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05-24-13 04:23 PM |
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Originally Posted by garren
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One would conclude that when a gay man takes advantage of a straight man he's taking advantage of his sexuality and trying to strip him of his sense of masculinity, his heterosexuality. Rape is not about sex. It's about stealing a person identity from him. And one of those things is the persons sexuality. They want you to feel dirty and violated. They often tell you that you are now a "b-ch" and no longer a man and that you've just been indoctrinated into the gay club. It's literally like vampirism in a way. You get bit and you are now gay and always will be your whole life because you'll never forget it. It doesn't matter if you don't practice gay sex when you get out of prison. You are forever gay if you ever had gay sex.
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Multiple Messiahs on multiple bicycles. There's not much point continuing this, seeing as you're convinced homosexuality is the same as vampirism.
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Originally Posted by August
(Post 2062079)
Biology and development do not require more distinction than slightly different plumbing arraignments. Sexuality is the primary driver for segregating the genders, especially with teenagers. Anything else is artificially induced in relation to that.
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From what I understand sexuality is but a part of it. Genders mature and develop at different times and rates, different moods and changes. That said, mixed-sex schools get along just fine, as do single-sex schools.
Also gender is split roughly fifty/fifty, whereas sexuality is certainly a majority/minority situation that I don't believe warrants segregation, and I think any segregation perpetuates negative attitudes, especially in younger people.
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Unfortunately that takes cooperation from both sides. Regardless of the decision there will be continued reason to keep talking about it.
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Certainly not the level of discourse we're having now, and certainly not within scouting troops. I'd say once the BSA gets rid of these unhelpful restrictions it will get back to the business of Scouting. The adjustment will be minor, unless homophobia takes up more time in Scouting than I know. Just guessing, mind :)
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More than perhaps, I am sure you are correct. The gay rights issue has extended to just about every facet of American life. It's almost impossible not to take a side anymore. But what is the percentage of corporate support vs religious? Something like 20/80%? What's gonna hurt more?
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Oh I've no idea about the levels, you may well be right. I'd guess more religious organisations support it. Question is whether being exclusionary and fencing yourself off to a sector of society is worth it just to appease these organisations?
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A Pyrrhic victory at best I think. I'm sure the churches and various other backers will continue with their own versions of Scouting. It's just the national non-secular organization that will loose out, and maybe it's time for that anyways. The nation is tearing itself apart on so many other issues it might as well tear on this one as well.
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The rise of support and acceptance for homosexuals (and corresponding decrease in homophobic policymaking) has been blisteringly fast in recent years. I don't see it being a wedge issue for much longer, so I don't see the "tearing apart" happening here to any great extent.
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