Posted on 10/10/2010 4:35:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Carl Paladino says its not okay to be gay.
"There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual," the Republican gubernatorial candidate told a small Hasidic group at Khal Adas Kasho synagogue in Williamsburg today.
"That's not how god created us, and that's not the example that we should be showing our children."
Paladino, who has made his opposition to the gay marriage and "the homosexual agenda" clear, went much further yesterday, to say children "would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family" than being gay."
"And I don't want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option," he said. "It isn't."
The speech came just days after the suicide of a gay Rutgers student and an anti-gay gang attack in the Bronx.
His Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, blasted the remarks as "stunning homophobia and a glaring disregard for basic equality."
A campaign spokesman said "These comments along with other views he has espoused make it clear that he is way out of the mainstream a
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Well, the problem is that psychotherapists became dysfunctional in 1973 or whenever they took same-sex attraction out of the diagnostic manual and did so on purely political, not clinical, basis. Even those psychos who agreed with the decision admitted it was done purely on politics. One of them wrote a book about how the decsion was made.
So, while at one time it might have been reasonable to leave it to the psychos to decide what is dysfunctional, now that the psychos are mostly dysfunctional, I’d say it’s the province of normal folks like you and me to decide.
And yes, same-sex attraction is dysfunctional. It just is. You can put honey on a turd and it’s a honey-coated turd. I’m not a connoisseur of turds, but I’d say, just off the top of my head, that a honey-coated one is dysfunctional. A regular turd is not dysfunctional.
Just from a practical standpoint, this country would be s-o-o-o improved if these disturbed, miserable buggers would jump off a bridge en masse.
Yet so many people here will blindly cheer Paladino not realizing how big a gaffe it really is. I happen to agree it is an incredibly destructive lifestyle, but society (especially in dark blue states like NY) has largely become very tolerant of homosexuality and making a point of condemning it in such strong terms is just terrible politics. Some things are just better left unsaid.
In what State is this man running for governor? He is greatly to be commended for the simple, "revolutionary", act of telling the truth.
I would call it the spineless view, the unprincipled view, or the RINO view...
Thank God it is the minority view...
I think people are sick and tired of unprincipled spineless double talking politicians...
Paladino hasn’t named any one person as dysfunctional. He is stating a case for homosexuality itself as form of personality dysfunction. There is a difference.
A relative of mine was homosexual and suddenly, to everyone’s surprise, decided to walk away from that lifestyle and CHOSE to marry a member of the opposite sex. Why? Who knows!
There have been so many of these instances where people, either heterosexual or homosexual, decide to switch that the argument, “I was born this way”, no longer applies.
The result is either a personality (or sexual) dysfunction. It doesn’t mean that a person is crazy or a danger to the rest of the public. Far from it. It just means there is something not quite ‘straight’ (pardon the pun!) going on with that person’s personality.
Yes.
NEWSFLASH there are no "gay" people!
They are dysfunctional. They build their whole identity around deviant sex. That's dysfunctional.
Would you accept Obama calling people who attend tea party events dysfunctional?
That has to be one of the dumbest analogies ever posted on FR. Taxes Enough Already has nothing to do with a perverted lifestyle.
We need candidates who can stay focused on the issues.
The homosexual agenda IS an issue.
NY! :-D
You Americans are faced by a real conservative. This man Paladino will not lye to you, even if it means he won´t be elected.
On the other hand, he is completely right about the subject. This is a man to be proud of and to vote for!
I'm sure the psychologists would love to arrogate such power to themselves, but I don't have to go along with the charade.
If the psychologists say that homosexual buggery is "A-OK", then the psychologists are WRONG.
Well, the problem is that psychotherapists became dysfunctional in 1973 or whenever they took same-sex attraction out of the diagnostic manual and did so on purely political, not clinical, basis. Even those psychos who agreed with the decision admitted it was done purely on politics. One of them wrote a book about how the decsion was made.
So, while at one time it might have been reasonable to leave it to the psychos to decide what is dysfunctional, now that the psychos are mostly dysfunctional, Id say its the province of normal folks like you and me to decide.
And yes, same-sex attraction is dysfunctional. It just is. You can put honey on a turd and its a honey-coated turd. Im not a connoisseur of turds, but Id say, just off the top of my head, that a honey-coated one is dysfunctional. A regular turd is not dysfunctional.
(And even if you and I decide homosexuality is dysfunctional what do you propose we do—round up the gays for re-education camp? And advocating such is gonna get someone elected governor of NY—??? Like it isn’t hard enough for conservatives to win in places like NY....
Never mind.)
If I had the moral principles of a democRat, I’d vote for him. ;’}
And he's right. But of course, nowadays it is all but illegal to hold such opinions and one who articulates them is considered so out of the mainstream as to be unelectable. Never mind that until a few years ago the most liberal liberals agreed.
I can't help but wonder where this constant state of teleological flux in morals will take our "mainstream" politicians next. Perhaps insisting that anyone who opposes bestiality is unfit for elective office?
That’s not a “D” after NY. It’s eyes, a nose and a BIG grin. Paladino is a conservative running on the Republican ticket against Emperor Cuomo’s get.
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