are telling would-be voters the new mandate would inappropriately expose young children to sex, infringe on parental rights and silence religion-based criticisms of homosexuality.

Conservatives can't win on the facts, so they always go for the scare tactics.

@leatherbear:

He also notes that he does not dislike gay people.

Yep, I feel the love. Saying you are going to hell and are guilty of earthquakes doesn't mean I don't like you.

Always glad to read such stories. Hope their family will continue as they are. It's important that people see that you don't require a wife to raise a kid. In my country kids are the biggest card used against homosexuals (apparently gay men only adopt boys and molest them  ::) )

The dirty little secret is that parents have no idea what the "good" teachers did while they were in college.  Just because it's not on video or posted on the web doesn't mean it didn't happen.

I can't tell you how many stories I have read about college girls working at a strip club to pay the tuition. What a double standard. 😕

This isn't anything really all that new.

Women have been renting their stuff to make money for college for ages.

When I was in college, I knew a guy (hetero) and a girl who tricked with men for cash.

As fucked up as today's Laws are at least we don't have to live with these sanctions.  :cheers:

:cheers: Mista Mahaj P  :cheers:

Now that's just sad… I'm not quite sure if they really mean what they said, or if it's just a code for "that's a subject that's too controversial for us to even begin to touch, so we're just going to say no"... Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?

This is infuriating to say the least… On top of trying to hide behind a "case by case basis" bullshit, which apparently means nothing, they're tearing a PHA (Person with HIV/AIDS) away from their primary source of care. In addition to tearing apart a marriage, they're also fucking with the health and well-being both physically and mentally of one of their OWN CITIZENS!

Since when is it a policy of the United States government to endanger the lives of the people that they are sworn to protect? I can foresee a pretty massive lawsuit coming into place here based on the fact that stress is one of the key factors involved in maintaining a reasonable CD4 count. Imposing such a stress on a PHA in this regard would be the absolute worst thing you could possibly do for their health for this fact alone, much less the other contributing factors. This makes it official... I have officially lost ALL faith in the US Government. They're more of a dictatorship than a democratic society. They seem to think they can police the world and do whatever the fuck they want and try to justify it at the same time. This is truly sickening.

wow that was mature. I think sometimes if you act before thinking, you end up hurting other people, regardless of what your original intentions were.

Wow! Gonna keep one eye on them.
Looking forward to listen the upcoming album.

Yet the funny thing is that he wonders why most of the population of the city of Toronto want him out of office ASAP… I can tell ya....

“Senator [John] Kerry and I will continue to push for a behavior-based screening process both in the name of fairness and a safer blood supply.”

Isn't that exactly the way the current rules work?

If you had gay sex even once (the behavior), then you are banned forever from giving blood.

Oddly, I can't give blood, but they can take my organs for transplant.

@cumeaternc:

Maybe we should all fly over there and hold up God hates straight people signs with some bible verses…lol.  :rotfl:

Turnabout is fair play...right?

I love the way your evil mind works lol… I'm in... Sign me up!

@raphjd:

Last year, the Italian leader brushed off criticism, saying: “It’s better to be passionate about beautiful women than to be gay.”

Wait a minute… Let's back this up a few steps here. What about if you're a woman? Is it then still better to be passionate about beautiful women than to lust over a hunk a hunk a studly man? I'm just saying... There's more than one way to intemperate such a statement.

Let's back this up here for just one second… Since when is a statement like "marriage is so gay" an offensive and non-family statement? I know in Canada, such a thing would be in direct violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, section 19, which outlines that each and every individual is entitled to and has the right to express their own opinion. This also holds true under the constitution in the United States, where this is more commonly referred to as "Freedom of Speech".

That being said, they're absolutely right that families come in a wide range of different types at this day and age. It's funny how people will turn their back on a gay statement, yet something like walking in with a shirt with a huge pot leaf on the front is perfectly acceptable. This much I do know as I have visited that park wearing just such a shirt once. It was all black with a huge pot leaf background, and large white letters across the top that read "C.I.A.". Below that in white text it read "Cannibals Inhalers Association". Funny how closed minded some people are at this day and age, isn't it?