@Indonesia-Phil saidwhat is the need to teach about homosexuality in a college setting?
Reading certain kinds of literature encourages people to believe that homosexuality is a sin and not ok. It isn't a sin, regardless.
See, it depends which way you look at it, and what you believe, the point here being that all literature, opinion, philosophy and so on must be available, in order that people may form informed, rational opinions.
@Arkturos saidNo Plato wasn't an idealist or a social justice warrior. He was always engaged in argument and willing to be persuaded. Which is why it's weird that Texas is trying to ban it in college education.
No idea whether @mike69 has read Platon's "Republic" -- but to be fair, neither have I.
Was he some kind of political idealist? (Star Wars joke)
@Mott-The-Hoople saidYeah, especially these days when college students are less afraid to be themselves.
what is the need to teach about homosexuality in a college setting?
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@Rajk999 saidI'd like to ask: If I got banned for three years (which was eventually commuted) for making jokes about trans people and the Alphabet People in general from own my POV and life experience, why do multiple anti-gay jokes from others still get a pass?
Reading certain kinds of literature encourages people to believe that homosexuality is ok and is not a sin. It is a sin, regardless, and a perversion and an abomination. God hates homosexuals. Now if you do not believe in God, that is your choice. That changes nothing. Your opinion is worthless regarding this issue.
Let's hear it, Head Mod or Russ himself or whoever else might have been involved in that.
Asking as a gay man of 66 years old, who still remembers the 1970s and 1980s as well as things like Charles Ortleb's theories about AIDS being spliced together to cull certain demographics.
And I don't think some lame answer that it's just in our "human nature" for us always to find this or that group to shun or vilify or reject or kill would be a sufficient answer.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidNo, about my size, decent, shapely, with a nice voice and nice ways.
Is u like ‘em big?
How about you?
@moonbus saidI had no idea. Thanks, Moonbus. We should pattern our lives after your ‘other societies.’ But what if the ‘other society’ promotes men becoming women? Tell us, oh guru, how do we realign our way of life to fit in with those societies? And if we get socially involved ( I made that up!) , when will we have time to get rich and wealthy and healthy and great again?!?!?
Several genders have been recognized by other societies and cultures, for thousands of years before Puritans settled America. Banning people from talking about it won’t make it go away.
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@Arkturos saidNah…just showing what you missed out on…and at 65 it wont be long till you learn what abomination means
Perhaps I am lonely. Can you imagine what it would be like to be a happy kid who in his teens began to discover that he was kind of a social outcast and different besides, and who also felt he needed to live like a spy within his own birth family before he was economically ready to move out on his own?
BTW, I did tell my family that I was gay before I moved out, because ...[text shortened]... y did you offer to show me your grandchildren?
Were you mocking me? Were you trying to shame me?