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NBA Player 'Comes Out' -- but Tolerance Cuts Both Ways
Townhall.com ^ | May 2, 2013 | Larry Elder

Posted on 05/02/2013 4:25:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: dennisw

As am I. And I am really sick of so called conservatives finding all the extra special reasons it can be fit into pur supposed worldview.

Last night, two more libs got the zot defending homosexual adoption by conservatives.

Remember CPAC? GOProud? Remember how people said NO! ? Some here seem to think that never happened. They seem to have a problem that conservative thought (traditional not current) rejects homosexuality entirely. And always has.

But of course, the liberal moles and psuedocons on FR and across the political right just have to keep chipping away to make it acceptable in some narrowly defined circumstance. That should disgust us all.


21 posted on 05/02/2013 5:24:22 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kaslin

This is being called a “Jackie Robinson” moment.
Bull$hit.
No one has prevented gays from playing major league sports. No one has set up separate fountains for gays.

Blacks got a raw deal in this country. Gays enjoy all the privileges they could ever dream of.

Apologize to blacks.


22 posted on 05/02/2013 5:24:57 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Words mean things. Have the guts to admit it.

Norm Norm Norm...yes, words mean things...which means, ALL THE WORDS mean something. You intentionally removed half of Gen Blathers words on this particular point so as to make you snotty little point. You are the one who didn't have the guts to take on his entire thought. Now if you do, I'd like to see it, but he was making a potentially valid point about the difference between two very different communities within the non hetero population.

23 posted on 05/02/2013 5:26:07 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Kaslin

It is interesting that we are told that homosexuality is in the genes, that it is not environmental or learned or a choice. But this guy has an identical twin and identical twins have identical DNA.

Guess what? The twin is not homosexual and was as stunned as the nine-year girlfriend by the gayness declaration.


24 posted on 05/02/2013 5:27:25 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Still waiting CW. Where is the tracts and speeches of Conservatives accepting homosexuality as conservative? Find them and present them here. Don’t bother trying to divert your failure. This is the issue.


25 posted on 05/02/2013 5:28:44 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kaslin
Even the readily corrupted Gallup survey (they simply asked folks if they were gay on every survey they took for 4 months in 2012) they didn't get up to 10%, or even 5%, nor 4% ~ but according to this chart

>http://sas-origin.onstreammedia.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/lmtirbhdle6ij8dwdewgig.gif

they only make it up to 3.4%.

There is a flaw in this methodology. PEW Research was able to identify it when they discovered that 91% of all persons who are polled don't ever end up giving an answer ~ which means the average poll has only a 9% response rate. Start with the PJ Media story ~ >http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/09/30/we-are-the-91-only-9-of-americans-cooperate-with-pollsters/

You might ask what that has to do with anything ~ other than the need to make polls bigger ~ and you would be right to do so. Turns out that as we approach '0', '0' being a situation where NOBODY ANSWERS A POLLSTER, a smaller and smaller portion of all those polled is providing ALL the answers!

If that very small portion is aware that there's a question of peculiar interest to them, and they answer 100% of the time any one of their members is polled they can easily distort the actual response levels!

Think about it if 100% of the sample population responds at a 9% level, and X% of the sample population responds at a 100% level..................

We can examine the issue this way. Assume that 10% are homosexual. Say that we sample 100 homosexuals, and 900 straight folks (they'd all be chosen perfectly randomly BTW). That's 1000 in the sample population. Out of that we get 100 answers from homosexuals and 90 answers from straight folks!

WOW! The homosexual response is then 52% of the total response ~ or roughly 5X the percentage we'd imagine with their being but 10% of the population.

Now that I've addressed your concerns about gay marriage and JCPenney marketing poll results, let's go a bit further.

Assume there are 1% of the population who are homosexual. We sample 1000 people, 10 of them homosexual and 990 straight. The 10 homosexuals answer 100% of the time, and the 990 straight people answer 9% of the time. The result is that homosexuals account for 11% of the total response ~ that is 11 TIMES their assumed representation in the population.

Let's say the gays are just .3% of the population. We ask 1000 people to answer questions. 3 gays answer. 90 straights answer. The result will be that gays are once again 3% of the answer.

That, BTW, is 10 TIMES their assumed representation in the population.

