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		<title>By: Mike Hind</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-720097</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Hind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How could this &quot;end the human race&quot;?

Marriage equality, or even gay folks having sex, has absolutely no effect on heterosexual sex, breeding or the population in general.

I don&#039;t understand this line of thinking...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How could this &#8220;end the human race&#8221;?</p>
<p>Marriage equality, or even gay folks having sex, has absolutely no effect on heterosexual sex, breeding or the population in general.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t understand this line of thinking&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Rainbow Alliance Seeks Clarity From Bean, PLP &#124; Bernews.com</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-357954</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rainbow Alliance Seeks Clarity From Bean, PLP &#124; Bernews.com]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] quoted Mr Bean&#8217;s comments during the debate about the Human Rights Act in July 2012, saying: &#8220;These words contain the insensitivity and latent homophobia that the Rainbow [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] quoted Mr Bean&#8217;s comments during the debate about the Human Rights Act in July 2012, saying: &#8220;These words contain the insensitivity and latent homophobia that the Rainbow [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Unbeliveablee</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-311551</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Unbeliveablee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cause the internet is always 100% correct right? I find your assertions to be baseless and inaccurate. This website lacks provenance.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cause the internet is always 100% correct right? I find your assertions to be baseless and inaccurate. This website lacks provenance.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill To Address Sexual Orientation Discrimination &#124; Bernews.com</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-303701</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill To Address Sexual Orientation Discrimination &#124; Bernews.com]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] for a range of characteristics including age and sexual orientation.&#8221;In July of this year politicians debated adding an amendment to the Human Rights Act to ban discrimination based on age and sexual [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] for a range of characteristics including age and sexual orientation.&#8221;In July of this year politicians debated adding an amendment to the Human Rights Act to ban discrimination based on age and sexual [...]</p>
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		<title>By: andre</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-269717</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He has an opinion.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He has an opinion.</p>
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		<title>By: 450 Sign Petition To Amend Human Rights Act &#124; Bernews.com</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-269629</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[450 Sign Petition To Amend Human Rights Act &#124; Bernews.com]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.&#8221;In July of this year politicians debated adding an amendment to the Human Rights Act to ban discrimination based on age and sexual discrimination, with the [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.&#8221;In July of this year politicians debated adding an amendment to the Human Rights Act to ban discrimination based on age and sexual discrimination, with the [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Rainbow Alliance Hosting Open Forum Today &#124; Bernews.com</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-257222</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rainbow Alliance Hosting Open Forum Today &#124; Bernews.com]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] form they choose, including spoken word and music, the organisation said.Last month politicians debated adding an amendment to the Human Rights Act to ban discrimination based on age and sexual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By: Liberal</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-245376</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liberal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just throwing in a bit of input here. Gay people should have as much rights as straight people. Bottom line. Most people are basing their arguement on the Bible and quite frankly just as being gay (is thought sometimes) to be a personal decision, so is being a Christian. I often wish when the time for making ethical decisions in politics comes about, politicians would set aside their own personal sentiments and make decisions based on logic and not emotion or what &quot;god told them to do&quot; Basing your existence and way of life on the Bible is looked at by many of the world as malarchy. Just because most Bermudian politicians are Christians, does not entitle them to make a decision when they&#039;re already biased to the situation. I&#039;m a Christian, and based on the good book, discrimination against anyone is a sin. As Christians we should know that God gave us the ability to make our own decisions, and choose our own paths. And we should follow that. We should not prevent people from living somewhere or having a job based on sexual orientation whether or not we agree with what they do in their bedrooms, because we are not in their with them. That would be like telling a black woman she can&#039;t live somewhere because she dates a white man. Being gay in many cases is what you are, not who you are. Just as being black is what you are, not who you are... If I didn&#039;t make sense someone correct me]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just throwing in a bit of input here. Gay people should have as much rights as straight people. Bottom line. Most people are basing their arguement on the Bible and quite frankly just as being gay (is thought sometimes) to be a personal decision, so