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Rainbow flag. Symbol of gay pride. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) REMEMBER school debating ? Where both sides got a turn and the other team sat listening quietly and respectfully? We need more of that – a version for mature, hopeful, civilised grown-ups. The current debate over same-sex marriage is one-sided, volatile, even violent. In the movement to open up and move forward, the side that supports the prevailing laws and conventions is increasingly silenced. And it is not only same-sex marriage that features this concerning trend. In the explosive social media spaces particularly, there are now some views you are seemingly not allowed to express – and by doing so are called a bigot. Oh, the irony. You can’t support cracking down on illegal migration, or even express concerns about radical minority religious elements or minority groups when they are revealed to commit a disproportionate amount of a particular kind of crime, even though you are allowed the virtual elbow room to spout

Words have meaning. Well, until we decide to strip that meaning from them by expanding their definition to suit our ideology. “ Equality ” is a concept that is thrown about all the time.  Ensuring it has become a religion with the devout willing to do anything to force it upon everyone. Recently, homosexual “rights’ groups  continued their attacks  on TLC ’s  Duggar family  for supporting our First Amendment freedoms by encouraging the repeal of an intrusive and unconstitutional  Chapter 119   city ordinance . Just one provision from the ordinance tells you how far LGBT activists will go to muddle reality: “ Discriminate , Discrimination or Discriminatory  means any act, policy or practice that has the effect of subjecting any person to differential treatment as a result of that person’s  real or perceived  race, ethnicity, national origin, age (if 18 years of age or older), gender, gender identity , gender expression, familial status, marital status, so

Orson Scott Card at Life, the Universe, & Everything at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Orson Card writes:  Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.  The goal of the polity is not to put homosexuals in jail. The goal is to discourage people from engaging in homosexual practices in the first place, and, when they nevertheless proceed in their homosexual behavior, to encourage them to do so discreetly, so as not to shake the confidence of the community in the polity's ability to provide rules for safe, stable, dependable marriage and family relationships. Related articles Should Sodomy laws be reintroduced

Orson Scott Card at Life, the Universe, & Everything at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.   The goal of the polity is not to put homosexuals in jail.  The goal is to discourage people from engaging in homosexual practices in the first place, and, when they nevertheless proceed in their homosexual behavior, to encourage them to do so discreetly, so as not to shake the confidence of the community in the polity's ability to provide rules for safe, stable, dependable marriage and family relationships. Related articles Should Sodomy laws be reintroduced? (gaychristianbeliev