12-20-2013, 06:40 PM
(12-20-2013, 06:22 PM)crash Wrote: You're sure your perception would change? Wtf? Does that mean as soon as you found out one of your kids was gay, you'd perceive gay people differently? That statement really isn't supporting your argument , MS. Doesn't send a great message to your kids either.
Don't get me wrong. I'm sure most people discriminate between different things; tolerance is an easy word to say. And I don't think you're the bogeyman of the gay people, out there banging your drum about sick fags a la the westboro baptist church, far from it.
But if that's the way you feel about homosexuality and gay marriage, be man enough to own that shit yourself. Don't try and hide behind a bullshit excuse that it was the way you were raised, you were taught it was an abomination.
Crash, In defense of MS I have a gay friend who refers to himself as a 'recovering Catholic' at the age of 37. His upbringing distorted him so much he still struggles with his sexual orientation and it has resulted in a marriage for 10 years to a girl who also was victimized by beliefs taught by the church and very well meaning parents. Those beliefs were instilled in him so early and in such a profound way it clouds his reason to this day. He felt that if he surrounded himself with the entrapments of a hetero-life it would change him from the outside in. She felt that she could change him. Their marriage ended in divorce at 30 years of age after laboring under illusion for so long. I don't fault MS for admitting that his early upbringing still pushes his buttons, though I wish he voted differently on the issue, he too somehow is a victim of the church.