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  • Posted By: BayArea1998 @ 09/18/2008 2:17:08 PM

    Its ignorant and uncompassionate people like drvein99 who have caused many African American, homosexual and other minority groups heart ache and pain in this country over the years.. We are all Americans, whether you like it or not and all have a right to exist and live the life were born to live. There are plenty of people who care and thanks to them, we will have a Democratic president in the White House to help this country out of the mess its in and help individuals like drvein99 to come to terms with our existence. Its people like you that make me even more proud to stand up for my rights......Love you.

    • Posted By: bizzybizzy @ 09/18/2008 2:34:52 PM

      Thumbs up. In my belief, God gives us the free will to be who we are, whatever we choose to be - and has no preference in the matter. His love is perfect and unconditional. That is, without conditions. So, whether you are gay, straight, or any other way, God loves you exactly as you choose to be. Because He created us - and how could He create anything less than worthy of his perfect, steadfast, unconditional love

      • Posted By: llittlef @ 09/18/2008 3:40:53 PM

        God does love everyone, but that doesn't mean he loves what you do. Way to rationalize pretty much anything you want to do.

    • Posted By: JuanMotime @ 09/18/2008 2:31:49 PM

      Excellent comment there Bay Area buggerer. Oh yes, we need a democrapic President, so we can be allowed to bugger anywhere, anytime. Someone who understands you, and boo hoos with you. Dummy! You had that with clinton. Where did it get you?

  • Posted By: Danielj155 @ 09/18/2008 3:40:48 PM

    Was Caylee Anthony better off with her mother than a couple who really loved her?

  • Posted By: IronPig @ 09/18/2008 3:13:20 PM

    I don't care what people do in the privacy of their homes, but marriage is between a man and a woman !
    It is your "choice" to be who you want to be, live with it.
    I am so sick of everyone wanting something because it is their turn or someone else is getting it.........
    Hey I wanted to play professional baseball, but I was not good enough, so I dealt with it.

    • Posted By: mcsaripkin @ 09/18/2008 3:40:04 PM

      And you always wanted to make intelligent comments online, but you were not able to do that either.

  • Posted By: shadrach714 @ 09/18/2008 3:16:55 PM

    Gays and lesbians...more rights than the average human but yet you still complain. This world hs changed significantly because of your so called cause. Im not anti gay but I am anti preferential treatment. Your lifestyles are not normal according to anyone but you and paid providers. No difference in you and any other sexual pervert.

    • Posted By: mcsaripkin @ 09/18/2008 3:38:14 PM

      If your spouse is in the hospital dying, you can see them. In some states we cannot. You have the right to marry and get a tax break. We do not have that right. You have the right to fire me because I am gay, but I cannot fire you because you are straight (in many states). You have the right to be a bigot....wait, I guess we do not have equal rights because I do not have that right, only you do.

    • Posted By: andycat5 @ 09/18/2008 3:26:14 PM

      This is a stupid comment. Gays and lesbians can be fired for their sexual orientation in most states,
      cannot have the same rights as straight married spouses and are attacked at a higher rate than heterosexuals. Live as a gay person for a year and see how your ignorant position changes.

  • Posted By: Midwestgranny @ 09/18/2008 3:38:03 PM

    With all the other problems in the world, I am tired of hearing how judgemental we have become as a society. I admit to not going to church every Sunday, but I know the Good Lord told each of us to love one another ( it wasn't specified to exclude anyone that wasn't like you!) and that love was the greatest gift of all. As far as people being critical of children being raised by 2 mothers or 2 fathers, maybe they need to visit an orphanage, a foster home or even a 3rd world country. I'm sure with all of our Christian values, we could agree that children are better off in a loving home than living without a family or their basic needs being met.

  • Posted By: leftright @ 09/18/2008 3:36:53 PM

    Respect is earned, no matter what sexual orientation you are. The problem is heterosexuals, which make up the majority of the population are tired of having to succumb to all the gay rights demands and complaints that occur daily. Essentially, like blacks, gays want their cake and eat it too. You not only want all you ask for you want me to kiss your ass also to right previous wrongs. News for gays and blacks, don't stand in line too long to get your ass kissed because that seesaw is coming back towards the center. I don't make out with my wife at Disneyland, why do gays feel that need to all but have intercourse on benches at Disneyland during the gay week there. You bring unwanted attention to yourselves.

  • Posted By: paulte @ 09/18/2008 3:35:58 PM

    I'm no advocate for gay rights but I think that most of what is needed for a gay couple to look after each other is already in the law. For example, the couple in Queens needs to see a lawyer to have their house put into joint owwnership. In a joint ownership arrangement, when one person dies the house automatically reverts to the survivor. There is no restriction on what you can leave to whom in a will. Legal documents can be prepared to give power of attorney and legal custodianship to a gay partner rather than a next of kin.

