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Harmful to Minors by Judith Levine is an interesting book, about how destructive and dangerous is the fanatical move in our society to protect children from any exposure to healthy, natural, positive attitudes about sex. It's really depressing... in short, pubescents and teenagers have about the...

A bit odd to lump the two together... hard to find two topics less involved with one another than homosexuality and abortion, since queer people are generally not in need of abortions. No one can make you care about other people, but some of us see fit to fight oppression where we see it even...

'You're pure hate!' 'No, YOU'RE pure hate!' Oh, you guys... Just to be clear: Hate: 1 a: intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury b: extreme dislike or antipathy : loathing Therefore, teaching young people that their sexuality is okay whether...

Oh, Polycarp_Fan, that was a let-down. The best you can do is "gay culture does not equal capitalism/industrialism" and "No one who accepts GLBTs is actually a Christian by my personal definition?" Ouch, I'm bleeding. More generally, though, the heterosexists here (and on Facebook, where I am...

Sorry for the hijack (you can take it right back if you like) but this reminds me of M. Rochlin's "Heterosexual Questionnaire." If you want, straight folks, please enlighten us, each other, yourselves... 1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality? 2. When and how did you first decide...

And attacking a country who had not attacked us and gave no suggestion that they were going to do so, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, accomplishes this how? And... "a few hundred..." might check your numbers again on that one. Last time I checked, several thousand US soliders and...

But how can a being be both omnipotent and omniscient? If he's omniscient, he knows everything -- including everything that's going to happen before it ever happens. Therefore he can't change it, which makes him not omnipotent. If he were omnipotent, he'd have the power to do anything...

Hey now, I'm a homosexual with an agenda. Pick up my dry-cleaning, have 4th of July barbecue with grandparents, watch Law and Order, take over the world... wait, forget that last one.

Ha. I hear those "ex-gay" ministry programs are a great way to meet queer lovers. But in all seriousness... Nothing bugs me like people loathing and denying a natural, beautiful part of themselves for no good reason. In some of these stories about sexual "conversions," you hear something...

I wouldn't rule it out, but it's hard to be convinced by the mere assertion that there's a convincing argument out there somewhere. I definitely agree in general that there's a disturbing trend in our society of people neglecting, abandoning or devaluing their family ties, including, but not...

How about if I'm queer and non-Christian, but I still don't want to prove to you that Jesus didn't rise from the dead? Why would it matter to me if you believe that, and why does it matter to you if my lover is another woman? I don't have to justify my love life to you any more than you have to...

I suppose I'm blessed to frequent places with big under-used public restrooms.

Even if we go on your twin dubious assumptions that these societies were (A) "founded" on homosexuality, whatever that means and (B) are the only societies in history in which people normatively engaged in same-sex love, sex and relationships (I still can't post links, but feel free to do a...

As to the OP, that's an odd case and I can't say I agree that people should be forced by law to accept the patronage of gay people... if they want to cut themselves out of business because of their personal beliefs, let them; capitalism will no doubt do its thing and more "tolerant"...

Personally I think that the whole idea of a particular bathroom stall being ONLY for disabled people is rather unnecessarily othering and divisive. Imagine a bathroom stall only for black people or only for white people. Ask yourself, why shouldn't ALL bathroom facilities be accessible to...

I got a titter out of it, but probably not in exactly the way he/they intended...

I would hope most people's sense of their own morality isn't dictated by what some random dong chose to put on Facebook. What's this "test's" claim to authority on this matter? Its creator's ability to upload things?

I guess groups like PFLAG and GLSEN make people gay in the same way that the NAACP makes people black and AARP makes people old. To be fair, gay rights organizations and the like do make it easier for people (including school-aged ones) to be openly and comfortably gay, in the way that...

As far as I know, church marriage already doesn't bestow any legal rights or recognition; state marriage (i.e.; the thing you get when the clerk signs your marriage license) is the only thing that does that. Couples in our society usually (not always) get both of them at once, but they are two...

I think it's important to note the difference between addiction and habituation. I'm habituated to smoking pot -- it's something I do with my friends pretty regularly when I'm at school. I do it most every day, even several times a day, because I enjoy it and have no reason not to do so in...