Rep. John Ragan recently sponsored a “license to bully” bill that protects thugs who want to verbally harass LGBT people based on “religious and moral grounds.” And if Ragan’s license to bully bill isn’t outrageous enough, consider if you will, that just one day after 14-year-old Philip Parker, a gay teen in Tennessee, committed suicide, Rep. Ragan had the unmitigated gall to publicly declare that gay people are “not mentally healthy adult human beings.”
At least he considers them human. That’s a step in the right direction, no?
Did You Know Your Genitalia Determines Your Sexual Orientation? This And Other Amazing Revelations From Republican Lawmaker In Tennessee.

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The Republican party sure attracts some dinosaurs to it! :o(
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Come on now, no reason to bring dinosaurs who are otherwise awesome down to the level of republicans.
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This guy needs to be dick whipped by a band of well hung homosexuals.
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Yeah, don't insult the dinosaurs! Geez! :-P
You are right, guys! Sowwwyyy!! :o)
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FYI Dumbass Republican bastard John Ragan: a person's sexual orientation is determined by their genes and hormone levels.
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And what - pray tell - is the role played by the respective SIZE of these alleged genitalia? The answer to that question may have profound implications for the conservative role in the culture wars. . .
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This guy needs to be dick whipped by a band of well hung homosexuals.
I'm sure he'd agree, if he could be perfectly candid.
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I think we've solved the whole question! He is straight because he was born with a (microscopic, under two inch) penis. I'm gay because I was born with a (blessedly large, wonderfully fulfilling, almost porn-worthy) penis. Now it all makes sense.
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Brain physiology and chemistry have been proven to be a significant contributing factor in many orientation anomalies. Certain degrees of intersexual (Having internal and/or external organs or genitalia of both genders) is also more common than most people know. John Ragan is a deplorably ignorant and vicious man. Not only is he condemning all who have any sexual anomaly, he is also fomenting hatred for all Christians and attempting to legalize abuse, mayhem, and likely even murder. I certainly hope his perverse God removes him from the subhuman gene pool, and very soon!!!
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Soooooooooooo
If you are born with both , you can go @!$%# yourself?/sarc
WTF is this guy talking about ?
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Wow. Did this man graduate from grade school yet? If so, he forgot to learn while there.
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His pseudo-intellectual reply was just so much drivel. Its sad that people cannot see their own bigotry.
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bless the young man and his family another tragedy where there are no words to ease the family's pain
as for Mr Ragan, again there are no words, to wish him ill is wrong, to wish for his enlightenment is futile, ....
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Here's part of the response the author received:
I find it amazing that those who demand tolerance from others are so intolerant toward others
No one has to be tolerant of intolerance to prove how tolerant they are.
Thank you Karl Popper!
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them… We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
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This guy needs to be dick whipped by a band of well hung homosexuals.
I'd pay to see that.
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I hope and pray that Newt doesn't get elected and little Newt takes over and determines our national orientation. Oopsie, that's off topic.
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He's gay...
Anytime you see someone who exhibits irrational fear and extreme homophobic rhetoric in regards to the LGBT community, they ALWAYS end up being gay.
It's nothing more than a cover, the more outlandish the disguise (his rhetoric) the better he feels it covers up his secret.
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I was trying to come up with something profound, something showing years and years of education, to describe my feelings about this incredibly ignorant, biased and bigoted ignoramus, but I've failed. My best description of that guy, when it's distilled down to its very essence is: What an incredible creep!
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I was trying to come up with something profound, something showing years and years of education, to describe my feelings about this incredibly ignorant, biased and bigoted ignoramus, but I've failed.
Yea, I'm at a loss for something witty to say.
Since this man is talking about one of my children I will just say this: anyone who thinks they have a license to hassle my child or bully my child will be given a firm lesson and a hard-core correction of the error of their ways. Promise.
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Hmmm....
Right to bully, genitalia determining your sexual orientation....
This guy is off his meds. Someone please get a doctor to his house. Stat!
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Since he DOES have health care........HE really needs to use it. The mental health part of it specifically!
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Cialis / Viagra overdose. He needs a detox program as soon as possible. He was in search of that infamous four hour side effect that would make working on the job very difficult.
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I wonder who he paid to spell genitalia?
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Jenna Taylora...
It's a shame that blazing idiots breed faster than the rest of us! He will probably be elected by landslide victory and be the tea party nominee for governor!
