Comments on: Ken Blackwell: “Homosexuality Is A Compulsion” http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/12/8001 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sat, 18 May 2013 21:32:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jon http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/12/8001/comment-page-1#comment-31080 Jon Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:13:57 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=8001#comment-31080 What? Is he serious? The sad part here is that people really don't choose to be gay, but people DO choose to be republican. Sexuality is not reserved for the enjoyment of straight men, which seems to be what these archaic beliefs imply. I very much dislike that this nation strokes the ego of the straight male so often, and suppresses all others. Are straight men the only group that should be allowed to have self-esteem? The only group that deserves respect? Are the rest of us all second class citizens? Maybe we should ask Mr. Blackwell to suppress his so called heterosexuality. Come on Mr. Blackwell, you can conform and be gay! So what if you don't enjoy sex with other men or have any desire to engage in it. You can learn how to like it!! How ridiculous is that? ITS THE SAME THING!! What? Is he serious? The sad part here is that people really don’t choose to be gay, but people DO choose to be republican.

Sexuality is not reserved for the enjoyment of straight men, which seems to be what these archaic beliefs imply. I very much dislike that this nation strokes the ego of the straight male so often, and suppresses all others. Are straight men the only group that should be allowed to have self-esteem? The only group that deserves respect? Are the rest of us all second class citizens?

Maybe we should ask Mr. Blackwell to suppress his so called heterosexuality. Come on Mr. Blackwell, you can conform and be gay! So what if you don’t enjoy sex with other men or have any desire to engage in it. You can learn how to like it!! How ridiculous is that? ITS THE SAME THING!!

]]> By: Gary http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/12/8001/comment-page-1#comment-30488 Gary Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:08:03 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=8001#comment-30488 Thirty years ago mental health doctors declared that gay men and women did not suffer from any mental disease or disorder as the basis of their gayness. Blackwell now asserts the contrary. I suppose he holds other archaic notions such as the earth is flat. Thirty years ago mental health doctors declared that gay men and women did not suffer from any mental disease or disorder as the basis of their gayness. Blackwell now asserts the contrary. I suppose he holds other archaic notions such as the earth is flat.

]]> By: Rick http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/12/8001/comment-page-1#comment-30486 Rick Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:41:25 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=8001#comment-30486 I am compelled to respond by saying I believe this man is full of codswallop. I am compelled to respond by saying I believe this man is full of codswallop.

]]> By: Regan DuCasse http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/12/8001/comment-page-1#comment-30484 Regan DuCasse Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:28:33 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=8001#comment-30484 I get more than offended at how straight guys like this pontificate on the nature of homosexuality. As if it's heterosexuals ALONE who can assume, judge, define and explain it. Leaving of course, gay people out of the discussion AND equation to actually make a FAIR comparison. It bears ridiculing that all manner of NEGATIVE and offensive comparisons and analogies are made, except the obvious one. That homosexuality and heterosexuality have the most similar values and inherency. I feel, sometimes, like the only one who bothered to go to the best school there is on the subject: experience and from the best teachers. People who are gay. What's remarkable is it doesn't take any courage and opportunity is EVERWHERE to really know. It takes some exceptional cowardice to be THAT afraid to learn what I have learned. And AVOID learning it. God gave us curiosity too. Quite a gift. How can such a gift be SO repressed in this crowd? I get more than offended at how straight guys like this pontificate on the nature of homosexuality.
As if it’s heterosexuals ALONE who can assume, judge, define and explain it.

Leaving of course, gay people out of the discussion AND equation to actually make a FAIR comparison.

It bears ridiculing that all manner of NEGATIVE and offensive comparisons and analogies are made, except the obvious one.

That homosexuality and heterosexuality have the most similar values and inherency.

I feel, sometimes, like the only one who bothered to go to the best school there is on the subject: experience and from the best teachers. People who are gay.

What’s remarkable is it doesn’t take any courage and opportunity is EVERWHERE to really know.

It takes some exceptional cowardice to be THAT afraid to learn what I have learned. And AVOID learning it.

God gave us curiosity too. Quite a gift. How can such a gift be SO repressed in this crowd?

]]> By: gar http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/12/8001/comment-page-1#comment-30483 gar Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:28:12 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=8001#comment-30483 I think the Tories in the UK have learned that unabashed gay bashing got them no where; if this is the case, then it will only strengthen what will likely be a landslide for them in the next General Election. The Republicans, not so much. . . I think the Tories in the UK have learned that unabashed gay bashing got them no where; if this is the case, then it will only strengthen what will likely be a landslide for them in the next General Election. The Republicans, not so much. . .

]]> By: Ben in Oakland http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/12/8001/comment-page-1#comment-30482 Ben in Oakland Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:08:03 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=8001#comment-30482 "They say “As goes Ohio, so goes the nation.” Republicans may discover that this saying applies to their party as well." one can only hope that they will continue to give into their compulsions to gay bash, and that they wil eventually move to the fringes of polite society, where they so truly belong. “They say “As goes Ohio, so goes the nation.” Republicans may discover that this saying applies to their party as well.”

one can only hope that they will continue to give into their compulsions to gay bash, and that they wil eventually move to the fringes of polite society, where they so truly belong.

]]> By: elaygee http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/12/8001/comment-page-1#comment-30481 elaygee Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:04:58 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=8001#comment-30481 If being Gay is a compulsion then so is being Black. I'd like to see him try to "pray the Black away". If being Gay is a compulsion then so is being Black. I’d like to see him try to “pray the Black away”.

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