All of us currently posting to the Forum have so many different regligious and political standpoints that I think it is pretty much impossible for the one or the other to "take over". That is my view, and I welcome the diversity of views expressed.
It is clearly (IMO) quite unreasonable for any one to try to override another's views, but at the same time, this does work in both directions.
I personally enjoy your non-contentious posts and apposite reactions. It is not for me to comment, but I hope some of these apparently underlying issues can be laid to rest - from whatever source they arise - after all, if people all held the same views, there wouldn't be a lot of point in logging in.
Regards
Mo
8 days ago I received an email from a very highly respected person suggesting that my postings about sexuality and religion did not accord with my stated beliefs about love as the core of an acceptable God, and the logical extensions of this into earthly relations.
My riposte to Jonah about his experience with teenagers etc was taken as being an unfair case in point. That is, that it was OK for Jonah to raise his experience as a denigration of my experience, but the riposte was not a good thing. I can live with that, but I was surprised.
I like Cindi, and Greg, though its probably a year or so since I talked to them on the 'phone. Cindi has gone from atheist to agnostic to committed Christian in the time I've been reading her posts. I can understand that, people under sentence of pain or death tend to look beyond the physical to the spiritual to maintain the flagging spirits.
But, in terms of Speakeasy, it goes way beyond Cindi's conversion. I find SE becoming more and more homophobix, more and more influenced by intense CHRISTIAN beliefs, more and more intolerant of those who believe in alternatives.
How do you see it?
Ian Clark
Gladstone QLD
Australia
AKA IanC/OZ

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