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Giana Regarding Page: History of Homosexuality

Comment: It is throughout history that the elite use the emerging religions as an oppurtunity to take control of people. First, the pagan religions persecuted the Christian, then the emporer saw the growth of ...
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2009-11-04
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2009-10-19
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2009-10-18
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Comment on "This Just In:": I don’t get it, what do you mean by the 3rd paragraph?
Wednesday
2009-08-05
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How I Lost 30 Pounds in 30 Days Without Diet

Comment on "To Be A Stranger": Thanks for posting about this, I would like to read more about this topic.
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2009-07-23
20:07:38


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anon3253 Regarding Page: History of Homosexuality

Comment: You might like this gallery: http://www.veltmaete.nl/ho-pais-kalos/ It visualizes the relationship between erastes and eromenos and the developments (Orpism) in later centuries.
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2009-07-19
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Ben Title: To Be A Stranger

Post: I recently enjoyed listening to the audiobook version of Orson Scott Card\'s Ender\'s Game and am now thoroughly enjoying the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. In this latter book, Card ...
Wednesday
2009-07-15
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Christian

Comment: Not to burst your bubble or anything, but gay media blogs were heavily promoting the gay subplot about six months before the first episode aired. Not that they would reveal who the gay was prior to ai...
Monday
2009-07-06
20:39:06

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Ben Title: Kings

Post: I remember a few months ago seeing ads during Heroes for a new show called Kings. It looked kind of interesting--something about a modern monarchy that looked a lot like America--but...
Monday
2009-07-06
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Ben Title: This Just In:

Post: God is slightly gay. (tip of the hat to
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2009-07-06
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Ben Title: Sex With Ducks

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2009-06-02
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Comment on "Meghan McCain on Gay Marriage (and sex)": Indeed. When I said I'd switch sides for her, I wasn't just talking about political parties.
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2009-05-19
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Evan

Comment on "Meghan McCain on Gay Marriage (and sex)": Bravo, Meghan! What a babe :)
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2009-05-19
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Ben Title: Meghan McCain on Gay Marriage (and sex)

Post: If more Republicans were like Meghan McCain, I\'d consider switching sides.
Tuesday
2009-05-19
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Scot Title: Full Faith in Florida

Post: I haven\'t seen this get much press but it was a court case I was following, as a gay parent, with a great deal of interest.
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2009-05-18
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2009-05-15
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Comment: Yeah, I already knew that you're even more of a sexual prude than I am, Scot. :) You make an excellent point about sex being a means rather than an end. Looking at the question from that perspectiv...
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2009-05-12
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Comment: I do usually try to be shy on this topic :-), but I agree it's an interesting and important one for the GLB and T's. Whgat follows, I want to stress, is how I experience it and I'm sure others do di...
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2009-05-12
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Ben Title: So is it all about sex or not?

Post: Last week in my writing critique group I read a friend\'s story called \"An Atheist Girl Marries Outside the Faith.\" The premise, as the title sugges...
Sunday
2009-05-10
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Ben Title: Do Ask, Do Tell

Post: Here\'s an interesting article from the New York Times presenting several perspectives on ...
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2009-05-05
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Comment: If you're in Utah as your name suggests, I imagine no amount of overcompensation for heteronormativity is too much. And I also understand why your seven-year-old would have those nightmares. Of course...
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2009-05-05
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Comment: I just beat them over the head with gay pride. I can't single-handedly neutralize the heteronormativity they get everywhere else they are, but I sure can try. I beat them with white privilege and th...
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2009-05-04
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Comment on "Keeping an Open Mind": I'd've totally mocked you if I'd noticed the error. ;)
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2009-04-29
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Ron Schow

Comment: Thanks for reviewing the article and commenting. I too agree the HH or Kinsey Scale oversimplifies something which is complex. As originally used it involved a weighting based half on behavior/expe...
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2009-04-28
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Ben

Comment: Thanks for your comment, Ron. I just opened up the Dialogue piece for the first time in a while to see how I felt then versus how I feel now. I said in "Staying In," Overall, Ron and Marybeth make...
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2009-04-28
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Ron Schow

Comment: Ben I liked this article also. As you well know, I tried once to explain my take on this issue in the Dialogue article where you first told your story. I believe my position is close to what you ...
Tuesday
2009-04-28
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Scot Title: Nate Phelps

