This makes me fear our future.

[Sprinal]

Offer him your support. Tell him if he needs to talk to someone, he has you, even if nothing else. Make it one hundred percent clear that he isn't alone. That's the most you can do, but it could make all the difference in the world.

As for "no one wants to be homosexual", speak for yourself; it's as natural and unremarkable as breathing to some people.

You miss understand (and I probably worded it badly).

His familly is okay with it. He lives 500 clicks north and has a boyfriend (last time I checked) and his boyfriend is a nice guy. His sisters also support him although they have both finished school (same with his boyfriend). Whenever I see him he doesn't have any signs of depression. Also he ran away from home because he wanted to see his boyfriend more (this might have reversed since I last saw him as I haven't seen him since about the 2nd of January).

In short as far as I can tell he is happy. And if he is not he doesn't have the personality that would commit suicide. And the most conservative familly member up there (our Grandmother) said that:

"As long as its genuine she would rather see him out of the closet than in. And she would support him" (also she is very Catholic).

I personally think it will be fine. And In Australia there isn't the same anti-gay sentiment here. It's all pointed at "boat-people" at present. And don't get me started on why I hate to see poor helpless refugees as the current political scape-goat.

 

[JackWestJr]

"Oh for fucks sake humanity, get your shit together. God will be here knocking on the door any minute, and you haven't even got your damn humanitarian issues ready yet! I warned you a few thousand years ago that God will come back!"

 

[daniel the immortal]

this is WHY i HATE religon

 

[Yureina]

Urgh...

It's stuff like this that makes me wish that murder was legal. People who are that horrible to their fellows deserve to get whacked.

 

[Hamish Durie]

This thread and by extension the article made me think on something.

Religious fanatics have killed alot of people. 9.11 muslim fanatics (the one most people know about) and the holy war which was christian Europe attacking the muslim middle east.
who has killed more middle eastern fanatics or fanatics hailing from the western world?

regardless of the question There are religious fanatics today and this article is proof of that

 

[Mr Companion]

Thanks, that was actually a fascinating read!

 

[SlaveNumber23]

Religious fanaticism is evil.

 

[Rusman]

Urgh yet another horror story where the main villain is intolerant religious types.
I am so happy I didn't grow up in an area like this, sure I was bullied at school for a number of reasons, mainly for not being one of the "cool kids". I guess it's lucky for me I didn't come out as Bi until I left school otherwise it would have probably got worse, or at least there'd be a new topic of my flaws to work on.
It's such a shame that those kids felt they had to resort to killing themselves. I got through thanks did a fantastic group of friends, loving parents and knowing that I was better than most of the people hurling abuse at me.
Now, I'm all the stronger for it. Open in my bisexuality, and damn proud of it.

 

[Warachia]

Good god. I'm Christian, and I still want to tell those people to go eat a dick.

Thank you, what pisses me off is I am also a Christian, and NOWHERE in the bible does it say that gays are bad or being gay is bad, and it's not like there weren't gays around when the bible was being written either.

How these morons come to that conclusion is far beyond me, specifically when they do exactly what the bible tells them not to.

 

[Astoria]

These people aren't Christians. These people are monsters. I know a lot of good people who are Christians, and these people? They are not.

I agree with this. I am not Christian but I have nothing against it. People like this are not Christians and are disgracing other Christians by acting this way. I thought that God preached understanding and tollerance above everything else, and that all life is sacred? Also, when will people understand that it is not a choice. Either you are attracted to your own gender or you're not.

 

[lord canti]

Ok I think I've finally had it with my religion. I can no longer be associated with people who actually believe this garbage and just turn a blind eye to something like this.

 

[pirateninj4]

These people aren't Christians. These people are monsters. I know a lot of good people who are Christians, and these people? They are not.

Thank you.

The sooner we expose religious extremism in America, the sooner we can start to ignore them as a collective.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

tire irons, one dollah!

get yer tire irons here, just one dollah!
torches and pitchforks come at discount if you trade in some ignorant dickblister's teeth, act now!