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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!	True	toxic
You have not debunked anything. You just do not understand what is going on. Again, you can make ridiculous contentions all you want, but you have offered nothing to prove them. I can not explain it to you in simpler terms or with smaller words. If you want to make more ridiculous hypothetical situations up, I would be happy to explain them to you. Explaining the ‘gay white supremacist getting a cake’ was fun.	True	toxic
MAGA? Make America Gay Again? Make All Groping Acceptable? What is this MAGA you speak of?	False	non-toxic
This is a problem for gay people, not for Canadians.	True	toxic
Get the Chechen homosexuals over here ASAP!	True	toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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. In 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	False	non-toxic
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.	True	toxic
How many gays have christians thrown off rooftops and then stoned?	True	toxic
Nazis aren't a protected class. Homosexuals are. Read a law book.	False	non-toxic
Of course you can, but know that in doing so you reveal your own personal obsession with the anus. Are you gay?	True	toxic
You need to get your movement going to keep blacks, Hispanics, and gays in their rightful place.	True	toxic
I would put so much gay porn on my phone if I ever crossed the boarder lmao	True	toxic
No doubt you feel the government should be out of your life all together. I bet you have something to say about gay marriage and sex ed and how they both should not be allowed	False	non-toxic
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.	True	toxic
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!	True	toxic
I feel the same fear for the gay members of my family.	True	toxic
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".	True	toxic
Why fo gay guys always think they can get away with misogyny?	True	toxic
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?! Yet, 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?! Like 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. Yes, you asinine hypocrites have blood on your hands.	True	toxic
Republicans are such predictable hypocrites. You can safely bet that whatever they are obsessed with and accusing the other side of doing is what they are actually doing. ( …private emails? check.) Take Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), for example. Rep. Murphy is a fine, upstanding Republican with a wife and a mistress. Good red-blooded guy, who is now implicated in his girlfriend's divorce. In 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. "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. Murphy 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." How long can it be before we find out McConnell is transgender?	True	toxic
You are making it up again, you have no evidence that Cardinal Newman was a homosexual. You are just spreading malicious gossip.	False	non-toxic
Wow. It is super you think gays have extra rights that non-gay people do not have. Please list these special rights gays have that I do not have. I 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. The baker could deny service to the skinhead, for being a skinhead. Political and terrorist thought is not protected. End of your very dumb hypothetical situation. Let’s 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, “Gay Marriage Should be Legal Worldwide.” The baker is under no obligation to bake the cake, that is political.	True	toxic
And that a religion is misogynistic, treats women like property and throws gays off buildings. That is not very nice either.	False	non-toxic
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.	True	toxic
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?	True	toxic
Why do y’all try so hard to look like men when you hate them so? This “transgender” movement is a fad just like tattoos. These poor kids are starved for attention. It’ll fade out like hula hoops and cabbage patch dolls did. Three hundred years from now, transgenders might be as reviled as slave owners are today.	True	toxic
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.	True	toxic
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.	True	toxic
"I know you're gay so birth is not relevant to your kind" Despicable. And I do not pretend to be civil. This kind of comment does not deserve civility. From an old white guy with children.	True	toxic
Null, you are confusing homosexuality with pedophilia.	False	non-toxic
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?	True	toxic
normal as in statistically so, which is untrue among clergy. True heteros left and don't join. priesthood Asexuals and gays do.	True	toxic
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!	False	non-toxic
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.	True	toxic
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.	True	toxic
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.	True	toxic
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".	True	toxic
So trans-gendered people cannot defend the US and fight? Used to say that about black people and women. Discrimination is discrimination.	True	toxic
And I am NOT gay, regardless of what anyone may tell you. That makes it so.	False	non-toxic
Or a few drunk lesbians.	True	toxic
I have met many homosexual priests. none, I MEAN NONE would have ever touched a child. THIS STATEMENT ABOVE IS SICK	True	toxic
Moore is the same so-called "christian" that said this, "“Homosexual 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’s ability to describe it.” He claims it's the same as bestiality. Look up the rest of this moron's nice "christian" comments.	True	toxic
What an appropriate drawing to illustrate this article! Dear 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.	True	toxic
You're either utterly ignorant or totally incapable of telling the truth. Trump's VP is viciously antigay... http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pences-most-controversial-stances-on-gay-rights-abortion-and-smoking-2016-11 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/04/mike-pence-led-anti-lgbt-backlash-trump	True	toxic
Like these black-clad fascists that attacked a gay man's right of free speach. https://medium.com/@trentlapinski/the-berkeley-riots-were-a-cowardly-act-of-domestic-terrorism-2bcafbb32ff0#.rlbjjb1np	True	toxic
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. Have 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. I will say another prayer for you eric. Not in Arabic though. Be a Great American. Vote for Trump.	True	toxic
THOM is a HOMOSEXUAL that ENGAGES in DOG SEX with PROGRESSIVES THOM has a CANINE MEAT LOCKER MOUTH that ATTRACTS NIGERS and DOGS as a PARTY MOUTH--- WHAT A GUY HAS A GERMAN SHEPHERD ATTACHED to HIS ASS	True	toxic
It seems to me transgender is faulty wiring in the brain bordering psychosis of people that are otherwise healthy. a weirdness just like fetischism .	True	toxic
Thank you for that irrelevant piece of homophobia.	False	non-toxic
