Originally Posted by
DragonStryk72
Okay, Spidey, everything after this post is pretty much pure crap, and I say this being in agreement that the poll is a good thing. Stop hurting the cause you're espousing, and let the grown ups talk.
Normalcy is determined by the majority of society. Hence why dueling was considered the norm for centuries, but would now be considered abnormal, if not met with outright horror. In fact, in the 1600s, it was the norm to kill all the Christians in a township you owned who did not follow your particular form of Christianity.
As to gays, they harm no one but themselves, possibly. My dad is gay, and he's helped thousands through his work with AA. In fact, now that he's retired, he's looking to go on the talking circuit. He also helps with Veteran counseling, seeing as how he was a marine back in Vietnam. Trying to "act straight" was a huge part of his drinking. He doesn't have a limp wrist, or talk any higher, or anything else. You'd have to ask him, or catch him on a date to figure it out.
I do get some of the hate, though. It's not even so much the fact of what they do, really, but there are gay men and women who are rubbing it in the faces of people. That's going to piss off anyone after a while. We'll take a member of my gaming group. He makes mention of the fact that he's gay something in the vicinity of 5 times a night when we game. It gets damned annoying, it's not like we forgot since the week before or anything.
The true aim of people seeking real equality are basically just looking for the ability to be left alone about it, to be able to be who they are without any fanfare and such. This is much the same way my dad views: If it gets to actual acceptance, then people stop talking about it, much like we don't talk much about heterosexual sex all that often. It simply occurs, and everyone pretty much minds their own business.
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