Thus, if it’s proven sexual orientations are not innate, much of the scaffolding upon which today’s LGBT movement has been built would begin to crumble. Given the stakes, most gays and lesbians are dismissive or hostile toward anyone who doesn’t think being gay is an essential, natural characteristic of some members of the human race.
But a surprising group of people doesn’t think that – namely, scholars of gay history and anthropology. They’re almost all LGBT themselves, and they have decisively shown that gayness is a product of Western society originating about 150 years ago.
Using documents and field studies, these intrepid social scientists have examined the evidence of homosexuality in other times and cultures to see how the gay minority fared. But they’ve come up empty. Sure, there’s substantial evidence of both discreet and open same-sex love and sex in pre-modern times. But no society before the 19th century had a gay minority or even discernibly gay-oriented individuals.
Kate…just noticed you changed you sub-heading.
Meant to ask you:
Please share your reaction/response to reading Alinsky.
This comment was withheld by the CBC when I replied to the accusations that were being made over Laureen Harper hosting an animal rights function on Thursday Apr. 17.
Headline read: ”Laureen Harper interrupted by Toronto activist at cat video festival.”
”It`s so sad to see journalism go wayward as it has. It`s very obvious that the purpose of this evening was to raise funds for homeless animals. It was not an evening where guests were to discuss aboriginal issues. Why the comments that ridicule the PM`s wife? Laureen Harper is not an elected member of parliament. She was just a guest that who`s goal was aimed as helping homeless animals.
I live in rural Sasktchewan. There is no group of people in Canada who have received anywhere need what aboriginal groups have in the last 20 years. Why wreck someone`s fund raiser when Canada has been so good to the Aboriginal people of Canada?.
Opps sorry!
Than last line should read: ”There are no groups of individuals who have received more help than aboriginal groups have in the past 20 years. Why wreck someone`s fund raiser when Canada has been so good to the Aboriginal people of Canada?.”
Is your kid confrontational? If so, he might be a TERRORIST! (so says Homeland Security adviser, Lisa Monaco.)
High level *insanity*:
“White House counterterrorism and Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco gave a speech this week in which she urged parents to watch their children for signs of ‘confrontational’ behavior which could be an indication of them becoming terrorists.” http://www.infowars.com/white-house-counterterror-chief-confrontational-children-could-be-terrorists/
Unlucky day in history: Adolf Schicklgruber’s birthday, also the Colombine school shooting, and the Deepwater Horizon blowout.
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK (Reuters) – In September 2001, as the U.S. reeled from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Vladimir Putin supported Washington’s imminent invasion of Afghanistan in ways that would have been inconceivable during the Cold War. He agreed that U.S. planes carrying humanitarian aid could fly through Russian air space. He said the U.S. military could use airbases in former Soviet republics in Central Asia. And he ordered his generals to brief their U.S. counterparts on their own ill-fated 1980s occupation of Afghanistan. During Putin’s visit to President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch two months later, the U.S. leader, speaking at a local high school, declared his Russian counterpart “a new style of leader, a reformer…, a man who’s going to make a huge difference in making the world more peaceful, by working closely with the United States.” For a moment, it seemed, the distrust and antipathy of the Cold War were fading. Then, just weeks later, Bush announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, so that it could build a system in Eastern Europe to protect NATO allies and U.S. bases from Iranian missile attack. In a nationally televised address, Putin warned that the move would undermine arms control and nonproliferation efforts.
…… Matlock, the former U.S. ambassador, said it was vital for Washington and Moscow to end a destructive pattern of careless American action followed by Russian overreaction. “So many of the problems in our relationship really relate, I would say, to what I’d call inconsiderate American actions,” Matlock said. “Many of them were not meant to be damaging to Russia. … But the Russian interpretation often exaggerated the degree of hostility and overreacted.” http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-u-made-putin-problem-worse-110711843.html
Agreed. My Grandfather was in the Royal Canadian Dragoons in WW1, fought in many of the same battles with the Sikh cavalry.He said they not only looked magnificent , but were absolutely fearless.
Another thing that won’t be mentioned by the left wing media.
http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/04/19/slowest-start-to-tornado-season-on-record-through-417-based-on-inflation-adjusted-tornado-trend/
That’s how it started in Viet Nam too. Just a few military advisors.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/troop-military-exercise-poland/2014/04/19/id/566537/
Oops! This could be awkward. Gay is a social construct.
Nobody is “Born that Way.”
Kate…just noticed you changed you sub-heading.
