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Thu, 25 February 2010 20:30

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I had a very interesting google query that led a visitor to my blog. It made me think. Since it made me think I thought it might make you think, too.

http://timtrent.blogspot.com/2010/02/explain-to-me-how-gay-people-thinks.html is the blog article. As usual I welcome comments. I'd love it if you braved the outside world, too, and made comments under whatever pseudonym you wish, on the blog. Make them here, too, with pleasure. But make them!

[Updated on: Thu, 25 February 2010 20:31]

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: Interesting blog inspiration [message #61154 is a reply to message #61153]

Thu, 25 February 2010 21:59

acam

On fire!

Location: UK
Registered: July 2007
Messages: 1849

I'm baffled, Timmy. Why should I not? Since it is natural to me to find people of the same sex attractive, why shouldn't I find it OK?

The problem I have is the other way round. Why should a non-gay think homosexuality is not OK?

It seems obvious to me that there isn't a reason except "Because the priest told me so!" I don't know anywhere else but religion where the hatred of gays arises.

Those of us who were less well indoctrinated or even left undoctrinated had no difficulty in saying to themselves "Well it's obviously natural to me so I reject what the priest says". And in my case I then went to bed with him! But I was 20 so it wasn't paedophilia, quite!

And maybe it throws a little light on things to say it was the same (as far as I was concerned) with racial prejudice (I'm talking 1950s here). I never found black people not OK and was horrified by the prejudice. But in that case it was harder to find religion to blame.

What **was** to blame?

Love,
Anthony

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