer from a medical condition and require extensive, expensive treatments that are not compatible with any deployed forces. Many other medical conditions are excluded from service for the same reasons. It is not that they are morally unworthy. Most Americans haven't really thought this out very well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My prior comment was censored despite civility. This article has biased misrepresentations, half-truths, and omissions. It presents the issues along left-right lines; the issue is along authoritarian-liberal lines. The author presents the lunatic fringe on 4chan and voat as if they are Peterson's primary supporters, which he disavows. His supporters are mostly mainstream centrists including left-leaning liberals (like me), libertarians, and centrist conservatives. Even mainstream media has much support for him. Peterson supports transgenders and has support from them. The issue is compelled speech and fabricated pronouns like ze and zir, not transgendered he/she.\n\nThe article ignores his critics behaving badly, including calling his concerns as hate speech and shouting him down at McMaster, not to mention threats. Peterson is for liberal democracy and individual rights free from discrimination; his critics are largely radicals, treating people by traits, violating human rights", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm pretty sure Jack Phillips said he would, and has, served gay couples. Serving is different than making a specific kind of cake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Trump administration seems to be much tougher on ISIS than the previous administration. I wonder if the protesters are aware that the ISIS practice of throwing gay people off the highest building in town (according to Islamic or Sharia Law, same thing) is alive and well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It comes down to his refusal to participate in a gay marriage. As he has plainly stated, he will sell any cake he has to anyone who wants one. \n\nDP has a story indicating they got to some design specifics, since the cake was to have a rainbow decoration.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LOL, obama was done, he didnt \"lose\" Hillary lost, and our country lost now we have the conman in chief in office.\n\n yes because the transgender person who have been serving for decades NEVER HELPED at all. adn you forget about the Navy Seal and MANY OTHERS, Kristin Beck is that \"hero\" enough, obviously not since you dont even know she existed, lol", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Governments are only indirectly responsible for a thriving economy--that they don't do anything to hamper it. This exposes the oft heard Tory boast that they were strong managers of the economy.\n\nMr. Clark didn't mention how well the Liberals handled the Chechnya gays situation. That should ensure them the gay vote next election.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think most of us ever had a problem with transsexual men using the women's room; I expect most have the same notions of privacy as women. What we have issue with is a rule that allows any man to use the ladies' room simply by saying he identifies as a woman. That is what happened in Canada, where three women were assaulted (one raped) and nobody thought to prevent the attacks by denying those men access. It would not have been legal to stop them. That is the issue, and it remains, partly due to AO96.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your Himmler anecdote is ironic because his actions against Jews indicate that he would have killed the person that saved him and therefore would not have been saved.\nWhere is the irony regarding the Scalise situation? Are you implying that Scalise's opposition to the LGBT rights agenda indicates that he wishes the death of all LGBT persons, or even the refusal to allow them to work as police officers? Could this woman not have been a police officer if she was unable to enter a gay marriage? Otherwise, even if his views had been complied with, what would have prevented her from being there? \nOr is it the other way around and all LGBT people desire the death of those that oppose their agenda, so she should not have been expected to act to save republicans?\nNo, there's no irony here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly how I said. Being gay does not make you turn to drug and violence. That is a false cause argument. Being gay has a stigma associated with it. Many LGBTQ youth find themselves disowned or passed by. Those things always lead to worse lifestyles. \n\nThe only thing I've been arguing is that being gay does not predispose you to certain illicit behaviors. The way people treat LGBTQ people does. We're all aware of the bullying epidemic and the suicide rates of LGBTQ people.\n\nI'm not defending Adam West here, nor am I gay, as people seem to be \"accusing\" me of. They just don't understand how they are twisting the narrative to fit their intolerance. \n\nA perfect example are the first series of comments. \"Not surprised at all this happened. Gay people have special protections.\" And then in the next breath statistics are stated that show just how unprotected LGBTQ people are. Then the leap quickly goes to imply that being LGBTQ makes you more likely to be a serial killer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1. Who exactly will be affected by this policy; at what precise stage of transgender transformation will they be considered unfit for duty? Why? 2. How will this policy be implemented and to what depth? In other words, does this apply to every service person at every level of the military, including an admin assistant in some remote outpost? 3. How does this approach align with / or reject U.S. military history: https://goo.gl/7RYmfa?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about, \"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone\" slogan? The gays couple deliberately sought this cake shop out, because they knew that he wouldn't do it. They had an agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, God makes morality to make life livable. Pederasty cries to Heaven for vengeance, not consensual homosexuality. Ending a pregnancy that is doomed is only a sin if you believe God is an Ogre, and that says more about you than about God. The cry to Heaven for vengeance list is a human invention, by the way. More piteousness trying to confuse inflexibility with holiness. It seems, by the way, that you seem to not care about the other two sins, which Trump seems to promote as good Capitalism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think comeback is a little strong. The drubbing the alt-right took over the last few weeks in the US merely shows that the lunatic fringe is unlikely to become mainstream.\n\nBut the fissures in traditional conservatism are more complex than neo-fascist versus lower taxes and smaller government. Social conservatism is still big in both Canada and the United States, and the fiscal conservatives are often at odds with them \u2013 abortion, same sex marriage, and transgender rights are still highly divisive both here and to the south of us.\n\nThe smart small l liberal will make hay out of those divisions, leaving small c conservatives with their core 30% and an inability to make further inroads.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And prior to 1967, many states (maybe most of them?) required that persons who wished to marry be of the same race. The racism of the miscegenation laws is no longer 'respectable'; the bigotry which heretofore prevented gay persons from exercising the civil right to marriage enjoyed by other citizens is now recognized, in law and by most people, as no more 'respectable' than the racism of the laws that prohibited interracial marriage. As an American, a Christian, and a Catholic, I am delighted that the civil rights of our sisters and brothers in the GLBT communities have been affirmed by the Court.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The \"two spirited\" reference is to gay LGBT2S natives. They were never part of this process, but have been quietly included. All it does is complicates everything because now there's a whole new class of grievances and victims the inquiry was never intended to investigate. But to say 'no' would be considered inhumane and cruel despite the fact it is a trick.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While Muslims excoriate us about supposed Islamophobia, we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, Judeophobia and antisemitism , Christophbia, Europhobia, Americanophobia, democraceaophobia, iconoclasm, and even Islamophobia against each other. Ancient hatreds and wars of extermination between Kurds, Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabi, Druze and other Islamic sects are worse than anything expressed in the west, even by Trump", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No matter what Ellis accomplished , it sad to find out he lied to the people of Alaska all these years out of fear of not getting re-elected. If others showed \" courage \" coming out , Ellis did not. While it's correct to wish him the best and thank him for what he has done and hope he regains his health , it was wrong of him to hide that he was gay all these years just to keep his job. Wohlforth claims Alaska is a better place now thanks to accepted gay rights . He is wrong. We are a lesser state for allowing our morals to sink into the gutter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This from the party that elected a game show host who gained political prominence by claiming the first black president wasn't American. I'm not taking maturity advice from those who swift boated John Kerry, think climate change isn't real, and are afraid of gay marriage/families.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your citation is not an article about people being fired for being gay.\n\nIt is about people facing consequences for doing things which publicly contradict the Church\u2019s teachings spun by Michael Sean Winters into something else.\n\nThe communion at the funeral was particularly sad because the woman being buried was a devout Catholic and her daughter, and her son, are avowed enemies of the Church who specifically set up the confrontation to make the news.\n\nThe issue is one of scandal. Obviously if people - and their orientation is irrelevant - engage in public behavior which makes their employment problematic from the standpoint of teaching Catholic students or being in some other position, they are going to have a problem.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "May I ask? Are you working? Retired? What parish, where do you belong to? Where do you live? I won't be offended if you don't reply. I'm not trying to find you just interested in where you get your ideas from. Of course many of them have been taught but some seem really unusual to me: like the church is the only teacher for all the world. I tend to reflect on scripture more than on church. Have you studied the history of our church? I'd love to meet you. I don't argue with people in person or on line but do like to listen to others views and present mine. \nI truly did think that the church as a whole does believe doctrine changes over time but dogma does not, though the words used to present truths may change. Thinking of things like the meaning of the word gay, we must clothe our teachings in words that are understandable to each generation and culture.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Liberty is a funny word, it seems as almost no one truly values is or understands it. Clearly it does not mean the gays can be refused the right to marry, but equally it does not mean the those who disagree with a life style have to accept it.\nSo when faced with either of these situations, how do we as a society resolve them? usually with force. We demand that government step in and force the other to bow to our needs/wants/wishes. \nAn attack on liberty is having the government refuse to \"permit\" marriage, equally it is having the government force you to bake a cake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, Bindner, you have part of it right. This IS all about the sexual revolution isn't it? Priesthood --- the civil right du jour. You endorse the Church's having every part of that revolution, including a free-loving priesthood for men, women, gay, lesbians, and the trans/multi-gendered. Just like the summer of love. Incense and peppermint. Thank you for making the choice so clear. Although I have no personal objection to the right women becoming priests, you persuade me quite forcibly that the women who would become priests are apt to be precisely the kind you would hire --- feminists who throw in their lot totally, or the most part, with the sexual revolution. It was a disaster for society, it would be the destruction of the Church. You'd love it. No thanks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A permanent spot at the shelter? Sounds like permanent dependency to me.\nAlso a shelter for women and trans people means you are targeting your services away from those with greatest need, single men.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"After numerous terrorist attacks, honor killings and cartoon attacks, it was becoming clear throughout Europe that assimilation was not working. There was no flexibility on equality of the sexes or gay rights. Militant refugees did not share the West\u2019s views on freedom, individual rights, or religious tolerance.\"\n\nhttps://townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2017/10/02/lessons-learned-in-mass-refugee-immigration-n2388335?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=\n\n\"In response to problems with mass immigration, porous borders began to close. The UK voted to leave the EU. Fences went up between Hungary and Serbia, between Bulgaria and Turkey, and between Macedonia and Greece. Refugees were becoming increasingly unwelcome.\"\n\nSo clearly there is a dissonance between other countries' experiences w/ open borders in recent history, and our country's quest to be open border. Head scratcher, no?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"More welcoming\" only to the divorced and remarried, an infinitesimally small number of Catholics who disobeyed the magisterium in remarrying but are obedient about receiving communion. This pope is as misogynist and homophobic as the cardinals who elected him and the men he has appointed since. Pope Francis excommunicated Fr. Greg Reynolds for supporting same-sex marriage and women's ordination, fired Fr. Krzysztof Charamsa from his Vatican post after coming out and refused to accept the appointment of Laurent Stefanini as French ambassador to the Vatican because he was openly gay. Like the pope, Cupich fired two employees, Sandor Demkovich and Colin Collette, for marrying their partners. Cupich defrocked Fr. Marco Mercado because of his \u201cinappropriate relationship with an adult man.\u201d Reform the curia? His first action was to make Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga, who supported the military coup against the progressive Zelaya in 2009, as head of his \"C9.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The same-sex movement didn't wait around for theologians to develop a new Christian anthropology that took their experience into consideration. They moved on and left it to the churches to decide if they wanted to follow. For better or for worse, most believers take their cues from culture, not church, and certainly not from theology. The culture now tells us that human nature, if there is such a thing, is more expansive and varied than we ever thought. \n\nThe challenge to the churches is to respond in ways that are faithful to both Christ and Culture (to borrow Niebuhr's terms). The challenge to the LGBT community is to articulate their reasons to believe within a community that can't figure out what to do with them. I'm not sure the twain will ever meet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Every candidate has the responsibility to prove that they are native born citizens as per the constitution. Yes, the same document that much less directly gives us gay marriage. If explicit instructions in the constitution can be ignored (native born), then those inferred from much more general wording have no consequence at all. You're blaming the victim (irrelevant but a nice slogan to through in to any conversation).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There was a bible defaced several years ago in Glasgow Scotland at a gay art exhibition. It was considered art. No one was charged with a \"hate\" crime. \n\n I'm sure this doesn't pass the \"civil comments\" tribunal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus had absolutely nothing to say about gay men, or gay women either for that matter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have loved Shannyn's writing for so-I can't remember. I have never been more offended personally or professionally ( as a news writer) by any article ever. Is this a short-cut to thinking? Is this the afterglow or the fallout of background radiation from the election or just a medication failure? Shannon, I love you very much! Snap out of it! Abortion will FOREVER be a common sense legal option! No one voted for Trump. They voted against the idea, that the so called educated-anything-goes-elitist-Jesus-hating-liberal gay-agenda, was far less important to the competent re-thinking of globalism, rebuilding America's infrastructure, creating jobs and the understanding that we ALL are in this together. I am so relieved. Now I look forward to the future and believe there is one. Most importantly: The munchkins don't get to take over OZ, They will remain citizens with a voice, just like the rest of us common munchkins. Some believe in the imaginary guy in the clouds and some do not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll believe you're pro-life when you admit that in order to \"easy access to free/low cost birth control, paid family leave, higher minimum wages and medically accurate sex education. When they fight for the lives of immigrants, of Muslims and LGBT.\" you have to first be born and support a constitutional amendment to achieve that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Has anyone else noticed that when the Church speaks of \"mercy,\" it's actually a call for OTHER groups and people to relax THEIR moral and ethical standards, while the Church stays as moralistic as ever?\n\nWhere is the Church's \"mercy\" to the divorced, to protestants and followers of other religions, to gays, to users of contraception....heck, to people who miss Mass on some Sundays? Not in evidence. As I understand it, the same mortal sin penalties still apply.\n\nThis entire year of Mercy was just a lot of talk.\n\nAnd I'm beginning to strongly suspect it had an underlying political intent (immigration).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In many past civilizations the LBGT communities were an important part of the social structure. The South Pacific Islanders acknowledged their transgender males as they dressed as females and stayed in close family groups helping to raise the next generation. Unlike our \"modern\" times, the past often embraced everyone as \"needed\" to survive into the future. We could use a lot more of that but our religious and political leaders want us dependent on them instead of each other. Most of us got along well with each other in the \"old\" days of Alaska because we did need each other to survive.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All forms of hate needs to be eliminated. All forms of racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, anti-semitism and laws discriminating against Transgenders.\nWe need to get behind Justin, Obama, Hillary and Premier Wynne and fight all forms of hate!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Years ago, I was with a gathering of Holy Cross religious (NDU) when the conversation turned to \"banning gay men from entering the priesthood\" when one of the older Brothers piped-up with this classic: \"I don't know what everybody is so worried about. Holy Cross has been ordaining \"ladies\" for years.\"\n\nEnough said ...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think this is exactly what the Republican Party needs here in Hawaii. Too often have they been hijacked by either mainland extremists who show up in Hawaii and decide to \"get involved,\" throwing in their two cents based on political ideas they cultivated back in their home states, or by the whacko religious holy-rolling right that wants to do nothing but rant about abortions and gays going to hell. \n\nI don't know everyone on that slate but I know enough of them: home-grown local boys and girls with a range of different experiences, political and otherwise, who can communicate the right kinds of ideas with other local people and get them to realize that this never-ending reign of the Democratic Party is HURTING us.\n\nWhat has one-party control got us? Rail. Property Taxes exploding soon. One of the highest costs of living. One of the largest homeless problems in the nation. Unions destroying the private sector. Locals having to flee to Las Vegas.\n\nTime for something new.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, nausea, you're so adorable. In the first place, definitions are- by definition- objective; they are not \"self-serving\" because they are intangible things with no motive. Sort of like facts: they don't have feelings, and certainly don't care about yours.\n.\nIn the second place, I \"didn't come up with the definition\" of 'sex.' You know who did? Scientists. And they did so using.....(wait for it).......science. I know it flies in the face of your Leftist social agenda, but please- do what you can to move on and accept this.\n.\nLastly- \"homophobia?\"....really? You do know that gender dysmorphia has nothing whatsoever to do with homosexuality....right? This MO of, \"if you can't win the argument then claim ______ism\" is what lost you the election and both houses of Congress, right? If you're going to play victim- at least get your victim terminology down correctly.\n.\nPlease, come back to discuss science any time- I'm here for you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Libertarianism takes many forms, not all of which are inconsistent with Catholicism. The economic libertarianism that puts the rich in the place of goverment, but with no accountability to anyone (including the workers) is very much against Christianity. Social libertarianism which is pure license is not compatible, but it is if it affirms human dignity and the individual\u2019s right to not only deal with her own moral situations, but also to decide what\u2019s moral. The governmental libertarianism which encourages the Church to take on social functions is very much consistent with Christianity. Social solidarity in unionism is how you deal with economic libertarianism. It is also how we get things like gay marriage recognized - including in the Church at some point (with input from more accepting sects).\n\nThe ageda of the conference and its focus on consumer capitalism is interesting, although it is missing a discussion of consumerism as a substitute for worker empowerment in the workplace.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Proof it's not the LGBT community you have to worry about in the bathroom, it's hypocritical republicans in the locker room. \"As a federal legislator, Hastert voted regularly against bills to empower gay people. In Congress from 1997 to 2007, Hastert voted for the so-called \u201cMarriage Protection Act,\u201d and in favor of a constitutional amendment to \u201cestablish that marriage shall consist of one man and one woman.\u201d The year he stepped down, Hastert voted no on the \u201cEmployment Non-Discrimination Act,\u201d a bill to prohibit companies from discriminating against employees \u201con the basis of sexual orientation.\u201d Rawstory 5/29/15", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am gay so I can say this: the simple fact that the pronouns are invented and can be changed on a whim , adding new ones or ending others without notice, means your pronouns are a lie. They are weapons to be used against the people you hate, like Jordan Peterson. You don't use them yourself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Minnery is a Catholic correct? Well the pope is like our president in the sense that he is the commander and chief of the \nChurch right? If you are a Catholic in good standing in the mainstream church you must agree to follow the popes teachings right? Pope Francis has announced to those who would listen that he wants the Church to be more open and less critical of all minorities including those who are gay. So Mr. Minnery needs to come into compliance or find another church. Not to mention Jesus would smile on him if he did bury the hatchet. Intolerance must end. And high five for the nonSullivan Assembly!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays cannot be discriminated against. They are a \"protected class of people\" who cannot be discriminated against.\n-\nBut, and this may be one of the issues, is \"offensive artwork\" \"people\"? Do \"artists\" have the right to claim that \"offensive artwork\" they are being asked to \"create\" is \"offensive artwork\" and, therefore, is not a \"protected class of people\"?\n-\nThat logical reasoning is why a Jewish baker doesn't have to decorate a Nazi cake with Nazi symbols, why a Black baker doesn't have to decorate a cake showing a man being lynched by the KKK, or a painter doesn't have to paint a painting showing Hillary with horns.\n-\nIt is wrong to discriminate against people.....but \"offensive artwork\" is not \"people\" and is not a \"protected class\" of anything.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Republicans are stunned that anyone with a pulse could actually believe that the Women's march was anything other than a progressive hate event cloaked in the garb of Women's Rights. Knowing that the event had over 400 sponsors, of which 56 were George Soros related groups speaks for itself. Seriously, knowing that the movement was to give the speaker's platform to Donna Hylton the murderer of a gay man, and to Angela Davis the Back Panther, and Linda Sarsour, the rampant anti-Semite, sent shivers down my spine. The icing on the cake was the collective wisdom of Madonna and Ashley Judd. If Fukumoto and Thielen honestly believed that they were engaged in something noble, then they are either naive, stupid, or bought and paid for. In any case, it is irresponsible, and a betrayal of traditional values to walk in step with a counter culture event which embraced hate, anti-semitism and violence. In my opinion, it would be best for the Hawaii Republican Party if they both left.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As much as I like and respect Mr. Kenney, he is totally off base on this issue. From the comments made on the proposed Catholic curriculum, it would seem that they propose to teach the students that it is OK for one spouse to force the other to have sex and that homosexuality is evil, a concept that presupposes that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice rather than a gender that one is born as. These are concepts that have long been rejected by Canadian society and anybody that thinks that it is acceptable to teach such material to young people should not be in a position of responsibility.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting that you claim to never experience micro-aggressions. How about commercials for cold medicine that show the man, almost always a white man, completely incapacitated by the smallest cold, having to be rescued by his wife? How the man bamboozled by how to use a washing machine or praised for his ability to operate one?\n\nWe all face micro-aggressions, which used to be known as stereotypes, based on our outward appearance. I am a slight, well-groomed man with good manners. I have been considered gay simply because of my appearance. So what? Throughout my life, larger boys, and then men, felt that they were safe in picking on me because of my size. We all have our crosses to bear, some more than others. You suck it up and get on with life.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, I do have a question, franco prairie.\n\nYou call Justin Trudeau \"gender fluid.\" That sounds homophobic to me. Can you explain it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And, upon reflection, that might be a good thing. JFK's women in the White House or FDR's affair while he was President, or Eleanor's, or even Eisenhower's affair during WWII before he was President, didn't make one bit of difference as to how they should or have been judged on their Presidencies. \n\nWhile it sells media, it really isn't relative to the parts that I care about. Does it even matter that Governor Brown says she is bisexual? Or who with? Or is her incompetence as a Governor the important part? That's the part I care about.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I do or haven't done is a private affair. I only wish the gay community would adapt the same attitude, I really don't want to know what anyones proclivities are, I find all this \"sharing\" offensive. Believe what you want and do what you want, but keep it to yourself and don't expect others to accept it. This applies to religious beliefs and politics as well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CMD: The bakers were not \"forced to cater to a same-sex wedding\". They were asked to bake a cake (something bakers regularly do). They refused service (the baking of the cake) because the couple to be married were lesbians. \n\nYour KKK event is irrelevant. Racist organizations are NOT protected classes. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mark, I did not get your entire last full comment, for some reason it is not posted on this site. \n To prove my point for the last time, lets say I wrote the following comment :\n\" I want the Gospel challenge to love and care for all of my brothers and sisters on the journey. I pray I have the kindness to care for those like MarkWilliam who love the new ways, they are my cross. The folks who love all that 'progressive LGBT minded Catholicism,' are my cross. I suffer through them week in and week out. I wish they would all leave our parish and go to a LGBT parish.\" \n I would expect to receive numerous responses from progressives calling me out for such an outrageous comment. This is the comment Jon82 made, except it regarded traditional Catholics, not LGBT. Do you not see the hypocrisy? You would be the first one to call me out and rightly so. You take offense with my rebuke to Jon82 while apparently having no issue with his view point. That is priceless!!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obama apologised in Cairo, was snubbed by Kenyan President for his gay agenda, was downgraded to a backdoor welcome in China, and was called \"Son of a W----\" by president of Philippine.\nThat speaks about his spine (or lack thereof).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why all the schadenfreude regarding Cardinal Sarah, who it seems to me, is a very honest and pious person (though wrongheaded in some areas) who tries to express his points of view carefull? Why not employ the more sober and more accurate \"corrects\" instead of the hot-headed \"rebukes\" and \"spanks\"? This schadenfreude puts you in the same boat with the ultra-conservative media that spoke of Cardinal Sarah's mild and thoughtful (and perhaps partially wrongheaded) piece in the Wall Street Journal on the pastoral treatment of homosexual persons as \"Cardinal Sarah blasts Father James Martin.\" Tone down the rhetoric and you will communicate better and make your points better.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The GOP reaction is surprising. They are perfectly willing to strip tens of millions of health care, but they eagerly rush to protect the rights of a tiny handful of Americans?\n\nIronically I agree with the Orange Monster on this one - because of the cost of medical treatment and the likelihood transgendered persons will require such treatment. The military has long refused to enlist those with conditions ranging from fallen arches to diabetes. It would be unfair and dangerous to deploy to combat someone who needs daily hormone shots and is at risk of complications from radical surgery. \n\nIt is interesting that Ken Buck and Cory Gardner are more afraid of the LGBT community than they are of the majority of Americans who will be negatively impacted by the GOP health care or tax cuts for the 1%. Trust me, their reaction is not due to suddenly discovering a shred of human compassion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump tweets his bigotry again. Evidently, Mattis is on vacation, and was against the ban. There's no excuse for denying care to people serving our country. I have to wonder why so many Americans don't recognize that differences among people are natural, and deserve to be respected. \n\nJust a couple of examples: people are born Caucasian as well as of color, and people are born with both male and female sex organs (hermaphrodites. These are obvious facts, so why is it beyond any logical person's comprehension that transgenders are born in a body inappropriate for their gender, or that homosexuality (often observed in toddlers, who know nothing of sex), also is as natural as heterosexuality is to those who oppose gays?\n\nSeems too many people are immersed in their bigotry, believing in their superiority to anyone different from themselves, something that also applies to misogyny. \n\nTrump consistently shows his lack of empathy and character, and his inability to represent all citizens.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A friend of mine was trying to join the RCMP...some thirty years ago. The senior Sargent, conducting the interview, brought up homosexuals joining the force..and asked for my friend's opinion. He said he didn't have a problem with that............and the interview became confrontational.\n\nMy friend answered......'It is the law l\" \n\nInterview terminated. The senior ranks have been out of step with our society for quite some time ,, now.....and it shows", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My gaydar was also alerted. Gee, the legislature is only 3 blocks away from the Gay Village so maybe he'll wander down there to prove he's not a homophobe.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree--Kag nailed it. And so has MikeAA. Trump has no centre except himself since he's probably a narcissist. He does what he needs to do in the moment. Trump doesn't fundamentally care for issues like abortion or marriage equality because they don't impinge on Trumpland and are merely cards to play in order to gain some type of advantage. I'll bet good money that Trump has never thought of the fate of a single unborn child other than his own kids before they were born. (Safe to say any surprises have been terminated.) As for marriage equality, the guy has no pulse for this stuff and with Big Business often backing LGBT interests, this is a lost cause. I am surprised more people could not figure this out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hate autocorrect! \u201cSame thing for sex within marriage. Don\u2019t make me subsidize your spawn . I\u2019m gay and will never have children, why should you get tax breaks for kids since you CHOSE to have them. Likewise, why should my tax dollars pay for their schooling, since having them was YOUR choice.\u201d See how stupid that sounds? But you are saying the exact same thing about birth control.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are so sad. You are giving Callista an open mindedness you never give any self honest gay man. She is a publicly self confirmed adulteress. Last I checked Jesus was not too keen on heterosexual adultery but said not one word about sexual relationships outside of heterosexuals.\n\nWhy would Callista have any statement in favor of polygamy when she never admitted her existence to Newt's wife of the moment? Your double standards are laughable at times, but mostly just very sad.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for the perspective. Imagine the outrage if one was gay, and people took it upon themselves to break out into a stereotype of a gay accent to finish the conversation. I realize that some like to code-switch, but if I meet someone speaking with a phony and fake accent (i.e. fraudulent Patois, feigned British accents, or whatever), it makes me question whether the speaker is equally phony and fake.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "None of these other religions force women to wear scarves or cover themselves. None of these other religions murders gays and lesbians.\nNone of these other religions treats women as second class subjects.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gee, one would think there are gay police officers in Toronto. In fact, we know that there are gay police officers in the Toronto Police Service. But, special interest groups like black lives matter count more, eh? BLM are bullies, plain and simple. And Pride Toronto should be ashamed of themselves for caving.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You can't mention Sharia law or you will get your account deleted. People don't want to know that female genital mutilation, misogyny, and throwing gays off buildings exist under Sharia law. It dispels the myth of multicultualism.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It really should be the other way around. Gay and Lesbain people, who are out and proud, should \"accompany\" the many pathetic celibates who are so afraid of their sexuality, that they have to create an AA group for it, into greater levels of personal truth and actualization. Perhaps some will remain celibate. Fine. But they shouldn't be as envious and jealous of those who find happy and fulfilling sexual /genital relationships. If they are truly called to celibacy I don't believe they would even bother with sexual behavior of others and fully devote themselves into some type of worthwhile ministry-- ministry to the poor for example. But me thinks they might be \"wolves in sheeps clothing\" and I worry vulnerable people will be sexually exploited or picked up. I have no trust of the \"celibate\" Roman catholic priesthood. None when it comes to sexuality and sexual maturity.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, it's called the Trainwreck Syndrome. I believe Professor Rubbernecker of Johns Hopkins coined the term in 1938 to describe the human tendency of fascination with abnormal behavior. \n\nAnyway, I guess everyone who saw Brokeback Mountain must be gay. No other way to explain it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "One thing is for certain: Islam and gays are on a collision course in Canada. Both current darlings of the establishment, and the political left, yet both fully vowing the destruction of the other. It is only a matter of time before sparks fly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Except in the narrowest circumstances, no one should be forced to choose between living out his or her faith and complying with the law,\" Sessions wrote. \n\nSo, if my religion tells me to beat my wife, drive drunk and discriminate against gay people, I should be allowed to do that regardless of the law?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There's no difference between taking your one 42(c) shot *because a judge is gay* and filing a fruitless motion to disqualify for cause *because a judge is gay*. Maybe you don't make yourself look like a fool on a 42(c), and the reason behind it may be opaque to the court, but it's obviously not opaque to the lawyer or the client. Using that reason to pre-empt a judge is bigotry. It was then and it is now. It's also pretty monumentally stupid to pre-empt a judge to cater to your own/your client's irrational prejudices and risk winding up with a much worse judge for another reason. As you should know. \n\n Do you let your clients screen out Jewish, black, and female judges too? How about the ones who are just monumentally uninterested or untrained in the type of case you're filing?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Vatican has a sense of humor? Burke has shown his bias about clerical sexual abuse in his utterance, \"But he has also blamed gay clergy for the church's sexual abuse crisis, saying priests \"who were feminized and confused about their own sexual identity\" were the ones who molested children.\" Is this Burke's projection? - \"priests who were feminized...\" as he prances about as a haute couture drag queen! And he is clear about his sexual identity?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ever since they got their segregated Dyke March, Pride has been fractured and fragmented bit by bit, year after year until now, gay men are not really part of the festivities other than as spectators who are expected to shut up and buy something.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Justice Kennedy would disagree, along with the other 7 who joined him in affirming gay marriage (the 9th one who went the other way died). Gorsuch, his former clerk is 8 in agreement with him. When the 2nd Circuit case gets to them, it will likely be unanimous in extending equal employment (and by implication, housing) go the LBGT community. Sessions is an idiot. The Cake decision will likely overturn his amorphus order, which has no legal force. For the record, in the Marriage decision, being LGBT is now considered a protected class under the 14th Amendment. The only dissension on these issues was whether such distinctions applied to federal action. It was 5-4 but the five were pro-gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Same thing on my Facebook. I was attacked for saying Orlando was an Islamist terrorist attack. I was told it had nothing to do with Islam. It was a hate-crime against gays and LGBT people, they said.\n\nWell, the fact is the terrorist posted on his own Facebook, put it on Twitter, and said it in text messages on his own phone that his assault on the nightclub was SUPPORT FOR ISIS. He never once on Facebook, Twitter or texting said he hated gays. The fact he chose the nightclub for his attack was, in all likelihood, because he knew the nightclub inside and out: the doors, windows, exits, etc. And he knew there would be a lot of people to kill there. The terrorist declared his support for ISIS and never once mentioned gays. However the regressive-left 'liberals' refused to accept the facts.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So we are still supposed to kill the witches and free our slaves or not as God told us to in Exodus!\n\nRight!\n\nHow about the Apostle Paul (New Testament) on homosexuals and all these evil doers?\n\nIs that still good canon law? \n\n\u201cOr do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God\u201d (1 Corinthians 6:9\u201310).\"\n\nBut we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers..(1 Timothy 1:8\u201311.)\n\n Theology is so interesting!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No it isn't. Muslim bakeries in Dearborn Michigan are on film showing them refusing to bake for a gay event. No repercussions because they are muslims not Christians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The contributions to a church are already taxed. The church is a non-profit, the money goes to many things, including supporting the homeless and other groups, even LGBT people in need of help.\nYour hatred and contempt for Christianity will all too soon be replaced with your fear of Islam. Muslims will be nice nice until they have the numbers and influence to rape and kill at will. Europe is the harbinger of things to come.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.\" there is a lot of difference between rape, the sin of Sodom, than consensual sexuality. and back then, homosexual rape, like any kind of rape, was a means of asserting power over a defeated enemy. the sin of Sodom was rape, pure and simple. it had absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality as we know it. and you also know that not all gay men have anal sex don't you? so therefore they aren't sodomites, neither are lesbians. but, by your line of thinking, many heterosexuals are! why aren't you condemning them? why only gay men? once again, you really need some good therapy.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm a straight guy. Gay bars don't cater to me, so I don't go there. I don't hate gay bars, I don't want gay bars to shut down. I don't want gay bars to be forced to make me feel welcome. And I don't want them to lose business.\n\nI just choose not to go there. I wish them all the best in their venture, but it's not for me.\n\nSee how easy that is? I wouldn't go into a halal deli and demand a bacon sandwich either. Because I'm not a jerk. If I want a bacon sandwich, I'll go somewhere else.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No Don, not a manly priest.\n\nI understand that many gay men are attracted to Catholicism, but this needs to end. \n\nThe problem with the church isn't the lack of women priests. It's the preponderance of gay priests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hi Dennis, I'm not really sure historically how the sexuality of clergy ebbed and flowed. (I do know that seminaries were packed to the rafters just prior to and during the two world wars, which tells another story!)\n\nObviously I cannot say exactly the percentage of actively gay but it is high. In the Anglican Church its through the roof so I don't see why it wouldn't be any different in our church. The real tragedy is the amount of gay clergy who are in total denial. I found these guys to be deeply psychologically wounded. \n\nI'm in my early fifties. I too am shocked at the young conservative clergy coming through. I despair at times. But I guess this is the product of 35 years of JPII and Ratzinger. How the good people of God listen to the mince preached at them week after week by these young guys who preach with such authority, based on such little life experience, is beyond me. Our people deserve better.\n\nI wish there were more guys like yourself still around.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, if a homosexual appears before a straight judge, should they be able to do the same?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where is the show of force when abortion or gay marriage is on the legislative docket?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hope Tom is just as concerned with heterosexual high school males who will almost certainly ask his daughters for the same sexual acts he deplores in gay men, because those boys will be able to have sexual release without the fear of pregnancy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nice strawman, averages and distribution matters, not the exceptions. No one ever said there wasn't a range, the entire idea of bell curves is built on that idea.\n\nThis is just anti logic at this point. Like pointing at a gay person and then claiming that no one can claim that the majority of people are straight.\n\nThat a % guess works at all simply supports the point, even with todays crude instrumentation in measuring brain activity, and oh god is it crude, measuring little more than blood flow in the case of fMRI, we can already detect enough differences in distribution that \"guesses\" can be right most of the time.\n\nAgain, you are playing a losing game of \"god of the gaps\", every new discovery will only reduce your wiggle room until you have none left at all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise transgender actress Gabrielle Tremblay for her FIRST film role received her FIRST nomination and the FIRST transgender to be nominated \nas Best Actress in a Supporting role to the Canadian Screen Award for her performance in the film \u00ab Ceux qui font les r\u00e9volutions qu\u2019\u00e0 moiti\u00e9 \nn\u2019ont fait que creuser leur tombeau\u00bb\n(Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves/ \nBest Canadian Film at TIFF, 2016 (Huge Success! But Huge Scandal too!\nAnd Beginning of a \u201cMyth\u201d, of a \u201cCult Movie\u201d, of \u201cRedSquare\u201d symbol)\nsee trailer onYouTube=\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaLBRRbyYzw) \n(copy-paste in wb address)\n\nand an interview (onYouTube)= L'actrice transgenre Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay \u00e0 Tout Le Monde En Parle\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmKpmVfl68", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am afraid the archbishop did not take the lesson from this Sunday's Gospel. Seems to me that the archbishop judges by external things and not the internal. Christ was very critical of the Pharisees. The way I understand Luke is that hypocrisy causes a them and us situation. Further, them often are in that position due to lack of power. An example is someone born gay, the leadership always makes this person on of \"them.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The basic problem is not who we are ordaining or not ordaining but a deeper issue of what we expect with ordination. That issue is Continence - the rule that you cannot have marital intercourse and celebrate Mass that day or the prior evening. This practice is misogynistic and it reflects the rot in Catholic sexual teaching. Being with a woman (or a man) or being gay or a woman does not render one impure to offer Mass. There I nothing intrinsically impure about sex. Once we get this one corrected, everything else falls in line.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cDialogue in the key of Francis\u201d\u2014now that\u2019s a funny concept. Isn\u2019t it Francis who refuses to answer any questions about his Jesuitical masterpiece, Amoris Laeititia? A very discordant key indeed.\nI agree that the church needs to dialogue (is that a verb?) with the world,though unlike Cupich, I don\u2019t see homosexuals as a single block or identity group. A key part of that dialogue would invole the church patiently speaking the truth in the midst of a sinful, decadent, declining society, as Benedict XVI was wont to do. But that applies to all of us, not just the hierarchy. And to do that with any credibility, the hierarchy really needs to get its own house in order, and do something about the rampant sexual disorders in its own ranks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Every day Trump brings his supporters presents: travel bans against Muslims, Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Hispanic communities and brutal, family-gutting deportations, a crackdown on sanctuary cities, an Election Integrity Commission stacked with notorious vote suppressors, announcements of a ban on transgender personnel in the military, approval of police brutality against \u201cthugs,\u201d a denial of citizenship to immigrants who serve in the armed forces and a renewed war on drugs that, if it is anything like the last one, will single out African-Americans and Latinos although they are not the primary drug users in this country. Last week, Mr. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions put the latest package under the tree: a staffing call for a case on reverse discrimination in college admissions, likely the first step in a federal assault on affirmative action and a determination to hunt for colleges and universities that discriminate against white applicants.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As is Ratzinger's opinion on homosexuality ...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the situation doesn't change, I look forward to the inevitable day when LGBTQ graduates of TWU's law school challenge LSUC's refusal to accept them as members.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As we all understand, by far the most important \"state's rights\" issue before us is which bathroom may be used by a transgender student.\n\nStephen J. Remington", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "transgender all you want.....just don't do it on MILITARY time and on TAX dollars. you want to serve? then SERVE ! you want to become a man? or woman? ...get it done first THEN join the ARMED FORCES or SERVE first get out then change all you want.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Democratic Party cares about what things are going to keep them in power.\n\nIf it ever became popular to be against abortion and gay marriage, they would change their position on those issues. Look at how Hillary and Obama changed their view--in one election cycle. In 2008 they were against gay marriage. By 2012 their views had \"evolved.\" Gore in the 80's was pro-life. When he realized he can't get anywhere as a Democrat being pro-life, he quickly became pro-abortion. \n\nThey do not stand for anything except what get them or keeps them in power.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This from someone who appears to be mid-stream in her transgender process.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've lived in the U.K. all my life for over 70 years and f----t was never a common term referring to homosexuals in my youth. The first time I was made vaguely aware of homosexuality was in the late 1960s and the terminology was 'homo', 'queer', 'puff', 'puffter', a**e bandit and others I cannot name.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why are there so many lesbians in Toronto, that this is the big question?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "More of the \"Christian\" persecution complex. There are plenty of Christians who support LGBT marriage, transgender rights, and choice just as there are plenty non-Christians who are pro-traditional marriage and life, and opposition to transgender rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1) Of course.....you're forgetting fascism's disdain for gays, minorities, labor unions, and workers' rights, and their favor of corporatism. \n\n2) You need to quit acting like what goes on at Berkeley is indicative of EVERY college campus.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're making the assumption that Jesus would judge a transgender person the same way he judges the promiscuous woman at the well who had five husbands and was living with a sixth man who was not her husband. The correlation between the two is not at all clear to me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What?!? The only thing more frightening about your comment is that some else agrees with you. Unbelievable! Many of those LGBT couples have adopted children who have otherwise been abused/abandoned by their biological heterosexual parents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The scientific reality of male and female is clear. Anatomy and physiology could not be clearer,and it is on that basis that marriage was created. Nothing has changed in the history of mankind (or other sexual reproductive species) of been discovered to change the biological reality. What has changed is the creation of a \"science\" called psychology that seeks to \"prove\" normality of homosexual acts through pseudo science and the grasping at straws. Guys like Kinsey and his \"research\" show us how easy it is to create false data and, without challenge, change the logical thinking of a lot of people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know with my own grandkids (clearly anecdotal) that acceptance of gays is a very big deal....and women's issues are too....\n\nTwo of my grandkids graduated from an excellent catholic high school with a strong focus on social justice.....so the Church's social justice teaching is I think alive and well if noted in the breech....and they clearly profited from this experience they also participated in the retreat program..\n\nI have thought from the beginning that social justice projects like Habitat, local hunger programs etc....are a great place for both ecumenical efforts and youth efforts....\n\nEveryone there can agree on the worth of the project....and who knows where that goes.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've got news for you, folks. People in this state are NEVER going to stop voting R because some hypothetical lib would do WAY WORSE, or so the logic goes.\n\nAll Republicans like Pete Kelly have to do is make a big stink out of the Four Gs (God, guns, gays and gabortion [Sorry, have to make it rhyme somehow!]) and the not-so-smart, single-issue voters will ALWAYS push them through the primaries, even at their own economic peril.\n\nOnce to the general elections, folks in this state will ALWAYS vote for whatever has an 'R' after its name as the hypothetical lib alternative is so scary.\n\nBend over, Alaska. We haven't reached bottom yet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Doesn't anyone on this list value God-given masculinity or femininity? Doesn't anyone on the list want their little boys to grow up to be men, and their daughters to grow up to be women? I have seen many newborns, and NONE of them had any identifying marks that identified them as lesbians or male homosexuals. They were all just male or female babies (I'll let you figure out how I knew that!)\nConclusion: sexual identity is 'formed' not 'born'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If a person is a virgin (or non-seeing anyone), then they aren't straight or gay until active? Does that \"rule\" apply to the many high schoolers are completely addled over the gender of their choice but haven't actually done anything about it yet?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fact the the niqab is a symbol of cultures that punish victims of rape with lashings and have the death penalty for homosexuality does not send a positive message in Canada. The niqab isn't simply a garment, it is a symbol of oppression and misogyny.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The entire Gay Pride Parade has turned into an exercise in bad taste, which explains why so many on the Left admire and encourage it including Toronto's feckless Mayor Tory.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many transgender people don't have their original \"equipment\" and look like the gender they identify with. People are worried about men in the women's bathroom, but this law is going to force some guy with a beard to use the women's bathroom because he was born with two X chromosomes, which is exactly what the people who passed this law are worried about. And send a pretty teen girl into the men's room at a sketchy highway rest stop because she has a Y chromosome.\n\nTransgendered people can definitely set off the \"otherness\" alarm in us, and it is easy enough to transfer that unsettled feeling into fear and anger. But there is no problem needing to be solved by forcing transgender people to use the restroom of their chromosomal sex. There is a general fear of men being given a free pass into women's bathrooms, but that sounds like a symptom of a broader societal problem that needs solving.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm referring to the marketing program built on hype and hypocrisy and acknowledge with a wink and a nod. The one that promoted Syrian refugees in the 'Canada is Back' PR campaign, political grandstanding. The one that restricted Syrians to orphans, homosexuals and families and led everyone to believe you are able to succeed where European countries who get the desperate people have problems. The one that had your PM get on every media that would have him to welcome everyone in the U.S. affected by the U.S. immigration laws and contrast Canada as the shining light to America's 10 million illegals. The one that calls me and all Americans racist for wanting to control our borders while a few hundred sneaking into Canada is a national calamity.\nThe one that a recent Nanos poll said 88% of Canadians said there are too many or don't take any more than right now. \nThe marketing program built on myth. That one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And I always thought women wanted a man who could cook.\n\n(Sure am glad I am gay.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"There is a solution:\n\nAbolish all non-discrimination laws for private businesses. Every business is free to serve or not serve whomever they please. No exceptions.\n\nBut some people don't like that idea. They like civil rights laws, overall. They just want the religious freedom to discriminate against gay people -- and no one else\"\n.\nAnd a lot more of the people who remember the problems caused by that discrimination DON'T want the \"religious freedom to discriminate against gay people\" at all. We just want to avoid going back to all the problems that WERE caused by such discrimination within living memory. The civil rights laws not only eliminate those direct problems, but also eliminate the campaigns to force groups or categories of merchants to discriminate against particular classes of people. Your \"solution\" is anything but.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is Trump's stand on gay rights?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"If contraception is against someone's religion, she shouldn't avail herself of it, but why deny everyone else?\"\nBecause their sanctimony demands it.\nJust like refusing goods or services to gay people or couples.\nAnd there's no better way to assure their sanctimony and power by having government approve of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ok.\n\nFirst, he isn't a \"self-made billionare\". He had heavy financial backing by his millionaire father through numerous failures. A self-made billionaire starts from little to no backing. Look up Gary Johnson (self-made millionaire), if you want an example.\n\nHe addresses nothing of the many transgendered members already in the military.\n\nMany cosmetic surgeries are already not covered in military medical coverage. A diplomat could negotiate to include transgendered procedures to be classified as such, so there would be no additional cost. In fact, the military started agreeing to cover those procedures, but they can always change that. That way you keep the transgendered/equal rights crowd happy while keeping costs down. Trump called himself a \"great negotiator\". He's proven he's absolutely not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But Trump will appoint judges who will protect fetuses and stop gay marriage, so it's all good - or so we've been told.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Washington Post analysis:\n\n\"As President Trump rolled out his decision to reinstate the ban on transgender people in the military, anonymous White House officials gossiped about what a tough spot they were putting Democrats in. \u201cThis forces Democrats in Rust Belt states like Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin to take complete ownership of this issue,\u201d one told Axios. Another added that it would \u201cbe fun to watch some of them have to defend\u201d having transgender soldiers.\n\n\"It turns out they didn't even need Democrats to do it; some high-profile Republicans were happy to. And while they and other senators were seeking answers Wednesday, the White House was providing basically none. The Pentagon was also reportedly in the dark when the announcement was made Wednesday morning.\n\n\"The sum total is another piece of political malpractice and poor planning from the White House.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"You can't touch this\"; by MC Hammer.\nWill the Democrats in 2020 be so naive in taking on the LGBT/ Transgender political movement again? Remember? The Bathroom Deal?This is what they ran on. And how they.........Lost in a \"Landslide\"!\nDid you hear? The Dishonest DNC is BROKE? Where did all the Money go? To that IT guy? haaaaaaaaaaaaa!\nYep!What goes around comes around.\n\nGood Job POTUS,keep the Military Real! Mahaaaaaaaalo! IMUA! MAGA!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Homosexual\" is not a slur it means person attracted to someone of the same sex. It is telling however that you keep coming back to this and find offense in the term \"ammosexual\" it simply refers to an attraction to ammo, it is 2016 you are free to love any way you want.\nBack to the point at hand though, if all ammo purchasers pay said imaginary tax then it is possible that some of the actual offenders would also contribute ( for discussion sake I am not mentioning folks who make their own, realistically it would have to be a tax on all components). Only people who fly pay air security tax including terrorists! Are you saying people who never fly should pay too?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You may be doing more good than you know. The only reason I ever engage on the topic of homosexuality is that I am aware that many people read these posts who never post at all. Some of them may be struggling with sexual and gender issues. I write for them, knowing that most of the right-wingers are hard core homophobes. (I choose the word deliberately: I think they really are afraid, if not precisely of homosexuals, then of homosexuality and/or sexuality broadly understood.) If you are able to help save some struggling young person (or older one for that matter) from internalizing the superstitious nonsense that drives so much of the religious gay bashing rhetoric, then you've done enormous good.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I thought Pride was supposed to be about inclusivity. No one should be surprised that gays can also be prejudiced.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually I am a gay Conservative. I consider myself politically incorrect, Alt Right and a miser about publci finances. I am sure there is NO room in the Liberal's Big Red Tent for me, lest I speak my mind.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Democrats are falling for it. Just as they realized that the Russian fake story was falling apart and they needed to be something other than \"The Resistance\" and were taking on economics (copying Trump's policy), Trump played them with this: An economic argument against Transgenders in the military. \n\nNow they're siding with Social Justice Warriors and demanding that the military be used for free gender altering operations. That will not play well with the working class taxpayers. \n\nLook at this way; if you needed a heart transplant, do you think you should be allowed to join the military to get one at government expense? I don't think so! Then why would a Transgender operation be different?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I don't claim to be a Catholic; I am a Catholic. So are most of my gay friends, even the married ones.\" Anyone can say they're Catholic, but that doesn't mean they are faithful Catholics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yup. American homophobes getting homoerotic as they praised Vlad's targeting of gays. Those are the Americans who lusted after the shirtless pics of Putin on horseback, but don't tell them that they were lusting.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suppose my confusion came from doing a quick web search to find out what was meant by \"safe space.\" The first thing that came up was a Wikipedia article that says;\n\n \"In educational institutions, safe-space (or safe space), safer-space, and positive space are terms used to indicate that a teacher, educational institution or student body does not tolerate anti-LGBT violence, harassment or hate speech, but rather is open and accepting, thereby creating a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and all students.\"\n\nThe easy jump from there is to ask who is harmed by allowing intolerance, and why would they be so concerned about a newspaper comments section? I'm afraid the answer to that question is rather ugly.\n\nIf, as you suggest, the term has come to mean an exclusion of topics or ideas on a larger scale then that is something different.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you detect a whiff of Islamaphobia in my comment? Disagreeing with something does not indicate a fear, but simply a different opinion. Where did all this Islamaphobia, homophobia, transphobia, and all the other phobia's come from? It seems the far left has produced some talking points to be parroted every time someone has a legitimate disagreement with a liberal idea.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Isn't an apology to gay men and women \"cultural appropriation\"? Putting yourself (a non-gay PM) into the place of a gay man in an empathetic way and speaking for them smacks of appropriation. Shouldn't the left complain and demand his resignation? All progressive gays should seek a safe space. I sense a massive triggering here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You would lose that bet. It is difficult to make a principled distinction between wanting a doctor of your own gender and a doctor of your own race or ethnicity, but most people will insist that there is a real difference and that the preference for a doctor of your own gender is legitimate. \n\nIn fact, my own feeling (I'm male) is that I prefer a female doctor for very personal examinations. Intellectually, I know there's nothing sexual about a doctor examining my private parts, but having a male doctor do so feels vaguely homosexual (which I am not), and uncomfortable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"if tomorrow 5000 priests announced they were basically celibate gay men, wouldn't that be a blow for overall cultural acceptance of same sex attraction, and well as an act of courage that the world would recognize and applaud?\"\n\nIndeed it would. It would also be nice if we all woke up tomorrow and everyone had handed in all their assault weapons and sensibly restrictive gun laws magically appeared on the books. It would also be nice if I won the lottery. Sadly, real life doesn't work that way. These things take time. One step forward, two steps back.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Will Trump make America great again? The question is absurd. The real question is this: when was the country great, and for whom? In the not-so-distant past, it was certainly better for union members who could earn a living, for educators whose jobs were not tied to test scores, for anyone who worked in manufacturing. The country is better now for people of color, for gays and lesbians, for women, and for the disabled. This progress has been grotesquely misinterpreted to mean that the country is worse for white people. Such thinking is false logic. One does not rule out the other. Straight white men, especially those who have inherited family fortunes, are doing just fine in America. The problem is that some of them are trying to ruin it for the rest of us. \u2014Chris Offutt", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't see how this \"sets gay rights back,\" even if true.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, all you politically correct and enlightened chefs (who were carefully selected by this \"reporter,\" I suspect), you'd have no problem with a baker whose father died in Auschwitz making a cake honoring a Nazi? You latent totalitarians sure do enjoy making others grovel and submit to the prevailing dogmas sweeping the land, don't you? How about telling the offended customer to go find a gay baker down the street? Surely one of the PC chefs would be delighted to bake his cake. But no, you want total and absolute control over what other people do and think. So much for being a tolerant liberal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is almost always sad when a business closes and it is the end of someone's dream. That being said, and my public drinking days long since past, bars closing are closer related to changing demographics. Now you don't have to go to a bar to hook up, straight or gay, and drinking away from home is legally risky if you drive. Bars that are primarily places for alcohol have some serious barriers to success. You have to have something else, food, entertainment, or some kind of unique ambiance that makes the visit worth the effort. Social media is the bar stool in your pocket.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is just the tip of the iceberg for Trump. He's already managed to attack most minority groups in the U.S, so the transgender population was due to be next. Eventually, he will attack the entire LGBTQ community. He just hasn't gotten around to it yet. \nScary times indeed!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sure you know that your semantics will not work. Maybe just with me. You say equality but what you mean is \"acceptance\". Tolerance is one thing, but acceptance is another. Tolerance already existed, but was pilloried to promote a left agenda. Words have meaning, that's why they changed it to civil union. In effect it was the same thing w/ a different name. Most people know this. You seem to state your opinion as fact. Same ole same ole. Nothing to support your comment, but it's cool.\n\nPut it on the ballot, let the people vote. Not w/ language that allows for shenanigans. By putting on the ballot w/ simple words like, \"Homosexual marriage: Yes or No\" , they used language like, \"allow the legislature to decide that marriage should be between one man and one woman.\" I'm sure you see the difference. So did many voters. As well that other voters did not.\n\nYou say the Reps are living in the past, but how do you know? Its just your opinion. Go beach! Sandys is nice!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How does someone become an expert in transgenderism?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To equate the suffering and extermination of tens of millions of men, women and children in Europe because of their race and religion with the harassment of homosexuals is outrageous. Yes, Canadians were willing to fight and die to prevent the former but that doesn't give the Canadian government license to take up every other alleged injustice in the world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If we want to have a respectful discussion about these deeply emotional issues, we need to stop using terms like homohatred or homophobia, which belittles and disrespects those who might have stories and wisdom from which we can also learn and perhaps come to a more profound sense of justice for all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's over, Trump won because the Democrats put climate change, anti-American activist groups and transgender bathrooms ahead of the hard working middle class. It's as simple as that. Russian activity had no influence, whatsoever.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Despite holding gay rights in high regard I have yet to hear a compelling argument as to why someone who's religion teaches homosexuality to be sinful should be forced to bake a cake for a gay couple in violation of his own freedom of religion. For that matter I cannot for the life of me fathom why a gay couple would even want such a person to bake a cake for them. Were it me I'd simply take my money elsewhere.\n\nI will go to the mat fighting for your right to marry or have relations with any consenting adult you please and not be looked down upon or treated poorly for it, but I will also go to the mat fighting for your right to follow your own religious convictions, regardless of whether I agree with them or not. This is one of the very foundations of this nation. Damaging it would be, in my opinion, every bit as dangerous as banning news articles that criticize the President.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about compensation for women that had their married lives ruined by men that came out gay after marrying straight and producing children while hiding out?\n------------\n\nWhat about compensation for MEN that had their married lives ruined by WOMEN that came out LESBIAN after marrying straight and producing children while hiding out?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is a huge chasm between \"documented\" cases and your word \"natural\".\n\nOdd how you put out \"500 species\" but you didn't give the reader \"the base rate\"...that is the denominator, on a basis, in other words, of what number of species? \n\nHow many species are there? 8.7 million.\n\nTo refrain from causing embarrassment, I'll let the reader do the math with your 500 number pasted from Wikipedia. \n\nAnd this number needs to be further weighed and compared, given the number of \"hetero\" copulations that are occurring even within those 500 species. \n\nThat would be a marvelous number to know...\"out of all the copulations from all the species what percent are homosexual!!!!!\"\n\nSuch anomalies are not natural.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A recent study of anti-GMO proponents found that they had a common trait, moral absolutism. This is the same quality that allows racists and sexists to ignore facts and science and spread hatred of people of color or women. If you look at it objectively, their behavior and arguments are remarkably similar. They can justify all sorts of things, like destroying research fields of GMO crops, etc. because they are answering a higher calling.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Too funny! They were made tin pot dictators in their parishes and you can see many of them in gay bars when in vacation or get to know them on pick up apps like Grindr and such. Then when back in their parish preaching the evils of homosexuality and sodomy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, the international community should respond to attacks on gay men in Chechnya. The international community should also respond: in the Philippines to the indiscriminate slaughter of people who have simply used drugs, in China where Human Rights and religious freedoms are increasingly denied, in Egypt where executions are frequently conducted after unfair trials, in Hungary where refugee's have faced repeated hate crimes and denial of rights, in Israel where land is stolen from Palestinians and unlawful killings occur almost daily etc etc etc. My point here being, that while I support the response of the international community to terrible global events, we continue to respond only where it is politically expedient to do so. Until this changes, any such response can be hardly made on so-called moral terms. End the hypocrisy, fight injustice anywhere it resides.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's called \"progressive liberalism\". You cannot say anything the slightest critical about a gay, transgender, black, illegal immigrant, female or any other person deemed a minority but you can bash anyone considered conservative and all white males and it's considered acceptable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You must want to know:\n\n\"Gay and bisexual menbare the population most affected by HIV. In 2014:\nGay and bisexual men accounted for an estimated 83% (29,418) of HIV diagnoses among males and 67% of all diagnoses.\n\nBlack/African Americanc gay and bisexual men accounted for the largest number of estimated HIV diagnoses (11,201), followed by white gay and bisexual men (9,008).\n\nAmong all gay and bisexual men, trends have varied by race and over time. From 2005 to 2014:\n\nAmong white gay and bisexual men, diagnoses dropped steadily, declining 18% overall.\nAmong Hispanic/Latinod gay and bisexual men, diagnoses rose by 24%.\nAlthough diagnoses among African American gay and bisexual men increased 22%, they have leveled off in the past 5 years, increasing less than 1% since 2010.\nYoung African American gay and bisexual men (aged 13 to 24) experienced an 87% increase in diagnoses. But since 2010, diagnoses have declined 2%.\"\n\nhttps://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/statistics/index.ht", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "U.S. bishops have done more than speak out on bathrooms in churches. Many of them have rushed headlong into endorsing knee-jerk legislation prohibiting transgender persons from using public restrooms of their choice in several states.\n\nMy issue isn't so much with their position. Many people, myself included, are still trying to come to an informed and just position on the issue of gender identity, and good people can disagree. My problem was the overblown push for a legislative solution without any thoughtful discussion, and the implication that there's a crisis in this country regarding proper bathroom usage.\n\nIncreasingly, the U.S. bishops are going all-in on conservative social legislation, and that strategy is backfiring on them. They'd be wise to do what Pope Francis is doing and encourage respectful dialogue instead.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps Trudeau should practice what he preaches and rotate the Liberal leadership every few months so that it will be shared using his \"fairness mandate percentages\" by all of the non-white, disabled, LGBTQ, Native (did I miss anyone?) liberal party members. \nWhen I was a boy all politicians and most everyone in business was white. Time and immigration changed that and will continue to do that so a sensible representation will evolve. Trying to legislate that is ridiculous.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ha! Dream on!\n\nThe previous CPC government went out of its way to help persecuted homosexuals around the world, all the while being decried by the \"progressives\" as bible-thumping so-cons. But they had class; they just did the job without emoting all over social media about how caring they were. Meantime JT makes a big noise about bringing extra \"refugees\" from Syria, most of whom were in no physical danger at all.\n\nI don't see Ottawa helping Chechnya's gay men; there's not enough selfies at stake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In this discussion, gay people are made to bear the burden of proof. However, the ethical principle governing exclusion is those arguing for exclusion have the burden of proof.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And it includes drivers.\n\nSo to rehash this comment, \"unless there is a massive Hispanic or other minority population of NASCAR drivers that I cant find the stats on, I will again stand by my original statement...\"\n\nAs will I.\n \nMY statement is this- Why does EVERYTHING have to be 'diverse'? Can't it be something some people like to participate in just because they like it? And it may be one group by majority-be they men, women, transgender, color or ethnicity & so on. People who happen to prefer a sport. Not deliberately, nor racist. They just enjoy it. \n\nAs we continue to force diversity *solely* based on race and ethnicity, rather than personal preferences and freedom of choice, is the day we push ever closer to this -classifying and mandating behaviors solely by their skin or lifestyle choice. \n\nThat goes against everything that is American. In fact it is 100% discounting everyone's preferences except the vocal few, who are expressing superiority and demands. \n\nI think that's sad.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That would be a tragedy ... a tragedy, really, if he influences any young person. As horrible as it is for gay and lesbian young people to embrace self-loathing attitudes, it's almost as tragic if their straight peers embrace them. I find this particular writer so much over-the-top that he appears to be a caricature -- but the possibility that someone reading here might take this nonsense seriously is the reason I engage occasionally.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Read it again Trans. Or have it translated into a language you can understand.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Feminism had its value until the lesbian movement co-opted it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the other glaring mistake everyone makes is to forget about the 'B' as if bisexuality is not in play when it comes to who loves who at any given time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Come to me all who are weary because I am gentle and humble of heart. My yoke is easy and my burden light.\" That is your standard of Justice. It must be to live a human life, not a divine one. You cannot justify forcing women to stay in bad marriages, homosexuals being told to be other than what they are or celibate, a government giving inhumanly low rent and food subsidies to the poor or not ordaining women as justice or mercy, perfect or otherwise, if you use Jesus words as your standard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They will seek the highest ranking white person and blame him. it could go all the why up to Trump if need be, and the liberal media will accept it without question. After the Orlando killings, LGBT leaders across American and Canada blamed Trump and the NRA fo the deaths. by passing the actual guy who did it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They don't like our liberties either Einstein, including everything from your LGBT lifestyle to religius freedom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Justin Trudeau will get along with anyone, for a price. And since there is no reward to get along with Russia, in his mind, we have this new bizarre realpolitiks being played. I just hope that Justin Trudeau's sense of values has nausea because he has to be a \"friend\" to a mysogist, anti-gay, etc..... man like Donald Trump. I hope when he is old, he will have regrets about doing that..... Narcissism has it's price M. Trudeau. I guess you are ready to do anything to feed it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you are confused. The issue was not on how big the cake was, or its flavors or even its style. The baker refused to make a cake for this couple ONLY because of the fact that the cake would be used as their wedding cake. Thats it. And just so were clear, this baker had a shop. Its not like hes some freelance baker/artist doing this stuff on the side.\n\nThe FACT is, if a straight couple had sat down with this guy and asked for the exact same cake this couple wanted, this baker would have made it for them. The ONLY reason he refused to make this cake for this couple was because he does not agree with gay marriage. Really its no different than people in the 50's refusing to serve a black person. Many people cited the Bible for their reasoning for that as well....didnt make it any more right.\n\nDo you really want to live in a country where people can refuse to serve you just because they dont agree with your personal life? I sure don't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks for your question. The 5 non-negotiables (intrinsically evil and must never be promoted by the law) are: abortion, euthanasia, EMBRYONIC stem cell research (ADULT stem cell research is a great thing), human cloning, and homosexual \"marriage\". It can be seen in detail at Catholic.com (Catholic Answers).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course you agree with Ann Coulter that Harvey is the result of Houston's voting for a lesbian mayor, correct?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, that is my point. Thick wrote, \"All form of hate need to be eliminated racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, discrimination against Transgenders\", these are generally accepted SJW trigger words. You can look them up. Try ANTIFA. The above quoted words don't even apply to this article, except the word \"hate\". Use of the word \"hate\", in this context, is simply click-bait. \"Hate\" defined is \"intense or passionate dislike\". Few people would or even could \"hate\" a person with their face covered. \n\nWe are a tolerant society. Tolerance has a danger, though, \" Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.\" From Karl Popper's \"The Open Society and Its Enemies\". A great read. I suggest you read it. And I'm not being sarcastic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In reaction to golosa labeling your comment sexist\n\nso Harper was anti-gay when Baird took heat for his government actions.?\n\nDoesn't explain old white guys Flaherty, Clement, McKay, Oliver having to face the tough questions. \n\nHow about Ambrose, Leitch, Raitt, Diane Finley,Bev Oda ,Leona Aglukkaq, Diane Ablonczy Candice Bergen or Shelly Glover..... They were forced to answer the tough questions. There was never a problem because they were qualified to handle their jobs.\n\nNever ever heard them or anyone on their behalf blaming Harper for making them stand up", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Catholic conferences in states.\n\nWell, it is important, then, that you write your state government representatives and make sure they understand your own, personal viewpoint in so far as your viewpoint is not the same as the bishops on a particular issue. And, make a point that you are a Catholic while doing it. One of the ways you give up your own voice and power and responsibility, is by being silent when others act as if you are included in some group being represented. \n\nThere are a number of issues on which my bishop does not represent what I think is appropriate political action - gay marriage, support for Planned Parenthood, contraceptive coverage in health insurance, the so-called \"religious freedom\" that is a masquerade for discrimination in the market places of goods, services and jobs. Don't let it slide by. An email to a state representative or senator can take only a few minutes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Continuing...... That's why mercy becomes confusing to this line of thought. It's just ignoring God's immutable law so that someone can feel better while they sin, right? Never mind looking to see if they are loving, or trying to love, or trying to pray despite being told that the law says you are evil from the jump. Never mind whether gay or divorced people actually succeed in bettering the lives of those around them. Never mind whether women are truly leaders and guides, true confectors of the Body of Christ. And never mind the mercy shown me by a God who knows my daily sinfulness. All of that pales before immutable law and the need to tell others that \"God can't love you like that. God can only love you in the way I tell you, because God has revealed that (immutably) to me.\"\nWhen the law excludes people from a church that names itself Universal, I'll question it in faith. When (always sinful) people love, I'll uphold that. Because I've been taught to be Catholic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The so-called Russian Federation covers 1/6th of the world's land area, meaning a person under threat has the option of an Internal Flight Alternative (i.e. move away from where you are not safe to some place where you can be). So a gay man in the Caucasus can relocate, for example, to, let's say, Moscow, where there is an active gay community that does not suffer persecution (although some of its members likely have been discriminated against, which is not the same thing). Surely under the benevolent leadership-in-perpetuity of Mr Putin LGBTQ folks in Mother Russia are safe?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the \"rules\" as you call them were put in place to keep people from harassing a group of individuals who need their rights protected, there is not one documented case of a transgender assaulting anyone in a bathroom, there are however many cases of them being assaulted for their transgenderism, and women being assaulted by by men who feel they have some kind of right to abuse them, and gay people being harassed for what they are. as far as magical thinking goes I believe if it walks and talks like a duck it's a duck.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Hilary Clinton supports murder of Gays and mistreatment of Women? Can you provide a non-FOX news link to support this?\"\n\nNo problem, how about Salon?\n\nhttp://www.salon.com/2016/03/02/even_critics_understate_how_catastrophically_bad_the_hillary_clinton_led_nato_bombing_of_libya_was/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just a comment that yesterday morning, CNN reported there were 2500 transgenders in active service. That night, it was 4000. This morning, CBC reported 12,000 and a guy in a dress in North Carolina claimed it was 15,000+ . They're pulling numbers out of thin air. Reason I post: dressing in a toga, costuming as an \"Arab Male\", dressing as Liza, Ch\u00e9r, Celine or Elvis, a girl in blue jeans and a t-shirt, or a man-suit and pants is NOT transgendered. Choice of one's costume does NOT change one's gender, nor the bathroom/shower they're expected to use!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And by \"developed\" you mean exclude otherwise celibate men with a predisposition to homosexuality? That would work out well; you won't need as many priests to staff your dream of a \"smaller, purer, holier\" church. The rest of us will walk with our brothers and sisters regardless of what you view as moral failures and sin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The federal government's jurisdiction over immigration law has consistently been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has overruled attempts by state legislatures to single out immigrants. Additionally, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution is generally interpreted to mean that federal laws trump state laws, except for certain matters constitutionally left to the states.\nThe open question is to what (legal) extent the city could and should proactively resist or cooperate with Federal initiatives. \nIf the Feds want to hold/deport an undocumented immigrant, no city declaration can legally stop it. (As much as I might wish it to be otherwise). Individuals can (and maybe should!) choose to resist, but beyond working within the rule of law allowed within the Supremacy Clause, what are you asking for? Kim Davis was within her rights as an individual to refuse (and face punishment for refusing) to perform marriages-- but our gay brothers and sisters can still marry. (Yay for that!)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The left is you guys.\"--What guys? I have voted for a wide variety of candidates for political office.\n\n\"The left has \"safe zones\" for college students, because they're offended, by something or some one.\"--If you're talking about what goes on at Berkeley, you're way off. If you mean that my school doesn't tolerate students using racial or anti-gay slurs, then yes, you're correct.\n\n\"Does those polls include inter-city black parents? Why did Obama resend the scholarship program in Washington DC his first year?\"--You know, I don't know. But, what I do know is that Washington DC's schools aren't representative of all schools in the US.\n\n\"Here again we have to define bipartisan. Democrats getting what they want, and Republicans caving.\"--And, to you, bipartisan is Democrats caving, and Republicans getting what they want. Besides, its not like this has much to do with anything we're discussing....just a chance for you to blow hot air in cyberspace.\n\nTo be continued......", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Advance civil rights of gays in the church\"? \n\nWhat exactly is that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Considering that neither you nor I was in the \"administration\" when those alerts were allegedly made, I, for one, don't know how credible your information is. Also, Americans by and large don't believe that others would have it \"out for us\" in that manner which is why there are still people (especially on the left) who don't believe what the Quaran says to do with \"gays\" and which ISSIS and other middle eastern countries do to them or to women!\n\nYou must still be protesting the Viet Nam war! Our military are not \"gangsters.\" My Vietnamese manicurist says how glad her family in Viet Nam were when the U.S. came to save them against communist N. Vietnamese takeover. \n\nDoes the U.S. make mistakes? Of course, we do, as nobody on earth is perfect. However, the U.S. has taken the \"upper road\" whenever possible and tries to do the right thing with all parties interests in mind. American corporations are no different than American people since they are run by and employ Americans!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In Re: open ambiguities of DNA\nAs people of common inheritance we do well to honor the natural openness of biology in testing genetic stability/ sustainability, as well as remaining open to natural surprises. Potentials of human sexuality remain open and evident in individuality in surprising ways. We should honor and respect individuality of personal characterization - including surprised scrambling of sexuality in ways that invites sexuality to continue to be open and responsive to environmental and cultural challenges.\nUsing the word 'homosexual' in a contextual way that demeans individuality is wrong, and degrades Divine Wisdom in her ways of challenging status-quo thinking. Differences, including physical/ psychological characterizations of sexuality are to be honored and celebrated in respectful and understanding ways. Self-alienated male sexism, as practiced in hierarchical clericalism, does not rightly define divine intentions with respect to individuality of faith experience.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Divorce, unworthy reception of Communion and gay marriage are not settled teachings, not anymore. Indeed, the proof texting on each is obviously flawed and because we can now read the bible in English, we can raise these questions.\nThe question is not whether grace can overcome the need to Marry again but whether it has to. If the Church has been proof texting Mark inaccurately, which on its fact condemnds divorce and remarriage as a single act (i.e. divorce not and but to marry another), then there is no need for grace.\nNot adultery if you were the one who was dumped and then remarried. As for gays, if they were born that way, married homosexaul relations cannot be sinful. The sinful act of sodomy was pederaasty.\nAgain, no sin, no Communion problem. Also, when Paul wrote, there was no doctrine on mortal sin. Being unworthy was receiving but not believing.\nIf you can follow my logic, which is the truth, then you don't need to bother the Holy Father, especially after retirement.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not cherry picking though. Evangelical christianity is mainstream. Those churches I mentioned? One of the pastors was asked to pray with George W. Bush after his inauguration. \n\nMost major political candidates give speeches at Liberty University (Trump read from \"Two Corinthians\" during one of his speeches). \n\nMike Pence is extremely open about his agenda and his faith. Then you have the likes of Sara Palin who you can openly find videos of her praying and preaching about this being a Christian nation. If anyone was remotely that devout or dogmatic about any other belief system you can imagine the reaction.\n\nEvangelical Christians are the most influential religion when it comes to American politics and they also pretend they are the most persecuted for absurd things like gays being allowed to marry or not being allowed to put a cross up in a public square.\n\nMeanwhile you have articles like this where Muslims feel they have to change their locks because their lives are threatened.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Colonization has not been altogether bad, unless you want to renounce Western medicine. And caucasian Canadians themselves have been colonized by Britain and then by the US. Immigrants too, for generations, have had their stories of challenges and biases. My life, as a gay man born in 1953, has not been altogether easy--an understatement. I have maintained a positive outlook, do not plead victimization, and pay a lot of taxes to subsidize other people's children. I am thankful for the advantages we all have, living in our society. Compare the unfolding Republican nightmare south of the border. Or China. Or Russia. Or many other countries.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can you not read? I'm saying that you and your modernist snow flake buddies seem to think that the budget, immigration, tax policy, etc. are of equal weight to abortion and homosexual unions. They are not. Trump's policies, at least on abortion so far, are in line with the Church's dogmatic teaching.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Outsider: please read the article I \"linked.\" Lesbians are a \"protected class\". Unless a jurisdiction has established specific statutes address discriminating against someone based on political beliefs, etc, such discrimination is NOT illegal. ....and, yes, I think courts would find \"lesbians not welcome\" would constitute such discrimination. read the article....it's quite interesting. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Will Justin demand that the oil sheikdoms of the islamic Middle East enact human rights laws protect gay men from being thrown of buildings or hanged in public? No certainly not. He will shut down oil sand in Alberta so we can continue to buy oil from dictatorships where life for LGBT people is a living hell. Sunny ways after all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gee Jim did not know your preference was trying not to just assume. In today's USA if you assume that a guy has a wife when he is the wife or the other way around or is both or non of the above.\nGotta be careful not to offend. Right? You are 1000% correct saying violence in this matter is totally unmanly. Beating up on some guy that thinks he is a girl is about as manly as the real tough guys who do beat up woman to show who is boss. Kind of a 3rd world middle east where they throw gays off tall buildings and burn women alive way of thinking.\nThe only one's needing a kick in the ass are the bureaucrats,media and special interest groups making money from the issue that is not an issue.\nSoon it will be illegal for a father to take their daughter or mother their sons into the government approved bathroom of their choice because some whining idiot wanted special treatment or saw another way to make money and get their name in print.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Shanley rose to prominence in the 1970s as denim-clad, shaggy-haired counterculture figure, well known for criticizing the church\u2019s stance on homosexuality.\"\n\n-- Boston Globe", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We have no obligation to foist our idea of what we consider to be the greatest good on someone else. Assuming we are dealing with adults, he or she will almost certainly resent your meddling, as well he or she should. It's related to what Warren and Brandeis, in their article, \"The Right to Privacy\" called \"the right to be let alone\". You have neither the right nor the duty to be a busybody.\n\nSo, let me repeat my question: What do you see are the duties of gays? Specifically, what duties do they have that I, as a heterosexual, do not share with them? If the answer is \"none\", then they have just as much right to marry as I have. I am speaking of civil marriage, of course.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But she said that Jesus was making a reference to those who don't fit into traditional male/female roles, a reality that was recognized in the ancient world. (that is a stretch).\n\nWhat this article does not deal with is the fact that traditional roles are only the orthodoxy roles that happened to win out in the 300s due to the support of the Roman Emperor and not God, at least regarding sexism. \n\nOur Traditions about women were not scripture based from 100 AD and on. Jesus never led us to treat anyone differently than we wish to be treated or to even keep women out of same priesthood-or offer women limited sacraments compared to men - that is all Rome's Secular Influence and Pagan Influence in our church. We must correct this by ordaining women priests as a matter of human dignity and demanding women cardinals immediately. \n\nUntil equality is recognized in the sexes-God created Man-male & female he created them-one same creation. Homosexuals are left out too..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm pretty sure there's a difference as wide as the Willamette between tithing either 10 or 15 percent of your salary to a church whose mission involves morally mandating LGBTOMGWTFBBQ people out of existence and a pair of pants.\n\nAnd I grew up Mormon. They're less creepy by leaps and bounds than Imago Dei...and I say this as a disabled woman who got run out of the church for being a gay \"sweet spirit\". There are scads of Mormons I trust, most of whom are quite critical of the Church's more hateful policies. \n\nPeople from Imago Dei who tithe to that kind of hate uncritically? You'll forgive me for being rather suspicious. You welcome me into your church as an equal and I'll welcome you as an equal, but until then...your Google-fu about someone's pants is completely different than a church which hates me so much it wants me to not exist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently this is a cultural and religious matter. The \"indigenous people\" of Chechya (the Nakh people) have a belief in a story that resembles the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Holy Bible. Some of the gay men were murdered by their own families - similar to the \"honour\" killings in India (but on a much smaller scale than the killings in India).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why are you validating that religious hate group? There is no law stopping ANYONE from taking a bible into a school. That groups screams persecution while attacking the LGBT and atheist communities. The only laws about religion in school are about preventing people in a position of authority from preaching or the use of school resources/time to preach.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Courage\" (cough cough) is damaging in one particular respect. \"Courage\" (how about \"Cowardice\" --doesn't sound good does it) refuses to use the word \"Gay.\" It will only use the term same-sex. One might think this is trivial, however, an oppressive group (e.g. the Church) always renames particular groups or minorities with terms it prefers and denies them terms they choose for themselves. Courage will not engage the LGBTQ community with terms it chooses for its own self-representation. As Jonathan Dollimore has said \"an oppressive group is always trying to control representation.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That was about martyrdom, not popular morality. We do not require everyone gay person, woman with a difficult pregnancy or divorced person be a martyr. Again, it has nothing to do with the issue of whether the hierarchy have been modern pharisees, who would surely be not only condemned by Christ, but would try to kill him again. Indeed, how they treat Francis is shameful.\n\nIf you want martyrs, have all of those who moved and quieted scandals about sexual abuse in their diocese (or shifted assets, like Dolan, or protected the Vatican from being touched by judgments) come forward and accept their shame. All of them. Including Francis. Better they admit it than bare the penalty that Christ prescribed for leading these young ones into sin. (pederasty).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That photo could easily be interpreted as saying, \"Dude, not only my country but my political family is a different breed than the Trumps, far more left, and I'm keeping an eye on you like my dad did but don't mistake proximity and strategic silence for support if push ever comes to shove. We don't share many of your values.\"\n\nWith respect, Leah misses the fact that Trudeau's reputation precedes him. Trump knows all about Trudeau's stance on refugees and immigrants, the inclusivity piece regarding women, support for gay rights and abortion, socialized medicine, Trudeau's fawning eulogy for Castro, everything. Plus, Trudeau reiterated when asked by American press this country's policy on immigration. It was more a surprise to me that Trump did not freak out on Trudeau.\n\nPlus, negotiations haven't even started yet. General political decorum dictates niceties at this stage, U.N. style.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jim Lieb maybe you need to learn how to use Google. It is pretty easy. Just enter a few terms and whamo you get a listing of sites where your requested information can be found. You might actulay have to revise your search as your responses may not be what what you were looking for. Meanwhile I'm confident that you can easy Google and find many objections by conservatives to the guest Obama had during his tenure. Amoung those were transgender individuals, pro abortion activist, anyone representing Black Lives Matter. Do you need a bigger list?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The participation and complicity of many religions in encouraging the bullying, discrimination, and even violence against LGBT people in our society is very telling. This is a revealing moment, isn't it, for these institutional religions?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "C'mon...did you stand in solidarity with married couples when a \"fearless leader\" promulgated Humanae Vitae? Did you stand in solidarity with gays when \"fearless leaders\" called their loving \"intrinsically disordered\"? Did you stand in solidarity with women when a \"fearless leader\" declared forever closed the possibility of their priesthood? Maybe situational ethics and the Catholic Cafeteria are valid and wonderful concepts to prompt--not silence--intra-Church dialogue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many gay men have blue uniform shirts, Sam Brown leather harnesses. Wear them en mass and show BLM they do not rule over us. Tory is being a total woose.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those Minneriess feel so opressed, so put upon, those gays are taking all of their limelight, look at the Minnerys, look at them. They want those special privileges to prove us they are morally our betters, They are not insignificant, they are a big deal among their ten followers. Its easy to stand out in a small town. Its fun to pretend your small town has big huge problems. But its just a small town, tin pot dictators. Your neighbors already know your secrets. So wave your arms about and whine your feelings and fears are not being met or addressed. Minneries want a special law separating them from the herd, with their special halos. The rest of us just want peace in our small town, where we already know everybody's name. Where one neighbor we all know hates another small group of neighbors and wants the right to harass and point at them to feel superior because, well, because they are sure their god wants them to. Better start a movement to label the bathrooms on airplanes & rodeos", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The word \"gay\" in reference to homosexuals, was actually coined by the French many years ago when they observed how-happy were the folks living on the Left Bank at the time, most of whom were homosexuals. \"Gay Paris, monsieur.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh puleeze its not like theyre llamas or circus elephants if youre going to go out in public then you have to deal with the public. People are equally as dickish whether gay or straight just be nice to one another and actually write about something interesting or relevant, and if someone crosses the line politely correct them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Social experiments? I seem to have recalled the same sort of \"argument\" against gays.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jack Philips has made many cakes for gay weddings, he just does not know it.\nIn the future is he going to ask if the cake is for a gay wedding?\nWill he choose to be offended then?\n\nWhat if he asks and is lied to? The baker chooses to not be offended. Then he makes a cake for a wedding. It turns out the cake is used in a gay wedding. Is the baker offended and does not know it?\n\nThe baker is being a child.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe we can be be inclusive by not highlighting groups of of people - Muslims, Christians, women, men, black, white, gay, straight - for abuse or for special treatment.\n\nIdentity politics, in all of its stripes, is toxic to democracy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Cardinal Burke\u2019s position is beside the point here.Legally speaking, the Grand Master was entirely within his power, according to the governing laws of the Order, to compel the resignation of von Boeselager under his promise of obedience. The only requirements for him to do so are, first, that it be done for a serious and just cause and, secondly, in the presence of two witnesses (Code of the Order, art. 63 \u00a72). It was for this reason that the Grand Commander and Cardinal Patron were present at the meeting between von Boeselager and the Grand Master.\" (catholicherald.co.uk) If Burke's position is an important one, why would the pope have \"promoted\" him to it?\nIf you read my blogs you would know of the pope's extreme positions against women, gays and transgender persons, not to mention him packing the Vatican with vulture capitalists and lay US Republicans. You would know there were ample reasons why JPII promoted him up the ecclesial career ladder with Sodano's recommendation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Democrats pointed out, rightly, that the Scouts ban on gay people was wrong. The Scouts eventually joined the modern world and rescinded the ban. Nice try spinning that to vilify the Dems.\n\nNow how about some links proving your allegations about the Scouts reaction to Trump.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nice opinion, but terribly silly. I actually do two things. 1. I use my own experiences with blacks to counter any narrative trying to prove I'm a racist. But I also talk about my gay friends, my Jewish friends, my Latino friends and my Norwegian friends, all of whom I love and respect equally. 2. I refuse to let liberals on here to paint conservatives falsely as racists, bigots and homophobes. Saying it is so doesn't make it so. You, peterpi, do this very thing that I'm condemning and you are as wrong as anyone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What these people do is hardly sexual innuendo but believe what you must. My point is simply that the selective resurrection of Victorian values by the same crowd that put Bill Clinton in office that now pushes transgender restrooms and claims that pedophilia is normal doesn't have much room to complain when it comes to Trump. \n\nI am however, truly impressed by your sesquipedalian post trying to justify the sick culture that the left has hung around our neck over the last decade but, if all these allegations that you\u2019re so hopeful to be true are actually substantiated, it won\u2019t matter because Trump was a Democrat when these women were allegedly molested so he can\u2019t be guilty.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is a seriously false denigration of the Church and the magisterium to say that \"the Church has no more authority in that area (conscience formation) . . . than a good mother or teacher or gay neighbor or a Jew or a Muslim.\" The magisterium is not a bunch of laymen --- gay or otherwise --- who sit around \"philosophizing\" like men do at a bar or barbershop, or women at a beauty salon. They are trained for years in theology, Scripture, and moral philosophy, and are guided by the Holy Spirit. Because of this, the Church correctly teaches: \"The task of interpreting the Word of God authentically has been entrusted solely to the magisterium of the Church, that is, to the Pope and to the college of bishops in communion with Him.\" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Art. 100).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "According to NEWSWEEK, \"Border Wall Tied to Trump Transgender Ban\".\nhttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/border-wall-tied-to-trump-transgender-ban-report/ar-AAoSxVS?li=BBnb7Kz", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Walter: Fish's Dog in the fight must be that they are a Homosexual. There is NO other reason why someone would be protecting and condoning BAD Homosexual BEHAVIOR. Sergeant Shultz says, \"Ich denke, es gibt einen Homosexuellen im Holzstapel\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Bar owner states to not hate gays, but requested a permit to hold an ANTI-LGBT rally .. Sounds pretty homophobic to me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Both were legalized under the Liberals. Pierre Trudeau decriminalized Gay Sexual relations and was a Catholic.\n\nPaul Martin was the PM when Same Sex Marriage became legal and he is also Catholic.\n\nIf I am remembering correctly there was a bishop in Alberta that threatened to Ex-communicate both Martin and Chretien (the Ontario Lawsuit that started the legalization was 2003) for not supporting the traditional definition of marriage.\n\nPersonally I don't feel that religion has a place in our laws - when you are an MP/MPP you should have to set aside your beliefs and vote for what it right for all not just what your holy book says.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "According to the survey, a self-identifying gay Conservative is really just a John Manley Liberal who is decisive, accountable and wearing tight pants. Scott Brison was once responsible about public finances, but he's fixed now. Just leave your mind at the BRT door - you'll love the new you!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There won't be such a progression for Trump.\nTrump has done the math. He knows there are more conservative Christian voters than GLBT voters. That is ALL that matters to Trump. As long as Trump makes all the right noises about \"homosexuals\", and genuflects to the right right-wing causes, he knows he'll never lose his base.\nSo, Trump cancelled the Obama executive order that said federal contractors had to have sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination policies. He'll try to kick transgender people out of the military. He will continue to pursue legal avenues declaring that \"religious freedom\" overrides any and all state and local laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation. He will have the solicitor general write an amicus brief that the Masterpiece baker has every right to tell gay people, but no other group in Colorado's civil rights laws, to get lost. Thank you, Judge Gorsuch.\nAs long as the Christian right supports Trump, Trump won't care what happens to gay people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don't recall anyone celebrating homosexual behavior. But then I don't obsess on things that aren't of interest to me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have heard of many of them making statements about how sinful the lifestyle is and other similar comments but have not heard of any calling for gays to be put to death.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree. Trump will bring positive changes. Specifically he will drive a record number of women, Latinos, blacks, Muslims, and gays to the polls.\n\nPositive change for America but not so good for the Donald.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "More men with \"mens plumbing\" have harmed kids sexually in Richard Rhyner's church alone as compared with all Transgender people combined", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder why nobody gets upset that the schools don't tell parents that Little Billy has joined the Math Club. Or is that somehow different than a gay-straight alliance?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Incredible ignorance. Gays are naturally gay from their gestation in an event known as epigenesis. \"Natural complemetarity\" is a conceptual model, not a reality. It is made up, like-the concept of the natural order._It is placing piety over reality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is an excellent decision and shows true leadership. At their core all soldiers are fighters. They are combat troops first. They should be able to at any moment be picked up and placed in a fox hole if that is what is required with the same support as the rest of the troops to keep the beans, bullets, and band aides flowing.\n\nHaving transgender soldiers undermines the fighting effectiveness. \n\nGood job President Trump.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What in particular made this a \"gay\" cake other than it was a wedding cake for a gay couple? I missed that if there was something specifically \"gay\" about the cake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I choose now to live as a gay man.\"\nWhile you could take this statement to mean Spacey chooses to be gay, it seems more likely that he simply means he isn't living a lie anymore. Many gays pretend to be straight, at least in public, so they don't have to deal with haters. For an actor whose livelihood depends on audience acceptance, it must matter even more.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There's a disparity here, and some people are fine with it.\nIf a business wants to discriminate against gay people based on the business owner(s)' religious conscience, certain people seem all fine and dandy with that.\nBut!\nIf a gay business owner were to discriminate against conservative Christians, those same people would be up in arms. Persecution! they'd cry.\nThere's a power imbalance.\n\nAnd to all those people who think businesses ought to be able to sell or refuse to sell to whomever they please, I say put your money where your mouth is: Work to repeal all civil rights laws. Otherwise, you just want businesses to have the right to discriminate against gay people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus is clearly calling for us to love perfectly rather than behaving perfectly. Not sinning is simply self preservation. We are called to more than that. As hard as it sounds, we are not allowed to hate the Alt Right just as they are not allowed to hate gay marrieds or couples who do not conform to traditional marriage customs. As Christ calls us to love perfectly (especially the poor), we cannot be a Christian nation without accepting those we disapprove of. Hating gangsta teens who feel empowered by anti-cop rap video is not allowed, nor is hating the cops who abuse them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, you mean the same Wes Keller that tried to block a routine resolution that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts, solely because he wanted to vet rumors that others said they saw on the internet that linked the Girl Scouts to Planned Parenthood? Thanks for the laugh. \n\nGood ole Wes was just pandering to comments of Republican Indiana Rep. Bob Morris, who called the Girl Scouts a \u201cradicalized organization\u201d based on similar rumors. Morris sent a letter to Indiana lawmakers saying he was planning to withdraw his daughters from the Girl Scouts, alleging that they \u201care a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood, encourage sex and allow transgender females to join.\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can you read my comment before replying or having a reaction to it? If a straight couple came in and asked for a cake for a gay wedding, he wouldn't have baked that either. So, no, he's not discriminating against them based on their sexual orientation. He's just not baking cakes for gay weddings.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The power of the LGBT gang is terrifying. If transgender do not identify themselves it is deceptive to a person who is hoping for a normal opposite sex relationship. The surprise and embarrassment that would come after unclothing is shocking!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Active homosexuals must repent for the salvation of their souls, and remain celibate. The priests and bishops facilitating this movement are not saving souls but condemning them (and themselves) to a sorry fate. It is not affirmation these poor souls need, but the truth, God's truth. The Catholic Church has been infiltrated by dark forces indeed. We must pray for forgiveness and salvation from this evil.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You rightly note there is no monopoly, gay or straight, on abuse. Your argument suggests that the popular perception that being being gay is a sign of poor character, (which carries the corollary, that being straight is a sign, if not proof, of good character) is an adequate justification for policy. That seems naive. Seminaries struggle and too often fail to tell sound seminarians from the unsound, whatever their sexual orientation. This move does not suggest any improvement in that process of discernment, and may make the job harder. \n\nThe Church has always had effective means to deal with problematic members of the clergy. The aspects of the sex abuse scandals most damaging to Her reputation have to do with her many failures to employ those means. I worry that the Church, by denying priesthood to homosexuals based on their sexuality alone, is attempting to shift attention from Her own failings. Which would be yet another failure.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There were probably a lack of trans gender people so our government boycotted the meeting", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Anti gun is anti self defense is anti gay rights\" is nothing more than propaganda through and through. The logic is astoundingly simple minded and irresponsible. And you resort to calling me a bigot for sharing an opinion that happens to conflict with your proclivities. Only those who having nothing better to say resort to calling people names.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is this different? That's an easy one: it isn't a 'terrible disease or disability' to be a person who is transgendered; your comparison to diabetes is absolutely off the mark.\nAccording to Trump & the Trumpanzees, trans people's medical issues cost about 8.5 million per year to the U.S. military and as we should all know by now, that's about one-fifth of what's spent on Viagra, and less than half of what Trump has spent on trips to Mar-El-Largo and his other properties.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lock her up until Trump resigns. The charge: An accomplice in crimes against humanity, denial of health care, anti transgender and no regard for refugees.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right wing Catholics and Evangelicals voted on 2 issues and only 2 issues: abortion and gay marriage. All else was ignored to make that \"moral\" choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you don\u2019t like the idea of normalizing gay behavior for your kids find another movie. Big mistake by Disney to promote the liberal lifestyle indoctrination game.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The US Constitution bars any law that interferes with a person's right to exercise religious freedom. Yet, a Christian man is being sued for refusing to make a special-order wedding cake for a gay couple. Makes no sense given that gays are not granted special protection in the US Constitution as gays. Also left unprotected are transgenders who ignore science and common sense to try to justify biological males in female private spaces. A person with male anatomy is not, and can never be, female. God help us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As usual YOU missed the point here! WE are discussing the concepts of this article---not some idea that YOU have in YOUR mind about the general direction of NCR's contributing writers. \n\nIf any group has had its mind below people's belts, it's the hierarchy/clergy of the Catholic church. Bishops and priests under their direction still preach to people how they are to vote [only for candidates who are against abortion]. A colleague of mine, in the Cleveland area, told me that during Christmas week, he went to daily Mass and heard the priest preaching against abortion and homosexuality. As a number of other people did, my colleague got up and left during the homily.\n\nIf NCR reports anything about abortion, homosexuality, etc. , it is BECAUSE for the USCCB, sexuality seems to be the only issue that they are concerned about. Forget global warming. Forget about affordable, universal health care. Forget about the proposed deportation of DACA kids or their parents. Nothing but SEX!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In reading many of the comments here and in the article, I see very little said about sending what is healthy sexuality. The problem with the Church is that focuses all it's testosterone imbued energy in the negative aspects of sexuality, not positive. Someone mentioned intimacy, but the is closeness in a good relationship, hetero- or homosexual that is enriching for all, not just the couple, but children and community. That's love. Healthy sexuality is love in action. I've never understood why celibacy on both sides, men and women, is valued higher than physical connection with someone you love. The ridiculous Platonic separation of spirit from flesh that needs to change in attitude in the church and all other religious systems that put celibacy above love.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I should not impose my belief system on others?\n\nWhy do liberals get to impose their belief systems on others if I don't? Why do liberals get to force institutions to cover contraception? Why do liberals get to impose abortion and gay marriage on the country?\n\nYou talk about not insisting that other's believe what I believe. The other end of that is that others get to impose their beliefs on me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What if....the happy homothexual couple wanted their wedding cake toped with male genitals? Would the baker have to do that 'artwork'?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "this guy trot probably goes to church every sunday with a bible in his hands preaching the gospel of the lord loudly and clearly, 'love thy neighbour', but inaudible to everyone except himself, under his breath adds 'except if he is gay'. the dark ages which of course no one really knows anything about let alone me still seemed like a time of greater tolerance than that as practiced by some people of the trot variety today.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My 2nd attempt - why my comments being rejected I have no idea.\nLets see, you just accused me of a complicated sexuality, ie. possibly latent homosexuality. \"He said you had a complicated sexuality, didn't he? It would seem the case.\" Was this comment made so as to obtain a visceral response from me out of concern and compassion, or just to \"get even\"? No different than Fr Martin's desired effect. Get my point now? I see you mentioning \"bullying\" in your other responses. There seems to be a whiff of hypocrisy here, don't you think?\nBy the way, what does your comment \" but the weakness in personal boundaries is an issue that complicates sexuality.\" pertain to or supposed to mean to our discussion?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Our foreign enemies are going to be shocked by the assault of U.S. transgender troops!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, the Berlin Concordat - Mons. Roncalli (Pius XII) and Pope Pius XI with the Hitler government (1933) \"protected\" the Church \"institution\" at the expense of an oath of loyalty to the government. Consequences? Parallels anyone?\nAnd together we will rid America of abortions, same-sex marriage, homosexuals....and after that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wait a sec. Maybe I have this all wrong. So, could it be that the transgendered woman had testicles surgically added to her body, then changed her mind and wanted them off? And which bathroom would this person use?\n\n....I'm so confused....but not nearly as much as the people in this story! LOL", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "you can knowingly infect someone with aids and it's ok.\nyou can go to jail if you don't use the proper pronoun when speaking to the transgenders.\nare the flames hot enough yet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Pride organization has been hijacked by a radical black minority. If Pride cannot redeem its reputation the City should remove funding. Further I believe that Pride should be instructed that their \"parade\" permit requires they use paid duty police or a private contractor to provide traffic control and security. This City has welcomed the organization in the past and we recognize the contribution to City business but we should not endorse this overt racially directed political statement. If the LGBT Community wants broad public support they need to stop this backward move,", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds like a river in Egypt to me. \n\nThousands of youth are groomed every day by adults of all gender persuasions. \n\nCatholic priests most often seem to prefer male children; school teachers seem to be more of the heterosexual bent.\n\nBoy Scout leaders go where there are young males.\n\nI would be astounded to find that a Gay Men's Chorus was celibate!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"But what I'm really going to do is point to sensible analysis that shows that both sex-abuse and paedophilia are NOT uniquely homosexual problems ...\"\n\nI never said they were, nor believe them to be. I only point out that homosexual practices drove the Catholic priesthood sex abuse crisis. I said that because all empirical data lead so strongly to that end that it can be denied. As to what Ken says, I have no idea, but if he's honest he'll agree. And you need to stop citing purveyors of fake news to make your points. I don't read Huffington. Read Randy Engle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I await the day some left wing politician dares to even raise the issue of teaching and preaching gay rights in Islamic schools! A Christian school which is uncomfortable with homosexuality will be blasted mercilessly, but an Islamic school? Ha! The NDP would fall all over itself making apologies and excuses and talking about the need for 'cultural understanding'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To Tim Miller's letter to the editor: Jesus Christ is God. God is love. Abolutely. But God almighty, the same God that formed you in your mother's womb, will NOT allow His love that His Holy Character condemned. Homosexuality is \"detestable sin\" in God's eyes. In the book of Romans He call those involved with homosexuality having a \"debased mind.\" \n Obviously you do not believe in the God of the Bible.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are you saying by implication that Jesus would approve of gay marriage?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The pressure you are feeling from the 'gays' is from inside your head; the more you proclaim belief in your moral superiority the louder your denial of your true desires screams to all of us", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I anticipate Wynne's announcement that she will be retiring from politics,to spend more time with her family. Then she can bask in the praise that will be heaped upon her as Ontario's first female and lesbian premier. The muck will be left to others to mop up,.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Plenty of transgendered women have been welcomed by other women,\"\n\nGot a credible citation for this? Lesbians maybe?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am absolutely shocked to read how serious this is & that Ontario is allowing Sharia Law! The politicians who allow this need to give their head a shake & wake up. If they want it they should try living in a Muslim Mid-Eastern country for awhile, & get used to the beheadings, etc. Being multicultural doesn't mean that we change our laws to suit those who want to demean women, gays, etc - this is archaic!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What can we do to stop \"Climate change\"? What is a religious fanatic - someone that follows Church teachings against abortion, euthanasia, homosexual unions and acts, so called \"transgenderism\", promiscuity, and cohabitation? \nOnce again you imply that people that follow these beliefs have no concern for the poor, racism or any of the other social justice causes. We differ from you in the fact we follow all of the above issues. I am Pro-life. How about you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He seems to have confused \"learned\" with \"educated.\"\n\nTo be fair, the mouth slobbering groupthink of the left loves making this blur.\n\nI have a master's degree in economics, I had to put up with some pinko-commie classes, to this day I do not consider myself progressive. I am obviously \"educated\" but in Elise's eyes [because I don't agree with her] I am not learned.\n\nTo be fair, most of the right is guilty of biting the bait and going hook, line, and sinker into the debate.\n\n I don't mind my doctors being educated in their trade much like a plumber, welder, etc. I do how ever prefer them not to be so \"learned\" they tell me to mind my pronouns around a tranny. It is obviously a man....it always has been, it always will be.\n\nAs far as I am concerned the left parroting the word ignorance, only goes to prove that they themselves use a false pretense to justify their mental outlook.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think you're on to something. Hans K\u00fcng has spoken quite freely in the past few years; Tina Beattie wasn't turfed out of Cafod; and Charles Curran gave the first Fr. Robert Nugent Memorial Lecture in 2016 . . . Nugent having been called on the carpet along with Sr. Gramick by the Vatican for \"exerc[izing their] apostolate without faithfully presenting the Church's teaching regarding the intrinsic evil of homosexual acts.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alceste you need therapy. Please tell me how a person in North Korea is similar to us? The same goes for a number of other regions where their values, ideology and thinking may as well come from another planet. \n\nSo we shouldn't have declared war on that madman in Germany? Right, he was intent on whipping an entire religion out, not to mention gypsy's, gays and people with disabilities. He also conducted unspeakable human experiments and cause absolute havoc in Europe. The same reason we declared war was because of family ties? You have really done it this time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's really odd.\nSince 9/11 Islamists have become a sort of \"protected class\" even with evidence in regard to the way they treat women and gays.\nMy brother is gay. he's a good person yet in many Islamic countries he would be arrested, tortured or even killed. I find it quite ironic...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In my childhood, those words meant a boy was unathletic or timid or prone to emotional outbursts. None of us knew those words had anything to do with sex, because none of us had more than a very vague notion what sex was.\n\nIf the bishops had written a directive about acceptance of gender non-conforming behavior, that would have been halfway understandable. But they didn't; they wrote one about same-sex attraction. I don't know what the numbers are for boys, but most gender non-conforming girls do not grow up to be lesbians and many, if not most, lesbians are not gender non-conforming.\n\nAnd I somehow think they would not object to bullying gender non-conforming girls. Pope Francis often speaks derisively of, e.g., \"machismo in una gonella,\" which is not quite the same as saying b--l d--e, but not so far off either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He was on Gay apps and his wife now admits she drove him to the nightclub before and tried to talk him out of an attack. His computer was a trove of gay material.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A dozen Muslim countries publicly behead homosexuals...........and Hillary Clinton took 1oos of millions of $ from them all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No.\nYou want religious rights to trump everything else.\nFor example, you want businesses owned by religious-minded individuals to be exempt from anti-discrimination laws so they can refuse goods or services to gay people or couples.\nHowever, homosexuality or transgenderism are not religions. So, if a GLBT or trans business owner declines to offer goods or services to a fundamentalist Christian person, they'd be guilty of religious discrimination.\nYou want employees to be free to refuse to fill a customer's contraception prescription. But if someone refused to deliver something to a right-to-life organization, the outcry would be huge.\nYou want a power imbalance.\nThere's a solution: Eliminate civil-rights laws of all kinds and let businesses or employees serve or deny service, hire or not hire whomever they please, with the caveat that government could not engage in a Jim Crow-style environment.\nBut then, Christians wouldn't be protected from discrimination. They'd be on an equal plane.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, transgenders stay up all night plotting and planning about how they're going to assault unsuspecting citizenry. Transphobia won't be the new normal. The US Supreme Court put that nail in homophobia and transphobia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" squelch comedians who go after Trump\"\n\nFor all practical purposes everyone in the U.S. media goes after Trump. There are almost no defenders of Trump. It is so pervasive that the situation is beyond Trump pressuring anyone. \nAs far as the gays being offended and complaining, it wasn't that they found it in bad taste.\nIt's seen as homophobic by implying that they are less than others.\n\nThis article is nothing more than a Canadian conspiracy theory with no validity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alceste, you seem to be jumping to odd conclusions. I disagree with your opinion. He is not good at self-promotion. I honestly think he says some stupid things. \n\nThe man is an entertainer - like Jon Stewart or Bill Maher. \n\nHe is not Alt-Right. He condemns Nazis. He fronts a multi-racial group based on ideals - not race. Ideals. Ideals that have nothing to do with race. There are Muslims and homosexuals in his fraternal organization. \n\nOn YouTube, search: THE PROUD BOYS ARE NOT RACISTS. He explains the lawsuits. He also has a quote that Simon used in this article that I think wasn't fair. But - that is for you to decide. Don't take my word for it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nothing like starting the car and throw into gear right away at -20, this should do wonders to the tranny and engine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So the Jesuit who can't even refer to himself as \"Father\" in the byline apparently wants \"compromise\" with the \"gay agenda\"? In other words, he wants the Church to utterly reject two thousand years of dogmatic teaching. Even more incredibly, he laments the fact that the cult of Mormon is \"more flexible\" {translation: more willing to abandon its teaching} than the Catholic Church. You just can't make this stuff up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm all for helping people out - but the choice here is less than substantiated, as there is the same persecution happening in many places in the world, and has been all along. Why was a high profile violation of another nation's sovereignty chosen in this particular instance? This is foolish grand-standing in contradiction of diplomacy, and respect for laws.\nIf the purpose of helping persecuted gays, or persecuted anybody's was genuine, then why is this government not accepting hundreds of thousands of people each month from all over the world? And why would a foreign minister be one to be involved, since the action voids the very intention of the role of a foreign minister? And why choose a country with which relations are currently in a troubled place? And why make it public? It's as if all the very worst choices for every aspect of this action were identified, and then turned into action.\nIt's as if a point was wanted to be made that this government possesses no good judgment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A little sympathy for the dinosaurs of conservatism. They've had a tough century. They wanted women to stay in the kitchen but they didn't. They wanted gays and lesbians to stay in the closet but they didn't. They wanted racial minorities to \"stay in their place\" but they didn't...\nOn the other hand, they have managed to draw support from Neo-Nazis and supremacist goons, which might be a small comfort to them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This also happenned to Sierra club Caldwell went against everyone of their initiatives and they still endorsed him! Right after elected another sewer spill and no response to them.. Their you have it Michael Goljuch foolish endrosment now because of your effort we have a person appointted against lgbt rights and womens rights.. Michael also knew that kirk did not defend same sex marriage or rebuked tenari head of shopos remarks when he testified and said would not do his job as police if called upon him for same sex marriage !\n\nThats why kirks trolls deleting this post!\n\nSexual predators now being appointed ..\nGreat kirk you get better everyday", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "According to the John Jay report, 15 to 50% of the priesthood is gay. \n\nWhy is their no interest in getting these priests to come Out and tell their stories? Why does the church, both progressive and conservative, encourage gay priests in their sexual secrecy, while promoting Courage and fr. Martin to deal with the laity's gay issues?\n\nThink of it. If all the gay priests (and nuns, and brothers) came out of the closet, wouldn't that have a huge impact on everyone's acceptance of same sex attraction?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It might be a revelation, although many folks are already aware of it. I don't think it would necessarily change the Church's thinking because (at least theoretically) all those gay priests, brothers, and sisters are living celibate lives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pretty sad when all the news is gay bathrooms, black lives, racism and cleansing of history as we know/knew it. I can't wait till the Polish people and the Hispanics jump on the wagon. We have no other problems in this country to focus on. You would think that as big and complex as America is, there would be economic issues, jobs, infrastructure and a host of other things. Nope, it's just all hunky dory.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For 100 years during the Reformation. Meanwhile Islam has warred with itself for over a millennia and continues to in the modern age and still holds values like child marriage, stoning gays, beating women and treating them as subhuman. Are you seriously equating the two?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are not 'hearing' Francis or me. \"Those who WANT to dress up.\" \"Those who strut around like peacocks in all their finery.\" \"Those who have the psychology of Princes.\"\n\nWhat someone wears is neither here nor there. It's the attitude behind it. \n\nIt's also funny that you use the judiciary as an example of how 'normal' it is. One of the few occupations in the world that has as high an instance of gay men as the RC hierarchy. \n\nAnd I don't feel belittled by Francis at all. I did feel belittled by JPII and Benny who made my Church look ridiculous.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obama allowed them to start serving in the final few months of his 8 year presidency. For some reason Transgendered soldiers became a priority for him after 7 years and 9 months. Such fake outrage on the left.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one argues that gays should not be loved. Not Jesus --- who taught that men are created men, and women created women, for a reason; not the Church; not Christians who believe on the Church; not St. Paul, not Pope Francis, who despite letting you know that gays are loved, still teaches the sinfulness of gay sex. Your accusations against those who believe Church teaching are as tiresome as they are false. If you cared for your brother as much as you claim, you'd stop encouraging defiance of the Church's ancient moral teachings on homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We know pederasty is common among homosexual male culture. The priest sex scandal in America was almost exclusively pederasty with homosexual men preying on teen boys.\n\nCardinal Maradiaga, who coordinates the Council of Nine cardinals, recently confirmed the presence of a homosexual \u201clobby\u201d in the Vatican and revealed that Pope Francis is trying \u201clittle by little to purify it.\u201d\n\nThe Pope also acknowledged the presence of a homosexual network at the Vatican in June 2013. In the context of saying he found reform of the Roman Curia difficult, the Pope said: \"The 'gay lobby' is mentioned, and it is true, it is there \u2026 We need to see what we can do.\"\n\nElmar M\u00e4der, commandant of the Swiss Guard from 2002 until 2008, said his time at the heart of the Vatican had given him an insight into certain aspects of life there. \"I cannot refute the claim that there is a network of homosexuals. My experiences would indicate the existence of such a thing.\"\n\nConnect the dots .....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "NC is irrelevant to discussion of veracity in the case of Trump's statement regarding military and transgender. I think you know that. One has to wonder how you can invoke Trump as a factor in NC. Apparently, they were taking down a civil war commemorative statue to be PC with the very predictable result that unrest and potential violence would ensue. Since it was likely liberals who decided to remove the statue, it would seem the violence and protests are their fault.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hyperbole much?\n\nPretty sure the province is just saying, \"Yo, teach SCIENCE in sex ed, not hopes and prayers. Leave the gays alone while you're at it.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The struggles of those who must adjust to being accepted are important. To live your entire life thinking that you will not be allowed a basic right isn't gotten over easily. There are many who think that gay marriage is wrong. After speaking with them, it is sometimes a bigoted opinion and sometimes it is an honest religious belief. But no matter where the opinion comes from, marriage is not a religious institution as currently practiced. It is a legal one. We must respect that legally, we cannot limit relationships among consenting adults.\n\nThat is the legal opinion. To me, that is enough. But personally, the hate I feel from those who believe that being gay is wrong is unacceptable. No matter who you are, you know and care for someone who is gay, even if you don't know it. You should want your friend/mother/son/cousin/coworker to be free to marry who they love, as long as that other person is a consenting adult. Love is a beautiful thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Two points: \nWhere is the progressive, liberal, and NDP motion condemning the bad treatment of Jews, Sikhs, and Christians in predominately Muslim countries? Since he became PM, Trudeau has been lecturing other countries on gay and feminist rights, but he has been noticeably silent on this treatment in lands where Islam is the dominant religion.\n\nPoint two: you might want to do an Internet search on the following:\" Premier McQuinty + Sharia law + cancelled\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is a wedding cake offensive?\nThat is irrelevant.\n\nNo one can compel anyone to make a political cake. \n\nThe baker has already made many cakes for gay weddings, he just did not know about it. If he did, he would have refused. \nSo he is only offended when he knows it is a gay wedding cake. It is childish.\n\nThe baker is choosing to be offended. Religion is not an excuse to discriminate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Under what circumstances, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church is homosexual activity not immoral?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "K of C money to be sure, but the real reason is because the adulterous spouse in this case slipped through the cracks on a technicality: he wasn't a Catholic when he divorced his previous two wives for the latest model. He only became Catholic after he married her, so voila! his slate is wiped clean as the driven snow. For homosexuals, alas, there is no technicality through which to slip. For them it's simply the trap door button and a curt \"buh bye.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm too cynical to react, now.\n\nWhen several thousand men and boys were killed by Boko Haram in the year leading up to their kidnapping of those 200 girls, no one gave a round fig. Then those 200 girls go missing, and it's an international calamity. We strike a federal commission to study missing indigenous women and girls, but ignore that there's actually significantly more indigenous men and boys that have gone missing. Acid attacks on women in Pakistan and India make national news media here in Canada, but acid attacks against men, which occur at roughly the same rate, do not. Online harassment of women is an issue requiring federal intervention, Slightly more prevalent online harassment of men does not. Honour killings of women? Bad. Honour killings of men? Barely mentioned.\n\nWhat's a few more dead gay men in a world where dead men barely rate a mention? 44 dead in a bus crash today, including 21 women and children. News at 11.