As a former service member who has many many many gay friends - we watched a video where gay couples got to kiss the people they love for the first time...it was just so precious. It made me cry. I couldn't even imagine having to hide my relationship from everyone just because of who it is.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Maybe this is God's way of slowing down overpopulation without making half the world a lonely place for some. I mean I'm a heterosexual that is married and doesn't have any kids either. Nothing wrong with that. Jamie
My point, simply: It is unnatural....That is all. You all are putting the rest of your words in my mouth........Unnatural......
I actually decided to do a little research on the subject. Turns out that homosexuality is actually pretty well documented in the animal kingdom. Homosexual behavior in animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its also "unnatural" for us to fly in airplanes, to drive cars, etc. One would have thought that humanity would have come further, it being the end of 2011, but I guess not.
Your opinion is shared by many. I would suggest you consider that it is simply unnatural to you and how nature has made you. That doesn't mean that it isn't natural, in terms of what nature provides. I'll give you that hetrosexuality is extremely important in terms of the prepetuation of a species. But homosexuality isn't something new. It's been a part of humanity thoughout history. We managed to multiply in spite of that. What troubles me is the terrible emotional pain that many homosexuals and their families have had to endure simply because of a biblical passage, or a social stigma, or the discomfort some hetrosexuals feel towards it. That seems horribly wrong to me. Most people I know, who originally shared your perpective, changed their minds once they had an opportunity to get to know homosexual individuals. Again, you can't make someone a homosexual any more that you can make a homosexual "straight". For my part, I can't relate to being sexually attracted to a member of my own sex. It's not in my "nature". But it's unreasonable to think everyone has to feel like I do to be accepted as an equally valuable human being.
Very good response, Brewster. For me, if someone is gay, then, well, they're gay. It doesn't mean they're bad people or anything other than they like people of their own sex. I've never been attracted to any guy, but that doesn't mean that others may not feel that way. Prejudices are very unique things. We have them handed down to us over what may be generations. My grandfather was a German immigrant from Bavaria. His big prejudice was Catholics. I could never figure this out until one day I plugged in my own last name on Google to see what would pop up. I found lots of hits with the name but one particularly intrigued me and explained my grandfather's prejudice against Catholics. The hit that answered my question was that a monk with my same last name was a cohort of Martin Luther during the Protestant Reformation. So my grandfather's prejudice was handed down from almost 500 years prior. So many of our prejudices are just fears that our ancestors had or problems they may have had within their own lives. There are good gay folks just like there are good straight folks and there are bad people who are gay and bad people that are straight. Personally it doesn't matter to me whether someone is gay or straight as long as they're decent human beings.
Hate to barge in on this intelligent conversation, but why trash BillS? She has opinions too!:icon_frown:
