🌈 Happy Pride Month 🌈

[murano]

 

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[Preppy Popiah]

Thanks for sharing!

[Steve5380]

"Pride Month"?   Shouldn't I have a problem here?

 

I was baptized a Catholic, and according to my assigned God, there should not be any pride in homosexuality.  My newly elected moral leader,  this new Pope Leo XIV,  has wasted no time coming out against the LGBT community by condemning the liberalization of gay sex ( a "sin", of course ) and the allowance of same-sex marriage.

 

But... since I have some doubts about my assigned God...  I think that a Hell may be reserved... for the religious professionals who try to gain power by condemning the LGBT community based on some invented theologies.  I am happy to see how gay pride is blooming in modern society. Of course, since I am gay.  And it is never too late! 

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Edited Saturday at 10:48 PM by Steve5380

[murano]

On 6/6/2025 at 8:42 PM, Steve5380 said:

"Pride Month"?   Shouldn't I have a problem here?

 

I was baptized a Catholic, and according to my assigned God, there should not be any pride in homosexuality.  My newly elected moral leader,  this new Pope Pious XIV,  has wasted no time coming out against the LGBT community by condemning the liberalization of gay sex ( a "sin", of course ) and the allowance of same-sex marriage.

 

But... since I have some doubts about my assigned God...  I think that a Hell may be reserved... for the religious professionals who try to gain power by condemning the LGBT community based on some invented theologies.  I am happy to see how gay pride is blooming in modern society. Of course, since I am gay.  And it is never too late! 

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[Steve5380]

Retired Bishop of the Episcopal Church Gene Robinson wrote a book, some 15 years ago, "God Believes in Love".   He is THE FIRST GAY BISHOP  in Christianity.

 

In his book, he makes the case for homosexuality never have been condemned by the Christian/Jewish God.    He has good reasons to state that Christ never said a word against it.  But this guy Charlie Kirk is not impartial, he reads the Bible with a desire to find in it the anti-gay.   I just heard him saying...  when a man leaves HIS FATHERS'S home and looks for a woman...  Why is it the "father's home", and not his "mother's home"?  Or "his parent's home"?   

 

Why does the Catholic Church not allow the ordination of women?  If this is also "a mandate of God",  then this god is a misogynistic inferior creature. The put down of women is similar to the put down of homosexuals.  Completely unjustified, or let's say, justified by prejudices.

 

But even without researching the holy texts and being argumentative like the young student in the video,  a calm introspection should convince us that homosexuality is natural, it does not go against any morality.  It starts by recognizing that we don't choose to be gay.  It continues by observing that in straight sex there is in no way more "purity" than in gay sex,  but maybe the opposite.  And finally,  gay sex does not go against straight sex.  Most gays we can have biological children if we want to.  The fact that most gays don't have children is not a negative, but it helps in keeping overpopulation at bay.  AND...  AND... AND another interesting fact to rub in the face of fanatic Catholics who claim that the life objective of a male is to have children:   CATHOLIC PRIESTS CANNOT MARRY, CANNOT HAVE CHILDREN.  So... wouldn't it be the peak of hypocrisy to blame gays for not having children?   For staying away from this oh so "Holy Matrimony" from which they themselves stay away?

[Steve5380]

The Indian philosopher Jiddu Kirshnamurti had some ideas that didn't come from worshiping some God.  They came from exploring his humanity.  Here in this video he talks about homosexuality.  He would also have celebrated a "happy pride month"  if this had existed in his days.

 

 

[Preppy Popiah]

Doesn't seem very festive in SG this month, or issit just me?

[murano]

10 hours ago, Preppy Popiah said:

Doesn't seem very festive in SG this month, or issit just me?

Pride festive or Hari Raya festive?

[Preppy Popiah]

1 hour ago, murano said:

Pride festive or Hari Raya festive?

Pride!

[Strange Fruit]

Has it ever been really festive during Pride month? I’ve usually found most of the celebrations to be confined to the day and evening of Pink Dot itself. Besides the gays have just gotten Lady Gaga for a full week, I think they need a bit of down time to recuperate. 

[murano]

10 hours ago, Preppy Popiah said:

Pride!

Cos SG is ranked 83rd on the equaldex - way below Thailand, Nepal, Taiwan, India, Timor-Leste, South Korea, Namibia and many others

 

First on the list being Iceland, the last country at 197th place is Somalia

 

https://www.equaldex.com/

[murano]

9 hours ago, Strange Fruit said:

Has it ever been really festive during Pride month? I’ve usually found most of the celebrations to be confined to the day and evening of Pink Dot itself. Besides the gays have just gotten Lady Gaga for a full week, I think they need a bit of down time to recuperate. 

You're right it's never Pride festive in SG cos Pride is NEVER celebrated in Singapore - do you see rainbow flags anywhere?