"Free speech is wonderful when you didn’t have to pay any price." ??? My 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. I 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. I am not a racist. That is only your perception of me which makes you the racist. I also have a very valid reason for my abhorrence of homosexuality, but you wouldn't like to hear it.	True	toxic
It is odd you say,”Of course gays don’t have special rights,” but you still think a gay skinhead has special rights. If gays do not have special rights, why does the baker have to bake a cake for a gay skinhead? I did not think it was possible, but you are actually regressing intellectlly. You are chossing to be ignorant. You are wrong. No one agrees with your ignorant rants. Again it is very simple. No member of a protected class gets special rights. Political thought is not protected. I can not explain in more simple terms. I can not dumb it down any more. That is it. If you can not grasp those very simple concepts, then you are hopeless. Normally I would think you are trolling as no one could be this dumb.	True	toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
Young liberals are really quite stupid aren't they? it's like they read Marx and believe the world works like that. It really is scary that these are the attitudes of the liberals. They are up against a killer in Trump. That guy eats babies Protecting Canadian enterprise is job 1, not protecting women. That is done by domestic laws... Listen kid, The economic survival of Canadian enterprises depends on economics not on virtue signaling or some gay rights crap. Gender rights? WTF! Laws protect gender not trade deals. The stupidity of these liberals is really frightening	True	toxic
There are lots of implications for contemporary situations. Since 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? Then 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.	False	non-toxic
The difference is Jesus never said to kill homosexuals. Mohamed did.	True	toxic
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?	True	toxic
Jeez, you guys truly are delusional. The 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.	True	toxic
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!	True	toxic
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.	True	toxic
Yes, and he is a pentecostal minister, very anti-gay and, supposedly, "holy". Another fine hypocrite exposed!!	True	toxic
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.	True	toxic
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.	True	toxic
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	True	toxic
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.	True	toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
"Yes it's certainly not cool for a son to have sex with his mother, but . . ." You 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."	True	toxic
Why not send them to canada ???? And if there are any gays, then even better .................	True	toxic
The best qualified candidate is not always the disabled native lesbian who has converted to Islam. Funny how that works.	True	toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
Amy Demboski, your neighbors might be having gay sex. shouldn't you be putting a stop to that? Eagle River voters. F you!	True	toxic
Transgender is a mental disorder. Doesn't matter if your liberal or conservative.	True	toxic
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’s “pioneering.” The only Shane tune we liked a lot was Any Other Way, which we doubled up with Clarence Carter’s Slip Away, an original composition dedicated to Carter’s deceased brother. Shane's ephemeral “big hit” was a cover. What offends about this piece is mirrored in a complementary NYT’s 19 Oct tendentious dissertation (also in the Fashion section) titled The Gay Architects of Classic Rock. And that is that self-professed fonts of “quality journalism” are slaves to relentlessly promoting “disruptive” nonsense. When the Globe ennobles queerness and gender performance while printing - “weddings were created to enslave women,” it’s the Globe I hold responsible as a disseminator of fake views as fact.	False	non-toxic
Islam relegates women to dog status and executes homosexuals. American liberals look the other way. Why?	True	toxic
because she's black & a tranny	True	toxic
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?	True	toxic
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. Nice work Libtards!	True	toxic
I'm sure the transgender kid was a plant by Liberal strategists. Pretty pathetic.	True	toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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. That 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. And 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.	False	non-toxic
If you're claiming the Christian has the power in this case, I'd say you've been buying too much Rocky Mountain High. The 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. The 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. The score is Gays 1 and Baker 0. But 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. By the way, it's legal for gays to be Christians--thanks to the First Amendment.	False	non-toxic
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. As for what equal treatment that group is looking for at C.U., I believe that would be the right to exist.	False	non-toxic
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. take 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	False	non-toxic
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. This "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.	False	non-toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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. Who 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"? I 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.	False	non-toxic
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. But 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.	False	non-toxic
Well done. An important addition to understanding of not just transgender people, but for others who are part of the LGBTQI community. This 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." I 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.	False	non-toxic
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. Young 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!	False	non-toxic
Efforts to control pronouns will likely backfire since a transgender-unfriendly harasser could use the legally required pronouns but still harass in other ways. It gives the harasser an opportunity for cover (i.e. 'I always use the correct pronoun for that person') you likely do not intend. This 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? Education and time, not legislation, is the usual course of action here, no?	False	non-toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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.	False	non-toxic
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?	False	non-toxic
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. Of 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.	False	non-toxic
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. A 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. I 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.	False	non-toxic

