[been_lurking]

if you want to promote bigotry and prejudice - you are free to.

It is perfectly OK to be prejudiced or bigoted towards "behavior". We show prejudice towards all manners of other anti-social behaviors, why can we not show prejudice against homosexual behavior?

First it is clearly anti-social as the behavior cannot sustain a society (which is the whole premise of the article.) Second, homosexuality is clearly a "behavior". Homosexuals are self-defined by "what they do" -- not who they are.

[Sunsong]

It is perfectly OK to be prejudiced or bigoted towards "behavior".

Oh jeez. That is your opinion. It is simply ridiculous to say that Mary Cheney - a person - has not been trashed on this thread and by the original article here. And I think it is just as ridiculous to say that homosexuals, by nature - abuse children. That is really slander. Your post is out in left field regarding what is really being said here.

[bvw]

Your post is an excellent and thoughtful one. You are correct on every point.

1. It is perfectly OK to be prejudiced or bigoted towards "behavior".

   Yes, we scorn, deride and refuse to tolerate the behaviours of alcoholism, drug abuse, and the absense of self-control in a violent individual. Yet those are all just behaviours.

2. We show prejudice towards all manners of other anti-social behaviors, why can we not show prejudice against homosexual behavior?

   Because the new age social mind controllers demand that we do not. Like any other monstrous tyrant throughout history they not only demand a tax, or hard work, or property -- they demand we think a ceratin way and no other.

3. First it is clearly anti-social as the behavior cannot sustain a society (which is the whole premise of the article.)

   Well, the thug horde of mind controllers are refusing to discuss, or intellectually blocked from discussing any real point in the article.

   And yes you are right, as is the article -- lesbians bearing children out of wedlock is a highly anti-social behaviour, long term. Long term a society that allows and encourages such a thing disappears -- there is only a short term for such tolerance. Europe's a clue .. the birth rate amoung native Europeans has dwindled to rates that will casue Europeans to cease to be in not many more years, if continued.

4. Second, homosexuality is clearly a "behavior".

   Fact. The current crop of PC mind-control thugs of Free Republic have problems with facts they can't handle.

5. Homosexuals are self-defined by "what they do" -- not who they are.

   You mean that by insisting that they be viewed as homosexuals, they deny us the ability to view them as fellow humans with all the flaws and blessings hidden and revealed of humans.

   Instead they insist that we pay attention to that one most odious aspect of themselves -- their failing, and that we welcome it, and celebrate it!

   Utter tyranny!