Post: I think I came across this story years before but it was just brought back to my attention, and I find it to be a fascinating account. Nate Phelps is the son of the infamous anti-gay Baptist Pastor...
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2009-04-27
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Comment: I'm cool with authors and musicians who say stupid things, but I draw my line at beauty pageant contestants. I've boycotted just about every beauty pageant there ever was, just for the chance that one...
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2009-04-22
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Comment: Did you see he just joined NOM? Anyway, it's easy for me to avoid Card, as I'm not a fiction reader. But I think I'd personally steer clear, particularly after reading what's contained in the link...
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2009-04-22
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Comment: Oh good, I'm glad you got the secret subtext of the post, which is that I'm boycotting your discriminatory parties. "Inadvertently"? Yeah, right. Okay, not really. June will likely be busy with mov...
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2009-04-21
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Comment: Phew! When I read the headline I worried that even though you're moving to Utah (and can therefore come to our monthly MoHo parties) you had considered for some reason (perhaps because I had inadve...
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2009-04-21
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Ben Title: On Not Boycotting Scott

Post: Several years ago, when I was an active Mormon, the bishop of my ward went on a rant one Sunday about how he would never buy a Madonna CD because he didn\'t want to contribute to her flagrantly sinful...
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2009-04-20
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Comment on ""A Rainbow Coalition"": I don't think I went over that one. You can find it here though. Boxturtlebulletin.com is great but I think I will go over it also and put it up here just to have the references to unbiased sources.
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2009-04-09
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Comment on ""A Rainbow Coalition"": Scot, I read an article you wrote previously talking about the New Jersey thing. Can you point me to it?
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2009-04-09
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MoHoHawaii

Comment: I finally got the courage to watch this. I cannot believe how malignant and fundamentally dishonest this is. This is scary, scary stuff. If there is a hell, the folks who wrote and produced that...
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2009-04-08
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Scot

Comment on ""A Rainbow Coalition"": Hey but check out the audition tapes for the actors in the commercial: here At least it makes the disturbing sort of funny.
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2009-04-08
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Ben

Comment: Scot: The truth is that I've gotten little resistance from anyone, period. Most people are either supportive or just don't care, once they realize I'm not out to get them. There have been a few rare e...
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2009-04-08
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Ben

Comment on ""A Rainbow Coalition"": Yikes, that's a disturbing ad.
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2009-04-08
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MoHoHawaii

Comment: People feel safest when others make the same choices they would. I think it's understandable, if forgivable, that such biases exist. Less forgivable is the therapist who pushes his or her view ont...
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2009-04-08
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Scot Title: "A Rainbow Coalition"

Post: It is certainly a great ray of hope for many families to have equal rights come to Iowa and Vermont.  However, those against marriage rights, regardless of sex, will soon be hitting back with a scare ...
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2009-04-08
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Comment: Can't disagree here. Amen :-). I wonder, Ben, how much resistance you get from gay men, long out in same-sex relationships, percentage wise. I mainly know gay men who are married to men and have c...
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2009-04-08
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Ben Title: Keeping an Open Mind

Post: Last week a friend of mine sent me a link to a great article on Slate.com called \"Shades of Gay: The Heterogeneity of Homosexuality.\" In the article ...
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2009-04-06
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2009-04-04
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Comment on "Raising Gay-Conscious (but not TOO gay-conscious) Children": Yeah, I think that's the goal--to make sure our kids know it's a not a big deal, and that there are a lot of options.
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2009-04-03
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Scot

Comment: Speaking of... my Alan, on the way to Karate yesterday, started laughing. After trying to get what it was he was laughing about out of him and him acting all embarrassed he told me he was thinking of...
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2009-04-03
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Ben

Comment: Thanks, Scot and Scott. Tonight as I was putting my daughter to bed in my room (she and her brother won't go to sleep if we put them down in the same room), she asked why Mommy and Daddy share a bed. ...
Tuesday
2009-03-31
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Scott

Comment: What Scot said, basically. We've just assumed that our kids would be right-handed, because most people are, right? But when our oldest started showing signs that she favored her left hand, we allow...
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2009-03-31
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