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!

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You have not debunked anything. You just do not understand what is going on. Again, you can make ridiculous contentions all you want, but you have offered nothing to prove them. I can not explain it to you in simpler terms or with smaller words. If you want to make more ridiculous hypothetical situations up, I would be happy to explain them to you. Explaining the ‘gay white supremacist getting a cake’ was fun.

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MAGA? Make America Gay Again? Make All Groping Acceptable? What is this MAGA you speak of?

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This is a problem for gay people, not for Canadians.

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Get the Chechen homosexuals over here ASAP!

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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.

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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. In 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

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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.

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How many gays have christians thrown off rooftops and then stoned?

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Nazis aren't a protected class. Homosexuals are. Read a law book.

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Of course you can, but know that in doing so you reveal your own personal obsession with the anus. Are you gay?

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You need to get your movement going to keep blacks, Hispanics, and gays in their rightful place.

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I would put so much gay porn on my phone if I ever crossed the boarder lmao

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No doubt you feel the government should be out of your life all together. I bet you have something to say about gay marriage and sex ed and how they both should not be allowed

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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.

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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!

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I feel the same fear for the gay members of my family.

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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".

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Why fo gay guys always think they can get away with misogyny?

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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?! Yet, 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?! Like 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. Yes, you asinine hypocrites have blood on your hands.

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Republicans are such predictable hypocrites. You can safely bet that whatever they are obsessed with and accusing the other side of doing is what they are actually doing. ( …private emails? check.) Take Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), for example. Rep. Murphy is a fine, upstanding Republican with a wife and a mistress. Good red-blooded guy, who is now implicated in his girlfriend's divorce. In 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. "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. Murphy 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." How long can it be before we find out McConnell is transgender?

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You are making it up again, you have no evidence that Cardinal Newman was a homosexual. You are just spreading malicious gossip.

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Wow. It is super you think gays have extra rights that non-gay people do not have. Please list these special rights gays have that I do not have. I 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. The baker could deny service to the skinhead, for being a skinhead. Political and terrorist thought is not protected. End of your very dumb hypothetical situation. Let’s 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, “Gay Marriage Should be Legal Worldwide.” The baker is under no obligation to bake the cake, that is political.

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And that a religion is misogynistic, treats women like property and throws gays off buildings. That is not very nice either.

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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.

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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?

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Why do y’all try so hard to look like men when you hate them so? This “transgender” movement is a fad just like tattoos. These poor kids are starved for attention. It’ll fade out like hula hoops and cabbage patch dolls did. Three hundred years from now, transgenders might be as reviled as slave owners are today.

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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.

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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.

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"I know you're gay so birth is not relevant to your kind" Despicable. And I do not pretend to be civil. This kind of comment does not deserve civility. From an old white guy with children.

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Null, you are confusing homosexuality with pedophilia.

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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?

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normal as in statistically so, which is untrue among clergy. True heteros left and don't join. priesthood Asexuals and gays do.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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So trans-gendered people cannot defend the US and fight? Used to say that about black people and women. Discrimination is discrimination.

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And I am NOT gay, regardless of what anyone may tell you. That makes it so.

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Or a few drunk lesbians.

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I have met many homosexual priests. none, I MEAN NONE would have ever touched a child. THIS STATEMENT ABOVE IS SICK

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Moore is the same so-called "christian" that said this, "“Homosexual 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’s ability to describe it.” He claims it's the same as bestiality. Look up the rest of this moron's nice "christian" comments.

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What an appropriate drawing to illustrate this article! Dear 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.

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You're either utterly ignorant or totally incapable of telling the truth. Trump's VP is viciously antigay... http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pences-most-controversial-stances-on-gay-rights-abortion-and-smoking-2016-11 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/04/mike-pence-led-anti-lgbt-backlash-trump

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Like these black-clad fascists that attacked a gay man's right of free speach. https://medium.com/@trentlapinski/the-berkeley-riots-were-a-cowardly-act-of-domestic-terrorism-2bcafbb32ff0#.rlbjjb1np

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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. Have 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. I will say another prayer for you eric. Not in Arabic though. Be a Great American. Vote for Trump.

