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Dan Carroll
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Message 17 of 55 (385183)
02-14-2007 2:05 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Hyroglyphx
02-14-2007 1:51 PM


Re: Attitudinal responses
Well, that's on her because she doesn't need to hide it. You think I hide my beliefs to the world? My beliefs that homosexuality is unnatural is far less popular now than the belief that gay is okay. I don't see the fear in it. I could understand it twenty or thirty years ago, but not now. Unless she's at a neo-Nazi rally or something. Then I could understand it as being faux pax.
That's it exactly, NJ... a faux pas. The worry one has over coming out is exactly the same as the worry that somone will see you eat salad with the wrong fork.
Good gravy. How do you live with such a capacity for empathy?
The woman who started this thread recently outlined instances of violence against her and others for being gay, right here in this day and age. Perhaps you should read it.

"I know some of you are going to say 'I did look it up, and that's not true.' That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut."
-Stephen Colbert

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Dan Carroll
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Message 28 of 55 (385248)
02-14-2007 7:13 PM
Reply to: Message 25 by Hyroglyphx
02-14-2007 5:33 PM


Re: Attitudinal responses
Nowadays, precisely.
Good ol' NJ-style debate. Ignore the facts that oppose your position, and your position will be quite sound.
Yeah, but most of us have experienced some sort of violence over our beliefs or even things we can't change-- like our race. We could all throw a pity party for something or other, right?
Feel free to tell us all about the time someone threw something at your head that made your skull bleed, because you were a white, straight, Christian male.

"I know some of you are going to say 'I did look it up, and that's not true.' That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut."
-Stephen Colbert

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