A rabbi (among the settlers on the West Bank) made the ridiculous statement that young men who refuse to serve in the (draft) army should be shot. Of course, they had to give him a 5-page spread in the weekend magazine section of my newspaper. He also had a few other things to say...
There are many unnatural phenomena in our time. Homosexuality, for example. This is an unnatural, non-normal and unhealthy phenomenon. To be healthy means a man marrying a woman, not a man with a man nor a woman with a woman. We should execrate this unnatural phenomenon. Homosexuals are truly to be pitied. I know them personally. We must help them out of their plight. And I say this with full responsibility: any homosexual can extricate himself from his problem and create a family with a woman. He is only what he is for psychological or hormonal reasons. To this very day I have referred every homosexual who has come to me and related his problem to competent assistance and after 6 months to a year he returns and tells me with great emotion that he is marrying a woman. And then after another 6 month to a year he comes and tells me that he is happily married. His spouse is happy too...
Q: To you this is a problem, to them you are the problem. Gays are happy with the way they have chosen to live their lives. Why pester them, or worse, try to change them?
They are not happy. That's not correct. It's a defence mechanism...
Q: Not a few religious people live 'under cover' and live a lie because of homophobes like you.
I know of religious people who were mired down in this for loads of years, but in the end they got out of their problem and today they are happy and content...
And so, dear students, your homework for today is: discuss - and no holds barred!