The Battle Over Gay Teens

Time ^ | 10/10/2005 | John Cloud

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Launched in 2001, Point gives lavish (often full-ride) scholarships to gay students."

Isn't that special. Handing out scholarships based upon sexual proclivity.

[sanemom]

Yes, I found that special as well. Guess we can soon expect bisexual scholarships, transgendered scholarships-why not asexual scholarships? How about foot fetishist scholarships? S & M scholarships? Why should one's sexuality have anything whatsover to do with winning a college scholarship?

[mhx]

How about scholarships for celibates?

[BipolarBob]

Leading our children to Hell, one step at a time.

[freekitty]

What surprises me is I don't think there are enough gay people out there to support this stuff.

[Boazo]

There is a special test you take, that will have you walking bowlegged.

[rbg81]

Campus ban ROTC scholarship students, but gay scholarships is okay. Ya gotta hand it to those guys, they know how to hand out the inducements.

Of course, there might be some bad actors out there who might pretend to be gay just to get the scholarship. I wonder how their "verification" process works to weed out the fakers.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

LOL. Gays do have a wicked sense of humor though, I'll give them that.

[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

There is no such thing as a homosexual - everyone is created as a normal sexual being but some become perverted and depraved (including all those that are commonly referred to as homosexuals).

[LibFreeOrDie]

Point gives lavish (often full-ride) scholarships to gay students.

Freudian slip?

[avenir]

"The degenerate entertainment industry...has over-sexualized kids culture to the saturation point and beyond."

What's weird to me is that fairly mainstream buddy comedies like "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" and "Saving Silverman" have persistent homosexual subtexts. Both films struck me as heavy on this. It seemed gratuitous and totally out of place.

In "Silverman" Jack Black (Jack Black!) discovers through Amanda Peet's devious psychotherapy that he's gay. And it followed this through to the end, that he really was gay.

[af_vet_1981]

Rabbi of Jewish group resigns after NBC links him to Web sex sting

This is how homosexual addicts prowl the Internet for teenage prey.

[Atomic Vomit]

you actually watch that crap, whatever it is?

How can you bitch about it when you are part of the problem.

tv/movies are a poison pump. Disconnect it or die.

AV

[boatbums]

(There is no such thing as a homosexual - everyone is created as a normal sexual being but some become perverted and depraved (including all those that are commonly referred to as homosexuals).)

It bothers me a lot when people say (including some clergy) that homosexuals are "born that way" and then claim that God made them that way so it must be okay.

Yes, God loves us all. He created us with a free will within a fallen world. If people have no choice in their sexual orientation, then why does Scripture say God considers homosexual acts an abomination and sin?

Some people have a perverted desire for sex with children, animals, dead people, etc. Because they claim they can't help themselves and that God made them that way, should that be okay as well?

Scripture condemns any sexual relations outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. So He's not just picking on gays.

I also believe that sin is sin and we are to love the sinner and hate the sin, just like God does. We are all sinners saved by the grace and mercy of God.

[scripter]

Worth reading: 'The New Gay Teenager'.

[TAdams8591]

Gays seem to be defining themselves as a new RACE of people.

[TAdams8591]

"of course, if they're "gay", they can never change."

Well, how can they change if they're Born gay?

Targeting teens and children is a ploy to convince everyone it's all in the genes, (when it isn't) and to halt anyone from morally appealing to gays to change. That's the name of THAT tune.

[Torie]

One can give money to whomever one wants, unless it is a criminal enterprise. It is called FREEDOM Billybob. File an amicus brief.

[Congressman Billybob]

One can give money PERSONALLY to whomever one chooses. But once one sets up a scholarship, it becomes a public trust, and can be judicially corrected if it engages in discrimination. The key case was a large trust set up in Philadelphia, IIRC, more a than a century ago for college scholarships for "white students." In choosing between ending the scholarships, or simply striking the word white, the court chose the latter.

Similar logic could apply here.

John / Billybob

[little jeremiah]

Good to see you, TAdams! I was thinking about you lately, haven't run into you on the threads I've been frequenting.

Yup, get them early, get them often. That's their strategy. "Childrens' rights". Remember Hitlery was involved in the "Childrens' Defense Fund" or some organization? Childrens' liberation? So they can divorce their parents if their parents commit the heinous crime of bringing them to church, or disciplining them?