I have never heard of instance of a black person becoming white or vice versa.
Posted on 05/31/2006 12:40:57 PM PDT by DBeers
The latest Gallup polling on attitudes regarding same-sex marriage shows a trend that should concern conservatives as well as all Americans.
From the narrow view of just the same-sex marriage issue, although the majority of Americans are still opposed to legalization, they are a lot less opposed than they were a decade ago. From the vantage point of homosexual activists, the trend certainly appears to be their friend.
Moreover, given how this debate is formulated and presented, I see a broader message emerging. I get a sense that Americans are increasingly confusing entitlement and political power with freedom and tolerance. This does not bode well for the future of a free and vibrant country.
The most recent polling shows that a strong majority of Americans oppose legal recognition of same sex marriage (58 percent) and a slight majority favor a constitutional amendment (50 percent for, 47 percent opposed). The support breaks out consistently along partly lines. Republicans favor the amendment (66 percent for) and Democrats oppose (55 percent against).
These results are about the same as they were last year. However, they have changed a lot over the last 10 years. Today 39 percent of Americans support legal recognition of same sex marriage, up from 27 percent 10 years ago and 58 percent oppose, down from 68 percent 10 years ago.
Completing the picture of what seems reasonable to call a trend, the area of the population where support for same-sex marriage is strongest and growing is among young people. Time does not seem to favor those who want to preserve tradition.
A more qualitative measure of this trend is to just listen to how the debate is cast.
A Washington Post editorial opposing the Federal Marriage Amendment accuses Republicans of "picking on gays and lesbians." According to the Post, such an amendment would "discriminate against a class of people."
Mary Cheney in her new book equates this alleged discrimination to denial of rights in the past to women and blacks and prohibitions against interracial marriage.
So, along with the trend toward increasing acceptance of the idea of same-sex marriage has been the complete obliteration of the idea that homosexuality is a type of behavior as opposed to a state of being. The discussion has long disappeared that this is about attitudes regarding this behavior and it has become almost exclusively cast as discrimination claims against gays and lesbians.
Philosophers of science point out that there is nothing we can prove. We can only disprove things. The only thing that it takes to disprove something is to find one incident where the theory doesn't work.
We have, for instance, a law of gravity. However, if we find one morning, while someone is eating their bowl of cheerios, that their spoon jumps out of their hand and flies up to the ceiling, we kiss goodbye to our law of gravity.
Now there are without question instances where individuals change their sexual behavior.
I have never heard of instance of a black person becoming white or vice versa.
Yet, somehow we have gotten to the point where it is generally accepted that being gay is a fact and not a choice.
The more we obscure where choice lies and the more we obscure where responsibility lies, we become increasingly transformed into a political entitlement society rather than a free and tolerant society.
If gay activists really wanted freedom, as opposed to advancing a particular political agenda, they would be hard at work moving government control out of areas of our society that limit their as well as everyone else's freedom.
They should be fighting for nationwide school choice, so they can send their children to schools that teach what they want. They should be fighting for private social security accounts and so they could stop complaining about discrimination in survivor benefits. They should fight for private health care accounts and getting corporations out of the benefits providing business and so they could stop complaining about discrimination in benefits toward gay couples.
Unfortunately, this is not happening. From what I see, despite the hijacking of the language of freedom, rights, and discrimination, this movement is about sleight of hand and political power.
And, more unfortunately, it appears to be succeeding. Particularly among our young people.
Whatever your sexual preference may be, whether you're straight, gay, a foot fetishist, you're into S & M...whatever, it's a choice. It doesn't give you any special status as a "minority", nor does it give you carte blanche to alter society's institutions.
Now there are without question instances where individuals change their sexual behavior.I have never heard of instance of a black person becoming white or vice versa.
Yet, somehow we have gotten to the point where it is generally accepted that being gay is a fact and not a choice.
Shocking -is there a really a difference between "being" and "feeling" or "being" and "doing"?
Oh the horror this concept must usher into the leftist minds that ponder it...
NO, NO, NO! This specious argument must be refuted. One is born black, there is no conclusive evidence that one is born 'gay'.
I have never heard of instance of a black person becoming white or vice versa.
Does Michael Jackson count?
LOL -you be bad!
Mary has been grazing on loco weed and has stumbled around and lost her moral compass.
Hmm...what else are they less opposed to? Unwed motherhood? Soft porn and cursing on TV? Tatooed young girls? Violent movies and videogames? Polygamy? Illiteracy? Day care child-raising? Christian-bashing?
We're sure progressing as a society, ain't we!
However you see that as a "choice" or almost beyond choice, it still is the case that existing rational conventions around marriage are oriented towards the one man and one woman union that is our very strong custom. I see no reason to change it. Let us be tolerant within reason, and let us make sure appropriate contracts can be entered into. It is not a civil right to force all laws and persons to erase differences between your own relationship type and the legally recognized one.
Most psychiatrists and physicians believe that it is an acquired "taste."
Usually the part of the mind that deals with matters sexual doesn't completely mature if the first sexual experiment was with one of the same sex where one derived the sinful pleasure.
This, of course, doesn't deter one iota from the fact that it is an evil, perverted, sinful and despicable act where one makes love to another's anus.
Besides it's very untidy to put one's pee-pee into another's poo-poo.
Now anyone who has a "tolerance" for actions such as this is an accommodator for the homosexual agenda. Furthermore, their "agenda" is all about getting their filthy fingers on our kids.
Most psychiatrists or psychologists who also study this will tell you that people who like to engage in homosexual activity also tend to be more promiscuous with sex, drugs and anything else. Basically, they tend to be hedonists primarily. They are also more likely to be violent towards their partners, commit adultery (or at least cheat), partake in child pornography or engage in sex with underaged boys and take drugs presciption and street drugs in excess and for reasons which they were not intended. I guess you could just say that 'boys just want to have fun (and no morals).'
I respectfully disagree and respectfully assert you made that up.
What kind of gay guys do you hang out with? The vast majority of my gay friends are constantly complaining about "not getting any."
interestingly, it is primarily a USA influence which holds the "born" meme. Other nations hold the learned behavior as the societal position.
nonsense.
Look at the prison population with heterosexual prisoners who do homosexual acts.
Humans are made to function a certain way.
Homosexuality is a sexual fetish no different than those who have sex with animals. Humans are not made to have sex with animals but some choose to do so.
Your straw man argument does not work. The fact of the matter is there is no hard legitimate science that suports the gay gene myth.
Verily appears to have left the building...
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