Homosexuality ? Where do you stand...

i agree. why should anyone care who other people love when infact it is none of their business

I agree with your point.

This is why:
It is because they don't like change. When a traditional conservative society such as U.S.A. faces change that opposes its values, it tries very hard to get rid of it. However the "change" that U.S.A. is facing actually will not do it any harm so why cause such an uproar over it ? Well U.S.A. is corrupt. That is the answer to why homosexuals have to go through all this BS (Bull sh*t ).
On top of all this, i can picture a homosexual boy walking down the street of Texas and getting beat up just because he is gay. How awful and ridiculous is that ?

I stand with my back to the wall....

there are homophobes in every society. but i think in most places they do not fear change they fear the gay population as a whole. maybe they think that if there is enough gay people in they world that they will make everything pink and the homophobe themselves will end up being beaten and/or abused by they gay leaders of the planet

I'm with bpb - back to the wall.

But the overall issue won't go away. I wish the gay community would stop attacking the institution of marriage though. Call it a civil union or whatever, but don't fight the churches. They're just picking a battle to publicize their cause.

My Godfather was gay, and from what I know, never had a straight relationship his entire life. What's perhaps stranger is that my parents and others that knew him never figured it out, until I told them. And you know what, after they realized their oversight, it didn't change their opinion of their lifelong friend one bit. I also suspect my aunt was the same way. Big deal. She was also one of the first members of the WAC and delivered aircraft to bases all over the U.S. Pretty cool IMO.

I stand right in the middle of the homosexual orgy. Be advised this includes sex and other things...

cj--wanting the right to be married is not an attack on marriage.

Im going to get shot for this

but I could NOT agree more.

I absolutely understand the need to not be discriminated against.
I understand that peoples sexual behavior is NOT the publics business . No one needs to know who you are sleeping with and the fact that there are LAWS against certain sexual behavior blows my mind. I could not imagine what it would be like to live in fear of just being yourself due ot laws and other forms of blatent hatred.

But.. do people HAVE to pick loosing fights?

Just as much as the church has a right to exist with its rules, people have the right to exist with out it.
But simply because it is against "homosexuality' does not give people the right to attempt to pick it away.

Once the behavior of the church, its members, or the society it feeds becomes a problem then DEAL WITH THAT BEHAVIOR. But I do not think it is OK to try and disrobe the church simply because it does not 'believe' in something.
Why does the church not have the right to disbelieve... yet the gay community has a right to attack them for it and attempt to force them to believe or accept.?

hot topic.
People can shoot me down, pick apart my post or what have you.

I think churches have a right to decide on whether or not to officiate at weddings. My pastor wouldn't marry my very heterosexual cousin, because he was a divorcee. One marriage per lifetime was the rule in that church...no repeat customers. My cousin found another church. I wouldn't have any prob with a pastor/church deciding not to marry gay people.

The fact that it is a LAW is what chafes me.

Churches and people should decide who they want to marry, not the federal government.

Bingo.

If was at a party with the women of A2K.... I would want every other man there to be gay.... and if a couple of the women were too.... well that would be okay too. :wink:

All love is beautiful. I mean, females, I could be wrong here but my understanding is the fairer sex is more self-compatible, so no point arguing there, and on the other side, if dudes want to conduct their lives in a more socio-economically stable manner, throw 'em a tax write off.

The whole sanctity of marriage thing - as if. I say let 'em adopt wee ones, getting more high-quality Americans is a good way to keep up with the deficit. Take us some of those unwanted Chinese daughters - it beats this expansionist script where Evangelicals, and forgive me, some ethnicities (including my own) try to sow their seed prolifically - in that it creates higher diversity relative to overall headcount... More American Dream, less tons of CO2. I could see disqualifying them on the basis of predisposition to 'deviant' behavior, but who's to say? Are priests that abstain despite having nuts not deviant?

it could start a problem if a gay guy starts hitting on you. =)

Re: Homosexuality ? Where do you stand...

