[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
News flash: homosexuals want to gain acceptance as human beings in our society and are using “tactics” to do so; film at 11. [/quote]
I do accept homosexuals as human beings. I just don’t accept their behaviour and lifestyles.[/quote]
So from this small sample it seems like tactics 1 and 2 are working for them somewhat but they need to work harder on tactic number 3. [/quote]
Not really. The only people I bear hatred towards are evil people such as murderers. And as I’ve said before I don’t believe that gays are any more evil than the rest of the population. What I do believe is that they are suffering from an illness. And I have sympathy for people who are sick.
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Like being born deaf or blind? On some levels, I agree with you. On other levels, I suspect society labeling them as “defective” contributes to the suicide and drug statistics you cited.
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If that were the case we should expect to see a significant decline in those numbers over the last 20 years owing to the increasing acceptance and normalisation of homosexuality in society.
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Causation on things like that are tough to assess. I also think that the significant increase in acceptance and normalization are much more recent, as there still isn’t even one openly gay NFL player. In any event, I haven’t seen any evidence that treating homosexuality as a defect helps improve the suicide rate or drug-use rate either, so what is the point of demonizing it?
As a personal analogy, I’m left handed. Being left handed used to be viewed as a defect and the powers that be tried to “fix” lefties, even in my lifetime, by making us “learn” how to be right handed. Of course I could pretend to be right handed and learn how to do things right handed out of necessity, but on my best day I still threw the ball like a proverbial girl when I was forced to wear a right-handed baseball glove. At some point I got fed up and simply refused to participate in any activities if I couldn’t do it as a lefty and I made a point never to capitulate on this issue for fear that I would underperform on basic tasks for the rest of my life if I didn’t demand to be recognized as a lefty. As far as I was concerned you could shove that snowflake art project and those useless right-handed scissors where the sun don’t shine if I wasn’t allowed to use left handed scissors.
The point being–at the risk of trivializing the issue, and recognizing the analogy isn’t perfect–given my stance on left-handedness and my personal experience, I’m pretty sure if I were gay I’d be militant about it not being considered a defect as well, and I mean in-your-fucking-face militant about it, and I can understand why homosexuals employ “tactics” to gain acceptance and to try and normalize their “illness,” “condition,” or “defect.”
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Left handedness is not immoral, does not harm society or individuals, is not an illness or defect, does not upturn established norms and mores and is not a public health problem. Apples and oranges.