Let’s stick to my life time please. You and I both know that there has been a shift in ideological platforms over the last 50 years. The children of those same people are now trying to degrade marriage with the homo’s, supporting pedophiles, suppressing the blacks, and doing their very best to cause us to lose the war in Iraq. I bet next you're going to tell me again how most people on the far left are Christians. Sex education is meant for mothers and fathers to teach their children. Not a public school teacher. The only thing that should be said is not to have sex outside of marriage. Have you ever thought about how many teenage pregnancies could be avoided if young people were taught abstinence instead of how not to catch a venereal disease? Who’s keeping score? I did not lie. Darwin has taken the place of God in our class rooms. It’s a fact. Therefore God has been replaced by Darwin. Darwinism is taught in just about all sixth and seventh grade science books. And guess what, if the word “theory” is mentioned, it isn’t harped on. The author’s of these text books know what kind of power they have and use their works to further brainwash the children. What they teach in public schools completely undermines what I teach my children at home. It kinda pisses me off to be honest with you. Do you support our war in Iraq? Who is out there protesting the military, the war effort, and our leaders? It sure isn’t people like me. People like me are busy putting together care packages, having our children write notes to the troops and burring our friends and family that have been killed. We understand sacrifice, hardship, duty, and honor. These are just words to someone like you. To me, they are everything. Warmonger? Feeling guilty that I served? Lay off the crack pipe rex, it’s degrading your post. Again, who’s keeping score? No there isn’t. And don’t go quoting some gay scientist from San Fran. God doesn’t create evil. It’s called choice. People choose, for some perverted reason, to be gay. Some people may be more butch or feminine than other, but they are not borne queer. Maybe one day you will see your child at 4 weeks in an ultrasound. Oh, sorry…. I forgot, nevermind. Ask someone one day how they felt when they saw their child for the first time. They have little arms and hands. They have little hearts, feet and legs. A four week old child can move around in the womb, play, has brain waves. He or she is a living person. Don’t get me wrong. I believe that at conception they are a person and should have the right to be protected. I only pray that my statistics are wrong No, I get rapped. There is no justification for 30% taxation. Don’t go bringing up that road and bridge argument either. It doesn’t work on us here in north Louisiana. I never said that I don’t believe in paying taxes. I just don’t agree with paying more than what is fair. What I pay now is a long ways from fair. Not if it is true. Our government encourages people to be lazy. They convince them that they are somehow entitled to free money because of this or that. These same people have the system figured out pretty good. They know just how many hours they can work before they lose benefits. They know just how many illegitimate children they can have and still get paid for it. They know just how to instruct their kids to play dumb and not excel in order to get a larger check each month. They know exactly how long they can ride unemployment before they have to take their lazy carcasses to the unemployment office and find a job. They constantly look for a way to get free money and the government encourages them to do so. I should say that the left encourages them. Democrats know that the best constituency is those who feel like there is no way they could possibly live without the government aid. And I would call you an idiot, but I don’t want this post deleted. So I will refrain from such name calling. So basically what you are saying is that until the impossible happens, you support paying more taxes. With our ever growing government, ever increasing welfare dependant populace, and never ending foreign aid, there will never be a reduction in waste. I criticize my own party for this as much as yours so don’t get your panties in a wad. No I understand that completely. And since I’m such a cold hearted and evil person, it wouldn’t be hard for me to fix our little problem. You know as well as I do that there are cities within our country that have forced Christian churches to remove their steeples and crosses because it offended a muslim or atheist. What is funny is that in at least one of those progressive cities, the muslims were allowed to continue their call to prayer 5 times a day. Who cares if the Christians are offended? How about encouraging that woman to not have children out of wedlock? Or teach her not to have children if she cannot afford to take care of them. I’ve got an idea, lets start teaching them responsibility at an early age that way maybe we can at least cut down on the illegitimate children. Naw, that would never work would it? That’s OK, I just don’t want them to feel offended when I send them to the hospital. Freedom of speech right, I’ll spend the time behind bars and gladly pay the fines if it keeps just one person from duplicating their act. I know that the flag means nothing to you, but it means everything to me. Again, you know as well as I do that no one wants to institute a state religion. That term is constantly brought up by people like yourself in order to give a little credibility to your argument. It’s old and worn out. We just want the freedom to practice our religion which is what our forefathers intended to begin with.
