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Caligastia
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Originally posted by SlowwHand
Bullshit, Cal.
The majority here, for right ot wrong, labe me a religious right winger, and I have said time and again that Gays don't choose.
I'll say this, I get tired of Gays, Blacks, New Zealanders, whomever thinking it's terrible to generalize about their specific group, but quite all right to generalize about others.
You do that, you can go **** yourself as far as I'm concerned. |
There's a difference between a generalization and a blanket statement, and there's also a difference between what we each mean by "religious right". To clarify - I meant to say that right-wing christians generally consider homosexuality to be a choice. Whether you choose to wear the "religious right wing" label is up to you.
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Anita Blake
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I can understand where the Bush administration is coming from because of my own religious background. They are afarid that if homosexuality is genetic that this would make the children that are born "more likely" to be homosexual. However, in the Deaf community, there was a lesbian couple who intentionally had a Deaf baby. This brought out an outcry from the public because people see it as condeming the child to having a disability: something that deviates from the norm. I think this is what the Bush administration is trying to do, but in either case (the case of seeing deafness or homosexuality), classifying these as a disability is wrong. I don't think that the government should be allowed to discriminate in this way. Whether the sperm donor is homosexual should be like any other characteristic listed on their bio sheet.
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Anita Blake
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how would you classify to Deaf women trying to have a child that is like them as wackos?
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Anita Blake
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and i'm not a dl
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Anita Blake
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they are. maybe i took it wrong, but i took it as mr fun saying that they were wackos b/c they were trying to have a deaf baby. if i misudnerstood that, then i take my comment back
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Anita Blake
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BTW, what do the little dancing smileys mean?
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Asher
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Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:36
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam Smith
I don’t even know where to start with you idiots…
First, basic public health. If you are trying to prevent the spread of an infectious disease, first you screen out high risk populations based on risk factors, then you test. You do it this way because testing is time-consuming and expensive. Gay men are high risk for HIV, so they get screened out just like other high risk groups such as drug users, people who have contact with hepatitis, or literally 20 other risk factors in the regs, including risk factors that heterosexuals face. |
Give me a break -- you would have a point if maybe 50% of the gay population had HIV, but the VAST majority do not.
11,686 gay men were diagnosed worldwide with HIV during 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, while 40,000 people are diagnosed with AIDS every year (so about 11,686/160,000 of cases involve gay men...). You're an economist, I'll let you figure out the percentage of that...
Further, if we're going to isolate minorities for AIDs infections, blacks are way more likely -- out of any minority (sexuality, skincolor, religion, whatever) to have HIV, so as a cost-cutting measure why are they allowed to donate blood and sperm if gays cannot? Black people account for 55% of all people infected with HIV.
So a minority in which 7.3% of all cases belong to is banned from blood/sperm donations, while a minority in which 55% of all cases belong to is permitted.
Obviously, your argument is bunk.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3242686.stm
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21-05-2004 02:31
I'd actually call myself a Republican if they'd jettison the Robertson wing.
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