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To: discostu
Nice job of taking a sentence entirely out of context.

I most certainly did not. You want to prohibit a certain type of public behavior by one group of people that you feel is completely acceptable public behavior in a heterosexual group of people.

What part of "equal" (as in "equal rights") don't you understand?

Here's the easy question to ask yourself: would that kind of behavior be tolerable if the title of the march were "Normal Everyday Person Pride"?

If you want to get a group of heterosexuals together to stage a parade where you bring your wife and your kids out in public to demonstrate the love and affection that exists in a heterosexual, married environment, by holding hands with your wife and kids and giving her the occasional peck on the cheek as you march down the street, then I think you will not have wasted your time. You will have made a strong statement to the homosexual community about 1) your beliefs as to correct and God-ordained family relationships, and 2) proper public displays of affection.

But, instead, it seems you'd rather just pass laws that put people in jail and see to it that vengeance is exercised right now.

Be an example, not a judge. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Judgment is in the hands of God; your job is to attempt to save people before then and not to be in a hurry to convict. Whose side are you on?

146 posted on 01/29/2002 9:03:04 AM PST by CubicleGuy
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To: CubicleGuy
Would you actually read what I posted.

A - I don't want laws to enforce anything, I want the gay-les community to police itself, with the understanding that societies have the right to defend their standards (IMHO the only one of my rights I want the government to defend is my right to live my life without government interference, everything I can handle on my own thanks).

B - The behavior I'm objecting to is only related to homosexuality in that straight people don't do it. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't. There's no rule I've found that says only gays are allowed to walk around in nothing more than thong underware and chaps. The fact is that only gays, and a small percentage at that, chose to do so.

C - As soon as we have people running around without pants getting broadcast into my living room while I thought I was watching the evening new, we've got problems, those people need to put on some GD clothes and start acting normal. I don't care who they plook or with what, but when your butt is in my living room it better stop and it better stop quick.

See I really don't care what goes on in a person's life. I've been friends with gays and lesbians most of my life and by and large they're very nice people largely indistinguishable from everybody else. The problem is there's a radical subsection, the so called "loud and proud" gays and lesbians that aren't nice people. They're not expressing "love" as you so eloquently put it, they're flaunting the moral standards of our society in ways that already border on the criminal (we do have public decency laws in most of this country you know). Polite society doesn't do that stuff.

Here's a fun link, I realize it's an onion article and therefore a spoof, but look at those picture. Those aren't fake pictures, that's real stuff from real gay pride marches and if you've ever caught the coverage of those events you've probably seen much worse. People that will dress like that and march down the street have no place in polite society. Gay, straight or celebate doesn't matter, those people need to put some damn clothes on and stop scaring the horses.

228 posted on 01/29/2002 10:56:04 AM PST by discostu
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