Actually we don't use the same Bible. The Catholic Bible dates as it is constituted today dates back to the 4th century (of course the individual books date back much further) when the Church at a series of African conferences decided which books would be canonical and which ones would not. The Church decided the Bible would consist of 72 books including 46 books assigned to the Old testament. At the time of the Protestant Reformation the Protestants decided to use the Jewish Old Testament which did not include the books of Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruck and 1st & 2nd Maccabees. In addition the Jewish Old Testament, and therefore the Protestant Old Testament, does not include parts of the books of Daniel and Esther.
I learned something new. That's three days in a row. Thanks. You know what I meant though. I would like to read those books one day. It would be like discovering the Bible all over again.
Yea, Ending the Vietnam War is something to be proud of. Have you ever heard of the killing fields? Rex do not ever mock someone’s military service! The reason you have the freedom to speak your mind is because of men like Salty, and yea you have that freedom because of war. How can you be born wanting to s**** another man up the B***? That is just nasty and perverted! When two people of the same sex can reproduce naturally, I might accept it. Saying someone is born gay is an excuse for sick behavior. Have you ever seen an ultra sound of a week eleven fetus? Have you ever seen a week eleven-fetus move? </IMG> You support abortion and you have the nerve to call someone a warmonger. At least that warmonger has the nerve to look someone in the eye before he kills them. Taxes are meant for roads, military, and other things that the private sector can not produce without freeloading. Taxes are not meant for welfare. Therefore, when you tax a hard working person, and give to a lazy bastard, that is punishing the hard worker. This ideology creates more lazy bastards. . How about that woman being accountable for getting pregnant. I did not force her to get pregnant.
yea. I know exactly what you meant. They may be from a different publisher, but they both have the same author.
I challenge you to find one piece of evidence from a medical journal stating the opinion of a physician or researcher staing his theory linking being gay to a genetic predisposition and not a behavioral or learned issue. CNN articles do not count. As far as the eavesdropping topic, some of you are delusional if you think the government of the USA has not been spying on its citizens since the first world war and possibly before on a regular basis, and for things of much less importance than to control terrorism.
No, I think the question is more along the lines of 'how can someone choose to do something so disgusting?' To think that people would actually decide to adopt the hardships of being gay is incredibly short-sighted. Gay people think that what we do is disgusting. I see someone's never taken college-level psych classes. The most recent test was conducted by Swedish scientist in which they concluded that gay men respond differently to pheremones than do hetero's (if you don't know what pheremones are, there is no point in furthering any sort of conversation involving biological differences). http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399762/posts (the preceeding link was taken from a conservative website) Keep in mind that finding links between biological traits and behavioral patterns has proven nearly impossible over the years. In other words, just because some scientist hasn't found the 'gay chromosome' yet doesn't mean that the theory isn't true, because they haven't found chromosomes that yield other sorts of behavior. Of course, it remains a theory, and no one really appears to know with an advanced degree of certainty just yet. The biggest problem in conducting these sorts of tests is sampling and bias. But to say that there's no evidence one way or the other is just plain wrong.
Consider the following analogy: You are introduced to $food for the first time. You have never smelled or tasted $food before. You think, "I'll try something new!". You eat $food, and love it. Every time you smell $food in the future, your mouth starts watering and physical chemical changes occur in the brain. I think the same analogy could apply to homosexual behavior. If a person is introduced to said behavior before forming moral opinions of it, and enjoyed it, the brain might very well react the same way upon further introductions of said behavior. Such a test proves nothing if it isn't done in a controlled environment. It would need to be done on subjects prior to experiencing any sort of sexual behaviors. I believe that any of us could live gay or straight lifestyles depending on what was introduced to us and what choices we made very early in life.
I totally agree that a grown up gay person has different types of pheremone levels than a straight person. I don't see how that relates to the question posed as to how we are born genetically gay. We do not develop these pheremone levels until years after birth, most likely puberty when our secondary sex characteristics kick into high gear. This question was posed when REX said we cannot help being gay, in other words this is a genetic issue and not a behavioral one. Anyone can consciously change a bevavioral trait (unless you are rare individual suffering from a bipolar disorder or of the like). By the way those are genetic medical disorders also.
