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How do you feel about the "gay" community?

I liked them so much I became one.
- 5 (8.8%)
I have gay friends, but it still bothers me.
- 4 (7%)
I couldn't care less.
- 45 (78.9%)
Gays are sinners.
- 1 (1.8%)
Gays should be put to death.
- 2 (3.5%)

Total Members Voted: 23


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Porcupine_in_MA

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Re: How do you feel about the "gay" community?
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2006, 12:35:51 PM »

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aka the hell hole of all government programs.

I know of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of course but I didn't know you could volunteer with them, that's why I was confused when you said you volunteered. Of course you stopped, you're a libertarian now and know that supporting big government programs is wrong. Good on you.
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Re: How do you feel about the "gay" community?
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2006, 12:36:32 PM »

.  For example, my favorite advice columnist Dan Savage (who is gay) has received flack from "the community" on a few different occasions. 

Applause for Savage Love! 

I voted couldn't care less but I suppose it's possible that I could.  The gay community effects my life significantly more than Teletubbies but less than Blue's Clues.
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aquabanianskakid

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« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2006, 12:36:39 PM »

If you read some wikipedia articles on the CDC you will find that they have a rather interesting history.
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Porcupine_in_MA

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« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2006, 12:39:13 PM »

If you read some wikipedia articles on the CDC you will find that they have a rather interesting history.

A company that employeed me back before I became a libertarian, contracted with them. So I indirectly worked for them.  :x
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aquabanianskakid

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« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2006, 12:39:30 PM »

Royce, you get applause just for saying "teletubbies". The CDC actually runs a program in several areas called MPower. Imagine a gay men's club that teaches sex ed and hands out condoms. They also do testing. It's all a really nice cover for a group that really only deals in data and numbers from surveys.
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Taors

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Re: How do you feel about the "gay" community?
« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2006, 02:04:12 PM »

Death. In the public square. That's just my ideal world though.
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Re: How do you feel about the "gay" community?
« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2006, 02:33:36 PM »

Honestly - I have nothing against Homosexuality; it would be difficult to given my sexual preferences. That said; the "Gay Community" don't have a very good PR thing going.

Holding festivals that makes your sexual preference (usually in a manner involving exceedingly small amounts of leather and spandex) extremely blatantly exposed in hopes of getting those who dislike the fact that you’re gay to accept you may not be the best idea possible.

"The idea is to make straight people comfortable with the idea of gay people, and you're making it look like liberal S n' M rainbow apocalypse is coming." - Matthew Davis (Gay Comedian) 
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aquabanianskakid

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« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2006, 03:21:41 PM »

Haha great quote Cyro. I went to pride this year, only because they had a free concert for someone I liked. That and they had a comedian I liked. I slept through the rest on the grass.
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Taors

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Re: How do you feel about the "gay" community?
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2006, 03:22:43 PM »

Aqua, would you agree that all out of the closet gays be drawn and quartered?
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aquabanianskakid

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« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2006, 03:30:34 PM »

No, because then I wouldn't have anyone left to screw.
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Re: How do you feel about the "gay" community?
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2006, 03:45:08 PM »

how do you make a fag scream twice?

fuck him up the ass, then wipe your dick on his curtains!

seriously, though, i have many gay friends.  i went to a wedding between two men at a unitarian church on 1/1/00 (after party at the gay bar was awesome!!)  i met my "ex"-wife at the gay bar.  i had a gay friend in my wedding.  i have no problems with indivudual people. the community frightens me, though.  i can fully understand being out and proud.  be who you are.  but some of the ideals of the gay community are kind of strange.  i just really have to agree with lindsey on this one about special interest groups.  you don't get any special rights because you are gay or black or asian or latino or aleutian or female or anything else.  it does not matter.  we are all the children of science.
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aquabanianskakid

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« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2006, 03:52:24 PM »

Agreed. People inside the "gay" community tend to discriminate and form groups more than outside. I tried to be parrt of the community for a while and then found out that people didn't take me seriously because I was a ex-mormon/bisexual/ex-boyscout. Instead I was grouped in with the "bears" because I had a beard. How ridiculous is that?
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Re: How do you feel about the "gay" community?
« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2006, 03:56:06 PM »

i find the whole classification of gay men to be hiliarious, because it iall seems to be based on appearance.  such a crock of shit.  just because you are a guy who like to smoke the pole that means you don't have a personality and different likes and dislikes from someone else who might, like you said, have a beard?
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« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2006, 06:28:49 PM »

Most "special interest" groups are annoying. 

I'd take that further.  All special interest groups are annoying. It is their very nature.  They have a single focus and unless you agree with that focus or are interested in that subject you're going to be annoyed by them.  Even the FSP or the LP or whoever would be annoying if you're not interested.

Special Interest groups move from annoying to dangerous when they start lobbying hard for rules to be imposed on the rest of us in line with their special interest. 

I think it's interesting though that anyone thinks there is a single "gay community".  There are some vocal special interest groups but they do not speak for all gay people.  In the same way that "women's groups" don't speak for me.



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« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2006, 06:32:43 PM »

Hence the whole "gay" community thing.
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