Quote Originally Posted by chaos View Post
i must be in the minority here, but i thought it was, at least, slightly funny. statistics aside. i'm no hater, but are we really going to defend homosexuality? condone giving them group status, special rights and consideration because of their sexual orientation? support legislation of 'minority status' because they are gay? condone gay marriage?
To be honest with you chaos, alot has crossed my mind in the past 24 hours since I'd written my reply. As I see it, it doesn't really matter what we think or feel about homosexuality. Like it or not, society has not yet accepted it anymore than they accept an African-American president of the United States. Gays will have to accept the same rights as you and I have and like it. If they want "special rights", then every other minority group, especially the one that I belong to, will want their own too.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I've learned to accept homosexuality after working closely with them and even living near them. But this morning, I was watching a "Judge Mathis" rerun where a guy, with his gay lover at his side, was suing a friend of theirs. The friend made an accusation that he was only brought to a televised court only to force him to "come out of the closet" and embarrass him by allowing his friends and family to see it on TV. And ironically, a good friend of mine told me last night that my ex-girlfriend and I will end up together again and have one or two kids together. So I realized that such an issue, though I accept it, have never been introduced to me as a personal family issue. What if we had a child and he/she told us that they were gay? What if one of my nieces or nephews admit to being gay. Would I accept them? Most likely, I will. Would I accept they lifestyle? Well, that I couldn't or maybe didn't want to think about. I don't condone same sex marriage because the church does not acknowledge it as a real matrimonial contract. So I guess that makes me semi-prejudice like most people are about race. I can live in the same building with them and work with them, I just don't want them in my family. But I'm not exactly proud of that so hopefully, I'll mature out of that attitude also.

One thing that I don't understand is the hypocrisies of most men. Think about it.....To visualize Rosie O'Donnell passionately kissing her girlfriend (a.k.a life partner) would probably turn our stomachs. Yet to see Madonna get on a nationally televised stage and kiss Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera made a shitload of teenage boys and horny ass men hoot and holler over it. When I used to listen to Howard Stern in the morning and he'd talk about two hot women kissing, I just never got the excitement over it. Sorry, but I'm not into gay porn.

But to contradict our unacceptance of homosexuality.....Who here DID NOT see "Philadelphia" and not cried at the end?