[Ant10708]

Why are Ziggy and others attacking Pharaoh as if he was saying stuff like the first guy against gays. He has a different view on gay adoption. So what? I havn't seen him act like the bigot you people call him. Some people on this board act as if he is rounding up gays and putting them in camps to be killed or as if he even suggested something as extreme. He seems to be getting more insults thrown at him than the guy who was making threads about the 'myths' of the holocaust.

In my opinion gays are regular people. I have more than one gay person in my conservative Roman Catholic family. I think they should have the same rights and benefits of a married couple. I don't think people who are opposed to gay adoption are bigots or afriad of gays. Its a differeing opinion. Its already been said we know neither any positive or negative effects of having two gay parents. I think the whole drug connection to gays is a pretty dumb way to says gay shouldn't adopt. I smoke marijuana everyday and I'm straight and I'm sure when I'm older I will still be fit to be a parent of an adopted child or one of my own. In the case of harder drugs I'm pretty sure whoever is sticking the herion needle in their arms, they aren't the best parents. People also seem equate the current situation of gays with the slavery of blacks and the rights of woman. Is it really fair to make that comparison? Gays are not being subjected to anything remotely similar to that of the slaves and they seem to have equal rights in all areas except marriage and adoption. I'm a stoner and my people weather gay or straight are being thrown in jail for smoking a plant. Thats a much bigger outrage to me than having to make a compromise and calling my marriage(if i was a homosexual) a 'partnership' or 'union' with the same benefits.

I do think New York state money being used for a school for gays(apparently some feel they need their own environment because of harassment) is ridiculous. I'm sure their are tons of miniority groups that are harassed just as much as gays in NY.