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Originally posted by jmotley
reply to post by jeasahtheseer
Congrats man. Hope you guys find a better place to live. I'm going through that now. I'm black, white, and Native American but look like I'm with a light tan. My son looks like he is straight white eventhough his mom is black he is already starting to catch it school because he is the lightest kid there and he's only 6
You’ve just arrived home. The kids, having gotten home from school a few hours earlier, are going about their usual business. You walk into the kitchen and throw your briefcase on the counter, grabbing a glass out of the cupboard. As you walk towards the fridge to get some orange juice the phone rings, diverting you.
You pick it up. You stand there in stunned silence. The voice on the other end of the line informs you that your wife has been involved in a serious car accident.
You immediately hang up and dial your neighbour. You ask them to watch the kids while you go to the hospital, telling them that you’ll inform the kids of the situation once you know more. Your neighbour, who you’ve know for years, is aghast, but assures you that they’ll drop everything and come over.
The glass that you had grabbed remains empty on the counter, you grab your keys, get in your car, and drive like a madman.
On the way to the hospital your whole life flashes in front of your eyes – the seventeen years of marriage, the night you first kissed her, the look on her face when you asked her to marry you, the tears that filled the corners of her eyes as you were pronounced man and wife. The hard times are forgotten, the good times surging to the forefront of your memory – the birth of your children, the vacations, the laughter, those silent moments when you stared at each other in bed at night contented and at ease with yourselves.
You get to the hospital, park in a two-away zone, run into emergency, find the desk, ask where she is, and…
…you can’t see her.
Imagine that. Because that is the reality faced by many gay and lesbian couples in that exact situation. They are not considered immediate family, even if they have been together for decades. At that desk, with the one person that means more to them than anything possibly facing death, they are stopped.
I’ve read and heard a great deal about God in my life. If you’re of the opinion that God’s will is represented at that desk when a gay or lesbian person is stopped, then what is there to say other than God help you.
Originally posted by LouieKnowsJeetKuneDo i have a close friend who's gay and i hate it, simply because i assume that people assume I'm gay even thought I've never ever done anything remotely gay in my entire life. i don't know why it bothers me but it does. [edit on 14-7-2009 by LouieKnowsJeetKuneDo]
Originally posted by nunya13
I saw this on a person's blog. Maybe this will help open the eyes of some people who think that gay's are trying to "push their agenda" on the rest of us. They are people too, in love, with kids and a genuine affection for each other that goes beyond the boundaries of sex and fetishes.
When you can't see (emphasis mine)
You’ve just arrived home. The kids, having gotten home from school a few hours earlier, are going about their usual business. You walk into the kitchen and throw your briefcase on the counter, grabbing a glass out of the cupboard. As you walk towards the fridge to get some orange juice the phone rings, diverting you.
You pick it up. You stand there in stunned silence. The voice on the other end of the line informs you that your wife has been involved in a serious car accident.
You immediately hang up and dial your neighbour. You ask them to watch the kids while you go to the hospital, telling them that you’ll inform the kids of the situation once you know more. Your neighbour, who you’ve know for years, is aghast, but assures you that they’ll drop everything and come over.
The glass that you had grabbed remains empty on the counter, you grab your keys, get in your car, and drive like a madman.
On the way to the hospital your whole life flashes in front of your eyes – the seventeen years of marriage, the night you first kissed her, the look on her face when you asked her to marry you, the tears that filled the corners of her eyes as you were pronounced man and wife. The hard times are forgotten, the good times surging to the forefront of your memory – the birth of your children, the vacations, the laughter, those silent moments when you stared at each other in bed at night contented and at ease with yourselves.
You get to the hospital, park in a two-away zone, run into emergency, find the desk, ask where she is, and…
…you can’t see her.
Imagine that. Because that is the reality faced by many gay and lesbian couples in that exact situation. They are not considered immediate family, even if they have been together for decades. At that desk, with the one person that means more to them than anything possibly facing death, they are stopped.
I’ve read and heard a great deal about God in my life. If you’re of the opinion that God’s will is represented at that desk when a gay or lesbian person is stopped, then what is there to say other than God help you.
...But my intention was to help sway those who can be swayed away from ignorance and lack of compassion. I know it will have no effect on those who will never change their minds because they will never change their minds about anything their mind is already made up about. What a sad way to be man.
Originally posted by amazed
reply to post by FraternitasSaturni
There is a reason that people cannot marry siblings. What is that reason? Because when they have children, they have a huge chance of birth defects and mental disorders. I believe that is a good reason to disallow people who are related to get married. It really has nothing to do with "having sex" or with love, it has to do with blood ties, which causes deformities and mental disabilities.
And yes, it does happen within the animal kingdom, and when it does, the babies usually have problems, but NOT always.
I don't think that is an issue within the homosexual community. Try again
So you're carrying the burden of stigmatisation without even getting anything out of it?
Originally posted by LouieKnowsJeetKuneDo i have a close friend who's gay and i hate it, simply because i assume that people assume I'm gay even thought I've never ever done anything remotely gay in my entire life. i don't know why it bothers me but it does. [edit on 14-7-2009 by LouieKnowsJeetKuneDo]
Originally posted by Dark Ghost
Originally posted by amazed
reply to post by FraternitasSaturni
There is a reason that people cannot marry siblings. What is that reason? Because when they have children, they have a huge chance of birth defects and mental disorders. I believe that is a good reason to disallow people who are related to get married. It really has nothing to do with "having sex" or with love, it has to do with blood ties, which causes deformities and mental disabilities.
And yes, it does happen within the animal kingdom, and when it does, the babies usually have problems, but NOT always.
I don't think that is an issue within the homosexual community. Try again
Interesting you should bring up this issue as I chose to do the same in another thread at roughly the same time. Coincidence hey?
I think you are tying to fool yourself as to why you object against incest. Is it really because a brother and sister would produce mutated offspring that you object? What happens if a brother and sister have sexual intercourse but use conception and have no desire for children? Do you still consider this wrong? Why is it wrong? And if they have sex purely for sexual gratification, again, why do you consider this immoral?
A lot of heterosexuals think sex between two men goes against nature and is wrong. You ask why? Probably for the same reason you consider incest wrong...it just is in the eye of the beholder. Whether they are correct or not is not the issue, but the parallels that can be drawn between the two situations very much is!
Originally posted by Spiramirabilis
absolutely - and, I shouldn't have just dashed off such a negative response :-)
Originally posted by John Matrix
In effect, it is their fetish that they want to give special recognition to, and no other fetish group does this. For example: do we see the cuckold fetish crowd looking for special minority status and recognition? DO we see the BDSM fetish community rising up and demanding special legislation to protect them or grant them some special status? NO, NO, NO!!
Gays are just people with a deviant paraphilic fetish/fantasy life.
Gays cannot reproduce, so they must recruit. They recruit by going after young boys and girls that can easily be influenced and manipulated.
[edit on 15/7/09 by John Matrix]