Same-Sex marriage is now legal in the entire United States-Good job!

". I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say."

i know them feels. im still convinced console gaming is just a fad and will be over soon

Coot. passing fad.
I'm gonna play on your lawn just to hear more wisdom XD

No, I mean mostly young, many people not from the US where it's already commonplace, etc.

Yeah, it's unfortunate

Oh yeah. I get that. Most political things are generally advised to be held off for another place, given they can be the source of arguments, but given the exact nature of this political issue, it's hard to find controversy. While a bit overstated, it's kind of like not posting about a court ruling that black people shouldn't be lynched, for fear that some people would be argumentative about it, y'know? There are some political subjects that are pretty clean cut as simple outright progress.

I appreciate what you were trying to do, but this is a pretty big issue to some people, and a subject that is hard to really stir opposition for without tripping over all the other more common-sense rules for not being hateful and such.

I think he's referring to the last sentence you wrote. I, though not Christian, was with you until that last statement. The doomsday stuff is a little too much. For once in your life, try viewing the glass as half full.

How does continuing to celebrate it equal treating themselves separate from the rest of the entire human race, exactly?

As for the 'stop wearing it on your sleeve' thing? No. Sorry. It just doesn't work like that. When a group is suppressed for long enough, the identity of the group tends to become something of an issue. That slight dehumanisation, when suffered over a long enough time, becomes more of a thing they feel compelled to stand for. Now that they're finally able to marry without governmental interference, it doesn't magically give people the right to tell them how they should or shouldn't express themselves. Like it or not, but the pressure to hide it away combined with the hostile responses even the most passive homosexual person can get, it combines in a way that they feel compelled to deliberately exercise such expression. If there is enough prejudice even where there is no legal merit, then people often respond to that by making a point of passively standing against it. It's a principal. Provided a person isn't disrupting the peace or going out of their way to disturb or harass others, it's nobody else's business.

I just fail to see how being hyped about closing the equality gap is a warning sign of 'years' of 'rubbing it in'. I'm sorry but if there was a long-standing law that stopped me from being treated equally based on some facet of my denomination, I wouldn't care about whether or not my opponents felt like I was 'rubbing it in' when I celebrated, given their viewpoint would literally be an opinion that was causing me to live in some regard as a second-class citizen.

I really don't see where you're coming from. :P
I mean, sure, moderation in all things, but the people behind the suppression of an entire denomination of citizens can just suck it up and deal with it. They had endless years of getting what they wanted with no rational or moral reason that held up to scrutiny, so they can just suck it, TBH. :P

Approve of...? You're joking, right? Religion already has a big enough pedestal in the world and not a good one either. What the hell does ass have to do with this anyways? You might as well have said "in my dick we trust. Get it? Because homosexuality. LOLOLOL"

Hate to break it to you but..."Where can you have sex in the medieval village?

Medieval homes and communities often lacked privacy, and it might have been difficult for a couple to find a place they could be intimate. Ruth Mazo Karras notes that “the church, safe, dry, and deserted for much of the day, might have been the equivalent of the back seat of a car.”"

Considering "God" supposedly created humans, that sentence is hypocrisy. Maybe "God" should atone for his mistakes, huh?

without catholic church repressing scientific researches through middle ages because it was contrary to some fantasy novel called Bible (and yeah! Earth is flat!) our knowledge nowadays would be hundred of years ahead. Western countries just came to their senses, gave a finger to catholic church and thus we got enlightment age. The reason Middle East is so behind is that their religgion opress their development to this very day, like catholic church was for 500 years. In their essence christians are the same as muslims and all other religions - they try to stop humanity's development, simply ecause it's stands contrary to their beliefs.

LOL it is you who have no knowledge of history. The Middle East was far more advanced than the rest of the world (except for Asia, especially China, but I digress) in the fields of mathematics, medicine, and most of the sciences. In fact one of Darwin's scientific forefathers was an Arabic writer (Al-Jahiz, look him up).