This country is truly screwed (no pun intended). When jackasses like this occupy high office you have to wonder if the world is coming to an end.
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He wanted to say, "Naughty bits." But that made him blush and giggle. The most difficult thing in TN was trying to find anyone who could spell "genitalia". He had to make a call to Florida. They know how to spell those words down in the Sin State. They say that on South Beach they actually make use of them and show them off in bathing suits.
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It's a shame that blazing idiots breed faster than the rest of us!
That's the premise of the movie "Idiocracy" -- one of the scariest films I've ever seen!
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i do believe the movie Idiocracy is a documentary, the year 2001 was its beginning, Jan 20th to be precise, all dates subsequent should be ID as in 2001 ID, for idiot democracy
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Wait, Idiocracy is a film by Mark Judge [Bevis & Butthead] based on [I think] The Marching Morons, which I read long ago in Omni Magazine. That movie was a SiFi comedy though, not a documentary.
As for this John Regan, maybe it's the Internet and cable TV that give these characters there 15 minutes of fame they couldn't get in the past. But lately it seems they are crawling out of the woodwork. I am not religious, but I think at times there has got to be a special place in hell for these wing nut haters.
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The GOP is infected with a virulent disease called hate. Unfortunately so are the people who vote for these kinds of cretins.
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The GOP is infected with a virulent disease called hate. Unfortunately so are the people who vote for these kinds of cretins.
This deserve TONS of votes!!
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And the virus is mutating at an exponential rate for the worse.
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If Barack Obama doesn't win by a 70% there is really something wrong with this country.
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Well, he has little reason to worry about AIDS. It is much more difficult for heterosexual MEN to contract it from a heterosexual partner. Then, of course, you really reduce your chances of exposure if NO ONE wants ...oh, never mind.
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But its easier to transmit the disease TO a female partner. Thats why Lesbians have the least amount of Hiv/Aids. If God hates gays, hates straights a little less, and looooves the lesbians....
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If God hates gays, hates straights a little less, and looooves the lesbians....
But straight men have the highest infection rate for HIV
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But straight men have the highest infection rate for HIV
A fact that keeps getting glossed over. Diseases do not have political agendas. It's silly to try to use them as political ammo.
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I have to stop at "God hates."
Well, try condoms. But, of course, the same fundie nut cases are against birth control.
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If God hates gays, hates straights a little less, and looooves the lesbians....
Huh... maybe there is some truth to the assumption that god is male then... XD
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He may have a point. It would almost be impossible for someone born with a penis to be a lesbian. Maybe with surgery.
Another hate monger in the name of Republicanism and Jesus comes forward to show us the urgent need to upgrade our public school system and to include sex education.
multfariousone: You make a very important point, these people get elected, and their supporters vote by the bus loads (or wagon cart loads). Stay at home or do not vote, and these people win. Vote not only in presidential elections. These bigots get their starts in elections that most consider unimportant. Make those school board elections part of your voting experience. Keep the hate mongers out! VOTE!!!!! Writing on The Vine means nothing. Voting makes a difference.
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It would almost be impossible for someone born with a penis to be a lesbian. Maybe with surgery.
Actually, I know a transexual who fits that description. He is physically male, but identifies as a woman, and is attracted to women, so he identifies as a lesbian. So yeah, it's actually quite possible.
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A note to all kids who are being bullied for their perceived sexuality or otherwise - there is no longer bullying taking place at Columbine High School. Hint number two - Mom and Dad probably have a gun somewhere in their room.
If @!$%#tards like Rep John Ragan want to devolve America into a land of hatred and their victims, let's all go full bore. John's a tough guy - he wont mind some bloodshed as long as you are following your beliefs.
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Yeah, there is nothing wrong with people who think they are dogs. The real problem is that no mutilation of the human body will allow it to appear as a dog, good thinking.
The only dogs in this story are @!$%#tards like the Representative who think he is better than other people and know best how to live their lives for them. Then what do you expect from Tennessee - the land of Nathan Bedford Forrest, America's first genocidal racist @!$%#.
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he wont mind some bloodshed as long as you are following your beliefs.
And as long as it's not his blood...
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Well it's a fairly well documented fact that homophobes all have small little penises. /sarc
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In fact, it is an even more documented fact that homophobes are usually closet gays who are desperately afraid of being 'found out' so they detract attention from themselves with such ridiculous comments!
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Indeed, if you mix black and white you can have a color of gray. However, when it comes to homosexuals, you either are, or you are not.
