God and Gay Marriage

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If I go to the coffee shop and ask for a bagel and they give me a donut it is not the same. If I complain and they say, look man they are basically the same I am still going to want my bagel.

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�I am a recent business graduate and help a girl with her O-Level Studies in my neighbourhood during my time off from work. She�s an intelligent student, but like many teenagers of her age, she has some self-confidence issues which haunt her especially during exams and question and answer sessions. I was surprised (somewhat horrified) to find out that she was originally a left-hander but as a child she was forced to switch to her right hand due to obscure social and relegious beliefs of her parents. I�ve read about the adverse effects of such practices but could it be that her shyness in class and panic in exams could be a result of being forced to switch hands?

�When I was in third grade (approximately 1968) my teacher did not understand how left- handed people write and kept trying to tape my writing paper down with a right-handed slant (we were learning cursive � if that doesn�t date me �). And every time she would walk away or turn her back I would rip the paper and slant it the other way (to me the correct way) and continue writing. The way she had it taped, I would have had to write upside-down, no wonder so many left-handers look like they�re writing upside-down � they are. My brother is also left-handed. When he was learning to write he was attending a parochial (church based) grade school (probably early 1960�s) and they still believed at the time if you were left-handed there was something sinister� about being left-handed and it must be changed. So they forced him to switch to his right hand for his own good�. His hand writing is still some of the worse I have ever seen. Most of the time he prefers to print, he�s just not comfortable with cursive to this day. Thank the nuns for that.

�I can remember my third grade teacher, literally tying my left hand to the desk, so I would be forced to use my right hand, I also received the strap numerous times for just being left handed. It�s gotta be better in the school system these days. Keep up the good work!
�I was constantly corrected using my cutlery. One teaching assistant would come and snatch the cutlery out of my hands and tell me to �hold them the right way�.

�When I was in the earliest grades, I was actually *punished* for trying to write with my left hand. I was forced to stand in the corner of the classroom, facing the wall, as if I had been naughty.

�The first teacher I had the misfortune to have at school told me I was �cack-handed�. She placed the pencil in my right hand and said I wasn�t to use my left hand again. In fact, if she found me using my left hand, she called me a disobedient little wretch and smacked my hands (imagine that happening today!!). She then said my written letters (block capitals) were appalling and untidy and I was called stupid. Thank heavens my mother found out.. She confronted this teacher and told her I was left handed and to try to make write with my right hand was totally un-natural. The teacher told her that if she didn�t want me to be normal then that was up to her. I wish I had heard my mother�s response to that.

�I was lucky that I never had a teacher who tried to change me. The only person who did that was my father who insisted I learn to write right handed. I did that, then went back to writing left handed and he gave up. I ignored his prediction that I�d only ever be able to get a job in a pickle factory because I was left handed.

�As a child my mum had to go in the primary school I was at to tell the dinner lady off. I was eating my pudding and was told to stop being silly and eat properly� this being right handed!

�Heather, who is 8, came home and told us she got in trouble for eating with the wrong hand�. When she told the teacher she couldn�t eat with the other hand, she was told she was being defiant and she got lunch detention. I called the school and spoke with the principal and was advised that Heather was intentionally hitting elbows with the (right handed) boy next to her. I realized the biggest issue is that they make the kids stand in ABC order and file into the seats (12 on a side) and sit down. When I go into a restaurant or crowded dinner table, I always look for the spot on the far left. The teacher and I came up with a solution. Heather is now allowed to either be the first or last one on the row so that she doesn�t hit anyone with her elbow. Oh�and the right-handed boy did NOT get lunch detention.

�Forcing someone to write with their unnatural hand is barbaric! Some people who have been forced to write right-handed have developed a stutter later in life. King George VI was one.

�I am leftie. At first, when in primary school, my teacher attempted to change my by force and my mum didn�t oppose it. I started well but at the point of forcing me to use right, my brain literally switched. I would write letters in mirrored forms or just twist them. At the end of my first year, my teacher reported I was a dull child but when my report was carefully checked, they realised it was because I was forced to use right. They allowed me use my blessed left hand to write but then I lost a year as I was forced to repeat a class.

�From Uganda � I felt this was really a valuable thought to us Left handed ones especially our Children that suffer persecution, rejection and abuse during their early days of Education because of being Left handed. I was traumatized and beaten by school teachers when I was young because I had totally failed to adjust and was writing with my Left hand.

Quote: FrGamble

Wait, I do and I can understand it. Homosexuals want to use the same word "marriage" because they want to be accepted for who they are exactly like any heterosexual couple.

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or may not express their love sexually, if they can reproduce or not,

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Just another example of the chaos and confusion that comes when we remove God from our lives and society.

Quote: rxwine

but as far as judging gays, I don't see where it comes into play.

Quote: Evenbob

They want to be treated as any other HUMAN
couple.

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So people over 50 can't marry in your church?
The woman can no longer have kids.

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Seriously? God is the one screwing up everything.
Belief in your imaginary daddy is at the base of all
the worlds problems.

Quote: FrGamble

Sure they can, you don't have to be over 50 to not be able to have kids.

Quote: FrGamble

What am I saying that is not treating anyone as any other HUMAN?!? .

Quote: FrGamble

When do we not break things into sub-categories?.