1ºHarlan Nance so you think improving the economy and fighting climate change is somehow control!? Guns need to be controlled. How you can look at the volume of mass shootings in this country and think the current course of zero action is appropriate is not only delusional but at this point immoral. And lastly people!? How are democrats trying to control people? That is a republican issue through and through. Republicans this year alone have tried to control women, teachers, gays, trans folk and on and on. You are being intellectually dishonest about all of this. If you think you not being able to force your religion on others is control that is some seriously f-cked up thinking.
2ºThan there is the relationship between or bisexual founding father, Hamilton (described as feminine by his contemporaries) and Laurens (currently lauded as the first gay war hero in the US by our currently serving gay troops. Spicy letters where he talks of marriage as a way to distract from his affections.
https://rictornorton.co.uk/hamilton.htm
Also notable is that George Washington had a gentle don't ask don't tell policy when it came to his soldiers. When he could have dealt with them violently during that time, he usually looked the other way and the only soldier discharged for homosexuality was forced out by Aaron Burr. Washington also assigned Lawrence to Hamilton as an aide de camp, knowing of their relationship, and connected them with Baron von Steuben knowing of his sexuality.
Edited to add: Hi Eddie Rocktula, do you have anything to add to this conversation or are you a sad little man who derives some pathetic sense of power by using a laugh react because historical evidence makes you uncomfortable and you can't counteract anything with facts?
3ºHarlan Nance
Deuteronomy 13:1-18
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. ...
4ºLinda Arndt Schuck there you go again thinking you can define what I think. A very common thing with the right always try to paint people the way the want to perceive them. For the record I don’t use the term woke it’s out of date and only used by people who have no clue to what it means or were the term comes from. My guess is you are just homophobic and want to justify it. The fact is this is The United States and LGBT are part of it so just Learn to deal with it or GTFO.
5ºMimi Rose So answer the question. Why 1) is it okay for you to openly discuss your sexual preference and gender identity in reference to your family and everyday life, even in work situations and publicly, but not okay for gay and transgender people to do so and 2) why you assume that people were chosen *because* they were gay or transgender rather than that they simply were the best people for the drive. Or do you believe that heterosexuals are inherently more competent than gay people? If so, I'd love to see the scientific evidence of that which you would present.
6ºCory Sheen religion is a choice MOST of the time actually. Take Catholics for example, when they do a confirmation, they ask you if you accept that religion as your own. (I know because I was catholic). It’s very easy to speak on ‘both sides’ but unless you’ve really experienced both sides, it’s hard to have a clear view on both. It’s also kinda funny that you would talk about brainwashing. That’s exactly what seems to happen in several religions. Even people who haven’t been exposed to LGBTQ+ people or their ‘beliefs’ turn out to be gay. They turn out to be gay in places that condemn gay people. No one would choose to be ‘gay’ after seeing how hard it really is to exist as a LGBTQ+ person. The minimum acceptance isn’t even happening on the religious side when grown adults try to take away LGBTQ+ rights and visibility. Basing their ‘beliefs’ on their religion and then expecting everyone else to accept it. So unless that’s what you’re referring to, there isn’t really forceful acceptance by LGBTQ+ people. Wanting to be seen as an equal is NOT forceful acceptance. We can sit here all day and talk about to each their own, but let’s be real, LGBTQ+ representation and existence doesn’t hurt people the way forceful religion does. I’m all for everyone living their lives as they please, but not if it affects and endangers others.