Being gay is a choice comments causes backlash

[Texashiker]

You still aren't answering the point I've made.

You are opening the community up to the possibility of abuse.

 

[soulcougher73]

I dont care if its a choice or people are born that way. Makes no difference to me how they live their lives. Who cares. Live and let live for fucks sake.

 

[Ninjahedge]

Did someone teach you to get a boner when you see an attractive naked woman?

Must resist mom joke...
Must resist mom joke...
Must resist mom joke...



But on OT... Yeah, there is a sliding scale here. Attraction is universal. That Seinfeld episode where George finds he is platonically attracted to that one guy and is shocked at the revelation.....

But aside from that asexual attraction, there is an underlying reproductive one that can get a little... adjusted by nature/heredity/etc. Generally speaking, it is not just a simple light switch, but many little switches that are influenced by many things in a persons psyche. So some people just do not have enough of those switches flipped to jump in the bed mano e mano over societies misgivings. Some do, and some go both ways.

As shown by this womans lambasting, the Bi's have it the worst. She will be criticized by both "sides" as.. well, not choosing a side. To each group, there is a substantial portion that consider her either amoral or a freak (or both).

It is a shame we have all this crap.

 

[cybrsage]

You basically ignored the thrust...

I wondered how long until the thread would devolve into sex jokes.

 

[boochi]

Homosexuality is a disease best cured with a bullet.


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[dank69]

Homosexuality is a disease best cured with a bullet.

That comment should go over well here.

 

[Howard]

What you are attracted to is not a choice

I don't wish that everybody believed this, but I do wish that straight people would not undertake to convince themselves that this was not the case.

 

[CitizenKain]

Homosexuality is a disease best cured with a bullet.

Hate speech on P&N everyone. Wonder how well the report feature works here.

 

[cybrsage]

A person can be against the act of homosexuality while not being against someone having homosexual desires that are not acted upon. It is fine to be against homosexual acts, that is not bigotry, etc, but being anti-homosexual desire (which means you are against that person directly) is wrong and is bigotry.

Actions are easy to control, desires not so much.

 

[TheVrolok]

Homosexuality is a disease best cured with a bullet.

Reported this POS.

 

[boochi]

Did I offend you with my opinion?

 

[micrometers]

Sexuality is a weird thing indeed. While I certainly don't condone any persecution, I do wonder how much of homosexuality really is just a "phase" that people go through during their adolescent years, and that the social environment has a way of cementing whatever choices they might make in those years.

Frankly, gay activists annoy the hell out of me. Especially in how they persecuted Ravi Dharun in the Tyler Clementi case. I mean, putting his face on the new york times and calling him a murderer? That was insane.

 

[MotF Bane]

Did I offend you with my opinion?

No. You offend with your bigotry. I suppose you think Henderson and McKinney are heroes. :thumbsdown:

 

[gevorg]

its not a choice even in prisons... at least not your choice

 

[boochi]

No. You offend with your bigotry. I suppose you think Henderson and McKinney are heroes. :thumbsdown:

My opinion is that homosexuality is a sickness, a mental disorder if you will and is being promoted in today's society, all I need point to is a Pepsi commercial last night. Homosexuality is akin to pedophilia or necrophilia, it is a sickness.
I don't condone violence against another but, if a homosexual wants a cure and psychotherapy doesn't work.... maybe the taste of cold steel will do the trick.


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[Throckmorton]

My opinion is that homosexuality is a sickness, a mental disorder if you will and is being promoted in today's society, all I need point to is a Pepsi commercial last night. Homosexuality is akin to pedophilia or necrophilia, it is a sickness.
I don't condone violence against another but, if a homosexual wants a cure and psychotherapy doesn't work.... maybe the taste of cold steel will do the trick.

Assuming you're not trolling... Why do you want to kill gays? Why not just let them be? How are they harming you?

 

[TheVrolok]

My opinion is that homosexuality is a sickness, a mental disorder if you will and is being promoted in today's society, all I need point to is a Pepsi commercial last night. Homosexuality is akin to pedophilia or necrophilia, it is a sickness.
I don't condone violence against another but, if a homosexual wants a cure and psychotherapy doesn't work.... maybe the taste of cold steel will do the trick.

