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#27 Oct 16 2006 at 6:47 AM Rating: Good
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I thought the whole "bad thing" was other republicans that knew about Foley's actvities and were covering it upSmiley: confused and thus denoting thier radical hypocracy and dishonesty.

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I thought the whole "bad thing" was other republicans that knew about Foley's actvities and were covering it upSmiley: confused and thus denoting thier radical hypocracy and dishonesty.

o well


To save you from ploughing through the manure that is gbaji's posts, here is the answer:

- They were not covering it up, because they have no problems with gays in the Republican party, especially those that fidle with 16-year-olds! So, no they didn't cover it up, not at all, and why would they since they have no problems with gay republicans fiddling with 16-year olds?! So no, no cover-up, no one in the Republican party knew about it, it's all just rumours from the liberal bla bla bla.

- In fact, it is the Democrats that are resposible for it all! Yes, thats right, they hate gays, and therefore "out" them, to make the Republicans look bad. But the Republicans couldn't care less since they love gays, and have no problems with gays, especially the ones fiddling with 16-year olds.

- Now please, stop talking about gays and Republicans, and 16-year-olds-fiddling, because the Republicans don't care, and in fact they don't care soo much that they want you to stop talking about it, you annoying gay-outer Liberal!

- Finally, despite the fact it's all rumours, this will hurt the Democrats, because everyone will realise they are nothing but a bunch of Gay-Republican-16-year-old-fiddler-outers!

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#29 Oct 16 2006 at 8:25 AM Rating: Default
Thanks to this thread, there are a lot of gay people out there that need a hug.
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First off. They're enthralled with me because I'm vastly more interesting then most people (including you!). Sometimes, you just have to deal with not being nearly as cool as I am. I know. It's hard. But you'll get used to it.


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No clue what Prickly City is or what you're talking about.


Ya right, like Gbaji hasn't heard of the only conservative comic in the entire paper. That little fox is a ***** anyway.


Um... I've never heard of it. I'm serious. I don't form my views because I read or heard them somewhere.


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Your statement assumes that a Conservative agenda with regards to gay issues is automatically "anti-gay", and that any gay Republican must be a hypocrite by extension.



Can you name any Republican Senators that openly support gay marriage? I think it's not hypocritical so much as "morally bankrupt" to not support your people for the sake of power.


Ah. So the litmus test for being a gay hater is whether or not you believe that gay couples should recieve state issued benefits for being couples?

Ever consider that many people don't agree with that position and are *not* hateful of gays? Ever consider that many people consider that just a plain waste of money? Ever consider that it does not actually address the real issues that gay couples need addressed? Heck. Ever consider that if most of the gay rights groups got off their obsession with redefining marriage, and went on to actually defining and establishing a common set of civil contracts needed by gay couples, they'd have resolved this whole issue 20 years ago?

I've argued this issue many many times. I've repeatedly explained why being opposed to "gay marriage" has nothing to do with whether you hate gays. Your position is just an extension of what I was talking about. Once you accept the supposition that the Republican agenda is inherently "anti-gay", it's pretty easy to step from that to assuming that any gay Republicans must be acting hypocritically. But again, you are assuming that in order to be "gay", one must adopt the agenda and ideology of the Liberals with regard to everything about being gay. But hey! Thanks for coming along and prooving what I was talking about.

For the record. Putting the quote tags around something you intend to double-quote is kinda silly... ;)


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It should also be poited out that many "pink elephants", that is the openly gay Republicans in Washington, are more geared towards fiscal conservatism, while they are totally opposed to the Republican's views on their rights, as well as their treatment of their lifestyle.


Ah. And you know this how? Or do you just assume it because you can't understand how any gay person would be opposed to the current gay marriage push? Talked to a lot of gay Republicans, have you?


Some interesting bits on this issue:

Seems that this guy thinks that gay Republicans are secretly Democrats. Dunno. Looks to me like in the closet gay Republicans are free to work in politics while ignoring their own sexuality, but once "outed" get sucked into every gay activist group out there (much as I already discussed).

And Kolbe apparently gets dragged into the whole Foley thing cause he's gay and he's Republican.

But hey. It's just about protecting pages, right?

Again. I just find it incredibly interesting that normally gay rights groups would fight tooth and nail to support a gay person's decision to stay in the closet and would condemn any group "outing" them. But apparently, that isn't the case if the closeted gay happens to be in the Republican party...
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#31 Oct 16 2006 at 6:15 PM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
And Kolbe apparently gets dragged into the whole Foley thing cause he's gay and he's Republican.

