Comments on: My way of life feels so threatened http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/2008/11/05/my-way-of-life-feels-so-threatened/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: goldstardyke http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/2008/11/05/my-way-of-life-feels-so-threatened/comment-page-1/#comment-3631 goldstardyke Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:30:50 +0000 http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/?p=1722#comment-3631 Different views and the right to share them are what makes this country beautiful. Moe, I may not understand where you're coming from, but I do respect your right to share your views. I think there are some political views that I may never understand because I have only walked in my shoes. I don't care to ever own a gun, but if you want one it's your right. I may never get married, but if I want to I think it should be my right. I suppose all that I can hope for is that someday we will all find middle ground.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3631','goldstardyke'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3631','goldstardyke','Different views and the right to share them are what makes this country beautiful. Moe, I may not understand where you\'re coming from, but I do respect your right to share your views. I think there are some political views that I may never understand because I have only walked in my shoes. \r\n\r\nI don\'t care to ever own a gun, but if you want one it\'s your right. I may never get married, but if I want to I think it should be my right. I suppose all that I can hope for is that someday we will all find middle ground.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Different views and the right to share them are what makes this country beautiful. Moe, I may not understand where you’re coming from, but I do respect your right to share your views. I think there are some political views that I may never understand because I have only walked in my shoes.

I don’t care to ever own a gun, but if you want one it’s your right. I may never get married, but if I want to I think it should be my right. I suppose all that I can hope for is that someday we will all find middle ground.

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]]> By: Moe http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/2008/11/05/my-way-of-life-feels-so-threatened/comment-page-1/#comment-3628 Moe Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:42:11 +0000 http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/?p=1722#comment-3628 <a href='#comment-3614' rel="nofollow">@Loverbunny</a> - No offense, but the crimes that you're comparing aren't the same. If we were comparing Matthew Shepard and another person who had the same thing done to them but wasn't gay, then I say the crimes are the same and the punishments should be the same. I don't care what someone was thinking during a crime or saying during a crime, it's what's done that's important. Also, sorry Tina-cious I didn't mean to tick you off quite so much. I don't care about gay rights, never have. I have my reasons just as I'm sure you've got yours for supporting them. Can't we just agree to disagree?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3628','Moe'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3628','Moe','<a href=\'#comment-3614\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Loverbunny<\/a> - No offense, but the crimes that you\'re comparing aren\'t the same. If we were comparing Matthew Shepard and another person who had the same thing done to them but wasn\'t gay, then I say the crimes are the same and the punishments should be the same. I don\'t care what someone was thinking during a crime or saying during a crime, it\'s what\'s done that\'s important.\r\nAlso, sorry Tina-cious I didn\'t mean to tick you off quite so much. I don\'t care about gay rights, never have. I have my reasons just as I\'m sure you\'ve got yours for supporting them. Can\'t we just agree to disagree?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Loverbunny – No offense, but the crimes that you’re comparing aren’t the same. If we were comparing Matthew Shepard and another person who had the same thing done to them but wasn’t gay, then I say the crimes are the same and the punishments should be the same. I don’t care what someone was thinking during a crime or saying during a crime, it’s what’s done that’s important.
Also, sorry Tina-cious I didn’t mean to tick you off quite so much. I don’t care about gay rights, never have. I have my reasons just as I’m sure you’ve got yours for supporting them. Can’t we just agree to disagree?
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]]> By: Loverbunny http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/2008/11/05/my-way-of-life-feels-so-threatened/comment-page-1/#comment-3614 Loverbunny Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:25:45 +0000 http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/?p=1722#comment-3614 I am also of the mind that any crime against a person is fueled by hate. However, when that crime is killing/raping/brutally beating a black/white/latino/gay/etc person BECAUSE he/she is black/white/etc it is a different ballgame altogether. Are you telling me that the boys who beat Matthew Shepherd nearly to death and tied him to a fence post to die, JUST BECAUSE HE WAS GAY, shouldn't be punished more severely than someone who shot a bank teller during a bank robbery, or accidentally shoots his buddy and kills him while hunting, etc? Do you see the difference? We need stricter hate crimes legislation. <abbr><em>Loverbunny´s last blog post..<a href="http://crazybitchinc.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-want-to-fuck-you-like-animal.html" rel="nofollow">I want to fuck you like an animal...</a></em></abbr><div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3614','Loverbunny'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3614','Loverbunny','I am also of the mind that any crime against a person is fueled by hate. However, when that crime is killing\/raping\/brutally beating a black\/white\/latino\/gay\/etc person BECAUSE he\/she is black\/white\/etc it is a different ballgame altogether. Are you telling me that the boys who beat Matthew Shepherd nearly to death and tied him to a fence post to die, JUST BECAUSE HE WAS GAY, shouldn\'t be punished more severely than someone who shot a bank teller during a bank robbery, or accidentally shoots his buddy and kills him while hunting, etc? Do you see the difference? We need stricter hate crimes legislation.\n\n<abbr><em>Loverbunny´s last blog post..<a href=\"http:\/\/crazybitchinc.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/i-want-to-fuck-you-like-animal.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">I want to fuck you like an animal...<\/a><\/em><\/abbr>'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I am also of the mind that any crime against a person is fueled by hate. However, when that crime is killing/raping/brutally beating a black/white/latino/gay/etc person BECAUSE he/she is black/white/etc it is a different ballgame altogether. Are you telling me that the boys who beat Matthew Shepherd nearly to death and tied him to a fence post to die, JUST BECAUSE HE WAS GAY, shouldn’t be punished more severely than someone who shot a bank teller during a bank robbery, or accidentally shoots his buddy and kills him while hunting, etc? Do you see the difference? We need stricter hate crimes legislation.

