Gary Larson Depicted IT So Well...

Gary Larson Depicted IT So Well...

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Saturday, November 01, 2008

How GAY

Gay people simply seek acceptance to Love; they are not proponents of hate.
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Have you ever noticed, extremists of any nature, must have someone to fight? And if they find themselves without, they must find their enemy dujour.

It seems they exist to fight.

Has the religious 'right' forgotten their calling?

What about existing to spread Love?

Have they become the religious 'wrong'?
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The Pledge of Allegiance says, ". . . with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?
Patricia Schroeder, politician
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Everyone Starts Out As Straight!
The Myth –
that everyone is Straight – forces gay people to come OUT. Can straight people imagine if everyone is assumed gay…what it would be like for them to come OUT as straight? Would they attempt to 'change their behavior' to be acceptable to us?

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No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
Alice Walker
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Life & Love: We choose to do them together.... Where does sin enter this equation?
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Under what justifiable criteria can someone say that an entire segment of society deserves NOT to have the same rights, privileges, duties, freedoms as other members of society (remember, gays' only 'crime' is Loving another); and that is justification for segregation and removal of rights afforded to other members of society?
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Everyone wants to Love and be Loved by someone.

Who could be so cruel as to want to deny this for an entire segment of society...just because it's not the way they may choose to Love for themselves?
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…at her (Elizabeth Montgomery's) memorial service…a letter (was read). The writer identified himself as a gay teenager. …he had always loved Lizzie as Samantha on Bewitched because as he viewed it, Samantha was just like everyone else in her small town, except she was different. … The gay teen went on to say he found this portrayal personally empowering … because it gave him the means with which to survive his own life. … Empowerment, of course, comes when that inspiration forces you to summon up your courage and take position for yourself…. (From Bruce Vilanch'es "Bruce")
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*Everyone - everywhere is fragile. Many add lots of padding in attempt to protect; yet they are as fragile as everyone else.
HANDLE ALL WITH CARE.
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The next 2 paragraphs are taken from an email sent to one of my family members
prior to my return.
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JUST LIKE THE CHILD WHO IS SMALLER THAN HIS FRIENDS, WHO IS NOT THE RIGHT COLOR, WHO HAS THE "WRONG" NOSE - OVER TIME, THE CHILD LEARNS TO REJECT HIMSELF BECAUSE OF HIS DIFFERENCE - EVEN THOUGH HE DID NOTHING TO INFLUENCE THE DIFFERENCE. GAY PEOPLE LEARN TO REJECT THEMSELVES BECAUSE SOCIETY REJECTS THEIR DIFFERENCE - EVEN THOUGH THEY DID NOTHING TO INFLUENCE THE DIFFERENCE.
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TELL ME HOW IT IS ANY DIFFERENT THAN: THE OPPRESSION OF A RULER STIPULATING WHAT RELIGION MUST BE PRACTICED. HOW ONE MUST ACT WITHIN THE CASTE SYSTEM. HOW THE MISSIONARIES EXPECTED THE INDIANS TO HAVE SEX IN THE ACCEPTABLE 'MISSIONARY' POSITION. IN A HETEROSEXUALLY RULED SOCIETY, THAT STIPULATES WHAT YOU MUST BELIEVE ABOUT LOVE & HOW ONE MUST ACT TO BE ACCEPTED WITHIN THEIR HETERO-SOCIETY
& EVEN WHAT KIND OF SEX IS ACCEPTABLE?
*__________________________ *The MATTER OF CHOICE
*We can finally settle this matter of choice issue. Barring any further discussion with those who propose it IS a choice -- for us to propose that they could choose to be gay, if the general populace was, and it would be easier for them to "fit-in" with the majority if they'd simply choose to be gay - because they could ya-know!
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A final determination of whether or not gayness is a choice can be made simply: - Test ALL (or a huge random sample) Gay People's Intelligence AND IF it is conclusively determined that gay people are VERY LOW in intelligence, then it would make sense why they could make such a choice.
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Oops, then an entire new bag would be opened, are all "not-smart" (and there's a zillion of them) people latently gay; they just haven't gotten around to making the choice -- yet?
*Oops/Oops, IF gay people turn out to be just as smart, or even a tad smarter than the general populace, then would proponents of 'choice' say, "It's a smart choice"? Then, why haven't they made "The Choice"? This all sounds a bit absurd to me. About as absurd as proposing it's a choice.
SETTLED.
ELM
*_________________________*He Acts So Gay . . .
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"They Act So Gay" – Gay people are not as guarded; trying to preserve the image of machoism or feminism because, unlike straights who feel the worst thing they could ever be thought to be would be 'gay', gays are not concerned with hiding their other side. All of us have masculine & feminine traits and gays are not ashamed and fearful of their 'other' side.
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Premise, Gay men are made by horrible relationships with women: So if I had a horrible gay relationship with a guy, it could cause me to become straight? Ever thought the problem with some men's relationships with women is that the guy was gay in the first place and tried to 'play straight'?
*A sad thing that happens to gays their entire life until they 'come out': When best friends say horrible things about gays while in one's presence – the best friends don't realize they're saying those horrible things directly to, and about, the person they're with. Over time, many gays internalize all these horrible things as a part of themselves; feeding their own self-loathing.
ELM
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It Happened to Me . . .
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Many think it's all fine as long as there's a comfortable distance from their loins.
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Have you contemplated exactly how you'd be with a child, niece/nephew, grandchild who happens to be gay?
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What would you think of them?
How would you treat them?
What would you say about them to others?
How would you make them feel about themselves?
Would you believe they're going to Heaven along with you?
Would you expect others to treat them at least as well as you are treated? Would you join in efforts to help secure their full-rights to participate in society the same as you?
*One in ten of the people related to you IS VERY likely to be gay -- whether you know or acknowledge it. There are more gay people in the world than there are people with blue eyes (some are both blue-eyed and gay).
In other words, being gay is less rare.
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Being gay has nothing to do with sex.
*One is gay way before having sex; even if one remains a virgin.
*A hetero knows they are hetero prior to having sex and if they never have sex, they're still a hetero.
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The "mainstream" could not accept that isolation is universal,
as is every individual's desire to bridge it with love and truth. In this sense we are all the same. (George Weinberg, Ph.D.) 
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