The Atlantic article: Being Gay at Liberty University.

Ransom said:
That article is . . . how can I put this? Gay. Really, really gay.
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Yup.  His roommate bent over and I jokingly thought, "I know what comes next."  But I didn't actually think that would come next.  When it did, I stopped reading. 
 
I found this quote from the article to be especially true:

"Not tolerating someone for his narrow-mindedness is perhaps the epitome of intolerance. I learned from my time at Liberty that this bigotry happens on both sides: not only were there some Christians who wanted to stone some gays, but there were even some gays who wanted to stone a few Christians. Just the other day, I saw a man driving a car with two bumper stickers. One was a rainbow. The other showed a picture of a lion, and contained the caption "The Romans had it right." Just another open-minded gay man, I suppose".
 
Castor Muscular said:
Ransom said:
That article is . . . how can I put this? Gay. Really, really gay.
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Yup.  His roommate bent over and I jokingly thought, "I know what comes next."  But I didn't actually think that would come next.  When it did, I stopped reading.
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The whole article is exactly what I would expect from a gay man who wants to make a Christian University look foolish.
 
Goodness!  I didn't get that take from the article at all.  I saw love the sinner.
 
lnf said:
Goodness!  I didn't get that take from the article at all.  I saw love the sinner.
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Oh, the people who loved him were good people, no doubt. But overall it made Liberty look narrow and bigoted.
 
Honestly, I didn't see that.  I saw the young man as being surprised by how many people there showed him love and kindness, and that there were actually very few people there who were narrow and bigoted.

I thought the article was actually complimentary to Liberty, in that the young man didn't get the judgement (hatred) he expected from the people he looked up to.
 
lnf said:

Goodness!  I didn't get that take from the article at all.  I saw love the sinner.

To the author's credit, there was that.

Served up with a generous helping of hot, sweaty male buttocks.
 
[quote author=Ransom]Served up with a generous helping of hot, sweaty male buttocks.[/quote]

Are there really any other kinds?
 
Tarheel Baptist said:
I found this quote from the article to be especially true:

"Not tolerating someone for his narrow-mindedness is perhaps the epitome of intolerance. I learned from my time at Liberty that this bigotry happens on both sides: not only were there some Christians who wanted to stone some gays, but there were even some gays who wanted to stone a few Christians. Just the other day, I saw a man driving a car with two bumper stickers. One was a rainbow. The other showed a picture of a lion, and contained the caption "The Romans had it right." Just another open-minded gay man, I suppose".
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I remember the vile things columnist, author, atheist and "intellectual" said about Jerry Falwell the day Falwell died:

* "I doubt that he (Falwell) could read any long book". (Guess he doesn't consider the Bible a big book).

* "They found his "carcass" on his office floor".

* He was a "fraud", "fat toad", "treasonous", "victimized old ladies", "vermin", etc.


Then I saw where Jonathon Falwell tweeted upon the recent death of Christopher Hitchens that he was praying for their family.  You tell me who is more "tolerant".

It is happening also in the wake of Rick Warren's son. Because RW was in favor of Prop 8 in CA that would disallow same-sex marriage many in what would be considered the radical gay activist crowd and radical atheists are posting vile things as well. So much so that USA Today did an article on it.
 
Torrent v.2 said:
lnf said:
Goodness!  I didn't get that take from the article at all.  I saw love the sinner.
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Oh, the people who loved him were good people, no doubt. But overall it made Liberty look narrow and bigoted.
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I thought the University came out looking pretty well, all things considered.
What, exactly made the people at LU look foolish?
I could have missed or misread something.
 
The author obviously never listened to Jerry about Tinkie Winkie.
 
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