LGBT

Let’s title this debate correctly. “Should gays be able to get hitched?” The answer is an emphatic YES! This is an impossible debate for both sides, but consider it this way: Life is hard. Really hard. The world we live…
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I’ve taken some time away from writing after the conclusion of the heated election season (although the MN Senate race remains hot and heavy). There were many great victories along with even greater defeats. It goes without saying that the…
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There are only two ways to take a stand on if only men and women should be able to marry. The first is the government stand point, the second a religious stand point. Depending on which side you are on…
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Mark Tewksbury was born in Calgary, Alberta, on July 2, 1968, a day that began what has already been a long strange trip. It wasn’t always a strange trip, Mark grew up much like any other kid with the exception…
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I think the right to create laws on gay marriage should neither reside at the state level nor at the federal level. Marriage, in general, is the complete union of two individuals as an act of love. This union in…
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Shallow people judge gay and lesbians. I believe if these people could only open their hearts and minds they would see gay and lesbians are indeed just like them………children of God.Are those who judge gay and lesbians as equally engaged…
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Once you adopt a few gay friends, or come out as gay yourself, it may seem that perhaps the whole world really is gay. An insider to the queer community will be privvy to all the different shades of sexuality…
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I don’t see any reasons, why homosexuals should be deprive of their rights to get married and enjoy the benefits of marriage. Those folks pay their taxes too. They have their fair share as citizens or residents, and it’s just…
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It is a little known secret that in the early days of Hitler’s rise to power he used homosexuals to make social and political contacts to serve his purposes. It is however no secret he later turned on them calling…
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Timing isn’t always an option. You can choose to tell your loved one’s the moment you find out about your sexuality, or you can take the chance of someone else who knows about it telling them. Which is going to…
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Sitting across the dinner table was my best friend, Denny. It was the first time we had seen each other in over 25 years and we had slipped back into our friendship as though the years between us had never…
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Marriage is a sacred institution. An institution that enables a couple to share, not only their natural lives, but their possessions and legacies. Couples who so deeply care for each other, who want to ensure that their loved one is…
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Coming out to your parents and telling them that you are gay, can be one of the hardest and most intense conversations that you may have with them. To them you are their perfect child and they want nothing but…
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I think some of my opinion of a ‘yes’ on this comes from firstly being a gay Catholic but secondly living in a country where civil partnerships are already recognised as being legally equal to marriage and have proved to…
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This issue, with good reason, has been an emotionally charged campaign topic during election campaigns. I for one, being a person of principle, find it ridiculous that we have allowed our society to sway to the point where we bring…
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We live in a continuously changing era. It is becoming more and more common to find yourself face to face with someone who is gay. Can we discriminate such an extensive majority of people and say that we are blamelessly…
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On the issue of gay marriage and the question of the legality of such, my point of view is both Christian and of common sense. Whether or not you believe in evolution or creation, since the beginning, there were unions…
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With all the respect to the men and women of the homosexual orientation for their courage to affirm what they are and what they want to be, I am yet strongly tempted to say NO. Being a couple and being…
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Heterosexual couples get married on a whim all the time in America. The “sanctity” of marriage is mocked everywhere by drunk couples in Vegas, drive-through wedding chapels, and divorce. It should not be so easy to get married on the spot, and…
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Is love natural? Is homosexuality natural? If your a homosexual and in love I have to say that this is natural. I’m sure most would disagree, but when it comes to love, is there really a true form from another….
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Do Gay Relationships Place Too Much Emphasis on Sex? I don’t know if I even have a right to input my opinion on this as a heterosexual married woman, but I tend to be opinionated and have a hard time…
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Whats it like to be a 15 year old teen? I’ve asked myself several times, it’s a hard question to answer given Ive never been and never will be a 15 year old boy! Then I ask myself what it…
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People are born female or male, defining people as human beings. Female and male means two distinct sexes, as in no we are not androgynous if we are human. Arguments of those who refer to the worms which can be…
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Yes, gays and lesbians should be allowed civil unions but when it actually comes to marriage I have to say no. As far as I’m concerned gays and lesbians can unite in civil unions with all of the same benefits…
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Let there be gay weddings! I am a heterosexual, married, woman, and I proudly support the rights of gay people to be married in the same kind of ceremony, with the same kind of legal rights, as I have. Why…
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Telling my parents that I am gay was one of the hardest things that I have ever had to do. It was ten years ago now, almost to the day and I still remember how I had to force my…
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The question before us has been in the media limelight for a reason. The touchy subject for both sides is the political hot button issue that deters the public from the real government activity. Allowed civil unions? The choice of…
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JUST PERSONS WHO WANT TO BE Most of the folks in Jim’s neighborhood liked to think of him as “that homosexual down the street”. This was a group of people who certainly would have prefered that he lived somewhere else….
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When most people hear the name Lily Tomlin they think of her movies or maybe Laugh In which launched her career, Ms. Tomlin has been one of the true funny ladies in entertainment nearly fifty years having carved a niche…
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The subject of gay marriage comes up a lot in everyday activities. I think that marriage should be between to people who love each other. It doesn’t have to be only between a man and a woman. If two women…
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