You infer that "Mitt Romney Doesn't Care About Gay Youth" because he does not want them to participate in a parade. However, even a lot of Gay people even think the parades have gone too far. Some people think that homophobia would't be so bad if people wern't constantly trying to shove gay culture down our throats.
Lets just get this out of the way. Mitt Romney said, "Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians."
Re: "Just, wow. When I let my guard down and think, hey, maybe Mitt Romney has the capability to feel for people who have different lifestyles than him, he pulls something so audacious and cruel that it actually physically sickens me."
What has he done that physically sickens you? The fact that he was physically sickened by what happened at last years paraded? Do you think the government should be advocating, and celebrating teenage sex, weather it is strait or gay?
Re: "This is a programs that helps kids feel like suicide is not the only way out for them. This is a program that keeps gay kids from having the shit kicked out of them at school. I don't care what your political beliefs are, you don't disband an agency that keeps kids safe. Can you imagine if a kid got pummeled for being openly religious at school? Mitt would have every agency in the state on that case. But the queers? Fuck them."
Lets all just settle down. Give us proof that this agency keeps kids safe.
Re: "Conservative activists apparently showed Mitt images that "physically sickened" him, thus making him upset that the parade would happen with his blessing."
What is with calling them "Conservative activist". How did they get that title? Do you know them? Why don't you just call them people? People with different beliefs than you.
Re: "Oh my God! The queers! They're ruining Boston ! Men dressed as women?! Horrific!"
No not men, kids. And not just any kids, government sponsored kids. How would you feel if government money was spent on a pro strait parade, and high school kids paraded down the street fondling each other? Would that be a good use of government money?
Re: "Listen, Mr. Camenker, here is a news flash: men dress as women. Sometimes, it's used for comedy. Other times, it's how someone identifies themselves. It's not like people become trans gender or gay for fun. The hatred of homosexuals and transgendered people in this country is open and nasty, and people just don't say, "Hey, being gay and wondering on a daily basis if I'm going to be beaten to death sounds great! Sign me up!" Just this week, a study showed that lesbian's brains respond like men's brains, thus lending more credence to the theory that homosexuality has a physiological basis."
Mitt Romney never said that people aren't born gay. You associate him with all of this hatred, just because he canceled a parade.
Re: "People are gay and transgendered. End of story."
No one is arguing. He canceled a parade.
Re: "It's disgusting, isn't it? And it wasn't THAT long ago that Mormons had to flee from places lest they be beat up. You'd think that would give Mitt a little empathy. On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure he's even human. He may very well have been grown in a vat in Provo."
According to your logic the only way of showing empathy, or not showing empathy is weather or not you have a parade for something. Should we have a Mormon, Baptist, Jewish, Republican, Smoker, Non-Smoker… parades?
Re: "See? This is why I'm going to get involved with the campaign of one of the Dems running for gov. of this state. I'll be damned if I sit back and let any more bigoted asshats have power in MA."
Mitt Romney is bigoted because he canceled a parade? Don't you think you are oversimplifying the issue? See my arguments above.
Re: "
Okay, so the safety of Gay and Lesbian teenagers everywhere depends on having a parade every year? Call me crazy but I have a hard time believing that a single gay, lesbian, or transgendered teenager would commit suicide if an organization like this were to be shut down. This post seems a little harsh to me."
Right on Jay!
-All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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