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"Religious Conservatives Lash Out at Kellogg’s Over 'Anti-Christian' Cereal"
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It's a box of cereal. You drown it in milk and sprinkle a spoon of some sugar on it. Maybe, if you're lucky, you get a free toy, or do a cross word on the back.
Where does the "promoting tolerance and attempting to eliminate bullying" part come in to it? The Shreddies did not decide Wheatabix was gay and should be beat up whilst I wasn't looking...
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Darkforbid
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Any evidence it's not?
A "lifestyle" (Gods, I hate that word) that does harm to no one... what gives you the right to approve or disapprove? Who are you?
Explain "lifestyle choice". I want know if I'm missing out on something. My "lifestyle choice" seems to be a lot like any other couple or family in my neighborhood.
Darkforbid
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Well having pull a 14 year old boy out off a Gay gang rape in becketts Park Northampton I beg to differ
Yes.
My entire young adulthood I spent trying desperately to be normal.
I've got better evidence than your religious beliefs have. And I don't even have to know what your religious beliefs ate you know that.
Tom
Darkforbid
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Well unless you live in a totally gay area I think you'll find a big difference
You beg to differ with what?
I'm queer as a three dollar bill and I know perfectly well that rape is a horrible crime.
Tom
That being gay is not a choice? Me. Why would I choose to be something that could get me harassed, bullied, beaten, killed? The sex isn't that great. I complain about it just like any other human male. Now, I want you to answer why I would choose to be gay if it weren't who I am. I will keep asking you until you answer.
Tell me the difference, I'm sure I'm missing something. Why am I different than any other neighbor.
I'm waiting.
Darkforbid
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Like?
What is wrong with a lifestyle including a lot of charitable work and caring for elderly relatives?
Tom
It's a box of cereal. You drown it in milk and sprinkle a spoon of some sugar on it. Maybe, if you're lucky, you get a free toy, or do a cross word on the back.
Where does the "promoting tolerance and attempting to eliminate bullying" part come in to it? The Shreddies did not decide Wheatabix was gay and should be beat up whilst I wasn't looking...
Umm... you never stared at a box of cereal when you were a kid? Do you know why they put advertisements and endorsements on cereal boxes? Because kids stare at them, they learn from them. Did I really have to just explain that to you?
I've explained it.
Tom
So you would vilify all gays because of an isolated incident? Let's try that idea with those criminal blacks, those drug-running Hispanics, let's label all members of a demographic because of the actions of one or a few.
If you can explain how we get from pouring milk on a wheat based product to turning a cereal box in to ad space for political and sexual material whose message is essentially "bullying people for doing it up the *** and touching themselves and each other is wrong", you're welcome to...
(edit: and just so I'm clear, I'm not arguing against LGBT rights, only that a cereal box is a very strange place to raise the issue...)
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The world I grew up in was a very privileged one.
White, male, upper middle class, Christian, suburban, in Very Good schools.
That's where I discovered drugs! Guys like me could afford extreme drugs, and our parents were able to hire the kind of lawyers who enabled us. Seriously, the best coke came from guys richer than me.
Maybe we need to end the white Christian suburbanite lifestyle.
Tom
It's a good thing that girls never get raped, otherwise we'd be having this conversation about heterosexuals.