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Title: Being a faggot is a choice
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URL Source: https://socialinqueery.com/2013/03/ ... raight-here-are-5-reasons-why/
Published: Feb 12, 2018
Author: ejaneward
Post Date: 2018-02-12 11:57:20 by no gnu taxes
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1. Just because an argument is politically strategic, does not make it true: A couple of years ago, the Human Rights Campaign, arguably the country’s most powerful lesbian and gay organization, responded to politician Herman Cain’s assertion that being gay is a choice. They asked their members to “Tell Herman Cain to get with the times! Being gay is not a choice!” They reasoned that Cain’s remarks were “dangerous.” Why? “Because implying that homosexuality is a choice gives unwarranted credence to roundly disproven practices such as ‘conversion’ or ‘reparative’ therapy. The risks associated with attempts to consciously change one’s sexual orientation include depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior.” Image The problem with such statements is that they infuse biological accounts with an obligatory and nearly coercive force, suggesting that anyone who describes homosexual desire as a choice or social construction is playing into the hands of the enemy. In 2012, the extent to which gay biology had become a moral and political imperative came into full view when actress Cynthia Nixon, after commenting to a New York Times Magazine reporter that she “chose” to pursue a lesbian relationship after many years as a content heterosexual, was met with outrage by lesbian and gay activists. As one horrified gay male writer proclaimed, “[Nixon] just fell into a right-wing trap, willingly. …Every religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights.” Under considerable pressure from lesbian and gay advocacy groups, Nixon recanted her statement a few weeks later, stating instead that she must have been born with bisexual potential. Yes, it’s true that straight people are more tolerant when they believe that lesbian and gay people have no choice in the matter. If homosexual desire is hardwired, then we cannot change it; we must live with this condition, and it would be unfair to judge us for that which we cannot change. By implication, if we could choose, of course we would choose to be heterosexual. Any sane person would choose heterosexuality (not so. see here). And when homophobic people come to the opposite conclusion—that homosexual desire is something we can choose—then they want to help us make the right choice, the heterosexual choice. And they are willing to offer this help in the form of violent shock therapy and other “conversion” techniques. In light of all this, I can absolutely understand why it feels much safer to believe that we are born this way, and then to circulate this idea like our lives depend on it (because, for some people, this truly is a matter of life and death). Indeed, most progressive straight people and most gay and bi people–including Lady Gaga herself–hold the conviction that our sexual orientation is innate. They have taken their lead from the mainstream gay and lesbian movement, which has powerfully advocated for this view. But the fact that the “born this way” hypothesis has resulted in greater political returns for gay and lesbian people doesn’t have anything to do with whether it is true. Maybe, as gay people, we want to get together and pretend it is true because it is politically strategic. That would be interesting. But still, it wouldn’t make the idea true. The science is wrong: People like to cite “the overwhelming scientific evidence” that sexual orientation is biological in nature. But show me a study that claims to have proven this, and I will show you a flawed research design. Let’s take one example: In 2000, a team of researchers at UC Berkeley conducted a study in which they found that lesbians were more likely than heterosexual women to have a “masculine” hand structure. Presumably, most men have a longer ring finger than index finger, whereas most women have the opposite (or they have index and ring fingers of the same length). Lesbians, according to this study, are more likely than straight women to have what we might call “male-pattern hands.” The researchers concluded that this finding supports their theory that lesbianism might be caused by a “fetal androgyn wash” in the womb—that is, when female fetuses are exposed to greater levels of a masculinizing hormone, it shows up later in the form of female masculinity: male-pattern hands and… attraction to women. But this study makes the same error that countless others have made: it does not properly distinguish between gender (whether one is masculine or feminine) and sexual orientation (heterosexuality or homosexuality). Simply put, the fact that a woman is “masculine” (itself a social construction) or has been introduced to greater levels of a male hormone need not have anything to do with whether she is attracted to women. We would only assume this if we had already accepted the heteronormative premise that masculine people (or men) are naturally attracted to femaleness and that normal (i.e., feminine) women are naturally attracted to men. Herein lies the bias. Many “masculine” women who are heterosexual (have you been to the rural South?) would like us to know that their gender does not line up with their sexual desire in any predictable way. And many very feminine lesbians would like us to know this too. The bottom line is that ideas about sexual desire are so bound up with misconceptions about gender and with the presumption that heterosexuality is nature’s default, that science has yet to approach this subject in an objective way. For a comprehensive examination of the flaws in the most widely cited research on sexual orientation, see Rebecca Jordan-Young’s brilliant book Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (Harvard University Press, 2011). 