Sorry to say that you are blatantly wrong. Clearly you have never heard of the Kinsey scale... And as a heterosexual male, the thought of homosexual sex does absolutely nothing to me. It does not repulse me or arouse me. I have no real reaction to it. And once again, what is with you and the crudeness? No one was discussing rectums until you brought it up, so try to show a modicum of maturity.
But, it does stretch things a bit to fantasize that all share those beliefs.
I love how you immediately follow this statement with a gross generalization of the views of all heterosexuals. Irony at its best. ^_^
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However, when it comes to homosexuals, you either are, or you are not.
Except for, you know, bisexuals.
Your repeated displays of your ignorance about sexuality aren't as amusing as you seem to think.
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The photo of this Ragan guy shows that he smiles as stupid as he talks.
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In fact, it is an even more documented fact that homophobes are usually closet gays who are desperately afraid of being 'found out' so they detract attention from themselves with such ridiculous comments!
People who are obsessed with buttsecks and what teh ghey is doing are spending an awful lot of time thinking about buttsecks and teh ghey.
I say to these folks if it's on your damn mind so much, why not just take the plunge and quell your curiosity -- or shaddap about it already.
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More hate upon hate upon bigoted hate from the religious right.
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I don't think it is hate as much as just disgust with seeing an epidemic disease allowed to run wild ... to me gross mental illnesses appear just as disgusting as vile and disfiguring physical ailments. However, others mileage may vary.
I don't think it is hate as much as just disgust with seeing an epidemic disease allowed to run wild ... to me gross mental illnesses appear just as disgusting as vile and disfiguring physical ailments.
Yeah, but it's probably not Constitutional to throw homophobic bigots in an asylum...
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Wow Winston. You are a true paragon of homophobia. Most homophobes actually pretend to be okay with gays, they just say that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry. But you go the extra mile and claim that homosexuality is a mental disorder. Props. By the way, the 1800's called. They want their values back.
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disgust with seeing an epidemic disease allowed to run wild
Yeah, the way Reagan let AIDS rip through our population for years before anyone sounded the alarm is pretty disgusting.
As for your opinions of my child, I powerfully advise you to keep them to yourself, as neither of us have requested your views. Nor does my child require your permission or approval to exist.
Or, to put it more bluntly, I could give a @!$%# what you think. Think it to yourself.
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just disgust with seeing an epidemic disease allowed to run wild
You mean just like "diseases" such as hair color, height, skin tone, gender? Those "diseases"? I know what you mean - those brown-eyed people are freaking everywhere!
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I just moved to Israel about a year ago and gays have more rights and endure less persecution here than in the US. My question is why do you Americans who still have a healthy intellect and an acceptable degree of sanity still put up with neanderthals in the South who prey on innocent kids like this?! Personally, I thought that blue state secession would've put an end to all this, at least in the North. On the other hand, I'll soon be an Israeli citizen, so what do I care about what happens over there. It's not like I'm gonna ho on a plane and come back to stop you from jumping off a cliff. It's your country, you know what to do.
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. My question is why do you Americans who still have a healthy intellect and an acceptable degree of sanity still put up with neanderthals in the South who prey on innocent kids like this?!
See we "Found Jesus", the Prince of Peace, the "God so loved the World" Dude, the "Reason for the Season", the guy who's One Commandment is "Love God, and Love your Neighbor".
*That's* why we get to hate and bully Gays.
Soon as you Jews get "Perfected" as Ann Coulter puts it, you can start hating and bulling "teh Gayz" too!
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Manic
I suppose we could stop the annual appropriations and any other freebies we send to "your country" while we take care of business in "our country."
Sound OK to you? Perhaps the Saudis will give "your country" a loan?
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in the article, this bozo drags raises the old homophobic harangue about homosexuality being a choice. does he not consider that being a bigoted ignorant dickhead is a choice. it is a behavior and a thought process that he has embraced. ignorance is bad, but it is a correctable condition. ignorance embraced is inexcusable.
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ignorance is bad, but it is a correctable condition. ignorance embraced is inexcusable.
Amen to that!!
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Interesting, you comment presupposes homosexuals are generally accepted. Most I know and have talked with have as much acceptance for homosexuals as they do child molesters and perverts. If one is in doubt, this page: might provide some light on why.
The URL, in my previous comment was not allowed, here is another try: nambla[dot]org
Study the page and let us know what you think.
