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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
PostPosted: December 25th, 2008, 11:59 am 
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Veggie Eater wrote:
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Lol. Before you go calling people like MQ names and bashing them for not providing a works cited page for her post, please do the same yourself prior to commanding others to carry out your wishes.



"Lol." I never called Mushroom Queen a name. I said I found what she posted to be ignorant.

And I admitted I didn't know much about what I was suggesting and didn't try to use big words to prove I know everything about it.

Blahh. I'm done. I just wish people that say how "unnatural" it is would understand it is natural for *** people. My best friend tried dating girls so a) people would stop making fun of him and b) so maybe he could 'change' but it didn't work.

I really wish people were more accepting. Maybe it's not the gays that are 'ruining' society. Maybe it's all the people that are so narrow-minded and hateful.



Look, what is going on with your friend sucks, sure. But we're not saying it's his fault. If anything I feel sorry for *** people. They can't "willingly" change themselves, considering the consensus on this forum is that it is a psychological defect (bad word, I know, but I can't think of another way to word it.). Homosexuality is a choice made by the subconscious, not an actual choice made by the person. The brain itself thinks it's ***, but there could be a way in the future to tell the brain "No, sorry. You're wrong." and then the *** people would actually be able to move on in their life and be happy without hiding from society or being banished from it.

It stinks that gays are sociological outcasts, but until there is a way to stop them from being *** they have to choose Uncomfortable "love", or to have a limited social life.

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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
PostPosted: December 25th, 2008, 9:19 pm 
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Mushroom Queen, I found what you had to say to be quite ignorant.

I know several *** couples that have been dating and stayed faithful for longer than you have been alive.

I'd like to know how you got your information that many *** people do not want to stay in a monogamous relationship. That's just very stereotypical. Like people who get on a runescape forum do not have a life. Or that black people enjoy kool aid and fried chicken more than anyone else.

Your naivety, though charming, prevents you from disassociating personal prejudices from reality. I can counter this first argument by telling you that my homosexual neighbours (who have been together longer than I've been alive) don't mind publicly sucking face with the companions they invite over to their home. If we were carrying out this debate based on our own personal experiences, then I can counter your initial argument with some of my own. However, I prefer to use factual information when alleging that homosexuals, as a majority, are less likely to remain loyal in steady relationships.

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And based on your argument that couples get married to have children:

If you would please reread what I wrote: "Why do we get married? Well, marriage is the act of choosing your partner for life and possibly having children with them." I'm pretty certain that the word "possibly" is more than enough of an indication that I didn't argue that people "get married to have children". In the United States, a little less than half of married couples have a child under the age of 18 living at home. While there's no way to actually quantify people's intentions in marriage, it's safe to say that giving birth is an eventual consequence for many. :roll:

It's also important to note that governments encourage marriage in expectation that the couples will reproduce. In Germany, there were adverts of mums holding adorable little babies to encourage women to settle down and mate. Tax breaks for married couples, certain benefits, etc exist to create a conducive situation for creating a child. As homosexuals have 0% chance of impregnating a partner of the same ***, it's absolute nonsense that they should receive the benefit of legal marriage that is given to heterosexuals.

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What about women that are barren? Should they never get married because they cannot bear children? What about men that are sterile?

As I stated above, I never said that couples married with the sole intention of bearing children. People who cannot have children often choose to provide loving homes to children without parents of their own. Or they seek scientific help for infertility.

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It is obvious that you are basing your views on 'statistics' and not real life experiences and we all know how everyone can warp statistics to prove their point.

In the beginning of your message, you ask me to provide statistics to back up my claims--which I did. Now, by the end, you're refuting the value of any such statistics. Please rethink your argument. What sense is there in carrying out a debate whose foundation lies on personal experience? What if I had bad personal experiences with blonde-haired people, would I (by your logic) be correct in saying something like, "Because all the blonde people I've known are *******, cheaters, and fakes, they are--without question--bad individuals"?

Hint: Then answer is no.

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The same arguments were raised while interracial marriage was being protested.

I'm not really sure which arguments you mean. Most white supremacists alleged that interracial marriages "muddied" one's gene pool. At our essence, we are all man or woman--regardless of race. Reproduction is a biological imperative no matter what skin colour you are. No matter how hard you try, homosexuality is an anomaly where one not only chooses not to have children, but is physically attracted to those of their own ***.

