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Originally posted by muzzleflash
This is highly illogical.
Biological parents are who gave birth to me. That's the terminology I employed, and if you wanna just remain heartless and repeat your half-truth mantra all day go for it.
Originally posted by earthship35
reply to post by AnonymousFem
I am with you all the way sister.It really saddens me that people still think this way.I am so glad my parents didn't put that vile evil in my head growing up.I really don't like religion and 75% of the things it stands for.Why this day and age people still believe being gay is a choice or something boggles my mind..It has been here forever but at least now most rationale people are giving them the rights they deserve..edit on 12-10-2011 by earthship35 because: mistyped word
Originally posted by Walkers
Not in my name. A marriage = one man and one woman. A relationship = one man and one woman. A family = one man and one woman + their children. I will never change my views, no matter how hard they try and force them down our throats.
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by muzzleflash
This is highly illogical.
Biological parents are who gave birth to me. That's the terminology I employed, and if you wanna just remain heartless and repeat your half-truth mantra all day go for it.
My mom contracted polio when I was 5. She was in the hospital for a year. My dad found someone else.
I wasted many years of negative energy on him. A situation I had no control over.
Energy that could have been used in a positive and productive way.
Your choice. Wallow in it - - or choose positive and productive.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Originally posted by earthship35
reply to post by AnonymousFem
I am with you all the way sister.It really saddens me that people still think this way.I am so glad my parents didn't put that vile evil in my head growing up.I really don't like religion and 75% of the things it stands for.Why this day and age people still believe being gay is a choice or something boggles my mind..It has been here forever but at least now most rationale people are giving them the rights they deserve..edit on 12-10-2011 by earthship35 because: mistyped word
This to me proves that most people have little to no understanding of natural human rights in the first place.
You cannot give someone rights. They were born with all rights inherently. You can only protect their rights or trample upon them. These are the only real options.
All humans have equal rights, and when special groups are given special rights that other groups do not have, this is tyranny.
Just because the past is full of tyranny does not mean automatically that the correct solution is to impose a tyranny of the opposite political view. This is just more of the same oppression that our past is clouded with, but with a new flavor and format.
Originally posted by earthship35
reply to post by muzzleflash
Dude,you're killing me.. i really hope you are busting my chops but if you are serious..I meant since the beginning of LIFE on this planet..Because as i hope you know most animals display some form of homosexuality..
Originally posted by earthship35
reply to post by muzzleflash
Dude,you're killing me.. i really hope you are busting my chops but if you are serious..I meant since the beginning of LIFE on this planet..Because as i hope you know most animals display some form of homosexuality..
Originally posted by thebtheb
Okay, the LAST thing I am is the spokesman for gays. I'm one of the least militant gays I know. I just live my life. BUT...you ARE comparing pedophilia to homosexuality. We don't incarcerate pedophiles for their sexual attraction to children nim-friggin'-wit - we incarcerate them because they've forced a minor to have sex with them against their consent.
Originally posted by thebtheb
And seriously, usually I have a lot of patience and understanding for people that despise homosexuality. I tell this to other gays all the time: I say to people that the way others feel about homosexuality is the WAY THEY FEEL. Sometimes it's very ingrained in them, either from upbringing, or religion, or not actually knowing any gays, or SIMPLY BECAUSE TO THEIR LOGIC, they find it unnatural. And we shouldn't expect them to just like it because society or parts of society tell them they should. I have NO PROBLEM with that.
Originally posted by thebtheb
What really blows my mind though is that utter absence of any empathy and sympathy for homosexuals. As if homosexuals have committed some crime against YOU. If you're right, and it's a disease, I'd expect compassion like we give anyone who has a disease. I'd expect you to realize that for homosexuals, it was a HARD childhood and an incredibly confusing thing.
Originally posted by thebtheb
But no - there's always this 100% absolute denial of any of that, and just this vile hatred, which pretty well proves to me the cliche that it's something that you not so much hate, but are just terrified of. Otherwise, the hatred would not be so obvious and strong.
Originally posted by thebtheb
I love this whole idea of "it's supposed to be some kind of unchangeable condition" Really? Well why don't you see how easy it is for YOU to be attracted to a woman you're actually NOT attracted to? A women you feel is unattractive. Change THAT!
Originally posted by thebtheb
Do you think I didn't try to be straight? How STUPID are you? I tried for years when I was a child and teen to BE straight. I avoided being gay and tried to TRAIN myself to be straight. I bought girl porn and desperately tried to get off on it. Others go further, and get married to women and ruin their own lives as well as the poor women they're married to.
Originally posted by thebtheb
I was lucky and discovered I could NOT change it. Not because I didn't want to - but because I couldn't!
Now - I'm fine with it and laugh at those days that I was trying to change it. The ONLY reason I was trying to change it was because I knew that people like you would and did exist.
But don't tell me or any other gay for that matter, that they can change it. And don't quote me ANY of that garbage about supposed documented cases of people who have - they're ALL fundamentalist Christians and the success rate is...um... ZERO!
So I don't have a problem that you don't like homosexuality, but do NOT equate it with pedophilia and then pretend you're not, and do NOT tell me what I'm capable of changing or not.
There - my militant friends would FREAK if they saw this post.
Originally posted by antonia
Isn't the eutimes a Sorcha Faal hangout? You sure this even real?edit on 12-10-2011 by antonia because: darn autocorrect
Originally posted by Walkers
Not in my name. A marriage = one man and one woman. A relationship = one man and one woman. A family = one man and one woman + their children. I will never change my views, no matter how hard they try and force them down our throats.
Originally posted by Pinke
These things are unrelated.
For starters, in most countries it isn't illegal to be sexually attracted to a child.
Originally posted by Pinke
Pedophiles are are arrested for acting on their desires, not for having them.
Originally posted by PinkeAlso, mental disorders are often classified under rules of giving the 'patient' distress and various other rules ... Being gay doesn't generally distress a person, or make them want to damage another or do anything illegal. Though a psychiatrist will assist a person if they find being gay distressing.
Originally posted by Pinke
Next, sex with children is generally agreed to be harmful to a child's development. Which means it's pretty much zero to do with gender at all in this case.
Originally posted by Pinke
Thirdly, what does any of this have to do with a change to passport forms???!!!! It's just another hyperbolic gaysplosion reaction from many persons. Said it a million times ... is frustrating that threads like this get so much attention from the planet.
Originally posted by Pinke
I could headshot a major politician and get less attention that this. Commit murder and get less attention than what is roughly equivolent to someone making a typo. / And oddly ... there would be just as much complaining if forms had a special section added for special families. You can't win!
Biology has very little to do with passport applications as far as I can tell!
edit on 12-10-2011 by Pinke because: Bolding
Originally posted by thebtheb
And seriously, usually I have a lot of patience and understanding for people that despise homosexuality. I tell this to other gays all the time: I say to people that the way others feel about homosexuality is the WAY THEY FEEL. Sometimes it's very ingrained in them, either from upbringing, or religion, or not actually knowing any gays, or SIMPLY BECAUSE TO THEIR LOGIC, they find it unnatural. And we shouldn't expect them to just like it because society or parts of society tell them they should. I have NO PROBLEM with that.