Loverbunny´s last blog post..I want to fuck you like an animal…

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]]> By: Tina-cious.com http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/2008/11/05/my-way-of-life-feels-so-threatened/comment-page-1/#comment-3613 Tina-cious.com Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:44:11 +0000 http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/?p=1722#comment-3613 I don't have a problem with anything you believe... I don't have to date you. But when you downplay something as important as equal rights and protections in your own community that you've been in but apparently have not bonded with for 12 years... ...a community of which I am part -- and you come here and tell us if it were up to you we'd have no gay rights -- don't blame us for getting pissed off about it. On top of telling us that either you don't support gay rights/protection or at the very least are indifferent to it (which is just BEYOND my comprehension) you THEN go on to say that you're pissed about the possibility that you'll lose GUN rights (which you're not)... well, you may as well have grabbed a pile of shit and smeared it in our faces. I don't see the difference. And I certainly don't apologize. <abbr><em>Tina-cious.com´s last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/Tinacious/~3/438265849/letter-to-my-mormon-mother.html" rel="nofollow">A Letter to My Mormon Mother</a></em></abbr><div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3613','Tina-cious.com'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3613','Tina-cious.com','I don\'t have a problem with anything you believe... I don\'t have to date you.\r\n\r\nBut when you downplay something as important as equal rights and protections in your own community that you\'ve been in but apparently have not bonded with for 12 years...\r\n\r\n...a community of which I am part -- and you come here and tell us if it were up to you we\'d have no gay rights -- don\'t blame us for getting pissed off about it.\r\n\r\nOn top of telling us that either you don\'t support gay rights\/protection or at the very least are indifferent to it (which is just BEYOND my comprehension) you THEN go on to say that you\'re pissed about the possibility that you\'ll lose GUN rights (which you\'re not)... well, you may as well have grabbed a pile of shit and smeared it in our faces.\r\n\r\nI don\'t see the difference.\r\n\r\nAnd I certainly don\'t apologize.\n\n<abbr><em>Tina-cious.com´s last blog post..<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/blogspot\/Tinacious\/~3\/438265849\/letter-to-my-mormon-mother.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Letter to My Mormon Mother<\/a><\/em><\/abbr>'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I don’t have a problem with anything you believe… I don’t have to date you.

But when you downplay something as important as equal rights and protections in your own community that you’ve been in but apparently have not bonded with for 12 years…

…a community of which I am part — and you come here and tell us if it were up to you we’d have no gay rights — don’t blame us for getting pissed off about it.

On top of telling us that either you don’t support gay rights/protection or at the very least are indifferent to it (which is just BEYOND my comprehension) you THEN go on to say that you’re pissed about the possibility that you’ll lose GUN rights (which you’re not)… well, you may as well have grabbed a pile of shit and smeared it in our faces.

I don’t see the difference.

And I certainly don’t apologize.

Tina-cious.com´s last blog post..A Letter to My Mormon Mother

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]]> By: moe http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/2008/11/05/my-way-of-life-feels-so-threatened/comment-page-1/#comment-3612 moe Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:28:20 +0000 http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/?p=1722#comment-3612 <a href='#comment-3610' rel="nofollow">@sinclair</a> - Hi there, as far as the whole "No one has cared for his policy from the git go and god knows the fact that he just appeared out of nowhere bugged us all." I was speaking of my engine performance class. And the whole "I care that you are posting this in a space that I thought inherently supported gay rights, gay marriage, and gay activism." Sorry, I thought it was just a place to share our stories about life. And yes, I am a lesbian, have been for the last 12 years. I just have different opinions, it's not a crime the last time I looked. Sorry, I sound like a total asshole, it's just I was just writing my opinion on things and relating what went on in class yesterday morning.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3612','moe'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3612','moe','<a href=\'#comment-3610\' rel=\"nofollow\">@sinclair<\/a> - Hi there, as far as the whole \"No one has cared for his policy from the git go and god knows the fact that he just appeared out of nowhere bugged us all.\" I was speaking of my engine performance class. And the whole \"I care that you are posting this in a space that I thought inherently supported gay rights, gay marriage, and gay activism.\" Sorry, I thought it was just a place to share our stories about life. And yes, I am a lesbian, have been for the last 12 years. I just have different opinions, it\'s not a crime the last time I looked. Sorry, I sound like a total asshole, it\'s just I was just writing my opinion on things and relating what went on in class yesterday morning.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @sinclair – Hi there, as far as the whole “No one has cared for his policy from the git go and god knows the fact that he just appeared out of nowhere bugged us all.” I was speaking of my engine performance class. And the whole “I care that you are posting this in a space that I thought inherently supported gay rights, gay marriage, and gay activism.” Sorry, I thought it was just a place to share our stories about life. And yes, I am a lesbian, have been for the last 12 years. I just have different opinions, it’s not a crime the last time I looked. Sorry, I sound like a total asshole, it’s just I was just writing my opinion on things and relating what went on in class yesterday morning.
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