especially when they come into a forum designed specifically to talk about same-sex marriage and say how it's not marriage. I love rubbing it in people's faces like that. If you don't want it rubbed in your face get your face out of here.
I see. So you don't debate, you just want to annoy people by rubbing it in people's faces. I hear you.
Secondly, when I say "rubbing it in people's faces", I dont mean just here. I mean out there in real life, too. Gays constantly shriek and wail when they don't get their way.
no honestly with people like you I think it titillates you. That's why you're in here jamming your face and everything. You just want to talk about it without letting on that it trips your trigger.
Lol, you just insinuated that I am a closet homosexual like it's a bad thing. This is further proof that deep down, you know being gay is shameful and bad.
I don't deny that gay people wanted their MARRIAGE equal to heterosexual couples.
So I don't know what you're talking about
My point was that this whole gay marriage issue is not simply a matter of gays choosing to use a word in a certain way. It goes beyond that.
Fine, think what you want.
Okay, but if you're so bothered by same-sex marriage and gay people why in the hell are you talking to me?
I am not going to go back to the previous pages and look for your posts, but I am quite sure I did not seek you out. I believe I was talking to Jasper and then you started to chime in and responded to me.
If you don't want it rub it in your face, and I'm going to around every corner from now on, stop talking to me.
I don't want to stop talking to you. You usually have good posts and you are civil (well, most of the times).
If you have subbed the deep-seated desire to hear about my sex life then keep talking to me.
This titillates me. Please tell me more.
Oh spare me, personal attack? LOL. Thicken your skin.
I dont need to "thicken my skin" because that personal attack was not directed at me. I am just pointing out the fact personal attacks are not debating. Sorry you don't see this.
One gay person does not speak for the entire group, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of gay people got into straight relationships due to societal pressure against being gay. Yes, that is a result of societal oppression, because intolerance bred that kind of result. Which is why it's much more beneficial that gay people are able to come out more freely.
I would not call it societal "oppression". Societal pressure, yes.
If it's personal, it is therefore anecdotal.
Anecdote is a story. What I related was a personal experience. These two are not synonymous just because they are both personal in nature.
i don't mind gay people i would prefer not see people like you
Thank you for sharing your opinion.
Oh, how DARE THEY!!! Gay people having independent political preferences, and wanting to change (unknown) laws in (unknown) ways, and publicly expressing their political views!! THIS SHALL NOT STAND!!
I never said gays could not try to change laws. What I was saying is that you are wrong when you said this was simply a matter of gays choosing to use a word in a certain way. It's not. What they are doing has real-life consequences.
No, not just because he is straight. "Seems to me that among gay men in their 40s-50s, or at least the small number I have become acquainted with, that a prior marriage with children seems to be the norm as opposed to the exception."
But after this part, you said you'd rather trust a gay person over Dixon (slightly paraphrasing). You did not outright state it but your post implied that the reason you rejected Dixon's view was precisely because he is not gay. You did not say anything about the sample size being too small.