Posted on 01/31/2006 8:23:18 PM PST by presidio9
Many of you have heard conservative traditionalists rant about "The Gay Agenda." But no one really knows what that agenda is. Well, I've discovered a copy, and I will summarize it for you:
8am - Protein shake
9am - Work out at the gym
10am - Rape straight men, give pornography to children, bulldoze all churches and destroy the sanctity of marriage (or what's left of it after Fox's "Married By America.")
Hey, wait a minute...
Some of the most important people in my life are gay men and lesbian women. And I can assure you, being gay does not mean you are sick enough to want to force or coerce someone into having sex with you. Being gay doesn't make you a pedophile or a pervert. (There are plenty of straight rapists and molesters.) Being gay doesn't automatically make you immoral, an atheist or a drug addict. Being gay doesn't mean you're HIV positive, dangerous, promiscuous or any different from any other human person. Being gay is something that a person is, but it is not who a person is, and it has no more effect on the quality of your character than your shoe size.
So why do people fear, hate and persecute homosexuals? Bigots typically give one of two reasons: 1.) The Bible says it's wrong. 2.) They find it "gross."
Now, I like God, and I like Jesus. But I think some of their followers are a few beads short of a rosary. I'm down with the loving thy neighbor and the doing unto others. But I think God and Jesus are about sick to death of people using their names to persecute each other. From the Spanish Inquisition to the KKK, every nutbag with a weapon and a chip on his shoulder has claimed they were acting out God's will.
I understand that the Bible is a cornerstone of Christianity, and it's important to take this artifact seriously. But in addition to the Word of God, it contains the biases of the men who wrote it. Biases regarding vegetarianism, men with long hair and believing the sun revolved around the Earth, just to name a few. A lot of people have read the same document and interpreted it in very different ways. And believing that your way is right just because you say so... that's not faith. That's arrogance.
The Nazis chose a symbol that had once represented peace. That didn't make them a peaceful group of people. Conservatives can use the name of Jesus and the sign of the cross, but it doesn't mean that their hate-mongering has anything to do with being Christians.
And now, the even sillier reason to hate gay people: 'cause you think gay sex is unappealing. You can call it "gross," "disgusting" or just plain "icky," but the fact is, these are also adjectives that have been used to condemn heterosexual intercourse.
Think back to being a child, to the first time someone told you what sex was. If you were anything like me at age five, you thought, "Why would anyone want to do THAT? I'm never going to! Ewwwww!"
Sex is icky. In the abstract, sex is like sticking your finger up someone's nose. It's roughly equivalent to chewing up some Cheetos, spitting into a cup, swapping cups with someone and eating each other's chewed-up orange gunk. The only difference is, there's no biological imperative to stick your finger up someone's nose or eat someone else's chewed-up Cheetos.
Take a look around. Is there a gay man on your street corner, asking you, "Hey... wanna turn gay? All the cool kids are doing it!"
Now, listen up straight men - it's time to get over yourselves. You are not so devastatingly attractive that setting foot in the Bistro is going to get you gang-raped. If a gay guy flirts with you, the rational thing to do is be flattered and politely decline. Realize that a gay man probably finds you attractive for the same qualities that draw the attention of straight females. So act the way you would if a girl hit on you, but you weren't attracted to her. You don't see women going postal every time a guy winks at us, and we're way more likelier to be raped than you are.
The only reason you could have to be afraid of a gay man kissing, touching, or talking to you is if you're afraid you might like it. And whether it's now, or in thirty years when you murder your neighbor like the military dad in "American Beauty," you will have to deal with your sexual confusion eventually.
So what do "the gays" want? Like most people, gay and lesbian people want to be treated like human beings and citizens of this country. They want the things we all want: Families. Careers. Safety. Love.
And if you think you're qualified to tell them they don't deserve these things... then I think there's a deity out there who's awfully disappointed in you.
It is an extremely interesting book. I also read "The Hidden Hitler" by Lothar Machtan.