But hey. It's just about protecting pages, right?

Maybe because Kolbe deserved to get dragged into it?

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In a statement on Tuesday, Kolbe acknowledged that he had known for years about e-mails from Foley that had made one former page "uncomfortable."
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Well. Suck on this guy for awhile


Elegant rhetorical phrasing as allways.

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Maybe because Kolbe deserved to get dragged into it?

YOUR OWN LINKED ARTICLE wrote:
In a statement on Tuesday, Kolbe acknowledged that he had known for years about e-mails from Foley that had made one former page "uncomfortable."


Who did he acknowledge that to? Why was he asked? How many other Congressmen knew about those emails? Why is it important to the public that it know about the one openly gay Republican congressman who did?


Can you tell me from that article that he was the *only* Republican Congressman (or Democrat for that matter) who knew about those emails? I thought several people knew about them? What's the value of pointing out just this one guy all the sudden out of what is likely a large number of people who'd heard about that particular issue (I'm assuming the same emails that Reynolds and Hastert knew about).

Basically. He knew about the emails. And is gay. And is a Republican. That's enough for a story, right? Oh. And he went on a camping trip with some pages. Sure. They say nothing happened, but you know... nudge nudge. After all, we all know that those gay folks are not to be trusted, right?

Gotta love the hypocrisy.
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gbaji wrote:
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Maybe because Kolbe deserved to get dragged into it?
YOUR OWN LINKED ARTICLE wrote:
In a statement on Tuesday, Kolbe acknowledged that he had known for years about e-mails from Foley that had made one former page "uncomfortable."
Who did he acknowledge that to? Why was he asked?
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The Washington Post was first to report that a former page said he had lodged a complaint with Mr. Kolbe as early as 2000, which could be of interest to the House ethics committee as it determines whether anyone had been warned of Mr. Foley’s behavior toward teenage pages
Yeah, it's crazy-talk to ask someone who was on the board overseeing the page program what they knew about the pages, huh? Especially when a page says that he previously made a complaint to Kolbe and Kolbe admits to remembering the incident. There's no other reason than some hypocritical witch hunt why you'd ever want to talk to a guy like that.
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And he went on a camping trip with some pages. Sure. They say nothing happened, but you know... nudge nudge. After all, we all know that those gay folks are not to be trusted, right?

Gotta love the hypocrisy.
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A spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington said that the U.S. attorney in Arizona has started a "preliminary assessment" of the trip, after an unidentified source made allegations about the congressman's behavior on the expedition.
Are you calling the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Justice Department hypocritical? Because they opened the investigation based on claims made by the 'source'. Unless you have actual evidence to the effect that the source was some Democrat, you're just making shit up.
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National Park Service employees also were on the three-day trip, along with several Kolbe staffers and the congressman's sister
I somehow find it a bit more likely that the source was one of the pages, Park Service employees or staffers who were present on the trip. I guess the National Park Service is probably full of Leftist hacks trying to take the Republican Party down though, huh? Let's go with that!
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After all, we all know that those gay folks are not to be trusted, right?


Just the self hating ones that cover for their closeted coleuges mainly.


Gotta love the hypocrisy.


Oh, I see you actually did understand after all.

You coy minx.

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Joph. I'm talking about the selective nature of the reporting.

How many others in Congress, and how many other incidents has the Justice Department made a "preliminary assessment" of in regards to this issue? Do you know? Would you know about *any* of them if they weren't reported in papers like the Washington Post? How did they learn of this? Someone leaked it to them? Who? Did they leak just this information? Or more? In either case, you absolutely can't know that this is the "whole truth", and not just a small part of it.

Exactly how many camping trips, get togethers, parties, and late night work sessions do you think have involved pages over the last decade or two? Wouldn't it seem logical to assume that *all* of them are being looked over to some degree? Or at least have had a "preliminary assessment"? Why is it you've only heard about this one?


These events are only significant when highlighted by themselves. Put in the context of how many people may have known or suspected something about Foley (or may just be suspected of having known or suspectede), don't you find it even the tiniest bit odd that his name is the only one you're hearing about (except of course for Hastert, but the political motivation for that is obvious)? Apparently, his only crime is that he knew that a page had at some point complained about some emails Foley sent him, and that appropriate action had been taken and the issue had been resolved. Oh. That and he's gay...


