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Rainbow Flag Will Fly Over Montreal City Hall During Olympics

It is amazing watching the conservatives on this thread supporting fascism and hate. Good job showing true colors. it is remarkable.

Someone said gays were 1.3% of the population, it is much higher but let's say it is. What if the law were that Jews couldn't show their Judaism in public. I mean they are less than 1% of the population. What if the law was that Jews couldn't buy or sell with non-Jews, or have to wear identifying labels of some kind? Would you support that? Is that an acceptable approach?

You see the hate for gay people is so strong among some conservatives that they miss the point of what is actually going on here. Yes, these laws can lead to rounding up gay people and killing them. It has happened before. I wonder how many conservatives simply turned the other way when it did.

I see a lot of hate in your post. Mellow out.
 
but theirs things to hate about putin and china other then their success so its not a good way to detect jealousy

Sure, the same thing Bush told us about why the terrorists hate us.
 
There is plenty i can be critical of here and in russia at the same time. I would not want the olympics in US because in most states, gays still cannot marry the person they love, can be legally fired or denied housing and subject to other barbarities. Yet all that is still infinitely better than comrade vladimir's reign of terror, and there's plenty other locations to hold a winter olympics. You see, i can condemn the selection of russia as host without mentioning the US at all. It's you who keeps doing that.

And you join a host of people that wish to diminish and politicize the Olympics by using this time to criticize Russia. But I can see that that doesn't seem to matter.
 
:agree: There are many groups that are vying for attention about one thing or another. To single one out is probably discriminatory in the first place, and Russia is not going to care what we think in the second place. If someone feels that strongly about something, they should fly a flag in protest in their own front yard, and make their own personal statement!

Exactly. Instead of criticizing athletes for not boycotting the games.
 
It's hilarious how you are trying to dismiss legitimate interests here as some US plot

#murica is evil

It's no plot by any means, it's arrogance, and nationalism. Enjoy yourself.
 
Right.. because making homosexuality illegal does not politicize sex at all.

Actually homosexuality has never been illegal in America. Just the act of sodomy aka BUGGERY.

I've never seen any laws in fact anyone condemning a platonic relationship between the opposite sex or the same sex or even between a human and animal.
 
And you join a host of people that wish to diminish and politicize the Olympics by using this time to criticize Russia. But I can see that that doesn't seem to matter.

nothing political about human rights and dignity, and they diminished it on their own with this barbarity
 
1.) agreed 100% and in the future if these countries are ineligible conflict is suppressed

2.) thats a cute story but "who" wants that? seems at least you quoted the wrong person or at worse you are in the wrong thread. "see the olympics essential destroyed" LMAO

Excluding all the nations that have problems with gay rights would destroy the Olympics and turn it into something else.

But it could happen. The last time the US boycotted the Olympics, completely thereby missing the whole point, was under Jimmy Carter. And now we have Jimmy Carter to the 10th power. Carter's boycott was followed by a boycott of the Olympics in Los Angeles by Eastern Bloc nations in 1984. They set up their own separate games they called the "Friendship Games".

And Carter's reason for the boycott in 1980? ..... wait for it ..... the Russians had invaded Afghanistan. :lamo
 
ACtually it is YOU and others against SSM that are going to have to "get over it", because gay marriage WILL be legal across the land. So "Get over it".

YOU don't own the word marriage. It used to be marriage was between one man and one woman of THE SAME RACE. Things change, get over it.
Oh...I think most of us are fully aware that eventually the courts will change the law. And when that happens...life WILL go on. Little will change, including the number of homosexuals that are miserable in their life because they are far more worried about others accepting them as 'normal' than simply accepting themselves.
 
Exactly. Instead of criticizing athletes for not boycotting the games.

useless strawman, i have not once said the athletes should stay home but said time and again that the olympics *should have been moved*
 
nothing political about human rights and dignity, and they diminished it on their own with this barbarity

I'm opposed to Russia's stance on this. For the umpteenth time, I don't believe the Olympics, which by nature are designed to bring nations together long enough to overlook differences to play ball for a couple weeks, for the time to make political stands, but I see you find it appropriate.
 
No hate. It's gross watching a man and woman heavy petting in public... I'm talking about the same level of decorum.

