Gay And Don't Want To Be? There's An App For That...

Face Palm

Look, I'm all for LGBT rights, but that article felt kind of like those fanfiction writers that diagnose random characters with Aspergers.

Huffington post and alphabet soup author, a twofer for unreliability

What is it with people and religious peoples sexuality. Often its not that big a deal.

@Joeyjojo

Actually, courts have repeatedly recognized marriage as a fundamental right.

It's true that people don't, in general, have a right to children. But what about a child's right to a loving family? There are more children who need homes than there are homes willing to take them, and gayness is an absurd reason to disqualify people as potential parents.

However, unlike homosexuality, one's personal rape fantasies are something that should not be discussed in polite company.

Screw polite company!

dashes off to fetishes

...Which is also something one should not do in (most flavors of) polite company.

@Leigh Sabio: Hey i'm not saying Rott shouldn't post in On Topic. I'm glad that he does, it's good to have a voice of dissident. Even an reactionary and regressive one.

What I question is what he gets out of it. I don't think he believes that if he says that 'homosexuality is wrong'' enough times the rest of tv tropes is going change it's tune.

It's like a fashionista asking what PETA thinks to his fur coat, getting paint thrown at him and then coming back to ask them again. You either have to be mentally incapable of accepting feedback or find their outrage amusing on some level.

@invisigoth: I'll like to see those court's argument that marriage is a right if you have it.

edited 29th Mar '11 11:20:26 PM by joeyjojo

At least two Supreme Court opinions kind of indicate a right to marry- Loving v. Virginia and Zablocki v. Redhail, although both have other considerations besides that.

Well that's a step in the right direction, but did the courts try to claim that there was a right to a legal marriage and if so on what grounds?

@Jordan: Yep, Loving recognized that a man has a right to marry a woman regardless of race.

The trick progressives have played since then is attempting to redefine the word "marriage" to mean exactly what they just what they choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

The world would be better if Humpty Dumpty took a great fall.

Fine then, give all the legal rights for marriage to a civil partnership and "progressives" will stop trying to "redefine" it.

Thats what was done over here, and it's worked quite well, and since very few people go to churches anymore its generally accepted as just as fine as a marriage.

edited 30th Mar '11 12:27:32 AM by JosefBugman

Well, since America's a touch more religious and the word 'marriage' has symbolic importance to a lot of people, plus the whole separate but equal thing, the issue is a wee bit more complicated than that. But that would be a nice step, certainly.

I have to agreed with Rott again

*vomits in mouth a little*

The liberal justices on the supreme court now a days are making a mockery of due process by declaring any vaguely progressive cause as a 'civil right'.

Wesley J. Smith on ''Baxter v. Montan

edited 30th Mar '11 4:33:04 AM by joeyjojo

Re: aactivist judges

While I can see the validity of concern over seemingly politically motivated rulings, I ask anyone who puts forth this claim "what would you have different?" Judges exist as a check against the very political Legislative branch for a reason; to prevent tyranny of the majority by making rulings without regard to serving the public. Inevitably the reaction to a ruling one disagrees with is "replace the judge with someone who will rule in my favor", which is advocating the abolishment of the Judicial branch.

There will always be people who disagree with rulings. Attempting to politicize the justice system isn't the answer.

Re: This app: ...One could potentially reverse engineer the thing to make an app that makes you gay.... >:3

edited 30th Mar '11 6:44:50 AM by inane242

YES! Someone got to do it!

Peoples reactions to it would be HILLARIOUS!!! "You programed an app that does WHAT!?!?!"

edited 30th Mar '11 7:00:31 AM by inane242

I'm sure that it would be a nice millitary technique, since how the middle eastern countries are...

I imagine it would look something like this.

reminds me of the secret 'gay bomb' on 30 rock

Gay bomb? Go whole hog with "Gay Nerve Gas".

(*Cuogh, Choke, sputter*) "Hey nice ass..."

Drakyndra: I was thinking more Robot Unicorn Attack.