It's almost comical.
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that made me think of an old 'Carry On' movie. Especially Charles Hawtrey.

Actually that was the highlight of an incredibly dull "I'm one paranoid (everyone is out to get me, especially the liberal media) SoB" thread.


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#38 Oct 17 2006 at 1:10 AM Rating: Decent
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It's almost comical.


Yeah, it is.

Defending a sexual predator that harrasses 16-year-olds, and then pretending that Republicans are a victim in all this, it's quite incredible.

Of course, has this been the other way round, you can bet all the morally righteous Republicans would've been up in arms about it.

Didn't they try to impeach some President who did not have sexual intercourse with some intern?

Thank God for the Asylum, I don't know where else I'd read such twisted rethorical diatribes.

Well, i guess there's always Fox News.
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#39 Oct 17 2006 at 3:09 AM Rating: Decent
the point liberals *were* pushing is that republicans would rather cover up anything that might make them look bad than have justice done, but they have not been doing a good job of keeping it on track, and the republicans, in their usual sophist ways are turning this into a 'you hate teh gays!' issue.









and honestly, even though they won't admit it, this will hurt their vote numbers. after supporting unequal rights for homosexuals and courting the religious fundies that would like nothing better than to turn this country into a christian version of the taliban rules afghanistan, all I have to say is karma's a *****.
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gbaji wrote:
How many others in Congress, and how many other incidents has the Justice Department made a "preliminary assessment" of in regards to this issue? Do you know? Would you know about *any* of them if they weren't reported in papers like the Washington Post? How did they learn of this? Someone leaked it to them? Who? Did they leak just this information? Or more?
I give up, how many? Do you? Would you? I give up, how? Did they? Who? Did they? Was there?

Guess what. Asking leading questions isn't the same thing as having evidence of bias or selective reporting or whatever.
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Exactly how many camping trips, get togethers, parties, and late night work sessions do you think have involved pages over the last decade or two? Wouldn't it seem logical to assume that *all* of them are being looked over to some degree?
Not really. Or certainly not to the extent that this one is after allegations were made that there was shady happenings going on.
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Put in the context of how many people may have known or suspected something about Foley (or may just be suspected of having known or suspectede), don't you find it even the tiniest bit odd that his name is the only one you're hearing about (except of course for Hastert, but the political motivation for that is obvious)?
You need to buy a newspaper. You forgot about Boehner, Shimkus, Reynolds, Reynolds the lesser, staff from at least Foley's office and Hastert's office, etc. Or maybe I'm just better at reading than you are.

Again, how about instead of just asking these ever so innocent leading questions, you actually show us definatively where they lead to? Or is it that leading questions is all you've got?
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#41 Oct 17 2006 at 5:03 AM Rating: Good
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[quote=gbaji] Or is it that leading questions is all you've got?


Might it be? Do you know? Could you? Would you? Could he? Would he? And if it was, could it not be the other way round too? Should it not be? Would it not be? Might it not be, if it were? Or not? And don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Don't you wish your girlfriend was raw like me? Don'tcha? How many roads must a man walk down? And if he does, could it not be that if he doesnt, he wouldn't? Don'tcha? Hello, is it me you're looking for? Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Who wears short shorts? What about the children? Who's bad?
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#42 Oct 17 2006 at 6:47 AM Rating: Decent
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and the Christian Right pompously declares homosexuality a sin


Why is it pompous for the Christians to express their belief that homosexuality is a sin but not pompous for those who believe it is ok to claim it is ok and attack others who don't?
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The Trib wrote:
A candidate for the Kane County Board who was facing sexual abuse charges was killed today when his vehicle slammed into a pedestrian bridge in northeast Aurora.

Brent K. Schepp, a 36-year-old father of four boys, was running for the District 3 seat of the board being vacated by Ken Griffin, and had won the endorsement of the county's Republican Central Committee.

That endorsement was rescinded Friday with the announcement of charges alleging he sexually abused and assaulted two teenage girls in 2005.

Police said Schepp was driving a 2006 Dodge Charger southbound on Eola Road between Molitor and Diehl Roads at about 10:35 a.m. at a high rate of speed when he hit a triangular cement bridge support head-on.

The force of the crash split his gray vehicle into parts, and threw Schepp 50 feet from the car and under a heavy piece of the vehicle, authorities said.
Ouch. So that's one way of avoiding scandal fall-out during your campaign.
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A candidate for the Kane County Board who was facing sexual abuse charges was killed today when his vehicle slammed into a pedestrian bridge in northeast Aurora.

