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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Fri Feb 28, 2014, 12:15 PM Feb 2014

Close-Minded Man Not Willing To Hear Argument On Why Homosexuality Is An Abomination

DULUTH, KS—Claiming it is “impossible” to get him to consider different points of view, exasperated acquaintances of local man Kyle Dunham told reporters Wednesday that the 34-year-old is completely unwilling to listen to even a single argument as to why homosexuality is an abomination.

Sources familiar with the account manager’s maddeningly rigid beliefs said that no matter how patiently and logically they present the extensive evidence demonstrating that gays and lesbians are systematically destroying society, the narrow-minded Dunham simply tunes them out.

“You try to have a rational conversation with him in which you carefully explain, point by point, how the Bible reveals that homosexuality is abhorrent and dangerous, and his eyes just glaze over,” said neighbor Alex Richardson, who told reporters he has never met anyone in his life so resistant to facts that contradicted his preconceived ideas. “Even when I bring up something basic that most informed people agree on—like how a man who lies down with another man is condemned to eternal hellfire—he just shakes his head.”

“I could spend all day calmly and methodically spelling out what befell the Sodomites,” Richardson added. “But it all goes in one ear and out the other.”

Despite intending to do nothing more than engage Dunham in a frank but nonjudgmental conversation about his inflexible views, most of his acquaintances said they could not even broach the possibility that homosexuality was a vile obscenity without being immediately dismissed.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/closeminded-man-not-even-willing-to-hear-out-argum,35379/

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Close-Minded Man Not Willing To Hear Argument On Why Homosexuality Is An Abomination (Original Post) Blue_Tires Feb 2014 OP
Hmmm. Shrike47 Feb 2014 #1
The Onion is satire. nt awoke_in_2003 Feb 2014 #4
k&r for The Onion uppityperson Feb 2014 #2
The sad thing about satire... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2014 #3
Immediately recognized The Onion........ raven mad Feb 2014 #5
There oughta be a law.... byronius Feb 2014 #6
Hilarious! I love The Onion! TxDemChem Feb 2014 #7
The Onion always tickles my dyslexia n/t Oilwellian Feb 2014 #8
 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
3. The sad thing about satire...
Fri Feb 28, 2014, 01:28 PM
Feb 2014

is you know there are people like this who think that it is people like me who are closed minded.

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
5. Immediately recognized The Onion........
Fri Feb 28, 2014, 03:16 PM
Feb 2014

but truthfully? I wish we could find billions of these type of close-minded men (and women)!

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