    The idea that gays need marriage to have these kind of legal arrangements is a false one. No one has an answer for the conundrum of homosexuality and I think that no one should be throwing any rocks at people for this reason. However, marriage is something special and ultimately comes from the Creator. As Genesis says; God created man, male and female he created them. God's design for mankind is heterosexual but this does not mean that God hates gay people. God loves all his creatures but He expects all his creatures to follow his law and his moral law is clear on the issue of sexuality. All sexual activity must be contained within the boundaries of normal, natural marriage between a man and a woman. If two gay people choose to make a life together, they must remain sexually abstinent and live as siblings (brothers, sisters) do if they wish to be faithful to God's law.

  • Posted By: CHATO4444 @ 09/18/2008 2:29:05 PM

    Penis in your rectum or penis in a vagina....Sounds like a choic to me.

    • Posted By: cchat123 @ 09/18/2008 3:35:34 PM

      Homosexual sex is not and I repeat not 100% indicative of penis entry in someone's anus. Just like heterosexual sex is not 100% entry into a female orfice. Grow up you silly person and read

    • Posted By: deebee1222 @ 09/18/2008 3:12:34 PM

      How about in the mouth. That's still sodomy!
      Remember, judge not, lest ye be judged.

  • Posted By: CHATO4444 @ 09/18/2008 3:25:21 PM

    This argument about being born gay really does not hold up if you are using logic, not your beliefs. There has been no solid research that a gay gene exists. This does not mean that it does not exist but the scientific evidence is not conclusive It has been proven that there is a difference in the genes that make up our physical traits from those that influence our predispositions. Being gay would be from the predisposition gene pool. These are the genes that infkuence your choice - being right or wrong. Here is the problem. Who has the right to consider if being gay is right or wrong. Society. From the beginning of time the mainstream society has made it very clear that being gay is not right nor moral. If being gay is genetic, and the genes come from the predisposition gene pool then if follows that society will look at being gay as immoral. This argument holds true for alcohol genes, murder genes, pedophile genes, and so on. Yes we may have these inherient genes but it is our moral obligation to make the right choices. Those who hold to that being gay is moral will always suffer the afflications of what society holds to moral and right not what their beleifs are.

    • Posted By: NerosSoldier @ 09/18/2008 3:35:21 PM

      However what society considers to be morally right and wrong changes over time. Not long ago interracial unions were immoral. Roman emporors fed Christians to lions. The Roman populace had no problem with it. I bet most of the users who have commented on this article are glad that changed.

  • Posted By: American2 @ 09/18/2008 3:35:02 PM

    I truly can't judge a "book by its covers." I believe that everyone is entitled to make their decisions based on what they believe is right. We can't all have the correct answers, judgements, or beliefs. This is not a perfect world. We all have a different opinions. In all I think that it doesn't may of one is gay, lesbian, etc. What matters is who the person is deep inside. I can't see myself to judsing because in order to do that I will have to judge myself. I have friends that are gay and I don't descriminate or treat them differently. In the end we all respond to one God, and he is the one who will let us know our mistakes and faults.

  • Posted By: knowu1 @ 09/18/2008 2:57:28 PM

    why are straight people so unfeeling when it comes to different lifestyles? don't you think god loves them too! i was always told God don't make junk! what if you go to heaven and god is different then your idea of him...will you not condemn yourself? because god said to love your neighbor as yourself so how can you sit in on what the bible says when it has been translated so many different times into different languages. did you know that ?

    • Posted By: bigford95 @ 09/18/2008 3:34:09 PM

      i believe God hates homosexuality & here is proof
      Genesis 19
      Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
      4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom???both young and old???surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."

      6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
      12 The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here???sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."
      15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished."
      By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah???from the LORD out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities???and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

      27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

  • Posted By: mike3778 @ 09/18/2008 3:34:02 PM

    My wife of just one year, just left me for her girlfriend and admitted, only after being caught, that she has always been gay and that she married me for security and the hope that I could change her. All of this even after she had been married twice before and has three kids from those marriages. There is nothing honorable or worthy of sympathy for those leading a homosexual lifestyle. They are manipulative, self-absorbed people who proclaim tolerance and love as long as you agree with them. Stand back Nazi party, here comes the gays!!!!!

  • Posted By: democrat for McCain @ 09/18/2008 3:33:02 PM

    No comment other than I just changed my home page away from MSNBC.