Brent K. Schepp, a 36-year-old father of four boys, was running for the District 3 seat of the board being vacated by Ken Griffin, and had won the endorsement of the county's Republican Central Committee.

That endorsement was rescinded Friday with the announcement of charges alleging he sexually abused and assaulted two teenage girls in 2005.

Police said Schepp was driving a 2006 Dodge Charger southbound on Eola Road between Molitor and Diehl Roads at about 10:35 a.m. at a high rate of speed when he hit a triangular cement bridge support head-on.

The force of the crash split his gray vehicle into parts, and threw Schepp 50 feet from the car and under a heavy piece of the vehicle, authorities said.
Ouch. So that's one way of avoiding scandal fall-out during your campaign.


/channel Gbaji

It wasn't about the fact that he abused the kids, though. It's not even about the fact that he died. It's about the fact that he's gay! Isn't the fact that it's being reported that he hit a TRIANGLE suggestive? Do you think the reporter would have included that detail if the story weren't about him being gay?

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Defending a sexual predator that harrasses 16-year-olds, and then pretending that Republicans are a victim in all this, it's quite incredible.


Someone who'd likely not be labled a sexual predator if he wasn't gay? Yeah. I think that's a valid defense. Don't you?

If that exact same email had been sent to a 16 year old female by a male Congressman, would it have garnered this much attention? Even followed with explicite IMs with an 18 year old female, would it? Then followed with allegations he had sex with a 21 year old female, I'm pretty sure you'd still not be labeling this guy a sexual predator.

Flirting with a 16 year old makes you a sexual predator? Hmmm...

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Of course, has this been the other way round, you can bet all the morally righteous Republicans would've been up in arms about it.


This has already happened the other way around! Sheesh! And guess what? The Democrat congressman not only did not resign, and not only was there not a huge inquiry into who knew about his actions, but he kept his seat and was re-elected with the full support of the Democrat party!

At what point will you admit that there's a huge double standard going on here?

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Didn't they try to impeach some President who did not have sexual intercourse with some intern?


First off. He had a hell of a lot more sexual contact with that intern then Foley had with that 16 year old (if a BJ isn't sex, then how is an email sex?). Secondly, Foley didn't lie about what he did. When faced with the allegations, he admitted wrongdoing and resigned from Congress. Finally, even in the midst of the impeachment (which, btw I disagreed with strongly), no one tried to rope in other members of Congress, Clinton's staff, or the Democrat party leadership in general on the grounds that they "knew he was having affairs but concealed them".

Seeing the differences yet?

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Thank God for the Asylum, I don't know where else I'd read such twisted rethorical diatribes.


Apparently, you'd only read the twisted rhetorical diatribes that you agree with on a political level and you'd not realize how horribly biased and ridiculous they are.

Edited, Oct 17th 2006 at 6:45pm PDT by gbaji
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Flirting with a 16 year old makes you a sexual predator? Hmmm...
At age 54, it at least makes you one creepy *** motherfucker. I'm 20 years younger than him and the thought of actually trying to hit on a 16 year old gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Which, I fully realize isn't illegal or anything else and I'm not arguing otherwise or even putting this into the context of Foley. But, yeah, flirting with 16 year olds, male or female, while you're in your mid-50's is some creepy *** shit.
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Defending a sexual predator that harrasses 16-year-olds, and then pretending that Republicans are a victim in all this, it's quite incredible.


Someone who'd likely not be labled a sexual predator if he wasn't gay? Yeah. I think that's a valid defense. Don't you?


My god, you are SO full of sh'it.

Yes, he WOULD be labeled a sexual predator if he were hitting on girls as well. For f'ucks sake, we've got friggin' FBI task forces presently trying to take down guys who try to lure teenage girls into having sex via email and chat. And guess what? They are being prosecuted as sexual offenders.

This has f'uck all to do with the fact that he's gay, and everything to do with the fact that he was hitting on underaged kids. If they have been female, it still would have been a problem, perhaps even moreso. It's hard enough to raise girls in this country who respect themselves and their bodies for more than the sex appeal they offer without some middle-aged pervert trying to degrade them.

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If that exact same email had been sent to a 16 year old female by a male Congressman, would it have garnered this much attention?


In a word? Yes. By me and anyone else with half a brain, yes.

#48 Oct 17 2006 at 6:13 PM Rating: Default
Ah. So the litmus test for being a gay hater is whether or not you believe that gay couples should recieve state issued benefits for being couples?

