Posted on 09/07/2005 7:20:01 PM PDT by NorthEastRepublican
Second that. As one who's graduated from hs in the last few years, please allow me to contribute my two cents's worth.
I hated everything about high school. The only things that kept it somewhat palatable were my Graphics (Graphic Arts) classes, the wind-down of my Scouting career, and football, and the fact that I stayed out of the social politics at any cost.
But, one thing I've learned in due time is unless one's on the top of the social ladder, it's darned near impossible to avoid being harassed. At my hs, it was almost like the social version of Lord of the Flies.
Somehow, I have to wonder what this world is coming to. My guess is that at least 3/4 of anybody in a given group was ostracized at least once during high school. And most of us have learned to deal with such people. This is where most of us have learned to "Deal with it."
What these folks need to do is to teach this girl to deal with it. If that's who she is, fine. That's strictly between her and God.
That said, it is critical that she realize that because she's that way does NOT in any way, shape, or form give any scintilla of entitlement to her to waltz through life without being offended.
Yeah, you can show them, through loving, Christ-like acts, like pissing on their backpack, beating them up, or pushing them down the stairs. I dunno....I am a conservative and all, but reading some of these posts, I see a lot of serious animosity towards gays. I am reminded of repressed homosexuals engaging in gay bashing (you know, battling the "queer within"). Maybe some folks on here perhaps protest too much.
If you actually read this thread without previous bias, you'd see that there were a number of doubts about what had actually happened, along with disgust at the tactics of the "gay" agenda.
I seriously doubt anyone on this thread advocated violence towards anyone.
And the canard that people who are not fans of the "gay" agenda are so-called repressed homosexuals right out of the playbook of "gay" activists.
Are you a gay activist, by any chance?
You people are not helping the conservative cause. I have seen some seriously ugly remarks used in this thread. Fag, bull-dike [sic], etc... Well, why don't we just start throwing around words like nigger, kyke, sand-nigger, spick, gook, and the like? I mean, tone down the ugly rhetoric and name-calling. I know some people have strong feelings about homosexuality (like I said...I think some doth protest too much), but does that mean that you have to resort to such nastiness?
As to your question about me being a gay activist (at least you didn't ask me if I was gay): Actually, no. I used to engage in the adolescent "you faaaag!"-type banter and all, but a few years ago, I worked as a bouncer at a gay bar for awhile when I wasn't making so much money. It opened up my eyes....a lot of these folks are just like the people you work with everyday. They don't eat live babies or try to subvert all that is American (that's really a very small minority of them). Most of them just want to be able to live their lives without having to deal with a lot of crap. A lot of them are really good-hearted people. I think that when people resort to dismissive name-calling, they are trying to dehumanize them.
In this case, all we can do is gather the facts and see if this was really a bad situation or just someone looking for a jackpot.
I checked your comments since you've registered on FR, and you've only made a few, and then pop up with standard "gay" activist talking points. So naturally one wonders. And then you trot out strawman arguments (they don't eat children), anecdotal stories (the ones I know are not into changing the world to suit them, just want to live their lives quietly), and so on. Standard, typical "gay" activist talking points.
Most people on FR and elsewhere who are concerned about the moral abyss into which our country and others are slipping really don't care about personal stories claiming "gays" that unknown people claim to know don't agree with the homosexual agenda. If most homosexuals didn't agree with the "gay" agenda there wouldn't be one.
What we do care about is that homosexual activists are in thousands of schools, indonctrinating and recruting children even in grade school into the lies that "gay" is good, they should try it, and that homosexuals cannot change.
Oh no...not me. Really. I am totally against the gayification of America. Trust me, I have gone round-and-round with my friends (both gay and not-) on subjects like gay marriage, the Boy Scouts, etc... And I am not an activist by any means (hey, I've been married for 7 years and am a proud, practicing heterosexual). Sometimes, the rhetoric just gets ugly. I just think that we can make our arguments without resorting to nastiness.
I agree. Name calling and viciousness aren't the way to get the message out.
OTOH, being Mr. Milquetost has been the way for the "gay" agenda to roll over everyone for 30 years.
The truth needs to be said with firmness and no wimping out, with respect for all, even if there is disagreement in beliefs. The hard part is that the radical "gay" activists and their enablers fight dirty and try to shut up the opposition in myriad ways.
Agreed.
Okay, shake?
Sure.
Here it is, to get to ModernMan's comments you have to backtrack a bit. It was a pretty good exchange all around; everyone's positions were revealed quite clearly. A good time was had by (almost) all!
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