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Every – and I do mean every – gay man I have ever knows that they were born gay. There simply is no choice involved.

It’s funny, but the only people that ever suggest it is a choice are straights. I suspect they feel that by positioning homosexuality as a “choice” is provides a legitimate foundation on which they can hate members of the human race.

So I say again, if you are so sure it’s a choice we make, why don’t you offer up a single gay man who says “for me it was a choice”.

That should be easy, right?

I signed up and voted for an EEC in 1973 – I did NOT sign up for the for the current European State thingy/ not quite federal/humongous debt creating mountain of expense, rules and sometimes outright stupidity that have today!

If the voting paper had said “lose the right to be English or British” – Tick here, it would have been more accurate! Ditto homosexuality, not “should we be tolerant to all types people?” but “tick here to give a minority group the right to influence your children from the age of about 5 . Ditto “should everyone be forced to be in a smoky atmosphere” – tick here, instead we get the draconian “25% of the population will have to stand outside in the ferkin’ cold and wet” – tick here! when only 30% of said population still actually go to one of the rapidly closing pubs. It’s choices we want just choices! To choose to say “No”.

//Homophobia, a strange term. Fear of Man?//

Or, fear of sameness (homo- also meaning same. As in “homogeneous”.

//Of course you choose your sexual preferences. You have to proceate to pass on your genes.//

Hmm, really? Do men choose to find busty blondes attractive? Or petite brunettes? It seems most odd to me to declare that someone chooses to find their partner attractive or not.

They both are.

Simon Le Rosbif “You choose to smoke and you don

Your post smacks of homophobia.

“Legislation has been altered specifically to allow children the chance to indulge at a younger age than previously possible.”

Yes, by bringing it in line with the laws regarding heterosexuality, thus ensuring equal rights for all and moving towards, more libertarian than authoritarian, surely? This move erases a social distinction built into legislation, which is a good thing.

“The NHS opens its willing arms and special hospital wings to cure the ailments, at great cost, that can follow in its wake.”

That is to say, in the wake of irresponsible, casual sex on both sides of the sexuality fence. Gay people pay their fucking taxes too. Fail.

“The deaths that occur are publicly mourned as a great loss to society.”

.. And your point is?

Anyone else the MSM feels the need to martyr gets this treatment. Jade Goody anyone?

“and the men and women of our emergency services censored if they don

Until I was 13, the children’s home handed out a bag of sweets every week by way of pocket money. At 13, you were allowed the choice between the sweets and 5 Woodbines. The only catch was that if you took the cigarettes, you had to use the Senior Common Room in which to smoke them – where they had a much prized record player……I can still remember the joy of hearing ‘I wanna hold your hand’ from within the same room rather than the muffled version we were used to from the other end of the corridor. By way of an inducement to smoke, it was pretty effective.

Many Thanks for this!

Lest We Forget.

Shannon O’Hara

As a child, I was bombarded with ads in newspapers and the cinema extolling the fact that I “was never alone with a Strand” and I believed them.

I was raised in a house full of smokers and endured regular visits to the surgery with bronchitis where I would be examined by a doctor with a ciggie hanging out of the corner of his mouth.

Sporting events were sponsored by cigarette manufacturers and, once I started work – in a government department – I was given a desk with an ashtray emblazoned with the slogan “Property of HM Government”. However, I was earning enough to buy 20-a-day and save the coupons from the packs, but not for an iron lung. Smoking was the norm.

So, in my eyes, having having actively promoted the benefits of smoking, and doing nothing to discourage me, thanks to the government I now find myself in a minority group.

Agreed: Smoking reated illnesses cost the NHS millions each year, but nothing like as much as the billions which the government make in taxes on our “coffin nails”.

You always overstate the case!

You don’t have 61,000,000 who are going to create the Revolution.

Apart from anything else, how are you going to recruit enough babysitters, to get the middle-class adults, out on the street?

Shannon O’Hara

Point taken!

Should I remain optimistic?

Shannon