02-28-2012, 08:59 PM
(02-28-2012, 08:02 PM)ZEROSPHERES Wrote:(02-28-2012, 05:24 PM)sally Wrote: I don't care if you're gay or not, I don't want to see anyone making out in public. It's ridiculous and something you'd expect from a couple of 15 year olds. Holding hands, hugging or a peck on the lips is one thing, but do you really need to go to Disney World for a goddamn sex fest. What the hell are they proving other than they're a bunch of assholes. This is why homos have the highest rate of HIV, they're oversexed.
You have extrapolated a meaning that the photo in question does not speak to. It is only two people that have missed each other as one fought in war and his safe return was uncertain. Heterosexuals have the same experience and are free to express their deep emotions evoked by those real life events at the moment they are reunited. It in no way conveys a meaning of having sex in public or is it supporting irresponsible sexual activity of any kind.
Fear can make a person see things that are not there and react inappropriately. Years ago police could arrest two men if they danced together. The DOM law written during the Clinton years was in response to gays asking for equal rights in relationships. The Senators were protecting the sanctaty of hetrosexual marrige and stated that extending equal relationship rights to all would somehow destroy the meaning of heterosexual unions. All fear based decisions that only foster hatred and Prejudice.
They may have very well missed each other, but I see the picture more as a display of "I'm loud and I'm proud and I'll make a spectacle of myself to prove it". I'm not trivializing the prejudice that gays face, but some things don't become a big deal unless you make it a big deal. Like I said before, had they just hugged and kissed like normal people then no one would even be discussing it now.