Poll: Homosexuality

[Furious Styles]

Anyone who doesn't "support" homosexuality is right on the same level with those who don't "support" ethnicities other than Caucasian.

There's a difference between not actively supporting it and being homophobic. I mean, what is supporting in this context? Would you have to actively be pro-gay? Well I'm not. I'm not anti-gay either, they're just people who deserve their share in life, but their way of being is not so good as to deserve supporting or so bad as to deserve defamation or persecution. it is neutral, simply a way of life. I don't support heterosexuality either, for the same reasons.

Now gay rights on the other hand, is something that does deserve supporting, but actually supporting homosexuality just doesn't make sense.

I suppose its more of a poorly worded OP than anything.

And I hope my meaning has come through properly, its a little difficult to articulate.

edit:

2. As for Leviticus, it also demands animal sacrifice (1:9), no contact with menstruating women (12:19-24), advocates slavery (25:44), calls shellfish an abomination (11:10), forbids cutting the hair around the temples (19:27), touching the skin of a dead pig (11:6-8) and wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (19:19).

I just like the idea of the Christians protesting against prawns, and lobsters being denounced as immoral. The Bible's so silly!

Oh, and well done for pointing out the ridiculousness of people claiming Leviticus as proof that gayness is immoral so eloquently.

 

[Bakuryukun]

I am against homosexuality. Part of the reason is because I am christian and in the Bible it clearly states that homosexuality is an abomination to the Lord.(in Leviticus)
I by no means hate gay people at all I see no reason for it at all, and God tells to only hate the sin but love the sinner
It also is definately is not gentic because I know a pair identical twins, one is gay and the other is not. If it was genetic they would BOTH be gay . Homosexuality is a choice, you chose to be gay.

Right.

1. Homosexuality is NOT a choice. I'm a lesbian, I battled with my sexuality for years, trying to convince myself that I was straight, hadn't met the right man, etc. Fact is, men repulse me. Women turn me on. I don't choose the way my body reacts to other people. I was very religious, but I could not force myself to be straight, because I am not.

2. As for Leviticus, it also demands animal sacrifice (1:9), no contact with menstruating women (12:19-24), advocates slavery (25:44), calls shellfish an abomination (11:10), forbids cutting the hair around the temples (19:27), touching the skin of a dead pig (11:6-8) and wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (19:19).

What do you have to say about those?

Surely, you aren't implying that the bible is....outdated?! Perish the thought, Lass.

 

[AnkaraTheFallen]

Speaking as someone who is and has an identical twin. True Idents are much rarer than most people think. Second our DNA is close enough that we can easily be mistaken for each other should something come up we're both deputies/cops so our DNA is on file and I know when mine was being filed in the NDIS it showed that I was him at first. We both have lupus and are dyslexic. Our fingerprints are different though because that occurs in the womb or something and since about age 8 we always made it a point to cut our hair differently. Different tattoos too. Also, we have magical powers.

Sorry... granted that was a pretty rare and exceptional case, I was just trying to show that identical twins can still be different on a genetic level.

 

[BlackStar42]

Hey, as long as everyone involved are consenting adults, what you do behind closed doors is none of my business. Just don't force it on other people.

 

[Riobux]

I support homosexual equality, although it's likely partly because I'm partially homosexual. Also, because I'm incredibly fanatical about the concept of equality.

 

[BanthaFodder]

I'm kinda indifferent... I mean, I'm not running around cheering "IT GETS BETTER!!!", I'm not a gay rights activist or anything.
the way I see it, there's no harm in gays recieving the same treatment as everyone else.
so I support gay marriage and such, but I'm not really an activist or anything.

 

[Sporky111]

I'm gay, so . . . yeah I guess so. I find it kind of stupid that there's a question of whether or not people support it (not a stab at the OP's wording). That's like asking someone if they support people being of a different race, or if they support people being abnormally tall.

It's good to be Canadian. Gay rights haven't been swept under the rug and ignored.

 

[Tripple W]

I support it 100% my answer is cliche because as a Gay women & I know that not everyone is fine with it but hey its America its your right to be against it just as its my right to want to get married in a nice church without being lynch mobbed

 

[Macgyvercas]

I take the same stance on homosexuality that I take on everything else:

As long as you aren't preachy or a jerk, I have no problems with you.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I wouldn't really say support is the right word but I wouldn't say it's complete indifference either. I guess it's kind of circumstantial support. I "support" gay rights because I'm against oppression, not really because I passionately want them to be able to marry each other.

 

[Da pyro man 999]

I tend not to care, gay or not. Do with your life what you wish

 

[CommanderKirov]

I am against homosexuality. Part of the reason is because I am christian and in the Bible it clearly states that homosexuality is an abomination to the Lord.(in Leviticus)
I by no means hate gay people at all I see no reason for it at all, and God tells to only hate the sin but love the sinner
It also is definately is not gentic because I know a pair identical twins, one is gay and the other is not. If it was genetic they would BOTH be gay . Homosexuality is a choice, you chose to be gay.

Hello. I'm a Christian too and I'm sorry to say but people like you give us a bad name. If you take things placed in Bible as gospel without trying to understand it you are a foolish person.

Leviticus is full of pointless things that Vatican denounced quite some time ago

LIKE PUNISHING THE FOLLOWING:
Wearing Clothes made out of fake fiber
Having tattoos
SHAVING.

Also it claimed that stoning people to death is allright.


Seriously, as a Christians we have to move away from this close minded Medival view and make Bible a thing to draw lessons that we can dwell upon. Not just shamelessly throw around quotations and claim this is not how the God wanted it.

