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Gay 'agenda' targeted Speakers in American Fork warn of dangers
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Worry over gay people does not keep me up at night.
What scares me?
The high percentage of Utahns hopped up on drugs that are out driving on the roads threatening the safety of my family and anyone who tries to to cross the street.
Parents that can't stay happily married. Intolerant, judgemental parents turning up the pressure on young people who have enough to deal with.
And if you read both the D-news and the Trib look at the difference in reporting styles. Although I understand the News is owned by the church they could be a little more objective in how they covered the story.
There is no reason for us to shrink from the truth. Pornography and homosexual acts are wrong for individuals, degrading for societies, and extremely harmful to their victims. We can and should spread this word to our children. We must politely, but firmly disagree with those peddling these perversions as worthy alternates to normalcy and decency.
Among the truths our children need to know are perversion's epidemiological effects, but, medical fact is no substitute for moral truth.
Public school officials are generally cowed and intimidated by these forces.
Parents are losing the battle for their own children.
I know nothing of this group but this issue is alive and real.
20? Not bad. Did anyone ask about how many children are born that are gay? Did anyone ask? Did anyone ask if God made those children?
Oh so many questions, and so little time.
Must be a carefully, patiently, and cunningly, organized plan to make homosexuals the "them" in we vs them.
Why is it that we have such a fear of the unknown? That heterosexuals have such a deadly fear that if they don't make enemies out of gay individuals they will be robbed of their Christian credentials or their own kids will fall to that horrible perversion.
They never stopped to think that with all the hate and venom their kind thrusts upon a person, who has known themselves to be gay from birth, that that person would do everything they could to fit in and be like everyone else, considered "normal", But they can't and don't because they have no more control over their sexual orientation that I have over being left-handed or my eyes being blue. Being hateful and pretending homosexuals don't exist won't change the numbers. Neither will doing all you can to make their lives miserable. Try and put yourself in the place of a parent with student who is gay. If you can't do so, you may really be a Caveman.
Gay from birth? creepy but also ludicrous. If there were a biological condition called "homosexuality" it would leave its victims unable to reproduce. It would be an evolutionary dead end; a genetic DEFECT (Mother Nature values reproduction very highly)
Actually "homosexuals" change their behavior all the time; marry, have children, have homosexual sex; if it is a genetic trait it must be the "chameleon" orientation.
Homosexuality is a behavior. Like all behavior it is learnable and controllable. Like all behaviors, people will have varying degrees of difficulty controlling it.
It is certainly convenient to say "God made me this way" and deny any responsibility for ones actions; denial of responsibility is one of the alpha sicknesses in our society. But saying it over and over and over won't make it true.
Please quit pushing homosexuality on children in public schools. It is bad for the children and bad for society.
HOWEVER, we each have to resist and overcome our weaknesses. If the measure is "whatever I'm born with is what God intended for me to have, so it's OK to indulge in whatever urge I may have", then each of you can see what kind of urges people may choose to follow that are NOT OK. If we all just follow whatever impulse that we may have, we are indeed animals of the worst kind.
Anyway, for the record, I am a 40 year old homosexual man, and I have never had a known, detectable sexually transmitted disease in my entire life. And believe me, I get tested.
If you want to end the spread of disease, help encourage a standard of monogamy in the gay male population. Help bring about marriage equality.
I single out the gay male population, because in case no one has noticed, lesbians rarely contract any STDs. It's a function of the mechanics of sex, not morality.
Read carefully people: Having the opinion that a certain behavior is wrong, immoral, or unhealthy has nothing to do with hate. Nor does advocating against that same behavior.
Try and apply it to a different issue. I think it is unhealthy and wrong to not wash one's hands after using the toilet. Does that mean I'm a hate monger? Of course not.
Keep your nose out and take care of your own and let me worry about mine!
Maybe we should burn some books while we are at it.
I am tired of all the closed minds in HAPPY VALLEY!!!
Oh,yeah. Ralph Fiennes gave it in "Schindler's List". When you cross the line into this kind of hatred, you profane all that is Holy by claiming you are doing God's will.
Graham is right, as the bigoted, hateful older generation dies off, gays will become accepted. Just like those who wouldnt let blacks and whites marry have died off, as mankind moves forward, someday gay marriage will become no big thing. I for one hope that it happens sooner rather than later.
No matter who presents them.
There are always those who will throw a temper-tantrum as to the supposed "Hate or Fear" that is being spread/taught.
People know what is right & what is wrong.
To "Scare" people into doing what is "Right" is just as wrong as telling them there is no consequence for their choices.
AIMHO
Having the same rights as everyone else?
Just from my reading of the scriptures, I think Christ would urge love a lot more then he would the hate and fear that has been shown on this topic.
We need to put a stop to this!
In fact scientists have recently shown that a population of NON reproducing people mixed in with the straight population is very effective in times of war, and need, when people and parents are dying in order to replace those parents and make up for lost productivity.
Think about it - you are a Mongol, your son is a warrior and your youngest son is gay. Both you and your son die - who is to protect your children and wives? Oh wait, now you're happy to have had a gay child. It's the same in dogs, cats and other animals. While being gay is probably not 100% genetic its benefits and how it strengthens a community have been shown by science.
Life isn't as simple as you think it is.
Also, I'm straight and despite many efforts at gay seduction, have never given in - proving the "recruitment" is baloney. People who are "recruited" were homosexual all along and it's good they are out so they don't become forced to start regular families that will sooner or later fall apart. No one can live a lie, you should learn that one More time.
Children witness behavior every day in public Schools which is contrary to what they have been taught. Concerned parents, speak with your children and let them know the real consequences that follow this behavior. It is not difficult for our children to see it if you talk to them. Talk to them.
News Flash....hate is hate.
It kind of makes you wonder why wome of us don't accept that hate-the-sin-not-the-sinner rhetoric.
Next time some of you feel that you are the target of those anti's or feel some persecution because of your beliefs, think about the attitude found in this article and the responses to it.
When your leaders talk about the great divide that exists in this community think about how you may be contributing to it.
If Utahns don't think the school system supports their values, why do they continue to support pouring ever-increasing amounts of money down the rat hole of public education?
This is the same God in your book that allowed his Prophets to have concubines....
If it works for you...it's OK. If it doesn't work for you....it's an ABOMINATION!!!
Funny how they look the same in the mirror...
What's it going to be?
It's all in YOUR hands.
I'm waiting.
7:45 a.m. Alarm rings
8:00 a.m.-8:10 a.m. Take shower
8:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Dress and put items into briefcase
8:35 a.m. Leave house
8:45 a.m. Starbucks
9:00 a.m. Arrive at job
12:00 p.m. Lunch with a co-worker. Perhaps Chili's?
12:45 p.m. Return to job
1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Meeting
5:00 p.m. Leave work
5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Work out in gym
7:00 p.m. Return home
7:20 p.m. Prepare and eat dinner
8:00 p.m. Watch Law & Order on TNT
11:00 p.m. Go to sleep
Dangerous indeed.
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I fully believe these individuals that held this meetings are slightly off center and I would never attend such a meeting myself. But for the media to try to push such stories on the populous because they feel it is their 'duty' is just wrong. Report the news, don't try to make it.
What was that story about ABC News 'framing' a story on high rates of depression in Utah? A similar situation couldn't be happening here could it?