Gaaak.
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.
Trust me, you don't want to visit my "out" box. It is strictly an exit, not an entrance.
Well, I have to tell you. Two pretty girls making out with eachother appealing to boys. Two boys is appealing to no one. I bet it's all girls, and the girls are doing it for attention.
"If a gay guy flirts with you, the rational thing to do is be flattered and politely decline."
Sorry. Wrong. Only once did someone make a solicitation comment at me one time near a beach, and just said sternly while continuing to walk "you're sick, get some help." And for good measure, I mentioned the person to a police car that was at the nearby gas station and suggested he be aware of this person in case he intended to bother any teenagers or children in the future.
Yep, I've known gay men, too. They weren't bad folks, for the most part. All of them, however, were wildly promiscious in a fashion that is hard to exaggerate. My landlord, who was gay, had about 100 lovers in the six months I lived at his house. Like I say, a nice guy. Solid citizen, honest, kept a clean home, spotless yard. This article paints a portrait that is simply not the reality as I have witnessed it. I've never known a gay man to tell me that he's sought a family, either. My sense of it at the time was that being gay was like the male sexual fantasy - all sex, all the time, without strings attached, just one long orgasm. I have a feeling that a lot of men, whether they admit it or not, fantasize about women in that way, which might explain the popularity of porn. The difference is that gay men, because of the biology of the act, get to indulge the fantasy without any of the things that women would bring to the picture, like pregnancy.
Most of the lesbians I've known, however, have had longterm relationships, in serial fashion - usually with lovers lasting from one to five years. I've always been intrigued by that observation, too. Maybe there is something deep in our core consciousness that tends men toward promiscuity and women toward monogamy.
Either way, this article is propoganda. There is no equivalence between the gay and heterosexual lifestyle. Interestingly, in the distant past, when I was young and the gay rights movement was also young, I remember activists calling explictly for cultivating relationships with the young as part of the expression of gayness. Don't hear it anymore. It was spoken, though, and it was heard by those of us there.
Actually, I posted it.
But thanks for the "scoop."
Well, there IS one consequence that they have to deal with. But since they have managed to inflict heterosexuals with it, it's no longer solely they concern.
Yep, ya sure did....
My name is Kellie Margaret Powell, I was born on Halloween in 1983. I'm 22, and a senior at Illinois State University, majoring in Theatre, and minoring in English.
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I stole a pen from the Tinley Park Public Library (I needed it more than them!),
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I became a copy editor at the Daily Vidette in the fall of 2004. Fortunately, I had worked as a stage manager, so I was used to only being noticed when something went wrong.
Last night my mom and I celebrated Christmas Eve by drinking Southern Comfort cocktails and watching a 70's hippie propaganda film called Billy Jack. This after the Wright family Christmas Eve Buffet Dinner (I brought a cheese ball, my father brought his girlfriend and her daughter), and my father gave me cash, a present I'll be returning, an "Animal Friends" calendar, and a cutting board.
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Gaaak.
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My name is Kellie Margaret Powell, I was born on Halloween in 1983. I'm 21, and a junior at Illinois State University, majoring in Theatre, and minoring in English. I spent my sophomore year of college with National Student Exchange program at State University of New York at Binghamton (also known as Binghamton University). This year, I work as a Copy Editor at ISU's newspaper, The Daily Vidette.
I'm over-committed, but I'm coping. When I get free time, I like to play Xbox (particularly Morrowind) and The Sims (it gives me a sense of control in a world of chaos). I also read a lot and enjoy renting dvds from The Movie Fan. I used to spend unhealthy amounts of time on the web. But now I'm too poor to afford an Internet connection.
Theatre is the reason I wake up in the morning, which is why on nearly every page you will find a link to my production company, These Aren't My Shoes Productions. Someday I hope to launch my company in Chicago. I will direct and write plays until I eventually have an aneurysm and die.
Of course, everyone has been telling me how I'm going to end up in the gutter, poor and starving, for so long that I've accepted this as fact.
The only people who believe I'll make something of myself are:
1.) My mother
2.) Justin Irvin
3.) Kathy Briggs
4.) Jason Vales
5.) Mandy Finfrock
6.) Justin Irvin's mother
7.) Emily Riehl
8.) Erin Guimon
So... when you see me homeless on the streets of Chicago, you can look away in panic and cross the street to avoid my desperate pleas for spare change. Or, you can point and laugh and say, "I told you so."
They're either stupid or lying.
Muleteam1
Sex is icky
No, sticking your pecker into an anus is icky. Sex (normal) is incredible.
These degenerates are sexual freaks. I won't even call them people.
Male - Female sex is fundamental to normal mammalian brains, as well as most of the other phylums. It goes all the way back to the reptilian.
None of us would be here without a Male - Female sex relationship.
Maybe that's why it never fails to piss off a homo or lesbo when you ask the simple question "Did you have a mother and father?". Try it some time.
That's also might be why cloning scares conservatives like me.
If you're so bleeped up that you can't figure out what the opposite sex is, then your brain is seriously damaged, which helps explain why they're so annoying.
I've had to work with homo's through most of my life and these are seriously bleeped up beings.
Major wiring defects lead to short circuits.
The Homosexual Agenda is the battering ram for the whole Sex Positive Agenda. They want everyone sexually active at every age with no moral judgements made, regardless of age, sex, number, relation, marital status, or species of partner. For real.
Google the term.
They can deny it exists but the liberal intellectuals have been waging their little campaign for decades.
They oppose abstinence, not because "it doesn't work" but because they consider it unnatural; it is a supression of "desires" (same phrasing behind the "if it feels good do it" push for homosexuality).
I would like to point out that in that movie, everyone was portraited as weird-screwed-up-abnormal except (drum roll please) the two gay guys. FWIW
The passages she is referring to in the Bible are in the Old Testament. That is the Jewish part of the Bible too. Why'd she single out Christians? Muslims, who rewrote much of the Bible and added some things that happened later, also oppose homosexuality. Why didn't she mention them?
Oh, she's just another liberal bigot. Figures.
The following was written by Michael Swift, a self-confessed "Gay Revolutionary," and appeared in the Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987.
...If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.
We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads....
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