3. The science is wrong: An even greater problem with the science of sexual orientation is that it seeks to find the genetic causes of gayness, as if we all agree about what gayness is. To say that “being gay” is genetic is to engage in science that hinges on a very historically recent and specifically European-American understanding of what being gay means. In Ancient Greece, sex between elite men and adolescent boys was a common and normative cultural practice. According to historians Michel Foucault and Jonathan Ned Katz, these relationships were considered the most praise-worthy, substantive and Godly forms of love (whereas sex between a man and a woman was, for all intents and purposes, sex between a man and his slave). If men having frequent and sincere sex with one another is what we mean by “gay,” then do we really believe that something so fundamentally different was happening in the Ancient Athenian gene pool? Did some evolutionary occurrence enable Plato’s ancestors to get rid of all of those heterosexual genes? And what about native cultures in which all boys engage in homosexual rites of passage? Do we imagine that we could identify some genetic evidence of propensity to ingest sperm as part of a cultural initiation into manhood? What about all of the cultures around the globe in which male homosexual sex does not signal gayness except for under certain specific circumstances (e.g., you are only gay if you are the receptive sexual partner, or if you are feminine)? And while I am on this subject, what about the fact the United States is precisely one of those cultures? When young college women lick each other’s boobs at frat parties, or when young college men stick their fingers in each other’s butts while being hazed by their frat brothers, we don’t call this gay—we call this “girls gone wild” or “hazing.” My point here is that a lot of people engage in homosexual behavior, but somehow we talk about the genetic origins of homosexuality as if we are clear about who is gay and who is not, and as if it’s also clear that “gay genes” are possessed only by people who are culturally and politically gay (you know, the people who are seriously gay). This is a bit arbitrary, don’t you think? Just 150 years ago, scientists went searching for the physiological evidence that women were hysterical. Hysteria, by Victorian medical definition, meant that a woman’s uterus had become dislodged from its proper location and was floating around her body causing all sorts of trouble—like feminism, and other matters of grave concern. And guess what, they found the evidence, and they published books and articles to prove it. They also looked for and found the evidence that all people of African and Asian ancestry were intellectually and morally inferior to people of European Ancestry. Many books were published dedicated to establishing these obviously absurd and violent beliefs as legitimate and indisputable scientific facts. Similarly, the science of sexual orientation has a long and disturbing history. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was believed that homosexuals had beady eyes, particularly angular facial structures, and “bad blood.” Today, we apparently have gender variant fingers and gay brains. Is it possible that people who identify themselves as “gay” in the United States (again, keep in mind that “gay” is a culturally and historically specific concept), share some common physiology? Perhaps. But even if this is so, do we really know why? Indeed, we may find (as Simon LeVay did) that men who identify as gay share a certain trait—a larger VIP SCN nucleus of the hypothalamus, for instance. But how do we know that this “enlargement” is a symptom or cause of their homosexuality, and not, say, a symptom or cause of their general propensity for bravery, creativity, or rebellion? In a homophobic culture, you need some bravery (and other awesome traits) to be queer. Perhaps these personality traits are what are actually being observed under the microscope. And, of course, there is the time-eternal question: why aren’t scientists looking for the genetic causes of heterosexuality? Or masturbation? Or interest in oral sex? The reason is that none of these sex acts currently violate social norms, at least not strongly enough to be perceived as sexual aberrations. But this was not always true. In the 19th century, scientists were interested in the biological origins of the “masturbation perversion.” They were interested because they believed it was pathological, and because they wanted to know whether it could be repaired. At the end of the day, what we can count on is that the science of sexual orientation will produce data that simply mirror the most crass and sexist gender binarisms circulating in the popular imagination. This research will report that women are innately more sexually fluid than men, capable of being turned-on by almost anything and everything (hmmm…. other than in Lisa Diamond’s research, where have I seen that idea before? Ah yes, heterosexual pornography.) It will report that men are sexually rigid, their desires impermeable. It will tell us that straight men simply cannot be aroused by men and that gay men are virtually hardwired to be repulsed by the thought of sex with women. Regardless of what else we might say about the soundness of these studies, what is evident to me is that they have been used to authorize many a straight man’s homophobia, and many a gay man’s misogyny. 4. Just because you have had homosexual or heterosexual feelings for as long as you can remember, does not mean you were born a homosexual or heterosexual. There are many things I have felt or done for as long as I can remember. I have always liked to argue. I have always loved drawing feet and shoes. I have always craved cheddar cheese. I have always felt a strong connection with happy, trashy pop music. These have been aspects of myself for as long as I can remember, and each represents a very strong impulse in me. But was I born with a desire to eat cheddar cheese or make drawings of feet? Are these desires that can be identified somewhere in my body, like on one of my genes? It would be hard to make these claims, because I could have been born and raised in China, let’s say, where cheddar cheese is basically non-existent and would not have been part of my life. And while I may have been born with some general artistic potential, surely our genetic material is not so specific as to determine that I would love to draw platform shoes. The point here is that what we desire in childhood is far more complex and multifaceted than the biological sciences can account for, and this goes for our sexual desires as well. Some basic raw material is in place (like a general potential for creativity), but the details—well, those are ours to discover. 