It's much less tolerant of the lgbt community to force people into embracing the lifestyle. You get tolerance, and be happy with that, and I expect you to be tolerant of other people's beliefs.

Those beliefs that wearing a rainbow pin should get you thrown in jail and subjected to neo-nazi brutality with no protection from law enforcement? No thanks, i don't tolerate that level of intolerance at all
 
Excluding all the nations that have problems with gay rights would destroy the Olympics and turn it into something else.

But it could happen. The last time the US boycotted the Olympics, completely thereby missing the whole point, was under Jimmy Carter. And now we have Jimmy Carter to the 10th power. Carter's boycott was followed by a boycott of the Olympics in Los Angeles by Eastern Bloc nations in 1984. They set up their own separate games they called the "Friendship Games".

And Carter's reason for the boycott in 1980? ..... wait for it ..... the Russians had invaded Afghanistan. :lamo

They don't seem to understand this.
 
I'm opposed to Russia's stance on this. For the umpteenth time, I don't believe the Olympics, which by nature are designed to bring nations together long enough to overlook differences to play ball for a couple weeks, for the time to make political stands, but I see you find it appropriate.

It would have been much less polarized and more community building to have held it in a place like vancouver. There is no "coming together" when people are hauled off and attacked on the streets for free speech.
 
useless strawman, i have not once said the athletes should stay home but said time and again that the olympics *should have been moved*

Well my apologies if you hadn't yourself said that. It has been expressed here by others. Point is, it wasn't moved and now its friendly competition time. Not political grandstanding time.
 
It would have been much less polarized and more community building to have held it in a place like vancouver. There is no "coming together" when people are hauled off and attacked on the streets for free speech.

But it wasn't.
 
Conservatives concerned about communist China's human rights and economic oppression during the summer games a few years ago? "It's the Olympic games, the purpose is to put politics aside and compete in games as the world separate from politics and war."

Russia passing an anti-gay law? "OMG hoist the flags! Condemn the Russians and turn the Olympics into a political battleground over gay rights!"

Now, the law in Russia is stupid and I would support overturning it, but it's a load of hypocrisy for people to tell concerned conservatives to essentially shut up and respect the non-political nature of the games when they were in China while many more liberal areas are doing the opposite over a gay rights issue.
 
Conservatives concerned about communist China's human rights and economic oppression during the summer games a few years ago? "It's the Olympic games, the purpose is to put politics aside and compete in games as the world separate from politics and war."

Russia passing an anti-gay law? "OMG hoist the flags! Condemn the Russians and turn the Olympics into a political battleground over gay rights!"

Now, the law in Russia is stupid and I would support overturning it, but it's a load of hypocrisy for people to tell concerned conservatives to essentially shut up and respect the non-political nature of the games when they were in China while many more liberal areas are doing the opposite over a gay rights issue.

I disagree entirely. Liberals were criticising the Olympics in China two years ago.
 
I disagree entirely. Liberals were criticising the Olympics in China two years ago.

Some were, but as a general statement it appeared more conservatives were concerned with many liberals essentially telling them to stop and respect the spirit of the Olympics. I'm not saying all conservatives opposed and all liberals supported. But generally there wasn't a stink raised over China to the degree we are seeing about Russia now with China having far more rights violations.

I'm just saying the same people/groups that told others to shut up about objections to China but are now objecting to Russia are hypocrites. I also think the amount of outcry over Russia is far more than with China with pretty much the singular issue being the gay rights stuff.
 
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Some were, but as a general statement it appeared more conservatives were concerned with many liberals essentially telling them to stop and respect the spirit of the Olympics. I'm not saying all conservatives opposed and all liberals supported. But generally there wasn't a stink raised over China to the degree we are seeing about Russia now with China having far more rights violations.

Don't agree.


Not that these issues were solely liberal concerns, but lots of people were raising a stink for a variety of reasons. The gay thing in Russia pales in comparison.
Concerns and controversies at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Don't agree.


Not that these issues were solely liberal concerns, but lots of people were raising a stink for a variety of reasons. The gay thing in Russia pales in comparison.
Concerns and controversies at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm not saying there wasn't any concern, but it's not nearly to the amount as over Russia and the gay rights stuff and those who did tell others to hush about China but are now raving about Russia are hypocrites.
 
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