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NBA Player 'Comes Out' -- but Tolerance Cuts Both Ways
Townhall.com ^ | May 2, 2013 | Larry Elder

Posted on 05/02/2013 4:25:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Arrowhead1952

Bingo.


41 posted on 05/02/2013 6:01:20 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kaslin

We have to stop using their preferred terms and call them what they are. Not with hatred, but for clarity.

HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.


42 posted on 05/02/2013 6:02:05 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

Excellent point, and I agree


43 posted on 05/02/2013 6:03:24 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: dennisw

Notice the ‘extra narrowly definitions people use to work homosexuality into acceptance. My brother is gay BUT....My uncle is gay BUT... My teacher is gay BUT...They think just like I do!!

No they don’t. But instead of doing what is right and recognizing it for what it is, they each legitimize it in a small way that adds up across the board...and we come to today.


44 posted on 05/02/2013 6:05:01 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart
Ah, ha, the comment that set off the storm ~ I think the reason behind the handful of supposed Conservatives who want to go after the gay vote has to do with a misunderstanding of how they become an inordinate part of political discourse.

It has to do with polls, and some imagine the polls to be really good, with master minds behind them who are really smart, and certainly a small group of gays couldn't distort the results.

So, thinking there are all those gays, they want to win elections so they solicit gay approval.

Romney did that ~ he lost ~ just like his gay fanbase didn't even exist too!

That's due to a problem I outline in post #26.

So, yes, we have Conservatives trying to bring in the gays, but they are misled by systemic polling that over-responds to gay thought. And no, being gay is not a Conservative position ~ at best we would think tab a into slot b considerations would be private matters and at worst we just want them to go away with their constant chronic litany of all the slings and arrows their sex organ receive when displayed in public for all to see.

They ultimately out themselves anyway ~ just like Billy James Hargis ~ a fellow who was more Conservative than not, but who had more than his fair share of problems ~ about which he did nothing useful!

Conservatism has always prospered when we push the logic of our positions, not when we counsel our logic with polls!

45 posted on 05/02/2013 6:05:51 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Very well said.


46 posted on 05/02/2013 6:07:54 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: pepsionice
...especially for major league baseball.

The way those center fielders bend over with their hands on their knees?

47 posted on 05/02/2013 6:08:00 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Norm Lenhart
A funny story. My brother in law had an apartment and his roomate had moved out to a mental hospital so he needed to rent one of the bedrooms to someone else.

He called the Washington Post to place an ad ~ he told them "Room for Rent. Student wanted."

The postie then ran the ad ~ abbreviated as "Room for rnt; stud wanted"

He had to get his phone number changed ~ thousands of calls.

If Collins is not just scamming the press for more coverage to augment his career, by now he's had to get an entirely new set of phone numbers AND move out of his home!

We'll see if he's really gay eh! (bwahahahahaha)

48 posted on 05/02/2013 6:11:45 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Kaslin

Forty-Five posts and nobody realizes that photo isn’t Jason
Collins.


49 posted on 05/02/2013 6:12:38 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Norm Lenhart

Thank you.


50 posted on 05/02/2013 6:13:34 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Yea I think he’ll regret this after his 15 are up and the dems no longer find him useful. Perhaps a certain wordsmith could ease his sorrows...


51 posted on 05/02/2013 6:17:47 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Which proves that homosexuality is in the genes is nothing but lies


52 posted on 05/02/2013 6:21:18 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: muawiyah
They may be as little as .3% for all anyone can determine, but certainly not more than 1.0%.

I know that the Kinsey Report was 10%, done mainly with inmates who probably fit that percentage, and that 10% crap was then spouted as if it represented society . . . and the media have, in many cases, glommed on to it.

53 posted on 05/02/2013 6:38:40 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: laweeks
There is no 10% ~ looking at Gallup's result given the response situation reported by PEW, there's not likely even 1%.

But the poofters are going to demand tighter and tighter thongs and lower and lower rides!

All they gotta' do is answer the phone and they get what they want.

54 posted on 05/02/2013 6:45:53 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Norm Lenhart
Mrs WBill has a number of gay friends. They're around the same age as me, namely, 'middle-aged'. Nothing really unique or special about any of them. Occasionally, we make small talk at get-togthers and, other than the fact that I have *nothing* in common with them, they're pretty decent folks.

One morning, a few weeks ago, Mrs WBill mentioned in passing that gay friend 'A' has a new therapist (the psych kind). Friend thinks the therapist is pretty cute. I said 'Uh-huh', with about as much thought and acknowledgment as a husband gives a wife on a point of trivial nonsense at 7 am.

Some time later, she mentioned in passing that gay friend 'B' can't attend some get-together because it conflicts with a therapy (the psych kind) appointment. "mmm-hmmm", I replied, didn't give it 5 sec of consideration.

Last week, she mentioned that gay friend 'C' has a new therapist (the psych kind) too. "Yeah - wait a minute.", I said, "Didn't you tell me that 'A' and 'B' have new therapists, too? Are all these guys in some sort of group thing, or something?"

"No, no, no.", she replied, " 'A' is in New York. 'B' is in South Carolina. 'C' is in Atlanta."

"Hunh.", I replied. "Are All of your gay friends in therapy?"

She thought about it. "Yeah, pretty much."

If that's not indicative of something being wrong with a lifestyle, I dunno what is.

55 posted on 05/02/2013 7:08:07 AM PDT by wbill
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To: wbill

Well at least they are conservative.... s/

Yup. That is mostly the case. People don’t like making that connection though. think about all the lib propaganda about bullied gay kids. They need therapy!!

The unspoken thing is that the therapy isnt needed because someone called them a fag. It’s needed because they don’y ‘naturally’ LIKE being a fag and thus the problems follow.

Self loathing is at the core of most homosexuality. Look at the suicide rates and ‘bug chasers’.

But no. We must help them hurt themselves and accept them for it. That too is conservative I guess. Some here without a sense of irony seem to think so.


56 posted on 05/02/2013 7:26:22 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

I was messing with your head Norm - on purpose - to show you how deleting a few letters, let alone words, DOES CHANGE CONTEXT. I was being dishonest to illustrate your intellectual dishonesty vis a vis Gen Blather.

BONUS POINTS: And as I predicted, you were too thick to get it. So yes, have everybody read the thread, and they’ll see I was just toying with you and even predicted how you would fall hook, line and sinker for it.

I point you to that great philosopher Detective Harry Callahan: “Man’s gotta know his limitations.”

You are WAY too ez.


57 posted on 05/02/2013 8:05:28 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

CW, you really are easy to bait. And just as I said in my follow up email to you...everyone say it.

Now about answering the question...


58 posted on 05/02/2013 8:07:54 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Oh and lest anyone think I jest, here is the text of that email to you....

“Actually lib I did see it. And understand it But guess what? So did everyone else. Guess what? You will be quoted. Often. Because you are not nearly as smart as you think you are. And now you’ll have to not only explain why you did it, but why you ignored several clear questions TO DO IT.”

So yes...You got rolled.


59 posted on 05/02/2013 8:14:19 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kaslin

a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition.


60 posted on 05/02/2013 8:25:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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