If it does, we are taking a step backwards from so many years of hard work to recognize the human
rights of gay people.
The minority
of gay persons who have sought therapeutic treatment to reverse their sex orientation have experienced an extremely low success rate.
Second — I can assure you that what you are doing to gay people is not loving, because it has horrible consequences in the
lives of gay people.
This group has no «constitutional liberty» to impose its religious - specific
view of gay people's right to marry on the whole population.
And as a gay man as well as an Atheist, will your religion leave me alone along with the
rest of the gay people in the country and allow us to marry?
You aren't going to promote the continued
oppression of gay people without one hell of a fight — starting here, starting with me.
But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular
rights of gay people.
On the contrary, empirical studies have shown that the vast
majority of gay people who have attempted a celibate lifestyle end up acting out their sexual needs in promiscuous and self - destructive ways.
But he acknowledged it was a «challenge» to find a balance between the right
of gay people not to be discriminated against and the right of children to have the «best available adoption service».
While King was a positive historical figure for many reason, I think the better question to be asking at this point in time is — what do the current crop of conservative presidential candidates
think of gay people?
He and his followers at the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, made a name for themselves in the 1990s by protesting at the
funerals of gay people who died of AIDS and, more recently, by protesting at the funerals of military officers.
It's a dangerous time when you see a white supremacist killing people at Sihk temples, southern church refusing to let a black couple wed in their church, and donations going to religious groups in Uganda to pass laws that would allow
killing of gay people.
I think that our children's children will look back at history and see the cause of the AIDS epidemic in America for what it was... not just the result of unprotected sex between promiscuous gay men... but the result of religious and social
persecution of gay people that pushed them into unhealthy lifestyles and expression of their sexuality.
As for gay people — the only thing you think they are destroying is the sanctity of marriage — and they don't even need to be involved in that conversation — straight people are doing a good enough job in that department (50 % divorce rate)... marriage is taking a hit in the respectability department... but it's not
because of gay people.
I think god will forgive me, and he'll forgive everyone, but that doesn't mean he
approves of gay people, or jews, or muslims, etc...
One of the common criticisms of a traditionally Christian sexual ethic is that it forces a lot
of gay people into involuntary celibacy, which some find very lonely, painful, frustrating.
The Christian mandate for social justice will not let us forget that discrimination continues today against
millions of gay persons in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, and in the enjoyment of fundamental civil liberties.
«The presence of these two capable, community - oriented, active councilmen has shown that gay legislators will do a good job of representing their constituents across the board, which in turn reinforces the
idea of gay people as members of the community,» Queens College political science professor Michael Krasner said in an e-mail.
as for myself and a few people I have known, the
Hating Of Gay people has a Different Consequence... For myself it started one night outside of a movie theater in Fairfield CA.
An anti-gay rapper known as Bounty Killer will be allowed to perform in London despite lyrics calling for the
murder of gay people.
There is, for example, some evidence that a greater number
of gay people as opposed to straight people smoke and this could potentially give rise to a claim.
Genocide, slavery, anti-miscegenation laws, burning of «witches», bombing of abortion clinics, live
burials of gay people, etc., etc., all result from fundamentalist thinking.
A lot
of gay people feel a deep disconnect from religion because what we hear from the pulpit and what we hear in «the secret place» don't line up.
What if everywhere you looked, there were gay people and
images of gay people, and the only straight characters in ads, TV and movies were there solely to point out and make a big deal of their sexuality?