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "for anyone who thinks transgendered is a gender at all is living in a fantasy, at lease we live in reality regardless of what century it is", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the voting thing you mention , is a view from their followers , which is really old people in general I think, also; anti white , anti male, anti Christian, anti right wing views , anti business, pro Gay, and so on . Whats left is a circle of viewers that follow the CBC very closely and vote hourly !!! Who cares, few people view the channel anymore .... Fake News , slanted toward the politically correct left wing- nut bars ! You will get one point of view , that is slanted towards Pro Ottawa - their major funding ! I left the audience years ago for the most part . I do dip in to see what the left and politically correct is talking about from Time to time ! Sad , if this is what you depend upon for \"news\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So \"when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behavior to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when ... violent reactions increase.\"\n\nI.e. you agree with Rat zinger that homosexual relationships should be prohibited in civil law, and criminalized, and that if they aren't then violent reaction is unsurprising (\"unsurprising\" being an euphemism for \"permissible\" or \"a sine-qua-non\"?).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is that a surprise??\nThe number of Viagra recipients has a hundred (or more) times more than of the recipients of transgender care. Talk about your FAKE NEWS??\nWhat would be an accurate comparison, if you want to reference Viagra costs, is the cost PER PERSON of Viagra versus transgender specific care. \n\nI've never served in the military so I got no strong opinion on trans-gendered folk in the military. Seems like if they want to serve, let them unless it is detrimental to the success of the military mission.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you think an atheist should HAVE the right to say that they are afraid of religious people who use their religious beliefs to try to sway laws in areas such as abortion and gay marriage and the death penalty?\n\nDo you think an atheist should NOT HAVE the right to say that they are afraid of religious people and their religions and that they wish religions would disappear from Canada to be replaced by scientific schools of thought?\n\nDo you think an atheist should NOT HAVE the right to say they are afraid of Christians?\n\nDo you think an atheist should NOT HAVE the right to say they are afraid of believers in Astrology?\n\nI look forward to your answers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It actually does not help at all. The correct term(s) are homosexual and heterosexual. Gay meant happy or joyful, at least until the word was hijacked. Only some use the word Gay, the scientific term is homo or hetero, which I noticed you did not even mention.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is an economic decision cloaked in the trappings of current events. The producers of HoC think they just found a cheap way to get out of a series they wanted to cancel in any event. Spare me the crocodile tears from the producers. They're pretending to be lily-white, but if we \"turned over their rocks\" I'm sure we'd find equally, or more, offensive revelations.\nOther than the 32 year old recollections of someone who may have also been under the influence of hallucinogens at the time 32 years ago, there is no story here. Spacey doesn't admit to anything, he does says that he's now coming out as gay. I'm sure no one in Hollywood is shocked over that.\nRight now, all of this is starting to sound like selective hysteria and headline grabbing.\nPerhaps there should be a requirement for anyone who wants to tell 30 year old news, to also reveal the names of anyone else who may have been inappropriate with them in that timeframe? If you remember one, you must remember them all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Any success with Syrian immigration to Canada begins with ensuring that the new arrivals are either homosexuals, orphans with relatives in Canada or families. \nWhile these qualifications well reported at the time that the Canada-is-Back program began, it's never mentioned now. \nToday the contrast between Syrian immigration in Canada and the chaos of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people in Europe focuses on virtue and goodness and never deals with the stark difference in requirements for immigration. \nIt's quite probably the major difference yet it's never mentioned.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm wondering what the motivation was for giving money to an youth program they knew was opposed to their life style...could it be the same as the gays that forced their will on a bakery just to further the cause of glbt..& queers?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the Bishop's defnese, Madison is pretty freaky, even without the gays. It is like Sedona for New Agers. What is called a node. Madison is a bit of a party school.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Absolutely 100 correct. This administration's DoD focus isn't national defense, it's getting rid of rating insignia's for the Navy (transgender pushing), and women in combat roles/sex-change operations items you spoke of. Obama's DoD had something they could have instead spent this money on, instead, like vital R&D, and wasted it on making the military more Leftist and one big social program.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "if you oppose the death penalty, you oppose the death penalty\n\nyou don't get to pick and chose\n\none society's opposition to homosexuality is another society's opposition to political dissent is another society's opposition to blasphemy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good start, but don't forget about indigenous, visible minority and trans-gender. I'm not making fun. These and other categories follow closely on attempts to correct imbalances politically.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To Nancy Papineau, perhaps you should rethink your jackass statement! The first amendment right of free speech goes both ways. You may not like what Mark Miloscia has said but, he has a right to say it just as you do. The problem with you lefties that if we don't agree with what you say, it is hate speech and you tell us to shut up! If we don't agree on gay marriage or LGTB, etc. rights or what ever the outrage of the left is at the moment we are intolerant, homophobic, etc. If you think that your rights come from Government, they can take them away just as easy. Try reading the Constitution. Our rights do not come from the Government but from God as spelled out in the Bill of Rights. We the people have the power, not the Government. Your rights can only be taken away if you let them. The protesters/cowards that caused the trouble in DC during the inauguration where not there to peacefully protest as is their right, but to cause trouble and destroy private property. Study your history!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This request on the part of the students is entirely natural and normal. I support them entirely. There is already such challenge and difficulty in their lives around their gender issues, I am sure, that not one of them would want to be making school more for themselves, such as acting lasciviously (or in any other way that a few frightened parents fantasize fears of). It just doesn't happen. I am speaking from experience of having taught trans-gendering students, gay students, lesbian students, straight students, two-spirited students ... the entire wonderful fruit salad of kids that parents send to me each day. The kids simply want to be respected, and be able to act respectfully towards themselves and others. Let them develop and grow into the wonderful young tax-paying adults they are aiming towards.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I make no comment on the credibility or veracity of either the accuser or the accused. The court has acquitted Hawkes and that appears to be the right result here. However, I found the author's comments about how the specific charges relied on were now no longer part of the Criminal Code and were used for many years to prosecute gay men to completely miss the point. While what he says is of course true, the issue here was whether an adult had committed sexual assault on a child. Sexual assault on a child is never right no matter what you call it and the author should not be calling into question the use of past provisions of the Code that are used to protect children, particularly when those are the provisions that must be relied on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can the party win with another neo-liberal Clintonite? I suspect people are embarrassed enough by Trump that anyone not offensive would beat him or Pence (assuming Pence is not impeached and removed too). The midterms should be very kind to the Democrats, who need decent warm bodies, not MSWs desire for candidates who act like either abortion or gay marriage are anything but settled issues. Unless Trump is already out, he will likely be impeached and removed sometime after 2019. Do we want Pelosi as the first female President or do they want to make Hillary the Speaker so that she will be when the GOP is thrown out of the White House?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Violet, not sure if I am being serious or not but I think there is a point to what I offer here. I take issue with your sentence: \"The faction that controls the Church is at one end of the spectrum\". \nThere is a psychosis of priesthood. Clergy, particularly the top-end, attempts to take itself outside, or even above, \"the spectrum\" of gender and they/it suffers the consequences - and- it is offed on the institution, the mission of Christ, on us.\nA tiny example: IF there were a Natural Law as they conceive and impose it, then a celibate priesthood is as intrinsically evil as is, they claim, homosexuality. If, natural law is really the intelligent reflection and reasoning that precedes from experience, perception, judgment of what is real as held in demonstration and consultation as normal then it includes acknowledgement of what is \"outside the norm\" to be as real as what is within. Even in this scenario, celibacy and homosexuality are \"outside the norm\"- equally evil or equally not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ok first things first, HRC is not a government commission... it is the human rights campaign. They are the opposite of FRC, AFA, LC (if you don\u2019t know them you should, they are ugly anti-human organizations). All that is happening is that the government is reacting to these organizations who flat out just don\u2019t like trans people. There\u2019s not any issues with trans folks using the restroom they use. Trans people, Myself included, have been using the restroom which corresponds with their gender for DECADES. Since the passage of same sex marriage and the Palatine, IL school district these organizations have made it their mission to limit the freedom (as in mobility/ability not like US freedom) of trans people to live their lives. if you get to know a trans man or woman you find they are just decent, caring human beings. Not freaks, not delusional, not dangerous. Different yes, scary no.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Any of the advocates of Transgender military service take a moment to review the suicide rates, and general mental health issues, of Transgender persons, both pre and post surgery?\n\nWhy would the US military want to add to their mental health burden (not to mention deployment issues, medical issues, ect.) in what would be an unforced error.\n\nThe question needs to be asked - What is the role of the military? To be an agent for social change, or to close with and destroy the enemy? If you believe the role is the latter choice, then your position on Transgender service is pretty clear.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, I did read it. I also read Burke's homophobic statements. You apparently see any negative comment as \"name calling\". I see false negative comments as name calling, while true negative comments are stating the facts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"unless you're a gay couple, in which case the church will accompany you right out the door.\"\n\nUnless of course celibate Fr. Johnie is into a three way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not True. I stopped singing and playing for weddings because if a gay couple wanted me to do so at their wedding I couldn't. I could not in good conscious lend any support to what the Bible and God clearly states is wrong.For me personally, means I would be condoning and in effect participating in what is prohibited by God and His Word. Just because society, it's political and so called religious leaders change doesn't mean God's law and precepts change. Under law they are allowed to marry and those individuals should be treated with respect however, I am not required to support nor will I be submit to aid and abett those actions. God's precepts trump any and all civil law or societal norms that are in violation of those precepts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Court did adjudicate on the Constitution according to the two authorities I cited that give them that power. The ruled on the behalf of real plaintiffs who asserted that their rights were being violated by the state of Texas for no rational reason. There can only be two such reasons. One, that the acts prohibited in these laws by their very nature had one person exploit the other, so they could not be voluntary (and which is untrue, else the illegality still stands under Lawrence because rape is not protected) or because moralists believe that God is an Ogre who will punish societies that allow such things. Let me assure that God is on the side of the gays and not those who persecute them in his name. Your faith is being tested, but you are answering wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fake news is nothing new: it has occurred for years in tabloids like the National Enquirer.\n\nCelebrity X dying of cancer, screams the headline. Twenty years later Celeb X is still alive with no cancer. That kind of thing.\n\nI remember seeing one once--\"Hillary Clinton in lesbian relationship.\" She was probably photographed having dinner with a woman friend.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think as a teacher that I might ask for certain students to be removed from my class because they are gay or Muslim or from divorced parents or they're not virgins or...\n\nAll of these things are against my religion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What are these extremist views Kenney and Harper have? They had 10 years to implement their \"hidden agenda\". Fear mongering by the left is what it is. They care more about transgendered bathrooms in every building than having a strong economy. It is time to get grown ups back in government and Kenney, with his long history of competency at the federal ministerial level, is the man to bring it back to an Alberta missing it for years.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "NAD is setting up for a major fall, and is leading so many on her unscriptural and delusional journey. How can NAD expect to have respectful followers, who look up to leadership, when they themselves have set no example of respect to leadership. It's the beginning of a failed entity. It has become a theological divide; between those who study the WORD and those who are moved by feelings and assumptions grounded in a culture of society. I have never seen so many mis-quotes and scripture twisting in all my life! So what do you want? do you want to fight for equality, when God has already made equal male and female, yet HE gave us different ROLES; and the modern Eves continue to fight for her rights. Soon their will be no churches to fight the cause over. It is sad that more men are fighting this cause than women, The men want women to lead them, this is about Role Confusion, not Equality, and role confusion eventually leads to homosexual leadership within the church. Game set and match!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where has the Catholic Church NOT stood up against violence against anyo e including the LGBTQRST?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/may/27/judicial-confirmation-network/Sotomayor-comment-Latina-women-versus-white-men/ \n\nHere's the full speech by Sotomayor, not the six second versions (which I found verbatim in a number of post, also without context, also on clearly conservative sites).\n\nBeyond this you have to wonder how many women and persons of color have been judged by white males? How do you or Out blast away a gay judge in Oregon, when straight judges in Oregon have been judging gay men an women through Oregon's past. How may women have been subject to rules made by men in the courts and in the legislature.\n\nYou took the short clip from another meme that is circulating among far right conservative. Nothing new, the quote is over 5 years old. Not once did she say a white male judge should be disqualified, she was defending her own life experience and rightfully says that in a large panel of judges, diversity will be a benefit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And I'll say something else for Michael Voris: He had the courage to come out of the closet.\n\nNot all Catholic gay men have that courage. I can think of one in particular.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually I suspect it's because your initial post was worded in a way that could be interpreted to seem as if you think your daughter would need psychological help if she joined a GSA; as if being LGBTQ was some kind of mental disease that required a treatment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It was a horrible lose of decorum in the presidential debates and it doesn't apply here either. \n\noh I am kept up. But its hard to keep up with someone who's spinning around in circles.\n\nThere is NO connection between oil prices and terrorism. These are radical ideological movements not economic ones. \n\nSo ISIS propped up and started torturing Christians, killing gays, ( ours and theirs) because they wouldn't contract with us for oil? Please the tinfoil hat is getting a tad tight around the head.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the Democrat wins this, it is bad news for Trump. If the Democrat wins this and keeps it in 2018, it is bad news for the GOP as a whole. A close GOP win is better news for Trump, but it is not good and a bigger win is good news for the local GOP. Southern races have their own dynamic, although I have not heard that abortion has been an issue. Until the Dems get more detailed with the voters on why the pro-life movement is a scam, they will lose votes on this. There is no going back on gay marriage, so this issue will fade with importance. Suburban Atlanta is a bit less racist than much of Georgia still is, which is why we are even talking about this race repudiating Trump.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wait a minute! Minnery's wife works? Well, that's against the Bible. I bet he lets her sleep in the house too when she is menstruating, which is also against the Bible. If his children have ever been disrespectful and disobedient, they must be put to death according to the Bible. Is the suit he was wearing in this photo of mixed fibers? Yup, you guessed it, against the Bible. I wonder, if being an Alaskan, Minnery has ever had crab - shellfish is against the Bible. I find it interesting how people like Minnery pick and choose in order to support their ideology that being LGBT is evil and wrong. His Jesus never once mentioned homosexuality, however he did have a lot to say about other topics. Jesus commanded that His followers take care of the poor, comfort the lonely and downtrodden, feed the hungry, clothe widows and orphans etc. Not one single comment about gay people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Always: I hope you are right about the employment boom. The sooner the better for the job booms in AZ & Texas and the Midwest. I am ready for thousands if not tens of thousands of people to move away from here, and hopefully the travelers, homeless, young and old hippies, Trans-mutilated, homos, Lesbians, he/she we/she's as well, and hopefully all of the Democrats to.......\n\nMake this state GREAT again where: MEN are MEN and sheep are scared.................Ha, Ha....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting. I am not sure who are the religious zealots...... perhaps a word study on 'religious'? This entire paradigm was started by gay agenda activists and argued against byvtjose that disagree with them. I'm sure some on both sides were/are 'religious' about many things.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Given that most sport is gender-identified, it becomes difficult to deal with placement of trans students. Will naturally occurring or injected hormones give that athlete an unfair disadvantage? Maybe a F-to-M student who is not on a testosterone program could join the boys' team. A non-gender-binary identified student probably could only participate on a co-ed recreational team with no or loose limits on gender makeup.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Progressives seek to unite, not divide. And the Bircher style stuff goes back more than one decade. Newt's GOPAC and his Contract on America go back more than two decades. Then there was the Reagan-era repeal of the Fairness Doctrine that did so much harm. \n\n\nI think the regressives seek to divide so that they can steal the country while one half if the people are at the other's throats and typically over cultural issues like guns, god, abortion and gays, even if the conservative position is on the wrong side of history. \n\n\nIt's working - despite the fact that most of the country supports the progressive position, those conducting class warfare are winning.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Minnery and his ilk use the \"clobber\" verses from the OT frequently to try and justify their hateful actions. Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. You either follow Jesus or you live according to the OT law. \nAnd yes, I am well-versed in theology. At the root of Christianity is Jesus. The great I Am. Christians are supposed to be those who follow Him. And Jesus didn't say a thing about homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It was not so long ago. Before so many gays went into Psychiatry that Deviation from the norm was considered a mental disease. It appears to be the same game played by the Socialist when they all became professors, are you happy with the results of that?.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who goes into the bathroom/locker room with my daughter is my business Muck. And I don't care that you have never encountered it or that you divert your eyes when necessary. The local government passed a law saying Trans people could use the locker room of their choice, and the intent is to make sure that they wont be able to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is Israel divisive at Pride Parades because they are the only country in the middle east that doesn't violently oppress homosexuals? Interesting how the smug self-titled \"progressives\" shamelessly attack Israel while Hamas kills homosexuals through summary executions in the streets of Gaza. Interesting how the Globe ignores the persecution of homosexuals in countries governed by Islamic law, because cultural relativism or because it's 2017? What happened in Turkey over the weekend? Anyone? We shouldn't talk about 90 years of secular progress being rolled back in under 8 years of Islamist AKP rule...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for this. May I now ask for your opinion on changes in this proportion over time? My guess would be that the percentages were lower at the time of V2, then increased as many seminarians and religious left (being disproportionately heterosexual), and then increased again as those entering seminaries became more and more conservative (with heterosexuals being far less willing to forego marriage). (Perhaps I should mention that I was a Jesuit seminarian for 8 years in 1960s, so I am one of those post V2 exivits.)\n\nBTW, I am not surprised with your higher number for gay clergy, but I am surprised with the high end of your estimate of those who are actively gay.\n\nAgain BTW, I am 72; and I would be overjoyed to learn that you are much younger. Theologically open-minded, pastorally-brilliant priests my age are not a rarity, but among the young....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank Kristen Wong Tam for that. After the failure of her protest group QuAIA \"Queers against Israeli Apartheid\" (she was a founder and owner of the web site) was eventually barred from the parade, she doubled down to the next worse group to cause Pride and the city grief and found BLM willing to destroy 30 years of LGBT community work.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Didn't realize that Sullivan was on the ISIS bandwagon but it figures that he would grab hold of that discredited neocon framing even though the FBI has shown that the killer had no connections to ISIS other than as a cover for his deeply conflicted and denied homosexuality. Sullivan's parents served as \"bundlers\" for the Bush election and in return for the tens of millions they gathered their son was given a job working under Condi \"mushroom clouds\" Rice in the National Security Advisor office. As her underling he helped create the lies that Bush used to launch the illegal invasion of Iraq after they totally botched the warnings that led up to the 9-11 highjacking. After the invasion when the Bush administration took over governance of Iraq they disbanded the army but allowed the soldiers, most of whom were Sunni to go home with their weapons. The Sunnis were virtually eliminated from government positions by the Shiite majority so they fought back via the insurgency. They became ISIS.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True that, that is why we need to put a stop to Muslim immigration. Muslims are anti-women (misogynist) and anti-day (homophobes). In the middle east Muslims treat women like second class citizens and murder gays\n\nBut, I bet this comment is going to be judged as non-civil because we have called out a specific religion. \n\nIf you agree with this comment, you better copy and paste it in a new comment. It is now 12:37 eastern time. I wonder how long it will be before this is tossed out.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Do your research sunny. The fake doctor was diagnosed as psycho and traded oxy for gay sex. Hes a screaming little baby on the video. Quite possibly a delayed outburst over the election", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You fail to mention Ruse is listed by SPLC for just this type of behavior and actually much wirse, including stalking gay bloggers to leave obscene comments. What Ruse did with Martin is mild. Ruse is totally obsessed with gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As if sexual harassment and abuse doesn't ever happen in the gay and lesbian, transgender culture. No MSM exposure on that front.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Obama reportedly had gay sex cocaine romps in college, hung out with domestic terrorists, was carefully installed by powerful elite families and conned people into accepting their globalist agenda. But not a word from the fawning mainstream media.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When does it end when people like you stop the hate and bullying and killing Transgender humans and learn how to be more for Human rights", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It is not headscarf. It is the philosophy of subjugation of women (four wives, genital mutilation, unfair inheritance), hatred against homosexuals, and despising secularism..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This story is bovine fecal matter mixed with leftist propaganda. To begin with, this garbage of an article is built upon faulty logic. Just get a load of the slanted sub-headline: \"The food makers say that once they open their doors for business, they don\u2019t get to choose their customers.\" THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE!!!!\n\nI've been to Mr. Phillip's shop more than a few times. Anybody and I mean ANYBODY can walk in and buy anything, I say ANYTHING! As long as you're wearing clothes, come on in! \n\nBut what do you expect when you ask a sincere and dedicated Christian artist to create a piece of art that celebrates anal sex? This was a set up from the get-go. The real crime is the \"gay couple\" (that are conveniently not named in this article) that are forcing their will and beliefs upon Mr. Phillip and denying HIM the freedom of self determination that this Country is built upon.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why not ban white people from the parade too? I'm sure they make a lot of non-white people uncomfortable. And the men, they probably make a lot of women feel uncomfortable and unsafe, so... I mean, nevermind what this has got to do with gay pride...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When will gay Catholics like Don make amends for the thousands of children raped by gay priests?\n\nNot much self-awareness in that campy camp.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"....by the same twisted folks who contort themselves mindlessly defending a 6th Century religion that throws gays off buildings, stones women, believes in honor killings, and forces women to cover themselves.\"\n\nTo be fair, I don't think all christians are like that...just a lot of 'em.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "HIV in America continues to spread from the reckless behavior of mostly gay men. They never have, and never will take full responsibility for a problem that can only be solved from within the gay community. Now they want their promiscuity subsidized with PrEP. Sorry, there are limits to what others should pay for the multi-decades of irresponsible, sexual-cultural behavior of others.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Kleins can go ahead and say whatever they want to say about their religious beliefs as \"Christians.\" But don't sit here and pretend like this was some courageous act by two God loving Americans. Their Christian beliefs DO NOT require them to \"have nothing to do with promoting homosexual behavior.\" Christians DO NOT believe that \"promoting\" homosexual behavior puts their immortal souls in danger. This is complete and utter garbage. This is not Christ. Jesus Christ would have been the first person to serve these people, with no judgement or need to condemn. You sir are the absolute scum of the earth. Using Jesus Christ's holy name to slander and condemn an entire group of people for fear of your immortal soul? Yes Christ, who never ONCE mentioned to openly and adamantly take a stand against homosexuality, but did mention 11 times in the Bible to love one another. The Klein's ARE NOT VICTIMS. Take your faux Christianity elsewhere, you're making the rest of us look bad.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I asked Jesus and he said that no matter what the baker does, he knows that the baker hates gays in his heart.\nJesus thinks the baker should stop being a little baby and make the cake.\n\nJack Philips has actually made many cakes for gay weddings, he just did not know it. No one is under obligation to say, \u201cby the way, this is for a gay wedding.\u201d", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am so ashamed that I have ever subscribed to NCR, and WILLNOT EVER renew. This is incredible and shocking that this paper/news source claims to be associated with the Catholic Church. How in the world can you ignore the EVIL nature of Hillary Clinton, who goes against the moral teachings of our Catholic Church? TRULY....HOW? You would rather judge Trump on some of the foolish things he said or did years ago...against a woman who supports and promotes abortion( can you say thou shall not kill?), gay marriage, transgender men in women's bathrooms, who has taken millions and millions of dirty dollars from dirty countries in the name of 'charity' then spends it on her and her family's lavish lifestyle. This same woman who has ruined reputations and lives ( again, can you say thou shall not kill?) protecting the perverse sexual habits of her dear husband? The sad thing is I could go on and on in writing about her evil nature! I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR A RESPONSE FROM NCR.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Woman rights is not only connected to Trump ?why not a single reference in the rally about the men specially in muslim countries who rape women, sell, stone them, marry even 8 years old, make them slaves,kill.if they don't obey,marry multiple women and divorce at will ,not allowing to educate women ,not allowing to dress how ever they wish not even allowed to drive or go out of their house Honour killings sold under the Shariya law Muslims hate Gays and toss them over buildings recently many were killed in many gay clubs across the USA and the western world.Many noticed that there were no such signs message of sins committed against women \nIts not woman Rights march its a political march funded by Soros and Hillary against Triump Inauguration.Well planned those who oppose Trump joined thats all. We feel sorry for Poor real affected women.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The irony is that Scalise campaigns against gays and gay marriage, and is saved by a lesbian who is married to a woman. It's similar to Himmler being saved by a Jew. While Scalise probably does not favor killing gays, he is no friend of theirs. Apparently, you fail to grasp this point.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, so you deny the political collusion (the lefts favorite new word) of gays and the Democratic Party. The rest of your scribbling is equally foolish and delusional. Trump welcomed gays to join his campaign because he is a Democrat at heart. His sin is that he is also a nationalist and a Capitalist. BTW, War is Hell. Freedom isn't free. Ignorance is the lefts best friend.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't mention Scheer. If you perceive slagging, maybe your defensiveness is getting the better of you. The article argues that Liberals are anti-Christian, when in fact they are officially pro-Charter and pro-Supreme Court. Whether someone's beliefs about gay marriage, abortion and LGBTQ people stem from a religion of any kind or from nostalgia for a more rigid past social order, they do not trump the law of the land. This is the Liberal position.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "One of those religions is stuck in the 14th century and actively practicing that hate for homosexuals, the marginalization of women, including no votes, no property ownership, not leaving the house without a male relative, no driving of cars, genital mutilation solely for sexual control, testimony only half that of a male. And all that in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar etc. as government policy. ISIS is even worse.\n\nAnd those beheadings are done in public in Saudi Arabia. Would you like a link to a YouTube?\n\nHow blind these LBGTQ appear to be. That kind of ignorance is dangerous if only towards themselves.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trolling the news for anything that, however remotely, could confirm your bias against Muslims?\n\nLittle is being officially said about the event so far, other than that the police say there is no danger to public safety.. So obviously the driver was either a Chechen, Pakistani, or a Syrian refugee. Oh but what's this? Apparently the Australian Christian Lobby's big thing lately has been to condemn same-sex marriage, lest it pollute the vital body fluids of true Australians. So amend the description of the driver to read: \" Gay Chechen, Pakistani, or a Syrian refugee.\" LOL", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This guy hears \"gag\" and immediately has gay thoughts. User name checks out.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for this honest article. Yes. Optional Celibacy for married men while we are not ordaining married women equates to Gender Segregation & the subjugation of all women under all men no matter if we fully ordain a billion women to the permanent deaconate tomorrow. Permanent deacons have no authority, vote, voice or purpose beyond that of the laity in our church. \n\nThe laity need to stand up against this evil attitude of exclusion & treating everything that the world has stereotyped female as less sacred, less intelligent, less deserving of same civil and sacred rights and sacraments now & with ferocity. This homily reveals a pope who has a real hatred of women as human beings. We are not a stereotype-we are human beings and are equally man to men.\n\nWork with Women's Ordination Conference to fight this gender segregation! We must stand against married priests until women are ordained equally priests as a matter of human dignity. We must also rebuke any ban on gay priests!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "VERY different-please dont play that silly game. the so called Christians were mocking gays by handing out a picure of rainbow colored hands holding medical waste-very disturbing. Customers complained and the freaks were kicked out.It was all staged", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"paid leftist thugs\u2026 should stomp those cockroaches too.. no?\"\n\nMaybe after the \"paid leftist thugs\" have conquered almost all of the free nations of Europe, murdered six million Jews by gassing them, starving them, using them for gruesome experiments, incinerating them, as well as countless gypsies and homosexuals like the Nazis did; and then after the \"leftist thugs\" leave a path of lynchings of black men, torture, castration, rape and terrorizing with burning Christian symbols, and passing Jim Crow laws, then maybe we could call them cockroaches, too. You Think?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When all else fails, pull the war on women thing out a your (blank) Shannyn. Do you watch tv at all? You can't turn the boob tube on any\"more\" without getting an eyeful of that, and all the rest. I may be a typically cause nfused male but it would seem that you have a lot of women that really don't have a lot of respect for themselves or women in general. Burning bras was kind of exciting till the burners went down to their navels to retrieve them after a few years. I don't think it really worked out so well. Throwing all the uterus and vagina thing out makes for interesting comments but little else. \nOnce again, we have all these battles being fought, gays, women, trans something or other and the list goes on. \nI think maybe we have bigger issues that need addressing like the damn ECONOMY STUPID.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Trudeau is a total joke as a leader. He supports Islam and gay rights and Islam kill homosexuals. He is only good for cameras taking selfies with others, this is all he is good for.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Melania trump made lesbian porn ms/mr cat. Bet that's something they're not making a big deal out of at Fox or limpbaugh are they? Truth is the few people who showed up for the sexual predator trump's inauguration were just a slice of America as well though a much smaller slice than the massive crowds that showed up in DC and around the world in support of human rights the day after the tiny inaugural thingamajig. You wanna talk demeaning how about the POTUS being caught on tape saying he had the right to sexually assault women by \"grabbing them by the pu#$y\"? Doesn't that turn your stomach? We're not talking about some singer or actor here but the POTUS saying this totally disgusting ugliness. If I ever caught my son saying something that sexist there would be hell to pay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are the divorced and remarried regularly fired? Of course not. Are priests who sexually assault children fired? No. Are the bishops who cover up the sexual assaults fired? Don't be silly. No, just gays who marry. That, sir, is \"unjust discrimination\", which the CCC says should not happen.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So what's with the \"homosexual agenda\"\nremark? My parents were strictly anti-gay, but they had me. Everyone in my family and everyone I dealt with as a child was straight. I didn't fit the frggin mold! Uh-oh! My parents hate me! My Sunday school teacher hates me! I'm evil, a sinner, going to hell-oh no! Maybe if I pretend! (This is where a lot of gay youth turn to drug or suicide.) Lucky me, I met some people who were like me. I even fell in love. I want to marry that person, but it doesn't suit ---- you??? Because I won't have children? Thr human race won't perish if a few of us don't reproduce. The Bundys and Duggars of the world will see to that.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\" it goes against human nature\"\nMmmm, not always. There are variants to all things in nature. If I had my druthers, or had it been an option in my youth, I would have gladly been \"normal\". The fact is that the \"normal\" mold didn't fit, try as I might. The truth, the fact, the reality is that 1 on 10 people are homo, gay, queer, lesbian, that way, bat for the other team, kick with the other foot, jumped the fence, are lesbo, fag, dyke. I was raised by two heteros, God love them, but am homo just the same.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Them's pretty big feet for a woman that height. Evidently words were exchanged that cinched the gender I.D., tho' these days you never can be sure. Eat. drink and be Mary, for tomorrow they install transgender parking spaces. Too bad they didn't have one of the park's new tracking units to drop in his bag, or at least a bigger club.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Okay, M. Bindner, I think I understand your proposed solution to decreased number of babies being born as a result of homosexual couples not being able to generate pregnancies on their own. You feel that hetero-couples should have one or more additional children than they had originally planned on having, so as to 'pick up the slack' for couples who cannot produce on their own due to their single-sex orientation. In other words, the 'holocaust solution' -- i.e. Jewish couples were urged to have one or more additional children to make up for children 'never born' because their would-be parents were killed in the Holocaust. Great idea, M. Bindner!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Young people are leaving the church in droves because, unlike older people, they know injustice when they see it, and they see injustice in the Catholic Church everywhere: in women who are denied access to all the sacraments, in gay people, who are denied access all the sacraments, and they rightly make value judgments based on what they see. Until injustice is replaced with justice, another synod isn't going to make one bit of difference in attracting more young people or convincing them to stay in the pews. It's just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So he and Kathleen have two things in common: they are both openly homosexual, and, they both played a major role in completely botching the McGuinty green energy \nprogram.\n\nGood that he left the party, as he realized with Wynne at the helm, that his demise as a politician was obvious. Hopefully others will realize how toxic Wynne is now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It would be a step forward for traditionalists to at least advocate for a change in the \"intrinsically disordered\" language. Any term that requires substantial theological subtlety is problematic. Even Cardinal George, no flaming liberal, implored Rome to rework this sort of terminology. Sadly, even he couldn't them to listen. So, why should gays?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just because someone is LGBT does not give them anymore rights than anyone else in this world or gives them a free pass on the crimes they commit and this resolution if ever adopted would give them a get out of jail free card and anyone could claim that they were gay to avoid prosecution knowing that the courts could possible throw out the case against them on that bases alone and based upon that fact that this U.N (\" which is really a Moratorium\") hiding as a resolution could possibly tie the hands of any future prosecutor let alone and could reopen any past cases of people on death row now who could now simply say that they were gay at the time they committed their crime and are being unfairly treated or persecuted based on that fact alone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do 5-year-olds with horse fantasies face the same level of threat as transgendered people? If so, then they should be protected.\n\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/13/transgender-homicide-victims-us-has-hit-historic-high", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These marches baffle me. Trump has been a liberal Democrat most of his life. He's by far the most liberal Republican President I can think of. I can understand why people residing in the USA illegally are afraid of him, but I can't understand why women and homosexuals are. There's nothing in his agenda or rhetoric that has ever threatened those groups.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And Trump is in favor of equal rights for gay people, ... unless it becomes politically disadvantageous with his social conservative base.\nPolitical expediency runs both ways.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alceste, why do you support a symbol that is synonymous with violence against homosexuals and female oppression?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" said the big time advocate of school vouchers in Anchorage (could mean $$$ for her), religious \"liberty\" to discriminate based upon subjective measures of who they think is gay or not and one of the loudest voices of telling other people when they must have children. You call people whiners to denigrate and attempt to legitimize their rightful stake in the situation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's the ironic thing I've seen. I once found out a person I'd been dealing with was actually transgender. \"She\" told me after I'd been working with \"her\" for years. I had no idea. Didn't really care, it turned out. Really competent, effective, creative and good judgment worker/supervisor/decision maker. \"She\" was transitioning, and was a actually several months away from having the finish up surgery in a foreign country. \nWhat I can't help thinking about when these sort of debates come up is her boyfriend, who I'd seen attend various functions holding \"her\" hand, and who \"she\" referred to as her boyfriend. An All American military guy. Army. Blonde haired, blue eyed, Army Ranger type. Who knows, though, maybe he wasn't really in the service. Just cut his hair and obtained some counterfeit stickers for his car.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't say that one's religious principles can transcend the law. However, the RFRA, which is the law of the land, passed by a bipartisan legislature and signed by a Democratic president, does state that \"Government shall not substantially burden a person\u2019s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.\" As a liberal, I think that makes sense, and I'm not really sure it's worth it to force conservative bakers to sell cakes for gay weddings. The principle of religious freedom means a lot to me, as it's one of the hallmarks of the enlightenment and liberal values, and it really pains me to see so many people who call themselves \"progressive\" appear so willing to hem that in. I can see it for some issues, like housing discrimination, but cakes? As for your other point, obviously a government official must do her job. If she can't, she should resign. The courts ruled as much.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All of the examples given were Yanks; even if a minuscule portion of the Union army was composed of females, it does not answer the question of: \n\n\"Do transgendered troops make the military more or less capable?\"\n\nTrump is claiming that generals and \"military experts\" have advised him that transgendered troops make the military less capable.\n\nIf that is correct, then he made the right decision.\n\nThe purpose of the military is to defend our country in the best manner possible, not social engineering and inclusiveness.\n\nOn the other hand, a decorated transgender Navy Seal, Kristin Beck, begs to differ with Mr Trump in person.\n\nThat meeting will not occur anytime soon.\n\nBut if Ms Beck represents the quality of transgender troops in 2017, then we need more of them, not fewer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are no morals in politics, hasn't been since Regan really. I said at the time Billy had his little flings in the white house that Hillary should have walked and set a moral example, she didn't. \nLike all Democrats, she is promising the moon and will deliver nothing. I recall the black girl on TV after Obama won, her viral statement \"Obama is going to fill my tank\". Just one of many promises made to the black community to keep them voting for the party and nothing delivered. Obama has done nothing for the economy and that affects blacks more than anyone. He has done l0ts for the gays, lesbians and confused, he's done nothing else. Hillary has vowed to carry that on and poor Bernie, he thinks he's made some inroads....ha, his agenda will be the first thing under the bus under HRC. If nothing else, nothing else, she is predictable and the tank will remain on empty.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "RadirD, \"the agenda\"? To which right-wing conspiracy theory are you referencing? The \"Deep State\", the totalitarian \"New World Order\", the \"North American Union\", perhaps \"The Homosexual Agenda\" or the overlords of the \"Liberal Mainstream Media\" had something to do with this?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1/2\nFor centuries, it was assumed that the call to priesthood was predicated on a simultaneous call to celibacy, and that the call to celibacy was binding equally and similarly on all candidates for priesthood, prescinding from sexual orientation. In these latter days, the Vatican has discerned a way to scapegoat homosexuals for the sex abuse crisis.The Instruction institutionalizes that hypocrisy. It creates a problem for all candidates for priesthood. The language of \"intrinsic disorder\" is not just wrong; it represents a dangerous and false understanding of human sexuality that will be troubling for any mature and healthy person contemplating priesthood. To the extent that the 'powers-that-be' intend to implement this directive, to that extent Catholic seminaries will be increasingly unhealthy places; the priesthood itself and the whole People of God will suffer accordingly. We should not pretend that the Instruction is a sane, safe or serious approach to priestly formation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus was Jewish - He came to fulfill the law. He didn't need to talk about \"gays\" - He said \u201cTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.\u201d Pretty much covers it. And in Psalms, David says that the Lord knew him in his mother's womb. Takes care of the abortion issue as well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(Part one of two) \u201cI will show you the bride, the WIFE of the Lamb\u201d (Revelation 21:9). WIFE makes the verse look like being about human marriage, somehow, without engaging homosexuality. \u201cYour friends make known, O Lord, the glorious splendor of your Kingdom\u201d (Psalm 145:12). Being homosexual in itself does not make one less of friend of the Lord. \u201cMaking known to MEN your might\u201d (Psalm 145:12). \u201cThe LORD is near to all who call upon him . . . in TRUTH\u201d (Psalm 145:18). TRUTH versus politics is the problem, the tension. The Faithful today know much more about homosexuality than ever. This does not look to me about a matter Billy Graham once said something like, \u201csituation ethics is the same old situation, we just used to call it sin.\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As I've placed with 3 premises arriving to their conclusion, the subset of homosexual tendencies preferring boys was the epidemic/upset/crisis in the Church. And by that subset tendency is why the Church has placed specific evaluation on the behavior of men entering into the priesthood.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess Archbishop John Myers was correct when he suspended me from 27 years of good and faithful priestly ministry because I'm openly gay and therefore unfit. Just ask all the people I had the joy and privilege to serve how unfit I was!\n\nSadly this just continues to reveal the dysfunction at work within the Vatican.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes--proudly.\n\nWhy would I vote for Hillary? Hillary supports abortion, she is anti-police, anti-law and order, pro-gay marriage, pro-liberal SCOTUS justices, pro-forcing the Catholic Church to cover contraception, and she is pretty much antithetical to the values I hold. Why would I vote for someone like her? Obama was also pretty much antithetical to the values I hold. Why would I vote for another Obama term? That is what Hillary would have been--Obama's third term. \n\nThis is not to say I think Trump is great. My vote for Trump was more a vote against Hillary. Trump was unfortunately the Republican nominee. What choice did I have? The only way I would consider voting Democrat would be if the Democrat was pro-life and the Republican was pro-abortion. \n\nIt was also a vote for decent justices on the SCOTUS. That was the main reason I voted for Trump. Whatever else could be said of him, I knew he is our best chance for decent SCOTUS justices---and possibly overturning Roe.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know lots of women whose day to day clothing is, while sized and cut for the female body, otherwise indistinguishable from male attire. They are not transgender; they just don't appear to need to signal their gender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now maybe he will have to answer to his extremist views on women and gays.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "GC: When you use the term \"man up\", it does not offend me, however, a lot of people interpret it as YOU specifically referring to a MAN and challenging their Man Hood and authority. In todays Discus sting world of word play and semantics, maybe you should say, woman up, or he/she up, or she/he up, or Lesbian up, or Homosexual up, Black up, or White up, or Agender up. Whats up?????", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Nones on the Bus view the Church through a rear view mirror. As they pull out, they hear the fading sounds of \"All are welcome..\" and they feel the pain of irony and lies. They are women who practice birth control amid a \"sinner\" cry of celibate cardinals; they are students at Notre Dame and Georgetown told by the Newman Society they aren't at authentic Catholic universities; they are young kids told by the bishop Grandma and Uncle Mike aren't invited to the altar with them; they are gays told to follow as truth apparitions in long-ago places but to distrust their consciences; they are laity told \"It's not about clerical power,\" then ordered to know their place; they are young couples told by old men when, how, and why to have intimate relations; they are activists in a democracy who received a letter from the bishop proclaiming to not tell them how to vote--then tells them how NOT to vote; they are told JPII is \"Great,\" but Francis is confusing; they are told EWTN has truth...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Speaking too many facts re: transgendered people can be a dangerous proposition.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Would that apply to the baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple? Making the cake is an action, but his current defense is that the cake is self-expression - i.e., an aesthetic artifact, perhaps comparable to a picture or a flag (representations, as opposed to actions, which is what I think your logic is). Also, is displaying the representation an action? or not?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suspect they have some married Deacons, some parish councils just as we do here. I suspect in both places there is also the situation where the parish councils are summarily dismissed by a new priest if the priest wants and the bishops does nothing about it because to some bishops what the laity want doesn't matter. \n\nWe don't uniformly have good bishops; neither does Australia. We don't uniformly have good priests; neither does Australia. Both places had priests who kept silent about what they knew of child sex abuse and both places had all their bishops fight vociferously to keep hidden anything they knew about it.\n\nBoth Australia and Ireland are dealing with a big issue that we have managed to duck. That issue is the mutual responsibility that societies (through their governments) and faith leaders have to each other. We are getting to that issue - when we think of our commitment to equality for all and issues like gay marriage. No one is ahead of the other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Whew! Wow. Great piece. \n\nBut even Ms. Southey misses one important point, here. Could it be that the President's transgender tweet was just another example of obfuscation and distraction? He's a master at this (intended or not, who knows for sure?) and uses tweets this way fairly regularly. Distraction from WHAT, exactly? \n\nIf \"the Department of Defense currently spends $84-million annually treating erectile dysfunction, about 10 times the amount they spend on the transition-focused medical care of transgender service members...\" then, whoa! The U.S. has a problem that needs addressing beyond financial cost, beyond human cost of rampant impotence amongst military personnel (how come? Stress? Anxiety? Group think at the expense of self-esteem? Boredom?). Beyond all that (and this is for the Trump cover-up) there is the decree that, \"Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory.\" Tough to do, when guys are focused, instead, below their belts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The issue is that any child of a gay marriage is, by definition, separated from one of his biological parents. Research has shown that this is not ideal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Even the gay ones?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you catch the trick? MSW defines alt reich by citing Richard Spencer, and then suggests that this Spencerian movement is quite popular across America.\n\nBut there's no evidence that's so. When Spencer last gave a talk, 200 people showed up.\n\n200 people?\n\nIf Spencer is the leader of a huge movement that truly threatens America, where are the followers who, like Spencer, quote from Nazi literature and disparage Judaism?\n\nMSW doesn't say. But he does say this:\n\n\"Let those of us in the Catholic left help some of our more extreme colleagues on the left see how their antics provide kindling for the alt-right and let our conservative Catholic friends do their best to take away the alt-right's matches.\"\n\nI'm guessing that what Mr. Winters is referring to here is the recent UC Berkeley riot that shut down gay Catholic Milo Yiannopoulos. \n\nBut I'd only be guessing, as he won't cite particulars. Wonder why?\n\nCould very well be MSW is more afraid of the left than of the alt reich.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fine with this person living as a woman, but competing as a woman is absolutely and utterly wrong. Though she may have had her testes removed, she received the benefit of the testosterone they provided for the number of years she had them. Her bone structure is that of a man, just not fair. Create a \"Trans\" division and call it good.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "we now hire based on gender and that is wrong.\n---------\nJustin in his cabinet recognized only two genders - male and female\n-\nthere is no transgender cabinet minister - Justin is shallow and wrong\nAll talk and no action", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Keeping a person in a position of power because they are 'gay' or 'diverse' and not because they are qualified and ONLY because they are qualified is discriminatory and unsupportable. Giving certain people the right to sue or be protected by a law but not others is similarly discriminatory and unsupportable. If you can't put the object of your hatred (rich white male) in where you put any of your 'professional victim groups' and come away feeling ok. Then what you are creating an unconstitutionally protection group that gets illegal benefits at the expense of the whole society under the law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did the reporter confirm that this person was an \"abstinence only\" speaker? How does this fit in with the rest of the sex education in the district, is it the whole program or only a one hour speech as part of a weekly health education program that usually does not focus on abstinence? Did the reporter confirm the 10 year employment? \n\nYou are taking allegations as facts. They may be accurate, they may not be. But having a lot of them doesn't make them any more or less true.\n\nTo be clear, I wasn't calling these claims absurd, I was referencing the propaganda technique. In the case of these allegations, though, the claim that a teacher stood in public at a board meeting and called for transgender people to be \"castrated\" seems at the least like an incomplete picture.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He *does*. What he doesn't do is *design* for every *event*. That the event is a homosexual wedding is the issue, not that the people are homosexuals. Nothing in the article entails otherwise.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Transgender people allowed in militaries of 18 countries\"\nSo what?\nThe USA isn't one of them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It will come as no surprise that I am lesbian by nature. It is possible, although highly unlikely, that I could fall in love with a man. I'll name him Earl. I might marry Earl because he is fun and interesting and loves to travel and just rocks my world. Earl would be an anomaly. The spectrum of human sexuality is endless. Gay, straight, bisexual, asexual. Not my business if it's not my bed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" that immigrants need to be screened for Canadian values \u2013 which values, we still do not know \u2013 \"\nEditorial\n\nfor starters\nequality and rights for women and gays\ninclusiveness\ndiversity (how could G & M miss Justin's favourite value?)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But then the offense to the Church becomes being gay and having a healthy, positive attitude about it.\n\nI don't think it is a defect for someone to look around at society and conclude that encouraging stable, life-long relationships is a good road to take.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Great decision. A major policy was put into place without voter approval over the objections of many parents. Obama's transgender policy violates peeping, indecent exposure, and sexual harassment law. It also creates a hostile environment for those of us who are not transgender. Thank you, US Supreme Court for recognizing that EACH of us is entitled to dignity, privacy, and modesty.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know the writer, and I'm disappointed to hear about the anti-gay rants if this is the same guy, but I didn't detect anything hateful or prejudicial in this article. I started reading with the thought that we need to protect the dignity of transgender people as well as their privacy, and the article seemed to end up promoting a right to privacy and dignity for all, so I let down my guard. It seems like a legitimate and respectful proposal to address the concerns about privacy and dignity that have arisen. I am not sure how practical it is, but that probably shouldn't be the primary consideration. Am I missing something?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Feel free to launch into your lecture about abortion, acceptance of gay people, rising atheism, and the lack of conservative Christians in all phases of society.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And at one time everyone believed the sun circled the earth and that slavery was okay with God, that adulterers should be stoned to death and on and on.\n\nMarriage no longer only means a union between a man and a woman just as a man and a woman getting married no longer necessarily means they want to have children - but will have sex. All this idea about marriage WAS ONCE all tied up in a neat little bundle - and it no longer is.\n\nI don't think the Supreme Court was \"perverting\" the Constitution but was recognizing the fundamental equality of people to participate in the society and the \"common good\" created by that society. At this point, LGBT marriage is accepted by a majority of citizens and I think the Supremes waited to make a decision until it was evident that there was that acceptance. You may dispute the \"liberty\" of gay marriage all you want - but you have already lost the argument in the minds of lay Catholics and most citizens.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's a takeoff from the questioning Francis got early on about a gay mafia in the Vatican. There is one, but it is not totality. There may be some active and celibate heterosexuals, but most moved on a long time ago. That leaves the Aces, whose ideal of holiness seems to match the sexuality of that orientation. Fine for them, but it is not fine to assume those of us in the married state will follow their lead. Indeed, for us, the asexual ideal is not natural. Look up asexuality. I provided a link, but that is from a supportive site. I am sure you can google something more academic. Make your own comparison to celibate ideals and the attempt to make them ideal for everyone, from clerical continence to Augustine's confessions, to Paul and pseudo-Paul's epistles to Humanae Vitae (which is likely the first time anyone noticed the sexual peculiarity in Catholic doctrine on a wide scale, which most of us ignore because it is unnatural for us as heterosexuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Only the democrats could produce such a overtly sexist law.\"\n\nTrue, that! \n\nAnd you forgot \"tobacco cessation\" as being a woman's right only.\n\nMen can die of lung cancer, but women must be 'protected'. \n\nI wonder if transgendered will get all this stuff free?\n\nMaybe all you have to do is go in and 'identify' as female?\n\n\"Hi!\" \"I want my free STD screening and treatment, my free tobacco cessation program and my other free stuff as a woman.\" \n\n\"I'm feeling very feminine today!\" \n\n\"And my wife hit me last night when I got home from the tavern!\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You need to look up the history of a transgender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Only works if you categorize those abusers as homoesexual men rather than as victims of abuse themselves. Consensual homosexuality and pederasty are two very differernt things. Equating these serves a social agenda of certain bishops who are deflecting from their own shoddy vetting, likely claiming that they were made to admit gays to seminary rather than asking candidates the very simple question, have you ever been a victim? Gay priests usually have relationships with other gay priests, not Altar boys.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please Anthony! Don't insult our intelligence. This had nothing at all to do with invasions, or such from the past. This was based on a burning hatred for homosexuals that was instilled in him from his Imam, family, and friends. It is fully justified in the Koran. An Imam in Florida publicly called for the murder of gays, etc. \"as a kindness\". Do you know what happens to gays in \"moderate\" Muslim countries? Stoning, Beat to death, Shot, Beheaded, etc. Bad as that is, in the radical countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc., they often get peeled alive with a knife, right in front of their families. \n\nThis ridiculous white guilt crap needs to go. There's no other race on earth that has given and helped other groups, in spite of the horrific deeds that have been committed by some white people in the past. As for America, there's no other country in history that has gone out of its way to help out the needy, particularly in other countries.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since he presumably honors his public vow of celibacy what difference would it make if he were gay?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm checking some facts I don't know yet. Could someone please answer if they know.\n\nDid the cake baker say he wouldn't bake anything for the gay couple or did he say he wouldn't bake a wedding cake for the gay couple?\n\nThose are two completely different things and I can't make an informed (not emotion based) decision without knowing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps RangerMC and I agree on some things but not all. Perhaps you can revive the cold war era term 'fellow travelers' to describe our agreeing on some philosophies.\n\nI believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. No shades of grey there. I don't agree with 'situational ethics' when applied to those documents. \n\nMy mind is not in the bedroom or bathroom. I don't care if someone is gay, lesbian, transgender or whatever. I don't care what you do in your bedroom. If it doesn't involve my siblings or daughters, I don't care.\n\nMy use of the word haole was ironic (and accurate). You can use white, caucasian or haole for me. I won't take insult with any of them. I won't take any of them as a micro-aggression.\n\nAmerica is a great place to be a citizen of and it gets better over time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no science supporting the notion that transgender people 'have brains' whose structure duplicates that of the other gender. Brain imaging studies suggest there is one area of the brain responsible for gender identity and that is misfiring in transgender people. So the question is a good one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The stories are quite cleverly done. Today, for instance there was this story: http://www.usatwentyfour.com/white-house-press-secretary-josh-earnest-says-men-entering-girls-locker-rooms-civil-right/\n\nThe headline makes a stark claim, that Obama's press secretary said that men being able to enter the girls locker room is a civil right. The commentators erupted in indignation, saying if a man enters a locker room with their wife or daughter they would castrate or kill him. Of course, no one thought Trump entering the pageant changing room was the same situation at all!\n\nIf you look at the transcript of the press conference, there is a question about HB2 and then some blah blah from the press secretary about standing up for civil rights has been a priority of the Obama administration. He certainly never made any comment about \"men\" in general being able to do anything. To that audience, it would be just as upsetting if the headline said \"transgender\" but it pushes one step further anyway.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, you go read it. Doesn't sound like any Christian religious groups I know. \"Those who disobeyed and those who did not enjoin what was right received a severe punishment from Allah.\" And then l-Sheikh Gillani also said, \u201cWe must condemn these acts and declare a social boycott of all who do not stand against same-gender marriage, in an effort to save ourselves. We must stand up. Only then will we be saved.\u201d This is a CALL FOR ACTION...not only against gays, but against anyone who does not stand AGAINST them. It's the only way to save yourself. Pretty strong stuff. But that's okay, eh? And Demboski did not say that Jones is stockpiling weapons. She basically said we need to be vigilant. And I agree with that. Especially after reading about the group he's from!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Personally I think transgender people should have the right to evidence-based medical treatment rather than being led to invasive procedures and heavy drug regimens prescribed by gender-identity politics.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Any time Pope Francis talks with reporters on the papal plane, you know something interesting is about to happen. This time was no exception.\n\nWhat strikes me about his comments isn't that he said anything new (he mostly reiterated traditional Catholic teaching on gender identity), but that he resisted making a blanket condemnation or speaking negatively about transgender people. Instead, he went where he usually does, encouraging personal dialogue, pastoral sensitivity and taking each situation as it comes.\n\nI can't help but contrast that with the knee-jerk way many U.S. bishops have dealt with the issue. I wish they'd take a page from Francis' book and let their default mode be one of conversation rather than edict. It could only improve their low stock with U.S. Catholics.\n\nOne minor quibble about the headline. The pope never said that morality is determined case-by-case, which is not only misleading but bad theology. How 'bout we lighten up on the 'click-bait' headlines?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The right of a professional to refuse a service based on religious objections is a complex issue and only growing more so. \n\nObviously, conscience should be respected in situations where a person is asked to directly participate in something they find morally objectionable, like a nurse assisting in an abortion. \n\nBut on the other end of the spectrum are things like bakers refusing to sell wedding cakes to gay couples, an act that's completely immaterial to gay marriage itself. (As I write this, the Supreme Court has just agreed to hear one such case.)\n\nYou can make a sound argument for a pharmacist refusing to sell abortifacients. But should that extend to contraceptives too? And, if so, should condoms be included? As long as we're talking about not enabling bad behavior, should merchants be allowed to refuse the sale of cigarettes and liquor to adults, even though those things are legal?\n\nThese are not easy questions and there is no one-size-fits-all answer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your own statement makes it clear this was about design, which sure looks like artistic freedom.\n\n\"The owner flatly refused to design a cake for a gay couple.\"\n\nIn more detail, the cake was for a gay wedding, not for a birthday or a housewarming or ...\n\nAt question is whether or not this was legal. But let's not obscure the debate while we ponder the issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tulsi is looking for upward mobility. She somehow always gets her face in the media at every opportunity. I believe she was looking to be tapped for VP if Sanders were to miraculously win the Dem nominee. I've never trusted her (dad's anti gay marriage) from the first run. I salute her service to our country but I'm thinking her ambitions are self promotiing and she is calculating her next move. She wants to move up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"One of the most notable things about the whole Jordan Peterson saga is that the science behind the transgender issue is entirely undebatable.\"\n\nThat's the most unbelievable aspect. We've got HUGE bodies that think this entire 'gender by performance, divorced from biology' concept is just ideology, including the US Department of Health. To act as if the 'science' is settled, when there's resistance even within Psychology (Dr. Peterseon's field), let alone in the broader world of biology, endocrinology and neurology, is asinine.\n\nA study around testosterone and behaviour just published last month claiming that most of male risk taking can be put down to that androgen. Are our male social roles utterly fabricated by society, or is there a significant hormonal driver? Social science in general, and gender studies in particular, says the former, but most of our hard science says the latter.\n\nThreatening the Dr. Petersons of the world with fines, or dismissal? That's dogma, not science.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I said about Fr Martin was true. I simply provided his own quotes. I never questioned Fr Martin's sexuality, and it is not appropriate for you to infer he or any other priest may be asexual, homosexual, or heterosexual. A chaste life is the only thing that counts for Catholic priests. Good day, Mike", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Annual cost of Viagra in the military, according to the Military Times $41.6 million; cost of treatments for transgender service members, ~ $2.4 - 8.4 million according to Rand study. Cost of bigotry, discrimination? priceless.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Recently there was a wonderful article in the Washington Post written by a millennial mainly for Protestant churches, although the thrust of the article could just as easily extend to Roman Catholicism. The title, \"Want millennials back in the pews? Stop trying to make church \u2018cool,'\" gives the gist of the article, found here:\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jesus-doesnt-tweet/2015/04/30/fb07ef1a-ed01-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html?utm_term=.8716a7384258\n\nA couple of quotes: \"Millennials are not disillusioned with tradition; they are frustrated with slick or shallow expressions of religion.\u201d\n\nAs for why young people leave religion, this supports VictorVictoria's point: \"I was looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity: I didn\u2019t like how gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people were being treated by my evangelical faith community. I had questions about science and faith, biblical interpretation and theology. I felt lonely in my doubts.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you go out of your way to see films about gay people. Most actual straight guys I know don't do that. They couldn't care less. You seem to care an awful lot for a \"straight\" guy. Just sayin'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess you missed I was responding to this comment: \"With all the hate that goes with being trans don't you think that will cause some problems in the military as it does in the general public now?\"\n\nIt's only you right-wingers that are oddly fixated on people's genitalia and bathroom issues and what's proper room for what. Nobody else cares. \n\nLike I said in another comment, I'm a mountain climber. On a glacier rope team, if someone has to go, they don't untie from the rope and find privacy. Male or female you drop your drawers and take care of business right there in front of your rope mates. I'm quite certain our military professionals are more than capable of handling a similar situation without having their delicate sensibilities offended like you right wingers do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think that the bottom line (no pun intended) here is that sex of any kind is not supposed to be associated with priests. We seldom hear about the Eastern rite when any of this is discussed. As for \"straight\" versus \"gay\" bars, I wonder what the reaction would have been if some seminarian had asked if \"singles bars that are not gay\" are permitted. \"Singles bars\" used to be the generic term used to mean straight bars.\n\nAs for myself, I would like to know if the gay priests who outed themselves ever openly objected to the promise of celibacy for any, or openly objected to gender discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Look to how your coreligionists in Russia are treating homosexuals and then get back to us Catholics. \n\nThe fact we have a largely celibate priesthood means we have many same sex attracted men in the priesthood and you will rarely hear a peep from the pulpit about sexual morality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Russia is an easy target ..... well Chechnya is kinda a part of Russia ..... Russia is a politically correct target (10 countries have the death penalty for being gay, all of them muslim), Russia is a comfortable target (history, cold war, etc). So the MSM will ignore the persecution of gays across the middle east and in places like Africa. The MSM jumps on a Russia story, but completely ignores the oppression and persecution of gays elsewhere.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Traditional best way to describe. I think not.\nExtremist, out of touch with the American public, is the correct descriptor.. Especially going forward for thirty years on major issues.\nOffside on same sex marriage, gay rights, Roe, v, Wade, capital punishment. If he is states' rights, he will leave the states to gerrymander..\nTraditional not.. Disaster more accurate. .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, the former policies were out of anti-gay bias.\nI mean, for 1,900 years Western civilization said homosexuality was wrong, against God, criminal.\nAnd now, we decide gay people are okay?\nIt must be politics!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The scene: fast food restaurant.\n\n\"A hamburger for me, please, and a chicken sandwich for they.\"\n\nA blank -- or maybe even a bit \"strange\" -- stare from the clerk.\n\n\"Ummm... I mean for them.\" (Or _do_ I mean 'for them'? What do I mean?)\n\nClerk thinking hard. Then, understanding dawns. \"O.K., two chicken sandwiches and one hamburger, right?\"\n\n\"No, just one chicken sandwich. For them. ... They. ... Whatever.\" Whereupon an undercover gender-pronoun cop jumps out from behind the big sign that says \"Large fries free with any order all day today\" and hauls me off to jail, because in this context the \"whatever\" might constitute hate speech, and only the court can decide. \n...\nBTW: If there is only one transgender person present, is it still: \"They _want_ a chicken sandwich?\" Or is it supposed to be: \"They _wants_ a chicken sandwich?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A_gay_religious_marriage_would_have_a_chance._My_brother_and_his_husband_had_a_roman_collar_officient._They_are_now_divorcign,_but_were_together_a_total_of_20_years,_which_is_longer_than_my_marriage_lasted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Didn't Trudeau wag his finger and scold China, Japan and Korea about how few women and transgendered persons are in the boardrooms of their national industries ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have no problem with the burial of a gay person in a relationship. I was responding to Fiedler's comment that the Church should accept gay relationships and gay marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think history teaches us just the opposite -- the safest course of action is usually to stand with the status quo.\n\nI realize that the \"they came for the\" adage is tied to what happened in 1930s Germany. But given that there were people who stood against the Nazi regime, I think we see that their bravery didn't defeat the regime, and basically just placed themselves in equal peril. \n\nIn any case, I'm not sure of the application here: They came for the gays, so they're going to come for the heterosexuals?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How can heart speak to heart, Christ and those he invites into relationship with him, if people cannot come to the church as they are? So many priests in the closet represent a forced handicap, not to mention institutional bigotry, which stunts their ministry. Of the priests I know, at least half, gay and straight, \"have something on the side\". So, thinking that homosexual behavior is sinful, and that even celibacy cannot be regarded as any sort of remedy tells the world: not only is the human person not inherently good, but that we're just going to wink and nod as we act like it is. The church will not draw people to Christ if it cannot value the people that populate it, not to mention the fact that this pathology leads to a perverse secrecy. In fact, by basing its views of homosexuality and celibacy on an misguided anthropology it prevents a meeting of Christ and people on two fronts. And Fr. Reese contends we're not yet ready for a remedy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Accepting and promoting are different things, whether you talk about legal homosexuality and a right to marriage or legal abortion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So the Church employee was fired for entering a gay marriage. You expect the Church to continue to employ someone whose conduct is in the face of the Church's significant moral teaching? Why should it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is silly. If you play well enough to be in the NBA, what does it matter? Getting into the NBA is a matter of ability. You can be 10 feet tall and still not good enough to make it. Or you can be 5'3\" and playing right now. \n\nPeople come up with fallacies like yours all the time, but they don't correlate to the reality of transgender people (or reality in general.) Studies on transgender people show biological evidence to back up their claims. It's kinda like accusing someone with one black and one white parent of being \"trans racial\" for adopting cultural elements from the black community. Or, to relate it to your fallacy, it is like being 7 feet tall and complaining that the NBA should let you in despite never having played basketball. It doesn't make a lot of sense. There is a lot more to it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When you sign a business license application, you agree to abide btpy state laws. The baker knowingly broke the law. There are bible verses about that. \nLike most people, you do not understand the word \u201cunique.\u201d\n\nYou can argue art all you want, but it is a cake. His purpose is to make money. \nHe could make a custom cake for a wedding between Kim and Kim.\nHow does he know if it is for a gay wedding?\nHe would have to ask. \nWhat is the difference? He makes a wedding cake and does not k ow if it is going to a gay wedding or a straight wedding.\n\nHow can he be offended by that if he dows not know?\nThe answer is the baker is being an immature baby that does not want to make cakes for a protected class of people. \nHe is a bad Christian, he went back on his word. He is choosing to be offended over something that is not his business. \nHis \u201cart\u201d can be recreated by any number of bakers. His are not special and certainly not unique. Religion is not an excuse to discriminate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If this decision holds I'll be the first one to stand up and applaud Trump for taking what I consider to be a principled stand. However, with Trump nothing is ever as clear as it seems, and as others have noted, he's generally guided by the last person with whom he spoke, even if that person holds a position 180\u02d9 away from the position he took ten minutes earlier. Trump has gone one record, however, saying he is open to signing executive orders that would enshrine \"religious freedom\" laws of which Catholic bishops are so fond, and which exist for the sole purpose of denying gay people housing, jobs, or even service if a person with a \"sincerely held religious belief\" decides said gay person should be denied housing, accommodation, or any kind of service at any place of business. So we shall see. This story is only beginning. Where it ends is where the proof in the pudding will be found, and the jury's still out on that. But for now I give credit where credit is due. For now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hard to relate to a so called feminist that champions radical muslim beliefs. Should women not be able to drive? Do you follow sharia law which calls for the killing of gays and the stoning women who have sex out of marriage? If muslims would denounce terrorists and protest terrorism the way they do over veils we might actually get to the source cause of the terrorist plague.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Father Martin understands that the commandment to love includes EVERYONE. Not just one's preference. The abuse suffered by gay individuals who struggle to remain connected to their Church is one of the great heartbreaks of this era. Thank you Father Martin for your courage and your commitment to educating the poorly informed. I commend Catholic LBGT people for their courage and their willingness to remain in a body that so ill treats them. Jesus never would have. Why don't people read the Sermon on the Mount. Its the most ignored passage in the Gospels.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just last week there was a article in the paper back east about a lesbian that killed her bull dyke partner, because she was cheating with another lesbian-THE KIND SANCTIONED BY YOUR BELIEFS............tou\u00b7ch\u00e9", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Father Hall, look on the bright(er) side. You could be ministering to the Catholic faithful on the other side of the Delaware River in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. \n\nYes, indeed, our current spiritual leader, when he was leading the Catholic faithful in Denver, Colorado, deemed it necessary, right, appropriate, etc. to support the local Catholic elementary school's pastor decision to deny enrollment for children registering for the elementary school because their parents were lesbians. Of course, a similar incident, i.e., of kicking an excellent religion teacher to the curb because of her homosexual relationship, occurred at Waldron Mercy Academy in June 2015.\n\nBishop Myers and Archbishop Chaput - perfect together !\n\nFather, thank you for your work, diligence and service to all people of faith.\n\nMichael Skiendzielewski\nCaptain (Retired)\nPhiladelphia Police Dept.\nSt. Joseph's University, 1974", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First of all--I think they key to understanding the position of the Church is that a person who has a same sex attraction is not bared from seminary and priesthood. A person who is GAY is bared. The difference? A gay person is not able to live a celibate life because they are acting out their attraction.\n\nA heterosexual person who acts out their attractions would also be bared from entering seminary--because such a person does not demonstrate an ability to live celibacy and chastely. \n\nSecondly: is it a news flash that the Church does not support the gay lifestyle? Why are you surprised to hear the pope reiterate church teaching on this issue? The pope might be liberal--in the sense that he prefers to emphasize the social teaching of the Church over the moral--but he is not a heretic. His pastoral style might also be different from his predecessors--but again, he is not a heretic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually there is plenty of evidence to support homosexuality is an evolutionary adaptive behavior. It's observed in many vertebrate species, not just us or our closest primate relatives. Genetically it makes sense, especially in animals that live in complex social groups.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Religious freedom is not the same as religious privilege. They want the privilege of hurting LGBT people. Funny how no one complains about making a cake for anyone els.e BUt LGBT people are still the safe ones to hurt.\n\nJust think: if they had their way, a paramedic could refuse to treat a man with a heart attack because he's married to another man. Indeed, before marriage equality nationwide, there were several cases of partners being denied access their dying spouse. How kind. How Christian. Is this the world you want to live in?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those who deny science, logic, and reason in defense of a made-up victim group is beyond evil. A person with a bona fide mental disorder such as sexual dysmorphia and gender identity disorder can believe they are the incorrect sex as much as they want-- that doesn't mean you get to dictate to anyone that they should go along with their specious belief.\n.\nWhat never occurs to people like Elvi Gray-Jackson or to you is that you don't represent the transgender \"community.\" You never have- and you never will. In fact- Dr. Jordan Peterson, a Canadian at the forefront of Leftist Canadian government coercion to force people into not saying incorrect genders, has received many letters from those with the disorder, who say they don't want attention, and that they don't want the \"bathroom issue\" being brought up at all.\n.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZmPwuuj88", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All across Canada now, Muslims are creating isolationist enclaves to keep non Muslims out to protect their own culture. They are doing it with the permission of public officials using multiculturalism as the excuse to create apartheid communities for themselves. Public housing for Muslims only in Toronto prohibits handicapped, Asians, single mothers, and gays. In Edmonton they want to build an entire Muslim exclusive town with provincial legal approval but which would violate all human rights codes of Canada. Bravo it all great and wonderful we are told. These ladies are the vanguard of creating what they see as 'their' Canada.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They of course left out all the Public Service Employees who have been dealt a cruel blow by the RCMP Management, due to harassment, sexual harassment and outright bullying, and racist and homophobic actions of a small percentage of Members. They know who they are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those are tough choices. It also raises a question of jurisdiction. My wife and i just visited San Fransisco, a city that seems to have little problem with accepting gay marriage. To them, the law reflects their community. But if they form a civil contract of marriage in SF what happens if they move Oklahoma City, do they loose their contract? Do we allow racial discrimination in Slabovia, but continue to provide them federal services from 49 states who think they are repugnant? How big is your 'community' standard? \n\nOur growth in communication has tied us together in ways we couldn't have known. Cultural changes happen much faster than many of us can adapt.\nWe go into shock when what we thought was normal becomes abnormal, or the other way around. Some people seek new things, which is great for growth, Some people seek security and security is good ground for happiness.. There is no right or wrong, they both are needed to keep us in balance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When Bishop Morlino took charge of the Madison diocese he wasted little time in writing in the Catholic Herald that the city of Madison existed below a \"moral minimum\" and had \"virtually no public morality\" specifically mentioning that the local lesbian and gay community theatre was evidence of the utter depravity to which the city had sunk. Obviously, Bishop Morlino has a talent for ferreting out the evil in communities. He should be transferred to Las Vegas", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What a self-serving article. You are making excuses for a toxic and harmful polemicist. Being male and white, Milo had the luxury of turning his anger outward, and many many people suffered, some grievously. If you want your readers to understand sex abuse survivors and the anger they feel about sex and their own sexuality, better to direct them to \"Paris Is Burning\". It's a powerful testament to the corrosive effects of gay prejudice and the liberation to be achieved through art and performance. Being vulnerable like the men in that film is dangerous, courageous and potentially healing - unless you are savaged mercilessly by creeps like Milo.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I understand the force of your comment ... but technically the Church never speaks of individuals as being \"objectively disordered\". In official documents this is a description reserved for discussion about homosexuality in se, in the abstract. \n\nBut given that all too many people take up the expression and (mis-)apply it to people, then your comment retains its full force.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why is it that the Globe and like-minded \"progressives\" are inexcusably silent when it comes to the social regression synonymous with countries where the niqab is common, do they pretend it's a coincidence? The Globe is incapable of any critical analysis of societies \"governed\" by political Islam (Islamism). Gender equality, LGBT rights, maternal health, reproductive rights - there are 57 members of the OIC at the UN, how many champion any of the aforementioned values? Instead they pretend like it's simply about cultural relativism that women are made to feel ashamed for \"immodesty\" for not covering their hair, as if they are responsible provoking sexual assault by men who can't control themselves at the sight of uncovered hair? Canada doesn't beat women for wearing ripped jeans or punish homosexuals with the death penalty because we are an advanced civilized society. Look at Europe's experience, as if social division and segregation is a sign of \"diversity\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many people outside the organization do not recognize the diversity of opinions about gay scouts among registered BSA members and the way that plays out at the troop level. They might be surprised at the acceptance practiced by many chartering organizations and units, and ultimately it's what happens in the troops that matters. That's not to say that all troops are accepting of gay scouts, which is most certainly not the case, but some units were quietly providing a place for gay scouts long before the official policy caught up with changing public sentiment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well they are going Mike! The Traditionalists must have their way church! is not working in the west because those \"others\" you label have already left & now even the traditionalist's kids are saying \"See ya - keep your sexist, racist, gay bashing church for yourself-instead give me a church that loves Jesus and wants to worship as a group of believers who vote to decide what style of mass is most unifying, taking all voices into account. \n\nWe got a new pastor last week at our parish. I asked him to please let our parish go back to having Lectors stay on the altar, as our church had been doing for decades before our conservative pastor, who left, demanded they leave the sanctuary the moment they finish their reading, as of last year. The lectors were told this was the guideline so even though half the lectors asked to be allowed to stay, as they enjoyed this special time of prayer in the sanctuary, during Eucharistic prayer-his answer was no! The new priest told me no-thats final!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wouldn't this also include same-sex couples? It may be the case that in terms of Church teaching, they are in an objective state of sin. However, their inborn orientation and other factors would remove culpability. Would gay people have access to the same internal forum to determine their situation and, in some cases, have access to the sacraments?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, he would undoubtedly pass a lie detector test on his beliefs, since I am certain he truly believes them.\n\nThe problem I have is that it doesn't occur to him to ask, \"Might I and my fellow bishops be doing anything wrong?\" Bishops call for \"freedom of religion\", which amounts to the \"right\" to deny employees contraceptive coverage in health insurance policies and the \"right\" to discriminate against gays. The bishops preach the equality of men and women, but do not practice it. Unmarried men hold synods on marriage and the family where no married people are in attendance or have any input. Personal morality seems to begin and end with sexual morality -- although, to bishops, being a priest who preys on children is acceptable, not do they take any responsibility. Gay civil marriage is a threat to marriage in general, when any married person can see no affect on his or her marriage. People see that and ask \"who are they trying to kid\" and worse \"do these people live in the real world?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Too late UFCW has already cut are pension by 30% plus we are removed from PBGF coverage . This union managed fund (we tried to have it changed to 3rd party management ) has invested in gay resorts in Panama so the managers could ply with under age boys....yes this really did happen.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Liberal/Progressive Reasoning in 2017:\nKids who bring a Bible to school are ignorant, brainwashed and only go along with what their parents tell them. \nBut \"transgender\" kids are courageous and brave and kudos to them for knowing who they really are and for standing up for themselves.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We separate our laws from the barbarism practiced in Saudi Arabia, Iran and all the other countries who follow Sharia law. \n\n\"Sharia law means the moral code and religious law of Islam. It includes criminal, civil, personal, economic and all aspects of law as revealed in Quran and Hadiths\"\n\nRefusing to be a barbarian does not equate to being a bigot.\n\nBeing against a legal system which is against out Constitution does not make one a bigot.\n\nRefusing to permit someone to do things as 'religion' which are illegal under our Constitution does not make one a bigot.\n\nTheir actual laws, not just their extremists' views totally against our Bill of Rights.\n\nThe difference between the ISIS people and Saudi Arabia, both practicing sharia law?\n\nHomosexuals:\n\nThe ISIS people believe the Qura'n requires that they be thrown from a high building; so they do.\n\nThe Saudi Government: the homosexuals and lesbians beheaded in public, so they do, on 4th offense. \n\nSee the difference?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nice guy - naive too. Its a shame. We are losing women, especially young women, to the Nones, and just in general, more than even protestant churches but not one mention that maybe we need to treat and ordain them as equals in this article. \n\nAs I reminded a Catholic Friend of mine lately, there is freedom to discuss, on our altars, the lives of child molesting, gay and transgender murdering, prostitute, priests, with three wives on the side, but I better not suggest God ever called any women to ordained priesthood. \n\nI do believe we need to work something out for LGBT in the form of them having a way to avow to each other fidelity in their relationship before friends and the church. At the present, just having rules enforced by pastors that these families must be treated the same as heterosexual families and welcomed the same would be a huge improvement. We also need to have bishops who don't allow LGBT teachers to be fired from RC schools. There is no excuse for this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "RangerMC has a penchant for linking to unreliable sources like Liberty Headlines, which publishes articles with titles that you might see in tabloids at the grocery store, such as \"Pastor uses bug spray \u2018to cure cancer, HIV.'\" \"Transgenderism Infiltrates Pediatrics; Produces Large-Scale Child Abuse,\" and \"Gay Orgy Sex Scandal Rocks Vatican.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clearly overt discrimination against minorities has decreased.\n The scapegoatism that keeps the work force fearful, obedient and submissive has been downshifted from ethnic minorities, gays and women to the poor.\n As social equality has allowed some groups to rise on the social economic ladder, a covert subtle shift has occurred pushing the poor further down the ladder into deeper poverty and discrimination largely based on appearance.\n A once-a-year neo-Nazi demonstration makes the headlines and sells newspapers, but the growing everyday hate problem in North America is hatred of the impoverished.\n This is what the fake \"progressive\" liberal left has wrought with its identity politics. Social equality does not stop the increasing economic disparities, the class war on the lower classes. Genuine leftists know it must work the other way around, as it does in the Scandinavian nations. Economic equality creates social equality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's another priest with embezzlement charges, related to his gay lovers. Recent story.\n\nThink we will see this story here at NCR?\n\nhttp://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/monsignor-removed-from-priestly-duties", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CMD: Slice of pizza.....bake a cake...(not catered,BTW)...are both services/accomodations provided. Both are subject to statutes regarding refusal of services to protected classes. Perhaps you don't think LGBTs should be a protected class. That's fine. Perhaps the bakers didn't feel lesbians ordering a cake for a wedding should be a protected class. That's fine too. I think 55 mph is too \"slow\" a speed limit on highway 99 north of Eugene. That's also fine. However, I'm well-served by obeying that speed limit. I guessing you see the point I'm making. regards, Gary Crum BTW: I'm not sure mentioning that it's primarily \"right-wing fundamentalist Christians\" who wish to use First Amendment Religious Freedom as a justification to discriminate against homosexuals is quite the same as \"using the N-word.\" again, regards, Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This comment is cont. from comment below: so why does this report give a false impression about celibacy & homosexuality influencing child abuse in priests & refuses to state that having women priests & bishops would automatically lower future abuse rates simply because women have always abused less often and usually not sexually? Simple answer-These experts want married priests as they are ex-priests themselves & they don't care that this would not change any rate of abuse to children in our church because that does not get them what they want. They themselves are sexist & don't really want ordained women priests so they use the Future Church mode of speech & say the church's lacking female authority & leadership roles? may have made abuse more likely. Sexual abusers go to where there is best access & the least threat to be caught. Children would likely tell a woman priest in their parish if their co-pastor was hurting them. We need to do what is right and ordain women priests now", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "BBC program on the first 100 days of the Trump administration ... and specifically the new cultural wars. The designated \"homophobic\" critique could have come from one group of Right Wing gay artists which was briefly profiled in the aforementioned program. It just takes a few hundred tweets or emails to get advertisers a little nervous. Also - there was an artist (straight) who put a tombstone with \"D.J Trump 1946 - ?\" on the streets of a major American city who had a \"midnight knock\" on his door and two secret service agents and a local sheriff who took him for questioning. In the end he was fined for littering since any other charge could have been contested as a violation of the first amendment.\n\nI always say if you don't like something don't watch it just because you want to hear what he/she has to say next. TV is mostly rubbish anyway. There must be a lot of cranky old folks out there because any 10 year old with a smart phone can view all and sundry on the internet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So are there any sex acts that you would deem inappropriate for teachers to discuss with children at the age of puberty and beyond? How about fisting? \n\n\"Gay\" means, in part, engaging in same-sex acts. Without the sexual component, it just means 2 people who are attracted to or love one another, i.e. \"same-sex attracted,\" the term that I (and the Church) thinks should be used. You can deny the sexual component, but the kiddies figure that out and spread it amongst themselves pretty quickly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cInstead of improving the lives of hard-working Americans, President Trump has tried to force on the American people an immoral, ineffective and expensive border wall, discriminatory new barriers to the ballot box, a degrading and disgusting policy banning transgender Americans from serving in the military and a hateful, senseless anti-immigrant agenda that instills fear in our communities and weakens our nation,\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Platform has always been pie in the sky for both parties - I'm curious to see if the Dems manage to excise God from theirs this time, as they very nearly did last time. I think Peter Thiel was allowed that speech to soften the Republicans' reputation for homophobia. Frankly, I use and enjoy PayPal - it was a brilliant idea (and had better support under Meg Whitman). Look - personally, I'm a cranky old straight right-wing septuagenarian retired network engineer Vietnam era veteran who grew up in pre-civil rights Texas, and, to me, most of these LGBTQ people are confused at best - but I still believe they have a right to live according to their best lights - that's the Constitution - as long as their rights don't interfere with other folks' rights (as has happened some lately). So, while I don't personally approve of the LGBTQ lifestyle, I applaud Trump for opening the dialog - whether it's in the platform or not. The Dems can't have an honest conversation about ANYTHING.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How do you feel about schools discussing gay marriage, transgenderism, gun issues, the Confederate states and participants, or any of the other \"hot button\" issues in today's society? So many condemn Christianity (or other religions) but demand that issues more to their taste should be openly discussed, no matter the audience.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Barbara, \n\nThe LGBTQ rights movement has come a long way, but the struggle is far from over. LGBTQ youth still feel isolation, ostracism and fear and youth groups allow youth to feel like they are no longer alone. \n\nYou write \u201cBut I draw the line at exposing my children to things that I believe are not morally right for me or them\u201d. You believe youth who identify as LGBTQ, who know that they could be made homeless through parent\u2019s intolerance, bullied, or killed for being LGBTQ shouldn\u2019t know that there are safe spaces available to them because other youth might also get to learn about these safe spaces? \n\nThere is also the increasingly long list of suicides which have been attributed to bullying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicides_that_have_been_attributed_to_bullying. These are youth who are dying because they feel isolated and hated, and remember that as you continue to try to take away a safe space that has been created for them. \n\nKaren Chris", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right. The tired argument from the left-wingers is that if you are against transgender surgery for kids, you are a bigot and against LGTBQ rights. \nIt's wrong and you should be ashamed of yourself for promoting it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Very few people are transsexual. Trustin is just virtue signalling.\n\nThere are many groups who are being marginalized in Canada that need more help.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But Ken, you already know what the John Jay researchers found:\n\n\"[T]he researchers found no statistical evidence that gay priests were more likely than straight priests to abuse minors\u2014a finding that undermines a favorite talking point of many conservative Catholics. The disproportionate number of adolescent male victims was about opportunity, not preference or pathology, the report states.\"\n\nhttps://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/john-jay-report-not-blaming-homosexual-priests\n\nSo why keep repeating your egregious calumny against gay priests? Incessantly repeating a lie doesn't make it a truth!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/watch-thom-hartmanns-most-brutal-takedown-libertarianism\n\nHartmann exposes libertarian philosophy for the billionaire scam that it is.\nThe Libertarian Party was started basically as a scam, as a front group for big business in the United States and very wealthy people,\" Hartmann begins, \"and, you know, big business doesn't care if gay people get married, they don't care if people smoke pot. They'll give you the social issues, but... the bottom line for the Libertarian Party on every issue\u2014whether it's Medicare, Social Security, public roads...\u2014[is] let's privatize [them or]... do away [with them].\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one is saying what you think they are saying. No one has a \"right\" to the priest, not even a man. All that is argued is that no one should be barred from the priesthood simply because he or she is not a straight man, as though that were the only category of person that God might call. There are ALREADY plenty of homosexual men in the priesthood, all doing as well or as poorly at it as straight men, so that argument is shot down to begin with.\n\nBarring women or gays from the priesthood simply because they are gay or female is no different than barring a woman or a man from being a nurse or a teacher, or a lawyer or an engineer. One's gender has nothing to do with the skills and aptitude needed to do the job. And God calls whomever God wills.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These days, the Toronto Sun (where your Google link points to) seems to be competing with Breitbart for who can be more xenophopic and Islamophobic. Nothing in that anti-Islamophobia motion ELEVATED Islam over anything else. In fact, it was explicitly including Islamophobia as something that was specifically recognized as hate, alongside of things like anti-Semitism, bigotry against visible minorities, LGBT people etc. But hey, if you want to persist in your beliefs, that's up to you. You can do that in this country, but thankfully, the majority of people of Canada see things quite differently.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Or maybe not a long-time cultural tradition but a new culture of the homosexual priesthood beginning, say, in the 1960s when the prohibition on homosexual priests was winked at? \n\nWe've read about the homosexual culture in the seminaries that has been alleged to drive straight men away from the priesthood. And the desire of homosexuals to lower the age of consent (to avoid being labeled pedophiles) is long known.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hmmm let's see perhaps because he follows the law goes to work everyday and is not a homophobic racist. \n Yup I would those facts would make Adler more Canadian in spirit than the Khadars.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not sure I would describe him as \"one note.\" He has been pretty strong on all of the Big Three: abortion, contraception and homosexuality, although he has tuned down the rhetoric in the past year or so and is not now nearly as visible as the cardinal archbishops of NY usually are. \n\nWith the most recent reorganization of parishes and the plan for compensation of abuse victims beyond the current statute of limitations, he has pretty much completed his mission in NY and ready for a promotion to Rome. Maybe something better than Knights of Hagia Sophia (!) but hopefully something where he can't do much harm and can enjoy all the pasta he wants.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The district recognizes that the personal life of an employee is not an appropriate concern of the district, except as it may affect the teacher\u2019s work performance, student relationships, teacher relationships, the regular operation of school or except as it may conflict with the statutory responsibilities of the school board.\u201d\"\n\n A lesbian adulteress is caught cheating on her \"partner\" and the whole saga is splashed on the internet for months, and the board does not think this will affect her \"relationships with students or teachers\" ? What a joke, Parent is a laughing stock as well as the board. These types of situations rival the worst of late night cable raunch....Again - what a joke !", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"But changing gender in humans...\"\n\nThank you for sharing an \"alternative fact\". Now consider educating yourself:\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/02/transgender-man-gives-birth-to-baby-boy-love-is-possible-he-says-so-is-being-a-loving-family/?utm_term=.3e56e392df55\n\nHe was even taking testosterone supplementation at the time he became pregnant. This is a complex issue that doesn't lend itself to superficial assumptions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently your comments are not based on any scientific studies. The so-called 'thousands of years of human understanding' is faulty. Shepherds of domestic sheep have known and observed for thousands of yeas that their rams often sought out other rams for 'companionship', even when surrounded by many ewes. Every other species also demonstrates members who are 'homo-sexual'.Today, there is an abundance of material concerning 'homo-sexual' animals and humans. Sex is not just for procreation, even among animals.\n \nHomosexuals are attracted to each other because of Love the same as Straight couples are. They are not LUSTFUL more than other humans. You do not speak for God----who created both animals and humans with very similar sexual attractions. It is the official church, with its heretical antipathy for SEX to begin with, wrote teaching, back in the days when most Christians were illiterate, stating that sex is ONLY good for the procreating of children within marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You get it! Thanks. I long have advocated editors challenging \"abortionandcontraception\" as a Catholic collective \"sin\" noun. But with little luck. \n\nAnd, like you but unlike Bishop Tobin, I find it a moral non-sequitur when sexuality and abortion are so linked. I recently even read on a conservative Catholic site a litany that linked \"as assumed moral equivalents and as always-directly-related issues\" abortion with infidelity, divorce, masturbation, contraception, pornography, and homosexuality. \n\nWe must say: credibility on teaching about the evil of abortion is sacrificed (so unnecessarily) by celibate clergy's preoccupations with views on sexuality that young and old reject for many valid and moral reasons. \n\nThe Church that too often cried \"Wolf\" on matters of sexuality, is doubted and sadly often ignored when it warns of the evil of abortion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The allegory is about that it is not good for someone to be alone. You are mixing your bad proof texts. The creation story was never meant to take on the question of homosexuality and the vengeance comment, while it did, derives from a myth used to explain a meteor strike, not the finger of God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those who oppose equal rights for people who are \"different\" miss the point. It's not a \"trans\" issue; it's not an LGBT issue; it's a human rights issue. So much for so-called christians who ignore the message that we are all god's children and that Jesus implores his followers to love one another.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gonna paste this all over the paper? Gays and abortion, cloaked in christian righteousness. All the talking points you will ever need.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Woman rights is not only connected to Trump ?why not a single reference in the rally about the men specially in muslim countries who rape women, sell, stone them, marry even 8 years old, make them slaves,kill.if they don't obey,marry multiple women and divorce at will ,not allowing to educate women ,not allowing to dress how ever they wish not even allowed to drive or go out of their house Honour killings sold under the Shariya law Muslims hate Gays and toss them over buildings recently many were killed in many gay clubs across the USA and the western world.Many noticed that there were no such signs message of sins committed against women \nIts not woman Rights march its a political march funded by Soros and Hillary against Triump Inauguration.Well planned those who oppose Trump joined thats all. We feel sorry for Poor real affected women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, most of the ill informed commenters tried to falsely claim LGBT was a mental illness.\nRight out of the Supremacist Playbook.\nAs for Trump and LGBT support:\nAs a candidate for president, one of Donald Trump most notable breaks from conservative orthodoxy was his on-the-record support for LGBT rights. At the Republican National Convention, Trump said he\u2019d \u201cdo everything in my power to protect our LGBT citizens.\u201d That was after Peter Thiel became the first openly gay Republican to speak at the party\u2019s convention, and after Trump told \u201cthe LGBT community\u201d that he\u2019d \u201cfight\u201d for them.\nMilo Yiannopoulos, the former Breitbart editor who co-hosted a \u201cGays for Trump\u201d party at the RNC, said he was \u201cdelighted\u201d that the president had made a smart and compassionate decision.\nAs a presidential candidate, Donald Trump said in a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland that he \"will do everything\" to protect LGBT communities from violence\nDid I tell you Trump lies", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the Pride Parade organizers played politics and lost\n\nthe Parade is about gay pride\nthey distracted us from the message of gay Pride by inviting Black Lives Matter as the honoured group\nwhich staged a protest and held up the Parade for 30 minutes\n\nserves them right for pushing a political agenda\ni can see inviting Gay Black Lives Matter but why BLM?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is his race? Financial score? Gambler? Immigrant girlfriend? Schizo family members? Islamic connections? Drug-crazed speed freaker? Father gay, whacko, bank robber, what? What kind of gun? Buy it legally or at a gun circus where no need approval signed forms testifying to mental illness or literacy competency? Will a hotel, car manufacturer, or motel get sued because the weapon was stored in them? Is this opiod-related. What? What? What?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's how homosexuals use it. They say no law is allowed to prohibit them from whatever they want to do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "THis is bad. Council has appeased BLM . This can only result in more and escalating extortions next year. Pide and BLM represent only a small fragment of the over all gay community of Toronto. Boycotts, and separate parallel events are being planned to bypass Pride. Pride is on the way out because we don't need BLM.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The problem is the addition of neo-platonic, Aristotelian, Augustinian and Aquinian philosophy into the mix, a large number of Popes who would never get out the seminary today, bad proof texting devoid of connection to both the history of the time and the cultural concerns addressed and an unwillingness to even look at how such matters really did impact doctrine, as well as the peculiar sexuality of most priests (whether self-loathing gays or asexuals) and a history of western misogyny. St. John opened the windows for some air, but we really need some light and an end to the resistance of the search. Too many people are looking now, so the hierarchs really cannot put their heads in the sand and hope modernism suddenly goes away. If conservatives embrace inquiry to get to truth, they can help guide the narrative. It will change whether they do or not. Just like A.L. God is not going to rescue the Church from progress. She wants it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't disagree with your central premise. When, in 2012, the GOP sold out to the right-wing, their party values shifted far to the right...including, as you mention, support for racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny and hard-core anti-intellectalism combined with the control of a wealthy elite and populist followers....indeed, a strange creature. That \"new\" GOP is not falling apart as the more reasonable faction says \"hey, this isn't what we really want.\" Who know what will transpire after Nov. 8th, but we do know it will involve some radical changes or the Party is dead.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I can hate Islam and not hate Muslims, just as I can hate Christianity but not hate Christians.\"\n\nPerhaps you're that one-in-a-billion person who, despite the fact that he hates a religious belief, nevertheless is utterly calm and rational in how he views those who profess the belief he hates. On the other hand, perhaps you're just a bigot who can't admit it.\n\nWhen it comes to things that are intrinsic to a person's identity, hating that thing is no different than hating the person. If you hate homosexuality, pretending that you have no animosity towards gays is a transparent lie. It's the same with any characteristic that the Canadian constitution deems fundamental to a citizen's identity. If you hate it, you can't help but hate the person who embodies it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What confuses me is that all of our homegrown angry cons that vent here, seem to be consistent in bashing Muslims on their refusal to accept homosexuals. However when their hero Trump backs right wing clergy that have the same views (let's not forget the preacher that wants to kill them for their own good), this somehow is not called out for the insanity it is. Why is that, why is it okay to bash Muslims on it but fellow cons south of the border get that free pass?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh come on, you republicans have criticized the Clintons for Bill's indiscretion. Why can't democrats have a little fun with the Donald's indiscretions. Here we have a republican president going beyond anything previously done and that is all you can say? Come on rejoice as it shows the republicans have far surpassed the democrats when it comes to fooling around. Be proud. I was beginning to think republicans had no sex drive except republican gays. :-)\n\nIts what happens when you promote moral purity and then fall way short.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays can get \"married\" civilly, but not in the Catholic Church.\n\nOur nature and our body tell us things: We were made for both union & procreation; integrated self-gift\n\nThe Chuch looks at us as wholes - integral development and gift, whereas you look at us as parts, a buffet line of dis-integrable parts. \n\nMarriage represents the union of Christ & the Church; total self gift, one for the other. No picking parts. \n\nHow can there be a union of an X and X? Where's the complementarity/union of that?\n\nWhere's the fruit of that mimicked union?\n\nYou believe that \n- sex can be separated from marriage,\n- marriage can be separated from children,\n- sex can be separated from its natural effects,\n- love can be separated from sex (and vice versa),\n- sex can be separated from responsibility\n\nDivision, diablo.\n\nYou believe love is a feeling, not the willing sacrifice of one toward the other's good.\n\nYou believe all these things, whether you've actually articulated them or not to yourself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Catholic Church does not have a meaningful set of rules about sex. They amount to \"thou shalt not\". The only ones allowed sexual activity are heterosexual married couples, and only if they pretend they are procreating. These rules are drawn up by those who are officially forbidden to have sex, so that they adhere to a theory.\n\nThe central dispute is between Catholics who believe the church should set the agenda for the world, and those who think the world set the agenda for the church. Those are ideals: in the real world, most Catholics will be a mixture of those orientations, but one predominates.\n\nWhen it comes to sex, the ones who say that the world has nothing to say to the Church predominate. The problem is that just about everyone ignores the rules. 90% of married Catholics are using or have used contraceptives. The divorced and remarried often go to Communion. Gays are still having sex. Clerical celibacy is regularly more honored in the breach than the observance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When the sense of obligation left with Vatican II, many took their freedom and ran. The belief in a belief in God was less necessary in families and society. When I was a boy, we lived with my Grandmother. Our Uncle, Aunt and Cousins lived down the street and we all talked about who we saw at Mass. I don't live down the street from my siblings and no one is making them go, so they don't. Two of my siblings married Catholics. They still don't go (and the gay Catholic couple stopped because they were made to feel unwelcome). I mostly go. My ex-wife goes each week with my daughter because they live with her mother. She is moving out in two weeks. I doubt Mass will stay on the agenda, at least during the summer. Is this hedonistic or anti-religious or is it just honest?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why? John Henry Newman never endorsed homosexuality or transgenderism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your comment must mean you're not in favor of transgender individuals being thrown out of the bathroom they identify with, as well as you're in favor of gay person's right to marry. They thank you for your support! \"No choice but to vote Trump\" also interpreted as Intellectually Incorrect and highly unrealistic. Wishing for something to be true, does not make it true.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did they mention whether or not the sample of Americans chosen was representative of the population? The only thing they can say is that the ratio of Democrats to Republicans is \"roughly\" equivalent to that of the electorate. There is no mention of demographics or what factions of each party were represented in the poll. What the pollsters never told the respondents was that they were responsible for paying for these mentally ill wisps' genital mutilation surgeries disguised as \"transgender healthcare\". Healthcare is not forcing others to pay to have someone's genitals severed or to have breast implants. Healthcare would be psychologically examining these people to find out what is truly causing their mental defect and treating it. This poll is designed to deceive people into thinking that everybody supports transgendered people as normal people and it is morally wrong to speak out against them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one knew of homosexuality? ! Were you raised in a bubble?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It was my understanding that Viagra was prescribed for heart conditions as well as erectile dysfunction? Both though are credible and legitimate medical conditions. Transgender is a social construct we're told though but with a very hefty medical bill attached to it. Is it medical or social? I suppose asking questions like that will have people labelled as haters though", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What history has really taught us is that no change of any sort can take place when one stands with the status quo. All positive (and, unfortunately, negative) change comes with effort, with at least some degree of organized action, of changes in public attitude and perception. With the Nazi regime that you cite, resistance was dealt with by immediate death, but it survived and grew as an \"underground\" movement, yes? And, if I am correct in my study of history, Hitler and his group certainly were overthrown and he died hiding and cowering in a bunker. Your final sentence is so \"empty\" of thought, I can't believe the lack of logic. But to offer some clarification, the point is that they came for homosexuals, they also came for the disabled, the immigrants, the Jews, the foreigners, the Catholics especially clergy and religious - all of those who did not fit in to their vision of a \"pure\" society or who opposed them. If you pick up a world history book, you will find it all there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, so you have no problem with you son looking at a man in a locker room and sizing him up, or your daughter looking at another woman, it's natural. \n\nIt's just trans-gendered people who bother you. Got it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting. But since no one has ever been fined for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding. I can't see how it wouldn't be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "George Rekers wasn't just any Baptist minister - he made his living peddling the junk science of gay \"conversion therapy\" which has now been outlawed in several states as abusive. When his hypocrisy was exposed he was justifiably humiliated and his bogus operation shut down.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CDC - In 2015, 81.7% of the reported male P&S syphilis cases where sex of sex partner was known were among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. http://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-msm-syphilis.htm", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"From what I can learn, they seem to have come mostly from the former French colonies in Africa\" \n\nOne of those \"colonies\" was Algeria---In the 90's the extreme Muslim sect that was practiced there (which demanded women wear the niqab) killed over 100,00 people for crimes as ridiculous as not being able to recite verses of the Koran to their satisfaction--their view was that women should never come out of their homes (women were killed for attending school, going to work, banned from being professionals-teachers, doctors etc)--and you mean to tell me you want to honor this warped form of Islam???? and Trudeau should keep his \"nose\" out of this matter-he doesn't have a clue about anything anyway except attending gay pride parades and taking selfies", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh look at you. You forgot to mention that many of the complaints came from homosexuals complaining that the joke was offensive to them. Or that the complaints came from people who thought he had crossed a line of decency that pass for the norm on network TV regardless of the time of day.\nTo try and draw a connection between the complaints to the FCC and Trump supporters shows that you may be the G&M American TV reviewer but you don't understand the nuances required for the job. Like someone who doesn't speak English but uses Google translate to get by.\nTrump is slaughtered in the American media non-stop. If you think you've discovered an agenda here you're truly clueless.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The Bartons oppose allowing openly gay or transgender students or parents in Catholic schools because they believes it constitutes a 'passive affirmation' of their lifestyle and could be confusing or 'a near occasion of sin' for young impressionable children.\"\n\nYou want a \"near occasion of sin\"? How about bringing up your children to loathe their LGBT brethren and sistren.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Secrecy of the confessional is the term of art in Catholicism. Privacy is about the right to use birth control, abortion, sodomy and gay marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am a straight male social worker who has (often) treated gay men (and women) for various issues. Let me say without hesitation that the stigma is still there. In the past year I have treated a gay man who rejected his sexual orientation and literally hated himself, another who felt rejected by his church, and another who knew he could never come out out because it would mean the loss of his family. Homophobia is bs in 2017. Time to move on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am a dyed in the wool, 100% card carrying moderate. As I told you, I abhor extremism in any form. You, on the other hand, seem to embrace leftist extremism by being a troll stirring up trouble where none exists. I imagine my support for transgendered people is far less than yours. So what? That makes me a bad person only in the eyes of left wingers like you. You are at least as narrow minded as any person I have ever talked to on any board and you are boring me. Adios.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We have a V2 Pope. If by making immoral behavior a Sacrament you mean Gay Marriage, it already is a sacrament, but self celebrated. The Church should still join the families. I am sure there are Knights with gay grandchildren who will want a Catholic wedding at some point, provided the Knights are around in 20 years. If so, people who are now 30 will be 50 and they are fine with gay marriage. If opposing it becomes a litmus test, your ranks will thin. At this point they have become, like the pro-life movement, an adjunct of the GOP. I assure you that a large number of Catholic men over 50 are not Republicans and if you were not so partisan, we would join you in the Knights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your support of homophobia is well documented, Pandora. You praised the \"orthodoxy\" of both Burke and Paprocki when they made anti-gay statements.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I see we've turned Catholic against Catholic. Sparado is the same guy who published and embraced an interesting article about how the church should never have disclosed the sexual abuse or turned in predator priests to authorities. That is one credible guy! Hate is hate. It's equally bad for all. It comes down to liberals vs. conservatives. Out of curiosity tell me what changes we need to make to the Church that was founded by Jesus Christ? That's the first question I always ask when I genuflect toward the tabernacle: how can we make church pleasing and palatable to us? Should we change the abortion narrative? Change the definition of what constitutes marriage, allow some adultery, premarital sex? Drug infused homosexual orgies are just fine. They happen in the Vatican so feel free to indulge. Women priests? Redefine marriage? Every Catholic here should take in at least one refugee from Syria especially if you have daughters! I've read these comments. Clearly we know more than God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Drugs, Drugs, and MORE Drugs. Why do these types of situations always involve DRUGS.........???? GEEEZE, The IDIOT voters in LAME County voted to legalize weed, now they need to legalize Meth, Herion, which will lead me to just buy more AMMUNITION. \n\nAt least Texas is trying to get it right. They just unveiled a bill that would BAN.....TRANSGENDER people from using the bathroom of THEIR choice. \"The Texas Privacy Act\", requires ALL Texas residents to use the bathroom or locker room according to the gender on their Birth Certificate. \n\nOregon needs a \"Oregon Privacy Act\", bathroom bill. This would mean that a person such as Seda, who mutilated his body to try to be a female would have to use the males bathroom as Seda was born a male. I have no problem with someone like Seda being next to me at the Urinal. I would think that it would be extremely embarrassing for Seda, and it might make people that are considering a mutilation of their body to have SECOND thoughts", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Part II\n\"the far-left who despise religion, people of faith\" - No. People on the left despise religious zealots who try to force their religion on others. You're free to practice your religion on your own personal time.\n\"despise heterosexuals\" - This is just silly. No one \"despises\" heterosexuals. Even gay people don't do this - they come from a long line of heterosexuals.\n\"despise military veterans'. Again. No. People on the left appreciate what vets have done for this country and frequently thank them.\n\"despise males\" - Again, just silly.\n\nDo you know how I know that people on the left don't despise heterosexuals, military veterans and males? Because I lean left and I am a heterosexual, male, military veteran. And don't forget that I defended the rights of all Americans to practice the religion (or non-religion) of their choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just like Title IX sports for females, transgenders should have their own sports. As others have stated, male and female bodies are different. Throw hormone treatments into the mix and its not a level playing field. They should have transgenders wrestle against other transgenders only. Females that want to be males compete against one another and visa versa for males that want to be females. That eliminates all the unfairness and controversy. If there are only a few transgenders wrestling against themselves across the country so be it. Title IX sports for females started from humble beginnings and I'm sure it was challenging to find competitors at first but look how far it has come. Transgenders would have to start the same way. I am not pro LGBT by any means.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Larry, Many times gay activist use the catch all of racism to try to advance their cause. They actually could care less about race, just like Clinton. Extremist are like that!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not discrimination against transgender people. The problem is that transgenders cost too much because they want sex change operations which are too expensive and requires life-long evaluations and follow-ups.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course transgendered people could be a risk, as could anybody else. Ask Edward Snowdon. \n\nLinking sex to military security in the modern age is a huge stretch. Blackmail is no longer particularly effective.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Exclude from seminary formation and ordination any homosexual, whether \"gay\" or chaste. The former brings with him too much baggage, and the latter should not sign up for \"guy-only\" work that will have him living with other men (thus putting him into near occasions of sin). Even if the chaste homosexual thinks he has a call to the priesthood, it would be uncharitable to him to admit him to ordination, given the current situation. He should be encouraged to serve the Church in other ways.\n\nIf the priesthood in this country were healthy, little or no harm would come from ordaining chaste homosexuals whose homosexuality is kept private. But we do not live in ordinary times. We live with a priesthood that has been damaged by \"gay\" homosexuality. Until the damage is repaired, we should operate conservatively ....\n\nNot coincidentally, by solving the problem of \"gays\" in the priesthood, we would go a long way toward solving that other problem: theological dissent in the priesthood.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This does not address growth rates in categories of infection, although there is-an alarming spike in HIV among young gay men. For some reason there is a group who actually seek the disease as a form of suicide.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For the one-millionth time, the owner of Masterpiece Bakery never even got as far as discussing design. The owner flatly refused to design a cake for a gay couple. Period. All he was willing to do was sell them an off-the-shelf sheet cake.\nThat is not artistic freedom, not when design was never discussed. That's discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The lack of free press, no elections, death or jail for descending voices, massive poverty, no gay rights are the results of a leader who led a revolution under a cause in which he did not honour. There is nothing romantic about Castro. He is a disgrace and a disaster for the Cuban people. Trudeau was wrong on so many levels that the only ones supporting him are the Anti-Americans and those that would agree with Selfie no matter what he does.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder what Putin's or Jung Un's policies are regarding transgender soldiers? Do they have their military forces cover the costs of the operation and hormones ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Read your Oregon history. \"Mongoloids\" equals \"Downs Syndrome:\" today. \n\nRed Herring: \"Red herring is a kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue.\"\n\"The Board of Social Protection\"\n\"quarterly reports of all housed inmates that belonged to groups deemed undesirable, such as those described as feeble-minded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sexual perverts. Habitual criminals were defined as those who have been convicted three times or more of a felony in any state, while moral degenerates and sexual perverts partly included homosexuals and promiscuous teenage girls.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The inference from this article is that transgender people only join the military to have sex change operations as they are all psychologically damaged. It's a bit like suggesting all women must join the military just to have babies. \n\nTransgender people no doubt join the military to serve their country just like everyone else.\n\nThis article - like the Trump decision - is just blatant discriminatory nonsense. If this is making America great again I hate to think what making it worse would look like.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Eddie I was here in those days. I don't care what you call them, there was a full on campaign to discredit gay professionals like the Judge. Even school teachers who were suspected of being gay were accused of being pedophiles. It was a very sad time. And while we have made some progress it still exists. Your comments are a clear reflection of that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is no longer GAY Pride. We are merely hosts to a festival to which we are just spectators. The whole affair could now be moved to Exhibition grounds if \"pride\" is all there is. Will they ban drag if it offends feminists . Will they ban black leather if it offends vegans? I can't imagine BLM will give up domination of Pride without a fight, and certainly not to any group they do not approve of. They have stolen it and are not going to let it go. Next Year ought to be Police Pride to make up for the shame of this year's debacle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The true Golden Calf is in the DOD budget; but the likes of Lars Bauer and others will say it's all the gays fault.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is a long discussion on ceremonial law and moral law. I have been a Christian for many years and have never personally met one person who was not sympathetic to homosexuals. Homosexuality is a serious sin biblically speaking, but so are many others. There is a culture war and Homosexuality and Gender \"confusion\" are being ramrodded down our throats right now - Christians want to be able to put their kids in school without having some U of O educated counselor try to persuade them they are really a boy (or vice versa), this is happening, so Christians have no choice but to fight back (figuratively speaking), I suspect that is why is such a \"hot topic\" currently. I cannot think of one homosexual who has been lynched, can you ? Muslim countries may be a different story. The Bible tells us not to steal, should we NOT obey that one as well ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sure it does. What else would you call it? What is the reason for being armed...what would the justification be if not intimidation or to give out the message that they are willing to use deadly force? Would the Klan be allowed to carry at a public demonstration? How about an armed Gay pride parade? how about black muslims carrying guns on a march to DC? Just what did this \"standoff\" accomplish for the ranch owners? Did they win ANYTHING? Did they gain one ounce of public support? The majority of the public has no understanding or sympathy. Does anyone even know what it was they were \"protesting\"? I don't, and I have followed all the news stories. Are they against tribal ownership of lands? Against wildlife refuges? What? Who cares?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The problem is with the belief systems pushed by Planned Promiscuity. It isn't just a coincidence that they support abortion, promiscuity, homosexuality, and transgendering. Their sense of morality, which they teach your children, comes from their belief system. It's kindof brainless to tell children to abstain until marriage while at the same time you're telling them sex outside of marriage should never be judged immoral or corrupted. How does one teach the mechanics of homosexual sex without suggesting it is morally acceptable?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A few weeks ago I was at a Catholic gathering/discussion and Gays etc came up. The leader (an assertive women many many years a Catholic) stated bluntly that everyone was made by God thus we HAVE TO accept everyone no matter what/who etc they were. There were about 3/4 senior/older Catholics (all women) in the group and not one peeped a dissent. There are \u00b1 1.2 Catholics in the world so perhaps that part of christianity is safe for Gays?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Then you have the onus to prove otherwise: \nSimply saying: \"It_has_and_wrongly\" still doesn' prove my statement is wrong/incorrect: \nProve A.) Isn't the correct definition for homosexuals. Prove then I cannot apply B.) the term \"boys\" as non-adult males. Then also prove C.) \"male priests\" are not \"men who are priests.\" And of course invalidate D.) that \"gay priests who engage in sex acts with boys\" are not homosexual. You haven't invalidated any of the premises. When you employ the term \"sexually immature\" or mature, that doesn't have anything to do with whether someone is homosexual or not.\n\nA.) Homosexual/Gay - sexual orientation/attraction to persons of the same gender/sex\n\nB.) Boys - Non-Adult Males (for a brief certitude in definition.)\n\nC.) Male priests - Men who are priests\n\nD.) Gay priests engage in sex acts with boys\n\nSo, if priests are A and C, and employ that orientation with B, then they are D. If my logic is wrong, can you show/prove?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Among the absurdity of granting pardons for convictions dating back at least 46 years, there's also the unpleasant fact that it will be extremely difficult to weed out predators (homosexual rape) from mutually voluntary male homosexual activity. \n\nThe law covered all three - and you'd have to look into the facts (including the police reports, if they're even still available) to ensure you're not apologizing to rapists.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So Leah gets axed for a week\nand Tabby has more space to squeak,\nabout matters quite gay \nthat she wont let go away\nIn a column that\u2019s typically weak.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am writing from my experience of gay men who are neighbors, friends and professional colleagues. I wouldn't consider your examples representative of average gay people. Every human demographic has unhealthy members who make a spectacle of themselves. I am a white, married heterosexual woman but wouldn't expect that people could understand what my life is like by observing Kim Kardashian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As is a trans women being a lesbian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"True. Unless of course the skinhead said he was gay. Then it's bake baker bake.\"\n\nIt's been explained too you multiple times by multiple people why this argument you keep attempting is false. So why do you keep attempting it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You comment is misplaced. The transgendered child didn't want to use a single-stall bathroom that was set aside as gender-neutral. This is understandable. The child did identify with a gender. She wanted to use the bathroom that was set aside for other female children. Instead she was forced to use the 'queer' bathroom. That's not the way it should be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The challenge as I see it, is that the gay community has only talked of their condition, as 'normal', because it feels normal to them. But to the 92% of hetros, they have always fallen, fall and will always be encompassed into the very same catagory, as a two-heade turtle\n\nTwo-headed turtles are like gays, 'naturally occurring in nature'. Does that make either 'normal'? ....and herein lies the issue. No, while both are naturally occurring in nature, neither are normal. And this is the crux of the situation\n\nIt does not make anyone gay, better, worse, supernatural, superhuman or inhuman. It just means that one is born with a skewed chromosome\n\nIMHO it is precisely for this reason that a large number of people have always had an issue accepting or embracing gays; or rather 'understanding'\n\nUnderstanding, in the same way they understand a person afflicted with any other naturally occurring in nature, but not normal condition\n\n...I'm close to my character limit..pages left to type.