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Jan 16, 2006 10:27

This will have to be a short essay because I have class in 45 minutes. You understand ( Read more... )

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SOuL Deep bob_carp_god January 17 2006, 03:23:44 UTC
I always had the same thereoy, and in short:

The more you fight it, the more you desire it.
We are what we hate.

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mad__pierrot January 18 2006, 03:20:51 UTC
. . . their own masturbatory fantasies which may or may not involve rape by a large number of wild dingoes.

You just had to bring the dingoes into this, didn't you? {; )

On a more serious tack . . .

If I may offer a different opinion?

(NOTE: The comments below do not refer to the people you implied in the original post, but rather refers to the right-wing Christian community in general)

Now, while there is no way that I could possibly condone the actions and words of certain deeply homophobic members of the religious right, it does not necessarily mean that the people who spew this bullshit are gay themselves.

Passion spurs from an internal struggle.Absolutely. But that does not mean there is a universal basis for such a deep display of religiously-founded passion. It is true about what you say, that many people who speak out against same-sex love are themselves gay/lesbian/have sexual identity issues. But others are more products of culture, family, and a deeply corrupted species of religion. From a very early age (and ( ... )

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calibusthegreat January 18 2006, 05:00:44 UTC
No, I did not mean this to be a generalization to all homophobes. I'm just simply presenting one possible explaination, one that I have seen all too often (hence the introduction explaining gaydar)

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