is being a Christian. I often wish when the time for making ethical decisions in politics comes about, politicians would set aside their own personal sentiments and make decisions based on logic and not emotion or what &#8220;god told them to do&#8221; Basing your existence and way of life on the Bible is looked at by many of the world as malarchy. Just because most Bermudian politicians are Christians, does not entitle them to make a decision when they&#8217;re already biased to the situation. I&#8217;m a Christian, and based on the good book, discrimination against anyone is a sin. As Christians we should know that God gave us the ability to make our own decisions, and choose our own paths. And we should follow that. We should not prevent people from living somewhere or having a job based on sexual orientation whether or not we agree with what they do in their bedrooms, because we are not in their with them. That would be like telling a black woman she can&#8217;t live somewhere because she dates a white man. Being gay in many cases is what you are, not who you are. Just as being black is what you are, not who you are&#8230; If I didn&#8217;t make sense someone correct me</p>
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		<title>By: holllllaarr!!!</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-244628</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[holllllaarr!!!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@cheekumsbye-I like..I like..hmm sounds pretty sensible to me.. bottom line, do what you want behind closed doors...by the way I know people who thought they were gay and then straigtened up! hmm.. is it optional?? I was born pretty brown and female to parents whom I could never change so my predicament is pretty much settled dun diel!!No flip flops here... get over yourselves people your importance is not what others think of you but what you think of yourself!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@cheekumsbye-I like..I like..hmm sounds pretty sensible to me.. bottom line, do what you want behind closed doors&#8230;by the way I know people who thought they were gay and then straigtened up! hmm.. is it optional?? I was born pretty brown and female to parents whom I could never change so my predicament is pretty much settled dun diel!!No flip flops here&#8230; get over yourselves people your importance is not what others think of you but what you think of yourself!!</p>
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		<title>By: Billy Mays</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-242426</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Billy Mays]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@chee, where do I begin?
You are plainly ignorant if you believe that sexual preference is a choice.  It very simply is not; this has been shown repeatedly to be the case.  If you are unaware of that fact, you had best learn something before you demonstrate your ignorance.  In fact, that you think that left-handedness is also learned is laughable.
Matter of fact, it would take me too long to point out all of the fallacies and ignorance in your reply, and clearly you cannot be educated, so I won&#039;t waste any more of my time.
I agree with Dante&#039;s Inferno; you are the dumbest person in Bermuda.  And in the context in which s/he used the word &quot;hopefully&quot;, it&#039;s grammatically correct.  That&#039;s ok; I wouldn&#039;t expect you to know any more about grammar or rhetoric than you do about human sexuality, genetics... or anything else for that matter.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@chee, where do I begin?<br />
You are plainly ignorant if you believe that sexual preference is a choice.  It very simply is not; this has been shown repeatedly to be the case.  If you are unaware of that fact, you had best learn something before you demonstrate your ignorance.  In fact, that you think that left-handedness is also learned is laughable.<br />
Matter of fact, it would take me too long to point out all of the fallacies and ignorance in your reply, and clearly you cannot be educated, so I won&#8217;t waste any more of my time.<br />
I agree with Dante&#8217;s Inferno; you are the dumbest person in Bermuda.  And in the context in which s/he used the word &#8220;hopefully&#8221;, it&#8217;s grammatically correct.  That&#8217;s ok; I wouldn&#8217;t expect you to know any more about grammar or rhetoric than you do about human sexuality, genetics&#8230; or anything else for that matter.</p>
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		<title>By: Dantes Inferno</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-242305</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dantes Inferno]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBA REPRESENT]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CBA REPRESENT</p>
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		<title>By: CHEE KUMS BI</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241888</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CHEE KUMS BI]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully is not a full sentence, your calling someone dumb and you cant even structure a sentence. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH  CHEE KUMS BI HAHHAHA.............Hopefully fullstop.....and im dumb hahahhahaha]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hopefully is not a full sentence, your calling someone dumb and you cant even structure a sentence. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH  CHEE KUMS BI HAHHAHA&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Hopefully fullstop&#8230;..and im dumb hahahhahaha</p>
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		<title>By: Day</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241796</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Day]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@SMH:  Well in some cases a person may not choose to be attracted to another sex, but in some cases people may not choose to be violent.  Some children grow up in violent homes and thus learn to be violent.  It is all they know.  From some studies that I have seen most people who do not choose to be homosexual have often been molested and have learned the behavior and acquired the desire for the opposite sex.  There is no such thing as a homosexual gene and there has yet to be a full agreement among pyschologists to the nurture vs nature debate.

