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In reply to the discussion: "Gays can't be trusted with children" [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Come on, let's not fight over this, I don't want to "derail" your thread or anything like that.
I hate to suggest the "poster who shall not be named" trick, because I don't like that either. I just don't think that coyness helps the situation any more than hypotheticals do.
I like the way you have presented your case to me here (even with the slight snark). I now understand (which I didn't take from your OP because you did not mention it--and that might have helped) what happened to you, that juries hid your thread, that you tried to discuss this matter and got shut down, etc. If you'd opened with that we wouldn't be having this chat.
FWIW, I am not thrilled with the "poster who shall not be named" either. I find the self-aggrandizing and lecturing a bit tiresome at times.
I would hope that young LBGTers aren't reading that shithole at Free Republic--that could mess them up in a serious way. I would also hope, if they did come across that crap, that they'd "consider the source."
I'm not "lecturing" either--I can't help that you are ascribing a "tone" to me that I do not possess. I like fairness across the board--I don't care about race, gender, orientation, age, ethnicity, you name it. I deliberately don't reveal certain details about myself because I don't want people putting me in a box--but I do find it funny at times when people make assumptions about who/what I am. I can't expect people to be fair to me if I'm not fair to them, that's how I take it. And sometimes, I need to go out of my way to be fair to the people who might deserve a good smack--that's when it's most important to be fair, IMO--when you're inclined, out of justified dislike, to be less so.