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jamacdaniel
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Registered: December 2005
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The somber reality is that this situation occures everyday everywhere.
I would like to have a decent copy of this article, if Timmy could arrange to scan it, and then email it to me here in the 'bible belt from hell'(read that as deep south in the former colonies), or tell me where I can get a copy.
I don't know what the chances are of seeing this situation in the UK, but I see it all over, over here, and yes, there are men of all ages living in this situation - hiding from the truth - satisfying family and friends, but crying on the inside - like trapped animals in the zoo.
The more insidious side of this situation, is that there are a lot of the so-called 'bible thumpers' that are caught in their own web of deceit, unable to get out of their cages and live the life inside, that they condemn on the outside.
"Christians" killing christians, in the name of the creator, whom they know not.
Yours Aye!
John
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Hi john :-*
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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Hi John,
It's depressing to read about the problems of gay married people but ultimately there is not a lot, politically, that anyone can do about it. One cannot solve a problem that those who have it mostly fail to admit exists. The vital thing -- and I can't say I have any knowledge of how American society works in those places, so I don't really have any solutions -- is to persuade the younger generation not to fall into the same trap.
>I don't know what the chances are of seeing this situation in the UK, but I see it all over, over here, and yes, there are men of all ages living in this situation - hiding from the truth - satisfying family and friends, but crying on the inside - like trapped animals in the zoo.
I can't speak from practical experience, but from purely anecdotal evidence on this board and elsewhere (and I bow down to the superior wisdom of just about everyone who is older than me) it is relatively common in people of Timmy's generation, who grew up in an atmosphere of hostility towards gay people. But the opinion of young people (in their twenties and thirties) in the UK is very different and rather more liberal overall than in the US. While I'm aware that I hardly represent an "average" British person, I have rarely come across anything like the cross-generation prejudice I have seen described so many times in America. While there is inevitably prejudice at schoolboy level at anyone "different", the traditional British way is to accept, or at worst quietly disapprove. (Where the British get worked up about something, it is usually because the tabloids begin another of their lets-get-everyone-worked-up-and-sell-lots-of-copies campaigns.) I don't think there are that many young people nowadays left who would sacrifice their entire future and enter into an unhappy marriage, thank goodness.
I think there is a lot of hope for the UK. In a few years, the more homophobic older generation will have been replaced entirely by today's relatively disinterested younger generations. I worry that the same thing won't happen in the much less secular America, because there is more of a culture of pushing fire and brimstone onto one's children.
David
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