Comments on: How’s That?

By: Gays Are Ok, Homosexuals Are Not WTF

Gays Are Ok, Homosexuals Are Not WTF — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:24:00 +0000

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By: somerandomdude: You see? It’s all in the language. http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/02/hows-that.html — Some Random Dude

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:40:21 +0000

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By: Dana Downer

Dana Downer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:00:20 +0000

I would love to see the response had they asked for “HETEROSEXUALS” serving. Yeah?

By: Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:30:33 +0000

As long as the sex is stranger.

By: Joseph Logan

Joseph Logan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:26:35 +0000

Interesting. I’m against having sex with strangers as a bloc, but I would probably favor having sex with specific strangers.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:19:31 +0000

There is a basis in social psychology that shows this is actually a good thing. The more specific the question about a person’s attitude, the more accurately the answer reflects the person’s actual behaviour towards it. So that would indicate that even though a lot of people are “against” homosexuals serving openly in the military, when it gets down to actual people they would probably support it.

By: Joseph Logan

Joseph Logan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:28:51 +0000

Sounds right to me, Josh. My own upbringing in the rural, gawd-fearin’ south supports the notion that these are unconsidered positions. Careful choice of terminology is also the foundation of push-polling: playing on people’s often subconscious prejudices to support a position, which unfortunately causes those people to entrench the prejudice by thinking they are in a larger consensus than they are.

By: Amanda Mae Meyncke

Amanda Mae Meyncke — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:08:27 +0000

Protestants love birth control.

By: Josh Weichhand

Josh Weichhand — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:03:34 +0000

Lack of understanding is the key. I’ve spent my fair share of time amongst the anti-gay/abortion crowds and I’m not sure even they understand their reasoning. For most of these people, it’s a passive choice, which is also why it’s ultimately futile to oppose something like gay marriage. They vote against it once every four years because they’re supposed to, and never bother to consider the bigger picture in the meantime.

You’re point on abortion is spot on and one that, ultimately, exposes elements of the pro-life crowd as something much darker than their perceived intentions. You would be surprised how a room goes quiet when you ask these folks how outlawing abortion affects abortion rates.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:45:06 +0000

My comment just reminded me of something my friend said about the anti-abortion crowd. He said to me that he thought the entire abortion debate was about punishing people (specifically young women) for having sex. Which explains why the focus is on outlawing abortion and not finding ways to reduce unwanted pregnancy.

I think it’s the same when you get into the gay marriage/don’t ask don’t tell debate. Some Americans want to punish people for having sex they don’t understand.