Are you against Evolution too? Because Pope Joan Paul II'nd actually acknowelged it as a fact.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I'm gonna use the R word, so please be nice.

I'm indifferent about the whole thing, and to echo what someone else has already said, my religion says it's wrong, but I'm not gonna condemn anyone for what makes them happy. I personally don't agree with it, but who am I to say otherwise if that person is happy with who they are. I'm more of a 'do whatever you want as long as you don't hurt anyone' kind of person.

As I've said, my religion says it's wrong, but it also says to love each other as yourself. If you can't do that for other people then you are lying to yourself.

Side note, why does captcha keep giving me greek letters after several refreshes? Is it trying to tell me to learn greek?

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

Homosexuality is bad because it doesn't reproduce

It's also good because there's already way too many of us.

let people stick it wherever they like, I'm as indifferent as indifferent can be.

 

[Baradiel]

It's interesting to see all these brand new accounts, specially created to post in this thread...

I am against homosexuality. Part of the reason is because I am christian and in the Bible it clearly states that homosexuality is an abomination to the Lord.(in Leviticus)
I by no means hate gay people at all I see no reason for it at all, and God tells to only hate the sin but love the sinner
It also is definately is not gentic because I know a pair identical twins, one is gay and the other is not. If it was genetic they would BOTH be gay . Homosexuality is a choice, you chose to be gay.

Right.

1. Homosexuality is NOT a choice. I'm a lesbian, I battled with my sexuality for years, trying to convince myself that I was straight, hadn't met the right man, etc. Fact is, men repulse me. Women turn me on. I don't choose the way my body reacts to other people. I was very religious, but I could not force myself to be straight, because I am not.

2. As for Leviticus, it also demands animal sacrifice (1:9), no contact with menstruating women (12:19-24), advocates slavery (25:44), calls shellfish an abomination (11:10), forbids cutting the hair around the temples (19:27), touching the skin of a dead pig (11:6-8) and wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (19:19).

What do you have to say about those?

I want to shake your hand and give you a cookie. Seriously.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Way to go, you missed the point. I didn't say they were good, in fact I don't like quite a few of their songs because they're too slow for my tastes. I said talented. Talented as in skilled. As in they play complicated rifts and have evidently put a lot of time and effort into their music. Good has nothing to do with it. Remember that part where I said they were talented "REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH YOU LIKED THEM." It's like Bach or Leonardo De Vinci; You don't have to like it, but it took skill to do (note: Led Zeppelin is not at the level of these artists this is an analogy). Furthermore one post is not a profile for my entire world view; I don't view everything too much in black and white, stop talking about me like you know me. I mentioned a few topics that had concrete right and wrong and I in no way white washed that over every topic ever. I was making points about certain cases and certain things, there is plenty of places where neutrality/gray area is fine (see: abortion, US involvement in the Libyan rebellion, video game preferences, age of consent etc.) my point is that homosexuality is not one of those.

That's reasonable. When I read your post It came off to me as if you were trying to say that there's either a right or a wrong.

 

[PatSilverFox]

Why can't everyone be tolerant about everyone else.
Why is the world so mean T_T

Yes I support it.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

Support homosexuality?

I don't know that I do. I don't particularly support any particular form of sexuality be it, hetero, homo, bi, transgendered or whatever else people might feel up to. It's not my place to support, nor is it my place to have any say in the matter whatsoever.

I do however support equality for all sexualities, without a second of doubt.

The sheer notion that I (or anyone else) has any right to make life miserable for a group of people is mind boggling. It's arrogant in the extreme to deny gay marriages, I find. And the reasons listed is often spurious as all hell. What will I tell my children a mother may ask. I don't know, nor do I care. They're your damn children. Raise them to be decent people and that should be that?

But two men get married it ruins marriage, a man might say. How? I'm fairly sure that the two gay dudes aren't going to steal your wife mate. Granted she might leave you for another lady, but if that's the case, well, then the marriage was doomed in the first place.

Anyone who has a problem with homosexuality is just wrong. There is nothing, be it morally, biologically, ethically or what have you wrong with being gay.

There is however something wrong with being so supremely arrogant as to presume you can dictate how other people live their lives. That fact that we even have this debate in the year of the future 2011 is baffling.

I furthermore posit this: the more gay guys there is the more women will be left thus enhancing my chances of finding someone at some point. So from a purely silly standpoint, I guess I do support it after all.

 

[PatSilverFox]

It's interesting to see all these brand new accounts, specially created to post in this thread...

I am against homosexuality. Part of the reason is because I am christian and in the Bible it clearly states that homosexuality is an abomination to the Lord.(in Leviticus)
I by no means hate gay people at all I see no reason for it at all, and God tells to only hate the sin but love the sinner
It also is definately is not gentic because I know a pair identical twins, one is gay and the other is not. If it was genetic they would BOTH be gay . Homosexuality is a choice, you chose to be gay.

Right.

1. Homosexuality is NOT a choice. I'm a lesbian, I battled with my sexuality for years, trying to convince myself that I was straight, hadn't met the right man, etc. Fact is, men repulse me. Women turn me on. I don't choose the way my body reacts to other people. I was very religious, but I could not force myself to be straight, because I am not.

2. As for Leviticus, it also demands animal sacrifice (1:9), no contact with menstruating women (12:19-24), advocates slavery (25:44), calls shellfish an abomination (11:10), forbids cutting the hair around the temples (19:27), touching the skin of a dead pig (11:6-8) and wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (19:19).

What do you have to say about those?

I want to shake your hand and give you a cookie. Seriously.

Whoever wrote this saved me a TON of time thank you.
I also tried to be straight but it is really impossible for me :c
Not a choice, no.
But even if it was, why should it matter?