Right on this very page of the forum, obviously sanctioned by b'net, is an anti-rights, homophobic ad, using a VERY unflattering picture of Rep. Barney Frank, and the loaded question, "Do you believe homosexuals deserve special rights?"

It's one of those "fake survey" ads, and as such, not only biased, but a basic lie.  THAT is the style and the position of conservatives and the right on this issue.

And no, I don't believe anyone deserves "special" rights.  I do believe they deserve the rights all of us enjoy.  As long as we're speaking out against "special" rights, let's speak out against those demanded by the religious right.

I called him a politician simply  because he's pandering to those groups whose religious bias can't seem to keep their nose out of everyone else's freedoms. Homosexuals don't need to be cured; they need to be accepted. Not everyone comes wired the same way, and the idea that they can be fixed is as ludicrous as the theory that you could cure someone of being left-handed by forcing them to use the right hand.

Or the cruelties inflicted on students before dyslexia was able to be diagnosed. My brother-in-law and my niece are both dyslexic. before teachers considered these students as being lazy unmotivated and able to do the work if they'd just apply themselves. And that shaming them would give them the magic ability to have all those letters make sense just like they did for everyone else.

Since there are homosexual animals besides humans, it must not bother God that much. I think too many homophobes confuse homosexuals with pedophiles, (not helped by all the pedophile priests, but many of them went by targets of opportunity)or that somehow they can convert straight people and turn them into homosexuals. Or worst of all--that one of those liberal, immoral unGodly homosexuals will want to have sex with them.

Fact is--not all homosexuals are raging sex maniacs. Nor will it harm a child to be raised by two loving same sex parents. It seems to me that they would be much safer with parents than in foster homes. If a child was being raised by a mother/aunt, mother/grandmother home it doesn't automatically affect the child's sexuality. Same for father/uncle, father /grandfather or other combinations. How many Disney films even have a mother in them let alone one that makes it to the end of the cartoon?  I've known kids raised by their grandparents, or a case where an aunt married the kid's father just to help raise him. It was a pretty cold household, too.

Now if this quack comes up with a cure for bigotry he'll have something. someone else's sex life isn't any of my business and it certainly isn't anything that needs to be regulated by the government. What's next--are they going to try to regulate uniform sizes and measures including duration?

Of course--the ever popular "do as i say,not as i do" bit. Why am I not surprised this guy was against other single parents adopting regardless of their sexuality? Or that he's been happily eating at the public trough.

Sure, I'd like special rights...but I don't think I can get a restraining order to keep idiots at bay. I'd settle for just having a few more competent people around sometimes....if I want to be really bitchy, I'd be happy just to get all the rights we lost to the Patriot Act back.

I knew who a lot of the gay guys were in school simply because we were into some of the same things--music, theater, museums--and I guess because I didn't treat them like freaks. I figured that as long as we both didn't go after the same guy there wasn't a problem. Later on I met a lot of gay women--and as long as they didn't want anything but friendship from me, I didn't have a problem with them either. On the whole, they certainly were a lot less judgemental and fun to be with than some of the religious bigots around.

This guy has simply found a way to make money from being a bigot....a fraud...and a cheat. I don't think that anyone is going straight to Hell for being homosexual--if we are as God made us, that's how they came wired. I don't think our sexual preference is something we can be converted over one way or the other--and trying to justify bigotry  on religious grounds is a bigger perversion than homosexuality to me.

Shame on me for being tolerant--I was raised Episcopalian. When he was in the Army my father had a minister rush up to him and ask him if he'd been Saved. Daddy told him "No, I'm an Episcopalian."