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Begetting children is not a requirement for a canon law marriage. Willingness is, but it is impotence, not sterility, that is the bar. The term cry to heaven for vengeance is sloganeering, not doctrine and it applies to pederasty, not consensual sodomy. Cry all you want, at some point natural law rears its head and says that gays were born that way due to epigenesis in the womb and that they have every right to sexual expression that any human has. Ratzinger's opinion on the made up natural order notwithstanding.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Muslims and liberals excoriate us about Islamophobia, but we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism, hatred of Christianity, Europe. Israel, and America. Islam's destructive iconoclasm is destroying historic treasures across the ME: in just one year Notre Dame in Paris has had three close call bomb threats. They even have Islamophobia against each other. Ancient tribal wars between Kurds, Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabi, Druze and other Islamic sects, ISIS , Taliban and Al Qaeda are the root causes of most of the wars and social chaos happening around the world today. It is worse than anything expressed in the west, even by Trump or LePen", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no \"Alt-Left\". This is a Trump fabrication. There are positions left of Trump and the GOP, Left, is not the opposite of Alt-Right. If Alt-Right is bigoted and racist, anti-LGBT, Pro-Christian (to the demise of other faiths) then the Left is merely rational equality of all people and intolerance of prejudice, nothing more. The Left is not the same dark, loathsome force the Alt-Right seeks to be, it is the Left that has fought for equality and human rights. Alt-Right has no place in a democratic republic that provides safety and prosperity for all its citizens under the law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It\u2019s easy to get caught up in the deeply flawed character of Donald Trump. We also need to recognize the policy catastrophe of this presidency.\nThis past week Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shielded around 800,000 young undocumented immigrants \u2013 often called Dreamers \u2013 from deportation under what\u2019s been known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.\nLook at other of Trump\u2019s recent policy decisions and you see the same arbitrary and unnecessary cruelty. What\u2019s the point of banning transgender people from military service? Of siding in court with a businessman who doesn\u2019t want to sell his services to gay couples? Of weakening the standard for responding to sexual violence in universities? Of banning Syrian refugees and reducing by half the number of refugees admitted to the United States?\nThere is no point, in terms of policy. None of these decisions makes America safer or economically stronger or fairer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The crazy variants of conservative support were always there--it's just that Harper knew he had to gag them to get a majority. So he did. But they've been itching for release.\n\nTheir angel of deliverance, Trump, has risen. They want the same revolution here now: the necons with no sense of citizenry and world; the Christian right who are anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-other faiths; the general old stock folk who think that being told they can't be anti-brown or anti-gay or mindlessly anti-immigrant is \"oppressive political correctness\"; and the generally uneducated who fall for every false Facebook post they see that get 'em good and angry.\n\nBut this is Canada, not the U.S. Their rise and their Trump clone candidate will spend years in the political wilderness until another Harper comes and hushes them. Actually O'Leary won;t stick around that long. He'll lose then go back to his businesses. Pull a Belinda Stronach basically.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The John Jay report in it's summary does not support you. It talks about access and how altar boys provided unbelievably easy access for a priest... who knew those boys were predisposed not to talk or their parents to believe them. Altar boys were a pedophiles paradise. You do a great disservice to the Church with your ranting about gay priests because that is a red herring blinding you to the fact you know nothing clinical about pedophilia. Try looking into Jerry Sandusky who was serial pedophile of young boys primarily because of ACCESS when in point of fact his adult orientation was heterosexual and he passed muster for decades because he was a 'good' Catholic husband with lots of children. He is now in a Pennsylvania prison after conviction, and after taking down the Penn State football program whose coach Joe Paterno protected him for over a decade precisely because Joe believed a good heterosexual man like Jerry couldn't be a pedophile preying on boys.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In response to \"why did Obama wait so long.....\" this seems to be a common theme among Trump defenders, where you look to pick apart a previous move or action and make some assumption as to motive, to villify either Clinton or Obama, as a means to mitigate the incompetence, recklessness or ignorance of Donald Trump. For the record , Ashton Carter former Defense Secretary in 2016 dropped a long standing pentagon rule regarding \"openly transgendered\" serving in military. There was no edict from the White House or Barack Obama. For one please get your facts straight, two distract,deflect, misrepresent,shift blame etc. Does not mitigate the current POTUS lack of humanism, lack of honesty or integrity or his incompetence to the job. My opinion of course, but real facts and daily briefings of his actions would sure seem to confirm this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So your defense of say US slavery is that slaves in other parts of the world who had it worse? That's curious. I guess you would take it one step further and say gays and transgenders today should just be glad they aren't slaves? Here is the thing. You define erosion of freedoms as having to tolerate LGBT people and treat them as equals. Most of us do not. That's why the term progressive is good. It come from progress. And btw, if you are worried men who think they are women hanging out in the men's rooms to pick up other men, don't you want them to actually use the female restroom? Won't that solve your worry?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It was a homophobic comment. The whole premise of the \"joke\" was that a gay relationship is worthy of mockery and that Trump and Putin are gay, and as a result, are less credible as men and leaders. What makes it even worse is it was scripted and rehearsed, not an adlib tossed in without thinking.\n\nAnd there's nothing wrong with the FCC investigation. The FCC has to investigate all complaints, that's their job.\n\nColbert's behaviour is typical of many Liberals. Liberals love to quote Michelle Obama with her \"when they go low, we go high\". But many Liberals always resort to sexism, racism, homophobia and the worst kind of identity politics in their attacks on people they disagree with. It's ugly and unnecessary.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But what you are saying isn't actually true, according to this bill. If people are required to unflinchingly use whatever pronoun you select, that means you would have to make them aware of it first. This implicitly informs them of whatever stage of the transformation process (if any) you are at.\n\nPeople can not be held responsible to use a specific, unique wording without prior knowledge, and transgendered people have no right to demand that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not being gay, I'd be a poor choice for lunch. However, I think it would be a hoot if you did get some calls. Hopefully they will be respectful (two wrongs don't make a right) but, I doubt if you would take anyone up on it. Changing one's attitude can be a fearful thing and I suspect a lack of courage....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What can be more \"balanced\" than a white transgender female and a black straight male?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "AIDS is about promiscuity, period. Gay siblings often are given custody of nieces and nephews because they are not otherwise burdened. The Court took notice of the impact of having these children (which also include one of the couple's own children) of not calling their parents or foster parents unions marriage. Indeed, when my wife and I were still married, the reserve parent was my brother, who had a husband and is a doctor. Now that we are divorced, her sister is a reserve parent, because a girl needs a mother more than a father. Meaghan is lesbian. In neither case do we have any fears. The fertility argument failed miserably where ever used in federal court. David Thompson arguing on that point did not do well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Infowars?\n\nCongratulations on losing all credibility. Have another beer and watch more TV.\n\nObama made my frog gay with chemicals while cloning 9/11!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A) they didn't say they were too busy, they said they could bake the cake until they found out the couple was gay. They chose to openly discriminate, which was stupid and illegal, and they got what they deserved. However, if they HAD said they were too busy, but they only said that to the gays, that would also be illegal and they would get what they deserve for violating the law. This is super easy to understand, all the way around. \n\nB) if they only tell gay people they can't have figurines, that is discriminatory and illegal. They should tell EVERYONE they can't have figurines, then they'd be OK. But that's not what they did, so they got what they deserved. \n\nYou think that pointing out that white people have enjoyed a long period of benefit from subjugating other races and nationalities is racist? Ooooookay then.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am pretty sure we all know what the main issue it here; the fact that the club is encouraging students at a Catholic school to \"embrace and accept\" a homosexual identity and all the actions that come with it. Did Jesus tell the woman at the well that she should \"embrace and accept\" her multiple marriages? How about the woman caught in adultery. Did Jesus \"affirm\" her lifestyle? He showed both of them love, but he did not endorse their sins. I think we can all agree that these students need our prayers and support, but I (and apparently the school administration) do not see affirming homosexual behavior as a good idea as it leads people away from God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, our LGBT brothers and sisters would like one more thing from the Church. They would like to be accepted as they are. \n\nBill Lindsey, in his Bilgrimage blog, has said that he is quits with organized religion because he, a married homosexual man, is not acceptable to the churches. I know quite a few other gays, including my own brother, who have left the Church for that reason. I am seriously considering doing the same.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just like the sierra club last minute endorsed him and another sewer spill kirk did nothing and no response.. so foolish he did nothing for sierra club went against them on every issue then they endorsed him amd got screwed months after.. Michael Goliguch thanks for helping promote kirk so he can appoint people against lgbt and women.. it takes more then showing up at a parade you got suckered!! Also remeber when tenari shopo said he would die and go to jail rather enforce same sex bill! Kirk said nothing to Tenrai either never once rebuked that statement and stood up for lgbt!! So cowardly Micheal you knew he didnt stick up to Lgbt\nBut endorsed him!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ottawa pays each adult Muslim coming here as a refugee $1800 a month.. ODSP pays a maximum of $1300, and welfare less. Natives receive even less that that per person on a reserve. TCHC permits publicly funded segregated apartment buildings in Toronto for Muslims only, discriminating against gays, women, handicapped and other minorities. They consider it their right to not have to mingle with others, and Kathleen Wynne and John Tory agree.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is not art. A monkey can decorate a cake.\nIf you offer custom cakes to heterosexuals under Colorado law you have to offer that service to all.\n\nJack Philips has made many cakes for gay weddings, he just didn\u2019t know.\nOnly one of the betrothed gay people showed up. They created the custom cake with Jack. Jack made the cake. It was bought and paid for and then it was used in a gay wedding.\n\nJack Philips did not know, otherwise he would have illegally refused to make the cake.\nIs Jack going to go to hell now? He made a cake for a gay wedding! Jesus must be steaming mad.\n\nIf for some reason Jack wins his case and is legally allowed to discriminate, is he goi g to ask people if the cake is for a gay wedding in advance?\n\nWill he put up a big sign that says, \u201cNo Gay Wedding Cakes\u201d?\nNah, it would probably be easier to just judge them by appearance and refuse service to people that look gay. They might be trying to get a gay wedding cake, sneaky gays.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Really? Where haven't we been honest about wanting priests with our priorities? I don't want our inclusiveness toward gay people, women, etc. to go away and I definitely prefer the contemporary worship style that they have. I don't want some Latin Mass type telling people they are going to Hell for voting Democratic, refusing people Communion, etc.\n\nAnd I am sure that your pastor totes seeks out the advice of women. After all, he and the \"superior\" menfolk shouldn't have to do the menial free slave labor. As long as the Church is hierarchical, laypeople are always going to be second class and that includes ALL women. It doesn't matter how \"nice\" father is and how he tries to \"include\" women; the issue is that by virtue of his rank he can play little monster dictator if he chooses.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bigots have principles that are guiding them. Bad principles, misguided principles, but principles nonetheless.\nThe sad thing is, President Trump has no principles, except for self-aggrandizement.\nTrump isn't doing this out of bigotry. He has no feelings about GLBT people, one way or the other. He's throwing transgender servicemembers under the (MRAP) bus out of self-advancement. He thinks it'll make his religious base happy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Please give one citation - one official teaching - that supports your accusation. \nI must admit, I have never seen an Church teaching \"supporting misogyny and homophobia.\" I have not seen one teaching that says \"Catholics must hate homosexuals\" or \"Women must be despised.\" I have seen your interpretation claiming it - but that doesn't support your claim. \nIn fact, as a Catholic woman, I feel appreciated and loved for the gifts and whatever little talent I am able to share. There is so much I can do - and I don't need to be a priest to do it. I don't need to be the one with all eyes on me...for it isn't about me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Being from a Red State let me say that its about time. When my mother realized I was gay she and her family rejected me, kept me from knowing my father, raised me in a rural area so as to go unchallenged in how they and thier church deal with Homosexuals in the church. Its time to hold red states accountable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "More whinging by Pandora. She always does this, just like she always supports homophobic bishops.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don, you and I are usually on the same page, but we seem to disagree on this one. If we don't want the Church to meddle in social legislation regarding things like gay marriage and human reproduction, why should we want them to meddle in this issue?\n\nThere is nothing intrinsically evil about self-defense. The question is a technical one about which means are appropriate. It isn't the role of the Church to get involved in debates about karate lessons vs. knives vs guns and technical conversations about the difference between automatic and semiautomatic weaponry. Those are things that should be discussed and debated by citizens within a free society.\n\nI favor strong gun control legislation. But inviting the bishops to weigh in on the minutiae of the matter isn't going to bring that about. It will only make the Church look even more meddlesome, ridiculous and irrelevant than it already does.\n\nThis is one issue where the bishops need to keep quiet and let the laity drive the conversation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are rumors that Obama used to use cocaine in the gay bars in Chicago. If true it could explain his compassion to drug addicts. And likely it was Snowden who hacked all the emails. The intelligence community keeps mentioning Russia because Snowden lives there and it was Snowden who wrote the programs that governments use to spy on its citizens, even here in Canada through the NSA.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good article. \n\nAnd another recent example that Reese could have and should have used was the arrest that occurred in the Vatican earlier this summer. There was a gay-orgy-cocaine party that was occurring...and the police had to haul away a very well connected high as a kite priest.\n\nNo press release. Utter suppression of the story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I thought we were discussing transgender people and they are not the same as gay. Transgender people, despite having a biological penis or vagina, \"feel\" they were born in the wrong body. Even for Rachel Dolezol who pretends to be black, her race/ethnicity is not biological. You can't \"feel\" you are one race when you are biologically something else. \"Gender assignment\"--what an odd expression--is based on science. A penis equals male; a vagina equals female. How society deals with these issues depends on the prevailing social mores and the requirements or restrictions of its institutions. We now live in a culture of moral relativism instead of moral realism, and that affects the whole society from politics to education to social issues. I accept a person's right to do whatever to his/her body, but it is my right to not approve. My acceptance never seems to be enough. And then there are transgenders who change, then change back, then change again. Google that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The BSA has testified in court under oath that gays and atheists were not allowed.\n\nWhat's more, the BSA dishonestly chartered units to public schools, and actually expected these public schools to violate the first amendment rights of students and exclude atheists. This wasn't stopped until the ACLU threatened to sue in 2005.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Had a bishop said unequivocally \u201cThese are no other morally grave reasons that outweigh Clinton's support for abortion. I endorse Trump.\u201d an argument of favoritism would be clinched. None did, and that ends the argument.\n\nThe opinions among economists, Washington experts, and politicians in both parties has been mixed on free trade.\n\nThe U.S. business community is so terrified of a trade war that stocks are hitting record highs.\n\nThe American security establishment has tired of the President letting Putin run circles around him.\n\nMany Democrats believe that the bishops have tilted in favor of the Republicans in recent years, while many Republicans believe they have tilted in favor of the Democrats. Bishops have not endorsed candidates, but principled opposition to abortion and gay marriage tends to work against Democrats who refuse to amend their platform.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One of the articles I read mentioned that the \"memories\" the victim was relying upon were a result of receiving therapy which I believe is ongoing. Past experience has shown me that there are psychologists and psychiatrists that still insist that homosexuality is a disease and a crime. I really wonder and realise that I will never know, just how much of the therapy had to do with the formulation of these memories and how much encouragement by the physician in question was placed on the victim.\n\nThis would not be the first time a criminal case has been brought before the courts that was concocted out of a person's misconceptions and vague memories. Certainly when the case involves a well known personality. But, I do admit this is at best, hearsay, but I still wonder.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You've got part of it right. Science shows that females fall within a certain range -- but it also shows that trans women fall within that range. Assuming they don't without evidence is prejudice. You judge them before you know or understand them and their issues. That is the very definition of prejudice.\n\nThe science actually speaks in support of trans women on this. If you bothered to read the article, it shows actual data to support this. If you read my other posts, then you saw the many links to scientific studies showing that what I have said is true. \n\nScience shows that the biggest physical differences between men and women are created and maintained by hormones. Without testosterone, you don't have male strength. \n\nI am sorry to be the one to break it to you, but the science disagrees with you on this one. It's why the Olympics allows trans women to compete with other women. It's why the NCAA and others have agreed. \n\nThem's the facts, however uncomfortable it makes you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If it's only a matter of hormone levels, and by your standards this situation is fine because his testosterone levels dropped below a certain threshold, why aren't seeing the same situation happening in men's sports? Ie, transgender man supplementing testosterone and competing in the NFL, NBA, etc.? \n\nThe best female basketball player in the world would not make an NBA practice squad. The fastest 100m female sprinter in the world wouldn't qualify for trials. Are you asserting that would change with, say, a year of test supplements for a female...er transgender male? Of course it wouldn't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I imagine it's fairly obvious. While minorities do face a lot of discrimination, it pales in comparison to a transgender. Do you honestly believe we could get one elected to national office? We've had a black president and several hispanic cabinet and congress members.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Christians are persecuted throughout the world. Why does that not make the news? Every Moslem run country work hard to exterminate Christians. Do you know why it does not make the news?? This is because a Christian lives in this world with a very strong faith that God will watch over them. Christians know that life in this world is not what is important but life after death is. That is why Christian persecution hardly makes the news. Now I am not saying that Canada is not doing a great deed by saving homosexuals from torcher and death but Canada should do a better job of saving Christians especially since they are more widely persecuted than any other group of people in the world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"But the proper reaction to crimes committed against homosexual persons should not be to claim that the homosexual condition is not disordered. When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behavior to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational and violent reactions increase.\"\n\nFrom LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The tendency of the nouveau riche who've benefited from recent social equality ballyhoo is to dismiss the downwardly mobile as a \"basket of deplorables\".\n Shame on them.\n Real equality is not selective fixed politically correct social equality, it's economic equality.\n I don't care how academically brilliant they are, women and gays who are truly \"progressive\" would not submit to their rise on the social economic ladder at the expense of pushing others down on the ladder.\n That is really quite deplorable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not quite the same issue. Based on recent events, the resort had reasonable grounds to expect that the group might advocate, engage in, and/or attract violence or other dangers to the center, its personnel, and any other guests. That gives them both a legal and moral right to cancel. The baker had no such excuse - the gays posed no such threat.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with the first comment except being gay is not a life choice. It's who you are just like being straight isn't a choice. That's how you were born.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, look at the bright side. At least he hasn't introduced another bill keeping comprehensive sex education out of schools, women from making choices over their own bodies, or transgenders from using pubwic westwooms like some a doze cwazy chwist'n wepubwicans doo. However, they DO have their problem priorities, don't they? Johnson's seems to be that poor people exist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You have a point about discreation. When I woke up in Army basic training found my bunkmate being orally felated by another traine that gave me a strong first impression about the homosexual community. I believe people should be able to do whatever they wish and believe whatever they wish, but please don't share, and show some common sense, there is a place and time for everything, wisdom is knowing the difference.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In Dick's fertile playhouse mind darkness lurks. I've never ever heard any of my gay friends use a slur towards non-gays. What would that be anyway?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Two (now) openly gay actors, who might need a boost to their respective careers reveal a 32 year old story like this? What was a 14 year old doing unchaperoned at a party of otherwise adults? \nToo convenient if you ask me.\nNo harm, no foul, but lots of publicity.\nJust saying.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Virginia transgender candidate ran on local issues.\nThe Virginia incumbent refused to debate with her, refused to meet her, and based his campaign solely on attacking her as a transgender woman.\nAnd he lost big time.\nSo, if you don't care, why are you so hung up about it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think that it needs to be addressed by revisiting the issue and admitting that it makes no sense at all to base Catholic teaching on an understanding of human beings that dates to the Middle Ages. It's high time that the Church admitted that human sexuality is much more complex than was traditionally believed and that gay and transgender human beings are normal and deserve to be treated and seen as such. I think that the Church's opposition to same-sex relationships needs to be abrogated. Only then, will we be able to say that the Church respects LGBT people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "maybe we could celebrate that The BLM group from New York has influenced our incredible gay pride parade and the wimps on the board have given in to their demands.\nI see nothing to celebrate. Maybe you could write about that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Speaking of silencing scientists....\n\nhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/gender-identity-debate-swirls-over-camh-psychologist-transgender-program/article287588\n\n\"Dr. Zucker was called in, given the news by an HR staffer and escorted out the door.\"\n\n\"In the transgender community, Dr. Zucker\u2019s dismissal was celebrated \u2013 he had long been controversial for research suggesting children should be steered away from becoming transgender adults.\"\n\n\"But under his leadership, the Gender Identity Clinic built an international research reputation and became the largest of its kind in Canada, treating more than 650 children. The sentiment among the 60 people gathered in the Toronto living room on that December evening was that its closing was a deplorable end to a fine career, wrought by political correctness and a misguided, but vocal, band of protesters with a flawed understanding of science.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tulsi is going to continue to be able to raise large amounts of money from all over the country because she has tuned into the intense and widespread frustration millions of Americans are having with politicians of both political parties. If the Republicans have gone crazy, trapped by dynamics in their party which have empowered the most regressive expressions of discontent in their base, the Dems have for too long posed as the friend of working and middle class people in order to get votes, only to fail to deliver, refusing to stand up to the massive corporations who fund their campaigns. The real life Dem platform seems reduced to advancing gay and reproductive rights. Good things, but not the top priority for voters watching their economic futures collapse. And their kids be shipped off to war after war.\n\nThe DNC clearly WAS cheating under DWS. People saw it and Tulsi spoke it. Bernie won the hearts of millions of voters. When Tulsi endorsed him, she won millions of fans.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I already explained my mention of gays . Look at the names and faces of who's committing most of the crimes in this town. People didn't move here from warm climates because they like long cold dark winters and short rainy summers . Of course it doesn't make sense for one person to move here for the PFD check , but for large families who were collecting 10 grand or more in free cash , it made perfect sense . I don't buy drugs , but you are right--if everyone stopped , society would turn around. They are coming from those places you mentioned to commit crimes , and another ---Hawaii . Sessions plans to really go after drug dealers and that will help . It doesn't help when public figures like Halcro and Flynn open a pot shop . Those two set a poor example for our youth. Shame on them for that. No drug money is good money . When I grew up in Anchorage , Mt. View , Fairview and east Anchorage were proud working class sections of town. No they are ground zero for drugs and crime. Sad.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So.... What... I guess I'll just hold it then? What is everyone so afraid of? Literally, I just need to use the bathroom and I feel uncomfortable doing so in the men's room. I'm pretty sure this bill will cause a lot more harassment to befall trans people than the amount of harassment that you are trying to prevent by passing it. This just goes to show that the people who are putting forward this bill think of trans people as second class citizens. Trans people as a whole are not dangerous. They are just as likely to commit a crime as a cis person is. We're all just people. If you got to know a trans person, you would understand that", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There's an error in this story. I sent an email to the author Eric Lichtblau at The New York Times, and I thought it might be useful to post it here as well. The email is kinda long, so I'll have to post it in several parts, sorry.\n\nHi Eric,\n\nI really enjoyed your article \"U.S. warns North Carolina that transgender bill violates civil rights laws\", but you had an error in it that was important enough that it needs to be brought to your attention. In the article you wrote: \"The state measure, House Bill 2, known as HB2, was signed into law in March and says the bathroom a person uses is determined by his or her original gender.\" That\u2019s not actually what the law says. I was curious to know what the state\u2019s definition of \u2018original gender\u2019 was, so I looked up the bill in question and it doesn\u2019t say \u2018original gender\u2019 is says \u2018biological sex\u2019, which it defines as: \u201cBiological sex. \u2013 The physical condition of being male or female, which is stated on a person's birth certificate.\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can we please get away from gender, transgender, race and other issues and simply evaluate performances on merit alone?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow, if only we had elected officials who channeled their outrage over the transgender experiment toward fixing this issue maybe we could actually accomplish something.\n\nWhile everyone focuses on the \"outrage\" of Trump's tweet, we have people dying because of failed policy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What tripe... read this and weep for your misunderstanding. \n\n\"\u201cI can no longer shock people in the conservative movement when I tell them I\u2019m gay \u2013 but I can shock gay people when I tell them I\u2019m Conservative,\u201d said Fred Litwin, and former vice-president of the Ottawa Centre Conservatives.\n\nIn June 2012 , Mr. Litwin was one of the organizers of the Fabulous Blue Tent Party, a gathering of approximately 800 gay Conservatives at Ottawa\u2019s Westin Hotel. The same weekend, Tories at the party\u2019s annual convention also passed a resolution supporting religious organizations who refuse to perform same-sex marriages.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trudeau will want to appoint a Francophone as the Chief justice, which I would be fine with if it keeps the job from Abella. She was appointed, along with Louise Charron, by Paul Martin explicitly because of their activism on behalf of gay rights since he had an upcoming case on the matter. Charron quickly realized she was in over her head and left. But Abella continues, the court's weakest link.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My kids joined the gay-straight alliances at their high schools. They are straight (not that it matters) but I would have been appalled if the school were to have felt it appropriate to tell me, and even more appalled if they were required to do so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If they can let an anti-gay marriage Republican, like Mike Gabbard in, the Dems can certainly let in Fukumoto. Unfortunate that they didn't discuss her stand on climate change and environmental issues, as well as health care, in the article. Those are just as important to most Democrats.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A very valid concern. We were just in Europe and saw extra private bathrooms with a sign indicating \"transgender\". Seems like an easy and not too cost prohibitive solution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But in most of the States where gay couple want to marry, the gay couple does not meet a main requirement of the law, e.g., that the couple be of opposite sexes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gah! What a truly reprehensible comment! I don't think it's anyone's business what someone's orientation is, gay, straight, A-sexual or whatever. People deserve privacy! Many if not the majority don't want to hear and could care less about the private affairs of others. It's a non-issue unless the matter at hand is illegal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of all the things that they could have cut, they chose health care which is most important for Canadians. What about cutting the hundreds of millions sent to Africa to promote gay rights or gender equality in places where it is culturally impossible to achieve them or the billions spent to bring and subsidize so called refugees so that JT can look good to the world, just for starters? Why does the government want to stick it to Canadians while it finds numerous ways of wasting our tax dollars outside of the country and on economic migrants!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Little Sisters of the Poor had a \"church policy\" that wasn't subject to ACA penalties. They were simply pawns in the theocratic Becket Fund's culture war battle against the liberal state.\n\nNo religious organization can be be \"pressed into service\" by the state to perform gay marriage. That is sheer histrionic propaganda floated by the religious right to obscure the fact the constitution forbids such coercion.\n\nLikewise your rhetorical question is bunk.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All good points, a true human rights violation. \n\nBut the selective outrage and concern is yet another example of MSM and general Western hypocrisy. \nHow are gays treated in Saudi Arabia compared to Russia? Compared to Qatar? Compared to the UAE? Afghanistan? \n\nGays are executed in Saudi Arabia, but that is not a concern for the MSM or the writer of this article ..... politically incorrect I guess. No problem with the general analysis and criticism, but the very selective outrage takes away any moral high ground. As long as you are an ally (well pretend ally in the case of Saudi and others in the region), silence and little concern.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think the argument is about making people \"like\" gay people. It's about allowing people to be who they are (or who they choose to be if that's your ideology) without fear of persecution or being deprived of basic human rights.\n\nIf you truly subscribe to the notion of 'freedom' that so many conservatives so loudly tout, then it makes no difference whether sexuality s a choice or not (just as is the case with your religious beliefs). You can't reconcile the idea of \"freedom\" with laws that infringe on those freedoms. That's not \"freedom\" in any sense of the word.\n\nGiven your argument however, isn't it equally plausible that \"the conservative community claims it is NOT decided by nature but simply individual preference, so they can maintain the force to disenfranchise those people\"?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CMD: Please note the law and it's violation by the businesses who refuse service. The position of the radical-right fundamentalist Christians (and, let's be honest here, that's who has taken the actions of refusing services) is that their religious beliefs supercede the law regarding denial of service to protected classes of persons. ....essentially, that their First Amendment Religious Rights include the right to discriminate against protected classes of persons. \n\nI'll certainly accept their right to bigotry regarding homosexuals. I'll certainly accept their right to speak out and condemn homosexuality and same-sex marriage. I will not accept...and of far more importance, the COURTS , it seems, will not accept acts of discrimination which violate Civil Rights and the attempt to justify that discrimination on Religious Freedom grounds. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is one thing for the medical community to declare that current best treatment for trans people is to enable and assist them in transitioning to the sex of their choice through conversion therapies but its another thing altogether when governments start compelling society at large to participate in the treatments for their particular disorder through punitive legislation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ive heard this argument numerous times, the NCAA and IOC medical bodies simply say that what you are stating is not the case. Im not a doctor and have no specific medical knowledge but when scores of doctors responsible for providing guidance about trans athletes say that trans people undergoing hormone treatment have no advantage Im inclined to believe them. According to the medical community the overlap in the musculoskeletal system of trans athletes and cis athletes is within the range of normal variation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"(The Pentagon admitted in May that a single airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, was responsible for 100 of these deaths.)\" \"To avenge the U.S. carnage Saipov kills 8 civilians in New York.\"\n\nThe USA was helping liberate a city held by ISIS....you know, ISIS who ties homosexuals to chairs and throws them off roofs, burns POW's alive, beheads journalists. Give your head a shake. Who or what was Saipov liberating the Argentinian tourists from?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Check out Dr. Robert Epstein's work. In exploring sexual orientation, he surveyed a large sample of men & women & found that sexual orientation was on the same sort of continuum we see for many measures. He found that very few people were strictly hetrosexual or strictly homosexual, but fell somewhere 0% to 100% either or. Where people fell on that spectrum impacted what types of relationships they were comfortable with. Someone 80% heterosexual could be happy going their entire life in only straight relationships, while someone 30% heterosexual - i.e. 70% homosexual, might have sex with the opposite sex but would probably be more comfortable in a homosexual relationship. It depends on degree & other factors, including one's family & society's attitudes. \n\nOn the other hand, when he measured gender characteristics he found that most adults are right in the middle with a mix of both feminine & masculine traits. Hyper-either gender was rare - but those outliers might explain dysphoria.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Yiannopoulos is a self-proclaimed leader of the alt-right movement.\" \n\nThere's no record of Milo every saying he was a leader of the alt right, or that he even belong to the alt-right. Alt-right is a term that encompasses the people who are fed up with restrictions on free speech (quite a few of us to be sure), to the worst elements of the KKK (who are very small in number, and despite their views are remarkably quiescent)\n\nBut getting back to Milo: I'd thought that gay Catholics would at least respect Milo for a) proudly identifying himself as Catholic and gay; b) his frequent declarations that \"the Catholics are right about everything.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree. I see what you are saying, but facts are not ideological (if they are taught plainly). For example, \"ice is cold\" is simply a fact. Teaching of facts does have some ideological underpinnings (demonstrable truth), but in the sense that ideology enters this discussion, that is not relevant. We can teach facts, and we can teach ideology about what those facts mean.\n\nFact: some people are homosexual. Ideology does not change that, but it does put various spins out how one reacts and interprets that fact.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Cardinal Ratzinger used the term \"intrinsically disordered\" to describe homosexuality. The usage took off, of course. I don;t know if the term had a life before Ratzinger used it here, but I suspect that it did.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I respect your opinion but do not share it. The key words here are \"degree and scale\". While I believe the residential schools were horriffic, 6,000 is a tiny fraction of 6 million. There was no stated aim to wipe a people off the face of the earth through mass murder, no barbaric medical experimentation, and the conditions of forced labour and systemic starvation in the camps were exponentially worse than those suffered by our indigenous peoples.\n\nSaganash does Jews, homosexuals, political prisoners and Slavic peoples a huge disservice by his comparison with the Third Reich. It is as reprehensible as Beyak's assertion that the residential schools were partly a good thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A few years ago our group of friends was having dinner and one of our friends said he had something to tell us. We paused our meal and he said the wanted to let us know he was gay. We all knew this and told him so and resumed eating. He then got real mad because he said it was such an effort to try to keep it from us and if we thought he was gay we should have told him so he didn\u2019t have to keep up the effort to hide it. Today we kind of laugh about it an he is happily married to a nice guy. Barry Manilow \u2013 come on we all knew he was gay. Didn\u2019t make a difference, you either like his music or not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anita Thorne - you might feel differently ... as I and many other women did ... when a transgender male is looking down at you over the stall while you're going to the bathroom.\n\nYou might feel differently when these men (and they are men) use a public bathroom as a means to sexually molest young girls (which, by the way, actually happens).\n\nBut, hey, it's better to seem open and accepting than to care about sexual harassment and assaults in public bathrooms. That will be what the women who complain about the looksie will be told. They will be made to feel like THEY are the ones who are out of line, because in this day and age, being psychological normal (which traditionally has included a discomfort of showing your naked body to men you are not in a consensual relationship with) is considered a deviancy.\n\nBusiness owners, sorry, but please install knock-and-lock stalls with walls that go all the way up to the ceiling and down to the floor. That might cut down on the assaults.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sam Slom means well but HIS Republican Party (the GOP of Nelson Rockefeller and Everett Dirksen and Gerald Ford ) died a long time ago. What Slom refuses to acknowledge (and perhaps accept) is that the \"brand\" is now the Cheney, Rubio, Tea Party band of dictatorial, scorched-earth politicians who have replaced compromise with anger and hate. Today's Republicans oppose ANY sort of progressive, people-based legislation. They want no taxes on big business, to take away any controls on banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, blind opposition to basic freedom of association, such as Gay Marriage. Nothing for us.The Republican-led Congress has spent the last 8 years of our lives trying to destroy President Obama as opposed to doing the Peoples' business. Slom apparently just doesn't see that the \"brand\" does NOT represent the views of most of Hawai'i. As for Fukumoto Chang, what a nice surprise..an office holder who bases positions and votes on what her DISTRICT wants. Wow !!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Note to GFNC55: Do you have all the evidence and or facts to prove that President Obama is corrupt? Or does your convictions stem from a certain cable \"news\" station? I do agree there is a backlash with a certain mind set against the \"establishment\" But I would state this backlash is from Right Wing Conservatives, not with the general population. If I were a member of the Uber Right, I'd be upset too what with all the progressive programs in place-programs that boggle the mind of the advocates of the status quo and lovers of the \"good old days\" The days of \"Father knows Best\" , \"Leave it to Beaver\" women in the kitchen, gays in the closet and Joe McCarthy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No hon. Your position was discredited many years ago. Even the military admits that thousands of transgender people have loyally served their country and the militaary is reliant on them. Stop finding reasons to hate people! Love all people. Let God judge.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course people \"reason\" with a conclusion in mind! You look at a roadmap. There are roads. You have in mind to get to a destination/albeit conclusion. As long as the roads route to where you are going, they work logically/topologically telling you where to go through to get to your intended destination. Hence, I referred to actual definitions/premises/roads on how to reach/get to the intended conclusion/destination. All that mattes for the most part if those premises are correct/true. And that the conclusion logically follows from them:\n\nA.) Homosexual/Gay - sexual orientation/attraction to persons of the same gender/sex\n\nB.) Boys - Non-Adult Males (for a brief certitude in definition.)\n\nC.) Male priests - Men who are priests\n\nD.) Gay priests engage in sex acts with boys\n\nSo, if priests are A and C, and employ that orientation with B, then they are D. \n\nAnd so it does.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender people are human beings identifying in thought, word, and deed with their true inner self. Discrimination in public access because of appearance is identical to the same denials by states in the past for skin color or other appearance. The same was set in law to criminalize all homosexuals at the state level. The worst of these laws are being slammed through one party legislatures in the Old Confederate South tied to fundamentalist religion dominating politics. One more Red Herring to impose draconian dictatorship separating the populace into class castes of good and evil. The Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedoms. The states deny them. Rest rooms are for bodily elimination. Gender should have nothing to do with it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Roybal Caballero is correct when she says \"that our Catholic faith teaches that women and men have the right to make their own [moral] decisions ... based on the dictates of their own consciences.\" Indeed, everyone has a moral obligation to act according the dictates of an informed conscience.\n\nHer statement does not contradict what the bishop says: \"It is not morally permissible for a Catholic to support abortion or doctor-assisted suicide\".\n\nThe issue is more subtle: When should a Catholic oppose legislation regulating \"immoral\" behavior? Catholics do not seek legislation forbidding adultery or divorce. I see no reason, in principle, to oppose legislation regulating prostitution, gay marriage or euthanasia. Abortion is arguably different in that it involves more than willing adults. And even then, indifference about the consequences of criminalising legislation could itself be immoral.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the filibuster dies history will record that it was the Republicans who killed it, just as history will record that Republicans abandoned two hundred years of history to prevent hearings on President Obama's lawful nomination of Merrick Garland to the bench.\n\nBut I must say, I find this sentence objectionable: \"A Supreme Court nomination battle only highlights the degree to which they [Democrats] are beholden to abortion rights and gay rights groups.\"\n\nIf Democrats are \"beholden\" to gay rights groups they are equally \"beholden\" to groups that support women's rights, children's rights, black people's right, workers' rights, poor people's rights, and individual rights against wealthy corporate interests - in short, Democrats care about the little guy and those who are downtrodden, i.e. the very people Republicans have forgotten. Singling out gay rights groups merely exposes MSW's own personal bias, and I must say, it's rather revealing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "cnpp - nonsense - the term conversion therapy encompasses treatments that are intended to change an individual's gender identity or sexual orientation (e.g., convince a transwoman that she's a man).\n\nThe rest of your post makes no sense - the current best treatment for people with gender dysphoria is to allow them to transition.\n\nBTW - the American Psychiatric Association (publishers of DSM-5) do not regard gender non-conformity itself to be a disorder. The disorder arises from the discomfort some of these individuals experience as a result.\n\nAnd who is forcing you to participate in the treatment of transgendered individuals and why is it punitive to simply let them pee in the washroom that corresponds to their gender?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am disagreeing with comments you make, not pre-judging you. I believe you are right that we've never met, though I doubt RangerMC is the name you use in face-to-face meetings.\n\nYou claim to be able to determine a soldier's fitness by determining whether or not they are transgender, that you have good judgement in this matter. Yet, according to McCain, Gabbard, and others, transgender soldiers are serving honorably.\n\nReasoning consists of testing ones beliefs against experience. In this case, your belief that transgenders are unreliable soldiers appears to be contradicted by the facts of the matter, at least as these are represented by McCain, Gabbard, and others. \n\nBTW, any idea if Trump's tweet will someday morph into an executive order?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This boils down to basic world views about life and the purpose for existence. Planned Parenthood has a published world view, which supports their moral justification of abortion and homosexuality. They are a propaganda machine for their world view, which stands in direct contrast to the Christian world view. They want to be in your school pushing their belief, as if they were facts and your children won't even know when they have stepped out in faith in such beliefs, until it's too late. The abortion rights issue is a bright light that exposes the intents of the heart, it shows you what you have believed and the ramifications of such beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Terrific point, Analyser. Trump's effect on Ontario marchers has, so far, been minimal. Likely will continue to be. Makes you wonder about the REAL reason for the long and expensive travel these women undertook. It also says something about their values, too. A government that affects them negatively every day is ignored. No marches in the street in Toronto, Ottawa or any other Ontario city...other than the gay pride parade. Seen in that light, THAT fact says something, too...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't see the value is resorting to the name calling and making of accusations. Once one begins to claim others are rabid, or make other nasty snarky attacks, one's point loses all veracity. This is an unfortunate tendency among some posters here and it impedes the discussion of idears. Your earlier deletion was a good example of admitting error in this aspect, but this most recent post appears to be a step back. Perhaps another stab at satire? If so, I fear it misses the mark. Perhaps another deletion is in order? If not another time out? But really, why the comment on homosexuality? That issue is not raised by the article or comments. One wonders if the issue isn't becoming an obsession with some who self-identify as defenders of the church...sigh.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The burden of proof is always on the person making the averment, not on his adversary to prove (a negative) by disproving what was averred. Prove that your secret desire is not to ride as a featured performer on a float in a Gay Pride Parade.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wasn't their a police officer in the WMCA video ?? I guess everything is a matter perspective. \nMost of the gay men I know like to feel safe, the police presence doesn't appear to be impeding the parade goers from having a ball.\nPerhaps BLM should start their own thing and stop pissing on great thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You bring up an interesting point, the Globe represents the naive vocal minority - the overwhelming majority of Canadians supported the position that new Canadians should show their face while taking the oath of citizenship but the Globe prefers to defend a regressive cultural practice under the guise of religious freedom. This is the same paper that encouraged Erdogan's \"reforms\" in Turkey removing Ataturk's secular protections that were in place for over 90 years. Now the Globe (and Saunders) ignore the irony of their original support as Turkey has effectively regressed into an Islamist-inspired dictatorship because political Islamists never stop until they have absolute control over all levels of society. No freedom of the press, violence towards homosexuals, people beaten with clubs for listening to Radio Head... The Globe pretends that it's a coincidence that every country with \"modesty\" requirements (without exception) also just happens to be authoritarian , because it's 2017...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Per Pope Francis, \"I repeat what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: that they must not be discriminated against, that they must be respected and accompanied pastorally,\" Francis said at a press conference aboard the papal plane returning from Armenia.\n\"The Church must ask forgiveness for not behaving many times -- when I say the Church, I mean Christians! The Church is holy, we are sinners!\"\nRepeating the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church about respecting and not discriminating against gays, Pope Francis said that one could condemn certain behavior.\n\"One can condemn, but not for theological reasons, but for reasons of political behavior...Certain manifestations are a bit too offensive for others, no?\n\"But these are things that have nothing to do with the problem. The problem is a person that has a condition, that has good will and who seeks God, who are we to judge? And we must accompany them well.\" \n\nAs a practicing Catholic, I say to Pope Francis, \"Amen\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have never mentioned the terms \"hebephilia\" (erotic interest which centers on young pubescents) or \"ephebophilia\" (sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents) or, indeed, \"pedophilia\" (sexual preference for prepubescent children). Incidentally, few psychiatrists consider an erotic interest in late or mid adolescents as a \"psychopathology\". \n\nWhat I did say was: \"We're looking at prepubescent and pubescent boys being victims of homosexual assaults.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where do we see the proof that the owner wanted to hold an anti-gay rally?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know you're gay so birth is not relevant to your kind, but the TFR is below replacement in nearly all advanced nations, even in Asia. Replacement is 2.1. Germany has a TFR of 1.3, Russia, China, Japan, Vietnam, Italy, England, all about the same. The US has a TFR of 1.9, but that is only due to hispanic women, who will one day reproduce at the same rate as white and black women, which is at about 1.3. In the advanced nations we are facing a demographic winter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kag, I saw the letter. It didn't contain anything opposed to Church teaching. Please explain what \"more accepting\" means. Are you sure it's official?\n\nPlease read what Cupich actually said on gay unions. He sounds rather conservative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blase_J._Cupich", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "King approved of the Church's view that homosexuals should be loved and respected. However, he disapproved of the conduct that you want the Church to approve.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The more extreme the left becomes and the more it tries to control society with their folly, the more it pushes centrists further right as they attempt to counter-measure. \"\n\n--\n\nThe centre of our culture is moving further left as tolerance becomes the norm.\n\nIt was just a few years ago that gays were ostracized.\n\nNow even most conservatives accede to their right to full equality.\n\nThose who can't accept a liberal society where diversity is considered, at worst, an acceptable norm and, increasingly, a virtue, are becoming fewer but more militant as they see their inherited privilege disappear.\n\nThe far right just can't accept this, are panicking and acting out as they become desperate to resist change.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "2/2\nThe special problem for homosexual candidates is that it asks them to lie about who they are; worse, if they accept, or even pretend to accept, the 'intrinsic disorder' nonsense, they will be drawn inexorably into a profoundly unhealthy and dangerous form of self-loathing.\nI think it\u2019s time to cut through the hypocrisy that drives this nonsense. Our bishops ought to tell us, plainly, whether they accept this directive; and if so how they are implementing it, both for seminarians and for clergy. What are they doing to purge the seminaries and the clergy of homosexuals? Alternatively, they should say plainly that the document is cynical, hypocritical and dishonest and they are ignoring it, or perhaps admit that they have paid lip service to it. If homosexuals are excluded from priesthood, two-thirds of the bishops (probably all of the culture warriors) would be gone; and probably nearly the same number of priests -- many of them good, holy, effective priests.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suppose you can say he has come a long way but not teaching sexuality to adolescents is just like arguing for ignorance. Children entering puberty need help in understanding the changes to their body and mind. This is not gender theory but the best science has to offer so the next generation has a healthy outlook on sexuality. That includes hetero and homosexuality, reproduction, birth-control and transgender identity. We are not in the middle ages.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If anything brings gay couples back to the Chruch, it will be the children they already have and their families who insist that they are entitled to celebrate their sacramental love in the Church, and not just privately in a wedding blessing in the rectory or sacristy.\n\nThe Catholic Church breaking up into a more Orthodox model of continental, national or linquistic partriarchies will bring progress to at least some places, probably starting here, on gay marriage and female ordination.\n\nEboni Marshall Turman is not totally acurate. Our clergy is not full of heterosexuals. They left and we are left with celibate gays convinced that this is the only place left for them to go, non-celibate gays who could easily marry in the new regime and asexuals for whom celibacy is comfortable because it is natural for them. The problems is that their teachings on chastity are not natural for the rest of us. A sexuality that glorifies their natures is just not useful to most us. They need to be outed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is not a sin to be gay, as long as one is monogamous, if you believe that people were born that way, i.e., created by God. To allow such bullying pushes many young people to suicide - which is far worse than the objectionable spilling of a bit of seed and a moment of orgasm.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So why are Gay Rights Advocates fighting a vote?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Boy, a lot of hateful lefties commenting today (oooh Kenney's an anti-gay, pro-Christian, money-worshiper - typical lefty rhetoric).\n\nI guess they can smell the end of the Alberta NDP and don't like it one bit. The NDP was obviously elected due to a protest vote. How'd that work out for you? \n\nBeing in BC next door with another anti-industry, government worker loving NDP government, I can certainly sympathize. Hopefully Albertans have learned their lesson and will toss the NDP out permanently.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sometimes in life you don't get second chances. The Catholic Church in Ireland probably reached that point of no return when the Cloyne Report was published in 2011. What that document revealed beyond any doubt was that the Vatican had actively sought to impede the reporting of predatory priests to local law enforcement in Ireland. Once that happened the final fig leaf of deference to the church's moral authority in Ireland fell for good, and the Irish haven't looked back since. When the gay marriage referendum passed in 2015 the people of Ireland sent a strong message to the Vatican: \"we no longer believe anything you say - leave us alone.\" The collapse of the church in Ireland should have been a cautionary tale for Catholic officials all over the world, but like the TV commercial for the clean-up company Servpro says, it's \"like it never even happened.\" As goes Ireland, so goes the rest of the church if business as usual is conducted. The people have spoken and they've had enough.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't expect Mr Trump actually put a lot of thought into this. He tends to make rash decisions. I expect the recommendation came from the joint chiefs.\n\nThat being said while I agree the armed forces should not discriminate there are a lot of logistics and security issues that need to be addressed. While western civilizations are more tolerant I would hate to think how an American transgender POW would be treated by a less enlightened captor (e.g. taliban, ISIS, etc).\n\nIt took quite a while to accommodate women. Give it time.\n\nIt always begs the question though. If transgenders are not allowed in the military would that be an excuse from the draft should the Americans ever need to reinstitute it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender people were already serving in the military with minimum disruption.\nWhat the Pentagon and \"under control and planned for\" was integrating openly transgender people into the military.\nTrump has thrown that into total disarray with his base-pleasing tweets.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi, I'm the unidentified transgender individual in this article and I'd love for you all to know that I'm offically transitioned and I will be getting on testosterone on the 27th! I was too scared at this time to come out (( considering I got beat up for being trans )), and I honestly dislike reading this article because of the \"she\". ( they didn't ask me which I preferred my parent gave them the information ). If it was up to me i probably would have chosen to go by \"he\" in this article. But! All is well now!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's why the army was segregated for so long, and banned open homosexuality till a few years ago.\n\nIn fact, a social experiment called banning slavery caused almost half the army to revolt and commit treason, by fighting their country and commander-in-chief.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe that's it, Keala, trusting your (buddy) with your life. Maybe we should start our learning with the trans people being more than sex 24/7! Being female 24/7 takes more attention when you're male, and talk about high maintenance...than there's the older trans who is beyond perfecting his female image because he knows who he is and is ok with it! Respect goes both ways, not what you feel you deserve but what you earned.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'd say homosexual attraction would be strong enough indicate sexual orientation. Kind of like...the sky is blue.\n\n<>\n\nStrawman. You're just quibbling over semantics. You want to argue that \"compulsion\" and \"sexual orientation\" are interchangeable concepts? Go to town, Counselor. Muddying the waters goes with the territory.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nope. And false analogy.\n\nThe American Medical Association, and the American Psychological Association agree that transgender expression is normal and not a disorder. Gender dysphoria occurs when ones gender identity does not match ones biological expression or the stress induced by discrimination and hate. The gender identity is not the problem nor is it a disorder or \"crazy\". \n\nThe real question is why are so many straight cis men so afraid of trans people? Seems to me to be an issue with the cis men, not the trans person. \n\nThe only difference between myself as a cis male and my trans friends is that I am fortunate enough to have the plumbing that matches my gender identity. They identify with their gender identity just as strongly. Misgendering a trans person is just as ridiculous and offensive as misgendering a cis person.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess you're upset again today? I don't regard my statement of fact \"wishy-washy\". Feel free to call anyone out when a lie is told.\n\n\"The Obama administration faced heavy criticism from some top-ranking military personnel when it first announced its policy change regarding transgender troops. Some accused President Obama of social experimentation at the expense of military readiness. Even some conservative lawmakers weighed in.\" https://news.vice.com/story/trumps-transgender-ban-will-hurt-the-military-retired-generals-say\n\nObviously, generals and admirals are not a monolithic block and the world is not as simple, black and white, good and evil as some would like.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Those who tend to publicly espouse the GOP line with its homophobia, anti-immigrant, and anti choice rhetoric are also by and large benefactors of the various diocese. I may be generalizing, however, I see this in my own parish where the one percenters are readily engaged regardless of their negative attitudes toward social justice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And your reply shows that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of love; or, rather, how love is expressed. Love is unselfish.\n\nI understand your confusion because sex feels extraordinarily good and evokes emotions in us, e.g., of feeling wanted, of euphoria, of dominance (for some), of openness, etc... that contribute to that good physical feeling. And when you do it with someone you love, like anything you do with someone you love, it's better. I think we FEEL LOVED when we have sex, and that's perhaps where the confusion lies.\n\nI'm going to qualify my comment about sex being purely lust driven, and say that it is also need driven. You think you have sex because you love; I say you have sex because of lust and of feeling loved. \n\nBut while we can FEEL being loved; that is not the same thing as LOVING someone. Jesus commands us to LOVE not to REACT to love. \n\nHomosexual \"love\" is that way; someone makes them feel a certain way and they think it's love, when it's lust or envy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump is rejecting the neo-liberal, free trade consensus of the Clintons, but his part in Congress mostly has not. Whether they change in response to his victory is doubtful. Also doubtful is whether there will be much social retrenchment on abortion or gay marriage. I suspect his upcoming appointment to the Supreme Court will reflect the best the ABA has to offer - moderate conservatives on economic issues and liberal on social issues. The moderate Republicans will get their way and the blue collar ones will not, even with Trump's best efforts. Interestingly, some claim Trump is a Democrat in sheep's clothing. This could very well be true, although some of his appointments are still pandering to the right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know that many who have adopted the \"gay\" label would rather fight than quit. But for those who have same-sex attraction and are contemplating engaging in same-sex acts, I think we condemn them when we call them \"gay,\" not even suggesting that engaging in such acts is a choice. \n\nTrue liberation is when we overcome our temptations, not when we acquiesce to them. \"Keep us FREE from sin.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yep. Phillips is now trying the \"artistic freedom\" gambit.\nBut, unlike the Azucar case, where the baker offered to a bake a cake of the customer's choosing and give the customer the decorating tools to decorate the cake, Phillips refused to even discuss design.\nIf you say to any heterosexual couple \"Sure! I'll design a cake for you\", but you say to a gay couple \"So sorry, no can do, but I've got a lovely sheet cake in the cooler I'll sell you\", that is discrimination.\nI'm highly concerned the SCOTUS is hearing this case. If they wanted to confirm the Colorado Supreme Court decision, they could have denied the appeal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The column was about trans gender equality, not about residential schools.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The modernity comment was solely regarding the sentence on transgender folks.\n\nAnd that is a modern phenomenon. Not in terms of the existence of such folks, but of the familiarity of enough laypersons to raise the subject to the level of commonplace everyday conversation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've not been taken in. Sorry. I do disagree with your opinion. \n\nYou claim a quote by another man about Proud Boys suggests they are white supremacists. Which isn't about Gavin McInnes. And never made a white supremacist claim. \n\nThe NYT journalist or editor that made an inaccurate headline about it being a white only group admitted the error and changed the headline.\n\nSo do you believe that a group that denounces white supremacy, Nazis and denounced the \"Ignite the Right\" rally before it occurred (condemned because of the presence of actual white supremacists groups) are white supremacists?\n\nAnd that group, which has non-white members - and also homosexual members - is a white supremacist group?\n\nI've not been taken in. I shared my opinions. I don't agree with all that Gavin talks about. He is a libertarian, for example. I'm not. \n\nHe also is married to a person who is not white. And has bi-racial children. White supremacists condemn mixed-race marriages, FYI.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The baker is only offended if his custom works of art, wedding cakes, are at the reception of a gay wedding.\nIf the same exact cake goes to a heterosexual wedding the baker has no problem.\n\nThe baker is picking and choosing when to be offended and when his religious views are offended. \nReligion is not an excuse for discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is what i call it because that''s what it is. I am in no way shape or form afraid of homosexuals, or homophobic as you call it. There have been a few studies done that show there is no genetic or biological coding that causes a human being to lean one way or the other. The best one was a study involving identical twins. If you don't know, they are identical at a genetic level. Of all of the twins studied, 95% of the time when one twin identified as either gay or being something other than the sex they were born with, the other did not. That would heavily imply that homosexuality or the desire to be transgender or whatever else its called nowadays stems from environmental factors, not genetic coding. As far as seperation of church and state, that was designed to prevent a government religion, IE the church of england. Not the suppression of religious expression and freedom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you actually think that unisex bathrooms will increase the prevalence of child molestation or sexual assault? Any data to back it up? Europeans have more unisex bathrooms. Has a higher incidence of assault been documented in these co-ed bathrooms? Let's get specific, what are you envisioning here? A male high school student pretends to be transgender and uses the girls bathroom, then attacks a girl in said bathroom, because you know, something about bathrooms just drives guys crazy. Your argument just seems like a convenient cover for the true motivation of your opposition.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ground war is an understatement.\n\nHere in Richmond a group calling itself Better Richmond Concern group has been taking out ads in the local papers.\n\nThese are attack ads against a Richmond councillor who is running for the NDP. The ads start off \"Today you have joined the NDP as a candidate\"...\n\nThe ads then list the things that they believe the NDP (and only the NDP?) supports:\n\nDrug Injection sites, Unisex washrooms, sex education, and gay marriage.\n\nThe group ran another ad two says later and accused the NDP of moral decay and asserted that moral decay would be brought to Richmond.\n\nThis is not good.\n\nhttp://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/richmond-chinese-election-ads-slam-moral-destruction-in-east-vancouver", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The opening paragraph of this letter is interesting. The letter writer opens by making a claim to special status due to age and state residency then makes an obviously false claim that \"there is no difference among people of different races, genders and religions,\"--the very statement is a contradiction. I would hope Mr. Granas was trying to say that despite differences among people everyone should be equal before the law. But that's not what he said. Worse yet, he makes the ridiculous claim that every person could choose to be themselves (untrue, ask any gay person over the age of 65) and then implies that someone has \"shoved something in his face\" although he doesn't say who or what. \"We all got along fine\" he claims which I translate as we all got along fine so long as minorities stayed in their place. Your tranquility is going to be disturbed Mr. Granas because the youth aren't going to stay in their racially designated places any longer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm all for the Transgender right to do what they want, when they want to. What I object to is taxpayers footing the bill for gender reassignment surgery for these people. In all likelihood, it's the reason they joined the military in the first place. Private Insurance will not pay for the desired surgery so they join the military to get you and I to pay for it. It isn't right!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Thorne has written a column that is entirely predictable. Writing from his secure position in academia and strictly following the left-wing narrative, the author adds nothing new to the public discourse. It certainly is an entirely risk-free position for him to take. He will see no students protesting his views nor any academics criticizing him, either because they agree with him, or in the cases where they don't, because they will be to afraid of the consequences of saying so. But he is a law professor in Toronto. Why isn't he writing about a current contentious Canadian issue, say the decision of the organizing committee of the Gay Pride parade in Toronto to ban gay police officers from marching in the parade? Does the professor agree that the organizing committee should have given in to the demand of the #Blacklivesmatter pressure group in ordering this ban?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Practitioners of open relationships don't consider them adulterous because the external activity is consensual to the non-participating spouse. They don't consider it cheating. The whole concept of adultery was forged when wives were the property of their husbands. No longer the case. Indeed, what scares the Church about both gay marriage and modern marriage is that the man is no longer in charge, which messes up their marital analogies about Jesus and the Church and the Hierarchy standing in Jesus stead as head of the wife.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "His views on gay marriage and abortion says it all. He is Harper 2.0 - the nightmare continues.\n-\nhttps://youtu.be/UITG7CqCbys", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Christ never said a word about homosexuality. Church-sanctioned homophobia came later.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes indeed... Sadly from my diocese in NC comes the following from the diocesan newspaper:\n\n\"Former seminarian sued over sexual assault claim\" (scroll down page a bit) \nhttp://www.catholicnewsherald.com/news/news-releases/90-news/local/1374-former-seminarian-sued-over-sexual-assault-claim\n\n...and yes, this fellow was amongst the retro-church seminarians being cultivated by our bishop, so the usual suspects cannot blame the behavior on so-called liberalism or homo$exual orientation. ... the victim was female this time. Since law enforcement and the chancery dropped the ball, now everyone is being sued individually and collectively in civil court.\n\nThe RCC has deeper complex problems within the ranks of clergy and prospective clergy, but the hierarchy does not want to admit that their ontological specialness and exceptionalism are not really all that special or exceptional. Until they do, predation and dysfunction will continue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Technology changes, rights don\u2019t\"???? Since when?\n\nRights constantly change. The biggest change was in 1982 when the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted.\n\nSince then rights have changed apace. Consider the evolution of aboriginal rights and the government duty to consult on matters that affect them.. Rights of same sex persons, transgender rights, equality rights, etc.\n\nThe SCOC just recognized a right to collective bargaining after rejecting it for 30 plus years. And currently a live issue before the SCOC is the evolution of a standalone right to privacy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How odd, given that Trudeau already doesn't stand up for Canada. He praised China for being a dictatorship. He skipped parliamentary sessions to do speaking gigs. He billed schools upwards of $10,000 for showing up. Last year, on Parliament Hill no less, Justin rejected the Canadian flag in favour of a rainbow gay-flag. He signed off on trade deal that greatly favour China at our expense. Frankly, as much as the media loves Justin, he just doesn't seem to care all that much about Canada.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, I would have to agree that the LGBTQ community considers themselves more equal than all the rest of us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Incorrect. Over75% of catholics favor gay marriage", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well...that's a nice thought but from the way I am understanding this while the black baker may not have to write words he would still have to make the skinheads' cake. All the skinhead would have to do is claim he is gay. I am still unclear about images.\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The real heroes in this are the WHCL. They had little to gain and probably more than a few league teams to tick off by instituting a zero-tolerance policy. But they did the right thing and should stand proudly for it. \n\nThe next step is to work toward a world where there's just no need for any of this, where men can play sport and no one cares. It is happening in some unlikely places--I know of openly gay boxers who are accepted without reservation in their sport.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Went to a gay party once. Oil field service workers. Heavy equipment operators. Ice road truckers. The only thing that would have set them apart, besides that they were at that party, was that they were generally pleasant. Probably make for a pretty dull show.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A couple of years ago the national seminary in Maynooth, just outside Dublin; faced closure due to major drop in vocations. The solution was to amalgamate with the national university of Ireland and open it up to the public. A \"sweetheart\" deal allowed the hierarchy to retain an accommodation section for clerical students. Two years ago a major exposure; the clerical students were found to be into gay dating sites, in a big way. The Archbishop of Dublin of transferred his 8 remaining students to the Irish College in Rome. I'm unsure if he was aware that a significant number of Rome's clerical population enjoyed a carefree lifestyle in the bath-houses; saunas & clubs, of the ancient city; all thanks to the internet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Civil Beat -\nYou got the new awards wrong. Those two listed are 10 year old renewals. There were three new awards - two for Leeward side which has been neglected and one for Youth (LGBT which is all the rage).\n\nThe quote from HUD about \"1 million homeless during the year\" does not include those unsheltered - aka \"the real homeless\" - who are living unsheltered. Well, 20% are just illegally camping, but the 80% are pretty ill individuals and some families.\n\nThe State of Hawaii funding which is $20 million plus is still on the \"wrong course\" for the most part and funds the wrong \"solutions\" that failed from the 80s and 90s.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "lol. Tell you what: type \"right wing admiring putin\" into Google and do some reading. Perhaps there you will see an example or two. For instance, \"Le Pen has long expressed admiration for Putin, even telling a Russian newspaper in 2011 that \u201cI admire Vladimir Putin.\u201d So I see no false equivalency here. \n\nAs for corporations, I address the spirit of your post--which is to attack one side, while giving the philosophy and actions of the other a pass. You've picked on the left wing with your straw man, so I'm gently pointing out to you that hypocrisy is pretty easy to spread around. \n\nDo you have any evidence of the \"Left\" saying \"well, that's just the way it is\"? Does the right-wing care when there are human rights abuses in some places in Africa around homosexuality? I think they are all too busy saying \"well, that's just the way it is.\"\n\nPeople are people. The object of power is power. Left or Right makes no difference.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Equal rights to all does not trample on anothers' rights.\nEqual rights for gays does not trample on the same rights for religious followers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since I'm older , back when I was born , my parents didn't know what sex I was until the doc delivered me. Within minutes of being born my birth certificate said I was a boy. It wasn't left blank to decide later in life what I wanted to be. You accepted you were a boy or girl and lived life that way. Maybe you can help me with this question : Gays and liberals always scream about wanting tolerance---so why don't they practice what they preach ? Why do you people always accuse a person of being hateful when they simply disagree with you ? It's not hate to refuse to accept immoral behavior . I didn't go down and protest the gay events . I only mentioned it when it was thrown in my face in the newspaper . As for Russia , they do treat gays badly , and that is wrong of them. When I hear someone like you accuse me of hate just because I disagree with the gay lifestyle , it makes me wonder----am I wrong and the Russians right on this issue ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "yes - they want hate crime legislation to apply to trans people. It was not ambiguous at all. \n\nWhat exactly constitutes hate speech is a bit vague - but that's already true for existing groups (religious groups, racial groups etc) and ultimately decided by courts or HR tribunals.\n\nIf you want govts. to provide more clarity on what actually constitutes legal free speech vs hate speech then I agree.\n\nQuebec HR law now seems to include gender identity as a way to categorize protected groups.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would hope that she is welcomed into the democratic party. Yes she was wrong when she opposed same sex marriage but she seems to have evolved and recognizes the evils of conversion thearapy. Doesn't sound like she is much different than a majority of democrats. Its a shame that republicans no longer believe in any core values except welfare for the rich.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Naturally everything the Pope says stands in stark contrast to the modern Republican party's entire platform on economic issues. Their raison d'\u00eatre as a political party is to decrease the top marginal tax rate to nothing, if possible - way down from the 90% where it stood when Eisenhower, a Republican, was president. That would of course increase income inequality exponentially. But if His Holiness ever hopes to reach his audience of American Catholics who voted for Donald Trump and his Republican congress because of abortion and gay marriage, he'd better spend some Vatican money and buy a little air time on Fox News. That's the only way he'll ever hope to reach that particular audience - not that Fox would ever allow it. Since Pope Francis lashed out at Trump's proposed anti-Muslim, anti-immigration policies before the election last year he has been labelled anathema by the right-wing media. Not sure how he overcomes that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It looks like we need to make Fr. Rey a cardinal so he gets a Vatican passport. His bishop should call the President about his case. Trump just may buy it.\n\nThat a Third Way organization would be up against a DLC candidate is strange, although they may be reporting, not advocating. There were some people who wanted no Clintons and no Bushes. They won, but at what cost? On transgender bathrooms, that is in response to GOP social trolling, not a new initiative by progressives, who thought we had won this issue decades ago.\n\nAustin who? I have been following another Tweet Storm started when Bruce Bartlett called all Trump suppoerters racists. As for Catholic homophobes, read the NCR comments section. Funny and tragic that they are all Trads, which makes their entire agenda look more reactionary than spiritual.\n\nIf you have cable, Diary should be available on demand for a while for free.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "' the system has developed a modern understanding of this term \" In other words we have twisted the real meaning into having it mean anything we want.\n1. Self-identification? Is that like if I \"feel\" Polynesian, then I am? Kinda like the transgender folks if they \"feel\" like a woman today they will use a woman's bathroom. Or they might \"feel\" like a man today and use a man's?\n2. Continuity of pre-settler society. NONE HERE.\n3. All people have a link to the world around them.\n4. All here have the same political system and rights under it.\n5. Distinct language, culture, and beliefs. Less than 3% of the people speak Polynesian here, their culture and beliefs are now like the majority of all races in Hawaii, they speak English and practice different customs and religions than they did when first they invaded these islands as settlers.\n6. There are no dominant groups here, all equal with equal rights. \n\nNo. No indigenous peoples in Hawaii.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dale Gerboth- Maybe you should change the channel once in a while:\n\"This is a very dark moment in America's history,\" the presumptive Republican nominee said. \"A radical Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub not only because he wanted to kill Americans, but in order to execute gay and lesbian citizens because of their sexual orientation.\"\nTrump went on to label the attack a \"strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation\" and an \"assault\" on people's ability to \"love who they want and express their identity.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, you have to admit there's a lot to dislike about Burke. Homophobic, disloyal, and so on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Legalizing marijuana is likely to be a topic for Pennsylvania after the deaths of four young men lured by the promise of selling them marijuana.\nIt seems Sessions uses the federal government whenever it comes to his own personal interests. No federal action (or as he called it a \"state issue\") when it comes to LGBT but he wants to bring federal action on medical marijuana?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I never claimed that no one should not have their 2nd amendment rights, not once! Guess what Lana, they are my rights too, not yours to give and take away. You clearly appeal to emotions rather than facts. And Pink Pistols doesn't hold the monopoly nor the majority of gun advocacy for the LGBT community. We can separate humans from guns anytime, anyhow, but it still doesn't change the fact gun violence in this country is extremely high and unprecedented in the world. Come to the table with an open mind, rather than trigger happy. Bang.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Resisting one's inclinations for what one perceives to be the greater good is always a sacrifice. It makes no difference whether or not the thing one resists is sinful. It's the choice that matters.\n\nNobody chooses to be gay. Even the Church admits that. So why should a person be penalized for an orientation that is, in itself, not sinful and that in no way impedes a person's ability to serve others?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As I have said in past posts, the real choice is between Clinton and Sanders, between a moderate and a progressive. There is a fringe whose collation is breaking apart as the duped see that the GOP doesn't not act on values. So the Tea Party thought they had won, they got their obstructionists in office but the majority was able to govern, to makes choices, to try and solve problems. And the two real candidates are discussing these very problems...jobs, the economy, taxes, climate change, energy...and the dreck on the fringes of the right are trying to do what? The guns, God, gays, guts, glory doesn't sell very well when nothing is done...of course for those who like absolutist, there's Trump, who pulled the curtain aside to show there's no one behind the curtain. So who was the GOP? What did they stand for? Whose interests were served? Not the working white poor folks who are angry as poked hornets.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Johnny! Ellis! You never knew me but you did say I was a being a great role model for my son. \nYou and I knew he was gay. He was 9 at the time and you were serving pizza. You gave us more pizza and flashed that smile. It was a good day. Thanks for being in it and making us smile. \n\nThanks Johnny Ellis, for making Alaska a better place.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When to decide on cosmetic surgery that results in sterilization?\n\nUnless one is really really distressed and mental treatment has been determined hopeless, probably never.\n\nOtherwise the question is simply when to choose cosmetic surgery.\n\nDisorder is defined as that which inhibits or interferes with any normal function or established system.\n\nOurs is mating. Pairing and joining to reproduce. Reproduction is a continuum where living cells from biological heterosexuals combine creating a new individual sharing the genetic history of both. No other gender relationship can achieve this fundamentally unique process necessary for life.\n\nLook at the history. It was bullying not science tha persuaded the APA to remove homosexuality from the DSM.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I don't understand is the mockery and contradiction between different countries in relation to this subject.\nReading Francis DeBernardo's New Ways site and Catholic gays or lesbians, fired, forced to resign, had offers rescinded, or had their jobs threatened and got away with it, where as on the other hand, Australia's Bishops Conference are assuring Catholics quite the opposite.\nIf against church doctrine who's being fooled, Australians or Americans?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What about those statues to Banting and Best. Sure they discovered insulin but they experimented on dogs. Those poor puppies.\n\nSeriously. Let's put these people in their proper context. It is okay to respect the achievements of Sir John A Macdonald and others while still recognizing their shortcomings.\n\nThere are few historic figures who don't have some controversy. Even Nelson Mandela had a violent past. Barack Obama did not believe in gay marriage until his feelings on the matter \"evolved\".\n\nRobert E Lee was a general who fought for his country with distinction. History is unclear whether he supported slavery or not. There is evidence to support both. As a citizen of Virginia he nonetheless joined on the Confederate side.\n\nIt is unfortunate that the KKK and white supremacists have hijacked his image for their brand of hate. Let's not lose our focus.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thinking this will help people become independent is delusional. If I were handed everything I need in life, why would I change my ways all of the sudden? If a transgender shelter pops up in my neighborhood I am moving to Wyoming. Democrats want to piss away tax dollars to support their PC feel good campaign and I'm over it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is \"hateful misogyny\" to say that women cannot be ordained. They used to be honest about it, and say it was because women are inferior to men. Now, they say that this argument is untrue, but in fact, they cling to it. They call it \"complementarity\", but the really mean \"inferiority.\n\nYou make it quite clear that you know nothing about LGBT people. I suspect you are not interested in learning.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You offer a good explanation . But it gets back to the main issue---do they support censorship or not ? If they fear a story might be controversial , why make a big story out of it ? They chose to let Wolhforth tell us what he thinks about the gay native lady---but think so little of us to hear what we paying readers think. I realize monitoring the comments has been time consuming for them , but thought the new system eased that load. They wanted the new system to bring more people into the conversation and it has done so big time. When you don't let readers comment because you fear what they might say--that's censorship.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one is denying the existence of gender dysphoria and homosexuality. It goes without saying that gender confused people need to be treated with compassion. Catholics are not the flat earth neaderthals you are trying to make them out to be.\n\nIt is simply not intellectually honest to say science has provided all the information we need to move forward on these issues. As with any condition, science needs to have the courage to find the cause and cure, while providing non-invasive treatments in the meantime.\n\nCatholics don't vilify people afflicted with these conditions. They don't hate gays. They try to manage moral conflicts with compassion , understanding, and guidance, rather than taking the path of the least resistance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If she is gay, more power to her. However, there is such pressure to be different, and she is so young, that she may not be. My daughter wrote me a letter at 16 telling me she was gay. I supported her, told her I love her no matter what. It turned out that she was not gay, just trying to wrap her head around feelings she was unsure of. Today at 25 she is happily married to a man, and they have been together 4 years. My point is this: don't judge your children no matter what. This is not a matter of choice, and when they're young, they need family support to figure it all out no matter if they are gay or straight.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I understand where you are coming from. I assume with my hypothetical question that you would not recommend recusing Carlson if your client was charged with a felony assault on a gay man. Reasonable minds might disagree with your position. But if your test is as you say: whether the judge gets reversed a lot on denying suppression motions or for other errors and more than his peers, then I expect you would not be trying many cases in Carlson's court since his record for reversals was far more than any other judge during his tenure trying criminal and domestic cases. But since such refusals are so opaque as you suggested how would anyone know your reasons? You may have the last word. I have concluded.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If a gay couple needs counciling, go to a private counselor. Why would they even want a church council. \n\n I think freedom of religion means you can do what you believe in your church but if you want to run a business then you are subject to the laws of the land.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the advancement of civil rights for disenfranchised groups it has always been one step forward, two steps back, two steps forward, one step back, etc. With the election of Trump and his Republican Congress we just took five steps back in terms of gay advancement. \n\nIn today's NY Times there is an article suggesting that the focus on transgender rights is what put Trump in the White House. I have no doubt that that's at least partially true. Ever since last summer's Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay civil marriage the culture warriors on the right have been seething. The voting booth last month was where they took their revenge, and they won. \n\nDespite Trump's supposed gay positive stance, he's populated his cabinet with the most conservative anti-gay people imaginable, and he's already reneged on several campaign promises. I have every reason to believe he will quietly play to the extreme right where gay rights are concerned and gay people will lose. Compromise? I don't think so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "there are many of us everywhere, most of the priests and male religious I have known over the years have been gay.... some celibate, some not. and many bishops as well. and from the stories my gay friends in Italy tell me, lots of higher clergy are too! but gay or straight, celibate or not, what I have noticed is that the more loving and giving a person is, the better the priest is. he is more human and not a machine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just based on averages from polls done on U.K. Muslims. 48% believe homosexuality should be illegal and punishable by death, 33% believe sharia law should be in place all the time, 10% agree and sympathize with suicide bombers. No wonder they feel like outcasts around here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. I believe in justice. I also believe in equality, personal liberty and human fraternity. I believe that the living world has rights that deserve respect and protection. I despise misogyny, white supremacism, homophobia and ecocide.\n\nIs that what you mean when you say \"60's counter cultural mantra\"? \n\nIf you find all that repulsive, you won't find any tolerance in this quarter. Luckily a number of those values are enshrined in the US Constitution and in many laws of many countries.\n\nYou may be on the wrong side of history, pseudonymous one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This article is about two very distinct things.\n\n1. State sovereignty. Where was the Governor when the Supreme Court intruded on State Sovereignty when it ruled on school funding for example? He cannot accept such intrusions when it suits his own agenda, and then reject it when it doesn't.\n\n2. Transgender issues. I don't even know where to start because I find inconsistencies within the LGBT communities own arguments. They are claiming that gender is separate from biological sex, yet in their own doctrines refer to gender transformation surgery, which by definition is the attempt to alter ones biological sex. I also find this nearly impossible to talk about because if you hold opinions that are opposite of theirs, you are considered as homophobic, hateful or bigoted. In other words, they consider this as a closed matter to not be debated or discussed. And how can free speech even exist when those apposing you refuse to listen, or allow you to even speak?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obama was a Boy Scout. And he did send a video speech to the 2010 Jamboree celebrating the centenary of Scouting. As to the booing at the 2000 Democratic Convention, that had to do with the Boy Scouts stand on Gays. Not all booed. But Scouts have since changed their policy. So the booing worked. Try to remember that convention aren't all united people in opinion. But Donald wasn't supposed to talk politics. He deviated from his printed speech. He rambled and turned the event into a campaign rally. And why? What was the point? Did those kids want to listen to 38 minutes of bafflegab? No, sir. Obama's tribute of under two minutes was far more appropriate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I support Trans rights but I dont support the government telling me what words to use.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Boy Scouts had already accepted gays, but it couldn't accept transgenders until it accepted girls. Now it can.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Francis' words toward the LGBTQ community and feminists haven't been kind as of late. This question was posed to Pope Francis (and kudos to Josh for doing it!) because of a very ugly, very red meat culture warrior talk he gave in Georgia in Saturday. The topic wouldn't have been discussed if he hadn't essentially accused transpeople, gay people, and feminists of waging a war on marriage. It is really hard for me as a feminist to feel welcome in the Catholic Church when educational programs designed to help with gender equality are compared to nuclear war. Because of that I think anything he says about women's rights or feminism is a lie.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It makes me sad to think gun activists accept mass shootings like Colorado in the movie theaters or Oregon on college campus or Florida in the lgbt club regardless of your beliefs on homosexuality or your right to own a gun what would you do if it was your brother or wife or mother that was gunned down in the crossfire? My trust in the police doesn't go very far and I don't intend on putting myself in any situation where I might need a police response. I think most people will benefit from as few people dying from gang shootings or terrorism as possible. The first step is giving up your guns voluntarily or at least keep them locked away keep the ammo in another location only load the gun if your life is in danger me personally I don't need police or a gun to protect me I've got a higher power on my side I don't vote by the way I could care less who's agenda I support", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thousands of innocent future Alaskan's killed by Lisa Murkowski supported Planned Parenthood a stretch ? You must not read the Dispatch much . Last year they reported out of around 4000 abortions performed in Alaska , Planned Parenthood was behind about 3400 of them. Those innocent nearly born kids were killed . Innocent dead kids don't matter to you ? In fact , liberals support abortion . What a caring lot. I don't care if a man is so mentally confused that he wants to become a woman . I DO care when he wants to use the same bathroom my grand kids are in at the same time. All of the gay rights stuff would have been over and done with if the assembly had just agreed to everyone using the proper bathroom. Thanks to the assembly trying to ram it all down our throats , the issue is back. Clearly your clueless about North Carolina. That is a great state filled with with wonderful people .I have been there many times, including a little over a week ago. Anchorage is my home forever.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Imagine how much better life would be for the Homeless if Bean's Cafe had even 10% of the yearly budget of ABT and Changepoint to work with? The two most profitable organizations in Anchorage that don't pay any taxes have done s. \n\nLuckily CSS/Brother Francis is stepping up. Bean's closed for 2 weeks this summer.... the oil companies, financial wizards and tax hating legislators who engineered our economy also grew the ranks of financially devastated families in this city as winter 2016 approaches.\n\nI won't compromise my family's privacy for anyone. Let's stick to the public record of our biggest local churches instead. Take ABT for example: Prevo won't shut up about gays, but has been strangely silent about the approaching homelessness crisis. At least he had the good sense to stop bragging about his Most Gigantickest Cross in Anchorage. Search of the word \"homeless\" on Changepoint's site? *Zero* results. I honestly have no idea what they intend to do.\n\nUnimpressed. Sorry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A variant of Viagra (different dose, different drug name) is used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension. The incidence and prevalence of that disease is very low and people affected would not likely be able to continue in active military service. As for the rest, I prefer to stick to actual facts and will not engage in addressing unfounded statements re: transgendered people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality is not abnormal. It is natural. Its been part of human existence 12,0000 years before you were born and part of sapien dna 400,000 years prior. It occurs in nearly every mammal on earth, including but not limited to both male and females of the species. The same things you are saying about people of \"abnormal\" genders is the same as was said about black's and women's rights and prior to that land owners. There will always be scripture that agrees with your position, any position. I can quote scripture from Jesus healing the Roman Centurion's male concubine without acting offended about his sexuality. But no, clearly god doesn't want you to bake someone a cake because of what they do in the privacy of their bedroom. That makes perfect since to someone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Congress passes all kinds of laws that make private industry do things. Obamacare made churches offer abortion. Some law they passed made people bake cakes for gay weddings. What dirrenece does it make if the gift does it with storm troops or if they make companies do it for them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jay - people band together, business owners band together, and pretty soon there is no cake baker or candlestick maker who will bake a cake for those who are the race, religion, ethnicity that is to be shunned. That is how segregation worked in the South - by the agreement of the majority. \n\nIn cities and large towns there are many cake bakers. The same is not true everywhere. When the gay marriage issue was heating up, there was a mid sized town in which all the cake bakers had gotten together and decided none of them would sell a cake for a gay wedding.\n\nThe person who supplies the food or decorations or tables or tent for a gay wedding are not endorsing the wedding. They are providing a good or service and doing so implies nothing about their beliefs regarding the validity of a marriage. How many of Catholic service providers supply goods for a wedding for divorced people and think nothing of it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What would make more sense would be for the Church to admit that some people (including some seminarians) are gay, and encourage the gay seminarians to be open about it so they can be supported in their choice and efforts to remain chaste. Making people hide their sexuality does nothing to help people become pyschosexually mature.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alaska Libertarian Platform and Joe Miller:\nThey support limited constitutional government. Miller wants legislators to elect US Senators, not citizens. \nThey support the Bill of Rights for every individual. Miller says fine, except for LGBT people and women who choose abortion.\nThey only strong advocate of private property rights. Joe Miller agrees, especially if he can continue to hide his Mat-Su property and his Kansas farm subsidies.\nSounds like a match made in heaven.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Again, you ignore the point I have made in every single one of my posts. I am not really talking about trans people who are mid-transition. Those people are going through medical procedures that should prevent you from joining. Again, just like the military would never accept an otherwise healthy person who just shattered their leg in 3 places. BUT, once that leg is healed, and they no longer need PT or anything else, they are allowed to join. Why cant the same be said for trans people wanting to join the military as well? If they have no ongoing medical issues other than taking medication (plenty of people in the military take medications on a daily basis), why should ALL trans people be barred from joining?\n\nIts a blanket statement from Trump that ignores the fact trans people have already been serving in our Military for years now, and further propagates misinformation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "donald, our country, and by extension our state, has only a couple roles to play. security and taking care of its citizens is at the top, i think. security is not a problem with nuclear missiles, dont worry about it. i listened to judge moores speeches from alabama. people like he, in my opinion, is what is wrong with our country and our state. his state is twenty-five percent black and about ten percent other minority. he never once acknowledged any of them. probably because he was too busy telling his white voters about how god helped him win and if he goes to washington he will fight homosexuality, transgenders, abortion, school prayer, 10 commandments everywhere and replacing the confederacy statues and flags, restrict voting rights and lock up minorities for longer periods. that's not my words. thats not fake news, you can watch him say it on video. he has many allies in washington from pence down. just because i dont believe this bs doesnt mean im not as american as he is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good point. Why is the new diversity officer being hired to police only race? Diversity includes gays, transsexuals, low income, no income, physical disabilities, cultures and mental health conditions to name a few.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is just like fixing a loophole in the tax code. Many transgender people enlist and then the American people fit the bill for gender reassignment.. This is very expensive. Also, I do not think that the military should be spending money on prescriptions for Viagra., These are electives, not a medical necessity. But people are going to look at it for 15 different points of view. I am simple looking at it from a monitary standpoint and what the tax payers are paying for.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My point is that banning abortion and Medicare and positive rights. Both require action by the state rather than a prohibition on state action (negative rights). The Jews had a negative right to be left alone by the state, which the state ignored. Women have the same right unless their unborn children are given a positive right of legal personhood. You have a negative right not to be killed randomly by a police officer. You have no such right not to have your wife kill you - protection by the police or retribution by the justice system are positive rights. Negative rights exist without government action (although they often take legal action to enforce - which includes gay marriage, which is a negative right to be treated like anyone else). Positive rights exist in the political process. Gotta have the votes. There is not positive or negative right to avoid taxation, by the way, not even in Catholic doctrine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're absolutely correct in arguing that the Church needs to be more emphatic about the sexual sins committed by straight men. But it's wrong to assume that the condemnation of gay sex by straight males is merely a means to take the focus off themselves. That theory may fly down at Tipitina's, but not here. Oh, wait! On second thought, it does fly here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Such lies. How can you support transgender people is the military? They don't even know who OR what they are. The actual majority do not support this, more fake news and outright lies.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you cannot be spiritual and reach a state of grace because you're too engrossed in problems of the earthly or personal qualms, you were never spiritual from the start. Of course this does not excuse the current corruption within the clergy, notably from the homosexual priest cover-up and the money embezzling, as they are responsible for the great flock and only lose many to chaos and evil through such despicable acts, but this still does not justify not being wholly devoted to god and remaining vigilant through these schismatic times within the church. \nIt is an act of self-centeredness that is preventing you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gee, one would think that ALL the bishops and cardinals of the world are opposed to Pope Francis' ideas in AL. Well, they are not! Nor are the millions of lay Catholics out in the world. \n\n\nBurke and his cronies haven't realized that there is such a concept as \"sensus fidelium'----the sense of the faithful. The People of God, including many priests, theologians, arch/bishops, and cardinals----have been and ARE calling for a rethinking and a change in the church's official teaching about marriage/remarriage, homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Informed and conscientious Catholics have and ARE dissenting from the official teachings, the restrictions and prohibitions that have been laid upon them. \n \n\nPope Francis is not remaining silent about the Gnosticism of these dissenting hierarchs, who are strangers and hirelings in the pastures. The sheep know and are listening to the voice of Peter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"In fact, he is being asked to cater the wedding and to write something on the cake that he finds offensive (presuming he finds those prohibited actions offensive). \"\n\nSource please. I have never read anything that he was being asked to write anything, nor that he was asked to cater the wedding. And the \"decorations\" he is referring to is traditional wedding cake decorations. This couple was not asking him to make a cake with 2 men kissing on it or whatever, it was just traditional wedding style decorations. Decorations to where if you looked at the cake, you would say \"yep, that's a wedding cake\".\n\nThe fact of the matter is, this guy didn't want to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. At all. Nothing to do with anything else and there is nothing else this couple could have asked for that would have convinced this baker to make them a cake for their wedding.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does a \"gay priest\" teach what the Catechism teaches about the sixth and ninth commandments and does a \"gay priest\" try to live those teachings also? \n\nIf so, I don't know what is \"gay\" about that priest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mostly agree, that we must start over. But to do that, we must first have a moral theological method, and natural law as \"induction\" from facts of nature rather that \"deduction\" from presumed first principles strikes me as a good starting point.\n\nTo assume from Aristotelian metaphysics of teleology, (1) that the objective of intercourse is procreation is a suitable moral premise from which to \"deduce\" that coitus without openness to children is immoral is not grounded in factual data; whereas (2) to observe that we experience sexual desire as homosexual or heterosexual or somewhere in between, and from this body of data, \"induce\" the both homo- and hetero- coitus is natural strikes me as reasonable moral reflection, grounded in data.\n\nAlso, as I read around prior moral theology manuals, I see precious \"theology\"--its all Thomistic philosophy. Actually seeking moral guidance from scripture as to haw Jesus reasoned morally seems to be entirely missing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The 70's rumors that had to do with The Timbers Motel included the gay bar near the Greyhound depot across the street.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LGBT rights are equal rights protected by the Bill of Rights in our United States Constitution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually his comments towards feminists have been pretty conciliatory in many respects because in Amoris Laetitia he praised feminism as being something that is motivated by the Holy Spirit. \n\nIn terms of the culture war aspect, i think we need to do a little bit of reflection on ourselves as well. The Pope from my point of view is wrong in his views on Gender and Sexuality. However I don't believe it or the culture wars are a topic that he wants to be the focus of his Papacy if he had a choice. He wants economic justice, and environmental justice, and workers rights and questions of war and peace to be the focus of his papacy. Which is why he said in an interview that issues like gay marriage, abortion and birth control should not be obsessions by the church. \n\nThe way he sees it it's culture warriors(both liberal and conservative) in the West who force these issues to the forefront. There is some truth to what he is saying there.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You present a favourite neoconservative canard, Ken. As the John Jay report found (see RNS), \"[T]he researchers found no statistical evidence that gay priests were more likely than straight priests to abuse minors\u2014a finding that undermines a favorite talking point of many conservative Catholics. The disproportionate number of adolescent male victims was about opportunity, not preference or pathology, the report states.\"\n\nSee the link for further edification ... let's hope that you will henceforth desist from spreading calumny against gay priests! I won't be holding my breath, though! https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/john-jay-report-not-blaming-homosexual-priests", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In Vatican II days, seminaries were overly alert to homosexual acts, which brought immediate explusion. But we never named anything as sexual. There were in most seminaries a divide between straights and gays, but neexpulsionver acknowledged as having anything to do with sex. We were very, very naive, and nobody had to identify their orientation. Yet, the statistics show that the great majority of ordained priests from both orientations have been equally faithful to their vows (many of the straights left long ago!) and served their people empathically. If these \"exclusions\" were ever to be actually enforced, they would effectively exclude about half of the priests.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That even the Pope fails to recognize that \"gay\" embraces same-sex acts is a testament to the success of the homosexual propaganda movement.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"It\u2019s 2017, and we still need to say it: Trans rights are human rights \"\n\nIt is year 2017, but for many people it's still the 19th century.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, you got it wrong on line one.\nI am neither pro- nor anti- Jewish. They do not threaten me, and I am happy to let them live, but I feel the same way about EVERY ethnic group. More-over Jews are not a key factor here - the Nazis hatred of the Jews was famous but it was decidedly not exclusive. Their intention was to rid the world of everybody who was not white, straight and a fellow Nazi. -and in fact even the majority of white people were deemed inferior by them. They slaughtered the Poles in droves because they considered Slavs to be just one step up from Jews or Blacks.\n\nSo I oppose the Nazi's not just for the sake of Jewish people but for the sake of ALL people. For every gay, bi, genderqueer, intersex, disabled or trans person they slaughtered and still do when they get the chance.\n\nLook at the people from Charlottesville. See the Swastika tattoos ? See the flags with the Fasces on it. They want you dead too. \nDon't give them the benefit of the doubt. There isn't any doubt.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "During the last Commonwealth Games in Vancouver I distinctly remember reading that the majority of Commonwealth states persecuted gays, including jail, torture and death. Most of these were in Africa. I remember calling for a boycott of the Games. Politicians and media didn't care. They only cared when the Winter Games were in Sochi because, of course, then they could criticize Russia.\n\n(As far as I know being gay is not a crime in Russia. Only they have banned gay events such as Pride.)\n\nWe also need an investigation into the treatment of gays in the so-called Islamic world. What's it like being gay in Saudi Arabia, for example?\n\nOr would this be considered 'Islamophobic'?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wente barely touches the tip of the iceberg, the issues in the Netherlands started about 15 years ago with the assassination of Pim Fortuyn (an open homosexual who rejected the far right but was vocal in his concerns about political Islam and integration). Then there was Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was assassinated in 2004 while riding his bike by Islamist terrorists who objected to his documentary \"Submission\" (written by the secular activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali). No, these issues are not new but the mainstream media has ignored the societal regression in western Europe over the last 15 years out of a misguided duty to political correctness and this has only made the situation worse. Political correctness has real impacts, just google the depressing story on Rotherham in the UK. Western Europe needs to have an honest discussion about integration if they want to stop the trend of societal regression because no-go zones are not a rightwing conspiracy theory, they are very real.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe this controversy will spark interest into looking more closely at actions by ultra-conservative bishops, archbishops and cardinals that have led to discriminatory firings of LGBT persons from schools, parish and diocesan administrations, questionable employment contracts that seek to limit thoughts and private actions, instances where 1950's-era culture is imposed re women and girls' participation, and blanket dismissals at seminaries for no good reason (e.g., Cordileine and others). Or maybe I'm just dreaming.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is one thing for the medical community to declare that current best treatment for trans people is to enable and assist them in transitioning to the sex of their choice through conversion therapies but its another thing altogether when governments start compelling society at large to participate in the treatments for their particular disorder through punitive legislation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A same sex orientation is not a sin that needs to be confessed, but acts of sodomy, whether homosexual or heterosexual do...is it not the same in the Orthodox Church?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A mathematical proof or a Physical law or discovery is universal, and not dependent on the discoverer, whatever their characteristics vis-a-vis race, history, ancient or modern, or whether they were mass murderers or saints, or indeed an alien in another Galaxy. Turing (no Nobel) was gay, the discoverer of the transistor William Shockley (Nobel Prize) was reviled as a eugenicist. This does not reduce or enhance the contributions of either Turing or Shockley.\n\nWhat makes CK Raju a charlatan is that he denies some of these painstakingly assembled truths and substitutes balderdash cloaked in racism and mythology. In this he is identical in intent to the Pope that would deny Galileo. Zeroism for goodness sake (http://ckraju.net/blog/?p=59). Throw out the whole of calculus. Substitute zero for a limit. Quote an ancient Indian sage-bush for the revealed truth.\n\nYou are a computer scientist - watch this expletive explain C-programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cqo94eGPxA if you can).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"You mean reinstating a policy in effect 50+ years\"\n\"Transgendered anything were considered to be mentally defective and were housed in mental institutions.\"\nSo,\nYou're okay with that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"In the 1970\u2032s and 1980\u2032s, in particular, there developed at certain seminaries a \u201cgay subculture\u201d, and at these seminaries homosexual liaisons occurred among students or between students and teachers... \n\n... the sexual corruption that entered into seminary training in the 1960\u2032s and \u201970\u2032s did not come before the increase in sexual permissiveness that had taken hold of segments of ordained clergy, but rather resulted from men, already ordained as priests, bringing their attitude and lifestyle recently acquired back into the seminaries as teachers during a period of significant confusion in the Church. This sexual licentiousness occurred concurrently with a rising crisis of confidence among all clergy \u2026\n\nThe atmosphere of disciplinary and doctrinal defiance common to the time [60's & 70's] would have encouraged confusion among the rank and file priests, and in the deviant, set sexual behaviour afoot ...\u201d\n\nhttp://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2265&context=lnq", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He wasn\u2019t asked about Transgender troops. He made a statement in general that cannot be argued with but that is completely unrelated to the discussion at hand.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dialogue presumes you are open to finding out something new, maybe even that what you once thought was an utter and entire truth is not really all there is to think or say or act on a subject. If you are not open, then all you can do is repeat, repeat, repeat your own vision of what is the truth - you don't grow. And, after you have presented your vision of what is truth, you have nothing more to offer except repetition. You want to teach but you don't want to learn. \n\nIf you cannot make room in your heart and your set of beliefs and faith practice for someone who is gay and wants a life partner, then that is okay. There are others - parents, siblings, cousins, friends, co-workers, neighbors - who can make room. What you can do is let them. You don't want this dialogue about same-sex love but would you let the rest of us who do want it have that conversation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "http://www.dailywire.com/news/19054/combat-vet-gives-powerful-testimony-against-trans-amanda-prestigiacomo\n\n--Transgender veterans are found to be particularly plagued by mental health issues, with the \"highest rates of mental health problems in the U.S. ... A 2016 study found 90% of military members who identify as transgender were diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder, and almost 50% were hospitalized after attempting or considering suicide.\" \n\n\"War is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil. You have your s*** together, or you don't,\" he stated. \"And if you don't, you'll just get people needlessly killed. Political correctness has absolutely no place in the military.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree. The issue isn't homosexuality, it's stunted, unhealthy sexuality. Many seminarians exhibit the sexual understanding of early adolescence. When they struggle with celibacy after ordination their most familiar, most convenient targets are the young boys who might serve on the altar or hang around the schoolyard or rectory. These boys are their prey, not because they're male but because they're there.\nI'm not convinced the abuse has stopped. There have been fewer cases reported of recent abuse, true. But give it some time. Often the abused are so repressed/depressed that they don't come forward until many years later. Check back in 10-20 years to determine the abuse done in the 90s and 00s.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anti-discrimination Laws are pretty much common sense when it comes to motels, restaurants, housing, car buying, and shopping for clothes, toys, etc where one has a business that is open to the public.\n-\nThe issue in this case is whether Masterpiece Bakery declined to sell already prepared bakery goods to a gay person because he was gay....or whether he declined to have his \"artistic talents\" \"bought and sold\" for a purpose that he thinks is offensive and wrong.\n-\nNo painter, photographer, cake decorator, or other \"artist\" can discriminate against anyone and refuse to sell items that are already made and available for purchase.\n-\nThe issue is whether The Government can force any \"artist\" to compose a KKK website homepage, paint a painting showing a man being lynched, videotape an execution, or decorate a \"gay wedding cake\" \"just because a paying customer wants to hire him for his artistic talents.\" \n-\nIs the baker a \"non-artist salesman\" or is he an \"artist\"? The SCOTUS may decide.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm curious. Do you think sexuality is a choice? Why would anyone choose to be homosexual? Do you recall the conscious decision you made regarding what attracted you? Can you tell us about it?\n\nHow does any of LGBT \"force\" themselves onto you? Explain, please.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why don't you stand up for the rights of Klu Klux Klan members to wear white cloaks in public? The cloak shares many parallels with the niqab, including anti-semitism and prejudice against the LGBT community and yet I doubt if someone wearing a KKK cloak would be able to ride a public bus or use a public library - and they shouldn't be able to because they represent a belief system that condones bigotry and other prejudices that make people feel unsafe. Similarly, the niqab is most common in countries that persecute the LGBT community, in many cases with the death penalty and condones the death penalty for apostasy and blasphemy- the niqab isn't independent of a regressive belief system, it is a symbol of those beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I disagree with what this Archbishop is saying. Most people in the media and the public have recognized for instance there was no shift in doctrine. But at the same time there was a shift in pastoral sensibilities. And that shift is very important for LGBTQ Christians, divorced couples, and so on. \n\nThis hard emphasis on the letter of the law is essentially the spirit of the Pharisees and Chief priests who Christ himself went against. It places doctrine over people, the Law over the example of Christ himself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It solves the problem if all the washrooms are gender neutral - otherwise it's no different than telling the student that they have to use the staff washroom or the one in the nurse's office. A special washroom for transgendered students still singles them out. Not only does it segregate them from their peers but it \"outs them\" to the rest of the school - it's quite possible that the fact that the student in question is transgendered is not common knowledge.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thus far the fakes are:\n\nCaiside (the former Caiside is now Caiside2)\nNico\nPatricks Day\nTerri Hempker\n\nI may have read that somebody was also trying to impersonate Sarasi1. There may be more.\n\nOne thing the originals have in common: we're all supporters of LGBT equality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The cure for that is a trip to the Netherlands. The only helmeted cyclists are a) \"road\" cyclists racing, training or cycling at a very high speed, b) small children, especially those still in child seats on mum's or dad's bicycle c) tourists, especially the clueless type. \n\nThe most important factors in cyclist - and pedestrian - safety are proper physical and legal infrastructure (making the more \"powerful\" road user bear the onus, at least in part - a cyclist against a pedestrian, a driver against a cyclist or pedestrian, a HGV (big truck) against all the others) and education for cyclists from a young age. There are tours to the Netherlands and Denmark to study the successful models. Helmets have some usefulness in certain situations but in general they are a diversion from the real issues and yet another way of blaming the victim, not the perpetrators of pollution and road mayhem. \n\nYour attitude towards cyclists, as well as towards Black people and LGBT people, is all too obvious", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you can point to where in Scripture it that says public accommodations must be segregated by skin color, this would be a valid point. This is appropriating the struggles of African Americans to force cake makers who take the Bible seriously to celebrate gay weddings.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The Mormons and the LGBT community in Utah sat down together and made progress on legislation that satisfied no one entirely, which is the best kind of compromise. The USCCB should do likewise. \"\n\nExactly right, there is no compromise on this issue which will satisfy everyone -- which is why MSW's complaints about this executive order are pretty insincere. If the president's order was more specific, then MSW would be complaining all the more.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am LGB, and I do not support transgender women (who went through puberty as a male) competing as women. I support her right to live as a woman, but she does not get to then compete as woman in a competition with females. There are trade-offs to everything, and this is a tradeoff. Notice she did not compete as a pro when she raced as a man...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My issue is that they are not only upset about the government penalties but they also do not like the fact their stance may be unpopular in their communities. Even if the government penalties were lifted, gay couples upset by thr rejection might write bad Yelp! reviews, tell their friends not to go to the store, and even call the media. They want to get to reject certain community norms while not facing consequences for this actions. These same people demand radical counterwitness from divorced people who cannot remarry for instance but that does not extend to Christian bakers living in liberal areas. No siree. God did not call them to sacrifice for their supposed beliefs. They get to have their cake and eat it as well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "_\"[Pence] is likely to offer a reassuring contrast to Trump. For a rookie politician, Trump has made a canny choice.\"_ -- Editor\n\nReassuring? Are you serious?\n\nMaybe reassuring to arch-right-wing nut cases. See the _NY Times_ article: \"Mike Pence: A Conservative Proudly Out of Sync With His Times\" at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/us/politics/mike-pence-history.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0.\n\nIn addition to the Freedom Restoration Act ... \"In an echo of his actions on gay rights, [Pence] signed a strict new law in March that bans abortions based solely on the fetus having a disability such as Down syndrome. The measure inflamed many women and abortion-rights activists across the country and now faces a court challenge.\"\n\nBernie supporters take note. Trump has doubled-down on his retrograde agenda.\n\n-- Paul", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good reporting, Joshua. I wonder how long it will take for theologians to recover from the Ratzinger years and produce inquiries that help Catholics sort out the questions implicit in 21st century life. Most of the Catholics alive today weren't born until well after Vatican II, probably live in Brazil or a neighboring country, and are not obsessed with the questions that occupied their ancestors in faith. \nTo stretch a metaphor, we suddenly live in a transgender universe that doesn't conform to our binary expectations. As an example, there's a review in the current issue of Catholic Biblical Quarterly of a book by John Keenan, who occasionally comments here: \"The Emptied Christ of Philippians: Mahayana Meditations.\" It would be helpful if NCR could put us in touch with similar works that explore the margins of faith experience because, in my opinion, the binary categories of traditional Catholic theology are inadequate to the task. All they will yield is dead ends.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"We must explain how the new emerged from the old...\" I cringe on this one, because one side backs the \"opposition\" into a corner, so that what may once have had some \"wiggle room\" becomes written in detail in stone. I think it is going to be difficult for the Church to \"develop\" doctrine on contraceptives, women priests, the LGBT people as part of God's creation that is \"good,\" etc. What Pope Francis has run into in trying to include divorced/remarried more in the life of the faith is an example.\n\nYes, the new does emerge from the old - culture changes, knowledge grows. Women who use contraceptives (new knowledge), for example, aren't always or necessarily refusing a gift of fertility but are focusing on expressing other gifts now that they are allowed to (cultural change). Contraceptives allow women to manage their fertility, to better focus their lives. They are not obstinately disobeying \"the rules\", but are seeking a life not anticipated by the rules. \n\nSee Comment #2", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What has remarried without annulment Catholics got to do with same sex marriage? You are mixing apples with snowshoes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One must also confront the perverted sense of equality peddled by the \"left\". Equality of opportunity has been rejected in favour of equality of conditions. All men are fundamentally equal because we are created in the image and likeness of God. We are all spiritually equal but do not possess the various human attributes in the same degree and we are not called to be the same. \n\nFor some, liberty to pursue happiness and property contradicts equality. They reject individualism that stresses difference in favour of egalitarian collectivism that eliminates differences. Using the state to redistribute resources to the \u201cdeprived\u201d - women, minorities, the poor and elderly - and imposing feminist, environmental, homeless, gay, and transgender agendas by regulatory and judicial fiat. In the name of equality, they discriminate in favor of designated groups.\n\nOpponents of these ideological constructs are condemned as bigoted or depraved.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "everlastinghills.org\nHere are three intimate and candid portraits of Catholics who try to navigate the waters of self-understanding, faith, and homosexuality:\n\nDan, a gregarious artist who spent his life hiding a deep sense of isolation from those who loved him;\n\nRilene, a successful businesswoman who realized that twenty-five years with her partner did not provide the fulfillment she had hoped for;\n\nand Paul, an international model who, after a life of self-indulgence, found grace in the last place he expected.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The \"Troops of St George\" were founded because some Catholic homophobes did not like the Boy Scouts admitting gays. Why am I not surprised that the homophobic RD touts them?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm a gay priest. I pray God has deigned to work through me, not despite my sexuality but perhaps because it is gift.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Leave it to you to take the low road. A lay pastor is a laymen who fills the role of pastor in a church when a regular pastor is not available. It is common. We have them in our conference on occasion. I'm not sure, but I don't think they get paid.\n\nThe State has no right to demand sermons or notes from any preacher, unless they're encouraging their congregations to overthrow the government. This is Gestapo-type tactics. Welcome to \"1984\" and the \"Thought Police.\"\n\nKnowing virtually nothing about this case, you've made a lot of unwarranted assumptions: insinuating that he might have \"usurped\" the pulpit; that his ideas about people are flawed; that he preached discrimination. His only \"crime,\" apparently, was that he preached what the Bible teaches about homosexuality. HORRORS! We've reached a sad and dangerous time in this country when one can lose their job and have Big Brother censor their sermons.\n\nBut, would you have been so quick to judge him if he had been white?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "True. He should read for himself what Jesus said about homosexuals, instead of believing things that others thought they read.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kag, I agree that Burke should have a real job to do (idle hands are the devil's playground and such), and he'd better not screw it up! Maybe Francis wants Burke to be confronted with a living, breathing abuse victim, who will reveal all the painful truths about what victims endure at the hands of these predator priests. When that happens, Burke will be forced to face the truth about these monsters in clerical collars, and how their crimes have nothing to do with homosexuality or \u201cthe feminization of the clergy\u201d. For far too long, Burke has lived a comfortable, cushy existence. It\u2019s about time he was faced with the anguish of the most innocent members of the Church who suffered at the hands of these predator priests \u2013 many of whom were protected by Burke\u2019s own confreres in the episcopacy. There\u2019ll be no place for trailing red capes, towering mitres or brocade vestments in this assignment.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Foreign policy (3)\n\n(1) IS. You can argue about tactical decisions like the cease-fire and other strategic issues; but he \"dealt\" with IS - Obama could not. \n(2) Gulf allies and Israel. Again, the traditional relationship among partners is improving...\n(3) G20 & Climate Change & Foreign leaders opinion. Much is made of this and the so called impact of his \"unpresidential behaviour\" and decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Yet, by all accounts he had a successful UK, French and Polish visits, Paris depends on your politics; and for that matter if you think the Nato, Poland and G20 remarks are appropriate or if the slights from Merkel and other EU leaders carry much weight. (Merkel that voted against gay-marriage, forced refugees quotas on Eastern Europe and austerity & technocrats on Southern Europe is the paragon of liberalism?)\n(4) Iran, North Korea and Russia - It is fair at this stage to still give him the benefit of doubt - certainly in terms of his predecessor?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"very much shaped by gender\"... oh? I bet you didn't know that according to experts, 45% of domestic violence is by women who beat men! I bet you didn't know that in most DV it is the woman who strikes out first... (and then, IF the man strikes back - she's in trouble..but it is the women who hit first in a greater number of instances!) I bet you didn't know that police reports show that the highest incidence of DV is not heterosexual or gay but lesbian;.. what does that suggest? The problem is that we are all being flooded with the feminist narrative but very few people take the time to inform themselves of facts that go against this narrative, which is very often skewered by their agenda. Instead, go watch some tv or movies of the last 50 years, and what do you see? Scene after scene of women getting angry at men for - whatever - and taking it out on them by hard slaps to the face. We have inadvertantly accepted violence against men without question. Why? It shouldn't be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ignorance can be cured.\n\nBy making marriage into civil union as far as the state is concerned, we end the controversy over gay marriage. Civil union first, marriage second, if you want marriage at all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The defining characteristic of transgendered individuals is that, as it pertains to gender, their physiques conflict with their psyches. The usual practice in public washrooms is to sort people by their physiques, not by their psyches. Since physique is visible and psyche is not, it seems reasonable to me to continue that practice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a woman called to ordained priesthood by God, when I was 15 years old, & crushed when rejected by our church, I can relate to this man's story. \n\nWhat hits me most & may serve as part of his answer & has helped me to heal was my choice to be the one who demands change all around me: at church and in the world. \n\nThis line is the problem: \n\"There is much about the institution that I flat out reject, and I can say that more freely now that I am no longer a public person representing the institutional church.\"\n\nOur priests and we laity need to stop making excuses to keep us from telling truth to each other bluntly and with integrity. Truth heals and someone must be the bringer of it to the surface if anything important will be changed. We must all decide that we are that someone. Priests need to fight misogyny and boldly together demand women, not first married men, but women, be ordained equally and priests. We need to all support LGBT and debate tough morality issues together.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If anyone is sinning against the Holy Spirit, it is those who deny the sacramental love in both second marriages (so long as the first marriage was not ended specifically to contract the second) and in gay married couples, who I am sure stay married through the Spirit\u2019s gentle aid. \n\nAs for pharisees, some of them were those who blasphemed against-the Spirit by not recognizing her work in Christ when his charismatic love was clearly evident, as it is in Francis. Would it have been more convenient if A.L. had spelled out doctrinal changes or more reasonable interpretations of both the teaching on divorce (see above) and the teaching of Paul in Corinthians on Communion (that it spoke about recieving what is not believed in, not a teaching on mortal sin that would have been 1000 years early)? Absolutely.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We so often get the retort: They know far more than you do because in the confessional and in counseling they've \"heard it all\" about love, sex, and marriage. \n\nWhich always reminds me of the frog confidently entering the airplane cockpit for the first time: \"This is your captain speaking. Don't worry, passengers. I know all about flying. For years I've heard the birds and the bees tell me all about it.\" \n\nIn any area, to discount the expertise of experience is dangerous; to forbid it profession-wide is scary. \n\nI am not against celibacy. I am against the denial that it has its limits in asserting expertise, wisdom, conditions, empathy, learned knowledge, and visceral understanding. \n\nIf the Church can tell transgendered people, it's wrong to claim that sexually you're someone you are not, then it must be wrong to assert definitive knowledge of love, marriage, sex, and family when you don't have it. It literally is denying who you are. And are not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not so.\n\nPotentiality is not spilled by a human will (or wills) that are un-cooperative with the will of God. \n\nA sterile couple can still be \"open to life\"\n\nThe very nature of a homosexual act is not ordered to what the bodies are capable of doing. \n\nRemember an infertile couple is \"accidental\" infertile, not \"essentially\" infertile.\n\nEssences and accidents. Keep track of these.\n\ntks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is the Francis \"effect\"? Was that when he whined about how gay people and feminists were waging a war on marriage last week? That were certainly bring people back to the Church. I feel SO loved by Pope Francis after that one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A case of the pot calling the kettle black. I am still waiting for Bush 43 to apologize for promoting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage in his 2004 State of the Union address. Then there is the business about the wars in the Middle East and the irresponsible income tax cuts that took place at about the same time. More than 14 years after the US invasion of Iraq, the Middle East remains an unstable part of the world, millions of people have been displaced and an unknown number have been killed. Although most Americans were untouched by the wars, there is a large protest memorial (put up by a local landowner) across from my local commuter train station. The hillside display is filled with thousands of crosses and other religious symbols, each one marking a member of the US armed forces who was killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I feel I have lots to be proud of but I keep it to myself and don't 't have the audacity to organise a parade and go around telling everyone. But answer the question what is so proud about being gay or not being gay. What next, a parade of left handed people?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We can form the world's only predominately gay nation and Trudeau will have a majority government forever.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Pederasty has always been taught. Homosexuality is not taught, it just is. Homosexual kids do not get that way because they were abused. Predators, however, were likely abused as children, which says something is missing in background investsigations on priests. What you don't seem to accept is the self reporting of real homosexuals on their own sexuality. Why should should such people trust you when you won't believe their data?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Surprised that no one mentioned all the Christian Right evangelists that have called for the death of gay people ad nauseam over the past year or two.