[A_perfect_lady]

I did not say it was normal.

I did not say you were hateful.

All I call for is for conservatives not to deliberately alienate gays who might be persuaded at least to help defend our country.

[Jeff Head]

...and I am not syaing that you said those things. I am simply making the point while remaining firmly fixed to the principles I have espoused to you.

Folks participating in this life style need help, not "normalization" into society...making that statement alone will alienate many of them because they are so fixed on and wrapped up in a self destructive life style that their hearts and minds are not open to it.

My point is simply that remaining fixed and firm in those convictions, in my experience, will alienate many of them without any need or desire to resort to hateful behavior in the least.

Such a set of cirumstance should not deter us from continuing in our determination to address the issue for the problem that it is.

Open gays, for example, should not serve in the military. It is hurtful and in fact dangerous to troop moral and group cohesion, just as fratenizing with the opposite sex would be and is disallowed. You cannot have the captan or the sergeant "in love" with the 2nd Lt. or Corproal or enlisted man and therefore making decisions based on that emotion as opposed to the accomplishment of the mission. In the end, that does not serve to defend our country...it just makes it more vulnerable.

Anyhow, that is just one example and not meant to be an attack on you or your statements, just a response to one aspect ofthem.

[whatisthetruth]

In all due respect you sound like a nice lady but you also sound like an 'enabler' and an 'appeaser' to the homo lifestyle. Are you pro-gay? Do you approve of same-sex marriage? Civil unions? Homo-education in the schools?

Would you suggest that the Republican Party say homosexuality is now a God-given right same as Democrats? Just how far would you go to 'win over' the fag vote?