I have a few gay male friends. Many of them Conservative, gun owning, Obama hating, educated, decent people. If anything I see on FR on occasion is a bit of homophobia. Maybe that’s my Libertarian streak. You don’t like homosexuality, well then don’t do it then, but we have to be intellectually consistent here. Live and let live is for EVERYONE. Gay marriage, left up to states as it should be. I love women, men are for close friendships and watching football games with, not sex. That’s a biological choice I made, but I don’t think they are bad or evil people.
Thanks for that. Hope you don’t get flamed.
My argument against homosexuality is it’s a sin but it’s not even listed in God’s top 10 (the ten commandments). We all sin all the time, who of us has not always 100% honored their parents, has not coveted what someone else had? I also look to that old WWJD? Would he be awful to gay people? He was not awful to the woman at the well, why would he be awful to gays? I think it’s made a bigger deal here on FR than it needs to be. It’s just not one of the top issues with me.
You’ll not convince me that homosexuality is anything other than a mental illness, with certain exceptions. There are some amoral people who will stick anything anywhere if it might feel good. They tend to call themselves bisexual. And as long as either type keeps it out of my face, I’ll leave them alone.
My youngest brother was homosexual, and I never knew it until after his death (at 42) of disease. He had moved to San Francisco in his 20s and it never dawned on me that he was afflicted. A co-worker with whom I got along quite well for a number of years was suddenly hospitalized and dead within a year thereafter, at 39. We subsequently found out that he was homosexual.
My point being, I don’t need to know and would prefer NOT to know. But the “love that dare not speak its name” now refuses to shut the hell up!
You’ll not convince me that homosexuality is anything other than a mental illness, with certain exceptions. There are some amoral people who will stick anything anywhere if it might feel good. They tend to call themselves bisexual. And as long as either type keeps it out of my face, I’ll leave them alone.
My youngest brother was homosexual, and I never knew it until after his death (at 42) of disease. He had moved to San Francisco in his 20s and it never dawned on me that he was afflicted. A co-worker with whom I got along quite well for a number of years was suddenly hospitalized and dead within a year thereafter, at 39. We subsequently found out that he was homosexual.
My point being, I don’t need to know and would prefer NOT to know. But the “love that dare not speak its name” now refuses to shut the hell up!
Funny how easy it is to get off topic on some of these discussions!