Who I am? :) I will tell you:

I am over 50 yrs old.

I became a Rep, basically, out of disgust for Carter. I started out liking him, and worse yet, disliking Reagan... and somehow during Carter's presidency I began to change. Social issues have always been important to me. Although I am not a 'religious' person per se, I always respected the CC (Catholic church) from afar. I always saw myself as not virtuous enough to be an active member... but I was hoping that someday... perhaps at the end of my life, I would be good enough to "come back home." But when I was almost ready to do it, I find that the CC had become a cadre of perverts themselves... yes, of course, not everyone... BUT many looked the other way and let it happened. And for that alone, I will not forgive them easily. Just like a simple confession, one must REPENT sincerely from the heart, with the deepest conviction that you will not commit the sin again.... at least that is the intent.... you must come clean, so to speak, before you even ask for forgiveness. That is what I want to see from the CC, or a version of it before we "just go on" with business as usual.

I don't come here to argue or to convince anyone whose views are very different from mine. One thing I have learned through the years, is that by a certain age, it's almost impossible to change people's views. Views that have been formed/molded through many years and experiences, all valid, for that particular individual. The main reason I participate in FR, is to reinforce the views of many people out there who might think like me, but would never dare to actively participate here, but they should know they are not alone. They should see all points of view within the non-liberal thinking (to cover everyone) this forum is about. Let me give you an example, in retrospect, I see that it was a blessing that Bush the father lost. I never liked him much... but those were different days. Today, I feel, through forums like this, we can say something that actually may make a difference. We have a voice.

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(this is a work in progress below this line.)

On Homosexual Agenda My MAIN desagreement with the homosexual life style, regardless of my personal feelings... is not even "what they do in their privacy" Privacy being the KEY word here, then we would all be a happy family! :) But it is the fact that homos do NOT WANT PRIVACY in the least!... If anything they want to make their lifestyle very public, in our face so to speak... And even worse, the unforgivable, to keep PROMOTING/PUSING/FORCING? their life style to attract our young people (You heard all the stories: In the public schools.. Penalizing the Boys Scouts for not accepting homos as "leaders" mind you!; The scandals in the Catholic Church etc, etc).

It's not a secret what homosexuals want to do now - homosexuals feel they should have the same rights as a man a woman in marriage. (i.e. Marriage ceremony, children, same guarantees and benefits and so on and so forth, we know that, right?

The problem is that we on the opposite side of the argument do not agree with the homsexuals on that AT ALL. Homosexuals do NOT have (or should not have and will NEVER have if we can help it) the same rights as a hetereosexual couple, (for all the reasons we all know by now). So, That is essentially what all these, apparently "disconnected" screameges, like the one with Wal-Mart now (Nov/2006) are all about. What Wal-Mart was doing (they just changed their policy) was attacking the very essence of the entire argument/fight: "treating homosexuals like non-homosexuals" is not acceptable to our side... Because to equate homosexuals with hetereosexual couples, it is in fact an attempt TO PROMOTE Homosexuals and therfore their behabior,(by giving the FALSE impression they are the same thing and therefore deserve the exact same treatment).

Besides if we wanted to be nice and let this one go, we know, homosexuals would NOT STOP there!... see? we know where homos are going with all this littel fights... and NOW THAT WE KNOW... we will fight them every step of the way. Every attempt on anyone in any area (business, goverment, religion, etc), to equate homos with non-homos, it is in fact an attempt TO PROMOTE Homosexuals or Homosexual behabior essentially. And since battles like this one are won inch-by-inch, we have to fight them inch-by-inch. So it's really that simple!