**>If homosexuality is a sin against Nature,
Then heterosexuality is a crime against Humanity.
**>Support gay marriage.
**>If homosexuality is a sin, then so is love itself. (Lonewolfess)
**>If gays were allowed to marry, the government would benefit a lot more. More money for them......
**>The bible does not say that homosexuality itself is a sin. What it says is that homosexual prostitution is a sin.
**>Back in the B.C. (hehe), Greeks supported homosexuality. Actually, it was considered not only normal, but almost required for a man to have a same-sex partner. Usually it was a boy of 15 to about 22 in a relationship with a man 23 or older. These were completely normal and looked upon as usual routine.
**> There have been many writings of royal kings, queens and others have homosexual relationships along with heterosexual relationships and being entirely accepted for it.
**>Until 324 A.D., homosexual marriages were common in Roman life until emperor Constintius II outlawed them.
**>On October 7, 1998 a boy named Matthew Shepard was in a bar in a town called Laramie, Wyoming. Matthew was 21. Two boys, Aaron McKinney and Russel Henderson, decided to pretend to be gay and lure him into their car. Matthew was very innocent and gullible for a person his age, so he trusted the men. McKinney and Henderson drove just outside of Laramie. Feeling they were safe, they suddenly turned on Matthew. They beat him and took his shoes and tied him to split-rail fence. Almost 18 hours later he was found by a cyclist who had just happened to turn down that road. The man mistook him for a scarecrow untill he saw Matthew's hair. Matthew was taken to the hospital, where he died on October 12, 1998. The attention to his murder was nation-wide. Though Matthew's death was a tragedy, it opened the world's eyes to the fact that hate crimes happen every day, and every town has people who hate.
**>Almost exactly four years later, on October 4, 2002, a seventeen year old girl named Gwen Araujo was at a party in Newark, California. Her supposed friends thought they knew her. She had had sexual relations with many of them. But one of the friends knew something the rest didn't. Paul Merel's girlfriend was at the party. She somehow checked Gwen's genitalia in the bathroom of the house, though the court account doesnt record how. She discovered that Gwen was, in fact, Eddie Araujo, a transgender. She told her Paul, who in turn told Jason Cazares, Mike Magidson, Jaron Nabors and his younger brother, Jose Merel. They forcibly checked Gwen's genitalia, and after discovering this was true, became enraged. Mike Magidson began to choke her in the hallway.Other guests that had been there began to leave. Once everyone had left, three people began to assault Gwen Araujo. Jose Merel struck her over the head with a frying pan and again with a can of tomatoes, leaving a gash in her head which bled profusely. Jaron Nabors hit her with a barbell weight. Mike Magidson kneed her head into the living room wall. The blow was so forceful that her head caused a dent in the wall. Araujo was taken into the garage of the home, where she was strangled by a rope. (Stories conflict on whether she was strangled by Mike Magdison or Jaron Nabors). She was then hog-tied, wrapped in a blanket and put in the bed of Mike Magdison's pickup truck. They drove her body to a parkland in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada called Silver Fork and buried her in a shallow grave. Almost three weeks passed. Finally Jason Nabors slipped a word to a friend. The friend called the police, a Jason Nabors was arrested. The police were led to Gwen's grave on October 16, 2002. The rest of her assailants were charged for murder and hate crime.
**> In 1993, a young man named Pedro Zamora was on the 3rd season of MTV'sThe Real World. Pedro was an HIV positive homosexual. He was an immigrant from Cuba, and most of his family was still in Cuba. His mother had died when he was young. Looking for a new source of love, he had let himself be taken advantage of by older men. No one had educated him about AIDS. When he was 19, he tested positive for the HIV virus. But he decided to live with HIV. He was an AIDS educator who gave lectures to schools and businesses. He decided to go on the Real World to get a wider audience and prove that HIV positive people are just like everyone else. He did this. While on the TV show, he met a man named Sean Sasser. After a few dates, they fell in love. Both men were HIV positive, and both worked to raise awareness about AIDS, HIV and GLBT people. A few months later, Sean asked Pedro to marry him. Pedro accepted. Only a few years after they were married, Pedro fell ill. Though in the end, he did not make it, he had left a legacy of awareness behind. His friends became AIDS educators in Pedro's place. And they created new foundations for AIDS research and awareness. Pedro's legacy lives on in the graphic novel "Pedro and Me" by Judd Winick.