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My guess is tribalism and self-hatred. \n\nHow often do we see some of the most spiteful and vociferous of the anti-gay politicians and religious figures are revealed as homosexual or pedophiles when they think no one is looking?\nGeorge Rekers\nTed Haggard\nGlen Murphy Jr.\nBruce Barclay\nDavid Dreier\nLarry Craig\nEd Schrock\nPhillip Hinkle\n\nAll vehemently anti-gay and outed through their own private actions.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A little virtue signalling, I get it. Guess what, the majority of people in Europe are against mass migration and I suspect its the same for Canada. Search the news on some of the challenges created by mass immigration to Sweden, Germany, France, and the UK. Am not talking CBC or any of the mainstream, but check out some of the other news feeds. Try Sky News, the Gatestone Institute, Sharia Watch UK. Listen to the experts, like Douglas Murray of the Henry Jackson Society, Mark Steyn, or maybe Ayaan Hirsi Ali. And in looking them up, start looking at the statistics they are providing. Unfortunately, you assume some sort of homogeneity among all people of the world...surprise peanut...islam really means it when it says it wants to implement sharia and either subjugate and tax you or kill you. They also want to kill all gays (at least make it illegal), and all the jews. Wake up!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I get it. The haze isn't from oil & gas, it's caused by gay marriage. And thoughts and prayers will take care of it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A deep-seated homosexual tendency is a strong inclination to commit a sin that cries out to Heaven for vengeance.\n\nA deep-seated healthy (\"heterosexual\") sexual tendency is a strong inclination to fulfill the very first commandment God gave mankind.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ever since they got their segregated Dyke March, Pride has been fractured and fragmented bit by bit, year after year until now, gay men are not really part of the festivities other than as spectators who are expected to shut up and buy something.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Transgenders are born in bodies inappropriate for their gender\"\n\nSo.... born wrong. Got it. There is no such thing as being born in the wrong body. You are your body. To think otherwise is idealist nonsense. It implies there is some kind of masculine or feminine essence that can be somehow separated from the body and misplaced into another body. Prove it. Why are some bodies incapable of being masculine or feminine and others are not? All people harbor these traits to some degree. You are a sexist for thinking otherwise.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why are you pushing so hard to keep people who need to go \"potty\" and have every right to do so, out? Do you think every gay man (or lesbian woman if you're female) wants to have sex with you because you're so unbelievably hot and they're so lust crazed they can't control themselves? Yeah, I think that - and more importantly, your dirty mind - is what's driving you and all the other haters. You're projecting loudly, and telling us all way more about you and your feelings than anything else. Get some help.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "criticism isnt racism nor is political dissent hatred - just goes to show how far te G&M and columnists will go to stifle free speech - she must support the Cairo Doctrine - violence against women, gays, Jews, Christians too - WTF G&M have u lost ur effing minds the editorial was load of scat and so is this column - get ur beggar bowl and go see the feds cant see ur product supporting the company", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Considering transgender bathrooms \"fringe\" is what will get you tarred and feathered in a modern university.\n\nYou are an \"old-fashioned Marxist\" stuck in the 60s.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed. A parade of self-loathing gay people, ephebophiles, gay rights advocates plus MSW and Andrew Sullivan does not an argument make.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed. The students who join gay-straight alliances are usually well into their teens. It is entirely the student's prerogative to inform his/her parents about something so personal. No school has the right to invade a student's privacy. I'd also suggest that if a parent needs to be informed that his/her son or daughter is gay, then the parent's parenting skills and powers of observation are somewhat blunted!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ideal for gay wedding, Magna Cappa and all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Because the issue wasn't about what was on the cake. It was simply, \"we don't serve gay weddings.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Substitute \"transgender\" with Jews, blacks, asians, muslims, hispanics, women or any other minority in Mr. Smiths editorial and you get the underlying fear, intolerance and hatred of anybody other than white males in the service.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sick of this returning and tiresome topic. Trans people constitute .01 percent of the population, and most of them would be better seeing a psychiatrist than spending time trying to convince others of their victimhood. If one was born with the DNA of a male, they are male for life, no matter how laboriously they may try to pass themselves off as something else.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I think the first confusion here lies in equating baking a wedding cake for a same sex couple with doing something immoral. Even if you believe homosexual acts are wrong, even if you believe same-sex marriage is wrong, baking a cake for a homosexual couple is not immoral, even a wedding cake: It's just baking a cake. If you're already in the business of making wedding cakes, it's what you do. You're not approving of any particular marriage, or sanctifying it---You're just providing a service. \n\nI believe the error arises because of people like Minnery, who want to make a case for asserting religious beliefs in the public sphere, and that the issue of \"religious freedom\" itself is a trojan horse for political and social transformation in the name of religion. It's not just cakes: Sooner or later it'll be vital services, other religions, and deja-vu all over again", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "First off, in the age of Trump I'm NEVER going to say, \"I believe nobody is wrong, they are only different.\" Second is that supposed to be \"inspiration for LGBT Students,\" as the pledge's author called it? When we hear our opponents call gay people twisted perverts who cannot love, who want to destroy marriage, who are a danger to children, the most important thing is to be able to to stand up and say, \"You're wrong.\"\n\n\"I believe nobody is wrong, they are only different.\" Phfft. That's *wrong.*", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Why is this a story now? What's the connection? I see Charles is still typing for the radical left. So Charlie, why do you refer to Christians as , the \"Religious Right\". What would happen if Christians referred to Homosexuals the \"Gay Left\". Wonder what the leftist would say?? Well, I just said it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is how Republicans maintain their Palin-American base. As long as they focus on the Four Gs (God, guns, gays, and gabortion) their base will overlook getting screwed on every other issue, especially economics.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Anti-gay men who want to lead the country ARE bad. The laws of this nation are fine with the \"whole gay thing.\" So is the majority of the population. And what, Trost's opposition is based on pre-scientific religious beliefs? Coming out publicly as anti-gay, when you're a leader, green-lights violence and discrimination. If you think it's okay for Trost to do that, well, read ALL of the Book of Leviticus out loud and live by all you read. Can't? Too weird? Well, then, logically...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Being a combat veteran of Vietnam I guess you can call me old school. But I know what its like to have someone trying to kill you and how important it is to have your team members at your side and all carrying their own weight. Both literally and figuratively. Transgender individuals have no place, anywhere, in the military for so many reasons. Team spirit and cohesiveness will be weakened, entitlements for medical procedures will be demoralizing and the overall effectiveness of our military will continue to weaken. Chin has already weakened our borders, he is now trying to further weaken our military. No question that he is acting as Obama's puppet. This very destructive course we have been headed for the past 8 years needs to be stopped.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You claimed gay Americans own the media, a political party and the Judiciary. Which is incorrect. That's what anti-Semites claim about Jews. They own the media, etc. No one actually owns any of those.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, who are gay people to expect that being beaten, choked, and threatened with murder should result in prison sentences for the assailants?\nI myself think 3 years seems on the light side.\nDo you have proof that people convicted of similar assaults on victims who were not gay routinely received lesser sentences?\nWe subject people to tougher sentences who use guns to commit crimes to send a message that such acts will not be tolerated.\nWhat's wrong with sending a message that beating and choking people solely because they are gay will not be tolerated?\nBecause they are gay?\nDo some research, and you'll discover that if someone is attacked solely because they are white or male or Christian, the perpetrator can also be charged with this act.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "It's true that \"rights\" are over proclaimed The specific right is to treat violence against transgendered people as a hate crime, an equality under the law issue.\n\nOf course, we have to be careful. If I steal a transgendered woman's handbag probably not knowing she's trans, that would not be a hate crime. To be a hate crime, I would have to be motivated by hatred of trans people.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What does Smith's non-sharing of his private life have to do with your claim regarding a relationship with others? Smith was in a competition where relationships like the one you noted is not the goal. If the goal was to get into one, then yes, Smith was wrong. But the whole competition is about survival through physical and mental tests. So how does Smith's non-sharing of his personal life deceptive in this case? The other competitors do not have to share their personal life with others such as their sex life. Why should Smith be the exception just because he is a transgender?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is beyond surreal. Holy Church dogmatically teaches that homosexual acts are one of the four sins which cry to Heaven for vengeance. A practicing homosexual simply can not be \"faithful to Catholicism\". I also find it odd that the APA once listed homosexuality as a pathology in the DSM, but later--under HEAVY pressure from homosexuals and leftists--declassified it as such. Now they've gone completely 180 and claim any treatment to alter sexual orientation is \"unethical\". As for the rainbow flag, its tantamount to putting a middle finger on big sheet and sticking it in God's face. One expects this kind of nonsense at Georgetown, Fordham, or any other Jesuit school, but Notre Dame now jumps the shark? God help us.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You keep using the word proud when that's not what I understand he feels about his cakes. And it's unimportant anyway. He asserts that it would be against his religious beliefs to make a cake for a gay wedding because he does not support the gay lifestyle. No one said he is asking people their sexuality. And an artist is not compelled to make art for just anyone. I am not saying that he is an artist (you really like to say things that I haven't said), I am saying that he has a decent case and it's not a slam dunk, as so many asset, that he loses. And you seem to be confusing selling art with creating commissioned art. As I said earlier, if they came in to buy say a piece of cake, he would have to sell it to them. However they commissioned a cake to be made and he refused. Why would black people be discriminated on religious basis? Black people tend to be very religious. You are asserting something that is ridiculous. He and God can take up his hypocrisy. That's not for me.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How ironic that most liberals and gay rights people who support Muslim refugees, support people who stand so strongly against homosexuality. While the Christian Bible only have one passage condemning homosexual behavior, Islamic Koran got several paragraphs on the subject and Koran clearly stated the death penalty for gays. Most Muslims believe that homosexual activity is utterly blasphemous to God and even if they don't say it out loud or claims they deplored what happened.......if they believes in the Koran as deeply as they all claims, they cannot help but to approved of what just happened. And this commentary shouldn't be considered hateful or nasty. It is the way of life in the world of Islam. How many gay bars do you find in the Middle East (not including Israel)??? How many Muslims are there who claims to be gay?? (zero to none??)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Bad move. This is PUBLIC money. It should reflect the views of the taxpayers who are funding what is essentially a gay street party now further corrupted by BLM.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "She looks transgendered. \nSo they let her get away from robbing 2 banks and still walking? Wow.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I have just left it at LGBT, and no one seems to mind. My homosexual brother uses \"gay\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The media and academics can preach this BS all they want but most people know its garbage, that is why there is so much hate towards academia, the media and government, they have long ago crossed the line and continue to force feed this garbage on a population that doesn't want it. If someone gay has doubts about their sexuality and view it as a sin or defect that is there right to think that way and pursue any treatment that they wish. Instead the government wants these people to embrace their lifestyle and go all in. It's insanity and will never be normal. These freak social justice warriors are the new bullies, no one likes them so they bully and intimidate to get what they want. The media agenda makes it worse for these people, just like the Muslim who sued his landlord or the ones that sued the French restaurant owners for 200k, all this weird agenda does is make normal people more likely to not interact with these groups out of fear for the tricks they use.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "(cont.) only survive a nuclear conflict, but also win it.\"\n\n(More evidence that NK is stark raving mad.)\n\n3) \"The situation on the Korean Peninsula is on the eve of the breakout of nuclear war, Choe, the Foreign Ministry official told me. We can survive and it is not the right time for talks.\"\n\n( i.e.. NK believes that nuclear war is close; they can survive; there is no point in talking now. They have the same DNA as Trump).\n\n4) \"There are no gay people in NK.)\n\n(More evidence of crazy denial.)\n\n5) \"NK is the most totalitarian state in the history of the world, because it has computers, cctv, mobile phones, and other monitoring technologies that Stalin or Mao could only have dreamed of.\"\n\n( NK is a lunatic, fascist Orwellian tyranny par excellence.)\n\n6) \"...the state media are worshipful about the merciful, Kim, his brilliant intelligence, military acumen, matchless courage and outstanding art of command.\"\n\n(What could possibly go wrong with Kim's finger on the nuclear button?!?)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Soon we will take all the gays in the world for some reason. No one has forced them to practice their sexuality which is the only reason they are having this problem. Every gay person could make a case for persecution in their country and ask to come to Canada. Plus is there a medical test to prove you are gay? Now we just opened the doors to anyone who claims to be LGBT. Next they will make claims to bring their wives and children over once they are settled. Are we prepared to take everyone from every Muslim country that is persecuting anyone? Who is paying for all this? Why don't we help people that are already in Canada.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Bush is the establishment and he's protecting his ground. I find it interesting that McCain make a speech and he attacks Trump, Bush make a speech and he attack Trump. This tell me Trump is winning. Bush never mention Antifa, or BLM, only White Nationalist, has to the bigotry in the country. And where are ALL these so called White Nationalist. As a percentage of the population, White Nationalist are few then gays. They couldn't get anyone elected.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What, exactly, is the costs that you are objecting to? Are you meaning to say that there are marginal additional costs for transgender reassignment beyond operating the hospital and employing the staff? What is that number that you have imagined?\n\nI can see that you spent a lot of time researching this. On MASH, Clinger was faking being a cross dresser.\n\nGood grief.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No offense meant, but that thought process is not reasonable or rational. It is completely fear based and unrealistic. I heard similar with gay marriage: \"what's next legalizing sex with animals?!\" It's not based in reality. On one hand you can ignore the human rights violations and damage directly caused by the failed policy of criminalizing what consenting adults choose to do, very real damage, while imagining and believing in nonsense that will never be reality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sexual assault is not a resurrection of 'Victorian values'. It's a criminal offense in a modern society. As it should be. \n\nIt certainly is ironic that the same crowd that flipped out about transgender people in the 'wrong' bathrooms groping women now supports a candidate who openly boast about groping women. Hypocrisy at its best! \n\nI can't recall any mainstream voices from the left claiming that 'pedophilia is normal'. Maybe you can enlighten us with some actual sources and facts, instead of spouting right-wing hyperbole.\n\nLastly, it's irrelevant whether Trump was a Democrat or a Republican when these offenses occurred. If he committed a crime he's guilty.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Marriage has its effects on society. If a majority disapproves others being allowed to marry on the ground that it damages society, the personal disapproval of one in the majority is quite relevant. It doesn't answer one bit to tell those who oppose gay marriage, \"Well, don't enter gay marriage.\" That misses the objection, In fact, it misses the objection in a snarky, ludicrous, NON-SERIOUS way.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Because Canada was founded on Christianity.\nIslamic countries that are based on Islam have Islamic holidays, etc.\nWhat is really worrisome is having to change our ways to meet a religion that does not always appear to have tolerance. Unfortunately, I cannot say anything about misogyny associated with being forced by a religion to cover one's head or about gays being killed in the name of this religion as it offends people. And because it does, I shall refrain.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nope. NPR. EO's lawyer explicitly said churches should be -forced- to accommodate gay weddings.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What/how do they pray for gays? To become straight?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Thank heavens for President Trump! At last we have a president who isn't cowed by the Immoral Left. Transgender people have serious psychological problems and should focus on themselves, not forcing their confusions on others to have to deal with.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"... some people have argued that the sexual abuse crisis is a liberal or progressive phenomenon, a crisis of the post-Vatican II church. I don't know if you were one of them -- ....\"\n\nI would simply argue that a sexual crisis will occur -- not 'rape of children\" -- whenever and wherever homosexuals who reject celibacy are inducted into a male seminary. It is not an ideological or liturgical matter, but rather, one of lust, fraud and immorality. No-brainer. Then, those who engage in it begin to cover for each other, form lobbies and issue threats and blackmail against those who do not share in their deplorable conduct.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps if you had taken the trouble to read the post carefully you wouldn't have shot from the hip and got it all wrong. \nI wrote, \"However, the vast majority of cases of 'child-abuse' were homosexual encounters (between priests and pubertal and post-pubertal teenage boys). This means that homosexually inclined priests are more likely to abuse children.\" No way can this be construed as equating paedophilia with homosexuality. The vast majority of abuse by priests involved pubertal and post pubertal boys which is not paedophilia. It is more commonly known as hebophilia and ephebophilia; note that I am talking about priests not the general public.\nIn fact, I also wrote, \"This is not the same as saying that in general, homosexuals are more likely to be child abusers.\" Which means exactly what it says, homosexuals generally are NOT necessarily more likely to be child abusers.\nYour accusation as usual is again absolutely false.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If those protesters are marching against the abuses of Sharia law, then they should march in protest in those nations where those abuses take place, not in America where those abuses don't take place. That would be logical, as opposed to your pseudo-logic. But no, those demonstrators, according to Muslim leaders cited in this article, are marching in protest of Muslims in general, especially in the United States, where the SPLC concludes those hate groups are activists against Muslims in the US. Your pseudo-logic leads me to conclude that you either didn't read the article, or didn't understand it.\n\nHere's a question for you - when was the last time Muslims threw a homosexual from a high building in the US, or beheaded one? The answer of course, is never. Sharia as practiced in the US is not against our Constitution.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "My God, that pantsuit! Is that Hill of Beans or a transgender from Saturday Night Fever.?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So, am I committing a mortal sin by leaving the Roman church for the Lutheran church? I experience Christ in the Eucharist here, even when given by a female pastor. I don't feel I have left the Church--I have simply moved to a part of the Church which has been able to follow the Holy Spirit in terms of women's ordination, priestly marriage, and homosexual relationships without facing the human obstacles in the Roman church. I can trust women to make decisions about their pregnancy, and I can trust couples to determine how to express their love.\n\nWhen the Augsburg Confession was written in 1530, it was fully within the teaching of the undivided Church. Why should I believe the Council of Trent was a valid council? Why was Trent right and Augsburg wrong?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This issue is as much about censorship as it is about the mechanics of bathroom use for transgender people. If you cannot say that this has created problems whereby straight women should not have to face a person carrying the wrong tackle or pretending to be transgender with the intent on abusing women, then this agenda is nothing more than a cover to drive control of people. I would be interested in hearing from women who feel uncomfortable that men are in their bathrooms and may lead to violence.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ruse's fixation on gay people and rage on this issue suggest that there is way more going on there than just a dispute about Fr. Martin's approach to dialogue with gay Catholics.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay man, is there any reason why I shouldn't feel \"Islamophobic\" towards a religion that explicitly calls for me to be put to death?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I wouldn't lump all gun owners in one group, or all homosexuals in one group like you are. Fair is fair, but \"Sky daddies\" was a cheap shot at God above. True liberal, anti-gun, anti-Christian, but gay is ok!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, just stop. You obviously haven't followed the Boy Scouts and their long-running anti-gay crusade.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is sad on a number of fronts. Firstly Paul or Paula is a male, so it's a 'he' regardless how he may feel. If I, a descendant of arabs decide I feel like I am black, can I demand to be classified as such? Second, the slavery or heliocentric exemples as old 'Christian ' beliefs that are now outdated is at least ignorant, there is nothing in the Bible that supports chattel slavery, nor heliocentrism. Absolutely nothing! Thirdly, a church embracing the gay or transgender lifestyle as pleasing to God is no longer practicing Christianity, rather their own invented religion. The church is to welcome all but Not condone all behavior. If this mans original church mistreated him that's wrong but they were quite within their rights to fire him provided they did so in a fair and equitable manner. If an Imam on a mosque became a Hindu, he no longer hold Islams values so why should he not be fired?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "re: Koko\n\nI reflect the same sentiment quoted privately from a friend and family member below... except would like to add on WHERE WAS KOKO IN ALLLLL THE THIRD SEX ISSUES EVER? What a shame... \n\nNO THANKS. We need people who stand up not hide when the going gets tuff. I would laugh but her lack of presence and support during SB1, the pono choices fiasco and now the bathroom bs is appalling and LOUD AND CLEAR- some transgendered are in it for self-gain. I can't trust someone who stands by idly to preserve her political chances above the civil rights of her own people.\n\nAgain NO THANKS,\n\n\"I know her neighbors & no one has nothing good to say about her. They say she is arrogant & believe she is privileged. She even tried to sue one of them unsuccessfully. Where was she when the DOE needed to deal w/ the transgendered student issue? We all know what she is.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Nothing about the gay community and gay men is safe as long as we don't fight for our rights. Would they ban drag if it offends feminists becasue it is misogynistic? Yes they would. . We as a community have no support from our elected officials. Even our lesbian city councilor Kirsten Wong Tam sides with BLM and not us.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Joe cool writes:\n\n\"To equate the suffering and extermination of tens of millions of men, women and children in Europe because of their race and religion with the harassment of homosexuals is outrageous. \"\n\n--\n\nJoe postulates that it is wrong to abuse people because of their race or religion but doing so on the basis of their sexual orientation is acceptable.\n\nWow.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If you perceived some comments to be snarky, that is no reason to stubbornly refuse to provide any sort of evidence to back up your false contention about political thought. \n\nIt does not matter if you think political thought is not political. You have come up with a handful of ridiculous hypothetical situations and they all have been explained to you. They were all the same.\n\nGo ahead and be the wounded duck, poor little guy got his feelings hurt after he was proven wrong and refused to beleive it. Maybe once you get over your grievous injuries you might realize that no one can force a baker to make a hitler cake, period. \n\nIt does not matter if the customer is a handicapped, gay, black, white supremacist. No one can force anyone to make them a hitler cake and there is no law that could force anyone to make a hitler cake.\n\nCome up with a billion more hypothetical situations and you will still be wrong. Have a great day.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Of course we do not require doctors to perform abortions against their will. That has nothing to do with this.\n\nTo use your analogy we'd have to be talking about an abortion doctor who refused their services to Hindus. \n\nThis is a civil rights issue. In the same way that you cannot put up a sign in your store that says \"no blacks\" you are not allowed to discriminate based on who someone is. You have every right to discriminate based on what someone does however (no shoes no shirt no service). Because this baker had a business open to the public, but refused his services because they were gay, he violated their civil rights. \n\nHe actually has done the right thing by refusing to offer cakes at all. If he can't stomach the idea that his services would be used by the public, of which some citizens might be gay, then he should not make cakes. Same thing for racist doctors: if you offer right to die services but don't like the idea of serving black people then you shouldn't offer it at all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "But under the law. a gay baker could not refuse service to someone on the basis of religion, national origin, race, color, or sex. The law should treat EVERYONE equally.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed, but why do you want police to perpetuate a retribution towards a group that is already upset at police?\n\nPolice treat gays and blacks poorly, this is historically documented. So gays and blacks protest by excluding them in the parade and send the message, they're tired of being treated poorly. So now you want police to react to that \"stop treating us poorly message\", by further treating them poorly.\n\nYou logic is obtuse to say the least.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "WLTDO: Your comment, albeit accompanied by two article references is abusive propaganda (may I borrow your term agenda?) aimed at disparaging gay people by offering up an analogy that being gay leads to violence. That is false. The fact is domestic violence can and does happen within all couples, and DV between straight couples is reported on nearly daily in the RG. It is reported on with no one labeling the event as \"a straight people lifestyle that leads to violence.\" Lifestyle BTW, simply means \"the way a person lives\" e.g. vegan vs meat eater, and that differs from sexual orientation, which refers to the sex a person is attracted to (boy/girl, girl/girl). I think you tip your hat when you allude to a LGBTQ agenda. And what would that be? It's the 21st century, everybody is equal so get over yourself.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"He views homosexuality as a \u201ccriminal act\u201d akin to rape and murder. Tzortzis advocates for an Islamic State, using \u201coffensive jihad,\u201d or outright violence, to create a Sharia-compliant society.\"\n\nhttps://www.conservativereview.com/articles/linda-sarsour-leftist-icon-to-speak-at-radical-islamic-confab\n\nThe left supports this viewpoint.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Now the homo migrants will be able to marry one another, but it would be advisable not to visit their old country as a couple.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Even if a person is homosexual, they are demonstrating that by conducting an activity in private.\"\n\nSo, is a person only homosexual when they are having sex with another person or looking at porn or something?\n\nYou saying they are not the same as someone born with black skin is an opinion, which you are unable to back up with anything other than just what you believe. Homosexual activity is found all throughout nature in different ways, all over the world - is it really that hard for you to believe that as humans, with a much more evolved brain than any other animal on this planet, we are sometimes born being attracted more to people of the same sex?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Let us grant that it is possible for homosexual priests to think they are not homosexuals. It cannot be said more emphatically that this changes nothing. If someone eats nothing but vegetables and does not consider himself to be a vegetarian, this is surely an interesting psychological issue, but it does not change reality. Subjectively, the vegetarian may think of himself as carnivorous, but his behavior belies his self-perception. Homosexuals, like vegetarians, are defined by what they do, not by what they believe themselves to be.\n\nThe authors of the John Jay Study gathered clinical data from treatment centers, places where troubled priests were assigned. What they found was that \u201cthree quarters of the priests whom we have data had sexual relations with an adult and/or minor after ordination.\u201d\n\nGiven that the minors were mostly male, and beyond puberty, is this not clearly an issue of homosexuality?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Let's ban religion!!! This \"my god's the right god\" creates a hell of a lot more hatred than love and compassion. What would happen if we got rid of it? Would people suddenly become barbarians? - highly doubt it. But everyone from gay bashing Baptists to Islamic terrorists would lose the warped rationalization for their hatred.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "LGBTQ Americans have caused the country billions of dollars in structural damage, killed dozens of people, and displaced thousands more from their homes, according to the evangelical figures who believe gay people caused Hurricane Harvey.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We must be friendly to homosexual laity and priests. Here's how:\n\nWe must spread the word that when a man rapes a boy, it does not mean he's a homosexual. \n\nWe must build glorious bridges of welcome to the homosexual Catholics. In that orifice or that one, who are we to judge?\n\nWe must forever protect the rights of the thousands of gay priests to stay in the closet.\n\nWWJD?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Lord knows how many police uniforms are hanging in the closets of the gay men of Toronto, Most guys I know have at least a blue cop shirt and a Sam Brown.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I guess people have forgotten these important principles promoting the common good:\n1. Illegal immigrants should not be allowed to break the law; illegal immigrants do this every day when they force themselves into America.\n2. Illegal immigrants should not be assisting multi-national and trans-national corporations to drive down the wages of all working class people.\n3. Illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from poor and young white, black and Hispanic American citizens.\nWhere did these principles come from: Civil rights activist, African American, lesbian, physically disabled, and hero to the American left and progressives: Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Her Immigration Task Force in the 1990's came up with these three principles, and I wholeheartedly agree with them. They were sound then, and they're sound today.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You might be right Caiside. I'm actually more interested in the fact they conspired to delete a comment I made on another thread when TomZ went on another rant about sodomy. I wrote that men were more than capable of having an orgasm without an erection, and that had implications about gay sex in terms of his sodomy fixation. Here's one of a number of links that explain a phenomenon most people aren't aware of: https://www.harvardprostateknowledge.org/achieving-orgasm-after-radical-prostatectomy\n\nIt's interesting to me that the Church is blind to this fact, but then when it comes to orgasm and procreation the Church has never seemed to know about orgasm as distinct from any procreative issues in men or women.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am generally the first to say that exceptions exist but how do you know she was really gay to begin with? Or that she really desired men afterwards? With gay conversion it is far more common for such converts to revert back to being gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "After the mass murder in Orlando numerous gay and lesbian leaders of America's and even Toronto's LGBT communities made speeches at memorial services for the dead. They all blamed Donald Trump for the bloodshed , while assuring us Islam is a peaceful and beautiful religion and had nothing to do with the massacre. Mateen's recorded shouts of ALLAH AKBAR as he killed gay men mean nothing because apparently no true Muslim would do such a terrible thing. It is truly insane yet today perfectly orthodox.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I would presume this move is to stop the transgender from joining the military for paid sex changes on the public dime.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Is dressing up as a terrorist offensive to Muslims? How about a ghost, is that disrespectful to the deceased? If you wear a dress is that offensive to cross dressers or transgender individuals? I think people have become a little too full of themselves and need to lighten up.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, Mr. Pence hates women and gay folks way more than he hates America. He certainly does hate diversity. He is a small minded fan of a theocracy. A mean spirited person stuck in all-white male 1950 overall, but I think in his mind, he does not hate America.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"The survival of the human species was never threatened by non-heterosexuals, who have always been a tiny minority.\" I totally agree. By saying this, you don't refute any of my statements. In fact, you confirm that the human race survived because of men acting like men and women like women.\n\n\"Yeah, sexual teleology has great explanatory power from the perspective of humans as dumb bunnies.\" \nHuman sexuality has a teleology --- the survival of the race. Homosexuality does not have that, and in reality, is not even a real \"sexuality.\" The \"sexual\" act may bring pleasure, but the \"sexual\" act will always be in quotes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You mean the lesbian themed soft porn pix of our new first lady? Classy:\nhttp://nypost.com/2016/08/01/melania-trumps-girl-on-girl-photos-from-racy-shoot-revealed/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Part 3B of 6 parts \n\nFast-forward to today and it's unfortunate so many officers and senior NCO's succumb to illicit sexual temptation. Realistically and conversely, however, when you have handsome virile men and attractive amenable women working together in such close proximity oft-times there is almost always unavoidable sexual combustion. It's even more complicated from a supervisory standpoint today because gays, lesbians and even transgender personnel now serve openly in the U.S. military services. But it's up to the superior(s) in my estimation to make certain that he or she [Yes, both guys and gals as it works both ways] doesn't take undue advantage of any subordinate especially in a work-related or professor-student context. \n \nFred Harden III AKA \u201cGreyHairandGreyMatter\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Last year, when BLM accused the entire white gay population of Toronto of disgusting racist bigotry against black LGBT people, nobody, not Tory, not Wynne, not Trudeau came forward to defend our long history of openness and acceptance of ALL people. That was tacit agreement with BLM that we LGBT individuals and as a community are despicable. Even the CBC, CITY TV Globe and Star once our allies sided with BLM. As usual we gays were tossed under the bus for somebody else's convenience.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm not gay but, if I were, I would want some of those steamy beefcake officers to participate in the parade. Rippling muscles. Tight uniforms. Long batons. Rock hard abs. The application of excessive force to every inch of my body.\n\nDid I mention that I'm not gay?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The way things are going, it won't be unusual to hear something like: \"Okay, so I need to attend my gay friend's wedding but I have to find a charging station that offers a free charge for my electric vehicle first and I hope there' a transgender restroom nearby.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are they the ones killing gays, children or running over people ??\n I thank the lord their are people like Nigel Farage discussing many uncomfortable issue facing humanity. \nBeing a left winger and having socialist ideals is healthy for society but what we are seeing now from the left is distributing and grossly misguided. .\nSoaring energy cost, massive debts, insane housing cost and complete destabilization of Western values.\n==\nNigel Farage speech to mainstream media leaves them in stunned silence !!!!\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qPy051z_PE", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You don't actually know any gays, do you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Had that backwards, in about 30 states, it is legal to discriminate against gays. You could legally get married in those states an then be fired for being gay.\nGays in Colorado can be refused employment, but not for being gay. In Colorado you csn be fired for al ost anyhting, but not for being in a protected class.\n\nYou finally got one right, but it was because I mixed the two numbers up, honest mistake.\n\nLet\u2019s get back to you thinking a baker can be compelled to make a Hitler cake for a German, but not a Canadian.\nDo you want to explain that some more? It is precious when you do.\n\nWhat bakery are you talking about? If a bakery does not make political cakes or offensive cakes like a Hitler cake, how can you compel them to make a Hitler cake, but (this is the best part) only for a German? \n\nPlease do explain. This is the best car crash yet.\nI can\u2019t wait for your answer!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry, but today's column was about transgender rights and the alt-Right's crazy belief in a Gay Agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "However, mental health issues could certainly play a role in battle readiness. And we all know this disproportionately affects trans people", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's articles like this that give me one more reason to be happy about being gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK, but he's ratcheted it up quite a few notches when it was subsiding albeit, slowly. His M.O. is clearly: Find a minority, pick on them.\nWhether its muslims, blacks, latinos, gays, environmentalsts, left-wing opponents who have lost: he advocates rejection and by his remarks validates violence against them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Multiculturalism should not mean that we (the West) tolerate another culture's intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, woman's rights, and gay rights , then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity. And we need to say unambiguously to Muslims living in the West: If you want to live in our societies, to share in their material benefits, then you need to accept that our freedoms are not optional. They are the foundation of our way of life; of our civilization \u2013 a civilization that learned, slowly and painfully, not to burn heretics, but to honor them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sure, Gay married couples work exclusively as concrete-layers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yup. My sense of 'rebranding' is essentially floating an attractive new package over an old, tired product. The composition of the USCCB hasn't changed enough yet through Francis' appointments to change the collective essentials of our shepherds. They believe down to their ontologically superior toes that abortion is the worst, uncloseted gay relationships a close second, child sexual abuse management mostly a financial embarrassment, and feminism/women's rights primarily a disordered thought to be quashed. \n\nUnless and until the warriors reorder their priorities, I'm afraid we're stuck with the same old concepts, even if they somehow agree to wear a new mask.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Different times. We live in sexually permissive times where all sorts of sexual sins are acceptable. Nouwen may well have struggled with his sexuality and celibacy. Although this struggle was known by those close to him, he never publicly identified as homosexual or as part of any \"gay\" culture. There is no evidence that he ever broke his vow of celibacy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's posturing, pure and simple. Freeland has a hate on for Russia and the feeling is mutual (she's been banned from the country). An opportunity to stick it to the Russians was too good to pass up. Add pandering to the gay community, and the Liberals have a two-for-one special, all under the guise of being progressive.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Glad he dealt with this because the issue of transgender soldiers in the military was keeping me up at night as one of the greatest problems currently facing the nation. (sarcasm)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's be clear- Transgender Justin and Gerald Take-it-up-the-Butts don't care about asylum seekers, international borders, human rights, overtaxed Canadians or anything other than staying popular and staying elected. \n\nIt's pure smoke, mirrors, selfies & 3x weekly hair salon visits.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Living a care-free life, whether homosexual or heterosexual, would probably be much easier. However, life isn't care-free, and it's not good for man or woman to be alone. So God proffered \"suitable partners\" for mutual care and the cultivation of creation. \nThe zeitgeist is not desperate for \"homosexual normalcy.\" It seeks to openly discuss human sexual experience and expression, remembering that Jesus said, \"I did not come to call the righteous but sinners\" (Mk. 2:17) and that \"God looked at everything he had made and found it very good.\" (Gn. 1:31)\nPaz y Bien, Rolando, OFS.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why would I want to reject (or eject) a transgender cyber expert from my division as its supervising officer?\n\nAll military service doesn't take place in the proverbial \"foxholes.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is an important difference that makes the cake baker case more complicated and harder to answer. Not kneeling for the National Anthem may be a dumb thing to do, but it does not violate you r constitutional rights to stand and honor the flag and the national anthem. The issue of the cake baker and his right to respect his religous beliefs depends on whether or not it violates any constitutional rights of the gay couple under current interpretation of the constitution which allows gay marriage and in fact prohibits discrimination against the rights of gay persons to marry. Does the constitutional law allowing gay marriage confer a right that also prohibits religous discrimination against gay couples in the same way racial discrination would be prohibited or religous discrimination against a Muslim couple would (that would be ucnsotitutional)? Or is right to gay marriage a lesser right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Amazing that every serving transgender member of our military doesn't suffer from \"bone spurs\" isn't it? \"Bone spurs\" is a symptom of \"P_ssy running away because people shooting at me is scary!\" disease. Comes with complementary yellow stripe on back", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course they should hide in shame if all they think abut is sexuality, attraction and all the \"activity\" that accompanies those abnormal high school preoccupations. Those \"feelings\" you mention come from the devil, music, poetry, lack of clarity in the Vatican, and Hollywood. Feelings are Bad!\n\nWe here at St._______are democratic---sex shame is called for by all, boys, girls, heterosexuals, homosexuals, rich, poor, et al. It's our tradition here: Ignore It and It Will Pass. If you want to talk about sex go to public schools, where they have classes in it where adults with exspertise and experience even (gasp) talk about it as healthy, normal, normative, intrinsic, and demanding of responsible knowledge. \n\nWe need a club dedicated to the educational philosophy that \n\"The less you know the holier you are.\" Cold showers come with your dues. \n\nAnd our signage and conversion therapy committee needs to erect a welcome banner for all those LGBT students who want a club: Not Welcome Here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You would deny the Church's right to fire people from positions where they are required to teach or represent the Church's teaching that gay sex is wrong. By what right do you do that? Do you not see that to maintain in a teaching position one who's in a gay marriage is to seriously undermine important Catholic teaching?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, I'm showing the weakness of your position. You know that to argue against the transabled mutilating their bodies is to argue against the transgendered doing the same thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The trans movement is driven by man-hating feminists who want to save boys by convincing them that they're really girls. We're so horrified by female genital mutilation in foreign lands but in the west we're enacting constitutional protections for castrating boys on a political whim. I feel like I'm a black man trapped in a white mans body, where's my government funded racial reassignment surgery?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is all the fuss about?... a red-blooded male makes rutting noises (he thought in private) as nature intended... it won\u2019t be the first male to look like he cannot control himself around pretty woman... Powerful men have shown this to be one of their few weaknesses through history. ... As reported many don't find this a surprise or offensive... what many do find much more offensive is this degradation of our social values with gay parades and the need to recognize deviant behavior with bathroom re-organization and the stupidity of even changing language to address such people... I think our tolerance is going in the wrong direction. No wonder our children are confused and some not knowing which of the 2 official sexes they are... shame on those that support such weird fringe elements and screwing up our society... the occasional rutting noises sound just fine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no science that supports transgender. How can we scream at the climate science deniers and at the same time support government policy decisions that are based on personal agendas and not on science? If you are born male or female, that's what you are. Period", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With the rate of pedophilia in the LBGTQ community being eleven to one, at least now the kids can sue the government when they are abused in Boy Scouts, daycares or school by one of the members of the LBGTQ community.\n\n\"The proportions of heterosexual and homosexual pedophiles among sex offenders against children: an exploratory study.\"\n\"the ratio of homosexual\ufeff to heterosexual pedophiles was calculated to be 11:1.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree the law should. But adding gays to if won't do that. Elimination of the law will.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course it wasn't unethical. And Pierre wasn't a bisexual and Margaret didn't have group sex with the Rolling Stones.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most folks just call it what is - BS - concocted by a man who ought to know better. Your pedophobia/homophobia rants are simply an immoral bias based on corrupted myths - no citations of fact. And you expect readers to believe your insults and open hatred of gay people? You clearly don't give a rip if your comments are caustic lies or shockingly disgusting, they are symptomatic of deeper issues you won't discuss.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with about 95% of this. Yes, of course men need to be able to rein in their baser instincts and accept the necessity for consent. However all the articles on this issue seem to sidestep the problem of double standards. Women are allowed to use the excuse \"I was too drunk to give consent\" - but we do not allow a man to state \"I was too drunk to be a gentleman\". What we are upholding here is the idea that a woman should not be held responsible for her actions - on the excuse of having drunk too much; but we still hold a man responsible for HIS actions, no matter how drunk HE might have been. This is neither logical nor acceptable. \nWhen young, as a gay man I was always careful not to drink too much, and not to take dark back alleys on the way home - to help avoid being gay-bashed. Why is it wrong to tell women not to allow themselves to get too drunk at a frat party? Why is it only the guy who has to control himself? No-one adresses this convincingly; equality demands it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You support institutionalized sexism, you upbraided me for loving my homosexual brothers and sisters, and you continually repeat the LIE that the magisterium has never changed a teaching (not to mention your praise of the pseudo-Christian Thatcher) -- yes, I do wonder if you aren't really on the side of the father of lies.\n\nPerhaps if you were to show some love for your fellow Christians in your posts I would not have questions. But as long as you maintain the attitude that the letter of the law gives eternal life, and man was made for the Sabbath, I will have doubts. Certainly, I see no reason to join the group of modern-day Pharisees that you belong to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A painful nerve has been struck. Evidently, Russia is embarrassed to have had its terrible treatment of gay people made so very public.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Liberals do not point to Newman\u2019s homosexuality as a slander. Just the opposite. Gay Catholics relate to Cardinal Newman as a brother. It is those who would find that to be a slander that they malign.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting comparisons with the UK:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law\nIn the UK 7 to 8% of Muslims sympathise with terrorism/suicide bombing. Though 52% think homosexuality should be illegal. Otherwise the positive side is similar (86% proud to be British/92% proud to be American etc).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When you accuse someone of being homophobic it is because in line with the teaching of the Church, the Catechism and both Testaments of Holy Scripture they consider homosexual activity to be gravely sinful.\nNo one posting here hates homosexuals or advocates that they should be hated. On the contrary, the Church offers forgiveness and reconciliation to all sinners who repent and try to amend their lives according to God's Will.\nYou belong to a Church which teaches that homosexual activity is \"intrinsically disordered\" a teaching which only recently Cardinal Tobin endorsed. You haven't condemned him as a homophobe or a liar. Why is that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "<>\n\nAbsolutely not. Your quotation from John Jay (JJ) correctly asserts the exact opposite. Think about the prevalence of gay rape among straight prisoners. \"Opportunity\" is important.\n\nNull, it is critical to distinguish pedophilia from ephebophilia among clerical abusers. We now know pedophilia is intractable, but ephebophilia behavior is more complex. Most non-pedophile sexual abusers, whether gay or straight, are best understood as sexually immature, sexually confused, sexually repressed, with \"opportunity\" for young boys. \n\nIt is not homosexuality or heterosexuality that correlates, IMHO, with the selection of illegal targets, but immaturity, etc. \n\nBTW, I was unaware JJ estimated 5% to 50% gay clergy. IMHO, globally the correct figure today is minimally 50%, and perhaps as high as 75%. Reliable data is virtually impossible given the ongoing preference for the closet among priests.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "lol, sorry but I don't worship the law like you republicans do until of course you break it as its ok if you are republican. Republicans tend to be very moralistic when it comes say to sexual issues but they are often the ones who are caught. At least Clinton was involved with a woman and he never ran on a moralistic platform. Many republicans have sex with other men while condemning homosexuality. I don't think any democrat has preached against marijuana like republicans have preached against same sex marriage or sex in general. See the difference?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Our first \"responsibility\" is to God and His Church. Those \"nasty ideas\" like protecting the unborn and traditional marriage are God's. Why do leftists insist on \"calling\" themselves \"progressives\"? There is nothing \"progressive' about abortion, homosexual marriage, confiscatory tax rates, a nanny regulatory state, or cowing to teachers\" union to keep minority inner city kids trapped in failing schools. Man up, and be honest about the agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Peter, if the conservative Christian were requesting a cake to celebrate say his son's birthday, then yes refusing his request because the baker does not like conservative Christians, would essentially be discrimination. BUT, if he were requesting the cake to celebrate his son's gay conversion therapy, and if the baker refused because he did not want to be instrumental in celebrating gay conversion therapy, then that would not constitute discrimination. The Colorado case is comparable to the second scenario rather than the first.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course not ! The law only applies to Christians who are straight. gays are a protected species like the spotted owl .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tell me:\n\nThose were Church councils. Why do you accept the authority of the Church to speak on these issues, and accept the creed, and you accept the authority of the Church when it comes to social teaching? \n\nThat same authority also teaches that women cannot be ordained, abortion is murder, gay marriage is sinful, divorce and remarriage is sinful ,etc. Why on those issues can the Church not be trusted? Why all of a sudden does the Church not know what she is talking about?\n\nWhy should I accept what the Church says about Jesus in her councils if you are telling me I should not accept what the Church teaches about the moral life? If the Church can't be trusted in the moral demands of the Gospel, then it seems to me the Church cannot be trusted on social justice or matters concerning the identity of Christ.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay people and other animals are far from the \"dead ends of history.\" As for the norm being \"a lifestyle that leads to reproduction and a continuance of our genes, \" how do you account for all of the gay people born of heterosexual parents? And who says the norm is a continuance of our genes? More than one family line has ended due to any number of causes. That's normal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just A Few of the Bibles's Basic Lessons:\n\nAre we to help those who need help? Yes. \n\nAre we to help those who demand our help while mocking, judging and abusing us? Not so fast, partner.\n\nAre we to celebrate sin, joyfully attend gay weddings to be \"all diverse and stuff\"? Not so fast, partner.\n\nAre we to judge people by their wealth, or lack thereof? Not so fast, partner.\n\nAre we to blindly follow religious leaders, no matter what? Not so fast, partner.\n\nAre we to invite people into our homes and country, when they have made it clear that they intend to abuse our human rights? Not so fast, partner", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't disagree, but D. Trump giving tax breaks to the rich isn't my idea of standing up for the little white guy. It just isn't white man economics, it is deep insecurity about color, females, gays, his guns (little phallic symbols that make him feel safe) that drove him to the ballot box.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "John Doyle you stand accused of a violation of the Political Correctness Code, section 8 subsection 3: Using a third-degree gay slur. Since there was no intent, and the slur is not recognized universally as offensive, you have not been charged with a first or second degree offense which would have warranted a severe punishment such as being fired or facing a human rights complaint. \n\nThe punishment: one admonishment by way of Globe and Mail Editorial. \n\nAnd remember folks: the dictionary is wrong. Don't trust the dictionary to tell you what words mean.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Right on brother. He doesn't even speak for all gay men on this one - he doesn't for me, that's for sure.\n\nAs a gay conservative and I wish the PM would apologize for taking money out my pocket each and every paycheck to support a liberal agenda that wants us to be dependent on the government. Don't bother about apologizing for who I sleep with. Apologize for spending my money on your liberal agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Considering the economic spin offs and the fact most festivals and public events get public subsidies don't see any real problem. As for lewd behaviour, not at all of them or even most. It is true that the Toronto one sometimes has nudity, but you can ban that without banning the parade and besides public nudity has nothing to do with being gay anyways.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am personally awed by the power of religion to do good, and bad, to those that believe. But the question isn't really about respecting the tenets of a religion so much as questioning how far can those tenets be pushed on the non-religious that are, by circumstance, under the control of the religious. I'm all for the freedom of religion. I don't care about the particular tenet of this case, just the collision of religion and secular. \n\nI also acknowledge my view of the situation is as a common citizen, not a Supreme Court judge. So my comments should be taken that way. On a commoner level, does it seem fine to you that a religious organization should try to prevent the government from telling a health insurer that it should provide reimbursement for contraception? It seems even more removed than a religious baker being forced to bake a cake for a gay couple. The Poor Sisters never see the contraceptives and don't see the transfer of money.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bergdahl's punishment was not much more than a slap on the wrist. My concern is that Bergdahl will now be treated as some kind of hero by the media as it is doing with the traitor Bradly Manning. I expect to see Bergdahl on all the liberal talk shows, with much of attention focused on what Trump said about him in the media's never-ending effort to make Trump look bad. It would help Bergdahl if he now claims to be a transgender like Manning because it will get him more attention than being just an ordinary run-of-the-mill deserter.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Michael3: I am not sure but I think this has something to do with it. Are you a MALE? If so great, and its known that Jaded is a LES-Bian honest, guess who wins out??????\n\nI do not agree at all with the current pecking order in this messed up SOCIETY. Here is my read.\n\n#1. Trans-mutilated people\n#2. She/he's or He/she's\n#3. Lesbian's\n#4. Homosexuals\n#5. Blacks\n#6. Mexican's or other people of color\n#7. Whites", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess it's okay for Elizabeth Warren. I guess it's okay transgenders. It's not okay for private business to refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding. But heaven forbid that a black organization allow a white person in their circle. Why can't she sue the NAACP for racial discrimination? What if the colors were reversed? Where does the Equal Opportunity stand on this?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The term for what you correctly described is Taqiyya, which I have seen spelled other ways.\nI've said it before, and I'll say it again, the Islamist's have not hijacked a religion, they are following it!\n The holy devout, Koran reading Muslim who cleaned out the Orlando gay club, did that because his holy book commanded him to do that not in spite of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you really believe there is \"no way\" of changing a gay person into a straight person? \"No way\" means that in all of human history, not one person has ever changed from gay to straight correct? What do you think the odds of that are?\nI'll give you one such example. Her name is Rosaria Champagne Butterfield who spent more than a decade of her life as a leftist lesbian English professor specializing in queer theory at Syracuse University. She was in a committed homosexual relationship, served as the faculty advisor for a number of gay and lesbian student groups on campus, and co-authored the first successful domestic partnership policy at the university. Given her credentials, she would probably be the last person you would expect to change from gay to straight; yet she changed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Like I said before Trump is not a true conservative. \nSome policy issues like tax reform were considered right wing, while others like the opposition to free trade were taken from the extreme left. Even Bernie Sanders ran on that issue. \nI believe in the conservatism of today is fiscally conservative and more socially Liberal. Even conservative firebrand Sue Levy of the Toronto Sun is a bike riding Jewish lesbian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When the Obergefell decision came out, Cupich issued a statement that said in part\n\nIt is important to note that the Catholic Church has an abiding concern for the dignity of gay persons. In fact, the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: \u201cThey must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.\u201d (n. 2358). This respect must be real, not rhetorical, and ever reflective of the Church\u2019s commitment to accompanying all people. For this reason, the Church must extend support to all families, no matter their circumstances, recognizing that we are all relatives, journeying through life under the careful watch of a loving God. \n\nContinued", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The pushing of feminism, homosexuality and over immigration are just part of the zionist plan for the destruction of western nations. It been part of their agenda for a long time. Go do the research.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality is a grievous sin but if if repented of it is pardonable by God. It is contrary to everything in nature. Junior said he used to read the Bible with his dad but it seems neither found Jesus as their personal Savior and Lord.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you would be okay with businesses posting signs that say \"lesbians not welcome?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, indeed so much more effectively that Catholics there now tolerate abortion, contraception, divorce, homosexual unions with euthanasia just around the corner.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the baker cares that much, then there needs to be a questionnaire that includes adultery. Would he bake a cake for a second wedding, or for a couple that engaged in pre-marital sex? Adultery is mentioned in the top 10 list, gays aren't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe its the generation I grew up with, but I'm aware of the reckless behaviors they engage in which is part of their culture. Even the seemingly most conservative of them. And if I didn't have kids or if they were beyond adolescence, I suppose I wouldn't be concerned so much.\n\nCall me selfish or antiquated, but I want my kids to get married and have kids as all generations in my family have. Just last week one of my daughter's friends from college, decided that she was bisexual. This is a Catholic girl who used to read in church and who attended church regularly with her married parents and siblings. For most of her adolescence she had steady boyfriends. But she got involved in theater, and is now living in Manhattan where she lives with a lesbian, a gay man. It's going to break her parents' hearts when they find out their daughter has entered a world of sexual confusion and instability. This coming-out-bi is becoming a common story in my kids' schools. It's messed up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus said nothing whatsoever about homosexuality. His concerns were that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kurtz, Vigano, Lori, Cordileone have been speakers or sponsors at NOM , marches in DC ...see quote above.\n\nNOM is an organization that is anti gay and of great interest to the Southern Poverty Law Center.....who has on occasion noted it as a hate group....\n\nThere was a close NOM connection to Liberty Council (identified by SPLC as a hate group) and Staver (also a supporter of NOM) and the Kim Davis situation in which Vigano was involved and involved the Pope....\n\nI think the deal is this....starting with Cordileone in an impassioned desire to pass Prop 8 in CA which would affect a whole class of CA citizens who might wish to engage in SSM..NOM was created...with the help I believe, of the Mormons, and conservative catholic groups....SPLC definitely identified NOM as an anti gay hate group.\n\nThis grew with USCCB leadership support...hence the NOM citation noted above.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church does not use the words \"hetero/bi/homo sexual.\" It refers to same-sex attraction and distinguishes it from same-sex acts. The continuum of which you speak is not one of immutable, inborn orientation; it is a continuum of learnable attraction with most people experiencing an environmentally-influenced predisposed attraction predominately to one sex or another or both, but completely extendable to both or retractable to neither based on any number of external factors.\n\nModern psychology is junk science, used as a political tool to promote what is easiest for people to deal with; that is, rather than point people with same-sex attraction to normal sexual relationships, allow them - and convince society to sympathize - to stick with their predisposed sexual attraction. And then come up with various theories like \"sexual freedom\" (wait, that didn't work), \"sexual preference\" (wait, that didn't work), \"born that way\" (ding-ding, we have a winner) to make it seem scientific.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Smearing Kekistanis as \"far right\" shows the author's bias.\n\n Rational people were getting fed-up with unreasonable demands to cater to the whims of obscure minority groups. They've created a hierarchy of oppressors and victims, the more boxes you tick, the higher you score in the Oppression Olympics. Straight white healthy men are the ultimate oppressors who must continually apologise for their existence. If you're a disabled black transgendered lesbian then you're the ultimate victim, and anyone that doesn't bow at your feet must be a Nazi. This pecking order is enforced with crybully tactics. Anyone that dares to speak out of turn is deemed \"violent\" and subject to whatever punishment can be brought to bear.\n\nThen someone realised that in SJW ideology, identity is entirely self-defined and must be respected. So we invented our own group identity based on worshipping a frog, and demanded the recognition we are due. That's all Kekistan is, a satire of identity politics.\n\nPraise Kek.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anyone who confesses his homosexuality during the Last Rites because the Roman Catholic Church told him to has turned away God's gift.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "support for abortion, men in women's locker rooms/women in men's locker rooms, open borders, same sex marriage, taking in the enemy, supporting the demise of the 2 parent (M/F) family, pushing an amoral agenda", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1. Yes. They told her that she had to authorize the marriage licenses. \n\n2. No they aren't. Right to discriminate against gay people and shun them from society because Jesus laws go over as well as lead balloons. The homophobes couldn't get one passed in Arkansas because Walmart was against it. LOL\n\n3. Fr Lombardi said that Francis' meeting with Kimmie was in no way an endorsement of the particulars in her case. Yes there can be accomodations to low level employees; no a county clerk cannot stop doing the function of her office because she thinks the gheys are yucky.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ">\"Bye, Felecia!\"\nGLBT with this attitude are not trustworthy friends no matter the topic.\nI'm GLBT and have not found any real change in friends since Trump. I've always tried to be around intellectuals no matter their life or religion. It is just as likely to see a 50-year old liberal woman with family freak out over knowing I voted Trump. By the way one of the funniest things these days is seeing gays who basically defend or refuse to critique Islam as a way to show they object to Trump.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First off, cis is a slur, and second, using binary labels such as cis/trans to support an argument for non-binary genders is contradictory.\n\nOf greater concern is this drive to make everything a hate crime: why? The Criminal Code does not exempt perpetrators from crimes committed against trans-people -- if someone commits assault or murder, they will be prosecuted and convicted of the same, irrespective of who the victim is. \n\nThe more sinister motive of the trans-extremists is the twisting of language such that mere disagreement or questioning= hate, and that to question their dogma=violence. One can reference the interviews with Professor N. Hatt of UofT, for one of many such examples.\n\nRespect is a two way street: trans-extremists such as the author do not speak for all trans people, and they need to be prepared to listen to, address and discuss the concerns of the society on which they are trying to impose their views and behaviours, so that mutual accommodation can be found", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So this is an example of what our ministers so often refer to as those who break the law facing 'the full might of the law'? \n\nThe penalty for not paying your licence to a biased, badly managed and inefficient broadcaster that I for one have not watched in years could include up to six months in jail. Back in 2015, Eskom wanted the maximum penalty for electricity theft to be upped to 30 years in jail.\n\nBut what we have here is Manana (who reckons being called gay is offensive) beats up three women and the prosecution wants - for a 'barbaric' attack - no prison time? Along with that, he doesn't need to be 'babysat' when it comes to drinking alcohol and he should be allowed to apply for a firearm licence. \n\nIt is when there are such imbalances in penalties (as referred to by Ursus Formidinus below) that people lose faith in the law and begin to feel that there are double standards and breathtaking hypocrisy at work.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "MSW - really, appealing to *identity politics* again.\nFor commenters - here is a much better analysis to this MSW pablum or stream of consciousness.\n\nhttp://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/identity-politics-age-trump\n\nKey:\n\nShould, as Mark Lilla suggests, modern people try to lessen the significance of their identities when it comes to politics? Mr. Taylor suggests a different approach. Basically, debates in society need to be about what constitutes a reasonable amount of pluralism. From this perspective, the big trap American politics has fallen into in recent decades is attempting to canonize particular ethical or moral views through the state (for example, the heated battle over traditional versus gay marriage, or the similar one going on over bathrooms). \n\nInstead of terrorizing each other with control of the state every four years, Americans might spend more time finding ways to accommodate a diversity of identities across the political spectrum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And we will keep voicing our dissent until the Church stops ignoring evidence, including that what we used to think of as the gift of celibacy was just another sexual orientation, like being gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Church teaching sees human sexual activity as an \u201coccasion of sin\u201d and has encoded and enforced what is deemed acceptable.\nThe \u201cconjugal act\u201d is not sinful as long as it is open to the miracle of new life. Any and every other heterosexual sexual act is \u201csinful\u201d to some extent. \nAll homosexual acts, though anthropologically \u201cnatural,\u201d have been decreed \u201cinherently disordered\u201d and \u201csinful\u201d in any and all circumstances.\nThis \u201ctheology of human sexuality\u201d allows all sinners to attend, but not to participate, in the Liturgy of the Word. Technically, they should leave after the Mass of the Catechumens.\nThe Liturgy of the Eucharist is a celebration that completely excludes certain sinners and tacitly admits others.\nChurch-going habits speak more of tendency rather than of attendance.\nIt is not just the young who look for a living, welcoming faith. It\u2019s also the not-so-young and the in-betweens. It\u2019s all of us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It would be nice to see a transgendered black Latina beat Trump in 2020.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Keep repeating falsehoods to yourself, Thor, and you'll eventually believe them.\nMr. Phillips' main business is making custom-designed wedding cakes. He refused to design a wedding cake for a gay couple solely because they were gay. He wil sell them only generic cakes, not custom-designed ones. They never discussed design. You keep forgetting that fact. Mr. Phillips doesn't refuse to design wedding cakes for straight couples solely because the couples are black or inter-racial or inter-religious.\nYou seem to labor under the delusion that there is a \"gay wedding cake\" or that gay or lesbian couples want wedding cakes with \"gay themes\". Most gay couples simply want a custom-design cake. Just like a straight couple.\nYou still want conservative Christian businesses to be able to refuse service to any customer -- as long as the customer is gay or a gay couple.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't understand at all what you are saying. If you agree that the 'truth' doesn't change, what is the problem with adhering to the time-honoured teaching of the Catholic Church regarding what is 'true'? Homosexual activity, for example, has always been condemned as greviously sinful by the Catholic Church and even prior to its inception according to the Law of Moses.\nIf this condemnation explicit in the Word of God (both Teastaments) is the 'truth' then it can never be revoked. How do we grow to a greater understanding of it? What do you mean by, \"... it is we who change\"?\nDo you mean that because the 'world's\" understanding changes, the Church's ought to keep in step with it which I suspect you do? If so, how do you reconcile this with your statement that the 'truth' doesn't change?\nI simply don't understand what is meant by, \"The 'truth' doesn't change when we grow to greater understanding. It is we who change.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Republicans have no ideas left, at least no ideas that have not been tested and proven to be failures again, and again, and again\n\nThe economy didn't just crash under a Republican president, it crashed under Republican policies. \n\nIt crashed with low taxes. It crashed with deregulated markets. It crashed with huge restrictions on union activity. It crashed with massive cuts in environmental regulations. It crashed with lowered trade barriers.\u00a0It crashed with big fat Pentagon spending\n\nFor the same reason that they have to maintain that global warming is the creation of a conspiracy of scientists, and that evolution is a conspiracy of other scientists, and that gay marriage is a threat to \"traditional\" marriage. \n\nThey have to lie about the threat of illegal immigrants. \n\nLie about the state of the national debt.\n\nLie about the effects of the Affordable Care Act,\n\nLie about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.\n\nThey have to lie, because lies are all they have left.\n\nIt's who they are", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": ".\n\n\"Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had found that an operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of U.S. ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May.\n\nFacebook, the dominant social media network, said 3,000 ads and 470 \"inauthentic\" accounts and pages spread polarizing views on topics including immigration, race and gay rights.\n\nAnother $50,000 was spent on 2,200 \"potentially politically related\" ads, likely by Russians, Facebook said.\"\n\n--\n\nIs that the same Russian interference in the US election that Tsar Vlad III, His Orangeness, and the Trumpenproletariat keep telling us didn't happen?\n\nThat Russian interference?\n\n.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The teaching of the Catholic Church about homosexuality is wrong; and not only wrong, but irresponsible and dangerous.\nAs you know (because I've told you before), I am a daily communicant; I am not gay; I have no children who are gay. There are gay persons among my friends and extended family; some of them have suffered because there was a time in their lives when they took the teaching of the Catholic church about homosexuality seriously. They seem to be pretty well recovered now; I like to think that I helped them.\nI have zero interest in your assessment of my orthodoxy or catholicity or my relationship with God or the church. I post on this subject occasionally in the hope that I can dissuade other readers from taking seriously anything you or your fellow travelers write about sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular.\nSome day, I'll try to tell you how I really feel.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "opposing SOGI 123 is not opening a door to condemn those who are struggling but to protect all of the other children from being indoctrinated into a curriculum that has no business in the public school system. The educators are being instructed to lie to our kids and rob them of the amazing structure of the family.\nWe should all be outraged at the thought of removing mom and dad from their vocabulary. We should be outraged at grade 8 students being instructed to role play being gay...as has recently been reported at Johnston Heights sec in Surrey. What about Sex at Lunch at Lord Byng in Vancouver.\nToo much about this curriculum to point out here.\nMake a point to go and listen to Kari Simpson or go to Culture Guard and see what is actually going on in our schools.\nYou will be able to come to your own conclusions as to whether those opposing it our actually haters. It's absurd.\nWe already teach our kids that bullying is wrong, but this goes far beyond and we'd be wise to question", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The comments are NOT homophobic. But they point at a homophobic religion that is being ignored in the article.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yep, Mike was even more notorious for hoisting the anti-gay banner with the local religious groups, so if they can accept him into the party, then they very well should accept Beth. Seems like Beth came to her senses after divorcing her husband late last year, and I bet a lot of her earlier ideology came from her ex-husband's influence on her.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Funny the picture shows these gals holding a gay pride banner, but if they flew that in a muslim country they would probably be killed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cNot only to educate people in general on the diversity of LGBTQ community but also to see how strongly we feel about what\u2019s going on in office.\u201d\n. \nchicago blt marchers turned on gay women carrying the blt flag with a star of david and kicked them out of the pride parade.\n.\ndiversity? far from it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He didn't say that, but if he did the use of the word \"radical\" would be wrong. The correct word is \"reactionary\". It is a true statement that the Christians who run the west with their War against Drugs, War against Sex, Sin , freedom of speech and even men are just as reactionary as the Muslims in the east with their intolerant attitude toward freedom of speech, gays, and women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But the problem here is 1) There is no Russia-Ukraine war. 2) Putin does not have a repressive regime, and 3) There is no anti gay law in Russia only a law protecting children from gay propaganda. Valery is a very talented man and people should go and see the performance to see for themselves", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Substitute the word unbiased where politically correct is used and it becomes much less polarizing. Especially to the women and transgender service members choosing a career in the military.\n\n\"We have a(n) unbiased military, and it's getting more and more unbiased everyday,\" \"And a lot of the great people in this room don't even understand how it's possible to do that. And that's through intelligence, not through ignorance \u2013 believe me \u2013 because some of the things that they're asking you to do and be unbiased about are ridiculous.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That \"study\" has been widely critiqued. And who knew that newspapers could be homosexual? Anyway, these newspapers for urban gay communities would publish obits for members of the community, who were young. Young people die of car crashes and violence, so that is what was published. Old gay men were more likely to move out of the community and their deaths, much later, were not reported on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "misogyny: \"dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.\"\n\nhomophobia: \"dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people.\"\n\nThese definitions come not from \"the PC set\" but from the dictionary, available to any and all. And yes, the magisterium of the Catholic Church systematizes both.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You and everyone else has lived with transgender people all your lives, on the street, in public bathrooms and everywhere else where public facilities exist. and your overblown paranoia hasn't resulted in you even noticing the transgender people around you everywhere you go.\nHate to break it to you, but you've been in the bathroom with other trans people, you've likely been in a locker room with them too, and you haven't, to this point, had your imaginary fears come to fruition.\nTransgender people didn't just suddenly appear on the planet to justify sick and evil people like Minnery who would exploit your ignorance in order to create fear that drives your imagination to create fantasies that have no basis in reality.\nGrow up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, gay men too. They don't like ours any more than they do a woman's.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Jews considered going forth and populating the earth the single most important divine command, which is why homosexual behavior was a capital offense.\n\nAnd the Church considers the gift of life so fundamental that it excommunicates abortionists and those who facilitate abortion.\n\nIn the midst of this is a small contingent who believes \u201cit\u2019s my phallus, I can use itfor anything I like.\u201d\n\nI would consider that last group the phallus cult.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Generally speaking\" is neither here nor there in theology, it's your opinion. Many Christian faiths hew to a literal interpretation and many also privilege the old over the new testament and many, frankly, don't seem to have a clue who this SJW Jesus was or what he taught.\n\nIn Leviticus, in the bible, there is a call for the death of homosexuals and that is what Joe Dick was pretending not to know about Christianity, the better to smear Islam.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm with you, Mike. But I would use the terms: same sex \"behavior\" or \"homosexual behavior.\" The other words (sodomy or sodomites) sound caustic to modern ears.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As I keep saying, you accept \"Love your neighbor as yourself, unless that neighbor is gay. That neighbor you shall hate.\" Once again, you show that I am right to say it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay kids of course are a little apprehensive about telling the world who they are.\nthese kids are afraid they will be associated with the weirdos at Canada's famous pride parades.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "i mean abuse of his position.. he is a republican puppet in charge of our nations security.. he probably follows in the same gay fashion as j edgar.. wouldnt doubt me at all .. republicans stick together if you know what i am implying..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender folks have always existed. It's just that most people are ignorant about it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All speculation designed to convince the gullible that homosexual behaviour is perfectly normal and natural.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Whether homosexuality is a crime somewhere in the Universe is irrelevant to what goes on in the U.S.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What exactly does your guessing, here, about Senator Schumer being a \"closet homosexual\" add to what's being talked about here, in the way of intelligent political discussion ?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Missing from the article is any mention of the culture/religion to which the man's attackers belong. Although anti-gay bigotry and assaults were in steady decline since Pierre Trudeau decriminalized homosexuality, changing demographic patterns - i.e. the importation of people from cultures where homophobia is firmly entrenched - are contributing to a rise in anti-gay violence. It is ironic that L/liberals don't connect the dots. It will be a long time, if ever, before the adherents of a Seventh-Century cult accept sexual diversity. What is even more ironic is that many in the LGBTQ community don't connect the dots either. Holding a \"welcome refugees\" sign when those \"refugees\" would gladly see you dead is not merely naive; it is stupid beyond belief. If gay men want acceptance, they will have to fight back more than ever before. Given the vicious enemy that they face this time however, the gay lib struggles of past decades will look like a proverbial walk in the park. by comparison.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender believers are pushing society back to the dark ages before science. I'm willing to bet that 99% of people who support transgender beliefs also accept evolution and climate change. They accept them because they believe in science. Yet when it comes to transgender belief, they deny the scientific fact that there are only 2 genders. And most amazingly, we have a government that is accepting these views that are held by a tiny, tiny fraction of our society!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If Ann was any color than white, and gay, these same felled civilization Neanderthals would be building golden calf's and shrines to Ann. Because she stands for the majority Americans they hate her more than they hate America itself.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know about that. My own personal explanation for the reason the incidence of homosexuality is high among priests is because it exempted gay men from the strong social pressures of conforming by getting married to a person they knew in advance they could never really love during a time period (basically everything up to now) when being a priest was perhaps their only perceived professional option - that or being a florist, take your pick. It wasn't all that long ago when I actually heard an elderly person say about a young boy, \"That one's gonna be a priest.\" In other words, \"He looks gay, so steer him toward the priesthood pronto so he won't be a social embarrassment to the family.\" So this is still happening even now.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "So what do we say about misogynistic religion that forces when to wear head scarves? Or a religion that separates the sexes (aka in Saudia Arabia). Or a religion that teaches it is OK to throw gays off buildings and murder someone because they are the same sex. I look forward to this conversation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "For one, I do not condone inappropriate sexual behavior in any way shape or form. If you make inappropriate comments or advances towards anyone in a professional setting you should expect consequences. \n\nI am not defending him because he is gay, I am not defending the individual at all. I hope that justice takes its course in every setting and to the full extent of the law or policy in question.\n\nI am pointing the finger at the comment section here that is implying he did these things BECAUSE he is gay. Do you think that if someone is gay that makes them more likely to be a serial killer or a pedophile?\n\nBeing gay does not CAUSE you to become a pedophile, a drug addict, or a rapist. No more than being straight causes you to. You cannot prevent sexual crime by removing homosexuality from the equation any more than you can by removing heterosexuality. It's like saying a straight rapist wouldn't have been a rapist if he was gay. Posting correlated statistics is not proof of causation.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Best thing would be for the \"gay music minister\" to just get over his narcissism and quietly quit his job for the good of the parish, and thus spare the embarrassment to the priest and divisiveness in the parish. But so many people are just too pathologically selfish to put others ahead of themselves.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe you weren't gay, or intersex, or transgendered, or just massively confused about why you felt you weren't quite like the other kids. Lucky you. But why should those who feel they don't fit in be forced to share your naivety?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cGo get cake elsewhere\u201d\nis not a consideration in the case.\nYou,want to say they are jerks for suing for their rights? Super. That is not a consideration. \nAll you are doing is whining. \n\nHow is the baker participating in the wedding? No baker participated in my wedding.\n\nWhat if only one of the gays showed up and orderedthe wedding cake? What if the guy who showed up was marrying a man named Kim. The gay man orders an elaborate, custom wedding cake that has says on it, \u201cCongratulations on your Wedding, John and Kim.\u201d\n\nThe baker would not refuse to do that because he would not know it was for a gay wedding.\nIs the baker going to go to hell?\n\nThe problem is the baker is a really bad Christian and has weird beliefs.\nReligion religion is not an excuse to discriminate.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Hey Old Sot, I've missed your pathetic posts. Ignorance is the new Liberal Left Wing-Nut Ideology. Of the total 1%, the Gay population in America, and the world, less than half want to use the wrong bathroom. Personally, I think if they could \"pass\" as the other gender, let 'em in. Otherwise its disrupting the reasonable comfort of the other 99%. Whose rights are more important? The 99% or the 1%? They are the unfortunate recipient of a fatal genetic mutation, and the rest of the world needn't stand on their head to comfort so few.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I do not loathe gays. I have said on this very page, within the past few days, that to bully or criticize gays simply for being gay is wrong and contrary to the love God demands us have one another, simply because we're created by Him. What I do loathe is gays insisting that to oppose gay marriage is \"homophobic.\" It is a false accusation, intended to harm the one it is aimed at. THAT is un-Christian. But hey, since when is the left Christian any longer?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, friend. I believe you're less situationally-aware than I am. Less cognizant of the grim spectre we all face, in varying degrees, whether you are rich or poor, white or black, cisgender or transgender, sociopathic or empathic, politically deluded or cognizant. Not knowing just makes you another passenger on a ship of fools bound for their destination and destiny of despair.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The joke in the gay community is better latent than never. (The term latent homosexual is no longer used except as a perjorative because psychology no longer considers homosexuality as a disorder. It never was, they just stopped listening to Catholic bishops who craved not religious freedom but religious power). Some priests are very queer in affect but would never consider themselves homosexual. There is no reason not to ordain them or any gay man or married man or gay woman or married woman. It\u2019s not a doctrinal issue. It has nothing to do with abuse and everything to do with Trad prejudice. The generation that insisted on that prejudice is dying out. Those of us who were not bold enough to resist are not far behind them but the younger adult generations will force change, not by voting with their feet but with their contribution envelopes. Our craven hierarchy will listen.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, same logic does apply, but goes against your saying. The example provided is all about how the cake is decorated, rather than who is buying the cake. As long as the Homosexual baker doesn't make a cake that says \"Sodomy is Evil\" for anybody, then he doesn't have to sell it to everyone. The Hobby Lobby case is a bit different from that. This is about a cake that the baker already makes for straight couples. The big question is can he refuse to sell this cake to gay couples because of his religious beliefs?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And it is the gay men who as a result of their \"otherness\" in a chauvinist society, are most adept at resisting toxic patriarchal attitudes and working out a more authentic, egalitarian concept of self. See my post way down below...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "On a level field, I would agree. However, the field is far, far from level. The recent tepid kindness given by Jesuit Jim Martin to the gay community is Exhibit A. I would love to see Judge recognized as a gay priest and as a saint. Can you name one other public gay saint? Just one . . .", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There are no children to worry about, so why bother getting married? Eventually it may be only the gays who want to get married.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Who knew the Globe was a staunch defender of the KKK's rights. After all, the KKK cloak represents religious purity, prejudice against homosexuals, anti-semitism - and so does the niqab, all over the world, without exception. But the niqab means feminism and modesty in Canada (just Canada). I'm still waiting for the Globe's piece in the Life section with three Klansmen pushing their kids on swings in the park - they just wear the cloak for modesty and to represent their faith, nothing to do with support of violence towards homosexuals and Jews... does this sound ridiculous, because it is - let's defend a symbol that is synonymous with violence against homosexuals - as the niqab is most common in countries that punish homosexuality with jail or worse (often the death penalty). But in Canada it means modesty and independence - the niqab's supporters are pathetic. Let's encourage a symbol that is only common in countries where women are treated like second class citizens...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The ages of rape victims in South Africa are from as young as a few months old to as high as one hundred years. It is almost routinely accompanied by excessive violence. Lesbian women are especially vulnerable. \n\nMy moms' 85 year old friend was gang raped while being tied up next to her invalid husband.\n\nIt seems Jacob Zuma is the rule and not the exception. He impregnated the daughter of another of his closest friends. Zuma was the highest ranking official in the ANC's Department of Intelligence and Security- aka Imbokodo where the rape of young ANC members was rife. \n\nhttp://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2017/07/14/vytjie-mentor-anc-sexual-abuse/\nEdit | Delete", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What do we expect from a \"man\" who declared 'himself\" feminist and the champion of the homosexuals and marijuana consumers.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"his sect is often referred to as a cult.\" Often referred to by who? People who dislike that religion. Anyone can refer to religions they don\u2019t like as cults. I could refer to the Catholic Church as being exclusivist, claims it's the only way to God, forces you to accept their ideology before you can have communion, most people are born into it, its leader the Pope is supposed to be the representative of God on Earth, has rabid anti-homosexual views, has had thousands of priests who are pedophiles, etc.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Oh boy, is RAGE an appropriate handle for this group. The LGBTQueer faction is in full blown rage. They are angry as all get out. I don't blame them. If the group I was supporting, secretly wanted me dead, I'd be pissed too. But attacking me makes me want to quit blowing the whistle. But, I'm doing it for their own good. I don't hate them, I don't want them dead, I just want to enlighten them. They need to KNOW that Sharia Law demands their death. I used to live in Turkey, I understand Islam. Nobody I know, now, is a Muslim. So all of us are worthy only of DEATH. And you Gay people are singled out, specifically , for death. Instead of haranguing me, you should be thanking me foe alerting you. Your welcome.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Radicalization is taught at home, around the dinner table, as the family enjoys mom's good home cooking, while the grown ups discuss destroying Israel, eradicating homosexuals and the evils of dirty infidels It is drilled into young minds with every tale of glorious martyrdom for Allah in every mosque in every city around the world. Extremism for Islam is taught the same way Christians are taught about Jesus and his message of mercy and forgiveness. It is not at odds with anything because it is central to the religion", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sorry the killing of over 100 gay men and 9/11 aren't just going to be swept under a rug! \n\nAmerica is gong to go after terrorists under the Trump administration and terriost retaliation is a definite. \n\nTolerance and patience are needed while they are exterminated from this planet.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "When people are angry and lash out, they choose words to degrade and humiliate the other person. Inferring that they are homosexual (fa**ot), a woman (ya p***y), mentally deficient (r****d) or a race that is seen as less accepted in society is not acceptable. Part of it is also that the use of these words is taboo, making them even more hurtful. Scatalogical, genital or the other person's mother don't have the impact of the others. Yes, the terms are insulting and wrong, but until we find words that have the power to hurt, sadly, they're going to get used.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "John A McDonald was gay,There we will never hear another word from the teachers about him", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"...Trump\u2019s announcement Wednesday morning on Twitter did not say what would happen to transgender people already in the military....\"\n\nThat's because Trump's a moron and never thinks things through.\n\n\"...\u201cOur military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory...\"\"\n\nUh huh. Anyone wanna bet that when this clown's term ends, we'll still be in the middle east in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, with the same problems we have today?\n\n\nWhat really cracks me up is that these self-proclaimed tough guys of the right are frightened by men who are sissies.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"His late-night statement outraged many, particularly in the LGBT community, who accused Spacey of trying to deflect from a serious accusation \u2013 making a sexual advance on a minor \u2013 by coming out and implying that it was his choice to be gay.\"\n================\nAll consensual sex is a choice. There is no \"devil\" that forces anyone to engage in consensual sex against their will. It's a choice. Always has been. Always will be.\n-\nSpacey says he doesn't remember the incident with a 14-year-old over 30 years ago....but admits that, if it happened, it was his (Spacey's) choice to do what he did. No one and no \"devil\" forced him. He did what he did because it was his choice to do what he did.\n-\nIf the LGBT community wants to think of itself as \"mindless, automatic robots\" who are \"programmed and computerized\" to sexually act in ways without \"choice\" and \"free will,\" then it is they who have a lot to learn....from Spacey.....and, better, from God, who gave us free will to choose what we do.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Jesus did not condemn the polygamous Jacob but relied on what he had told Moses in the Burning Bush that he was the God of Jacob and that Jacob was among the living. Quite confusing cultural mores, including the sexual ones, with eternal doctrine. Pederasty cries to Heaven for vengence because it steals youth. Adult homosexuality is not in the same ballpark, especially if God created some males that way, like for instance Bl John Cardinal Newman, who was buried with his lover in the Cathedral. When they tried to separate the bones because small minded idiots were yelling scandal they found it impossible to do so. Love wins out.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well well well. Turns out the \" doctor\" lost his license for giving out controlled substances to his gay boyfriend. This guy has been declared by a psychiatrist to be a total psycho nut job. His wife turned him in. The airline was right to boot this loser and should sue him for lost time and expenses. All airlines should ban this fake felon doctor let him walk.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Is their faith sacrosanct\"? LOL. Yes! That's what a religion is. And I did have a problem with criticizing Catholicism when it was rabid, which was not that long ago. I suppose you don't remember that Prostestants used to believe that nuns were prostitutes for priests and other such nonsense. And Jews? Read Mein Kampf if you want to know what criticizing Jews used to be like. So you're gay. You must recall then that there was a time when European gay males would go to Muslim countries to enjoy their trysts free from the laws that would have put them in prison in Britain or other countries. Funny that. How soon we forget! And I'm sure you find a common bond with Trump supporters, eh? Don't make me laugh.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I never would have guessed you were a closeted gay male based on that jacket you're wearing..or maybe this is just a really good disguise after all.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "For gay men, the struggle for acceptance is not over\n--------------------\nIrony\nin gay Liberal Democrat Hollywood\neveryone can be out\nexcept the biggest actors\ngay pride is in the closet among gay superstars in Liberal Democrat Hollywood", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Of course, the thing about Muhammad is that he always maintained he is just a human being. Unlike Jesus (whose teachings I prefer). And Muhammad did kill a bunch of Jewish citizens who proved to be traitorous when he could have shown compassion. Also he allowed raiding parties where murder was part of the package to allow the new village (Medina?) to take hold and thrive. He made some very questionable decisions but was a very decent human being and that certainly included respect for women. Conservative Muslims altered that when it comes to the female. Similar to our conservative Christians (so-called) advocating he!! fire for homosexuals.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The US used to be against slavery. Funny how forcing someone to work for you isn't slavery when gays do it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No.\n\nSharia law sanctions:\n\n1) Killing infidels (i.e. anyone who does not practice Sharia law).\n\n2) Killing homosexuals.\n\n3) Killing \"disobedient or adulterous\" women.\n\n4) Cruelty to animals --eg Halal.\n\n5) Female genital mutilation.\n\n6) Military Jihad against the West\n\n7) Completely subjugating women to the rule of men\n\n8) Separating men from women during worship \n\n9) Giving girls and women inferior, separate educations, if they are even permitted an education\n\n10) Not recognizing the superior authority of civil courts in civilized Western secular countries -- Belgium, the U.K, and Sweden are excellent examples of this.\n\n11) Complete intolerance to most forms of artistic expression -- e.g. ancient monuments destroyed by Daesh & the Taliban.\n\nThose who practice Sharia Law are utter Islamic barbarians from the 7th-century and since they are completely intolerant of those who do not practice Sharia Law, these Islamic barbarians should not be tolerated by civilized societies.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Simply rejecting homosexuality and transgenderism is not \"loathing\" anyone. Your logic is faulty.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Obfuscation. Sex with teenage boys is not paedophilia. And 80% of the sexual abuse by male Catholic clergy was homosexal acts perpetrated against teenage boys.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Here are links (plural) to Saudi beheadings for your perusal and appreciation.\n\nI view actual modern beheadings by Muslims and their governments as more serious than Old Testament text.\n\nYou clearly have a different opinion.\n\nhttps://www.bing.com/search?q=saudi+beheadings+youtube&form=EDGEAR&qs=PF&cvid=9c3569aecbac49f6a961b5b45066c506&cc=US&setlang=en-US&elv=AXXfrEiqqD9r3GuelwApulrCjEnroBpcDNfOXxV46efrD5msxFQ%21g6ZdOWIZ%21VfL%21LZmKQBsvwTp9ONzhy2C6VnRdv2gFVGkUN6ODZyiLV%21Z\n\nIf you want just homosexual beheadings, here is that link:\n\nIran, ISIS, Saudi Arabia. \n\nOf course ISIS follows a more strict version of Islam and throws homosexuals off buildings as well as or instead of beheading. \n\nhttps://www.bing.com/search?q=homosexual+beheading&qs=PF&cvid=bc74fbd359e641098c2b64ec16fea780&cc=US&setlang=en-US&elv=AXXfrEiqqD9r3GuelwApulrCjEnroBpcDNfOXxV46efrWpplUCThFtU73rHJy6ZdMVV81x5kFGPvIWOSVTBeiK9PwN48mlQJ5GORCv6KbNib&first=11&FORM=PORE", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The headline should have read: After girl reveals she's gay, Mormon church tries its best to bury its head in sand.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well this is a sickening piece of \"journalism\". Homophobia disguised as advice for young teens. Despicable.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I never respond to you on principle but I must correct the notion that there is any more \"sex\" at a Gay Pride than there is at Mardi Gras. Kids attend. Our prime minister attends several across the country and takes his kids. You're full of it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That doesn't make anyone \"think.\" It makes them HATE - because you and \"the Church Fathers like St. Jerome\" are most likely self-loathing, repressed homosexuals.\n\nEt cognoscetis veritatem et veritas liberabit vos.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Based on name recognition, I was wondering if we all would miss something. And, as you noticed, it started out with privacy for transgender then went on to privacy for all on demand. I'm all for that, there are some people in every age range who are painfully shy or self conscious or who are teased because of body type. And maybe Bill doesn't know that women can go topless in Eugene.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sydney wrote: \"Don't recall anyone celebrating homosexual behavior.\" ...or celebrating murder. Examining and presenting data is not celebrating, Arne. Elucidating by making comparisons is not celebrating. Neither is making an utterance of or about a topic that makes us uncomfortable, even very uncomfortable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Therein lies the problem of your commentary. As many people see sexual orientation as not being a choice.\n\nYou didn't choose to be heterosexual anymore than a gay person chose to be homosexual. \n\nI'll say this much. There are those who know it's not a choice and still don't like it. That's something that's at least honest as opposed to trying to pretend like it's a choice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That\u2019s distinctly different from \u2018original gender\u2019 for two reasons. First, sex and gender are not the same thing. Basically, gender is psychological (gender identity) and sex is anatomical (reproductive organs). For most people that distinction isn\u2019t important because their gender identity matches their reproductive organs. But for transgender people the distinction between gender and sex is extremely important because their gender identity is different than their reproductive organs. The very definition of transgender requires you to distinguish between sex and gender. And the reason why this is especially important to your story is that as far as we know, a person\u2019s gender identity is programmed in utero and remains fixed for their entire life [ see reference: Bao and Swaab, 2011]. So, for example, in the case of a transgender woman with male reproductive organs and a female gender identity, their \u2018original gender\u2019 would be female, but their \u2018original sex\u2019 would be male.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As if Trump and his supporters worry about the feelings of homosexuals...\nWhat makes you so sure that homosexuals were the ones that complained?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's a very small exclusive bigoted club, no women, no married men, no gays, no critical thinkers, shrinking, shrinking, shrinking.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since Fr. Martin was mentioned in this piece as a parishioner of St. Ignatius Loyola and since he has a piece about building bridges with the gay community which should start with not firing gay employees, I think it bears mentioning that St. Ignatius' former musician, the very talented Kent Tritle, felt the need to leave St. Ignatius as soon as New York state legalized gay civil marriage. He had been with his partner for many years and naturally wanted to take advantage of the 1138 rights and privileges that come with civil marriage. That meant, of course, leaving St. Ignatius for fear of being fired for causing \"scandal.\" Thankfully, Kent landed on his feet in a much better place: the great Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which welcomed him and his husband with open arms. There he felt no fear of being fired simply for being married. He alluded to this in a New York Times interview back in 2011 though never came right out and said so, for obvious reasons. St. Iggy's loss.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Must be all that plastic chemicals in the water, food, environment. Even the fishes and animals are going gay. They can even make themselves pregnant without a mate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We have a VP, as well as a large group of his followers, that would ban gay marriage like yesterday if they could.......just because the concept upsets their religious sensitivities. \n\nThat's why they're marching. You're naive if you think the evangelicals that voted for this president aren't going to want a favor returned at some point (vis a vis SCOTUS overturning the same sex ruling).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rosenblum is the same Attorney General who refused to defend the voter-passed anti-gay marriage law.\n\nHer personal opinions drive her advocacy, not the laws as written by either the US Congress or the voters of Oregon, despite swearing an oath to do just that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "23.6% of gay men are obese, where as 29.7% of straight men are obese, and considering your gays are 5% of the demographic, seems like straight men are just as unhealthy, since they are the majority segment. And no human being is unnatural. \nhttp://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr077.pdf", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When, since the world's inception, was marriage defined so as to include gay marriage? Another mind of mush, suitable for serving after only 30 seconds in the microwave.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That isn't how it works. The T limit is for all women. There are lots of cisgender women out there with physical differences that give them higher than average T. \n\nIf you learned about transgender women, you would find out that they tend to have lower than average T, especially after surgery. In women, T is produced at least partly in the ovaries. Trans women don't have those, so they don't get as high of T levels. And before surgery, they take drugs to block testosterone, and those along with E often reduce T to lower than average levels.\n\nBesides, the idea that all women have average T levels is a complete falsehood. The average exists because women (yes all of them) are all over the map. The limit exists for that reason too. \n\nEither way, if you want to address the T limit in sports, be prepared to kick a lot of cisgender women out too, because that is what you would be doing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps our lesbian and transgender children also.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Only Pope Francis could get away with saying that the church should not obsess over abortion, birth control and gay marriage.\"\nI'm not sure that Pope Francis did \"get away\" with this observation; I think it probably drives the irrational animus against him in some corners of the church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How fitting would it be for the first openly gay premier in Canada to abolish funding for a separate school system that doe not support LGBTQ rights. While recycling the funding towards solving a major social issue like affordable childcare that hurts a large segment of Ontario families at a time when many Western countries deal with the same issues and declining fertility rates created because of it. Affordable Childcare should be labelled both as an educational and social issue. Not just another bullet point in proposed Poverty Reduction issues and strategies.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is the cost per recipient of viagra vs transgender surgery and treatment? \n\nIf one cannot legally change their age, neither should one be able to legally change their gender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have accused you of nothing. I appreciate that you are genuinely following your conscience. I have acquaintances who I suspect are homosexual, that suspicion does not make me shun them because they do not advertise it. I give them the benefit of the doubt.\nWhat I want to know is upon what basis do you come to the conclusion that homosexuality and I presume you mean 'active' homosexuality, is compatible with the Catholic Faith.\nI suppose I am asking why a Catholic such as yourself can reject a teaching which goes back thousands of years even into Old Testament times.\nI don't know how old you are nor do I know whether you have changed your mind on the issue over the years or have always been of the same view. I simply want to know how a core teaching of the Catholic Church can be rejected yet the the one who rejects it can claim to be a Catholic.\nThis is a genuine enquiry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Antifa is a new group. I don't like their tactics at all, even if I support the objective of opposing facism(an overused term if you ask me).\n \nAs a liberal person, I know few liberals that own weapons(some do hunt), many that advocate for non-violence. **I don't consider Antifa liberal, they're closer to anarchist.\n\nThe nation has had ultra-conservative militia's as long as I can remember back to the 50's. As a boy in Houston I saw KKK displays and pictures of hangings. I've known of things like gay bashing, and witnessed women treated a property. I have a rifle shaken in my face by NRA ad's. Lot's of conservatives seek ownership of military grade weapons. \n\nNone of these things are predominantly liberal Walter, all include violence. I know no liberal who wants a civil war. I know conservatives that seem to thirst for it.\n\nPeople like yourself scare liberals because you threaten them with violence. Is that you're intent, to create fear?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I probably don't know enough people to have heard Trump's kind of repulsive boorish talk all that much. Trump's implication that most men (all \"real\" men?) act this way is among the worst insults I can imagine. Having taught middle school, when I would hear a nasty or derogatory comment about Mexicans or girls or gay people or Asians or even some other student, we'd stop the class and talk. And talk, and talk. About civil rights. About each other. About how we are all different and we need to protect how we treat each other. It has to be very clear that this is not acceptable in our school and society. One point is that getting this straight is more important than covering the class material. Similarly, among adults, when this kind of talk happens, you have to say that's not acceptable, that's an ugly way to think and talk, and then leave the group. This is standing up for what is right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Not only that, by normalizing homosexual activity and by proclaiming that gays are born that way (implying that God makes mistakes), priests like Martin are encouraging the homosexual lobby to be more aggressive in corrupting the minds of our children through the educational system. All you have to do is look at the sex education modules of the UN, Common Core and even the Vatican curricula to see their game plan to normalize the kind of homosexual activity that is consistently condemned in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Not once is same sex sexuality praised or encouraged in the Bible. Not even once. So the scorn and ridicule heaped on high profile catholic priests like Martin are justified and necessary.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sen. Murkowski fundamentally is a democrat with loyalty to oil and global warming. She had to vote with Democrats to get democrats to help re-elect her. Republicans are paying the price for not electing Joe Miller or the next one (who was that guy?), yet the media like her, legal dope, homosexual marriage, abortion and cold war with Russia too. She probably won't even protect the Yukon and Bering Sea from increasing nitrogen input and those dead zones for fish that follow. \n\nTripling the V.A. from 9 million to 30 million Americans served and expanding federal support to community clinics for the poor (the latter was in the bill) is better for the poor than Obama-Nixon care. When Nixon suggested corporate health insurance back in the day, Demos wanted a British style universal hospital plan. Republicans in the Senate are likely to remember Sen. Murkowski's vote a decade or so. Bad timing for an era with Republicans in the White House and Congress.Pres.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This will be an interesting case. I suspect Kennedy took it to yet again affirm the civil rights of gays and lesbians in the face of societal hate (not his body of rulings on both Colorado law, sodomy and gay marriage). This is likely going to be unanimous and not based on the golden rule. The only chance the bakers have is to assert that the Civil Rights Act does not specifically apply due to a lack of language. If Kennedy says that it does, then stop your donations to Human Rights Campaign to end employment discrimination, because this will signal that the Second Circuit's cases establishing gays as a protected class are already accomplished in housing and employment. No one will be opposed to the concept, just dicey on whether this issue is entirely removed from the political sphere (meaning Congress, not the states - the states are dead to rights). The only bright side for the right wing is that this may finally give them their constitutional convention.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am also curious if protected class preferences are cumulative. \n\nIf you are a non-white, female, lesbian, you or your parents are from Syria and you then choose to identify as a man, is your preference then higher? Does a lesbian preference get more 'points' than being from Syria? \n\nObviously, any white male born in this country will have to make it on ability or hard work or both, (not all white males have the last name of Trump) but the minority preferences especially how they interact are inherently confusing for me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sure, we should have an ideal. That is what I spoke of above when I said \"the hard work of love.\" The ideal is not just about following the rules, honoring the commitment, it is also about mountaindweller's description of glory and joy. I thought it was sad that you described glory and joy as \"Disney fantasy.\" I have experienced what mountaindweller writes about, but first I had to do the hard work of love. \nAnyway, the issue is how we apply the ideal to real life situations, many of which are not ideal. For example, when it comes to personal finances, the Christian ideal is trust in God's provision, lack of greed, and simplicity, but I've never seen the guy who owns a boat and a second home on the beach turned away from Communion. We might want to teach this guy how his possessions impact him and other people, encourage him to be content with less, but we don't condemn him or exclude him. Gradualism is not a problem here. And no, I don't think this is a gay conspiracy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What an achievement to elect gay folk in this city! Congratulations to the voters of Anchorage and to the Mayor for a change I only wish I had known in my 47 years there. Anchorage welcomes you! and now that really means everyone. Amen.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gee, I've been going to the Alaska Club since 1989. Before that I used the gym at UAA. I've never encountered a transgender person using locker room or shower. Maybe they were there and I just didn't notice. I'm not in the habit of checking out other peoples \"equipment.\" Maybe you should mind your own business too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you accept Pope Francis' teachings on contraception, abortion, homosexuality and women's ordination?!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Same old tired ideology. Trickle down economics. Except all of the actual evidence from the beginning of time suggests that trickle down economics actually only make the rich richer. But who needs to bother themselves with facts or evidence when they are busy foaming at the mouth..........also Kenney just went on the record saying that it's ok for schools to teach that being gay is morally wrong. Ouch. Good luck on that one. Hey Jason, we're not in the middle ages anymore. Newsflash. Hard to believe this is the best thing the so called 'conservatives' in Alberta have to offer. Sad.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Even better, the trans man that is 5'-10\" and 180lbs of ripped and toned muscle with a cut jawline and beard that is sexually attracted to women waltzing into the \"womens\" restroom to pee standing up next to your wife and daughter because yes on prop 1 would make it the law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rock Hudson destroyed himself. Had there had been no fear of being gay in Hollywood - he would have ended up the same way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is giving the military chiefs another six months to conduct a review to determine if allowing transgender individuals to enlist in the armed services will affect the \u201creadiness or lethality\u201d of the force.\"\n\nI'm taking a guess here, but I'd say transgender people can be every bit as lethal as those who are not. That's because the willingness to kill your fellow man isn't determined by your race, your gender, your ethnicity or your nationality. It's determined by your humanity. This is an opportunity for transgender folk to show what motivates them. I sure hope they take it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A decision of the Supreme Court fashioned a right to privacy out the gossamer of the \u201cpenumbra\u201d and sequentially undercut the ground out from under laws against abortion and same sex marriage.\n\nMany citizens, without a scintilla of animus towards LGBT citizens, oppose so-called same sex marriage for a variety of reasons, religious, social, and scientific and continue to oppose it. As your post demonstrates sweet reason will be no more successful impacting this judicial edict than it has been restricting abortion.\n\nThe turnaround on this issue thanks to the experience with abortion, and the mood of the country, will be faster and the solution is a constitutional amendment.\n\n\u201cHomophobe\u201d, according to the Oxford dictionary, is a noun, \u201cA person with an extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people.\u201d\n\nOpposing same sex marriage for good reasons does not make one a homophobe, but accusing someone of it without good reason may tag someone as a heterophobe.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Roberts and Alito and more like Kennedy. Gorsuch probably is too. Kennedy is not going anywhere, but Ginsberg might. She would likely be replaced by yet another moderate conservative (support gay and abortion rights, as well as Citizens United and free enterprise). Most cases are 9-0 deals and would likely be decided the same way by a panel of L-3s.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Haitians, El Salvadorans, \"Dreamers\", Hondurans, Gay Chechyans etc. bring them all, there are over 60 million left to come worldwide, and fortunately for them, Canada's borders are open!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Once again marg.... great writing.... always centered and insightful.\n\nI teach technical management subjects part time and I always strive to teach the real world which is where students typically and hopefully have to end up after the stint in schools... so our schools and all the campus must reflect the real world.... \n\nwhat we are getting here is a crazy safe zone that wont fly.. out there.. the outside world is more binary than these guys imagine and wont pay attention or care about this big waste of time.\n\nSome of us for most of our lives lived In a 3 state world.... male female and queers..... the later being something you alternatively joked about or tried if you were tolerant to disregard..... I am ok with no jokes but can we move on and focus on disregarding rather than elevating it in my face? \n\nMost of the population is not ready for transgender discussion or these special tags.. lets keep it that way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One of the problems is that the same people so intent on dissecting every nuance of wording when it suits them, also get very vague when it suits them, so that a frown of disapproval, or a discussion of the etiology of transgenderism (or is it transsexualism? the accepted terminology keeps changing), for example, gets described as an expression of \"hate\".\n\nFor example, \"a violent attack on trans people will never be seen as a hate crime under the Canadian Criminal Code\" is deliberately ambiguous. It isn't \"a violent attack on a trans person\", which would be a physical attack on an individual, which most everyone would disapprove of, it is \"a violent attack on transpeople\", plural. What would that be, would anyone actually physically attack a group of trans people, and is that what is meant? No, what the author means is that someone can interpret said discussion as \"a violent attack against trans PEOPLE\", i.e. it is a way of shutting up discussion, no matter how civil, not \"violence\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wish I could give this comment 20 stars. I read your article and am glad it points out the very important distinction that due to power imbalance, sexual contact between the cleric and a vulnerable adult is also abuse. I am a physician, and if I had sexual contact with a patient this would not be \"an affair\" it would be gross misconduct and negligence on my part. I had essential training in my residency on this very point, but wonder whether that kind of training happens in seminary. Several posters on this site reiterate the fraudulent idea that because some abuse victims are post pubescent 17 year old males, that the sex abuse scandal is about homosexuality, not power. They would do well to read your article.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hopefully by the morning Scott Woodham will comment on here and explain why . My guess is they fear there will be anti-native comments and they don't want to upset those people. Just like they did when Wolhforth did the story on the gay native lady---they were afraid of what people might say. The new system seems to be working pretty good , though for reasons only known to them , liberals want free speech banned and / or deleted if the person making the comment is against what they believe in. The Dispatch needs to choose----do they want free speech or not ? Allowing no comments on certain stories is censorship , pure and simple. Since the new system started , the Dispatch has had perhaps three to four times more people taking the time to comment on stories . One would think the Dispatch would be happy about that. You'd think they'd trust the commenters to pass the civil test , but instead just shut it down .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I just want to be sure that I understand what you are trying to say with your last two sentences. Are you saying that the societal acceptance of a homosexuality identity has a causal relationship to the sexual assault of children?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Recall the Harper Refugee policy was to focus on getting Yazidis, Christians and LGBT to Canada in Syria and Iraq during last election? Liberals labelled the Conservatives anti-muslum and racists. Although these groups were being targeted and possibly victims of genocide by ISIS. Instead the Liberal policy was to focus on refugees in UN camps. Who in many cases didn't even want to come to Canada.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The kind sanctioned by my beliefs? Have you grossly misinterpreted something? I believe in monogamy and marriage. I believe in respecting one's spouse/partner, family, neighbor, other people. \nI googled \"lesbian murdered bull dyke partner\" but couldn't find the story you referenced. Link?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Theology tells us that couples, not priests, make the marriage and that fecundity is not a requirement to wed (just functionality). The Church needs to embrace the theology of marriage as it can apply to gays and reject its biases. If a Church can extend benefits to an employee with a civil hetero marriage (which it disapproves of), it can do the same for a gay marriage. Indeed, it can embrace its gay children and recognize these marriages as sacramental. This history of opposition to homosexuality was cultural separatism in both Babylonian Judaica and in the early Church. We can abandon such group dynamics and treat our children with love, once and for all. (and please, don't baptize bigotry by claiming it is God's will - it is not).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"British bishops tackle anti-LGBT bullying in Catholic schools\"\n\nIsn't that kind of hard to do, when the RC clergy worldwide have bullied LGBT & females for millennia?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Johns Hopkins and Fairfield Universities\n\nPart 6 of 6 parts\n\nI must quickly add, however,the issues of gays and lesbians serving within the U.S. military have already been adjudicated/decided by the courts and it's literally a moot point. Nonetheless, the foregoing is my anecdotal posture/my story, [not necessarily substantiated by statistical fact(s)] and at least for the time being unless I'm proven wrong, I'm sticking to it!\n\nFred Harden III AKA \"GreyHairandGreyMatter\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nora, I'm going to have to disagree with you. It's not 'hateful misogyny' to believe that men and women are fundamentally different and need to have different roles. It's just basic biology and common sense\u2014can you think of another vertebrate species that doesn't have this hard-wired into them? Why would humans be any different? The problem the church's anthropology\u2014rather, it's secular western society's notion of 'gender equality' that's absurd.\nAnd I'm not sure what you mean by 'better treatment of LGBT'. Let's start with the T\u2014transgenderism is simply delusional thinking. As far as LGB, that's a paraphilia. These are psychiatric issues, not ecclesiastical.\nThe shortage of priests is a self-inflicted wound and is a 'fruit of Vatican II'. Likewise, the drop-off in the faithful is because Paul VI's unasked-for liturgy has no staying power.\nBut thanks for your thoughts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hmmm...reading the article and I can\u2019t find any mention of same sex marriage...your comparison, in my opinion, is that of apples to oranges. Furthermore I personally have zero issue with same sex marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's see. Over 70% of Republicans would rather have Putin as POTUS than Obama. \n\nAs one author has pointed out, \"Today\u2019s Russia is a place where government officials are corrupt, life expectancy remains stubbornly low, young soldiers are sent to die in wars their government won\u2019t even acknowledge, opposition politicians and critical journalists are murdered or arrested in alarming numbers, LGBTQ people are subject to state-sanctioned violence, and entire regions are run as the personal fiefdoms of despotic warlords.\" \n\nOf course what Trump supporters don't realize is that Trump has for years been trying to curry favor with Russian oligarchs to develop real estate interests in Russia. Or they don't care, which is even worse.\n\n65% of Trump supporters believe Obama is a secret Muslim. \n\nSo yeah, we can argue about the numbers, but there is no question that many of Trump followers are deplorable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To answer your question: 1) Christianity doesn't advocate for the killing of non-Christians, forcing women to dress in burquas, throwing gays off of rooftops, etc....; 2) There is a difference between government forcing people by law to adhere to a given religion, and government officials subject to election, exhibiting a preference for the tenets of a given religion. Sharia makes no bones about its desire to make religious law through the government.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tri, those folks mentioned above had their marriages outed by self righteous Catholics or inadvertently by others. They were not proclaiming anything to the rafters. It is really tough for gays in today's Church work place. It is truly a hostile work environment, and unfortunately, it's not usually their coworkers who make it hostile. It's those folks who just can't seem to mind their own business and call that kind of behavior being a defender of True Catholicism. Frankly it's junior high behavior and it costs competent people their livelihood.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yep Blunt, now DNA means nothing. \nIf you feel like Japanese today, you are! If you are Caucasian, and you woke up today and \"identify\" as a Polynesian, you are!- Trans-Racialism\nIt's all about \"feeeeellllllings\". Just like trans-genders. If you are a man, but woke up today and feel like a woman, then you can use the woman's restroom and anyone that says you shouldn't is simply a \"heartless bigot\". \nThat assuming the liberals even allow you to speak your mind about it.\nI tell you, this is all coming from the indoctrination of our youth in the schools and Universities.\nIt has now reached the absurdity level!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi Bill. MD\u2014clinical practice + research.\nI think it's important not to confuse ideology with science. For an entertaining and \u2018left-friendly\u2019 view of how the APA was pressured into \u2018normalising\u2019 homosexuality, see https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/204/81-words . \nThere\u2019s precious little that\u2019s scientific about psychiatry; most meds that are any good were discovered by accident. Psychiatry today is where medicine was in about 1820.\nAlso, don\u2019t imagine that professional bodies speak for practitioners as a whole; not by a long shot. They\u2019re pretty irrelevant to our lives. When I belonged to the AMA, it was simply because at the time you had to if you wanted to get the NEJM. \nThere are clearly certain professions where male homosexuals are much more common, and one of those is the clergy (and not just in churches that require celibacy!). But because of the ideological climate, scientifically sound research in any of these areas is well-nigh impossible.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sadly, some converts come to us as a hedge against modernity, or worse as a refuge back into the misogyny of male-only ordination. Francis is surely scaring the Brits, who remember that female deacons were ordained first before any female priesthood. There will be few places left for them when we start going down this road. If Francis starts talking about differing sexual orientations, hetero, homo and asexual, we will know the end is near for contience, male ordination, celibacy and of asexuals asserting they are the perfect flowering of Catholic sexual morality, rather than the smallest sexual grouping. We are all not the same and that is OK.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Make no mistake when Republicians rail against something like Sharia law they privately yearn for it, Just as when they condemn homosexuality or corruption, they are likely involved in it, the great hypocrisy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Compromise: an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions.\n\nI don't think what you suggested really meets that definition. The Church is not trying to criminalize homosexuality so much as it is refusing to endorse it, because it is against what the Church teaches marriage to be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Isn't this the same bishop and diocese who intervened and refused a teenage boy confirmation because the lad in another forum voiced his approval of Gay rights?\nThis bishop seems to lack discernment of judgment.\nMethinks because he is bishop he can behave as he wills.\nGood this is in a secular court which might discern more where boundaries were crossed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Glad to see that there has been so much progress in the last 40 years ! \nI have never understood how or why someone could discriminate against LGBT people. They are human beings who contribute to the world in many ways ! People who say they \"hate\" them or who think they are abominations should stop to think about the fact that the EMT or police officer who rescues you or your loved one or the doctor who saves your life or a loved one's life may very well be LGBT. If you or your child is dying are you going to stop to ask the person trying to help if they are gay ? They are human beings and deserve to live their lives in peace.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Across 'The Pond' , homophobic words like 'poof', 'fruit' and 'pansy' were staple fare in school, not just for gay kids and those 'with a perceived low masculine quotient', but for those thought too pretty to be boys (though I suppose they could count as having 'low masculine quotient'). I should know, since I was one of them: a 'blondie' with blue eyes. But this is one story with a happy ending, because my looks belied my strength: my detractors usually got in only one such comment before they found out that strength for themselves. I shouldn't have had to do this, but it was a question of do or die. And I had no intention of dying.\n\nSo three cheers for the British bishops. (Not before time, though.\ud83d\ude15)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Church arguments on natural law have no resonance with the general population.\"\n\nChurch arguments on natural law as they relate to gender and sexual expression have no resonance with nature itself, on which natural law is supposed to be based. When it comes to homosexuality, natural law should have recognized centuries ago that that is something which occurs in every species of the animal kingdom and is therefore natural for some. But since Aquinas himself didn't personally observe this in nature, and since the church calcified his teachings into rigid law after his death (at least where sex is concerned) the church now teaches that homosexuality is somehow \"against nature,\" as if that were even possible. Curiously, on other matters the church has taken into account new data and evolved in terms of its teaching: the stewardship of the earth, for example, as opposed to the old way of using Genesis in order to assert that God has given us \"dominion\" over it to exploit for our own use.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Republicans are such predictable hypocrites.\nYou can safely bet that whatever they are obsessed with and accusing the other side of doing is what they are actually doing.\n( \u2026private emails? check.)\nTake Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), for example.\nRep. Murphy is a fine, upstanding Republican with a wife and a mistress.\nGood red-blooded guy, who is now implicated in his girlfriend's divorce.\nIn texts produced in connection with court proceedings, a possible pregnancy, became something to 'manage' when Murphy and his lady friend Shannon Edwards thought she might be pregnant.\n\"And you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week\" Shannon Edwards wrote.\nMurphy answered her, writing, \"I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will.\"\nHow long can it be before we find out McConnell is transgender?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The bishops keep saying it would be a scandal to allow such a group to exist as that would cause \"confusion\" among the faithful about what the church teaches regarding LGTB sexuality. Since the bishops live in an impermeable bubble of their own making, they seem completely oblivious to the fact that to most ordinary people of goodwill the real scandal is what the church teaches on this issue: an outdated, discriminatory, cruel teaching that leaves LGTB people completely out in the cold with no other advice than, \"go and sin no more,\" as if truly loving someone in heart, mind, spirit, and body could ever be a sin. Perhaps one of these days someone outside their bubble will clue them in.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It might be good to remember that the \"good old days\" where the social norm meant attending church regularly also embraced the good old-fashioned fear factor, where if you didn't show up on Sundays, you were bound for hell for sure. I don't question the fact that ours was a much more churchgoing culture (it is, after all, when I grew up), but as far as living Christian principles and ideals, not so much -- unless institutionalized and accepted racism, sexism, homophobia, etc., don't really matter. \n\nIt seems to me our society changed drastically in the 1960's, including the effects of Vat II. That is only 50 years ago, which may not be enough time to accurately assess, or make predictions about, the long-term, more permanent influences. We've seen the reductions...but do we really know what more positive changes may result? \n\nThanks, Mr. Briggs, for this column...nice to have the real you back after last week!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But they can claim they did a good job and contributed to the readiness and mission.\n\nThere is no reason to turn back the clock to a policy that wasn't even working. Transgender people were serving.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sure, let's go back to the days where businesses had signs. \"No Coloreds, Gays, Muslims\". That's MAGA lol!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Republicans are such predictable hypocrites.\nYou can safely bet that whatever they are obsessed with and accusing the other side of doing is what they are actually doing.\n( \u2026private emails? check.)\nTake Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), for example.\nRep. Murphy is a fine, upstanding Republican with a wife and a mistress.\nGood red-blooded guy, who is now implicated in his girlfriend's divorce.\nIn texts produced in connection with court proceedings, a possible pregnancy, became something to 'manage' when Murphy and his lady friend Shannon Edwards thought she might be pregnant.\n\"And you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week\" Shannon Edwards wrote.\nMurphy answered her, writing, \"I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will.\"\n\nHow long can it be before we find out McConnell is transgender?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Caitlyn Klastri Jenner, the CDC's national numbers show quite significant percentage of gays that commit rape. And yes I have seen articles outside of the SA with trannys getting arrested for sexually assaulting children in bathrooms. Here's a snippet of one... http://www.pacificpundit.com/2016/04/24/5-times-transgender-men-abused-women-and-children-in-bathrooms/\nThe CDC\u2019s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found for LGB people:\n\n*44 percent of lesbians and 61 percent of bisexual women experience rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner\n*26 percent of gay men and 37 percent of bisexual men experience rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner\n*46 percent of bisexual women have been raped\n*22 percent of bisexual women have been raped by an intimate partner\n*40 percent of gay men and 47 percent of bisexual men have experienced sexual violence other than rape", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Could you explain how you support rights for women and gays, while also supporting the Muslim lifestyle and religious practices ? Call me one of the uneducated white trash deplorables but I cannot see how you can justify these polar opposites. Enlighten me oh educated one.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "hmmm... lets see, mosques burned, abortion clinics burned and vandalized, gay bars burned and vandalized, physicians and other workers at abortion clinics killed and harassed, etc etc etc.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I guess next we'll hear something foolish like a barbaric cultural practices hotline being suggested. This guy is going to keep Alberta in the dark ages if he starts foolishness on gay issues just to pick up some dead wood votes and not try to bring Alberta together with the rest of the country in my opinion.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Remember when the gay lobby said they weren't interested in appealing to children. Who actually believed their b.s.?