I'm changing the Slogan of the Website... LetsRun.com Promoting Homosexuality

If being gay was a choice then surely they would chose to be straight.

Gays have as much right to marriage as the rest of us.

Because of the legal, economic, and social ramifications. If you are married and have insurance, a pension, or have an incapacitated loved one who requires medical decisions be made on their behalf, you will understand why homosexuals want to be able to get married. There are many, many rights afforded to married couples that are not afforded to unmarried couples.

No it\'s not. It is a social and legal institution, as well as a religious institution. This has already been covered.

Gays want everyone to accept their lifestyle. Why does that necessitate destroying the whole concept of family? What is the concept of family, and how is gay marriage destroying that?

Lot of people have a life span of less than 50 years. Do you know what the life span of African-Americans is? What does life-span have to do with the right to get married?

Assuming it is a choice, why is it a bad choice? Why is it any of your business? Assuming its not a choice, then living a homosexual lifestyle allows the individual the opportunity to experience love and companionship. Does that qualify as something \"good for them\"?

No explicit gay gene has been discovered; however, biological factors have been discovered that contribute to homosexuality. Most physical and behavioral traits are determined by a variety of biological variables. Homosexuals can \"choose\" to be straight, I suppose, but why should they have to deny an innate biological predisposition? If you were forced to be gay don\'t you think your life would be much, much less pleasant?

Why is homosexuality a debilitating lifestyle?

We should give homosexuals the same rights as everyone else, because they are people like everyone else. It is incumbent upon the anti-gay marriage camp to justify the denial of rights to homosexual couples (i.e. how is gay marriage destroying our society?).

And by the way, where does it end? It ends with homosexuals getting married.

It takes a moment of reflection to accept gay marriage, not the other way around. Opposing the homosexual lifestyle is not exactly enlightened.

You can compare homosexuality to drinking, anarchy, whatever, but these analogies are ludicrous unless you provide explicit examples of how they are comparable.

How does homosexuality \"oppose\" straights? What does that even mean? Why are the two lifestyle in opposition to one another? Why can\'t they coexist?

I have thought about it, and I am not asking James Dobson, I am asking you. Can you justify anything you have said with real examples?

Suggesting anyone read anything by James Dobson really hurts any credibility you may have had.

Our culture/ society has many ills, the least of which is homosexuality.

If you are a christian, as you claim, shouldn't you be more worried about, as another poster mentioned, the moral enforcement of the 10 commandments.

It is quite clear that those most in violation of the commandments are the fundamentalist christian, zionist freaks who supposedly hold the commandments in highest regard.

I'm not at all convinced that homosexuality is genetic, or that it is a simple binary choice. How someone ends up being gay is probably due to a complex combination of factors.

If you were really interested in upholding christian morality, homosexuality would be pretty low on your list of priorities.

This is your choice, be a good christian, or a giant hypocrite obsessed with homosexuality.

Whoever this "veggie" person is is way off base. He's either a complete idiot OR just trolling...or I suppose he could just be ignorant. Maybe he doesn't now any gays. Maybe he doesn't know that gays in general are more successful than those who aren't because in part they don't have families they need to put their energies into.

Anyway, James Dobson is a kook. Listen to nothing he has to say, and you won't be bad off.

Having been married for over 20 years (to a woman), I have no idea why they would want to do it, but if they do, I say let them. At the very least, they can then tell jokes about marriage, like:

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met!

Yeah, noone has ever died from cocaine. And its not like innocent people have ever died from cocaine. I mean, noone ever kills anyone for money to buy drugs, right? But gay sex gives AIDS which kills people. Straight sex never ever transfers AIDS.

Lenny Bias wrote:

miles of trials wrote:

I'm not even going to read all the responses, but who can honestly believe that homosexuality is as bad as cocaine?

You can get the aids from being homo and die but you can't die from doing cocaine.

Many of veggie's arguments were made not very long ago when people wanted to state their opposition to inter-racial marriage. I guess bigoted people never really learn and that is why they are bigots.

