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LynneSin

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Reply to ohheckyeah (Reply #25)

Wed Feb 19, 2014, 09:03 PM

Feb 2014

"DEAR UNHAPPY: I sure would. The first thing I'd like to say is that regardless of what you were told in your previous community, a person's sexual orientation isn't a "lifestyle choice." Gay people don't choose to be gay; they are born that way. They can't change being gay any more than you can change being heterosexual.

I find it interesting that you are unwilling to reciprocate the hospitality of people who welcomed you and opened their homes to you, and yet you complain because you are receiving similar treatment.

From where I sit, you may have chosen the wrong place to live because it appears you would be happier in a less integrated neighborhood surrounded by people who think the way you do. But if you interact only with people like yourselves, you will have missed a chance for growth, which is what you have been offered here. Please don't blow it."

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Amazing Dear Abby tells a homophobic couple pretty much they deserve what they got..... [View all] LynneSin Feb 2014 OP

"Compromise our values"? shenmue Feb 2014 #1

LOL their values... get the red out Feb 2014 #5

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My idiot BIL lives in Tampa newfie11 Feb 2014 #3

It must be that clean Gulf water and those 3-headed fish there. nt TheBlackAdder Feb 2014 #6

I live near Tampa shenmue Feb 2014 #8

actually in this story Tampa is the gay-friendly place Enrique Feb 2014 #11

Don't we eventually want a country where we don't have to define pro-gay and anti-gay neighborhoods LynneSin Feb 2014 #13

Most of us want that Warpy Feb 2014 #18

Getting past the HateFlorida Syndrome, Tampa is a big reason the state is turning blue. Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #19

But think about this with Tampa LynneSin Feb 2014 #12

Well I like the way you think and I'm going with that thought...n/t monmouth3 Feb 2014 #14

Darn it! Link didn't work for me. theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #4

Here's the reply - I felt compelled to share it, as it was too great to miss! bullwinkle428 Feb 2014 #9

Thanks! theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #10

Thanks! The link didn't work for me, either. calimary Feb 2014 #24

Abby let them know how stupid they are. MineralMan Feb 2014 #7

I know, sometimes that column hits one out of the park! Warpy Feb 2014 #15

I heard there were houses for sale right by Westboro Baptist LynneSin Feb 2014 #16

Did you catch the paint job on the one across the street? Warpy Feb 2014 #17

I'll bet that the next thing we hear . . . aggiesal Feb 2014 #20

"...someone even suggested that we are bigots! " Lizzie Poppet Feb 2014 #21

What's worse - they would think to call the neighbors 'bigots' because they were excluded LynneSin Feb 2014 #23

Typical reich-wing whining ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2014 #31

Right-wing fails to understand that their right to free speech means others have rights... LynneSin Feb 2014 #32

I don't understand why she didn't just say Flying Squirrel Feb 2014 #22

The link doesn't work for me. n/t ohheckyeah Feb 2014 #25

Here's the reply LynneSin Feb 2014 #29

Thank you... ohheckyeah Feb 2014 #30

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