Ver-r-r-ry interesting, Jeri…….

Word for word, which means either that Goofus is spreading his propaganda over other web sites as well as Mudcat – or that, among other things, he is a plagiarist.

The idea that a gay man might marry and even have children before he takes up with a male lover does not mean that he "decided" to be gay. He may have been gay all along, but fighting his natural inclinations. In other words, in denial. I know a gay man (the one in our writers' group) who was married to a woman, but the two of them were never really happy. She didn't know what the problem was until he told her straight out (having come to terms with his own urges) that he was gay and was trying not to be—and it wasn't working. She gave him a divorce, and a little while later, he moved in with the man he's living with now (they were married a few months ago, right after Washington State legalized gay marriage). Now? No problem! He's still friends with his ex-wife, so no sweat. She's happy that he's happy, and she's going her own way. Fortunately the split came before they had children.

I can't help but think about young Matthew Shepard, who was taken out on a country road, tied to a fence, then tortured and pistol-whipped. His assailants left him simply hanging there, with a fractured skull and severe brain damage. Many hours later someone found him and took him to a hospital where he died without ever regaining consciousness.

Why?

Because he was gay.

So other than being gay, what had he done to deserve that kind of fate?

Nothing!

That's the result of the kind of irrational hatred that a couple of people on this thread are spewing.

Don Firth