As for the original post, I am fine with ads for gay marriages or whatever (though I didn't see that ad). I would be much more offended by ads for McDonald's or Galloway training. So just make sure those don't pop up, okay?

aack wrote:'I like to ask those who argue that homesexuality is a choice when, exactly, they 'decided' to be straight.'

I don't know if it was a 'decision' but I clearly recall the first time my Gr.4 teacher wore a tight shirt with her high beams on - it's been hot pursuit ever since.

my two cents wrote:

Some letsrun visitor sent wejo a fairly thoughtful, articulate e-mail. Rather than respond personally, wejo posted the letter knowing there'd be plenty of smarmy comments telling the guy to f*** off. That's hardly befitting someone who (unfortunately) has a fairly prominent position in the sport.

First of all I wouldn't say the email was too intelligent. I don't think most people equate homosexuality with cocaine addiction.

Secondly most people seem to understand how the google ads work.

Thirdly, I did not post his name on here so he will not get harassed. I did write him back. I pointed out the ads came from google etc but he wasn't too keen on the idea of boycotting google and yahoo.

headlights wrote:

aack wrote:'I like to ask those who argue that homesexuality is a choice when, exactly, they 'decided' to be straight.'

I don't know if it was a 'decision' but I clearly recall the first time my Gr.4 teacher wore a tight shirt with her high beams on - it's been hot pursuit ever since.

Wow, you're lucky. My grade 4 teacher was about 70 years old, wore a wig and dressed in accordance to the dress code of her time, mid 20th Century. All this and I'm still straight! That's got to prove that it is more nature than nurture...

Anyway, the only reason Christianity dislikes homosexuality is because it will reduce their numbers. Reduced numbers mean reduced influence, and so on and so on. The founders of the Church have been competing against homo's for eons. The flock just does as they say. So you can't blame them for their views. You can blame them for not trying harder to be more like Jesus though...

Also, I don't think that there are a lot of right-wing kooks on this message board. I like to think of them as mentally combative individuals (this is a non denominational designation, i.e., applies equally to conservatives and liberals). I believe it to be a common trait amongst runners and is not nearly as bad as right-wing kook...

The downside of mental combativeness is when the person possesses an untrained mind, i.e., Dyestaters, this veggie person, etc. Then, it's just crazy stuff that comes out but should not necessary perjure the person. They just need a little more mental stimulation and time to let it percolate...

what a douchebag.

...alcoholism or cocaine addition! Why homosexuality, which is equally a destructive life choice in our society.

Because homosexuality is out of the closet does not mean it is no longer a sin....

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wow. one less religious zealot to be patrolling the boards.

I like my T.V. loud, my beer cold, and my homosexuals flaaaaaming.

oh, this isn't the Homer Simpson quote thread?

::backs slowly out of thread::

I have friends who are identical twins. Nice guys. One is gay, one is straight. If there is a homosexual gene, wouldn't the both have the same sexual orientation since they have the same DNA?

Also, what about bisexuals?

huh? wrote:

I have friends who are identical twins. Nice guys. One is gay, one is straight. If there is a homosexual gene, wouldn't the both have the same sexual orientation since they have the same DNA?

Also, what about bisexuals?

I've heard these kind of examples referred to as hate speech. I happen to find this very funny, that anyone would find such simple and true observations so offensive.

Genetics are far more complicated than what you learn about in high school genetics. Most traits/diseases are not isolated to a single dominant or recessive gene. It is the interplay between a variety of genes and events during biological development that determine many of our characteristics. As a simple example, the pair of twins you know have the same DNA, but they are not EXACTLY the same in every way. The do not have identical peronalities, preferences, etc. besides their sexual orientations. This is because there are other biological factors that come into play during development.

In fact, the concordance rate of homosexuality between monozygotic twins is a point of evidence that there is a genetic component to sexual orientation.

Are you telling me that God hates gays but he loves rich self-righteous republicans? I think you got it backwards.

God loves the sinner. You gotta be a sinner to be saved. Thats the Gospel. Tammy Fay got it right. James Dobson gets it wrong.

huh? wrote:

Also, what about bisexuals?

There are no bisexual men, just straight guys and gay wannabes. Women may go back and forth, but once guys go over the line, they're not coming back.

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