Abnormal
Any questions?
Posted on 01/28/2007 11:10:34 AM PST by GMMAC
Give us freedom to speak our minds
I believe that homosexuality is not normal and not natural
By MICHAEL COREN
Toronto Sun
January 27, 2007
I may be asking those of you who believe in freedom of speech and conscience to give me some financial support before long because what I am about to say is apparently illegal and not to be tolerated in Canada.
I believe that homosexuality is not normal and not natural.
I also believe that homosexuals should be treated with respect and protected against discrimination in areas such as employment and housing. I believe they should be allowed to inherit money and property from their partners.
I believe that, just like anybody else, they can be loving and kind and wonderful.
I believe that they should enjoy complete freedom to live their lives as homosexuals without any interference from the state or other people and I would, and have, defended homosexual friends from bigots and thugs.
But I believe that homosexuality is not normal and not natural.
I use the words carefully and precisely because this is what John DiCicco, a city councillor in Kamloops, B.C., said and why he has been forced to pay $1,000 by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
The settlement allows DiCicco to avoid a full Human Rights hearing after it accepted the complaint from a homosexual couple who were offended by the councillor's remark.
Apparently the City of Kamloops will pay the fine. It is not known who will pay the cost of repairing DiCicco's barbershop after it was vandalized and "Homophobia Die" painted on the door. This occurred after he had opposed the proclamation of a homosexual pride event.
DiCicco has said that he has no issue with homosexuals themselves but that he feels that he shouldn't have to endorse their behaviour.
Thing is, he is a Roman Catholic. And the catechism of the Catholic church states that homosexual activities are "intrinsically disordered."
So this is very much about freedom of religion. But then we've known that for some time. Also in B.C., the Knights of Columbus had to pay two lesbians for "hurt feelings." The Knights had refused to rent their hall to the couple for a "wedding" reception.
In Calgary, Bishop Fred Henry was the subject of complaints because of his opposition to homosexual marriage and at a federal level the human rights commission forced a Catholic woman to continue paying union dues even after the union in question used money not to represent members but to lobby, again, for homosexual marriage.
This is not about whether you are homosexual or not or whether you support homosexual marriage or not. It is about whether you support freedom of thought, speech and religion or not.
Nobody is obliged to agree with the Catholic church, John DiCicco, me or anyone else.
As Canadians, however, you are supposed to respect and allow our right to disagree with you.
There was a time when the current legislation did not exist.
If anyone then had argued in a council chamber, on television or in a newspaper that "homosexuality is certainly normal and natural" my response would have been to disagree. But not to try to silence.
Similarly now, homosexuals and their supporters are allowed to say whatever they want, and I for one would battle to defend that right.
Today it is John DiCicco or perhaps me. Tomorrow it could be you.
Do stand up for that which millions have fought and died.
You can e-mail Michael Coren through his website, http://www.michaelcoren.com
Have a letter for the editor? E-mail it to editor@tor.sunpub.com
Abnormal
Any questions?
Whithin a generation, homosexuality is abnormal. But, statistically, over time, over a number of generations, a certain percentage of population can be identified as homosexual. Thus, the short view of history sees homosexuals as distasteful anomalies, but the longer view of history sees homosexuals as a predictable segment of any era's population. Historically, to have a generation without homosexuals would be abnormal.
Yeah. What do you call this?
Most would call it 'entertainment'.
This is a sacred cow for the Giuliani pushers as well. Just look at how they get so upset about it...
Ultimately the gay and lesbian community must experience a backlash. They are over the top.
"HOMOPHOBIA"
This is a PC frankenword cobbled together from the Greek `phobos' (fear) and the slang `homo' for `homosexual'
But since Greek `homos' actually means `the same', combining it with `phobos' equals a term which correctly parsed comes out as:
"Homophobia: an irrational fear of those who share the same qualities as oneself."
As for me, I'm not afraid of other conservative, heterosexual, gun owning FReeper veterans.
It's not the homosexuals (at least, not exclusively) who have brought this on, but the tolerance and liberality of the Canadian people which has gone 'over the top'. The 'alternate lifestyle' crowd are STILL going to stand behind this -- they would rather see the Bible rewritten (which it has been, with all these modern translations, so why not one more that takes out the outdated stuff, like the stoning to death of women, and the abomination of sodomy, they say) than allow that homosexuality is an abnormality. They suffer from a failure to distinguish, and the schools teach this like a creed.
If you could make everyone take a lie-detector test, I'm willing to bet a large amount of money that few people actually think homosexual behavior is normal. If people could actually pick the sexual preference of their children, does anyone honestly believe that except for only a very tiny percentage of truly demented heterosexuals, people would choose homosexuality for their children? The great majority of Americans have been forced to shut up about how they feel about homosexuality. It, homosexuality, is not normal and not natural. Homosexuals aren't evil, but they are at the very least abnormal.
I don't believe in homosexuals. I believe in humans, who sin.
Practice safe screwing - use a lock washer so yer nuts don't fall off!
Ellen & Rosie?
There ya go!
GIVE?
How do you give an inalianable right?
seems the proper way to frame this argument is to state they have TAKEN A RIGHT away.
The illiterate will only hear the government TOOK and perhaps we have a chance to persuade the mob to follow.
another - Alternative Lifestyle
No. That would be:
"I despise the Govt.for attempting to shove their version of what we should and should not think."
Exactly, what people do with their privates is none of their business unless they are violating the rights of another. No matter how sick and disguesting it is.
I say government just needs to get out of the whole marriage business altogether, that's what we have churches for.
ha Ha HA!!!
LOL!!
Great mind ya got there!
It's really not ABOUT marriage; it's the TAX benefits...
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