I love hearing what you have to say!whaleamongfishFebruary 20 2008, 16:36:59 UTC
You can't be all accepting and open minded and believe in equal rights if you think homosexuality is unnatural, wrong, and originates from abuse.You are 100% right about that
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Two of my closest friends are a lesbian couple, so it's easy to tell I have no issues with it. lol. I am a believer that you don't fall in love with a man or a woman, but a PERSON. I'm dating a man, but I am just as capable of loving a woman. If this makes me "Bi", then so be it. I just see it as me loving someone for who they are. And Gender really doesn't hold a lot of meaning to me besides basic anatomy differences. I treat men and women the same. (Though I tend to get along with men better. Could be my crass nature. XD;; )
Somehow I think that our current perceptions of love are too narrow. we have romantic love and love for family chilren and animals. freindships arn't really freaindships rarely do freinds actually do anything close to commitment it means romanitc. what highlighted this to me was how people percieved the third lord of the rings movie and frodo and sams relationship. that was not meant to be a romantic relatinship but it was love yet we have no rome in current society for that type. I
You are exactly right about the frodo and sam thing. I actually think that homophobia plays such a part in that. People are just so afraid to take same-sex friendships and devotion that deep. It makes them uncomfortable.
I'm a lesbian myself. Yeah, I've had rough times, but nothing scared me away from men. I did at one time have a boyfriend that I LOVED so intensely. Physically, I didn't feel a damn thing. But emotionally? We fit so very well for a long time.
There's nothing inherently wrong with my sexuality, just as there's nothing innately right about it--it's just a small part of who I am. I can love regardless of gender if we have a compatibility of spirit but I, personally, am physically attracted to women.
i identify as a bisexual, as long as i can remember i've been attracted to both men and women.
currently, i am in a relationship with a man and i love him very much. i couldn't imagine being with anyone but him, but that could also be because i have only been in a relationship with him.
i am still attracted to women and in the past have had sexual but not romantic relationships with them. i suppose that there are some people out there who are turned off to a particular sex because of abuse or trauma but i had experienced abuse as a child from a woman and i am still attracted to them.
as far as spirituality factors in, i don't think it should. a spirit isn't a physical body so i don't think sexual preference should matter.
i think lifting of cultural taboos has had a lot to do with why people are more aware of differences in sexual preference now but i think it has always existed.
Just so you know, if you were to talk to one of those religious people who believes that gay people should repent and be saved/changed straight, they would tell you that it was your abuse from a woman that makes you sexually attracted from women because you are still yearning for acceptance from females that you didn't feel you received before. So now you go about trying to gain that acceptance in an "unnatural" way.
I am not telling you this is what I think. I'm just informing you in case you are ever in a debate with one of these people. They can be rough. :\
In response to the original question, I know that Native Americans believe gay people to be highly special and "two spirited," having both male and female qualities and very spiritual, even lucky.
I always thought that was such a cool way to look at it. :)
you're right, there is always a bigotted response lurking around the corner no matter what you say. i try very hard not to debate things with people who have no intention of seeing my point, so hopefully i won't be in that situation.
that is a cool idea, and i do feel it's a blessing to be able to appreciate the beauty nature provides in many different forms but i have always felt that sexual orietnation doesn't define people, it's simply a part of them. for me any spirituality should be about celebrating your whole self. i'm not saying the body doesn't matter but i don't think it should factor in as a deciding element. the same goes for sexual orietantion.
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what highlighted this to me was how people percieved the third lord of the rings movie and frodo and sams relationship. that was not meant to be a romantic relatinship but it was love yet we have no rome in current society for that type.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with my sexuality, just as there's nothing innately right about it--it's just a small part of who I am. I can love regardless of gender if we have a compatibility of spirit but I, personally, am physically attracted to women.
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currently, i am in a relationship with a man and i love him very much. i couldn't imagine being with anyone but him, but that could also be because i have only been in a relationship with him.
i am still attracted to women and in the past have had sexual but not romantic relationships with them. i suppose that there are some people out there who are turned off to a particular sex because of abuse or trauma but i had experienced abuse as a child from a woman and i am still attracted to them.
as far as spirituality factors in, i don't think it should. a spirit isn't a physical body so i don't think sexual preference should matter.
i think lifting of cultural taboos has had a lot to do with why people are more aware of differences in sexual preference now but i think it has always existed.
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I am not telling you this is what I think. I'm just informing you in case you are ever in a debate with one of these people. They can be rough. :\
In response to the original question, I know that Native Americans believe gay people to be highly special and "two spirited," having both male and female qualities and very spiritual, even lucky.
I always thought that was such a cool way to look at it. :)
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that is a cool idea, and i do feel it's a blessing to be able to appreciate the beauty nature provides in many different forms but i have always felt that sexual orietnation doesn't define people, it's simply a part of them. for me any spirituality should be about celebrating your whole self. i'm not saying the body doesn't matter but i don't think it should factor in as a deciding element. the same goes for sexual orietantion.
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