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rbwinn wrote:

>>>>>>> The conversation about this particular link between Josef Stalin and
>>>>>>> homosexuals began when an atheist said he did not have sins because
>>>>>>> he
>>>>>>> did not believe in sin. ? I said that Josef Stalin had felt the same
>>>>>>> way when he killed 12 million people because he was an atheist and
>>>>>>> did
>>>>>>> not believe in sin either. ?Then homosexuals came into the
>>>>>>> conversation because atheists were saying that homosexuality was not
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> sin. ?So the common thread in all this seems to be atheism.
>>>>>> What does Joseph Stalin's crimes have to do with any of us. I don't
>>>>>> believe in sin, and I've never slaughtered anyone. How is that
>>>>>> example
>>>>>> remotely releveant?
>>>>>> I still have no sensible reason to regard homosexuality as immoral. I
>>>>>> know many in your religion don't like it, but no gay person ever did
>>>>>> me
>>>>>> any harm.- Hide quoted text -
>>>>> Well, what harm did Josef Stalin do to you? ?Her certainly was ahead
>>>>> of his time with regard to population control, something that atheists
>>>>> of today are all concerned about.
>>>> I can empathise with his victims and surmise that he was, in the
>>>> parlance of simple religious belief, "a bad man".
>>>> Normal gay men don't have victims. So where's the crime? Why should I
>>>> hate them as you do?- Hide quoted text -
>>>> - Show quoted text -
>>> I think that people should be gay. ?Gay means happy.
>>> ====================================
>>> Yep. Happy to be homosexual, skippy.
>>> ==============================
>>> ?I think
>>> =====================
>>> No evidence for that assertion has been seen in any of your posts.
>>> ======================================
>>> you are
>>> trying to refer to homosexual people. ?I do not hate any criminals.
>>> =============================================
>>> But you hate homosexuals.
>>> What have they ever done to you, skippy?
>> So you are saying that back in the 1800's when people said gay, they
>> were talking about homosexuals. �When they said gay nineties, they
>> were talking about homosexual activities. �I do not hate homosexuals,
>> but it sort of irks me that they would ruin a perfectly good word in
>> the English language. �Now black people are understandably offended
>> when anyone sings the words to Old Kentucky Home.
>> ===========================================
>> Do you still call a false hairpiece a perriwig?
>> Do you still call the public transport road vehicle an omnibus?
>> Are the yellow vehicles in New York still called taximeter-cabriolets?
>> Language changes and evolves, skippy. Get over it.
>>
> I still use the word gay to mean happy because that was how it was
> used until the 1960's.  If you substitute the word homosexual for gay
> for anything written before that time, you are misinterpreting what
> was said.  Secondly, homosexual people are not happy, so it does not
> describe them today.
> Robert B. Winn

Could have fooled me ........ most of the 'gays' I saw in the last Mardi 
Gras parade sure looked happy to me ......

It's the Christians who seem to be miserable .......

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