Baht Simpson

It's not biblical pride in which a creator god tries to suppress worship in anything but himself. Are you not proud of your family, your achievements, your work ethic, your country etc.? It's that kind of pride. Not everything relates to Christian dogma. Pride is famously secular.

Lol. Can you get any more ridiculous?

I agree. Seems like it was a private gesture by someone though.

You don't seem to understand what Nazis are. Or indeed crematoriums. 🙂 They're Leatherman, more akin to American cops than Nazis. If you're going display your endless homophobia in your numerous anti-gay posts at least try to get your facts straight or you'll come across as an idiot too.

All Things Must Pass.

Avoid loud and aggressive people.......they are a vexation to the spirit. - Max Ehrmann

Glad you loved it YT. Always nice to be appreciated.

I was joking about the poppy, Toad. That should be obvious. The modern rainbow flag is not about the "right to sexual pleasure" as you put it. It doesn't even contain a reference to homosexuality. Red: Represents life. Orange: Symbolizes healing. Yellow: Stands for sunlight. Green: Represents nature. Blue: (Replacing turquoise and indigo) Represents serenity and harmony. Violet: Represents spirit. The original had pink to represent sex or sexuality but that was dropped. There are a plethora of flankers now though.

I didn't point out your error at all. I assumed you must have meant celebrations, as I said, but I just needed clarification that you didn't actually mean calibrations in some convoluted way. I reckon that Christmas is the biggest special event in Christianity and they would see it as a 'celebration' of the birth of Christ. On the other hand Chevrolet events would exclusively be 'promotions' for their cars. So two different things. Pride would be a celebration of the LGBT+ community and a raising of awareness. If it promotes anything it's equality. Does that answer your question?

Don't be silly. That was clearly a missed letter whilst you used a completely different word to what you meant, so I sought clarification. Yes, you asked me and I told you no and explained why. I told you, promoting equality if anything, not what you think it is. Why on earth do you persist on this ridiculous notion that gay people want to make others gay when it's all about having pride in the self. It doesn't make sense.

Hi Jonny. Here's a 30 min. video of Bangkok Pride a few days ago. I've watched it through all I see is a colourful event with thousands of people enjoying themselves. Could you point out the half- naked screeching, outrageousness and obnoxiousness, the claims of "oppression" and "fighting back"? All I see is people having a good time, both marching and in the crowd.

Probably that you're going to keep on posting the same photos until you get the response you want. 🙂

I'm not sure why you're using the word calibrations, but if you mean celebrations then I would say no. Pride is about many things but it's not about promotion of homosexualty. It's not about saying that homosexuality is better than heterosexuality. It's not about trying to convert kids into being gay despite all your efforts to prove otherwise. If there's any promotion there it's about equality.

I too worked for a bank in the U.K, for many a year but we never had any of that. See how that works? I seemed to remember I was offered some rainbow thingy to put on my desk but I declined, same as I did for the red poppies. I was quite happy to donate some money but concerned wearing a poppy might be seen as a "performative gesture". 🙂

Usual inflammatory tripe by Yagoda. If anybody has actually read this article you will see that the questionnaire wasn't really a questionnaire at all. It was written in 1972 (!) as a parody of questions asked by employers at the time and was never intended for children. The text was subsequently used by Robert Feldman, a respected senior research associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in his book “POWER: Strategies for Success in College and Life”, which is used rotinely by students. It doesn't specify in what context it is used in the course structure but being from that period it would certainly be a historical one. The article states that " a Professor" forced them to answer the questions but provides no proof of this. But even if they were obliged to answer them they would see at the end of text that it is a parody. The text is here. It seems that no context was looked at for the text. But it serves the purpose of the anti-LGBT+ crowd to omit that. What a surprise

So you're changing tack now. It's not because they're gay it's because they're both males. That doesn't sit very well with your original post that was at pains to show them as gay adopters and your allusion to Pride. I agree that it's less likely for two straight males to adopt children but I'm sure it happens infrequently. You must remember that children's adopted parents are heavily vetted and it can take years sometimes for them to be approved. You will always get the odd bad individuals slip through, sad as it may be. It's not down to me who should be parents of adopted children. I don't know enough of how these people are vetted. As for Pride, it's clear you don't really understand what it is, equating it only with sex. I don't think anything I could say could convince you otherwise even though it's obviously not true. If you think Pride is just a swingers convention then it's pointless trying to educate you.

That means she could now take something that belongs entirely to you, sell it and legally get half the proceeds. Clever lady.

"The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one" Oscar Wilde

Nope. One 3 or 4 year year old, hardly a toddler, was suspended for abuse towards another child. The 94 suspensions or exclusions you were talking about seem to be older primary school children. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/toddler-suspended-nursery-transphobic-b2724495.html It's a shame you don't show the same sympathy towards the child that received the abuse as you do to the one that dished it out.

So was Kate Bush's "The Man With The Child In His Eyes" about a pedophile? You do make me laugh. 🙂

Probably our most famous war hero was chemically castrated for being gay and took his own life. He's now celebrated on a fifty pound note.

Preposterous to equate these monsters with being pedophiles because they're gay. I don't know about the U.S. but there have been numerous instances over the years in the U.K. of straight couples abusing their children including murder. Do I think it's because they're straight? Of course not. That's ludicrous. There was an instance a few years ago of a straight couple who insisted that their adopted child be special needs so they could abuse him better. Absolutely unbelievable. But that doesn't mean you stop straight people from adopting. These dreadful people abuse children because they are attracted to children, not because they're attracted to people of the opposite sex or same sex. I'm afraid your post was just meant to liken LGBT+ people to pedophiles to serve your strange narrative. You say you want gay people to be treated like everyone else but not be able to adopt or have freedom of assembly at Pride. And you make the incorrect assertion that Pride is all about sex. Sexuality is important but not all that Pride is about, which I thought would be self evident. Why are you lot so obsessed about pedophilia?

After two thousand years of straight people being oppressed, yes I would. 🙂

No he wasn't. It was just another homophobic slur put about by people like you to discredit him. https://jacobin.com/2023/06/harvey-milk-lgbtq-history-temecula-california-school-board-curriculum