Where'd all the gays go?
"Day Without Gay" was not exactly a roaring success in Utah. Almost no one "called in gay" to raise awareness of the importance of gays and lesbians in the community. Utah Pride Center marketing director Marina Gomberg offers the positive spin on what might have appeared to be a flopped protest:The economic times coupled with the fact that you can get fired [in Utah] for being gay could explain why there wasn't a huge showing today. A lot of [employers] in Salt Lake City are fair and equitable so some people chose to make their statement by going to work today.I get it. Utah is such a backward, vindictive place to live that gays were afraid to take the day off. And, because it's such a progressive, fair and swell state, gays didn't want to dump on their employers.
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Oh hell's bells! The reason gays didn't call in sick in Utah is because its much easier to find a sweet Mormon dick to suck at work than it is at home. Give me a break with your sarcasm. The only people who have "problems with homosexuality" are folks who have their own unresolved feelings of suxuality. Real happy, healthy and active, well adjusted, heterosexaul men don't give a damn what another man does or with whom.
Why don't you and the church make a marriage issue about old post menapausal women and prostate-impaired old men getting married? It seems to me that they are equally guilty of perverting the traditional purpose of marriage -- that being, in the talking points of the church, procreation. When that sterile sector of society is forbidden a civil license to "marry" I will happily retire my marching shoes. I don't suppose that the prospects of that happening anytime in the future, not ever, will be forcoming. Why is it considered any more natural for old duffers like you to be permitted to be married (or to stay married long after the well is dry, so to speak) than it is for healthy young men/men and vibrant women/women who love each other and desire to establish a home together is beyond my comprehension. If you stop to ponder the real purposes of marrage, you will come to the full realization that marriage has nothing actually to do with procreation -- its has every thing to do with a government's power to control wealth, legal inheritances and social order. People procreate all the time with out a civil license. And, there is nothing in world that the church or the state can do about that.
Cut the gays some slack, you old fart. We don't want to replace you heterosexuals as the biological source of repopulation. Just give us our equality and civil rights to benefit from the legal and financial rights heterosexuals have been enjoying since civilization set up a system of taxation.
What a pleasant response from the previous poster!
Forget the LDS Church's talking points as they exist only to ease the bluntness of the "God says it's a sin and that's all there is to it" reality of their position. Don't like it? Too bad.
First no, you can't get fired in Utah for being gay. Someone tried that with my son, he took them to court and won. Secondly your attitude is a perfect example of why the gays went to work. Better to get a days pay than to have to admit they associate with angry screaming idiots such as yourself. Actually the whole thing was a bad idea. There are a lot of gay business owners out there, and this would hurt them as well. People need to grow up and learn to voice their opinion in a respected manner. Hire a bunch of fat cat lobbyists, pay off a couple of senators and then get all your friends to vote for it. Oh wait, that works up to the point of voting for it. The gay community seems incapable of uniting a large number of people for true purposeful headway. I can't figure that part out. For such a topic as this, which is felt so emotionally by so many, it blows my mind that more people don't get involved. Until you do, the conservative christian right will just continue to vote you out. Better luck next time. Oh and just to let you know. My son who is openly gay, totally disagrees with gay marriage. He voted yes on 8. That could be the answer to the rest of your problems. There are a few gay people out there that recognize this as nothing more than radical stupidity. There's a hole in your bucket dear Liza!
seriously now. someone please tell me why religion still has to play such a huge role in our civil laws. let us be reminded that we fought a revolutionary war to separate church and state clear back in the 1770’s. so why do we allow our laws to be overly influenced by religious dogma.... and dogma in which enshrines bigotry and hatred against gays and others? as an atheist and being gay i dont understand why is it so hard to separate the various churches from state. religion should not dictate law.
someone tell me why cant we all just get along? why arent both parties acting like "grown-ups" and working towards a solution? Do the gays need to find a word other than 'marriage' (seriously, how sacred can that word be anyways - considering a "marriage" can be obtained at a drive thru in las vegas and 50% of hetero marriages end in divorce.... how sacred). it isn’t really about the word marriage, it s about the 1,138 rights that are affords to hetero couples that gay couples are denied. anyways, both sides need to stop claiming to being victims in order to find some common ground and move forward -- quit digressing. stop letting your emotions overrule any semblance of logic and reason. try to separate religion from law. both sides need to jettison the animosities so both parties can come to table for the purpose of achieving the goal of a win-win resolution.
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