That tells you where the polls came from that favored Romney. A miniscule number of gays, answering 100% of the time to every possible poll, made themselves look like they were 3%. That was enough to tip every poll, including Gallup's own poll about how many people are gay, to the gay point of view!

This year you will go to the store and buy products that fit the gay point of view on acceptable color and fit! You will near 'newsies' tell you that gay marriage is good, gay sex is good, gay shampoo is good, and whatever it is they are eating this year, is good.

26 posted on 05/02/2013 5:32:51 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Kaslin

If I might quote The Hildabeaste:

What difference, at this point, does it make?

In other words, who cares?


27 posted on 05/02/2013 5:34:35 AM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

You miss the point, I am not trying to defend Gen Blathers argument per se, I am only pointing out that you are taking his argument out of context in a gutless manner. I would like you to take on his entire argument. I tend to reject any notion of single issues being a total definition of anyone.

A homosexual who stays in the closet and believes in limited government regulation and taxation is less of a threat to me than either a gay activist liberal OR a big government social conservative frankly. It’s a worthwhile discussion, but you only want to take on half the issue. Your anger and self righteousness, compared with your shallowness, is rather off putting.


28 posted on 05/02/2013 5:36:45 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: csmusaret

God I miss Bill Buckley.


29 posted on 05/02/2013 5:40:19 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Is the identical twin mortified by his brother’s depravity


30 posted on 05/02/2013 5:42:36 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

My statement quoted his which was clear and unambiguous. That is the definition of being in context.

As you refuse to cite evidence that homosexuality is a part of conservative philosophy, I must conclude that you were simply grandstanding in support of pushing it on conservatives. That puts you in the liberal wing of the conservative movement.

Now again. either put up or shut up. When you show how a response to a direct quote, in context is out of context, ping me. When you show how homosexual acceptance is a conservative pillar, ping me.

Until that time, feel free to posture all you like. Because anyone with the ability to read can see that you cannot back up squat.


31 posted on 05/02/2013 5:43:02 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: yldstrk

Me too. His Gore Vidal interview was informative regarding conservatism and homosexuality.


32 posted on 05/02/2013 5:46:05 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Sounds like he has more than the usual number of problems!


33 posted on 05/02/2013 5:46:42 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Wait till the twin/genetics thing has time to make the rounds and sink in to peoples heads. That destroys one of their main arguments and though they will spin, it opened the door to discuss all this scientifically.


34 posted on 05/02/2013 5:49:21 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart
My statement quoted his which was ambiguous. That is the definition of being a con

So, you support ambiguity and conning people? Way to go Norm. In your own words, I have destroyed you. (no, you won't be smart enough to understand what I just did to you, but maybe someone can help you out).

35 posted on 05/02/2013 5:50:16 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

You freaking liar.

“My statement quoted his which was clear and unambiguous. That is the definition of being in context.”

Thats a cut and paste. Notice the un is not missing?

There it is folks. Read it for yourselves. C, There went your credibility.


36 posted on 05/02/2013 5:53:28 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: laweeks
See my post at #26. They may be as little as .3% for all anyone can determine, but certainly not more than 1.0%.

Unless a pollster makes some effort to filter gays out of the responses their opinion can be amplified up to 11Times their actual representation in the population.

37 posted on 05/02/2013 5:56:36 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
It is interesting that we are told that homosexuality is in the genes, that it is not environmental or learned or a choice. But this guy has an identical twin and identical twins have identical DNA.

Guess what? The twin is not homosexual and was as stunned as the nine-year girlfriend by the gayness declaration.

That is why homos have to recruit new homos. Schools are promoting the homo agenda as normal.


Communist Goals (1963)

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

38 posted on 05/02/2013 5:57:43 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: muawiyah

Remember too that homosexuals have long been working their way into political, media and other areas where information is distributed/legislated. There are a number of ways they amplify their numbers/influence and strangely enough they all crossrefrence. A perfect circle of propaganda.

It’s the global warming consensus model.


39 posted on 05/02/2013 6:00:14 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

When I was in college the leftists and SDS people didn’t like gays and made the same homo jokes that all guys did. This sure has changed.

Today Everyone can’t cave into the gay agenda fast enough...obviously many Republicans too


40 posted on 05/02/2013 6:01:15 AM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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