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Can a religious person be considered progressive if they oppose lgbt and reproductive rights? [View all]
Let's use a simple dictionary definition of progressive:
person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas
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One cannot call themselves progressive if they oppose lgbt/reproductive rights | |
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One can call themselves progressive if they oppose lgbt/reproductive rights | |
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Can a religious person be considered progressive if they oppose lgbt and reproductive rights? [View all]
beam me up scottie
Apr 2017
OP
It's a simple question specifically regarding women's and lgbt rights.
beam me up scottie
Apr 2017
#3
If you can't fully oppose laws designed to impose anyone's religious views, that's not progressive.
bettyellen
Apr 2017
#9
Is that how you define progressive? What about military intervention to prevent genocide?
beam me up scottie
Apr 2017
#46
Were you going to vote, or were you just hanging around in this thread for no particular reason?
AtheistCrusader
Apr 2017
#26
It is how I identify her after many hours of lectures, and several books, plus public speaking
AtheistCrusader
Apr 2017
#44
Sorry I was being flippant. Active opposition to the rights of others is not progressive,
delisen
Apr 2017
#11
Meaning that none of the Founders of this country were progressive in a modern sense.
guillaumeb
Apr 2017
#19
I guess. If they don't advocate for government involvement in lgbt and reproductive rights?
Jonny Appleseed
Apr 2017
#27
As I said up-thread I'm referring to those who actively oppose lgbt and reproductive rights.
beam me up scottie
Apr 2017
#36
I mean, the pope is progressive by comparison to the 17th century time bubble that the
Jonny Appleseed
Apr 2017
#61
Wait, what? You just said opposition to lgbt and reproductive rights isn't progressive.
beam me up scottie
Apr 2017
#63
Yeah in a perfect world I'd dissolve all religions entirely because they require adherence to
Jonny Appleseed
Apr 2017
#66
No...if you condone anti-LGBT or anti-choice legislation, you are not progressive.
LOL Lib
Apr 2017
#57