5. Secretly, you already know that people’s sexual desires are shaped by their social and cultural context. Lots of adults worry that if we allow little boys to wear princess dresses and paint their nails with polish, they might later be more inclined to be gay. Even some liberal parents (including gay and lesbian parents) worry that if they introduce their child to “too much” in the way of queer material, this could be a way of “pushing” homosexuality on them. Similarly, many people worry that if young women are introduced to feminism in college, and if they become too angry or independent, they may just decide to be lesbians. But if we all really believed that sexual orientation was congenital—or present at birth—then no one would ever worry that social influences could have an effect on our sexual orientation. But I think that in reality, we all know that sexual desire is deeply subject to social, cultural, and historical forces. We know that if the world today were a different place, a place where homosexuality was culturally normative (like, say, Ancient Greece), we would see far more people embracing their homosexual desires. And if this were the case, it would have nothing to do with genetics. The concept of “sexual orientation” is itself less than 150 years old, and almost equally recent is the notion that people should partner based on romantic attraction. Most of what feels so natural and unchangeable about our desires—including the bodies and personalities we are attracted to—is conditioned by our respective cultures. The majority of straight American men, for instance, will tell you that they have a strong, visceral aversion to women with bushy armpit hair. But this aversion, no matter how deep it may now run in men’s psyches and no matter how nonnegotiable it may feel, is hardly genetic. Up until the last century, the entire world’s female population had armpit hair, and somehow, heterosexual sex survived. People like to use the failure of “gay conversion” therapies as evidence that homosexuality is innate. First of all, these conversions do not always fail; if you make someone feel disgusted enough by their desires, you can change their desires. Call it a tragedy of repression, or call it a religious awakening—regardless, the point is that we can and do change. For instance, in high school and early in college, my sexual desires were deeply bound up with sexism. I wanted to be a hot girl, and I wanted powerful men to desire me. I was as authentically heterosexual as any woman I knew. But later, several years into my exploration of feminist politics, what I once found desirable (heterosexuality and sexism) became utterly unappealing. I became critical of homophobia and sexism in ways that allowed these forces far less power to determine the shape of my desires. If this had not happened, no doubt I’d be married to a man. And if he wasn’t a complete asshole, I’d probably be happy enough. But instead, I was drawn to queerness for various political and emotional reasons, and from my vantage point today, I believe it to be one of the best desires I ever cultivated. [Does this mean that your daughter may decide to be a lesbian if she takes some women’s studies courses? Yes. Whatcha gonna do now?!] Perhaps most importantly, the fact that we might cultivate or “choose” something doesn’t mean that it is a trivial, temporary, or less a vital part of who we are. For instance, is religion a choice? Certainly it is if we define “choice” as anything that isn’t an immutable part of our physiology. But many religious people would feel profoundly misunderstood and offended if I suggested that their religious beliefs were a phase, an experiment, or a less significant part of who they are then, say, their hair color. Choices are complex. Choices run deep. And yes, choices are both constrained and fluid–just like our bodies. Post script: Ultimately, the terms set forward in the public debate about this subject–biology versus “choice”–are quite limited, mainly because “choice” is not the most useful term for describing all of the possibilities that sit apart from biology. Several social, cultural, and structural factors can shape our embodied desires and erotic possibilities. The fact that these factors are not physiological in origin does not mean that they aren’t coercive or subjectifying, resulting in a real or perceived condition of fixity or “no choice.” We know that social factors also become embodied over time. And yet, I remain somewhat committed to the concept of “choice”–or something like it–to describe the possibility of a critical and reflexive relationship to our sexual desires. Personally, the idea that I don’t have control over who or what I desire is a big turn-off to me, so I am constantly pushing back on what feel like the limits of my own desires. For instance, I went through a period of pushing myself to date femmes because I had some good reasons for being suspicious about why I had ruled them out from my dating pool. When it felt like I could never be nonmonogamous, I made it a goal to at least try. Then when I realized I only really felt attracted to alcoholic rebels, I nipped that in the bud too. Just when I thought I’d never think hairy men were hot, I allowed myself to face my attraction to Javier Bardem. When my tastes and proclivities start to feel like they are solidifying, I get suspicious and disappointed. So, in the interests of full disclosure, I am writing from the perspective of someone who finds sexual fixity pretty uninteresting, and who believes that there are really good feminist and queer reasons to take regular, critical inventory of the parts of our sexuality that we believe we cannot or will not change.
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#35. To: Tooconservative, Fred Mertz, Log Jamin Republicans, no gnu taxes, tater, FireIsland (#15)
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Anyone who voted for Bush, McCain, Romney, and Trump has stepped out of the closet and made their gender reassignment choice clear... Log Cabin Republican!
I see Stain finally coming out and holding hands with his Lady Lindsey, still hoping his hero will make an honest woman of him. But I thought Howdy Doody retired decades ago, yet there he is.
