AEON said:
How is it that forcing a heterosexual male to cuddle and shower with a homosexual male is not considered sexual harassment, when it would be considered sexual harassment if we forced a woman to do these things with a heterosexual man? That is the basis of my female/homosexual male comparison.
AEON said:I find it sad that you must refer to my opinions as insane homophobia simply because I do not feel it is necessary to force heterosexual men to huddle and shower with homosexual males.
redhotswami said:
You certainly have not!!!
I keep asking you OVER and OVER and OVER again this same question. You have not been answering this question.
Also, I wanted to acknowledge that I do understand that there already gays serving in the military. My posts are more about the issue of what the standard should be and what is optimal.
AEON said:
I have answered it:
redhotswami said:
That's not exactly answering. You're saying you acknowledge there are gays currently in the military but that is not answering my question. Please, just answer it.
Since they are already in the military, what is so wrong about letting them say that they are gay? They are already there serving, just as anybody else.
Justin24 said:All I am going to say is. Even if Aeon does not agree non of you have a right to call him a bigot, because I am sure everyone has skeletons in their closet that they don't want anyone to know.
redhotswami said:
How many times must I post this?
Justin24 said:Bigot like all words are created by man to disagree with some one or label them.
BonoVoxSupastar said:You know if I was defending this country I would be happy to have anyone who was willing and able to do the job next to me in the trenches, regardless of color, sex, orientation, religion, etc...
That's life.
The one thing I've noticed in life is that when facing incredibly intense, strenguous, difficult times together these things don't matter. No one has a religion, no one has an orientation, no one is attractive or ugly, they often don't even have a face; they are just my fellow human.
It's too bad that doesn't remain true for everyone, especially those who call themselves compassionate or loving.
BonoVoxSupastar said:
What? That doesn't even make sense.
Does it not have a defintion?
www.dictionary.comnoun a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
[French, from Old French.]
Word History: Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant "an excessively devoted or hypocritical person." Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense "a superstitious hypocrite."
redhotswami said:
All you've talked about is how you think gays should not be allowed in the military. That is not the topic of this thread. It is about lifting the "don't ask don't tell" policy, hence the subject line. You've neglected that issue entirely and seriously derailed this thread to ruffle feathers. I'm trying to bring this back to the topic at hand.
Justin24 said:
Does Bigot have a definition? yes it does.
AEON said:
You may not agree with my answer, but it an answer.
Justin24 said:Why should we label someone with a word. I mean we are against labeling black people as N____, white people as honkey or white devils, so why use a word to label people, even bigot? Why not just ignore them or forgive them and just continue with your lives?
BonoVoxSupastar said:
No one fits into the label ******.
Justin24 said:
Tell that to the KKK.
Justin24 said:
"He who has not sinned cast the first stone"---- So if your completly innocent of anything cast there words up Aeon if you have done nothing wrong or said anything wrong.
Justin24 said:
do you get what I am saying?