The danger to your second post is that if a law is enacted to defend the rights of homosexuals that it can become overly excessive. If the law is not specific and well detailed a homosexual could use &quot;the homosexual race card&quot; every time HE or SHE was denied a position, job, or proper service in a restaurant.  That already happens already, could you imagine what would happen if everytime that person was denied something the law jumped on their side to punish the the potentially innocent person accused of hatred and bigotry?

I know some landlords who do not rent to people practicing common law.  It would be hard for a landlord to regulate a single person and their girlfriend/boyfriend as it would for the landlord to regulate a single homosexual and their significant other.  But if that landlord is opposed to fornication and adultery other sexual sins, as a Christian, they should also have a right to decline a person renting from their property who is practicing what they also believe to be an equal sin.  Any law that tramples over this right, tramples on their freedom of religion and the freedom of their own usage of property, which is simply another form of discrimination.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@SMH:  Well in some cases a person may not choose to be attracted to another sex, but in some cases people may not choose to be violent.  Some children grow up in violent homes and thus learn to be violent.  It is all they know.  From some studies that I have seen most people who do not choose to be homosexual have often been molested and have learned the behavior and acquired the desire for the opposite sex.  There is no such thing as a homosexual gene and there has yet to be a full agreement among pyschologists to the nurture vs nature debate.</p>
<p>The danger to your second post is that if a law is enacted to defend the rights of homosexuals that it can become overly excessive. If the law is not specific and well detailed a homosexual could use &#8220;the homosexual race card&#8221; every time HE or SHE was denied a position, job, or proper service in a restaurant.  That already happens already, could you imagine what would happen if everytime that person was denied something the law jumped on their side to punish the the potentially innocent person accused of hatred and bigotry?</p>
<p>I know some landlords who do not rent to people practicing common law.  It would be hard for a landlord to regulate a single person and their girlfriend/boyfriend as it would for the landlord to regulate a single homosexual and their significant other.  But if that landlord is opposed to fornication and adultery other sexual sins, as a Christian, they should also have a right to decline a person renting from their property who is practicing what they also believe to be an equal sin.  Any law that tramples over this right, tramples on their freedom of religion and the freedom of their own usage of property, which is simply another form of discrimination.</p>
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		<title>By: Keepin It The Realist</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241792</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keepin It The Realist]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Im all for gay rights. but the &quot;sexual orientation&quot; addition is a bit broad. I want to be able to to refuse someone who has sex with trees or some weird crap.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Im all for gay rights. but the &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; addition is a bit broad. I want to be able to to refuse someone who has sex with trees or some weird crap.</p>
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		<title>By: Dantes Inferno</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241773</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dantes Inferno]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are the dumbest person in Bermuda. Hopefully.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are the dumbest person in Bermuda. Hopefully.</p>
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		<title>By: Dantes Inferno</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241772</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dantes Inferno]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;a person that fabricates and distorts history for their own personal gain&quot;

SOUNDS LIKE EVERYONE WHO Preached THE BIBLE EVER.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;a person that fabricates and distorts history for their own personal gain&#8221;</p>
<p>SOUNDS LIKE EVERYONE WHO Preached THE BIBLE EVER.</p>
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		<title>By: Dantes Inferno</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241769</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dantes Inferno]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah the worlds gone crazy but they&#039;re sane? I love it, better than any TV show.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah the worlds gone crazy but they&#8217;re sane? I love it, better than any TV show.</p>
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		<title>By: Dantes Inferno</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241768</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dantes Inferno]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;... especially a sexual act that the world is not comfortable with&quot;

Typical Religious zealot, trying to speak for the world. 

