Dump the word *gay* = call it homosexual.
It’s deviant, sinful and abnormal.
Goldberg doesn’t usually miss the point so completely. Homosexual conduct is morally reprehensible under every conceivable set of circumstances, so why should we be trying to find either “gay” marriage, or any alternative, to be acceptable?
Colonel, USAFR
hahaha, Goldberg is always fun to read.
Only because of the Latin Chick (extremely hot) and the Blonde Babe (also hot)....the rest of it I speed through - thanks to DVR.....
There is something left of this aggressive tendency, however, and although it might be categorized as violent revolution reduced to juvenile whining, it's still there in those gay activists who don't really want to marry, have children, or join the military, neither do they want their friends to, but insist on forcing the issue only because it pisses the straight world off. That may be cultural subversion but it certainly isn't revolution.
I've a suspicion there will be a drop off in gay enlistees.
Frantic efforts have been made over the past 30 years to accommodate women and gays in the military. If the draft was ever re-instituted, think of the mad rush by many to suddenly be “unaccommodated.”
> I also find it cruel and absurd to tell gays that living
> the free-love lifestyle is abominable while at the same
> time telling them that their committed relationships are
> illegitimate too.
Jonah, does your finding apply also to polygamy, polyamory, pedophilia, incest, and bestiality?
If not, why not?
Goldberg makes an interesting point.
I think he is right that government-recognized gay relationships are an inevitability. In some respects, I don’t care — tax benefits, health insurance, hospital visitation, blah, blah. I’m fine with all of that. In other respects, it may be a good thing for society that homosexuals are embracing homosexual monogamy as opposed to homosexual promiscuity.
But — however it may be structured, whatever benefits it may entail, and whatever it may be called ... a gay union will never be a “marriage”. The one thing gay couples truly want is the one thing they can never recieve — moral equivalence ... no matter what legal and linguistic hoops you try to jump through a gay “marriage” will never be morally equivalent to a true marriage.
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WRONG. It isn't cruel...as amazing as it might seem, Jonah, telling gays they are wrong is love. To enable gays to live in the perverse addiction of homosexuality is evil.
Goldberg's cracked.
The abomination of homosexual conduct, is against nature itself as well as Gods Law, and has no room in a foxhole.
So if you want to promote the agenda, its on your soul.
You decide!
How does this person KNOW it is popular among republicans and it is popular because two sexual fetishists are attempting to raise a little girl without a mother?
There are two leaps in that article that can not be supported.
Besides who watches the ghetto of the broadcast channels? Last time they were complaining men 25-55 had abandoned television. Best guess then it is predominently women watching that show.
Interesting article save the concessions near the end.
Goldberg is just a pro-war liberal.
"So if a disease is common (> a tenth of one percent), hits in early life, has been around a long time (so we know it's not caused by some new industrial chemical or whatever), and it's not restricted to people from the malaria zone - it's probably caused by some bug.
But what about homosexuality? Well, from this biological perspective, it's surely a disease. Disinterest in the opposite sex reduces reproduction quite a bit - around 80% in American conditions. Does it hit in early life? Sure. Has it been around a long time? Certainly. Do you find it in non-African populations, people who never lived with malaria? Yes.
So it's a bug.
Now that we know that human male homosexuality looks like a disease caused by some infectious organism, the next question is how that could happen - how could some virus change sexual interest?
I don't think that anyone can be sure of the exact mechanism at this point. I think we can be fairly confident that it is caused by an infectious organism, from the information we have and general evolutionary considerations, but infectious organisms can cause harm in many different ways. Malaria colonizes and uses up red blood cells, diphtheria and cholera manufacture toxins, HIV slowly knocks out a key subpopulation of the immune system, leaving you defenseless against many other pathogens, while certain papillomavirus strains deregulates cell division and thus cause cervical cancer. And those are just samples: there are many pathogenic mechanisms involved in infectious disease, some not well understood.
