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_Morrissey
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Manfredjinsinjin wrote:
DaniteDan wrote:That was the headline from yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090815/ap_ ... urch_image

Nothing but a puff (no pun intended) piece for the gay agenda and a hatchet piece on the Church. Amazing that some folks call that journalism.

For a thorough and thoughtful critique of that "article," see:

Kiss kiss bang bang


I'm not sure it was journalism, but I'm equally not sure this "thorough and thoughtful critique" is as billed--very much an article with an agenda of its own.

I will agree, though, that journalism standards are all too frequently lacking. Having been a subject in a number of journalism pieces, I can say from experience that journalists often get facts wrong and often fundamentally misunderstand issues.
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So you're the actual Morrissey, then?
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I remain stunned and amazed that people would take abject perversion and defend it as if it were somehow something normal.

Homosexuality is a deviant behavior, no different than a drug addiction or eating disorder. It is a distorted world view, and it is increasingly being supported by a society that is misinformed by a media that is operated by perverts and sycophants.
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Gazelam wrote:I remain stunned and amazed that people would take abject perversion and defend it as if it were somehow something normal.

Homosexuality is a deviant behavior, no different than a drug addiction or eating disorder. It is a distorted world view, and it is increasingly being supported by a society that is misinformed by a media that is operated by perverts and sycophants.


And yet, to the homosexual, heterosexuality is the deviant behavior. I suspect it's all about world view... and it's always the other guy who has the distorted world view.
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harmony wrote:
Gazelam wrote:I remain stunned and amazed that people would take abject perversion and defend it as if it were somehow something normal.

Homosexuality is a deviant behavior, no different than a drug addiction or eating disorder. It is a distorted world view, and it is increasingly being supported by a society that is misinformed by a media that is operated by perverts and sycophants.


And yet, to the homosexual, heterosexuality is the deviant behavior. I suspect it's all about world view... and it's always the other guy who has the distorted world view.


Actually they don't perceive things this way.
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The Nehor wrote:
Actually they don't perceive things this way.


I won't ask how you know this. I'll just assume you have good reason to think you're right, and my gay staff partner is wrong.
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Harmony,

And yet, to the homosexual, heterosexuality is the deviant behavior.


As Nehor has also observed, the post you have contributed is what is known on the Inter-web as a "fail".

Please go back and try again.

Gaz
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Gazelam wrote:Harmony,

And yet, to the homosexual, heterosexuality is the deviant behavior.


As Nehor has also observed, the post you have contributed is what is known on the Inter-web as a "fail".

Please go back and try again.

Gaz


You add nothing, Gaz. Try again.
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Morrissey wrote:
There is probably some line that one can cross, but a kiss-in strikes me as being quite far from it.

As to whether people might avert their eyes or feel uncomfortable with two men showing affection, they need to get used to is, as the logic of civil rights means that they'll be seeing a lot more of it in the future.



Somebody who doesn't really understand what it is like being a normal heterosexual Male.

Just because it is legal (And I do agree with it being legal), does Not mean that I Personally have to accept it and approve of it, and/or that I have to like watching it.
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Brackite wrote:
Morrissey wrote:
There is probably some line that one can cross, but a kiss-in strikes me as being quite far from it.

As to whether people might avert their eyes or feel uncomfortable with two men showing affection, they need to get used to is, as the logic of civil rights means that they'll be seeing a lot more of it in the future.



Somebody who doesn't really understand what it is like being a normal heterosexual Male.

Just because it is legal (And I do agree with it being legal), does Not mean that I Personally have to accept it and approve of it, and/or that I have to like watching it.


When a man and a woman kiss on tv, do you write the station and express your disapproval? When a man and a woman kiss in a movie, do you write the producer and express your disapproval?

As long as public displays of affection are acceptable for some people, they should be acceptable for all people. Either shut them all down, or accept them all equally. Otherwise we look like bigots.
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