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Quote by: Matts So it was just as I expected, my interpretation of your use of "lifestyle choices" was correct.

And I would suggest that things are ALWAYS "just as you expect", for your perceptions NEVER suggest that your "interpretations" are incorrect, for the human mind is nothing if not a slave to its own preconceptions of reality, survival being the harsh taskmaster of all subconscious tendencies that it is.

That is why we have such a large investment in being right--on a purely subconscious level, our survival of the harsh realities of physical existence require it, without involving rational, conscious thought. Thus we see manifest over and over, apparently illogical behavior posing as righteous justifications for our points of view, just as we consciously use our points of view to justify our illogical behavior.

"Listen up, ah say, listen to me when I'm talkin' to ya,boy......ya gotta take that there four-legged chicken by surprise, ah say, ya gotta be sneaky, boy.." [/Foghorn Leghorn]

What at first glance appears to be a critique of certain choices (wildly promiscuous homosexual sex) turns out to be a totalising condemnation of any and all choices (homosexual sex in general). A "critique" of "lifestyle choices" made by a very specific group of "gay friends" is translated into a totalising condemnation of any choice involving the practice of homosexual sex under any social circumstance whatever.

Nooooo, what at first glance appears to be an assessment of the inherent dangers of indiscriminate male/male anal sex, turns out to be exactly and only just that and nothing more. Gays are NOT forced by circumstance of birth to engage in ANY particular form of sex, and so to suggest that they are innocent victims of that circumstance when they ignore the current realities of consequence vis a vis anal sex is pandering to irresponsibility and insulting to any unbiased consideration of the facts.

You do them no favor in that pandering sir, just as Jesse Jackson ill serves black America with his devisive, selfish pandering to its self image as victim to modern "injustices". Such posturing serves only to keep blacks enslaved to an image of self as helpless, woebegone victims, who can do nothing to better themselves--in the country that offers more opportunity than any other to men of ALL origins who will make an effort to improve their lot. Immigrants from the four corners of the world and of all races and cultures prove it here daily.

As long as you cannot prove that homosexual sex per se is the cause of serious sexually transmitted deseases like AIDS.......

And some will not accept any evidence contrary to their closely held agenda, flailing about with angry condemnation, in a veritable paroxysm of illogical manipulations of fact--in order to make the round peg of reality fit the square hole of said agenda.

The "proof" you deny is easily apparent upon the most cursory of investigations devoid of prejudice.........but again I waste breath.

your gesticulation towards your alleged "friends" is pointless insofar as it pretends to be an argument against male homosexuality in general. If you were truly concerned about the personal choices made by your friends, you would focus your tirade on these particular risk behaviours and not try to use them as a despicable political weapon against homosexuality.

And you are obviously blinded to the facts by your own programming, seeking to condemn any who would point to the obvious in an effort to save their gay friends from their potentially dangerous self-indulgences. I do not have any problem whatsoever with my friends' choices for their own likes and dislikes, including those of a homosexual nature........I do have a serious problem with them killing themselves inadvertently due to ignorance of the consequences of indiscriminant anal sex with multiple partners, and I resent your politically motivated condemnation of my efforts to avoid for them the misery certain to accompany those consequences.

But then, I have come to expect little else from folks who cannot seperate their closely held beliefs from reality. They are trapped in a riddle of their own design.

As far as parade frivolity is concerned, men who attend Gay Pride do not represent gay men on the whole, and many gay men are repelled by the very thought of these events.

Yes, and I should have mentioned that a few of my friends also decry the negative attention these events engender in the general population. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.