Dcussion Club Diary. If you are a gay.

Dcussion Club Diary. If you are a gay.

2010.03.18 13:37

First of all I beg your pardon for such delay this time with the report and new topic for discussion. It was for technical reasons. And then I want to remind you our last topic. A week ago we talked about gays. Do gays face up to bad attitude to them in our country?  Do you have gay friends? What is your attitude to such people? Having asked all these questions I realized that people in our country are quite tolerant and indulgent when it comes to gay people. Although we don’t clearly understand the reasons of this phenomenon, we are not usually aggressive or rude. We think it is a personal commitment that really is no one else's business. Society shouldn't be dictating what two people can or can't do when no one else is hurt in the process. If the church or certain groups disapprove, that's their right, but it isn't their right to stop it. But everything changes when it comes to our children. If you don’t want your children to have such model of relationships around you will be against legalization of gay marriages.
We also have discussed such issue as gay marriages and marked out some reasons for denying and accepting such marriages.
The main reason for denying marriage to gay couples is that all major religions consider homosexuality a sin. But marriage is more than a legal status. It affects many things in society such as tax filing status, joint ownership of property, insurance benefits, and agency law. It affects critical medical decisions. It is completely unfair to deny these privileges to people because their relationship doesn't fit the state's definition of one.

For too long homosexuality has been considered a form of "deviant sexual behavior". Throughout our history going all the way back to ancient Greece, homosexual relationships have existed. The term "lesbian" comes from a Greek island called "Lesbos" where many such couples lived. An overwhelming amount of research has been done showing that homosexuality has a biological causation; not a genetic one, but a biological one. The easiest way to think of it is as a hormonal switch that gets thrown one way or the other. And if you think about it, it makes logical sense. Consider many gays and lesbians you've seen. Not always, but many times, secondary sexual characteristics resemble the opposite sex. In other words, homosexual males often have softer voices. Lesbians may have strong cheekbones and a more masculine body shape. It's all affected by those hormone switches. And why would someone choose to be gay.
Gay rights activists claim that these marriages should be allowed because it doesn't hurt anyone, but it could start a chain reaction that destroys the whole idea of marriage. If someone wants to marry his dog, why shouldn't he be able to? What if someone wants to marry their brother or parent? What if someone wants to marry their blow-up doll or have 10 wives? Unless we develop some firm definition of what a marriage is, the options are endless. If these options sound absurd, remember that all it takes is a few activist judges to use the statute to open the door.
The last but not the least is that people do not understand much in this world so we shouldn’t be in a hurry to judge.
Next our topic is “National stereotypes”. We are going to talk about stereotypical behavior of people of different nationalities and about myths which are common all around the world. 
No special vocabulary is needed.


 

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