What do we know? We have a lot of indications that there has been some change in the brain. After, all that's the most logical location for the cause of a change in behavior. Simon LeVay and others see differences in hypothalamic nuclei (similar to those seen in sheep). There are associated changes - the lisp, increased neuroticism and depression, etc. Somehow the cause is affecting the brain.
Just as important are all the things we don't see. We don't see IQ depression, we don't see epilepsy, we don't see convulsions, and we don't see aphasia. Clearly there is no gross trauma - somehow, the brain has been damaged, but in a very limited and focused way. A key function has been messed up, which gravely impacts reproductive fitness, but homosexual men can still hold down jobs, including very complex jobs. The overwhelming majority of mental functions are perfectly intact, or at most subtly changed. The damaged neural subsystem could be male-specific.
Do we know of diseases in which there are very specific targets - in which certain cell types are damaged or destroyed while neighboring cells are left intact? Sure. In some cases, a pathogen targets a particular cell type and has little effect on anything else. Human parvovirus (also known as fifth disease) hits erythroid precursor cells (the cells that manufacture red cells) and temporarily inhibits red cell production. In type-I diabetes, it seems likely that Coxsackie virus infections (in people with a genetic predisposition, in which HLA type plays a major role) trigger an autoimmune disease that gradually (over a year or so) destroys the islet cells which produce insulin. Other cells are not much affected.
We know of a similar, very specific damage pattern in the brain - Narcolepsy.
In Narcolepsy, most of the neurons that produce hypocretins (neurotransmitters) have somehow disappeared. There are only 30,000 of these neurons in the first place, all in a small hypothalamic nucleus. This loss leaves one pathologically sleepy, subject to cataplexy and in some cases hypnagogic hallucinations. Narcolepsy hits about 1 in 2000 people: identical twin concordance is around 25%. Almost all narcoleptics have a particular HLA type, one shared by about a third of the general population. Narcolepsy (almost always) is not present at birth but manifests in early adulthood.
Narcoleptics are pathologically sleepy, but most mental functions are unaffected.
There is at present a strong suspicion that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease, possibly triggered by a viral infection. The HLA association points in this direction, but as yet the exact cause of the destruction of the neurons that make hypocretin is unknown. Narcolepsy does, however, show that there exists some mechanism that can destroy a particular hypothalamic neuron subpopulation without causing general brain trauma.
...Preferential homosexuality, sexual interest in males, rather than females, is very rare. The only two species known to exhibit this behavior, at the-few-percent level, are men and sheep. It may be worth noting that men and sheep have often been found in close association.
Another point worth mentioning is that the prevalence of homosexuality probably varies a lot. It seems to be considerably more common in young men who grew up in urban areas than in rural areas, something like a factor of three, which is also true of Schizophrenia. This is a much bigger effect than the birth order stuff. If you look out in the real sticks, say among the Kalahari Bushmen, there doesn't seem to be any at all. Typically, hunter-gatherers have trouble believing that homosexuality actually exists.
All this is speculative, of course: but the idea that male homosexuality is caused by a pathogen makes good evolutionary sense, unlike every other explanation ever proposed. This particular form of pathogen explanation of homosexuality, inspired by the recent breakthroughs in narcolepsy research, is consistent with the low identical twin concordance for homosexuality, with geographical variation in its incidence, with some observations of volume changes in a particular hypothalamic nucleus in homosexual men, and most importantly, with the dog that didn't bark - the fact that homosexual men do not suffer from general brain damage, do not show symptoms like IQ depression...."
Hank
Michael Lerner. There's a name we haven't heard in a while. He was Hillary Clinton's "Politics of Meaning" Rabbi-Guru, remember?
It's interesting that Lerner was affilated with that group of violent activists, the Weather Underground, which included the infamous William Ayers, who was and still is close to none other than Barack Obama. Also, Hillary, Ayers, and Obama each have at some point called Chicago home. Small world, isn't it.