> LetEmEatWMDs@yahoo.com (Marie A.) wrote in
> news:1dc521ed.0306221544.84131b2@posting.google.com:
>

>> Letao fire.and.fishing.net> wrote in message
>> news:netnews.attbi.com>...

>>> In article <0SFIa.1077$rN.10864@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
>>> niloc hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>

>>>>> Do you oppose homosexual relationships ?

>>>>
>>>> I dont think so

>>>
>>> Do you oppose providing them with the same protections heterosexual
>>> relationships enjoy?
>>>

>>>>> Do you oppose normalizing homosexual relationships ?

>>>>
>>>> They cannot be normalised as the normal reason for a relationship
>>>> is to continue the genes.

>>>
>>> What's 'normalized' got to do with anything? What's a normal reason
>>> for legally recognizing a relationship?

>>
>> Distinctions which come rather easily to anyone with a room
>> temperature IQ are generally lost on liberals, especially liberals who
>> happen to be knobgobblers. Normalize for purposes of this survey was
>> clearly meant to convey the idea of accepting homosexual relationships
>> as opposed to tolerating them. That is to say, elevating them to a
>> status equal to that of heterosexual relationships, or equally
>> desirable from society's point of view. Clearly the vast majority of
>> people are firmly opposed to this while at the same time willing to
>> grudgingly tolerate this sexually aberrant behavior.
>>
>> But surveys are sneaky things, and can be designed to elicit just
>> about any response desired if one is clever enough with the language.
>> For example, instead of using the word, normalize, I would have used
>> the word, endorse. I believe the negative response would have
>> registered even higher, say around 82%% and upwards. (Marie A.)

>
> As Harvard Professor and lesbian activist Camille Paglia often says:
> There is no such thing as a "normal homosexual." In the natural world,
> there is no room for "natural" or "normal" homosexual behavior. Or to put
> it bluntly, she says: "In nature, its quite simple -- penis fits
> vagina." Now that certainly doesn't mean we should treat gay people like
> 2nd class citizens. But to lie, and try to pretend that homosexuality is
> a "normal" way of life is not going to do anybody any favors! A
> scientific study (not a survey) of gay men in San Francisco shows that
> the average lifespan for homosexual men is 59 years! Compared to straight
> men, whose average lifespan is 72 years, gay men lose 13 years off their
> lives! That's NOT natural.