They do, yes. And that's politics. The reason they are so militant is because the laws were brutally repressive in the day when gays were not open about it. Private sex got convictions and felony prison sentences. When people are brutalized, they react if they can. If their reaction causes an easy rollback of the oppressive policy, that can be the end of it. And that's what happens in other countries regarding many things. But in America, the rules are the result of a relentless and endless low- level political civil war in which policy changes are treated as a zero-sum game. Sodomy was not decriminalized because "who cares?" the way that it was in many other places. Here, it became the object of a political crusade between factions. The two sides fought it out, and the side with the greater political power triumphed. Both sides are filled with hate towards the other, and when people hate other people, they don't simply win - after the victory they rub the noses of the defeated in their defeat. That's the American way. The gays fought an absolutely brutal political battle. Unable to win directly, they won through the courts, and once the courts, the way the abortionists did. Once the law was changed by the courts, the attitudes of the people shifted - Americans are legalists - what is LEGAL is MORAL in the American mind, and if one takes the stand that that which is legal is nevertheless IMMORAL, one encounters strong political forces designed to beat back that view. Trouble is, we Americans learned how to politically fight for "rights" in the context of the brutal repression and ultimate liberation of slaves and segregated blacks. Neither side gave any quarter, and the battle was one through blunt instruments (warfare) and brute political (and armed) force (National Guard called out to drive governors out of doorways and escort minority students into schools whose leaders did not want desegregation, but who were forced to do it at the physical gunpoint. That is the way politics are played in America: with force. When sodomy was illegal, some states made a point of BRUTALLY enforcing the law. The Supreme Court BRUTALLY stripped the rights from the states, and the gay activists BRUTALLY went straight into the most conservative states to make DAMNED sure that those big-bellied sherriffs were forced to submit, to stand aside, so that they would SEE and FEEL their defeat at the hands of superior power. That's how Americans play with each other, and talk to each other. Look at the degree of vile nastiness that various posters here unleash on each other. Americans justify all of that brutality in their own minds through appeals to their respective gods, who are all absolutists. So yes, the gays have driven - successfully - to normalize homosexual behavior, just as the blacks and their allies drove -successfully - to normalize racial equality and to break the power of the segregationists. If Americans were not so utterly intolerant and brutal in their exercise of power over one another, things not need be as bad as they are, but it is the American way of politics. For my part, I nevertheless refuse to acknowledge that the forced adherence to laws about who can (consentingly) touch whom, and how. I think that the whole American system ITSELF stinks to high heaven, and that the roots of all of the brutality ultimately go back to the black/white racial issue. Americans are cussed, on all sides, and so everything has to be a zero-sum game. I don't accept that logic. I don't care who screws whom, or how. I do understand the DEGREE of aggressiveness of the gays in asserting their rights, now that it is a war - they are angry at past oppression. I also understand the reason for the past oppression: aggressive Christian fanaticism. I am not a Christian fanatic. I don't like the Taliban, be they Christian or Muslim. So I don't get the hellbent nature of the desire to punish private behavior. But what I get, or don't get, isn't really relevant. I don't hate the gays. Nor do I particularly love the gays. If people want to identify themselves by the way they procure their orgasms, I think it's all rather sleazy and gets into things I don't want to know. But it's in everybody's face, and like every other American I am forced, against my will, to have a specific opinion on the matter. My opinion is that of the Supreme Court: Homosexual activity is a constitutional right, and whoever decides to try to beat down that right is an enemy of freedom who has to be broken. Therefore, just like blacks, homosexuals have the right to be served in the stream of commerce, and nobody has the right to either exclude blacks from his store, or refuse to provide goods and services to homosexuals - up to the point where the court has recently - correctly - drawn the line. When it comes to artistic expression, people cannot be forced to express themselves in favor of something they oppose. In a similar vein, churches cannot be forced to marry gays or accept them as clergy. It's sort of like the Civil War. It would have been so much better if "Christians" had acted like it and not insisted on slavery, and not, then, insisted on dominating slaves and fighting over it. But they did, so we all have to live with the aftermath. I see the fanatics screaming "faggot" and I still wonder WHY DO YOU CARE? And I see the gays pressing their current political advantage but being rightly blocked by the Supreme Court at the place they should be blocked. So as far as I can see the gays have gotten their "rights", and that's that. And I'm still not interested what they do with their pee-pees. Not likely to change my mind about any of these things. I don't like the Taliban of any cause.
I voted for McCain, Romney and Trump, and I'm not a Republican. Nor am I gay. So you probably ought to rethink that theory.
Please explain. Angels had children with human women, creating the Nephilim (and their descendants, the Basques) so apparently they have the equipment...at least some of them. At Sodom the angels were desired, for rape, by the townsmen. Whether they could have consummated the act or not is not known.
Spoken like a Catholic faggot lover. Well that is what your liberal whiny ass sounded like.
That won't slow down the Log Cabin Republicans in the least, they keep trying for the conversions. They're evangelical like that.
In Genesis 19 the angels took the form of human males. "Perhaps they are "ill-equipped" for sex." Some interpret Genesis 6 to read that fallen angels bred with women and resulted in giants called Nephilim.
