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Allegations of harm: Unsupportive of homosexaulity causes suicide

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Throughout the fake gay marriage debate - one technique was constantly used by supporters of homosexual marriage - If you call homosexuality a sin, wrong you will cause harm to teenagers who will then suicide. The purpose of this argument is to shut down any and all opposition to the idea that homosexuality is good for society. People were abused, posters torn-down by those who pushed gay marriage. No debate No questions No arguments and if you do open your mouth you are a bigot.  There are many ways arguments can go wrong . Since the dawn of philosophy, scholars have fashioned lists of fallacies, probed suspect rhetorical devices, and teased out the troubling ways power interweaves with persuasion. These problematic properties can be wrong in a rational sense, making arguments invalid, and less likely to track truth. But they can also be wrong in an ethical sense. Argument can be deceitful, manipulative, coercive. In the twenty-first century, there is a new challenge to argument —...

Ex-Gays overcome homosexual tendencies by God's love

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Regarding the Claim That This is About ‘Conversion Therapy’ Publications like LGBTQ Nation have  written articles  dismissing the Freedom March, casting doubt on the idea that people can actually overcome their homosexual tendencies.  LGBTQ Nation’s article equates the Freedom March with promotion of conversion therapy. American psychological associations have denounced conversion therapy as ineffective and harmful. Mr. Wheelock said he had to research conversion therapy because people were accusing him of promoting it. Conversion therapy had nothing to do with his freedom from the homosexual life, nor does he promote it.  He added that a couple of times parents have asked him to speak with gay teens, and he found out the teens were totally uninterested in changing. He told the parents he was not going to force their child to meet with him or change. Conversion therapy, he says, tries to force people to change. The message of his life, Wheelock says, is...

“All you need is love.” Gays are not harming anyone. True or False?

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Objection Stated “All you need is love.” But this is consensual. We’re not harming anyone. Biblical Response “ All You Need Is Love ” is a Beatles song that does not make for good theology or ethics. We will not argue about the prominent place of love in Christian theology and practice; without it we would not have redemption ( John 3:16 ; Romans 5:8 ; 1 John 4:10).  Nor will we argue about the Christian requirement that we love one another. It is unquestionably Christian doctrine that “the one who loves his brother abides in the light” (1 John 2:10). Furthermore, “we know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brethren” (1 John 3:14).  We agree that we should “not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth” (1 John 3:18). The loving of one another is evidence of the life of God abiding in us (1 John 4:12). Truly, “we love, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19), and we must love one another if we truly love God (1 John 4:20). W...