Posted by:
rallychild
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Date: February 04, 2011 05:18PM
So I have a returned missionary TBM roommate and last night we were talking. He brought up how he has a lot of gay friends, and one of his gay buddies' confessed his love for him last night. (side note: even though I knew hes is TBM, I thought my roommate was gay when I met him) My roommate obviously said no and he wants to remain friends and he went on to blatantly say that he believes God doesn't like the choices homosexuals make, and that he believes there is some element of "choice" behind homosexuals' motives and feelings.
He knows that I am no longer a member of the cult, and so we began arguing over this. I told him I was disgusted that he worships a God that punishes and discriminates against his own children simply because of who they are. My roommate tried to rebuttal this by saying he "knows" there is an element of choice behind why gay people choose to be gay, because he said that in high school and before his mission, he thought he was attracted to men, but he talked with his bishop and "chose" to begin liking girls, therefore he believes that all homosexuals have the ability to "change" if they want.
I argued that homosexuals don't want to change who they are, they just want to be accepted and live normal lives like the rest of us without religious bigots accusing them and treating them as second class citizens simply because of who they love. I told him that homosexuals have absolute zero effect on people; it's not like they are murderers, or child molesters, or anything. The only reasoning he could come up with that homosexuals are "bad" was that they spread AIDS. I told him that it doesn't matter if you're gay or straight, people spread diseases no matter what. You just have to be safe about it.
It just really pissed me off and made me sick that this asshole really believes that gay people "choose" their actions. Why would someone want to choose to be discriminated against? His gay friends even tell him there is absolutely no choice involved in being gay. My roommate doesn't believe them. It makes me sick. Sorry, I just had to vent. I'm not a good arguer or debater, which sucks because I just wanted to shut him down in this argument. But, God never loses, so there is no way his brainwashed little mind can comprehend anything "ungodly".
Oh, and then we started arguing about the masonic temple rituals, the young earth theory, and other stuff. Like I said, I'm not a good debater, so he kept on coming up with apologetic, mental gymnastic responses. I guess that just proves I need to brush up on my arguing skills.