As a libertarian,
my answer is: yes.
I believe that polite acceptance n tolerance is the best practice.

For my part personally: sex with another man wud be anathema; also gross n foul.

I remember during my childhood,
occasionally, other boys approached me with homosexual suggestions.
Altho I did not accept them,
I kept their remarks and their sexual desires confidential
and I continued to treat them with as much respect as before.







R u a homosexual ?




David

So stipulated.
May I offer u a cyber-Kevlar vest ?




David

I think I am ok.
I made my point, and apparently it did not make me sound sexist , or like a homophobe..

It isnt that I truly care one way or the other who is fkn who. It isnt in my bedroom so it isnt my business And everyone has the right to have a relationship if they so choose.

I just dont understand why it is PC and acceptable for the gay community to attack and attempt to force change on the church..
but it is NOT pc/ or acceptable for the church to stand by what it has believed for centuries..



But.. oh well..

What pisses me off is that people are in search for an answer to homosexuality.

We don't need to find the cause for homosexuality because being gay or lesbian is not something that has to be justified.

The search for a gay gene itself is homophobic. Instead of just accepting the fact that some people are straight and some are lesbian, gay , or bisexual, people are searching for a cause - as if homosexuality is a disease. Nobody's looking for a heterosexual gene. nobody's trying to find a genetic cause for left-handedness, which could even be less prevalent than homosexuality and therefore even more "abnormal".Its not a big deal because left handedness like heterosexuality is considered natural... homosexuality isn't considered natural. that is why a cause is being searched for.

Still i can see how it might be tempting for people - striaght or gay - to embrace the idea. If a gay gene is discovered, then we can claim it's like being left handed. We'd be acting as nature intended and could then expect equal treatment. The gay gene might mean an end to all of the standard arguements used to block our legal rights and may be enough to persuade legislators that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is unconstitutional. Parents might not be afraid if their kids have a gay teacher, and adoption agencies might be less reluctant to let gay couples adopt kids. They wouldn't be worried that the kids are going to grow up gay because homosexuality would be natural.


BUT would that really fix anything? People might be forced to tolerate us, but it wouldn't make them accept us. What makes us think that given how cruel and punitive so many have been towards us that the gay gene won't be seen as pathological? To a lot of people we would still be mutants, just not social mutants anymore. We'd be genetic mutants. We'd be able to claim that homosexuality is no different than skin colour or left handedness but our opponents could claim that instead of a natural gene, it is a genetic defect. That doesn't do much for gay and lesbian liberation, does it ?

The question of cause should be irrelevant. If more people believed that homosexuality is as natural and normal as heterosexuality, no one would want or need to search for a cause.

Still scientists continue to hunt for a cause for homosexuality, as if being gay is something bad or defective. People are all too willing to accept this. Maybe it is because it reaffirms their own heterosexual lifestyles. If gay is bad then heterosexuality is good. If heterosexuality is the norm then anything different is abnormal. If something is abnormal then there must be a reason.

The key to ending homophobia is making people understand and accept that sex is only one aspect of being gay or lesbian. When we talk about straight relationships, the conversation is not always cenetred around sex. We talk about marriage, love, and how men are from Mars and women are from Venus. (Example =) ) Heterosexuality is socially organized and recognized as natural and normal. Gays and lesbians are social outcasts.

We need to inform the media and the society we live in that we are normal. We are not mentally retarted, it is not a psycological disorder to be gay or lesbian. Even if it is a choice we make, then fine, leave us alone. We love this person because we love them. It shouldn't make a difference what their sex is.

BBB
I will stand with Shewolf before the firing squad for my opinion.

Ban churches and the problem will go away!

BBB

6Yuri9


Stop and think about what you just said. Women get hit on all the time. What if women "started a problem" every time men "hit on them"?
Straight men should do the same thing women do re unwanted passes. Ignore them!

Better to think about what you are saying before you post, 6Yuri9.

in a lovely (perfect to me world) , christianity would not exist and everyone could live with out those rules, speculations and self judgment...