By the way what you are comfortable with is not anyone&#039;s concern]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230; especially a sexual act that the world is not comfortable with&#8221;</p>
<p>Typical Religious zealot, trying to speak for the world. </p>
<p>By the way what you are comfortable with is not anyone&#8217;s concern</p>
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		<title>By: Day</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241760</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Day]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is not becoming self-righteous.  What they are doing is simply adhering to a standard rather that being hyporcites by saying they believe in Christ yet reject His teachings.  But can you explain how their beliefs are being imposed?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is not becoming self-righteous.  What they are doing is simply adhering to a standard rather that being hyporcites by saying they believe in Christ yet reject His teachings.  But can you explain how their beliefs are being imposed?</p>
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		<title>By: I gotta be me</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241754</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[I gotta be me]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey we&#039;re living in the year 2012!  Why don&#039;t you try and catch up!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey we&#8217;re living in the year 2012!  Why don&#8217;t you try and catch up!</p>
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		<title>By: Dantes Inferno</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241747</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dantes Inferno]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God clearly makes gay people, there&#039;s your proof.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God clearly makes gay people, there&#8217;s your proof.</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241569</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[chris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;try to distort and disgrace a man who is honorable&quot; in light of the article .am linked to, you are implying he is disgraceful... oh how the tables have turned. ROFL]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;try to distort and disgrace a man who is honorable&#8221; in light of the article .am linked to, you are implying he is disgraceful&#8230; oh how the tables have turned. ROFL</p>
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		<title>By: .am</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241412</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[.am]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sound like a white racist for acknowledging that a prominent black figure who was an advocate for racial equality liked to suck a bit of d— from time to time?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sound like a white racist for acknowledging that a prominent black figure who was an advocate for racial equality liked to suck a bit of d— from time to time?</p>
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		<title>By: lmfao</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241366</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i bet you feel pretty dumb right now]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i bet you feel pretty dumb right now</p>
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		<title>By: holllllaarr!!!</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241351</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[holllllaarr!!!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[oops sorry about spelling errors should be menopause..]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oops sorry about spelling errors should be menopause..</p>
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		<title>By: holllllaarr!!!</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241350</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[holllllaarr!!!]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amen to the brother!!!according to the Bible, if God is everything, all knowing, all seeing , even before we think he knowsour thoughts then He truly must be the only Oxymoron to be right and wrong at the same time--Let the fights amongst the gods continue... By the way, while I could give two craps about someones preferred sexual ways I can&#039;t understand why a gay person would think they have the right to everything including having a baby.. sorry rights and abilities totally differ.. marriagge is a basic institution for children to be secure in a family.. a family is conceived by a male and female.. whether you are born male or female you can never know what its truly like to be the opposite sex.. being a woman includes having the chromosones and physical structure able to carry a fetus in the womb. don&#039;t forget having a vagina makes you ffemale..having a penis makes you male simply, so don&#039;t play yourself fellas if you want to be a woman, have a period cycle, give birth and sufer from post menstrual cramps, postpartum depresssion after delivery or meopause... So if you want to play dress up and love your same sex brother or sister so be it but don&#039;t tell me you gay guys that you are in the wrong body.. a horse could never be a cow and wouldn&#039;t know by looking at one that it has the tendencies of the other animal.. as a woman I will never know what its like to be a man, no matter what clothes I wear or hormone pillsI pop.. if i feel like experiencing sex with a woman do i need legislation?? no one is born gay or straight.. we take on characteristics and personality and genes from birth.. Yes you may feel gentle as a man sometimes I like that!!but if you don&#039;t have feelings for me as a woman well so be it, what about the rastafarian and the prostitute?? don&#039;t forget just being plain cute sometimes causes discrimination..]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amen to the brother!!!according to the Bible, if God is everything, all knowing, all seeing , even before we think he knowsour thoughts then He truly must be the only Oxymoron to be right and wrong at the same time&#8211;Let the fights amongst the gods continue&#8230; By the way, while I could give two craps about someones preferred sexual ways I can&#8217;t understand why a gay person would think they have the right to everything including having a baby.. sorry rights and abilities totally differ.. marriagge is a basic institution for children to be secure in a family.. a family is conceived by a male and female.. whether you are born male or female you can never know what its truly like to be the opposite sex.. being a woman includes having the chromosones and physical structure able to carry a fetus in the womb. don&#8217;t forget having a vagina makes you ffemale..having a penis makes you male simply, so don&#8217;t play yourself fellas if you want to be a woman, have a period cycle, give birth and sufer from post menstrual cramps, postpartum depresssion after delivery or meopause&#8230; So if you want to play dress up and love your same sex brother or sister so be it but don&#8217;t tell me you gay guys that you are in the wrong body.. a horse could never be a cow and wouldn&#8217;t know by looking at one that it has the tendencies of the other animal.. as a woman I will never know what its like to be a man, no matter what clothes I wear or hormone pillsI pop.. if i feel like experiencing sex with a woman do i need legislation?? no one is born gay or straight.. we take on characteristics and personality and genes from birth.. Yes you may feel gentle as a man sometimes I like that!!but if you don&#8217;t have feelings for me as a woman well so be it, what about the rastafarian and the prostitute?? don&#8217;t forget just being plain cute sometimes causes discrimination..</p>
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		<title>By: SMH</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241323</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@ Day: First, homosexuality, unlike adultery or fornication isn&#039;t necessarily a choice, although homophobia always is (a choice).