 

Pink Dot is a token event where only citizens and PRs can enter an enclosed area to shout about their cause and shine torches for 6 hours 

 

LGG concerts were a KPI in some civil servant's action list for the last FY

 

If Oasis had the same $$ appeal they'd definitely work on it, so nope they weren't thinking about the gays

 

They are constantly reminding you that YOU ARE THE MINORITY and YOU ARE BEING TOLERATED so be thankful for what you're allowed to have - y'all better suck it up and don't go overboard with your rainbow nonsense cos 'traditional family values' are still main drivers to winning GEs

Edited yesterday at 02:44 AM by murano

[Steve5380]

1 hour ago, murano said:

Cos SG is ranked 83rd on the equaldex - way below Thailand, Nepal, Taiwan, India, Timor-Leste, South Korea, Namibia and many others

 

First on the list being Iceland, the last country at 197th place is Somalia

 

https://www.equaldex.com/

 

Iceland is the country with the most LGBTQ equality?  Why is this?   Could it be the cold, the isolation middle in the Atlantic, predisposes people to be more intimately together and tolerate each other?   Or is it that the proportion of women is very low, to the point that those men who cannot get a woman... get another man?  

[murano]

1 hour ago, Steve5380 said:

 

Iceland is the country with the most LGBTQ equality?  Why is this?   Could it be the cold, the isolation middle in the Atlantic, predisposes people to be more intimately together and tolerate each other?   Or is it that the proportion of women is very low, to the point that those men who cannot get a woman... get another man?  

Government doing the right thing - https://work.iceland.is/working/gender-equality-and-gay-rights/

 

People are sane, informed, educated, supportive and respectful of basic human rights

 

No single religion controls the nation's narrative

 

https://www.equaldex.com/region/iceland

Edited yesterday at 04:43 AM by murano

[Why?]

On 6/6/2025 at 8:42 PM, Steve5380 said:

  I am happy to see how gay pride is blooming in modern society. Of course, since I am gay.  And it is never too late! 

 

You have another 30 years to witness the evolution of gay pride, extended into middle-east.   Don't worry, you still have plenty of time.

[Steve5380]

4 hours ago, Why? said:

You have another 30 years to witness the evolution of gay pride, extended into middle-east.   Don't worry, you still have plenty of time.

 

Thank you.  I will remember to witness this in my afterlife.

[Why?]

48 minutes ago, Steve5380 said:

 

Thank you.  I will remember to witness this in my afterlife.

Why must be afterlife?  You don't have this life to witness?

[Steve5380]

3 hours ago, Why? said:

Why must be afterlife?  You don't have this life to witness?

 

In 30 years I will be 112 years old.  I don't know if I WANT to live so long.

[Why?]

7 hours ago, Steve5380 said:

 

In 30 years I will be 112 years old.  I don't know if I WANT to live so long.

However, you mentioned that you are middle-aged, so you still have a lot of time to see many innovations and fascinating discoveries, such as  immortal pills that completely reverse aging and keep everyone looking young permanently and even reverse baldness, wrinkles, and bags under the eyes and completely restore your health.  Procreations reduced, but life expectancy increased by leap and bound to keep populations under control.  Each life is precious and treasured as a result.   When you go saunas, age will no longer become an important component because every customer is looking young and cute.  Then, they also found that gay genes are special and have the ability to grow further, giving gay individuals the power no one expected. Each gay person has a unique gift, similar to those you see in X-men films, etc.  What seem like a delusional, hallucination dream may became a reality.  Don't get me started that it's affordable to travel to the moon, so one day we can all hold our pink dot and gay pride event there.      Even just by discussing  makes the future of humanity seem exciting and full of promises.     

[Steve5380]

1 hour ago, Why? said:

However, you mentioned that you are middle-aged, so you still have a lot of time to see many innovations and fascinating discoveries, such as  immortal pills that completely reverse aging and keep everyone looking young permanently and even reverse baldness, wrinkles, and bags under the eyes and completely restore your health.  Procreations reduced, but life expectancy increased by leap and bound to keep populations under control.  Each life is precious and treasured as a result.   When you go saunas, age will no longer become an important component because every customer is looking young and cute.  Then, they also found that gay genes are special and have the ability to grow further, giving gay individuals the power no one expected. Each gay person has a unique gift, similar to those you see in X-men films, etc.  What seem like a delusional, hallucination dream may became a reality.  Don't get me started that it's affordable to travel to the moon, so one day we can all hold our pink dot and gay pride event there.      Even just by discussing  makes the future of humanity seem exciting and full of promises.     

 

I hope that your vision for the future gets materialized, at least in part.  I will be satisfied if the situation of the world does not get worse with new world wars and more climate deterioration.  If so,  I am confident that sexual orientation will become increasingly a non-issue, and the rights and standing of gays will be no different than that of straights. Personally my interest is shifting towards the afterlife, and if I have to go there tomorrow it will be fine, with a successful life already. I hope that we are much more than the body we have been assigned to and are in control today.

[Why?]

6 hours ago, Steve5380 said:

Personally my interest is shifting towards the afterlife

You don't think that God exists, that there is an afterlife, or that there is Hell or Heaven.  You have no idea what the hereafter will bring; you might have been born a lady who is fiercely anti-gay.  It's frightening to consider what might happen to you.