They always leave off Caligula, Nero (who invented gay marriage, for heaven's sake!), and Elagabalus--the man who "erected" a giant phallus in the Roman Forum. These were all Roman emperors who made great strides for homo-rights!
Hot off the wires...
Deputy's gun used in rape, records show
Two days before a King County deputy sheriff's live-in lover allegedly shot and killed a convenience-store clerk, he used the deputy's handcuffs and gun to rape a man in their Kenmore home while the cop slept upstairs, according to police reports.The incident in August is one of many revelations regarding King County Sheriff's Deputy Ferenc Zana's disastrous affair with a mentally ill felon. They were contained in more than 900 pages of documents the Sheriff's Office was forced to produce Monday under a court order obtained by the Seattle P-I.
"The documents describe how Zana, a veteran King County deputy, contacted teenager Bistryski on the Internet and started a dating relationship with the schizophrenic felon with suicidal tendencies. They moved in together in June 2004."
About 90% my friends in high school who ever said they were bi-sexual or gay changed their minds once they got just a little older and figured out who they truly were. Most of them are married (to the opposite sex) and working on having kids.
It doesn't, never did, and the brouhaha with Galileo was *not* the Inquisition defending Scripture, but defending Aristotle, whom, if I recall correctly isn't even mentioned in Scripture. That's just another of the egregrious untruths told about Christianity today, in a non-stop, full court press...
the infowarrior
1.) The Bible says it's wrong. 2.) They find it "gross."
Is that right? Well someone set this strawman on fire by shoving a torch up his ass. I doubt most people believe its wrong just because its gross though that is as good a reason as any. It is for one inherently disfunctional from a sexual standpoint. Homosexuality is fueled by sexual predation with over 40% of Homosexuals saying they have been molested. The gay rights movement has been pushing an agenda that not only encourages homosexuality in school or after school through so called "gay straight alliances" but also offers students information on transgender and bisexual issues.
Homosexuality also has the same statistical distribution between men and women as other sexual disorders with men showing much higher rates of homosexuality than women suggesting that it is of the same class as other disorders.\
Also the largest segment of homosexuals are younger than 30 after that there is clear evidence that many men who experimented with it in their youth put the behavior behind them and go on to lead otherwise normal heterosexual lives or die from related diseases. This shows that the “intrinsic theory” of homosexuality is almost certainly false and is nothing more than a fairy tale meant to assuage the doubts of those in the movement many of which are merely victims of pedophilia and who are confused about what is normal sexuality.
Sexuality being such a personal thing and a core feature of ones adult identity it is easy to understand how hard it is to reconcile the abuse especially when one is so young and the abuser is a close relative or friend who has purposely groomed them with gifts and niceties and attention so as to gain sexual access. The horrible thing is that many homosexuals are indeed suffering and instead of being offered help to deal with the root problems of their condition they are being encouraged to life as if it is a permanent scar continuing on from the moment their innocence was taken.
Homosexual activism is about trying to dismantle sexual norms and I think it has little to do with civil rights but more with the egos of those who not only want to be tolerated but want to change society to accept their lies and their corrupted sexual mimicry.
I seem to recall a certain British Prime Minister making the same point a bit more eloquently.
As The Galileo Review Commission reported in 1992, "the geocentric (the sun goes round the earth) representation of the world was commonly admitted in the culture of the time as fully agreeing with the teaching of the Bible … certain expressions, taken literally, seemed to affirm geocentrism."
What do gays really want? Long walks, flowers, a nice man, a lot of denial of denial of... of long walks, flowers, etc.
Horsefeathers!
All anyone need do is type the word "gay" or "homosexual" coupled with "ACLU" into any search engine on the web and lo and behold there they are VEHIEMIENTLY ATTACKING all Christians, Conservatives, school boards,or anyone/thing that doesn't kowtow and pledge total unconditional acceptance of their perversion.....
Ask Judy Barr Topinka about her senior aid Eric Garcia, ie the Mark Morford of Illinois.
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