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Posted on 01/31/2006 8:23:18 PM PST by presidio9
Many of you have heard conservative traditionalists rant about "The Gay Agenda." But no one really knows what that agenda is. Well, I've discovered a copy, and I will summarize it for you:
8am - Protein shake
9am - Work out at the gym
10am - Rape straight men, give pornography to children, bulldoze all churches and destroy the sanctity of marriage (or what's left of it after Fox's "Married By America.")
Hey, wait a minute...
Some of the most important people in my life are gay men and lesbian women. And I can assure you, being gay does not mean you are sick enough to want to force or coerce someone into having sex with you. Being gay doesn't make you a pedophile or a pervert. (There are plenty of straight rapists and molesters.) Being gay doesn't automatically make you immoral, an atheist or a drug addict. Being gay doesn't mean you're HIV positive, dangerous, promiscuous or any different from any other human person. Being gay is something that a person is, but it is not who a person is, and it has no more effect on the quality of your character than your shoe size.
So why do people fear, hate and persecute homosexuals? Bigots typically give one of two reasons: 1.) The Bible says it's wrong. 2.) They find it "gross."
Now, I like God, and I like Jesus. But I think some of their followers are a few beads short of a rosary. I'm down with the loving thy neighbor and the doing unto others. But I think God and Jesus are about sick to death of people using their names to persecute each other. From the Spanish Inquisition to the KKK, every nutbag with a weapon and a chip on his shoulder has claimed they were acting out God's will.
I understand that the Bible is a cornerstone of Christianity, and it's important to take this artifact seriously. But in addition to the Word of God, it contains the biases of the men who wrote it. Biases regarding vegetarianism, men with long hair and believing the sun revolved around the Earth, just to name a few. A lot of people have read the same document and interpreted it in very different ways. And believing that your way is right just because you say so... that's not faith. That's arrogance.
The Nazis chose a symbol that had once represented peace. That didn't make them a peaceful group of people. Conservatives can use the name of Jesus and the sign of the cross, but it doesn't mean that their hate-mongering has anything to do with being Christians.
And now, the even sillier reason to hate gay people: 'cause you think gay sex is unappealing. You can call it "gross," "disgusting" or just plain "icky," but the fact is, these are also adjectives that have been used to condemn heterosexual intercourse.
Think back to being a child, to the first time someone told you what sex was. If you were anything like me at age five, you thought, "Why would anyone want to do THAT? I'm never going to! Ewwwww!"
Sex is icky. In the abstract, sex is like sticking your finger up someone's nose. It's roughly equivalent to chewing up some Cheetos, spitting into a cup, swapping cups with someone and eating each other's chewed-up orange gunk. The only difference is, there's no biological imperative to stick your finger up someone's nose or eat someone else's chewed-up Cheetos.
Take a look around. Is there a gay man on your street corner, asking you, "Hey... wanna turn gay? All the cool kids are doing it!"
Now, listen up straight men - it's time to get over yourselves. You are not so devastatingly attractive that setting foot in the Bistro is going to get you gang-raped. If a gay guy flirts with you, the rational thing to do is be flattered and politely decline. Realize that a gay man probably finds you attractive for the same qualities that draw the attention of straight females. So act the way you would if a girl hit on you, but you weren't attracted to her. You don't see women going postal every time a guy winks at us, and we're way more likelier to be raped than you are.
The only reason you could have to be afraid of a gay man kissing, touching, or talking to you is if you're afraid you might like it. And whether it's now, or in thirty years when you murder your neighbor like the military dad in "American Beauty," you will have to deal with your sexual confusion eventually.
So what do "the gays" want? Like most people, gay and lesbian people want to be treated like human beings and citizens of this country. They want the things we all want: Families. Careers. Safety. Love.
And if you think you're qualified to tell them they don't deserve these things... then I think there's a deity out there who's awfully disappointed in you.
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Open season on children. Their every demand speaks to the truth of it.
Funny, I was thinking about this very thing today. Now that homos are the "good guys" in our society and conservative Christians are the bad guys, I thought it would be good to create a "Conservative Agenda"...
Similar concept.
5:30am - Get up, make some coffee, read the WSJ
6:30am - Shower, make bed and clean room
7:30am - Go to work
6:30pm - Go home, eat dinner, spend time with wife and children
8:30pm - Hannity and Colmes
9:30pm - Prepare a list for tommorrow's work day
Some of the most important people in my life are sinners too, they just don't make a big deal about it.
Quite full of herself, isn't she?
Ummm, no, it isn't.
This article on "what gay men want" is written by a woman. Okaaaaaay. . . .
An absolute 3rd grade 'nyah nyah nyah' monstrosity of an article.
She trots these old chestnuts out:
"You're afraid you might like it"
"You should be flattered"
Um, no and no and her Cheetohs reference is as meaningless as it is disgusting.
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The simple math says that 99% of the people in this world are NOT potential targets of homosexuals. If they can get 2 out of every hundred young kids to swing their direction, they have tripled their odds. That is what it is all about and you know it.
Student newspaper... Skull full of mush from exposure to at least 4 years of indoctrination. Bio indicates she is probably a theatre major (my wife was a theatre major back in the early 80s and, being straight, was in a definite minority.)
What do you expect?
Note to Ms. Powell: You're doing it wrong.
So what do "the gays" want? Like most people, gay and lesbian people want to be treated like human beings and citizens of this country. They want the things we all want: Families. Careers. Safety. Love....AND YUCK!!!
I am f&^%$# sick of this gay agenda sneaking into our lifestyle under the protection of political correctness and civil liberties etc. Let the status quo reign supreme and leave things as they where 10 years ago. Where is it written that 'giving'it to the same sex is normal or needs light and fresh air to survive. Why not legalise heroin as well? I would like to see OD figures put up beside aids figures over the last 20 years. Sure on the surface drug addiction is more harmful to our society but doesnt raise as much resentment, why?
Call me homophobic or whatever the trendy name is for me atm but they annoy the shite out of me and it's not because I secretely wonder what it's like to put my (^%&^$^%# in (*^&^$...erk
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