[Andy]

Sorry Gimp, it was Dean?s statement not yours. However I have a lot more respect for your opinion than Dean. (Gov. Dean is considered too far to the left by Ted Kennedy. Of course that might have something to do with Dean and John Kerry of Ma. both running for president.)
I don?t consider gays in the same basket with acts such as incest. However being homosexual is a deviation from the norm. What is bigamy or polygamy? I can?t recall anyone getting arrested in the last 30 years, in this area, for those ?crimes? however there have been a few law suits filed by an angry woman or two. I get really upset when someone files a discrimination law suit saying they didn?t get the job or were fired because they are gay. That is where all this is going, in our area where it's already gone.
See, I like the idea that you do whatever you want to in your bedroom, I?ll do whatever I want to and neither of us should make our preferences public or political. When people do make their bedroom decisions public and political, that?s when there is division.
(Adultery was also thrown into the mix. I?d think gays would like that. How many people have committed adultery in their lives? How many political types engaged in that activity? Adultery really puts gays in the mainstream.)
This Sunday there will be a Gay Pride Parade in Northampton, the town next door. What?s the point? Gay?s can already put their partner on their life insurance, if they work for the state or a town and die the partner can already get survivors benefits, a pension, etc.
I?ve always thought a bigot was a person who hated people because of their race or religion, I?m not a bigot. Disliking people who want to scream in my face telling me what they do in their bedrooms is just obnoxious. As I said before, there is a gay couple who live next door to us. Both are successful, neither cry about being discriminated against. They don?t have any issues with the government. Also, they don?t hold it against my wife and me because we are breeders.
I know it?s different in other parts of the country but some gays around here are a distinct minority group because they Want to be. It gives them special status and it?s more difficult to fire or not hire a person with ?special status?. I do believe in equal rights, everyone should be equal, it's the "special status" Nazis that bother me.

Stay healthy,
Andy