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[Ashkael]

Been there, done that, thought I covered it already in this thread. I've had friends who are homosexual. Whatever enlightenment I was supposed to gain from that, I must have missed.

Obviously those friends didn’t mean too much to you or else you wouldn’t have made such a senseless remark. It’s not enlightenment that you gain, but rather, understanding of their situation and how it affects every single day of their lives. If you would have given a damn for those homosexual friends of yours then you would have tried to support them.

I will never know what it's like to "come out" to your friends, but I suspect that in a way it's similar to professing Christian beliefs on a Diablo forum.

I didn’t know that you could lose the support and love of all your friends and family members by professing Christian beliefs in the Lurker Lounge. That’s certainly something new for me. Please, don’t ever dare to compare what you are doing here with coming out again. You obviously don’t understand the implications that coming out has in your life.

Just based on the little information in your post, there seems to be a lot more to your life than the endless pursuit of sex. So why then would you equate my condemnation of your sexual activity with being a condemnation of your existance? In my last reply to Shadow I went to great lengths to make that distinction.

Of course there is more to my life than endless pursuit of sex. But let’s face it; sexuality is a very important part of anybody. Even if you are Christian (and I am), sexuality still plays a very important role in your life. And it doesn’t matter how you look at it, sexuality is an integral part of any successful relationship. When you do get married you will be humping your wife every single night for at least a month after you get married, and don’t tell me I am wrong in saying that because you know it’s true.

Now, since you have been defending the holy institution that is marriage with such a passion, then I can deduce that for you, marriage would be a very important part of your life, right? When you do get married, your wife is going to be everything (or pretty close to everything) for you. What would be your reaction if someone told you that such a very important and defining part of your life is morally wrong? Now, what would it be if more than half the people you meet, including your family and friends, tell you that it’s morally wrong? Of course you would get upset.

Obviously, the same happens to me when you express your disapproval of my sexual activity. I get upset, because when I do get “married” my husband (that sounded weird) is going to be an integral part of my life. If you tell a man that the most important part of his life is morally wrong, you are basically telling him that his life is morally wrong.

If your attitude about marriage is really this casual, you don't deserve the right to get married even if you were "straight". This is about a sacred bond, a lifelong commitment to a loving relationship, a joining of families and the foundation of a new one.

You obviously missed this important part of my next paragraph, or choose to miss it. Anyway, here it is again for you to read:

But don’t get me wrong, I’m not that selfish. I firmly believe that the main purpose of a marriage or any kind of union is full commitment between the two persons that are involved in it, be it a man and a woman, two men or two women. For me, nothing in this life can beat the satisfaction of giving everything you can to the one you love.

As you can see, I can happily fulfill all your requirements for marriage except the last one, because that one is simply out of my hands. Nothing I can do will ever allow me to form a natural family, and believe me, I regret that.