Comments on: holding hands, and stupidity

By: Willow

Willow — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:56:01 +0000

One more thing I would like to add: I also want to make it known that I love gay people – I have 2 close gay friends and know many gay people and have for many years.

By: Willow

Willow — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:51:08 +0000

Hatred? Just because that person believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman as it naturally always has been, that means he has HATRED for gay people? Give me a break. Most people, yes, even people in the South (shocking, huh?!) DON'T HATE gay people. Also, you need to ask yourself a question: is this whole issue really about caring about gay people? Or is it really about an AGENDA amongst certain factions in government who are trying to disintegrate the foundations of our society? Take a look at divorce rates. They have SKYROCKETED ever since the late 50's and 60's when Hollywood started coming out with movies depicting divorcees and making divorce “cool” and “chic”. Hollywood is used by political interests to CHANGE THE BELIEFS OF PEOPLE. Ever since then, divorce rates have skyrocketed, many children grow up in single parent homes and have all the emotional scars of going through parents' divorce, and people are encouraged to just get a divorce when they find something wrong with their spouse. It's all apart of the agenda to disintegrate our society to make us all more easy to control by government. Look around these days – now a person becomes a celebrity simply because she is born rich and videotapes herself having sex! And everyone celebrates her slutty lifestyle. Look around – children are now practically raised by television where you can see ridiculous amounts of violence and even commercials are now verging on sexual explicitness. The political agenda is now to make it “cool” to be gay! And gay people make up, what, 2-3% of the population?

Bottom line is this: I am all about equal rights and equal respect for all people. But when this is really being used to further disintegrate our society, I am against it. What everyone should REALLY be fighting for is to BREAK UP THE MONOPOLY OF CONTROL OF OUR MEDIA. Do you know that when you are watching NBC or MSNBC you are basically getting your news told to you by General Electric? They OWN NBC and they make BILLIONS yearly from their war contracts in Iraq! CBS is owned by Westinghouse (another war contractor). Rupert Murdoch who owns the Fox Network also owns HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STUDIOS! They are trying to create a COMPLETY MONOPOLY ON NEWS AND MEDIA BECAUSE THEY KNOW ITS A POWERFUL WAY TO CONTROL AND MANIPULATE THE BELIEFS OF THE PEOPLE. But most of you people sadly don't make themselves aware of these things – they will just watch a Hollywood movie like the recent “Milk” with it's propaganda and let that control their beliefs and behavior.

By: Willow

Willow — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:56:01 +0000

One more thing I would like to add: I also want to make it known that I love gay people – I have 2 close gay friends and know many gay people and have for many years.

By: Willow

Willow — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:56:01 +0000

One more thing I would like to add: I also want to make it known that I love gay people – I have 2 close gay friends and know many gay people and have for many years.

By: Willow

Willow — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:51:08 +0000

By: Cuppa Jo

Cuppa Jo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:47:21 +0000

Wonderfully stated, thank you for having the courage to share. Like a previous poster, I think gay couples tend to be happier than their hetero counterparts because they have to “fight” for their relationships as opposed to being forced into them by a society who tells them marriage and children are what they “should” do even if it isn't what they want.

I wish people would spend a lot more time thinking about the things that make a marriage good or bad – love, trust, respect, honesty – and not worry so much about the genders of the people who are adding more love to the world.

By: MM

MM — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:10:28 +0000

How awesomely honest and heartfelt! I admire people who are able to change their own minds and be truthful in the process – especially so publically. On the gay marriage front, Other Uncle and Uncle (which is yes, what we kids called them growing up) have been together for …doing math math is hard… for 26 years. Longer and stronger than many straight marriages – Why shouldn't their partnership be recognized? My 2 cents!

By: bripblap

bripblap — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:47:00 +0000

Thank you, John – I always think that the best amends I can make for early stupid prejudices is to admit them and try to convince others not to go down that road. It's tough, because everyone has to go down their own path, but then again every little bit counts…

By: John

John — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:08:12 +0000

Thanks for your words of support. It's hard to admit to prejudices of the past, but by doing so, other people get to realize that challenging those long-held beliefs can actually lead to improvements in your life.

I read so much homophobic crap on the internet — coming across your post was refreshing.

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:45:29 +0000

Yup – we all have our biases. Some of them are hard to admit and most of them we just don't think about but they are still there.