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TNR: It's OK to Choose to Be Gay
The New Republic ^ | 06/17/2014 | Eric Sasson

Posted on 06/17/2014 7:04:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Psalm 144

Sad ending to a magnificent legacy . . .

Now, its mission statement reads “standing athwart history and . . . . [fill in the blank].”


21 posted on 06/17/2014 7:29:17 AM PDT by Mach9
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To: SeekAndFind

“And the evidence for genetic predisposition is overwhelming.”

Funny, why haven’t the gays shown that overwhelming evidence to scientists then?


22 posted on 06/17/2014 7:32:07 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Genoa

ANd no doubt that in the 20% of the cases, the only reason both were gay was because the one twin influenced the other to become gay; otherwise, we’d see the usual 1-2% homosexuals in the twin population.


23 posted on 06/17/2014 7:33:22 AM PDT by MikeyB806
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To: SeekAndFind

How would a gay gene be passed on?


24 posted on 06/17/2014 7:34:49 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: MikeyB806

The 20 percent can no doubt be explained by addressing environmental and psychological factors having to do with being raised in the same home. But the 80 percent clearly negates the genetic theory.


25 posted on 06/17/2014 7:35:09 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: demshateGod

I permanently confuse the two magazines. Back in the day I subscribed to both. I really miss the Buckley’s Review.


26 posted on 06/17/2014 7:35:33 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Happier than a Svoboda skinhead with a free armband.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Okie logic alert: If Sodomites are born that way, why were there zero in my high school? They were latent homos, suppressing their true inclinations to the detriment of their mental health? Okay, so now that they’re out with it, they’re happy and stable?


27 posted on 06/17/2014 7:36:25 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The homosexualists know that their lives are a choice and have known since they started their protests years ago and proclaimed that they should not be discriminated against based on their sexual ...wait for it...PREFERENCE.

Now they fear that designation because a choice implies the potential for a cure or prevention, and that means that the presence of self-proclaimed homosexuals in the population would be reduced dramatically.


28 posted on 06/17/2014 7:36:48 AM PDT by MikeyB806
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder if it is legal if you say “I think you are a perv” while you bake and deliver the wedding cake? Or do you not even get the freedom to SAY that? Or to think that? How intrusive is this law that the Marxists-in-Charge seem to think is Law of the Land? What are the penalties for ignoring it? Would the Supremes really hold you guilty, if it went to the top?


29 posted on 06/17/2014 7:38:11 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
This points up once again, that we don’t know what causes homosexuality.

Yes we do: "Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death." James 1:15.

The cause is lust; Dreaming and fantasizing over ones own desires rather than obeying the will of God. The result is sin and ultimately eternal death in Hell.

Even though this sin is marked out in the Bible, that no Homosexual will enter the Kingdom of Heaven - any sin will keep one from going to heaven.

That is why Christ's coming is such good news. It is that anyone who truly believes upon His death on the cross (for all his sins), calling Him Lord, is saved from Hell and has life abundantly forever (both now and in heaven).

Even the sin of Homosexuality is forgiven, if one turns away (Repents from it completely), Believes upon the Saviors death in their place, makes Him Lord and turns and follows Him.

There is no sin that cannot be forgiven save one: That is not believing upon what Christ has done for sin.

Yes, what causes Homosexuality or any other sin is known and the good news of Christ is known as well.

30 posted on 06/17/2014 7:38:28 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: MikeyB806

..Probably by the Sodomites most powerful recruiting tool.


31 posted on 06/17/2014 7:38:43 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Most families have someone in their midst who is gay. We do. We love that person and I certainly believe they were born that way and did not wake up one day and decide to be gay.

That being said the gay lifestyle is a difficult life to lead and as much as the progressives have fought for gay marriage etc it still is considered by most to be an abnormal lifestyle and is not really socially acceptable. Choosing not to engage in it might be a wise choice. Rick Perry has a good point.


32 posted on 06/17/2014 8:14:24 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SeekAndFind
After eons of homosexuality (abbreviated H) being taboo and subject to being ostracized, the vanguards of our culture now says H is normal and OK. People are even applauded and called “courageous” for “coming out”. It is almost like they won the prize for drinking a half a case of beer and passing out at the high school party. Much like culture telling our young girls to loosen up and cast their virginity to the wind, thus getting attention from all the young bucks who want another notch in their belts, the aspiring queers are actually celebrated for a short period of time. The question that is uniformly ignored is, “What then?”.

What are the consequences of identifying as H . . . or banging the whole football team? Can you run from the internal guilt and shame? Will you be able to overcome the obvious health risks? Just what kind of benefits will this lifestyle bring? Will you be disappointed and/or isolated from those you love? What's next? What about 10 or 20 years down the road?

I don't ever intend to hurt or embarrass a H. I would appreciate the respect of the culture to allow me to quietly keep my distance because I am vastly different from the H community. But I actually feel sorry for the young, impressionable people who, as history proves, are being set up for a great deal of heartache, guilt and difficulty. I have never been approached for advice about it, but I think I would raise many of the questions mentioned above to them. Our depraved culture has a long history of selling snake oil to people who are not well grounded in their values. Such licentious behavior usually comes with a very high price tag . . . eventually . . . in this life AND afterward.

33 posted on 06/17/2014 8:39:12 AM PDT by RatRipper (The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
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To: sr4402

...For good reason: It was conducted by a homosexual using typical leftist science, determining the outcome regardless what the research revealed.


34 posted on 06/17/2014 11:17:51 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: Psalm 144
16 Oh, hell, I confused New Republic with National Review. New Republic has always been this way. Need coffee, stat.

It's even worse now.

Chris Hughes – aged 29, American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg (raised Jewish but now an avowed atheist and CEO of Facebook), Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin. He is currently the publisher and editor-in-chief of (left-wing political journal) The New Republic, after purchasing the magazine in 2012. He married his homosexual partner, Sean Eldridge, in 2012.

35 posted on 06/17/2014 12:13:22 PM PDT by MacNaughton (Marcus Tullius Cicero: "A nation ... cannot survive treason from within.")
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To: Genoa

Why didn’t homosexuals drop the ‘born that way’ crud when that came out, since it was no longer believable.


36 posted on 06/17/2014 7:17:07 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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