...vice versa? i'm not trying to provoke anyone, so any person who has an aggressive answer can hold back and not bother posting it.
i'm in the LGBT category because i'm a lesbian. i'm also a scholarship winning student, a great sister and a very loyal friend. i am completely adverse to fighting, and am for the most part a peaceful and calm young woman who has just turned 20.
BUT, when people in the LGBT category pluck up the courage to ask people with more experience questions in order to cope with societal ignorance, and people jump in with aggression and promises of damnation in the name of our Lord, it bugs me.
we are naturally born gay, or bisexual, or trans, or straight. it is NOT choice, as some of you may think. logically, why would anyone choose to be alienated from stereotypical 'normality' whilst running the risk of undeserved hatred when they have the option not to?
if i was to sleep with men, it would be none of your business. the fact that i have had girlfriends is none of your business. when i met my first girlfriend, i was smitten by her, came to be in a relationship with her, loved and supported her, and treated her with respect. this is what your sons and daughters do, your neighbours, cousins, and even your parents.
now, how exactly do you straight 'religious' people do it differently? you feel the same things we do. you follow the same instincts, feelings and signs.
if we all agree that slavery, female powerlessness, racism and violence is wrong because the victims of it have no control over their natural state, then could someone logically explain to me how homophobia is tolerated and practised in modern society?
as i've said before, i'm not trying to prompt aggressiveness because i don't agree with it. if you wish to respond to this, then do so in a calm and respectful manner. also note that although i do not share the same religious views as yourselves, i have not been disrespectful or derogatory towards it in any way, so do not breathe down my neck with quotes from the bible. i'm asking YOU, not what you think jesus would say.
no, there's a difference between asking a question and laying out the reasoning behind being emotionally heated over the reasons behind having to ask it rather than simply ranting. i'm genuinely interested in what people who do the above mentioned have to say about it. i did not once say that all religious people do it. not once. also, how do you expect me to raise this issue with people who do this other than posting a question here? do you think that by posting this in the LGBT category that i will be reaching the people with whom i actually wish to communicate? you may be annoyed by my question, but i've not done anything deserving of criticism by asking it, in my humble opinion.
@creation detective : if homosexuality is something which is a learned behaviour, how do you explain people being gay when they have neither seen nor heard of another gay person before? people have been gay for as long as people have existed! I did not understand what my gay feelings were until years AFTER i had begun to experience them, because i was so young and had never come across anyone else who had felt the same.
i'm in the LGBT category because i'm a lesbian. i'm also a scholarship winning student, a great sister and a very loyal friend. i am completely adverse to fighting, and am for the most part a peaceful and calm young woman who has just turned 20.
BUT, when people in the LGBT category pluck up the courage to ask people with more experience questions in order to cope with societal ignorance, and people jump in with aggression and promises of damnation in the name of our Lord, it bugs me.
we are naturally born gay, or bisexual, or trans, or straight. it is NOT choice, as some of you may think. logically, why would anyone choose to be alienated from stereotypical 'normality' whilst running the risk of undeserved hatred when they have the option not to?
if i was to sleep with men, it would be none of your business. the fact that i have had girlfriends is none of your business. when i met my first girlfriend, i was smitten by her, came to be in a relationship with her, loved and supported her, and treated her with respect. this is what your sons and daughters do, your neighbours, cousins, and even your parents.
now, how exactly do you straight 'religious' people do it differently? you feel the same things we do. you follow the same instincts, feelings and signs.
if we all agree that slavery, female powerlessness, racism and violence is wrong because the victims of it have no control over their natural state, then could someone logically explain to me how homophobia is tolerated and practised in modern society?
as i've said before, i'm not trying to prompt aggressiveness because i don't agree with it. if you wish to respond to this, then do so in a calm and respectful manner. also note that although i do not share the same religious views as yourselves, i have not been disrespectful or derogatory towards it in any way, so do not breathe down my neck with quotes from the bible. i'm asking YOU, not what you think jesus would say.
no, there's a difference between asking a question and laying out the reasoning behind being emotionally heated over the reasons behind having to ask it rather than simply ranting. i'm genuinely interested in what people who do the above mentioned have to say about it. i did not once say that all religious people do it. not once. also, how do you expect me to raise this issue with people who do this other than posting a question here? do you think that by posting this in the LGBT category that i will be reaching the people with whom i actually wish to communicate? you may be annoyed by my question, but i've not done anything deserving of criticism by asking it, in my humble opinion.
@creation detective : if homosexuality is something which is a learned behaviour, how do you explain people being gay when they have neither seen nor heard of another gay person before? people have been gay for as long as people have existed! I did not understand what my gay feelings were until years AFTER i had begun to experience them, because i was so young and had never come across anyone else who had felt the same.