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Originally Posted by Trapped
I'm sad too. I'm going to take a specific stance regarding the rest of your post here that you may or may not agree with.
If someone comes and posts their testimony and experiences, and that testimony includes the fact that they are LGBTQ and includes the way they were treated in the LC for being LGBTQ, I see absolutely no reason why that post and thread should be moved. It should stay on the main forum. To move a thread like that only sends the same message the LGBTQ person has probably gotten already - we don't want you here - which is a horrible message to send, and the wrong one.
However, due to the personal beliefs of the owner of this forum, I can understand having the threads on the topic of LGBTQ on the Alt-views section. If someone believes that same sex actions are a sin, I can understand their not wanting posts in affirmation of that sin on the main forum. In that case, I would hope that just the LGBTQ defense/offense posts were moved, and not the entire thread where the LGBTQ person introduced themselves.
Having said that, I'm not necessarily set in stone on that either. It's all stuff that various people leaving the LC might have to wrestle with or may never have been able to talk about, so why separate it out? But I do agree that something needs to change in the way we welcome new people, no matter what they believe or are.
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Yes Trapped, I would agree with you that if the coversation did go sideways like focusing on biblical analysis of lgbtq relationships or atheism, then it should be in a different thread. What I was upset about was that my entire testimony (not just the particular posts that went off topic) was moved to Alt views before (this thread was later deleted). Same with XChurchKid’s Testimony. The whole thing was moved over. I’m not sure how difficult it is for the mod to just start at the point where people veered off topic to debate certain aspects of the testimony, and move the posts AFTER that point or points to Alt views. Then again, there are ex LCers also suffering or experiencing atheism and/or sexuality issues and I think it’s be best to leave these sorts of testimonies in the main forum to include diversity. Esp among the younger generations, it is beneficial for them to see they’re not the only ones going through it, and that they dont have to scroll all the way down to Alt views to find that others are experiencing the same things.
Then again, this is my two cents, if someone thinks lgbtq plus is/is not a sin, both views are equally valid, so to choose one over the other in order to make a decision whether or not that should be in the main forum is making a decision for all LCers who may think differently about the issue.