How about the gay marriage bans!?!?!

[EnderJE]

It's a mental disorder just like obesity. Fat people don't want to hear it though. They want to be accomodated and accepted and if it wasn't life threatening they would not seek treatment. See any parallels?

Again, I said that SOME chose and SOME are BORN that way. Not all.

 

[gregory]

Can you referrence studies showing both of those are mental disorders?

No i cant. Emotional eating is a symptom of psychological issues, as is closet eating and gorging yourself for emotional reasons because it feels good. So i can't reference a study, but i am flexible enough in my thinking to see this is not the glowing picture of mental health.

 

[EnderJE]

1. Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5)

2. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines, in addition to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chron 11:21)

WOOHOO!

 

[Sweet_Bitch]

No i cant. Emotional eating is a symptom of psychological issues, as is closet eating and gorging yourself for emotional reasons because it feels good. So i can't reference a study, but i am flexible enough in my thinking to see this is not the glowing picture of mental health.

So you think that labeling homosexuality as a mental disorder is yet another way to demonstrate your "flexible" thinking?

 

[EnderJE]

I layed it out several time in my posts. It's a heterosexual institution and that's that. Why are gays so bent on calling their unions marriages? Why can't they call them civil unions and have all the "spouse" legalities taken care of? Because it's not enough, they really want that title as well. Ask yourself why?

Because insurance companies (or the ones that I've worked or) don't care about unions. The care about the term "spouse". That's it.

No spouse? No benefits, next of kin rights, death benefits.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

No i cant. Emotional eating is a symptom of psychological issues, as is closet eating and gorging yourself for emotional reasons because it feels good. So i can't reference a study, but i am flexible enough in my thinking to see this is not the glowing picture of mental health.

Ok, so you addressed an assumption and your spurious conclusion regarding it. How does it relate to being gay?

 

[metzen]

All you can definitivly say of a gay couple is that they can not have children in the traditional ways. Am I wrong? Can you not be artifically inseminated? Can you not have a surragote? (Go me-way to spell the big words!!) Are these not some of the same options open to hetero couples?

Yes but that is a seperate issue that is going to take a longtime to go through LOL. I gotta run, don't have time. Maybe later

 

[Sweet_Bitch]

Yes but that is a seperate issue that is going to take a longtime to go through LOL. I gotta run, don't have time. Maybe later

Perhaps, but I sense that you're views on those issues are close-minded and ridiculous as well. I'm game though if you are

 

[casualbb]

For the conservatives:

Why do you care so much what other poeople do? When:
a) thier behaviour doesn't affect you.
b) no one is getting hurt.

I think it's two major reasons.

Firstly, many many people have tied part of their personal identity to their marriage. "I'm so-and-so, husband, or so-and-so, wife." They feel that allowing gay people to be equal to them somehow diminishes their identity and they feel threatened.

But it ties into the second point, which is a lot of people just get really uncomfortable around gays. Two gay people getting married is a very public, in-your-face display which forces people to have to feel that discomfort.

So you're basically having people deny others rights because they 1) have low self-esteem and 2) feel uncomfortable. Sounds a lot like "colored only" water fountains to me.

I'm just waiting for a liberal judge to rule the bans unconstitutional

 

[EnderJE]

I think it's two major reasons.

Firstly, many many people have tied part of their personal identity to their marriage. "I'm so-and-so, husband, or so-and-so, wife." They feel that allowing gay people to be equal to them somehow diminishes their identity and they feel threatened.

But it ties into the second point, which is a lot of people just get really uncomfortable around gays. Two gay people getting married is a very public, in-your-face display which forces people to have to feel that discomfort.

So you're basically having people deny others rights because they 1) have low self-esteem and 2) feel uncomfortable. Sounds a lot like "colored only" water fountains to me.

I'm just waiting for a liberal judge to rule the bans unconstitutional

That's my impression as well, I just want someone to come out and say that they feel that they are threatened by gays because of their own fears...
...or that they're in the closet.