It's people like you that give idiots such a bad reputation.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Hey, I'm not the one that's referred to as... Fred's Ass Hertz Why is it a faggots first defense, is to call other, more manly dudes, faggots? You'll call Stone or me gay... but you'd never suggest Stinky Pee Pee is a fag... and he defends faggots. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I can tell you why he cares,he cares because he is a fundie Christian that happens to b e bi-sexual or homosexual by nature,and he is convinced he is going to hell because of it. So he overreacts and condemns others to hell in the hope that the Big Guy will cut him some slack. He's also jealous. People out of the closet are having sex,and he isn't. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
And our rights? Do you care about them? Or do homosexual rights trump everyone else's rights and that's that? If a majority of parents don't want their 8-year-olds exposed to the homosexual lifestyle at school, what about their rights?
Um, no, but lots wonder about you and FireIsland's closets. From what I have noticed my whole life,there are only two kinds of people that walk around with that kind of anger over homosexuality,homos still in the closet and afraid to admit it due to religious beliefs,and people that suffered homosexual rape when they were a child and powerless to defend themselves. A lot of times they were even shamed into staying silent because it was their father,brother,or another close relative that raped them,and reporting it would have destroyed a lot of lives. I don't care who you are,you have to have sympathy for the second class. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Spoken like a Christian. I am a Catholic, yes. Homosexuals are homosexual, or gay. "Faggot" is an aggressively pejorative word, like "nigger". Christians talk like that (case in point: you and VxH). Catholics should not, because it's wrong to speak so evilly. You care what homosexuals do. I don't. I don't love what they do. I don't hate what they do. I simply don't care. If I felt like doing that, I am glad that the laws would not nonsensically come down on my head as though I had murdered somebody or burnt down a house. So I am glad the laws have changed. But I don't actually care to do any of that, so it's academic. As far as being a "faggot lover", as VxH so pointed out with such Christian charity somewhere on these threads, my father died of AIDS, and had indeed caught it by being a practicing homosexual. I did love my father, and still do, so yes, I am a "faggot lover" by your definition of the word. I do not think that churches should be forced to marry gays, or that wedding cake artists should be forced to design cakes for them, or that wedding photographers should be forced to photograph them. I do think that hotel chains should be forced to rent rooms to them for the night, and that landlords and car salesmen should be required to lease to them if they rent to the public. If you're a government official in a state that requires marriage licenses, I think you have to issue the license if a gay couple appears requesting one. Common sense, really, all of it.
8 year old children shouldn't be exposed to any sort of sex by anyone. They are children. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Third graders should not be being exposed to sex education at school at all.
We seem to be in violent agreement on this subject.
A lot of lives, yes. "Let go, and let God."
That is what it says, in English and in the Hebrew and in the Greek and in the Latin.
Yeah,that's one way to put it. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
The reason we have an age of consent is because in the early teens sexuality is strong and ambiguous. Nobody is supposed to be having sex with young teenagers. But by the time we get to adulthood, we know what we like. How would a "conversion" be effected? I'm thinking about it. How could somebody "convince" me that I really didn't find the women I like attractive, but really did find adult boys more attractive? I don't even find all that many women attractive - I'm finicky. I'm at a loss to think of one SEXUALLY attractive male. Maybe some Asian he/she who looks like a hot girl? I can't see how somebody jawboning at me with any argument under the sun would make me like the taste of liver, or make me decide that the women I find attractive aren't, but that men are. I don't think such conversions are possible. I DO think that teenagers can much more easily get sucked into drugs, alcoholism, tobacco addiction and deviant sexuality, precisely because of the malleability of the young teenage brain - and that's why there are, quite properly, drinking ages and smoking ages and ages of sexual consent. Granted, 18 and 19 year olds are pretty impressionable, and people aren't REALLY adults until their mid-20s. Still, I don't think that "conversion" is an issue for adults. Could you be "converted"? Just think about it. How would that even work? I'm content to live and let live.
Vicomte13 wrote: To: sneakypete ---- We seem to be in violent agreement on this subject . I think that the whole American system ITSELF stinks to high heaven, and that the roots of all of the brutality ultimately go back to the black/white racial issue. Americans are cussed, on all sides, and so everything has to be a zero-sum game. I also understand the reason for the past oppression: aggressive Christian fanaticism. I am not a Christian fanatic. I don't like the Taliban, be they Christian or Muslim. So I don't get the hellbent nature of the desire to punish private behavior. I agree with most of what you've written, and in particular that the reason for the past oppression:---- aggressive fanaticism. Americans are addicted to aggressive fanaticism, having been exposed to it from childhood by adult approval... Our enemy is fanaticism, and it's teachers. There are many right here at little LF, and there is absolutely zero chance of ever even tempering their views...
I'm sorry to hear about your father. No that isn't what I meant. I meant your acceptance of homosexuals as normal behavior not to be ostricized. I used to harsh of words. Sorry for that.
How would that even work? Trump rallies and GOP conventions?
Common sense, really, all of it. That is evil. God would never want someone to be forced to sin like that in order to work. Of course it also clearly violates the first amendment? It also contradicts your stated belief of being against homosexuals pretending to be married.