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "LGBTQ people are not being targeted. That perception is the problem. Gay people are simply looking to be victims. I am saying I do not want a MAN in my public or private bathroom, locker room, or dressing room. What transgender people do not understand is that it is physically impossible to change one's sex. You might kind of look like a woman, but you are still a man. Seems maybe we need to clarify that as a society.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I would love to see you stand in the face of a transgender person and compare something as inmate as their identity to having psoriasis or being overweight. I could further pick apart your analogy but it's really not necessary because it's ridiculous.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This pedophile is a serial offender, and is at extremely high risk for recidivism. Pedophiles rarely reform. It's like trying to tell a gay person they can't be gay anymore. Or telling a straight person they can't ever have sex again...........it's going to happen. People are sexually aroused by the objects of their sexual desire. You cannot change them. He was planful enough that he moved to a place he couldn't be identified as a child predator. When he gets out of jail, he'll go to great lengths to make sure he isn't caught. Scary.......", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "As are gay cakes. Your point?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You mean science that says gay and trans people exist? And that they should be treated equally and with the same compassion and respect as all people should be?\n\nNice try andy but your fear mongering and hyperbole are absurd. No one is trying to \"steer innocent and confused children and adolescents towards irreversible gender re-assignment surgery\".\n\nYour characterization of science's \"deafening silence\" is ridiculous. In fact it's the research on sex and gender that has helped us better understand LGBT people and tear down prejudice against them. The cure you need is for bigotry and prejudice.\n\nThe real objective truth and natural law is that homosexuality exists, human sexuality is a spectrum, and that teens will have sex just as they have been doing for millennia. Denying that and vilifying people who don't fit your narrow world view is simply no longer acceptable.\n\nThe irony of you suggesting that I be open to those concepts while displaying your own closed attitude is rich indeed.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "last time with QUAIA (Queers Against Israeli Apartheid) marching in the Parade and playing politics\nthe City did not cut funding\nthis time do it right and cut funding\nthe funding is for gay rights and gay pride politics\nand not for politics like Black activism, anti-Israel activism\ncut the funding and stop the nonsense already\n---------------------", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You were good up until homosexual and heterosexual behavior are equally natural. IN addition to both having the potential for STDs, one has reproductive value, and the other is barren, purely self-gratifying. Moreover, homosexual men have demonstrated in the ever increasing HIV and other STD epidemics that they are unable to control their sex acts relative to heterosexuals. Male homosexual monogamy is an oxymoron.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Try rampant violence in the gay community....\n\n https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cdc-gay-lifestyle-fraught-with-violence\n\nTry out of control disease in the gay community...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Canada1\nThe amount and frequency of far right white-supremacy, anti-Semitic, homophobic, Muslim hating violent bullying has increased ten-fold in the past year,\n----------\n\nANTI-SEMITISM comes more from the LEFT than the right\n\nSupport for Palestine and homophobic Hamas comes from the Left even GAY Left in the West?\n\nANTI-ISRAEL, BDS, Israel Apartheid Week comes from the Left and leftist professors in universities - indoctrination ?\n\nI rest my case", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If Michelle is transgender, Donald is handsome and .charismatic.\nAnyone who believes the gay/trans/adopted carp is not going to unite with a fringe lunatic like me.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Obama was good at the Propaganda he was given.\n\nLike Billy Clinton he was a narcissist and borderline sociopath, and just read the scripts he was given while Wall Street fleeced America dry.\n\nFunny how the feminists, socialists, communists, transgenderists and all the other -ists, like to pretend that didn't happen.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Left handed lesbian administrators...", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "We need to be vigilant and look out for radical islamic terrorism, the forced marriages, the forced genital mutilation, the misogamy, and if you are gay watch out as you will be thrown off a building.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Bath House was invited to speak several times but refused, after all the BSA is a young mans Christian leaning organization, eschewing homosexual scoutmasters. Obviously an organization Barry Boy would despise.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Proud Boys, sounds like a gay porn movie.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "imagine. a lifestyle that lives in harmony with others, the environment. doesn't impose on others, doesn't condemn or hate. how the hell did this guy come to integrate, show us that compassion and respect and love and equality are actually achievable? wait a minute, i didn't hear a word that his god was better than mine, never heard a word about homosexuality being an abomination or women are inferior and dont have a right to control their bodies. a few hawaiians and others i've met share his philosophy. not a single fundamentalist christian i have met does. just saying.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Some of what I wrote in that post is judgmental, but I stand by it. You are defending what I can only call anti-LGBT bigotry. And defending it by saying that it is backed by religious belief is despicable. I notice that you did not address this.\n\nI would ask you to consider my last paragraph. You wrote of being the victim of a minor act of bigotry. Yet you only speak of your resentment. You have written at length how one should let every experience bring you closer to God, but I see no indication that you allowed this experience to do so. Surely it was more significant than, say, reading poetry. I believe it should have said to you something along the lines of \"This is the sort of crap these people put up with on a regular basis. I should be more aware when I see it, and oppose it when I do.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, for over 2000 years we thought he condemned such practices and behaviours as divorce, adultery, homosexual activity, fornication, abortion, etc when in fact all the time he was encouraging them. How could we have been so stupid for so long?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Incorrect again. Marriage is redefined every few years (ie polygamy, same race, gay, etc)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Whose rights are trampled on by gay marriage? Are you compelled to marry anyone you don't want to? Or even to attend gay marriage ceremony if it bothers you? You don't lose the right to disapprove and you have no right to deny any adult's decisions in life.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Flaw 1: Does your imaginary baker offer products with derogatory messages as a standard service? No? \n\nMy imaginary Baker simply advertises specialty cakes. He doesn't have time or inclination to go into detail on every single cake he makes like it must be for a wedding or it must be for a birthday or it must be for the wedding anniversary of people named Jim and Sally or I won't bake it.. What Baker does?\n\nFlaw 2: The government can't compel speech (political or otherwise). Anti-discrimination laws don't target speech, they target the act of discrimination against persons. There's a difference.\n\nYes...so If a skinhead wants a cake that says \"Happy Birthday German Dictator..you're the best\" That's not political therefore the Jewish baker must comply. That IMHO is wrong. \n\n\"Flaw 3: The examples you give are not protected classes who are just trying to purchase a product offered by the business to everyone else.\"\n\nUnless the member of the ALT-Right claims he is gay.\nThe Little Guy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Keep an eye on that 300k in incremental transgender related expenses, before it balloons just like most other line items Trudeau touches. And keep an eye on the overall deficit number this fiscal - if Canada is the fastest growing economy in the G7 then a large deficit and tax hikes are absolutely inexcusable.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Persecute? You have lost your mind.\nThe baker is choosing to be offended.\n\nIf he does not know he is making a cake for a gay wedding, he is not offended.\nIf he finds out afterwards he chooses to be offended.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your comments appear to go in two directions simutaneously.\n\nYou say folks are being true to themselves, citing that if someone is gay or lesbian, the Church teaches that this orientation requires a lifetime of celibacy.\n\nYes. And so they leave, presumably for someplace where another church has another teaching, or no teaching.\n\nIf so, that would be good, right?\n\nAnd then you write \u201cthe mention of Purgatory would have been insulting\u201d. How? Was the deceased an Episcopalian?\n\nJust what are you advocating for?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll pick and choose.\n\nYes, if I threaten you it is a crime even though you are a white male.\n\nIn Oregon criminal law establishes certain \"protected classes,\" groups that have historically been subject to threats or violence by dominant groups in response to their characteristics, for example, their race or sexual orientation. If there is evidence that someone has been threatened or subjected to violence because they are black or gay, that could be prosecuted as a hate crime. Hate crimes carry more serious penalties than non-hate crimes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Very little on that list reflects the current cpc. It certainly doesn't reflect the last conservative government. However 'traditional social institutions' does. It's a code phrase for going back to the fantasy 50s - husband works at an office, wifey stays home barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, no gays allowed, etc, etc.\nGood luck with that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Moral scorn is not the only argument against sodomy. The overwhelming percentage of HIV/AIDS, sodomy, and gonorrhea in the male homosexual population would be one of any number of public policy reasons for making sodomy illegal as it was for the country's entire history.\n\nReligious morality is typically a function of the evil and heartache that results from committing certain acts. God's will is quite obvious as all religions over time have considered homosexual acts sinful. It's not mere happenstance that the AIDS crisis occurred just before Lawrence was decided. But the lust of men is not easily overcome, even by God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Remember the \"Surge?\" That was supposed to be a stroke of military genius. Except it was necessary because Bush-Rumsfeld blew off the general who said beforehand it would take many more troops to secure Iraq after an initial victory. Much more, of course, but I do recall it was Bush who negotiated the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. My opinion: The whole idea of invading and occupying Iraq was a disaster to start with. And, sorry, I used the Republican denial of funds (right or wrong) as a talking point to lead into my main contention that Hillary/Obama destroyed Libya. And, as you know, many Republicans...inspired by the Koch brothers...are now turning to Hillary. To me, the \"social issues\" don't matter so much...which is why, in neoliberal/neoconservative terms, I consider Hillary to be corporate and therefore Republicanesque. I don't think the corporate types care all that much either about abortion, gay marriage, etc. Because they can do as they want with their money. Cheers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Acknowledged as one of the most liberal republicans, second only to Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Murkowski has emerged as a key swing vote in the Senate on issues backed by the Obama administration 72% of the time. She has voted with the Senate's Democratic majority on such issues as tax policy, ending the military's ban on gays in the military, and even immigration, the DREAM Act, claiming Alaskans were overwhelmingly for her \"yes\" votes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Try educating yourself on homosexual tendencies in toddlers -- \"The objects and people children play with as early as toddlerhood may provide clues to their eventual sexual orientation.\"\n\nhttps://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVjffn4BZRioAO6wnnIlQ;_ylc=X1MDMTM1MTE5NTY4NwRfcgMyBGZyA3locy1tb3ppbGxhLTAwNARncHJpZANXQVJQYm9nRFRNZXhuNXJnWWl6MGxBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMwBG9yaWdpbgNzZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tBHBvcwMwBHBxc3RyAwRwcXN0cmwDMARxc3RybAMzNwRxdWVyeQNob21vc2V4dWFsJTIwb2JzZXJ2ZWQlMjBpbiUyMHRvZGRsZXJzBHRfc3RtcAMxNTAxNjAxODg2?p=homosexual+observed+in+toddlers&fr2=sb-top&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004\n\nI don't put anyone in boxes; I simply believe what's natural to people is natural, and all people are to be respected -- not discriminated against based on gender, race, and/or sexual orientation.\n\nThanks for the personal insult, it reveals your character. It's also great way to conduct an intelligent discussion. /s.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Polygamy isn't a symptom of anything, any more than being straight, gay, bisexual or otherwise is a symptom of an affliction. All are forms of human sexuality, of which humanity has an abundance and with which every human is endowed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Only if they're gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "..actually less than 0.01% of the population for transgender. Puts the whole ridiculous debate into context. The microbe on the flea on the hair on the tail wagging the dog.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I lived in a semi rural western town. They are more religious, anti-gay, and unlikely to vote for the Liberals and NDP. Luckily, they are declining as proportion of the population.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I thought he was gay from the start but I did nto care one way or another. It is his personal business.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kai, I have no idea what it's like to be transgender. I can't imagine being so uncomfortable in my body that I'd subject myself to scorn and disdain, rejection, humiliation, even violence. You are in the new group to be ridiculed and targeted. I admire your courage and openness and wish you every happiness and success. My only advice to you is this: get yourself back into school sooner rather than later.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Shepard Smith is gay. He just announced it a while ago when he went through that \"Skeletor-thing\". He dropped down to about 80 lbs and everybody was talking about it. He is all over the place and needs to be tamed or fired from FOX. \nBut, you can't criticize him or you are a \"homophobe\". Be carefull!\n(ROTFLMAO!)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "perhaps you missed their point by what you said. You say you disagree, ok fair enough, but you also said they CHOSE a lifestyle which they DID NOT! that is the ignorance and the way you said it which definitely implies the hate not disagreement. If you really had an open mind and think, why would anyone CHOOSE and subject oneself to all the hate? would you choose something to be hated and persecuted? I think not! As for the kids, they will grow up and be who they are, gay or straight. Being around a gay person isn't going to 'make them gay'. if they are gay they will know and hopefully enjoy life free from hate and persecution. but alas I don't think you will ever get it as I believe you are too closed minded and can't see the forest for the trees!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The story's source is ONE single journalist, working for a so-called 'independent\n Russian newspaper' with foreign owners. Nevertheless, it might be true, but it is not an isolated situation by far.\nThe focus on Chechnya, which is part of Russia is very suspect, exploited by the anti-Russian propaganda campaign. Similar abuse, or mistreatment (of not just gays, but religious and racial minorities) is taking place worldwide in a lot more countries, than not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The international community must respond to attacks on gay men in Chechnya\"\n\nSuch attacks are deplorable, but if we acted every time a columnist told us we \"must\" something, there'd be no time to enjoy an occasional doob.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Great, no one is forcing the baker to make wedding cakes. The government says make cakes for all protected classes or do not make them for anyone. The baker agreed to that in writing. Then he went back on his word.\n\nHe is still in business, Big Guy. You really do not understand the legal issues surrounding this. It is odd. \nHow does he know if he is making a cake for a gay wedding? Is he going to ask every one?\n\nHow is it forcing him to compromise his beliefs if he dows not know if the couple is actually gay?\nWhat if he has made cakes for gay weddings with out knowing it!\n\nYou really have a lot of trouble understanding the legal issues surrounding this case.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I did not come out as gay until I was 29 years old, afraid that I would be rejected by family and friends. I was lonely, afraid and self hating for more than half of my life. When I finally came out, my parents and other family members told me that they had suspected that I was gay. Had they told me, \"It's okay if you are gay\", I could have been open decades earlier and had a full and rich life and a feeling of being loved.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "motleycrew, nobody is going to argue with your knowledge demonstrated in this thread. However, the topic is something different. In fact, women (and by extension transgenders) have been in US combat for the entire Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Early in the war they were unrecognized for their accomplishments because of attitudes. Tammy Duckworth was a helicopter pilot, and sustained serious injuries. This is the reality. They have been part of combat in many other countries for much longer. The only reason we are having this discussion now is we have a sick and dysfunctional Commander In Chief.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A lawyer doesn't have to take your case. Restaurants tell you \"No shoes, No shirt, No service\". But, if you are a baker, you must participate in a ceremony antithetical to your religion? Give me a break!\nThe baker offered to bake the homosexual couple any cake they wanted - just not a wedding cake. Because doing that would make him a tacit party to a celebration of sinful behavior according to his religious beliefs.\nWhy should we as Christians, Jews and Muslims continue to allow homosexual activism to distort, disparage and destroy long-held \ntenets of our religions? If the court rules against the baker, then where is one to go to practice his and her religion in peace - if not here in our beloved America?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Help us out here, \"D.B.\" What was it that got you fired? Did you not believe that black people should be able to eat where you were bussing tables? Were you a city clerk who refused to issue a marriage license to gay people? It's interesting too that you use a nom de plume assumed by a 1971 airplane hijacker who boarded with what was thought to be a powerful bomb. \"Takes all kinds,\" doesn't it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1) Women may have progressed in the Church, but they are not treated as equal members of the Body of Christ. \n2) Perhaps the Church ought to be more of a democracy than it is. From what I have read, the early Church was far more democratic than the institution that we have today.\n3) In what sense would it not be \"proper\" to have a woman Pope? Just to allay your fears, even if the Catholic Church were to permit the ordination of women (as I believe it should), it will take many generations to have a woman Pope, so your sensibilities will, most likely not be offended, because you will probably not live to see the day.\n4) Yes, I happen to believe that it is not right that gays are not afforded the Sacrament of Matrimony.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Being gay is not a \"choice.\" I am left-handed and have been all my life. I didn't choose to be that way, I was born that way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Motley, My guess the reversal on transgender policy is mostly about personnel/medical costs. For instance, the military screens for hiv/aids prior to enlistment and mobilization (activating National Guard and Reserve troops), why? The military doesn't want to buy the disease and its treatment, it costs a lot and immediately limits what a person can and can't do. If the military allows transgenders into its ranks, folks could then enlist and demand sex change procedures and then get out, creating and continuous cycle of some folks enlisting only for the sex change. I'm not really well informed on this issue but my guess is medical costs and treatments for a male to become a woman and woman to become a male is expensive and requires missed duty and continuous treatment to maintain the new gender status.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Police have an extremely well documented and historically verified pattern of abuse and bigotry towards blacks, gays and women. The massive class action lawsuit against the RCMP being just one ongoing example to this day.\n\nAlthough this move by pride Toronto is understandable, it's not inclusive. But until police can reinvent themselves as trusted partners and not oppressors, they will continue to be shunned in public participation events.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They can't teach things that are illegal (gay bashing, to keep it simple) and wrong (being gay is unnatural, evolution is wrong etc.) and expect public support and money.\n\nAnd expect not to be challenged.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unless you propose a department of political correctness to police language, language tends to morph and change. \n\n\nAnd even if you were to try to enact that here via authoritarians like Trump, it still wouldn't matter on the world stage, or for the longer view. \n\n\nWords like \"gay\" will be repurposed with or without your permission. It was likely this way since the dawn of languages. \n\n\nYou would do well to get over it. The cons do a great job of reframing things - like trying to make the real meaning of \"fake news\" go down Orwell's memory hole. But they don't own the language and normal people will push back on their nonsense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "On the whole, Republican voters choose to embrace the tenets of fascism. These folks blame globalism, not technology (the actual driver of their unease), for their feelings of anxiety. Unfortunately, many of these voters, my 89 year-old grandfather included, will carry contempt for such dynamic facets of Alaskan society (immigrants, secular institutions, changing social institutions) to the grave.\n\nIn actuality, these conservative voters themselves are the ones who have changed the country over the last 40 years, not immigrants, irreligion, or gays. Our country, the one in which Trump voters older than 55 were raised, decisively rejected the dictatorial nationalist, Barry Goldwater, in '64. The people who were adults in 1960s and 70s had the pride to carry attention spans longer than 15 minutes, and the decency to trust.\n\n(I am not sure my dear grandfather will be around in 2018 or 2020, nobody else in our family in Alaska votes Republican other than to vote for Lisa M., any longer)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can someone please explain to me exactly what is meant by \"deep-seated homosexual tendencies?\"\n\nDeep seated: \u201cfirmly established at a deep or profound level.\u201d \u2013 Google\n\nHomosexual: \u201csexuality of those oriented to persons of the same gender/sex.\u201d \u2013 Common knowledge/known", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You answered with an assured and unambiguous, \"Of course they are.\" \n\nTo what, then, were you referring in your very concrete response?\n\nDo you not agree \"homosexual acts\" are by definition acts by homosexuals only and that if one is not a homosexual, one cannot commit a \"homosexual act\"? \n\nI'll ask both you and Jim, what, if any, relevance does this have for opposite sex couples who by definition cannot perform homosexual acts? i hope this discussion has not eroded into \"mechanics\" judgments about how heterosexuals love each other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The number one role no matter what your MOS is, is to be a soldier. You are a war fighter and that is the basis of your basic training. If you join and never want to pick up a gun and defend your country or have the possibility of it ever happening, you should not join. No supply chain do not usually fight, but they may ned to be there to supply the front line. The Marines make every single Marine a rifleman first. They get additional training after that.\n\nThere is no place in the military for transgender people.\n\nI for one would not have wanted one in my Mortar pit. They are a distraction and require special care. In the field everyone is green and equal. This is asking the services to make exceptions which makes you a shade of green which causes issues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm in, so long as it applies to ALL Big Money contributors to all candidates. For example, we have one candidate who claims to be a \"champion of women\" who has taken over $25 million from foreign regimes that torture and kill homosexuals and brutalize women. Will I-735 put a stop to things like that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That term might be an exaggeration, but there is no question that the AfD is not a party of tolerance. I can accept that many want to reduce immigration, but banning religious symbols is a blow for freedom.\n\nThe party also opposes gay marriage, are climate change deniers, and is in favour of reinstating conscription.\n\nThe combination of nationalism, religious intolerance, and socially backward policy is not something to celebrate. That said, I am not overly concerned since I think this flirtation with the far right is a blip rather than a trend.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are many folks who do not cater to the \"gay thing\", as long as \"they live and let live\", who cares. I chose to avoid things I don't care for but do it quietly, have a nice day.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Johns Hopkins and Fairfield Universities\n\nPart 5 of 6 parts\n\nP.S. Bottom line: To reiterate, while I invariably have a laissez-faire attitude towards almost everyone when it comes to interpersonal relations, predicated upon personal anecdotal experience I respectfully believe that gays, lesbians and yes even transgender personnel shouldn't serve within combat units in the U.S. military. Why? Yes, it's probably unfair and according to many overly draconian, but it's one thing for the foregoing to serve openly within garrison duties, but in combat when everyone's life or death literally is on the line, I respectfully believe that it's just too much on the plates of the U.S. military combat-arms commanders to have to deal not only with the avowed enemy, but also to have to deal with the invariably internecine squabbles/fraught/fomented by aberrant sexual proclivities on the part of the men and women under his/her command. \n\nFred Harden III AKA \"GreyHairandGreyMatter\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am also concerned that someone is going to get seriously hurt opposing a transgender athlete. Despite the claims that body and muscle mass change- and I am sure they do- do they change enough to put transgender athletes on a level playing field? I remember when MMX fighter Fallon Fox nearly tore the head off of one of her opponents. She eventually did meet her match but it opens up these sports to being subject to unfair and possibly dangerous competitive levels.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have not advanced one argument against Obergefell v. Hodges based on \u201cdisapproval of homosexuals\u201d, let alone \u201carguments\u201d.\n\nThe right of privacy is a wonderful thing. The \u201cright of privacy\u201d the Supreme Court has constructed all on its own is a rather ghastly thing which it uses to oppose legitimate state rights, natural law, commonsense, and the democratic process.\n\nThe discussion is about the society in which we live and wish to live in, not the personal effects of any particular law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "TDW. Clearly you are one of those right-wingers who don't want to pay any taxes at all. You want the government out of your life unless of course your house floods and then you want the government to bail you out.\n\nI'm also sure that you don't want the government tell you what to do in any portion of your life. However I am equally sure that you have a strong belief on the War on Drugs, on whether or not women should be allowed to get abortions, whether or not gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry or even exist.\n\nHere is my suggestion to you this will stop you from having to pay any taxes at all. Get in your car and drive as far north as you can until you're at the end of the last Road. Now get out of your car and throw the keys into the bush and walk into the bush and live there. Don't use the roads that others pay for or any of the other infrastructure and then you can feel good about not paying taxes and you can stop being a parasite living off the taxes others pay", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And how do you feel about the legal/civil right on homosexuals? You don't have to guess if you stick to your own opinion.\n\nI agree, (My post from this morning not showing?). The chances of Muslims leadership supporting LGBT rights are small and none.\nIt's always stunned me that some liberals defend ultra conservative/authoritarian Muslim culture. \n\nI fine with Muslim in my neighborhood and would find it interesting. That doesn't mean I want to be a Muslim. I hope most 'liberals' think the same way? \n\nOf course I don't understand why Conservatives fear Muslims considering their values align pretty well with fundementalist in the Christian church on issues like: birth control, abortion, homosexuality, male centered family, narrowly defined rolls for women in a Muslim society, elite wealth controlling most authority.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dogma can change, but it takes a council as authoritative as Chalcedon, Ephesus and Nicea. Sexual morality arguments are not dogma, by the way. They are natural law teachings. Dogma is about what the Church agrees to (and Rome did after the fact, they were Aryan at the time of the great councils), not the Church thinking for us.\n\nBy the way, it was Dogma to never accept the priority of a long time gay companion in a Catholic hospital, instead favoring the family of origin and attempting to get the individual to recant his lifestyle while not letting him or her see the person they love most. The Catholic Hospital Association has recanted from such nonsense. Gay spouses now have priority (and it was the case before the law changed).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Obergefell was decided on precisely the same grounds as Loving.\" \nAnd therein lies its absurdity, for it IS absurd to say that the race of a spouse --- which has NOTHING to do with marriage --- is on a par with sex, which has EVERYTHING to do with marriage. Indeed, to allow for gay marriage, you had to REDEFINE marriage. No such re-definition was required in the Loving case. \n\nYou call me and those who disapprove of gay marriage homophobes. That is the demagoguery of the left --- one reason why you lost the election. Americans have become sick of the lie it entails.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So I just want to point another thing. If a bakery can get sued for not making a wedding cake for a Gay couple why is it OK for me to be in Utah and not able to get a cup of coffee because the Mormons don't want to serve coffee for religious reasons? Should I sue the owner of the Conoco Station? So when you are on a flight from USA to Middle East and the Flight attendant is Muslim and will not serve you a glass of wine you will be cool with that? You realize alcohol is not allowed in most Middle Eastern countries. Get enough of them together and they can vote it in. I think we see this happening in Europe where I am afraid to say they should had thought of this stuff years ago.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Attention readers of the G&M, and fyi, an out and proud lesbian is a dyke and a seawall is regarded as offensive by this epaper and blotted out with ****. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English, a dike is a \"long wall or embankment against flooding\" This Trudeau political correctness has gone too far. \nlol.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just pull one out of Justine's playbook, when it's too hot, either leave the country and find a friendly audience most likely bribed with Canadian taxdollars, march in any gay pride parade, anywhere any time, and finally grab the nearest baby or refugee and snap a few selfies.\n\nOh yeah, call everyone, especially small businesses tax evaders and also kill off tax credits for children, but insert a boutique deduction for teachers only. Next step, keep borrowing until Canada has to sell off assets for pennies, finally make sure you can get a job with with one of these private firms once you're done selling off assets you don't own, then fill your bank accounts tax free in the bahamas, but don't forget to scold working Canadians about not paying their fair share, snap selfie, prance in parade, travel to bahamas on billionaire's helicopter. \n\nThis country is doomed, and we need to stop it before we become like wynne's ontario", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good point.\n ALL present and past Colonization was and is \"Ideological Colonization\". We thought it was a great idea when it was called \"Spreading Christianity\".\n Now we want to make it a perjorative term when some group or nation or donors want to promote something we disapprove of. \n Opposing female circumcision, child marriages, polygamy, or a host of \"non-Christian\" things is all \"enlightenment\" and wonderful and good.\n Proposing respect for homosexuals or considering same sex marriage, or suggesting legalizing contraceptives, not even to mention de-criminalising abortion \u2013 this is the terrible new thing we want to tag as \"Ideological Colonization\".\n And now that we have pretty much done with our own colonizing of Asia, and Australlia, and Africa, and North and South America, everyone knows how bad \"Colonization\" is!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "''...poverty, health care, infrastructure, the lunatic in North Korea, public education, climate change and helping Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey...\" I think you are answering the question by asking him to focus on these issues--none of these issues appeal to him, and some of these he doesn't even believe are real issues, poverty and climate change. In the case of healthcare you can find a tape or tweet of him saying virtually anything...including healthcare for all and cheap. He's an idiot, plain and simple...the bogeyman of e-mail, foundations, Obama being so much cooler, and liked, than him, is what possesses his time and twits, sorry tweets. Of crowd size, optics, size of her chest, these are what matters. His misstatements about transgender folks serving in the military would make great fodder for Faux but few others. The fear is the driver...share the same bathrooms keeps coming up. Then there's the fear of peeping in showers, sounds like our creep president!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is it that I'm throwing stones? I was just responding to you and your remark that other religions beside Christianity hate homosexuals, too. (I really dislike that saying \"love the sinner, hate the sin,\" because it exudes an air of superiority, not love.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"You're saying that Islam is to blame?\n\nCorrect.\n\n\"Overwhelmingly, those who have committed terrorist attacks in the US and Europe aren\u2019t Muslim.\"\n\nStats, please.\n\n1 case 5 years ago in Norway. Got it. You can't be serious right now.\n\nGive us where you got your stats on attacks by Christians- I'll see ALL of them, combined, and raise you one single attack on a gay night club in Florida by an Islamic terrorist who directly supports Clinton- as does his ISIS-supporting father, who also showed up at her rally to support her.\n\nOh- also please find us where the Oklahoma City bombing occurred because of Christianity. The offender was Catholic: what direct link was there again, between that and his actions?\n\nSeriously, get your stats elsewhere besides Vox- that would be super helpful to you.\n\nthereligionofpeace.com", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"It isn\u2019t just \u201cConservative Christians.\u201d Any such ruling would apply equally to Orthodox Jews, Fundamentalist Muslims, and any others who do not like being forced to sacrifice their faith-based principles in order to conduct business.\"\n===========\nThe ironic thing is that if I went into a bakery and asked for a \"traditional husband and wife wedding cake\" and the baker said, \"You do realize that I am gay and this bakery only makes wedding cakes for same-sex couples\".....I would have thanked him for his time and gone elsewhere. \n-\nNow the SCOTUS will rule with regards to Masterpiece Bakery....and the ruling on \"the principle of it.\" Be prepared. I was. I am. I'm not sure how the vote will go....but I will be shocked if it is not another 5-4 one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think this story puts pressure on NBA commissioner Silver. If the LGBTQ-rights people are supporting the action by the cyclist policy, will they put pressure on other sport-related entities to change their ways for transgenders? \n\nSilver was massively upset over North Carolina's law related to transgender people so much he relocated the All-Star game out of North Carolina. Silver doesn't care who uses what bathroom in Charlotte (no matter who the person \"feels\" like) but Silver's massively sexist league continued its ways. \n\nWhen you have a woman; a 101 percent woman; a woman who acts, talks and thinks like a woman; a woman who has the evidence she is a woman when you look down her pants - she can't play in the NBA. She has to play in the women's professional league. \n\nSilver wants people included with equality and respect and no discrimination. But that's only for ticket buyers. As for the players on the court, all of that is thrown out the window.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nobody dares stand up to the lesbians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gandhi's followers learned to accept blows from British soldiers without retaliating in kind. Perhaps gay activists could take a lesson from Gandhi. \n\nI see this as an issue of competing rights. That the SC took the case makes me think it also sees this as an issue of competing rights.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In supporting transgender service members, AG Chin demonstrates consistency in his support for minorities that are under assault by Trump. As Americans we are \"one nation, indivisible,\" but Trump is trying to divide us. As Americans we believe that we are all created equal, but Trump is emphasizing differences that lead to unequal treatment. As Americans we believe in equal opportunity, but Trump is closing off opportunities for some. Trump is trying to destroy American values in order to promote his image among his cultish followers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I voted for the \"common sense\" option that President Donald Trump made the a \"common sense\" decision to banned \"Transgenders\" in the Military. As a U.S. Army retiree during my watch you \"never\" heard of Transgenders\" or even homosexuals or Lesbians in the military. Although they may have \"\"close-closet\" homosexuals and Lesbians. But today America is changing rapidly from a common sense society to a \"political correctness\" society. But one thing that has never change, military leaders and I would say 99.9 percent of military personnel feels President Donald Trump made the right decision. In fact when our Muslim or pro-Muslim President Barack Hussien Obama put out the executive order to let transgenders into the military, everyone in the military were forced to accept this liberal political correctness order. My only concern is that President Trump DOES NOT reverse his banned decision from the pressure of the anti-God liberal Democrats. Thank you Mr. President.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You 'surmise' correctly. \n\nI decided, on hearing of the higher than average incidences of suicidal ideation and death among young LGBT people, to research the topic of homosexuality and to examine my own homophobia. As a Christian, I could do no less. You?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"we\u2019re going to take our time and get it right\u201d\n\nThis is terrible news for gay men convicted under religiously-based laws before 1969 whose lives were blighted by \"criminal\" records for nothing. Many are in their 70s or 80s and won't live to see vindication. The records should be expunged now, not 3 years from now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ex-priests are still priests forever and most keep their state license to do marriages. The gay priesthood has always been with us, but their share increased when the heteros left to marry. Now that the gays can marry too, there will be less gay priests. Mary wasted her time if she came to give us a sex lecture.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why are Christians so opposed to Gay marriage? I thought getting married was far preferable to just shacking up together.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Back then Leonard Bernstein would fly into Portland incognito to meet with friends and party at the gay hangouts. Given the times, he, much like Cole Porter, were \"quiet\" gays with understanding wives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is a classic Chicken Little \"the sky is falling\" slippery slope argument, and like all slippery slope arguments is based on nothing but irrational fear. \n\nFor generation upon generation Catholic priests, Protestant ministers, Jewish rabbis, etc. have been perfectly free to tell straight couples that for whatever reason they cannot be married in a particular house of faith. The reasons are myriad: incompatibility based on the cleric's assessment of the couple, the couple's failure to comply with one or more requirements as established by the church, synagogue, or mosque, or even if the cleric just doesn't think a couple is ready to make a marital commitment. No civil authority has ever censured a church for doing so in any way because churches have always had license under the Constitution to decide such things for themselves. \n\nWhat on earth makes you think any of that will change now that gay people can get married at city hall?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are a lot less self declared catholics in Germany than Spain, yet Spain has legalized gay marriage more than a decade ago.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CONTINUED from ABOVE:\n\nI refer of course to the American Eugenics Movement, which inspired Hitler and which argued that certain \"lineages\" should be forcibly sterilized or otherwise eliminated, to \"improve\" humans by culling \"inferiors\". Who decides what's inferior? That has literally proved to be a life or death question.\n\nRegarding your last question as to my \"deciding\" to be heterosexual, that isn't the RIGHT question if you would understand the logical fallacy of claiming certain behaviors \"inborn\" without evidence. It is as inaccurate a comparison as trying to equate \"gay\" and \"interracial\" marriages in this context.\n\nI'll use myself as an example why the comparison can't be used to claim choice-of-mate is \"inborn\", i.e. controlled by genetics. I'm mixed European and Arab. I've had three wives. Two are black. One is half-Thai and half Texan. So am I \"genetically wired\" to marry black women? Or Thai women? Or (God forbid) Texas women? What's your answer? I'll wait.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because it's true.\nConservative Christians want to use \"freedom of conscience\" to deny goods and services to gay people, while at the same time they would be outraged if someone discriminated against them.\nThat is what the baker's lawsuit is all about. That's why so0 many conservative Christian groups support the baker.\nFreedom of conscience for you, but not for me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So this is basically an effort to try to establish some kind of right to refuse service to gays/transgender people, because of religious convictions on the part of service people? And an effort to keep trannies out of the bathrooms? Is that it?\n\nOK, if your religious convictions are so \"deeply held\", how exactly does it pencil that you need to discriminate against anyone? Aren't you supposed to leave judgement to the Lord?\n\nThe whole concept is off the rails, even by the magical thinking standards of religion. \n\nAs far as trying to keep the trannies out of the locker rooms and bathrooms, that's just silly. If measures like that make it past the common sense of the voters, you'll either have people going to use the restrooms who REALLY don't look like they belong there (which is SURE to make everyone feel real comfortable), or no one will be the wiser. What are you gonna do---Station guards to do panty-checks? \"I'm sorry 'Ma'am', you appear to have an adam's apple...\"\n\nFOTFL!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you are wrong, then you are simply wrong. \n\nAnd a onetime resident, I can say flatly, you sir are wrong.\n\nThey were (and are) doing what could reasonably be done to deal with the high likelihood of massive flood events in Houston. As an outsider, who has only read at most a few articles on the subject, you could not possibly be aware of all the different projects which each of the Houston flood districts have done over the years to mitigate this current flooding event. Those who actually DO know, have pointed this out to you, but you persist in your political diatribe. \n\nYou continue to try to make his some kind of a political failure, and link it to your general view of conservative America, without the slightest idea of what the current political climate is in Houston, (it's mayor was a gay female until recently for instance) or even what the particulars are about ANY of this prejudicial opinion of yours.\n\nAgain, this does not reflect well upon your character.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because she wants resonable guns laws, as do the vast majority of Americans she should not have armed secret service agents...and implied because little d's supporters would try to do her harm. This is bats@3t crazy, off the wall nuts that riles up the worst in people. You would vote for that? Really? Or is just to stick it to the man who took your job, made you accept gay marriage, honors diversity in race and religion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This should come as no surprise. Of course Trudeau is popular in Quebec with his unwavering support for all things Quebec (e.g. Bombardier, environmentalists, supply management, gay parades etc.). If it can be bought, it can be won. Outside of Quebec it's another story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nice to use anti-misogyny as an excuse for a thinly-veiled homophobic rant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good ole Wes is pandering to the valley, just like he was pandering to comments of Republican Indiana Rep. Bob Morris, who called the Girl Scouts a \u201cradicalized organization\u201d alleging that they \u201care a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood, encourage sex and allow transgender females to join.\u201d\n\nWhere are Wes's specific spending cut proposals in this article? And to think he was a logical thinking math major in college. I just love these free re-election ads/ropes to hang themselves with, that ADN keeps giving these legislators. Once again, another con who conveniently leaves SB21 tax credits out of the conversation completely.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I thought that being trans was a good thing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cont. \n\nChange will eventually come, but only after an entire generation of homophobes die out. By then it will probably be too late to rescue the church from the reputation for intolerance it has rightfully earned for itself. Pope Francis surely understands this but there's only so much he can do short of convening another Vatican Council. Given the high cost of hosting a Vatican council not to mention the valid concerns over terrorism, I suspect doctrine on LGTB issues will remain, stagnate, and eventually go stale the same way church teaching on contraception has gone stale. People will pay less and less attention to that teaching, further eroding the bishops' authority and further marginalizing their influence. As Martha Stewart would say, \"that's a good thing.\" \n\nSo, in the end, patience is the better part of valor, but young people are not so patient, and why should they be? Justice shouldn't have to wait. Sadly, for gay people in this church, patience is our only option.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He only used the phrase \"our women\" once; in the same manner that one will refer to \"our citizens or our men\" in reference to us as a nation or country. I think you are guilty of distortion here. Don't let hate and anger blind you. The subject of patriarchy is not as simple as you make it out to be i.e. men vs. women. This is about society and the role/parts that the various social groups (dominant and dominated) play - consciously or unconsciously - in perpetrating the unequal social relations. If you don't believe me, just look how the majority of \"our men and women\" relate with \"gays and lesbians\" because they believe that these people are not man or woman enough", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a conservative, I wholeheartedly endorse that all people have dignity, and that Catholic schools need to teach that all people are made in the image and likeness of God, as long as the Church's authentic teaching against homosexual behavior is fully taught and understood at the same time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The only issue are the immigrants that are not willing to assimilate at all and in fact start demanding Sharia law etc. Go back to your own wrecked country if you want all that. If you can be civil and won't try to force your ancient fantasies on me and especially women and gays, then it's all fine and dandy! :)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Odd how the left deplores the influence of Evangelicals, but wax on about their love of freedom and \"people's voices\".\n\nThey way overplay the LGBT voice, yet we know their presence is far smaller than evangelicals.\n\nThey're blind to their errors, but they're also indifferent to them!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You know, I just reread this and all the comments.\n\nI really am both amazed and shocked at the viciousness, hatred, and pure vitriol offered as \"civil\" comments. If some of these comments were directed at anyone other than the Cardinal, they would never have passed peer review...and if one did slip through, it would have been flagged.\n\nSo many of the posters offering these \"comments\" claim to be followers of Francis - he who calls for a cessation of vitriol and mercy. So many claim to be accepting of those who are different - but see nothing wrong with calling the Cardinal a \"vicious queen\" - if that remark were offered to one of the homosexual posters here, I can't imagine what would have happened.\n\nThe judgemental and hateful remarks here are embarrassing, yet those making them call themselves Christian. Commenters feed off the hate of the previous remark, trying to outdo it with greater hatred.\n\nHope they're proud. I am disgusted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why would I want to work? I do just fine with my monthly welfare checks and food stamps. I've got an appointment this afternoon with a nice young man who's going to trade me oxycontin for my food stamps which I'm going to then flip for a \"date\" with a transgendered homeless person. I'm all up in your wheelhouse Wavemaker. Nobody is more upset that HRC lost the election than you and I are. You and I think alike wavy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Further light is shed on this at the Catholic Education Resource Center website where the hilariously titled \"Serving LGBT Students in Catholic Schools\" makes it clear that science simply isn't relevant. Transgenderism is described as \"willful gender confusion\" that Catholic schools must never tolerate. It is recommended that schools stick rigorously to the Catholic line--no exceptions allowed--as the . . . wait for it: best protection against litigation. This is clearly what is on the minds of those who gave us these guidelines, not the psychological or physical health of transgendered students. \n\nhttp://www.catholiceducation.org/en/education/other-topics/serving-lgbt-students-in-catholic-schools.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "AMEN!\n\nAs a Canadian-Mexican who emigrated South over a decade ago, I've been preaching the author's message for years.\n\nPrior to the implementation of the Visa requirement, Canada was awash in bogus Mexican refugees. Gullible media were fanning the flames of the oppressed. Stories about LBGT Mexicans finding refuge were common. Problem was, Mexico has gay regions that would put San Francisco to shame. I'm no expert, but I'm sure Mexico has a higher percentage of openly gay citizens than any country in the Americas.....not that there's anything wrong with that.\n\nMexico is a vast country, with opportunities for anyone willing to work. If life becomes uncomfortable in a certain region, nothing prevents in-country relocation, just as someone could move from the Downtown Eastside to Medicine Hat or from Detroit to Billings......For the vast majority of 'refugees', the rational for the move is economic. Mexico is a democracy. Imperfect, yes, but certainly not a tyranny.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fact of the matter is that the word \"they\" denotes the plural, like it or not, and if transgendered individuals do not like it - tough.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll consider signing on to a movement to deplore \"Islamophobia\" when Islam declares that apostasy, homosexuality, and blasphemy are no longer punishable by death.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is a homosexual (\"gay\") person but someone who embraces and is willing to act upon a predisposition to engage in acts which are sinful according to the Church? Do we not expect people to avoid the temptation to engage in other sins, even with the best of intentions? So why do we make an exception for those who willingly take-on the label of \"gay?\" Is it because they present themselves as such nice people who have been saddled with the challenge of same-sex attraction? Is \"nice\" the new standard for sinfulness?\n\nAll the Church asks of us is to resist temptation and to confess our sins when we falter. Yet for those with same-sex attraction this is not enough. Contrary to popular explanation, chastity is not the only other option for those with same-sex attraction. There is love, which knows no sex: accept the blessing of a loving opposite-sex partner. Even learn to enjoy sex with that person and have children. It's been done for 1000s of years.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, yes. Abortion is a bad example, because the argument will devolve into a fight over whether a fetus is a person or not.\n\nBut let's take a simpler example: gay civil marriage. Many cultural conservatives say that allowing two men or two women to marry infringes on their rights. How? In what possible way does allowing someone else to marry affect you? Does it stop straights from marrying? Yet the opposition to Obergeffel was typically framed in terms of \"this goes against my religious rights\". Again, how?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps the Canadian Islam scholar Dr.Wael Shihab should explain his opinion on inclusion: \"Homosexuality is a sinful act in Islam....We should have deep repugnance to their acts (homosexuals')...we should not take them as friends\". \n\nOr regarding transsexuals \"return back to his/her original sex...Muslim community may take special measures in order to cope with the current situation until he/she overcomes his/her problem\".\n\nRegarding the woman's obligation to keep herself desirable for her husband \"If she neglects herself the husband has the right to interfere with her freedom to rectify the situation\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Phrogge,\nI agree with you, but I might take it one step further here. I think where the church has gotten itself tangled up is in the transition between how jesus lived, and the concept of \"commands\" of or by Jesus. \n\nI think his \"commands\" were very simple: Love God, Love your neighbor. In all likelihood, all else was about examples of what that might mean. I think when we try to interpret Gospel stories as a \"command\" by Jesus, we miss the point. The cost of that \"miss\" plays out in the hot button issues of our day. I could imagine a very different position for a vibrant church today, for example, if the focus were on just those two commands, followed by good faith efforts to understand how those might apply to homosexuals, woman's ordination, the scandal, etc.\n\nI agree that we have all the tools we need today. Can/will we use them? I think there's a growing sense that if we are to use them, we'll have to find a place outside the church to do so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "... in some respects, I agree, I love cake and will NEVER go to this cake shop, EVER ... the affluent gay couple across the street have 2 kids, they throw well catered parties, they'll NEVER to go to this cake shop either.\n\nI almost prefer knowing so I can boycott and let my community know as well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are many differences among the sexes. So what? Science shows that generally females fall within a certain range of strength, height, muscle density, etc. It is unfair to put a male in with females. \n\nNobody is prejudiced about trans people. If anything, a lot of people are fed up with trans folks wanting us to mirror their delusion. I am sympathetic with mental illnesses of all sorts, but just as I will not tell the anorexic that they are correct, they are fat and need to lose weight, I will not parrot this litany that men are women. They just aren't. \n\nI see you are lobbying everyone on this discussion who disagrees with you. And I have to wonder why you are carrying out what looks like a political lobby when science speaks quite clearly on this. Your answer above is, in fact, quite illogical since if you rank all the top tennis players in the world, Serena Williams does not even come near the top, nor in the top five hundred. And body strength is very much an issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You loath conservatives but you defend Islam. Don't bayou even know what Islam teaches? As a progressive don't you support LGBT rights? Women's rights? Education? I don't agree with that poster's comments. The irony is you do the exact same thing towards conservatives. How do you reconcile that?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What's true is your projecting your bias onto other people.\n\nI'm a liberal and I don't care about political correctness as I do much as I do the truth, (which has evidence). Issues of morality or ethics are personal, I don't expect others to have exactly the same beliefs, nor do I demand it. \n\nLiberal is also the base word for the word 'libertarian' Don. Liberals also should stand for the right of the individual to make their own choice for happiness. IMO\n\nPolitical correctness? How about demanding all people have to stand for the national anthem or they don't love their country. How about a gay person must hide being gay in public and accept less than equal civil rights?\nHow about woman must know her place,(house), or accepting being groped by the boss?\n=====\nReally the problem is that everybody wants to use their own positive, or negative bias to define liberals, or conservatives. \n\nMaybe we should just drop the labeling.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The homophobia displayed in many of the comments is appalling. \nI wish that those who are so concerned with saving the souls of others would become more concerned with their own souls and leave the rest of us to God and our consciences.\nNo gay person is pushing anyone else to be gay. If some think or believe that homosexual sex is sinful, they should not engage in it.\nThe fact is that none of us knows for sure what God thinks. We choose to believe what we will. But believing is not the same as knowing.\nFor those who insist on following the Scripture, there is much more written in Scripture about treating others with love and respect than there is about homosexuality.\nSo, stop, already.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How can there be homosexual and transgender clubs in Catholic schools when the Catholic Church condemns their behaviour as gravely sinful and intrinsically disordered?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I use LGBT too, and like your brother I call myself gay and leave it at that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What's bigoted about \"person having same-sex attraction?\" Are not people who self-identify with the euphemism \"gay\" attracted to people of the same sex?\n\nI was replying to your suggestion that I am not sympathetic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A. Per RAND (the defense specialist consultant) there are ALREADY 11,000 transgender service personnel in place.\n\nB. Per the Supreme Court (the constitutional experts) the Consitution forbids bigotry to be the basis for governmental decision making. Transgendered people have ALREADY been cleared by the Pentagon to serve because there is no military basis to exclude them from most positions.\n\nC. Because we don't let FAILED Presidents use 'culture wars' to save their criminal backside from political and legal jeopardy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is it a coincidence that I'm back and those who agreed with him focused on \"Gay parades?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Science is the enemy of social justice warriors, hardcore feminists, LGBT radicals. They just cite each other's dubious opinions as fact to push their agendas.\n\nTo hear them speak we're like Saudi Arabia, but clearly there has to be some rational, fact based scientific methods included in the debate. In Canada we currently have more Female Premiers and politicians than ever before, we even have a gay Premier in Ontario. But to equate simple quotas to fairness is wrong, look at the disaster that Ontario has become under Wynne, her policies will destroy the province and lead to long term misery for a broad section of the population. \n\nThey ignore the fact that having a proportional number of women, trans, gays in every industry and government will be a disaster, and sexism or homophobia has nothing to do with it. Just the way they want it.\n\nDo they want to mandate that every gay or trans club or women's club should have 50% men on the boards?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a gay man I have more to fear from Muslims than from Christians. The Orlando massacre was done by a devout Muslim with assistance from a host of others, who praised Allah while killing 50 LGBT people. No Catholic has ever done that. At worst, a Mormon might not bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. I can live with that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From your comments thus far, you venture your various opinions without any sort of substantiation or backing evidence. That is certainly your prerogative but if you're attempting to argue a point wouldn't it be more convincing if you had evidence to support your claims? When you assert that the vast majority go back to being gay and the exceptions are due to lack of sex drive what are you basing that on?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, yes, sky...I agree. but you missed a real opportunity in replying to Giveup. Try this one on: \nBoys today have very few male role models. The parents maybe divorced and they only see the father on weekends. Worse, all the way through elementary they likely will NOT have male teachers. All their influences are women, the baby sitters, teachers, nannies etc.\nSo these boys today in fact do not really understand men at all, how can they? It even encourages them to become gay by rejecting women. That is why there are more gay men today then ever before.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here are some points to ponder.\n\nA well publicized recent poll of over 100,000 British Muslims, revealed the following results:\n\n\"... 23% of British Muslims said Islamic Sharia law should replace British law in areas with large Muslim populations.\n\nOn social issues, 52% of the Muslims surveyed said they believe homosexuality should be illegal, compared to 22% of non-Muslim Britons. Nearly half believe it is unacceptable for a gay or lesbian to teach their children. At the same time, almost a third (31%) of British Muslims think polygamy should be legalized. Among 18-to-24-year-olds, 35% think it is acceptable to have more than one wife...\"\n\nIt is a very dangerous fantasy to have to hope that secularization amongst Muslims is going to accelerate\n\nToo dangerous.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They witness to the resurrection, not clarify it. The Sacraments are their job, at least until Eucharist is equated with Sedar. They could do it better, especially with regard to gay couples and the victims of bad marriages, but by and large they are good at performing the rituals. That does not give them any superiority in thinking for us, especially when the hierarchy uses the vow of obedience to silence dissident clergy and ignores obvious evidence, as well as being unconscious to how its own sexuality affects teaching, not as a blessing but an intrusion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For years it was never a problem. A transgender person merely went into the bathroom of their choice and used a stall. No one was the wiser. But then it got pushed into everyone's face and problems resulted. There would be no way to stop a person who identified, true or not, as the opposite sex from entering a bathroom. Bigger problem is showers and locker rooms, a person of the opposite sex regardless how they identify should not be in the men's o woman's locker room. Think what would happen if I strolled into the women's locker room at the Alaska Club. All I would have to say is I identify as a woman and no one could d anything.\nAnd I agree pairing this with racial discrimination is so much horse manure.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "But I do get to note who is making the complaint. And it's groups famous for their homophobic comments, their opposition to same-sex marriage, their support of the right of religious people to discriminate against the LGBT community. It's a fake complaint.\n\nNow, had Colbert said Trump was kissing Putin's A**, who would that be demeaning? The people calling this homophobic rather than suspect, are hypocrites. It's prison slang. Sometimes attributed to the US Marines. It's not from LGBT slang.\n\nIt is more likely to shock the homophobic than those who are gay. Both Putin and Trump are macho men, or pretend to be so. So to suggest they engage in a prison-like act of submission is derogatory.\n\nIt should be recalled that acts of same-sex submission is common in the animal world where hierarchy matters. That's where this slang comes from. It doesn't come from the LGBT world.\n\nIs it offensive to the LGBT community? It can be. The LGBT community has been fighting stereotyping. This ain't that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is refusing to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple any different than refusing to serve someone because of the color of their skin, or their religion? If the gay couple in this case were asking for the baker to make a cake that was different in any way than from what they normally make on a daily basis, then sure - I could understand and agree. But by all accounts, this baker made wedding cakes for heterosexual couples all the time. And at no point was the couple wanting the baker himself to serve the cake or participate in the wedding in ANY way. So, this whole \"religious rights\" things is just complete BS. Allowing a company to discriminate against any set of people, opens to door to allow any business to discriminate against anyone for any reason.\n\nWe have business laws in this country to protect EVERYONE. So that everyone gets treated equally. If you dont want to serve a specific subset of people, then maybe you should not get into the service industry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Show the peer-reviewed genetic-based scientific evidence that these people were \"born homosexual\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For God's sake, the Doctor is an ALIEN. Doing something that an ALIEN would do. That doesn't make him \"transgender\". He will not identify as transgender nor did he have gender dysphoria. Identifying as the opposite gender and taking hormones and going through surgery is not the same thing as dying and coming back in the form of the opposite sex through some alien process. A clownfish changing sex is probably closer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, the old slur tactic: lump gay men in with pedophiles, as if the genitals of somebody's sexual partner was a more important distinction than whether the sex is consensual. (Or indeed whether it happens at all, given that you're talking about banning even celibate gay men from seminary.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yeah, but Mardi Gras is an event in which everyone is \"getting their sin in\" before Lent. What's the Gay Pride paraders' motivation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "the parents of Gay children will not have to worry when Kenney forms the next government.\nthere won't be soldiers in the streets or burning crosses.\nthe voters will choose prosperity over fake outrage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why do you only single out the transgenders? Are there not other class of people that require time to heal? The alcoholics, the drug dependents and women? Do they not take away time to recover while his or her replacement dodge bullets? The point is you have a bias against transgenders because of your perception of \"special treatment\". And I represent to you that your perception of special treatment is unfounded. Also cost is relevant, it is Trump's primary argument to exclude transgenders.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would say if you were not born Gay they still aren't sinful. Love who you will.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This bakery apparently doesn't do cakes for gay marriages, go to the one down the street.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Subaru website says 1500 pounds. To be safe with the tranny I'd say 1000 pounds!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Radicalization is taught at home, around the dinner table, as the family enjoys mom's good home cooking, while the grown ups discuss destroying Israel, eradicating homosexuals and the evils of dirty infidels It is drilled into young minds with every tale of glorious martyrdom for Allah in every mosque in every city around the world. Extremism for Islam is taught the same way Christians are taught about Jesus and his message of mercy and forgiveness. It is not at odds with the teachings, but is central to the religion", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Polis really can not win statewide. Far too many here will be opposed to him for his being gay and far left. \n\nHick has shown that a moderate is IDEAL and can accomplish a lot in our state. \nNoel Ginsburg would be ideal, but his campaign is as low key as he is and really does not stand much of a chance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is it kosher to say I find the entire transgender thing slightly creepy?\n But, hey, folks, you've been asking for social equality for decades. You got it.\n What more can you possibly ask for?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly. If they can dump Trump after two years, they'll be anticipating that Pence will run twice. Where Trump lacks any intellectual or moral convictions of any kind, Pence is the real deal: a right wing extremist, an ideologue who trades in the culture wars, especially gay bashing. He once enjoyed a reputation for personal integrity, but by shilling for Trump he's squandered that reputation -- which won't matter in the least to his fellow right wingers.\nTrump is obviously a fascist and dangerously unstable. I think the best strategy for those who recognize that is to do everything possible to contain and minimize the damage he will do over the next two years, and then work hard to deprive him of the Republican majorities in the 2018 election; then, in 2020, the voters can return both Trump and Pence to private life. There is no doubt that Trump is going to harm millions of people. We need to do what we can to restrain him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Globe is in a state of collapse. First Leah's article, now Tabatha and the editors write a headline about about one minor figure's perspective (not Kenney who clarified what he said within 24 hours) and try to paint all Conservatives as Anti-Gay. Calling Conservative party supporters racism or homophobic is Hate propaganda and de legitimizes an entire core voter bloc of the population. \n\nI am Conservative, have a brother and brother in law who are married and have two kids born with a surrogate. I am Conservative because I dont believe in deficit spending and high taxes and the government knows more then the market. Nothing about that is racist or homophobic.\n\nShame on you Globe Editors for your Bias, I look forward to when the bunch of you get sacked. Its just around the corner.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My gay friends never ranted about having to pay property taxes so your kids could go to school. Maybe they should have gone off the deep end about having to fork over so much tax money for the results of other people's sex lives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Johnny Ellis is a class act, a warm soul who sincerely cares about others and lived it in his service. It's a shame that, despite it all, we live in a world where people try to destroy people when their preferences really don't affect them at all. I understand why Johnny kept it below the radar: to not distract from what he was trying to achieve. I also think it sucks and continue to suck that some folks think being gay is a mortal sin, and that it is okay to actively try and hurt someone for what shouldn't matter a bit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It makes me sick that despite the fact that the word homosexual is nowhere to be found in the bible, bigoted narrow-minded people like Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cake Shop https://www.facebook.com/pages/Masterpiece-Cake-Shop/116106311747019 in Lakewood Colorado, still hide behind misinterpretation. It's bad enough that my own Grandmother made me feel dirty and shameful for being gay while her own brother was a closeted homosexual that molested us as kids. I've been called fag my whole life, been beaten, violated and raped all because I was gay. And now the Supreme Court is set to hear a case of \"religious freedom\" protection that will surely make an even more unsafe world for us. What about anti-discrimination legislation to keep us protected?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay civil marriage is settled law. Live with it, especially since it should not affect you in the slightest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, the reason I keep going on about this is I despise homophobia, and Pandora's pandering to homophobes. And her incessant lying as well.\n\nI cannot abide bigotry. I have stated my reasons: My mother's family are Jews, my younger brother and some of my closest friends are gay, my daughter-in-law is black. All these people have known bigotry, and opposition to it is one of my core principles.I particularly dislike it when that bigotry is \"justified\" by an appeal to religion, which is a perversion of religion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've always wondered that too, why homosexuality (which I will never understand, actually) is the biggest thing that Christians rally against. I personally knew a straight man who committed suicide, leaving behind two teen boys! And there are many straight young parents who kill themselves, leaving behind devastated children and their own parents. Yet Christians never rally against the concept of suicide -- which leaves an enormous and permanent wake of destruction for multiple people. Few acts are more reprehensible. I also never hear of Christians rallying against child beaters and wife beaters and animal abusers--all far more heinous than loving someone of the same sex.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, there a a LOT of reasons that a business person can legally fail to provide accommodation, but this train of thought has just gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. You may refuse service to a person because you don't like the color of his shirt. But you cannot refuse service to a Christian, a Muslim, a woman, a black person, people with children, or a gay person solely because of their status. It really is that simple, and all this hypothesizing is ridiculous. Oh, the things people can contrive in their little minds.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Quote from article regarding interview with Ross Douthat of NY Times: The \"shock\" of Trump's election has focused the U.S. bishops, largely quiet on social and economic concerns over the past two decades, into a renewed energy against the administration's threat to immigrants, said the journalist.\n\nUmmm. The bishops have been \"largely quiet on social and economic concerns of the past two decades\"? I don't think so. There has been continued brouhaha over abortion, over contraceptives in health insurance, religious freedom of bishops to deny conscious rights to those who work for them, gay marriage, more. \n\nThe bishops were so focused on their issues that they helped elect far right wingers who also happen to be racists, xenophobic, misogynists, etc. (Of course, the bishops are misogynists, too.) But Trump is the ultimate example of the kind of politician bishops supported because he said the right things on a few narrow issues.\n\nTrump is the bed fellow they didn't expect, but got.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Which career will Gardner choose when he's booted out of office?\n--Used car salesman?\n--Right wing AM radio jockey?\n--Born again Televangelist huckster?\n--Gay conversion therapy counselor?\n--Bathroom signmaker?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You have answered the question yourself, \"he did not say but he 'may' have meant that the gay person might be permitted to attend alone.\"\nJH said that, \"grandparents should shun their gay children.\" I'm sure you will agree that the Cardinal said nothing of the sort.\nOf course JH prefaced this with, \"he [Cardinal Burke] said in so many words,\" which is a common device employed to misrepresent what people say or write. My comment that, \"it was not what he [Cardinal Burke] said at all,\" was absolutely correct.\nI am aware of what the Cardinal actually did say and I am in full agreement with him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So you're implying that the reason transgender people join the military is because they want the government to pay for a sex change? Really? That is a big generalization. The other fallacy you are pushing is the medical cost. You are talking about a high of $8 million of a $825 BILLION budget. That like a grain of sand on the beach. I'll bet that is cost the military far more for medical treatment for alcoholics, drug abusers, or domestic violence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Amber, you sort of got to my point. When Ellen DeGeneres (sp) came out gay, that brought a level of attention to the sexuality of gay people in TVs/movies. When the NBA player said he was gay, that brought attention to gay people in sports, etc. I was expecting some attention to gay-owned businesses during the cake issue. Why hasn't there been a story about LGBT and the economy in general. Did I miss those stories?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well lets take a survey.. I freely admit I was abused by my lesbian lover.\n\nWho else was?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pope Francis has had some pretty harsh words about transgender persons. He compared transgender people to nuclear weapons saying both do not \"recognize the order of creation\" in 2015. This past August he said \"teaching this to children \u2014 that everyone can choose their gender - is the epoch of sin against God the Creator.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You must learn not to be judgemental of those who disagree with you. Just because one disapproves of homosexual activity does not mean that they hate homosexuals. The Catholic Church manifests this in its unceasing attempts to persuade people of the sinfulness of homosexual behaviour for the sake of souls whilst being in the forefront of those who accept repentance and the resolve to sin no more.\nMake no mistake, the Catholic Church will never, can never accept homosexual acts as anything but gravely sinful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your last question is hilarious.\nIf someone is insane, there is no rationality to their violence. James Holmes had some kind of Batman fixation.\nHow does that relate to your favorite four facile excuses (see my \"launch\" reply above)? \nThe Virginia church shooter did so out of racism.\nThe Texas church shooter had a history of domestic violence against his wife's family, and apparently shot everyone in the church out of animus towards the wife's family.\nThe guy who shot up the gay bar in Orlando obviously was not pro-gay.\nHow do those shootings relate to your favorite four facile excuses?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Cardinals discuss 'theology of the laity,' pope Francis and a few others develop a 'theology of women,' Roman catholic prelates' 'theology of the Reformation,' blah, blah straight bishops and pope reassert the ban on homosexual priests (just in case we'd forgotten) all are titles found in this liberal Catholic newspaper but to the non-Roman, non-clerical, gay folks, this sums up pretty much everything that is wrong with you lot.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?\" Maher explained that many Muslims hold beliefs that do not conform with Western values, pointing to a recent study that found 52 percent of British Muslims believe being gay should be illegal. Adding that many Muslims see women as second-class citizens\" Moderate Muslims are afraid to speak out because of \"violent intimidation.\"\n\n\"And every time somebody says 'Islamophobia,' it gives the people who are intimidating cover.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How about another irony. Jo Jordan is upset and thinks the Dem Party caused her to lose and that this is unfair. Where was she in 2013 when it came to fairness? She had no problem voting \"no\" on SB1 (the marriage equality bill) and denying fairness and equality to her gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. Thankfully the bill passed without her support. I guess life is unfair and karma sometimes catches up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Prevo's followers are the core of the anti-gay movement in Anchorage. They make their religion the centerpiece of their lives (which is their prerogative)...and they want to make their religion the centerpiece of everyone else's lives. Just ask them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One problem is that some parent would beat the tar out of their gay kid. GSAs are supposed to be safe places for kids, not a means for them to be hurt. It's good for the non-gay kids as well to learn to get along with different folks.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pseudo-fidelists whose response to dissent and/or angst is an \"invitation\" to leave give abundant evidence of an intolerance that seems unbecoming of a Christ companion. I suspect that the storied \"disagreements\" of Judas the administrator with Jesus was not unique, e.g., Thomas the \"questioner\". What was unique is that Judas left in anger, hate and despair...shutting Jesus out. Cafeteria'ists and most who leave don't shut Jesus out, they shun the \"administrators\". Certainly Jesus doesn't shut us out.\n\nThose \"selective traditionalists\" seem to reflect a Judas the administrator who got his way. They tell us to go elsewhere but have absolutely no power, no authority over my/our conscience, my/our catholicism. Despite, ironically, their presumption, their pious sanctimonious pretense of fidelity is actually more akin to sycophantic submission, the \"legs up\" give up of a resentful pack animal.\nI bet there's a strong correlation with homophobia, misogyny, racism, bi..try, trump'ism....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "China is claiming dominion over the South China Sea. Russia is eyeing eastern Europe. North Korea is increasingly belligerent. Saudi Arabia and Iran are circling each other. Drug-resistant viruses are proliferating. Our government is intent on spending us into poverty. And we worry about what to call transgender people. Call them whatever they want and move on.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Its mostly run by lesbians now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The millions that the Knights spent to fight gay marriage should have honr to help the poor, but you don't complain about that. No, you just sneer at the little guy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Randall Wilson,\n Back then did you see, read, watch videos of Vietnamese people beheading, throwing gays from 4 story buildings, stoning their women, going to Europe and creating massive social conflicts including sexual assaults, crimes.? \nBig difference sir.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Absolutely so! However, a transgirl is entirely different from your son. Transgirls are insistent, persistent and consistent about their gender identity. It is NOT a preference or a like for 'pretty things'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fact that Ottawa's Police are not welcome in their uniforms & do not have a float in Ottawa's Pride Parade denigrates 'All Canadian Police Officers' by the rise Social Media's self-ingratiating mob-fanatical bigotry with much like the pig-ignorant racist bigotry that tore apart the many innocents whose lives were translated into being 'homosexual pariah 'in the days of injustice & pig-ignorance.. before the advent of our Western Civilization's open-minded enlightenment & truly educated Humans who finally understood the 'bias'\n\nAnd now.. Cdns are yanked back by the 'power-game' of a small group of anarchic bigots desperately trying to undo the \"Pride\" our prideful friends & neighbours have graciously evolved to.\n\n'Black lives matter' & other race related elements dwell primarily in the United States but have been dragged up to Canada by irrational groupies who seem to be more excited by their own noise than the reality of what they are doing to 'All of Canada's People'; how abysmal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He wants to join an organization, that's it. If he commits a crime (such as killing someone), try him, convict him, and put him in prison.\nPeople can join the Communist Party USA, and it's not a crime. If they commit arson, that's a crime. But, joining the CPUSA isn't a crime.\nDemocrats and Republicans spray paint slogans on buildings or steal yard signs. But, defacing a building or theft are crimes, not joining the Democratic or Republican parties.\nTwo decades ago, I worked with a gay rights organization. One night, someone slipped under our door a pamphlet titled \"The Bible justifies the killing of homosexuals\". If we had found the literature dropper, should the police have arrested him or her on the grounds s/he advocated violence? No!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you, Trid, for reminding us that you consider homophobia to be a Catholic value.\n\nActual followers of Christ would disagree.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The fact that John Doyle didn't know Mr. Levy was gay,...., makes the point that he is out of touch with the world \"\n\nWouldn't it be even more homophobic to insist that everyone make another person's sexual preferences their business?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good. Businesses shouldn't be run on bigotry \u2013 keep it to your church where you can equate LGBQT people to pedophiles all day long until you're blue in the face. Homosexuality is victimless. Gay people should be able to live their life with dignity and respect just like Christians do. That is what tolerance and freedom looks like. Not your homophobic utopia you think people should be allowed to create.\n\nTo pretend there aren't any pro-Christian things on TV is silly. There are entire Christian networks. There's no late-night conservative Christian TV shows because they'd be awful. The networks care about ratings not creating your \"freedom of association\" society. You can even subscribe to a pure Christian cable network if you want. That's how catered to Christians are in this country.\n\nI don't want to walk into a business and worry about what the person behind the counter thinks is obscene. As long as we're both obeying the laws and stated policies we should be able to do business.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I am saying is, just because the percentage of males to females is about 50-50, does not mean that all aspects of life need to be forced-shared 50-50. Take the best and leave the rest.\n\nAs for women working; the economic reality prior to feminist demands to be the same as men was that women generally had the choice to stay at home and raise their kids, their husbands' salaries being enough to support the family. Two-income families just increased the prices of everything, couples willing to abdicate the raising of their children to strangers in exchange for material possessions (bigger houses, more cars), creating a brave new world where without 2-incomes, a family is relegated to relative poverty. I.e., the trade-off for \"equality\" for women was slavery to the workplace and becoming deprived of the right to raise their children. No problem for the lesbian feminists who created the mess, of course.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "''not a single anti-Christian hate group is identified''\ndo you call them a hate group just for being anti fake Christian?\n''Actually, Christian groups, in its map, turn out to be the haters''\nhaters, yes, true Christians, no\n''LGBT rainbow flag dogma''\nI'll bet they just want their civil rights & haters to leave them alone", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"While there have been priests who were pedophiles, the overwhelming majority of cases involved a disorder called ephebophilia, a term that refers to sexual attraction to minors who have arrived at puberty ... But we shouldn't give a false emphasis to the clinical term ephebophilia, because it masks the real nature of what is occurring: priestly homosexual activity with under-aged males ... \n\nThe overwhelming majority of the priests involved in these incidents are accused of sexual molestation of adolescent males, not females. This means that nature of the scandal is homosexual ...\n\nA handful of pedophiliac priests and a much greater number of other priests, almost exclusively homosexuals, engaged in varying degrees of inappropriate contact with minors, up to and including coercive sex (rape).\"\n\nhttp://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/qa-understanding-the-priest-scandal", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Amazing how obsessed homophobes always are with what gay men do in the privacy of their own bedrooms. It's as though lesbians didn't even exist. I've always thought this obsession says much more about the obsessor than it does about the obsessee.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Might his Excellency help these teens by distinguishing the difference between accepting that \"people can be themselves...and love who they want\u201d, but that sexual acts are for marriage, marriage is between a man and a women, and sodomy is one of the 4 sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance [Genesis 17:20-21]? Having a same-sex attraction is not the same as ACTING upon that attraction. Sin is in the will. We are not animals, subject to being ruled by our feelings and senses.\n\nFrom the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm\n\nCC 2357 \"Homosexuality refers to relations...sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex... Basing itself on sacred scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that 'homosexual acts are intrinsically disorded'...under no circumstances can they be approved.\"\n\n\"UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES CAN THEY BE APPROVED\" (Catechism of the Catholic Church)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, puberty is horrible for everyone. But imagine adding transgenderism to the mix. Along with everything else, your body gradually turns into something that at best you feel no connection to and at worst actively horrifies you. (There are different kinds of transgender people.) The point of trying to catch it at puberty is to reduce the self-rejection (dysphoria) over a lifetime. Because, while your sex can't be changed (non-trans people always think trans folks don't know that,) neither can your gender be changed. And it turns out - and it's been tried both ways - that it's more successful when you change the appearance of your body to suit your mind than it is to change what you experience in your brain to suit your body's genital configuration.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would hardly think racial minorities are nearly as looked down upon as transgenders. Even gays are more accepted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Knights didn't bring this horror but the RCC.\nKnights are only faithful, uncritical followers of the male hierarchy.\nTheory of natural law, and interpretation by the RCC, is sacred, absolute, not the person, especially, the poor, illiterate who are denied information and access to contraception as long as the sperm is sacred. The idolatry of the RCC is that every sperm is sacred. (Why it rejects gay marriage).\nHence, the poor you will always have with you, in no small part because of the male RCC hierarchy. If women were part of governance this outrageous imposition would be lifted. Hasn't, won't happen under even \"put on a happy face\" Francis.\nCries out to heaven for vengeance. But heaven is deaf & silent.\nHence, the poor, desperate for sexual relief, stew in their own juices.\nSuffer it. Didn't Mother Theresa claim the more you suffer the closer you are to Jesus?\nThe poor are hanging with Jesus.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This gets very messy. Rights of religious believers vs rights of the LGBT community. Since sin is fundamental to many Catholics that it drives the conversations we have had here. The way many people react to LBGT community is one of exclusion more than inclusion. The Church is not following the example of Jesus. The rules forbid it! The bridge is broken and the wall intact.\nThe result is their human rights are being violated whether intentionally or not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your comment displays your ignorance and prejudice; either unawareness or willfully ignorance of the systematic discrimination against the groups mentioned (there's no discrimination in Cda like there are no gays in Iran). Do you think because someone is in a wheelchair s/he is incapable of 'creativity, innovativeness, brains, and ability...'? Or is 'diversity' a proxy 'visible minorities' in your eyes? If you have no access to a pool or a body of water, do you think you'd know who to swim? The point of this threat is for universities to start hiring diversified talent and support the ones already there. Chairships require letters of support from deans, etc. and if they dont particularly like you your letter wont be particularly good. Institutions should reflect the population they serve; currently they're akin to 45 and his merry band of white men making decisions about women's bodies...and we all know just how smart they are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How does that change things? Bailey attends a fundy church whose doctrines I find obnoxious. Not gonna vote for a Fundy Baptist. Not like they would support a gay or cohabitating candidiate. That's the way politics works. We vote for people we trust.\nI don't trust Bailey.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And, yet, it's supposed to be OK to talk about opposite-sex attraction? Why shouldn't LGBT people be able to speak freely about their significant others, without fear of bullying, harassment, loss of jobs, etc.?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wearing nicab or burka is not diversity, it is a sign of slippery slope. These items should be alarming feminists and gays as signs of society giving up as being confused and indifferent. These items are not religious. Quebecker just have the guts to cal a spade a spade.....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know if a hotel could refuse to a provide room for a person who is a member of the KKK. However, I do think a hotel could decide not to rent its convention space to a KKK convention out of fear of violence. Because it is liable to happen. I don't know legalities here, but if I owned a hotel and had convention space to rent, and the KKK wanted to rent that space, I would do everything in my power to keep them out because where they go, violence follows. There are also so controversial that they may actually scare off other people from staying at the hotel. \n\nIf I were required by law to do so and couldn't get out of it, I would rent them the space.\n\nSomewhere and somehow we have to draw some lines around what is and is not acceptable. We are terribly divided now. It is interesting to me that what we are discussing is \"discrimination\" against white people and not discrimination against Muslims, Gays, Hispanics. Interesting - can we discriminate among whites?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hate to be this harsh but I'm going to be. You're full of B.S. I'm not hero worshiping the Pope. I have my own criticisms of him from issues like women's ordination, to gay marriage, and yes not moving fast enough on this issue\n\nTo say that he hasn't done anything on sexual abuse though is just a dishonest lie. As I mentioned under him some of the first prosecutions against sex abusers have taken place. Look at what recently happened in El Salvador. Under him you had someone like Josef Wezolowsky put on trial for crimes he participated in when it came to sexual abuse. \n\nIf he was more of the same, he wouldn't be facing the amount of resistance he's facing from the conservative hierarchs in the Vatican. And you certainly wouldn't have a sex abuse victim getting the Pope to write a preface to a book exposing sex abuse in the Vatican. I think that person's opinion matters way more in this situation than anyone elses.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1. Carry or own a gun you are splitting words... both would be anathema to Jesus \n\n2. By saying homosexuality is a sin is kinda judging isn't it?\n\n3. Voting should not be a compromise if a party supports war and inequality between rich and poor. That is basic.\n\n4. I am glad you love your neighbours; somehow I wonder if that is the norm when it comes to immigration.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Agreed! A great many people fail to realize that the tax burden from which religious superstition is exempted does not evaporate, it is spread among taxpayers. Christians who pay taxes might be shocked to find out that the same measures that exempt their mythologies from taxation also require them to underwrite Scientology, Mormonism, Catholicism and (gasp!) GAY CHURCHES.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "His actions are: choosing a church that is misogynistic and homophobic instead of the 100 or so churches in Portland that don't share those values. \n\nAs for me being \"actively dishonest\" well that's BS. It's Bailey who isn't honest about his beliefs- pretending he can choose a church characterized by outrageous beliefs (female submission, gays are sinners, unmarried couples are sinners). Imago Dei principles are closer to the Quiverful Movement than you are honest enough to admit.\n\nBailey is the Santorum of the progressive-but-misogynistic & homophobic section of Portland. Good luck with that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From article: \"(Re campaign finance reform, BC Libs should) Get ahead of public opinion, or, just catch up with it.\"\n\nPUBLIC OPINION IS often the same as RULE OF THE MOB... NOT NEEDED in British Columbia!!\n\n& since G + M editorial writers are proponents of blindly following \"public opinion\": \n\nWould you choose to emigrate to Saudi Arabia where \"public opinion\" is staunchly against affording equitable human rights for women, minorities, gays, et cetera??\n\nPublic opinion is not always \"ethical\" or \"right\" or \"just\".... That's why we have a system of laws and courts, and a Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada- to prevent \"public opinion\" from trammeling the rights of individuals...\n\nLAWS AGAINST CORPORATIONS & WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS DONTING TO POLITICAL PARTIES ARE (& IF ENACTED IN BC WOULD BE) UNCONSTITUTIONAL: IE: WOULD INFRINGE SECTION #2 (FREEDOMS OF EXPRESSION & COMMUNICATION) RIGHTS OF CANADA'S CHARTER OF RIGHTS & FREEDOMS!! \n\nhttp://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The North Korean \"people\" really don't have much say now, do they?\n\nBut yes...when we have a draft dodging, chickenhawk, wanna-be tough guy saber rattling and gambling with the lives of our military men and women...transgender, straight, or whatever...it doesn't help the situation...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is both ironic and hypocritical that the Trudeau government presents itself as a champion of LGBTQ (add extra letters and numbers as required) rights while it continues to allow mass immigration of people whose ideology sanctions the murder of gays. PM Selfie and his government are talking out of both sides of their mouth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have not been \"calling you names\". I state that you support homophobia. I state that you are a liar. I also state that you believe that conservative bishops can do no wrong. Why do I say these things? Because you demonstrate, over and over, the accuracy of my statements. \n\nThe only one of us \"spinning\" is you, Pandora. You don't like me speaking the facts, so you lie about them. If you want me to stop saying you are a liar, then all you need do is stop lying. It truly is as simple as that. But as long as you continue to lie, I will continue to call you on it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow! Extreme ignorance or willful disregard for Jesus' hard spent time on this earth! Jesus most definitely condemned homosexuality. His condemnation was clear to every sinner whom he confronted when he told them that if they chose to repent , they were forgiven...with the stipulation that they go and sin no more. Jesus knows people are not perfect, but that lack of perfection does not in the least justify anyone living a lifestyle of sin. His motto was if you are truly sorry, you have my forgiveness, but I expect you to knock it off. He didn't die on the cross for us to keep sinning! He died on the cross to help those of us who mess up get forgiveness and have a second chance to do right. If your preacher tells you Jesus didn't expect us to shape up, then you are being seriously deceived. And...God is smiling upon any man who is trying to get people to understand and hear this truth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly. This wasn't primarily about helping Chechen gays, but about grand-standing and Freeland using Chechen gays as convenient tools to once again do whatever is in her power to carry out a personal vendetta against Russia, and to sabotage relations with Russia further. Otherwise, this would not have been made public, as it serves no other purpose, and does no favours to those either wanting to leave Chechnya, or to those who were brought out of Chechnya. In fact, I would think it is a disservice to them, probably being unwanted attention to themselves, and also a potential risk to their families. I sort of think that it seems narcissistic and exploitative to be publicizing it.\nFreeland is surely hoping that Russia will respond in a way that cements worsened relations with Canada.\nNow, Saudi Arabia's persecuted gays are waiting for Freeland to help them out. Will she?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Patrick Brown won the PC party leadership by flooding the vote with huge numbers of social conservative insta-Torys from the evangelical churches, brought in by \"Doctor\" Charles McVety, and his contacts in the south Asian community.\n\nSince sucking in these gormless so-cons by telling them he was one of them (anti-abortion, against gay marriage, against the provinces new sex education curriculum) he has \"pivoted\" to a more \"progressive\" stance, trying to move the PCs into the middle of the political spectrum, from which governments in Ontario are usually elected.\n\nHis ridiculous flip-flop on the sex-ed letter to constituents in the recent Scarboro bi-election exposed, him to his erstwhile so-con allies, as the crass and disloyal opportunist that the \"Progressive\" wing has always known him to be.\n\nThis leaves Mr. Brown twisting in the wind, with both wings of the party furious with him.\n\nHe's making Tim Hudak look like a brilliant tactician and the Liberals optimistic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Rejecting the \"transgender\" pseudo science > 4 Talking Points \n(1) FREEDOM of RELIGION. Is it morally licit to demand that those holding deeply held religious beliefs about Creation \u2014 \u201cGod made them male and female\u2026\u201d does it conflict with their religious views to \u201caccept\u201d that \u201cPlastic surgeons can make them male and female.\u201d (2) SUICIDE. Two peer reviewed studies show that post-operative transgender persons have an approximate rate of suicide that is 2,000% higher than average \u2014 why should the state be seen to encourage these procedures being that the Johns Hopkins Medical School which invented the procedure, decided to stop based on post-surgery suicide rates? (3) EDUCATION. Did you know that the United Nations World Health Organization currently defines transgenderism as a \"mental illness\"? (4) ETHICS. Is it morally licit for minors to undergo \u201ctransgender reassignment surgeries\u201d that involve child castration?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Being \u201dpro-life\u201d is like being a populist. It is a vague thing. Even saying you are for the unlikely event of the Supreme Court overturning Roe essentially dodges the question of how you want abortion and women to be penalized and controlled. The pro-choice idea of what a pro-lifer is about is not vague at all, of course. It means someone who would ultimately force women into back alley abortions, and if you really understand law, jail. It is a naive vision which does not understand that repealing Roe means that the Court decisions on birth control, sodomy, gay marriage, Latino rights, and Catholic rights also become controlled by states, which cannot really be trusted with such matters to go beyond religiously led mob rule.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So why not worry about the scandal of heterosexual priests? Why not act against the \"straight\" sexually active priests and hierarchs with families or girlfriends on the side? Why not act against the \"straight\" priests and hierarchs who abuse or hide abusers? There's been a helluva lot more scandal from that, despite some people's efforts to portray it as a gay issue. The claim of protecting the Church by keeping gay men out of the seminaries is, bluntly, hypocrisy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My their animus against their gay brothers and sisters knows no bounds. Of all the things to worry about....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That might be the case. However, doing such a thing is not abnormal. Were you against Rosa Parks for refusing to move to the back of the bus? She started a movement with that act, which was also preplanned. The same, in many ways, can be said about this. This was one of the first cases that ever dealt with this issue, and has seen it go to many different courts to verify the decissions made. \n\nRegardless if they knew the baker would not sell them a cake or not, does not change the fact he was breaking the law by doing so. There was no legally justifiable reason to deny making the gay couple's cake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, the left are the true science deniers - transgenders as was stated in the article, when life begins and that fetuses can feel pain, whether their are biological differences in job preferences and temperament and personalities of men and women.... \nAlso, Chanda needs to look at how many black women have ever applied to get a Ph.D. in physics before she proclaims the lack of them as racist.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm totally okay with gays from Islamic countries being allowed refuge here. But then let's be honest about the driving religion which brought them here scared for their lives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And yet motleycrew likely voted for an American party and candidate that routinely degrades women, stigmatizes and discriminates against homosexuals, is actively supportive of death penalty statutes which disproportionately affect non-whites, propagates discrimination against women and is ideologically supportive of harassment of physicians and terrorism against women's healthcare facilities, and several other things. Face it motleycrew, you have a lot more empathy for your own society's equivalent of those same cultural concepts. I bet you picked up your hypocrisy on the cheap though--so at least you have that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "By allowing feelings to be the primary factor in decisions and judgements, you're almost always going to be disappointed. I'm sorry that your brother is gay and has had these difficulties. I hope he can reconcile.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I refuse to respond to them. How influential we must be that they see us as some kind of threat to their orthodoxy. Heck, I'm not even Catholic anymore and, apparently, I'm still a threat. I think the main point is, as Neko pointed out, that we support LGBT rights and marriage equality in the secular sphere.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They used to be allowed in the US Military until we got a homophobic Commander in Chief.\nHis quote at the RNC, \u201cAs your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology. Believe me!\u201d he continued.\nYeah right..... Anytime he ends a statement with \"Believe me,\" you know it BS.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Islamophobia is not a hate crime. It is the legitimate fear that the world's fastest growing and most aggressive religion, funded by trillions of oil dollars and pushed by violent extremists, using grievance tactics and our tolerance and weak will to defend our way of life, will force upon my children and their children a way of life that treats women as chattel, leads to intolerance of gays and of other religions, and creates a far worse society than the one we have now.\n\nThere is no Islamic country in the world today where where I can see a successful progressive, tolerant nation. All I see are old men in beards issuing fatwas, and varying degrees of intolerance, violence, misogyny, and hatred.\n\nI have co-workers who are muslim, and are totally normal people. I feel bad for the 90% or more of muslims who are normal people, but survey show that 20-40% of muslims in Western country want Sharia, have some sympathy for ISIS, and this scares me. \n\nIs that irrational? Will I be censored?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homophobes wanted their special rights, I guess.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "LGBT community worldwide raises funds to get Chechen gays to safety: https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/lgbt-community-worldwide-raises-funds-to-get-chechen-gays-to-safety/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These observations, are, of course, your opinions, which you are most certainly entitled to, but you have no basis in fact to prove God does NOT exist. Philosophically speaking, if a \"Supreme Being\", as you put it, did in fact exist, who would you or Science Duck be to question his ways ? Is he \"bad\" simply because you do not like what he does ? If that is the case, and it appears to be so, then you would be making yourself out to be God. It appears you make your judgments based on what you see on the scandal shows (Westboro B exhibits none of the spiritual fruit listed in Galatians), but I know many Christians who are very active in serving and loving the homosexual community, as well as Mormans, JW's and Muslims, with the purpose of leading them into the truth. As far as who is the true and living God, I have placed my faith (yes we all live by it) in the God of the Bible, would you like to know more about him ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I hear there's a Catholic church in Laurelhurst somewhere with a gay trans woman for a priest, where everyone defines God for themselves and Mondays are for meditation and yoga and Thursdays are vegan dinners for the homeless.\"\n\nOh, that:\nhttp://gnosis.org/portland/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Someone wrote: \"Maybe you need to put your panic in perspective. If, or when, a terrorist attack happens in Canada, hundreds of Canadians will already be dead because of drunk drivers, lightening strikes and falling trees. More Canadians will probably die on the golf course this year then from terrorist attacks.\"\n\nHello?\n\nWhy do we never see a post like that when, say, a child is kidnapped and murdered? Oh, well, more kids will have died from swimming pool drownings and drunk drivers, so stop panicking.\n\nWhy do we never see a post like that when, say, a teenager is held captive in a basement lair for years? Oh, well, more girls will have died from lightening strikes on fields, so stop panicking.\n\nWhy do we never see a post like that when, say, a gay man is murdered for being gay? Oh, well, more gays will have died that year from car accidents and drunk drivers, so stop panicking.\n\nSeriously, why is the \"stop panicking\" speech trotted out ONLY in the context of a certain religion?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think Donald Trump would have been elected president had he not been preceded by Barak Obama. President Trump was the leader of the \"Birther\" movement during Obama's candidacy and presidency. He campaigned as virtually the anti-Obama. Where Obama came off as an intellectual, a college professor, a chablis sipper who wouldn't be found drinking beer and cheering raucously with the guys for a sports team (regardless of his actual behavior in such circumstances), Trump was one of the boys. Obama was a social liberal, a supporter of gay rights, and women's rights, including women's right to choose abortion. Neither of these positions really resonates with many traditional Catholics, who are very happy that Trump says he has had a conversion of conscience regarding abortion and would appoint pro-life justices to the Supreme Court. I also wonder how many conservative Catholics really believe that President Obama was a secret Muslim.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The question seems to be who were the peoples who stated that sentiment in the 1930's -- 87 yrs ago & what was civilized nature of the Human Race during the era?\n\nTherefore, how about we update the context here to take a good hard look at who is practicing 'Anti-Semitism' in 2017 of this 21st Century?\n\nObviously countries containing multi-millions of followers of both the Shia & Sunni Religion which have not engaged in a 'Reformation' as other major religions have.\n\nSo currently what is the time period for the philosophical thought of this major religion?\n\nPlus, why so many 'terrorism' groups associated with this major religion of 1.8 Billion Humans on the Planet.. 24% of the Planet's Population. \n\nCanada has (c)\"1,053,945 Muslims in Canada, or about 3.2% of the Pop.\"; Canada certainly does not fall into the category of Iran/Saudi Arab levels pure hatred towards the Jewish People.\n\nCanada pales in comparison to the horror many Muslim countries perpetrate on homosexuals, females & Jews.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The double-standards are problematic.\n\nA poster of an aborted fetus, in support of an anti-abortion organization, is considered problematic. But a poster of two gays kissing, in support of some Pride event, is considered acceptable...even commendable? Anti-abortionists are entitled to their opinion, but keep it out of my face. But near-naked or cross-dressing men gyrating in a parade is great? \n\nI am not a Christian fundamentalist, but I can imagine how universities are not a \"safe place\" for them....but the administration doesn't give a damn about them. The progressive agenda is its own religion, and anyone who doesn't align accordingly is subject to shaming. \n\nBeing Canadian used to mean \"Hey, try not to offend folks. We all need to get along\". Now it means the left have a moral duty to offend in support of their agenda, while attacking the right for their perceived offenses.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I know Jared personally (from on-line work prior to his doing politics). He is a good guy, and to be honest, I think that he would be decent over all. BUT, the fact is, he stands no chance of being treated fairly by at least 40-45% of our population just due to his being gay. And to win over that other 10-15%? Nope. He is too far left. \n\nA big part of the reason why Noel is strong is because he IS true middle of the road and concerned about business. Basically, he will pay attention to the bottom line and focus on getting our state economically solid. We need that more than anything. Esp. NOW. \nTrump is going to do worse than what W did to America.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Recently NCR had an article with the heading \"Church accompanies couples before and after marriage.\" I responded by saying, \"unless you're a gay couple, in which case the church will accompany you right out the door.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that the 'Glib and Stale' is featuring their most misogynist writer advocating torturing trans youth into submission. Notice there is reference to ' activists' without mentioning that many of those activists are former victims of 'doctor' (Mengele) Zucker. And not a single line given to those victims! to express their horror that the torture they endured is being promoted for yet another generation.. Interview some of his victims - then you can call it 'reporting'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I find funny is the fact that if it was a transgender republican the happy faces would be turned to sad faces and vice versa.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And what makes you think that most LGBTs who still remain members of your sect give two hoots in hades whether this sect fosters \"Courage\" as the One True Approved Group?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The root of the problem is Islamic ideology; much of which is incompatible with the values of modern, liberal democracies. Islamic ideology is based upon the Quran which the vast majority of practicing Muslims view as the direct, infallible, immutable & eternal word of God (as transmitted to humanity via the prophet Muhammad) It is the many instances of violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, violence against apostates and the subjugation of non-Muslims that are found within the Quran which serve as the impetus for terrorists and have caused the negative public perception of Islam. The fact that terrorist are able to use this ideology to justify their heinous actions (often with little condemnation from the wider Islamic world) only serves as a reminder of the incompatibility of Islamic ideology with western values. Please sign petition e-909 to parliament which seeks to block the practice of Sharia law on Canadian soil: https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-909", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Aren't you the same people who were pro-Islam? I've seen you marching with posters saying \"gay rights\" and \" stop islamophobia\". I thought those were hypocritical statements to combine. Why isn't \"Radical Islam\" mentioned in this article? Now you want to hold a vigil about the problem that you openly let in. Of course, none of you in the \"trans\"-community will hold yourself accountable. Only honorable soldiers do that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where was this headline when Black Life's Matter was staging violent rallies? Where is it when they are exercising their \"right\" to hate by keeping police out of Gay Pride Marches? \n\nThis White supremacist ( hard to label it as a white supremacist as they have hatred for Jews and likely Catholics) needs total scorn and condemnation.\n\nTwo wrongs do not make a right , but the tacit support that the Press and the political elites have provide for BLM and their abhorrent behavior encourages other hate groups with actual or perceived complaints to step over the line. \n\nIt is not acceptable to give any brand of terrorism ( ecological, religious, or race) any support.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People grow and learn. Both Obama and Hillary were against gays getting married until they changed their minds. It is what adults do, they get new information that changes their minds. While I may disagree with the direction Trump changed, the fact is that he changed his mind, and I can respect that even if I think he is wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since the right shows no interest in social justice -- indeed, often comes across as actively opposed to it -- then the political left is the only choice for the Christian. Do you really believe that Margaret Thatcher gave a damn about the poor? She surely felt no sympathy for all the coal miners she put out of work. (I'll admit that that her loathing of Arthur Cargill may have had a lot to do with that.)\n\nI'm not saying that there aren't major problems with leftist politics for the Christian. Much of the left is actively opposed to religion. But when religious leaders both preach and practice discrimination; when they preach that the poor should be given the \"preferential option\" while schmoozing with the rich; when they say that \"religious freedom consists of allowing discrimination against gays and denying contraception to women, then one can say that the anti-religion people have a point.\n\nThe institutional Church has deserved much of the opprobrium cast on it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Beck\n\nTransgendered person who served as a highly decorated Navy Seal for 20 years. Explain to me how this person who functioned at the highest level possible in the armed service destroyed cohesion and effectiveness. The vast majority of people aren't even capable of qualifying for the team this person was a part of for decades.\n\nIf someone is capable of serving and you have to believe the testing is rigorous enough to wash out those who aren't capable, who cares about gender.?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While in no way attempting to excuse this individual's reported actions, it should be noted that scientific studies based on credible empirical evidence do not support the mass hysteria and moral panic that currently surrounds all sexually expressed child/older person relationships, which are invariably cast as \"child molestation/child sex abuse/pedophilia.\" As masturbation and homosexuality were demonized in the past, these irrational emotional responses are based on ignorance and fear, and are promoted by agenda-driven \"victimological\" academics who argue that all such relationships are intrinsically pervasively harmful. But is this supposed harm intrinsic to the interaction, or does it instead result from the social hysteria that occurs when such a relationship is discovered? Also, there are no legitimate data supporting intrinsic harmfulness, and no credible pathway or mechanism for such harm has been demonstrated. For further discussion, see http://www.shfri.net/mech/mech.cgi", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think this is what a lot of priests do whenever they observe a respectful silence, as Andrew Sullivan once put it, on the issue of homosexuality. I think that happens a lot, but like the dog that didn't bark we'll never know for sure how often it happens.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Vatican needs to clear up their language on this. Are they speaking about LGBTQ people in open relationships or those who aren't but are still barred? If it's the former, then I don't see the need to even mention that because there is a requirement of celibacy, regardless of whether you're straight or gay(I think the celibacy rule should be lifted for the record). \n\nAlso it's a bit sad that this is what is dominating the headlines because apart from this terrible ruling, there were actually some progressive things in this document\n1)Great progress on the sexual abuse front in terms of seminarians tackling this issue\n2)Pastoral care to indigenous people as well as indigenous folks seeking the priesthood\n3)Social justice education, particularly on the issue of Climate Change which the Pope called an 8th work of mercy\n4)Stringent critique of clericalism and an emphasis on the pastoral role of priests over against moral judgementalism in line with Amoris Laetitia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Knights are regrettably part of the pro-life fundraising scam (especially the inaptly named Susan B. Anthony Fund, which gave us the House Freedom Caucus and all the damage it has done) and the movement to keep gays on the margins in the Church, a battle that they will lose. Their compensation package is quite capitalist. I suspect their leader takes home more than the Holy Father. They are quite clear about anyone who is pro-choice not being welcome in their ranks. I won\u2019t be following my late father into the Knights and because of the paranoia of Pope Pius IX and others about secret societies, I won\u2019t be following my maternal grandfather into the Masons. No rituals and funny hats for me. From what I see, most knights are older than I am, and I am not young, so they may soon be the stuff of history. I am sure they were overjoyed at the election of Trump, but they have to be having buyer\u2019s remorse if they are at all sane.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Everyone has the right to their own opinion, and even if they didn't have that right, they would still have their own opinions. Likewise, people have the right to discriminate (everyone does in one way or another) in that people have the right to make decisions based on their beliefs, and even if they did not have that right, people would still discriminate in their hearts. \n\nLaws that outlaw what some people view as improper discrimination are just kind of silly, because you cannot legislate away the deeply held beliefs some people have. \n\nI'm a live and let live kind of guy, and I really don't care if some people are gay and some people are fundamentalist zealots. However, I do find it to be aggravating and disappointing how much time and energy is wasted on trying to impress one set of values on other people through legislation, and it comes from ALL directions. People have the right to be who they are, and other people may not like you because of who you are. That is life. Live it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is the logic of deniers (sorry, \"sceptics\"):\nFirst premise: If AGW is true, then \"we must give unlimited power and unlimited funds to the climate change hysteria profiteers in government, academia and business\" and \"we also have to drastically downscale our lifestyles.\"\nSecond premise: We don't want to do those things.\nConclusion: Therefore, AGW is a hoax and we shouldn't take it seriously.\n\nNow, if you'll excuse me, I'm off in my black helicopter to David Suzuki's private landing strip, where I'll board his taxpayer-funded Learjet and fly with him to a lavish seven-day party on Tahiti with assorted supermodels, rockstars, IPCC scientists, and French-speaking lesbian UN officials, presided over by Al Gore, where -- when we're sober enough to talk -- we will plot how to establish a world socialist government, take away your guns, force better health care on you, and make you memorize long passages from books by Naomi Klein.\n\nIt's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We Black and White \"whigs\" founded America, the actual prophesied \"Zion\" by all the Bible's given signs, in express covenant with our named Sovereign, the Creator of the universe, God Almighty, the Deity, to escape the \"Wall Street of slavery\" for over 2,000 years, the \"real Anti-Christ\" \"engine for enslaving mankind.\" Viz. Th. Jefferson to S. Kercheval, 19jan10.\n\nLatin America was no so blessed - as their ubiquitous slums and brothels so avidly attest - under the rule of a few rich and pedophile homosexual \"monkish religion.\"\n\nThe satanic stratagem, now playing \"catch up\" with DACA, to promote and protect a logistically and politically supported organized army of Hispanic Roman Catholic pawns for invasion and conquest of God's \"Promised Land\" is openly published for every true American Patriot's eyes to read: \"National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry,\" Office of Publishing and Promotion Services, U.S. Catholic Conf., No 199-7, online or at Rome's local quasi-military outpost.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So predictable; when the GOP can't claim to have delivered on jobs, infrastructure, tax reform or helping the middle class. Pence is in the top 5 of GOP culture warriors that gets the back bench excited. This pick will either be the clever political choice of the decade or the destruction of the Party. \n\nWhen your party didn't deliver to their diminishing middle class...you play the gays, guns and God card. Time for a couple more political parties.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "IRT Peter (aka Boots), I do respect the belief of your religion. And, knowing you, I would expect your respect of the belief of my religion. Yes, my religion from the Word of God, that never changes, is that homosexuality is a sin. Yes, I am a conservative, but for certain I am not filled with imaginary fears of my religion. FYI, I even led Bible studies following Sunday services. Let's respect each others religion and beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The gay couple isn't likely to burn a cross on your lawn and string you up. In fact they just want a cake.\n\nI would guess a lot of racist folks have had their houses painted by black and mexican guys.\n\nSo yeah, you hire a house painting crew, they aren't go to runaway when they see your bumper stickers, unless they feel in danger.\n\nWhile you are at it, make sure the guy working the drive through is the same race as you are.\n\nDoes this cake guy think he's going to be hurt by making a cake for a gay couple? Is he going to loose his soul? We better check out scripture on that one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"An Australian priest vocal in his support of women's ordination has become the first person excommunicated under the papacy of Pope Francis. Fr. Greg Reynolds of Melbourne, Australia, told NCR by email late Monday night his initial reaction was \"shock\" upon learning of his separation from the church.\"\n\"Polish priest Krysztof Charamsa comes out as gay, is sacked by Vatican\"\n\"Pope Francis Orders Cardinal M\u00fcller to Dismiss Three CDF Priests\" \"Marco Tosatti, the well-informed and well-respected Italian Vatican specialist piercingly speaks about an 'autocratic fever that seems to have broken out in the Vatican.'\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Boulder teachers and administrators openly \"advocating\" for \"Queers\". Ironic that if you call another person a \"queer\" in a Boulder County School, you'd be suspended but the pejorative is now acceptable for use? Boulder Country teachers and administrators simply don't care about the vast majority of students or the fundamentally critical mission of educating children. Instead, Boulder teachers and administrators embrace social indoctrination that pushes bisexuality and homosexuality lifestyles and single-parenthood onto children. In Boulder Country, students who embrace their religious faith are strictly vorbotten. The Boulder County teachers and administrators openly vilify and denigrate children of faith. Perhaps, the U.N. can intervene to stop the \"religious cleansing\" in Boulder County?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am totally dumfounded why you keep assuming every Muslim is some sort of medieval purist when it comes to the Quran. You don't seem to think Christians are the same way...why? And seriously don't just quote the Quran. The Bible has the same kind of dogmatic absolutist statements in it. \n\nMany Christians can believe homosexuality is sinful without thinking gay people should be stoned to death.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Stephen, do you have a point here? What does your diatribe have to do with the topic at hand and the absolute useless letter the Doug Chin is signing in his capacity as our elected attorney general? Enlighten me on how not allowing Transgender to serve \u201cviolates fundamental constitutional and American values,\u201d? People with disabilities cannot serve on Active Duty, what about their rights and how not allowing them to serve \u201cviolates fundamental constitutional and American values,\u201d? The Military kicks fat people out too, are you upset about that? Something else to think about, the military does not perform boob jobs and penile enhancements, should they perform those elective surgeries?? What about unit operational readiness? How long is the servicemember on medical hold for gender reassignment surgery? A myriad of questions need to be answered.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're getting things confused. LGBT people are not pedophiles. Hell many LGBT people are parents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, but the standard chromosome signature for male and female, are not the only DNA patterns that exist. And in some cases, gender dystopia is tied to non-standard chromosomes. \n\nMore to the point, we now thoroughly understand that sexual orientation does NOT always match biological gender. From the terrible things we have done to gays by presuming the opposite (a one to one link between orientation and biological sex) ought to have taught us that we must allow the data (transgender people reporting their reality) to guide our thinking.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "against a child, it is. Two adults, not so much. Modern astronomical recreation has shown that Sodom was felled not by supernatural fire but from a meteorite. The author of Genesis attempted to attach meaning to that event and to advance the prejudice that sodomy is icky. Gays find heterosexual intercourse icky (like Marcus Aurelius, whose opinion St. Augustine echoed). Proves nada. Also, again, modernism as condemned is not about sex and I have not heard it anywhere from the Vatican since, but only in Tradspeak.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is the same Richmond where City hall has refused to fly the rainbow flag, or support any manner of a gay pride parade, or even a float in the local Salmon Festival parade. This is the same Richmond where the school board has refused to consider any policy changes concerning LGBTQ support or resources. Let alone gender neutral washrooms.\n\nIn fact the school board is on record as stating they have to tread carefully so as not to upset certain demographics in the City.\n\nMeanwhile a Richmond youth worker has stated that many youth hide or seek support in Vancouver. \"Kids are afraid to be out,\" said Dora Ng (youth worker) , who has noted the hiding is greater in the Chinese-Canadian community. \n\nWell done Richmond.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"He addressed the whole world to inspire hope in liberal democracies ...\"\nBut if he had been honest he would have admitted he (in two years) has done nothing to change the dismal picture he painted. That is what virtue signalling is - just talk. In Africa he left a meeting where he was lecturing leaders on LGBT rights and went straight to a podium to praise Fidel Castro, one of the world's worst offenders in terms of persecuting gays. More posturing, more virtue signalling. Or the Paris Climate Conference where he claimed that Canada was \"back\" after flying 400 people there on carbon spewing jets - then keeping Mr. Harper's 2030 goals. (Also Harpers health funding formula after lengthy criticism in opposition.) He's long on talk, pretty short on accomplishment - a poseur.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just because Jesus affirmed sexual prototypes in first-century marriage rituals in Matthew 19 does not necessarily mean that he simultaneously denied the existence of the continuum that is human sexuality. How else to explain hermaphrodites? After all, they existed during Jesus' time and the Son of God would most certainly have known about their existence.\n\nAs for Mark 10, Jesus was discussing divorce, including the fact that they who divorce commit the sin of adultery, a sin which Leviticus, every homophobe's favorite book of the Bible, says is deserving of the death penalty. Funny how you never hear about that part. Mind you, Jesus never said a single word about homosexuality, yet you cite as your \"proof\" of Jesus' homophobia his admonition against heterosexual divorce. I'm not sure my college logic instructor would give you a very good grade on that construct.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is not a Christian forum. It is a political party rally for Hillary Clinton. And that's OK. But let's make sure we identify what the forum is about.\n\nBut don't despair. Fulcrum 7 fits the same agenda and they are not a Christian forum either. They are a political party rally for Donald Trump. They threw me off because I attack Dr. Carson for endorsing Donald Trump who supports the Gay agenda.\n\nInstead of these modern forums being bible classes to discuss Christanity from a SDA perspective, they are now political forums to endorse some political candidate. It is not SDA, it is not even generic Christanity, it is pure politics.\n\nIf the devil was a Democrat people here would vote for him. If the devil was a Republican, they would vote for him on Fulcrum 7.\n\nAre people so deluded they don't even know what basic fundamental Christanity is all about vs. politics? Obviously, not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Chuck, as a business owner I go along with the libertarian side of the point I think you're making. If I owned a bakery down the street I'd want the whole town to know about the new guy insulting and refusing to serve our friends and neighbors. Then we'd let the market sort it out. But the fact is it's against the law and it has nothing to do with religious freedom. You can't deny service to a gay couple just because you think your cake is art, regardless of cherry-picking bible verses and calling it religion. Just like not too many years ago (well within my lifetime; don't know about yours) Americans decided you can't refuse to serve a black man, regardless of your biblical justification, just because your corned beef sandwich is a work of art.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think it's hard for most people on either side to separate views from the person themselves. Both extreme sides of the fence have long since demonized the other and are unable and unwilling to listen to one another. However I agree with statements like \"People voted for a racist who promised racist outcomes. They don't deserve your empathy.\" Why, because your vote and your ideology says a lot about how you think of and treat your fellow man if by only highlighting if someone is will to fight to limit the rights of groups that they themselves do not belong to. Be it religious or none. I do not argue that people can't have their own belief system... I argue that peoples belief system should be internalized. Don't like gay marriage, don't get gay married. Don't like affirmative action, maybe work a bit harder and make sure you get into the school you want, don't like abortions don't have one but no-one should have the right to tread on another persons choices based on their own view.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've never noticed that kindergartners have (trans) gender hang-ups. If they do though, don't worry, they'll likely outgrow it once they've moved beyond functional illiteracy. How's that going for you, 4:20?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What Bryan Massingale says is well and goo as far as it goes. Yet, how can one talk about redeeming the soul of our Church without changing the way that LGBT people and women are treated? Precluding 1/2 of the population from ordination and from any meaningful decision-making position in the Church is to me a clear sign of the soul-sickness of which Massingale speaks. The firings of gays who are in committed relationships and now the refusal of a bishop to bury them is another clear sign of soul sickness. Without resolving these two glaring issues, how does Massingale think that he is going to redeem the soul of our Church?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would love to see Kenney try to win over those new constituencies. Maybe set up a barbaric cultural practices hotline? That went well last time. Place gag orders on scientists doing environmental sciences research? Play Beatles on the piano? He could also keep stumping for an anti-gay, anti-condom Catholic school curriculum as that would help capture the youth vote. So many good ideas out there with which to 'undoom' Alberta.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"transgender-specific medical care would be under $10 million. In contrast, the military spends $84 million a year on viagra\"\n\nbogus comparison --- cost per person would be more relevant, considering that so-called \"transgenders\" are a miniscule percentage of all in the military --- also, Rogan completely ignores the fact that people who can't accept the reality of their chromosomes are mentally ill, unable to distinguish between their fantasies and objective reality, which could be dangerous for other service members", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "no Thse who are divorced and remarried, who are living as unmarried couples, or gays in a purported marriage have separated themselves from the sacramental community of the Church and by definition can therefore play no official part in a synod. That doesn't mean they cannot be listened to and that their concerns cannot be addressed. What cannot be done by any synod is change the magisterial teaching and doctrine of the Church. If this bishop thinks he can, he can't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It would be a political mistake for Trudeau to denounce Trump for anything, unless it affecte Canada directly. However, he might welcome transgender American citizens to serve in the Canadian forces.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why do you think there are so many different Christian denominations? You are completely wrong because it is entirely about pleasing God, to the best of each individual's understanding. We have gay Christian Churches. America was founded by people fleeing religious persecution in Europe. This is why religious protections are specifically written into our Constitution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have always been profoundly disturbed by the terms and in this matter of gender and person-hood. Both terms suggest a rather haphazard AUTHORITY figure who slips-up from time to time, or intervenes in some specific manner (with or without malice aforethought) which may, or must, then be acknowledged or corrected.\n\nIt is this frame of assignment / reassignment that invites such vituperative discourse. Left handedness happens, green eyes happens, Ginger-headedness happens ; if we cannot see that these things are blessings, that is our problem, not God's or the chance that brought these or other traits together in utero. \n\nSomewhere, St Thomas teaches that are not a sign of God's displeasure with the child or her parents, but they are allowed to happen to teach the human community important object lessons in compassion, practical mercy, love.\n\nDid God actively will Thalidomide, does God will Spina Bifida? Maybe Transgender happens too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Politicising LGBT for polical gain. How low can Notley go.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am pro LGBT and my husband is female to male transgender. I helped carry the 50ft flag on the parade. It is not brainwashing. It was my own choice a long time ago before I even met my husband that I would be an ally. I was raised in a strict anti-LGBT home and I grew up defying them and their ways. Hell they even hate that I am wiccan", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh come on, it only took the party 10 whole years to accept gay marriage after its legalization. The base is largely as homophobic as it is bigoted against every ethnic group that has brown skin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Simple! It is easy to rail at gays, a tiny minority whose \"sin\" is something most would never be tempted to commit. \n\nIf they wanted a Bible based morality based on Jesus' teachings, they'd rant about gluttony, greed, lusting after others [porn], divorce, adultery.\n\nBut this would hit too close to home for those in the pews; these are sins most of them are tempted to commit and do!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "William: Such a sad day.....the news out of Orlando is devastating. Unfortunately, it will just \"fill the center\" of the political debate, will foster partisan bickering, and likely will change nothing. Some will see it as an attack on the gay community, some as an ISIS attack, some as both, and who knows what else. Bottom line......in America today it's easy for ANYONE to get a firearm capable of killing a lot of folks in a very short time. \n\nWe don't really know enough at this time to even make reasonable comments regarding the motivation or suggest ways to address such incidents. Suffice to say it's another nightmare come to life. my thoughts are with the victims, their families and friends, as we experience yet another mass tragedy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Kasich believes in gay marriage.\"\nYou say that like it's a bad thing.\nHow are you harmed in any way if two men or two women get a civil marriage?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The way I look at the matter is according to rights afforded by the Charter. In this case the competing principles are freedom of religion and association, versus equality rights. I then look at how the Supreme Court has adjudicated cases of competing rights in the past. Who the antagonists are isn't of any personal interest to me. I'm a heterosexual atheist. I have no axe to grind in the case, other than seeing that justice is done according to the Charter and to the legal framework that applies in such cases.\n\n\"The problem is that TWU's covenant discriminates against LGBT students in particular, and anybody who doesn't adhere to evangelical religious views in general.\"\n\nAgain, you really should read the covenant before making claims about it. The restriction on having sex outside of a man-woman marriage applies to everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation. Far more heterosexuals are affected by the covenant that non-heterosexuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Matthew Shepard was killed in a botched drug deal. The Orlando gunman was a \"gay\" himself. Both of these cases are examples of the unreliable exaggerations these claims of persecution often turn out to be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My understanding is that there is indeed a great deal of bias - towards diversity. Tests which had applicants send out identical applications both for students and hiring found that those who were female were far more likely to be accepted than males, and visible minorities even moreso. The people who run universities are very progressive and if they can find a black lesbian muslim to install in a teaching position they'll fall all over themselves to do so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sin is apartness from God, largely because we harm ourselves and others. Being gay and using your sexual gifts in a committed relationship harms neither God (who cannot be harmed) the self or other. The Church can suggest, but not when it deliberately ignores reality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Miller understands only part of the constitution. He knows we get to keep guns so we can put down rebellions by slaves, for example. He understands that sending out mailings that feature his love for those penis extenders gets votes. He doesn't understand that gay marriage and abortion rights exist because our Constitution requires them. No longer in debate among the sane, Miller is deluded and confuses his belief of what the court should have done and what this country should have been with the law the Constitution constrains the court holds. Like too many he thinks a bible is a legal authority and that his morality is superior to ours.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is not a morality that I plucked out of thin air, it's a morality that is based on the words of sacred scripture. If you don't agree with scripture take it up with God or become a Buddhist or something. It is up to us whether we choose to conform to God's will or if we prefer to have God conform to our will. People who are active, unrepentant homosexuals should not bother to call themselves Catholic as they are going against the doctrine of God's Church. This is the truth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Huge scandal\"? That would be the hundreds of gay priests who molested children. That was a huge scandal the church may never fully recover from. The burial of gay parishioners isn't something that most people care about, so it hardly rates as a scandal.