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High school gays get a harsh lesson
Chicago Tribune ^ | March 13 | Dahleen Glanton

Posted on 03/13/2005 4:13:00 PM PST by metalmanx2j

Edited on 03/13/2005 4:50:00 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: farmer18th
The greatest Communicator on earth, the founder of Western Civilization, the author of Mercy and Truth, the one who freed us from centuries of abject tyranny, had the very same habit of speaking about eternal death, the lake of fire, and eternal punishment. In the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Think about that.

No disprespect meant to you. I guess we just see things differently, which is okay by me. One of the gifts God gave us is a fantastically complicated brain, capable of levels of higher reasoning unmatched elsewhere in nature. It would be a shame not to use it. For example, I for one do not believe that the Earth (or the Universe) is only 7000 years old and was created in 7 days. Nor do I believe there is a "lake of fire" where "heathens" go and burn for eternity. After all, the Bible says "eternal punishMENT" and not eternal punishING" and it also states that when a person dies, "his thoughts perish".

(sorry I can't quote chapter and verse, I am no good with that.)

Bones
181 posted on 03/14/2005 8:36:14 AM PST by Bones75
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To: Antoninus
LOL -- your delusions of grandeur are so entertaining.

Yeah, your type is "the base". That's how Pat Buchanan got elected President....

182 posted on 03/14/2005 8:37:18 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: Antoninus
would you consider someone a "Republican" if they trashed the constitution, history, and institutions of the US on a regular basis

Man, you're opening the flood gates with this one....

183 posted on 03/14/2005 8:40:17 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: B-Chan
We are all "children of the devil" by that standard. Unless you live in a constant state of perfection you, too, are one of the "walking dead".

If I remember correctly, when the unrepentant public heretic Marcion met St. Polycarp, he called out to him, "Polycarp, do you not know me?"

In response, St. Polycarp called out, "I know you to be the first-born of Satan."

So it's not like such pronouncements are without precedent. And yes, unrepentant sinners of all varieties are by definition 'children of the devil' as by their willful sinning, they reject God. Praise be to Jesus that he has given us the sacrament of Confession--without which, many of us would be quite doomed.
184 posted on 03/14/2005 8:41:05 AM PST by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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To: steve-b
LOL -- your delusions of grandeur are so entertaining. Yeah, your type is "the base". That's how Pat Buchanan got elected President....

And how G. H. W. Bush won a second term...
185 posted on 03/14/2005 8:41:54 AM PST by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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To: Ca_Green
a heterosexual man, with a long time marriage to wonderful woman I always wonder why people are so afraid of gays when they do not affect your life at all

Actually they impact our lives frequently. They do in fact solicit. You have never been invited? Count yourself lucky. Male homosexuals are very open about their invitations to any kid on his own (parants out of sight) and interested in the new world of sex.

What about diversity training? There are constant reminders that since this practice is being done anyway we may as well open up and embrace it. Homosexuals should be able to be as open as heterosexuals in public, and the heterosexual world should provide help in bringing homosexuals together and welcoming them into society...

Then there is school, where teachers and professional trainers can come in and show your wonderful children that there are options perhaps they have never considered themselves.

Where are you coming from that you don't view this as a threat? Do you at least acknowledge that it is a significant culture change? If you acknowledge this, is it a change you are looking forward to? Perhaps because we are ignorant but you are enlightened?

186 posted on 03/14/2005 8:48:29 AM PST by KC_for_Freedom (Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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To: B-Chan
You whitewashed tomb.

Oh. Well. Thank goodness we're not being judgemental!

"Children of the Devil" isn't a condemnation or an abuse. It's more like a diagnosis, or maybe a "term of art". It means something like: they are in a state of mortal sin and are currently rejecting God's offer of grace, and distancing themselves further and further from grace (whether they mean to or not) by their behavior.

Just as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress suggests there is a way to Hell even at the gates of Heaven, I think there is a way to Heaven even at the gates of Hell. So, for me, saying someone is a child of the devil (not language I use much, but it doesn't make me get all jittery to hear it either) isn't as much about their ultimate destination as it is about their current heading and situation.

187 posted on 03/14/2005 8:50:38 AM PST by Mad Dawg (My P226 wants to teach you what SIGnify means ...)
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To: mountaineer

"Unlike these "gay" kids who attend dances with a same sex date or otherwise flaunt their perversion"

"The "gay" kid - at least the one described in this article - is putting her "difference" in everybody's face and daring them not to react."


This is the left's definition of "tolerance". "Tolerance" is not enough though, they want you to CELEBRATE it! If you disagree, one day you will be thrown in jail under "hate crime legislation". I read that there are some preachers in Canada, and recently in PA that have been accused of "hate crimes" for preaching against this degenerate lifestyle.


188 posted on 03/14/2005 8:52:08 AM PST by Stellar Dendrite
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To: metalmanx2j
Valentine's Day

FYI, (Saint) Valentine's (feast) Day is being changed to "Love Day." Coming soon to a school near you. Really.