Let us put this in a proper perspective, living a homosexual life style is a choice, what ever your orientation might be, and it is not hate speech to say so
Legally, constitutionally speaking, --- private, consensual homosexual behaviors between adults should not be criminalized.. But that does not mean that we should accept homosexual acts as normal behavior not to be ostricized. Public ostracisms of public displays of homosexuality are perfectly legal, bearing in mind that the doctrine of 'fighting words' applies.. Sixty years ago, in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, the Supreme Court upheld for the first and only time a conviction for fighting words and made that doctrine a rare exception to the First Amendment's protection of free speech. Walter Chaplinsky, a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, called a city marshal a "damned Fascist" and "a God damned racketeer." He was convicted of violating a New Hampshire law that declared, "No person shall address any offensive, derisive or annoying word to any other person who is lawfully in any street or other public place." In affirming the state court, the Supreme Court announced that the First Amendment does not protect "insulting or 'fighting' words—those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
You like to believe that these were angels but the bible never calls them angels. The bible has no problem using the word "angels" in any other passages, yet you wish to believe that "sons of God" = "angels" and for no sound reason. Because you enjoy your little pet theory that you are one of the few survivors of angels interbreeding with mankind to create the Basque and blah-blah-blah, self-aggrandizing insecure claptrap. I see no descriptions that includes the word "angels". I see "sons of God" and "daughters of men". I don't know what those are but I do know that the bible clearly designates angels in many other passages but it does not do so here. But who else was there in this small ancient world following the murder of Abel by Cain and Cain's subsequent departure from Eden with his family? Genesis 4:25-26: According to ancient Arabic myths, Cain had never bore any resemblance to Adam but Seth was the spitting image of Adam. After leaving Eden, Cain's clan lived in a rich valley, just east of Eden, the same valley where Cain slew Abel. Seth's clan lived on the mountain above where they had buried Adam. Seth and succeeding patriarchs forbade contact with the Cainites who were lovers of pleasure and singing and dancing and perversions. But toward the end of the reign of Seth's clan on the mountain, some of the young men of Seth's clan ignored the prohibition against intermingling (and intermarriage) and went down to the valley for some fun. Lots of fun. The Arab writers, Semites as were the Jews, routinely called the descendents of Seth "sons of God" as the mountain they dwelt on was supposedly so close to heaven they could hear the angels sing and even join in on the choruses. And Eve herself had claimed Seth as "another seed" raised by God to replace Abel, not like her other children. In the Targums, we find these renderings: Schamchazai and Uzziel, who fell from heaven, were on the earth in those days; and also, after the sons of the Great had gone in with the daughters of men, they bare to them: and these are they who are called men who are of the world, men of names. At any rate, your notions of the Nephalim are just a corny Catholic myth in contradiction with facts and scripture but that just happens to flatter your ancestry. Which we all know is sooooo important to you. After all, the rest of us are just mindless cattle compared to refined ancient noble breeds like yourself. But there are other problems with your alleged noble heritage of angelic paternity. According to a few ancient sources like the Targum of Onkelos and the Targum of Jonathan, the only angels on earth at this time were Schanchazai and Uziel, both fallen angels but still incapable of having any children as all angels are. But if you wish to make the Nephalim the children of angels, then you and your Nephalim kin are the children of fallen angels. Not so flattering. But let's move beyond that. Here in Genesis 6 starting in verse 5, God is declaring his displeasure with the wickedness of man (including the disobedient "sons of God" (sons of Seth who were intermingling with the descendants of Cain) and leading God to His decision to destroy man and beast and birds. Except for Noah. And who was Noah? A "son of God" who had remained true to God and thereby found favor with him. Noah did not marry any of the Cainite women, neither did his sons. They built the ark as commanded and then all of mankind was drowned in the Flood. No survivors who turned into the Basque. And there were no Nephalim stowaways on the ark. The bible says all were destroyed except those on the ark. All means all. Period. And poof goes your inflated ideas about your alleged ancient heritage, albeit one that would, if followed logically, make you a descendant of the first of the ancient fallen angels if we take your version literally. But no one would because it would make no sense. But if you don't believe that all were destroyed other than the eight righteous and obedient members of Noah's family, you are calling Genesis, your claimed favorite book in the Bible, a baldfaced lie. Which means your claims of "Nephalim" ancestry have to be bogus as well. Kinda self-defeating when you're trying to spruce up the family tree with some sparkling bible garland.
I was in a church once where the pastor made a similar claim. Except he called it a theory. He also taught the so called gap theory to harmonize scripture with current "Scientific" theory.
Negative, Ghost Ranger. A faggot is a sick twisted freak of nature. One that by his/her own nature, does ZERO to ensure the survival of their own species. They are a weakness... and the only reason my species grow more accepting of them, is due to the increasing pussification of my species. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Did I miss where Vic claimed to be a decendamt, or are you making it up. Does any of this tie into the pre adamic world I have heard some teach. Fascinating as it is, I don't believe it.