Second, adulterers and other fornicators don&#039;t run the risk of not getting a job, a place to live, or service in a restaurant (or other business), simply because someone SUSPECTS that they are same-sex oriented, even if they are not. Even murderers have more rights, if people think they are heterosexual. Is being same-sex-oriented a bigger &quot;sin&quot; than murder?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Day: First, homosexuality, unlike adultery or fornication isn&#8217;t necessarily a choice, although homophobia always is (a choice).</p>
<p>Second, adulterers and other fornicators don&#8217;t run the risk of not getting a job, a place to live, or service in a restaurant (or other business), simply because someone SUSPECTS that they are same-sex oriented, even if they are not. Even murderers have more rights, if people think they are heterosexual. Is being same-sex-oriented a bigger &#8220;sin&#8221; than murder?</p>
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		<title>By: BdaLuvin</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241215</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BdaLuvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell him Alex!!
This Island is in a piss poor state and has not been able to keep up with the times because of ignorant people such as @CHEE KUMS BI not the mention the Bible thumpers.
Please go read a book or better yet buy a plane ticket off the rock to see how the rest of the world has progressed!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tell him Alex!!<br />
This Island is in a piss poor state and has not been able to keep up with the times because of ignorant people such as @CHEE KUMS BI not the mention the Bible thumpers.<br />
Please go read a book or better yet buy a plane ticket off the rock to see how the rest of the world has progressed!</p>
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		<title>By: OhMeOhMy</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241214</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[OhMeOhMy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does being gay or being a certain age have to do with the entitlement of employment and accommodation and services? This is absurd. Just because a person is gay does not mean they don’t have any common sense or they are not responsible people. Some of the brightest people are gay. Just because a person is gay, this does not mean they are just consumed with thought of having sex with a person of the same sex and want to be in a relationship all the time... If they choose to be gay, that is on them. If they are not bothering you, leave it alone. I understand that they will perhaps be setting an example for young people.. however when these young people grow up, they will soon learn that they too will one day make their own decisions that society may not agree with (despite the exemplary behavior from gays) I can’t speak that much on age discrimination as I am not too familiar with what is going on in regards to that... however I know that &quot;with age comes wisdom&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What does being gay or being a certain age have to do with the entitlement of employment and accommodation and services? This is absurd. Just because a person is gay does not mean they don’t have any common sense or they are not responsible people. Some of the brightest people are gay. Just because a person is gay, this does not mean they are just consumed with thought of having sex with a person of the same sex and want to be in a relationship all the time&#8230; If they choose to be gay, that is on them. If they are not bothering you, leave it alone. I understand that they will perhaps be setting an example for young people.. however when these young people grow up, they will soon learn that they too will one day make their own decisions that society may not agree with (despite the exemplary behavior from gays) I can’t speak that much on age discrimination as I am not too familiar with what is going on in regards to that&#8230; however I know that &#8220;with age comes wisdom&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: .am</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241186</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[.am]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to know what&#039;s particularly fantastic? If MX was alive and well and living here in Bermuda, he could be denied all those things you feel he should be entitled to ..because he&#039;s bisexual. There is no proof required - belief is enough. If your employer was equally as homophobic as you are and I informed them you bat for the other team, you could lose your job and not be able to do a damn thing about it because you don&#039;t think that sexual orientation is something that shouldn&#039;t be discriminated against. 

