Posted on 07/13/2004 6:50:48 AM PDT by Area Freeper
I noticed that no one has been able to get the pony's opinion in all of this...
A person doesn't CHOOSE to be a schizophrenic, but that doesn't make it any less a disorder. Likewise, even if someone doesn't CHOOSE homosexual tendencies, it doesn't mean it is therefore healthy and normal.
Why do you ask about my age?
You're simply reflecting the experience of your provincial set of friends. In fact, most people never are attracted to those of their own gender.
I read a psychiatrist's account of a man who fell in love with a polar bear in a circus.. He would try to get close to it and was almost killed by the bear ...the psychiatrist worked with him till he finally got over his obsession with the bear, but he was never happy after that....(true story)
Bad analogy! If you're going to go the route of modern psychology, the establishment does not view homosexuality as a disorder.......so I guess I don't understand where you are going with this argument.
--.you clearly don't understand sexuality, and are eager to lap up only those answers that support the way you view things--
Please understand this, I have friends who are gay, and had a very close relative who is gay. this relative has told me, that he chooses who to be with, which was a woman (he has passed away) We all make choices everyday. I am all for a civil union, but as I stated in the email, the definition of marrage is between a man and a woman. Why must we change the definition of something because a small portion of people want it? One of my best gay friends, love to say, when he was drunk, he loved boobies, but when sober his choice was men.
I am not homophobic, please dont think that.
This has nothing to do with religion, but with what the word "marriage" is, a man and a woman. I chose the man I married 18 years ago, this was our choice.
This is what I mean by choice.
Actually, I think you are just reflecting the experience of your own set of friends. All studies that I have seen doen on sexuality point to the fact that most people have, at one time or another, been attracted to members of the same sex.
I don't get your point.
The pony wanted a church wedding
I agree about Michael Medved. He (and Bill Bennett) are the best conservatives on the airwaves today. Medved is so calm too. And I've noticed that his callers tend to be getting more antagonistic. He's drawing out the ideologically blind. He must go home exhausted after his afternoon service to his country.
The pedophile may have had an attraction to children from his earliest memory. It seems to him like he was born that way; it is NORMAL-FEELING to him.
But we don't care. We hold adults responsible for what they do with their phenotype.
Accepting that premise throws the issue back to society and its underlying order; the court still remains the means to resolution.
I have known several "straight" men who've been more than willing to experiment with other men when they are drunk too.....so I guess this goes both ways.
I actually don't think you are homophobic, and I appreciate your post. I don't, however, think you truly understand what being gay is like. I may CHOOSE my partner, but I don't choose what attracts me. When I'm walking down the street and I see a hot guy, I'm not thinking about making a choice to look at him instead of the big breasted woman beside him......I'm just responding to my instincts.
I'm a 47 year old man. I cannot remember EVER feeling the slightest attraction to another male.
You help me keep score now.
--10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3......--
hmmmmm was thinking that myself...
You used modern psychology in your argument as a meter stick for measuring what is normal and not normal....in your use of the disorder. I was just saying that modern psychology, the group that labels, assesses and tracks disorders, says that homosexuality is not a disorder. It is not abnormal.
Rosie proved that it's possilbe for a cow to get married.
You are correct. It could injure the legal institution of marriage.
Holy matrimony, however, will forever be under the purview of the historic Christian (orthodox) Church.
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