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I'm pretty sure years down the road people will look back on *** discrimination and view it as very odd. It's just like when people thought black's should be "separate but equal". I'm appalled by the thought of such discrimination but many people thought that it was acceptable.

Sadly, your 'one size fits all' comparison to racial discrimination isn't relevant. Societies define themselves by their culture which, among several things includes: religion, language, customs, literature, music, et cetera. Without a united identity, nations tend to fall apart. Americans have spoken out against *** marriage, as blatantly seen in California. Are you saying that governments should go against the wishes of the greater population to pander toward a minority of individuals who lead an unnatural lifestyle? By all means, I don't believe that homosexuals should be jailed or physically harmed, but the legislation they're demanding is not rightly theirs to have.

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I'm all for people having their own beliefs, but it really makes me angry when your beliefs affect strangers in a negative way.

That's humourous, considering you prefaced your reply with calling me ignorant. I'm all for strangers having the right to be happy, yet I'm not the type of person to indulge every minority of a population with their own definition of "happy".

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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
PostPosted: December 25th, 2008, 10:01 pm 
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I kind of gave up on the whole responding to every statement individually because I find your arguments ignorant and as you so fluidly put it "naive".

If you honestly have the time to write out all that then I was right about the stereo type that most people that go onto a runescape forums have no life. So I guess you're right then, gays are 'inherently wrong'.

However I still believe if you don't like *** marriage and don't want to be married to the same *** - cool. Don't get married to the same ***! But don't shove your beliefs on others by making it illegal. That's like me saying "You know what, I find people that eat meat unnatural and morally wrong [which I do] so I'm going to make a law that states everyone shouldn't eat meat."

It's stupid. Just cause I believe something doesn't mean everyone else should believe the same thing.

So get off your high horse and stop thinking everyone should do what you believe.


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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
PostPosted: December 25th, 2008, 10:47 pm 
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I kind of gave up on the whole responding to every statement individually because I find your arguments ignorant and as you so fluidly put it "naive".

If you honestly have the time to write out all that then I was right about the stereo type that most people that go onto a runescape forums have no life. So I guess you're right then, gays are 'inherently wrong'.

However I still believe if you don't like *** marriage and don't want to be married to the same *** - cool. Don't get married to the same ***! But don't shove your beliefs on others by making it illegal. That's like me saying "You know what, I find people that eat meat unnatural and morally wrong [which I do] so I'm going to make a law that states everyone shouldn't eat meat."

It's stupid. Just cause I believe something doesn't mean everyone else should believe the same thing.

So get off your high horse and stop thinking everyone should do what you believe.

I'm sorry that you feel that way. I was addressing your argument in its entirety rather than selecting parts of it to skew to my own perspective, as you had done with my own words.

This whole "don't force your views on other people" argument is so tiring, Veggie Eater. You know what "views that are forced on people" are called? Laws. While it's admirable that you're the forum's champion for *** rights, I've repeatedly given my reasoning as to why legal marriage should not be expanded to homosexuals. In return, you've generated a bunch of non sequiturs comparing my viewpoints to that of a racist amongst other things. We can continue this back-and-forth about who's more ignorant, but I think you win out in a contest of nonsensical accusations.

Without sounding too high and mighty, I can't help but think that your views are a result of not living within society long enough to understand that people have a right to exercise their belief in what's best for community and country. This immature rhetoric about "letting people do whatever they want" because "it's not harming you" is basically telling people that they should not participate in society if they have a differing viewpoint than your own.

As I've laid out in my two arguments above: because of the vast differences between heterosexual and homosexual couples, granting marriage to gays almost a sham, regardless of the warm and mushy feelings they may have toward each other.

I've given reasons, statistics, even personal perspectives in my posts. All you've really contributed in return are vapid, backwards statements that look like you wrote them out of anger rather than reason. I'm quite positive that I'm not an elitist, racist, or egoist, but your name-calling and wild assertions are still a little funny.

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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
PostPosted: December 25th, 2008, 11:50 pm 
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However I still believe if you don't like *** marriage and don't want to be married to the same *** - cool. Don't get married to the same ***! But don't shove your beliefs on others by making it illegal. That's like me saying "You know what, I find people that eat meat unnatural and morally wrong [which I do] so I'm going to make a law that states everyone shouldn't eat meat."


