Is it wrong to not support gay marriage?

playsfortheotherteam

RE: Is it wrong to not support gay marriage? 5/9/2012 10:00PM - in reply to serious question.

You can't teach people to be gay. You can only teach acceptance. If that is who they are accept it. You can't change it, and you can't create a homosexual boy out of a straight one. The fact that you think that makes it virtually impossible to talk to you because you have no clue about being gay.

The LGBT did not push for this amendment. Right wing whackos did. When someone tries to take away your rights, you fight. But straights consider this fighting to be "in your face". Well, get out of my our lives, give us the same rights as others, and we will have nothing to fight for.

serious question. wrote:

[quote]playsfortheotherteam wrote:

I gotta say, you're a huge part of the problem. We as a country have got to get beyond this issue of "validity" and "normality" so we can focus on really important things, like increasing college graduation rates, competing with China's industrial productivity, etc.

You sound really worked up about this - and what I don't get is what on earth could have possessed you to believe that homosexuality is not valid or normal? Sure, it's a minority disposition, but so is left-handedness and no one (these days anyways) is denying left-handed people their basic rights as citizens of this great country.

You say that you know homosexuality is not right, which is a statement of stunning arrogance and overreach. Genetic or chosen - and my sense is that because of the difficulty of ascribing a genetic explanation to something as complicated as sexuality, the jury is still out on this - homosexuality is ammoral, just like heterosexuality. It's about attraction between consenting agents - people who are old enough to understand the implications and consequences of acting on strong emotional feelings. That has nothing to do with good or evil, right or wrong. Simply because you're straight (maybe) and most of your acquaintances are straight (also maybe) doesn't mean that straightness is somehow right and alternatives to straightness wrong.

It sounds like you're repulsed by homosexuality; there's something especially fervid in your writing. And it's a real shame that legislation in this country is crafted and voted on by people motivated by physical revulsion.

In the end, after the dust in NC has settled, one in ten of your friends is still going to be gay; there are still going to be gay pride parades (more perhaps); and, unless they ban this too, your kids will still be hearing in school that being gay is absolutely fine. Hey, your son might come home from college with a boyfriend one of these days, and you better effing ask him in a nice way how they met.

And then you'll die. And your son and his boyfriend will raise a kid - not to be gay but to be herself - and that kid will have other healthy, "normal," productive friends with same-sex parents, and eventually they'll get together and vote all these embarrassing amendments to hell, where you and your hateful neighbors can read them together and reminisce about the good old days when it was okay to deny people full and equal citizen status just because you thought they were gross.

I used to be indifferent to the homosexual issue. The main reason I express concern about it is because of my kids being taught in public schools. I don't want to pull them out, but I also don't want them being taught that it's normal for boys to like boys and girls to like girls. Since I have kids, it's pretty important to me. Do you have kids? Do you want them taught to be gay?

So did you read my earlier post on page 2 of this thread? Why is consensual incest (in a non-child bearing situation) illegal? Society abhors that and considers it immoral. Society has the right to determine what is moral.

I don't think homosexuality should be outlawed (like in times past). And homosexuals certainly should not be persecuted or abused. I just don't think it should be legally sanctioned and thereby taught in the public schools as being normal.

By the way, you need to rethink about the "ten percent myth." Check out what the CDC says about the actual percentage of homosexuals in the U.S. It's far less than 10%. And that's statistics coming from a government agency, not some religious group.

There is absolutely no science to indicate that homosexuality is genetic. There is no "gay gene." It's a chosen behavior. People have the right to behave that way if they want but for our government to sanction it and teach it as normal behavior to my children is overstepping the boundaries.

And no, I'm not worked up about this. It's the LGBT community that keeps working this up and pushing this as an issue in state after state. And when states like N.C. respond as they did, they are the ones who are seen as intollerant. Well, why is society intollerant towards incest? Why is society intollerant towards polygamy? There are laws against that. And there are plenty of people wanting to practice that. Are their rights being infringed upon?[/quote]

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