WinstonCourt, leave that crap out of here. Pedophilia has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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If you are amongst a population of mentally ill, and take a poll of sanity, you just might be surprised at the results, or not ...
http://www.gallup.com/poll/135764/americans-acceptance-gay-relations-crosses-threshold.aspx
You're wrong. Shocker.
Adolf Eichmann called - he want's his talking points back when you are done with them.
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Most I know and have talked with have as much acceptance for homosexuals as they do child molesters and perverts.
But I guess you would know all about that? Shall we bow to your experience of such matters, WinstonCourt?
You are the one who seems to have the major problem here. Just because someone has (or chooses) to live a particular way, doesn't mean there is anything mentally wrong with them, except in the minds of those who would give them labels to justify their own bigotry and intolerance.
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If you are amongst a population of mentally ill, and take a poll of sanity, you just might be surprised at the results, or not ...
You may be right, but Texans, Arizonans, and Georgians are still technically Americans. Probably best not to disparage them like that.
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Interesting, you comment presupposes homosexuals are generally accepted. Most I know and have talked with have as much acceptance for homosexuals as they do child molesters and perverts. If one is in doubt, this page: might provide some light on why.
Probably because you chose to hang around only with people who think like you do.
If you are amongst a population of mentally ill, and take a poll of sanity, you just might be surprised at the results, or not ...
So, in other words, everybopdy's crazy but you.
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The URL, in my previous comment was not allowed, here is another try: nambla[dot]org
Winston, you don't know anything about homosexuality, do you? I'm suddenly reminded of those 15 year old boys raised on porn who think that every time a group of girls have a slumber party they're making out together.
Look beyond the propaganda.
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What makes this man such an idiot? Is it because he is from tennessee or because he is a republican? Both seem to be legitimate reasons these days.
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Rachel Maddow posted an interesting study from Canada which found that people with low IQ tend to be Conservative and prejudiced...and it's a vicious circle. Now that's not to say all conservatives have low IQ or all people with low IQ are prejudiced.
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Interesting claim, however, sounds more like you are claiming one has a greater IQ if he has his penis up another males rectum. And, logically, it would follow that simply have a penis up the rectum results in a higher IQ ... frankly, I would question the IQ of anyone making such claims.
sounds more like you are claiming one has a greater IQ if he has his penis up another males rectum.
Wow. Bigoted and false. How you came to that conclusion I will never know, but what I believe he was claiming is that being a bigot is generally a result of low intelligence. I have no idea if that is true, but don't put words in people's mouths. You just come across as crude.
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Funny how people like WinstonCourt love to describe male sex more than people that are not hateful towards gays.
Is there something you want to tell us, Winston?
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Funny how you seem to have a problem with me, what I believe, and the detail of my text. However, if my text appears strange to you, just consider how your text appears to me, my family, my friends, my community, etc.
The best part is that 50 years from now, your community will be dead and gone and nobody will have shed a tear. The rest of us can get on with acceptance of our fellow humans as beings of worth and live and love them as Christ commanded.
Equal Rights for all.
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Winston, the majority of heterosexuals are not obsessed with gay issues. I can't imagine that a person with ordinary thoughts and desires would bother to post so many messages in a seed about homosexuality.
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Funny how people like WinstonCourt love to describe male sex more than people that are not hateful towards gays.
Indeed! I was noticing that myself. There is no coincidence in the fact that some of the most rabid homophobes, especially in public life, turn out to be homosexuals in due course. I wonder....
There is a saying that, what we dislike in others is what we really cannot stand in ourselves, but have to project it outwards to be able to deal with it by distancing ourselves from it and justifying our objection to ourselves .
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C'mon people. Winston isn't real. He's a ghost - a purposeful instigator.
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The man has a point. A homosexual does choose to have sex (or not) with a person s/he loves, just as a heterosexual chooses to have sex with a person s/he loves.
The question is, why would Ragan deny the right of the homosexual from making that choice, while allowing the heterosexual to make that choice? What possible reason could he have for saying that it is okay for two heterosexuals to choose to fulfill their love in a sexual way, while denying the ability for two homosexuals to make that same choice?
(The questions are rhetorical; we all know the answer).
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ah, the flagpin factor, it is the idiot's best friend. "damn, i think i'll just say any thing i wish regardless of how insane it is because this pin will protect me."
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Actually, I agree. Whenever you find an individual, or group, who is very confused about their genitalia and sex, you will find that is not the only thing which they are confused about. One common point of confusion found in them, they feel that it is proper for them to force their views and beliefs on others. Indeed, even to the point of thinking it "weird" to be content with the genitalia which one was born with, and the exercise of the logical and sane use of it! Go figure!
