This post is mostly directed to A Brown, who posted…
Quote… “I'm for equal rights for everyone as long as it's earned and they keep their beliefs to themselves and not try to get people to believe the way they do. Their sexual beliefs are theirs, and should stay just that without flaunting it around others, especially small children who are so gullible in their early years. I am not even sure I believe they should be in politics because sometimes their two lives can't survive the tests that are placed before them.Usually it ends up in some kind of public scandal.Some can't seperate their private lives from their public ones. Too bad, but true.”… End Quote
I read this post several times before deciding to make a post of my own. I’ll be the first to state that regardless of the topic, there is and always will be multiple viewpoints. I have been associated with many homosexuals through various means such as work or community efforts primarily, while personally heterosexual; I have befriended a number of homosexuals over the years. These friendships have been based on many similarities in our lives.
I don’t understand the comment about a right being earned, but that’s because I personally believe in equal rights for everyone. As to the belief’s part of the comment, never at any time did any of them attempt to get me to “believe the way they do” as this poster has indicated. The singularly primary message that was provided to me from these people wasn’t to get me to “believe that they were right” but merely to simply be accepted as they are.
Continuing on about the “belief’s thing. “Their belief’s are theirs, and should stay just that way without flaunting it around others, especially small children who are so gullible in their early years.” Maybe it’s a geographical thing, but I see far more heterosexual people engaging in public such activities that are more suited for behind closed doors than I see with homosexuals.
However, to continue the comment with a further statement that they (meaning homosexuals) should not be in politics because they can’t separate their two lives is beyond me. When it comes to scandals, I don’t even have to actually post them here but if anyone really wanted to “look into this” just a little bit further, this is what they would find…
Go to Bing.com, enter political scandals; you’ll come up with 9,820,000 results
Go to Bing.com, enter religious scandals; you’ll come up with 3,060,000 results
Go to Bing.com, enter teacher’s sex scandals; you’ll come up with 1,260,000 results
My point is simply this, if you are going to disagree with something by stating that it is wrong for a specific reason and then continue on with providing the reason that it is wrong, make sure that the reason is at least substantiated. I personally absolutely love a good discussion, I love learning new things, even if it is someone proving me wrong.
I had a lot of fun tonight searching through a great many of the sites that came up on my searches with all three of those search inquiries I mentioned. Many of the results were absolutely fascinating to me in the sense that very few of those identified in those searches actually had anything to do with being homosexual or even homosexuality itself. The greater majority of them were heterosexual men having extra marital affairs; both politicians and religious leaders. Most of the religious results were more about secrecy and control than homosexuality itself. Regarding the teachers being involved in sexual (or otherwise) scandals, it seemed that there were far more women involved in "misguiding" our youth than men. Imagine that, scandals aren't a male dominated crime.
Homosexuals are no more a risk of making a bad decision either personally or politically than a heterosexual person. If you don’t approve then have the guts to say “I don’t approve” and leave it at that. Personally that’s the point that is “Too bad, but true.”
