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You must remember this, a kiss isn't just a kiss
RenewAmerica.Us ^ | 7/21/2005 | Mike Bates

Posted on 07/22/2005 2:43:28 PM PDT by Mike Bates

It was Sunday evening at a casual Orland Park restaurant. A couple, in their late 20s or early 30s, held hands, deeply kissed and couldn't take their hands off one another. The young lovers were both men.

Often in articles relating to changing social mores, the writer begins by assuring readers he's no prude. That's not happening here.

I live a sheltered life by design. I know that I'm an old fogy, a fuddy-duddy and a stuffed shirt. Oh, and of course a curmudgeon too.

Even if that weren't the case, though, I think seeing these two characters in action, and I do mean action, would have been a disquieting experience.

A young, if you'll pardon the expression, heterosexual couple with a child was also present. They cast disapproving looks at the frisky twosome on their way out. I'll bet they absolutely loved having to explain to Junior, who looked to be about six, what he'd just been exposed to.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: gay; gross; homos; homosexual; mores; pdas; sodomites
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1 posted on 07/22/2005 2:43:28 PM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: Mike Bates

A Barf alert if you please.


2 posted on 07/22/2005 2:45:38 PM PDT by CAP811 (One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place)
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To: Mike Bates
Call me a homophobe, but I don't believe overt kissing, cuddling, petting, you name it, will win any undecideds over. Some things are better not done in public. The technical reason for this is, as I best recall, the ick factor.

This is so heteronormative.

3 posted on 07/22/2005 2:46:28 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Mike Bates

Oh yes, explaining THAT to my five year old would be fun. Grrr. Then again, I am not fond of ANYBODY doing an extensive liplock complete with Roman hands and Russian fingers in public.

It all has a big "ick" factor to me. Them being gay would have just made matters a bit more gross (imo).


4 posted on 07/22/2005 2:47:16 PM PDT by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: CAP811

"Ick" alert.


5 posted on 07/22/2005 2:48:34 PM PDT by mad puppy ( "He's with me!" And I'm with W.)
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To: Mike Bates
Caaaaack! I would have left the restaurant. (Probably would have left any remnants of my dinner on the restaurant floor.) But, I'm a hate monger too.
6 posted on 07/22/2005 2:49:14 PM PDT by Millee (So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
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To: Mike Bates

This is what you get when you establish gay marriage.


7 posted on 07/22/2005 2:49:55 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Spade = spade.)
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To: Mike Bates

someone should have complained to the management


8 posted on 07/22/2005 2:50:13 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker!)
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To: Mike Bates

Well, these two guys kissed
on TV and the whole world
didn't crash and burn . . .
9 posted on 07/22/2005 2:50:45 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: bnelson44
Exactly. I'm anti-PDA in any form. The management should have seen what was going on (or somebody should have complained) and asked them to stop, just as he would any hetero couple.
10 posted on 07/22/2005 2:52:13 PM PDT by T.Smith
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To: theFIRMbss

THAT pic is disgusting!


11 posted on 07/22/2005 3:01:53 PM PDT by Txsleuth (John O'Neill for Supreme Court Justice!)
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To: Mike Bates
I most definitely would have complained to the management. Homosexual or heterosexual, this kind of PDA is unacceptable.
12 posted on 07/22/2005 3:02:54 PM PDT by Fatigued Mother
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To: theFIRMbss

(cue cheesy 1970's porn music now)

13 posted on 07/22/2005 3:03:13 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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To: Mike Bates

I once made out with a girl in a certain cathedral. Of course, I was 18 and didn't have much sense at the time. The fact that two guys can't control themselves in a public place in their early 30s is not merely wrong, but pathetic as well.


14 posted on 07/22/2005 3:03:44 PM PDT by Clemenza (JJesus CChrist MMade SSeattle UUnder PProtest)
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To: theFIRMbss
Well, these two guys kissed on TV and the whole world didn't crash and burn . . .

Nope, the world was O.K., but what was left of their careers crashed and burned in fairly short order. Having the ability to shock as your only talent is not a recipe for career longevity.

15 posted on 07/22/2005 3:04:13 PM PDT by Luddite Patent Counsel (Theyre digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.)
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To: Mike Bates
Look at us. We're just dying for attention and want to rock your world.

I'll put my bet on this. Being gay, they were probably hoping for possible lawsuit action to follow as in the Dodgers case mentioned.

I saw two women do a similar thing right in front of us at Church during Mass.

16 posted on 07/22/2005 3:07:47 PM PDT by TotusTuus
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel
"Having the ability to shock as your only talent is not a recipe for career longevity."

Are you actually claiming Madonna hasn't had a long (and successful) career?
17 posted on 07/22/2005 3:20:29 PM PDT by Moral Hazard ("I believe the children are the future" - Whitney Houston; "Fight the future" - X-files)
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To: Mike Bates





18 posted on 07/22/2005 3:50:26 PM PDT by Main Street (The Clinton)
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To: exnavychick

"Then again, I am not fond of ANYBODY doing an extensive liplock complete with Roman hands and Russian fingers in public."

I agree with you - I don't care whether they are heterosexuaL or homosexual extreme "fondness" should be done in private, thank you.


19 posted on 07/22/2005 3:57:29 PM PDT by ImpotentRage
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To: Mike Bates

Back in the 70's (in other words, pre-AIDS) I lived in a top floor walk-up in Anchorage, AK. The apartment under mine had the exact same layout. There was a hetero couple living there for a couple of years. Sometimes I would hear the sounds of passion late at night. No problem.

They moved out and a homosexual male moved in. Then the weekend-long orgies started. I heard things through the floor that would make a maggot puke. You know, prior to this happening I had never thought much about homosexuality. After that, I realized what a sick, unnatural lifestyle choice this is.

It would be wise for homosexuals to keep their lifestyle choice out of the public eye (they won't) because when people realize what really goes on between them, well, just YECCHHH!


20 posted on 07/22/2005 4:03:50 PM PDT by 43north (Pain is God's way of telling me I'm still alive.)
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