189 posted on 03/14/2005 8:54:52 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Bones75
One of the gifts God gave us is a fantastically complicated brain, capable of levels of higher reasoning unmatched elsewhere in nature

Yes, Stanford man here. I'm familiar with the concept.
190 posted on 03/14/2005 9:00:40 AM PST by farmer18th
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To: Ca_Green
As a heterosexual man, with a long time marriage to wonderful woman I always wonder why people are so afraid of gays when they do not affect your life at all.

First, that is a CLASSIC liberal mode of argument. To consider something wrong is NOT the same thing nor is it necessarily motivated by being afraid of it. I am afraid of the dentist, though I know he does me good. I am not sufficently afraid of eating at MacDonalds, though I suspect (and my doc agrees) that it does me harm.

In other words, sometimes thoughtful consideration leads to fear, to an appropriate fear. Will you then characterize me as "so afraid...."

By making the charge of fear and the implication that fear is directing our thoughts, you are distracting attention from your assumption "...they do not affect your life at all." Do they not? How much of my tax dollar goes to deal with a disease the main spread of which is caused by homosexual practices? How much of my tax dollar goes toward "tolerance education", how much to litigating over same-sex marriage?

While I don't much FEEL impinged upon by homosexuals, when I think about it, I realize that they affect my life considerably -- and often for the worse.

I say again, describing someone as a child of the devil does not necessarily mean I hate them -- and I've always thought of myself as more a Cromagnon type actually.

How would you characterize the kind of person who makes disparaging attributions about those who espouse a view differing from his own?

191 posted on 03/14/2005 9:05:52 AM PST by Mad Dawg (My P226 wants to teach you what SIGnify means ...)
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To: B-Chan
Sin requires an act of deliberate will.

Would that include forming a "gay straight" alliance, demanding that traditionally heterosexual cultural traditions include sodomites? Hmmm?

You are the viper, the white-washed tomb. The blood of this generation will be on your head for refusing to call sin what it is. Paul and Jesus and Peter never showed the sort of self-serving, hypocritical "mercy" that you show, because they were not cowards. Remember when the disciples were wringing their hands over perceived slights the Lord showed the Pharisees? That is your present state. Consider it.
192 posted on 03/14/2005 9:08:12 AM PST by farmer18th
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To: Antoninus
And how G. H. W. Bush won a second term...

Not to mention Bob Dole. Remember, folks, when he showed contempt for the base by saying he didn't care what the platform said about pro-life issues?

Remember how gleeful that made Bill and Hillary?

Republicans abandoning their base is music to the ears of the Demon-crats.
193 posted on 03/14/2005 9:14:51 AM PST by farmer18th
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To: Joe Republc
While I can't quote the stats to you, I've seen a study that shows if a boy with homosexual urges can simply avoid acting on them, these urges will likely die down drastically by the time he gets to his mid-20s.

Interesting. Note that occasionally "advice" columns in the papers get a letter from a young teen who wonders if he might be gay. The answer is always to send the kid to his local GLBT group to help him "deal with it."

194 posted on 03/14/2005 9:14:59 AM PST by maryz
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To: Bones75
Psalm 146 v1-4

Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

195 posted on 03/14/2005 9:17:43 AM PST by Jimmyclyde (Dying ain't much of a living boy...)
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To: Ca_Green; clee1; PeaceBeWithYou; KC_for_Freedom; Peach

"As a heterosexual man, with a long time marriage to wonderful woman I always wonder why people are so afraid of gays when they do not affect your life at all."

Peach, Clee, PeaceBeWithYou,KC-For-Freedom:

I am calling this "Ca_Green" out as a troll.

Please notice his/her registration date:

Since Mar 10, 2005





The comments I quoted above are the same propaganda repeated over and over. CaGreen is what we like to call an "opinion shaper" (I'm sure he/she is from DU). Don't fall for it!



Please notice the following communist goals from the 1963 congressional record (the others are eye opening, visit the link):

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."





Im against Homosexual marraige (It is the proper scientific term, and I refuse to let the left redefine the word "Gay" just like they do everything else). The democrats don't care about Homosexuals, they just use them to promote their Gramscian communist goals. They want to destroy marraige, because by destroying the family unit, the state can grab more power. Read the communist manifesto, "abolition of the family unit".

I also know the left doesn't stop with their demands, today they are begging for Homo Marraige and pretend that it will be all that's required for "equality". The next thing you know, the Homosexuals will demand an "Affirmative Action" type policy for adoption, where the Homosexuals get priority over Hetero couples.

I know many gay people, and they do NOT want to get married, nor do they want gay marriage. The number of Homosexuals who want marriage is a minority of an already exceedingly small minority. Commitment is NOT in their culture, especially gay men. All one has to do is look at other countries that have gay marraige and recognize that it's done exactly what Gramsci and other communists wanted-- the breakdown of the family unit. After homosexual marriage permeated in Sweden, the numbers of those getting married has dropped tremendously. In the Netherlands, those men in homosexual marriages continue to get/spread AIDS to people other than their partners (you know, the ones they're supposed to be committed to).

