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View Poll Results: Do you feel it is correct to teach children that homosexuality is normal and natural?
Yes 292 50.34%
No 256 44.14%
I am unsure 32 5.52%
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:15 PM
 
Location: In the Redwoods
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You atheists are fighting an impossible uphill battle. 83% of Americans identify as Christians. Only 1.6 million (0.5%) identify as Atheist
I'm not an Atheist nor a Christian, but I guess you think only those two groups exist in the United States? I guess you also believe ALL Christians are anti-gay, and that is simply not true... many of our Christian churches & synagogues around here are gay friendly, many gays are religious themselves, and there are even gay clergy men/women. So this isn't a clearly divided religious vs atheist debate, and I'd appreciate (as a religious follower who supports equality) if you'd stop trying to make it one.

Btw, the last time I checked nationwide polls, around 55-60% of Americans are in support of gay marriage... so if 83% of us identify as Christians, that tells me around half of your fellow Christians would disagree with your position on the issue. One of my dearest friends is a born-again Fundamentalist Christian, and yet she's extremely supportive of her lesbian daughter & voted against Prop 8. Soooooo, what is your point?
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:22 PM
 
Location: In the Redwoods
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Well, if you keep indoctrinating them as young boys you will have their lives in turmoil.
Indoctrinating them with religious fundamentalism, including a complete lack of understanding of what the Bible really says - and a lack of scientific knowledge? Yes, I agree that will send their lives into turmoil.

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HOMOSEXUALS ARE GOING AFTER OUR CHILDREN AMERICA
Gaining access to children has been a long-term goal of the homosexual movement. In 1972, the National Coalition of Gay Organizations adopted a 'Gay Rights Platform" that included the following demand: "Repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent." David Thorstad, a spokesman for the homosexual rights movement and NAMBLA, clearly states the objectives: 'The ultimate goal of the gay liberation movement is the achievement of sexual freedom for all - not just equal rights for 'lesbians and gay men, but also freedom of sexual expression for young people and children." This goal has not changed since it was articulated in 1972.
Where did you find that piece of garbage? I'm not surprised you didn't include a link, since it's probably from a fundie group with no proof to back their ridiculous claims. I don't know a SINGLE homosexual who'd support such a law, and I've lived in the San Francisco area for most of my life... so if it's not a popular idea here, I doubt it's popular among any significant portion of the gay community as a whole. Nice try.
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:26 PM
 
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whats wrong did I upset you? Ignorant would be someone who doesn know the difference in a prostate and a clit. like yourself.
No, you don't 'upset' me. Your posts are just so ignorant they have reached the the point of being hilarious.

You also appear to continually confuse one poster with another. I think the only time I have ever posted anything about the prostate was to correct you when you ignorantly misspelt it as "prostrate" a few months ago in this thread: Nobody is born Gay.
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:30 PM
 
Location: In the Redwoods
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You don't appear to realise that most children will get grossed out by mommy and daddy kissing in a sexual way or anything to do with anything sexual. Try telling your daughter that daddy sticks his penis in mommy's vagina if you really want to gross her out.

It's all about age-appropriate information.
Yes, exactly. I don't think anyone is saying we should give "details" to children, and they don't even discuss general sexuality until a certain age. I remember taking sex ed in 5th grade, and they simply presented the facts - how babies are made, what to call the genitalia and reproductive parts, how puberty works, etc. Including the facts on homosexuality would be similar, and nobody would be told how to perform specific sex acts. At least not in any legitimate school programs! So what's the problem? Are people so insecure in their personal beliefs, they can't even accept science & biology? Oh wait, I already know the answer to that.
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:33 PM
 
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the fact is gays went after young boys . So how does being straight who do the same make it a debate .

Fact is homosexuality is not normal and the agenda is to go after young minds. I am not fooled.
And straights go after young girls (or boys, in the case of female straights). I was molested by a (heterosexual) teacher (of the opposite sex) who's been teaching for 40 years now. I found out from other students I wasn't the only one. We tried to bring it to the school board but they just hushed it all up, a la Penn State.

That doesn't disgust you more than two adult men in love having consensual sex?

ETA: I'm the only lesbian of all the students who were molested by that teacher so don't try that whole "oh that must be why you're gay" reasoning cause the rest of them are straight.

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Old 01-01-2012, 08:38 PM
 
Location: California
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No, you don't 'upset' me. Your posts are just so ignorant they have reached the the point of being hilarious.

You also appear to continually confuse one poster with another. I think the only time I have ever posted anything about the prostate was to correct you when you ignorantly misspelt it as "prostrate" a few months ago in this thread: Nobody is born Gay.
I may be tired but I still know what it is and what it does which you do not, always fall back to spelling when I kick your arse LOL so second grade of you. I must have gotten to you since you went back almost 4 monthes to show me I misspelled a word

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Old 01-01-2012, 08:38 PM
 
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Oh stop with the disgusting stuff. You don't know the meaning when it comes to others who look at homosexuality as disgusting , so if you teach homosexuality as normal , why not go all the way with nambla and stop the pretense.
Because 99% of gay people actually have zero intention of pushing NAMBLA's agenda. That's why.

I'm gay. My girlfriend is gay. A lot of my friends are gay. There are a lot of gay people in my town. I have yet to meet one that supports NAMBLA.
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:39 PM
 
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And straights go after young girls (or boys, in the case of female straights). I was molested by a (heterosexual) teacher (of the opposite sex) who's been teaching for 40 years now. I found out from other students I wasn't the only one. We tried to bring it to the school board but they just hushed it all up, a la Penn State.
As I mentioned above, I had a few incidents myself as a young/teenage girl... once from a 40-something bus driver when I was only 15 (he tried to corner & kiss me when I returned to get something I'd left on his bus), another time when I was waiting for my ride after school (creepy random adult who tried to touch me as I sat in the grass), and a couple of others around the same age. Luckily I was a big & strong young woman, who was able to fend them off before it got serious - but it definitely affected my trust in straight men, although I didn't allow it to make me HATE them in general. Pedophiles exist, unfortunately, but it's hardly a gay phenomenon. If anything, I'd say it's more of a heterosexual male phenomenon, since they seem to be the worst offenders.

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That doesn't disgust you more than two adult men in love having consensual sex?
Sadly, I think it doesn't... and that makes me more concerned for our children than any talk of homosexuality in schools.
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:40 PM
 
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I voted unsure. Its not normal or natural, but its an way of life on an significant minority. Of course many hetrosexuals have an way of life that is very far from being normal or natural. I don't care what consenting adults do in private.
Why do you guys keep using the "not natural" argument? How are you defining natural? Homosexuality exists in the entire animal kingdom. Ergo, it exists in nature and is therefore natural. Far more natural than the majority of things humans do like, type on computers, drive cars, fly in airplanes, eat processed junk food, etc.

Can we stop the stupid "it's not natural" argument? It just makes anything else you all say obvious trash if you can't figure out basic logic.
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Old 01-01-2012, 08:41 PM
 
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Gays go after young boys as well. I have known a few gays who have done this and it is disturbing.

Men 35 and over going after boys who are 13 years old. Sick! Oh, they say they are homosexuals not pedophiles.
Yes dear, I'm sure you know lot's of gay people and they are all pedophiles, have AIDS, and are promiscuous, evil, deviant sinners possessed by Satan.

Is lying a pre-requisite in maintaining the cognitive dissonance of your delusional beliefs?

And once again, you show you know very little about the Bible or the men who wrote it, or the cultures in which it was written. It was customary for older men to 'marry' girls even younger than 13 - as soon as they started menstruating.
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