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Lesbian teen sees activism as 'my job'
The Oregonian ^ | Thursday, December 28, 2006 | STEPHEN BEAVEN

Posted on 12/28/2006 10:36:24 AM PST by presidio9

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To: Hegewisch Dupa; guppas; pctech
I, too, doubt that calling people contemptuous names can advance their souls' salvation, or your own. Religious or moral conviction rarely leads to leering vulgarity, so I assume the name-calling has some other motivation. Maybe there's a FR poster or two who feels more like a big man through a little display of meanness? It's a common enough fault.

That's one thing that made me a little doubtful about her story, though: that she went to a Sunday School "where the teachers hammered home the lessons of conservative faith. ...that [people with same-sex attraction] were disgusting and basically godless, very low people"?

It just doesn't seem likely. Not that they would deny the danger of truly losing your soul, but most of the conservative churches would use words like damaged rather than damned -- and they'd be calling, not for hell, but for healing.

I wonder if this reporter would follow up and say, "What church? What pastor?"

Nah. That's too much like actual reporting, i.e. work, and not just presenting Miss Civic Role Model with a print bouquet.

101 posted on 12/28/2006 1:54:06 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Veritatis Gender.)
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To: guppas
"I learned not to judge lest I be judged."

The Lord will judge your soul. Men will judge your actions. Thus it has ever been.

102 posted on 12/28/2006 1:59:03 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Spirochete

She doesn't want to be called a fag but identifies herself as a queer.
Its like a black person not wanting to be called "nigger" but its ok to be a "coon!"
Weird logic.


103 posted on 12/28/2006 2:03:27 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: presidio9
"I told myself that it was my job to try and make my school, Portland and eventually the state a better place for queer youth," she says at a Starbucks near her Southeast Portland home.

Some might say that "job" might not pay a lot but as we've seen full-time whining and PC hackdom pays fairly well in certain parts of the country.

104 posted on 12/28/2006 2:05:59 PM PST by relictele
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To: meg88

I don't see the whole "LUG"syndrome making any sense.Is there a similiar trend among college men?
I just can't see some 20 year old guy saying to himself"Gee,gays seem pretty cool.I was always straight but I think I'll let Barry,Tom and Dick bang me from the rear and then after graduation I'll go back to liking girls again"
I mean,really!


105 posted on 12/28/2006 2:10:49 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: Labyrinthos
Sad how homo brainwashers on both sides of the issue (like her grandparents and Sunday school teachers) use the young.

Huh? You can't brainwash someone into treating their body as it is intended to be treated. I for one am not a moral relativist.
106 posted on 12/28/2006 2:12:29 PM PST by Antoninus ( Rudy McRomney as the GOP nominee = President Hillary. Why else do you think the media loves them?)
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To: presidio9

Sasha and her three siblings lived with their grandparents in Salem for several years while their parents were in and out of trouble with the law.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Here it is. Abuse. Isn't this a common thread among homosexuals.


107 posted on 12/28/2006 2:24:06 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid)
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To: meg88

I just can't imagine experimenting with the same sex. The thought just really grosses me out. I lived in a sorority for 3 years in college (and an all female dorm my freshman year) and the thought of playing with girls never entered my mind. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Give me a strong conservative man and I'll die happy. (of course, at this point I can't be too picky. If it moves that's ok too).


108 posted on 12/28/2006 2:37:56 PM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: guppas
Well, it may not be a popular response here, but I wish Sasha well... BTW, why do you people use name calling so much?

I tend to agree with you in that someone else's sexuality isn't any of my business and as long as they aren't in your face with it (no pun intended), I don't give a darn.

As for the name-calling, it is usually a front for a weak or non-existent line of reasoning.  It has become pretty normal here on FR, and it's sad.

109 posted on 12/28/2006 2:53:39 PM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: rellimpank
In a word, WOW. Tell ya what, if anyone from the DU ever puts anything I say on here on their website then I hope someone here has the courage to correct whatever mistake I made.

Hear that John?????

110 posted on 12/28/2006 3:34:04 PM PST by pctech
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To: Mrs. Don-o
It can be easy to fall into the "name calling" trap, so much so that sometimes we're not even aware of it until someone points it out to us.

For me, it took an incident years ago where people talked about me in very brutal and defamatory terms to teach me the lesson that harsh words tear a person apart. It happened to me.

Does anyone remember the Simpson's show where the bully Nelson looks at himself in the mirror and laughs, then says to himself, "Hey, that hurts."???

111 posted on 12/28/2006 3:38:21 PM PST by pctech
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To: presidio9

This is sick. What is this "Oregonian", a gay activist paper?


112 posted on 12/28/2006 3:53:10 PM PST by JoAnka
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To: JoAnka
This is sick. What is this "Oregonian", a gay activist paper?

Yep. That about nails it.

113 posted on 12/28/2006 4:01:57 PM PST by pjr12345
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Awesome post, thanks!


114 posted on 12/28/2006 4:49:30 PM PST by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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To: Riverman94610; meg88
Whether there's a GUG (?) (Gay Until Graduation?) phemonemon among college men or not, I don't know. But I'm doubting it.

I think part of the motivation for the college females comes from the fact that heterosexuality under the prevailing conditions works out so poorly for women.

Back in the paleolithic days of, oh, say, the 1970's, the guy had to invest something in the relationship other than his ornament. He generally had to be your pal for awhile, and if not possibly saying "I love you," he had to notice if you cried.

Now the norm seems so detached as to be almost dismembered. If the author of Unprotected is telling it like it is, the college women are being hit with the expectation that they're going to be treated like sexual spittoons AND that they're supposed to like it, like the house niggas who were expected to slave AND to sing and dance.

All that and gonorrhea of the throat? Wow.

No wonder the American college campus is the Land of Lesbian Opportunity.

115 posted on 12/28/2006 5:11:45 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Veritatis Gender.)
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To: presidio9

People who have to go around justifying what they do are trying to convince themselves first.


116 posted on 12/28/2006 5:15:13 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: presidio9
Six hoop earrings, black Motorhead T-shirt, black pants, tongue stud, lip stud, nose ring...

Sounds like a potential job candidate in the hardware section at Home Depot..............

117 posted on 12/28/2006 5:16:18 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I taped a broom handle to my cat and turned her into a dust mop)
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To: presidio9
"I'm OK," Sasha says, "as long as they don't call me a fag."

OK, you dyke!

118 posted on 12/28/2006 5:17:21 PM PST by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 39-43)
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To: presidio9

Wow. A real toughie. Bet she can lick all the girls at school!


119 posted on 12/28/2006 5:17:46 PM PST by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: presidio9
How is it that idiots like this girl get headline news?

Whatta they do,call the local paper and say hey, I'm a radical lesbian, want to do a story on me???????//

120 posted on 12/28/2006 5:18:31 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I taped a broom handle to my cat and turned her into a dust mop)
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