Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 9645603)

Are you only straight while you're having sex with a woman?

Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 9645597)

Help celebrate an historic day for gay rights by taking a big, runny dump all over 80% of the population! Grab your brushes...the broader the better!

I'm a 34 year old white male. I am straight. I am married. I have two young children. I am upper middle class. I am a man of faith. I live in Kansas. I support equality of rights. There are others like me.

Guess what? Without people like me, gay rights never would come as far as it has, and it will never get where it needs to go. At this point, gay rights zealots are the biggest enemies of gay rights. Instead of celebrating all of the many factors at play which have made yesterday's events possible, they have chosen to further marginalize themselves.

There's a reason that, while I support the cause at the ballot box, I'm not going out of my way to gin up support. I'm simply not going to stand shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of hateful pricks.

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 9645607)

Would you have a problem if a gay planeteer started chronicling his dates in a CP thread?

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 9645606)

Well that's when the definition of straight/not straight occurs (well that or when one is having naughty thoughts)

Originally Posted by HMc (Post 9645612)

Yes the Christian American theocracy is totally on board with rights equality. It's actually the gays' fault they aren't making faster progress. I need to start paying more attention, clearly.

Originally Posted by HMc (Post 9645615)

I do hope this is trolling.

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 9645621)

Homosexuals will never be "equal" with heterosexuals.

Originally Posted by Al Bundy (Post 9645625)

Isn't there an oil well you can go masturbate in?

Originally Posted by Al Bundy (Post 9645625)

Isn't there an oil well you can go masturbate in?

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 9645614)

No, because that is a relevant topic to that thread.

However, if the planeteer started his or her own thread and it just said "HAY EVERYONE IM GAI SO EVERYONE POSIREP ME" I'd be a bit annoyed, as I am here.

Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 9645630)

It's only relevant because Buck started the thread in the first place. Collins is starting a new public thread.

Collins public statement is noteworthy because it's such a rarity. When it becomes more commonplace, no one will be coming out in the pages of SI. I just don't see much reason to be annoyed by Collins' action. I agree with Saul Good that there is plenty to disagree with when it comes to other aspects of gay rights activism though.

Originally Posted by Donger (Post 9645628)

Probably, but what I stated is accurate, if unpleasant for some.

Originally Posted by Saul Good (Post 9645514)

Yeah, it's been just awful. Everyone is just gay bashing in this thread.

The most interesting thing to me about this whole story to me is that so many of the gay rights supporters seem pissed that there is so little outrage. I haven't seen anyone freak out over a gay athlete, but I've seen plenty of people bashing religious people for being hateful.

I support the cause, but the martyr complex is out of control. I would think that the narrative to come from this would be that a gay player came out and was almost universally accepted.

The most negative reactions so far seem to be people saying "who cares" or Mike Wallace saying that he doesn't get why a guy would want to get with another guy. I don't see anyone grabbing a rope. This is a perfect chance for gay rights activists to extend an olive branch, but it's just another occasion to throw stones, it seems. Keep wondering why the cause is progressing so slowly, though. It must be everyone else's fault, especially those piece of shit bigoted, hateful Christian mother****ers.