We live in confusing times from a sexual preference point of view. I mean, here you’ve got the Governor of NJ who’s been married twice and has two daughters…and then comes to the conclusion he’s gay. Which worried me because, hey, I’m twice married and I’ve got four daughters, so maybe I’m twice as gay and just don’t know it.
Well, thanks to the Olympics, I’ve discovered something that has proven to me, conclusively, where my preferences lie.
Women’s Beach Volleyball.
I could watch that for hours. I dunno what the hëll this thing is doing in the Olympics, and I absolutely couldn’t care less. Although when you think about it, and how scantily clad the participants are, it comes the closest to the original spirit of the Olympics considering that the participants used to compete in the nude.
Hunh. I wonder what the ratings would be like if they reinstituted that rule.
PAD
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“Homosexuals are born who they are”
I infer that you mean homosexuals are homosexuals from birth and because of DNA and rot.
I ask that you prove it. Just to be a jerk I’m asking you to prove it. Well, that and perhaps the person who got married to a female after so many years of gay life wasn’t lying and perhaps you should consider not questioning the stranger’s veracity.
Of course, I considered not questioning strangers’ respective veracities and in the end I still do that.
Shawn said, “Pack,
Could it be that this man you’ve heard of may actually have changed his ways willingly and genuinely? People can and do change. Even sexuality. It may not be so easily changed like one can change a hairstyle, but it can happen.
You assume that this man is pressured into living a lie. Maybe something in his life made him change and want to change.
I say this not to support the bigotry of the writer who was glad that the man was “saved” from homosexuality. But because I refuse to think that human behavior is just something that’s carved in stone, that we cannot become anything but what we are right now.
We reinvent ourselves with every day, every choice we make. Those little changes, over time can add up to major turnarounds in one’s life, their beliefs, personality, and yes… even sexuality.”
Shawn, human behavior can indeed be changed. But homosexuality is not behavior. This is why gay men can legitimately be priests (no smutty altar boy jokes please) whether the Catholic Church agrees or not. A homosexual priest can give up homosexual behavior just as a heterosexual priest can give up heterosexual behavior.
Blue Spider wrote: “”Homosexuals are born who they are”
I infer that you mean homosexuals are homosexuals from birth and because of DNA and rot.
I ask that you prove it. Just to be a jerk I’m asking you to prove it. Well, that and perhaps the person who got married to a female after so many years of gay life wasn’t lying and perhaps you should consider not questioning the stranger’s veracity.
Of course, I considered not questioning strangers’ respective veracities and in the end I still do that.”
Just to be a jerk, you first. Prove that gays *chose* a lifestyle where they can be ridiculed, disenfranchised and physically threatened, where losing your family is a common occurrence and relationships have to take place in secret.
As I said, the guy in this story said quite plainly that he was not attracted to his wife and didn’t love her romantically. (She was his “partner in the Lord” or some nonsense.) This is not a statement that anyone with any common sense would accept as someone living terribly in denial and shame.
I haven’t read everything. I don’t have the time to. I have only read PAD’s comments because, frankly, he’s the only one here who matters.
There is an inequality between the genders. It comes from something I like to call evolution. The difference between the genders in ALL animals, is that the female provides most of the physical necessities for the child (or spawn, whatever). That is why in most animals, males court the female. She has more to lose (evolutionarily, not individually). That, however, is no longer true for the modern man. The male of our kind now has to marry the female of his choice, thus sacrificing more of himself. That is the reason men are picky. It is, however, true that evolution hasn’t adjusted fully to the change. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that bigamy was a valid option. Our minds are set on bigamy, yet we settle for monogamy. Bigamy is also a sort of sacrifice – of wealth, power and status (one would like the finest woman to represent his power).
P.S. Go easy on my English.