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Sometimes certain gay people feel they have a pass to act all bitchy because 'they've been persecuted and they just need to vent.' Screw that, a racist is a racist.
I must say this opens up another level of discussion when it comes to discrimination and it would interesting to hear a different perspective from a gay male.
Here is my perspective; I grew up in a Mexican/Indian family as the only white kid. I also grew up in a town in the San Francisco bay area that has both a large hispanic and black population. I never came out as gay in school or in my hometown of Pittsburg California. But the discrimination I received from the black populace was more than I ever got from anyone else for being gay. I was always assumed to be " whitey " and presumed to be racist and against hispanics and blacks. That could not be farther from the truth. Oddly, I do get some bias from the gay population, but for not acting gay enough to pass for gay. Straight and gay people assume I am a straight racist male. I do not care what ones race is, nor their sexuality or their sex. Bottom line is that we are all people and should value others rights as we do our own, for if it is so easy to deny a group their rights, when are yours up for discussion for denial. Think about that for a spell.
There are bad apples in any bunch--gay, straight, white, black or polka-dot. That shouldn't have anything to do with ensuring everyone's rights under the law.
I am so sick of this " Equal Rights" garbage. Every single American has the same right as everyone else.
Marriage is NOT a right.
Marriage is a right. Did you people fail Civics class in high school? The Supreme Court of the United States declared marriage a fundamental civil right. So no matter how much you whine about that not being true, it's on the law books.
- Marriage is not an outright civil right; that is why states have varying prereqs for couples before they can marry
Wrong. Marriage is an outright civil right. That's the law of the land.
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- A civil right is based upon something you are born with and cannot control; race, ethnicity, gender. To this day there is NO conclusive scientific proof that people are born gay, only that they may be born with certain propensities to strong urges including alcoholism, sex-addiction, etc (despite activists attempts to convince us otherwise such as the "gay gene" fraud story several years ago)
Science has conclusively shown sexual orientation is a biological trait. Gay brains are biologically wired differently than straights, as shown through MRI and PET scans. What science has not been able to conclusively show yet, is exactly what biological mechanisms control brain development in relation to sexuality.
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- If gay marriage is legalized on a national basis, large numbers of people will LOSE rights; Christians, Jews and Muslims will lose the right to refuse to service gay weddings, counselors to advise against aspects of the gay lifestyle, and basically anyone to speak their disagreement of it
Christians and Muslims will not be forced to marry gays. And most Jews are already gay accepting. It's already illegal for Counselors to advice gays in that way, it's a violation of the Ethics Code for the American Counselors Association.
Color me not surprised everything in your posts is flat out wrong.
Wrong. Marriage is an outright civil right. That's the law of the land.
Science has conclusively shown sexual orientation is a biological trait. Gay brains are biologically wired differently than straights, as shown through MRI and PET scans. What science has not been able to conclusively show yet, is exactly what biological mechanisms control brain development in relation to sexuality.
Christians and Muslims will not be forced to marry gays. And most Jews are already gay accepting. It's already illegal for Counselors to advice gays in that way, it's a violation of the Ethics Code for the American Counselors Association.
Color me not surprised everything in your posts is flat out wrong.
Jews who follow Judaism are strongly against gay "marriage".
Quit lying....Your a white burly straight 50 year old truck driver
Yeah, who doesn't know that Oak Lawn in Dallas has been as gay as West Hollywood since about 1966.
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