Posted on 12/31/2013 6:06:35 AM PST by Innovative
Aubrey Loots and Danny Leclair joke that they're getting married New Year's Day in front of 80 million of their closest friends, and the men say they aren't that concerned that a few thousand others may boycott the first gay marriage at the 125-year-old Rose Parade.
The Pasadena Tournament of Roses, which puts on the parade, said in a statement that it is proud to have the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's float, adding it clearly represents this year's parade theme, "Dreams Come True."
"Like all of our sponsors and float designers, AHF continues to help make the Rose Parade a premier event through original and creative expressions that connect to parade themes," the statement said.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
It seems Honda is their biggest sponsor:
“The Pasadena Tournament of Roses® Association has announced the 45 float entries that will participate in the 125th Rose Parade® presented by Honda, themed Dreams Come True. -
Yeah, I did get that idea from reading it here. Brilliant, Rod! I’d love to help hand them out or join you. I have three ‘homo buddies’, whom I adore, and even they think they are being misrepresented by the obnoxious. Plus, it’s weird... They can’t stand the fems. Strange world....
I with ya too xzins.
No part of that parade will appear on our televisions.
Oh dash it all - I have to clip my toenails and will be unable to watch.
“Not difficult for me at all.”
I don’t like to make these things personal, and I really don’t want to get into why that might be true of you.
“Virtually everything is a CHOICE at that moment in time that a CHOICE is made to go ahead with the behavior.”
That may or may not be true of healthy people, but we were talking about people who suffer from a disorder, whose free will is impaired. For them, no, I don’t think it’s a choice. That’s what I understand the term “compulsion” to mean.
It is NOT a sin to deal with temptations, but it becomes SIN to fall into temptations traps.
Gakk. They shove it in your face at every turn. Not going to watch this. The Walking Dead marathon looks a lot more attractive.
Leni
“It is NOT a sin to deal with temptations, but it becomes SIN to fall into temptations traps.”
Yes, but same-sex attraction disorder involves compulsions that are not the same in kind or intensity that the other 98% of the population encounters.
A mental disorder can rob a person of the ability to see a compulsion or a behavior for what it is, and it can destroy the strength of will needed to withstand any sort of temptation.
That old comic line (Flip Wilson?) “The devil made me do it” turns out to have a lot of truth to it.
I favor trying to strengthen such people and bring them back to normality. The Father of Lies says it can’t be done; my lying eyes tell me that it is frequently accomplished.
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