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know, the whole suspension thing is kind of gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"homosexuality is a natural orientation in many species\"\n\nPreposterous! Silly.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "There is a simple answer to all this lgabcd problem. Don't choose to be gay.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't know Donald Trump is transgendered!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is good? This is a sure signal for other Toronto communities and individuals to shun blacks and gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "For example, management wrote to Alex in an e-mail: \u201cHomo, [DDG] says you\u2019re getting fat. \u2026 You can make up to him by feeling his hard ass,\u201d and \u201ccareful your Muslim in-laws don\u2019t behead you in your sleep for being homo,\u201d referring to Alex\u2019s gay Muslim partner.\n--\nHard to believe that management of a spy agency can be so stupid\nSurely they would know that e-mails can be traced\n-\nI would be surprised if this allegation could be proved", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I'm still in my 20's, but I respect the older generation of gay and lesbian people who actually know the history of Pride in Toronto. They have worked for decades with the police and the city to enjoy this good relationship, so I'm not convinced a crew of 20 year old, mainly straight female students can speak for the state of affairs in our community. This generation of special snowflake SJW's seems to think they invented oppression, and that they are the worlds biggest victims. A gay male (and yes, WHITE) in his 60's has probably seen and experienced more oppression than all of the BLM kiddies combined. So who are they to demand the Gay community destroy 30+years of effort in one foul swoop? And you can't tell them anything either. I express my opinion, and even though I am Asian, I will get a white, straight, liberal feminist calling me racist simply because I disagree with this. The hypocrisy is astounding. \n This year we're renting a cottage Pride weekend and going away instead.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Radicalization is taught at home, around the dinner table, as the family enjoys mom's good home cooking, while the grown ups discuss destroying Israel, eradicating homosexuals and the evils of dirty infidels It is drilled into young minds with every tale of glorious martyrdom for Allah in every mosque in every city around the world. Extremism for Islam is taught the same way Christians are taught about Jesus and his message of mercy and forgiveness. It is not at odds with the teachings, but is central to the religion", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Because I wanted to and it fits the argument maybe? Read it. I was responding to the guy who brought up the anti-gay baker who refused service to a gay couple.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I identify as transgendered ladybug sandpaper. your opinion is hate speech to my gender fluid.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And the NRA and Congress who handed him an assault rifle and encouraged hatred of gays, women, and minorities.\n\nI can't wait to see how you couch the hundreds of other mass shootings performed by, in an overwhelming majority, white American males.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, Mike Pence Is A Calculating Gay-Bashing Koch-Toady,\n...But You Knew That\nhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/the-danger-of-president-pence\n\u201cWhen the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, \u2018Don\u2019t ask that guy \u2014 he wants to hang them all!'\u201d", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "They're mentally ill and the mentally ill don't belong in the military. Enough said in the matter!!!\n\nCredible source:\nTitle: Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is \u2018Mental Disorder;' Sex Change \u2018Biologically Impossible\u2019\nSnippet from the article...\n\"Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a \u201cmental disorder\u201d that merits treatment, that sex change is \u201cbiologically impossible,\u201d and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.\"\nhttp://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/johns-hopkins-psychiatrist-transgender-mental-disorder-sex-change", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I have a very gay friend that rebuilds engines and all that kind of macho stuff. He also is friends with an OD priest who is always asking him for \"muscle\" pics. LOL. Another manly priest!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am not sure why you think that I believe it is \"moral decay\" to serve gay and lesbian customers.\n\nCould it be a hallucination? Might somebody have slipped a hallucinogen into your morning coffee?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The Viagra must be why the President has a hard-on against transgender troops. Hopefully he will soon cum to his senses or reconsider his position, I mean \u201cand reconsider his decision\u201d.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "every news channel needs at least one gay host,\nshep be Fox's", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I've had several people tell me they think Mike Pence is gay, although my gaydar never even wiggles when I see the man. If gay, he must hate himself an awful lot. Even more than Ted Haggard.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The view that gay sex isn't really sex, and that \"gay\" people don't really exist, and that homosexuality is only a phantom counterfeit of genuine sexuality, and that same sex pedophilia has zero to do with homosexual orientation, and even though polls tell us that half of the clery is likely gay -- but that had nothing to do with the stats that show us when a priest molests someone, 4 out of 5 times the victim is male....these are all wackadoodle ideas that both Progs and Trads still cling to. \n\nBoth Ruse and Martin miss the mark.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sure they Hijacked the religion.\n\nBut when is the last time a KKK member set off a bomb at an airport, shot up a nightclub, drove a truck into a crowd, threw someone off of a roof to his death for being gay, used car bombs to kill innocent people, kidnapped citizens for torture, detonated multiple suicide bombs, countless car bombings, stabbing attacks, in the name of ALLAH? \n\nI will educate you on YOUR religion that is the ONLY major religion not to have gone through a reformation.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_linked_to_ISIL", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "He'd been drinking, that explains the sexual assault. He's also homosexual - that explains targetting a boy. \n\nTo-day the gay community is 'up in arms' about Spacey conflating his 'gayness' with his 'criminality'. \n\nAs if there are no predatory or promiscuous gays; didn't they come up with the notion of 'pride'.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "That's a distinction without a difference, given that the Church's sex abuse scandal was overwhelmingly a story of men raping boys.\n\nWhatever the \"experts\" are claiming, as a straight man in a straight world, I can assure you that my fellow straight men, when we get \"lonely,\" do not seek out young boys to satisfy our desires.\n\nNot all gay men do that. But only gay men do that. Therefore, Benedict is absolutely right to exclude them from seminaries. Less gay men in priesthood, less risk of boys being raped by priests.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"What scares me is he never takes responsibility for anything, meaning he is always in need of scapegoats. Historically, this has been women, Jews, blacks, Hispanics and LGBT.\"\n\nNever taking responsibility for ones actions and blaming them on others is a hallmark of a psychopath.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "The homosexual, the church, and the problem of acceptance............\n\nThose like David see a huge irreconcilable dilemma. \n\nThose like Andrew Sullivan and Milo embrace the faith & the church, but without sacrificing ss love and sex. \n\nAnd those like the Courage crowd fully embrace the church, and apparently find the celibacy req. reasonable, just and achievable.\n\nWhich response is the correct one for all Catholic homosexuals? \n\nShould they all be convicted of sin for their orientation that they bail, or should they find a way to qualify their situation per their conscience while accepting the faith, or should they, with the adequate amount of grace and effort, find ultimate satisfaction in celibacy?\n\nWhatever they choose is OK with me. Not a darn thing I can do about it, nor can the church do anything about it. Even if the church carefully amends its teachings on homosexuality, people with ss attraction will differ in whatever floats their boat.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, John, I recently posted that it would be ideal if people with same-sex attraction were not afraid to speak about it. That way those who are fighting it could share with others who have that attraction and help them overcome the desire to engage in its associated sinful acts.\n\nBut, yes, keep the acts in the closet. That's pretty much what the Church says. People with same-sex attraction do have all of the rights that everyone else has; what they don't have the right to do is publicize their sex acts (which is what the labels \"homosexual,\" \"Gay,\" et al, do) as acceptable conduct. \n\nThe various names that homosexuals adopt as labels mean that they engage in and/or believe it is ok to engage in same-sex acts. OTH, \"SSA\" means that they are attracted to the same sex, but it does not imply any interest one way or the other of their opinion on same-sex acts. Ironically, the people who remain in the closet and are not allowed to speak are those with SSA who want to fight it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're happy to toe the Church line on homosexuality, but when it comes to women's equality bring on the torches and pitchforks. Sexism and homophobia are inextricable. You just choose to ignore it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "All fine and dandy until a wanted psychopath gets dressed up or decided he is transgender and kills someone.You should be identified by your birth name for security reasons.WHY are these mentally ill people getting preferred treatment like Black Lives Matter and left wing nuts in general?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What was God thinking when s(he) created a homosexual animal kingdom?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "President Trump is a con man. The leaders of most left and right organizations know that this executive order is all hat and no cattle. It was a memo, not a traditional EO with force of law. (For example, contigency plans for terrorist bombings are EO subjects, directing Cabinet secretaries to consider matters is a memo). Still, Trump voters are probably fooled.\n\nOn LGBTQ issues, there is a difference between religious liberty and moral scorn. Firing gay people for getting married is the latter and has no justification. Indeed, it violates the religious liberty rights of gay couples. One aspect of the Gay Marriage decisions has been the consitutionalization of homosexuality as a protected class. Courts are now granting ENDA rights where Congress refused. Once they are done, there will be no compromise for religious organizations to engage in moral scorn and that is not a bad thing.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"I have often wondered about this dichotomy. Indeed, with the stated conservative principle of \"equality for all,\" why do republicans persecute gay people so fervently?\"\n================\nFor the same reason they tend to look down on adulterers, prostitutes, those who buy the services of prostitutes, and those who engage in pornography?\n-\nThe questions become: Why are there any laws against any forms of \"sexual expression\"? Should or should there not be laws against bigamy, polygamy, bestiality, consensual incest? Should all marriages be \"open\" with each and every spouse engaging in sexual relations with multiple other sexual partners....who in turn engage in sex with multiple partners? Why even have \"marriage\" at all? \n-\nOr do we, as a society, try to establish some sort of \"limitation\" on what is good, proper, and healthier for all individuals, the marriage institution, the family, those who are married, and any children that may be involved?\n-\nAnd, does God enter into what is \"right\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "For the sake of diversity, let's allow polygamy, death penalty for homosexuality and the rape of women of lower castes in order to accommodate other \"progressive cultures\".", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Mr. Gay, both Clintons have more than had their share of abuse. Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about an affair with a consenting adult. Meanwhile Trump, who committed multiple impeachable acts, and continues to do so, is given a free pass. Hillary Clinton has been investigated multiple times to no avail. Trump is busily obstructing the investigations about his obvious obstructive behavior and collusion with the Russians and others in the last elections, which amount to treason in my book, because he helped Russia launch a cyber attack on America. \nSo quit whining Gay. Under Trump, the corrupt GOP has graduated to committing and/or allowing blatant illegalities, right out in the open, such as Trump's continued unauthorized acts of war on Syria. \nHypocrite.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Neither one is a day at the beach, that's for sure. Pence is an ultra-conservative evangelical who would probably work hard to set back much of the social progress that was made during the Obama administration. He'd be terrible on gay rights, women's rights and separation of church and state, not to mention religious tolerance.\n\nOn the other hand, he's also not as volatile or as self-centered as the current occupant of the oval office. He wouldn't be as likely to cause a constitutional crisis, get us into a war or hurt relations with our European allies with his undisciplined mouth, and his administration likely wouldn't constantly be embroiled in stupid and unnecessary scandals.\n\nPick your poison.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "What is transgender care? Does it relate to physical health? In a parallel thought to that supported by the plaintiffs in this case, if I want a third leg or arm attached to my torso I should be have the right to insurance coverage? What if I want my male genital enlarged, or my female breasts enlarged, am I being discriminated against if my insurance company does not pay for the surgery? After all, I am sure there are people who are depressed because they don't have a third leg or arm, or that because tiheir genitals are too small or too big!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Callwaiting - In reading your responses here, I believe you are not just rhetorically repeating lines in a pet argument and so I want to respond. My experience is the same as many others here, which is that gay couples and gay parents remain and will remain a statistical minority (by far). There are places in the country where those families are more common because, like most families, gay families choose when they are able to live where they are welcome, safe and where the culture includes them and their children. So it can seem in certain parts of the country that, everywhere you look, you see gay families which means you see \"fewer\" straight families. But it just isn't the overall statistical truth. Additionally, gay parents mostly raise straight children because straight (heterosexual) is the statistical norm and so \"gay parents\" are, in most families, a one generation phenomenon and then that family goes back to the statistically normal pattern: straights parents, straight kids.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The church needs \"a few good men,\" but what sort of good men does the church really want? Ideally, men who are not sexually active -- at least that's the way it's been in the Roman Catholic denomination of Christianity, for several centuries! That excludes married men, (most?) gay men, and ALL women! What gets lost in that process is -- whom is God calling to holy orders (diaconate, priesthood, episcopate)? Time has come to look at other answers to that question, such as ordaining both men and women without reference to anatomy or tradition as determinative of God's Will. And as usual, Jamie is on the right track here! Thanks for challenging the status quo!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't know how old you are, but certainly transgender bathroom rights weren't widely accepted in your youth. So that pretty much debunks your argument.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fact that the military spends 10x the amount of money on Viagra as it dose gender reassignment surgery knocks that argument down. So the question is only about troop readiness. Considering that trans people have been serving in the military and we always say our military is the best, what evidence is there that it lowers it? And perhaps most importantly, how is this not the same argument made against letting gays, women, and lacks serve in the military? Anyone willing to risk their life to protect mine is A-OK in my book. Whats next, trans people cannot be firepeople policepeople, EMT, lifeguards, etc because all those professions involve trusting your coworkers with your life?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe the argument is that white nationalists \"chose\" their political beliefs, so it is the right of anyone to chose to not do business with them. Whereas a gay couple does not choose their sexuality (yes, this has been well established in the annals of biology and psychology), so they cannot be discriminated against. Indeed, any fundamental aspect of one's identity (race, sex, etc) cannot be grounds for discrimination in a just and fair society. \n\nThat's not even getting into the public safety aspects of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "MSL,\n\n Many university professors and students were far more radical in the 1960's Vietnam War era. And many more students were radical in the 1960's.\n The entire political spectrum, including university campus es, has moved quite far to the right.\n The boomer generation itself has moved far right of their 60's ideals of changing the world.\n When yo'rer pro-war, there's no changing the political economy of the world. When you're a 21st Century \"liberal\", you're only concerned with fringe social issues like transgender bathrooms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's the issue. I was medically retired because I was unable to deploy. How is it any different with a transgender? If they are transitioning they can not deploy due to medical reasons. If they can't deploy they can't serve. It's what happened to me and my injuries were service connected. There is no other elective surgery that you can get that will make you non deployable that the service will allow, yet we want to let them? I don't think so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The gay community knows that the drugs used for AIDS were killing them in the 80's and 90's - that's why you don't hear about those drugs anymore.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That particular 'theology' existed well over 2,000 years ago. \n\nYour attempt to define it to match a media that didn't exist before 1996 is just ignorant!\n\nThe proscription against homosexuality is Old Testament theology, well before Fox News..\n\nThe Jeremiah that this writer is talking about was actually a Hebrew prophet and according to contemporaneous records, lived about 650 years before Christ and died in 570 BCE. \n\nRecorded history didn't start 30 years ago.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe that sexual conduct is always a choice. I believe -and am witnessing more and more - that anyone can be attracted to anyone sexually (I'm hearing more and more from my kids about their various friends who identify as bisexual.) So, yeah, sexual attraction is learnable behavior even if we have a predisposition that leads us to lean one way or the other in our years of puberty.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm aware of several venues which cater to queer parties and POC parties that seems to have been unfairly targeted by the fire Marshall in recent years. I think there is a much larger story here about the city waging a covert war on nightlife.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Surely one of the most hideous statements to come from the Vatican in the post-Vatican II era. Obviously it should be withdrawn and if Pope Francis is serious about apologizing to GLBTQ persons and their families for anything, surely the church must apologize for this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is interesting I have felt this compelling of the Holy Spirit telling me to bring up to fellow Catholics that we need to discuss sex with each other & with honesty. There is a theology to the body but we have it written out incorrectly in many ways and this has led many feeling imprisoned by their flesh.\n\nI am not lesbian. However, I was called after confession to seek ordained priesthood in our church when I was a teenager. The ongoing rejection of the people I love, and of the hierarchy I love, made me hate my body for many years and made me feel ashamed of being female. I did many really self-harming things in those days until God managed to put my pieces back together. Then he showed me how he needed me to fight for the church I love to be true to Christ as it has not been since its first 100 years. I needed to stand up and start demanding the end of all sexist teachings and practices while praying for God to change these things too. \n\nWe need honest talk on all sex now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If a transgender is accepted into any of the U.S. Military services, then when they leave or retire, they will most likely have a service connected disability, for any disabilities related to transgender medical problems.\n\nThe costs for transgender military personnel, would most likely be greater, than the average military personnel.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have no experience of American Catholicism but I do have experience of living in England as a cradle Catholic and it doesn't seem to be any different from previous generations in the USA.\nMy parents, my mother at least would not have understood the meaning of \"gay catholic\". She didn't, in fact, until one day out of the blue she asked me, \"what do homosexuals do?\" When I told her as delicately as I could, she could hardly believe me. The thought of it made her physically sick.\nCoincidentally, years later my mother-in-law asked me, \"What do lesbians do?\" She was similarly shocked and sickened.\nI suggest that your depiction of our ancestors cozily accepting homosexuality within the family, \"at the table\" is totally false. You forget that children would have been at that \"table\" and to be explicit about 'uncle George sleeping with Uncle Joe' would never have been mentioned in polite circles, even if children were not present. \nThis issue has nothing to do with Fr Coughlin whatsoever.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you ever get tired of typing out \u201chomosexual\u201d? How would anyone know that in their last days or hours they remained \u201cunrepentant\u201d as you say. Perhaps \u201cthey\u201d have nothing to repent for.\nPerhaps the lesson for all of us in the end is compassion and mercy. \nI have little expectation of the church and it\u2019s apologists. I do know that the Pope has said that there is \u201cvalue in irregular relationships\u201d. I know that Christ directed us to \u201cJudge not, lest ye be judged...\u201d I also know that He commanded us to love others as ourselves. So easy to stand on orthodoxy, it doesn\u2019t take much thought. Just follow the check list right? Harder still to admit that orthodoxy may be wrong and it\u2019s even harder to extend love to those that are so different from ourselves. You might reply that I am heterodox but I will stand on love and be judged without fear.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I never said POTUS was elected by popular vote. I said the popular vote proves the impact of demographics. I also pointed out that Trump won the college by a mere 80k votes. No matter how you slice it that is fluke.\n\nPrincipled conservative? The guy who, as a judge, thought he could overrule the Supreme Court? Who has been disbarred as a judge not once but twice for flagrant conduct unbecoming? Who believes Muslims cannot hold public office, homosexuality should be a criminal offense, that partsof Illinois are living under government enforced Sharia law, yet fails to see that his own approach to legislation is sharia law and who believes its the duty of the US government to favor one religion above all others... Is a principled conservative? Only if conservative principles is the same thing as American Taliban.\n\n3) he got such a small portion of them that it wasn't statistically measurable. Hence 'in the margin of error'. Face it: a fluke. All he did was make America more liberal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, Mychal Judge was a good pastoral person - but so are/were thousands upon thousands of others. Agreed, Mychal was killed in the World Trade Center attack while assisting others - so were hundreds of others, especially dedicated members of the NYPD and NYFD. True, Mychal was gay - so what. Let's put an end to the current canonization craze and all agree that November 1st is the appropriate day to celebrate Mychal and the millions of others who have been good and faithful servants of God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did you miss the previous 8 years, where the right wing media would accuse Obama of everything from being born in Kenya, to being a Muslim, to being gay, or that his kids aren't his? Did you actually miss that, or are did you just turn it out because you didn't like Obama? Or did you agree with the attacks on Obama, but are upset about ones on Trump? How about it? Which is it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I see that the multiple people who somehow (?) disagreed with my observation about the accuracy of the reporting in question, they are failing to answer my question: Where did the pastor say that banks and jewelry stores should not let gay people in the door and should refuse to do business with gay people?\n\nAnd I mean, look, if you just don't want to go there because any sentence in a news report is all fair and good as long as it hammers an opponent, fair enough, but how far do you want to go with that? Should the news report also have said that the pastor says gays and lesbians should all be deported to Antarctica, even though he never said that? Should the news report have also said that the pastor says gays and lesbians should fight hungry lions in coliseums for the amusement of crowds, even though he never said that?\n\nI mean, how far do you want reporters to take this sort of reporting?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is alleged that during the crisis around 50% of the priests in the US were homosexual. \nExamining the records of 102 priests in Burlington Richard Sipe estimated that 49 of them were homosexual. He also found that 23 had been involved with abusing children under 13, 15 had been involved with married women and 19 with adult men. Like the John Jay Report, Sipe did not specify the orientation of the child abusers. In fact the only unpublished detail of the abusers seems to be their orientation. One has to wonder whether this is deliberate or not.\nIn England it was often said that Anglicans who were homosexuals chose the High Church so no one would question their embrace of celibacy. So you could well be right about Catholic homosexuals entering the seminary for the same reason.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I certainly have a clue, and will NOT give it a rest, sorry.\n\nI guess you have not heard of cultural Marxism. I did not refer to political Marxism but the social variant. Ever hear of its history in the West, and the \"long march through the institutions\"? The march is very close to complete by this point.\n\nWitness the rise of P-C culture, the lie of the mantra \"Diversity is our Strengrh\" (well, except for diversity of opinion), open border madness, demonization of national pride, Big Gay and identity politics, and stifling of free speech on campuses as several of a variety of symptoms. There are more.\n\nYour curt suggesting that I defer from contributing to the forum is one more symptom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Domestic violence is apparently at least as common in lesbian relationships as in heterosexual relationships and this has been known for quite along time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Biological reality is that the individual with a 'y' chromosome is a male, regardless of how much he may wish otherwise. Question--is there a connection between male homosexuality and psychological and/or emotional inability to assume a self-identity and social role associated with being an adult male human? I'm going to get jumped on for this, but from what research I've seen on the subject (admittedly, not a lot as it's not a subject of great interest to me), there seems to be more evidence pointing to such a connection than evidence pointing to a 'gay' gene. That of course ain't sayin' much, as there is basically NO empirical evidence supporting the existence of a gay gene. None. Those who argue for its existence take it on faith (more likely, wishful thinking).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All police officers in Alaska swear to enforce BOTH state and Federal law. Further, the nominal principle of US law is that Federal law TRUMPS state law. There are many Federal crimes which are not state crimes - but they don't disappear because a state has no such rule. It is on this basis that the Supreme Court has invalidated Alaska's Constitution re gay marriage - in spite of NO Federal statute legalizing it. Precisely why we have inconsistent application of the principle of Federal law is superior is unclear. Most of all to those on the front line, sworn to uphold both. Have a little sympathy for them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hello Phil: Actually I don't care whether you wear that shirt or not. I don't care if you're gay or not. I don't care if you're proud to be gay or proud to not be gay. Those things are entirely your business as far as I'm concerned. \n\nThe \"hanging effigy\" is, IMO, in poor taste, but it's hardly the end of civilization as we know it. Those statues of a nude Trump were in poor taste as well, but again hardly a threat to the American \"way of life\".. In fact, both actions reflect our dedication to Freedom of Expression...just as does your tee-shirt. That \"American way of life\" will only be threatened with Mr. Pitner can't display his feelings and those statues mocking Mr. Trump are outlawed. regards, Gary", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You say, vaguely: \"Catholic hierarchy including Kurtz, Vigano, Lori and Cordileone have been involved with groups that are associated with hate groups . . . that specialize in the discrimination of a \"group\" be it Jewish, or black, or female, or gay or Muslim or whatever.\"\n\nGood grief. If you want to accuse, then accuse. Have the courage of your convictions. Tell us the names of the groups that Kurtz, et al. are involved in; how those groups are \"associated with hate groups\"; who those hate groups are; and what Kurtz et al. have done to warrant the accusation of racism. Otherwise, your charge of racism is odious . . . racism being one of the worst things a person can be (IMHO).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's always fun to watch progressive leftist implode under their own self-contradictions. The transgender female community is distraught at the sight of so many vagina hats and vagina outfits in the crowd, because they \"know\"that a vagina is not the real sign of a woman. They have constantly preached to us that despite having a penis and XY chromosomes that they are female just because they say they are. Any disagreement is automatically called out as transphobic. \nNow they see that the women they are aligned with view the vagina as the defining feature of a woman (go figure). That explicitly denies the transgender female any way to continue with her (his?) delusion.\n\nThe Women's March is transphobic for all to see.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "An aspect of this which seems to escape attention is that public schools seem to go out of their way to promote acceptance of various aspects of what's labeled the \"gay\" agenda, usually based on the unproven argument that homosexuals are \"born\" that way. There is absolutely no scientific evidence substantiating that argument, yet it's being included in public school curricula and taught as \"fact\". My daughter objected to this when her oldest was in high school (she graduated in June).\n\nWe're now discussing home-schooling her youngest (ages six and three), a task which will likely fall to me when I retire next year, inshaa Allah. I know for a fact I can offer stronger science, math, history, multi-lingual and writing instruction than our public schools--without unloading others' ideological propaganda on my grandchildren.\n\nThe six year-old already knows more scientific names of prehistoric animals than I do--I'd never heard of \"Dunkelosteus\" until he enlightened me...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This article denies basic observable facts. FACT: There are gay men who are very masculine and gay women who are very feminine. FACT : There are hereto men who act feminine and hetero women who act masculine. There are so many examples : Prince, David Bowie. George Sands Miley Cyrus, Eddie Izzard. FACT : Gender \"expression\" is a fashion statement based on how people dress, and guess what? People dress differently than other aspects of their seuality. They are separate based on OBSERVATION OF REAL LIVE HUMANS, not an extrapolation of a random prenatal theory. On that note, the testosterone levels in EVERYONE changes a lot, and depending on WHEN and how many OTHER hormones of which I'm sure the author is unaware, yes it is long and complicated and changes for many reasons.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I believe that the people should be represented by legislators and governors. \n\nThat social change should be done by them, not by five unelected Justices of the Supreme Court. \n\nIn Oregon, civil unions were legal; gay marriage was not by a vote of the people. Five Justices of the Supreme Court changed that. That is fine for those who like the changes the Justices made.\n\nElsewhere today, one of our posters thinks Citizens United, which gives corporation the ability to spend unlimited money to elect candidates is wrong. Five Justices of the Supreme Court overturned the Federal Election Commission established by Congress to get that result.\n\nInterpreting the law is one thing, changing the law by five judges is something else.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you. The vast majority of people are very supportive of the real transgender community..although there is concern about some issues eg Caster Semenya running as a female.\nBut they do NOT support genital mutilation for those with no chromosomal abnormalities.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting article. \"victim was brutally assaulted\" BUT the detective said the \"victim was not physically injured.\" We should chastise this person, in the court of social journalism, for using gay slurs but calling him a \"redneck\" is good journalism. He is expected to make a full recovery from being not physically injured. And now a vigil for the man brutally assaulted who was not physically injured?\nTHIS IS TERRIBLE REPORTING? \nThis is the second article I have read by this reporterette that is total nonsense. The other article is about a found gun.\nguns and gays, I guess that pretty much sums up our interest in the news of the day.\nI've seen better reporting in high school newspapers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As the Russia investigations inch closer and closer to proving guilt among Donald Trump and his administration, Trump goes back to his \"deflect and distract\" strategy. Hey - look over there folks! I'm banning the transgender community from enlisting in the military. And I'm banning them in a tweet without consulting anyone else. And hey - look at that! I think I'm going to go ahead and pardon myself, my family, and anyone associated with my administration (even though we're not guilty of anything!). And hey! Look at this! I'm going to give a speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree and talk about my huge electoral college victory, and also urge these 12-18-year-old Boy Scouts to boo Barack Obama!\n\nIsn't it obvious, once again, to anyone with an IQ over 20 what Donald Trump is doing??? As the pressure mounts on Trump, his \"deflect and distract\" strategy is once again in play. It's a sad situation that he is the leader of our country, and the sooner Impeachment Day comes, the better!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So the headline is for the uninformed and not for the critical thinker. How many people suffer from transgender issues? How many males may have issues with their plumbing? \n\nSo the military has about 700k active males give or take. That does not include those who have served and are covered under the VA system. Several million men.\n\nHow many hundred or thousands of people are looking for transgender services? They are a fraction of a percent of the population. Yes less than one percent but spend how much? No wonder they spend 5 times on Viagra. If you even attempt to cling to this article to justify the transgender experiment you are not capable of critical thinking.\n\nThere are how many more thousands of individuals who may need Viagra than who need transgender treatments. As a portion of the population the transgender people are consuming more resources.\n\nThis is not an apples to apples comparison, but rather a headline trying to sway the easily fooled.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can you give an example of a social justice warrior? Is a person who lobbied for gay marriage a social justice warrior? How about a person concerned about the conditions on First Nations reserves?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And why is it you doubt the Russians and Putin are capable of such things? France 2 has a very compelling report on Putin where the latter is overheard in a 2007 conversation with Sarkozy bluntly threatening to destroy France if the French president keeps asking questions about Russia's actions in Chechnya, the ongoing persecution of gay people in Russia and the assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya among other things. He also promises to make Sarkozy \"King of Europe\" if the French president cooperates. You can see Sarkozy is clearly shaken. Scary stuff.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's not so much that the winners are American, as the fact that other nationalities don't provide enough pro-gay books to compete!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And why would a homosexual couple even want to give their business to someone who disapproves of their ceremony?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Maybe some of you need to look at it as a statement of frustration with the American government. It is refreshing to see someone tell it like it is rather than all the PC tripe. If I ware my shirt that says I am not gay and proud of it.I suppose some of you have a problem with that also. If it was a Trump doll would you feel the same?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The former policies had nothing to do with a anti gay bias. Trying to argue they did is foolish and completely ignores the issues surrounding the conversation. But you can argue I guess that everyone of all political parties was anti gay until they suddenly werent if you want.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alexandra, I support gay rights. Possibly, I took my analogy too far. My sincere apologies.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Like straights, gays say that sexual acts in a loving relationship are sinless.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obsolete. That was a phrase for then, when we needed bodies for growth and westward momentum. We grew and we went west. We no longer need the bodies. Time to replace that old fashioned obsolete epithet with a more modern list of \"don'ts\" about trying to sneak in here.\n\nBesides, why cling to that one old piece of America? Your ilk are all about turning tradition on its head, right? Why keep that piece of old fashioned sentiment? You guys want gay marriage, socialism, big government... ALL are non-traditional America. Why would you site an old traditional American statement on an old statue?\nCherry picking, are we?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Genesis 19:5 says the men of the town asked Lot to send out the 'men', note they didn't say 'angels' so they could have sex with them. There is nothing to suggest that the people knew that the men in Lot's house were angels. What sort of sex could the townsmen have had with these men other than homosexual sex. Lot fearing the angels might be raped desperately offered his virgin daughters to the mob to do with as they desired, Genesis 19:8.\nThere can be no doubt that the intention of the all male mob was to to have homosexual sex with the two male visitors in Lot's house.\nLot showed a great lack of faith in God in thinking that His angels could not look after themselves.\nSince then the Sin of Sodom has refered to homosexual relations. The word has entered into nearly all the world's languages to refer to the same thing.\nThis is not the only instance where the notes in NABRE contradict the hitherto accepted interpretation of Holy Scripture.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I almost hate to see uplifting stories like this, because they just give people on here the excuse to spew their venom. Why are they so fearful of gay people?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How did I miss this purple prose regarding your sex life? Ah well, perhaps it is for the best!\n\nI am trying to wrap my head around how you can continue to be saying that the BSA never barred gay kids, when the official policy was to do exactly that. Your defense is that other people could also be barred, but surely you see that the fact that they bar a larger set of people than just gay kids does NOT mean they do not bar gay kids. They barred gay kids, and specifically barred gay kids with an official policy that precisely described that they were being barred for being gay. So, \"hogwash\"? I think you owe Jeanette an apology for telling her to take a hike when you were being incorrect. My parents raised me to own up to mistakes and make amends when needed... were you?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Choosing to be gay...\nThe only choice is whether to be honest with yourself/others about being gay. Some people choose to accept and embrace who they are and some choose to bury themselves in a closet filled with self hatred. Personally, I'm tired of everyone telling me I'm an Abominable Snowman when I'm just trying to live authentically. \n\nYes, children cab be impressionable, and that's why it's important to publicly embrace diversity. Have you not been paying attention to suicide statistics? LGBTQ youth are much more likely to attempt suicide because they hear negative messages about who they are at the core of their being: Be straight or you are worthless. Be straight or you're a disappointment. Be straight and your family will love you. It's all about the kids, Richard. You know, children are our future kind of a thing. Sad that you think being honest is what is causing society to sink before your eyes. Here I was thinking hatred was a huge problem...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the Great nation of Hawaii will rot because Hawaii will become a non-essential nation in anyone's plans. All banks will pull out, shipping companies will probably schedule one run per month as a humanitarian jester, no money for infrastructure upkeep, the wild pigs will soon become extinct because of over hunting, Molokai will separate from your Nation of Hawaii because they already think they can stand on their own, etc.\n\nForget the nation of Hawaii and keep sucking on Uncle Sam's thumb...he has no teat unless he is one of those transgender men who cannot produce milk from what is left of his once female teat.\n\nGet off of Aladdin's carpet and face reality...this way you will be a happier person instead of one who is angry, yearning for something that you know can never happen. \n\nA strong Nation of Hawaii is just something in one's imagination...sorry, but, it is true.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Of course it's anecdotal. \n\nI cannot speak for my cousins -- most of whom I have never met, and I didn't get along very well with the one I did meet -- but neither of my two brothers is religious in the slightest. My twin brother went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and is an atheist. My younger brother was rejected by the institutional Church because he is gay; and is vaguely spiritual in some rather nebulous way.\n\nI have been urged by religious Jews to turn to their faith more than once. I am, after all, a Jew under Halakha since my mother was a Jew. (I am also a Jew under the Nuremburg Laws.) But while I do find some things about Judaism fascinating, I am not attracted to either Orthodox Judaism or Conservative Judaism, and I don't really see the point of Reform Judaism. Perhaps I might be a Reconstructionist Jew, but almost certainly not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Earlier this week, 56 retired generals and admirals came out against Trump's ban on transgender troops, arguing it would be disruptive and degrade military readiness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The baker did not agree. He wants to be legally allowed to discriminate.\n\nLet\u2019s get back to your comments you are pretending you did not say.\n\nYou said that gays are not a protected class in Colorado. A quick google search would prove you wrong.\n\nYou also said that only Germans and Austrians have the right to force bakers to make them hitler cakes.\nLOL\nThis is is more complex as there is no google search for this because it is so ridiculous.\nI would love for you to prove that political thought is protected, but you deny and refuse. Like a child.\n\nMake a contention, then prove it. Or in your case, just dig in and deny reality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Okay Danielle, I'm going to have to ask you to tone down your terf ideology. \n\" they are literally living healthy lives, even I'm saying they are, but I'm also saying they are not. Because i make totale sense.\"\nExcuse me why are you talking about sexuality? Are you literally this ignorant about trans issues? That or your fear monger. \nOkay, literally no one said that if a child puts on the opposite genders clothes that automatically they are transgender.\nI can 100% guarantee you right now right here that your children are going to need therapy after having been raised by you.\nYeah, and fathers raping their daughters used to be normal too. But things change. \nWomen used to not be able to work LGBT people used to be locked away in institutions were they would get their brains fried, and black people would get lynched. But obviously the bad things eventually stop. \nJust because you don't experience transphobia doesn't mean that it's negative effects aren't real. \nIt is treatable. But the", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Am I to understand, from this article, that the bishops \"set up\" an organization that opposed surrogacy when it extended to same-sex couples? That's awfully duplicitous. Catholic teaching opposes surrogacy period.. not just for gay couples.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So in your view, when a man is attracted to male teenagers, he's somehow not a homosexual?\n\nSeriously, I'm trying to understand your views on male sexuality.\n\nYou seem to be of the opinion that the hundreds of priests who molested boys somehow weren't gay. That they were straight men, and because they were around boys, they somehow developed sexual urges for these boys. And this is normal for all men, be they priests or construction workers or accountants.\n\nDo I have that right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You described \"biological genetic stability.\" And so did Adolf Hitler imagine that pedigree for the German race to be born with Blue eyes and blond hair. That was with his undertaking of Darwin's observances of species. And now you are exploring somehow Jesus' call to do that as well. What should we say to the Jewish people, even men/women of the Catholic faith and Protestant traditions, and of course gypsies/gay people who suffered under him? That all for the preferred genetic makeup/stability of the super German race?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've never understood why those cake bakers can't exercise their conscience rights without making it an affront to the gay/lesbian couple. It is a standard business practice to find ways to politely and vaguely demur when disagreeing with a client: \"we are not able to accomodate the date and venue you had in mind,\" \"we can't fulfill your request at this time and would like to refer you on to a business associate who can meet your needs,\" etc. There are ways of choosing not to do something that would violate your beliefs, without disclosing all the detaills to another party who might be offended.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Glenn, the Human Rights tribunal decisions you're talking about obviously didn't involve issues like 'cultural appropriation' They never have.\n\nHowever, they have involved (for instance) white supremacists who advocated the wholesale extermination of homosexuals and other groups they hated. That one in particular also called for global genocide of Jews and other non-Whites. That's slightly more than 'hurt feelings' perpetrated by truly dreadful people. Hard to say what kind of 'truth' would be a defense against hatred like that. If you don't believe it, you can look it up.\n\nI suspect most decent people would agree that awarding damages against people like that hardly adds up to 'free speech is dead.'", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Both States, CA and GA must have very incompetent people working at their Health Departments.\n\nFirst, they are discriminating against Dr. Walsh. He can do a great job at their Health Departments despite his own personal beliefs about homosexuality. He must be very competent and have a great vitae, since he was hired in both States once.\n\nSecond, how come they are denying him the right to discriminate against homosexuals and to even preach from the pulpit about it? This makes absolutely no sense!\n\nThird, nobody, not even a physician, is obligated to know better and to be informed and updated on the issue of homosexuality from a scientific point of view. (I am talking about NATURE - to be - and not nurture - to do)\n\nI think the GC should support our dedicated lay people, and even go after those States that are discriminating against them. Discrimination is not acceptable in our denomination. We don't discriminate, therefore those authorities shouldn't either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would educate you/others by re-posting the homosexual slurs made by the Democrat Party leaders which Wikileaks uncovered in exposing the Democrats e-mails and voice mails. However, the ugliness and hatefulness of those homophobic slurs wouldn't last 2 seconds on civil comments as they really are just that hateful and nasty.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is significant global support for Sharia law.... making homo sexuality a crime, women rights. \n\nDoes not make it right but pretty sure there would be significant UN support for a resolution on any of these issues.\n\nMaybe there would be peace in the middle East if the UN came out with a resolution against women's right to vote??", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"as a lesbian, a new parent ...\"\nHow is that even possible? Good God, don't tell me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You wrote:\n\n<>\n\nWhat country do you live in? In the United States of America, gays have a right to free speech.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am a gay conservative and I wish the PM would apologize for taking money out my pocket each and every paycheck to support a liberal agenda that wants us to be dependent on the government. Don't bother about apologizing for who I sleep with. Apologize for spending my money on your liberal agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She is making up accusation based on southern US black racism, because she knows nobody would dare contradict her. I had a best buddy in the 1980s (now dead of AIDS) who was from the Blood Band near Lethbridge. He had true horror stories about growing up gay on the reserve. He and his whole family faced endless violence and property damage from band members and open discrimination by the band council for it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks to Commissioner McClone for this viewpoint. What is missed is that this shooter was a male with a confused sexuality and a history of violence and access to assault weapons that made the choice to kill queer identified patrons of the Pulse Nightclub. Let us not forget the physics of race in our assumptions. The 2010 census shows the Orlando is predominantly white (57%) and with an identifiable Latino(x?) population of about 25%. It was Latin Music night at the Pulse that night., hence a large number of Latin patrons that we assume were queer identified. I for one will not buy into this ISIL mindset as a reason to kill.\n Many Thanks to Eugene's Human Rights Commission for their great work. Peace.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Remember the Western Block Party? Or the Western Canada Independence Party? Or the Separation Party of Alberta? All right wing parties fearful of immigrants, French-Canadians, socialism, non-Christians, Gays & Lesbians, and resentful of Ontario & Quebec.\n\nSocial Credit, Reform, Wild Rose, and the new united federal Conservative party all fall into this political area of the right. They're the Rednecks Brian Mulroney once described as always present and in need of being marginalized.\n\nIt's a shame that Albertans can't weed out these sexist, racist, and bigoted members. To watch two women quit the PC leadership race ought to have shamed them, but apparently not. And Notley actually is behaving well as a provincial leader making the strident criticism of her bizarre.\n\nI suspect the Liberals will all be laughing when the new Tory leader is picked. Some social conservative buffoon from West who speaks no French but has a cache of embarrassing posts from the past on social media.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good points, unfortunately western \"progressives\" are wilfully blind to the reality of the niqab all over the world - they see women submitting to male authority under the guise of \"modesty\" and piousness as cultural differences. In Canada the veil means \"feminism\" but in Iran, women who don't cover their hair are flogged by morality police. The Globe also purposefully ignores the fact that the veil is synonymous with a belief system that condones the death penalty for \"apostasy\", \"blasphemy\", and homosexuality - yet they accept the \"feminism\" narrative without question? Next week, the Globe interviews three guys dressed in KKK outfits just out for a community bonfire talking about how their cloaks represent \"diversity\"...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\u201cThe leading Democrats running for Florida governor met with gay and lesbian party members Saturday in an event that at times was touching and personal.\u201d \u201cTouching and personal?\u201d Sounds like sexual assault. Did anyone get arrested?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If Ontario de-funded Catholic schools and forced a merger with the English and French public school systems there would be enough savings to pay for universal childcare like our neighbors in Quebec. You would think an openly Gay and Female Premier in Wynne would have the sense to orchestrate this flip in resources. Studies have shown the savings of eliminating the Catholic boards top 1B/year in operating costs with the elimination of surplus buildings, teachers, labor and the like. A universal childcare program say the $15/day NDP model combined with the $15 minimum wage would attract more women to go to work and the tax revenue generated would more than pay for the program itself while the initial savings can start cutting the province's often forgotten yet growing 315B+ debt.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Calm down, no reason to yell.\nYou should do a little research. Yes, a restaurant can refuse service for improper clothing, poor hygeine or for being a disturbance, no one is arguing that.\n\nWhat a business owner can not do is refuse service based on sexual orientation. That would be against Colorado law.\nThe baker does not have the right to discriminate based on anything, his religion, or the Constitution. The Constitution does not have anything in i that says you can discriminate based on religion.\n\nThe baker is immature and choosing to be offended.\nHow will he know in the future is he is making a cake for a gay wedding?\nWhat if the mother of a bride goes into the shop and asks for a wedding cake? Is the baker going to ask the mother if the cake is for a gay wedding? He has to be told the cake is for,a gay wedding. Then he chooses to be offended. \nIf he does not know, he will make the cake and not be offended. \nI bet he has made cakes for gay weddings and did not know it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is about educating priests and bishops who are of the asexual orientation that their fantasies about sex are about themselves alone and not the rest of us, gay and straight.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I look forward to seeing you out there tonight stopping your fellow liberals from denying someone else their rights....Again. Over the top? You think stopping the flow of radicals into America is \"over the top\" but the treatment of women and gays in Islam gets a pass...You are OK with my wife and I paying to legally migrate to America but others getting it for free.....THAT is over the top. Pretending the rich people who currently pay most of our taxes aren't paying their fair share...THAT is over the top.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What the Federal law says. \n\n\"The federal law does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, so \n***gays are not a protected group*** under the federal law.\"\n\nNote: Individual state laws can override that. \n------------\nReference\n1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States\n\n2)https://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol31_2004/summer2004/irr_hr_summer04_protectlgbt.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Undoubtedly the catholic church is a role model to the world. If it discriminates towards gay priests and people, to women, to divorced and re-married people, to children, it sends a message of discrimination to the world. What shall we then expect of society?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Doesn't matter why he did it. He was able to do it. The almighty SCOTUS has become a politicized joke. Shouldn't we be getting an LGBT person on there next?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree with all this - especially about the \"Big Bang\" being a fairly tale perpetrated by biased fantasies of those in search of federal research grants. Homosexuality is most certainly a choice, the Obamacare quote is a metaphor, how one can \"see\" \"Global Warming\" is beyond me, and if you want to lay down a million years worth of records then feel free - perhaps then you may be able to get the other half of the world to believe you, PP thrives in poor black communities, racism is just like any other crime, which is perpetrated by a few people (but not a crime) and does NOT reflect the masses of dissenters. Obamacare pays people JUST enough to depend on it and does not motivate anybody to improve.\n\nAnything else ? And I trust Carson much more that DaliaDuck... You cannot even play the race card with him ! I love it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Have you not noticed that the pope has not responded to the dubia? There are prelates that support homosexuality and homosexual marriage , prelates that are homosexuals and sympathizers all deeply embedded and entrenched in the Vatican and those who support Holy Communion to the divorced. It is they that would cause a schism, certainly not authentic Catholics. This pope has stacked the Vatican with that mindset. Those who have undermined the Faith were not what you call the right, but rather leftist progressive and worldly Cardinals, bishops, and priests.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting. \n\nMy parish is listed. I am sure all parishes should be, as each parish should be welcoming to all. Of course, \"welcoming\" is not the same as \"approval\" of all behavior. \n\nSinners of all types are welcome - That's why we have Confession, Penance, and Reconciliation, right?\n\nAs Cardinal Tobin of Newark said, it is appropriate \u201cto welcome people to come and pray and call them who they were. And later on, we can talk.\u201d\n\nMy parish has a group that lends support to the parents of gay children and invites people to their meetings via bulletin announcement. I guess that's what qualified them to be included on this list?\n\nAnyway, New Ways Ministry is still not approved by the Vatican or authorized to speak on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church. That may also be why many parishes are not on the list.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Natural law as practiced at the CDF concerns itself with Platonic idealism, where celibacy and chastity are the ideals, often through the filter of papal infallibility rather than reason and with an unspoken asexual bias. Before LGBT rights, being asexual was considered an attraction disorder, except in the Church, where it gets you a pointy hat and shepherds crook. I suspect there was no percentage in fighting over how natural law is best used, i.e., authoritatively v. by reason and evidence, so Francis ignored its conclusions. Professor Imperatori-Lee highlights the romanticism, or clerical idealism, often brought to this topic. Meghan Clark also notes this.\n\nEight women is progress over none, but not nearly enough in a conference about male and female relationships, regardless of how talented the women were. Meaghan Clark is right to cite Francis' implicit change of Pius XI Ozzie and Harriett view of women in marriage and even more so the USCCB allergy to lesbians and trans women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The main reason why this is such a big deal to people is because Catholics believe that being gay is morally wrong. It's 2017, time to stop pandering to the Catholic church and their stone age beliefs. How about providing protection for vulnerable young adults instead. \n\nMore good work by the NDP. So refreshing after 40 years of cavemen.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My problem there is that the topper is usually plastic. It's not something he makes, it's something he stocks. He'd mostly be within his rights to decline to stock all the styles, he can claim he doesn't have the demand to keep those in stock. Now if he's making them out of fondant or whatever, then serve one, serve all. Also, if he would normally special order items to place on any other wedding cake, he would then be obligated to special order for a same sex couple. So if they then asked him to special order their topper, he would need to. But if it's not his practice to special order items from outside for customers, then he could decline to do so for a gay couple. That wouldn't seem to be the brightest way to run that sort of business, though.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hobson says, \"Gays see this as saying that the Church finds them 'intrinsically disordered.'\" Probably true, but it only exacerbates the problem for gays to literally identify themselves with, or to define themselves by, conduct that is disordered. I suspect many gay Catholics have heard this said often enough, but because they reject what the Church says about homosexual conduct itself, they disregard the distinction the Church makes between being a disordered person and acts that are disordered.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually SNP lost 21 seats so even though most Scots opposed Brexit, most don't want another referendum. In fact it was due to Tory gains in Scotland that allowed May to remain PM. Had she not picked up 12 seats there (she had a net loss of 27 in England and lost 3 in Wales), the Conservative-DUP agreement wouldn't have been feasible so parliament would have been unworkable (Liberal Democrats made clear they wouldn't back either a Conservative or Labour led government and with good reasons), so it was Scotland that saved her government. Also Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson is very popular in Scotland and she is a Lesbian too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, the latest talking point of 45 apologists. Here's the fundamental fact of the case, a judge warned this man repeatedly about his violation of the 4th amendment and he continued to stick his finger in the judge's eye. What 45 has done is told the entire world and his ilk that the constitution he is sworn to uphold isnt worth the paper its written on/is irrelevant and reinforces his latest 'joke' that its fine for cops to abuse prisoners. This after all is the same man who told his crowds to beat people up and he would pay their legal bills. This is the man who bars transgender people from the army because they costs too much money in healthcare, yet thinks nothing of running the secret service out of money 7 months into his term because of weekly travel to his resorts; the man who got a half a dozen deferments so he wouldnt have to fight for his country.\n\nIt boggles the mind how any reasonable person can defend him; the presidency and america itself has become a joke.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lets see, you just accused me of a complicated sexuality, ie. possibly latent homosexuality. \"He said you had a complicated sexuality, didn't he? It would seem the case.\" Was this comment made so as to obtain a visceral response from me out of concern and compassion, or just to \"get even\"? No different than Fr Martin's desired effect. Get my point now? I see you mentioning \"bullying\" in your other responses. There seems to be a whiff of hypocrisy here, don't you think? I think I need to get to my safe space before I start thinking I may also be a woman trapped in a mans body.\n\nBy the way, what does your comment \" but the weakness in personal boundaries is an issue that complicates sexuality.\" pertain to or supposed to mean to our discussion?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, but it is those he called out as alt-righters that act with such an intensity of hate that they need to be called out and often. If that kid in QC was called out more for being a mean spirited troll maybe he would have taken a step back and spared the lives of those innocent people praying (maybe not). Scoundrels that are found on these boards need to be called out and more...as of now they are taking over and finding comfort in each others arms; thanks SUN and NP for closing your boards . \n\nThey do grow it is just hard for them....consider 20 years ago they would be raging against homosexuals or black people. Now for the most part these groups are thankfully accepted (despite BLM's claims to the contrary - stats seem to suggest only 8% fear either Jews, Blacks or homosexuals; however it is far higher for Muslims; ridiculous). It takes time and these clowns don't listen to compassion, that is weakness to them....so call them out for what they are...low effort angry thinkers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You may decline to serve for reasons not covered by the law. In this case, the law takes precedence. The baker could have said, I don't like the color of your shirt, so I'm not serving you. But he specifically said I am not serving you because of your status. He wanted to make an issue out of it. If he had served the couple, his religious beliefs would still be intact, and we would not be having this conversation. Serving someone does not change internal beliefs. It's in the outward expression of those beliefs that discrimination becomes the issue. For instance, let's say I have a business, and I don't like Christians. I am entitled not to like anyone, but if they come into my business, I am required to serve them. So, you DO NOT have to like gay people in any way (though I don't know why you wouldn't), but, if you have a business license, you have agreed to follow all applicable laws.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "John Kerry, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, et al give a lousy answer on abortion. They need to emphasize three things: 1. eliminating Roe by giving the decision to the states brings back the tyranny of the mob over sexual issues, even if that mob is led by a Catholic Archbishop. I am sure the Archbishop would like to get rid of gay marriage and bring back bans on sodomy and contraception, but the rest of the Country or the people in the pews do not. 2. Until Congress changes personhood with federal law, Roe cannot be changed nationally. 3. The Pro-life movement is a Republican electoral scam. In the Obama campaign, we leaned hard on #3 in Catholic networks, largely because I made a call to NARAL to make it happen. I had told Hillary the same thing years ago, but she let herself get baited into a conversation about partial birth abortion by Trump, which is already illegal. She did not have to rally women on this, just attack the GOP.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here is a thoughtful critique of the TV show in question from a trans blogger:\nhttps://sexdrugsmh.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/thoughts-on-transgender-kids-who-knows-best/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Disavow Trumps racism? What racism? \nAre you also in favor of ending abortion? ...Jesus wasn't pro choice. \nHow about ending homosexual marriage? ... Jesus was no fan of sodomy.\nTrump's morals run much much deeper and wider than anyone the democrats put up against him and lord knows that Bernie da Bomber isn't Christ-like in the least. I think the easiest way for you to see how wrong your thinking is about Trump is to start doing your own critical thinking and drawing your own conclusions. Most of the remarks the press has a attributed to Trump are either complete fabrications, were true, were taken out of context and all over reacted to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Looking at his picture, It seems relatively obvious. Did he think he was fooling everyone? \nWhy do gay people feel the need to publicly express their sexual preference to the world? Your business is your business, no need to broadcast it to all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The power SCOTUS exercises that you don't like are the limits on state legislative action. Madison wanted passed a 16th article of the Bill of Rights through the House. The Senate killed it and he did not fall on his sword for it. The 14th Amendment completed the Bill of Rights. They act because states victimize minorities, from blacks, to women, to gays, to Latinos, to immigrants to Catholics in Alabama.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "planned parenthood defunding is also the gop plan as well, any other services they provide outside of abortions will then be done by others thus nothing is cut. there is nothing you can post that trump ever said about or against gay rights.. as for education they want to take power from the unions so parents have the choice, and about time too, woman should be particularly happy about that one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1. Refusing to provide the service is homophobic. Period. \n\n2. If a business refuses to provide you with a service, especially for the petty reason of your sexual orientation, then people have a right to complain and boycott.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Too much dependence on computers? Captain's crew members get complacent, over confident, and sleep with their eyes open or spend too much time in the latrine playing with their cell phones? Lack of seriousness about the care of hugely expensive boat? Just like the submarine accident here that killed a number of young Japanese sailors in training. Maybe needs to start hiring college degrees and more qualified gays. Remember that air pilot simulators? Make one for everybody who deals with sailing a ship and put them into emergency situations with horns blowing, red lights flashing, and sirens making you deaf. Same for battle situations. Should be done in training schools and again and again when docked in port. Those are expensive ships.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In the Holy Bible, Genesis 1:27-28 says that God created people as either distinctly male or distinctly female. It should be carefully noted that God did not create people and then let them decide what they would be. The Bible says that God is the One who decides how humans are to behave sexually and within the scope of their gender. God says a woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear woman clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this. The entire Bible context is that of men and women each operating within the biology given to them by the one true God who created all things.\n The LGBT which includes Transgenders are hiding behind the mask of the Civil Rights movement which doesn't belong to them. They are not part of the African American community; they don't represent the Latino or Asian community and yet the LBGT and transgenders are wrapping themselves in the mantlepiece of the Civil Rights movemet", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is an argument against promiscuity, which is immoral and why gay marriage is a blessing. Morality is about living our lives better in the hear and now. For men who are really gay and made that way by God, forcing celibacy and enforcing it with criminal law is a cure worse than the disease. It is bigotry, not morality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The older I get, the more I see the church's emphasis on \"priesthood\" to be not only overblown, but a serious error with devastating consequences. The church needs people to do many of the functions served by the clergy, and to have those functions done. \n\nBy focusing on the priesthood, a clerical caste in emerged in the church. That caste-like system has a lot to do with the abuse scandal in the church, for it found the bishops judging that it was better for the church to protect priests and especially bishops, even if children were left to suffer. Tha system has led to a rigidity wherein the church has been utterly unable to adapt to changes in how we view gays, women, even social justice... It has led to the silencing of theologians who disagree with those in power.\n\nThus, the church finds itself not only out of step with society (not all that big a deal), but ever less relevant to and effective in the world. I don't have an easy answer, but there is a lot of damage to undo.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Indeed, some of Caffarra's comments were intentionally malicious. \n\nE.g. \"The second development showing the \u201cculture of the lie\u201d is the \u201cennoblement of homosexuality,\u201d the cardinal said, which \u201cin fact denies entirely the truth of marriage, the mind of God the Creator with regard to marriage.\u201d\n\nMarriage has a \u201cpermanent structure\u201d in the mind of God because the union of man and woman is the \u201chuman cooperation in the creative act of God,\u201d Cardinal Caffarra said.\n\nFor this reason, the elevation of abortion to a \u201csubjective right\u201d and equating a homosexual relationship to marriage represent the destruction of \u201ctwo pillars of creation.\u201d\n\n\u201cAt the root of this is the work of Satan, who wants to build an actual anti-creation.\"\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pandora, let me introduce you to a word you clearly have not come across before: Sarcasm.\n\nI was being sarcastic. The SOLE reason for not ordaining women is misogyny. The stance of the institutional Church towards homosexuals is to treat them with loathing -- things such as automatically firing those who are married. .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I challenge your challenge and up the ante: there are so, so many gay clerics. Tom Doyle estimates some 50%, others 30%. \nI also doubt if you can separate actual conditions from church teaching, since that bifurcates the church teaching from peoples' lives in a rather gnostic fashion. Isn't the church semper reformada. Didn't Pope Francis just say that again? Any church institution that is entirely irreformable seems to me to be dead, clinging to the skeleton of a past glory while ignoring the needs of presently living people.\nWhy do you say other churches have heterodox eucharistic theologies? Anglo-Episcopalians enjoy both high church theology and a plethora of women priests. You must be thinking of those who swam the Tiber a few years back, eh?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't care about a politician's sexual orientation unless it affects their political agenda in some fashion which affects me. \n\nGovernor Brown could be having group sex during LGBT meetings every week and I still would want to know why she hasn't implemented the governmental transparency and improved ethics she promised when she was appointed to replace Kitzhaber instead of the media focusing on her 'strength' or her 'fears'.\n\nBut the media likes controversy; it sells.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It\u2019s easy to get caught up in the deeply flawed character of Donald Trump. We also need to recognize the policy catastrophe of this presidency.\nThis past week Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shielded around 800,000 young undocumented immigrants \u2013 often called Dreamers \u2013 from deportation under what\u2019s been known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.\nLook at other of Trump\u2019s recent policy decisions and you see the same arbitrary and unnecessary cruelty. What\u2019s the point of banning transgender people from military service? Of siding in court with a businessman who doesn\u2019t want to sell his services to gay couples? Of weakening the standard for responding to sexual violence in universities? Of banning Syrian refugees and reducing by half the number of refugees admitted to the United States?\nThere is no point, in terms of policy. None of these decisions makes America safer or economically stronger or fairer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where have they come from? They've always been with us - it was just that, until recently, this was something to be ashamed of and hide (much in the same way that being gay was in the past).\n\nFurther, the medical community has begun to come to grips with what's going on and now recognizes that some children are gender non-conforming. Children do self-identify by gender at a very young age (as early as two or three) and it's not something that can be influenced or changed. Gender non-conformity is not something that can be \"cured\". All parents can do is accept their children for who they are and be as supportive as possible. Among other things that means not forcing them to be something they're not based on what's between their legs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Don't confuse the US with \"English speaking nations\". The use of f----t to mean male homosexual was basically unknown in the UK and Ireland until the last decade. It is a US import - seemingly the same in New Zealand where I am now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can see why Tory says give them the money, its a pure dollars and cents move; Pride brings in a lot of money in the way of tourism dollars. But the city should play hardball with BLM/Pride, this should not be a consequences- free grant and should come with very specific conditions on how this money should be used. BLM's antics are going to drive away (mostly white) tourists and sponsorship money. BLM/Pride should be billed for Private Security, the way any similar event would be. They can hire off-duty cops at their high rates. I don't think the Mayor of Chief of Police should attend to send a strong message.\n\nWhat I *really* don't get is how the Gay community could roll over so easily and how easily BLM's rhetoric was swallowed. The black community has a long and on-going animosity towards gay men. It's not Gay men that target black men, its the other way around. BLM saw a soft target and a chance to further victimize gay men and went for the jugular.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dude, that whole Sodom & Gomorrah story was a warning, not withstanding how the homosexualists re-evaluate it. The men of Sodom have been banging on Lot's door demanding sodomy, and, as this article explains, are driving young people away from God and the Church. My \"obsession\" is warranted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Muslim and pro-LGBTQ ? Not a devout Muslim, or lying about her support for LGBTQ for political purposes. What? A politician lying ? Unheard of.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is a good point - all should be welcome and free to worship as they wish - BUT it still doesn't change the fact that liberal democrats have spent the last four decades endlessly attacking Christianity for homophobia/misogyny/etc and now is pushing Americans to embrace Islam which has the same, if not more extreme, views.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK CBC gets points for assembling their anchor team with representatives of the south Asian and Asian communities as well as with 2 women but then also loses points by forgetting to add at least one token black. Ideally, a black stuttering lesbian woman who lost the use of her legs in a skydiving accident should have been what they were aiming for with at least one of the candidates. Tsk tsk.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"President\" Donald Trump tweeted this morning that transgendered individuals will not be allowed to serve in any capacity in the United States armed forces. I did not think it would be possible for me to loathe this malignant creature any more than I did when I awoke this morning, but he has - again - surprised me.\n\nThousands of troops currently serving in the military are transgender, and some estimates place the number as high as 11,000 in the reserves and active duty military, according to a Rand Corp. study commissioned by the Defense Department. \n\nThis horrific, irrational decision by the \"President\" is a tragedy for every one of them, for their families, and for the Armed Forces.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Everyone knows exactly which attribute you are attempting to impugn when that word is uttered. It's meant to be the worst thing that you can say to a male because it emasculates them or at least that's the intention. Do gay men sometimes use that word? Yes. Just as black people sometimes use the N word to refer to each other. That gives literally no other human being on the planet permission to use it. When you grow up having that word hurled at you every day and live in fear that it will be followed by fists then maybe, just maybe you can use that word. The psychological damage that that slur has inflicted on gay youth is immersurable - it demeans the very core being of a person.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The GLBT movement is not trying to redefine heterosexual orientation as OSA or other sex attracted. The movement is insisting they be viewed as they understand themselves. One of the things that personally irritates me is the fixation on the sex of gay men while completely ignoring the sexual compulsions of straight men. It's as if in defending Church teaching on homosexuality as sinful and disordered, people are giving complete pass to the far more pervasive sins and abuses of straight men. That is precisely why it is imperative for 'normal' culture to control the conversation around gay men. There might come a time when people turn their judgmental holier than thou attitudes on the sexual sins of straight men and we can't be havin' that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Outstanding decision by the Commander-In-Chief. The military medically disqualifies people for severe acne, psoriasis, chronic rhinitis, deviated septum, asthma at any age regardless of how remote, mastectomy (females), painful periods (female), irregular or no periods (female), plantar fasciitis, any knee ligament surgery, and on and on. The military disqualifies tens of thousands of people for legitimate medical reasons that interfere with the person's ability to fully function and create unnecessary medical costs for the military. \n\nYet every post-operative transgender requires hormone therapy and psychiatric/psychological follow-up. Every pre-operative transgender is just someone who's unhappy with their anatomy. The taxpayer and the military shouldn't bear the extraordinary costs of inherently risky elective cosmetic surgeries, hormonal medications, and psychiatric and psychological therapies. What don't liberals comprehend about military readiness? Apparently everything.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the SCOTUS rules in the wrong way on this, can ANY butthurt Xtian proclaim \"religious freedom\" all along the gay cake supply line?\n\n\nFor instance, any supplier for a cake store that is not homophobic - can they declare they don't want to take part in Teh Gheyness of supplying a store that /might/ bake a cake for Teh Gheyz, and use their \"religious freedom\" as an out?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It\u2019s easy to get caught up in the deeply flawed character of Donald Trump. We also need to recognize the policy catastrophe of this presidency.\nThis past week Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shielded around 800,000 young undocumented immigrants \u2013 often called Dreamers \u2013 from deportation under what\u2019s been known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.\nLook at other of Trump\u2019s recent policy decisions and you see the same arbitrary and unnecessary cruelty. What\u2019s the point of banning transgender people from military service? Of siding in court with a businessman who doesn\u2019t want to sell his services to gay couples? Of weakening the standard for responding to sexual violence in universities? Of banning Syrian refugees and reducing by half the number of refugees admitted to the United States?\nThere is no point, in terms of policy. None of these decisions makes America safer or economically stronger or fairer.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "James Joseph Martin benefits by being in the middle of 'frays'.\n\nHe actually invites them, nurses them. \n\nIf you look at his Twitter page, and his facebook page....he must spend 20 hours a day nursing social network stories about....himself and his homosexualist cause.\n\nI can't imagine he's saying Mass, hearing confession much at all. \n\nIt helps his book $ale$.\n\nIt's really quite similar to the 'Jerry Springer' playbook. \n\nMartin should learn from Jesus and suffer more quietly, turning the other cheek.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder how many kms the tranny would last pulling that kind of weight.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "[To those with the right shoe size:]\n\nSurgery? A lie.\nOutgrow TG \"feelings\"? Non-trans do. Trans children never, and when imprisoned in a strange body, the results are often tragic and lethal.\nThis should be criminal? Depriving children of necessary, yes it's necessary, medical treatment for GD is already criminal, child abuse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "God created our souls in God's image and likeness. Not our bodies. What you are calling a 'mistake' has been going on for eons. God has also created animals which have the 'same-sex' orientation. And this has been demonstrated in hundreds of thousands of scientific experiments.\nThis is seen in every species of animal on the planet. \nOur 'official' church has done very little to demonstrate that when it teaches anything about the human body, that it does so demonstrating the very highest level of biological understanding ABOUT the subject it is presenting.\n\nSorry to tell you, but the Bible is not a: book about history, biology, molecular science, astrophysics, etc. The Bible is not about demonstrated evidence. The Bible is about faith and love. Unfortunately, when it comes to homosexuals, trans-gender persons---too many Christians/Catholics demonstrate that they don't understand the faith and love part at all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The oldest, tiredest, lamest attack in the book. You are, of course, hinting that Austin Ruse is a closeted homosexual.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you look at the date, it was written while the Russian Revolution was still going on. It is an entirely theoretical piece, and I can show you similar noises made during the French Revolution. Funny thing, neither in Russia nor in France did the traditional family alter.\n\nI notice that you did not answer my question: How does gay marriage affect the marriages of heterosexuals?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Republicans are such predictable hypocrites.\nYou can safely bet that whatever they are obsessed with and accusing the other side of doing is what they are actually doing.\n( \u2026private emails? check.)\nTake Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), for example.\nRep. Murphy is a fine, upstanding Republican with a wife and a mistress.\nGood red-blooded guy, who is now implicated in his girlfriend's divorce.\nIn texts produced in connection with court proceedings, a possible pregnancy, became something to 'manage' when Murphy and his lady friend Shannon Edwards thought she might be pregnant.\n\"And you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week\" Shannon Edwards wrote.\nMurphy answered her, writing, \"I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will.\"\nHow long can it be before we find out McConnell is transgender?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In Russia, you must be invisible if you're gay, even you're just a character in a novel...\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/16/authors-fury-russian-censorship-gay-scene-schwab-shades-magic", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I though gay marriage was going to control population growth. I guess I was wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(Part two of two) \u201cPhilip found Nathanael\u201d (John 1:45). Oh, oh. Hmm. Liturgy of the Word, Reading 629, Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, August 24. When I was in the college classroom, twenty years ago, I openly observed that females were less concerned about homosexuality than males. From that, I surmised that males are hard-wired against homosexuality, because, otherwise, pregnancy may not happen. It does not matter how females are attracted, whether homo- or hetero-. If they are raped, they can get pregnant against their will. While males can get raped, that is not going to happen.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How will gay marriage affect straight marriage in any way? Will it prevent one single heterosexual couple from marrying? Will it harm existing or future heterosexual marriages?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hatred, what hatred, we love the person who is same sex attracted (SSA) but hate the sin of homosexuality. Look at the Lambeth conference where it is stated that people of homosexual orientation is fully accepted into Church. \n\nWhat we hate is the sin of same sex (SS). Not the person. If a SSA person is celibate, then that person is not sinning. I am hetrosexual, but if I had sex with anyone but my wife, I would be sinning. The fact that I physically could have sex with anyone does not make me sin, my choice to have sex with someone other than my wife does. \n\nWould I consider a Christian that believe that my having sex outside of marriage is a sin and therefore he hates me??? \n\nNo, and the same applies to homosexuals. they are loved. The fact that they can not have sex without sinning does not make them any less loved. In fact, their sacrifice of celibacy in favour of loving the LORD makes them more loved.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CG cutters used to have sonarmen, depth charges, and torpedo tubes. They don't have those anymore. But they probably are all kinds of cool with transgendered issue tho!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's a curious right-wing obsession that gay people adopt a \"gay lifestyle\" specifically to anger and upset good, god-fearing people like themselves. Maybe someone should send Mr. Trost a copy of Lady Gaga's Born This Way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, if Alaska Airlines had anything to do with Alaska other than the name, the blue Eskimo, and sucking every dime out of the State that it can, this might have some relevance, but Alaska Airlines is about Seattle and the Seattle - Silicon Valley connection, not about d\u00e9class\u00e9 Alaska from which you can see Russia. Seattle can do commie cool every bit as well as San Francisco or New York, better in some regards. Virgin might even see an increase in gay flight attendants and weird, inedible food.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Justice, not charity. The Church is a more effective delivery agent. Bureaucrats just don't have the spiritual support to do it right. Pity when moralists ruin things in the Church. It used to be Catholic Charities was fine with gay-adoption until hyper Republican bishops got in on the game.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wouldn't it be ironic if there was a person who consistently refused to address the rumors about his own sexuality but was hypocritically in favor of gay kids being outed?\n\nOf course, that is all hypothetical: no such person exists or is running for high office in Alberta.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And there's the crux of the argument---You view tolerance of homosexuals as a violation of your religious principles, and public acceptance of the LGBTQ community as infringement on your \"religious liberty\" (to discriminate against them).\n\nms. amylou, I'm not concerned that \"the parts don\u2019t fit\", or anything else that goes on in the bedrooms of consenting adults---It's not my business and it shouldn't be yours either. You're not being asked to have sex with them, and you're definitely not being asked to help them with that---Only to treat them as equals based on the fact that they are fellow human beings.\n\n\"Christians\" are hardly people to lecture anyone about what is \"normal\"---From \"speaking in tongues\" to drinking snake poison, \"faith healing,\" \"prosperity gospel,\" air-conditioned dog houses, and all the rest of the televangelist circus; \"christians\" don't really come off as authorities on normality, nor are they famous for sticking by their own gospels, especially about money.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What? You mean these gay Muslim men are hesitant to approach their Muslim-Canadian peers? How could that be? I thought Muslim-Canadians, especially ones that go to mosques, were open-minded, liberal, and hold progressive views on LGBT.\n\nMuslim-Canadians tend to be super conservative? You don't say!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh Roy, you can keep putting up this sort of straw man argument, but my comment said nothing of the sort. Everyone sins. That is not the issue. Sinners are only hypocrites if they claim to not be sinners. I have yet to meet a Christian of any persuasion who believes they have never sinned. Your understanding of Christianity seems to be tailor made to make you a victim, but you know it is false. \n\nThe Bill of Rights still says that the government cannot infringe upon my free exercise of my religion. At no point does it say that the government can start to infringe upon it if a gay couple needs me to bake them a wedding cake. I'm also quite sure you could find someone to support your particular needs without infringing my right to my religion. I would also refuse to bake that cake for an adulterer, under the same argument. So no, none of us is going out of our way to pick on you, judge you, or cause you harm.\n\nCan you say the same?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't understand what you mean at all. \n\nWhat is the gay lifestyle? My gay friends, many parents, would like to be enlightened. \nHow is \"gay lifestyle\" a euphemism?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree. Make sure everyone is aware of your hateful positions on immigrants and gays. Your running will assure victory for any Democrat on the ballot. We won't even need a primary.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Choosing to be gay is nothing to celebrate or be proud about . Should we discriminate against them ? Of course not. But should we celebrate their chosen life style---never . Watching the news accounts of their event is sad. Too many impressionable young kids are are at these events , which is what the gay movement seeks. They want kids from birth to think immoral behavior is normal and it's to be celebrated . And we wonder why society is sinking before our eyes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "RE \"Whether gay or straight, if you are going to be a priest at the present time, you have to be celibate.\"\nDon't the 200 married priests who were formerly ministers in other denominations or Eastern Rite priests count?\nThe requirement that Latin rite priests who are not married at the time of their ordination remain celibate is outdated, unfair, and illogical for a Church where:\n- From 1980 to 2012, the ratio of Catholics per priest increased globally, with the number of Catholics per priest going from 1,895 to 3,126.\n- In 2014, 49,153 parishes in the world had no resident priest pastor.\n- Between 1970 and 2012, the number of priests declined from 419,728 to 414,313 while the global Catholic population doubled", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is among one of the most ridiculous lies spoken to date: \" discriminates against homosexuals \".\n\nFrom the 2016 GOP convention speakers:\nMr. Thiel : \"I am proud to be gay, republican and American\"\nMr. Trump: \"I will protect our LGBT citizen's from hateful foreign ideology\". \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSVLpzGseXw", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Quotes from the links, \n\n\"\u2026authority over the actual composition of the military belongs to lawmakers thanks to the stipulation in Article I, Section 8 that Congress has the power to \u201craise and support armies \u2026. provide and maintain a navy \u2026[and] make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.\u201d \n\nJust as the president must seek congressional approval for declaring war and appointing inferior officers, so must lawmakers eventually approve changes to the armed forces.\"\n\n\"The two-month waiting period is called for in the legislation passed late last year that ended \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell,\u201d the 17-year-old law that banned openly gay men, lesbians and bisexuals from military service.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What would they be doing then, just hanging out in the \"women's\" bathroom, waiting for studly trans men that are attracted to women to stand next to them and pee? \n\nI mean, for what reason would this studly trans male be peeing next to them? Are they going to install urinals in the women's bathrooms to accommodate this? \n\nMaybe I'm confused, but wouldn't a man that's attracted to women be a heterosexual, or bi-sexual?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You're being ridiculous. A trans gendered woman (formerly male) would simply be considered a woman, and women can be in the military. Are you now arguing that women shouldn't be allowed in the military?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I can just imagine what you said about Wynne, Joe. Criticising is OK but how it's done and with what degree of decency it's done that counts. Working in the fact that she is gay is completely not OK when you're talking about a political position that she has taken.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hate it when people legitimize \"transgender\" individuals by referring to them by the gender they're pretending to be. Manning may have had his name legally changed to Chelsea, taken female hormones, and subjected himself to the surgical mutilation of his genitals, but he's still not and never will be a woman.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Priests and bishops being gay does not address any controverted issue.\n\nTheir orientation, if the allegation were true, is still intrinsically disordered.\n\n\"Benedict and Burke dressing themselves up like drag queens\" is an anti-Catholic and very personal slur. It is not civil and does not advance a Catholic discussion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You do realize, don't you, that included in the dictionary definition of sodomy are acts in which many heterosexual (and yes, heterosexual, married) couples engage in. Are those sinful and disgusting, as well? If so, why are you all not decrying the behavior of heterosexual couples? \n\nAnd I have yet to hear any gay person describing what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms -- in private or public conversation. So, it seems that it is your imagination that offends you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Justmyview, transgender advocates argue that transgenders should receive tax-payer funded sex reassignment surgery because female soldiers receive free pre-natal, birth, and post-natal care. They want to compare elective sex reassignment surgery with a natural human life process. It is ridiculous. Abortions and sex reassignment surgeries are elective procedures. Female soldiers do not receive taxpayers funded abortions; it is not permitted in the military services except when medically necessary to save lives. Why should transgenders be given an exception for an elective procedure? It makes no sense.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, they want acceptance taught because, unlike pederast victims, gay kids know of their sexuality far before puberty and hearing the messages of hate and bullying they get sometimes lead them to suicide before they are smart enough to make sure it does not succeed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pedophilia and hebephilia don't really have a sexual orientation. They are in and of themselves the individual's sexual orientation--a pathological one. By inserting the word \"homosexual\" into the discussion and referring to teenage males, you minimize the fact that 73% of the victims were CHILDREN ages 7 - 14 and you maintain the fiction of a scandal of gay priests and their teen lovers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where is Pat Robertson? I mean come on Pat? first Texas, now Florida? Seems like every time there was a disaster in the past good ole Pat would be claiming that God is angry over gays, abortion or whatever. So, now is God angry at Red states for voting for the Donald? \n\nI suggest more consideration should be given to science and less to false gods.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As I have written before, given the sheer preponderance of heterosexuality (at least 95% versus a paltry 5% of the population which is gay) sodomy is overwhelmingly practiced by heterosexuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are, indeed, other priests, known to be gay, who are still priests. Differences here are that Charamsa came out, and that he had a senior role in the CDF.\nI never expected you to 'backtrack' from your comments. However, I have proved your various claims to be wrong, which will suffice for me. \nYou claimed that a commenter here had not been sufficiently accurate for your liking, in saying that Charamsa had been 'fired for coming out'. I have demonstrated that what she said was indeed sufficiently accurate. \nYou misinterpreted Charamsa's 'coming out' letter. But eventually you had to admit that you had neither found nor read the letter.\nYou accused Charamsa of dishonesty. I maintained that his coming out demonstrates his honesty.\nYou accused Charamsa of 'self-aggrandizement'. I said that it is a strange form of self-aggrandizement that leads to loss of livelihood and loss of all security associated with being a Monsignor.\nAs for 'the last word' - let's see what you do next.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is nothing bizarre in the fact that every species of animal[fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, insects and mammals] has members that are [for want of a better term] 'homosexual'. This IS the resulting conclusion of many biologists studying thousands of species from around the world. \n\nHumans also belong to the 'animal' kingdom and are born this way. Humans don't select their mates the way animals do. FEELINGS are strongly involved.\nBut they also involve biological influence. Many biologists/medical scientists believe that enzymes transferred from one parent or another to the embryo begin the process.\n\nIt was the book of Bruce Bagemihl BIILOGICAL EXUBERANCE: ANIMAL HOMOSEXUALITY AND NATURAL DIVERSITY, utilized as evidence in court, that won a landmark case for a gay couple in Texas \"Lawrence vs. Texas\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you Bishop Stowe and again thank you to New Ways Ministry for actually being Christian. It seems to be getting harder and harder for many in the Church hierarchy to understand what the Gospel is about with regard to gays and women.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "here we have a state forcing one sided beliefs into schools,, there is no constitutional right on this bud. ya you want to be gay, be gay but no right to force public schools to segregate such groups", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In 1973 ccriminal collusion, conspiracy and fraud was committed, releasing homsexuals from the Mental Health Act. A relatively small group of psychiatrists voted to have the 'disorder' of homosexuality removed from the Mental Health Act and in this group were a group of criminally motivated closeted homosexual psychiatrists. In 1973 homosexuals were not ALLOWED BY LAW to be psychiatrists, so, they kept their homosexuality quiet / closeted homosexuals. \n\"Fryer was not alone in the APA. Because homosexuals were not allowed to practice psychiatry, Fryer and others like him had to hide their sexual preference, but they began to meet informally at APA conventions, calling themselves the Gay PA.\" \nThese closeted homosexuals had the disorder of homosexuality removed from the DSM. The vote was against the law DUE TO the FACT they were NOT ALLOWED BY LAW TO VOTE. \n \"81 Words\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Let's go find a lesbian Priest to discuss this with.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What do you think about James Corden? (married 5 years with 2 kids) The guy's a virtual homosexual stereotype.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays are 1.7% of adults in the US. Did One just gave an advice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Remember when France appointed a gay ambassador to the Vatican, and how it had to be withdrawn because the Vatican would not accept him? Any takers for the Vatican expressing as much moral \"conviction\" with Mrs. Gingrich?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "These religious anti-sexual crusades are an attempt to establish moral relevancy for a religion which has lost so much actual power it has been relegated to forming alliances with the political\u2026and therefore the ruling economic classes. The \u201cChristian right\u201d is in active, political collusion with America\u2019s economic and military wars-for-profit abroad---mostly against Muslim countries. Then there are the political-economic campaigns against Americans on behalf of the extremely wealthy. This leaves room only for an exaggerated moral outrage against the most weak and tragic among us\u2026those with sexually ambiguous characteristics and afflictions. Transgender is the most unfortunate and vulnerable\u2026a perfect target for religionists who are unwilling or unable to speak out against the rampant evils of our time. Or active players.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When a progressive cause is silenced with a ban, NCR publishes a story decrying a curtailment of free speech on the American campus.\n\nBut when a violent mob shuts down the free speech of a gay Catholic at UC Berkeley (as happened last week with Milo Yannapoulis) NCR won't even bother to mention it.\n\nMy conclusion is that NCR fully sides with the thugs who use violence to stop the free speech they don't like.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good article.\nGay marriage was also about portraying gay men as monogamous seeking individuals, rather than the reality of promiscuity and HIV infection that still exists in the community.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My definition of 'gay men' includes a sub-set of pedophiles. \n\nRecent Eugene example: Terry Bean bought off his last pedophile charge for $225,000.\n\nPedophiles go where there are targets to groom. \n\nThe number of successful lawsuits and convictions of \"Gay\" men worldwide who are teachers, Scoutmasters, priests and Sunday school leaders (or as in this case, run a religious orphanage) convinces me that the Gay community is more interested in protecting their own than in protecting children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"These same chefs wouldn't be ranting and raving against a Muslim refusing to serve them a bacon sandwich. \"\nNo one was \"ranting and raving\" here (except, as we'll see, you) and it's unlikely a Muslim run restaurant would be serving bacon to begin with. You can't demand a product/service that's not on offer and claim discrimination when you don't get it.\n\n\"As a straight conservative guy...\"\nOf course you are, but why do you think that's relevant here?\n\n\"... I don't hang out at gay bars.\"\nBut you COULD and they couldn't bar you for your sexual orientation.\n\n\" I don't think they need to be shut down, or made to cater to me. I think they're fine doing what they do, and their customers are probably happy. Good for them!\"\nBully for you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm white. Many years ago, I intervened in downtown NYC on two occasions when friends and a stranger were being attacked by hoodlums bent on assaulting what they misperceived as gay men. I also got stabbed in the eye socket by a white lunatic there, and four black guys in a convertible came by, saw me spurting arterial blood and drove me to Bellevue public hospital a mile away. They drove on the wrong side of the street at times to get around traffic. I bled hugely in their car. They came to the neighborhood that evening to see if I was okay. I also stopped to keep a white man from beating a young black woman on the street. I stopped to rescue a young woman in Viet Nam who was being publicly beaten by three young men. \n\nHowever, when my pickup got stuck in a remote California desert canyon, I managed to walk, thirsting, a long way to a little traveled paved road. Four cars passed by me in the space of an hour though I was pleading for help. A minister friend happened along to save me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi John,\n\nBecause Hillary Clinton has said that deep seated religious beliefs have to be changed. She is especially referring to religious beliefs about the Sanctity of Life (from natural conception to natural death) and marriage between a man and a woman. As a faith filled Catholic, I try to do my best to attend Holy Mass during the week, not only on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, to pray the Rosary at least 4 times a week, to kneel before Jesus in Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament at least once a month and go to Confession regularly. \n\nJohn, we are already seeing Catholic Schools being taken to court by teachers in same sex marriages, bakery or restaurants/reception halls being sued for following their consciences, Kim Davis being arrested and put in jail for not issuing a marriage license to a gay couple. I pray to remain strong in my faith when I am challenged for following my conscience and not deny Jesus. Religious Freedom is at stake in this election!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Andrew, your comment is disturbing. You wrote \"we have lesbian and gay members who are fully committed to Christ.\" God designed that marriage is between a man and a woman. You can not find one single case in the Bible when a man took another man to be his wife. Can you explain how a man that defies God in His intent to join together a man and a woman and instead prefers to join himself to another man can be \"fully committed to Christ?\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What really bugs me isn't that people are transgender; there is evidence of a transsexual brain (look it up!). What really bothers me is that people like me, who was born intersex (uterus, penis, one testes, one ovotestes) and raised as a boy and later transitioned after finding out my chromosomes are a very rare mosaic (47, xxy/46 xx) are held up to demonstrate that people aren't born male or female, when they really couldn't care less about us. I am a proud supporter of the transgender community; I view them as my sisters and brothers, but I think there is evidence it is getting out of hand...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nuff said? Hardly. Mexicans have not disgraced California, or any place, like gay priests disgraced the Church. I say this as one who truly believes that being gay, of itself, is no sin, and that, in fact, gay priests who are chaste merit a special place in heaven.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Conservative'Christians' wont help anybody with healthcare. Blind to the fact that is climate change. Actually think that being gay is a choice or something that is taught. And when things get bad prayer is supposed to be the answer?\nThese people are incredibly good at destroying rights because religion creates a intolerant mindset that our founding fathers were wary of. \nEver try to have a debate with religious people? Its like arguing with a glassy eyed dog.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I guess the bishops have been so consumed with worry over those poor unfortunate God-fearing heterosexual bakers who were forced to bake wedding cakes for those awful gay couples that it never occurred to them that if such an executive order were enacted countless gay people could actually be thrown out of their homes, fired from their jobs, denied service at a place of business, or evicted from their apartments - simply because someone had a \"sincerely-held religious belief.\"\n\nI have to ask: Is this really what Jesus would do?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Roughly 40 Coptic Christians were killed in Egypt on Palm Sunday, and many injured in their places of worship by Islamic terrorists. Our families immigrate to Canada to escape this kind of religious persecution. I find it ironic there's a genocide of an entire population in the Middle East, that has been happening for years and no one cares. Meanwhile, we are debating prayers in public schools - which is an important and necessary conversation. But the bottom line here is that it is no more a fearful time to be Muslim than it is to be Orthodox Christian, or gay or anything else. There is anti everything rhetoric. I find it is anomalous indeed though, that when rhetoric turns to death, there's no media coverage and we a turn a blind eye.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Okay Allan, a simple \"wrong\" would've done just fine... \nWhat drives your smugness? European countries have implemented similar bans on face coverings, are they regressive bigots or perhaps the strategy of doing nothing in the face of assertive political Islam has failed conclusively in terms of a festering social fabric and segregated communities. The niqab has nothing to do with cultural relativism, it is a function progress (or lack thereof). Canada isn't different than countries where the niqab is common, Canada is advanced. Sorry not sorry, this is Canada, not Tehran, we don't beat women for the \"immodesty\" of uncovered hair or kill homosexuals - because we are an advanced civilized society. The shameless hypocrisy of western \"progressives\" appeasing a regressive belief system under the guise of \"diversity\" is embarrassing. No, this is Canada, not Riyadh - the niqab is a symbol of cultural regression all over the world - Quebec's new law is progressive and warranted.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "THe \"two spirited\" reference is to gay Indians. They have never been part of this process. Yet here they are, quietly slipped in without notice. All it does is broaden the mandate of any inquiry, complicating everything that can ever be done because now there's a whole new class of grievances and victims that nobody mentioned before. Would Trudeau dare say he will not investigate murdered and missed lesbian, gay bisexual and transgendered natives. Of course not. What kind of monster would he be to say that? That alone is worth an extra $10 million.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that \"homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.\" They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. \n\nThe number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial.\" (CCC 2357 - 2358)\n\nThis term \"disorder\" does not refer to the person himself. Catholic teaching is that the homosexual inclination and homosexual acts are directed towards an end not intended by God, mutual complementarity, marriage, and procreation, which lead to man's flourishing and happiness. The sexual attraction between male and female is naturally ordered toward this good; same sex attraction is not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the Vatican can't deal with gay priests then we need to start outing every ordained Catholic gay male that is alive. Starting at the top in the Vatican, naming one a day (and his position) . It could take decades naming one a day because there are so many.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "First, Jesus IS The Word, so the entire Bible speaks of/for/by Him. Second, He said in John 5:46-47: \"For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?\"\nMoses wrote Leviticus, which thoroughly condemns homosexuality in chapters 19 and 23, so in John 5:46-47 Jesus confirms that condemnation. Jesus also lays the template for sexual relations in the New Testament, confirming that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that marriage is the only legitimate sexual relationship, with all others being sin. So yes, Jesus does condemn homosexuality. Now you can stop pretending He doesn't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where does it say that you can not bake a cake for gays in the bible?\nThe baker thinks he is actively participating in a gay wedding by making a cake. That is ridiculous.\nThe baker of my wedding cake had nothing to do with my wedding and was not invited. \n\n\u201cNow please observe a moment of silence so we can thank the man who made the cake for this wedding. He sanctified the wedding and made it real. With out the baker, the wedding could not take place.\u201d Said no one ever.\n\nThe first amendment does not give you the right to break the law and discriminate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is that supposed to be the answer from pro-LGBTQ people? Years ago, I listened to a lecture from a person who stopped being gay. He went hetero. And all of his gay friends shunned him since the worst thing that can happen to LGBTQ is for someone to stop being L, G, B, T and/or Q and go traditional hetero.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Creating a team that is expressly for homosexuals, is to condone a team that expressly excludes homosexuals. If one party cannot discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, no one can. If one party can discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, everyone can.\n\nImagine if there was a team comprised entirely of heterosexual men, who openly declared their heterosexuality, declared they would play against homosexuals, but would not permit them to be part of the team. People would lose their bloody minds. The outcry about a minority group being denied access would be deafening.\n\nThat's your litmus test, folks. If it's not ok for one group to do it, it's not ok for the other group to do it.\n\nAnd this is a hockey team. They're playing hockey. People get put on their butts, put into the boards. Once in a while a fight actually breaks out. They're willing to endure the physical nature of the game, but... don't hurt anyone's feelings. Really?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gonna paste this all over the paper? Gays and abortion, cloaked in christian righteousness. All the talking points you will ever need.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Apparently there is considerable interest among NCR readers in the LBGT issue, but I don't know many people who think it is an important issue for the Church. Poverty, war, attacks on Christians in so many places in the world, secularization of Western society and the decline in Church participation are more than enough in importance to occupy the attention of concerned Catholics and of our Holy Father. The scandal which is given to the church by sexually active priests (gay or straight) is devastating, particularly when directed toward children, and clearly neither gay nor straight clergy have a monopoly in this field, but it is just undeniable that throughout the world (and the Church is everywhere) that the gay lifestyle is abhorrent to many. It is reasonable, since no one has a right to be a Catholic priest, to limit opportunities for scandal even where the means are not perfect.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well actually plenty of male/female or Hetero couples have medical procedures to have children because fertility is not their friend however the way you used it seemed like gay/trans gendered people were your objectivity when saying someone is pretending to be able to reproduce. \n\nSecondly I know of plenty of gay couples and those who have had sex change operations who have adopted so your saying you have no issues with adoption for gay/lgbt or straight couples, just with people who use medicine to conceive correct?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Call it the four legged stool; god, guns and gays along with greed gets the crowd riled up every time while any good for the commons is lost. Works every time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is not about indignation. Self-righteousness is the conviction that one's beliefs are right and that anyone who disagrees with those beliefs is wrong.\nRighteous indignation is a reactive emotion of anger over mistreatment, insult, or malice. It can be attributed to someone who feels they have been subjected to an injustice.\nWhat David Brin is talking about is not applicable to someone who simply accepts the inerrancy of the Church's teaching as no anger, resentment or indignation is involved.\nE.g. Catholics, who with the Church believe that homosexual activity is intrinsically disordered, are not exhibiting any anger or indignation nor do they feel any sense of injustice.\nIt seems that you trawl the internet searching for any entry, however obscure and irrelevant, which appears to support your beliefs which you are convinced are right and the Church's are wrong. Why don't you start your own church like the reformers if you can't accept what the Catholic Church and what it teaches?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "if I extend tolerance to someone who is opposed to gay marriage, do I commit a logical fallacy? If so, what is logically invalid about that tolerance?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Evangelicals voted for Trump because of the ongoing harassment (and in some cases, persectuion) of conservative Christians and Jews under the Obama administration. Doubt it? Check out the websites for the Alliance Defending Freedom or the American Center for Law and Justice and read the current cases being litigated. The Obama administration is determined to make The Little Sisters of the Poor pay for abortion. Catholic Charities in Massachusetts was forced to withdraw from the adoption process because they believed in placing kiids with one mom-one dad families. The \"gay\" activists believed that hurting needy children was supereded by political correctness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "IF he were a Muslim Imam making the same controversial statements about Jews, people of colour, and gays and lesbians, Justin Trudeau himslef would be there to embrace the wise and noble holy man.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. Strict enforenforcement is the only way. Trans people deserve no less.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Alt-right is a shorthand way of referring to extreme rightists who generally disdain traditional conservatism. It has no formal ideology, although white nationalism is fundamental to it. This means it has overtones of white supremacism, Islamophobia, antifeminism, homophobia, antisemitism, and right-wing populism. Yes, hatred does seem to be an integral part of it. It makes me very afraid, and I am a white, male, straight Christian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's surprising that hashtag progressives are not promoting the freedom of religion for members of the KKK community as if some members only wear the cloak as a sign of modesty and piety (and not racism, bigotry, etc). The Civil Liberties Association could take a similar stand. Let's just ignore the fact that the white cloak is a symbol of hate wherever it's common, some people just like to wear it as a sign of faith and modesty. In the same breath, let's just ignore the fact that the niqab is only common where individual freedoms don't exist and women are lashed for the crime of being raped and homosexuals are killed after being outed - it doesn't matter that all over the world, the niqab is synonymous with social regression and oppression - in Canada it means feminism, hashtag because it's 2017. \nReally?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And I felt the same way about the pontificates of JPII and Benedict, the difference was how they did it and in degree. Their handling of of the abuse crisis (as many lives were damaged by that as by Castro and also taking into account the lives lost from suicides over the abuse), the lives lost from AIDS from refusing to allow condom usage in areas hard hit by the epidemic, the refusal to make African bishops deal with the sexual abuse by priests against women and especially the rape of religious sisters. Destroying the professional lives of theologians who speculated about theories the \"Holy\" See disagreed with and collusion with unsavory political leaders and business leaders around the world. Not to mention their support of laws harming women and LGBT people around the world. In fact, those two pontiffs probably did more harm than the Castro brothers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "MSW is also right out of the \"Man Box\" as evidenced by his aversion to PP and gays.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am a former Catholic. Little girls are not allowed to be Altar \"boys\" or priests for that matter. In Catholic school there was lot of gays, especially in the priesthood. Even in the 1960's we noticed the gay priests and nuns all the time. We thought they went into the priesthood and sisterhood to escape the real world and being \"gay\" thus avoiding the temptations of sexual sins.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think the point this article misses is it is not just words and ideas: given the opportunity, Nazis and their ilk WILL unleash a violent reign of terror that will dwarf what happened at that protest. Letting Nazis have a platform emboldens those who share their ideas to act violently, as we have seen so many times. \n\nWill punching an individual Nazi stop this? No. What will stop Nazis is determined mass resistance that will use whatever means necessary to stop such a vile, dangerous movement from taking hold. In the meantime, I have zero sympathy for Nazis who get punched, because guess what: given the opportunity, they'll punch a gay person, a person of colour, or political opponent, or worse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"What's stopping them\" is apparently that pesky ideal of non-discrimination in the public arena as mandated by law. Making that cake or providing the license for the gay wedding, allowing females unobstructed and peaceful access to health clinics, as well as the freedom to make health decisions according to their own consciences, even allowing some to use public rest rooms as they choose -- all have a basis in discrimination. We see this practiced time after time as the \"right to discriminate\" is upheld for our own religious schools and institutions despite numerous employment laws applicable to the general public. \n\nI don't think I'll ever understand why some think these laws simply don't apply to them, particularly when such effort is made in the legislative process to mitigate probable impact against personal conscience matters. The Little Sisters' refusal to sign a simple form is the perfect illustration of the pinnacle of nonsensical legal shenanigans. Blecch!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Students do not have to \"endorse TWU's evangelical religion to be admitted.\" Nowhere in the covenant is such a thing suggested.\n\nTWU's covenant tells students about its guiding principles and where they come from. Students in turn are asked to sincerely consider and embrace TWU's perspective. They aren't required to become evangelical Christians and many students do not, just as I may sincerely embrace a LGBTQ person without becoming one. \n\nI have also refuted your claim that LGBTQ people are \"cruelly\" singled out by the covenant. They are not. The belief at the core of the conflict is that sexual intimacy is only acceptable within a heterosexual marriage. That belief affects all of TWU's unmarried students and faculty equally, regardless of their sexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "JPII fans in the US like Weigel actually have done quite a bit to alienate milennials from the Catholic Church. I can think of three trends off the top of my head.\n\n1. US Catholicism has become overly politicized and too cosy with the GOP. People of all political stripes should feel comfortable in the Catholic Church and their prudential judgments on voting shouldn't be questioned.\n \n2. There is a hypocrisy based on wealth and power. Rich people get access and special favors, which is contrary to the Gospels. Many milennials witnessed this in parochial schools. The rich students were never disciplined.\n\n3. JPII created a culture among the Catholic laity that suggested that bullying and tattling on other Catholics are okay and that it was okay to turn a parish into an elite country club where people like gays, single moms, singles in general, etc. aren't welcome.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality creates a clouded circumferencing/surrounding definition of adult men in the priesthood who exhibited preference to boys and enacted upon them. That is why by definition homosexuality encompasses male preference to mere orientation to even boys (i.e. the same gender/sex.) And, that is why the arguments for that orientation (mainly Freudian/Darwin) have been emboldened under such premises for the lifestyle to begin with/engage, and has no sense of moral wrongs of that tendency with a child (which homosexuality doesn\u2019t.). And, hence why the Church must make an alarming choice/concern over the arrangement of the set characteristics of behavior of those in the priesthood. There\u2019s the explicit incident of boys being sexually abused \u2013 which She is condemned for - that which the male homosexual lifestyle/preference took place by men who served under the priesthood. Truth/fact, not fiction.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In case of war with Iran, or other Muslim countries, or with North Korea, you can be sure transgendered persons would be singled out for very special and unpleasant punitive treatment if captured. It would be bad enough for captured straight white men in third world prison camps, so I doubt the transgender social liberals have thought it through.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The 23rd chromosome pair is fixed, but a lot can change in development and maybe, mabye not, in socialization. God made me male. He made one of my brothers gay, who was able to get married rather than join the Air Force or the priesthood. He is also very masculine. Being gay is not to be feminine. That is being queer. Different expressions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The agenda does not bring forth life. The agenda distorts gender identities. The agenda ruins families. I have nothing against homosexuals themselves. I consider them to have a mental disorder where they are able to function in society. I do not believe in harming homosexuals. While I do not believe in discriminating against anybody, I also do not believe in turning society upside down to accommodate them. This what some of the 'rights' bills are doing. With these bills, it is getting more difficult to keep hetrosexual men out of women's locker rooms and hetrosexual women out of men's locker rooms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So women, a protected class, are less worthy of a college education preference than those who are non-white. \n\nI wonder how the gays, lesbians, transgendered and other 'protected' classes will fit into the paradigm which says racial preferences are the most important. \n\nWill there be a sliding scale?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And the wariness so many Canadians feel about immigration comes despite the unanimity of the elites. You can't find a politician to say anything against it, because they'll immediately be attacked as evil by all the rest. Witness Leitch, who had the temerity to suggest that maybe we should actually talk to our prospective immigrants to see how well they would fit in here. Oh, the shock and horror among the elites! How dare she!? The media is appalled and one thundering denunciation follows another from every columnist! Why, to suggest that a prospective immigrant who thinks all women are second class citizens, and that gays and Jews should be killed should be barred from becoming a Canadian is UnCanadian! Somehow...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why were gay soldiers banned in the first place?\nSome gays are masculine and tough\nSome straights are effeminate and weak\n-\nit does not matter if the cat is gay or straight as long as it catches mice", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Look outside the box , Remember these ? People who ask for help from the Social Safety Network should first have to take and pass a drug test, Soon there after that same representative was arrested and charged with poss of Cocaine. Homosexuals are in direct violation of the Bible and should be killed in open season style, Soon there after the Senator/Congressman was caught having same sex relations with a young person in a public bathroom. We should do away with the Medicare/Mediaid systems because illegal immigrants and low income people are fraudulently milking the system, Soon there after the Senator/Congressman was arrested and charged with defrauding Medicare for his own personal gain, The point is whenever a Republican complains about anything it is a safe bet that they themselves are guilty of the same infraction, Trump complained the media was against him when they gave him Billions in free airtime , The Election was rigged and he won despite all predictions, and now", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay men talk about their \"husbands\" and \"wives\" too. I think you point is muddled and a little bit of a stretch.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, they are components of stoic and neoplatonic philosophy, not Christianity and adopted by a clerical culture made up by a sexual orientation that is more disordered (if you use such terms) than homosexuality. Modern thinking is that it is innate and therefore differently ordered, but the sad fact is most of its clerical orients are unaware that they are not normal, which is toxic for the Church and renders their entire teaching suspect. They are even worse than celibatea reformed homosexuals. Why do I keep saying it? To get others to say it so that the clergy finds some peace and the rest of us, some quiet.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you believe that only one person is responsible for a fight? Trump's abrasive comments have consequences. \n\nWe have history of JFK, RFK, MLK all being assassinated; gay people beaten and murdered; black/white/muslim/ people being discriminated/killed based only for their race, women raped by boyfriends and husbands who view them as their property, children abandoned, starved, killed......... \n\nI've had gun owners on this site willing to say they will kill government employees if they 'feel' their rights have be violated. Sovereign Nation, White Supremacist, have formal programs for violence. \n\nYou're trying to tie violence to liberalism or democrats is a very biased view of the roots of violence. \n\nThat being said, I'm not making any excuse for those who damage property or people. I don't question that liberal/dem/prog has violent and untrustworthy minorities in their midst. \n\nMaybe we can make violence the enemy and not segregate by political affiliation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think the dialogue needs to be open though. With abortion and gay marriage solidified in our country(its really not going to be reversed) We need a healthy discussion between people of true faith and non followers. Only positive communication can 1. Allow people to properly understand the true Catholic Church and be respectful of what they believe 2. Join or come back to the Church after it is seen in a positive light 3. Live in a real secular world where Catholics and Nones can actually live peacefully", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I mentioned our church benefit to my Gay co-worker and yelled \"Sky fairy\".I asked him if the \"Pride\" movement has an airshow now?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trump reminds of that one liner from \"Are You Being Served?\": \"He's all lip and let's have a look at your knockers!\"\nMillions of Americans never accepted a non-white as president. Too bad for them. My net worth is way up from the end of 2008, thanks to a recovering stock market. I continue to have good access to affordable health care in the US. The religious wars have toned down. A gay billionaire even addressed the Republican convention this summer and he is serving on Trump's transition team. Now I wonder whether that nice young American from my Canadian college's Office of Gift Planning ever moved back to the US with his Japanese born husband? It's legal now. It wasn't when Obama took office. \nIs the planet safer? Probably not, especially if one lives in one of those countries impacted by the \"Arab Spring\" or in Eastern Ukraine; or in the City of Chicago, where the number of murders this year is running way ahead of 2008.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I don't know if that is true; I've never read that.\"\n\nYou never read it because it never happened. Ive been following this case since it first occurred and I cant tell you with utmost certainty, that nothing about the design of the cake was at issue. The entirety of the issue was that the cake was going to be used in a gay wedding, and this owner did not want a cake that he made, being used in that way. Thats it.\n\nIf they were asking him to write something he found offensive, or design something he found offensive, that is completly different - and in which case I would probably be siding with the baker. But thats not what happened.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I didn't choose to be a lesbian. I know of no one among my LGBT friends and acquaintances over the last 30+ years I've been out of the closet who have. Why would we want to? It's not easy being non-heterosexual. Hate crimes, discrimination, judgements, shunning by friends/family/churches/other religious institutions, etc. Why would anyone choose that? \n\nIn regard to the state's anti-discrimination law, however, if you don't like that the law includes sexual orientation, you're free to speak to your representatives in Olympia and try to get the law changed. Until then, the law is the law and it states clearly that people cannot be discriminated against based on the group to which they belong.\n\nAs far as your \"special civil rights\" comment... asking for a wedding cake is something anyone should be able to have if they want it. Wanting what the rest of the world gets is a \"special\" civil right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That sexuality is complicated is an empirical fact. Most people are heterosexual, but a significant minority are gay. And now we have become aware that, for whatever reasons, gender identity doesn\u2019t always align with a person\u2019s biological sex. Why is that? I don\u2019t think we really know. Intriguing work is being done, but the science looks to be far from settled. \n\nNow, I don\u2019t think we need to wait until the science is settled to teach children the empirical facts that some people are gay and some people identify as transgendered. And I don\u2019t think we need to wait until science sorts out the complicated causality of sexual diversity to impart to children the value of tolerance in the face of that diversity. That is not a \u201cleft wing\u201d war on science because whatever the science eventually tells us, it will not justify intolerant behaviour. We don\u2019t need science to give us reasons to treat people who are different as human beings.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jeanna needs to come out of the closet and embrace her homosexuality.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"it violates transgenders' human rights to privacy?\"\nThe US has never recognized a broad category of \"human rights.\" The law still provides different levels of protection to suspect classes. For example, discrimination based on race or religion are strongly protected while discrimination based upon sexual orientation or age are hardly protected at all (with some change in the winds). Because there is no state or federal law that protects \"transgenders' human rights\" as a suspect class they are still freely discriminated unless a law or ordinance specifically protects, like Title 5 of the muni code. If the only protection is on the same \"level\" it is not grounds for rejection. If there was a \"higher\" state law that protected transgender rights then that would be grounds for rejecting an initiative at the \"lower\" municipal level.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This proposed law would not require officers to record sexual preference of alleged perps. So profiling of gay people can continue unabated.\n\nThe ACLU approves of this bill, so it will not only be passed, it will be passed with an emergency clause so all of the racial, age, and sex profiling comes to an immediate stop.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The Supreme Court, however, should take that into consideration\"\nGod, Sodom, Gamorah, Lot, and Lot's wife being transmuted into a tall pile of sodium chloride are totally irrelevant to the discussions of the US Supreme Court.\nThe USA is not, and I hope to God never will be, a Christian Republic. It is a secular constitutional democratic republic.\n\"So, she thinks Jesus would have made the cake.\"\nJesus of Nazareth is also irrelevant to the discussions of the US Supreme Court, but:\nAu contraire, woman, Jesus of Nazareth would have sat down with the gay couple, broke bread with them, talked with them, made them feel welcome and asked them what kind of cake they wanted him to design.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Quite right----\n\nIntimacy and love do not have to include sex.\n\nSo why all the fuss about homosexuality, divorce and remarriage, etc, if you can love someone without having to have sex with them?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Moonlight checked the most PC boxes, so they win. 10 years from now Sunshine will win featuring a transgender Muslim, Asian firefighter who is battling Islamophobia and work place sexual harassment, while bravely overcoming his left handedness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Lw1: Don't defensively assume the worst automatically. Starting by saying, \u201cOne of my kids suffered his whole life as a female\u201d is overly dramatic, even if it's true, and may even sound sarcastic to some people. I'd guess it may be contributing to some of the blank looks you're getting. Regarding the reactions of others, it's normal for people to be disoriented when they learn about a major life event that has occurred, especially when it is a change in how they think of the individual. Unless the one lady was being dishonest in her surprise, you were unnecessarily rude yourself, not just facetious. I understand you're trying to be supportive, but you're not doing your son or other transgender individuals any favors that way. The simple \u201cWell, one is now a male\u201d or \"Sally is now Sal and has transitioned and is male\" suggested by Weary53 is a quick way to answer the question without starting a long conversation or going into the details of your son's *personal life and medical business.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sure - Definition of Poll (used as a verb) : To record the opinion or vote of. You are wrong again.\n\nMy uncle, who is more like my brother (3 years older) who I grew up with is Homosexual, and I saw the differences you allege exist in him, but he was dating girls for quite a few years in his late teens. The topic is not etched in stone, same as your 3.5 billion years. Many if not all have some type of confused sexual thoughts at some point in their lives, it is a result of the sinfulness of man.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is Bernadette Wilson's name still on the anti-LGBT movers and shakers petition? Hahahaha", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In Matthew 19, Jesus reiterated and confirmed the divine law for marriage as the union between male and female and added that 'what God has joined together, let no man separate.' Divine laws cannot be changed. He also fully supported Moses' administration of the law and we know how Moses dealt with homosexuality. John 5:46-47. Luke 17:28-32; Matthew 10:15; Mark 6:11. Jesus never accepted sin as righteous but did offer forgiveness. So don't lie when it comes to Jesus, because He is THE TRUTH!!!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I flagged your comment because it's hateful toward LGBTQs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Strategically speaking, it would be \"barking\" of the LGBT community in the US to take, with anything less than a shovel-full of salt, overtures of compromise from a political and religious right which has never conceded it any advantage. Would a runner quit a race when he was leading the field and just a stride or two short of the finish line? Possibly, if he were making a Sillitoan protest. But I'm sure this community has matured beyond protest politics, so effective has been its equality drive in recent years. LGBT people in the States have, legally speaking, been tasting finer food and have developed an appetite for more.\n\nThe political and religious right knows this (hence Trump's conceding defeat on same-sex marriage), but some are subborn enough to think compromise on others' rights still possible. A delusion, really, since the intellectual and moral advantage they once had has tilted on its axis and is pointing, decidedly, the other way.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I just erased a post making much the same point. The very same persons so willing to pass judgement without referencing the minutia of this case are the ones most vociferous on the intrusion of the State in their affairs. If they are refused sex because they're \"too drunk\" they get nasty, and then the \"you must gay\" behaviour starts. Not all of them, of course, but responsibility for actions can cut many ways.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Micheal: It's great the \"consistency\" stereotypes that are allowed to be challenged here...you'll find rare birds who think like you about the priesthood...you'll find rare birds who are pro-contraception and anti-abortion...you'll find rare birds who believe in last week's and this week's marches in DC...you'll find rare birds who are pro-family and pro-gay rights...you'll find rare birds who support their parish priests but not their bishop...you'll find rare birds who went to Catholic colleges and believe in public education...you'll find rare birds who believe in the glories of celibacy and the glories of married clergy...you'll find rare birds who think both the liturgy and sex are gifts to be embraced with gusto...you'll find rare birds who recall Catholic school with laughter and with tears...most of all, you'll find rare birds who are mindful of the needs of others and needful of the minds of others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am gay, and I really don't care about what Pillar said. We all say it to each other and are proud of it. It doesn't harm the gay LGBT community one bit. What I am more concerned about it is the harm being done to the LGBT community by BLM and the hijacking of the Pride parade by that band of thieves. The Globe actually sided with them when they accused us of being white racists in dire need of a slap down. Pillar is my allie compared to them. All this feigned indignation is insipid when we face real hostility and violence.\n\nI now await to be censored for speaking the truth.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If he were authoritarian, Burke would be confined to a Monestary. I wish he were more open to changes in doctrine, rather than simple changes in practice regarding communion and remarriage. Some people should have a right to Catholic divorce and women should be ordained (and gay marriages celebrated at Mass). He is far more traditional than real lefty's like me think he should be.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, c'mon now, Pandora. There are clear, established patterns and \"teachings\" that do just that. I'll give two examples, both recent and done by Pope Benedict XVI. First, he pressed the term \"intrinsically disordered\" regarding homosexuals a number of times, ignoring all that science has showed him and us was clearly misguided and, by extension, a sinful attitude to hold. Second, B16 included the issue of female ordination right along with his all-talk condemnation of clerical child sexual abuse. So, as a Catholic women you, in the midst of your sense of appreciation and love of the Church, are also called to recognize the human frailties and outright sins that are committed in the name of Our Lord. You do not do this, and as a result become complicit in its continuation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Before pronouncing that \"justice\" requires women and gays to become priests, tell me why it's just for a man to be a priest.\n\nExplain first how it's just for any person to be in control of sacraments that bind and loose?\n\nIf the office of priest is inherently unjust, then how is allowing women and gays into that office just?