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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
It's all false premise and innuendo. All of it. Pure shit. Pure fear based politics and for what gain? To keep being able to disciminate against people because they dont have sex the same way you do?
It's simple civil rights. People are born lesbians, they're born gay. There is no sexuality salad bar where you load up on sexual preference. Why does this not penetrate the brain and sink in? Just dont believe it?
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Changing society's perceptions is CHESS, not checkers. Look how long it took to go from slavery to equality for blacks (and even still it's not REALLY all the way there) and how many different major historical events and truly amazing civil rights activists it took for it to happen.
When I grew up, the biggest insult you could say to another dude was that they were gay, and not meant in an empty way like "that shit's gay" vs. "that shit sucks", but that they liked other dudes. This is in sunny SoCal where people are supposed to be progressive and tolerant. This was in the late 80s and throughout the 90s. Just what, 2 years ago, again supposedly one of the most progressive states denied gays the right to marry...not even a vote such that we denied a certain law that would allow gays to marry, we ADDED AN AMENDMENT to our state's constitution specifying marriage as between a man and a woman! We actually took a step BACKWARD with respect to gay rights, and it was not that close of a vote either - won by over 4.5% after gobs upon gobs of people trying to drum up support to defeat it. So you think somehow society in this country in approx 2 years has advanced far enough from that for one of the most bigotry-prone sectors of it to treat them as complete equals?
NO SHIT people are born lesbians/gay. Smart people and those who grew up with tolerant parents know that. How many of those people are in the military?
*sarcasm* I think we should allow cannibals in the military. They're people too and if a comrade gets shot and killed, they'll have food and won't use up the other rations. People's fears that the cannibal will all of a sudden want to eat THEM in particular is pretty irrational. */sarcasm*