Gay and Mormon: BYU hosted panel for gay BYU students

[SoonerCoug]

I'm afraid you're going to be bothered for a long time since you're about the only to hold this ridiculously narrow and useless definition of bisexuality.

But of course, you don't make shit up.

It's not useless. If you are a man that prefers men, then you're gay--even if you do it with women sometimes.

[lambdacoug]

I didn't realize sexual position factored into this. I guess this is stuff you learn in med school?

ROFL

[smokymountainrain]

If you are a man that prefers men, then you're gay--even if you do it with women sometimes.

I think I learned that in Jr. High.

From this guy...

[ERCougar]

It's not useless. If you are a man that prefers men, then you're gay--even if you do it with women sometimes.

Sweet. Then you really can change sexual orientation. Damn sinners.

[Solon]

Your simile is absurd. It isn't anything like that at all.
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I agree that Rosa Parks didn't really do much other than refuse to switch seats. Small potatoes.

LOL at BYU's Rosa Parks moment. It is indeed 1955 at the byu with regards to homosexuality. Meanwhile, every respectable academic institution in America has managed to enter the 21st century. This is a university we're talking about, right? And we're supposed to be impressed they didn't grab the students off the stage for electroshock therapy?

The more I consider it, I think it's a stroke of genius by the byu administration. Be so repressive and backwards that even the slimmest ray of progressive thought will be welcomed as a giant step. It's a page straight out of North Korea's playbook. I'm looking for Bronco to start kidnapping blue-chippers instead of recruiting them.

[Indy Coug]

LOL at BYU's Rosa Parks moment. It is indeed 1955 at the byu with regards to homosexuality. Meanwhile, every respectable academic institution in America has managed to enter the 21st century. This is a university we're talking about, right? And we're supposed to be impressed they didn't grab the students off the stage for electroshock therapy?

The more I consider it, I think it's a stroke of genius by the byu administration. Be so repressive and backwards that even the slimmest ray of progressive thought will be welcomed as a giant step. It's a page straight out of North Korea's playbook. I'm looking for Bronco to start kidnapping blue-chippers instead of recruiting them.

Holy shit, can you cram any more hyperbole into a single post, Solon?

[Solon]

Holy shit, can you cram any more hyperbole into a single post, Solon?

probably.

Hey, DDD is the one who brought up Rosa Parks.

Funny as hell.

[creekster]

LOL at BYU's Rosa Parks moment. It is indeed 1955 at the byu with regards to homosexuality. Meanwhile, every respectable academic institution in America has managed to enter the 21st century. This is a university we're talking about, right? And we're supposed to be impressed they didn't grab the students off the stage for electroshock therapy?

The more I consider it, I think it's a stroke of genius by the byu administration. Be so repressive and backwards that even the slimmest ray of progressive thought will be welcomed as a giant step. It's a page straight out of North Korea's playbook. I'm looking for Bronco to start kidnapping blue-chippers instead of recruiting them.

No one is asking you to be impressed or to do anything at all. I was suggesting that it might be more appropriate to applaud the stories told and the potential positive effect rather than crap all over the event. But, hey, I guess you need to say what you need to say. Have fun.

[hopfrog]

I've had crushes on women and had sex with one, and thoroughly enjoyed it. The turn-on doesn't ask, "Does this make me bi-sexual" or any of that boring wank. Someone triggers my sexual response, I go with the flow. However, I have never fallen in love with a woman, and my romantic passion, my need of romance, is far more potent that any sexual urge. I need to conjoin my soul with another man, as I have done with the lad I now live with but who will never ever have sex with me. I have met men (and men only) who were authentically and definitely bi-sexual.

[Blueintheface]

HUMBLEBRAG!!! I met and conversed briefly with Ms. Parks She was staying at the hotel I worked at and I got to ride in the elevator with her and escort her to her meeting that morning. When I wheeled her into the large banquet room everyone inside, some 300 people, stood in unison and began cheering. I was moved to tears.

Back to the action!

[Blueintheface]

I've had crushes on women and had sex with one, and thoroughly enjoyed it. The turn-on doesn't ask, "Does this make me bi-sexual" or any of that boring wank. Someone triggers my sexual response, I go with the flow. However, I have never fallen in love with a woman, and my romantic passion, my need of romance, is far more potent that any sexual urge. I need to conjoin my soul with another man, as I have done with the lad I now live with but who will never ever have sex with me. I have met men (and men only) who were authentically and definitely bi-sexual.

That noise you just heard was Soonercoug's bowels evacuating themselves.

[Jeff Lebowski]

LOL at BYU's Rosa Parks moment. It is indeed 1955 at the byu with regards to homosexuality. Meanwhile, every respectable academic institution in America has managed to enter the 21st century. This is a university we're talking about, right? And we're supposed to be impressed they didn't grab the students off the stage for electroshock therapy?

The more I consider it, I think it's a stroke of genius by the byu administration. Be so repressive and backwards that even the slimmest ray of progressive thought will be welcomed as a giant step. It's a page straight out of North Korea's playbook. I'm looking for Bronco to start kidnapping blue-chippers instead of recruiting them.

North Korea? Really?

I am surprised by your reaction in this thread, Solon. You usually approach these things with a lot more nuance and leave the highly simplistic, blunt force response to SU.

Sure, anything related to BYU/LDS treatment of homosexuality is an easy target for mocking and ridicule. Knock yourself out. But some of us are still inclined to cheer for progress when it happens.

[smokymountainrain]

HUMBLEBRAG!!! I met and conversed briefly with Ms. Parks She was staying at the hotel I worked at and I got to ride in the elevator with her and escort her to her meeting that morning. When I wheeled her into the large banquet room everyone inside, some 300 people, stood in unison and began cheering. I was moved to tears.

Back to the action!

Please point out the humble in that brag. TIA

[Indy Coug]

Please point out the humble in that brag. TIA

He escorted her, not the other way around.

[smokymountainrain]

He escorted her, not the other way around.

Good point. And he cried. What a pussy. I missed that initially too.