Although I don't like the way you present your points and your overall attitude toward other people's opinions, you really do have a point right there. Having *** marriage be legal really wouldn't affect anyone other than the *** community (unless I'm overlooking something), so why should it be illegal? But, then again, would being married to multiple spouses affect anyone other than the couples involved...? Would a 20 year old having *** with a 16 year old (protectively) affect anyone else? Gah, it's a lot to wrap one's head around, and I don't even think I have a point here...

Anyways, MQ wins the argument. :D


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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
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Sorry I really don't want to go through every single post and read the responses so I'm just going to post. Please excuse me if someone has already said this

I personally am not too fond of homosexuals. I don't think it's right and I actually think its downright gross. Love is love I know, but you have to think of the children (if they will adopt any). That pretty much seals the social fate of the child right there. A daughter with 2 fathers, a son with 2 mothers or vise versa. It's just not right. I really want to puke when I either see them together or when they flaunt it. Don't get me wrong I actually know a guy thats *** and he's actually cool. He's down to Earth and he keeps it to himself. He's not all "PSHH yeahhh" and extremely feminine. That kind of stuff annoys the hell out of me. Either way, I don't support their orientation. Plain and simple. So nobody can say well you're just saying that because you don't know anyone who is homosexual. You could be my best friend and be ***, and I would still have that little prejudice in the back of my head. It's something that's just not going to go away for me. I'm sorry that's just the way I feel.

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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
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Mushroom Queen wrote:
All you've really contributed in return are vapid, backwards statements that look like you wrote them out of anger rather than reason.


Really? Because my friend and I couldn't stop laughing while writing the last reply.

And I really love how I'm supposedly "name-calling". I thought what you said was ignorant. I never said you were racist, you're the one that suggested that so maybe that's something you need to deal with by yourself.

You've given logic that couples who decide to get married want to stay monogamous and have children. *** people have the ability to do that too.. So many people cheat on one another, not just *** people, so using your logic, no one should get married anymore.

And just because you are dealing with emotional problems because your virgin eyes can't see two men kissing next door doesn't mean you should be dealing out your loathing to other strangers. Why not do something more productive, or maybe go see a therapist.


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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
PostPosted: December 26th, 2008, 10:37 am 
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I personally am not too fond of homosexuals. I don't think it's right and I actually think its downright gross. Love is love I know, but you have to think of the children (if they will adopt any). That pretty much seals the social fate of the child right there. A daughter with 2 fathers, a son with 2 mothers or vise versa. It's just not right.


yeah, but atleast the child will have a mom or dad and not be 'owned' by the state. im sure theres been bad *** parents and good ones. same with any other group of people that have kids. but i've never seen on the news where a *** couple killed thier kid...but thats not to say it never happend

hell my *** aunts (we call them that, but really just good faimly friends) raised 3 great boys as i said in my last post.

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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
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Am I for ***'s? no, but I have no problem. If it makes them happy so be it. I dont feel anyone has the right to tell two, legally aged people, they cant be together.

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Time to tone it down please, Veggie Eater and MQ. By all means continue your discussion, but I'm getting sick of the incivility.

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Really? Because my friend and I couldn't stop laughing while writing the last reply.

I'm starting to think that the phrase "two minds are better than one" is no longer true.

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You've given logic that couples who decide to get married want to stay monogamous and have children. *** people have the ability to do that too.. So many people cheat on one another, not just *** people, so using your logic, no one should get married anymore. .

Again, Veggie Eater, please read my posts. We cannot have a proper debate if you're incorrectly reading what I have to say. I never said "want" to, I said that they are more likely to. As in, there is a significantly higher number of heterosexuals that choose to stay monogamous and have children than those who do not. This isn't my own "reasoning" or "logic". This is the result of US census findings amongst other statistics that I've posted.

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And just because you are dealing with emotional problems because your virgin eyes can't see two men kissing next door doesn't mean you should be dealing out your loathing to other strangers. Why not do something more productive, or maybe go see a therapist.

