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- theshizzler, on 10/28/2007, -5/+126Snape should've been charged with a hate-crime.
- SheilaNoya, on 10/28/2007, -12/+101I wonder how many homophobic Evangelicals have rushed into their kid's bedrooms and ripped the Harry Potter books off the shelves?
What's next?
It's funny that they don't even realize that their sacred painting of the Last Supper was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, who was also gay. - inactive, on 10/24/2007, -7/+77Well Falwell skipped the rapture which he pronounced on a daily basis would be here in his lifetime. So hey he's got that going for him too.
What's next, are they gonna blame the civil war in Iraq on Harry Potter too? - reed311, on 10/24/2007, -4/+70Pretty sad that people think it actually matters that a fictional character is gay.
My favorite quote of the article:
- Psycheout at Blogs 4 Brownback called it “revolting,” saying “Dumbledore is a gay homosexual who doesn’t deserve to live on G-d’s green earth.”
Which really goes to show that some Christians are unable to tell the difference between reality and fiction. - JigoroKano, on 10/25/2007, -10/+75Jesus never married and only hung out with dudes.
- clemdionisio, on 10/24/2007, -3/+50Wow, Jesus has a lot in common with modern day IT support guys
- Frei, on 10/24/2007, -2/+43Shouldn't religious conservatives be doing things like helping the poor and feeding the sick instead of hating fictional homosexual characters?
- doctorfungi, on 10/24/2007, -1/+41I'd be surprised if the Harry Potter books were ever there in the first place.
- Coven, on 10/24/2007, -3/+41Didn't you hear? Falwell's death WAS the Rapture. The rest of us missed the boat.
- anarchyx34, on 10/24/2007, -7/+38Note to Christian idiots: Dumbledore dosent exist.
- spudnic, on 10/24/2007, -1/+29Is 'gay homosexual' like a double negative?
- oxdeltaxo, on 10/24/2007, -0/+28Who preform an equal amount of miracles daily....
- Laughto, on 10/24/2007, -2/+20- Psycheout at Blogs 4 Brownback called it “revolting,” saying “Dumbledore is a gay homosexual who doesn’t deserve to live on G-d’s green earth.”
Funniest quote ever? - musicbear, on 10/24/2007, -12/+30Well... he may actually have married Mary Magdalene and fathered 2 or 3 children... that is... if he actually existed. Outside the bible, though, I don't think there are other written documents making reference to Christ ... so your guess is as good as any ones.
- Charlotte_Web, on 10/24/2007, -0/+17No, IT people just like to make everyone THINK that restoring a file from backup is a miracle performed with much toil and seat.
Kirk: “How long to re-fit?”
Scotty: “Eight weeks. But you don’t have eight weeks, so I’ll do it for you in two.”
Kirk: “Do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?”
Scotty: “How else to maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?”
Kirk: “Your reputation is safe with me.” - ducksauce001, on 10/24/2007, -2/+19(sarcastic comment) Watch out! Reading Harry Potter will make you gay! Just like hanging around gay people will make you gay!
- johnhummel, on 10/25/2007, -1/+18That was my thought. Most of the "hard core" Christians I've seen won't even let Potter into the house "because he's a wizard, and talks to witches, and the Bible says you have to burn them at the stake".
If you ever see "Jesus Camp", there's a whole bit on the pastor screaming about how evil the Potter books are. Ignore that they teach children the world is a very, very complex place, and sometimes you need to do the best you can to be a decent, honest person - and that sometimes, even that won't be enough. My daughter's 8 and has gotten bitten by the bug, and I can't be more pleased. - jsmith39, on 10/24/2007, -4/+18"Somewhere, Jerry Falwell is smiling."
Really? I had no idea you could smile while burning alive for eternity. Maybe he meant Jerry Falwell is grimacing. - FudgeForever, on 10/24/2007, -8/+22Why are we talking about this?? This is a fictional character!!! Kinda like Farwell!!
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -1/+15Bros before Ho's... Jesus was in a gang!
- dondara, on 10/24/2007, -1/+14Well, what is a womans role in the church? Nun.
- Identity4, on 10/24/2007, -2/+15My mom had a great quote related to Dumbeldore being gay.. "So?"
- davdev, on 10/24/2007, -1/+13And I would still rather spend eternity with him than you.
- walkingdogs, on 10/24/2007, -10/+22How dare their fairy tales interfere with our fairy tales. The audacity of medieval magicians interfering with our magician who could walk on water, turn water to wine and raise the dead. There is only one fairy tale to rule all, can't you see that.
It's amazing how LUDICROUSLY CRAZY and DISILLUSIONED you evangelicals are. I find it amazing that you can't see how brainwashed you really are. Wake up and come back to reality please. - JigoroKano, on 10/24/2007, -13/+25Those are extra-biblical references to Christians. There are no extra-biblical references to Jesus himself.
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -1/+13I think you got it backwards. The Rapture was actually the rest of us being spared Falwell's idiocy.
- azprofessional, on 10/24/2007, -1/+12you bet it is, meaning he's the most hetero character ever.
- nestcrw, on 10/24/2007, -0/+11It's the people with the loudest mouthes that get the most attention.
- kaeves, on 10/24/2007, -3/+14That painting is not sacred to Christians. It is a painting depicting an artist's impression of an event that is sacred. There is a difference.