Meant to ask you:
Please share your reaction/response to reading Alinsky.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/world/europe/forget-the-car-in-slovakian-lottery-real-prize-goes-to-tax-man.html?hp&_r=1
This comment was withheld by the CBC when I replied to the accusations that were being made over Laureen Harper hosting an animal rights function on Thursday Apr. 17.
Headline read: ”Laureen Harper interrupted by Toronto activist at cat video festival.”
”It`s so sad to see journalism go wayward as it has. It`s very obvious that the purpose of this evening was to raise funds for homeless animals. It was not an evening where guests were to discuss aboriginal issues. Why the comments that ridicule the PM`s wife? Laureen Harper is not an elected member of parliament. She was just a guest that who`s goal was aimed as helping homeless animals.
I live in rural Sasktchewan. There is no group of people in Canada who have received anywhere need what aboriginal groups have in the last 20 years. Why wreck someone`s fund raiser when Canada has been so good to the Aboriginal people of Canada?.
Opps sorry!
Than last line should read: ”There are no groups of individuals who have received more help than aboriginal groups have in the past 20 years. Why wreck someone`s fund raiser when Canada has been so good to the Aboriginal people of Canada?.”
If we only had a Conservative Government this multiculti crap wouldn’t happen.
http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=9752815
I have no problem with Sikhs. 83,005 were killed and 109,045 were wounded in WWI and WWII. The Sikh Regiment had 14 Victoria Crosses.
Great Easter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwVz5hdAMGU
Bird chopper video
I thought the Shakespearian priority was lawyers
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-20/bnp-banker-his-wife-and-nephew-murdered-belgium
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/19/open-thread-with-an-important-question/
There is a poll at the bottom of the article.
U.S. Govt funded study: Heavily subsidized, Obama-backed bio-fuels made from corn waste worse than gasoline at generating ‘greenhouse gases’; aka a bogus solution for a bogus problem
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BIOFUELS_GLOBAL_WARMING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-04-20-13-08-42
Is your kid confrontational? If so, he might be a TERRORIST! (so says Homeland Security adviser, Lisa Monaco.)
High level *insanity*:
“White House counterterrorism and Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco gave a speech this week in which she urged parents to watch their children for signs of ‘confrontational’ behavior which could be an indication of them becoming terrorists.”
http://www.infowars.com/white-house-counterterror-chief-confrontational-children-could-be-terrorists/
This is your tan-sexual fairytale tale for the day.
Your secular “new morality” reading of the day.
I suppose this is meant as proof of Natures seal of approval for trannies.
Thus fulfilling another leftist myth on gender variants.
Scientists Discover First Case Of Genital Reversal
http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2014/04/20/scientists-discover-first-case-of-genital-reversal-female-penis-male-vagina/
Unlucky day in history: Adolf Schicklgruber’s birthday, also the Colombine school shooting, and the Deepwater Horizon blowout.
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK (Reuters) – In September 2001, as the U.S. reeled from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Vladimir Putin supported Washington’s imminent invasion of Afghanistan in ways that would have been inconceivable during the Cold War.
He agreed that U.S. planes carrying humanitarian aid could fly through Russian air space. He said the U.S. military could use airbases in former Soviet republics in Central Asia. And he ordered his generals to brief their U.S. counterparts on their own ill-fated 1980s occupation of Afghanistan.
During Putin’s visit to President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch two months later, the U.S. leader, speaking at a local high school, declared his Russian counterpart “a new style of leader, a reformer…, a man who’s going to make a huge difference in making the world more peaceful, by working closely with the United States.”
For a moment, it seemed, the distrust and antipathy of the Cold War were fading.
Then, just weeks later, Bush announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, so that it could build a system in Eastern Europe to protect NATO allies and U.S. bases from Iranian missile attack. In a nationally televised address, Putin warned that the move would undermine arms control and nonproliferation efforts.
……
Matlock, the former U.S. ambassador, said it was vital for Washington and Moscow to end a destructive pattern of careless American action followed by Russian overreaction. “So many of the problems in our relationship really relate, I would say, to what I’d call inconsiderate American actions,” Matlock said. “Many of them were not meant to be damaging to Russia. … But the Russian interpretation often exaggerated the degree of hostility and overreacted.”
http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-u-made-putin-problem-worse-110711843.html
Agreed. My Grandfather was in the Royal Canadian Dragoons in WW1, fought in many of the same battles with the Sikh cavalry.He said they not only looked magnificent , but were absolutely fearless.