That "Testing Makes Us Stronger" billboard on Gwynns Falls (Baltimore: school, most dangerous)

[LouisDS]

Homosexuality may not be 100% biologically normal but it is definitely and indisputably acceptable.

What are you trying to do? Make all the young homosexuals feel so bad about themselves that they would throw themselves out of the window?

They don't deserve to have a Billboard that is addressed especially at them?

There is no such thing as "promotion of homosexuality". This is the most stupid thing I have ever heard.

I hope I am not moving to Baltimore to hear things like that all day. Else I will move to San Francisco if I can afford it .

Seeing a board like that in front of my daughter's school (yes I am not gay in case it makes a difference to you) would provide me the perfect occasion to educate her about a lot of things. I would tell her that we live in a free and diverse world where people can choose to love and live with anybody they want. I would also tell her that this is about a very dangerous disease that people get when they don't pay attention to certain things that I will explain her when she is a little older.

This billboard is probably as legitimate than any other. People who are offended should just look somewhere else.

[Billiam]

Originally Posted by Baltimoreisinthehouse

spelling is not an accurate gauge for a persons intelligence, math is.......idiot.

This billboard, along with other things, are promoting homosexuality as if it is normal and acceptable..........

these types are things are done subtly rather then overtly so that foolish people (like yourself) never see whats really going on until its too late.

So when they legaliz homosexual marriage and show homosexuals on television kissing and having sex you'll already be so programmed as to think things like this are acceptable.

Youre the problem

I feel you! I mean, just like you, I hate anyone who is naturally different then me! I mean, I really don't care if they didn't choose to be Black or Asian or a Woman or Gay, I just hate them. We're like twins! I mean it is totally unacceptable for people different then us to be viewed normally. They are so not normal! Black people aren't because they only make up like 10% of the population. Or Asian people because they only make up like 6% of the population. Or Women because..we'll they're just abnormal (they don't have the right anatomy!). What a sin to be anything but normal!

/Sarcasm

[eav1221]

I can see the poster's concerns though...If I were a conservative Christian, I would be uncomfortable with that poster/billboard in front of my child's school. It's hard to stand firm for your beliefs as a Christian/Catholic, when signs, images, music, tv shows, movies, and billboards, in this case, all proclaim the innocence and sinlessness of what was once considered to be a "sinful" and alternative lifestyle that you were told to pray about for God to forgive them. They begin to sound like the enemy, as he is here, when he has the right to believe what he does, and voice it... So, I can see his point. I don't necessarily think the over-sexed, borderline pornographic images our children see on a daily basis on tv shows, and in music videos, be it homosexual, OR heterosexual, is a healthy thing. But he did call ol HandsUpThumbsDown an idiot which was uncalled for, so shame shame. Keep it sportsmanlike folks.

[Baltimoreisinthehouse]

Originally Posted by LouisDS

Homosexuality may not be 100% biologically normal but it is definitely and indisputably acceptable.

Homosexuality is as indisputably acceptable as pornography, would you have an issue with a pornographic ad being posted across the street from an elementry school?

Originally Posted by LouisDS

What are you trying to do? Make all the young homosexuals feel so bad about themselves that they would throw themselves out of the window?

What are you attempting to do by asking these questions? Imply that i am promoting hate by not feeling this billboard is appropriate?

Originally Posted by LouisDS

"There is no such thing as "promotion of homosexuality". This is the most stupid thing I have ever heard."

you are naive

Originally Posted by LouisDS

Seeing a board like that in front of my daughter's school (yes I am not gay in case it makes a difference to you) would provide me the perfect occasion to educate her about a lot of things. I would tell her that we live in a free and diverse world where people can choose to love and live with anybody they want. I would also tell her that this is about a very dangerous disease that people get when they don't pay attention to certain things that I will explain her when she is a little older.

you can use that pornographic ad i spoke of as a perfect occasion to educate her about a lot of things too. Whats the difference?

[Baltimoreisinthehouse]

Originally Posted by Billiam

I feel you! I mean, just like you, I hate anyone who is naturally different then me! I mean, I really don't care if they didn't choose to be Black or Asian or a Woman or Gay, I just hate them. We're like twins! I mean it is totally unacceptable for people different then us to be viewed normally. They are so not normal! Black people aren't because they only make up like 10% of the population. Or Asian people because they only make up like 6% of the population. Or Women because..we'll they're just abnormal (they don't have the right anatomy!). What a sin to be anything but normal!

/Sarcasm

where did i say i hate them......idiot

[Baltimoreisinthehouse]

Originally Posted by eav1221

I don't necessarily think the over-sexed, borderline pornographic images our children see on a daily basis on tv shows, and in music videos, be it homosexual, OR heterosexual, is a healthy thing.

I dont either, so i dont watch them. But when it becomes a situation where there is something i am forced to see, I have a major problem with it

[LouisDS]

Originally Posted by Baltimoreisinthehouse

Homosexuality is as indisputably acceptable as pornography, would you have an issue with a pornographic ad being posted across the street from an elementry school?

Then you should have a problem with this one too.







What are you attempting to do by asking these questions? Imply that i am promoting hate by not feeling this billboard is appropriate?




you are naive



you can use that pornographic ad i spoke of as a perfect occasion to educate her about a lot of things too. Whats the difference?

Ok (breathe). The fact that you are homophobic does not make any homosexual person displayed on a cardboard a porn actor/model. You will probably tell me that it's not what you said but I will answer in advance that this is exactly what you said.

Then you will probably call me an idiot, but hey, given the opinion of people you called idiots today compared to yours, thank God I'm an idiot!

I'll stop here, the gap is just too big between an anachronism like you in the real world and myself trying to educate you in the pursuit of tolerance, acceptance of other with their differences that make our world rich, diverse and beautiful.

Have a good day.

[jonjj]

In response to the opening: Yes, I find it acceptable. But, where on Gwynns Falls Parkway is this ad? The only place I can think of is Douglas High School by Mondawmin and I go by there once in awhile and haven't noticed it.

[Baltimoreisinthehouse]

Originally Posted by LouisDS

Ok (breathe). The fact that you are homophobic does not make any homosexual person displayed on a cardboard a porn actor/model. You will probably tell me that it's not what you said but I will answer in advance that this is exactly what you said.

Then you will probably call me an idiot, but hey, given the opinion of people you called idiots today compared to yours, thank God I'm an idiot!

I'll stop here, the gap is just too big between an anachronism like you in the real world and myself trying to educate you in the pursuit of tolerance, acceptance of other with their differences that make our world rich, diverse and beautiful.

Have a good day.

I knew you wouldnt answer the questions honestly and directly.........

[westsideboy]

Why did you assume the dudes were gay? I just thought they were snappy dressers holding hands to show solidarity against HIV. (no sarcasm intended)