Should homosexuality be discouraged in American society. I am thinking of the upcoming "dont say gay" law that will almost certainly be passed into state law. Sadly.
Florida has a large and wealthy gay population, the Republicans may have just shifted Florida back into the blue column with that asinine law - outing someone to their parents who choses not to be outed is just cruel.
It’s a fact of life. You may not like it but it’s time to learn to live with it. We have friends, neighbors, extended family members who are gay and honestly everyone of them are really nice people. Pretty harmless people
I find it so bizarre that people think they can be in other people's business concerning consenting adults but they turn a blind eye to childhood sexual abuse, exploitation and human trafficking and those are the sex lives we should be focused on.
The law won’t discourage homosexuality. It will just force lgbt people back into the closet because they won’t have a safe place to come out.
Its stupid law. Everyone is saying 'gay' including youtube, facebook, Twitter, TV shows and movies and every stand up comedian in town. The only people not talking about it will be our school''s teachers and counselors. This was a bad plan for other human sexuality topics including preventing pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and breast or testicular cancer checks. It's always a bad idea if kids are the last to know the real facts about any topic.
...It existed when it was more than discouraged. People have been killed, maligned & imprisoned by their governments for it. What could you possibly hope to achieve? It's here, it's harmless, and it's hilarious that it ruffles so many feathers.
Because it is vital and necessary to our survival as a species and our society. Homosexuality is not and can in fact threaten both.
And who exactly would that be? If homosexuals want to engage in homosexuality in their own private business have at it, it is when they want to thrust it on the rest of us a force us to takenpart in it. I would point you to the Colorado web designer thread.
How, exactly, are homosexuals forcing heteros to take part in their homosexuality? And providing a safe space in schools for gay kids is not 'encouraging' it - it is simply letting them know that they are people and they are accepted just as they are.
As I said, I would point you to the Colorado web designer thread. http://www.politicalforum.com/index...-case-web-designer-refuses-gay-couple.597251/
It certainly shouldn't be encouraged like it seems to be today. It's not something to be proud about, it's just is. Children are constantly subjected to it on woke TV in an effort to normalize it.
You mean the web designer thread where there was no actual couple asking for services? Evangelicals are making up hypotheticals to run to a installed hyper partisan conservative court.
America is subjected to Christianity on a much more regular basis. Also, not something to be proud of yet none of you take issue with it. Literal indoctrination that mandates complete obedience vs “be yourself as long as you don’t harm someone else”.
I concur. Nobody ever died from too much information. Many have died from no or not enough information. I think it's outrageous that the people that want to encroach on everybody else's right raise holy hell if one dares say something about theirs. Non starter each and every time about responsible gun ownership. Non starter each and every time about staying out of other people wombs. Non starter each and every time about prison reform (we're making criminals, not productive members of society). Non starter about human trafficking. Non starter about rampant physical and sexual abuse in group homes. Non starter about racism, sexism and homophobia. So, like the Orange Stain, everything only goes in one direction. His very public and embarrassing nervous breakdown would have resulted in a public stoning the in the Towne Square if anybody else acted the fool he is acting. It's pathetic. Why would anybody see him as anything but a narcissistic, lying, stealing psychotic whiner?
Conservatism is the thing that should be discouraged. A sort of ingrained hypocrisy that enables one to do all sorts of horrible things under the guise of "discouraging" them in others. Ugh. Probably the major cause of all our troubles in the Western World
I have no issues with the law being equally applied — currently there are protections for some groups and you want to exclude other groups. Should accommodation laws just be completely revoked in your opinion? Will you cheer freedom when companies ban working with individuals if their message is religious in nature? Or when employers or schools ban students from expressing faith?
I have been quite clear in what I have said and what the courts have said about THIS, why do you seem to have trouble addressing it.
Because that isn’t true. Religious schools and adoption agencies that receive public funds can and do deny access to gay people while the inverse isn’t true. The same can be said in employment and housing.
To the best of our current scientific knowledge sexual orientation is the result of a complex interaction between hundreds of genes and environmental conditions in the womb. It is not a lifestyle choice, any more than heterosexuality is. As such it cannot be 'discouraged' because there's no way of determining with absolute certainly any persons sexual orientation until they are approaching or entering puberty. For that matter asking the individual themself holds no guarantee of producing a certain result prior to that point.
