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I was really questioning myself about this documentary, because they were trying to make the straight couples look disgusting and weird. And downright "prejudice". If they are talking about people not treating them right, then they should treat people good. F-ing hypocrites.

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Hatred is baggage. I wish you could watch this film and see it for loving, truth being it all. We are all the same in our wonderous diversity. There is NO prejudice in this film. Just love. Just love.

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Well done dougglosemeyer, you said the words right out of my mouth. I am a straight, happily engaged male, but this HBO item truly touched my heart, and in a way, gives us all hope. It''s not about gays as much as it's about the human resonance to overcome adversity.

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to be fair, what can you expect from someone named xxMissLouisianaxx

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Hmmm...I honestly didn't catch that they were trying to make straight couples look "disgusting and weird". That would be a hard argument to make anyway.

(I'm not really sure the rest of this post applies, but I'm listing it on this thread anyway).

I'm not gay. I don't mind people who are. I have a great friend who is gay and has lived with her "wife" and her/their children for 11 years. I forget she is gay because I see her as a person and simply my friend. I invited her and her partner to my wedding without worrying if someone will be offended. That's the offendee's problem. She asked me if I thought people would mind, and I told her I really didn't care. What's important to me is that I don't become somebody who refuses another person based on their sexuality and that I have everyone who matters to me share in a special event in my life. Nobody raised any issues with me over it, either. I enjoy that I come from an accepting family. It doesn't make me a saint, I realize. But I feel it makes me a more enlightened individual (purely my own opinion).

I admit it looks odd to me, but I think you miss out on people if you worry about what two consenting adults decide to do. You can't force someone to sexually desire what they don't want. It's really not fair. My friend lost many of her friends once she came out, but I never flinched and fortunately we're still good friends 14 years later. I really enjoy her company and the company of her partner, even if I don't understand it and it throws me off to see gay affection. Oh well....

I have some issues with gay couples being able to adopt children, but I also have issues in how this country perceives how a child should be raised. It's really hard to accept the fact that a child can not live in a loving, homosexual household but be allowed to live in total squalor in dilapetated tenements with an abusive mother and father simply because it's hetero.
With so many children being shuttled from one foster home to another, they should be entitled to a stable environment where they can thrive. If they suffer from a bit of sexual confusion (which may result), it may be better than suffering from mental anxiety and trust issues. Of course I'm using the extremes here and being a bit over-dramatic--I realize this, but I'm trying to make a point.

I have a bit of a problem with a child being raised in a homosexual environment because they may become confused and have to deal with problems outside the home because of it. But one way or the other I suppose children get picked on, but a stable, supportive environment, hetero or homosexual, should enable a child to grow up with proper self-esteem irregardless. And ultimately, I feel homosexuality is a genetic thing rather than an environmental thing.

Besides, heterosexual couples raise homosexual children all the time. True story! It happens all the time!

I'm a republican and I find it really disgusting the way human beings treat one another when they can't accept it. I actually shudder at the closemindedness of it all. Those people protesting...I felt really sorry for them because they were rather primitive in my opinion. It definitely freaks me out to see an overly effeminate male (it really does) waltzing around with his equally girly "buddy", or a really masculine woman hugging her girlfriend, but it also freaks me out that people can tattoo themselves all over the place.

Anyway, my point is just because you can't understand it doesn't mean you should shun it. It's hard enough finding a decent friend, or simply decent people in this world without shutting out more and more people due to their being a homosexual.

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Roughly 10% of the population is gay. 10% of children raised by homosexual couples are homosexual, just like the statistics of straight couples raising children.

I'd rather children be raised by a homosexual couple than raised by the state. Children of two-parent households (two mothers, two fathers, a mother and a father) are more likely to be well-adjusted as opposed to single-parent households.

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Love isn't brains, children, it's blood...blood screaming inside you to work its will.

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Where did they ever infer that about straight couples?? I didn't see that at all.

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I'm from Louisiana myself, and I have no idea what 'xxMissLouisianaxx' was talking about. I wonder if he/she even watched the documentary.

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they were trying to make the straight couples look disgusting and weird.
Are you sure you and I were watching the same movie? There were barely any straight couples or individuals in this movie, and those people in the film who were straight were mostly presented as nice, supportive parents and kids of gay people--not at all "disgusting" or "weird." Maybe you watched a different movie and accidentally mixed it up with this one--the straight couples in the Sex and the City movie are pretty disgusting, so maybe you saw that instead.

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What I thought was annoying was the sense of enitlement of these passengers, predominantly white, acting like this island nation with different values, morals and customs had to accept them.

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