I guess that since I grew upi in the 50's & 60's, with different races in our neighborhoods and schools, I do not know what would be threatening about blacks, indians, hispanics.....
So I really don't know how you are comparing open gayness with race issues.
I also do not agree that just because someone doesn't wish to be bunked in the same room/bay with a homosexual, they are bigoted, unless you simply mean "intolerant".
I do not 'tolerate' the drive that most 'open' gays profess. In that I do not approve, agree, desire, tolerate the teaching that 'gay is okay' or that it is not a choice.
Gay is NOT okay.
Gay IS a choice.
You can agree or not, but time will prove this out. Guaranteed!
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Look, nobody is forcing you to be gay. It is the same thing for homosexuals to be attracted to the same sex as it is for you to be attracted to the opposite. Your opinion does not enter the scheme here.
I really don't understand the fear that fundies have of being even NEAR a homosexual, almost as if they transmit some sort of gay radiation.
If you're attracted to your own gender then accept it and embrace it... oterwise just leave them alone. Is that really too much to ask?
Yeah, being gay is a choice. That's why when they're about to be killed due to their sexual preferences, they remain gay, right? *Insert rolling eyes*
If it were a choice, why would people choose to be humilliated and discriminated against?, makes no sense. Second, even if they choose it, it´s as if they choose to live in the country. Don´t pay attention to them and treat them as human beings. They´re not going to eat you.
I guess that since I grew upi in the 50's & 60's, with different races in our neighborhoods and schools, I do not know what would be threatening about blacks, indians, hispanics..... Neither do I. Regardlessly of that, however, the fact is that the racists of those days used precisely the same arguments you do now. "They'll take over the country", "inter-racial weddings will ruin marriage", "inter-racial children will be tortured on the playgrounds", etc.
Only they replaced "fag" with "nigger" and "lesbian/gay parents" with "inter-racial parents".
History 101.
"So I really don't know how you are comparing open gayness with race issues."
Bigots often invoke an invisible sky fairy to authorise their bigotry.
"You can agree or not, but time will prove this out. Guaranteed!"
The time has already come, and you missed it. Chances are you will continue to miss it.
Gay is NOT okay. Gay IS a choice. You can agree or not, but time will prove this out. Guaranteed!
So far, time has been proving the opposite. Psychiatrists used try to change gays into heterosexuals. After years of failure, they've given up. Nowadays, the attempt is being made only by a handful of quacks. We've since discovered correlations between homosexuality and birth order and homosexuality among male relatives on the mother's side, which suggests genetic and/or in-utero causes. In any event, why would anyone in their right mind choose to be gay, given the way they're treated?
4403771 would like to think homosexuality is a choice, because it allows him to believe his prejudice is their fault, not his. But he's right. Time will prove this out: he's full of shit.
As long as we're making predictions, here's mine. People will eventually no longer see what the big fuss about homosexuality was all about. Then fundies will rewrite history, yet again, to "prove" that they were in the vanguard of the fight against homophobia. Of course, by then, they will have found some other root cause of all evil in the world.
Ah, so I suppose you CHOOSE to be attracted to women, then?
(Am I wrong, or were the 50s & 60s a period of overwhelming racial tension in the US?)
I have a question for all those who think that being gay is a choice.
Even if it were a choice, who on earth would actually choose that? Being hated and told you're the scum of the earth by roughly half of the world's population? Yeah, I know that was my one goal in life when I came out.
Quit dreaming, 4403771, you're not so hot that all gays guys want you.
Haven't most guys "the drive", regardless of sexuality (apart from the asexual, of course)?
Actually, gayness (open or not) and race are similar, in that you're born with them.
Being pinkish-white is just as OK as being gay.
Time has already proven you wrong.
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