Guess people will have to quit sending their boys into scouting. It will be know as the Gay scouts of America. Everybody is just dying to go on a camping trip with a bunch of girlie boys. this is disgusting. Obama needs to keep his nose out of this. If gays want a scouting group let them establish one more to their needs and interests. The boys scouts is not their bent.
Gays can be leaders. Women can be leaders. Without realizing it, I think gays and women inadvertently work against their own objective of equality when they force private organizations to support gay and female leaders.
As I wrote here, gays and women are already equal before the Constitution, which defines us by our humanity, not by our sexuality, and is silent on most personal matters like marriage. Furthermore, the more the federal government defines our rights, the less free, equal and human we all become.
Here is what generally happens when minority groups confuse social acceptance with equality...
Depends on what you mean by "sexual," but having been a child myself who didn't have sexuality pushed on them, I would have to disagree with what you probably mean. (I don't like to make assumptions where I have no actual knowledge, but your statement makes me wonder what happened in *your* childhood.)
"While people may be born straight, it is not 'obvious'." - It is very obvious to those who've actually bothered to learn about homosexuality and what kinds of things lead to it, instead of just following popular conventional wisdom.
While people may be born straight, it is not "obvious".
aptly put.
Bingo. Which is why people who claim they "knew" they were "gay" as little kids should be treated with great skepticism.
Since it's clearly not 100% or anywhere near that, "sexual orientation" is a bogus term.
"I have been ridiculously straight all my life. No one taught me to be that way"
Of course not. The fact that people are obviously born straight doesn't mean everyone not straight was born that way. It means everyone is born straight but various things (not your "desert island" scenario, though) can misdirect certain people.
most human beings have little concern with sexuality prior to puberty unless other human beings somehow infect sexuality in to their lives.
if so, you should use those words because the word dangerous is not limited to meaning physically threatening. people can be dangerous because they influence others to engage in self-damaging behaviors, societally damaging behaviors and spiritually damaging behaviors.
based on that understanding there are tens of millions of americans who find homosexuals who insist on publicizing their sexual desires to be "dangerous".
in addtion, we are certain there is no objective way in which to determine what the nature of a human beings sexual attraction(s) might be.
Did you come by your sexual preference in some other way than I did?
Their behavior is often dangerous to themselves.
"their sexual orientation"
No such thing. "Sexual orientation" is a bogus term invented as part of the "born that way & can't change" mythology.
We will all be around gay men and women in school and/or the workplace for our entire lives, so why not learn as kids how to deal with people who aren't exactly like us? They're not dangerous (any more so than the straight people I've known) and their sexual orientation is not contagious. So why worry so much about it?