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Apple CEO Tim Cook Publicly Comes Out as Gay in Letter Declaring Support for Equality
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Question: When you have sex with yourself is it gay? After all it's with a person of the same gender.
Face it homophobes, you've experienced sex with the same gender.
Damn! You make a really creepy good point And you believe the person who told you this was the case, unless you carbon-dated them yourself.
Can it definitively be established those were not copies?
This is funny! Apparently my comment about the tall Scandinavian women offended people enough to take it down. It was #2 on the comment board list, and here is the reason why I put it up there: to illustrate absurdity on all sides by being absurd.
For the gay side, stating your sexual preference is just that. What the world does with it is a bigger problem that needs to be solved by understanding and empathy. I'm with the "what difference does it make?" Crowd.
For the "what difference does it make?" Crowd, exactly that.
For the "you are going to someplace that is hellish after you die crowd," well, we'll just have to see about that. I'm sure the mote in my eye blocks out the beam in yours.
Lastly, if you reported it as being offensive, well, who is the closed minded one here? He guy that does the original post, or the one that clandestinely reports it. Today, I have had respectful conversations with atheists, (IRL) gay and lesbians, and straight people, and we all walked away a little more knowledgeable about each other,band about the whole Tim Cook thing.
As for Tim, I don't think it was courageous that he disclosed it. When I lived in the Bay Area (south San Jose), being gay is a, "oh, ok... I don't have to worry about you around my girlfriend," thing. He isn't going to lose his job, friends, or stature in the community. If he did face those things, then it was courageous. THats the point, though. It's a great thing when someone coming out is, "oh... I guess I don't have to worry about him taking my girlfriend," thing than a "oh crap! They're going to put cooties in my iMac!"
For the gay side, stating your sexual preference is just that. What the world does with it is a bigger problem that needs to be solved by understanding and empathy. I'm with the "what difference does it make?" Crowd.
For the "what difference does it make?" Crowd, exactly that.
For the "you are going to someplace that is hellish after you die crowd," well, we'll just have to see about that. I'm sure the mote in my eye blocks out the beam in yours.
Lastly, if you reported it as being offensive, well, who is the closed minded one here? He guy that does the original post, or the one that clandestinely reports it. Today, I have had respectful conversations with atheists, (IRL) gay and lesbians, and straight people, and we all walked away a little more knowledgeable about each other,band about the whole Tim Cook thing.
As for Tim, I don't think it was courageous that he disclosed it. When I lived in the Bay Area (south San Jose), being gay is a, "oh, ok... I don't have to worry about you around my girlfriend," thing. He isn't going to lose his job, friends, or stature in the community. If he did face those things, then it was courageous. THats the point, though. It's a great thing when someone coming out is, "oh... I guess I don't have to worry about him taking my girlfriend," thing than a "oh crap! They're going to put cooties in my iMac!"
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Since when have CEOs been expected to keep their sexuality private? Most public figures are open about their sexuality. They talk about their wives, husbands, families, lives...you just don't notice it.
Then you need to take that up with your district.
But it's irrelevant to the matter of sexual education as the school presents it.
I can see your point, and I dontreally agree or disagree, I suppose time will tell, and your likely correct based on trends in the recent years.
I was pointing out the absurdity of socio-sexual identity.
I'm not overly concerned with other people's sexuality and using it to discriminate against them.
Nope, Einstein was explicitly against religion.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/...religion-and-science-was-wrong-misinterpreted
Technically it is hearsay, none of the miracles and very little if any quotes and claims can be verified. That makes it by the very definition of the word, hearsay. Any claims that any aspects of the bible are factual have to be proven first.
You really like imposing your life choices on others don't you?
- You want to force your daughter's classmates to hear about her religion
- You want to force gay people to not get married
- And you want to potentially smash your car into innocent drivers because you feel like reading.
Makes sense.
Did you ever have to fight for your right based on your race, gender or sex behavior?
Well not really, If someone want's to have 10 wives or shag their sibling, I'm not going to stop them, campaign against it, or claim they are going to be tortured in fire by an invisible monster for doing it.
I was simply pointing out why they aren't the same thing as homosexuality. When I said they are 'wrong' I really meant they are likely to be bad for the people involved, not me personally. Creating jealously between your wives isn't likely to lead to a long term happy and stable relationship. While incest destroys the paternal love between family members, and almost certainly will lead to sadness.
While homosexuality can clearly have its own issues, they aren't that much greater than heterosexual relationships and are far more likely to result in a loving stable relationship, where all parties are equal and happy, than these other scenarios.
I will concede that if you are on the side of the argument that condones hatred towards gay people, then switching to these other much more complicated concepts, is probably your best bet.
No he didn't practice it, he wasn't against it. He was extremely humble and chose not to condem those that did, hence his many quotes explaining that he understood why some did.
Question: When you have sex with yourself is it gay? After all it's with a person of the same gender.
Face it homophobes, you've experienced sex with the same gender.
Which proves that people can have sex with someone of the same gender and not be gay.
(Sorry... I got called out for making that statement earlier)
We can skew any analogy to suit our arguments. To forensically dissect your assertion that marriage can't and should not be redefined you need to ask:
Have there been instances of other words being redefined to fit with current thinking?
Where did marriage originate?
How did these people define marriage?
Has that definition changed over time?
Who reserves the right to say whether marriage can or can't be redefined?
Having said all that, in the UK marriage has already been redefined in both language and law. So, as a Brit, your protestations are irrelevant.
I disagree.
Without faith, man cannot exist. What is religion, but faith in a particular set of parameters?
Do you know, when you throw the light switch, that the light will turn on? What if it is burned out or have an open in the wiring?
You believe it will. In other words, you have faith. Most of what we learn is belief-based.
Thus your statement is full of belief, as you cannot definitively prove religion is bs, and self-contradictory.
Food for thought.
I am really proud of myself being a fat whiteman, drinking beer and writing posts on an internet forum.
I never understood folks being proud of their race, gender, sex behaviour, taste or petty actions.
I once showed a friend a huge turd I left in his toilet. I was very proud. He was very disgusted.
Was it an upper decker?
You're right that verses 25-28 don't fit with my claim, but there's several *other* verses before those (24 of them, in fact). But let's just go with what you're posting.
God says that if a woman who is betrothed gets raped where no one is around to witness it, she now must marry her rapist, who may never be rid of her. Because God apparently thinks its a good idea to force a woman to remain with a man who has already raped her!!!
*STILL LOOKING FOR THAT CONTEXT YOU KEPT TALKING ABOUT!*
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