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Listen Liberal by Thomas Frank is the best take down of the Democratic elitist economics. That also had Tim Kaine as VP rather than Corey Booker. The game was demographics and the Dems did not play. What Tony called social individualism is more rightly thought of as egalitarianism because the low rules environment is mixed with solidarity with gays and women. Sexism is as big a part of the GOP victory as white backlash (although Obama's election did prime the latter). Many white traditionalists would simply not vote for a woman. The right-wing ideology mentioned was bought and paid for by the Kochs and their friends. The worship of the rich is a part of the prosperity gospel, which Catholics are not immune to. As for abortion, Clinton thought her strategy would rally women. Instead, she should have focused on the unlikelihood of there being any action to change abortion policy - that the pro-life movement is a scam and the bishops are complicit.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I will become 80 in August, so excuse my memory, but yes I was a founding member and on the first board of Identity's predecessor, the Alaska Gay community center. As such we were instrumental in Elaine Noble's visit in 1977, as well as Leonard Matlovich's later visit. The early parades involved input from various organizations and businesses, not just the center. More accurate details could be verified by reviewing a scrapbook that is, I believe, now at the library of the University of Alaska, Anchorage. That and copies of the monthly newsletter the center published in the late '70s would contain articles of events from that time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is wisdom that has accumulated over the ages. Homosexuality has been condemned for almost all of human history, across all religions and cultures. That's not something that should be taken likely. Of course not all opinions have value, but longevity of belief is a good barometer worthy of consideration. All of those exceptions to permitted \"authentic self\" that you mention are also based on long-held understandings. \n\nIndeed, such prohibitions, including homosexual acts, have been adopted by governments the world over, with reversals of prohibitions on sodomy created only in the last 14 years or so. Nothing has changed to make homosexuality or any of those exceptions worthy of acceptable status, except for badgering by those afflicted with same-sex attraction who refuse to agree with the wisdom over the ages.\n\nDoing what one feels is nothing new, whether it's the adoption of homosexual acts as an identity or any other feel-good act. It's as old as man himself.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think it's far fetched to believe homosexuality could be a choice for some. People associate with groups for a variety of reasons. For example we just saw in the news a woman who passed herself off as being African American because she related more to that community. Inmates in prison may engage in homosexual behavior while incarcerated then revert back to heterosexual relationships once released. Transgender choose which group they feel more aligned with. \nPolicy wise it makes little difference. My point is biology and nurture provide billions of variations. It's no harm to me what gender someone aligns to or how they got there.\nIf you accept diversity then accept diversity. An individual's spiritual beliefs are another part of diversity. Cliche's rarely hold true. There are people who believe homosexuality is a sin and still do not believe in the persecution of Gay people. Accepting diversity does not mean you have to agree with the behavior.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you and your ilk want the \"liberals\" to \"love\" your racism? Do you want us to smile at your homophobia? Do you want us to smile and wink nicely at your Islamophobia and zenophobia? Actually, the liberals really should avoid responding to your vitriol with vitriol, but nobody's perfect, eh?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1} Infanticide has nothing to do with ensoulment. It is simply the unlawful killing of a preborn human being. 2}Regardless, the Church dogmatically teaches that abortion is NEVER licit; and indeed carries the rarely employed sanction of a Latae Sententiae ex-communication. I made no distinction between heterosexuals and homosexuals re sodomy--though the oral {heterosexual}component is somewhat of a different animal. 3} Do you truly believe our tax, fiscal, and regulatory structure are consistent with the principals of distributism and subsidiarity? 4} By \"robber barons\", do you mean that top 10% of earners who pay @ 60% of income taxes? Or who pay the highest corporate tax rates in the western world, and then have to pay another 50% in death taxes? 5} Just which of these \"robber barons\" have your taxes gone to? 6}How many people do you employ? 7} As a lawyer, I can tell you our border laws are quite simple-if you don' have the proper authorization, you can't come in.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Justin Trudeau.\n\n\u201cFor someone to start questioning my own faith and accusing me of being a bad Catholic, is something that I really take issue with. My own personal faith is an extremely important part of who I am and the values that I try to lead with.\u201d\n\nMr. Trudeau added that neither he nor his father saw any incongruity between enshrining the rights of gays and lesbians, for example, and the tenets of Catholicism. He notes that he is personally very opposed to abortion, but still believes nobody can tell a woman what she should do with her body. - globeandmail\n\nOh dear, do you not know who your PM is?\n\nHow embarrassing. How awkward.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There's nothing wrong with people who practice celibacy if they feel it to be a genuine calling. It's quite another to have it imposed on you for no particular reason other than Holy Mother Church says you must. At least with priests and religious celibacy is supposed to exist for a reason: so they can devote more time to God and the people of God. With gay people no such rationale for celibacy is given. None.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In 2000, at the National Association of Pastoral Musicians convention in Washington, DC., a lot of us gay musicians wore pride flags on our name badges. It was a visible reminder to the powers that be (including the Episcopal liaison between the USCCB and the NPM) how many gay men provide music to the church. At this year's NPM convention in Houston, I wore rainbow socks the day of the Convention Eucharist. I'm not sure if Cardinal DiNardo saw me with them on or not, but a lot of people did and I received positive comments for the visual reminder.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How about the union recognizes why BLM and Pride don't want a bigoted, racist or oppressive police force trampling their rights.\n---------\ndon't blame Pride - it is only BLM that do not want the police\n\nand that is BLM and not GBLM (Gay Black Lives Matter)\n\nwhy is BLM controlling Pride?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think that option #1, the Vatican was mad at Hollande for supporting gay marriage and didn't really lose anything on this one because Hollande had a ridiculously low approval rating.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sex is designed by God to be within the bounds of Marriage, and between a man and a woman only. Yes, we all fail to live up to God's standard but that's why Jesus gave up His life for us, to give us forgiveness and purity before God. \n\nLGBT folks are loved and forgiven by God, just as heterosexuals are. God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. As I see it, the problem arises when some LGBT's seek to justify their sin, and call it something else. That's no different than me attempting to justify my own heterosexual sins, is it?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I challenge the assertion that \"there are so many gay clerics\".\n\nBut in any case the Church's teaching is entirely separated from any theoretical consider of \"welcom(ing) women colleagues\".\n\nAnd it is entirely irreformable.\n\nThe change in \"other churches\" appears to be highly correlated with their heterodox eucharistic theologies. Among Anglicans and Lutherans with \"high church\" notions of a sacrificing priesthood, acceptance of women as \"priests\" has been very limited.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think it's because of the legalization of gay marriage. That is what most of them are rallying against. For example, there are many Christian organizations that support victims of abuse, but as far as I know, no one is trying to legalize child beating or wife beating.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I myself would never seek to destroy anyone's faith or religious observance as long as it does not violate our laws and those believers do to not force their beliefs on me. What do I mean by forcing their beliefs? Denying others the same civil rights I enjoy. Legalizing discrimination based on something being against my religion. For example, the county employee who would not issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. She swore an oath to uphold the laws of her state. The state legalized same sex marriage. She should have quit her job rather than violate her oath. She felt she had the right to ignore state law and force her beliefs on others based on her religion. If her faith was so important she should have quit. That would have been a stronger statement about her beliefs. Obviously, she still wanted that paycheck. On the flip side, I don't believe a church should be forced to perform a same sex marriage if it violates their beliefs. Civil marriage is available.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So I suppose those people who've been getting knifed and axed lately by Islamists and other sickos must've been gun owners who passed on using their handguns? Riiiight. You Neil are a typical liberal. No logic. No facts.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gary, lunch sounds great...but...this dialogue will only succeed if we have some true NCU/Hobby Lobby Christians as guests too-- so far this list looks like a bunch of fellow infidels.\nBut it's not impossible- you may remember the violence surrounding Measure 9, the fundamentalist anti-gay measure on the ballot in 1992. It was ugly. In fact, Springfield conservative Ralf Walters and local gay rights activist Scott Siebert wound up shouting at each other on the old Phil Donahue TV talk show.\nWell, Jack Roberts (yes, that Jack Roberts, one of the the last remaining liberal Republicans) and I organized a press conference with Walters defending the bill, and Siebert opposing it.\nIt worked remarkably well, with the two ending up hugging each other and declaring that while they strongly opposed each other's positions they could embrace one another as friends. \nThe only unhappy person was the TV news guy who was disappointed there was no screaming and shouting to film.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "http://www.dailywire.com/news/19054/combat-vet-gives-powerful-testimony-against-trans-amanda-prestigiacomo\n\n--Transgender veterans are found to be particularly plagued by mental health issues, with the \"highest rates of mental health problems in the U.S. ... A 2016 study found 90% of military members who identify as transgender were diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder, and almost 50% were hospitalized after attempting or considering suicide.\" \n\n\"War is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil. You have your s*** together, or you don't,\" he stated. \"And if you don't, you'll just get people needlessly killed. Political correctness has absolutely no place in the military.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"...the far right swing... in the structures of government, corporate and societal power.\"\n\nHello?\n\nIn Canada?\n\nAre you kidding me?\n\nA FAR-RIGHT swing in the structure of Canadian government, Canadian corporations and societal power in Canada?\n\nFar right?\n\nYou're joking, yes?\n\nWhere is this \"far-right\" swing in Canadian government you are talking about? You mean the pro-immigration, pro-multiculturalism, pro-gay marriage, pro-affirmative action in cabinet posts kind of \"far right\" (roll eyes) swing?\n\nAnd the \"far-right\" corporations in Canada? Um, you mean the ones that ignore the provincial human rights tribunals and keep refusing to hire Jews and blacks? Um, care to name any corporations doing that?\n\nYou don't know what \"far right\" means, obviously... you are so pampered in a socialism-comfortable country that anyone to the right of the NDP looks like Attilla the Hun to you...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is ALL right here in the title. Some of the tenets of the educated elite are: 1) We know what is best for you and how to spend your money 2) It is our way or the highway. 3) All heterosexual men are evil and must be eliminated from the workplace 4) Women, blacks and gays will never-ever achieve any measure of equality. 5) All persons (mainly men) for whom a crime is alleged are guilty until death, regardless of facts, innocence or restitution. 6) Heterosexual marriage is evil and destroys equality for women. 7) Espousing hostile obnoxiousness is a guiding philosophy. 8) Anyone who does not believe the way we do is a \"hater.\" 9) We pretend to care about others, but in truth we only care about ourselves and our elite privilege. 9) education is more important than experience or knowledge and 10) Only atheist paganism can deliver us from Christianity....There are of course many more.... \"The only thing that interferes with learning is education\" -Albert Einstein", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And I agree with your argument--\"gay\" may be something that you are, but a \"gay wedding\" is something that you do. It's the doing part the baker would prefer not to participate in. \n\nWe also don't need to chuck all the civil rights laws to accommodate religious beliefs. We can make exceptions to those laws, just as we make exceptions to \"freedom of speech\" laws--you can't false cry \"fire\" in a crowded theater and then claim free speech protection. I'm optimistic the SC will rule in the baker's favor, as it did in Hobby Lobby and other similar cases. Even bakers have constitutional rights that are not abridged when they open a business.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "david, you're an honest, probably good man. i take offense at christians and muslims because they think their 'book' applies to me. they dont. it only applies to people that believe in them. that's it. i dont, nor do i presume to try, to tell you anything. all of you religious people, just stop telling me i'm going to hell, or anything else from 'your' book. i dont believe. ok? leave me alone and stop helping pass laws that make me acknowledge your beliefs. go out, everyone of you, pick a homeless person to help for the long run. i used to attend new hope until they started actually preaching and urging members to picket the capital against gay marriage. its none of you business unless a gay asks you to marry them. you love jesus, great, keep it to yourself, please. cant even enjoy a cup of coffee on fort street and hotel most days because of christians calling me, in a very loud voice, a sinner. leave us alone. we are happier than you are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does the gospel require us to teach one another not to bully LGBT students, or to love and welcome them into our communities? In the first instance, we agree not to harm others; in the second, we agree to accept and welcome. I don't think people of faith can argue that the former is what is required by the gospel.\nI think the gospel mandate is to welcome one another in love and share in Word and Sacrament, trusting the Lord to bring about the conversion of minds and hearts required of believers. The more we isolate and alienate one another, the less opportunity exists for our conversion through the power of the gospel. Bishops who look forward to the \"conversion of sinners\" should understand that such \"conversion\" won't take place unless we bring the gospel to others, or allow them to come to us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "comment 2\n\nThen Aug. 29, Andrew Hamilton has a great piece on Eureka Street. \"A credibly Christian church would respect gay employees,\" https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=52963#.WacCbfmGPX7 . It makes the points that the typical arguments of the bishops \"belongs to a past age. It presupposes a tightly bound Catholic world in which Catholic faith is accepted and shared, where the Catholic Church is a primary allegiance for its members and where Catholic schools, hospitals and welfare agencies are staffed by Catholics. Faith is maintained and transmitted through adherence to the close and disciplined Catholic community.\" Good argument here.\n\nAlso Aug. 29, Hart does an interview: \"Archbishop hits back at claims the church will fire staff who wed same sex partners\" http://www.3aw.com.au/archbishop-hits-back-at-claims-the-church-will-fire-staff-who-wed-same-sex-partners/ \u201cI said nothing whatever about sackings,\u201d Archbishop Hart said. \nHe implied it.\n\nSee comment 3.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There was a long, honourable and hard-fought and worthy fight for Gay Rights and Gay Marriage - the right for two people of either gender to love each other and be accepted by society......but who asked for all those other letters to be added? What does Bi-sexual, Trans-gender and Queer have to do with Gay Rights and Gay Marriage - and love and respect? The courts have put into law a \"live and let live\", non-discrimination policy to protect the B's, T's and Q's. That's all well and good but to continually mix those letters with Society's acceptance of loving Gay relationships trivializes the efforts that advanced us to where we are today. \n\nAnd now we need to display a smug, superior attitude to the rest of the world? That's not MY Canada!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How about the Ugandans, influenced directly by US evangelical Christians to create a \"kill the gays\" bill (later changed to \"torture and life imprisonment for gays\")? \n\nAnyway, you asked for an example of a Christian-fueled terrorist group, and then reject my example because \"violence isn't Christian\". By that standard, you can turn a blind eye to any example. How about the Atlanta olympic bomber, raised in a \"Christian Identity\" church, who bombed a lesbian bar because of his beliefs?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The good news: 3 in 4 Americans ages 18-29 did NOT \"favor allowing small-business owners to refuse to provide products or services to the LGBT community for religious reasons.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Saint John Paul was speaking from superstition. Real marriage marriages occur beyond discussions of intrinsic evil. The intrinsic evil in questions of divorce and remarriage happen to the people involved. What is intrinsically evil is for the Church to demand practices which deepen their pain. In the reality of pastoral ministry as it existed before Amoris and even before Veritatis, pastors heard confessions and blessed remarriages which have lasted (as well as other civil marriages and probably in the future, gay marriages) to ease the burdens on the faithful rather than make them heavier. Indeed, the four ex-bishops who are yelling from the cheap seats are like the pharisees whom Jesus condemns who used the Oral Law to pile burdens onto the Jewish people for the same reasons of moral self-righteousness and personal (and prideful) purity. Prostitutes and the remarried will enter Heaven before these four.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Every Trump and Johnson supporter should proudly declare it- for absolutely no other reason than because it means they ARE NOT voting for crooked Hillary Clinton. It really is that simple.\n\nSooner or later the Social Justice Warrior/ Safe Space/ Micro-aggression panty-waists that occupy campuses will realize their transgender studies degree is worth nothing, their employers won't tolerate the cry-bully tactics that their Leftist professors coddled them with, and that the world owes them nothing.\n\nOf course, they won't realize this until they're $40K in debt, and that Liberal faculty member who fed them all those lies can't be reached for comment. That time they supported Bernie will have been \"a phase\" we're all allowed to have while in college.\n\nIf anyone's a fan of faux-victim SJW's getting systematically shut down on campus, I highly recommend you get into Milo Yiannopoulos and the Alt Right movement. He is the face of young Conservative values, and is taking the country by storm.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And if he believes he has been fired because he's straight, he can bring action, also. The law works both ways, for straights and gays. Oh, \"no,\" you say, \"You've got to be kidding!\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Fr. Martin has Christ's love at heart if he ministers properly to gays. God bless him. In that case, his purpose is to help them deal with --- that is, to correct --- their sin, and repent for it. However, to lead them to think they're just fine as they are, without repentence, is the opposite of love. What Scripture says about leading children to sin and having millstones around the neck seems equally applicable to leading adults to sin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps he's not out of touch: maybe he just doesn't give a damn. \nAs pm, it seems he's mostly about theatrics like selfies, yoga poses, attending every gay parades (which I support btw), new carbon taxes (revenue streams for the coffers maybe?). But what is he doing about our dirty lakes and rivers, and why is he not banning the three most harmful pesticides that are killing bees as the EU has (and has seen success from doing this), and why is he not showing up for work and when he does show up, very few bills are passed, and he won't answer direct questions? \nHis theatrics are about showing us shiny things (like this new study on gender-based violence), but neglecting to address very important issues about our environment. He's also a spendthrift with taxpayer money and sometimes for his own pleasure.\nAt least now, I don't see our pm as a man of moral substance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The anti-Islamophobes\n-\na strange group\nusually they are leftists and anti-relgion, anti-Christian\nmaybe even atheists\nthey are against religious extremism if it is American but not if it is ...\nthey are for separation of church and state\nand for secularism\nbut suddenly they will pose as anti-Islamophobes\n-\nalso they love gay marriage, Pride parades, abortion, women's rights, pre-marital sex, extra-marital sex etc\ndrinking alcohol, marijuana\nthings Muslims don't like\nbut strangely they are anti-Islamophobes", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Another example of the Hollywood \"gay\" agenda being forced down the public throat.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Typical, yet unsurprising that the democrats would like and embrace this sexist, homophobic and mysogenic rapper who talks about raping women and beating homosexuals.\nThe party of tolerance.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Are you kidding me. Trans gender bathroom bill, westboro, god hates fags, attempting to pint gays as pedophiles, painting gays as the cause of the aids epidemic, and constantly judging everyone through a very negative lens has been the religious rights mode of attack.\n\nThen you dare come on here and again attack people that call out intolerance. It is not intolerance to point out hate, and your side peddles in hate of everything they didn't like.\n\nYour side has spent years shouting down and name calling anyone that doesn't agree, then you come here and blame the other side. Par for the course, I guess.\n\nParty of Personal Responsibility or is it Party of Her Emails now?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Christian wedding cake bakers are suing gay couples? Nope, never happened. \n\nChristian schools are suing gay teachers? Got that backward.\n\nChristian churches are suing city governments, because there's a secular symbol in a public park? Hardly.\n\nWhat a strange and silly article, as it completely ignores the decades of lawsuits by the ACLU, SPLC, and other liberal law sharktanks that target Christians and Christian orgs. And it suggests that it's somehow very wrong for Christians to ever oppose these relentless legal attacks.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Was this guy clean? Not a pervert or a gay priest enabler? Article sex, \"DiLorenzo suspended the diocese\u2019s Sexual Minorities Commission, which had been the first official group reach out to gay and lesbian Catholics in the late 1970s. He also sparked controversy by dismissing an advocate for ordaining women as priests from a diocesan women\u2019s commission.\" Just a company man who places the corrupt church above humans and civil rights. Be suspicious of this dirty church.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ah, so what you are doing is slandering homosexual priests, not homosexuals in general. Sorry about misunderstanding which group you are slandering.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "If it was in 84. All matters of private revelation are to be presented to the local ordinary for disposition. What did he say? Much about Fatima is to convenient to survive the question of revelation-v. hoax. Such matters, as private revelation, are not binding on the faithful, although if you want Mary on your side, quit seperating her from her other sons, Thomas and Phillip.. She proably sees your desire to do that and make her out as an incomplete-wife with your desire to deny sexuality to gays and lesbians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Actually it represents white men and married white women. Clinton supporters represent unmarried white women, blacks, latinos and gays. Look up the statistics before spouting off you're leftist rhetoric.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You are right, Michael, that Christians should speak the truth and warn about the dangers of sin, disordered desires, etc. It is a real concern that the catholic church did not ban the priests who abused children - all the contrary, they were protected and hidden. Instead they ban gay priests just because they are gay. Does not make sense to me!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You can support your gay child, but you can't be Catholic too. The two things are completely incompatible. Catholics preach that homosexuality is evil. End of story.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Every time I think the LEFT has stooped as low as is humanly possibly, someone with even LESS intelligence comes up with a piece like we see here. Hillary is one of the most disgusting people to ever run for President yet the Media and left wing just chose to ignore what she has done and did their best to shove her down our throats. Trump wasn't MY first choice either but HE IS NOW GOING TO BE OUR PRESIDENT. Comparing him to Hitler is idiotic at best. He will do far better than Obama and we don't have Hillary's criminal past or support for the murder of Gays and Christians and poor treatment of women to explain to the world..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Fish: The LGBTX individuals, (Lesbians, Gays, Bi-Sexuals, Trans-Gender Mutilated, A genders, and those who mark the box with a \"X\"), should NOT be afforded more protections then any other group of citizens in the US even when such protections pertaining to sexual acts clearly are a violation of the law.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your major premise was that one is morally permitted to act on whatever inclination he's born with. Your minor was that gays are born with a sexual attraction for men, therefore . . .\nBad major. That was the point.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Wipeout is at it again! Gay activist Wipie?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Those are countries, not religions. FACT\nAs Ty asked: \"Which Mosque in the US stoned a single woman to death for infidelity and executed a single citizen for homosexuality? \"\nYes, there are countries with laws that should be judged as archaic, outdated and just plain wrong, but I'd guess you be surprised Iran has one of the most educated and \"progressive\" young populations in the region. They are being dragged down by their leadership, and by knuckle-draggers like you.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Ottawa needs to see lots of videos about Saudi Arab and Muslim countries. Like videos showing gay men being executed by throwing them off buildings or hanged. Or women getting buried alive if they are raped. OR women being stoned to death or whipped for sex out of marriage. Or actual slaves being bought and sold for sex or labour. Lets all have a good look at life in Saudi arabia.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Focused on women's sexuality was the thrust of the article, yet Sapphic Aquatica, the club's regular lesbian event was not even mentioned. Same old sexist homophobic b.s. Lesbians just don't exist. Disappointing G&M.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Who cares. Let the country fall. thats what it needs to do, to fall completely apart. Our country is now full of people who feel that everyone should give them everything on a silver platter. People who feel entitled because they are colored different, or carry a different DNA strand or come from a different place and then we have all the population in America getting high on weed, getting high and addicted to prescription drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine, bathsalts, etc etc etc etc and then you have all the alcoholics and sex addicts and pedophiles and transgenders and gays and lesbians and then you sit back and wonder why the country is so screwed up and you actually have the audacity to blame Trump for messing it up.....................Try again folks. We have our own citizens encouraging drug use, encouraging everything immoral that can be had, a hippie revolution all over again but this time super sized.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Well we could divert all the grants and government money going to bogus social justice warriors and crooks like BLM or transgender activists. What the government gives to Canadians will be curtailed to fund refugees, in addition to taxes going up.\n\nSo slash all grants to these lobby groups and direct the funds to giving refugees free homes, health care, education and a tax free grants. As they are a all clamoring to open the borders, then they should pay for it or contribute to it with a large part of their budgets. I'm sure the hypocrite BLM folks with their Iphones and expectations of six figure salaries will be happy to sacrifice THEIR OWN MONEY!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Your typical straw man of fear and loathing of homosexuals by the Church is nonsense, and an easy excuse to justify behavior counter to Church teaching. All people have inclinations to sin and give into temptation. We are called to be better than that.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Dear Pastor Francis, the church of God, is the body the Christ, and is dirtied and corrupted by priests(majority of them) and is in need of swift remission, but you are full of jokes.\n\nDo it before God judges you. Stop the abuse -- the sex abuse, the child sex abuse, monetary corruption, homosexuality within the priesthood.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "if you had personally been the target of discrimination, beatings and described as \"disordered\" by the very Church you loved, well, then, maybe you be singing a different tune. Take a walk as a gay person in this world and see how well you like it.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In the U.K. the word used was 'sissy'. It described boys who were unusually timid. Nothing sexual was intended as no one knew about homosexuality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Exposure to illnesses as a part of 'exploring' and or conquering territory is far from limited to North America. Or perhaps you forgot about little epidemics like the black death (introduced into Europe from Asia). You also seem to have forgotten about some of the mini epidemics that broke out in various ports throughout Europe after early expeditions to the Americas returned. Finally you incorrectly put FAR too much weight on reports some morons tried to get natives sick by giving them 'infected' blankets. 1. Simple greed is a much easier explanation and 2 the infections they were attempting to spread didn't spread that way and it was known that they didn't spread that way at the time. That kind of nonsense is like saying gay men were trying to spread HIV by holding hands.\n\nAs for the treaties, you must not follow history very closely. The treaties with various tribes were all horribly flawed in multiple ways.\n(continued)", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You realize how silly your question is, right? How can there possibly be multiple organizations representing fundamentalist religious views? How can there be 634 First Nations in Canada? You appear to expect that members of the LGBTQ community all belong to some sort of common organization or union of sorts. Maybe it's good for those who oppose their interests that they don't as such an organization would likely represent hundreds of thousands of Canadians. My guess is that the LGBTQ community may well exceed in size the population of Christian fundamentalists in Canada.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No, your bigoted opinion of gays is based SOLELY on your prejudices. You may want to pretend that it is based on science -- white supremacists claim that \"science\" shows that whites are the superior race. You have precisely the same mindset.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "\"Many young evangelicals seem tired of the culture wars, wearied by politics, and less interested in hounding gay couples than in helping the homeless...\"\nKristof is being disingenuous here. The people evangelicals have been hounding are less gay couples than women seeking reproductive medical care including abortion. \nKristof's suggestion that now that evangelicals have satiated themselves harassing women we should all just come together and sing kumbaya. Excuse me while I choke on my puke. \nI'm supposed to care that some evangelicals are feeling discomfiture at their party's candidate? Seriously, don't make me laugh.\nActually, now I am laughing--at evangelicals, the stupid moth********s. It's when I stop laughing and start loading that you'll know the gulf hasn't been bridged.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "You're trying to prove a negative here, Richard Whyner, which is a logical fallacy. Hardly surprising considering the source. So where's your evidence those 80% who DIDN'T vote WOULD have voted the way you want? Speaking of trying to prove a negative, I find no evidence that you even ONCE complained about union vote-mustering tactics when you yourself were a member. Kind of like how you're not known to have ever complained about pro-white \"affirmative action.\" To paraphrase a very popular Galilean carpenter (upon him be God's Peace) as translated by your 'gay' olde King James, \"WOE unto you, retired garbageman, hypocrite! You got what you wanted from the Municipal workers' union, now you hold the door against those who would seek labor representation!\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "No it is not ok to accept gays watever into the church with the hope of reforming them. There is no way of changing a gay person into a straight person. Like changing a black into a white. Might be possible of changing a white into a black (Black like me) but I have never heard of the opposite. \n\nNow why would anyone disapprove and criticize a life style?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Baking a cake for a wedding is celebrating that ceremony and the acts which are the expression thereof. \n\nDo we want liberal Sharia where Christian bakers are bullied for taking what the Bible says about homosexual activity sinful? Why is it so important to get a wedding cake from someone with a religious objection when there are plenty of bakers with no objection happy to take the money? The comparison with segregation is just to invoke an emotional response. There is no Scripture that teaches black and white people can't eat together, but there is Scripture that teaches marriage is between a man and a woman and homosexual sex is sinful.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "hey michael, I was there also. The frothing I saw was coming from a smoke belching volvo covered with stickers and the folks inside screaming with curse words and pure hate towards us. That is the one that sticks out the most but of course, there were many other drive bys that spewed hate and insults, clue for you, they were not conservatives. Was your plan to try and disrupt a peaceful gathering?The gathering was very peaceful, the grounds were left cleaner then we found them, the people were calm and orderly. So why do you find a need to lie? Why do you find a need to either insult gays or use a homophobic insult towards those who you disagree with? Is your insult directed at gays or do you find it acceptable to use a term associated with gay men towards others as an insult? Which are you, homophobic or extremely intolerant of others not like you?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Totally uncalled for remark but is does highlight the offensive treatment transgendered people face.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I too prefer Bernier over Scheer, but I think Scheer is more electable. Bernier is way too libertarian to win. His policies on health care and spending cuts would make him DOA. Scheer is a social conservative, but unlike Trost and Lemieux he has promised to not to introduce any new legislation on gay marriage and abortion. One can personally oppose abortion on a personal level while still support keeping it legal otherwise believing its not the state's job to enforce morality. Paul Martin personally opposed abortion, but was a strong supporter of keeping it legal. Opposing something personally is quite different than wanting it criminalized. Where Scheer stands though is a bit of a question. I suspect he won't touch either not out of personal conviction but more due to electability, otherwise he would ban both if it wasn't political suicide to do so whereas Paul Martin would have never banned either even if the public was in favour.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, OHThor, I would not expect people like you to do this. I would have it done by a computer. Clean, clinical, and neat. \nYes, I am being extremely sarcastic. I find all of this to be so distasteful and offensive. The thing is that many who know far better than I have told me that many of the hierarchs who are most vocal in the support of these bans on gays are gay themselves. A part of me wants to give them a taste of their own medicine -- in whatever form.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From Wikipedia:\nHomosexual behavior in animals is sexual behavior among non-human species that is interpreted as homosexual or bisexual. This may include sexual activity, courtship, affection, pair bonding, and parenting among same-sex animal pairs. Research indicates that various forms of this are found throughout the animal kingdom.[1][2] As of 1999, about 500 species, ranging from primates to gut worms, have been documented engaging in same-sex behaviors.[3][page needed][4] According to the organizers of the 2006 Against Nature? exhibit, it has been observed in 1,500 species.[5]\nThe bracketed numbers are references to journal publications.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Milo Yiannopoulos: \u201cIn the gay world some of the most important, enriching and incredibly, you know, life-affirming, important, shaping relationships very often between younger boys and older men, they can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys.\u201d Milo described attending Hollywood \u201cboat parties\u201d and \u201chouse parties,\u201d where he saw things that \u201cbeggar belief.\u201d As Milo put it: \u201csome of the boys at [these parties] were very young. Very young.\u201d \n\nChad Felix Greene has also described having his first sexual encounters with adult men at age 14. \u201cAs much as the LGBT world seems to ignore [older gay men having sex with young teenage boys], it seems fairly universal and unfortunately not time-bound to a period when young gay men had fewer options.\u201d\n\nhttp://thefederalist.com/2017/02/28/child-sex-common-among-gay-men-okay/\n\nWhat if we are ignoring, and have been ignoring for a long time, a cultural tradition that sexualises and victimises boys as young as 13 years old?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What does gay or transgender or lesbian have to do with the rights of the person ? Aren't we are ALL entitled to equal rights under the Law. It is about your rights and not what camp you belong to, unless you actually want the extra attention that comes with the label you gave yourself. I think the only label we should use is Human Being.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Have you \"polled\" every single homosexual to determine whether or not this is true, and if so, do you have proof that they are being 100% truthful ?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The liberal suburban parishes I've visited ARE thriving. The gay-friendly parishes ARE thriving. That should tell you something.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can't they use the sex as listed on official documents like their health cards or driver's licences?\n\nThat only leaves those identifying as non-binary-gender scrounging for single-stall washrooms. If anything, Hamilton should encourage the building of more single-stall washrooms for the handicapped, family. and transgender use, replacing the handicap requirements within single-sex washrooms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Guess what ? Do you think Heterosexual people don't struggle with confusion ? This is well documented, but I am sure you pay little attention to facts such as those.\n\nAs stated earlier, my homosexual uncle who I grew up with (3 years older) at 55 years is still confused, always has, always will be most likely. I personally have never been, but there are some who are confused.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "More newsworthy than another transgender story... Or another homeless sympathy spin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "2/2\nI'm old enough to remember a time when I thought I didn't know any gay people (not the word we used). When I found out that I did, I was surprised in two instances by who they were and how much they suffered. Both men were friends of my parents; both were in relationships with other men (not each other; they didn't even know each other.) Both lived most of their adult lives in faithful relationships with their partners, but neither ever shared a home with his partner. Only late in her life, after my father was gone, did my mother realize the nature of the relationship that her great friend and neighbor had with his \"friend.\" I was moved by the way the insight dawned on her, and on the compassion she had for him as his life-partner was dying -- compassion rooted in her own then-recent loss of my father. I learned a lot; and I was changed.\nThe teaching of the church about homosexuality is not only wrong; it is evil.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kudos for not turning this into a partisan political bun-fight, NA. Harper, Martin and Cretien all had views different from Trudeau. \nBut what are our laws if not a reflection of popular opinion? When they no longer reflect popular opinion they are challenged. For example, when three juries refused to convict Henry Morgentaler, it was a reflection of the fact that public opinion on the issue of abortion was changing. The law was thought to be unjust and it was changed. Similarly with laws related to homosexuality. People simply started to ignore them, so they were changed. Same with the issue of marijuana. Because something is written into law does not make it \"just\", even if the decision comes from the mouth of the Supreme Court itself.\nPeople don't need to be told by lawyers what is right. There are many wacky legal decisions derived from the application of human rights legislation in a legal vacuum. Rights must exist in balance with society's values, not in isolation from them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does pointing out that a growing majority of Americans support adultery (abortion, same sex marriage, even theft), change God's law an iota?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" ...people who are just born LGBTQ...\" Are they?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I feel for LGBT and I agree we need to invite and treat with same respect and love as we do for heterosexual couples. Dialogue is where it must begin.\n\nThat being said, notice women priests are not being discussed as topic to dialogue on. We must demand justice for women now and equal and same treatment and sacraments and we must demand dialogue on this issue with our priests, bishops, cardinals and Pope Francis immediately. Especially, since this is the one area Pope Francis still wants to duck away and hide from. Too many women have been crushed by this rejection of our gender and have left and are continuing to leave our church and too many churches have closed due to supposedly no priests. \n\nEnough of the hate and misogyny and homophobia. This church can not grow healthily while she clings to these condemning ways.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What BLM did was bring attention to their cause. But, at he expense, and humiliation of the LGTQ community. Toronto has been a \"gay friendly\" city for a long time, not always.\nToronto council took the right approach, namely ending the grant. Now, the parade should pay for police services. It was the BLM people that wanted an end to police presence, and the police float, (TPS), that float never made sense.\nWill the Gay Pride Parade be any less safe?\nIt appears at this moment that the only factor endangering the parade is..........\"BLM \"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I get that people hate the idea of transgenderism, but transgenderism pronounces itself during early childhood development. Transgenderism doesn't happen overnight. The LGBT population has every right to socio-economic equality and fair justice same as heterosexuals. I don't pretend to fully understand the LGBT population, but I don't believe any type of discrimination against this population is appropriate, or any group for that matter. If we can only practice the live and let live concept.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The length of an Eastern Orthodox (or I guess Ukrainian C) liturgy is a related but separate issue which I was trying na\u00efvely to ignore. Yes, it's a challenge, and the tradition-idolizing reasons for it are in fact unreasonable, and inhumane. Easterners are a mixed bag: a lot that's admirable, but a whole lot that's yucky too, e.g. self-righteousness crushing of gay rights. As Jaroslav Pelikan said, who was raised by a Lutheran father and an Orthodox mother: \"The Lutherans taught me to think, and the Orthodox taught me to pray; and I'm glad it was that way, and not the other way around.\"\n\nStill, not all liturgy is word-oriented, or vocal. Too much of that and you get the situation underling that old chestnut, Why don't Denomination X sing in church? --Because they're all nervously reading ahead in the hymnal, to see if they agree with the words.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Can we sterilize Liberals ?\" \n\nWell, The law was repealed by Dr. Kitzhaber when he was in the Legislature in 1983, but if any of the 'liberals' were:\n\n\" feeble-minded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sexual perverts, they could get sterilized. \n\n\"Habitual criminals were defined as those who have been convicted three times or more of a felony in any state, while moral degenerates and sexual perverts partly included homosexuals and promiscuous teenage girls.\"\n\n\"Nancy Rae Cook v. State of Oregon (1972), 17-year-old Nancy Rae Cook appealed the Board of Social Protection's ruling that she be sterilized due to mental illness resulting from childhood physical and sexual abuse. The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld the Board of Social Protection's decision, ruling that the state had sufficient interest in the wellbeing of its citizenry to order Cook's sterilization \"\n\nOne of Oregon's finest progressive movements in its history.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The courts have already found that being called gay is not derogatory. No excuse there, chum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ask Jim McCrea, I was replying to his comment in which he used the phrase, \"homosexual acts among opposite-sex couples.\"\nI fail to see where the Syllabus of Errors come into this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "On the second, that is exactly what he said in Matt 19.\n\nFamilies of origin. Father, Mother, Siblings. The people who say throw that gay partner out of the hospital room so we can get junior to confess his homosexuality on his death bed. Luckily the Church's hospitals don't do that anymore, but the fact that they did led to gay marriage as a goal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bisexuals even today in many parts of the world find it hard to come out and find a suitable partner due to fear of rejection but by going online, they can find support and even a partner who understands them. One site that does exactly this is bi cupid, an online dating website that caters to the bi-minded and also the bi-curious looking to have some fun or looking for a serious bi relationship and is currently one of the, if not the, best dating website that targets this niche. http://www.bicupid.com", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is Anne Moir and David Jessel's \"Brain Sex,\" published in 1989, now scientifically out of date? Their presentation of hormonal brain \"washings\" seemed to offer a explanation, buttressed with much scientific references, of why hetero- and homosexual orientations develop before birth. What do you think?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder if Trump will make any mention about human rights and the treatment of women, gays and Shia Muslims in mostly Sunni Saudi Arabia.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "... gay bars welcome EVERYONE and wouldn't refuse to serve ya.\n\nWhen I lived in Chicago I lived next to a cross dresser bar, Big Chicks. Super crappy part of town, rents were cheap, not a Starbucks anywhere near, so I lived there. The pours at that bar were stiff, the brunches on Saturdays and Sundays were excellent, and no one gave a crap about one's sexual orientation we all lived in that neighborhood in relative peace and harmony ... everyone was welcome and treated with respect at Big Chicks.\n\nTHAT is the USA that should and does exist except for this fartknocker in Lakewood.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "probably 90% of the higher clergy I would be willing to bet! maybe higher. I have gay friends in Italy and the stories I could tell....", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nice spin......\n\nNo one wants for force you to celebrate it. There's a million degrees of gray area between \"not celebrating gay marriage\" and \"banning gay marriage\". How have you been forced to celebrate it? Have you been forced to attend a same-sex wedding?\n\nGays getting married does nothing to your ability to worship as you see fit. Feel free to tell me how gays getting married prohibits your religious freedom.....I can't wait.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since \u201chomophobe\u201d is undefined, there is nowhere to go with that.\n\nProperly it is a noun which means \u201ca person with an extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people\u201d, but as it has been used in these discussions it may mean simply people with different religious views than you.\n\n\u201c.... I would make a stink. That is just the kind of person that I am.\u201d\n\nOh, after reading your posts for awhile, I completely believe you.\n\nYou know it all, you\u2019re right, and the world better make haste in implementing your wishes.\n\nNo doubt.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You know neither the meaning of \"right\" nor \"bigotry.\"\n\nUntil you came along, the WORLD, since time immemorial, had disapproved the marriage of two men. Why? Because it's, well . . . So the WORLD, from time immemorial was denying gay men a \"right,\" and was \"bigoted.\" \n\nRights are God-given. Where and when was it said that God gave you this \"right\"? Scripture speaks against it in the strongest terms.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Decades ago it was the norm to publicly ridicule and persecute homosexuals. I grew up with this mindset and believed it was right. No government can or should make amends for the harms that many of us perpetrated in the past. It is up to each of us individually to do this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow--conversion therapy. How sad that Mr. Gabriel is so woefully uninformed about this issue. Perhaps he is unaware of the suicide rate among young people who identify as transgender? Or the need for support of what is definitely not a lifestyle choice among teens? Makes me sad.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not Catholic but I am deeply offended by your sweeping generalization about what Catholics supposedly believe. If you had made the same comments about a certain other ideology, you would have been accused of hate speech and of having a particular type of phobia. Your comment might not even have seen the light of day. Although your comment would be considered uncivil by many, my fervent belief in freedom of speech compels me to defend you. It is a shame however that criticism of another faith - one whose adherents not only condone the murder of gays but also carry it out - can result in legal charges being brought against the critics. It is a sad statement about our times that one of our most cherished liberties - freedom of speech - has become a one-way street.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think throwing gay men (and political opponents as in the case of HAMAS) off seven story buildings is one of my favourites.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good, I hope they have a transgender section. My inner woman would like that", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Motley: great idea guys....let's deflect the conversation into an attack on gays. That's really constructive.\n\nMs Edwards tells a story which I certainly accept as true. Over decades men were able to \"lord it over\" women in every way. That included insulting and demeaning them with inappropriate sexual comments and actions. I say \"inappropriate\"...however, those comments and actions were so widespread and accepted that many would have been upset with someone terming them \"inappropriate.\" How would either of you gentlemen (Motley and GBA) like to have had your young daughter treated as Ms. Edwards was treated? There are millions of stories far too similar to hers and it's \"way past time\" men's behavior changed and women received the respect they deserve. \n\nIf you guys can't at least agree to that concept, you're not worth the time. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All of our closest allies have successfully integrated transgender members into their armed forces. It's sad that the land of opportunity withholds this opportunity from our transgender citizens. And it was unfathomably rude and utterly unforgivable for Trump to tell thousands of actively serving brave souls that their service is not wanted or appreciated.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Saudi Arabia, our US ally and oil provider has a simple legal system as far as homosexuals are concerned. They are not ISIS. They are the mainstream Sunni Branch of Islam. President Obama visited them just recently to try to get them to buy into his Iran nuclear weapons deal.\n\nSaudi Arabia follows Shar\u2019ia Law: \u201cPenalty: Prison sentences of several months to life, fines and/or whipping/flogging, chemical castration, torture, vigilante execution or death can be sentenced on first conviction. A second conviction automatically merits immediate execution.\u201d\n\nA list of actual legal sentences carried out in Saudi Arabia can be found here for apologists for Islam.\n\nhttp://wikiislam.net/wiki/Persecution_of_Homosexuals_(Saudi_Arabia)\n\nIran, of course follows the same Shar'ia Law, although they are of the Shi'ite Branch of Islam. Homosexuals fare no better in Iran than in Saudi Arabia, or many of our other Arab 'friends' in the Middle East.\n\nThe persecution of homosexuals is Muslim doctrine.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Except foe the little Nuns, the cake bakers, and the people who refused to provide a homosexual ceremony. But the Muslims have no such accommodation problems in refusing to perform job duties such as delivery of lawful products that they were hired to deliver.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The LGBT community embraces the Democratic party because they accept them. I'm not sure because they accept LGBTs that it makes their agenda gay lol. \n\nDonald Trump is the Republican President, he is far from a typical Republican, well he WAS anyway. Would you argue that the far right of the Republican party has not taken over the Republican party? Have alt right nationalists NOT flocked to the Republican party and NOT help elect Trump? Pot meet kettle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Youre confused. Being against gay marriage means youre against gay equality, which Is bigotry", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Its BS like this that make me want to not read the denver post. You can take out transgender daughter and add any thing; race, sex, economic status. And you get a whiny, blame everyone but themselves, letter writer. My life is so hard waa waa the judge is part of the white male priveledge class so I can refuse to do it and whine tell I get my way. Frankly this womans letter did not help her \"daughter\" in any way. She thinks her \"daughter\" has it hard now wait tell she has a crying game moment", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I hope all understands that I was teasing blackmorano. The point is Obama is not a Muslim, but a Christian. But more importantly it should not matter if he was a Muslim or even a transgender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "what is worse Justin going to Gay parades as BC and Alberta are burning\nor Trump going golfing after a hurricane.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Since she has basically announced that she only wants women as tenants, \"a shared work space for women-owned ventures.\", Strgar would appear to be in violation of the Oregon statutes prohibiting discrimination based on gender. Who wants to file the first complaint with BOLI? The last one involving rejection of a couple of gay women and a cake resulted in a $135,000 award. \"BOLI: Filing a complaint usually begins by filling out a complaint Questionnaire and returning it to the Portland office. The Questionnaire is available online\" \n\nFrom that Award: \n\n\"Within Oregon\u2019s public accommodations law is the basic principle of human decency that every person, regardless of their sexual orientation, has the freedom to fully participate in society.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Russell,statistically homosexuals don't prey on our children. Pedophiles do. And statistics do show that pedophiles have a high propensity for recidivism. Do you have children?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What transgender has \"bullied\" any lady to get in their \"bathrooms\". (You mean public restrooms so use the correct terms). So far despite the fact that transgender's were not just invented to annoy you, none. There are laws on the books since I was a child in the 1950's that already makes any criminal behavior in a public restroom a crime. In Ladies public restrooms over the decades I have been bothered by women who were off their meds and had to help them calm down until help arrived, I have seen women shooting up, smoking pot, having sex, passing out drunk in public restrooms making a mess of the stalls, not flushing the toilet and not washing their hands and taking their sons into the restrooms and not lifting the toilet seats. And add to that moms who change their babies diapers and leave the dirty diaper on the floor and one elderly woman just out of the hospital I gave CPR to . Quit holding women up to such high standards as sainthood when using a public restroom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One thing I do know is that our Lord would most certainly \"have a problem\" with a Clinton presidency which would have opened the floodgates to infanticide and homosexual unions.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That bodybuilder is transgender (female to male). If people want others to use bathrooms with the equipment they were born with, then he would be using the women's room. If philhiblers wife was in the restroom and he came in, should she say there is a man in the wrong bathroom? Or will phil tell her to rest easy since he is \"really a woman\" and should be using the women's room?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are utterly naive if you think that some children won't be ostracized, beaten and treated badly at home if some parents find out they are gay.\n\nIt must be nice to live in a fantasy land where all parents are perfect.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Al right, give us the \"right reason\" for not allowing gay civil marriage? So far, the only things I have seen really amount to feelings. The opponents of gay marriage invoke \"natural law\", but all too often, such invocations are saying \"I don't have an actual argument, so I say 'natural law' and hope no one notices I'm just hand-waving.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you wanna bet he was a hardliner who loved the old Mass and the \"reform of the reform\", worshipped JPII and Benedict, always wore a cassock and biretta and preached about the evils of abortion, gay marriage and expected his people to pray-pay-obey? That would have assured his ordination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gender identity is not the same as sex according to science. Why do you have such a problem with trans people? \n\nAs far as selecting female on the screening (background and drug), it is very difficult to get ones birth certificate changed to match one's gender identity and it is not a fast or easy process to legally change ones name, thus, he probably had no choice but to select female.\n\nFurthermore, I challenge you to post peer-reviewed \"contradicting\" studies to the overwhelming scientific evidence of global warming and the resultant climate change. I'll settle for one or two, much less \"lots\" \n\nBased on all this, the only one who is picking and choosing science that suits there agenda is you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(*In 2016, \u201cgender identity or expression\u201d was added to the Charter;\n**Discrimination based on \u201csexual orientation\u201d has been prohibited since 1977 (Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois); with that change, Qu\u00e9bec became the first jurisdiction in the Americas larger than a city or county to prohibit anti-gay discrimination. \nThat\u2019s lead Canada (BC + Ont.) to adopt the Civil Marriage Act\u2026in 2005 (Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I find the comments of those who have (most likely) no understanding of Courage truly mystifying (and humorous). When good men and women choose to live by the teachings of the Church of their own accord, who are you to criticize? Here are men and women who have clearly accepted their sexual orientation (otherwise, why would they belong to a same sex oriented group), and found a way to place that in perspective of their Catholic beliefs. Instead of the name calling and attacking this thread is highlighting, how about a little encouragement and support for them. It is not everyone's calling - that's clear when Fr. Bochanski says diocesan chapters may have 20 members (I can usually count 20 gay men in my parish's 10:0 Mass alone each Sunday). And who are these people interfering with? No one is saying all gay and lesbian Catholics must attend Courage in advancement of their faith - instead, it is an offered ministry, just like many of the Church's other ministries for the faithful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "HAHAHAHA!!!!! Trumpers and Flexibility, you mean on gay rights-women's rights-gun control to name a few...#MAGA", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You cannot refuse to sell a cake to anybody if you own such business. But the issue here is to make a cake especially decorated for a certain occasion. The baker who believes gay marriage is an atrocity is right . Coming back to the good old Nazi case: If you order a cake especially decorated for Hitlers 100th birthday for example I believe it could be refused on certain grounds.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"One shouldn't believe *anybody's* self-serving nonsense.\"\n\nI'll remember that the next time you make the claim that homosexuality is the \"sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Character issues concerning Trump is irrelevant simply because Trump became the 45th president of this United States of America of ours in spite of CHARACTER ISSUES - \"not fit to be president\", a racist, a bigot, etc. etc.\nBlindsiding military commanders concerning the banning of gays in the military is not an issue. \nThere is no such thing as \"blindsiding military commanders\" when it comes to an order of the Commander-In-Chief to ban gays in the military. \nName just one issue that involves the nation - not the character of Trump.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, you're wrong.\nYou need to see below the surface of the news.\nYou need to think below the conventional wisdom we're handed by our leaders.\n The reality is much different than what we are led to believe.\n There used to be a lot of sympathy for the poor in Canada when 20 or 30 % of the population was poor. Official scapegoats as outlets for hate were the First Nations, ethnic groups, and gays. The last 15 years, there's been a big shift. As ethnics, gays, women and now Indigenous people are held in better regard higher on the social economic ladder, the poor have been pushed further down to the bottom of the ladder. It's a subtle, silent hate for the poor, but a very real one.\n Automation and globalization are convenient excuses for why the poor are unemployed; but not for why society forces them to exist on $610 a month and mistreats them with dehumanization.\n That's the life threatening economics of it; socially the poor are ignored, neglected, rejected, and mistreated", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Gays can get 'married' civilly, but not in the Catholic Church.\"\n\nWholly irrelevant to gay civil marriage. Gay couples can give \"total self gift, one for the other\". If you say they can't, then you don't know any gay couples. You are going with your feelings, not reasons.\n\nYou are pushing the idea that people get married to have children. While that is a reason that some people get married, it is generally not the reason people marry. You are also getting close to saying that heterosexual couples who are unable to procreate do not have proper marriages.\n\n\"You believe love is a feeling, not the willing sacrifice of one toward the other's good.\" \n\nTwo problems: First, it is not what I believe, and nothing I have ever said would lead a easonable person to say it is. Second, if this is an argument against gay civil marriage, it assumes that gay couples cannot make \"the willing sacrifice of one toward the other's good.\"\n\nNo, you have given us your feelings, and nothing else.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The (dare I say \"vast\"?) majority of trans people do not transform to Betty Boop. But many are trying so hard to be accepted that they over-compensate. As acceptance from the public happens, that pressure will probably lessen. Most want to be accepted for who they are. But at the moment the community is still fully aware that \"passing\" isn't just an aesthetic issue, it is a survival issue -- trans people get killed, assaulted or ostracized at a much higher rate than non-trans folks. If accepted from childhood, I believe you'll see more normalcy. Let's find out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is interesting in light of the fact that the Vatican came out swinging against the \"gender agenda\" at Beijing 1995 (4th world conference on women) . . . was determined to influence policy and law and teamed up with religious partners that have zero interest in women's equality and are proud of it. They did it again at the 2014 Humanum Conference on marriage and complementarity, where they linked arms with conservative Jews, Muslims, Mormons, and Southern Baptists to OD on gender stereotypes and declare homosexuality a meaningless construct. Did this help the \"religious liberty\" cause in the US? Undoubtedly, it did. Curious, and disturbing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With all due respect, if you weren't a half-a$$ed \"liberal\", you would realize that all the religions, ancient, obsolete, superstitious, anti-democratic, anti-scientific, irrational, absolutist authoritarian, are antithetical to women, gays, and democracy.\n Most importantly, they are always used throughout history - and now into the 21st Century - to scare and dumb down, divide and conquer, fool and rule, the people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No -- actually it was just a typo. I meant to write 'the' but was writing on a cell phone with a tiny screen. Sorry for the confusion. \nOn the other hand, I rather like the suggestion that heterosexuals might want to start using a different term for homosexuals than the word 'gay'. Gay was once a mainstream word that meant (approximately) 'having a lovely time' or 'youthful-and-having-fun' -- (i.e. \"Our Hearts Were Young and Gay\" -- a rather silly short-story circa 1942 would certainly not have the same meaning today.) So yes, I feel that 'heteros' have every right to reclaim the word 'gay'. It always seemed a very inaccurate word to use for 'men-sexually-attracted to other men'.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church Militant thing isn't just about anti-gay speech, but it doesn't surprise me that it would include it.\n\n\"Church Militant\" is an ancient expression that originally meant the Church in the temporal realm -- in other words, the Church active in the world. Today it has been co-opted by a group of highly aggressive, very conservative Catholics who have made it their cause to fight anything progressive, either in the Church itself or in society in general. They're not interested in dialogue, only in forcing their point of view. \n\nThese people are characterized by a kind of no-holds-barred rhetoric that is anything but charitable. You might recall that people from this group were at least partly responsible for taking down the old NCR Disqus site with their hateful messages.\n\nAgain, I really hope NCR explores Steve Bannon's relationship with this movement. In my opinion, it's exactly the sort of thing they should be devoting attention to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Paul Martin personally did not vote in favour of gay marriage, however, which was his right.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Our bodies are designed with systems that have a specific purpose, and nature reacts when those systems are used improperly. Sometimes there's a defense mechanism, such as, e.g., vomiting; other times a vulnerability is created whereby another organism takes advantage, such as reduced immunity allows pneumonia to develop. The multitude of STDs, diseases unique to the sex organs, is indicative of nature's specific intention to avoid misuse of the sex organs. Multiple partners, sodomy, etc... all increase the spread of disease, regardless of the sexes abusing their organs. \n\nMost people will avoid risk taking when it comes to sex, but for some reason homosexual men have shown the distinct inability to control their behavior. STDs run rampant in the homosexual male culture compared to straight culture. Call it nature, call it God, but the signals are clear, AND the diseases are all avoidable with proper conduct. What's absurd is that the conduct continues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is what silence on mob rule produces. Its produces encouragement for more mob rule.\n\nA riot that shut down the free speech rights of a gay Catholic.\n\nStudent newspaper justifies violence for the sake of shutting down free speech.\n\nThis is the most violent assault on free speech and Catholicism is decades, but NCR refuses to even comment on it. \n\nIt would rather allow voices to justify violence in the name of silencing Catholics.\n\nhttp://www.mediaite.com/online/uc-berkeley-student-paper-publishes-five-op-eds-defending-violent-riots/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No certainly not. I am gay, and not Christian but I am shocked by the anti Christian prejudices that verge on persecution of Christians. THese LGBT hearings are an effort to steal rights away from Trinity College, rather than to defend the rights of all people which I thought was the role or the SCC.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kasich believes in gay marraige.\n\nKasich believes in illegal immigration.\n\nKasich believes in Common Core.\n\nKasich believes in expanding Medicaid.\n\nKasich believes in anthropogenic global warming.\n\nKasich believes the Koch brothers are bad.\n\nBut you actually think those are the traits of a staunch conservative?\n\nLMAO", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "CMD: The details of this case are readily available. The Court's findings are readily available. The Bakery was found to have discriminated in violation of Statutes regarding protected class status and refusal of accomodations/services. The case will likely go clear to the Supreme Court regarding the Bakers' contention that their First Amendment Rights include the right to refuse service to a gay couple, based on their religious beliefs trumping the anti-discrimination law. \n\nI have absolutely no knowledge of what kind of Christian your Grandmother was. However, I do criticize Christians who use their religion as a tool to justify discriminating against LGBT individuals. I feel we should allow others to live their own lives w/o our interference so long as they aren't hurting anyone else. IMO, individuals in consensual gay relationships are hurting no one. Indeed, I will continue to criticize discrimination against such couples. I make no apologies for that. Gary Crum", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "...Perhaps if your science comes from either the Middle Ages or from FOX News as both seem to be of the same relevance. I was extremely skeptical when my son first came out but I did study like a workhorse, including both sides (talked to priests and etc.), and came away convinced of the claims of LGBT folks that their orientations and etc. are natural and on a spectrum of normality. I'm no dummy, neither am I a sheep. I'm not implying you are either one but you do seem to have a stick in your eye when it comes to anything having to do with gay men and I've asked you before what has caused that. Compared to some other more liberal opinions that you have at times expressed, it doesn't seem to make any sense to me and I'm willing to listen to your story.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The author forgot to mention a few things. The first thing this (so-called) administration did was remove the LGBT section from the White House website. A little foreboding, no? And the legal brief that they supplied that said that the Civil Rights Act doesn\u2019t apply to LGBT Americans, that was for a case that they weren\u2019t even a party to. So the Trump administration went out of their way to make it clear to all Americans that they don\u2019t support gay rights. As for transgender Americans serving in the military, Trump lied when he explained why he wants this ban: having transgender people serve is too expensive, and we need to be ready to win. We now know that is a bald-faced lie. The military spends 10-times as much money on erectile dysfunction drugs; and there are currently (approx) 15,000 trans military people currently serving... without issue. So both of Trump\u2019s excuses don\u2019t hold water. This is simply Trump pandering to his religious base. Pathetic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well yah but: The Green Hair society doesn\u2019t decree that the punishment for apostasy is death. The Stetson wearers in Toronto guild doesn\u2019t advocate tossing gays off the top of tall buildings. The Quebecois speakers in western Canada union doesn\u2019t preach forced conversion of all non Quebecois speakers in western Canada. Please don\u2019t try comparing apples with oranges.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Callista Gingrich was not an ordinary run-of-the-mill adulteress; she acknowledges a six-year affair with a married man who himself led a very public life of sexual licentiousness. \nThe fact that Stefanini's homosexuality was well-known suggests only that he was not in the closet; inferences beyond that, in the absence of evidence, are unfounded. Moreover, there is no evidence that he committed adultery, that he encouraged anyone else to commit adultery, or that he broke up any families. \nYour writing on issues related to homosexuals and homosexuality often seems incoherent; I think that's because you work backwards from your antipathy for them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The suicide rate for transgender individuals who have undergone sex reassignment surgery is many times that of the general population. Part of the reason is that no one can actually truly change their sex. You can change the outward appearance and even some internal processes with hormone supplementation but no former man can ever bear children nor can a former woman father children. You might as well dress as the opposite sex for all the good it does. Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder that cannot be cured by changing ones outward sexuality. Better to treat the underlying causes and be comfortable in your own skin than to chase the chimera of body modification. Ever notice how many people are covered in tattoos and body piercings, and how many of them also profess that they are in the wrong sexed body?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you bothered to read the scientific links provided by CMC (thanks for providing them BTW) you would see that researchers are not seeing gender dysphoria as a mental \"disorder\". You may think it is because it doesn't conform to your view of the world, but fortunately for everyone else science doesn't care what you think. Evidence suggests it is biological in origin and that it may not a) be abnormal in the sense that you are implying , and b) the differences cannot be \"cured\".\n\nThere are good questions that can be reasonable debated by knowledgeable people about how to best help young gender dysphoric people, but saying that they can be cured and taught otherwise is not one of the them. \n\nConversion therapy has been thoroughly discredited for use in helping gay and gender dysphoric people. There really is no debate about it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I've heard this specious argument a hundred times. Seems like it never gets old for some.\n\n\"I don't hate gays, I just hate homosexuality.\" \n\"I don't hate the Irish people, I just hate Ireland.\"\n\"I don't hate Jews, I just hate their religion.\"\n\nLet's just call the argument what it is: an attempt to deny one's bigotry.\n\nCharacteristics that are intrinsic to a person's identity cannot be hated without hating the person that holds them. In Canada the core human attributes are: race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability. That's not my definition, it's explicitly stated in the Constitution of Canada.\n\nFundamental beliefs transcend all other human characteristics. Beliefs are intrinsic to every human being. No matter what your race, nationality, colour, sexuality, or physical or mental circumstances, you can be a Muslim. Or a Christian. Or an atheist. Beliefs are at the core of what makes us who we are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Then why are you harping on homosexual priests and teenage boys?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Catholic News Agency offered a translation of the interview. I'm afraid I don't really see in it what Mr. McElwee seems to see, or NCR, or whomever came up with the title \"Francis: Sexual Morality Determined Case by Case, Even for Transgener.\" This seems to imply that the morality in question might be different from person to person, or act to act. I'm not at all certain where that' can be found in the Holy Father's response. One can find it by searching for \"Full text: Pope Francis' in-flight press conference from Azerbaijan.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dear Fr. Thomas,\n\nThank you for writing this article. Of course, the identity of the Church's priests is a very important thing: they are first and foremost servants of God. What I can't understand, then, is why sexual orientation need be an important aspect of that priestly identity: you seem to agree, insofar as a man should not be turned away from seminary based on sexual orientation.\n\nAt the same time, would the irrelevance of sexual orientation in selecting priests not also carry over into the active lives of the priests? It is perfectly irrelevant that a man is attracted sexually to this or that category of people when that man is a priest. Hence, there is no meaningful classification of \"gay priests\" or \"straight priests\", but only priests as such. What good is to announce one's \"identity\" as a \"gay priest\" if that is irrelevant to his duties as a servant of God? That only exacerbates issues through the prism of identity politics and needless sensation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gary, this topic has brought out some interesting thought processes and value statements. It's rather like being able to be the counselor as the client lays on the couch and free associates their inner conflicts. I am picking up resentment of women who are gay, feelings of being discriminated by women for cad-like sexist behavior with a little touch of bruised male ego from the loss of white privilege. No wonder so often hope - as one said - to train their man.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly. And Canadians elected Jean Chretien, a Liberal social conservative. Here is one excerpt about Chretien & gay marriage: \"Jean Chr\u00e9tien helped engineer the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but he wasn't prepared for the way the courts used it to overturn something he'd always taken for granted \u2013 the definition of marriage as a union of man and woman.\" [Source: Toronto Star]", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, my main issue is teaching young children that choosing homosexuality as an identity is equivalent to male-female unions. \n\nAside from all of the negatives with respect to male promiscuity and STIs, the brushing aside of uniting with the opposite sex as a mere choice is a sinful act in and of itself. It is sinful not only in depriving a person of a true sexual mate, but also in the teaching that children don't need a mom and a dad.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Over the years the right-wing Christian anti-gay pro-gun crowd has been dubbed the American Taliban. This is exactly the kind of behavior which helped them earn that label. \n\n\"This is Oregon. This is not who we are. This is America. This is not who we are.\"\n\nThis IS who they are. The American Christian right-wing is willing to terrorize anybody that gets in the way of their killing-machines or their stone-age religions beliefs.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My comment describes a fact about statistics malpractice in the way cancer victims are counted as belonging to particular races. Ethnic Hawaiians benefit greatly from hundreds of millions of dollars in government and philanthropic grants, plus public sympathy, based on the poor methodology for deciding which race a victim belongs to. It's a scam. But of course people like fraapes don't like it when the scam is exposed, so they make personal attacks to divert attention. \n\nThe left-leaning SPLC usually focuses on hate crimes against Jews and gays by Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi skinheads. The article from the 2009 SPLC magazine is a good one that exposes how racial hate crimes in Hawaii are different from mainland -- in Hawaii the hate crimes are mostly directed against whites. Looks like fraapes is one of those white-bashers. See full text of the SPLC article and my analysis of it at\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/big09a/RacialHateCrimesHawSPLC.html", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And if I was voting in 1854 I'd be voting Republican as long as the candidate was a functional human. But it's 2016, times have changed, party roles have reversed and reality has never managed to make a dent in the attitudes of certain segments of the population who still don't get that the Republican Party never intended to take the country back to their disgusting notions of the \"good old days\" unless it's to the equally disgusting unbridled greed and corruption of America's economic aristocracy in the Gay 90's, the ideological, and occasionally actual, descendants of which we keep having to drag around today.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, he was fired for saying he had a gay lover and was going to get married. That it what is clear.\n\nAnyone who writes a letter as he did was certainly not looking to retain his job. Anyone who was going to hold a high--profile announcement and planned it with a pr man is not looking to retain his job. He is not a dumb man - he knew perfectly well that he was leaving the priesthood, and planned it to be as volatile as possible. That is a resignation....\n\nHe was involved with his gay friend at least a year from all reports - and was living a double life. \n\nMy comment was correct. He was sacked because he did everything possible to embarrass the Church and further his agenda. He was sacked because of his incredible publicity stunt. He was sacked because he said he was going to marry his gay lover. He was NOT sacked simply for coming out. There are other priests who have - and they have not been sacked. \n\nYup. Nitpicking....and not misdirection on my part.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That's what people do now, so I agree with you. People treat this as if getting a divorce requires jail time and twenty lashes. But the Church cannot preach this, because then it becomes, \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell,\" which opens the door to demanding a change in Church teaching, as it did with homosexuals in the military\n\n I've never heard of a parish that monitors who is eligible to receive communion and who is not. Almost everyone takes communion every week in my parish. There's almost no one at confession on Saturday, so I guess I just live in a very sinless community, haha.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "well, I hope these groups weren't forgotten:\n1. 77,000 Germans were executed for one or another form of resistance by Special Courts, courts-martial, and the civil justice system.\n2. It is estimated that the Germans killed at least 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish civilians \n3. Of slightly less than one million Roma believed to have been living in Europe before the war, the Germans and their Axis partners killed up to 220,000\n4. Homosexuals,", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With the same sex marriage issue largely settled and rightly so, the SJW industry needs another cause to justify its existence, but is this really the dubious hill they wish to die on?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree that two parents is far superior model for child support. I did both, caring for my daughters after their mothers death. The two parent home helps tremendously in terms of work division, combined skills, alternating care, insurance by way of having a backup when needed. Twice the love.\n\nI think the roll of fathers has been diminished and I don't like it all. We give a balance to decision making and training with children, a good thing, particular if the child is of the same gender, (surprise, men and women have unique opportunities and challenges). The State is poor replacement for an absent parent regarless of how much financial support can be provided.\n\n*Please note I said 2 parents. I have no problem with gay parents, they tend to have the masculine/feminine split in may ways anyway. But more specifically, I think men have trashed their own reputation through abuse and hypocracy, along with being bashed by activist women hurt by male social dominance", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He was too stubborn in the beginning and too sick and senile in the end to deal with this. We canonized him for his sickness and senility, by the way. As long as we keep giving while not enough is done,don\u2019t blame the hierarchs. We are the problem. No Lenten Appeal should get a dime until we are satisfied with how this is handled, including Rome selling off some of their culturally incorrect art collection and the ordination of women, the married and the gay married.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where is the passage in the bible that says you can't bake a cake for a gay wedding? I thought judgment was up to god. \nDeeply held religious beliefs with no basis in the religion itself? \nI can find a passage that says it is okay to buy slaves as long as they are from a neighboring nation. In fact, there are a whole bunch of rules in Leviticus which most reasonable people will say are now obsolete. So why are people picking and choosing which rules constitute \"deeply held religious beliefs\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I actually like his music, and not against him being Gay, but it's like majority of those in the entertainment industry.........he didn't want to come out early in his career because the bottom line was \"MONEY!\" He didn't want to be black balled or labeled.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What exactly is not known about 'gender violence', also known as spousal abuse? It happens equally between men and women. It happens in gay relationships and lesbian relationships. It's also lower than at any other point in human history. What is this but a waste of $77 million bucks which could have gone to helping real people and will instead be wasted by setting up a 'centre' for ivory tower progressive academics to babble pointlessly away at each other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, I do believe homosexuality exists. That, in no way, causes one to accept or condone homosexual behavior as something other than sinful.\n\nHomosexual behavior may be the norm within the homosexual community, but not in society at large, just as criminal behavior within the prison population is the norm there, but not in society.\n\nThe sophistry is in the language people wish to use to obfuscate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Both, I believe that marriage is an option for all men an and women and that the church is wrong to withhold it to anyone without just cause, including sexual orientation. Anything else is a perversion of the sacraments. What Jesus said about the Sabbath goes doubly so for the sacraments: they were made for us and not we for them. I feel the same way for the the Sacrament of Orders. I am an out and proud gay man and have been since my early 20's. Most, if not all, of the church's teachings about homosexuality is based on a toxic mixture of superstition, bad science and bad theology, fear, disgust outright lies and self hatred by way too many clerics. It, as well as other church teaching on sexuality in general need to be scrapped and started all over. And it definitely needs input from those who are actually living it every day, i.e. The Laity. And not just the bishop's pet lay folks either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Greetings.... I signed this petition because this contentious bishop in Madison has censored, morally wounded and obstructed not only gay Catholics, but many other Catholics in the 11 county diocese. This is yet another example of why bishops should be appointed by a committee of clerics and lay people from thru out the diocese. I pray that the Holy Father removes this bishop soon.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That kid Sam who stabbed the victim stabbed another kid a week prior to the ordeal. That kid needs help!! He's mental going around stabbing kids & claiming to be bisexual. He's f-n confused & lost!! Needs better parenting", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay rights is not just about being nice or nudging gays toward a celibate life in the priesthood, it needs to be updated to deal with the fact that gay men do not chose their sexuality, it is innate. That being so, there is a right to use one's sexual gifts appropriately (although how that is in the hetro-world is changing as well - few wait for marriage). Many Catholics, if not a majority, accept gay marriage as right and just and even sacramental. It is time for the hierarchy to catch up.\n\nThe John Birch Society never went away and I have the racist e-mails from Birchers from 2008 to prove it. If the Kochs fund it, its neo-Bircher, from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to the Tea Party (the most of the Knights).\n\nRural areas who don't quickly create a single-payer plan before something happens to Obamacare deserve the Republican governments that probably refuse to do so.\n\nThe question is who told Trump to put into his remarks of that day the fact that dirt was coming on Hillary?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A few days ago the RG noted a rise in reported hate crimes nationally. In the comment section it was noted that this could be because people feel more free to report, and I agree to this possibility. But if so, it means our earlier numbers were low due to fear of reporting. That's not a good thing either.\nThe RG in this article notes that we're talking about report. That shows journalistic integrity. However, do we believe the local Muslims are reporting more because they feel more free to report? Imagine telling them that their increased reports are only because they feel more free to report, there actually hasn't been more hate crimes and aggression against them. Can we say that?\nMaking American great has included a long history of hate for one group or another: Chinese, Japanese, Irish, Catholics, Blacks, Gays (who did I miss?). And each time there were assumed good reasons for doing so. Some Whites think they are now the endangered group. Maybe they just feel more free to report.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "People who are gay, don't have a choice. They are born that way. Do you really think a person would choose to be among the most hated group on Earth? I don't think so. Just look at what Judge Carlson went through.\n\nI was the lead detective on the Feichtinger case. There was absolutely no evidence to the claims that Judge Carlson was a child molester. Being gay was turned into being a child molester by the defense. \n\nOne last thing, the surveillance photos of Judge Carlson, were not authorized, and would not have been. He was having dinner with several male friends. That's all it was.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How about no? There's something to be said about the fact that almost all the trans celebrities out now are models or actresses with an emphasis on lucky one-in-a-million genetics that probably sets a damaging and unrealistic beauty standard for struggling transgender people, when prior generations have had a broader range of transgender figures to look up to (think Lynn Conway, Martine Rothblatt, Wendy Carlos). This article, though, is unqualified and fallacious concern-trolling. Bleeding-edge research suggests the condition of gender dysphoria is neurodevelopmental rather than psychological; in which case it can be conceptualised similar to a condition like autism, where trying to \"cure\" the underlying condition causes harm and treatment/support is instead geared towards improving quality of life (i.e. transitioning, the only scientifically proven treatment for gender dysphoria). The author clearly knows nothing on the subject except gossip and lay psuedo-science.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, the atrocities that happen (rape, murder, torture, abuse of prisoners, female military, etc) are not done by the transgendered. They are done by bullies and people that are misfits in the general population, or that fall in line to the destructive behaviour.\nThe military is not where any young person should be as they are not looked after to repair the mental and physical toll to them or their families. \nThere are true, brave, honourable people that do serve though. Some of them are transgendered but believe in cohesion, discipline and camaraderie. It is the bigots and bullies that are the destructive ones.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, I respectfully believe your mistaken in that broad generalization respectfully MY TAKE, many people believe in God of all political persuasions crossing all racial and sexual orientations. The church has long been the bedrock in the Black communities, especially in the Civil Rights era, people of all political parties share a belief in God, and there are many churches with Gay ministers and parishioners today some doing gay marriages in their belief in God as well, even with regard to Biblical admonitions against such. \n\n\n\nAs far as the personal insult MY TAKE, I don't give rise to such when issued, nor respond in kind, never have. I think they reflect more on the author who employs such when in the public forums of discussion, so I refrain from doing so. But you welcome to do so all the same in the vain of uncensored speech, which I firmly believe in. \n\n\nHave a great day respectfully!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Existentially, the number one threat to human kind's continued viability on this planet of finite resources is uncontrolled overpopulation in the underdeveloped world. Homosexuality should be encouraged in the underdeveloped world of overpopulation, not criminalized as it is now. That's something Trudeau could do to bolster his image. He could propagate homosexuality as a solution to climate change by addressing overpopulation which increases climate change. Russia and China need to come of age and join the civilized world.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Self-denial is a disorder. Anorexics think they are fat and transgenders think they were born into the wrong body. Both are wrong. Needed is self-acceptance. Nothing wrong with being a masculine female or a feminine male but believing to be what you are not is the very definition of mental illness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think everyone's sexuality should stay in the closet! What kind of society judges others based upon sexual preference or defines themselves by their sexual preference? Why not simply give others personal privacy; this country seems obsessed with gay, gay rights, transgender issues, who's gay, what's gay, shake a person's hand and they introduce themselves by sexual preference, \"hi, I'm John and I'm gay.\" Honestly, besides the rare hater ignorantly wandering about, who cares? The ignorant haters will find anything they can to hate, any part of a person weather gender, nationality, sexual preference, religion it doesn't matter but the whole gay thing is becoming a circus! This gentleman sounds like he was mistreated and that's a shame but the result may have been the same if he was Jewish, a black man or a woman.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Only Pope Francis could get away with saying that the church should not obsess over abortion, birth control and gay marriage.\"\n\nThis observation highlights a very serious problem WAY BEYOND BRANDING: \nWhat is wrong with so many U.S. bishops? Did the past two popes drive debate away, molding it into hierachical bureaucratic consensus? Prior to these 2 papal reigns, U.S. bishops had no fear unity would be diminished by strong difference of opinion within the Church. \n\nWhere is the backbone of our so-called moderate U.S. bishops? Has it gone soft for FEAR OF BEING BRANDED LIBERAL? The conservative bishops certainly have no problems standing firm on their issues despite strong criticism. Are the \"moderate\" bishops so invested in purifying the Church of its left/right differences that its Eucharist becomes insipid? \n\nPerhaps some bishops need space within a Vatican II Church/Rite/Prelature to be as true to their integrity as Opus Dei is to its integrity. https://RiteBeyondRome.com", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here's a source:\n\nApril 11, 2016 Poll for a television station.\n\n52% don't think homosexuality should be legal in Britain and 23% think Sharia Law should be applied. Sharia law calls for the death penalty. Only ISIS wants them thrown off buildings. Saudi Arabia and the other countries who practice Sharia law use beheadings instead.\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The people making the legal arguments for same-sex marriage did not base their argument on any anticipated \"land rush\" of same-sex marriage. The The legal arguments merely asserted that the prohibition of marriage to same-sex couples was unconstitutional. \n\nThis article's entire premise is ridiculous on its face. The rate of same-sex marriages bears no relationship to its legality. Would Austin Ruse, this article's author, snear at the Loving v. Virginia ruling that ruled all laws against mixed-race marriages to be unconstitutional? After all, following the Supreme Court decision in the Loving case, the rate of mixed-race marriages was only 3 percent of newlyweds. By 2015, 17 percent of marriages are mixed-race marriages. That's a steady 5 fold increase in 50 years. But it's only been 2 years since Obergefell. Let's wait 50 years for today's homophobic bigotry and social stigma to decline and see where we are. Who knows... maybe the Washington Examiner will still be here to report it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds to me like he's defending those in the military who are mentally fit to serve. I'd definitely be cautious having a transgendered on the front line with me, especially if my life were on the line. Not everything in life is a woe is me scenario", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The US is very regionalized. You may have lived in a progressive part of the country. In many places, the \"deplorables\" as defined by Hillary are considerably more than 25% of the adult population. Certainly I have never had any problem finding racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes and/or Islamophobes in large numbers anywhere in the US.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, the Prefect of the CDF, Ratzinger, made a comment that people took as doctrine about a concept (the natural order) which is a sophistry created because God cannot be damaged by sin, so something had to be. There is no such thing, its a fairy tale. We and the people we hurt are damaged by sin. Be very afraid of how you think about gays and lesbians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your conclusions are false, and opposition to gay marriage is thoroughly Christian.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And it's perfectly possible that David and Jonathan had a gay relationship, or that the Centurion's pais in Matthew 8 was his boyfriend, or that Paul's play on the sex-laden word chresis in Philemon shows a more gay-friendly side to his nature than appears when he recites Leviticus.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Chaput, like nearly all of his episcopal cohorts, is \"accompanying\" gay people right out the doors of churches everywhere. Actually, in his cathedral that has no doubt long since been accomplished, meaning this most recent bit of polemic is preaching to the [all-hetero] choir. There are surely no more gay people left in the pews of his cathedral to endure his miserable \"love the sinner/hate the sin\" diatribe.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If my memory serves me well, it wasn't even legal back then when this happened for homosexuals to marry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And yet, you carefully avoid acknowledging that Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Yemen all have adopted shar'ia law with homosexual death penalties as part of their official Islamic code.\n\nYou also ignore that the theocracy of Iran is an actual Islamic theocracy, not just a 'terrible regime'.\n\nYou call them 'regimes' instead of admitting that they have adopted as State policies the 14th century Islamic punishments that still exist in the Old Testament but are not State-sponsored laws fully followed all the way to execution as they are in these 'modern' countries.\n\nIngenuous. \n\nAnything to avoid 'offending' Muslims, however evil their State policies.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who are these SJWs? Have you met one?\n\nI've met many in the field, I've known people who have transitioned & some who simply live as the opposite sex without gender reassignment operations, etc. I've been to several transgender conferences, having published a book about transgendered children in audio. I've researched & read quite a bit about gender dysphoria. Everything I've read or seen coming out of the supportive community talks about the fact that it is the rare child that transitions & parents are not advised to force their children to transition. \n\nRespecting a child & not forcing them to conform to gender expectations is not force. \n\nCurrent practice is to put kids who are still identifying as the opposite sex at puberty on hormone blockers to buy time - and they have to see a therapist to get onto hormone blockers. Of these kids, many still don't transition; they stop the blockers & go through normal puberty. The few who do transition do so at the age of consent or older.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You are right I don't really know. Who really does and does anyone really want to know? My point is only that many have claimed to have been converted but in the end go back to being gay. Do you deny this? I would say the vast majority of conversion thearapy go back to being gay. There may be exceptions but its probably due to a lack of a sex drive more than anything else.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "$39 billion?\n\nPalestine missed an opportunity to be the second richest country in the Middle East after Israel\n\nif it had co-operated with Israel economically for the last 60 years\ninstead of waging wars of annihilation in 1948, 1967 and 1973\n\nPalestine must be kicking itself now for bad decisions\n\nGay leftists in Canada support Israel where there are Pride Parades", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How so? None of us believe Tulsi's shift on gay marriage was genuine, so don't even go there. What else?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Sad that the writer's identity politics filter makes the award a victory for blacks and gays rather than well-earned recognition for a really good film. Let's hope that race wasn't a factor in the judges' selection. That would reduce its value. Only racists believe merit has anything to do with race.\n\nAs for being \u201cthe only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life,\u201d get over yourselves!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Choices have consequences, and so does public speech. He's gay? So? Big deal. But his politics are scathing and they led him to say some dreadfully repulsive things.\n\nSo it looks like his words caught up with him and brought him low, as they have for so many others. I can't muster up any sympathy for him, because he positioned and sold himself as the quintessential troll. \n\n\"For as ye sow, so shall ye reap\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Just as an addendum, the Church is clear in its present teaching about homosexual acts. I'm just pointing out that it appeals to natural law and NOT the Hebrew Scriptures to support its claim. In fact, the Church rarely appeals to Scripture at all when it formulates its teachings on sexual morality. The Church's teaching against homosexual acts are along the same lines as its teaching against masturbation and birth control -- that is, these things are forbidden because they dissociate sexual gratification/acts from their natural procreative ends.\n\nIf one endorses this paradigm and is consistent, then ANY act causing sexual gratification that does not involve the penis inside the vagina would be considered sinful. That chiefly includes oral sex among married heterosexual couples. Non-procreative by every stretch of the intellect. But we know that never happens. ;-)\n\nPersonally I find such appeals to nature to be flimsy. But this is the currently accepted paradigm among RCC theologians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What does that have to do with transgender people in the military?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, don't think such a banner would be recognized as symbolizing \"gay pride\" in most Muslim countries. They might get castigated for having bad taste in displaying such a garish color-scheme...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All you did with your comment is prove that you don't understand the Constitution or even common rational thinking. No, a lawyer doesn't have to take your case. But said lawyer can't tell you he's not taking your case solely because you're a woman or Jewish or gay. And, yes, restaurants can tell you that you need to wear shoes and shirts to be served. But said restaurant can't tell you that you'll be refused service if you wear a shirt with a Star of David on it because they don't want to serve Jews. That's the difference between America -- where certain classes of people (i.e. sex, religion, etc.) are protected under the Constitution -- and places like Nazi-era Germany.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hmm..my remark was certainly not uncivil. \n\nBut I'll change it just a bit.\n\nUsing your logic then...no one gets to make that accusation unless one is homosexual? So...what does that mean about those who make the allegations? That they must be homosexual?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How is this any different from the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples? If your religious beliefs are so against the gay community, then you had better not get a job or into a profession that is obligated to serve ALL people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perhaps the DP should find all sides to this story, not just a happy celebration promoting the gay lifestyle. There are plenty of stories about how it isn't a good situation for the kids. Nature wants a Dad and a Mom. Remember 9th grade biology class? There are differences between Men and Women, which is why they complement each other in parenting situations", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The more Fr. Martin talks, the more I realize how that he has to be defeated. The modernists cannot be allowed to govern. Whether the issue is gay marriage or immigration or the tax rate of the top bracket, everything they stand for must be defeated if we are going to maintain our culture.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"This inclination . . . constitutes for most of them a trial.\"\n\nOh? Gay is an \"inclination\"?! And \"for most of them a trial\"? And you know this how? Evidence?\n\nI'm betting that being gay is \"a trial\" only because of the always-unjust discrimination against them. Which is fomented, pushed, & led in so many cases by the guys in their little red dresses. . . & their necklaces of millstone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You being your attempted rebuttal with a cheap ad hominem, namely, that I'm a black/white thinker. Bad start. But it allowed you to (temporarily) deflect my point, namely, that not every truth can be proven scientifically. Not to mention your accusation was false --- although a favorite accusation by liberals against conservatives. Tell me, then, who is it that thinks in black and white?\n\nOf COURSE, \"Being a pedophile is NOT the same thing as BEING Gay.\" But that does not preclude our recognizing their similarities. You yourself seem to regard pedophilia as being \"intrinically disordered\" (or maybe you don't). But is it your contention that nothing can be called \"intrinsically disordered\" unless proven to be by science? If so, then tell me, what do you think science has proven to be \"intrinsically disordered\"? \n\nYou place great stock in the \"fact\" that those who are gay were conceived that way. Your \"science\" is to science what Yoko was to music. \n\ncont'd", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Personally, I'm not against women priests, what I'm against are left-wing feminists who are pro-abortion and pro-homosexual behavior being ordained priests. Give me some good bedrock conservative women to be ordained, and I may change me tune.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chief of Staff john Kelly have a pact that they would not leave the United States at the same time, in order to ensure one of them would be there to babysit Trump and rescind any orders coming from the White House.\n\nThese not only pertain to him possibly starting WW III, but apply to things like barring transgender people from military service.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The only thing I'm worried about is if Malina goes home too early will tRump keep his hands to himself and not be grabbing under the table, or shoving his uncontrollable appetite into the women's bathroom. Hey, he might get ahold of a transgender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I wonder why anyone would need to proclaim that they're not gay, although I did just that in high school ;-)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You keep asking, \" Where did the pastor say that banks and jewelry stores should not let gay people in the door and should refuse to do business with gay people?\"\n\nSo, we keep showing you where.\n\nIt's in the \"we don\u2019t have to do business with them\" part. He's just another theocrat (akin to Kim Davis - only hers is on a government level instead of on the commercial level). Neither of them will be happy until gay people are eradicated from the face of the earth. THAT's the kind of \"love\" they show to God's LGBTQ children. 'Get out of my store/office/church!' kind of thing. Quite the opposite of Christ's message.\n\nYour nonsense about Antarctica and lions is not worthy of a response. (Though many other 'christian' pastors HAVE said such things - and worse!) \n\nSeems you have to make stuff up to support your POV.\n\n\"Sad!\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Go ahead and call me a pinko for being gay on this side of the political spectrum - that being said I am not sure how many of you are truly old enough to remember what happened in the late 50's. Trading one dictator for another does not mean that one was better than the other or that either one should be praised or panned. Yes - Castro killed thousands. But so for that matter did Batista. The fact that the U.S. was willing to look the other way for Batista (probably) has as much to do with mafia influence as the spectre of a communist nation in the Western Hemisphere.\nThe Gold telephone from 'The Godfather 2' was not a fiction nor was the idea of carving up the country to the moneyed elite.\nThe last paragraphs say it all:\"A certain amount of diplomatic hypocrisy is sometimes required\". No it is not - at least not if the almighty dollar doesn't rule your world. Call it what it is - greed rules, capitalism is greedy and cowards only go after those they can - hence China's carte blanche", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A sad comment. The truth is, if there is a gay teen joining such a club and not telling their parents, its likely nothing more than that they are afraid or uncomfortable of coming out to their parents.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays, lesbians and women are next and then????", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Its a real thing and shows your moral reasoning is couched in ignorance of the people whose lives you would pontificate on. Again, you show you are dendending curial and papal authority rather than concerned with the moral life of gays, lesbians and, yes, bisexuals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And you wold rather believe the self-serving excuses of a murderer who cruelly tortured his victim and hung him on a post to die than accept that a gay man might just not be a monster and a criminal. \n\nYou gloss over the bile that was spattered over this very comment section and on social media as \"exaggerated\" rather than accept that there is hatred spewed against homosexuals and violence to the point of murder purely because of their sexual orientation and yearning for love.\n\nPI, in your heart of hearts do you really believe that's what your gay brothers and sisters deserve? That's the way you believe God wants them to be treated?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If we allow women to be priests then we'll have women bishops, then eventually a woman pope. Now I have always said that I will be candid, I don't have theology but I don't like the idea of all this from a question of what is proper, though not in the moral sense. The church is not a democracy with civilians and a bill of rights. Women can be theologians, professors, even canon lawyers, is that not correct? To say that women have not progressed in the church in their roles is not accurate. \nIf everything is going to be thrown open to a question of what is morally right, then is it morally right not to marry gays in the church? Is that ok?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If gays can marry, we can carry. Either that, or we should sue the federal government for protected status. Being a gun owner is the last class of people it's encouraged to discriminate against. Time to put a stop to it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That also is not quite the truth...but a parsed version again. Why do you do that? Some would say it is the equivalent of lying....\n\nGays are NOT fired from Church jobs because they are gay. The few who have been fired were fired because they openly and defiantly contradicted Church teaching on marriage. And you know it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I pretty much agree with you, as far as there are multiple reasons for why gay men are attracted to the priesthood. Without listing them, many of the reasons are no doubt linked to cultural displacement, but some are linked to more feminine traits of empathy and aesthetics (if that sounds very un-PC, it's still true. How many male fashion designers are straight?) \n\nThe general problem with gay priests isn't theological or speculative, it's been proven out with the sex abuse scandal. It can't be an accident that 4 out 5 five of these crimes were committed by gay men. That fact doesn't mean that gay men must not become priests, but at the very least, it's time they were Out about their orientation. It's time to end the policy allowing (actually, forcing) gay priests to pretend they are straight.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Reason #5629 to despise \"gay\" misogyny; it's never even a little bit original.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"NCR tacitly endorses violence for the purpose of curtailing the free speech of a gay Catholic.\"\n\nReally, Utiltas? Care to actually show some evidence to back up your claim. BTW, said Gay Catholic is also a racist hate monger.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thanks, James. Private schools certainly do have the right to make their own rules. However, as Catholics, many of us question the way that our Church treats gay people. Not allowing gay students to have a club that would function as a support group seems to me to be going in the wrong direction.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Strange times we live in. 50 years ago this was a mental illness which you could forcibly be treated for. Now its all the rage. How fast things changed, and how fast they are going to continue to change on this topic...\n\nWe've erased the ancient line that was drawn between right and wrong in regards to marriage, and put ourselves on a terrible trajectory. I don't believe most advocates of homosexual marriage intend or see the path they've put us on. But the sky's the limit now; the wall has been torn down. Eventually marriage between adults and children (already okay in some backwards portions of the world) will be acceptable in our society, as well as between children and other children. Finally it will be marriage with animals. I mean, why not? Love is love, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where I grew up it was a word you called someone if they were being whimpy like going home early when out with the guys. There was no implication of homosexuality involved, just a lack of masculinity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Irish have a real gay PM\nCanada does not have a real gay PM\nSo for Canada it is not \"Welcome to this century, people.\"\nis that what you mean?\n----\nor do you mean Ireland's PM is Irish-Indian mix\nJT is only old stock Canadian\nnot multicultural enough\n-\nIrish PM beats our PM in this game\none more thing, Irish PM is younger and cuter", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Saying kids are going to become gay by watching a parade is like saying someone is going to become an a$$h0le by reading one of your comments.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think most people have strong feelings about calling someone whatever they wish, as that is just politeness. But if one wants people to respect them, they have to show respect too, and trans activists need to be careful about imposing their world-view contained in the language of trans theory. For example, many people object to being labelled \"cis-woman\" or \"cis-man\" as if we all embrace the underlying premise that we \"identify\" with a gender rather than being one or another sex. Indeed some of the people objecting to the the prefix \"cis\" are people who support trans rights -gays and lesbians, intersex, and feminists -and they all have legitimate arguments. There may be people who do self-identify as \"cis-gendered\" but it's not respectful for trans people to carelessly modify other people's identities with the addition of the prefix \"cis\" unless that's what they identify as. The neutral descriptive word for people who are not trans would be non-transgender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dear Con-quer:\n\nYou are to be reminded that the University of Toronto, in absolutely no way, started the ridiculous fight over pronouns. The entire series of events commenced with a federal government proposal to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code in order to protect transgender people under those laws. It was the now well know University of Toronto Professor whom you seem to defend who cried 'no way' to the government's plans. \n\nBut you are right about the idiocy of the battle - commenced and continued by the professor who will not name because, in my view, he has received far too much of what he sought - lots of ink.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This nation's greatest strength is the European culture that built this nation.\n\nYou can look at the cultures that built governments in South America or Africa, China or Russia. People from those regions, to America, to escape those cultures. They did not come here for \"diversity,\" they came here because their culture was unjust and brutal.\n\nHere's the deal: it is not in the best interest of any nation to swamp itself with people who believe in Sharia law. That's a deeply inferior culture of brutality to women and gays, and to Catholics, and to Jews, etc.\n\nNot all cultures are equal.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"I think NCR readers know that \"coming out as gay\" means \"defying Church teaching.\"\n\nFalse again. NCR readers cannot \"know\" what isn't true. There's a difference between a priest being gay, on the one hand, and defiantly engaging in gay conduct on the other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I remember a help-wanted ad for a position at the University of Oregon about 20 years ago that ended with \"women, minorities, gays and lesbians encouraged to apply.\" When the department was contacted about the ad's wording implicitly discouraging some from applying, the indignant response was \"white men have never needed encouragement to apply for jobs. Everybody knows that.\" Click. The next call, to the campus EEO office, was met with a very long pause, a polite request to be put on hold and then a supervisor offering thanks in carefully couched language for having been notified.\nThe reworked ad in the next day's paper didn't encourage anyone to apply.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I live in TO's gay neighbourhood and though I'm young, I often speak with the seniors in our community. These people were there at the first Pride, when there was only 100 participants. They remember how strained it was with police, and have worked for 30 years to foster the good relationship we enjoyed up until last year. Then suddenly, a bunch of spoiled, obnoxious 20 year olds, half (if not all) of which are not even gay, managed to destroy it in a 30 minute temper tantrum. \n The problem is with SJW, outrage culture, and the totalitarian way they operate. They will on the one hand whine and play Oppression Olympics, and on the other hand, spit in the faces of the elderly that actually fought for the rights they so flippantly sneer at. Disagree? You are a racist bigot.\n I'm gay, I'm not white, and I support Toronto Police. Pride TO should NOT get funding from the city. PrideTO does not listen to it's community. Pride's FB page reflects how a lot of us feel and they ignore it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cake was clear -- he would bake birthday cakes, cookies, whatever else for ANYONE, but he would not participate in sexual immorality by baking a same-sex wedding cake. Why is it that you folks seem unable to see the distinction here?\n\nA birthday cake or a batch of cookies is not the same as a commitment to a lifestyle of sin ... which is what a same-sex wedding cake symbolizes. As long as gays leave me out of their practice of sin, I am not entitled to discriminate. But when they ask/demand that I participate ... then I have a right to an opinion and the religious obligation to say \"no\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"When POTUS Trump speaks to the Boy Scouts it's political but when the left shoves gay propaganda down their throats it's educational.\".... Dinesh D'Souza\u200f", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Greed & Intolerance Party (GOP) and Radical Christians define \"fairness\" as their rights \"trump\" the rights of gay folk. Simple as that. I knew this was coming: First they came for the gay folk....\nWho will be next in Alaska (politically Oklahoma with mountains). \nMinnery: your \"inclusive\" framing style masks hate, bigotry and is disingenuous.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In a real twist, all the socialists and left wingers on council voted to back stab the LGBT of Toronto to appease BLM. Only the few conservatives on council who actually spoke out about the injustice and voted to protect the rights of all people which includes the gay community. Left winger politicians say \"We are your friends\" then sell us out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Famous last words. The celebration of this Sacrament often follows the lead of the state. Since no one under 35 agrees with you, including a largely gay priesthood, what you seek is impossible. There are many ex-priests who do these weddings. My brother and his husband found one.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I find it curious that GBA knows where the gay males are. I had no idea. As a matter of fact, I didn't know that the lesbians are in Yachats. GBA's fascination with gays perplexes me, that's all. I bet most posters on here don't know where gay people are to be found -except now that GBA pointed it out.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You have no citations for your comments, so there is no reason to believe them, but there was a nice article stating that we spend more on Viagra fro servicemen than we would ever spend on gender reassignment.\n\nAdmit it, transgendered people just scare you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do notice the assumption of gender differences. How will this article read after a decade of same-sex marriage? Oh, to heck with natural law. We are too smart for our own good.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It seems like the cake baker wanted to make a federal case of this. He could have just had an assistant make the gay wedding cake if it violated his religious views. I'm not sure what his views are but the Bible doesn't even seem to be on his side with such advice as \"Judge not lest ye be judged.\" and \"Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why don't Saudi Arabia. Egypt, UAE, Bahrain and some of the rich gulf states take some of these Muslim refugees?\n\nWhy is it that the west has to shoulder everything? \n\nWhy are you Muslims so entitled? You don't have a right to enter the US unless you are a citizen. Why do you beat women, teach your children to hate Jews, Christians, atheists, gays, and everyone else who is not of your particular branch of Islam. \n\nAnd I'm not some Christian Biggot. I'm an atheist who believes in upholding western values of tolerance. Islam by definition is not tolerant.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Took some courage. Good for him and as the article said, \"back to business.\" (My wife was wondering the other night if her niece is gay based on the photos she posts. I said \"so what if she is? Will it make a difference?\" \"No\" she said.... exactly.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Funny how the writer is quickly to demonize Trump, who is the ONLY president in the History of the United States to enter office in support of gay marriage, and has been known to publicly and strongly speak in support of LGBTQ. He's made no attempts to revert the national gay marriage law, and essentially has left the\n transgender military policy, up to the military to decide. He's outlandish, tweets to gain attention, but he is far from homophobic. But he must be a gay hating bigot because he's a Republican right? Just because someone doesn't blindly agree with every social demand that comes from a LGBTQ group absolutely doesn't make them homophobic. The writer pats Trudeau on the back for passing a bill that basically makes it a punishable crime if you misuse or choose to not use one of 70 odd gender pronouns. Forgive me if I cringe when the classical liberal idea of free speech is washing away with the ebb and flow of emotional group think.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the author of this ill written article were well versed in her Bible she would know that sex outside of marriage/with anyone other than your husband is sinful. The dark always runs from the light for fear of their continued sin being exposed. They hate the truth & those who speak it. \nOne scripture says it all although there are many. Hebrews 13:4 says, \"Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed should be kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and the sexually immoral\" Sexual Immorality includes adultery, prostitution, sexual relationships between unmarried persons, homosexuality and beastialty\nWould all the unbelievers on this forum be comfortable with their own parents, siblings sons, daughters or even grand-parents actively participating in these activities and being okay with that? \nAll I can say is thank the Lord that I am now a reborn Christian headed for heaven and not for hell. \nGod help us all in this fallen evil world where false prophets abound.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "whew, what a relief! oral sex is ok then, remember gay priests, no sodomy but oral sex is A-OK! \n\nyou sound like someone who thinks too much about other people's sex lives and need to mind your own business and not worry about what priests are doing in their private lives, as long as it isn't with children or animals or unconsenting adults.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"So that would be unlike Morning Joe, where adultery led to two divorces.\"\n\n1) Scarborough was divorced long before their escapades.\n2) Not a fan of what has occurred, but at least it was consensual between the two of them....unlike the harassment taking place at Fox News.\n\n\"Can we stop pretending that sexual morals are based on liberal or conservative ideology?\"\n\nI agree, except you're forgetting something. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, the GOP liked to paint themselves as the party of morals, family values, and anti-LGBT attitudes. Therefore, when Republicans/conservatives like Rush Limbaugh (3 marriages/drugs), Mark Sanford (extra-marital affair), Larry Craig (gay sex in airport), Mark Foley (hitting on male pages), or Eric Bolling (d* pics) is found to have participated in less than moral behavior, they're going to get hammered for it.....perhaps more than a liberal will.....and rightfully so.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most believers are the result of secular (read: anti-religious) public school propaganda. If culture controlled, cultural things, such as the AIDS epidemic, would have had a more prominent role in our understanding of why, e.g., male same-sex behavior is not something to be encouraged.\n\nRadical leftists in the government, not unlike homosexual priests in the Church, are driving the culture. This isn't just a natural progression of culture as many would like to believe.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Who knows? Certainly not you....as I have said, there are other priests known to be gay who are still priests.\n\nYour issues notwithstanding, my remarks stand. I will not backtrack, and we will simply disagree. I have been as accurate as you, albeit from a different perspective. Time to let this one go. Do you again need the last word? I recall from past exchanges that you may.... :-)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The military should decide who is fit - and not fit - to serve. If they decide trangenders are not fit (which is rational - higher rates of suicide, mental issues, emotional issues, etc.), so be it.\n\nEven though he is our military's commander-in-chief, if Trump tweeted this without getting the support of our military leaders, shame on him. But, if this is what the military wants - then good - in my view, trying to deal with social experiments is probably not good for combat readiness or morale.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Homosexuality is perversion. Sodomy is an abomination that cries to heaven for vengeance. It was condemned by saints and the magisterium. Christ destroyed five cities because of it. God created men and women to be sexually complimentary to each other. That is his plan of creation and the natural order. People who behave in a sexual manner with others of the same sex is contrary to the plan of creation and natural order and is gravely offensive to God.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The message Mr. Trump is sending the world is \"The U.S. is closed for business\". Who in the heck would want to invest in an economy that will drag the whole world down with it? Of course when prices go through the roof because everything has to be manufactured in the States by American labour, I'm sure the Trump supporters will find a way to blame it on the \"left\", women, gays, Chinese, the EU, etc., etc.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's no surprise that LGBTQ youth are more likely to turn to drugs and violence when they are pushed out of their homes and communities by intolerant Christians.\n\nI've done work with ministries in the Bay Area and most of those youth are seeking solace from bigots back home.\n\nYou pick and choose from your book of iron-age myths. It's a shame you pick the parts of bigotry and intolerance. There's a lot of hurting young people who could use the empathy The Bible also teaches. \n\nSo who is right? Your ancient book, or the LGBTQ people sitting right in front of us begging to be heard?\n\nI don't think you realize the utter pain and torture your ideas cause, and for what? So you can thump your bible?\n\nYou're free to have whatever ideas you want. If you think homosexuality is a sin then by all means live that way. But I draw the line when you think that freedom and justice means telling people who to love and what they can or cannot do in the bedroom. The bigotry and intolerance is vivid.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While I don't have all the details of the case to come to a conclusion on whether or not this was a hate crime (but stabbing in the genitals of a trans person leads me to believe it was), why does it not surprise me that this all started in a trailer park?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Church cooption of \"natural law\" is a disservice to nature, law and Jesus. They/we have rendered it divisive, anachronistic, static, homophobic, misogynistic, sectarian, and uh....unnatural.\nNatural law is either the process of nature independent of what \"humans\" conclude about it/her. Or..it is the accumulated body of reflection by human intelligence on the process of nature. Or....it is the ethical-political conclusions about what is required for human beings to achieve order & security in common.\n(Or something like the above)\nOur church has elevated \"natural law\" to ITS religion, converted IT into doctrine, and imposes it as if it were dogma. Church has made itself into the legislature, executive and punitive agency - without delegation from the community, without accountability, and without a realistic, quasi-scientific, or demonstration base. In this sense it is neither natural nor law. \nThat's why it is, promotes, reinforces, preserves: divisiveness, homophobia..etc, as above.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The only people who whine about how much they're \"persecuted\" as much as the LGBTQ alphabet soup-nuts are the born-again bigots on the \"Christian\" right. What it really comes down to as they don't feel they get enough attention because fewer folks take either seriously with each passing day.\n\nA Palestinian Muslim brother of mine had his Middle-Eastern restaurant next door to a coffee house that catered to \"gays\". When asked, he merely shrugged his shoulders and said, \"...between them and Allah. I'm not the Judge.\" You can't imagine how outraged they were at being ignored thus...", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Taxes, health care, surveillance, education. Need more? Have you read the Constitution without spinning it? As far as abortion and gay marriage, personal freedom. If a gay guy or girl can be happy married, no problem. Abortion, your choice, your conscious, I don't care. So many bigger things in the world. Don't know the percent but many or most of the world lives without basic needs, safety I guess isn't one of those needs but with most of US citizens paying at least 25% of our income to the government, I should be able to shop for food without fear. BTW most things you mention would be betterrible regulated at a state level, not federal. Just trying to make things better.....TERM LIMITS!!!! Best thing he could do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Many people see anyone in the gay/trans community as being weak, or easy to get to roll over and not fight an issue. There is also a long history of hate crimes against these people as well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wow! Never fails any issue that touches on sex brings out the masses.\nIn a sense, should as sex is the center of life.\nThe RCC persists that \"every sperm is sacred.\" \nHence, because gay people will not deposit it in the proper receptacle they will always be lepers in the RCC.\nThat's why masturbation remains a mortal sin in the RCC.\nWho can calculate the number of mortal sins committed daily?\nBeyond Einstein!\nBut some here would say god is counting!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"growing and approaching 1980 levels.....\" So you consider that to be an improvement do you? When you consider the 1980's represented a devastating declining peak in both the quality and quantity of 'aspirants' to the Priesthood. Now like then the quality, are defined by their sexuality. IE. homosexuality. Do you really think that is something we need to applaud ? God help us and quickly", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I decided from day one. Homosexuality is gross and isn't for me. For others, fine. \n\nBut to Radir's point, a private business should be able to do what they want within the boundaries of the law. Of course, if the business wants to alienate 5% of the population and another 20% who wouldn't shop their bc of that decision, so be it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'll give you the titles since in the past I have not been allowed to place the URL's in the comment section. You can google the titles with my name. You will find ample documentation:\nVatican Inc.'s Future Secured by Pope Francis\nPope Francis is not anti-capitalism. By his actions he supports the plutocracy\nWhy a Miscreant Like Cardinal Pell is Head of Vatican Finance\nPope Francis and the Dirty War - Keeping the Recond Straight Part I\nThe Rise of Pope Francis\n\nI never claimed that the pope and Burke were on the same side. Only that they\nare both conservatives re: access to women's healthcare and anti-gay and anti-transgender.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One of the outlandish claims about gays and lesbians in the past was the notion that they were intent on turning other people gay. To modern sensibilities that sounds ridiculous, quaint even, in its self-centered naivete. Based in ignorance and moral panic, it was eventually supplanted by common sense and experiential evidence. Wente is showing her aging roots in this piece. There is no secret cabal or misguided TG activist plot to create an army of transgender kids. This is a complex issue that Wente dumbs down into sound bites from former academics and clinicians whose ideas are past their best before date. Had Wente drilled down into some of Ray Blanchard's outdated theories, she likely would not have quoted him here today. Her perspective relies on old tropes to fuel fear and regressive ideas and will join the sad canon of painfully limited thinking. For today though, she is simply woefully out of step.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Once again, we have a religious opinion about a psychological/medical condition, and the pretty good body of research accumulated in the past 10-15 years regarding it be damned. A celibate man, dressed in robes and capes, thinks he knows enough to lecture the rest of the world on a matter he clearly knows very, very little about. How convenient - and easy- it is for some men of the Church to victimize a group that possesses little power. Why not? - they've been doing it to young people, LGBT folks, the divorced-remarried and women for centuries. If Pope Francis steps in the middle of this (well, any further then he has already) he will be creating another albeit minor version of Paul VI's disaster with Human vitae. The entire matter of \"gender theory\" as presented here, is a made-up Church version, based on disinformation and a purposeful rejection of what science, and personal experience, informs us about now that many of us choose to listen. We already know the Church doesn't.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "thousands - really ? there are thousands of people who have undergone sex changes currently in the military? \nAnd why is it always lbgtq\nwhy is transgendered considered the same as homosexual? it isnt.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I pay taxes and elect governments to provide schools, roads, hospitals and safety in Canada, (all delivered in the broadest sense.) There is no case to be made for seeking to right every perceived wrong against any person or group anywhere in the world outside our country. It matters not if the affected is gay, straight, man or woman, black white or any shade in between. We have to deal with Canada and Canadians first and foremost. \n\nI've had quite enough virtue signalling. Focus on Canadians, what Canadians need, what Canadians want and what Canadians pay taxes for.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And when you go to confession, do you claim that you keep the commandment - thou shalt not steal - when you clearly steal the reputations of gay people and dismiss them as morally useless. Can't you kill someone stone dead by what you say about them? \n\nWe can all play the Ten Commandments card.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, we have two gay men, one of whom is a college professor and the other is an attorney, accosting an Orthodox Jewish family (including a five year old and a two year old) with hate speech on a public airplane without provocation by any of the four victims. \n\nSounds like the anti-Trump demographic I've seen fairly frequently. Educated elite, LGBT.\n\nThe anti-Semitism is just the icing. \n\nAre you sure this professor and his lawyer husband isn't a 'true face' of anti-Trump advocates?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Greg, you want to muzzle Ms. Demboski. I am not a fan of hers, but enough is enough. Here are some quotes from the website for the organization you're a part of, The Muslims of America.\nODOM AND GOMORRAH COMES TO AMERICA\nOn June 26, 2015 the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution provides same-gender couples the right to marry, a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. However, the decision is surely a tragedy and detriment to humankind for all time to come, placing us at the Hand of Almighty God\u2019s Wrath.\nEl-Sheikh Gillani, addressed the decision as making it \u201cthe darkest day in human history.\u201d He declared that this day was a black day in the history of mankind and that it was the day that humanity sunk to a level of debasement and shame. He resolved that every nation and religion on earth should remember this day and memorialize it every year as \u201cBlack Day.\u201d \n\nRead the entire article here: http://www.tmoamerica.org/news/560-sc-ruling-626/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am gay too, so i can say this. I used to live in Toronto's gay village in a large apartment building. There were \"party girls\" down the hall, who loved to entertain.. I went to a couple of their soirees, but then declined because they tended to get boozy, and I really had nothing in common with them . Eventually they initiated the \"We don't see you. We don't hear you\", cold shoulder game, in the halls and elevator. A civil smile and nod \"hello\" or \"goodbye' just wasn't enough. They confused indifference for hostility. Like may in the LGBT community, their need for approval from others makes them very judgemental of others.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My own studies of Arabic and Islamic culture and Iranian culture at Indiana University and also anecdotally from our wars in that part of the world doesn't \"encourage [me] to empathize with viewpoints different from [my] own.\" \n\nShari'a Law and a close reading of the Qur'an and its various interpretations by Mullahs in particular, offend my cultural values regarding women, homosexuals, death sentences for minor offenses, female genital mutilation and several other things. \n\nI certainly have no empathy whatsoever for those cultural concepts. Spending exorbitant tuition at Duck U to learn about them? I think not.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "http://waltheyer.typepad.com/blog/2015/06/627-of-transgenders-have-untreated-mental-disorders.html\nThis site was put up by a transgender who got the surgery & later regretted it. There are many other sites with similar info. If you are interested you can find them on your own. Many psychologists & psychiatrists who aren't motivated by politics agree gender identity most often is a symptom of an underlying psychological disorder or the individual was brainwashed as a child", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well yah but: The Green Hair society doesn\u2019t decree that the punishment for apostasy is death. The Stetson wearers in Toronto guild doesn\u2019t advocate throwing gays off the top of tall buildings. The Quebecois speakers in western Canada union doesn\u2019t preach taking the sword to the non Quebecois speakers in western Canada. Please don\u2019t try comparing apples with oranges.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Washington elite\". LOL\nTrump IS part of the elite. That's the most ironic thing about his election.\nYou got played by Trump. You're still being played by Trump.\nAs long as Trump blames Hillary Clinton and attacks GLBT people, you'll follow him to the ends of the Earth.\nAnd I hope the only people making incisions on atheists or agnostics are qualified doctors.\nOh! Did you mean \"imagine\"? You have to change your iPad settings.\nYes, I CAN imagine atheists or agnostics caring about jobs or the border. How dare you impugn all of them.\nWhat does evicting transgender people without cause from the military do for either? Except make thousands of transgender people who were doing their military job unemployed?\nI'll tell you what evicting transgender people does: It makes conservative Christians like you stand up and salute Trump. It has NOTHING to do with military readiness.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There was gay animus in Milo's being dumped by the right. Ted Nugent is just as crude and juvenile, but he gets a photo op with Trump in the oval office...and with Sarah Palin right there with him....and Milo gets dumped. I could go on, but I will refrain. My comment is not to justify Milo's shock routine, but merely to point out heterosexual alpha males seem to get away with more.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good point, Javan. So very similar. A transsexual woman needing to pee or wanting to re-do her bouffant hair do is very much like a (presumably) straight man following little girls down the street.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is worse than active homosexuality is the claim that God purposely created homosexuals and approves such behaviour.\nYou credit Fr Martin with saying that in time the Church will have to acknowledge that homosexuality and gender fluency, whatever that might be, are a given. If he did then his critics are right about him. He is advocating what the Church regards as a serious sin. Fr Martin claims that he has written or said nothing against the Church's teaching. Who is correct, you or he?\nThe Church cannot loose on earth what is bound in heaven so there is not the remotest possibility that at any time in the future this teaching will change. Even if it were to reverse its teaching then it would simply cease to be Christ's Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "From a Catholic perspective, substituting \"black\" for \"gay\" falsifies the document, and how it sounds to modern ears is irrelevant.\n\nThe Church is silent on the source of \u201csexual orientation\u201d, whatever that currently means in today\u2019s jargon, except to note that the natural order is attraction between a male and a female.\n\nScience has literally nothing to do with that.\n\nNor is there any comparison between racial bias and the Church\u2019s teaching on same sex attraction. The comparison is a political one designed to equate two quite different things.