So if you went to the DMV to get license plates and a drivers license and some Mormon DMV clerk decided she didn't want you to have those because it was contrary to God's will for non-Mormons to drive, that would be fine with you? When you accept state employment, you are obliged to obey the laws of the state as you do your work. Roy Moore was a judge who refused to follow the lawful (but immoral) rulings of superior court judges. He got tossed off the court once for it, he did it again. Then he managed to lose us an easy Senate seat to boot. If Roy Moore wanted to change the law, he should have run for president or for Congress. Or he should have tried to organize a constitutional convention. Thumbing your nose at your bosses (superior courts) is not lawful. Moore should lose his law license, should have lost it back when they removed him from the state supreme court.
See Vic's post #39 on this thread. And Vic clearly claims Basque (and Sami and French) heritage. Ipso facto... This is not something new he's come up with recently. He posted about this same stuff back at LP too. You might glance at the Targum source I linked and quoted from above. In some ways, I prefer the Targum (memorized and chanted orally by Yemeni Jews from ancient times) to the version we have from the Masoretic text. It just makes a little more sense than our Genesis does. It explains a little more than ours does.
No, they didn't. See my #62 for a better explanation of these problematic passages from Genesis. The Jews don't have these problems because they have the Talmud and the Targums to help explain it. We Christians generally are not familiar with these sources and it gives rise to a lot of misinformation, like angels having sex with women and having children which is completely inconsistent with everything else we are told about them in scripture. They're wrong. Angels are spirit beings and possess eternal bodies created to glorify God and to serve Him. God has no genitals. Neither do the angels. They do not possess the animal nature of our bodies (which follow the general pattern of mammals that God created before he created Adam). Nothing in scripture indicates that they do possess carnal organs.
LOL. You turd burglars always have to project your perversion onto others when confronted with biological fact. It's all you got. Meanwhile, XX + XY = Human Boo hoo for you and the LGBT "gender" jackwagon.
This is one of those issues where it takes one to know one, and everyone only knows one side, not the other. Unless there's somebody out there that spent 10 years as a complete homosexual and then converted to complete heterosexual for the next 10 years (which I very much doubt), anyone who claims to know the whole issue is pretty much full of it. As for no gnu, if you chose to be a heterosexual, could you perhaps describe what happened that day when you did so? Did it happen on a day when you were about 10 years old when your parents, school counselors or perhaps your health teacher sat you down and explained that you had an important decision to make, and talk to you about the benefits and consequences of being one over the other? Was there a ceremony at your church or something? However, speaking for myself, I know I never made a choice. Hell, most boys under that age practically hate girls in true Calvin and Hobbs style. That's the popular boy sentiment, so if it were a choice, I would imagine most boys, being ignorant of sexuality, morality, biblical edicts and so forth would simply never make a choice to like girls. Why would they? So on your claim to have made a proactive choice to be heterosexual, I side with TC in saying I don't believe you.
If they were born that way then it is a dangerous birth defect. That if spread to far on the gene pool could cause the end of the species. Perhaps they should abort gay fetuses.
It's as natural as cancer. And in the context of Romans chapter 1 it's a punitive consequence. "God gave them over" to a mechanism whereby a self-worshiping culture self-destructs. It's not surprising that, as Bezmenov revealed, the Bolshe-Soviets had the demoralization of American culture as an important strategic objective.
If everyone was gay then obviously yes, it would bode poorly for the human race. Obviously if this was the state of things going back to the dawn of civilization, there would not have been any civilization. I agree with you there. It could be considered a birth defect, if it was known to be something that is determined by the time birth occurs, but we don't know that. But if so, then... fine, it's a birth defect. But it wouldn't be the only one out there. But while I don't think gayness is a choice, it doesn't necessarily mean it's DNA issue. The list of possibilities includes that but also includes upbringing & chemical exposure (Some suggest birth control pills can impact offspring in this way). Obviously modern drugs couldn't be the sole cause of it as homosexuality does date back thousands of years as you know. However, it could account for a much higher increase of occurrences.
They used to say it was 1 percent of the population. Now some homosexuals are claiming it is 10 percent. According to them it is growing exponentially. We will be doomed faster than global warming.
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#36. To: hondo68, buckeroo (#35)
#37. To: misterwhite (#32)
You're misstating what's going on. They're not only doing deviant things; they want to normalize these deviant things.
#38. To: hondo68 (#35)
Anyone who voted for McCain, Romney, and Trump has stepped out of the closet and made their gender reassignment choice clear... Log Cabin Republican!
#39. To: Tooconservative (#34)
How do you know that angels have anuses that can be raped? Do you think that angels, a separate and more purely spiritual creation than mankind, have anuses and genitals and so on? Perhaps they are "ill-equipped" for sex.
#40. To: Vicomte13 (#37)
#41. To: Vicomte13 (#38)
I'm not a Republican. Nor am I gay.
