So many people no nothing about gay people, but insult them! Come on! Its in your DNA! It's like being black! And lets not repeat history folks. Your born gay, but people act as if its a choice. And so many people say "Uhh... The bible says you can't be gay, so yeah..." So God has a little spot in Hell for all his children born gay?
OK, I stayed out of this thread as long as I could. But I'm still upset with the other thread,I just came from, about the lesbian couple who were banned from attending their school's prom, that I feel that story has relevance here.
This poor girl has been skipping classes to avoid the harassing student body and has seen her doctor for her shot nerves!
Please, someone, remind me this is 2010 and not 1910!
Like I commented on the other thread, in 1977 in Charlotte, NC, we had an openly gay guy who had a wide circle of friends. We would stand up for him when the bully-jerks would come harass him.
Getting back to the other thread, this girl goes, or went, to school with an entire student body of homophobes. My heart goes out to that teen, she must really feel lonely now.
A lot of you know where I stand when it comes to faith. I know what the Bible says about same-sex relationships. I also know that all is forgiven if you mean it and abstain from sinning, no matter what that was. None of you know though that I buried my father and brother who were both gay, my brother died of aids and my father's heart failed him. No one from my family came to either funerals. Yea, I know what it feels like to be surrounded by homophobes.
None of you know though that I buried my father and brother who were both gay, my brother died of aids and my father's heart failed him. No one from my family came to either funerals. Yea, I know what it feels like to be surrounded by homophobes.
Do you have 2 fathers, you said he was gay? and anyways for the harassment you can't stop that and i don't think it is that important, where i come from people constantly rip on each other for being an ethnicity, race, religion, background, sexual beliefs, and any other different thing. We all take it and dish it and have no problem with it, it is alot of fun and we all don't really even care what others say. It is people who live off of others opinions that are week, some get harassed on the internet, we get off of it then, duhh. I don't think it is right to "harass" unfarley but you have to just ignore it.
OK, I stayed out of this thread as long as I could. But I'm still upset with the other thread,I just came from, about the lesbian couple who were banned from attending their school's prom, that I feel that story has relevance here.
This poor girl has been skipping classes to avoid the harassing student body and has seen her doctor for her shot nerves!
Yeah stuff like this is no good what so ever. I'm not gay but because I live in a small Ohio town my behavior can come across homosexual in comparison to the large amounts of ignorant hicks I'm forced to live with. I get a lot of crap from people and even my friends once in a while and it's generally the only thing that people can do that really gets to me so I can, at least a little bit, sympathize with this girl.
Please, someone, remind me this is 2010 and not 1910
This is America, as far as half the population is concerned we should be living like this is 1910 and not 2010. I understand your point but it takes hundreds of years for society as a whole to accept new things suck as this. For example the white race discovered the black race (side note races don't biologically exist) a very long time ago but there is still a feeling of separation between the two.
A lot of you know where I stand when it comes to faith. I know what the Bible says about same-sex relationships. I also know that all is forgiven if you mean it and abstain from sinning, no matter what that was.
Thumbs up for some good theology on this site.
No one from my family came to either funerals. Yea, I know what it feels like to be surrounded by homophobes.
Wow, I'm really sorry about this. That's horrible, inexcusable behavior.
Please, someone, remind me this is 2010 and not 1910!
I sometimes wonder the same thing.
None of you know though that I buried my father and brother who were both gay, my brother died of aids and my father's heart failed him. No one from my family came to either funerals. Yea, I know what it feels like to be surrounded by homophobes.
I have an uncle who's gay. Probably one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. Real shirt off his back type. I remember I had earned like $100 once and took it with me visiting him with my dad. Every time I went to buy something with that money he would step in front of me and pay for it instead. He then would joke and say "If your nice maybe I'll let you spend some money." He's still around but he has the same lung conditions that my dad died from, so it's really only a matter of time.
Wow, I'm really sorry about this. That's horrible, inexcusable behavior.
Hey, thanks but really it's ok I was visited by my favorite aunt before my father passed.
I have an uncle who's gay. Probably one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. Real shirt off his back type. I remember I had earned like $100 once and took it with me visiting him with my dad. Every time I went to buy something with that money he would step in front of me and pay for it instead.
Thanks Mage, I think it's time you spent some $...?
I knew with my brother his time was near when he disappeared. That scared me. I could picture some gang-punks finding his parked truck... Of course, the sheriff's dept gave me the sad news that it's every adult's right to commit suicide, blah,****, blah. I had to convince them that it was his doctor that called me to say he hadn't shown up for his routine visit, to Chapel Hill and I was in Asheboro and I had to drive all the way to the coast, by myself, to report him missing. That was only about an 8-hr round trip so I could get back to work. The highway patrol found him close to where I thought he might be, half-way between Charlotte and Chapel Hill. Why Charlotte? We had our happiest family memories there.
Make the special time, now to be with the special people in your life because when the going gets rocky those memories will help carry you!
I have an uncle who's gay. Probably one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. Real shirt off his back type. I remember I had earned like $100 once and took it with me visiting him with my dad. Every time I went to buy something with that money he would step in front of me and pay for it instead. He then would joke and say "If your nice maybe I'll let you spend some money." He's still around but he has the same lung conditions that my dad died from, so it's really only a matter of time.
This is the type of people that the world should be filled with, instead of ignorant chovenistic pricks.
I just want to point out that whoever made this topic is also ignorant because they obviously don't know proper grammar when, in the topic, they put homophobic, when, in reality, the topic is addressing a multiple number of homophobes.
MESSAGE TO ANYONE WHO IS ANTI-GAY: Give me one thing wrong with all gay people, and I will accept it if its true, which it won't be. Also, the Nazis persecuted homosexuals along with Jews, so you're no better than them!!
Also, the Nazis persecuted homosexuals along with Jews, so you're no better than them!!
OK man, that's a little harsh, sure they both persecuted them, but you really can't put modern morons on the same plate as them. It's not like people nowadays round up every homosexual that they find, force them to do hard labor, and then kill them.
Honestly I don't see a problem with being gay. I know plenty of gay people and I'm gay myself. What people need to relize is that you need not be afraid of what you don't understand. It's ok to not like a person because of who they are but just hating on them because of what they are is not ok.
This is the type of people that the world should be filled with, instead of ignorant chovenistic pricks.
Sadly I don't see this happening anytime soon. I wish people could be as nice as Mages uncle and as caring but I don't see it happening anytime soon. ~~~~
One thing I wanted to point out (it may have been touched on earlier I don't have time to look right now) is that that you shouldn't be afraid to "come out of the closet". I thouhgt my life was over at first but once you actually do it you feel better about yourself and don't have to keep re-living the same lie all the time. Now it's fine if your not ready but if you start on someplace like here, where most people seem level headed and understanding about life, then you might find a little more confidence in telling other people.
~~~~ Now I'm not entirely sure about what it feels like to be surrounded by homophobic... (Well I can't say it but you can figure it out.) I feel lucky that I live and go to school in Los Colinas, the city where the Cowboys stadium used to stand, because most people there don't care and the school I go to has a lot of openly gay students.
