[Mamzelle]

Not too long ago I was enjoying a social occasion with a dear friend. I was so happy for her company, for the time together, and her friendship…then some moron asked me if we were "partners."

Has this happened to anyone else?

I mean, my whole evening was spoiled. I was so embarrassed. Had I done something ugly to make people think that we were lesbians? I have been self-conscious about this ever since.

And it did not dispose me any better toward the gay agenda.

At least this guy gets it. We love our friends. There is nothing sexual about it.

[Salvation]

Some people in society seem to think only on the natural (sex) level. They have no comprehension of the supernatural (spiritual) level of lives.

God bless you.

[BlackVeil]

Yes, this has happened to others. I suppose it will become more common.

I once had a large group of people at my house, including J. and M. who were ladies in their 30s, and good friends. After they left, someone asked me: “Are they partners?”

There seemed no reason for this question. They are a real pair of friends, so a lot of their conversation is “When we were at the beach that time ...” and “A new cafe is going to open, we must try it ...” But that is a long way from being partners, I would have thought.

[Mrs. Don-o]

One of the most lamentable effects of this whole in-your-face Gay Pride thing is society at large, is that it is making it so much more difficult to have close friendships. All of the sudden they are fraught with "does he think...?" or "does she feel that..." or "do you suppose they see this as...?)

There have been times in our cultural history when it was very common for women to form close tender friendships in which there was no suggestion of perversion. In the 18th century (roughly the colonial period) you have diaries in which women grieve over being separated from the affectionate love of their women friends (e.g. I remember reading a pastor's wife crushed in spirits because another matron of the congregation was "moving away from my embrace") or sending notes full of sighing and kisses.

It was the way thy expressed themsleves. It was NOT misconstrued as lewdness.

You also have men with perfectly honorable and deeply emotional bonds to other men, such as schoolmate, athletes, especially soldiers. The very pattern of David and Jonathan.

Can't even approach the depth, sweetness or nobility of that kind of attachment now. It would all be interpreted as gay, gay, gay.

Only 14 years into it, I already hate the 21st century.