Taking Into Consideration Russia's Attitude Towards Lgbt Community, Should Claire Balding Have Stayed Away?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554362/Balding-targeted-trolls-Olympic-sell-Gay-lobby-attacks-fronting-coverage.html

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Just recalled something you wrote yesterday. ///

/// "he is referring to the possibility that their propaganda may sway their sexuality" ///

/// But today you write: ///

/// "Among that legislation I still cannot see proof where Putin has suggested that gays are recruiting kids." ///

/// Which seems like a contradiction. ///

It is because both are addressing different responses that you yourself made.

[sp1814]

AOG

SO...you change your stance depending on the point you want to make?

What do you actually think?

Either 'gay propaganda' can sway someone's sexuality or not. What do you believe.

I'd also be interested to hear what you think about these new laws. Good thing or bad thing?

Also, referring back to your post to Brenden. Do you think that gay people should accept open hostility, hatred, and the kidnapping and humiliation of gay people in Russia as 'a different point of view'?

[anotheoldgit]

/// AOG...I would really like you to understand that a) gay people are a minority group rather than a 'so called minority group' ///

Are they not called minority groups? if they are, then they are "so called".

[Brenden]

sp, My answer to that is No No No, you also know that I respect people as and what they are, if I meet you and like you that is all that matters, your business is personal the same as mine.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// SO...you change your stance depending on the point you want to make? ///

/// What do you actually think? ///

No I just answer what is put before me to the best of my ability.

/// Either 'gay propaganda' can sway someone's sexuality or not. What do you believe. ///

I am no expert on homosexuality or the human mind, but there have been many instances of adults changing later in their lives, so why not impressionable youngsters?

[sp1814]

AOG

You are far from stupid.

The use of 'so called' in this context is wrong.

Here you go:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/so-called

[sp1814]

AOG

"but there have been many instances of adults changing later in their lives, so why not impressionable youngsters?"

And?

[FredPuli43]

AOG, do you mean that an adult who is completely heterosexual can change into a completely homosexual adult later in life? Blimey. If that is what you mean, what on Earth have you been reading to lead you to that conclusion?

Has it occurred to you that the man or woman has been living the life of a heterosexual but has been homosexual all along?

[sp1814]

FredPuli43

Good point. I think that some people think that sexuality if fluid (ie. you can be persuaded to become gay or straight) and some think it's fixed at birth.

I believe that those who think the former is true have been blind-sided by stories (and they are quite rare) of people who come out later in life.

People who support Russia's view that gay 'propaganda' should be kept away from children are basically, in my opinion, quite wicked. Because what they're saying is that children need to be protected from gays. It's very regressive.