I imagine you're just trolling, but if not, I honestly feel deeply sorry for you.

 

[Darwin333]

Everything in life is a choice.

Did you choose to be female or male?

 

[Infohawk]

This was a bad move by this guy. Not only is he acting unfairly given the number of caveats given by the actor, but he's really just fueling the anti-gay rights people out there.

In many cases it seems like a woman may have had bad experiences with abusive men in relationships and then chooses to be with women, though the choice is as much or more a relationship choice than a sexual one.

I can see that. (I also seems that there are a fair amount of "bisexual" young women out there who think it's cool to say they're bisexual when they rarely have relationships or sex with women.)

In any case, I think the country is to the point where it doesn't even matter if being gay is a choice. While I do believe it's not a choice for most gays, who cares if it were at this point? The world has bigger problems than men screwing other men, regardless of what their reason is. I care more about people figuratively screwing their fellow man over.

 

[Throckmorton]

Actually men screwing other men is itself a problem, because it's such a high risk activity for HIV. 1/5 of gay men in America is HIV+ now, even though we keep hearing about the epidemic in the past tense. The thing is there's nothing inherently gay about anal sex, much less unprotected anal sex. It has no basis in human biology, unlike vaginal sex.

HIV actually does affect people other than the already infected and people who have high risk sex. You can have HIV for 6 months without testing positive. Half of those 1/5 of gay men don't know they're infected. And gay men, along with other high risk people, do give blood even though they are banned, which means there is HIV in the donated blood supply.

 

[DominionSeraph]

I think you are missing the point of the OP.

Gay rights groups want everyone else to show tolerance.

But when it comes time for gay rights groups to show tolerance, they refuse to do so.

You missed the point of this entire thing, which actually goes to the point. Gays are fighting against the completely unreasoned biases of people like you in order to gain their basic civil right, and as one can't fight a blind hardened bias with reason they're stuck with using more "PR" methods to change the cultural consciousness, like not confusing stupid Christians with the full complexity of the issue and just pushing the 99%-applicable, "Sexuality is not a choice."
When millions are fighting for their rights, to undermine that entire effort just to get your little personal blurb out there shows complete self-centerdness. Her story is nothing -- just one tiny aspect of sexuality -- but Fundies will grab onto it and parade it around as "The Truth of the Whole Issue" just because it conforms to their beliefs of convenience.

If Fundies could be reasoned with there wouldn't be an issue with this at all -- the entire spectrum could be put out there without anyone being stupid about it -- but Fundies are stupid so measures must be put in place to limit their stupidity.

 

[Infohawk]

Actually men screwing other men is itself a problem, because it's such a high risk activity for HIV. 1/5 of gay men in America is HIV+ now, even though we keep hearing about the epidemic in the past tense. The thing is there's nothing inherently gay about anal sex, much less unprotected anal sex. It has no basis in human biology, unlike vaginal sex.

HIV actually does affect people other than the already infected and people who have high risk sex. You can have HIV for 6 months without testing positive. Half of those 1/5 of gay men don't know they're infected. And gay men, along with other high risk people, do give blood even though they are banned, which means there is HIV in the donated blood supply.

Do you have a point relevant to this thread? It sounds like you're just trying to spew out all the facts you know about HIV...

 

[Howard]

My opinion is that homosexuality is a sickness, a mental disorder if you will and is being promoted in today's society, all I need point to is a Pepsi commercial last night. Homosexuality is akin to pedophilia or necrophilia, it is a sickness.
I don't condone violence against another but, if a homosexual wants a cure and psychotherapy doesn't work.... maybe the taste of cold steel will do the trick.

lulz

 

[Throckmorton]

Do you have a point relevant to this thread? It sounds like you're just trying to spew out all the facts you know about HIV...

You said that men screwing other men isn't a problem, but it is a problem.

 

[Infohawk]

You said that men screwing other men isn't a problem, but it is a problem.

Are you being serious? I was saying that being gay doesn't really affect other people and that therefore, even if it's a choice, it shouldn't be illegal. What is your point? That it should be illegal? Otherwise, I don't see how your post is relevant to mine.