Note to employers: keep this in mind if you want to terminate someone. Just say it&#039;s because they&#039;re gay - and you&#039;re golden.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to know what&#8217;s particularly fantastic? If MX was alive and well and living here in Bermuda, he could be denied all those things you feel he should be entitled to ..because he&#8217;s bisexual. There is no proof required &#8211; belief is enough. If your employer was equally as homophobic as you are and I informed them you bat for the other team, you could lose your job and not be able to do a damn thing about it because you don&#8217;t think that sexual orientation is something that shouldn&#8217;t be discriminated against. </p>
<p>Note to employers: keep this in mind if you want to terminate someone. Just say it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re gay &#8211; and you&#8217;re golden.</p>
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		<title>By: CHEE KUMS BI</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241185</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CHEE KUMS BI]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Billy mays 
&quot;So are you saying that heterosexuals don’t engage in any sexual contact other than “traditional” sexual intercourse? No oral sex? No a— sex? No promiscuity? Either you’re breathtakingly ignorant or astoundingly sheltered&quot;

HOMOSEXUAL is a man with a man or a woman with a woman and they are defined by their sexual act and what they prefer sexually plain and simple. You must be breathtakingly ignorant to overlook this fact. Even if a heterolsexual partakes in anal wit another heterolsexual..man and woman (ewwww that is gross) nevertheless they still wont call themself a homosexual. Just that their sexual acts with each other is strange, nevertheless its a man and a woman.


&quot;Regardless, sexual activity is a most private matter which is the business of those involved. Period. This has nothing to do with the “act” so to speak (if it did, the discussion should be banning “non-traditional” sexual contact by any and all… which is of course absurd prima facie). This has to do with how different human beings are to be treated based on a characteristic over which they have no control, like hair color or race. Humans choose how they express themselves sexually, but they do not choose to whom they are attracted.&quot;

Thats a crock of B.S. you do choose who your attracted to thats why you choose to go after that woman or man. If you wanna be a homosexual thats fine have all the a-- sex you want but why should laws be passed simply because you prefer to have a--- sex and that your proud that your a man who loves men?? And that laws should be set in place so that your sexual preference is accepted. If the laws of bermuda decided to force Christiananity on you you would kick up and say thats not fair im not a christian and dont want to be....but you would support homosexuals forcing their sexual prefrence on heterolsexuals when as a heterolsexual we dont even have any laws in place and never asked for any laws to be put in place for  us??? Its utter nonsense and those who want to change the law is accepting to force a way of life on us that we dont accept.
 No one discriminates because of sexual orientaton unless they are open about their sexual orientation. You cant expect to be hired to clean male bathrooms at a gym if you tell them that your attracted to males a--- and you like to have sex with male a--- (ie a homosexual), you can expect to be discriminated against. However if you keep that to yourself then there is no harm and people wont discriminate against you. But you want a law put in place where you can take a gym to court because they wouldnt hire you as a jainitor because you like male anus......Thats utter nonsense

&quot;As a heterosexual father, I would be – and am – completely comfortable for myself and my family to be working playing and living alongside good people of all genders, races, sexual orientations, etc. I was raised to judge a person based on the content of their character, nothing else. I suggest you, “ru serious” and “chee kums” consider the content of your own characters before judging others. I’d so much rather live next to a gay couple than the likes of you.&quot;

I can live beside all good people, however there is nothing good about my neighbor if he tries to force me to accept his strange way of life that is practiced behind closed doors. I jjude actions and it is actions that should be judged. And as a father if you young son saw two men kissing and saying i love you in the open if you was to tell your son &quot;thats ok son they love each other and thats normal&quot; im sure that you would raise hell if you saw your son kissing another boy lovingly on the lips. Children learn from their enviornment and if your comfortable with forcing laws on society then i&#039;m sure your comfortable with your child learning the ways of a homosexual......i doubt it ..