\n\nSince the Church\u2019s teaching is based on the Natural Law, not St. Paul\u2019s letter to anyone, it is not going to be changing. \n\nhttp://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c3a1.htm\n\n1979 The natural law is immutable, permanent throughout history. The rules that express it remain substantially valid. It is a necessary foundation for the erection of moral rules and civil law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I talked with a dear friend of mine who lives in Homer last week about shipping some of the aqua farmed oysters to a relative. Her and her girl friend split shifts bartending a nightclub down there.The council issue came up in the conversation and she said that neither her nor her friend had heard of any instances of intimidation or violence on anyone in the LBGT community.Her other friend drives cabs there and said she hears more than she wants to about peoples issues but not a peep of any gay bullying.\nThey didnt know if there might of been harassment with the religion community that occurred, but nothing in their circle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good point! \n\nI believe that, other than in the gay community, there isn't as much tax money to be made for our budgets, but I certainly think equality of financial opportunity and equality of taxation is the way to go!\n\nGroup gropes; whatever! Have fun, pay for your fun and support the 'childrun' with your taxes!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If you cry discrimination when a baker refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, then you MUST cry discrimination in this case. But of course liberals applaud this and scream about the other.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'd say the right paints themselves that way:\n\nConservatives favour:\nTraditional social institutions,\nBarefoot and pregnant and church on Sunday.\n\nPersonal and economic freedom,\nUnless you're a woman or gay.\n\nIndividual responsibility,\nUnless you're a senator.\n\nOur social safety net\nBut only if you don't have to pay for it.\n\nFree-market economics\nBut boycott companies who exercise their right to advertise where they choose.\n\nSmall government\nDidn't Harper make it bigger?\n\nFiscal prudence\nAgain, HOW many straight deficits? Action Plans ads? Fake lakes? Gazebos?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "DeFranza made a very important point in the discussion: \"What we are learning about science and gender is changing,\" she said, noting that church reformers need to relook at how Christianity has viewed transgender people. Christian scholars, such as Thomas Aquinas, translated the knowledge of the day into a Christian framework. DeFranza said that is the current challenge. \"We need to do what they did even if it means not saying what they said,\" noted DeFranza.\n\nNote \"...scholars... translated the knowledge of the day into a Christian framework...\" And \"We need to do what they did EVEN IF IT MEANS NOT SAYING WHAT THEY SAID.\" In other words, even if a different conclusion is reached. \n\nWhat is recorded that Jesus said and did, and the Old Testament base on which so much thinking is derived - all that needs to be viewed anew in light of what we know today. We need to \"translate the knowledge\" of THIS day \"into a Christian framework.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I had never heard of actor John Hill, so I searched and found the Broadway actor who is homosexual with no record of \"anti-gay remarks.\" Puzzled, I searched for the quoted apology and found actor Jonah Hill (who I'd also never heard of). Is the R-G going to apologize for its disparagement of John Hill? For that matter, will there an apology for the relentless support of the KKK (Kulongoski, Kitzhaber, Kate) in Oregon?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Several councillors mentioned how today many black person still suffer the emotional scars of slavery of 300 years ago. I fail to see how the gay men of Toronto should atone for either the slavery or the immaturity of people claim to be lingering victims of it. The African slave trade is still on going in Arabic/Muslim countries, but nobody at BLM wants to talk about that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Where did you get that quoted language? Not from me! Again, I don't care who anyone marries.\n\nAnyway, leave it to a few LGBT activists to turn a comment board about historic property preservation into a debate about gay marriage!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In defense of the firing of the Rhode Island music minister, Bishop Thomas Tobin points out that Pope Francis \"fired a priest who was working in the Vatican upon learning the priest was gay and in a relationship.\"\n\nAnother example of false equivalency. A priest in a relationship (gay or straight ... it doesn't matter) has violated a solemn vow, his vow of celibacy. Last time I checked, music ministers do not profess vows.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am not missing anything.\n\u201cAn artist can pick and choose who commissions him to perform his work.\u201d\n\nSince when can an artist discriminate against a protected class? Could you give me a source on that?\n\nYou must have missed my point. You are acting like Jack Philips was asked to make some sort of offensive cake or design. He was not, he was asked to make a wedding cake just like everyone else wants. There was nothing different abiut it. Again, if the gay couple did not order it themselves, he would nit have known it was for a gay wedding and made the cake. \n\nJack Philips refused to do exactly what he has done hundreds, maybe thousands of times before.\nThey are not asking him to make anything special, just a wedding cake. He wants to be able to say no because it is a wedding cake for people that are gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The headline is \" The Conservatives\u2019 unease about the \u2018whole gay thing\u2019\", but the entire article is about one single MP, Brad Trost.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Eric, sorry, the liberal media has not made starvation in Yemen an issue. This does not mean that a story here and there has not occurred. But the liberal media has not made it an issue. How many editorial pieces have appeared over the years demanding a cessation of US sanction Saudi activity compared to Muslim immigration to the US or the \"border wall.\" You see when it comes time for liberals to put up, they shut up. Let's spend more time talking about transgenders in the military shall we. Much more \"interesting\" than saving lives of foreign Muslims, right. The liberals and their pet media decide where the focus will be. Liberals own the failure of the US to pay attention to Yemen. Yes, liberals.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think abortion and gay marriage were the only issues, and I suspect abortion played more heavily than gay marriage for many Catholics. I think too many Trump voters thought he was going to somehow actually change the playing field. He was going to turn them from feeling like the lowly '62 Mets of Casey Stengel into the '69 World Series winning Mets and he was going to do it 'big league' quick. Now they are beginning to know it isn't going to happen 'big league' quick, but they still believe it will eventually happen, and mostly because they want it to happen so Trump will somehow make it happen. The fact the Trump is actually working against this belief is never going to matter because he articulated the belief in a way that made it seem like he got it. \n\nSo in the end it will be an exercise in futility. The question I wonder about is if the Dems can figure out how they lost a significant part of the voting population that used to be bank. I haven't seen they have.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Way cool! Gill is tied to LGBT, correct? Kinda funny how that evil \"LGBT\" crowd donates and improves the schools while the righteous right strip money from them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No, it is you who has got it all wrong. We are discussing the general direction of NCReporter's contributing writers against that of the NCRegister not the USCCB or pastors teaching the faith from the pulpit. \nThe main concerns of NCReporter contributors seem to be opposition to the Church's teaching on matters pertaining to sexual morality, particularly homosexuality and promoting feminism and left-wing political dogma as Catholic social justice.\nWhen dissident groups are continually lobbying for acceptance of sexual practices which the Church teaches are gravely sinful then it is only to be expected that the bishops and pastors would speak out against them. When society broadly concurred with the Church's teaching on sexual morality, homosexuality, abortion, etc, then there was no need to preach against these things. It is only since Catholic dissidents began to advocate the rejection and reversal of the teachings that the Church has had to re-emphasise what it teaches.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You mean Nienstedt. The one who watched Brokeback Mountain and complained about the \"wanton\" gay sex therein! And then spent a fortune in parishioner's contributions on fighting against same-sex couples' access to secular marriage. And then there was the Vatican investigation once he was accused of using his position to proposition to semenarians (Freudian slips abound today) or somesuch mischief ... the report was hush-hushed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As I read the stat it measures the number of fathers who find out they are not the biological father---- not who is living with whom--- which are 2 different measures. And even if you are correct in your interpretation, maybe its because many single mothers remain single or later form lesbian relationships, which could explain the 12 per cent gap? Do not know... just speculating. \nAs for the lesbian mothers, 100% of the partners know they are not the biological father or mother... far higher than the 30% figure for men... So what? What is the point of this statistic? Is there some old school moral condemnation of women lurking behind the use of this stat, as evidence of their \"deceit\"? \n\n To which I would ask, what percent of men cheat on their partners? I bet its higher than 30%. This game of trying to assert a gender moral high ground on the basis of stats is juvenile.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly, the Catholic anti-homosexual movement is entirely bigotry. Give even an inch and you have to preform gay weddings. Fr. Martin is wrong. There is no room for dialogue, only demands for justice for gays and lesbians and/by their families.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yet another anti-Christian screed. And to what end?\n\nWant to have some real fun? Take a look at the damage the transgender foolishness is doing to women's sports. The feminsts are beside themselves, but now find themselves a rung or two down the newly defined pecking order. Men and boys pretending to be women competing and winning in women's sports events. Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. Cheers -", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Would you be ok with it if they were living together? What if the women were each bisexual and wanted to live with each other and share a man they both loved? Would it be ok then? To say no is to discriminate against people based on their sexuality and we know that isn't allowed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Thank you for supporting my point that \"Courage\" is a ministry for self-hating gays.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In other words, you refuse to see neither the homophobia nor the misogyny. Sorry for your blindness. I have been told not to call you dishonest, so I won't. \n\nFiring gays for getting married can only be called homophobia. And it is a fact, one that you refuse to acknowledge, that the SOLE reason for not ordaining women is misogyny. These are not opinions, these are clear and obvious truths. You don't feel called to the priesthood. So what?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gays are deplorablydeplorably persecuted in various backward countries much more than Chechnya. So why is Ibby so concerned about that one country in particular? Could it be that gay rights are a smokescreen for poking Russia? That would be a shameful misuse of the issue for ulterior motives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually you make a good point. If I were born Jewish, I would always be a Jew regardless of what religion or belief system I adopted or practiced. Some religions are synonymous with race or so they identify as such. But there are Christian Jews, Buddhist Jews and so on. People are persecuted for their religions daily, so they are NOT protected. Their right to choose and practice IS protected by law. While it is true that I can't change my (born) color as you say, I can change my sexuality on a dime if I desire. Until it is proven that people are born as an LGTB human being (with verifiable DNA or genetic science). Sexuality is simply a choice.Many folks have had gay experiences, especially in the 60's & 70's and it didn't make them gay, but many chose to be gay as a result of those experiences. So I maintain, sexuality is a personal self-view. That is the heart of the argument here. So being black and being gay are NOT the same thing. You feel they ARE and the law IS on your side.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They referred numerous times to discrimination against trans people as genocide in our Upper House. Without a doubt that includes mis-gendering someone and otherwise rejecting on principle the very science that legislation is based on. Accusing someone of the crime of genocide most certainly belongs in a criminal court and the great efforts our government has gone to in its effort to keep those charges out of the criminal court system speaks for itself. Our government has somehow managed to subvert fundamental scientific objectivity on this issue for their own ideological purposes and they've done so in a way that ensures they can convict people on lower standards of evidence. Through their kangaroo court human rights tribunal system they wont just take the office furniture, they'll take your entire house.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nor of the pronouncements of authority. Truth is truth, regardless of who says it. Truth: gays do not chose their sexuality, it is biologically determined in the womb by epigentetics. Truth: sex is a gift from God that rarely involves childbirth. Truth: God does not create people to impose huge burdens on them. He is testing our ability to love and accept them. Many on this board are failing in that.+Burke certainly is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The case Jesus was describing was divorcing your spouse to marry someone else. That would be adultery. It does not describe previously failed marriages or cases of violence or alcoholism. He also emphasizes that when someone is married, they are no longer members of their family of origin (indicating that maybe the divorce in question was about social status and family rlations and not just lust). This last statement, shows why this passage is not a condemnation of gay marriage. Rather, it endorses the fact that the family of origin is now in second position behind the spouse, straight or gay. While what Francis is doing is a good first step, recognizing that divorce is necessary sometimes as a divorce rather than an invalid marriage is an adult thing to do, as is recognizing the rights of gays and lesbians.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Religious people probably have the most special rights of anyone in the country. \n\nIf you think that's not true, fill your cubicle with religious stuff then see what happens. nothing will happen. Then fill it with anti-religious stuff. See what happens. Then fill it with gay stuff. See what happens.\n\nSpoiler: The religious stuff will be protected, whereas your boss will probably ask you to take the other stuff down.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"For example, I don't think I've ever noticed people online saying similar things about female inmates and male prison guards.\"\n That's not a comparison. Most women are not in prison for raping a child. If they are, I would say they deserve the same to happen to them. It's not about homosexuality, its about being a victim of sexual abuse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have not forgotten what it was like to watch NAFTA get shoved in to the American skilled labor workforce by a newly elected Democratic president while the media was blaring headlines about gays in the military and \"Don't Ask Don't Tell\". I also remember Ross Perot and his blackboard showing what would happen during his third party run at the Presidency.\nWhen the Democratic Party made its fatal turn from being the party representing the American worker it brought about Donald Trump. Maybe just maybe Democratic Party leadership should take a genuine look at who that swing vote is that brought us this President.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "McCarthy seems to have the right experience, 75th Rangers, which although as an organization they have come to be a symbol of the best a regular force offers short of being \"Special Forces\". He should have appreciation of main land and special forces.\nHe is an Afghan Vet and has done well in the private sector.\nHe also does not seem to have the sort of baggage that is said to have stopped two prior nominees because he is identified as a Christian by LGBTs. \nThe biggest task an incoming Secretary of the Army may face is man power shortages . Some analysts claim a draft is the only solution. \nThose pushing a liberal agenda in the services none have asked or are afraid to ask if that has hurt enlistments, also the demands placed on mental, physical and other standards like beig drug free, has been a problem; I have to wonder how a draft could fix?\nA draft will result in activism against the military. Since the end of Vietnam and the anti-\"war\" mobs have not protested.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Jason Kenney promotes anti-abortion policies, he's against same-sex marriage, and he wants to out gay kids as school policy. I'd say that makes him socially conservative. He's also a political opportunist who figures he can get himself elected in Alberta without offering any larger policy alternatives.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Most Catholics\" is a stretch. 60% of something doesn't qualify as \"most.\" If you don't accept this, shall we talk about the number of Catholics who don't oppose abortion as a personal choice or who support gay marriage, or those who believe remarriage after divorce doesn't imply an impediment to full participation in the sacraments?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Heaven forbid the kids have a clear idea of how procreation works and that there are consequences to sex. I went to public school in BC during the NDP reign in the 90's and even under that 'progressive' government, my sex-ed consisted of \"Sex makes babies\" \"The only way to avoid babies 100% is not have sex\" and \"Gay people get AIDs\" with a brief conversation on \"Condoms are a good idea, but you guys are too young to be having sex so we won't go over the mechanics of that right now.\" \n\nNever mind that, especially in early days of the Internet, many of us (especially us girls) had almost no knowledge of how sex worked. Oddly, they explained pregnancy fairly well, including birth, but not actually how one got pregnant to start with.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My Parish is packed and thriving with OF and a Latin Mass, we have a good and welcoming family Mass which is always full. Young people attend until they go to University or leave home, it is a very expensive area for anyone starting out in marriage. The decline happened because more people got divorced, women wanted to decide on whether or not they use birth control, people in their 30s and 40s saw their parents rejected by the church and lost faith, because of the abuse scandals or where brought up by people that were badly hurt by the church, and want nothing to do with it.. I have family who left because they supported a son and brother who is gay, they accept him, not church teaching and they hated their Catholic Schools. They also had a hard time when a family member committed suicide, being told he was in hell a lot. I don't think EF is attractive outside the US.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Oh, is ensuring a family can safely go to the grocery store Government's job? I must have missed that somewhere. I mean, you're anti-regulation/abortion/gay rights etc., right? Trump is busily destroying regs that keep the air safe for your family to breathe, the water safe for your family to drink, food safe for your family to eat, vehicles safe for your family to be transported in; what about telling women they have no rights over their own bodies (speaking of \"natural rights\"), where people can and cannot go to the bathroom, etc. - so where does keeping government out of our daily lives come in?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is no natural order. CDF made it up as a sin eater because God could not be harmed by sin. Something had to be, hence the nstural order. Sorry, but in morality there is no order, only people. It is perfectly natural for gays to have gay sex. Where the Church comes in should be to encourage continence and monogamy, not celibacy or sham hetero marriage.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While Pillar's slur has no place in ANY walk,and should have been more severely sanctioned by the Blue Jays and MLB,let's stop portraying Escobar as basically a disliked scrub.I don't know Escobar's level of acceptance among the Jays (and obviously abhor the homophobic slur on his eyeblack),but he has a career 27 WAR,indicating he's a good to very good player.\nSeemingly,MLB hasn't progressed much since the days when gay players such as Billy Beane and the late Glenn Burke played 30 years ago. I know Beane is used in MLBs inclusion department;maybe he should be given more power to legislate on such cases as Pillar's.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm glad to know you're in favor of women's ordination, Monica. So am I. But I'm curious about something: a while back, in a comment about the 2005 prohibition against gay seminarians, you wrote, \"but we must acknowledge's the church's tradition\" [against homosexual behavior.] While I'm still trying to untangle what you meant by that, I wonder, in the context of this discussion do you think we must also acknowledge the church's tradition against ordaining women [as though both weren't acknowledged (albeit tacitly) by everyone in the church on a near constant basis]?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Only in VERY recent times has it been revealed\" autism is not demonic possession. People's suffering is pretty strongly related to how they are treated. And considering modern people have been strongly discriminatory against transgender people, it is pretty easy to see why trans people have issues nowadays. \n\nWe don't have suicide the statistics you want and thus can't assume. If you want to know what it was like, consider that in the past transgender people have been committed to asylums. It was illegal. \n\nAnd again, it is a fallacy to assume that because we can measure suicide better now that it never occurred in the past. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. So where is your evidence that 200 years ago transgender people were all happy and healthy? You don't have any. \n\nYour assumptions also don't take into account the effects of hate and discrimination which you yourself are perpetuating. Visibility of transgender people is higher than ever before as well.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Working class means lots of things, but it is useful to separate it out from the middle class, which is even more muddled.\n\nUntil school choice advocates start supporting unionization of such schools they have nothing to offer. Teachers pay union dues. They also pay taxes and insurance (which may even cover abortion). Getting rid of high central office costs and nonsense is always a good thing, as is empowering strong principals - but you can do that with Charter Schools as well and unionized teachers are not a down check.\n\nOrdinates are there because they fit more with Rome than Canterbury on women's ordination and gay married bishops and priests. Note to the bishop - you can't hide from progress forever, even in the Church. Sadly, Francis essentially said that the pastoral is more important than doctrine, which the trads can't begin to understand. \n\nIt seems they can't understand artwork on defeating Satan either. No sense of history.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Even though individually there are gays who support Trump, 100% of all LGBT organizations, and politicians stand allied with Islam. Even Toronto's LGBT community stands in solidarity with Islam after Orlando. How hard would they fight when they already believe they are on the wrong side?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Man exists socially and changes as society does. Abortion certainly changed, before the Didache it was actually a tool in Numbers 6 to detect adultery. If a fetus was expelled, the woman was killed. We don't kill for adultery any more. Marriage was not a sacrament for the first thousand years and the rules were not set until Trent. Confine all of your doctrinal ridigity to that Council. Before then, lots of things were different, includign homosexuality within the Church. Effective oral contraception has about a 57 year history and so far the Chruch's response has been wrong. Do you when abortion became an issue from conception, rather than quickening? Under Pius IX. Don't blame either Jesus or the Spirit for the hierarchy's misogyy, which first showed itself with clerical continence, which is an insult to the married state. You seem more worried about the Catholic Brand than truth. Unless we ordain women soon, the brand won't be worth having.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "1. Is there evidence beyond a few outlier cases that there's any need for it? 2. Anyone half clever will simply lie 3. Why do you think a lot of immigrants come to Canada? 4. It's Kellie Leitch...she of the \"Barbaric Cultural Practices Hotline\", which did nothing more than take a list of acts that were already illegal in Canada and give them a catchy new title. 5. Some of the items she's suggested screening for run contrary to positions her own party held until recently 6. There are Canadian citizens, like some of my in-laws, who already hold views that wouldn't pass her test...they think gays are the spawn of Satan and that if you aren't \"saved by Jesus\" you will roast in hell for eternity, because God loves you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They were appointed to determine whether the state had a valid interest in prohibiting abortion (or homosexuality or gays from marrying). No valid state interest exists. They did not vote on the morality of abortion but on governmental power. Absolute democracy is tyranny, especially under the prodding of bishops.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is true but I will remind you that God did not mention homosesuality in the ten commandments. Rules in Leviticus probably arose due to societal pressures at the time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If we thought we had a shortage of priests before this, watch what happens now. Frankly, I always thought the rule was not heterosexual vs. homosexual, the rule was that one doesn't act on either alternative. It's about celibacy, not orientation - isn't it?\n\nDoes this rule apply to gay nuns also?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Gay people have it not terribly bad in Russia, of which Chechnya is an integral part, they can move around. Just google the topic and you will find gay guides to Moscow and other Russian cities on Tripadvisor, Travelgayeurope, the Guardian, and 900,000 other results such search delivers. \n\nPutin's Moscow: Why the city is pinker than you think; Top Moscow Clubs and Bars; Gay nightlife 2017: where to stay, party and play; are just some of the typical headlines. Thus some of those refugees may find some cities in Canada even less inviting than what they have in Russia.\n\nPerhaps a bigger emergency is the plight of Coptic Christians in Egypt. They are discriminated, attacked and many murdered, as are many of their brethen in the Middle East. Their victims count in the thousands. \n\nI am sure that John Ibbitson and even the LGBT community in Canada would agree that the plight of Coptic Christians deserve as much support and prominence as the plight of gays in Chechnya. Both are horrible.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Bull crap! There is plenty of money available in the gay communities and otherwise to help with this. That's how it is supposed to work; the local communities rally and support people. It is not a tenant of the United States Constitution to provide for 'Health' in any way-Defense, Infrastructure, and general welfare (which was not envisioned as health care for all).", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "God don't make mistakes/homosexual lobby/UN/(Common Core?!) blah blah blah. This is the fundie line right off the shelf. Paging Fr. Spadaro.\n\nGays are born \"that way\" and homosexuality isn't a \"mistake.\" Get real.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Unless they are gay. There's never any forgiveness for gays, celibate or not.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Aga Khan is supposed to be a Muslim spiritual leader however Muslims in the Quran want to kill homosexuals and two married males were in Justin's family vacation? Junior has claimed he and his dad read the Bible so what is it that Justin believes in or is it just free glamorous vacations?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Or a black person. Or a brown person. Or a female person. Or a gay person. Or a Muslim person.\n\nYou must not be aware of his actual history on issues concerning those persons.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "This is the result of unlimited freedom of religion's protection of radical religious hate rhetoric inciting violence against and murder of gay folk. RFRAs kill. The first friend of mine who was killed for being gay was years ago in Anchorage. Remember the \"homosexual panic defense\"? The legal right to murder. Yes, America. Yes, Anchorage. Disenfranchise us. Spread hateful lies. Make us disappear. God hates fags rhetoric. This was just a matter of time. \n\nThe other tragic fact this exposes once again: Americans speak too often with a gun.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "And gay men who are inclined to commit deviant behavior with minors go where those minors are located.\n\nBelieving that there isn't at least one gay man \"inclined to commit deviant behavior with minors\" in an all gay organization is at the height of ignorance, stupidity or denial. \n\n Pick one or more as applicable.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Most advocates will be lesbians.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "In other words, \"the Church wants me to live in perpetual sexual abstinence, and even then will probably reject me\". Because the people I was speaking of were kicked out because they were gay. \"Intrinsically disordered\" is an OFFICIAL slur on gays.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "A social justice facilitator? Huh? Maybe you should be on SNL....a comedy routine....\n\nSigh...Another whites are bad ( and especially white heterosexual males ) humorless sermon. Yawn. It is very tiresome. I think what you are seeing in North America is the birth of what a CNN commentator called a whitelash and this trend scares the left. People like me are growing irritated at the constant focus of leftists and their supporters in the media on identity politics. You can't open a newspaper without a story on natives, Black Lives Matter, LGBQT or whatever. Do families still exist in Canada as far as the media is concerned?\n\nI know it irritates leftists like Ross but if you do the analytics on a global basis ( look at the data) you will see that whites ( and especially white males) control most of the world's wealth and governments.....this is not racist it is a hard fact. And that situation is unlikely to change.....", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Sounds like a gay love triangle, but may turn out to be a pentagon instead..", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Not just celibate, but asexual, meaning they do not chose it, it is even more rare than homosexuality.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "1. Would you guys quit showing the picture of this punk.\n2.\u201cIt is up to God to punish homosexuals. It is not up to servants,\u201d the US resident added, sitting before a flag of his home country Afghanistan.\"", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "How far did the Saudi revolt get? Oh that's right they don't allow Christian's to live there, they behead homosexuals and now the Saudi's are murdering innocents in Yemen... Is it ever a time to be balanced in our thinking Moseby or should we always be hypocrites. Assad is bad, but there are worse and they are supposed Allies. Why is Mugabe still in power? El-Sisi?", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Some would say it depends on whether one believes that age of consent is too high. \n\nI don't know how many homosexuals have bee in the priesthood. But I'm pretty sure that there are new records being set now. I can't imagine any straight man who would want to join what seems to be a gays-only club.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Obama reportedly had gay sex cocaine romps in college, hung out with domestic terrorists, was carefully installed by powerful elite families and conned people into accepting their globalist agenda. But not a word from the fawning mainstream media.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "re: The guidelines state that \"wherever possible, enrollment is the goal,\" yet make it clear that enrollment is only possible if the parents agree to sign and uphold a \"Covenant of Trust\" in which they pledge to \"support the moral and social doctrine of the Catholic Church.\" <<<\n\nHow in the world do they manage to keep the doors open?\n\nI mean what with all the irregular couples involved: divorced-remarried, LGBTQ, contracepting and, if modern sociological data are indicative, both hetero- & homo-erotic behaviors that are considered s#d%my --- well, all of them, too! But, wait, I'm being ridiculous, the auto-eroticism, alone, dwarfs all the other grave moral lapses.\n\nSeriously, this is beyond absurd. Just do a \"find & replace\" on these types of guidelines & commentaries and, wherever you see \"LGBTQ,\" replace it with \"contracepting.\"\n\nNo, all of us in irregular situations are NOT suffering from poor formation or invincible ignorance. Instead, we are exculpable because you are wRong!", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Michael Brooks' most obnoxious line is that gays don't have sex, they have sodomy. So does anyone who does good foreplay. Pederasty is patterned behavior which is ingrained by rape. Gays self identify when still virginal. Half the clergy is gay and the other half is asexual. It is the asexuals that have made Catholic sexual teaching irrelevant.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Here we have a protected minority maliciously and publicly mocking another person for their religious beliefs. Anyone else see the epic hypocrisy in that? We all know that if the driver was a Muslim imam, JJ would NEVER say anything derogatory about him, in spite of the fact that Islam is radically misogynistic and homophobic. Scratching my head.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "I am not sure what a Mass Outing of Gay Priests on a Sunday would accomplish. \nThe bishop(s) would just suspend or remove the priests who publicly out themselves. And all that would hurt are the people who would be deprived of their priestly ministry. The bishops do not give a sh#7 about their priests or their people - there are very few I would consider even remotely connected to the Good Shepherd. \n\nHonestly, I do not see the macho/heterosexual brawny culture that Fr Reese references in the article. Quick the contrary, bishops running around with their boy-toy sycophants. Talk about a gay culture. Of course all that sexual energy is tied up into the exercise (sometimes brutal) of power and an affinity for raising large sums of money for their special projects.", "gold": "True", "sub_split": "toxic"} -{"text": "Some say the Q stands for Questioning, others say the Q stands for Queer. I've even heard homosexuals themselves say the Q stands fro Queer, so don't hate on me just for telling it like it is.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(1/3)\n-1967, Pierre E. Trudeau, Minister of Justice of Canada introduced the Bill Omnibus to abolish discriminatory laws on homosexual acts between consenting adults;\n-1969, Canada; decriminalization of homosexuality /a first in North America;\n-1977, \u201cDiscrimination based on sexual orientation\u201d has been prohibited in Qu\u00e9bec (Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois); \nwith that change, Qu\u00e9bec became the first jurisdiction larger than a city or county to prohibit anti-gay discrimination in North America;\n-June 1992, like Qu\u00e9bec and British Columbia, Ontario declared unconstitutional laws and common Law provisions which provide that marriage can only unite people of the opposite sex. These courts have decided that a definition of marriage that excludes the union between persons of the same sex violates article 15 of the Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms, which prohibits discrimination based on gender;", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Wholeheartedly supported his gay family member too, and not with reparative therapy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Good points. Maybe we should put somebody new on every bill each year. I only brought up Jenner because I can't surf for 5 minutes without seeing something about transgender bathrooms. Who's the most famous transgender woman in history . . . Caitlyn Jenner. Woman of the Year, ESPN called her courageous. Recognizable. Symbolic of a historical event in our lifetime. Nuff said.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Interesting poll: 28% of gay French support Le Pen - more than her general population support. \n37% of teachers as well. \n\nI thought her fans were all neo-nazis and skinheads..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "One could ask if a joke about clerical vanity which insinuates something unmanly about it does in fact constitute an act of stereotyping about gays and women. It probably should have been avoided in any case.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "all_married_couples_do,_including_the_gay_ones.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What's your view on the terms homophobia and anti-Semitic?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I detect the hand of Mike Pence; yet another Fundamentalist Christian goes to the White House.\n\n\"Pruitt is also an evangelical Christian \u2014 he serves as a deacon at First Baptist Church in Broken Arrow, Okla. and graduated from Georgetown College, an evangelical school. He has a record of opposing marriage equality, transgender bathroom access and abortion, and opposed a church-state separation ballot initiative on the Oklahoma ballot earlier this year.\"\n\nhttp://religionnews.com/2016/12/05/evangelicals-in-trumps-cabinet-educators-worry-science-will-be-a-casualty/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Teachings DO change. To deny this is to deny historical fact. When ideology and facts collide, any reasonable person would change his or her ideology to fit the facts. \n\nDiscriminating on the basis of behavior you deem \"sinful\" is still discriminating. Like Trid and some others here, you are bigoted against gays,. I deem your discriminatory behavior to be sinful, because I deem all bigotry to be sinful, a far worse sin than some consensual homosexual act. Scripture tells us that the two great commandments are to love God and love our fellow human beings, and you are abjuring that second commandment.\n\nTo say that your bigotry is supported by your religion is to pervert the religion you claim to profess.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now now motley..... LOL. You're suggesting a rule that we can't hold our wive's hand or kiss her public - NO showing sexual orientation in public!\n\nI have no complaint with mothers, lesbians or environmentalist. But I hate that we have become a society of identity politics. We're consumed with what separates us from our neighbors, not what we may have in common.\n\nHuman's are a very diverse species and certainly are more intermingled both physically and culturally than at any time in history. It's a clash of civilization, large and small, that can no longer live in isolation. We have to learn to be civil or we'll live in perpetual anger.\n\nThat's a very idealistic hope, not one I expect to see in this lifetime \u2014 but it would be good to nudge it in that direction. .\n\nLater..", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is not hate to care about the souls of others. Regardless of what you may think, there is such a thing as sin, and some sins are more harmful to our souls than lesser sins. One of those is homosexual sex among other sexual sins. Fr. Martin is doing people with same-sex attraction a grave disservice by omitting the fact that, if they are Catholic and truly want to follow Christ, then they must not engage in sex. He has placed himself in a position to do authentic, spiritual and charitable work and he not only drops the ball (truth), he hides it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Mayor Tory is dead wrong.\n\nAs long as Pride is willing to allow itself to be dictated to by the racist hooligans at Black Lives Matter, and shun a police presence because BLM is somehow against police, , then it does not deserve public funding of any sort. \n\nThis has nothing to do with gay pride, and everything to do with BLM's racist and antagonistic agenda. \n\nDon't give them one cent.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Whether its white supremacy, or trans gender supremacy the political corruption behind the movement is the same: nobody may object or refuse their power without serious repercussions to their reputation, career and future prospects.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Sam is jewish, old...\"\n\n\"I'm not sure how I feel about women, gays, Latino's, Asians or woman choice...\"\n \nActually Paul it is quite obvious how you \"feel\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Somebody explain to me, please, how a gay or trans person threatens anyone's marriage like actual marital discord does.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, because I am straight (heterosexual), I dated men and I married a man. Because they are gay, my gay friends dated and committed to partners of the same gender, despite the fact that they experienced an equal degree of peer pressure from both our straight and gay friends. \n\nIt is developmentally expected and normal that most young people engage in peer pressure about almost anything that has captured their attention, and my friends and I responded in expected and normal ways to peer pressure: we responded with choices that were consistent with who we are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"A person is not defined by a sexual orientation,\" said Bochanski. \n\nI thought defining men and women as having a heterosexual orientation (by natural law created by God) was the foundation of Catholic teaching on the marriage and the family. \n\nSeems clear that the church does define everyone by sexual orientation. Except when they're gay? In which case the church defines their ss attraction as a phantasm of disordered emotion. \n\nNot being gay myself, I can't say how gays should feel about the Courage approach. No doubt some find it a path to wholeness, while others feel it's a denial of their personhood. But to claim that a person isn't \"defined by their sexual orientation\" seems at best a half truth to me.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My mother isn't gay.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "More and more male same-sex couples are now using surrogacy to have biological children. It's a growth industry. \n\nMen are realizing that with all this support, \"I don't want to adopt a child, I can have some of my own genetic material.\" (David, a 45-year-old from California)\n\nWon't preventing surrogacy stop homosexual men fulfilling their dream? Is this fair?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Can't you read? The document does not address those who violate their vow of celibacy before, during, or after seminary, it specifically targets anyone who simply admits to being gay, as well as those who are presumably suspected of being so by seminary officials. That presents a double standard since those with \"deep-seated heterosexual tendencies\" are not similarly targeted. It is a justice issue, pure and simple, or perhaps I should say, an injustice issue.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Paranoid\"? People pointing out a clear advantage FOR this individual in a field of competition are \"paranoid\"? Fairness is taught in ALL fields competition. At all levels. From youth to professional. There is clearly something wrong here. Otherwise create a transgender division.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tri, don't use their language. \"Homophobia\" ostensibly implies a fear or persecution of a person; whereas those who are concerned with those who self-identify as \"gay\" do not fear or persecute the person.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's actually a little worse than that now ...... \"A transgender woman says she was raped in a unisex bathroom at the Stonewall Inn \u2014 and police are searching for the suspect who they say regularly frequents the landmark gay bar.\"\n\nhttp://nypost.com/2016/03/28/transgender-woman-says-she-was-raped-in-stonewall-inn-bathroom/", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's sad that this discussion of a new historic district & its implications turned into a R vs. D debate of unrelated topics like gay marriage & abortion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\" desperate) posts \" IMHO very, very sadly doesn't begin to explain such non-sense so commonly espoused by homosexuals and those to uninformed to understand the factual realities associated with this chosen lifestyle.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As a retired psychotherapist it saddens me to recall the families who gave their teenage children who wanted to come out as gay a rough time. Kenney's move will make it harder for young people to live honestly in accordance with their sexual orientation. He's endorsing an approach which turns homosexuality into a sin or a crime. And driving a wedge between parent and child. Not exactly \"family values\"!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "All of his \"sign and telephone\" policies only require the new President to line through and initial. He doesn't even have to wait for the US Supreme Court (who has already killed his 'recess appointment' attempt) to have his plans to combat climate change, his executive action on immigration, his transgender rights policy (any bathroom in any school is fine) etc.\n\nA stroke of the Obama pen is trumped, so to speak, by the stroke of his pen.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Race relations can always be improved and have been in the past by any oppressed group buying the love and respect they crave. Although not a race issue, gays followed this very effective path during the last 30 years or so. It became clear that gay people had money and spent it. A revelation. If you business discriminated against gays, they wouldn't buy your product. Follow this simple plan and you will win, since cash is king.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The oft-engaged but never married Ann Coulter blames Harvey on Houston's electing a lesbian mayor. Is Mark Foley the reason tropical storms regularly hit Florida?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hmmm....the petition requests that women and girls maintain their right to privacy and bakers and photographers not be forced to participate in gay ceremonies. Restaurant services and the like are not included. What is the problem? It sounds like a common sense petition. Sop the invalid and untrue accusations to further deceive people and push your agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"The psychological studies have found that homosexuality as such is not the cause of abuse, but when gay seminarians do not come to terms with their orientation in the church's closed homophobic environment, it is more difficult for them to become psychosexually mature enough to resist opportunities with minors.\"\n\nYes. So from that, isn't barring men with same sex attraction from Catholic seminaries the most sane and effective approach to protecting children?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I remember the Christian gay advocate Mel White saying on TV years ago that if all the gay church musicians suddenly didn't appear for work at church there would be silence in Christendom. A similar scenario is true for the clergy as well. As a lesbian Episcopal priest I once knew said, \"the church has run on gay power for centuries.\" It's just a pity that gay people can't be recognized for their hugely significant contribution to Holy Mother Church. Perhaps, as Jesus said, \"your reward will be great in heaven.\" I certainly hope that's true for your sake.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the government was ear marking $500 million to educate Canadians how terribly we have treated natives, how racist our history of black slavery , how misogynist our treatment of women , the evil oppression of our french population, our treachery towards gay and homosexuals, how stupid we are about the devastation we have wreaked upon what was once a beautiful land, the Globe would say it is money well spent. But it is being spent to celebrate our achievements in creating a good place to live and that to the Globe is just just a big waste of time and money. .", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trans-Gender issues started out as one gender being trapped in a body of the opposite gender - whether that be incorrect medical genitalia assignment at birth for those born with no outward genitalia - or for those who were \"wired\" to be of the opposite gender. Both of those outcomes have come to be understood, if not appreciated by the majority of Canadians (I would hope) - and people so affected can now strive to have physical sex changes, if they so choose. Other than that - you're either a girl or a boy - you might be gay - or Bi-sexual - or simply a cross dresser - but hey, what additional \"rights\" are actually required?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I already explained why I mentioned gays . Your three point plan is a good one. I'd have added a fourth point---bring back Dan Sullivan as mayor. We need him now more than ever.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Once again, Liberal vice disguised as virtue. Human smuggling? Bad. Accepting refugees who aren't really refugees? Bad. Doing an end run around our immigration system and its requirements? Bad. But if it's for the benefit of gays, then all is well. \n\nCanadians deserve to have faith in their immigration system, and a faith of convenience is no faith at all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "OK sources please. Show me where a transgender person has harmed kids? Why would you trust a male teacher, coach or anyone else with \"mens's plumbing\"? It's not the equipment or lack of it that makes a person trustworthy. Transgender is not synonymous with pedophile, look it up!\nPut door on the stalls, respect everyone.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When have you ever heard anyone ask a transsexual man to speak or write on behalf of all women, or a transsexual woman to speak or write on behalf of all men? \n\nBoyden claims to write as and speak for Indigenous people even though he is of British (settler) ancestry.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "In God there is no male nor female. \"Man\" is a male-dictated generic term for all aspects of humanity.\n\nFrancis is a product of his time and needs to educate himself, of to be educated, about transgenderism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "We could fire the social workers and then give each homeless person half their salary for three months. They would be told to use the money to buy decent clothes, get an apartment, and get a job. After three months the money goes to another homeless person who is given the same chance. \n\nInstead, the plan is to take a homeless person, give them permanent shelter, and change everything about them and their personality by treating them like a six year old, and that doing so will correct the lack of upbringing they had when they were children. \"The plan\" is not in any way pragmatic or realistic, so the people running this gambit are targetting specific sub-groups - transgender individuals and women - in order to get the political support they need for a plan that's designed to put money into their own pockets, while not helping the handful of lottery winning women and transgender people who will be given \"permanent\" housing in exchange for being treated like little children.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is exactly why working with young people who wish to be transgender is best left up to professionals, and to parents with the guidance of a professional. Asking questions such as the one you suggest may well create a sense of shame and rejection that worsens the situation. There is no way that any untrained person, including parents (at first) could be prepared to deal with a trans situation. It is one of those situations that require the help of trained helpers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "SAD - Ms. Manson has written nothing but gossip; inaccuracies; and sadly an attempt to read the mind and thoughts of Francis.\nThe document she references was released by a dicastery - it was not signed by Francis. This happens hundreds of times a month - BUT, she reads into this typical release motivations, biases, judgments, etc. that may or may not be true.\nSuggest that this stream of consciousness spiel says much about Ms. Manson - nothing about Francis, gay priests, or the Church.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ummmm.....\n\nCare to clarify your own point?\n\nI already know of PeeWee Herman within the Cheech and Chong movie, 'Up in Smoke\", and that his real name is Paul Ruebens, and that he had his own childrens show, and that he may be gay, so......\n\nI have never been within a Cheech and Chong movie, mine own name is not Paul, and I am not gay, not that there is anything wrong with that, and sorry, I am not sorry, so what is your own point, JZ?\n\nYou know that you are going to lose this game, no?\n\nIf not, I am sorry for you within advance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(Part five of five) If the Church gave the go-ahead on contraception, abortion, homosexuality, divorce, and women's ordination, do you really suppose attendance would increase? And, if it did, so what?\u2014Rule and Raven\n\nThe Church errors firing professors for even thinking about contraception, abortion, homosexuality, divorce and remarriage, and women\u2019s ordination.\n\n___\n\nIt's on us when a man who consistently promotes fear and hatred and demonization of the other is the pride of the churchgoing vote.\u2014Matt Connolly\nIndeed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No not really...but I bet the pro-choice/pro-life debate would be phenomenal. Just listening to talk radio and a caller brought up a good point. The story was about a WNBA player who quit the league because 98% of the players in the league were homosexual and she couldn't handle all the girls hitting on her constantly. That's when a women's libber called up and started complaining. Then from that the conversation turned to gender/non-gender do as you please however you feel to think today if you're a boy or girl. Then from there it went back to a feminism caller who complained that the non-gender subculture was making the libber's arguments moot. And then...it went to abortion. And then...it went to Gosnell. For the next 2 hrs it was all Gosnell. I'm guessing if it has traction nationally, then it'll have traction here. But NONE of the media here reported this story. THAT'S the Hawai'i story and angle from your article. Nobody reporting stuff here.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have to at least give props to Justin for having the sense to ask Mr. Mulroney for help. Justin excels mostly at gay pride parades and activist causes, so for the economy, it makes sense for a conservative to take the reins.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually you are wrong on many points. The APA does not still consider \"transgenderism\" as a psychological disorder. Sodomy bans have been ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court, so no, they are not punishable. The responsibility to conduct oneself orderly falls upon the individual. Just like racist white service members were no doubt uncomfortable when the service was integrated, so do non trans soldiers have get over it or ask for a discharge.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What Betty indicated - and has since reiterated - is that he was fired for coming out. Read her second comment. \n\nI said he resigned, offered you citations that said he resigned, offered the understanding of the letter that was offered and how it was received...he knew perfectly well what would happen. A priest does not say I intend to marry my homosexual partner and expect to remain in good standing. He resigned.\n\nHonest? Absolutely not. I have read interview and reports - his book notwithstanding. His activities for quite some time were not honest. His method of announcing his opinions were not honest...but self-aggrandizing. Publicity does not always equate to honesty.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"In Obergefell, Justice Kennedy\u2019s majority opinion explained that \u201c[t]he Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.\u201d Hence, the liberties protected by the 14th Amendment extend to \u201cintimate choices that define personal identity and beliefs.\u201d Law professor Lawrence Tribe has celebrated that \u201cObergefell\u2019s chief jurisprudential achievement is to have tightly wound the double helix of Due Process and Equal Protection into a doctrine of equal dignity,\u201d and the decision\u2019s establishment of same-sex couples\u2019 freedom to marry was \u201cunderstood by all to directly redress the subordination of LGBT individuals... The court\u2019s recognition that both due process and equal protection require that individuals be permitted to self-determine-to define and express themselves-has unmistakable extension to rights for the transgender community...\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "ALL of us have \"a number of things\" that we \"would be ashamed of should they come to light.\" Even St. Paul called himself the chief of sinners, and I am certainly no better than St. Paul. But, that is beside the point.\n\nIf we roll out and take a long look at the big picture, the issue here is whether a Christian church can continue to hold to its doctrine in an age when doctrines repugnant to the Christian Tradition are being enshrined into law an imposed on them. The corollary issue is whether adherents to that religion can gather together with a common commitment to those doctrines in the midst of an increasingly hostile society.\n\nHomosexual \"marriage\" may be statutory law, but it has never been and can never be canon law. Since Christians consider their true citizenship to be in heaven, for us the laws of God trump the laws of Caesar. The benefit of that fact to society is that the laws of God, as understood by the Christian Church from the Holy Scriptures and Tradition, are good.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This author makes a strong case. Marxism has been harmless for everyone except villagers, landowners, homosexuals, cossacks, native Americans, political prisoners, union members, or the religious. And of these, only 85 million or so were killed (please see communiststats.com and take a detailed and gut-wrenching overview of these deaths...and of course R.J. Rummel also puts it into perspective quickly and informatively: https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.TAB1.GIF. ) I agree with Richard Poplak: \u201cThere is nothing even remotely terrifying about the ideas of Professor Chris Malikane.\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It is also guilty of a fraudulent enlistment as a transgender has always been forbidden military service. Section 8/General Discharge for any known to be serving.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It turns out that you're wrong, AGAIN, on everything. Hate crimes can be used in crimes against white, gay people, by straight, white people. Need a citation to the legislative intent of hate crimes that supports your theory. Good luck with that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Funny that the cake case should be brought up by this writer. Local and state laws force religious dissenters who don't want their product in a homosexual ceremony that their genuine religious beliefs find disgusting and abhorrent, and against their beliefs but the Obama EEOC just ruled that Muslim Somali drivers who took jobs as delivery drivers can refuse to carry liquor based on the very religious beliefs the States, and local laws deny the religious dissenters. \n\nSo one set of rules for Muslims and another for Christians here in freedom loving America founded by peoples seeking religious freedom?\n\nNo double standard here?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Comment 2\n\nWhat made an enormous difference once Civil Rights laws were passed was a recognition that the market places where jobs are secured and where goods and services were exchanged were to be places in which people of different skin colors all had to be treated the same. We are not separate societies \u2013 we are one society.\n\nThe cake baker bakes and sells cakes on the public markets. If the cake baker were white, black, straight or gay, Catholic or Muslim, he should be expected to provide the same cakes to all who come to buy what he has to sell. He doesn\u2019t have to make a different product for a gay wedding \u2013 he just needs to make the product he sells to white, black, Catholic, Muslim, straight people. Gay people are not a separate society but part of the same society as non-gay people. We all live under the same laws.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It all adds up to the same kick to the curb. This is exactly what Alison drives at in the Tablet piece cited above by Victor Victoria:\n\n\"It is just conceivable that enough synod participants realised that there is no way to communicate current teaching mercifully, or with less hateful language \u2013 maybe because that teaching\u2019s premise of the objectively disordered nature of the \u201chomosexual inclination\u201d is actually false? ... I suspect there was enough of a recognition that there is no genuine way out of the impasse without raising a question of doctrine ... For the first time in my memory, the bishops seem to have faced up to having a genuine problem on their hands that is their problem, not that of LGBT people, and no apparent way out of it without help.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You want a single standard instead of one based on gender differences?\n\nI've heard of that concept being suggested in criminal sentencings; hasn't gained a great deal of support from the enlightened intelligentsia so far, though.\n\nA woman pedophile gets a lesser sentence in a heterosexual situation than a male pedophile, for example. \n\nIn the gay/lesbian mantra, there are no gay or lesbian pedophiles.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "He pulled a Dennis Hastert and just gave a general apology, never mentioning the pedophilia...\n\nBut at least he admitted that he's gay. Hastert didnt even do that.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I suggest readers not take offence to Tabatha's column because her writing is satire and it is funny....and for Mr. Trost a reminder that he marginalized himself as a potential national leader by choosing to share his perspective on 'the gay thing'....i.e. he's homophobic.\n\nThankfully, most Canadians have an attitude of live and let live...the foundation of our country to some extent was about two cultures having to work out how to live within the same national state. I think that extends to the large majority of Canadians being 'ok' with the 'gay thing.' They probably have some gays or lesbians in their family or among their friends and have accepted them for who they are.\n\nAs some of those commenting, they notice there is a big part of our demographic that are millennials and the Conservative Party will certainly not win them over by being homophobic. It's 2017, not 1957, so let's move on. Let's avoid the divisiveness that is being encouraged south of the border.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(Part one of three) Your doctorate is obviously not in a field which requires much writing\u2014mjmchale Not only that, western in www.western-civilization.com is misspelled.\n\nAre you suggesting that there is no \"dogmatic source\" for the proposition that homosexual acts are sinful?\u2014mjmchale That question is irrelevant. What is relevant is the claim that there is a dogmatic source for the proposition that homosexual acts are sinful.\n\nOr that man is simply unable to discern what constitutes a \"homosexual act'?\u2014mjmchale No need for misogynism. Rather than man being unable to discern, the first problem is humans being unable to discern; the second problem is defining just what may be meant by \u201chomosexual acts.\u201d", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Don't worry.\n\nTrump has already played the transgender card to please his base. He's got GLB remaining,\"\n.\nNope. Sessions killed that with the argument that glb's are not covered by discrimination protections.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "cont'd\n\non issues like contraception, gay marriage, and women's ordination as proof that \"Catholics come in many varieties,\" and you ask me, \"Who are you to judge?\" \n\nThe fact that many people who call them selves Catholic while refusing to believe what Catholicism says must be believed in order to be Catholic says a lot about the rationality of these people. It certainly doesn't prove, as you contend it does, that \"Catholics come in many varieties.\" By definition, a Catholic believes what is essential to Catholic teaching. To say otherwise would be not only illogical, but pointless. Why on earth would someone claim to be Catholic while rejecting Catholicism? Ah! A mystery. OK, sister, you got me. \n\nAs for your question, \"Who are you to judge?\" I see you're trying to channel Francis. Oh, dear. Problem is, at least Francis was talking about about moral judgment. I make no moral judgment about people who reject Church teaching on\n\ncont'd", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There are a lot of Christians who support marriage equality and transgender rights. There are a lot of non-Christians who don\u2019t. These are not uniquely Christian issues and criticizing Scheer\u2019s position on them is not in any way an attack on Christianity in general. \n\nIt's more like some conservatives have wasted no time playing the anti-Christian card.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The West has become more and more secular over time, particularly in the last 20 years as secular governments are demanding to disassociate themselves and their citizens from religion (either as a power move or as a perceived conflict of interest). \n\nSo do you think that the Catholic Church risks going \"belly up\" if it doesn't stop emphasizing God so much? At the rate things are changing, the secularists will have you believing that God and Jesus are transgendered, and don't laugh, because there have been many here quoting Galatians 3:28 recently.\n\nThe Church should not be changing to avoid going belly up or to cower to the whims of a degenerate society. The shepherd does not follow the sheep.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "She apologized for the remark? It was a Clinton Presidency \"program\", a program which sent many Afican Americans to jail, an apology just doesn't work.\n\nAs far as the question I asked, I will answer for you-\"pantsuit on fire\" is for women and LGBT rights-if it happens to be a election year, but in the off years she (Clinton FDN) is collecting millions from counties ( too many to list) that stone women to death for minuscule reasons, and prosecute/kill homosexuals for being different, I assume Arlene you are ok with this?\n\nInstead of speaking against this and condemning these nations, Hilary, well let's just say she prefers to make bank ($$).\n\nI'll vote with a very clear conscience, I hope you can do the same.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Instead of reading minds, why don't you look at how the logic of AL is being used in Canada to justify giving the Eucharist to somebody who has already arranged to defy God's will one last time by killing himself on his own terms. Or how that San Diego bishop has extended the logic of AL to include active homosexuals who can't be bothered to change their lifestyles to follow a God they claim to love and obey. The Eucharist, the real presence of Jesus Christ, is the heart of the matter. Once you turn that real presence into a symbolic meal then you relativize everything just like mainline Protestantism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is nothing you are saying that involves creating laws that say others have to live by your religious views, so seems like we aren't disagreeing. It also appears you are saying you have a business of some sort and don't want to serve gay individuals because it is condoning sin? I'm pretty sure you have to stop serving everyone, since we all are with sin.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I'm sure in your mind this has something to do with transgender people serving in the armed forces of the United States. WOW!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trying to equate racial discrimination with transgenders is a weak argument. Public toilets since the beginning have been based on either being a male or female sexually, not on what one claims to be or wishes they were. If nothing else it is common sense and most parents do not want young children exposed to the transgender or opposite sex bathroom experience. Public toilets are available based on the physical sex of each individual, or in some cases facilities with limited access that have locks on the doors. Why is this not perfectly acceptable? What of the rights of millions of people whose religious or personal beliefs reject the transgender life as sinful or immoral? Why insist everyone using what ever toilet that he or she wishes to use other than to force an issue that should be obvious in it's solution.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I assume you refer to this:\n\nhttps://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/francis-christians-must-apologize-gay-people-marginalizing-them\n\nHe does not appear to apologize for the way the Church has treated gay people. However, given his proclivity for ill-considered off-the-hip comments he may yet.\n\nHe does suggest - not magisterially - that Christians, sinners one and all, should apologize for anything they have done.\n\nThere\u2019s in that conflicting with my statement(s).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The only issue I see here is the fairness of a person born Male competing against people born Female. \"She\" Ice, depicted in the Newspaper picture, (not the one above in this article), appears much larger and taller with longer arms and legs. I would think that \"she\" is most probably stronger than \"her\" other female competitors. Is this really fair? Should those other female competitors loose out on scholarships they might have been awarded had they competed against other born\nfemales. Let's look at it another way. If Ice had been born Female and transgendered to Male, would \"he\" compete against other Males in this same sport, how about other sports, football?? And if so, would the reversal be true, would it be unfair to Ice to have to compete with other Males? Or would \"he\" even desire to try to compete against other males. Seems \"she\" has an advantage against other females. Reminds me of R. Richardson the tennis player form the 70's. It is what it is!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A man with a homosexual orientation going into the priesthood is not sacrificing a wife and a family of his own, he is just refraining from activity that as a Christian and a Catholic he is not supposed to engage in anyway. You can't give up something you don't have a desire for. Also, the priest is supposed to be the icon of Christ the bridegroom married to the Church. If a man isn't capable of marriage how can he reflect this in a priestly vocation?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is an excellent article. It is sober and reflective. Thank you, Father Reese.\n\nCompromise is the key to moving forward. However, I would place compromise in a slightly broader context that takes into account the direction of history. History does have a direction, and for the faithful that direction is union with a loving God. \n\nHumanity is on a journey. As Pope Francis keeps repeating: encounter and accompaniment, dialogue and mercy, and a field hospital mentality are how we continue the journey. Compromise keeps the conversation going. \n\nWhy the journey? The Spirit takes us as we are, including our conceptual limitations. We struggle to find conceptualizations that are closer to reality. Discrimination against gays is the burden of an ancient and -- unfortunately -- sacralized conceptualization. The young tend to be less burdened, and more open to conceptualizations closer to reality.\n\nCompromise maintains the journey. It is not the end. Patience is a grace.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Tempmoana, I believe you missed the point. You are right about Farook\u2019s wife not being from one of the six countries in Trump\u2019s travel ban, but your reply to Scuddrunner was not confined to Trump\u2019s travel ban only. You said \u201cWhat makes you think that? If you are a terrorist, then chances are extreme vetting-- employed by Obama and Trump-- will block you.\u201d You threw in Obama. The point I made is that Scuddrunner is right; it is possible for a U.S. citizen or legal resident intent on committing acts of terrorism in the U.S. to bring in a \u201cfianc\u00e9\u201d accomplice from any country using the K-1 visa program. With same sex marriage now authorized in the U.S., \u201cfianc\u00e9s\u201d can be of the same sex as the petitioner, which makes vetting a bit more difficult. A same sex fianc\u00e9 from a Muslim country should wave a red flag in the vetting process, but I would not count on it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am the judge. I'm not afraid of, nor do espouse or teach the fear of Blacks, Asians, Gays, Native Americans and etc. Maybe I'm practicing moral relativity but you are using false equivalencies and, as a maybe moral relativist, I avoid people that somehow think child molestation and murder is the equivalent of being LGBT.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "O NCRers, just what is it you want?\n\nYou're Catholic, right? So you should be pleased that the winner is pro life, anti-military engagements (Peace over War), pro-worker, pro parochial education voucher.\n\nYou're progressive, right? So you should also be pleased that the winner is also pro gay, pro gay marriage, pro bathroom choice, anti-government corruption.\n\nInstead of at least being happy that the candidate with these positions-- positions you likely agree with -- won the election, you act like all your hopes have been dashed to pieces. \n\nI can understand if you're against some of Trump's positions....but how can you be against all of them? \n\nPerhaps the writers at NCR, like other media outlets, are encouraging you to be against literally every position of the new administration. It is all wrong, and it all spells doom.\n\nBut I don't see how this can be so, unless you're buying into a wholesale polemic that is far more political (in the sense of propaganda) than rational", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Are they trying to block you out, Jim? Your voice is much needed on these fora ... I sense that you're a battle-hardend gay veteran with so much wisdom to offer ... and I love your dry humour!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "As for LGBT rights, recent court decisions are treating gays as a protected class and applying employment law on that base. If the bishops want to manage this, they need to get ENDA passed with some kind of exemption for ministry or the courts will enact a larger policy that will allow less elbow room. As for contraception, they are simply wrong. In the face of natural law evidence going the other way, they pulled the authority card. Their arguments have zero merit. It is no shock they are oppositional. That is what you do when you are wrong.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I would even strengthen what I said: the Holy Father's anecdote employs a stereotype about women, and implies one about gays. Thus I do not approve of it, though I have always defended the Pope in everything.\nI am not of the opinion that the Church needs to get rid of celibacy; nor am I of the opinion that the link between the masculine sex and the hierarchical priesthood needs to be removed. I am of the opinion that the Church's way of thinking about sexuality is and has been in many cases carnal and stereotyping and gives rise to misogyny, that this has nothing to do with the Gospel and is in fact opposed to it and needs to be changed. With regard to gay people I am convinced that pastoral care must avoid all stereotyping that here one must take into account that one is dealing with concrete persons, each one with his own story, who needs to be heard and respected, as Jesus does with each soul.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Couples do not make public statements as to whether they are using contraception. Many homosexual couples make no public statements about their lifestyles, even if they are suspected they are, therefore, given the benefit of the doubt. The Church cannot be seen to be endorsing homosexual activity which it condemns as intrinsically disordered. By defining their relationship as a 'marriage' they are making their rejection of the Church's teaching public.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While Muslims excoriate us about supposed Islamophobia, we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, Judeophobia, Christophbia, Europhobia, Americanophobia, iconoclasm, and even Islamophobia against each other. Ancient hatreds and wars of extermination between Kurds, Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabi, Druze and other Islamic sects are worse than anything expressed in the west, even by Trump", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A call for tolerance??? I disagree, we should be angry over this attack. Tolerance and turning the other cheek doesn't work when the other team is counting on you doing just that. Radical Islam does not play by our rules. \n Instead of a vigil everyone should be on the phones, email and letter writting campaigns to Washington to stop this nonsense on American soil. They know who the top ISIS players are and my question is why are they still walking around free while we are holding funerals. I think we've been tolerate enough as a country and are playing the price. Gay or not, Christan or not, white or black, it doesn't matter, they were Americans. It's time our giver many took action instead of making excuses.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "RE: Did everything really just get ugly when couples started using contraception and gays and lesbians asked to be married? <<<<\n\nSam Rocha once characterized Rod Dreher's view of the US culture wars by describing Dreher's sense of catastrophe as kitsch and parochial, his sense of despair as emotivist and modern. Same with +Chaput's vision.\n\nRhetorical confrontation, political, legal, canonical & military coercions all have their rightful place as the hard powers that we must call upon at times. But prudence and subsidiarity give primacy to the less coercive soft powers of dialogical communication, diplomatic consultation, pastoral accommodation, moral enculturation & Gospel inculturation. What most characterizes the neocon cultural engagement strategy is their reflexive & inordinate reliance on hard powers. Kaveny has characterized +Chaput's approach as prophetic utterance?\nThat's fair-minded. But his theological anthropology seems too pessimistic, his imagination too dialectical?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here we go again! The RCC's obsession with a large constituency of its clergy, gay priests, is a never ending saga. As a Colombian priest noted in his book, the RCC has been one huge closet for RC males who don't want to come out to their families. This is certainly truer in culturally more repressive societies. Fortunately, civilizing parents are embracing their offspring more affirmatively than the institutional church. The latter is a bad mother who continues to judge without mercy, reason.\nHow 'bout priests a with bisexual orientation? Shouldn't Francis & Co. address this? They deserve equally discriminatory time.\nIf a priest capitulates to his sexual urges, there is always confession. How long the RCC saw pedophile priests need only confession, not any secular law to get with the program? Why doesn't it warn pedophiles who see girls and boys as their prey from entering priesthood?\nJimmy Breslin contends the decline of vocations is due to their cover being blown in the RCC.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So, every time a baker makes a wedding cake, they're participating in the wedding?\n\nDo they vett the bride and groom to ensure their product is going to a ceremony that meets the approval of their subjective version of \"God\"?\n\nAre they denying wedding cakes to divorcees who are getting remarried? Because, while Jesus and the Ten Commandments both say literally NOTHING about homosexuality, they both have pretty strong opinions on divorce and adultery.\n\nDo they bake cakes for atheists? Because, by your, lol, \"logic\", they're denying \"God\" by association. \n\nDo they bake cakes for Hindus? Buddhists? Sikhs? If so, aren't they honoring \"false gods\"?\n\nNo, your \"logic\" here falls flat on its face. You and your ilk are desperately hanging on to your ability to legally display your hatred to the last group that you're allowed to do so. Your fear, ignorance, and bigotry is a worse condemnation of your ideology than any \"attack\" you perceive from outside of it.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I very much appreciate the sentiments Sr. Fiedler expressed in this piece, but the truth is, the Diocese of Madison only codified a practice that I've been told by several friends living in various parts of the country happens all over the place. The only difference being that other dioceses haven't codified their position into a formal statement which then gets leaked to the press and broadcast over the internet. Various priests simply engage in the same behavior and no one reports on it. The end result is that those few remaining gay people like me who have endured are getting more and more tired of fighting for our dignity and one by one we depart in peace, having received the message loud and clear that we're not wanted - which should please several commenters here very much. I myself already have one foot out the door. Congratulation, you guys - you've largely won the whole ballgame. It's only a matter of minor clean-up at this point.\n\n\"Make the Church Straight Again\" Woo hoo!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It seems that given the past thousand years this dilemma will not be solved in our lifetime. LGBTQ is a new acronym to me. When I served in BUPERS, (the Bureau of Naval Personnel), in DC I was responsible for processing Naval personnel for discharge. One day I happened to look at the 500 form printing and noticed that all forms had the discharge category of \u201cundesirable\u201d. I did not understand so I asked my Chief. He said they were queers who, regardless of any commendations, were being immediately discharged. I was floored. Now in 2017 the president tweets an order to expel all transgenders without first discussing it with the military generals. That was the military.\nNow we have a church who is without a way to \u201chandle\u201d those who are identified as LGBTQ\u2019s without breaking their tenets. I would suggest that if they continue an isolation method, it will never come to pass.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Doesn't anyone remember how Hillary treated the victims of her husbands abuses? I do. Does anyone want a country so far left it will tip over? I don't. Would a rally with rap stars get my vote? No. Hollywood does not have anything in common with me. People just got tired of Liberal Privilege. Maybe people remembered that the Nazis were Socialists. In fact the name means National Socialists. Maybe some people think there are bigger issues then transgender bathrooms for the government to work on. Maybe free speech is more important then \"safe spaces\". My God Obama just signed a bill that cut my pension. Maybe people found out that Obama is the first president to spend all of his 2 terms at war. He bombed more then 7 countries, most of them Muslim. He deported more Mexicans then all the previous presidents in the 20th century combined. Not that I disagree with all that but I hate the lefts denial about it. Obama has done a lot of what the left is afraid Trump will do.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. You say he's made cakes for gay people before. You claim that as fact. How many has he made?\n\nNice buzzwords. Sounds to me like this man's faith \"triggers\" you. Why is it you \"SJWs\" never want your justice for the Christians?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Most healthy women do not harbour the outright hostility you have toward gay men. Most of them actually like them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "...and trans people should be given bingo cards that have numbers that are not in the hopper. That's the way to stay happy and blessed.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Trinidad - Thank you for commenting here. Firstly I would like say you sound very wise for a 16 year old, and an environment with challenges can be good for a persons character. I watched my mother and father get drunk, take drugs and beat each other up on a weekly basis and tried to shield my younger siblings from this. It sounds like in some ways you are growing up in a better environment than I did. Your environment may be positive and loving, but many in this particular demographic of homosexuality and transgenderism are not, and when society begins to celebrate situations like this, it becomes very concerning to many people (myself included). Mutilating ones body in order to meet a a perceived inner desire is a VERY dangerous road to start out on and confuses younger children in many ways, and most importantly it is not God's will for families. I believe I can speak for all the Christians here on when I say we wish God's best for you and your family. Have a Merry Christmas,", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Nothing in the bible states that the marriage of two homosexuals is unacceptable either. It condemns homosexual behavior (which I'm told isn't limited to the confines of marriage). The sexual and interpersonal behaviors of atheists who are married are also unlikely to meet biblical standards. Why put his \"creative soul\" into celebrating the latter? \n\nOr to use a different example, if I were a divorcee getting remarried, you could make a biblical case for the sinfulness of the \"event\" of my new marriage. But again, I doubt he questions every heterosexual couple who want to purchase a cake for their wedding. It's likely that he does find homosexuals to be \"worse\" than other sinners, but that's not biblically supported. It's cherry-picking.\n\nThe event of marriage can't be separated from the people involved, and as cake shop he's in the business of events. But if it's only events, not people that are a problem, let's remove that for a minute. Would he make a cake honoring Harvey Milk?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Has the Church, the Denomination, ever made any pronouncement about this issue?\nIf not, it's past due!\n\nThe reason is simple: Apparently this man uses the Church's pulpit to vibrantly lecture on an issue that he is particularly passionate about. Yes, he has the right to do it, but NOT taking advantage of a church's pulpit. If he is so dedicated to his cause, why doesn't he rent a big gymnasium, advertises his theme, and go from there? It is not right for him to get in front of a slave audience and spit on them his personal views on any issue. \n\nHe is certainly not the only one guilty. Someone invited/allowed him to deliver his lecture(s). Are they sanctioning, endorsing, promoting his views? \n\nIf I had the time...., I would check if he has been informing the public on the neurological data available about the homosexual nature. Or is he focusing only on homosexual behavior, thus neglecting the biological aspects of the issue? (Which most \"passionate\" people do!)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Abortion are euthanasia are intrinsic moral evils, as is homosexual \"marriage\", never justifiable. Poverty, the environment and immigration are social ills, to be addressed and overcome by prudential measures that Catholics can legitimately disagree on. \n\nThe sins that cry to heaven for vengeance: \nThe \"blood of Abel\": homicide, infanticide, fratricide, parricide, and matricide;\nThe \"sin of the Sodomites\": pride, gluttony, negligence of the poor, abuse of children, and homosexual acts;\nThe \"cry of the people oppressed in Egypt, the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan\": slavery and unjust discrimination; and\nThe \"injustice to the wage earner\": taking advantage of and defrauding workers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While we have a duty to help those that need it with their \"physical needs,\" those needs are NOT even close to the individual's spiritual needs. A man can be the richest person in the world, with the best of everything in his life, but if he loses his soul, he was an abject failure in life. Therefore, the Church's primary duty/responsibility is to keep people from falling out of the \"Grace of God.\" Today's Church - the \"Church of Nice\" - does't do that, they only seem concerned with the physical needs of man, not his spiritual needs. \n\nWhen was the last time you heard a priest give a sermon about hell and how most of today's Catholics are destined for it because they voted for a democrat politician in the USA or any politician that supports the evil of abortion or homosexual marriage? Read about what St John Vianney, the patron saint of priests - said about how most bishops and priests are destined for hell for not preaching about it and leading their flock astray with liberalism.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No. I am saying writers \"stay on topic and don't (try to) muddy the waters\" --- doing so in this case blurred a couple of things. (DACA, LGBT and Transgenders-) The topic is DACA! A executive action that most likely was not Constitutional but definitely is temporary. That Obama hinself said. \n\nYou have delved into things I did not even partially imply.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How was it helpful? Do tell?\nDid it explain why women have to cover their heads or why gays get thrown off buildings. (Ooops, sorry censors, I didn't mean to say the truth.)\n\nMy account will be deleted again over this.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Substitute the nouns: Jew, Black. female, gay, handicapped, and these stories in today's Globe and all you would have is simple hate speech that would certainly be actionable by the OHRC.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why apologize? It's true!\n\nElagabalus really should have included the prior paragraph to preserve morecontext:\n\n\"10. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church's pastors wherever it occurs. It reveals a kind of disregard for others which endangers the most fundamental principles of a healthy society. The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in word, in action and in law.\n\n\"But the proper reaction...\"\n\nI have to think that Pope Francis would agree completely with this as well as the rest of the second paragraph.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "@DiverDave, that's terribly unfair. Heteros do go around telling everyone they're hetero *all the time*. Example; a co-worker was saying just what you did \u2014 \"I don't go around telling everyone I'm straight.\" I pointed out that that she did, in fact, do exactly that; four times in the conversation she'd said \"My husband,\" thus telling everyone she was hetero. She paused and then said \"You know, I never thought of it like that.\" Before same sex marriage was legal, any time someone said \"My husband\" or \"My wife,\" they were telling people they were hetero. Ditto any time a woman said she was pregnant; artificial insemination aside, the pregnancy was due to a hetero sexual encounter. Ditto anyone talking about planning their wedding; again, pre same sex marriage being legal, that was a huge announcement you were straight. There are tons of other examples.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This group is based on pathologizing homosexuality, rather than agreeing with current scientific consensus that being gay is simply a natural human variant (like being a red-head, or left-handed). \n\nThe sad thing is that they encourage self-loathing, guilt, and loneliness amongst LGBT individuals. We are made for companionship and love, not emptiness. I think \"Courage\" is cruel.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Funny how one day earlier, May was waxing poetic about how wonderful Trump was, and about how much in common they both have. Seems like the British PM is eating crow now. Donald Trump has proven one thing though- That Fascism is alive and well in this world. I fear for those of different races, different religions, different cultures and different values. I fear for women, the LGBTQ community, activists and our youth. With Trump in the White House, there is no limit as to how many will fall victim to his net of policies and witch-hunts. The U.S (and the whole world), is really in a pickle now.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No one is touching this because current politically correct climate favors the transgendered as being at the top of the pecking order, the most protected class of individual above lesbians and gays, blacks, undocumented latinos and women in that order, with any type of conservative and white Christian man occupying the lowest possible positions. No one is allowed to comment without harsh criticism or worse about those above them in the PC rankings and the ramifications of their particular situation for our society, even though we are all stakeholders. This needs to change if we are ever to have a society of equals rather than a culture of grievance based political power struggles.\n\nThat said, my opinion is family situations of this sort will rarely last long term, and great emotional damage will be done to all members, particularly children. I hope this is not the case for this or any other example, but I fear for them and for any society that institutionalizes it in policy or law.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I am very familiar with the case. Please, link me to an article that spells out where this gay couple asked for the baker himself to be involved in the wedding, or that they wanted some image on the cake itself that was somehow offensive or went against the beliefs of the baker.\n\nYou clearly have it in your mind that this couple requested something special or different than what would be considered \"normal\" in regards to this cake - and I have found nothing to suggest that in any story I have ever read about this case.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Also in Glennallen where previously there was only a Christian radio station there is now NPR - an arm of liberal propaganda. The left knows that the remaining pockets of conservatives mostly reside in rural areas of the US. They progressives are out to change that. In Iowa, Owe-bama is behind grants to \"lesbian\" farmers. The loans are for lesbians who what to try farming and there are rural house and land loans.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hello Just As Good,\n\nIt is strange that you stereotype all Muslims into one group, a group that in your claim is 100 percent opposed to having theocratic rule over America. I would agree the vast majority do not want that, but I nonetheless find it striking that you feel comfortable to ignore diversity among Muslims and bunch them all together as 100 percent against theocracy. Your blanket statement is all the more strange when you consider that over a third of US Muslims want gay marriages banned for religious reasons, a greater proportion than white Catholics and about on the same level as black Protestants who want a ban on religious grounds. Too bad the facts are not on your side, I suppose.\n\nThe fact that Muslims are not holding big federal power positions does not rebut my prediction, that this newspaper would take a far less muscular attack. Indeed, it is very difficult to imagine this paper publishing verses from the Koran and pointedly expressing concerns about the follower.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What I see is a big difference in the application of moral law as regards to gay and straight men.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Okay, the Lesbians sued the local baker for refusal of service. If this business person refuses service based on political belief then she should be fined and sued.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Eating shellfish, wearing gold, men cutting their hair, eating pork, eating any meat with dairy products (among a plethora of other arcane Levitical prohibitions) were all once considered acts contrary to the Divine and natural law by the Holy Roman Catholic Church. While Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and other fundamentalists retain their adherence to Levitical law, the church CHANGED! (horror of horrors) and now allows us to enjoy the delights of raw oysters, cheeseburgers, and pork chops, along with men like me who like to keep their hair neatly trimmed.\n\nThe church will one day change its tune on gay issues because all but the Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and other fundamentalists will have moved on, as a great many already have, leaving the Roman Church in the dust clinging to its precious tradition but little else. The church will change, as it always has, or it will die a deserved death of natural causes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do you read the Dispatch every day like I do ? If so , why is free speech taken away on certain stories or if the tone doesn't go along with the stories agenda ? A few weeks back when a story appeared about this stories pilot getting sued for not paying a former employee , no comments were allowed . That's taking away free speech. Why did they do that ? Mainly when Dispatch stories concerning the promoting of the gay lifestyle appear , often free speech is ended because a number of the commenters disagree with the agenda of the story. I'm with the Dispatch about wanting civil conversations , but they often stop conversations they disagree with. If a comment isn't civil it should be pulled---but to end the free speech completely because they don't like what they are hearing is wrong , and what I meant about restricting free speech. I get a kick out of the way liberals always want conservatives free speech ended , yet theirs is to be taken as solid wisdom.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does anyone else see the pattern of promises broken?\n\nFN's, veterans, gays, etc were fed a line by a guy with a smile and hair that they, in their inability to read people, bought hook, line, and sinker.\n\nAlso add Jennifer McRae who was promised a fix, voted in favour by parliament in 2002, that sickness benefits for thousands of women on maternity benefits, would be resolved ASAP as soon as he took office.\n\nSince then? Crickets", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My understanding is that a PPS employee/fundamentalist Christian complained because Frida is bisexual and it is mentioned in the film.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Islams unease about the \"whole gay thing\".\n\nAn article \u201cWhat is Islam's position on the treatment of homosexuals?\u201d says that \u201cIslam goes beyond merely disapproving of homosexuality. Sharia teaches that homosexuality is a vile form of fornication, punishable by death.\u201d\n\n\nOuch. That awkward moment when Tabatha pens an Islamophobic opinion piece on her never ending quest to push shiny hot buttons.\n\nI suspect this post will be shouted down shortly.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"Promoting family values\" often means denigrating gay people, libeling them, trying to deny them goods and services.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The headline should read \"A small minority still are uneasy about \"whole gay thing\". Covering fringe candidates and attributing their outdated attitudes to conservatives in general is nothing more than liberal bias. Social issues like abortion and gay rights are settled, conservatives know that. That fact that the conservative party has a few out of step members is no different than the looney left wing of the Liberal party best exemplified by Kathleen Wynne.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "ya but how many Gay Parades has Trump been to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Yes, I oppose bigotry. You support it. Your claim that I oppose that farmer's bigotry makes me a bigot would be laughable were it not that it comes from someone claiming to be a Christian. You are snotger who reads Christ's command as \"You shall live your neighbor as yourself, unless the neighbor is gay. Him you shall loathe, hate and fear. And you shall support others in this same loathing.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Your question isn't about discrimination. It's about a product that the baker doesn't offer, and does not involve discrimination. The baker is able to decorate the cake any way he wants, and refuse to decorate a cake any way that he wants, as long as he consistantly does it. If the homosexual baker doesn't bake the cake that says \"Sodomy is Evil\" for anybody, then it's not discrimination when he doesn't bake it for a conservative. Now, if he will bake it for Muslims, but not Christians, then you get into discrimination.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have a college degree in biology and never heard of generative development. Must be something some psychologist conjured up. Means/ends of sex is clear without philosophy; it doesn't go there. But I understand the desire to make it more than that on the basis of how good it feels. It feels good because we're designed to reproduce and perpetuate the species. STDs and newly resistant strains thereof, as well as incurable viruses are a strong motivation to drive our culture back to sexual conservatism, though admittedly it hasn't helped much with the male homosexual population.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Now that is persecution, not telling a farmer he is not welcome at a market because he opposes gay civil marriage for religious reasons.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender is such a small segment of the population but somehow has commanded and demanded that the majority bow to their demands. I don't want to share a restroom with someone of a different gender, doesn't matter if the person identifies with my gender or not. It's not about being 'transgender'. You were born with certain parts. That's just how it is. If you want to get a sex change operation, then fine. Once changed, you are then that other sex and you should then use that restroom because you then have those parts. That's why men's restrooms have urinals, and women's don't. It's about the parts. \n\nBut if you want to act like a woman (or man) but not change your parts, well, you're still a woman (or man). That's just reality. And no matter which sex you identify with, your parts are still those parts. Your needs are no more important than mine. Why should a majority of people be forced to follow what a minority wants? That's not democracy.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Gay/Lesbian bars fail for the same reason \"straight\" bars do: Not enough paying people to keep the lights on. It's not a conspiracy or some new form of oppression that Lesbian bars across the country are failing. In fact, the bars closing are an indication that gay acceptance/awareness has been succeeding to such a degree that gay people don't have to go to \"themed\" bars just to feel accepted/safe anymore. They can go anywhere they want, which was the goal from the get-go of the gay rights movement. People, especially gay people, should be seeing this trend as society moving forward and an overall win.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I have no interest in oppressing the transgendered. I'm not afraid of them. I, however, will not pretend that I cannot tell the difference between a man and a woman.\n\nThe transgendered have a psychological condition, they believe they are something they are not. Mutilation, and forcing hormones into their bodies does not make them switch sides. Their suicide rate is astronomically higher than the average. It is cruel to tell a schizophrenic that God really is talking to them through the radio. How is this any different?\n\nI will not deny them their human rights, but I will not engage in this delusion.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I never threaten. Neither you nor your transgender \"wife\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If the community have had problems with police - and they have - how can it not be a good idea for the police force to celebrate Pride, and gay/lesbian officers alongside everyone else?\n\nI can't see this move as a good thing.\n\nps, bringing a motion as significant as this one to a meeting without notice is neither democratic nor fair.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No it isn't. We know what it means, it's not watered down at all, and what Trump just did to transgender people is hateful by definition. Get used to it. It's what motivates everything he does - hatred. For minorities, immigrants, women, LGBTQ, Muslims, the poor, the old, and the sick.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Do I understand that the aptly-named Jack Phillips gently massages a soft, elongated canvas bag until it releases frosting from the tip onto a waiting cake and calls it \"artistic expression\", but he finds gay marriage to be sinful? Odd. I guess we all interpret the behavior of others differently.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How can they be \"homosexual\" acts if only opposite-sex folks are involved. \n\nOr do you have a syllabus of errors for heterosexual lovemaking as well?\n\nI am honestly confused. Thank you.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Richard, there is no question about transgenders serving in the armed forces with honor and distinction, but they did so as men and women according to their birth anatomy. The issue now is allowing them to serve in the armed forces in roles opposite their biological sex and to undergo sex reassignment surgery while on active duty and paid for by taxpayers. Military service is too important to be involved in liberal social experiments. It is insane.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Xavier: I have flagged your post. I'm guessing some, but not all, posters on this site know \"lemon parties\" are homosexual orgies for older men. You are accusing me of proselytizing for men to engage in such activities. I've been married 53 years and have, all my 74 years, been exclusively heterosexual. \n\nYou don't have to agree with me about anything.....that's absolutely fine. You're certainly welcome to counter any opinion I state....that's the nature of democracy and free speech.\n\nHowever, when you post such scurrilous. disgusting comments, I will flag them to the moderators on this site. The RG Civil Comments site is a great site for, as the name denotes, civil discourse. If comments such as yours are allowed to remain posted, the entire level of discussion descends into the gutter. That would be a shame for all of us.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "(I guess I'm not done, after all.)\nI was responding to the OP: \"I think racists are evil, but they should have equal protection and rights under the law. No matter how stupid their views are. They want to meet as a group and discus their ideas. Warped as they are, they have that right.\"\nPosters like him will stand up for these white power people to be treated equally, but then turn around and allow gays to be denied service because the business owner has religious objections. I was pointing out (badly, apparently) that it's a double standard those on the far-right can't see. The law has nothing to do with my point; it's the double standard I was objecting to.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To which groups are you referring? The National Front party of France declares itself pro Christian.\n\nI believe that the group that attacked a crowd at UC Berkeley and shut down a speech by a gay Catholic is anti-Christian. Others too.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Anti-bullying policies should be for everybody, without special reference to any group or political movement. The need to refer to \"transgender\" is unnecessary and frankly discriminates against non-transgenders. I am a transgender, but was bullied far more in school before I came out, and I am sick of people trying to indoctrinate children by forcing transgenderism into our schools and sexualizing our children. I lived without transitioning as a child and I think the decision should be reserved for adults (just like we do not let kids drink or consent to have sex with adults). And all of these transgender specific policies are just thinly veiled programs designed to program children into making adult choices when they are still highly influenceable kids. I did not need policies to make me more comfortable as a transgender; I needed policies to protect me from vicious people irregardless of my identity. So I wish they would stop putting subclauses in everything.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hooper: \"The (homosexual) agenda does not bring forth life.\"\n\nA long time ago I had a vasectomy. So my 'agenda' can't bring forth life either.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Some companies see transgender people as high risk for lawsuits, and this is a good example why. All too often gender identity and sexual orientation is used to make up for on the job incompetency, and incompetent employees become unfireable no matter what they do in this current PC political climate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "With Horrific Moral Decay in women the last 30 years, I am surprised that SHE did not invite him in, maybe BB or Ride the Pony...........Is the Wonderworks EX- priest out on bail???? \n\nPoor guy, maybe she was Lesbian Honest???????\n\nThats a Great Way for women to scare off would be attackers, just holler out, I'm a Lesbian, he's gone.................", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Strickland is an MRA (and thus white supremacist) with a long history of harassing women of color, trans people, and some pretty wacky conspiracy theories about \"Jews\" which are completely ignorant of the history of Jewish folks in Portland.\n\nIn short, he's a waste of space who's going to act out sooner or later. Aiming and menacing with a loaded weapon? Not okay. \n\nI will say this: Jesse Sponberg and the PPB alike, two entities I'd never thought I'd find myself praising in one sentence, handled this like champs and prevented potential violence. I do not know the other brave souls who participated in de-escalating this white supremacist, er, I mean \"white nationalist\" (hint: means the same thing in reality) but kudos to them, too. Strickland is gonna at least do a bid over this, so let's focus on the positive: the good folks of Portland worked together to take a malicious MRA off the streets for some time.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A Trans man is a man that wishes he was a woman. Grasp the concept", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Courage is a ministry for people with same-sex attraction who are struggling with the desire to engage in same-sex sodomy. Part of that is the giving up self-identifying as \"gay.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Kind of like the hypocrisy of conservative politicians who publicly fight against gay rights, all the while leading secret double lives involving gay lovers?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To be fair, what you call evil most people call: a person of color just going about minding his own business, or a gay person just minding their own business, or a divorced person just trying to stay away from creepy nosy neighbors who insist that they are trying to save everyone but in fact just want to remind them of how \"bad\" they are for being divorced.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Why does the G&M have to include that fact that he is gay? I mean it's 2017", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You' re the biggot...anti-military anti normal gender and anti-vets. Please read \"Schotzy\"s comment and to be more specific a gay individual does not require gender surgery, special medical care or separate facilities.Currently the transgender surgery cost a minimum of $1M and often more. The procedure requires multiple major surgery and a total, often , of 285+ days recovery etc. \nThe normal Vets under you Dem bums get nothing, but you propose that transgenders get $1M of voluntary plastic surgery and almost a year of paid no duty pay. AND then special treatment and facilities! Outrageous!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Because supporting infanticide, homosexual marriage, the nanny state, and open borders is soooooooo Catholic.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Actually, I have a couple of problems with Fr Martin's book. He assumes that the hierarchy wants to have a respectful dialogue with the LGBT community. With a few exceptions, there seems little desire on the part of the bishops for such a dialogue. Much of the gay community has said, \"the hell with the Catholic Church, which has amply shown that they have not the slightest interest in accepting us\" and left.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Does it makes sense trying to reform an ideology that is rotten to the core? Remember we\u2019re talking about a \u2018religion\u2019 that advocates killing apostates, stoning adulterous women, taking the sword to infidels, throwing gays off tall buildings and so on. It\u2019s noteworthy that their \u2018prophet\u2019 had to withdraw verses from the Qu\u2019ran, known as the Satanic verses, after acknowledging that they came from the Devil and not God. When you look at the state of the Muslim world, it stands to reason, that the entire Qu\u2019ran is a dictation for how to live given not by God but the Devil.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When a man can have a baby, and breast feed their child, tell me he's a woman. Until then he's a man pretending to be a woman. I have no problem with Americans wanting to pretend they are a woman or a man, and like with males and females they need their own bathroom. Now, as for the deluded neurotics who claim there are no victims, and what proof do we have of our fears, Oregon has had to shut down rest stops in the Portland metro area because of homosexual activities in the bathrooms and parking lot. Just one fact that confuses the dickens out of them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "This is a major problem with diversity. It mandates that everyone needs to be special. Special groups now need their unique culture and issues protected. This leads to constant friction between al the special groups. Even the gay community has become fractured.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It's you that should stop spreading the misinformation. The difference in mortality rate of drug users between Portugal and Saudi Arabia is statistically insignificant. Burthermore, according to the numbers you cite, Portugal suffers about 60 overdose deaths a year. At less than a fifth of Portugal's population, Vancouver gets more deaths in a month!\n\nYou're hoist on your own petard, as you deserve to be. As a strategy to reduce deaths from illicit drugs, Canada would be well-advised to go the way of Portugal. We could perhaps lower deaths a tiny bit further still if we became another Saudi Arabia. But then we would also be publicly beheading drug addicts, along with adulterers, homosexuals and \"sorcerers.\"\n\nPersonally, I favour the Portuguese approach.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Chaput is only open to subservience to his version of the truth. Facts be damned, individual conscience be ignored, and civility be forgotten. He has no critical self-distance to examine the vitriol he spews, and those he scorns number among themselves the divorced and re-married, the gays in committed relationships, and the politician voting his/her conscience, to name but a few. As he sits in his ivory tower, he has no idea of the pain he causes, nor the oblivion into which he further descends. He is not a lone voice for the faith, he is a loud gong and a clanging cymbal. He reminds me of the classic definition of the puritan, one who lives in constant fear that someone out there might just be happy. Ignore him.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "For me \"unnatural actions\" and \"social aberrations\" is the homosexual agenda. It is also the killing of our unborn children. It is courageous when people are attacking him to get him to shut up.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Is this directed toward me?\nNever been married. Close a time or two, but dodged that bullet. Or maybe it was she who dodged the bullet. Either way, I am happy being gay and not having to put up with the \"I pushed a watermelon out of my vagina\" syndrome, therefore anything I say goes until it happens to you (which I understand is kind of what kidney stones feel like).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Especially younger clerics? But I'm a bit leery of the phrase \"affective maturity\"--we used to say that gays were affectively immature--and \"appropriate\" is also loaded, if you recall that any gay affectivity was regarded as \"inappropriate.\" Also, appropriatedness varies hugely from culture to culture and from period to period. Many older man today who behave or speak in a way that was perfectly appropriate when they were younger get into trouble.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hi Boots. In the Jewish faith there is a Biblical basis of the prohibition against homosexual acts. There isn't a prohibition against being inclined to homosexuality as long as one does not act on that inclination. The prohibition derives from two biblical verses I believe, Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13. The Jewish ideal family is a happy marriage and lots of children. The notion of a marriage not being between a man and a woman would have been entirely alien to rabbis of the past - likely so alien that it never crossed their minds. Finally, I suspect Christians share the same Biblical verses I cited. As for Muslims, I'm not sure which teachings they cite in this regard.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "DB - How do you respond to these:\n 1. Over 50% of Christians, and the vast majority of younger Christians, don't share your belief that providing services or selling goods to LGBTs amounts to facilitating sin (don't trust me, google it). So this can't be The Christian Position.\n 2. This argument was widely used by Christians to justify racial discrimination in the not too distant past, and there are undoubtedly some that still believe this. Do you support legalizing such discrimination because it is based on strongly held religious belief?\n 3. If we protect bakers and florists as you recommend, aren't we also allowing doctors to refuse to treat someone on the same grounds? Does it matter more if a patient dies because the Christian doctor refuses treatment to a gay man, or when the Muslim doctor refuses treatment to a Jewish man?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think anyone is devaluing the struggle of blacks and gays, however BLM and Pride have taken a serious step backward and I for one would also certainly describe BLM as malcontents as they have done absolutely nothing constructive to prove otherwise except to sow seeds of division and unrest.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A good number of people see in the Obamas a loving marriage, good parents, nice children. Unfortunately, a good number of people think Michelle is a transgender man, Barack is gay and the kids are adopted. How to unite people with such different beliefs about the world?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "They did rent a hall, it was in a library. They paid money like any other group to rent a space. But I'm glad to see the left begin to come around on the whole 'you have to service me because I demand service' aspect of freedom of association. Next you'll be agreeing that bakers don't have to bake gay wedding cakes.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Abortion is not a legislative question unless someone puts in a bill changing the date of personhood prior to viability. It is also settled by constitutional law and the SCOTUS will not repeal it. Zero judges want to give the decision back to the states. Not even Thomas. Gay Marriage is a done deal. Euthanasia is not being pursed through federal law - indeed, it was just legalized during a Trump presidency because assisted suicide bans are a violation of privacy rights (meaning its not up to the legislature, like gay marriage and abortion). Comparing Trump to Clinton on corruption grounds is really very funny. Trump is the biggest crook to ever hold the office, not his staff, him. Hillary is a Methodist Church Lady.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "There is nothing to reconcile. The two are intractible, church: \"intrinsically disordered\" and LGBT person: \"I am\".", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "What is wrong with these dictator liberals, public schools are supposed to be free of religion, when I was 6 they stopped the lords prayer and took down photos of the queen in my school, I didn't like it but I understood the concept, now they are forcing Muslim prayers into the schools and telling the people this is religious accommodation. The Globe is right there is rage out there that is about to boil over about this lunacy, don't even get people started about our lesbian premiere and having every elementary school covered in gay pride flags. F em all.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "It appears that neither you nor \"mustbekidding\" bothered to read Charles Dalton's letter, which explains that helping the homeless is a cost vs benefit issue. In other words, helping them has a cost, but the benefits exceed the costs. Do the two of you get that? I admit it's a concept, and some people aren't capable of abstract thought. But you two gays are smart enough, right, LFT and mbk? Right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "My son in an Ontario school - without textbooks and relying solely on the teacher to provide him with learning materials - has never had a science fair. He gets a one-day lecture on the scientific method before going on to do dreary dittos (not even in colour). We need kids to reason cause and effect for themselves and come up with hard data to confirm their hypotheses. \n\nWe also need more debate in social studies around issues that most teachers will never discuss - Islam and its violent prayers, for example. Abortion, the gay gene, the differences between the sexes, race and what it all means. The issue should always be about finding the hard data to support one's facts. The issue should be about good debating and not taking offence.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Transgender people to not vote Republican in 2020", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Well, \"gay lifestyle\" is a euphemism, of course.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "i know - the funny part. i've almost stopped posting on this forum - it may americans in general, but too many small minds. they never deal with issues in a debate mind set if they disagree. \"they\" are like a pack, and just go for a bite - regardless where it lands. \"they\" pee and moan about ending your posts using your name, me for not capitalizing lol - lynn for being an advocate for the homeless, jade for possibly being lesbian. I don't know / don't care - i see her as a strong woman, lynn is a passionate, caring man , and you are a wise sage. \n the relatively small group of yappers are predictable and stay on script regardless of subject matter. motley's thing is looking up stuff to see what he can dig up - creepy - it suits him to look up the involved parties and \"report\" their misdeeds. GBA makes off the wall, vaguely racist and sexist remarks, XMalcom- was venomous and was nasty - i asked a simple question to clarify who he was talking about and he went OFF. unstable guy", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I feel very sorry for transgendered people as they will never be successful in transforming to the other sex completely. They want what is not possible physiologically, unfortunately. Even after the surgeries how many stay on the drug therapy to keep the tetestorone surpressed ? It must have catastrophic implications to go through this process without complete transformation. They are caught in no man's land and are suffering from mental illness; much like Michael Jackson who could not stop self mutilation in the name of plastic surgery. While I feel empathy I do not think this is a normal aspect of humanity.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "97% of Irish citizens call themselves Catholic. And that nation voted for gay marriage overwhelingly. That is a wonderful thing, beautiful & kind. African-Americans are 97% Christian. (only 3% of blacks claim to be atheist according to a poll taken in July 2017 by ABC News). According to this same poll, 83% Americans say they are Christian. \nIf you look at people like Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter (and their many, many compatriots) whose foundation Eradicated river blindness, and Habitat for Humanity (a Christian organization), and all the Christian & Jewish charities that feed the poor, you see what good comes from kind theist workers. The article says Nothing about what these atheists are doing to help the poor.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Clinton is very popular with Wall St bankers, career politicians. billionaires, criminals, illegal aliens, lawyers, has endorsements and donations from Muslim countries where homosexuals are thrown off rooftops and women are treated like dogs, and is married to the biggest womanizer since the (D) Kennedy brothers.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "To go with our obsolete aircraft and our rusty second hand submarines and our rental supply ships and transport aircraft we, after having fired our best admiral we are now going to further add to our woes by staffing the military with transgendered individuals and we cold probably add a few from the LGBTQ community and of course we have females who have committed perjury and thieves such as Leslie. By sticking with the above philosophy however when appearing in front of the enemy they would all die laughing at our impotence thus obviating the need for modern effective hardware.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a \u201cmental disorder\u201d that merits treatment, that sex change is \u201cbiologically impossible,\u201d and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder. While the Obama administration, Hollywood, and major media such as Time magazine promote transgenderism as normal, said Dr. McHugh, these \u201cpolicy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.\u201d\n\nThe latest social engineering is a push ro allow transgenders to serve in the military. Imagine shemales in the barracks with a set of boobs that rivals Miss Universe and hung like a clydesdale horse.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I think to a degree, but I think that hatred of the left is going to continue to hold them together. The religious feel that the left wants to make being Christian illegal or something. The gun guys feel that the left want to outlaw all guns. The fiscal conservatives feel that with the left, Soviet style communism is only a week away. The social conservatives are afraid the left will mandate gay weddings or abortion or something. That fear is going to keep these disparate groups together, not out of a common belief system, but out of fear. The last 8 years, they had a boogeyman to rally against, but take him away and they still have their other fears to keep them together.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Hmm. Gayness is great, right?", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Iran is all that - it is a modern and productive country. But it has its contradictions also. Iran is a politically oppressive state, with some backwards Islamist laws on their books (eg against homosexuals), and policy heavily influenced by the Ayatollahs and other radicals. They also have official policy seeking the destruction of Israel.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How about we don't decide what bathrooms people can or can't use by telling them to prove it using their genitals? That seems to be the societal norm that is so dear to you.\n\nTransgender people are pretty much requesting basic civility and privacy. What do they get for that request? Bullying, bible-based lessons in genetics, , being equated to sexual predators, and outright 'woe is me' complaints by people who seem to think the very existence of transgender people is an inconvenience to them.\n\nReading these comments sounds no different than the stories you hear about people in Russia thinking that all homosexuals are pedophiles and other outlandish things. It's sickening. If you're a straight white person without disabilities it's really hard to understand how the world might be for people of difference. All anyone is asking for are equal rights and the ability to live their life normally in peace. The right thing to do is to give everyone the same respect you deserve.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "How about a lecture by radical jihadists affiliated with a terrorist organization, Doc? \n\nOr a discussion of monkeywrenching, sabotage and tree spiking by a radical environmentalist with Earth Liberation Front? How about a lecture on the health benefits of tobacco use by one of the many scientists who used to work for the Tobacco Institute? \n\nOr a popular presentation on the beauties of child pornography? How about a sermon showing that AIDS is god's wrath on gays? \n\nAre you a \"liberal\" in that you're \"willing to accept or respect\" these ideas? Are you \"open to these new ideas\"? It's hard to see this essay as anything but a expression of race, gender and class privileges by someone who has always enjoyed them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The average human body has 35 TRILLION cells, and every single one of those cells carries the chromosomes that determine if we are male and female (extremely rare exceptions.) The truth is you can never change your sex. As someone who respects science I find it disturbing that these activists, and our own government, is trying to make me PRETEND that I believe someone is a sex they are not. Trans people can feel like a different sex, look like a different sex, and I will be respectful to them etc., but you cannot tell me to play pretend and accept that they have actually become the opposite sex. The vast vast majority of them have no chromosomal disorders!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You couldn\u2019t join the military back then. Transgendered anything were considered to be mentally defective and were housed in mental institutions. There were probably some that slipped through same as recently but they had no protection and if discovered could and usually were summarily drummed out of the service.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Everyone is looking at this from a Politically Correct or personal lens, and I don't read anyone standing up for what might be best for that particular branch of gov. I have seen dozens of stories of trans all saying they should be included in the service, but at the same time, honestly how many gays and tranzys really want to dress up and go kill people? ten, 11 maybe a dozen? Very few do, but they are fighting Trump because they don't want the resistance to their agenda.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Ward 1, I would also bet that she has \"STRUMPET\" experience. Assuming she is female, she could be one of those TRANS things, I am sure her defense will be, \"HE tried to RAPE me\". \n\nI believe your statement of, (\"This is a perfect example of why people should not own guns\"), is GROSSLY WRONG. You should have stated, \"This is a PERFECT EXAMPLE of why DRUGGIES or MENTALLY ILL people should not own gun's.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Quite simple. The devil does not create man. Therefore, the devil does not and cannot give \"characteristics\" as a temptation. Biology (God?), however, does indeed render characteristics. And there is plenty of studies that suggest a genetic/epigenetic determinant for homosexuality. One study demonstrated that when one twin is homosexual, the other twin would be homosexual in 66% of cases in identical twin pairs and 30% of cases in non-identical twin pairs (this includes twins raised in separate families). To put this into perspective, the likelihood of two random people both being gay is likely much less than 1%.\n\nIf you want to know more about epigenetics, please ask or look it up. Suffice it to say, it means that our genes very strongly influence our traits but other things (e.g., prenatal hormone exposure, the environment, etc.) may affect how those genes are expressed. This explains why a grossly disproportionate number - but not 100% - of twins share a sexual orientation.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The Church has not said that being gay is a sin. So, a club to support students who are gay or transsexual would not be supporting any behavior that the Church views as sinful. \nso, the analogy that you insist that you are making is inapt. In any case, the actual comparison is really and truly awful.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Imagine President Hillary, Commander in Chief of our transgender military, dealing with North Korea's nuclear ambitions. She might be selling us out to the Chinese for campaign cash for her 2nd term election, Yeah..she's that evil and power hungry. Thank God she lost.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Obama did not offer a daily #Twoop like the gems Trump offers more than once a day.\n\nPerhaps the media did hide Michelle's trannsexual status, or his own homosexual exploits, or, oh right, that fake birth certificate! The media was covering his back then!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "A ridiculous article. \n...\"it was an existential attack on the entire LGBTQ community, particularly gay people of color.\"\nOhhh Pleeease! \n\nAs Xavier_Malcolm stated: \"...we\u2019re not buying into the drama of the BLT-GQ pity party.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So preventing entry into a country is a parallel to slavery, is it? And the same thing as abusing women? And persecuting gays? lol \n\nYou really need to work on your hilariously illogical arguments. No one could possibly take you seriously. You're free to disagree with US immigration policy but you sound foolish by trying to draw parallels that have no relevance.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "While Muslims excoriate us about supposed Islamophobia, we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, Judeophobia and anti-Semitism, Christophbia, Europhobia, Americanophobia, democraceaophobia, iconoclasm, and even Islamophobia against each other. Ancient tribal wars of extermination between Kurds, Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabi, Druze and other Islamic sects are the cause of all the civil wars and bloody genocide going on across the Muslin world. It is worse than anything expressed in the west, even by Trump", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Pedophiles are rarely interested in a child's sexual orientation; they are interested in satisfying their cravings in an illegal and socially unacceptable manner.\nSince there are ever so many more heterosexuals in the world than there are homosexuals, most child molestation is perpetrated by heterosexuals; also most is perpetrated by men. So, you are suggesting that heterosexual men are trying to change the sexual orientation of children?\nAnother deep breath might be in order.\nIt would be most worthwhile to read the following article by a research psychologist at the University of California: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html.\nPlease read it carefully. It addresses all of your concerns.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "You posted these questions:\n\n\u201cWHY IS THIS A STORY NOW?\u201d It\u2019s a part of history, and\u2013good, bad or indifferent\u2013history matters. Sometimes we can learn from it (present company excluded).\n\n\u201cWHAT\u2019S THE CONNECTION?\u201d To what?\n\n\u201cSO CHARLIE\u2026(W)HAT WOULD HAPPEN IF CHRISTIANS REFERRED TO HOMOSEXUALS AS THE \u201cGAY LEFT?\u201d\n\nThis question is addressed to Mr. Wohlforth, therefore I\u2019m not obliged to answer it.\n\n\u201cWONDER WHAT THE LEFTISTS WOULD SAY??\u201d Ditto. I\u2019m not a \u2018leftist\u2019. I neither know nor care.\n\n\u201cWELL, I JUST SAID IT.\u201d\n\nShould we applaud? You\u2019re always saying something. Problem is most of it is bakwaas (that\u2019s Urdu for green, steaming, odoriforous matter that periodically drops from the south end of a northbound male bovine mammal).", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That conclusion only makes sense if one is so homophobic that they attribute all evil to homosexuality. The comment to which I responded involved the physical abuse of children by men including Benedict 16's brother. Being unable to understand one should not abuse a child is a demonstration of a lack of basic morality. Converting the discussion to an attack on a group of people is a demonstration of bigotry. And an excellent reminder of the value of the mute feature.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Bad strategy.... better to use the diversity of gays and lesbians to unite the other factions. For example there are many more macho latinos who hide their sexuality than the latino drag queens. \n\nBy breaking down sexuality barriers we would also be breaking down religious, economic, racial and ethnic barriers. Think Martin Luther King, Jr but even bigger. \n\nWe should all participate in each others pride parades. This moral consideration goes beyond politics. Even the gay Republican caucus, the Log Cabin Republicans whose hero is Abraham Lincoln, have marched in gay pride parades.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The point is that Viagra is an unnecessary drug for the combat mission. If you're interested in saving money in the military, which is supposedly the primary reason they want to eliminate transgendered from the ranks, you can save 10 times that amount by not paying for Viagra.\n\nEliminate an unnecessary cost.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Perspective:\n4.2M: Alberta's population \n2.5M: possible voters \n61,670: United Conservative Party membership \n35,623: voted for Jason Kenney.\n\n35,000 dinos lead by a corrupt, incompetent weasel - who couldn't in 9 years get a pipeline built and brought 400,000 temporary foreign workers into Alberta - aim to sway you with their \"ideology\" which consists of attacking minorities, gays, women, and social programs that support working people, including health care. Yeah, you elect that Alberta and in four years you'll throw it to the curb like you did Prentice.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "And let's no forget that champions of the LGBTQ community argue strenuously that even children under 10 have the right to decide that they are not the sex that their genitals say they are.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "When can i start planning on building my Greek Orthodox Church in pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Oh I'm sorry I forgot it is not allowed and against the law in these countries to build such a place of worship. Give me a break enough with your accusations of a hate crime, it is gone on too long here in the west where our so called leaders have virtually given everything away for nothing in return and when there is a terrorist attack here on our soil our leaders call it a criminal activity and never a hate crime which is what they really are. Don't think we are stupid and ignorant, our leaders talk about women's rights and gay and lesbian rights and then they walk down to places of worship every election where they know such rights are abhorred. Well now finally someone in a leadership role is addressing his country's concerns and it is labelled a hate crime. Ridiculous, completely false and disgusting to read.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Justin Trudeau.\n\n\u201cFor someone to start questioning my own faith and accusing me of being a bad Catholic, is something that I really take issue with. My own personal faith is an extremely important part of who I am and the values that I try to lead with.\u201d\n\nMr. Trudeau added that neither he nor his father saw any incongruity between enshrining the rights of gays and lesbians, for example, and the tenets of Catholicism. He notes that he is personally very opposed to abortion, but still believes nobody can tell a woman what she should do with her body. - globeandmail\n\nOh dear, do you not know who your PM is?\n\nHow embarrassing. How awkward.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "The fact that this man wAs a marine and one of the officers he killed was also a marine shows the falling of brotherhood within our military men/women.\n\nI remember when serving your country was a calling and afterwards you regarded the men as your brothers. \"Even though nowadays people try to say capt America and buckey barns R gay because of how close they were, (morons that's called brotherhood because you fought and next to each man and that man covered your ass on the field)\". \n\nNow when people serve their country they seem to have forgotten what the core taught them, what they swore an oath to, what they are supposed to believe in.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Did a quick search of Tupola and she was against the same sex marriage law in Hawaii. That is not a deal breaker, but she needs to channel the late John Burns and say she is deeply religious and neither agrees nor understands same sex marriage, HOWEVER she will clearly state and back up her words to not allow her personal religious beliefs to get in the way of her decisions as governor of Hawaii. Burns was a devout Catholic but allowed abortion rights in Hawaii to become law. IF Tupola is like Aiona & runs her political campaign based on religious fanaticism of anti gay, anti same sex marriage, anti immunizations and choose a paster running mate as lieutenant governor, she might as well give up now like McDermot as she will lose.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Remedial President? So, let me see. If you believe this, you must be for the following. High taxes, N.A.F.T.A., carbon taxes, low growth, high debts and deficits, allowing the Chinese government to purchase major American companies, pro transgender men in womens bathrooms, pro illegal immigration, pro war with Russia,and pro preventing Africa advancing economically. Remedial President. O.K.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "That is a lot of words that do not say much.\nColorado law is pretty clear. If you offer a service to the public, you can not choose which protected classes to offer that service to. You can talk all you want about contracts and tomorrow, but that does not change the law. \n\nBy the way, the baker agreed in writing to abide by state law when he signed his business application. He went back on his word. Lying is a bigger sin than making a cake for a gay wedding.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "If all the left has to offer are homophobic and misogynistic attacks on Leitch, she needs to be very careful.\n\nA protest banner will soon lead to possible hate crimes from this bunch of left wing deplorables.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Exactly like the baker who will not bake cakes for gays, except no one fraudulently allowed him to discriminate.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Here are the ones so far in 2016 : \n\nBlack activist in Seattle defaces African-American cultural center with racist graffiti\n\nAfrican-American students at the University of Albany falsely claim to be victims of racial abuse by fellow passenger on a bus\n\nPastor in Austin, Texas claims a local Whole Foods store wrote \u201c@!$%#\u201d on a cake he ordered for a gay congregation member, but surveillance footage shows he tampered with the cake himself\n\nMuslim woman in New York City admits to faking knife hate crime attack", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Conservatives are so fearful of people who are different that they automatically assume each has an \"agenda,\" and that he or she is trying to commit a subversion just by living his or her life. Certain groups do have movements in order to band together for protection, but, so long as these do not promote violence, they are not to be feared. People really do just want to live their lives and to be treated like \"everyone else.\" I'll never forget the evening 30 years ago when I heard Mike Rosen expound on the \"homosexual agenda.\" As a gay man, I said to myself \"Joe, did you know you have an agenda? WOW!\" My dad was in the room with me, and we both looked at each other in amazement that someone could say such a thing. All I ever wanted to do was live my life free to be the person I was, without judgment or restriction. \n(cont'd.)", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I agree that respect and civility are goals worth working at.\n\nUnfortunately, anti-gay hate crimes are on the rise even in the first world (doubled in the UK in the last 4 years, on the rise in Europe and the US ... transgender folk being routinely murdered ... corrective rape in South Africa rampant ... that's my neck of the woods). \n\nThere's no polite dialogue with Adolf Hitler (even though we daren't impugn his intentions ... that would be a really egregious crime!).\n\nClerics who equate homosexuality with the stuff of Satan and the destruction of civilization feed directly into hate crimes. Of those to whom much has been given, much is expected. Of those to whom much is entrusted, even more is expected! Much is entrusted to our Cardinals!\n\nPax et bonum.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So we can assume that Austin Ruse has some serious personal issues that have caused him to lash out at Fr. Martin and the idea of welcoming gays. You don't get that personal and nasty about a policy disagreement. There is something very wrong with that guy that he needs a counselor to work through his issues with his sexuality rather than taking it out on other people.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Unity is God's will) for gays and straights. Complementarity is a conclusion, not an argument. If you quit thinking of gay sex as icky, it will start to click. The institute for marriage tried that argument in Perry and it was not coherent to anyone who heard it. This issue is settled civilly and resistence to it from the Church will be ended from within by gay couples, their families and gay priests and bishops. There is ample justification for when they make their move to do so, just as clerical celibacy and a male priesthood will also fall.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "No such thing as transgender - just males, females, and people with abnormal brain scans. Brain scans are abnormal among those who claim that they are really their own body's biological opposites.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Steamboat news... The 14th Judicial District Attorney Brett Barkey has established a pattern of not charging negligent and abusive cops while maliciously charging whistleblowing cops and so called \"deviants\u201d. During the same period of time Mr. Barkey was conducting his fake grand jury to exonerate the negligent cop for the death of a child, Mr. Barkey charged a female officer for a bruise on the arm of a violent teen known to be a bruiser. Unfortunately for our community Mr. Barkey has established that cops are not allowed to cross the blue wall of silence, are not responsible for their deadly weapons and not allowed to be a gay LEO in NW Colorado. Fortunately the State of Colorado is investigating Mr. Barkey and his corrupt activities.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "So sayeth the one with the bigesteth mouthed. Lo, I say unto you, shuttest upeth with the biblical phrasing.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I don't think I can picture Christ ever saying \"good riddance\" to anyone. I could see the Pharisees saying such. In fact, I cannot picture Christ passing judgement on anyone as the RCC has done through it's teachings for the divorced and remarried, those on birth control, gay people and women in the church. \n\nI think there is plenty to discuss!", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "Neither are gays a \"protected class of citizens, per the law.\"\n Misinformation to make such a blanket statement.\n\nFederally, they are protected re discrimination just like all others.\nSome states are considering a protected classification for them.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "\"no matter what is put in front of you regarding crimes committed against trans people you will attempt to minimize it away\"\n\nI'm not trying to minimize anything -- I'm trying to promote accuracy.\n\n\"The 21 trans people murdered in 2015 listed in the HRC report were recorded as single or multiple bias murders by the FBI.\"\n\nYour source? The HRC report makes it clear that they don't know the motive in most of these cases, and complains that too few cases are reported as \"bias-motivated\" crime.\n\n\"As far as the man killed in Vermont just a few days ago authorities have yet to determine if his transgender status was a factor. They haven\u2019t expressly said anything except that they were still investigating.\"\n\nActually, as the article I posted said:\n\n\"Police initially investigated whether the murder was related to Beede's gender identity. However, they now say they don't believe it was a motive and that the killing stemmed from a dispute.\"", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"} -{"text": "I just don't find her a very good representation of the transexual community. She just seems so self-absorbed & concerned with such superficial issues.", "gold": "False", "sub_split": "non-toxic"}