Why Pres. Bush & America Should Recognize Gay Pride Month

[ToBeMe]

🙂🙂........Hey.....I am Having fun!!🙂🙂 What.....you think I take him seriously.......Surely you jest!!!!😉😉🙂🙂 This is about as bothersome as a cloudy day!😉🙂

 

[tm37]

<< the pres should recognize it, by not he is showing the american public that he doesnt accept the homosexual community. its not about being flamboyantly gay for a month, its about educating the public, that DOES NEED TO BE EDUCATED that homosexuality is okay, that it is okay to come out of the closet. its about the public telling people that its okay if they are gay and that they accept them. its about the gay community being proud of being gay instead of being ashamed or afraid. >>



I am against the goverment telling me what is right and moral not their place. Should gays beabl;e to want down the street hand and hand? Yes! DO I care? No! It is called tolerance. Tere is middle ground. WHen people are forced to ACCEPT a group of people they disagree with there is typically a backlash. Soes the public need to be educated on how to perseve gays? No you will never change a hatefilled person. I am all for tolerance, Alllowing others to do as they wish. Allow me to do as I widsh as long as it doesn't effect you!

NATE- Where does your partner work? There are laws against discriminating because of sexual preference and Why does he wish to work for a bigot anyhow?

 

[jamison]

I respect all people, but personally I think being homosexual, is wrong.
Do not flame me for my opinion, I just felt like replying and speaking my mind.

 

[SirFshAlot]

in response to my question of what Gay Pride means;

NateSLC,

<< Did I say gays should be proud simply because they are gay? NO. Did I say that they are proud to be themselves just like everyone else? Yes. Did I say that the reason they feel they need to say it is because society tells them differently? Yes. There is justification for gays to say they are proud. It's stating a disagreement with society. >>



This is what I mean by society telling me different:


OK, (deep breath), maybe it's semantics or something, but I don't follow the use of the term PRIDE here. I'm trying.
I'm 40 years old, and I have heard the term slung around a lot during my lifetime.
Maybe I have been misled when I was taught that pride has to do with an achievement or accomplishment, and another of the 7 deadly sins in any other case.

I wouldn't ever ascribe the term pride to something I am that I didn't have an active part in, such as my race, gender, height, nationality, etc. etc. etc.

Nor would I ever apply pride to a commonality with others. What is there in that that I actually did?

I just don't get how a person would apply pride to being themselves. What is that? People are themselves regardless. I doubt I will ever be a person that was born and raised somewhere else.

Or, disagreeing with society? Is that an act that requires some special effort or talent, that you need to be patted and recognized for going above and beyond?


To me, it's seems more like the racial term of &quot;Brown Pride&quot; that I have seen some hispanics use. It ends up having a undermining discriminatory nature to it.



Doboji,

noone has made any concessions or attempts to understand the other side...

everything I ask is an attempt to understand the other side
nice try

next time just use your own self as the reference point

 

[Doboji]

SirFshAlot

40 years OLD!!!!! Holy crap no wonder you can't understand this issue... you're brain is too ancient to think that intensly without dire consequences... 😉

I'v reached the point where I realize that you all are set in your opinions and that no amount of facts evidence personal accounts scientific proof will change your opinion... I'm frustrated no doubt.. and disappointed in my countrymen... but hey it's a free country...
I'll be casting my vote....

-Max

 

[SirFshAlot]

well, Doboji, let's put your understanding to the task.

Give me a concise definition of Gay Pride.

 

[mrCide]

I'm a little late here and I really don't feel like reading 9 pages of 50 replies..

but, do you people really think that hate crimes are going to go down if they have their own month?

I mean, do you HONESTLY think some hick is going to go &quot;hey homo, you have your own month so I'm not going to hurt you.&quot; Or kids in school &quot;Well since it is your month I will choose not to pick on you.&quot;

If someone is dumb enough to do something then they're going to do it anyway, and a month will make it worse if anything..

my 2c

 

[ToBeMe]

<< I'v reached the point where I realize that you all are set in your opinions and that no amount of facts evidence personal accounts scientific proof will change your opinion... >>



And with that statement you insinuate that without exception you are 100% correct by any standard in your views?????????

Oh my....... DING DING DING I think we now have a winner as to whom is the most conceded, self serving, intolerable, hippocrite posting in this thread!😉

You joked with the guy earlier that his mind was to old to ancient to understand...........Buddy, I think you better sit down and think about something..........maybe, just maybe, you're to damned young to have a good understanding on many of the issues you seem to fancy yourself as 100% proficient in!😉

 

[FiddleDD]

Yes I am the Anandtech Homophob....so I have definite opinions on this subject...

First... I don't think there should be a gay pride month, I don't think there should be black appreciation week...Because I think it is reverse discrimination. If you want to have &quot;White Man Day&quot; or &quot;Woman who likes to have sex with a Mam only Month&quot;...well then ok lets do it. Hey why not while we are at it...have &quot;People who like to do animals Hour&quot;...(I hope my sarcasm is coming across here)

Second...I find it offensive to have to be forced to think about 2 men doing it.

Third...I do believe that some men are born with female tendencies and women with men tendencies...I just don't want to know about their sex lives.

 

[Doboji]

I employed the assistance of Miriam-Webster...
and picked a definition that made the most sense for me...

b : a reasonable or justifiable self-respect

&quot;Gay&quot; is a group of people whom are defined by their sexual preference and who posess a unique lifestyle and culture.

&quot;Pride&quot; means possesing self-respect in oneslef.

In context of Gay Pride month... Gay Pride is the Gay people expressing pride in themselves to the rest of society. And societies acknowledgement of this &quot;holiday&quot; is our way of acknowledging the diversity of people, and acknowledging Gay rights.

clear enough?...

-Max

P.S. You know I was just kidding about the 40 jokes right?....

 

[Doboji]

ToBeMe... ok... I had to think about this before I responded... that should make you feel happy!😀

The same applies to me.. I too am completely set in my ways... and it would take extensive evidence to persuade me that Homosexuality is in any way wrong... and furthermore that Gay Pride month specifically is harmful. And thus I give up.. because you can't change my opinion, and I can't change yours... so I'm gonna move on to try and convince some convinceable people... and am going to cast my vote...

whew thinking at my age😉 is a real challenge

-Max

 

[PCResources]

<< and it would take extensive evidence to persuade me that Homosexuality is in any way wrong... >>



Well, in my mind it is quite easy, if your mom and mom or dad and dad were homos you would not exist...

Patrick

 

[Doboji]

well Pat following that logic... liking skinny women is wrong...

Explanation: If my father hadn't had a thing for not so skinny women... I wouldnt be here either.

-Max