Reading on the Frankfurt School/Herbert Marcuse/Antonio Gramsci is recommended. Here's a starter article:
"Gramsci's Grand Plan"
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/07-05-99/vo15no14_gramsci.htm




196 posted on 03/14/2005 9:19:22 AM PST by Stellar Dendrite
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To: Mad Dawg

Totally agreed! Please see my comments on this thread, #196...I am calling Ca_Green out as a troll.....


197 posted on 03/14/2005 9:20:31 AM PST by Stellar Dendrite
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To: Stellar Dendrite

no per the www.forthechildreninc.com tapes of GLSEN and homo adovcates, the homosexuals want to make children peer pressured into experimenting with homosexual sex. They want children to feel like freaks and abnormal if they are not homosexuals.

Once they experiment once then the homoadvocates will push indoctrination that one homosexual experience makes the child always a homosexual. (see molestation victims)

It is so sick that it is criminal. If it was any other group than homosexual advocates, they would be in jail as pedophiles.


198 posted on 03/14/2005 9:23:33 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Mad Dawg
Just as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress suggests there is a way to Hell even at the gates of Heaven, I think there is a way to Heaven even at the gates of Hell. So, for me, saying someone is a child of the devil (not language I use much, but it doesn't make me get all jittery to hear it either) isn't as much about their ultimate destination as it is about their current heading and situation.

Well said. I think the trouble with this generation of conservatives is that they've never really spent any time in history. If they could read the kind of rhetoric the sons of liberty reserved for the King and his ministers, and for the sycophantic hand-licking Tories among them, they would be shocked to know that real issues require real language and real judgement. The simple truth is that there is one truth, not a thousand, and every issue can be argued from the perspective of the road that leads to truth or a lie, the God or the Devil. They are uncomfortable, ultimately, with timeless and objective truth.

A couple of young lesbians, truth be told, represent a tragedy of living death, of fruitlessness, of revulsion. The proper shame that our God given nature instills in us, is the very shame that we should voice in the public square--for their own benefit.
199 posted on 03/14/2005 9:24:55 AM PST by farmer18th
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To: Stellar Dendrite; Ca_Green

Some of us feel that your post that gays don't affect our lives at all is really only part of the truth. Certainly there are gay people who just live their lives quietly and don't have a larger agenda.

It is the radical gay agenda that concerns most of us. And it should concern you too.

You have to wonder why the radical gay community is so anxious to get their hands on our young people.
Last year I had a letter to the editor published in the paper regarding gay marriage. After telling people about Tammy Bruce' book and reminding people that Clinton signed the defense of marriage act, this is what was in the letter and about 2 hours of research on the internet provided:

In Vermont, a program was instituted called Outright Vermont. Vermont schools advertise this program on bulletin boards and the materials contain links to web sites which lead to adult gay male porn sites. Last year, NYT opened the first gay high school in the nation.

Former Gov. Gay Davis of California signed a sex education law that requires students to adopt a healthy attitude toward homosexuality. The NEA has been developing programs to incorporate the gay agenda into our public schools for children of all ages.

Many programs have been in place for over 20 years and the curricula is getting more radical each year.

NEA is trying to force state governments to require both home schoolers and private schools to teach pro gay agendas or refuse to validate their diplomas.

The NEA has successfully sponsored a curriculum which some schools have adopted that requires children to partake in "Gay Day" which involved playacting.

In March 2002, Penn State University featured an advocate of pedophilia at a women's health conference, despite congressional disapproval and parental concerns.

In 1998, the American Psychological Associated claimed that pedophilia often "does not cause intense harm on a pervasive basis."

The North American Man Boy Love Assoc. (NAMBLA) is a regularly quoted member of the gay movement and pedophile themes abound in their literature. Their web site quotes "...instead of condemning pedophiles for their involvement with lesbian and gay youth, we should be supporting them." The gay movement does not condemn these comments or ask that the Association refrain from attaching itself to their agenda.

The taboo against adult-child sex is eroding and the NYT and other cultural elite press regularly praise literary works containing pedophilia relationships. Poet Allen Ginsberg was a pedophile and member of NAMBLA. His poetry contained explicit references to pedophilia and yet when he died in 1997, journalists praised him as an icon whose poetry was without rival.

Researchers differ on the numbers, but approximately 25% of gay men report they wre molested as children which they blame for setting them on the road to homosexuality. This is not to paint all gays as having predatory motives, but I believe that gay marriage will provide an access to children through adoption that is unprecedented and dangerous. And yet, we are told that praying in school is dangerous to our children. Moral relativism is standing on its head.





200 posted on 03/14/2005 9:27:37 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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