Posted on 06/30/2009 9:30:53 AM PDT by Maelstorm
Well - my husband and I were raised in 2 different types of approaches.
In his home, all the kids were treated “equally”.
When one child benefitted from a gift or some sort of perk, his parents felt the compulsion to balance it out somehow - to give everyone something so no one felt slighted.
Hubby thinks it taught them all as kids how to “keep score”.
They’d see a sibling score a point - they’d whine until they evened up.
My parents explained to me and my sisters - sometimes one child will get something and you won’t. Tough - deal with it.
It will even out in the end.
If you are resentful over someone else’s good fortune - you have a problem - get over it!
Nothing is “owed” to you, we love you and we will decide who needs what at any given time.
That was exactly my thought and I'd get great pleasure doing things to shock them too...LOL.
Not defending homosexuality here, but pedophilia is a different and heinous problem. Pedophiles are not attracted to adults of any sex. So I suppose you could have a category called homosexual pedophile. Unlike homosexual sex, pedophilia is by definition not consensual. Pedophilia is with pre-pubescent children. Saying that more pedophiles are attracted to boys than girls does not make it the same as homosexuals who are attracted to adults.
The technical term for adults attracted to post-pubescent children is pederasty. That is a clear homosexual problem. And in fact there are homosexual rights groups that actively advocate and support pederasty.
Dervish please quit it. You are peddling the line of the sexual activists. Where did you get that from some “Facts about pedophilia” web site set up by progressive activists. The same ones that say that same sex molestation is not homosexual. Next thing you are going to tell me meat eaters are vegetarian too. I recommend you read some of the literature just do a search of mainstream books on Amazon and look at the open idolization of young boys by the homosexual community? I hate to be harsh but I implore you to just check for yourself. Most of the stuff you’ve been told by the MSM media concerning homosexuals comes right from the mouths of activists that are no different than the ones like Al Gore supporting global warming.
Have you ever heard of cruising? Have you ever heard of rimming? Do you know why homosexuals contract so many exotic sexual diseases? Do you think it is a coincidence that so many homosexuals report that they were molested as children? Also it is fairly well accepted across the board that those who are sexually abused have a much higher rate of committing such abuse themselves especially if they go without treatment. Also individuals who have been abused exhibit some of the strong typical homosexual behavior such as the need for constant ego gratification, lashing out, severe depression.
What is really unfortunate is that the very gay activism that claims to liberate homosexuals has had the opposite effect in entrapping them in a demagogic position where they are least likely to deal with their abuse and more likely to abuse themselves. Not all homosexuals are abusers but it is without a doubt that a large percentage are compared to their population and it would be better to find out why and help them instead of pretending that adding little children to the mix with some how make everything just fine and dandy.
What we have with modern gay activism is medical and political malpractice that threatens all involved. There is absolutely no reason that a sane live and let live policy can be pursued that allows homosexuals who are happy to live peacefully unmolested without supporting the unreasonable path of the radical activists that destructively want to supersede and redefine the marital arrangements adopt children purposely into families that will never have the balance of a Mom and Dad, and without supporting a behavior that is intrinsically unhealthy and promoting it to the society as a whole through forced indoctrination and radical norming.
The problem is that the radical gay activists have been allowed to rule the show. They demand and demand and demand and each time they get what they desire they have new even more radical demands. This needs to be stopped.
Listen, you don’t know anything about me. I am dead set against the homosexual agenda. I believe sodomy laws should be upheld. I believe homosexuality is an abomination as stated in the bible. And I agree with you that the public has been propagandized and coerced into supporting so called gay rights.
But that does not change the science. Homosexuality is not the same as pedophilia. Pedophilia is not the same as pederasty.
“There is absolutely no reason that a sane live and let live policy can be pursued that allows homosexuals who are happy to live peacefully unmolested”
I don’t even agree with that.
I think sodomy is fundamentally unhealthy. The health problems you speak of have nothing to do with children they have to do with sodomy and promiscuity.
Considering all the talk about health care costs and preventable illness, why is no one talking about the extremely expensive and wholly preventable disease of HIV/AIDS? Why does our society have to pay for this choice?
And if you read my post you would see that I do NOT absolve homosexuals of child abuse. I siad they have a high rate and many support a right to pederasty.
But there is a difference between post-pubescent boys and children (pedophilia) .
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