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THOM is a HOMOSEXUAL that ENGAGES in DOG SEX with PROGRESSIVES THOM has a CANINE MEAT LOCKER MOUTH that ATTRACTS NIGERS and DOGS as a PARTY MOUTH--- WHAT A GUY HAS A GERMAN SHEPHERD ATTACHED to HIS ASS

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It seems to me transgender is faulty wiring in the brain bordering psychosis of people that are otherwise healthy. a weirdness just like fetischism .

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Thank you for that irrelevant piece of homophobia.

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"Free speech is wonderful when you didn’t have to pay any price." ??? My 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. I 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. I am not a racist. That is only your perception of me which makes you the racist. I also have a very valid reason for my abhorrence of homosexuality, but you wouldn't like to hear it.

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It is odd you say,”Of course gays don’t have special rights,” but you still think a gay skinhead has special rights. If gays do not have special rights, why does the baker have to bake a cake for a gay skinhead? I did not think it was possible, but you are actually regressing intellectlly. You are chossing to be ignorant. You are wrong. No one agrees with your ignorant rants. Again it is very simple. No member of a protected class gets special rights. Political thought is not protected. I can not explain in more simple terms. I can not dumb it down any more. That is it. If you can not grasp those very simple concepts, then you are hopeless. Normally I would think you are trolling as no one could be this dumb.

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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.

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Young liberals are really quite stupid aren't they? it's like they read Marx and believe the world works like that. It really is scary that these are the attitudes of the liberals. They are up against a killer in Trump. That guy eats babies Protecting Canadian enterprise is job 1, not protecting women. That is done by domestic laws... Listen kid, The economic survival of Canadian enterprises depends on economics not on virtue signaling or some gay rights crap. Gender rights? WTF! Laws protect gender not trade deals. The stupidity of these liberals is really frightening

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There are lots of implications for contemporary situations. Since 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? Then 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.

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The difference is Jesus never said to kill homosexuals. Mohamed did.

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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?

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Jeez, you guys truly are delusional. The 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.

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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!

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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.

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Yes, and he is a pentecostal minister, very anti-gay and, supposedly, "holy". Another fine hypocrite exposed!!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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"Yes it's certainly not cool for a son to have sex with his mother, but . . ." You 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."

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Why not send them to canada ???? And if there are any gays, then even better .................

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The best qualified candidate is not always the disabled native lesbian who has converted to Islam. Funny how that works.

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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.

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Amy Demboski, your neighbors might be having gay sex. shouldn't you be putting a stop to that? Eagle River voters. F you!

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Transgender is a mental disorder. Doesn't matter if your liberal or conservative.

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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’s “pioneering.” The only Shane tune we liked a lot was Any Other Way, which we doubled up with Clarence Carter’s Slip Away, an original composition dedicated to Carter’s deceased brother. Shane's ephemeral “big hit” was a cover. What offends about this piece is mirrored in a complementary NYT’s 19 Oct tendentious dissertation (also in the Fashion section) titled The Gay Architects of Classic Rock. And that is that self-professed fonts of “quality journalism” are slaves to relentlessly promoting “disruptive” nonsense. When the Globe ennobles queerness and gender performance while printing - “weddings were created to enslave women,” it’s the Globe I hold responsible as a disseminator of fake views as fact.

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Islam relegates women to dog status and executes homosexuals. American liberals look the other way. Why?

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because she's black & a tranny

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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?

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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. Nice work Libtards!

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I'm sure the transgender kid was a plant by Liberal strategists. Pretty pathetic.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. That 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. And 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.

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If you're claiming the Christian has the power in this case, I'd say you've been buying too much Rocky Mountain High. The 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. The 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. The score is Gays 1 and Baker 0. But 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. By the way, it's legal for gays to be Christians--thanks to the First Amendment.

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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. As for what equal treatment that group is looking for at C.U., I believe that would be the right to exist.

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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. take 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

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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. This "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.

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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.

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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. Who 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"? I 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.

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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. But 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.

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Well done. An important addition to understanding of not just transgender people, but for others who are part of the LGBTQI community. This 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." I 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.

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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. Young 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!

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Efforts to control pronouns will likely backfire since a transgender-unfriendly harasser could use the legally required pronouns but still harass in other ways. It gives the harasser an opportunity for cover (i.e. 'I always use the correct pronoun for that person') you likely do not intend. This 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? Education and time, not legislation, is the usual course of action here, no?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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. Of 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.

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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. A 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. I 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.

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