&quot;If there is a God who is the creator, that God created us all. Hetero and homosexual; blonde, brunette or redhead; right-handed or left-handed; and yes, black, brown, red, yellow or white. Perhaps it would be best to let God be the judge of those wonderful creations.&quot;

You cant mix genetics with choices.. being born blonde... or being born black, white ... is by genitics you cant control that, being left handed is something that is learned being heterolsexual or homosexual is something that is learned and then a choice is made... and we are allowed to judge peoples actions dont be so silly, im sure if someone robs you or kills someone you know.. you would want society to judge that person and put them in jail, God created us and He created us to have the ability to judge between right and wrong those who cant is not blessed with correct judgement, im sure you judge people everyday, if a crack head comes to you for money i bet your judgement would kick in faster than if a little cute girl scout comes asking for donations, so spare us the garbage about we shouldnt judge. Dont try to set laws in place based off of your sexual preference, and i wont judge you for that.

Funny and hypocritical of you to say let God be the judge when you started off your response by judging me and saying that im either ignorant or astoundingly sheltered,and that was your judgement of me and that is how you addressed me but now you say dont judge?? You even said that you would prefer to live next to a homosexual than the likes of me, another judgement. Dont be so hypocritical, you can judge but other people cant????....
Chee Kums Bi....smh]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Billy mays<br />
&#8220;So are you saying that heterosexuals don’t engage in any sexual contact other than “traditional” sexual intercourse? No oral sex? No a— sex? No promiscuity? Either you’re breathtakingly ignorant or astoundingly sheltered&#8221;</p>
<p>HOMOSEXUAL is a man with a man or a woman with a woman and they are defined by their sexual act and what they prefer sexually plain and simple. You must be breathtakingly ignorant to overlook this fact. Even if a heterolsexual partakes in anal wit another heterolsexual..man and woman (ewwww that is gross) nevertheless they still wont call themself a homosexual. Just that their sexual acts with each other is strange, nevertheless its a man and a woman.</p>
<p>&#8220;Regardless, sexual activity is a most private matter which is the business of those involved. Period. This has nothing to do with the “act” so to speak (if it did, the discussion should be banning “non-traditional” sexual contact by any and all… which is of course absurd prima facie). This has to do with how different human beings are to be treated based on a characteristic over which they have no control, like hair color or race. Humans choose how they express themselves sexually, but they do not choose to whom they are attracted.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thats a crock of B.S. you do choose who your attracted to thats why you choose to go after that woman or man. If you wanna be a homosexual thats fine have all the a&#8211; sex you want but why should laws be passed simply because you prefer to have a&#8212; sex and that your proud that your a man who loves men?? And that laws should be set in place so that your sexual preference is accepted. If the laws of bermuda decided to force Christiananity on you you would kick up and say thats not fair im not a christian and dont want to be&#8230;.but you would support homosexuals forcing their sexual prefrence on heterolsexuals when as a heterolsexual we dont even have any laws in place and never asked for any laws to be put in place for  us??? Its utter nonsense and those who want to change the law is accepting to force a way of life on us that we dont accept.<br />
 No one discriminates because of sexual orientaton unless they are open about their sexual orientation. You cant expect to be hired to clean male bathrooms at a gym if you tell them that your attracted to males a&#8212; and you like to have sex with male a&#8212; (ie a homosexual), you can expect to be discriminated against. However if you keep that to yourself then there is no harm and people wont discriminate against you. But you want a law put in place where you can take a gym to court because they wouldnt hire you as a jainitor because you like male anus&#8230;&#8230;Thats utter nonsense</p>
<p>&#8220;As a heterosexual father, I would be – and am – completely comfortable for myself and my family to be working playing and living alongside good people of all genders, races, sexual orientations, etc. I was raised to judge a person based on the content of their character, nothing else. I suggest you, “ru serious” and “chee kums” consider the content of your own characters before judging others. I’d so much rather live next to a gay couple than the likes of you.&#8221;</p>
<p>I can live beside all good people, however there is nothing good about my neighbor if he tries to force me to accept his strange way of life that is practiced behind closed doors. I jjude actions and it is actions that should be judged. And as a father if you young son saw two men kissing and saying i love you in the open if you was to tell your son &#8220;thats ok son they love each other and thats normal&#8221; im sure that you would raise hell if you saw your son kissing another boy lovingly on the lips. Children learn from their enviornment and if your comfortable with forcing laws on society then i&#8217;m sure your comfortable with your child learning the ways of a homosexual&#8230;&#8230;i doubt it ..</p>
