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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:35 pm
(December 11, 2014 at 6:33 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I miss the old days when 'gay' just meant happy-go-lucky. Why do we have to label anyone?
MM
According to some gay men I know, this was an actual invention by the LGBT community because they hated what they've been called before. Which would be queer or fag.
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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:37 pm
I'm thankful that Christianity continues to kill itself off more and more by the day by remaining moronic. I'm looking forward to it when there is only about 10% of these morons left standing around and wondering where everyone went. They weren't born this ignorant, it is a choice.
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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:37 pm
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(December 11, 2014 at 6:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: (December 11, 2014 at 6:09 pm)abaris Wrote: The Bonobos for example, some of our closests relatives, fuck indiscriminately. So humans should behave like apes?
Chad, you start to sound like a third rate sunday school special. Pull yerself together. And yes, if we did behave like bonobos, the world would be a much better place.
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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:38 pm
(December 11, 2014 at 6:35 pm)abaris Wrote: (December 11, 2014 at 6:33 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I miss the old days when 'gay' just meant happy-go-lucky. Why do we have to label anyone?
MM
According to some gay men I know, this was an actual invention by the LGBT community because they hated what they've been called before. Which would be queer or fag.
I have no idea, my point isn't really about etymology, it's about basic human decency.
MM
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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:40 pm
(December 11, 2014 at 6:38 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I have no idea, my point isn't really about etymology, it's about basic human decency.
MM
What has that to do with decency? It's nicer than queer of fag, that's for sure.
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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:42 pm
(December 11, 2014 at 6:35 pm)abaris Wrote: Which would be queer or fag.
Well, the original definition of queer is odd and a fag is just a cigarette.
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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:43 pm
If no one is born gay, then it stands to reason that no one is born straight, a position that is farcical on the face of it. I never made a conscious choice to be heterosexual - I always knew the ones with the bumps in their jerseys were what I was after.
If my sexual orientation isn't a conscious choice, why should anyone else's be? More to the point, why does anyone care??
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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:44 pm
(December 11, 2014 at 6:42 pm)Sionnach Wrote: Well, the original definition of queer is odd and a fag is just a cigarette.
Yeah, well, I know that.
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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:48 pm
(December 11, 2014 at 6:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: More to the point, why does anyone care??
Boru
Well, I don't. However, I have it on good authority that the inexpressibly magnificent, unfathomably intelligent and creative being who willed into existence this immense and wondrous universe really, really cares which hole (and whose) you gratify yourself with sexually.
Go figure.
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RE: Billboard proclaims "Nobody is born gay"
December 11, 2014 at 6:48 pm
Two observations:
1. Unlike with homosexuality, Christianity is a choice.
2. Unlike with ex-gays, ex-Christians remain ex-Christians.
The deviant and unnatural lifestyle choice of Christianity can be cured.
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