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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fighting4yourRights" data-source="post: 228710" data-attributes="member: 10388">Defining something as "normal" insinuates that nothing else is. Bestiality and pedophilia are not normal and are both classified as mental disorders. It gets tiring when this argument is consistently tossed around. Both do not include consent and it's rape.   What is normal to you is based on convention and an overly rigid belief system. People who fall outside this belief system do experience real forms of discrimination. Hate crimes are prevalent. Gay men and lesbians are still banned from serving openly in the US military service. Child custody decisions still frequently view gay and lesbian people as unfit parents. Gay and lesbian adolescents are often taunted and humiliated in their school settings. Many professional persons and employees in all occupations are still fearful of identifying as gay or lesbians in their work settings. Gay relationships are not widely recognized in any legal way. The truth of the matter is, just like the Black civil rights movement, the gays will get their rights, too. And, just like the governor of Alabama did, many will stand at the front door of the school, blocking the entrance and screaming obscenities. But it will all be in vein and years down the road, generations will view you, as we now view George Wallace, as an old, tired, bigoted, cranky, ignorant, carcass of a man. Sorry, for the extremity of this post, but I didn't get my coffee and abs class was canceled last night. </blockquote>

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