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Thread #151677   Message #3549204
Posted By: Ebbie
15-Aug-13 - 12:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
Subject: RE: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
I agree, Don.

I spent the last couple of surreal hours reading the WHOLE Prop 8 thread- all 2,000+ posts of it. In doing so, I have formulated several opinions.
#1: I think that the man is sincere in his beliefs.
#2: He is also somewhat suspect in some of the credentials he claims.
#3: I think he is a more than somewhat misogynistic in his views of women; his protestations reflect a mainstream view of those societies that oppress women in the guise of protecting and venerating them.
#4: The view I had from way back that he had volunteered information about his homosexual father, I believe is incorrect. What he actually said- but did NOT post the link that supposedly would have clarified of whom he was speaking:

May 6 2009
"Again, from the 'For what its worth Department': (If you want the link, I'll post it.
By the way, all of those who think that I have no experience with this, and that I'm just spouting from no experience with this issue, you should know that my father CHOSE a homosexual lifestyle after he had 6 children with my mother.

Not to get to personal, but to squash any type of statement about my father already being gay, I'll explain this. He was molested when he was a child by his father and uncle. He learned how to deal with the shame and pain of this act by storing it inside and never talking about it. This, undoubtedly, led to prolonged psychological effects that plagued him and eventually chose him to choose his lifestyle."

That is it, ver batim. Poorly written, it is no wonder that some of us thought he was recounting a personal history.