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but the original question is not weather is important or not. People only care for what affects them directly and many people are not affected by homosexuality
That explains why so many turned up to preserve "traditional" marriages, and why it took the Obama administration almost two years to give gay service members the same rights as straight service members. Sorry, my apologies....
This article says it is, and I would agree with it. There is no other issue that causes so much hate and vitriol to be thrown at the opposing viewpoint. There is no other issue where compromise is simply impossible (its all or nothing on both sides of the issue). We have reached a point where liberal or conservative is defined by pro-gay or anti-gay. Both the left and the right use this issue as a litmus test in choosing which candidates to support. To add to the divisiveness, I can't think of a social issue where more emotion is involved on both sides than this issue (bring up the issue in any social setting and people's emotions will run high quick no matter what side they are on.)
There have been two major social issues in the history of our nation that have polarized our country to the extreme and threatened to split this nation apart. The first was slavery and the second was the 1960s civil rights movement. Does anybody think gay rights could end up being the third? Are we as polarized now as we were in the late 1960s and 1970s?
Ridiculous.......in case you haven't heard, the senate and house just voted to allow homo's to serve openly in the military. The only people that think this is an issue of any importance, are the likes of rachel maddow and his audience, the rest of us wish they would just shut up about it and focus on things like jobs ,national security and spending cuts.
This article says it is, and I would agree with it. There is no other issue that causes so much hate and vitriol to be thrown at the opposing viewpoint. There is no other issue where compromise is simply impossible (its all or nothing on both sides of the issue). We have reached a point where liberal or conservative is defined by pro-gay or anti-gay. Both the left and the right use this issue as a litmus test in choosing which candidates to support. To add to the divisiveness, I can't think of a social issue where more emotion is involved on both sides than this issue (bring up the issue in any social setting and people's emotions will run high quick no matter what side they are on.)
There have been two major social issues in the history of our nation that have polarized our country to the extreme and threatened to split this nation apart. The first was slavery and the second was the 1960s civil rights movement. Does anybody think gay rights could end up being the third? Are we as polarized now as we were in the late 1960s and 1970s?
I think the bigger issue is abortion. That's a bigger litmus test than gay "rights".
Maybe its just me, but I dont see how a survey which shows sex results with OPPOSITE sex partners, has to do with the topic of gays..
The original question asked by a poster was whether aversion to homosexuality was based on aversion to certain sex acts, even if those same sex acts were done with someone of the opposite sex.
Isn't Equality and Justice the core of every political position?
I know most people like to think so, but that's where most disagreements come from. People, simply because all are individuals, disagree as to what equality and justice really mean. Example: I think equality means my gay and lesbian friends should be allowed to marry their partners; my friend thinks it doesn't mean that at all.
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