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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois
All of my answers were straightforward and "at least" honest. Yours were not. You automatically rule out disagreement about your physical arguments as not straightforward or not honest, which is a dishonest comment in and of itself.
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My physical arguments seem to have gone over your head. My questions about whether straight people could go against their nature and participate in gay sex was addressing the issue of gays being "cured" of their homosexuality. I simply turned the notion around, just as I turned the idea of "choice" around by asking when the topic starter "chose" to be straight. Doing so exposes the logical flaws in such thinking.
Neither you nor the topic starter chose to be straight. You just are. That's where the real double standard is. You understand that you are attracted to women and not men. But you fail to accept that there are men who are attracted to men and not women, that it somehow has to be a choice because of
your orientation.
Placing a gay person in a situation whereby they go against their nature and have heterosexual sex is not evidence that homosexuality is a choice. It is more akin to your example of a heterosexual turning to gay sex in prison. Contrary behavior in no way invalidates one's natural orientation.
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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois
You are entitled to yours, however it becomes a problem when you force others to live by that belief, while accusing your opponents of doing that.
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Exactly how is allowing gays to have gay sex forcing anything on you?
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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois
I don't want to give my blessing to homosexuality and you seek to force the majority of Americans who share this view to do just that. That is a big problem, in addition to the problem of your promotion of homosexuality. Those are two big problems that you create.
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I'm
promoting homosexuality? Sorry, I am not a recruiter. I'm straight as an arrow.
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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois
As for blacks and whites, well there was a time when we burned witches too, however none of this discussion about race or witchcraft is germane to the present debate.
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Actually it is germane. There's a common factor in all of it, including your witch burning. Religious intolerance.
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What's wrong is wrong. Consenting adults can still do the wrong thing.
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It is your contention that being gay is wrong. It is mine that it is not.