Jun 16, 2011 -- 7:45PM, costrel wrote:

Jun 16, 2011 -- 5:52PM, voice-crying wrote:

Real Christians don't discriminate against anyone. 

If that's the case, then all of those damn traitorous Southerners who left the Union and created the treasonous and despicable Confederate States of America and who wanted to continue owning slaves were not Christians.

Some of them were (real christians). 

They did what their ancestors taught their parents to do.  If they had read: Exodus 21:16 they would have known better.  Even now...no one wants to pay for service. 

Amazing Grace

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Thanx,

Ur2

In March one of the psychologists with whom I work and I went to a meeting of the local developmental disability nursing association.  We were having a discussion about sexuality and disabilities.

Basically, probably most people seem to think that if you have an intellectual disability, you shouldn't be allowed to be a sexual adult human being.  Having a "girlfriend" or "boyfriend" might be OK if all they do is hold hands.  Kissing is probably pushing it--and I am talking heterosexual here. 

Many of these people end up in group homes where all the residents may be one gender.  The only way it may even be possible to be close to someone is same-sex, which certainly does not mean they are gay. OTOH, just because a person has an intellectual (or physical) disability does not mean they may not be gay.  However, the strictures we "typically developing" people put on those with disabilities is truly problematic.

OK.  Kicking guys with an ID out of the pool because some homophobic self-righteous pharisee wannabe was working there is not only socially inept, it is not in keeping with the teachings of Jesus.  Talking to the group home staff about the "Circles" program (what kind of public displays of affection are appropriate for what people in what context) might have been appropriate IF the same standards were in place for male/female couples engaging in the same behavior.

My patients have enough troubles in their lives without having to deal with this kind of thing.

I think the move here was unfortunate. This is blazing hot NEWS across the media. Here it dies an ignominious death after -what? - a few hours? Unfair, Merope. Unfair.

Jun 16, 2011 -- 8:18PM, voice-crying wrote:

Some of them were (real christians). 

They did what their ancestors taught their parents to do.  If they had read: Exodus 21:16 they would have known better.  Even now...no one wants to pay for service. 

You really don't think all of those Southern Protestants read and knew their Bibles? Now if they were Catholics, I might agree with you that they were relatively ignorant of Scripture. But not Protestants. I'm sure some of them read their Exodus and it didn't sway them to think or behave differently.