Posted on 01/31/2006 8:23:18 PM PST by presidio9
Many of you have heard conservative traditionalists rant about "The Gay Agenda." But no one really knows what that agenda is. Well, I've discovered a copy, and I will summarize it for you:
8am - Protein shake
9am - Work out at the gym
10am - Rape straight men, give pornography to children, bulldoze all churches and destroy the sanctity of marriage (or what's left of it after Fox's "Married By America.")
Hey, wait a minute...
Some of the most important people in my life are gay men and lesbian women. And I can assure you, being gay does not mean you are sick enough to want to force or coerce someone into having sex with you. Being gay doesn't make you a pedophile or a pervert. (There are plenty of straight rapists and molesters.) Being gay doesn't automatically make you immoral, an atheist or a drug addict. Being gay doesn't mean you're HIV positive, dangerous, promiscuous or any different from any other human person. Being gay is something that a person is, but it is not who a person is, and it has no more effect on the quality of your character than your shoe size.
So why do people fear, hate and persecute homosexuals? Bigots typically give one of two reasons: 1.) The Bible says it's wrong. 2.) They find it "gross."
Now, I like God, and I like Jesus. But I think some of their followers are a few beads short of a rosary. I'm down with the loving thy neighbor and the doing unto others. But I think God and Jesus are about sick to death of people using their names to persecute each other. From the Spanish Inquisition to the KKK, every nutbag with a weapon and a chip on his shoulder has claimed they were acting out God's will.
I understand that the Bible is a cornerstone of Christianity, and it's important to take this artifact seriously. But in addition to the Word of God, it contains the biases of the men who wrote it. Biases regarding vegetarianism, men with long hair and believing the sun revolved around the Earth, just to name a few. A lot of people have read the same document and interpreted it in very different ways. And believing that your way is right just because you say so... that's not faith. That's arrogance.
The Nazis chose a symbol that had once represented peace. That didn't make them a peaceful group of people. Conservatives can use the name of Jesus and the sign of the cross, but it doesn't mean that their hate-mongering has anything to do with being Christians.
And now, the even sillier reason to hate gay people: 'cause you think gay sex is unappealing. You can call it "gross," "disgusting" or just plain "icky," but the fact is, these are also adjectives that have been used to condemn heterosexual intercourse.
Think back to being a child, to the first time someone told you what sex was. If you were anything like me at age five, you thought, "Why would anyone want to do THAT? I'm never going to! Ewwwww!"
Sex is icky. In the abstract, sex is like sticking your finger up someone's nose. It's roughly equivalent to chewing up some Cheetos, spitting into a cup, swapping cups with someone and eating each other's chewed-up orange gunk. The only difference is, there's no biological imperative to stick your finger up someone's nose or eat someone else's chewed-up Cheetos.
Take a look around. Is there a gay man on your street corner, asking you, "Hey... wanna turn gay? All the cool kids are doing it!"
Now, listen up straight men - it's time to get over yourselves. You are not so devastatingly attractive that setting foot in the Bistro is going to get you gang-raped. If a gay guy flirts with you, the rational thing to do is be flattered and politely decline. Realize that a gay man probably finds you attractive for the same qualities that draw the attention of straight females. So act the way you would if a girl hit on you, but you weren't attracted to her. You don't see women going postal every time a guy winks at us, and we're way more likelier to be raped than you are.
The only reason you could have to be afraid of a gay man kissing, touching, or talking to you is if you're afraid you might like it. And whether it's now, or in thirty years when you murder your neighbor like the military dad in "American Beauty," you will have to deal with your sexual confusion eventually.
So what do "the gays" want? Like most people, gay and lesbian people want to be treated like human beings and citizens of this country. They want the things we all want: Families. Careers. Safety. Love.
And if you think you're qualified to tell them they don't deserve these things... then I think there's a deity out there who's awfully disappointed in you.
Now THERE'S a message that I wish the media and liberals would get!
