Gays want acceptance, panel says

Huntsville Times ^ | 01/07/04 | Patricia C. Stumb

[IronJack]

The common thread between them ... was the wish for society's acceptance of all.

Kumbaya campfire idealism. Nobody would want to live in a world that did not discriminate in any way. Including these self-deluded fools.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Gays want acceptance..."

Alcoholics want acceptance.

Child molesters want acceptance.

Rapists want acceptance.

Men who have sex with sheep want acceptance.

Women who have sex with horses want acceptance.

Flashers want acceptance.

Gropers want acceptance.

Bigamists want acceptance.

Gamblers want acceptance.

Adulterers want acceptance.

Does the "want" for acceptance mean that we have to approve of and endorse all of these behavioral choices? What a bunch of BS.

They might try accepting God instead. Their ways will change.

[Billthedrill]

Well, it depends on what you mean by "legitimize." Most of the ones I know don't much care who I sleep with and I don't really care who they sleep with. That's about as far as I go, but I certainly don't feel compelled to start quoting Leviticus or Deuteronomy at them, either. My personal take is that screaming "homos are perverts and they're all going to Hell" is just as juvenile and uselessly inflammatory as "we're here, we're queer, and we're after your kids." It may make the respective parties feel good but it fouls the water for everybody.

[Vigilanteman]

Daniel Gatlin was just a second-grader when he had his first crush.

Yeah, and I was just a second-grader when I got my first crush on a girl and chased her into the restroom. I not only got over it, but didn't grow up to be a rapist either. Pin a gold medal on me!

[Joe Boucher]

It is an idea that cannot be legislated nor forced by f-ing
judicial fiat.
NOt here not ever.

[explodingspleen]

It has always struck me how gays decry that they are victims of their genetics and thus deserving of the same acceptance as everyone else, and yet, there are *no* attempts at treatment.

Does anyone think that if a gene therapy were available to treat homosexuality, that gays would take it?

[Judith Anne]

Such a treatment would be an offense to homosexuals. After all, they're normal. Treatment for normality would imply that something was wrong with them. /sarcasm.

[Aetius]

You're right that the agenda has moved from tolerance to accepatance to approval.

It has also now gone on to demanding 'celebration' of the gay lifestyle. That is one of the things that lies behind the push for gay marriage; the desire to make gay unions as much an afterthought as marriages are. Its absurd of course, but thats where it is at today.

[45Auto]

Well, it depends on what you mean by "legitimize."

I cannot support gay marriage in any form. True, any two adults are free to enter into an economic contractual relationship involving common assets/resources. But I wouldn't want to see gay adoption of children as a result of legitimizing gay unions as marriage. I also am opposed to so called "hate crime" laws that muzzle my ability to verbalize my opposition to what I see as a possible mental disorder. Personally, I don't care what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes as long as two considerations are maintained: 1)don't stick it in my face and 2) don't ask me to pay for the consequences of the actions of others. I have no personal animosity toward gay people. But I don't necessarily have to consort (pun intended) with them.

[Ecliptic]

"Barham said the prejudice and hatred gays often face would be abated if the public could see them as people - nothing more and nothing less."

If they really wanted to be thought of as just "people", then they should not refer to themselves as "gay"....

[Ecliptic]

Homosexuals don't get AIDS from being monogamous..