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Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:00 AM

Why "Brüno" is bad for the gays

Sacha Baron Cohen's character could have been a bold stab at homophobia. Instead it's a mincing minstrel show

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Saturday, July 11, 2009 03:50 PM

Oh shut the fuck up, carrisima

Filthy mouth? LMAO. How about you-filthy soul!!!

And it's Diable, dumbfuck. Ask your G-d for spelling help.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 03:43 PM

Diablo 4th level down (appropo) -- such a filthy mouth -- I was not referring to you -- I see you as a lost cause altogether

Scooch over and out

Saturday, July 11, 2009 03:38 PM

WHY NOT LIE AND TELL ME YOU'VE NEVER SEDUCED A BOY

Your culture will ultimately cause the shake up. Certainly I am not capable of such a thing nor will it be an initiation on any hetero's part -- you will sink yourselves. Agendas based on immorality and indecency has a way of mushrooming sooner or later. WHY ? Because you guys don't seem to be able to control yourselves. Just hold on to your hats -- watch and see. The Bruno escapade is a good example of the flagrant, unbridled, behavior we all have shoved down our throats. Class, dignity and decency is evasive. In the meantime, ciao. I perceive you are not a bad person. You could have been a splendid, but impatient father to your own children.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 03:37 PM

carrisima....

You know, if there is a fucking pervert on here, it's you. For your information, I have never molested a minor. I was never molested as a child. I am an adult and have only ever had sexual encounters with adults.

Your vile projecting onto others only serves to shine a light on what lies within you.

You are FUCKED UP. Put yourself out of your misery.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 02:49 PM

What shakeup would that be?

Good grief, just when you thought your posts couldn't possibly get any more ridiculous...

One need look only as far as the last two elections to see what "shakeup" is occurring: America's radical right has been reduced to rubble; Republican congressional representatives are now extinct in many parts of the country, including all of New England; same-sex marriages are recognized in Iowa, five other states and all of Canada, the Catholic Church has been exposed as the evil, immoral fraud that it is, and been sued into bankruptcy from Portland, Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts; and it seems that every gay-bashing half-wit hypocrite from Larry Craig to Mark Foley to Ted Haggard has gone down in flames in recent years.

So please, by all means, continue this "shakeup". With enemies like you, gay people don't need any friends.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 02:43 PM

stirring the melting pot

Well, I'm gay and I thought the movie was pretty funny. The character is so over the top that it is hard to imagine anyone taking it as a comment on gay people in general. It is oddly disconcerting, however, to sit in an audience full of straight twenty-somethings and wonder, "are they really laughing WITH us?"

Though the movie is being treated seriously as social comentary served up as comedy, it's really comedy disguised as social comentary. SBC is a brilliant clown and he milks the premise for all the laughs he can get, but the social experiment at the heart of it fails -- the straight people Bruno interacts with behave quite decently until they are pushed to absurd extremes.

Ultimately, I don't think it is bad for the gays or particularly good. It's just one more stir of the melting pot.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 02:34 PM

SEXUAL PREFERENCE AND RECRUITMENT ARE PROTECTED BY THE LAW OF THE LAND

You might have added that your reports represent the undisputable law of the land . Not all laws are good laws -- especially when it comes to our children -- and some of us have to answer to a higher source. Several years ago one of my children was recruited through Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Why would the adult have to share, or my child have to know, the adult's sexual orientation? This was ONLY a child looking for a wholesome relationship. Your culture is founded on immature and uncontrollable sexual deviancy ALONE.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 02:03 PM

SO YOU HAVE NEVER SEDUCED A BOY ?

This is your first response intelligent response. There are apparently conflicting reports resulting from adverse politcal pressures from your groups. Mark my words, time will tell whose reports are accurate. There will be such a shakeup in the government that will filter down to homosexuality that it'll be devastating to your cause. In civil rights the seekers want to be a part of society on equal standing -- in homosexual rights the attempt is to create a gay world where dissenters are silenced and punished into submission while our children are recruited and shaped into your clones to detriment of our children.

Saturday, July 11, 2009 01:23 PM

No, YOU are a danger to our children

> Facts are, homosexuality is clearly a danger to our children.

Let's shine a little light on that pitch darkness inside your brain, shall we? Just a little won't hurt.

American Academy of Pediatrics

Children deserve to know that their relationships with both of their parents are stable and legally recognized. This applies to all children, whether their parents are of the same or opposite sex. The American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes that a considerable body of professional literature provides evidence that children with parents who are homosexual can have the same advantages and the same expectations for health, adjustment, and development as can children whose parents are heterosexual. When 2 adults participate in parenting a child, they and the child deserve the serenity that comes with legal recognition.

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;109/2/339

American Psychological Association

There is no scientific evidence that parenting effectiveness is related to parental sexual orientation: lesbian and gay parents are as likely as heterosexual parents to provide supportive and healthy environments for their children (Patterson, 2000, 2004; Perrin, 2002; Tasker, 1999)

http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbc/policy/parents.html

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The basis on which all decisions relating to custody and parental rights should rest on the best interest of the child. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals historically have faced more rigorous scrutiny than heterosexuals regarding their rights to be or become parents.

There is no evidence to suggest or support that parents with a gay, lesbian, or bisexual orientation are per se different from or deficient in parenting skills, child-centered concerns and parent-child attachments, when compared to parents with a heterosexual orientation. It has long been established that a homosexual orientation is not related to psychopathology, and there is no basis on which to assume that a parental homosexual orientation will increase likelihood of or induce a homosexual orientation in the child.

Outcome studies of children raised by parents with a homosexual or bisexual orientation, when compared to heterosexual parents, show no greater degree of instability in the parental relationship or developmental dysfunction in children.

The AACAP opposes any discrimination based on sexual orientation against individuals in regard to their rights as custodial or adoptive parents as adopted by Council.

This is a Policy Statement of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/policy_statements/gay_lesbian_and_bisexual_parents_policy_statement

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