ANYBODY could have 'pushed the educational revolution' as the Church did. I don't have a lack of historical knowledge, I just have an alarming acknowledgement of it. Religion isn't all rainbows and happy parties. It's a hypocritical train of bullshit.

Hell, as Khazadson said, a lot of the realistically important technology came from Asia / Middle East.

EDIT: Also, yeah, it's common knowledge that the Church wasn't a big 'pusher' on science. Galileo for example.

Also, the fact that you would try and humiliate me for not advancing my historical knowledge to university-post-secondary, even though it's optional and so the "I teach at a university level so I'm better than you!" is pretty childish and irrelevant, just shows that you're more a show-off than somebody who actually wants to teach others in the whole 'pursuit of knowledge' mentality. Maybe I misunderstood you and if so, fair enough, but the lack of historical knowledge that wasn't focused on in the educational curriculum of history courses in the school that I had went to isn't 'alarming'. It's just 'different', especially since the course I had taken was a 1-year World History course so it's not like we only studied Rome / European history.

I obviously don't and will not know everything but what you just stated is something that I could have came to the conclusion of easily, I just didn't say it. My comment was vague but only because I didn't have to say more. The Church itself didn't even offer education to everyone but ignoring that, the church was FAR from perfect. It wasn't horrible either, as long as you played 'good' and followed along.

Sigh... :/

• Without the Roman Catholic Church, the Crusades (aka worldwide ethnical cleansing and mass-murdering event) wouldn't have happened;
• Without the Roman Catholic Church, the Inquisition also wouldn't have happened, not to mention all the side-horrors that it allowed, that to this day are highly dismissed as almost non-existent (priests impregnating nuns, then calling them witches once the belly showed is just oh... one of hundreds of horrors that was kept hidden for quite a while, historically speaking);
• Without the Roman Catholic Church, Giordano Bruno would have been allowed to dispute heliocentrism peacefully (most people merely credit Galileo, who almost burned as well, but Giordano Bruno DID burn, whereas Galileo was tortured into retracting himself);
• Without the Roman Catholic Church, that has an estimated total wealth in the quadrillions of euros by now (which in itself would be enough to oh... just end world hunger and THEN SOME, no biggie), maybe that money was better spent on practical things that mattered other than building ostentatious Basilicas and what not, like the one built in Rome quite recently. Funny story, i remember some 25 years ago, in my childhood years of Sunday School, listening to the priests teaching us the wonders of good ol' right and wrong as they quoted texts the likes of "...and Christ entered the Synagogue and expelled all the heathens telling them that God wasn't in the ostentatious objects but in the hearts of men..." (may not be verbatim, but everyone gets the gist). Because i was a cheeky curious kid, i dared ask "Well, what's with all this ostentation in our very own church then?" Obviously they didn't take it too well and all i got was a scolding, how shocking;

I could go on, but why bother?

Fyi, i was raised a catholic, and even though i am agnostic, i respect everyone's right to their own faith, just as long as people perceive it as their own personal choice and don't try to shove it down anyone's throat as the ONE TRUTH ABOVE ALL!

What i have little to no respect for, is bigotry in any shape or form, Mr. I-Am-A-History-College-Teacher-On-The-Internet.
Because yes, everyone with actual arguments and factual knowledge always feels the need to pull ranks to back it up, because facts alone don't cut it, or didn't you learn that particular world history lesson? :/

k, so the guy was arrested for refusing to leave government property, A.K.A trespassing.

don't want a teacher on school obligates his kid homosexual stuffs?

what did you mean by that?

obligates his kid homosexual stuffs?

makes no sense.

Oh, I agree that elected representatives can turn out very poorly, but it has a much better chance for success than a direct democracy. The key thing is having a way to balance the power to prevent abuses and mechanism to enforce the balance, which is usually the part lacking when elections go horribly wrong.

You have a parliamentary democracy and a Prime Minister.

You mean Kale isn't a demon?? Given how children run from it, I thought it was evil itself, not just a byproduct of evil.