That was good optics on his part, wasnât it? Well played, sir. 
Itâs a shame he is a homophobe, but you canât have everything perfect.
Oh yeah. For those unfamiliar with his homophobic track recordâŚ
Wasnât Tim Farron also kind of iffy on gay rights?
Yeah, very iffy due to it conflicting with his religious beliefs. So he maintained. He could never commit to saying it wasnât a sin.
Thatâs because it is a sin. Luckily sin is a meaningless made-up concept so it doesnât really matter. Itâs a weird thing for people to focus on (unless youâre a devout gay christian I guess). Itâs odd that people focus on going to hell for being gay, but donât have a problem with the myriad other silly things that they can send you to hell for. If someone thinks Iâm going to hell it really doesnât bother me, because hell isnât real. As long as theyâre not going to be a dick to me in the real worldâŚ
Being gay is one of the sins âgood Christiansâ will leverage violence, including state violence, to suppress . I donât recall hearing the same about other Levitican prohibitions such as wearing a shirt of two fibres.
True, there are many christians like that, that would fall under the âbeing a dick in the real worldâ thing I mentioned. Farron isnât one of those christians though luckily, and while he doesnât have a perfect legislative record on gay rights issues, few parliamentarians do, itâs pretty decent.
Oh, yeah. I just meant to illuminate why people can be so twitchy about a politician holding those kinds of views in a country that brought such legislative gems as Section 28.
Fallon is about as harmless as a person with those views can be in that regard.
Yeah, I guess itâs understandable. Even if itâs wrong.
Edit: sorry, I somehow thought that this was some thread about queer rights, it the Irish backstop. If someone could move this post, Iâd be totally down for that, just donât know to do it myself.
Gay (and trans, and what have you) people are an easy target, both for preachers and the audiences, because your average straight person doesnât really have any interest in having gay sex.
This is much easier and more comfortable, than talking about the sins like greed, or pride, or treating the poor people and the prisoners and the foreigners like shit, all of which are things the Bible constantly condemns.
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