Ever consider that many people don't agree with that position and are *not* hateful of gays? Ever consider that many people consider that just a plain waste of money? Ever consider that it does not actually address the real issues that gay couples need addressed? Heck. Ever consider that if most of the gay rights groups got off their obsession with redefining marriage, and went on to actually defining and establishing a common set of civil contracts needed by gay couples, they'd have resolved this whole issue 20 years ago?
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there was a time when people who didnt think blacks should be able to intermingle with whites, but didnt "really" hate them.

just thought they were better than them.

and no one stated that right wingers are gay haters. just stated that right wingers discriminate against gays because they feel they are immoral.

and the hoopla is all about hyprocacy. not about foley. not about "gays". but solely about the fire calling the kettle black. kind of like "who the hell are you to tell me how to clean up my house when you cant even clean up your own...." type of thing.

and as usual, gbaji missed that point all together as he sifted through the enemys media to filter out bashing points to satisfy his own sence of creating God in his own immage, and just couldnt see the whole picture.

but gbaji is not alone. we all do it to some extent or another. thats how we are controlled. as long as we are fighting each other, they can do anything they damn please. as long as they can toss out sound bites the home team crowd can rally around, ireguardless of how out of context they may be, or how much of a lie they are, we sheep will keep hacking away at each other while the wolves rob us of our country.

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Someone who'd likely not be labled a sexual predator if he wasn't gay? Yeah. I think that's a valid defense. Don't you?


No. I'm 27, and I would never even "flirt" with a 16-year old. It's... just... wrong!! And I'm not even a Congressman (believe it or not) in a position of power and influence. If you can't see that this is the real issue, then... well, not much hope for you.

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If that exact same email had been sent to a 16 year old female by a male Congressman, would it have garnered this much attention?


Yup.

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Even followed with explicite IMs with an 18 year old female, would it? Then followed with allegations he had sex with a 21 year old female, I'm pretty sure you'd still not be labeling this guy a sexual predator.


I'm pretty sure I would.

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Flirting with a 16 year old makes you a sexual predator? Hmmm...


This is errily reminiscent of the "marks" debate.

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This has already happened the other way around! Sheesh! And guess what? The Democrat congressman not only did not resign, and not only was there not a huge inquiry into who knew about his actions, but he kept his seat and was re-elected with the full support of the Democrat party!


Is that the exemple of 30 years ago again?

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First off. He had a hell of a lot more sexual contact with that intern then Foley had with that 16 year old (if a BJ isn't sex, then how is an email sex?). Secondly, Foley didn't lie about what he did.


First off, Lewinsky was not 16.

Second Foley only resigned when that story went public.

Third people hid this story for him. When it became public, why didn't anyone ask why he didn't resign before?

Simply because he thought he had gotten away with it. Nothing extraordinary there, I'm sure most Democrats in that situation would do the same.

But not getting caught is very different to not being guilty.

I honestly don't think that issue is that big a deal in itself. So, one congressman is a dirty pervert, its not a huge surprise. There are things so much worse going on in the world, that an issue like this is a mere footnote in the problems of the US and the world at the moment.

But trying to do these gymnastics and acrobatics to turn it into a "Democrats hate the gays" issue is just stupid. The more you try to attone it, the worst it sounds.

Let it go.

He's nasty pervert, that's all there is to it. The quicker Republicans accept that, the lesser the damage.

Edited, Oct 18th 2006 at 3:02am PDT by RedPhoenixxxxxx
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#50 Oct 18 2006 at 6:56 AM Rating: Decent
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Why is it pompous for the Christians to express their belief that homosexuality is a sin but not pompous for those who believe it is ok to claim it is ok and attack others who don't?


still looking for an answer by some of you "worldly educated" people.
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I never made that claim personally but, off the cuff, I'd guess it's because those who condemn homosexuality are projecting a moral judgement upon you for something which isn't hurting anyone. Which implies a certain sense of superiority for you to decide who I can and can't sleep with*.

Accepting homosexuality doesn't project the same upon anyone. I suppose if you had someone who insisted that everyone become gay, you'd have the same thing going on. You can argue that those who decry others for condemning homosexuality are just as bad, but I have a hard time demonizing anyone for advocating equal rights and awareness even if someone's 'right' to act pompous gets trampled in the process.

Anyway, I'm already bored with debating homosexuality. There's been threads enough about it in the past.


*Assuming a consentual, legal relationship.
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