A Gay Marriage Surge

bdsleepy From your various posts, I am starting to believe that you don't actually love your spouse, and only married them because it is the only "legal and acceptable choice". You did not do this of a natural desire to be with your opposite sex partner, or to have children, you did this because you are supposed to. You went through all that inconvenience out of civic and moral duty, not from sexual attraction in the slightest. In your posting you stated that this is what you are teaching your children. It is not acceptable for them to mate with someone out of love, only out of moral recititude, according to you and your religion that is.

You really don't get it do you. A person's likes and dislikes are chemically ingrained, and are unchangeable. Someone might tell me all the like that I should like turnips, how great they are, how good for me. But the taste makes me want to throw up - it runs in the family, my Dad hates turnips too. Homosexuality makes you want to throw up - it is repugnant to you, but you don't have the human understanding to appreciate that Nature in all its variety specifically prevents you and your ilk from trying to bully everyone into subjection and make us all the same.

If sexual orientation were a choice, then there would be no homosexuality, period.

Why 'choose' an orientation that causes so much hatred, discrimination, loss of love and respect from family, friends and peers for so many unfortunates? Now if I have finally convinced you that a sexual orientation is innate, your response may well be - ok then you must be celibate for your entire natural life, no relationship with a soul, not even masturbation. It's easy for you to promote such 'standards', or to claim (falsely in my view) that God teaches this, if you are not doing it yourself.

If, as I strongly suspect, that is your attutide, then obviously we shall have to agree to disagree. That won't stop me from standing for my rights and those of my peers however. The rest of those reading these posts maybe will start to appreciate what we're up against.

Comment: bdsleepy With your attitude, if any of your kids turns out to be homosexual, they may well become so depressed they will suicide. Gay kids suicide at 6 times the national rate because of rejection and disenfranchisement by their peer group, their church, their schools and worst of all, their families. If you accepted and loved a gay child, they would not do this. The family should be a fortress against hatreds.

Don't think you can "bring up your kids to be heterosexual" -I was brought up as straight as a toothpick. My parents are heterosexual, as are all my siblings and cousins, my church taught only heterosexuality as a possible relationship, all the movies I watched had hetero relationships. At no point in my childhood was I exposed to homosexuality. None. One day, as happens for all teenagers, I started to become sexually aware. Of Men. It is to a male and a male only that I have ever had any sexual attraction. It would have been a thousand times more convenient for it to have been female, because then I would have fitted into the box, but it wasn't. I won't waste valuable space here with the minutiae of all the things I went through, including my own suicide, from which I incredibly recovered, albeit substantially disabled, but let me tell you this, you cannot judge others unless you have walked a mile in their mocassins.

If your child grows up and loves somebody, and that somebody loves them back, that is the greatest happiness they might know. Don't rob them of that, or you may one day find yourself without their love, and possibly without theiir life as well.

It was through my own suicide that my parents became aware of my homosexualty. Now, two generations later, I have learned to accept and value myself as I am. Fortunately for me, I live in an age where it is possible at last to do this with the love and support of family, friends and peers.