- MattB123, on 10/23/2007, -1/+11Who would Jesus hate?
- PecanHead, on 10/24/2007, -3/+13Uh - I don't get it. I couldn't care less about whether he was gay or not, but this was just a comment that Rowling made while talking on one of her press shindigs. It never actually happened in the books.
That'd be like Tolkien writing in his memoirs that Frodo was a bulimic, meth-addicted, hermaphrodite. It's nonsense. If there's no evidence of it in the original book, you can't retroactively modify a produced work to fit with your agenda.
Frankly, if this is her attempt at trying to strengthen cultural tolerance, it's a little sad that she didn't have the fortitude to actually include this in the actual books. Weak sauce. - nekstrom, on 10/24/2007, -2/+12Did you actually read the link? From the link
"Now there arose at this time a source of further trouble in one Jesus, a wise man who performed surprising works..." - iticu, on 10/24/2007, -4/+14That's not a Christian. That's a victim of mainstream-religion. There's a difference.
- jamangold, on 10/24/2007, -2/+12When I first heard this announcement yesterday, my reaction was a sigh and a shrug of the shoulders. Why does a character in a children's book require a sexual orientation at all? What's the point?
Cue the needless media firestorm. - inactive, on 10/24/2007, -8/+18I don't quite understand blaming fictional characters for things...or really it mattering at all whether Dumbledore's creator has declared him gay. Then again, I guess it does sort of make sense in a way---the same people who seem to be very upset about one fictional character's sexuality are the very same people who think that another fictional character is going to make sure they live in heaven after they die.
- KizardLing, on 10/29/2007, -1/+10Why bury this guy down? He cited sources as well as giving links to them. If everyone here is as rational as they claim, this shouldn't be buried whether you agree with him or not.
- allisonaxe, on 10/24/2007, -2/+11and in addition to that, not only is it a "token stereotyped character for someone's amusement" but in this case, the character's status as a homosexual holds no bearing on the plot, so I even see it as a double victory. nobody would've known Dumbledore was gay for sure if she hadn't told anyone, and thats not necessarily because he's closeted (reading through some passages actually make a different kind of sense now with this knowledge.) Dumbledore, while gay, wasn't all about being gay, and didn't let that be the focus of his life..... which is something that real life GLBT's can't seem to handle yet, and even in gay-created cinema, most of the time the whole thing is about "being gay" as opposed to "telling a story that happens to have gay people in it." i find it distasteful and sad that we can't just say "ok, this guy likes boys" or "this girl has a girlfriend" and move on to more important things.
The character of Dumbledore, (who is a respected member of the wizarding community AND just so happens to have loved another wizard) is a more positive homosexual role model than, say, Jeffrey (in the movie/play "Jeffrey" who eats sleeps breathes gah and just resigns to getting aids because its part of the gay lifestyle.) - BOFH2, on 10/24/2007, -4/+13Some of us are, but apparently we are all lumped in with people who like to hate.
Oh, and for the record - WHO CARES IF HE IS GAY? - nicko68, on 10/24/2007, -1/+10Exactly. And if she really wanted him to be gay, why didn't she make it part of the story instead of announcing it months after the fact? Some say there were clues, but they were obscure enough that many people didn't pick up on them. But she already got her money from the Christians who might not otherwise want to read it (or let their children) and now she can also try to win favour with the gay rights groups.
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -4/+13Man, Jesus hung out with everybody.
- superguysteve, on 10/24/2007, -1/+10Is this really what we're arguing about?
- twazzer, on 10/23/2007, -2/+11theres nothing politically correct about it. We're just not as uptight as you Yanks.
- Dracura, on 10/24/2007, -1/+9Last I checked, Teletubbies != Dumbledore.
- Firehed, on 10/24/2007, -1/+9It doesn't. It's, for all intents and purpose, one of those useless bits of trivia. Had someone not personally asked the author, we wouldn't know. Although you can expect it to be one of those pointless sub-plots they decide to stick in the movies to hide the complete lack of adherence to the original story.
- Coven, on 10/24/2007, -0/+8Can you say "whoosh"?
- jsmith39, on 10/24/2007, -0/+8You so silly
- AegisC, on 10/29/2007, -2/+10There are about as many non-Christian references regarding Jesus as there are that mention Tiberius Ceasar, the Roman Emperor during Jesus' time over a span of 150 years. If you include Christian sources (not just the Bible), there are tons more references of Jesus. Tiberius makes it into the Bible in Luke 3:1. Jesus existed, Paul (a contemporary of Jesus) existed, Peter, James and all those guys existed. If your selectively skeptical about what you include as "evidence" you can disprove the existence of pretty much any person of antiquity.
- MattB123, on 10/23/2007, -0/+8Jesus was way cool
Everybody liked Jesus
Everybody wanted to hang out with him
Anything he wanted to do, he did
He turned water into wine
And if he wanted to
He could have turned wheat into marijuana
Or sugar into cocaine
Or vitamin pills into amphetamines
- King Missle - inactive, on 10/25/2007, -3/+10Don't tell me you buy into Rita Skeeter's slanderous nonsense.
- Cerialthriller, on 10/24/2007, -2/+9some of them are using the Conjure Stall spell as we speak for some quick gay action
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