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Brace yourself, but your opinion on the matter means nothing.
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neither does yours
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There's always going to be individual people for or against an idea.
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fact
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The broader social institution holds that gay people are deviants, and not worthy of being able to marry or adopt kids
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of course there are some who think this... but i think the broader social institution
doesnt hold that ideal. hell, all i have to do is look at all the equal signs on my facebook, many of them posted by baby boomer white christians i would never have guessed to be supportive of anything not printed in the bible... i dont care what the bleeding hearts have to say... every person out there
isnt a foaming at the mouth gay hater.
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So to bring it home - why is it a newsworthy event when a pro sports athlete announced he's gay?
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its not
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Our culture has long decreed that straight men are macho hunter/gatherers and homosexuals are effeminate deviants who have no place in the "normal" world
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some of them
are effeminate deviants
does that make them sub human?
no
i know a couple of them who could out-hunt most hunters i know in the freezing ass cold too
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Things that can seem like a "who cares" event when analysed in a vacuum can make perfect sense when you look closely at their context.
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it is apparently a major event for
you
its a minor event for
me
im not going to bash the guy for being gay...
its not a big deal. for the most part the response by the fans and other players has been "your gay?... ok well can you still sink it from the three point line?"
who cares...
in the world news this week lots of neat stuff happened... yet another gay celebrity type figure ranks pretty low on the list for me.
then again... this could have a lot more to do with the fact that im not even remotely a fan of basketball and thus wouldnt care to begin with.
i guess the point im trying to make is that we as a society have to stop making this sort of thing a big deal. sure, there will always be gay haters... just like there will always be racists.
i'm just as quick to hold the door for a little old black woman as i am for a little old white woman etc etc
and i have been just as quick to yes ma'am a clear and obvious cross dresser
i have said it before and i will say it again, in my life i have rubbed elbows with a lot of different folks - perhaps thats why i feel the way i do about the subject