One common point of confusion found in them, they feel that it is proper for them to force their views and beliefs on others.
Ah yes, the claim that homosexuals are somehow forcing their beliefs on others. It's been a while. I know this is probably pointless to point out, since you have likely already convinced yourself that you and all other heterosexuals are some how the victims here, but homosexuals don't want you to accept them. They don't care. They just want you to leave them alone, and let them decided who they love and who they want to marry. They don't want to force you to do anything, they just want you to keep your nose out of their business.
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Ah yes, the claim that homosexuals are somehow forcing their beliefs on others
Funny how biggots don't consider taking rights away from a group of people as forcing their beliefs on others.
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Anyone ever consider that serial killers may wish for others to "keep their nose" out of the killers business? That the mentally ill, most always, would prefer for others to "keep their nose" out of their business? That even a lowly thief may desire the same? And there you present another insane premise, that somehow homosexual behavior and actions are different than examining anything else in the world which you find insane ...
Anyone ever consider that serial killers may wish for others to "keep their nose" out of the killers business?
I had to cover my mouth to keep from laughing out loud when I read this. Because of course two people who happen to be the same gender and who love one another is the same thing as serial murder. /s You present criminal activies as being the same as homosexuality, despite the fact that homosexuality does not rob anyone of life or property, and in fact really only involves the homosexuals themselves. It's none of your business, it doesn't involve or effect you, so why are you so interested in suppressing it? Why do you care so much?
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It's none of your business, it doesn't involve or effect you, so why are you so interested in suppressing it? Why do you care so much?
Precisely. That is the key question here! Very strange.
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Anyone ever consider that serial killers may wish for others to "keep their nose" out of the killers business? That the mentally ill, most always, would prefer for others to "keep their nose" out of their business? That even a lowly thief may desire the same? And there you present another insane premise, that somehow homosexual behavior and actions are different than examining anything else in the world which you find insane ...
Well murder is a crime always against non consenting individuals, and there are millions of untreated mentally ill ...they usually are detained to protect them from themselves or others, they are not capable of consent for the most part at that point. Same sex attraction is just as normal as heterosexual attraction, the only difference it is a minority of people who are. There are billions of chemical reactions that occur throughout life particularly early development a little more estrogen here a little more testosterone there in a specific sequence can give a person a proclivity to prefer members of their own sex...we were ALL females in the fetus at one point...assuming you are a man and I use that term loosely, you know that line running down your yamsack? That used to be your vagina... thats why we have gay people transgendered , intersexed and non sexed people, and thats why females could be born into a male body and vice versa.
Whats the religious rules for intersexed and transgedered people? Are they to pick one or the other? are they to be stoned to death as abominations? Or are they to go through life without having sex at all?
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Nah it is in the "jeans" some guys are born with JC Penney woman jeans and some girls are born with men's Levis jeans. Hopefully one day scientists can locate where the "jeans" are located and change them out before the developing fetus leaves the dressing room.
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Unfortunately, some are born with a preference to be child predators and molesters, and some not. I would still think the molesters and predators to be in great error and needing corrected.
Anything else off topic to say? Unless you are once again making the tired claim that homosexuals are all pedophiles, which I am really getting tired of. It's dull, and not even worth refuting, since it's so patently false.
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And this has to do with Homosexual behavior how? Most predators and molesters are straight, married with children (whom they sometimes molest) and some are even Priests.
Comment 22.1 voted as no value.
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Unfortunately, some are born with a preference to be child predators and molesters, and some not. I would still think the molesters and predators to be in great error and needing corrected.
Pedophilia is for one listed as a medical disorder while homosexuality is not actually.
And anyway this has what to do with homosexuality exactly? This slippery slope bull@!$%# of connecting Homosexuality to pedophilia or bestiality is really getting old.
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Unfortunately, some are born with a preference to be child predators and molesters, and some not. I would still think the molesters and predators to be in great error and needing corrected.
and hopefully those genes will someday be located.
Wow. Another example of a GOPer who wants to see violence and hatred spread in this country. I wouldn't be surprise if there is a white pointed hood in his closet or a portrait of Hilter on his wall. Call up Doc Brown to send this guy back to 1930's Germany where he belongs.
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Well I know and many others know that orientation is in the genes and not the jeans.
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