Is there any state you haven't lived in ? It seems like you've been everywhere ! ;-)
I'll add that it is liberals of the 60s generation that indoctrinate the youth of today.
I'll also add that as "progressive" as the US is, Europe is even worse in their attitudes. Expect more outside pressure to influence us (and continued efforts by judges to let foreign law influence their decisions).
"Fake but accurate" - Dam Rather.
For a long time the homosexual agenda sought to end same sex sodomy laws. We were told that "what went on between consenting adults in their bedroom was of no matter to everyone else".
Yet adult incest, prostitution, and growing/smoking pot for recreational purposes are still illegal. AND minors are offered the same "rights" to engage in same sex sodomy so that ends the "consenting ADULTS" BS.
As SOON as homosexuality was legalized (by an activist ruling of the court), the homosexual agenda sought to legalize (and nationalize) same sex marriage.
No. There is no agenda. Brabra Streisand there isn't.
They also conviently knocked down the age of consent for same sex sodomy (including pairings for adult/minor, not every state has an 18 year old age of consent). It may now "fall in line" with heterosexual sex but the truth of the matter is that it DID lower the age at which an adult can legally corrupt a minor (and resulted in several pending cases being thrown out against molesters).
They probably admit that their sin is in fact sin, unlike the gay and lesbian crowd that finds their sin a point of pride rather than shame.
Horrible mental image, instead of a buger on your finger, you get blank on your blank....and they wonder why we think, well no, how we KNOW they are mentally disordered
Our American culture. Every sitcom that has an obligatory gay character. Movies like Brokeback Mountain, The Crying Game, Torch Song Trilogy, etc., a Media that mentions the gay-bashing of Matthew Sheppard ad infinitum but will rarely ever report the story of the woman in Chicago who was murdered by a gay man or the fourteen year old boy who was raped by two gay men. The fact that political terms like homophobia can hide behind a scientific, rationalist veneer of psychology and enters the national vocabulary, and a political debate that has spent decades attacking religion in general and Christianity in particular and finds itself on purely secular grounds trying to explain why homosexuality is or is not acceptable. If we have a purely secular government, then the gays win this one. And really why not? I will personally thank every oxymoronic secular "conservative" in the country when it happens.
Being gay doesn't make you a pedophile or a pervert.
Point 1.
From webster's dictionary:
Pervert - One who practices sexual perversion.
Perversion - A sexual practice or act considered deviant
Since 'gay' sex is always deviant (biology cannot be denied) then anyone who practices 'gay' sex is by definition a pervert.
Point 2.
According to the "Gay Report" over 73% of male 'homosexuals' admit to having sexual relations with boys under the age of 18. So by their own admission 73% of male 'homosexuals' are child molestors. So while we can't say that every person who practices homosexual behavior is a pedophile, that's the safe way to bet.
(Note that in this instance I am including pederasty in the broader definition of pedofile as "one who commits sex with a child")
Obviously the author has no concept of what words mean.
Sooner or later, the old folks are right, too.
Yep. (Minivan really but the sentiment is the same. My space, my time, leave me alone)
3:15pm Snear at beggar with squeegee at intersection.
Normally I just make fun of the "will work for food" types. The squeegee guy is at least trying to earn some money.
do you have a source for this? This would be great ammo in most discussions if it could be backed up.
In agreement until here. Neglecting to offer lifesaving aid to someone suffering from a curable disease is just cruel. They may be trapped in the practice of perversion now but every 'gay' can live a normal mentally healthy life if they choose to. Tens of thousands have been healed already
How does this author know what God is "sick of?" Did God appear to him in a dream and reveal a new commandment called tolerance?
Did an angel appear to him to announce God's disgust with people who declare that homosexual conduct is immoral and contrary to God's commands?
Work on the heart - the outer life will change thereafter.
The author is obviously a teenage girl.
Wow, that was creative :)
They can't sum up the "mystery of iniquity" in a little article. Every sodomite is different.
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