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Sigh. Statements like this make me want to cry or scream. They force me to laugh. "If homosexuality is a disease, let's call in queer to work. 'Hello, can't work today, still queer.'" - Stephanie Strong I like juantoo3's idea about social security disability payments.:D Imagine this thread...

They're not? Gender discrimination: "She's too emotional, and she'd call in sick once a month. We can't hire her." Race discrimination: "I didn't rent the apartment to him because he'd be playing that loud 'music' all the time." Age discrimination: "Let's not hire him. He'd be too slow."...

Ah. I do genuinely appreciate the fact that you have a higher opinion of me than of most homosexuals you have encountered. I would also venture to say that I personally know many more "exceptions" than "rules". Perhaps your experiences are, as occurs with so many groups, a case of the loud-mouth...

Dear Quahom, that is wonderful that you feel that way, but in the eyes of the law we do not have "basic rights like everyone else". In nearly every state in the US, if I were (heaven forbid) in the hospital in intensive care, my partner would not be allowed to visit me, nor to have any say in my...

I got it, and I'm 31. But then I'm kind of a music nerd. :rolleyes: When I was in high school (late 80's) I was jealous of my uncle for having been a teenager in the 40's because it meant he got to dance the jitterbug and listen to big band music.

May you all have a blessed and love-filled Holiday, whichever one(s) you celebrate. lunamoth and everyone else who is travelling, come home safely! Scarlet

Oh no, you are soooooo right - coming as I do from a long line of professional Lutherans, I can pretty authoritatively say that Lutherans don't go in for that sort of thing. Speaking in tongues, that is. I don't recall a concrete reason ever being given, though I could ask my mom or uncle if...

Not exactly a joke (I can never remember the clean ones), just the best graffito ever: I couldn't eat breakfast because I was thinking of you. I couldn't eat lunch because I was thinking of you. I couldn't eat dinner because I was thinking of you. I couldn't sleep because I was hungry.

How beautiful. Thank you, both of you, and thank you, wil, for your thoughts in the OP. These are things that have troubled me, too, and I have been given much food for thought in this thread. Dondi, I like the quote from Harold Storm which you mentioned in another thread: "The best religion is...

Personally I believe our sexuality is a gift from God, and like all God's gifts we are meant to use and enjoy it, as long as that is done in a spirit of respect for ourselves and any others involved. So I totally agree with the points you are bringing up, Dauer - but: I just have an image in...

Hee hee - I'm reminded of a choral work by Peter Schickele - can't remember now if it's a Gloria or a Mass, but in any case at the end the text is "Amen! Awomen! Ah Wilderness! Ahchoo!"

Lots of good points, Q... I agree with you wholeheartedly about children of same-sex couples needing a parent-like figure of the other sex, and I've always planned to make sure there was a good man in my children's lives, should there ever be any children...does that surprise you?;) But...

Peace, AT5! Don't think you need not post - what you have said here has been an inspiration to me, as I find myself heading down the same dirt track. There are others feeling what you are feeling - and as you can see from the responses, even more who are lovingly cheering you on.

I am so glad that your cancer is in remission and that you are back home - and I hope you stay there! :) I'm praying for your continued recovery.

Not going to argue with you on this one, Q...but I wasn't referring to how the children fare. I was responding directly to Zaakir's comment about why men could have more than one wife but women can't have more than one husband...i.e., then there would be problems with paternity and therefore...

I just saw Pirates 2 (without having seen Pirates 1). So I was kind of lost as far as plot, but who goes to see that sort of movie for plot? And I have yet to be impressed by Keira Knightly's acting in anything, so I wasn't disappointed as far as that went. I went for the silly predictable...

Woah, everybody's using loads of SAT words here, but I'm going to try and contribute something intelligent anyway...:) Now, what I remember from my weekly three-hour-nap entitled "Biology 101" is that you can't say that A is a separate species from C unless they can't interbreed. But in...

I have read that the Romans had ready-made posts sticking in the ground at the place of execution, and criminals carried their own crosspiece up to the place of execution. Then their arms were fastened to the crosspiece (tied, nailed, whatever) and they were hoisted up to the post. I like this...

Knowing who the father is is only a problem if the woman (and therefore her children) is reliant upon her husband for financial support. If she is financially independent, or supported by her own family (parents, brothers, etc.), who cares who the father of her children is? And as far as...

:D Thanks, Brian. Made my day.