Yes, can we please just ignore the crazy person in the corner?
I wish I could, but there are a significant number of people who are seriously talking about him being president....
I really didn't have a problem with the death wishes last page, Truean. This thread seems partially a place for venting. To have such feelings about someone who is actively pushing for your eradication is perfectly natural, and one very important note that everyone here should realize is you're not the type of person to actually act on those feelings, while the forces you are constantly pitted against are acting on them. You of all people deserve a place to freely express your frustrations.
Some more poison from Santorum: "No one has ever died because they didn't have health care."
Thank you. Quite frankly, I just got done with the holidays with my family who truly believes gays are pedophiles.... Yeah. When I hear anti gay slurs from young nieces and nephews encouraged by family members, it's torture. If you call anyone else a pedophile, then it's slander per se, which is slander that's really much easier to prove and win. "Of course," when you call a gay person a pedophile people "understand" (agree with on some level) that....
Quite frankly, it's not exactly but sorta like a black person hoping a KKK member dies, or at least has bad luck, but instead they get people cheering for said KKK member and saying they should lead the country....
? He's a bigot of that magnitude and I'd really say that to his face on camera; let him try to sue me over it.
I just don't even know what the hell to think anymore.
Rick Santorum - Gay People should stop being gay
Dear Senator Santorum,
Please find enclosed with this letter a pen. If you could be so kind, please stab yourself with it before jumping in front of a truck. People calling being gay a "behavioral issue," and thus a choice is the reason I was terrified to go to school as a child.
Sincerely hoping you really do die in agony that all bigots deserve,
Truean
Let me get this out of the way first: I in no way support Santorum. The man's a stupid bigot jumping on an anti-gay bandwagon in order to garner what little votes he can from the small (neo-conservative?) reactionary population.
That being said, has it been proven that homosexuality is a gene? Last I heard the entire human genome was discovered before homosexual rights were debated.
Choice, biology, who cares honestly? The main thing is the attitude towards it and the very real effort to eradicate gays.
Here's the problem: It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation. Right now we gays just lose no matter what. People are so caught up in "whether or not it's a choice, but that doesn't matter at all. They've made it so that gay people in the US lose either way: choice or biology.
If it's a choice, then it's "naturally," the wrong choice. You're an unnatural criminal, a pervert, a sinner [insert insult here]. If you don't buy into it being the "wrong choice," then you're willingly choosing to be bad.... It's one thing to be young an foolish, but if you're old enough to know better, well then, now you're just irredeemable. Also, you're even worse because you'll recruit and teach others to be bad like you. You're a bad example, you immoral bastard....
If it's biology, then you're sick. You're insane. You need therapy or perhaps to be institutionalized and cured. If you don't buy into it being "sickness," then you're refusing to take your medicine and putting everyone else in danger, it's catching and you're going to get other people sick. Just like you, you sick bastard....
See how I just can't win either way? Who cares why it is? I simply will never be happy in a relationship with a woman, period. I really, really tried to be straight, didn't work.
Being gay hasn't ruined my life, people's fucking attitudes about it has and will continue to do so in very concrete ways. Holy shit, I've lost count of the "friends" I had who disappeared off the face of the earth when they found out I'm gay. People also won't hire a "sissy" lawyer to defend them, no matter how good I am or the fact that it's often my services or prison.... How do you deal with that and the fact that the champion of your misery is being held up as the ideal to lead and save us all...? Yeah.... I vented and got a little pissed on the Internets.... How would you deal with it?