RE: Incest, homosexuality
November 14, 2010 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2010 at 1:18 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(November 14, 2010 at 2:39 am)CarinaS Wrote: I understand why you may have thought that, but it is not the case. I am also not discussing children at all.
I would never compare either incest or homosexuality with bestiality or pedophilia. These are things that should never be allowed because legitimate consent cannot be given by children or animals.
it makes Me angry when incest is used to debase homosexuality because it is implying that, without a doubt, incest is always disgusting and should not be tolerated. I am in an incestuous relationship. it's interesting for Me to see what other people think, and I do think it can be talked about alongside homosexuality. obviously, they are not exactly the same, nothing is. but they are (or were) taboos, and both do happen with consenting adults (I am not talking about pedophilic incest, obviously), and I think they can be discussed together.
I'm not insinuating anything about your personal opinions and I agree with your anger in regards to the erroneous connections made by those who connect gay relationships with those other things. I still feel that those points were ones I needed to state, like having a disclaimer but they weren't made specifically to address your personal viewpoints and opinions but rather I answered in a general manner.
I discussed children because they are often involved, even if not necessarily directly. Children are often cited as the reason why some of these relationships don't work and are often cited as the reason why the law gets involved at all - including gay marriage and gay relationships.
It's the reason Florida has that assinine ban against gay adoption.
I assume it's because lawmakers in florida think that children can become infected with 'the gay' if they sit around them for too long.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan