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Frankly, I think that posts with such hostility toward gays really make us open to the liberals' charge that all conservatives are evil bigots.

You ain't no conservative, toots. Maybe your response on this subject (gays) is explained by the "girl" part of your monicker. You must be very young yourself, and therefore raised as a mind full of mush in a public school and therefore stuffed full of liberal baloney, or you just haven't got what it takes to figure out what moral behavior means when attending a religious school. Your argument is totally lame, and I can tell you are a youngster by your use of words such as 'PO'd', and 'tude', and I highly suspect you are quite the liberal youngster at that, palming yourself off as a conservative. Why don't you go to the DU site where you'll find like-minded people. I'm afraid it's attitudes like yours that give liberals like you a bad name.

I'm a libertarian-minded conservative, who likes Dubya's tax cuts and his foreign policy. I, however, try to remain open minded toward other people and their lifestyles, especially since one of my best friends in high school happened to be gay. My parents were always very open to him and very accepting of who he was. I very much doubt that most people spewing such hostile rhetoric on this thread would ever permit their children to hang out with an openly gay child, and that fact makes me very sad.

As for private schools, I attended Catholic schools throughout my life and don't have any use for them. Certain children, whose parents gave $$$ to the school or who were exceptional athletes or students or in some way made the school look really good, didn't have to follow the same rules that the rest of us did. The school administration, especially the principal, also permitted a very poisonous atmosphere to exist in my high school and did nothing to help the victim in any situations. My friend attempted suicide because of their failure to help her, and I know of many other such attempts.