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DirkGently

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7. I don't think "moral high ground" means

Reply to William769 (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 06:25 PM

Feb 2014

what they think it means

We need to to hold the U.S. evangelical groups that are pushing these obscene anti-gay laws around the world to account. Here, they present their anti-gay views as an objection to a "lifestyle." In other places, they paint gay people as aggressive pedophiles bent on "recruiting children" and advocating imprisonment or execution.

We need to ask the leaders of these groups publicly and repeatedly to answer for the grotesque oppression they are advocating around the world in the name of their god.

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Uganda takes moral high ground, dismisses U.S. pressure on anti-gay law [View all] William769 Feb 2014 OP

Hmmm. Sounds like the "moral" swamp ground to me. MADem Feb 2014 #1

Get a load of this one. William769 Feb 2014 #2

Yeah, I saw--saddened but not surprised. MADem Feb 2014 #4

So that's what they're calling it now LOL? The moral high ground LOL? n/t louslobbs Feb 2014 #3

It's a wacky world we live in. William769 Feb 2014 #5

Right? Someone forgot to tell them that you take the moral high ground with love, not hate. louslobbs Feb 2014 #11

Is this new law the one KT2000 Feb 2014 #6

Yeah, but the people of Uganda were already 42% Catholic and 40% Anglican and so Bluenorthwest Feb 2014 #8

any comment from the pope ? JI7 Feb 2014 #9

Yes. He's visiting there in October to do a canonization. nt William769 Feb 2014 #10

I don't think "moral high ground" means DirkGently Feb 2014 #7

42% of Ugandans are Catholic, Francis has said nothing against this law but has spent Bluenorthwest Feb 2014 #12

So, Protestants are doing this, but it's still the Pope's fault? DirkGently Feb 2014 #14

So you think it's just Protestants doing "this"? theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #16

Pushing the Ugandan law the OP is about? Yes. DirkGently Feb 2014 #18

Yes, Scott Lively and his ilk theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #22

Pope Frank will be speaking out about this any decade now nt geek tragedy Feb 2014 #13

It is not moral to hate and kill people. shenmue Feb 2014 #15

Halt aid now! NT Adrahil Feb 2014 #17

jesus, the gift that keeps on giving nt msongs Feb 2014 #19

Morals are problematic, aren't they? GulliverUK Feb 2014 #20

Kicking! countryjake Feb 2014 #21

Kicking for the night owls. William769 Feb 2014 #23

Hate is a powerful weapon. Behind the Aegis Feb 2014 #24