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>> ^quantumushroom:

I don't understand your deal with numbers, QM. If only 4% of folks are gay does that mean they get reduced rights and privileges?
It depends on what homosexuality is. If being gay is a "choice" then it's behavioral, and behavior of all kinds is regulated. If homosexuality is purely genetic, the question remains whether or not it's a defect. As a clue, if a "homosexual gene" is discovered, how many prospective parents would switch it "off" in their unborn baby? My guess would be 99.99%.


You sir disturb me on a quiet Sunday morning.

Ah yes, the "unbiased" brain story. http://rockinconservative.com/2011/04/12/a-tale-of-two-brains/

I"m too lazy to formulate my own words at this time, so I found someone with words that match my sentiments:

I believe people have rights to legally designate in contract law who can visit them in hospitals, who can be named as insurance beneficiaries and the raft of other considerations sought for gay and lesbian couples. Call the arrangement civil unions if you wish.

But that's not the same as defining any union a marriage.

My fear — based on secular, more than religious precepts — is that watering down marriage could eventually rob society of the stabilizing and other beneficial effects of an institution now relentlessly under attack. Perhaps this argument is too ethereal to be grasped or accepted in an age of radical individualism. But it's an argument that is understood by plenty of Americans willing to state it, although it puts them in danger of being painted as haters.

--Dennis Byrne


Where I disagree with Byrne is that this nightmare world is wrought by "radical individualism". It's the herd, the mob, the petty tyrants, behind these farcical ideas.


>> ^bareboards2:

“Using data from MRI scans, researchers at the University College London found that self-described liberals have a larger anterior Cingulate Cortex – a gray matter of the brain associated with understanding complexity. Meanwhile, self-described conservatives are more likely to have a larger Amygdala, an almond shaped area that is associated with fear and anxiety.”
So @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/quantumushroom" title="member since June 22nd, 2006" class="profilelink">quantumushroom, next time you feel a strongly conservative stance coming on, you might consider teasing out what is irrational fear versus a well-founded fear. And maybe, just maybe, try some critical and thoughtful analysis of the situation.
You know, like, considering science.
Why ARE you so afraid of gays and lesbians? And please don't say you aren't -- every time you trot out that 4% number, you are broadcasting "fear of the other."

"Yeah, what's with the obsession with numbers, qm? Are you trying to use facts or data or something? You know that don't work on us feelings."

Who doubts a blind person's "humanity?" Do you still want them driving city buses?


>> ^bareboards2:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/quantumushroom" title="member since June 22nd, 2006" class="profilelink">quantumushroom
http://videosift.com/video/QM-here-is-an-example-of-true-love-for-you

Here you go, Q-Baby.
(@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/calmlyintoit" title="member since July 29th, 2009" class="profilelink">calmlyintoit, I would add -- Q's obsession with numbers? the logical extension is that gays' and lesbians' humanity is on a percentage basis, also.)

>> ^MaxWilder:

Wow, a Kathy Griffin clip where she's endearing instead of annoying! Cool!


Weeeell... a little from column A, but a lot from column B. I still find listening to her to be like listening to fingernails on a black board. But I'd take that over seeing Michelle Bachmann's evil, cold, souless, dead stare... *shudder*

>> ^quantumushroom:

How long has this skank been bigoted towards Christians?
Percentage of Christians in American population: 85%
Gays: 4% tops


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Religion

You may wish to catch up with the times... Secularism is rising, Christianity is dying. In the US. This is from our (horribly flawed as Backman puts it) census in 2010 referring backwards to other censuses...

I don't understand your deal with numbers, QM. If only 4% of folks are gay does that mean they get reduced rights and privileges? Only 15% of the country is black but it was eventually decided blacks could participate in society any way. 1% Jews, 1% Muslim, etc. doesn't mean 1% citizenship. It's bizarre. What shall we do with the 8% who are left handed? Tie their left arms down when they learn writing in the first grade like we used to? Sheesh...

>> ^quantumushroom:

How long has this skank been bigoted towards Christians?
Percentage of Christians in American population: 85%
Gays: 4% tops


Also, I think your data on xian population is a little out of date. According to the last census it's more like 76% not that it matters.

You, my friend, are quite necessary and relevant.

>> ^srue:

>> ^

Calling her a name: completely unnecessary and irrelevant. ...In sum, your comment is completely worthless. Please refrain from making further comments if they aren't going to have some minimal value.

>> ^quantumushroom:

How long has this skank been bigoted towards Christians?
Percentage of Christians in American population: 85%
Gays: 4% tops


Calling her a skank: completely unnecessary and irrelevant. Whether or not she is a skank has nothing to do with the validity of her opinion.

Who said she is bigoted towards Christians? I'll have to watch it again, but I believe she accused Bachman of bigotry, not all Christians.

Percentages of Christians and gays: totally irrelevant. Why does this matter in the slightest? It has nothing to do with whether Bachman is right, or even whether Christians or gays are right.

In sum, your comment is completely worthless. Please refrain from making further comments if they aren't going to have some minimal value.

>> ^hpqp:

I always find her endearing
>> ^MaxWilder:
Wow, a Kathy Griffin clip where she's endearing instead of annoying! Cool!



When she first showed up I liked her. But the last few years she's been a bit too shrill, or something. I dunno.

I always find her endearing

>> ^MaxWilder:

Wow, a Kathy Griffin clip where she's endearing instead of annoying! Cool!

i have a guilty confession to make: i think kathy griffin is HAWT!!!

works fine for me, but i've had random 404 errors on the sift lately, all of which were cured by reloading. hope this helps!

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>> ^hpqp:

Thank ye kindly!
>> ^bareboards2:
But But But.... WHAT HAPPENED ON THE ESCALATOR????
comedy interruptus!
[edit] solved my own problem: http://videosift.com/video/Kathy-Griffin-meets-Michelle-Bachman
n-on-a-escalator More comedy gold.



404 not found?

>> ^hpqp:

Thank ye kindly!
>> ^bareboards2:
But But But.... WHAT HAPPENED ON THE ESCALATOR????
comedy interruptus!
[edit] solved my own problem: http://videosift.com/video/Kathy-Griffin-meets-Michelle-Bachman
n-on-a-escalator More comedy gold.



404 not found?

Thank ye kindly!

>> ^bareboards2:

But But But.... WHAT HAPPENED ON THE ESCALATOR????
comedy interruptus!
[edit] solved my own problem: http://videosift.com/video/Kathy-Griffin-meets-Michelle-Bachman
n-on-a-escalator More comedy gold.