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Enough Of This Word GAY.
1/31/06
| Gort_Klaatu
Posted on 01/31/2006 7:45:54 AM PST by Gort_Klaatu
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To: Gort_Klaatu
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posted on
01/31/2006 8:01:50 AM PST
by
Malsua
To: Vaquero
42
posted on
01/31/2006 8:03:42 AM PST
by
Toby06
To: Gort_Klaatu
Well, to be a fly in the ointment, who cares? I don't have a problem with someone calling themselves whatever they want to be called...however, I do have a problem with homophobia as it is little different than racism, and just as odious and hate-filled.
Once a believer that homosexuality was a choice people made, I am convinced now that it is just a fact of birth--much like being right or left-handed.
Don't get me wrong...I am not condoning the practice. I firmly believe that gay people should practice celibacy, just like those with a predisposition for alcohol should practice sobriety!
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posted on
01/31/2006 8:03:56 AM PST
by
meandog
(FUDU)
To: atomicpossum
No, Charles Nelson Reilly!
To: Gort_Klaatu
Call them homosexual. I will not use a word which denotes happiness which they are not.
My real pet peeve is that homosexuals have corrupted the rainbow but thats a different subject.
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posted on
01/31/2006 8:09:23 AM PST
by
svcw
To: MeanWestTexan
"Sodomite" works too. Has that Old Testament cache, as well."Sodomite," definitely.
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posted on
01/31/2006 8:10:42 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(for further reading on this subject, see Romans 1:26-32)
To: gopwinsin04
Well, like that, but more Jm J. Bullock-y.
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posted on
01/31/2006 8:12:42 AM PST
by
atomicpossum
(Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
To: meandog
Whether one is born homosexual or not, it manifests itself in action (behavior) and one can choose to abide by that action (behavior) or not. Homophobia is a mental disease which is an irrational fear of homosexuals. Simply believe that homosexuality is wrong is not homophobic.
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posted on
01/31/2006 8:14:09 AM PST
by
svcw
To: Gort_Klaatu
The use of the term "gay" for homosexuals is another example of leftist language manipulation, promoted and supported by academia, the MSM, and liberal politicians. As George Orwell noted in his novel,
1984, language change is a tool used by those in power to change a culture and popular perceptions. Even the terms, homosexual and homosexuality, were developed by psychologists and physicians a century ago to remove the religious and cultural condemnation evident in the older term, sodomy.
Another example of language manipulation was the renaming of American Indians as Native Americans. After American independence, Indians used the term, Americans, to describe whites, as the latter were no longer British subjects or exclusively British by ethnic origin. The rise of the term "Native American" arose during the liberal ascendancy of the 1970s. The term implies that the Indians are the true Americans, and whites are interlopers, even though all that is considered American has European and especially British origins. Similarly, the substitution of "Latino" for "Hispanic" attempts a detachment of the racially mixed people of Latin America from their European and specifically Iberian, heritage. Yet the common elements that unite Latin Americans, the Spanish (or Portuguese) language, Iberian culture, and the Catholic religion, are clearly of European derivation.
Other cases of language manipulation include the following:
* Homeless persons and street people, for what used to be called bums and panhandlers;
* Fundamentalists, to describe any Christian, including conservative Catholics who strongly oppose Protestant fundamentalism, who support Biblical moral values;
* Insurgents, to describe foreign and native Iraqi terrorists who are fighting American and coalition forces;
* Graffiti artists, rather than vandals;
* Social services, to describe the administrators of the public dole, etc.
When it comes to language use, conservatives, even learned and articulate ones, tend not to resist liberal manipulation. By adopting liberal terminology, they inadvertently endorse the presuppositions of the enemy.
To: Phantom Lord
"They have taken our best names, like Bruce and Lance." --Homer Simpson on Homos.
And don't forget "Julian".
To: Gort_Klaatu
Will "Festive" be OK or will I be forced to revert to the ever popular "Nancy boy"?
51
posted on
01/31/2006 8:18:43 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: dfwgator
Look what they did to the rainbow.
52
posted on
01/31/2006 8:18:48 AM PST
by
countorlock
(But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me,)
To: Gort_Klaatu
i knew a married couple who the man is named Guy and the wife is named Gay. I would hate having the name Gay but when she was born it wasn't a term used to describe homos. I think of gays as homos myself or sometimes fags, lol!
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posted on
01/31/2006 8:35:38 AM PST
by
Halls
(Dallas County, Texas, but my heart is in East Texas!)
To: svcw
Whether one is born homosexual or not, it manifests itself in action (behavior) and one can choose to abide by that action (behavior) or not. Homophobia is a mental disease which is an irrational fear of homosexuals. Simply believe that homosexuality is wrong is not homophobic....no argument, as it appears that you agree with me that it is the ACT rather than the condition that is sinful?
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posted on
01/31/2006 8:50:53 AM PST
by
meandog
(FUDU)
To: Gort_Klaatu
55
posted on
01/31/2006 2:43:52 PM PST
by
polymuser
(Losing, like flooding, brings rats to the surface.)
To: Gort_Klaatu; dfwgator
To: Gort_Klaatu
57
posted on
01/31/2006 2:51:06 PM PST
by
ovrtaxt
("I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."- Reagan)
To: ovrtaxt
Fag used to represent something good too. In the language of Shakespeare, a fag was a dagger, read the Merchant of Venice. Now the old term for dagger is ruined for me too. Can we just call them Homos?
To: Gort_Klaatu
What's gay is surrendering the word gay to gays.
Now excuse me while I step outside and burn a fag.
To: ex-snook
Funny thing about euphamisms: As soon as you dirty up one of 'em, you have go hijack another.
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:34:00 PM PST
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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