  • Posted By: gbluelake @ 09/18/2008 3:03:04 PM

    Everyone doesn't have the same rights? Lets see ALL men have the right to marry a woman. ALL women have the right to marry a man. So as I see it, we ALL have the same rights.

    • Posted By: sffilk @ 09/18/2008 3:31:58 PM

      I would like you to explain to me why it is that a gay man has to live a lie and marry a women rather than marrying the man he loves, and why if you were to see this phenomenon it would destroy your marriage.

    • Posted By: andycat5 @ 09/18/2008 3:15:36 PM

      No, people do not have to have a relationship with the opposite sex. Don't confuse your genetic makeup or "luck of the draw" as superiority. You're not.

  • Posted By: Danielj155 @ 09/18/2008 3:30:23 PM

    Yes, thats called'confusion'. And it is guidance, not control.

  • Posted By: shortjames @ 09/18/2008 3:07:50 PM

    More silly Bible verses. Do all of you religious people live in fantasy land? The Bible applies to Christians because they CHOOSE to make it so. Why are you so intolerant that you cant respect different choices?

    • Posted By: SonoftheSon @ 09/18/2008 3:30:03 PM

      shortjames:

      Thank you for sharing your intolerant views of Christians, Christianity and the people of the Book. It is such a shame that your responses really only show how poorly informed you are about Christianity and the Bible and your ignorance and perhaps bigotted views towards God's people. Have you proven that God does not exist yet without any doubt? I mean really proven it?

  • Posted By: Danielj155 @ 09/18/2008 2:39:55 PM

    Bride is a term for church, a group of believers. Gays spread diseases thru injestion of feces and urine. There is no cure nor will there ever be. Try exodus.com or Lovewonout.org to get right with yourselves and nature.

    • Posted By: jlivesay @ 09/18/2008 3:29:44 PM

      Jesus woudl be so so proud of you DanielJ (sarcasm)

    • Posted By: sffilk @ 09/18/2008 3:20:14 PM

      you might want to check your so-called facts. As a gay man, I have NEVER ingested (please note the correct spelling) feces or urine, nor do I ever want to do so. Plus, "Exodus" doesn't work and "Love won out" is a lie. They're both creations of the irreligious wrong to try and stuff their version of christianity down the throats of gays.

  • Posted By: dosers @ 09/18/2008 3:27:34 PM

    It's embarassing to see all the bigoted comments quoting some old book written by a bunch of guys to control the masses. Being Gay is not a choice. Apparently, being dumb and uneducated as you self-righteous foks are is not either - but I have a hard time feeling akin with you fellow 'Americans' so I at least can sympathize with you in that regard.
    Let's hope y'all don't succeed to revert this once-great country back to the dark (religious) ages. The rest of the world is laughing about us, and the oft-cited forefathers of our country would weep in light your mangling of personal choice, religion, and your attempts to circumvent the complete separation of religion from state!

    • Posted By: CHATO4444 @ 09/18/2008 3:29:01 PM

      Comment: This argument about being born gay really does not hold up if you are using logic, not your beliefs. There has been no solid research that a gay gene exists. This does not mean that it does not exist but the scientific evidence is not conclusive It has been proven that there is a difference in the genes that make up our physical traits from those that influence our predispositions. Being gay would be from the predisposition gene pool. These are the genes that infkuence your choice - being right or wrong. Here is the problem. Who has the right to consider if being gay is right or wrong. Society. From the beginning of time the mainstream society has made it very clear that being gay is not right nor moral. If being gay is genetic, and the genes come from the predisposition gene pool then if follows that society will look at being gay as immoral. This argument holds true for alcohol genes, murder genes, pedophile genes, and so on. Yes we may have these inherient genes but it is our moral obligation to make the right choices. Those who hold to that being gay is moral will always suffer the afflications of what society holds to moral and right not what their beleifs are.

  • Posted By: Danielj155 @ 09/18/2008 3:13:17 PM

    There would not need to be a cure if it was natural. That proves it is wrong and disease spreading. Selfish hedonism. Keep it out of our parks and streets.
    http://my.att.net/p/PWP-christiantruthsministries
    http://forums.delphiforums.com/exwitches/start

    • Posted By: sffilk @ 09/18/2008 3:28:39 PM

      There is no need for a cure because it is natural, though it's more natural in nature than in humanity.

  • Posted By: benchthis @ 09/18/2008 3:14:23 PM

    You libs and dems them this is bad, if Obama makes it in, you can be sure he will be supporting this lifestyle!

    • Posted By: sffilk @ 09/18/2008 3:27:53 PM

      What part of "it's not a lifestyle" don't you understand? As a gay man, I have NEVER been interested in women in the way straight men are. Are you telling me I should live a lie?

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