[Deep_6]

re:
"..Of course now I'm going to be flamed....."

Not by anyone with a brain (and I'm happy to see
so many with a brain are here on this thread!)

You'll find there's some fear among the "right wingies"
regarding the supposition that one's sexual preference
can be swayed by association and/or education. 
It's an interesting concept, isn't it?

If you ask any of those same "conservatives" if they
could ever be persuaded to become homosexual, they
will insist they can not. But they manage to believe that
others can.

The desire to be with, love, or to have sex with, either
the opposite or same gender, cannot be changed. You
can no more change a heterosexual into a homosexual,
than you can change a homosexual into a heterosexual.

You'll hear stories about "psychological conditioning"
and "behavior modification" doing a great job of stopping
homosexuality in it's tracks, but they don't mention how.

The process involves the showing of pictures of the same
gender sexual organs as the "patient" and delivering a
painful jolt of high voltage electricity with each viewing.
That of course, will make the mere sight of the same 
sexual organs as the recipient, repulse that recipient 
(the mind is a wonderful thing). What they don't tell folks,
is the victim is usually left asexual. That is, not only repulsed
by the sight of their own organs, but devoid of sexual 
desire for the opposite as well. I suppose you'll see 
posts recommending that procedure as a great remedy 
for one's son or daughter. sooner or later. Or perhaps JR 
has thinned the ranks of the once very far right constituency?

In my opinion, God designed us all, for whatever reason 
He had. Some march to the beat; some have their own 
drummer, but we all should be marching in the same parade.
Freedom, is to allow those around you to live in the
lifestyle they choose without fear. 

There are times on "FR" that it almost appears the "conservative" 
political wing that had long spirited Freedom and Liberty for all,
has become a freedom robbing group, not unlike a certain more
liberal and socialistic political party.....

That doesn't appear to be the case yet on this thread and it warms
the heart to see common sense prevail.

(I thank you for posting against an anticipated firestorm,
it took guts)

[concerned about politics]

Those who support homosexuals have a lust for it themselves.

"By their fruits you will know them"
In the spiritual world, like minds attract .

[hoosierham]

It is possible to be BOTH brave and mistaken.

Since homosexuals can't procreate,they are either proof of Darwin's natural selection (nature's way of getting rid of defectives) or disobedient to God's laws. Either way, homosexuals are losers.

[Illbay]

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed:
Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed;
In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there,
At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where:
No creature owns it in the first degree,
But thinks his neighbour further gone than he!
Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone,
Or never feel the rage, or never own;
What happier natures shrink at with affright,
The hard inhabitant contends is right.

-- Pope, Essay on Man, I:V

I suppose that makes you one of the "hard inhabitants" of FR

[let freedom sing]

I observed a lesbi couple break-up in a children's park-- it wasn't pretty, and it wasn't private. "Butch" held her lover-- and wouldn't let her leave-- "she" was leaving "her" for a man-- and tried to "talk her out of it," to no avail. I didn't stick around to see what happened next.