I like how you re-tell my own story to include me shuddering in FEAR because my VIRGIN EYES supposedly can't handle the sight of two men kissing. I wrote that story as example to my own personal experience of seeing married men be unfaithful, since that was the angle you were taking with this argument. As for the rather underhanded comment about my "emotional problems", I'm pretty sure it's obvious in my replies that I've show a considerable lack of emotion for the topic of homosexuality. I haven't "dealt out" any "loathing" to strangers (that I know of). I've properly, politely stated my opinions on here and backed them up. Which is a lot more than you have done.

I'm bored with arguing with you, Veggie Eater. It's obvious that you cannot hold a civil conversation with someone who disagrees with you, so maybe you should yield the floor to someone who can. :)

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I don't support it at all. It just seems wrong to me.

I don't think the should be allowed to marriage rights.
The definition of marriage is: "the state of being united to a person of the opposite *** as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law"

Source, cause I know im going to get flak if I don't list it.

I know *** people at my school, I know *** people in other places. Don't tell me I don't have "first hand experience" or something like that as i know/have known some of them.


I do not support homosexuality at all, and for lack of better words men have a ***** and women have a ****** for a reason.


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Alright, Mushroom Queen, I'm done.

Most of my friends are *** so it does bother me when someone that doesn't even know them can say they think they're 'unnatural'.

It's more of a fact that you'll go out of your way to say that it's very wrong rather than just be passive and not care what others do as long as it does not involve yourself.

I think that's what's really bothering me.

I can understand if a ******** was hitting on you and you were offended, but it's not affecting you so I guess I don't see why you care so much. It just bothers me that you'll hate on people you don't even know. You're just judging them and putting them into a stereotype.

I kept promising myself I wouldn't post anything in here because I knew I would end up doing this because I cannot stand people that are against *** rights, but I was just really shocked at how you could so easily decide millions of people shouldn't have the right to marry the ones they love just because it doesn't fit into your ideal world.

Reply to this if you want, I'm not going to reply back. You can have the satisfaction of "winning" so by all means go right on ahead.

We're both stubborn, this is going no where, I'm done.


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 Post subject: Re: Do you support homosexual?
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I like this thread :D Arguing is my favorite past time...



I'm not going to say who's right and who's wrong, but I will say that it seems as though Veggie is using a lot of personal experiences, and I think that's what makes your argument flawed. You are to connected to the side you are arguing for. Mushroom Queen and I (at least, I assume she is) are indifferent towards both sides, as far as "liking" the people who support them. She, as well as I, have spend the time to look up facts and research to decide what we think. Now, please please please don't think i'm saying you're not using facts, because you are. You're using first hand knowledge, which is the best experience you can have. However, It connected you with them.

I think that you're arguing because you want them to be happy, because they're your friends and seeing them happy will make you happy. However, I personally have no *** friends. And if I did, then I would probably be more hesitant to argue against them, but I still would.

*** rights is tough matter, and believe me, i've gotten into my fair share of fights over it. I don't want any hard feelings between you, I, or MQ. We're still friends, but we're just friends who disagree on something.

As far as your friend go, I know that it's unfair to tell them how to live. However, you need to realize that you do the exact same things to millions more people. Every law you agree with, every rule you want taken into action, everything society follows stops billions of people from doing something that would make them happy. Now I know comparing *** Rights to something like Murder is a bit (well...a lot) far fetched. But we're simply trying to make a point, that's all.


Another thing, and the last thing, I have to say is that you ask us why we would choose to stop someone from being happy, when all we could do is simply be indifferent towards it and everyone would win. Well, maybe it would make us unhappy to see them married? I know it's wrong to find happiness in another person's dismay, but that's not why we'd be happy. We're happy seeing *** Marrige not go through because we're against the idea of it. We're no against the people. Hell, i'm all for the people. I wish them happiness and hope the best for them. However, I'm not for the idea of Homosexuality. That's all. So please please please don't see us as going against your friends. We're not. I'm sure your friends are extremely great people. It's just what they do that I don't like.


That's all. Sorry If I poked around where I shouldn't have.

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I'm not against it but I don't really care about that stuff. Some of my family members are ***/******** but that doesn't mean I hate them. One of my best friends is bisexual but that doesn't mean I hate her. Seriously, I think we should all get a grip because it doesn't really matter.


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