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Well sure, I’ve never exactly been a fan of Ray Comfort. At most, it’s been a sort of masochistic love-hate relationship. He’s just too amusing in his ignorance, too delightfully unpredictable in his idiocy. But this time he’s gone too far. No one could blame ignorance in these matters and get away with it.

Steve posted a comment to one of Ray’s previous posts. This is his comment:

I’ve got a question regarding the absolute immorality of “lusting” from the Christian perspective. I don’t mind if someone, anyone, ‘undressed me with their eyes’ and treated me in their minds as a sexual object. In fact, I could care less. It’s their business what they do with their thoughts, even if they are perverted creepies. So my question is, if someone lusts after me, do you still consider it to be immoral? If so, under what reasoning or logic can you hold that position tenable.

Now, notice how he seems to define sexuality without specifying it any further, but also notice he mentions “perverted creepies” as possible perpetrators of this act. Ray, of course, seems to have noticed this immediately. This is part of his reply:

Let’s say that when you say that you don’t mind if someone lusts after you, you include homosexuals. You say that it’s their business what they do with their thoughts. Their thoughts about you are their business. If we had a consensus, some would say that that’s okay, some would say that it’s not.

No, let’s not say that, because it doesn’t matter in the slightest. Why mention homosexuals in this example? Why separate them when they don’t have anything to do at all with Steve’s question? Why, Ray?

I won’t pretend to know Ray’s mind, but my impression is quite clear. Ray equates “perverted creepies” with homosexuals, and feels an urge to mention this specifically. There was no reason at all to explicitly add that it was a homosexual person doing the lusting. None whatsoever.

If Ray decides to apologize, I will gladly reprint his apology here, but unless he does, I officially call him out as the homophobic bigot that he is. I’m just glad he’s decided to be open and clear about it, giving all his followers a chance to see who he really is. Actually, I would love to hear from anyone who thinks positively of Ray tell me whether they support these opinions or not.