*AHEM*
Homosexuals are more likely to be beaten up by a partner than by "homophobes" committing "hate crimes." Many times more likely. There is no "straight Gestapo," as one acquaintance of mine put it. Your cries of being oppressed are little more than a transparent attempt to garner sympathy.
The "third" figure in the Texas sodomy case was the caller who was an abused lover of one of the two men. He had even filed charges against that man but was assaulted and murdered in an unsolved case before the abuse case came to trial.
The 2 men who were caught in an act of anal sex are not together any more.
Such is the life of a drama queen.
What, exactly, is the flaw? Both movements triggered very emotional and often nasty exchanges. Bigots claimed in the 1950's-1960's that God supported their point of view and they predicted horrendous consequences for American society if we adopted "liberal" laws being promoted by "secular humanists" and "Communist agitators", etc.
Homosexuals are more likely to be beaten up by a partner than by "homophobes" committing "hate crimes." Many times more likely. There is no "straight Gestapo," as one acquaintance of mine put it. Your cries of being oppressed are little more than a transparent attempt to garner sympathy
Since I never posted a message discussing "beatings" or "oppression" you must be hallucinating. However, several OTHER persons in this thread have been quite candid in explaining, (sometimes using code words or phrases), how THEY would like to treat gays if given the opportunity.
Finally, be careful about pretending to know anything about the "gay community" which can be quantified.
As is well known, many gays do not reveal their sexual orientation (hence the phrase "in the closet") because of the type of hostility and prejudice which some messages in this thread reveal.
I can, however, tell you this from my personal knowledge. There are numerous homeless boys and girls in our big cities who prostitute themselves for food and money or a place to stay for the night because their purported "Christian" mothers and fathers have disowned them once they acknowledged their sexual preference. During my volunteer work at a crisis center, I personally have twice had to cope with phone calls from suicidal teenagers whose mothers and/or fathers expressed their "Christian love and understanding" by throwing their kids out of the house while describing them with the same terminology used by some of the persons posting messages in this thread.