France is a banana republic (with proofs).

When it comes to adoption, surely we should be doing what we think’s best for the children. Rather than what we consider best for society?

Given a choice between living with a caring and loving couple or months in a deprived council run foster establishment. I think I know which one they’d rather have?

Matt

🙂

Ah, right.

Yes, looks like I’ll have to give you that one. 🙂

#34 – GA

Which one?

i’m starting to lose track of them in this rather…. interesting….. thread.

Except the thousands of French masons!!;) So, no, your answer is certainly not clear!

Grey Area – does that answer your comment?

I fully accept that, GA, but this phrase caught my attention, which gives little room for nuances of language.

” but it is just a little piece of the war that the masons are waging against catholicity”

And Nic is welcome to respond in French, if he wishes!!;):)

I despise masons & everything masonry stands for. They answer to their own secret objectives and definately NOT to the french people.

Is the answer clear enough for you?

Nic

Perhaps someone can tell me where the term “Gay” came from? I know quite a few Homosexuals and most seem angry and agrieved about their lack of rights and other slights real or imagined. Gay to me means a happy and carefree sort of person which does not seem to fit that community very well at all. I must admit if people did not insist on telling me about their sexual orientation I would not know or care.

RE 43

In your particular case – I reckon he did.

I bet you find that a right pain in the ****.

Everytime I read this thread title I keep missing the second letter of the word in brackets and that makes it just as apposite as the word originally written!! Apologies!!;):)

I have absolutely no problem what men or women do to each other, as long as they do it in private and it isn’t forced down my throat.
Pun not intended
What I really hate is sexual preferences or the like of race or colour that is forced upon me by the PC brigade and the people that play the race card, all of which I do not have a problem with, just the PC brigade foisting it upon me.

Yes,he was slightly drunk in the pub reading the odds on the next days dog races 🙂

Read it again – very slowly.

Are you sure Einstein said that?

I read it again –just took longer 🙂

Having Gay marches is fine if it’s a “celebration” BUT when it become a militant demand to force people to accept them [bit like religious zealots] then i have a problem.

The line between those two intentions is too feint to make any difference, apart from which there will be marchers on the “wrong” side of the line. In any case what is “being celebrated”? Simply that “I AM GAY AND I LOVE MYSELF FOR IT AND SO SHOULD ALL OF YOU”. No thanks. Most people don’t care. Many of us have happy and fruitful friendships with both hetero and homosexuals and that’s it.

Homosexuals have been a generally accepted part of our culture for many years now and the majority of people are quite content for them to get on with their lives whilst the rest get on with theirs.

Read it again – very slowly.

I read it again –just took longer 🙂

I don’t think you really know your own sexuality until you get older and have experienced life.I know a few people who thought they were straight,got married ,did the family bit and then realised in their middle years they weren’t really happy with who they thought they were supposed to be and that their real feelings didn’t come out until later .

Having Gay marches is fine if it’s a “celebration” BUT when it become a militant demand to force people to accept them [bit like religious zealots] then i have a problem.

When I read your reply to my series of questions that weren’t open to interpretation as statements, a quote attributed to Albert Einstein came into my mind.

Read it again – very slowly.

Is this likely to have an influence on the childs sexual orientation on becoming an adult? Is pyschological damage something to be considered? Is this necessarily something to be concerned about?

No, it’s a myth in much the same way as the asinine notion that same-sex marriage would in some way threaten existing ‘conventional’ marriages. Also, you sound like Maude Flanders.

Why do I need to be force fed a diet of homosexuality…?

Ooh, kinky! :diablo:

Surely the principle of ‘live and let live’ should, apart from the children question, apply?

But surely the principle of ‘live and let live’ would be an argument in favour of permitting same-sex marriage?

I don’t think you’ve thought this one through, John.

Well put Charlie, you just beat me to it. As far as children being influenced by the ‘gender configuration’ of their families is concerned, I can only speak for myself. I come from a happy, heterosexual family, so I don’t really see a correlation between the gender make up of parents, and the sexual orientation of their children.

In a way, this brings the debate back towards wether being gay or not, is a ‘lifestyle choice’ and as I’ve said in my earlier post, I honestly don’t believe in that premise at all. My fellow gays adopting kids? Personally, I’ve never quite got that, same with same sex marriage, but each to their own I guess.

Perhaps someone can explain to me, for I have never understood the need for the continuous stream of ‘gay’ propaganda as evidenced by some of the annual ‘gay rights’ marches and carnivals held in places such as Brighton. Why do I need to be force fed a diet of homosexuality when no one force feeds me with a diet of rampant heterosexuality?

Surely the principle of ‘live and let live’ should, apart from the children question, apply?

I agree and I hasten to add that many homosexuals loathe “gay pride marches” and similar acts of protest.

And many same-sex couples have no interest in having children either.