Fall victim?
In the end, we have to ask ourselves which is worse – the previous era in America, when homosexuals were reviled and driven underground? Or today's America, when the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that those in the grip of powerful self-destructive compulsions are fawned over and lionized as heroes?
Which is better, reviling, driving underground, hating, killing?
Or
Swung so far IN THE OTHER DIRECTION...blah...blah...blah...
Reviling...or the other direction?
It never ceases to amaze me the abject fear people can stir up in themselves about sexual behavior. It was so bad in the 'good old days' that gays were driven under ground, reviled and so forth and now, because 'the pendulum has swung so far the other way (AWAY FROM HATE) that...there is MORE fear and MORE reviling. BOO! Now you got gay cooties! You're gonna fall in love with Fabio! Ha! Ha!
Robert Bauman was ABUSED as a small child and the story would stil be one of a messed up human if he'd been abused heterosexually or if he was a female and the 12 year old neighbor was male. To deduce that this is somehow a gay issue is to entirely miss the point that he was MOLESTED and never got any help to understand what was eating at him.
Anyone wonder what his life could have been like if soemone said to him as a teen and he was coming to battle this "Well, Robert, you got molested by a neighbor boy, it twert your fault and the good news is it's over and you can move on from here."
Instead he got a world that said "Ewwww!!!! You were doing gay stuff at 5!!! Get away! I revile you! Go underground, queer! Yuck!!!! You should hate your self!!!!!"
So the gay movement has grown powerful representing a lifestlye. Seems they've had a bit of motivation over the years to fight back. So I believe it's chosen and they say you're born that way. What do I know? What do I care? How in the flying hell does it harm me, or anyone else, either way?
I don't hate gay people though it does bother me when they vote for an idiot like John Kerry. Straight people voted for that turd to. I don't get gay cooties hanging out with gay folks. I don't have a thing for Fabio because I breathed gay air.
I can answer the question without hestitation: We, as a people, with a society founded on indivdual rights based on life, liberty and the persuit of happiness are WAY better off today than being a society of slave owners because we didn't feel they meet the criteria to deserve those rights, or a nation of homophobes because they didn't, somehow, meet the criteria.
In the mean time nice NORMAL hetro's march off to the old ladies office and set the ##### on fire, or fill the tub and drown the kiddies one by one or hire a hit man to collect his or her insurance.
If there is something inherently evil or bad about homosexuality, it is way down the list in its affect on my world.
Am I missing something here?
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