Josh in New Orleans

Gay/Lesbian

Gay rights group speaks to critics

Reprobate lifestyle? I wake up, dress nice, go to work in a bigass building, sit down in my leather chair, drink coffee, and program computers. I am a gay geek from New Orleans. Sometimes I actually get to go on a date too. Nice restaurants, hiking in the mountains, whatever. I live life, and you live yours. What is all that negativity in you really about?  (22 hrs ago | post #26)

Hartford, CT

Groups Want Faith Exemption On Same-Sex Marriage Issue

Did you miss the point that he is a Christian? Funny that I'm not but you haven't said that once to me.  (Yesterday | post #6817)

Gay/Lesbian

Catholic School Boards Struggle With Human Rights Requirement

I damn near was beaten to a pulp a couple of times. Thankfully though, I've always had a tall stature so its not so easy to get one in on me without getting boot to the head a couple of times first. What disturbs me isn't you telling me to get over it. I'm over it. The part that I find truely disgusting is you seem to think kids behaving towards other kids in that way is somehow acceptable, and you ignore that those kids can be subjected to life altering prejudice on behalf of administrators in addition to that. Thanks for showing everyone what the face of hatred really is: some grown up school bully who still can't spell and thinks the second most important thing to do besides denying that he's gay is to pick on everyone else who is.  (Yesterday | post #15)

Gay/Lesbian

Gay rights group speaks to critics

Hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of spell checking your post. Anyway, how are two consenting adults in a romantic loving committed, financially interdependent relationship who are raising children, sharing health insurance, taking vacations, sick leave for one another by your definition anything like "buddies ". Or is it that you have sex with your own buddy so that's all you're willing to call it for yourself and everyone else included?  (Yesterday | post #14)

Hartford, CT

Groups Want Faith Exemption On Same-Sex Marriage Issue

Editorial correction... I meant to say on that matter, the exact format I described is the Catholic Church's version of abstinence-only education PLUS a discussion of contraceptive effectiveness in a truthful light. (In other words, Catholic school sex ed is abstinence only education with discussion of contraceptives, but not in a truthful light.)  (Yesterday | post #6813)

Gay/Lesbian

Gay rights group speaks to critics

Turn that statement around on yourself and it would reveal that you have chosen to live by a faux-christian lifestyle of judging thy neighbor and identify with people of similar beliefs and certain sexual practices, namely having sex only only within marriage for the purpose of farting out babies left and right. Never mind that you're further overpopulating the planet with yet even more mindless simpletons not unlike yourself, nobody is threatening your right to do so, and that is because you are entitles to your own beliefs. So am I.  (Yesterday | post #9)

Gay/Lesbian

Catholic Panties Bunch Over Canadian Health Districts “Transgen...

Uh, no... How 'bout the question being there in order to properly measure the demographics to assess the effectiveness of a vaccine?  (Yesterday | post #5)

Gay/Lesbian

What do you think of gay marriage?

And a good thing at that! Imagine what would happen if God actually wanted everyone to question what everyone else says about him! I mean, my God, it would be like utter chaos! Pastors would loose their right to having congregations mindlessly obey them! Politicians couldn't work to sinners life miserable anymore. There'd be all kinds of sex on TV! And what about people like us who just simply cannot think for themselves? What would we do then? On a lighter note, we'd at least still only be a few steps backwards on repealing that pesky First Amendment and defining the Bible as the official Law of the land, but forget that. Even worse, if people start questioning sins that don't seem to have a logical reason for calling it a sin, then Gay and Lesbians will be actually treated as EQUALS! OMG! UTTER CHAOS I SAY! (Please note my sarcasm)  (Yesterday | post #15104)

Gay/Lesbian

Catholic School Boards Struggle With Human Rights Requirement

They shouldn't be exempt at all. Not in Canada, and not in America, not with public funds, or without public funds. Exempting religious organizations from having to follow anti-discriminatio n law when it concerns students does nothing but put the well being and future of those students in danger.  (Friday | post #9)

Gay/Lesbian

Catholic School Boards Struggle With Human Rights Requirement

A personal experience of mine related to this article: Catholic School robbed me of so much. I came out to a single classmate when I was about sixteen and she reported me to administrators for it. Next thing I know, I'm in the hot seat facing expulsion and having to answer questions about my sexual orientation; worse, I had no choice but to lie. I may not have been expelled immediately, but fearing the school would ask me not to come back my senior year, I left of my own accord less than a week later. I'd already taken finals for that semester and grades were turned in, but a year later, half-way through my senior year I was called in by the counselor at my new school. She informed me there was a mistake on my transcript, that I had not received any credit on four courses I'd taken in full the first semester of the previous school year. As it turns out, those were required courses for a state scholarship. If I didn't take them I'd loose it. So, I had to choose whether or not to delay walking across stage, or graduate and have no money to go to college. I called the Catholic School and that was when they informed me that before I decided to leave on my own, the disciplinary staff had already scheduled a meeting. By the time they had the meeting, I was already at a different school, but the board had decided on expulsion and that is why I did not receive credit for those four courses I'd already taken. The school had a policy that students who were expelled prior to the end of the school year do not receive credit for courses they had taken that year. It was five years later before I was finally able to go to college on my own. Point is, religious institution or not, no kid should to have their entire life ruined because their school is exempt from treating all students with equal dignity and respect. If the Archdiocese cannot accept that, then they need to get out of the business of educating children.  (Friday | post #6)

Hartford, CT

Groups Want Faith Exemption On Same-Sex Marriage Issue

You're so right! Acknowledgment is not the same as encouragement, but this is the mentality censors who oppose safe-sex education are prone to having. I have the feeling its also why the same folks often oppose marriage equality. Acknowledgment is seen as a form of encouragement. This is why the truth has become their enemy.  (Friday | post #6803)

Hartford, CT

Groups Want Faith Exemption On Same-Sex Marriage Issue

There is a specific difference here. The enemies of the LGBT civil rights movement have made up their minds that equality is not something we are deserving of. Jews might not like Christians. Conservatives might not like liberals and visa versa, but conservatives are not attempting to make liberals a second-class. If they were, then yes, you can call it hatred if you want. The bounds of common decency and respect have been broached once one side has made up its mind the other doesn't deserve the same rights as the other. Such conditions are a fatal flaw in democracy. When one side gets the right to vote away the rights of the other, democracy devolves into a state of tyranny.  (Friday | post #6797)

Hartford, CT

Groups Want Faith Exemption On Same-Sex Marriage Issue

I can point to this statement as evidence that you would not treat discrimination on the basis of one class with the same regard as discrimination on the basis of another. Sounds like you'd prefer kids be taught something else other than that they should treat everyone with equal dignity and respect. Why do I have to keep using that phrase? In a nutshell that's all it is: equal dignity and respect. Lets not embellish on it, or make it seem like the prejudice one person experiences is any more ok than if it were on the basis of skin color or whatnot. Its still not right. Happy Thanksgiving BTW :)  (Friday | post #6796)

Hartford, CT

Groups Want Faith Exemption On Same-Sex Marriage Issue

Yes, that was another myth I remember them perpetuating; that bisexual men are the reason HIV spread to the heterosexual population, but it's simply not true. The only reason HIV was perceived to be a gay disease to begin with was its rate of transmission via unprotected anal sex. Because this is the most efficient way the virus spreads, it can be expected that the general population of gay men would have a higher rate of infection with the virus. That doesn't mean the virus started with gay men. It just means gay men having unprotected anal sex are in the highest risk category and hence you will see a greater proportion. I do believe that abstinence should be part of the circulum for sex ed. It should be the primary focus, but "abstinence only" education does not have a 100% success rate because, lets face it, less than ten percent of teens are going to take the advice. Failing that advice, you can be pretty certain that mis-educating kids to think condoms are fairly useless defeats its entire purpose to begin with.  (Friday | post #6795)