**> How many people know the real meaning of the word "f**?" Not many. f** means "bundle of sticks." Why are gay men called fags? Because during the witch hunts and witch burnings, the people wouldn't just use wood to burn the accused "witches." They would also tie up accused gay men and lay them at the feet of the witches, upon the wood. They would then light the men on fire, signifying that gay men were even worse sinners than the "witches." Over half the men and women burned were not gay nor were they witches.
**> Almost no one knows where the term dyke came from. Most people think its those walls in Holland used to keep water back. Those are spelled dike. Dyke is actually the Roman goddess of Justice.
**> Usual we just hear the term 'GLBT,' but there are many more than that:
- Gay: rather self-explanitory. When a male has a sexual or amourous attraction to another male.
-Lesbian: also self-explanitory. When a female has a sexual or amourous attraction to another female
-Bisexual: a person who is emotional and physically attracted to members of any sex.
-Pansexual:A person who is attracted to people of all genders, but does not believe in a dichotomous sense of gender.
-Transgender: those without a specific gender label.
-Transsexual: An individual with a gender identity that is opposite to that conventionally associated with his or her biological sex.
-Intersexed/Intersexual: person who is born between (inter) sexes, having partially or fully developed pairs of female and male sex organs. Also ther term 'hermaphrodite.'
-Asexual: not attracted to anyone of any gender.
-Androgyne: feeling sometimes male, sometimes female, and sometimes neither.
**>The Pentagon still has homosexuality listed as a mental disorder, and has no intention of changing it.
**> States who have legalized gay marriage: Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Connecticut
**> On May 15, 2008, gay marriage was legalized in California. On November 4, 2008, Proposition 8 banned gay marriage. On May 9, Proposition 8 was upheld by the Supreme court.
**>"Homosexuality" isn't a disease. Homophobia seems more like the disease to me.(Sctiive)
**> At almost every school, students who are gay/are believed to be gay are harassed more than overweight or fat students, and students with disabilities, combined.
**> Think about how many times you hear the sentences "You f**." "You're such a f**." "That's so gay." "Yeah, it was so gay." Next time your in school, count how many times you hear this. THEN count how many people who say this are your friends.
**> Why is it so wrong to marry the same sex? Isn't it worse to marry your own cousin (incest is a sin in the bible as well) or a man fifty years to your twenty, or marry someone just for his or her money?
**> GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) youth make up over 30% of suicides each year.
**> every 5 hours and 48 minutes, a GLBT youth commits successful suicide
**> Every 14 minutes, a GLBT youth attempts suicide
**> Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not special rights. They are endowed to everyone and include marriage, too.
**>Many people don't realize how much of a financial problem gay couples have because they cannot be married. Insurance companies do not recognize them as couples. They have to get insurance for themselves, they cannot get it together. Thats a lot of money to pay.
**> Many kids are not out of the closet as gay because they are afraid of looks they will get in the hallways, names they will be called, etc. Why make their life scarier and more stressful than a regular teenager's life is?
**> STRAIGHT PEOPLE- TRY THIS. Imagine you have a deep dark secret. It can be anything, it doesn't matter. Now imagine that if you told people this secret you would be ridiculed, hated, looked at like you are a freak. Imagine how badly you want to tell someone your secret. Imagine your fear of a persons reaction if you tell them your secret. Imagine you tell someone the secret, but it leaks out and soon everyone knows. Imagine people whispering and pointing at you as you walk down the hall. Imagine people staring at you as if your a freak, as if there is something wrong with you. Imagine people throwing their lunches at you or spitting on you as you walk across the courtyard at lunch. Imagine people taunting you with names that hurt you like a bullet. Now open your eyes. Gays go through this every day. We don't have to imagine. For us, its reality.
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