#42. To: Tooconservative (#34)
How do you know that angels have anuses that can be raped?
#43. To: VxH (#7)
#44. To: Fred Mertz (#21)
#45. To: Vicomte13, no gnu taxes (#8)
Ok. But why do you CARE? Really.
#46. To: Vicomte13 (#37)
So as far as I can see the gays have gotten their "rights", and that's that.
#47. To: Fred Mertz (#21)
Didn't you say you were a fag?
#48. To: A K A Stone (#40)
Spoken like a Catholic faggot lover.
#49. To: misterwhite (#46)
If a majority of parents don't want their 8-year-olds exposed to the homosexual lifestyle at school, what about their rights?
#50. To: misterwhite (#46)
If a majority of parents don't want their 8-year-olds exposed to the homosexual lifestyle at school, what about their rights?
#51. To: sneakypete (#49)
#52. To: sneakypete (#47)
A lot of times they were even shamed into staying silent because it was their father,brother,or another close relative that raped them,and reporting it would have destroyed a lot of lives.
#53. To: misterwhite (#42)
Some interpret Genesis 6 to read that fallen angels bred with women and resulted in giants called Nephilim.
#54. To: Vicomte13 (#51)
We seem to be in violent agreement on this subject.
#55. To: hondo68 (#41)
That won't slow down the Log Cabin Republicans in the least, they keep trying for the conversions.
#56. To: Vicomte13, y'all (#51)
#57. To: Vicomte13 (#48)
As far as being a "faggot lover", as VxH so pointed out with such Christian charity somewhere on these threads, my father died of AIDS, and had indeed caught it by being a practicing homosexual. I did love my father, and still do, so yes, I am a "faggot lover" by your definition of the word.
#58. To: Vicomte13 (#55)
#59. To: Vicomte13 (#48)
If you're a government official in a state that requires marriage licenses, I think you have to issue the license if a gay couple appears requesting one.
#60. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
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#61. To: A K A Stone, yall (#57)
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---- acceptance of homosexuals as normal behavior not to be ostricized.
#62. To: Vicomte13, A K A Stone (#39)
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Angels had children with human women, creating the Nephilim (and their descendants, the Basques) so apparently they have the equipment...at least some of them.
1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Notice that Eve had already had other children including sons. But she declared Seth as having been "appointed" as "another seed instead of Abel" and by God Himself. 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
This seems to indicate that the two fallen angels encouraged the grandsons of Seth to fornicate with and marry the hot horny depraved Cainite women. VI. And it was when the sons of men began to multiply upon the face of the earth, and fair daughters were born to them; and the sons of the great saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and painted, and curled, walking with revelation of the flesh, and with imaginations of wickedness; that they took them wives of all who pleased them. And the Lord said by His Word, All the generations of the wicked which are to arise shall not be purged after the order of the judgments of the generation of the deluge, which shall be destroyed and exterminated from the midst of the world. Have I not imparted My Holy Spirit to them, (or, placed My Holy Spirit in them,) that they may work good works? And, behold, their works are wicked. Behold, I will give them a prolongment of a hundred and twenty years, that they may work repentance, and not perish.
#63. To: Tooconservative (#62)
You like to believe that these were angels but the bible never calls them angels. The bible has no problem using the word "angels" in any other passages, yet you wish to believe that "sons of God" = "angels" and for no sound reason. Because you enjoy your little pet theory that you are one of the few survivors of angels interbreeding with mankind to create the Basque and blah-blah-blah, self-aggrandizing insecure claptrap.
#64. To: Vicomte13 (#48)
"Faggot" is an aggressively pejorative word, like "nigger".
#65. To: Tooconservative (#62)
And poof goes your inflated ideas about your alleged ancient heritage
#66. To: A K A Stone (#59)
That is evil. God would never want someone to be forced to sin like that in order to work.
#67. To: A K A Stone (#65)
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Did I miss where Vic claimed to be a decendamt, or are you making it up.
Angels had children with human women, creating the Nephilim (and their descendants, the Basques) so apparently they have the equipment...at least some of them.
Does any of this tie into the pre adamic world I have heard some teach. Fascinating as it is, I don't believe it.
#68. To: misterwhite (#42)
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In Genesis 19 the angels took the form of human males.
Some interpret Genesis 6 to read that fallen angels bred with women and resulted in giants called Nephilim.
#69. To: sneakypete (#45)
convinced he is going to hell
#70. To: Tooconservative, no gnu taxes (#2)
#71. To: Pinguinite (#70)
#72. To: A K A Stone (#71)
If they were born that way then it is a dangerous birth defect.
#73. To: A K A Stone (#71)
If they were born that way then it is a dangerous birth defect. That if spread to far on the gene pool could cause the end of the species. Perhaps they should abort gay fetuses.
#74. To: VxH (#72)
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#75. To: Pinguinite (#73)
If everyone was gay then obviously yes, it would bode poorly for the human race. Obviously if this was the state of things going back to the dawn of civilization, there would not have been any civilization. I agree with you there.
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