<p>&#8220;If there is a God who is the creator, that God created us all. Hetero and homosexual; blonde, brunette or redhead; right-handed or left-handed; and yes, black, brown, red, yellow or white. Perhaps it would be best to let God be the judge of those wonderful creations.&#8221;</p>
<p>You cant mix genetics with choices.. being born blonde&#8230; or being born black, white &#8230; is by genitics you cant control that, being left handed is something that is learned being heterolsexual or homosexual is something that is learned and then a choice is made&#8230; and we are allowed to judge peoples actions dont be so silly, im sure if someone robs you or kills someone you know.. you would want society to judge that person and put them in jail, God created us and He created us to have the ability to judge between right and wrong those who cant is not blessed with correct judgement, im sure you judge people everyday, if a crack head comes to you for money i bet your judgement would kick in faster than if a little cute girl scout comes asking for donations, so spare us the garbage about we shouldnt judge. Dont try to set laws in place based off of your sexual preference, and i wont judge you for that.</p>
<p>Funny and hypocritical of you to say let God be the judge when you started off your response by judging me and saying that im either ignorant or astoundingly sheltered,and that was your judgement of me and that is how you addressed me but now you say dont judge?? You even said that you would prefer to live next to a homosexual than the likes of me, another judgement. Dont be so hypocritical, you can judge but other people cant????&#8230;.<br />
Chee Kums Bi&#8230;.smh</p>
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		<title>By: .am</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241182</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[.am]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick trip to the Google machine:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/20/malcolm-x-bisexual-black-history]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A quick trip to the Google machine:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/20/malcolm-x-bisexual-black-history" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/20/malcolm-x-bisexual-black-history</a></p>
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		<title>By: CHEE KUMS BI</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241167</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CHEE KUMS BI]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcom x was bisexual&gt;????????? rofl    you sound just like a white racist that will do anything to try to force their point of view across. You would even dip into Black history and try to distort and disgrace a man who is honorable,and of much greater character than you, there is no end to your wicked ways.  Malcom x was bisexual wow...please show evidence of this,if you cant and for sure you cant then you have just labled yourself as a liar and a person that fabricates and distorts history for their own personal gain. cheek kums by smh...malcom x was a bisexual smh chee kums bi...what a liar]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Malcom x was bisexual&gt;????????? rofl    you sound just like a white racist that will do anything to try to force their point of view across. You would even dip into Black history and try to distort and disgrace a man who is honorable,and of much greater character than you, there is no end to your wicked ways.  Malcom x was bisexual wow&#8230;please show evidence of this,if you cant and for sure you cant then you have just labled yourself as a liar and a person that fabricates and distorts history for their own personal gain. cheek kums by smh&#8230;malcom x was a bisexual smh chee kums bi&#8230;what a liar</p>
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		<title>By: NASH</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241038</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NASH]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLEASE SHOW HOW 
 THAT MALCOM X WAS BI SEXUAL]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PLEASE SHOW HOW<br />
 THAT MALCOM X WAS BI SEXUAL</p>
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		<title>By: NASH</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241037</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NASH]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROVE THAT MALCOM X WAS BI SEXUAL]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PROVE THAT MALCOM X WAS BI SEXUAL</p>
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		<title>By: BdaLuvin</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-241033</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BdaLuvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMEN!! Equality for all!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AMEN!! Equality for all!</p>
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		<title>By: JD</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240981</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JD]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;.am&quot;, EXACTLY! Thank you for adding some sense to this ridiculous debate!

Whoever &quot;No same sex marriage&quot; obviously doesn&#039;t seem to understand that gay people have existed LONG before the term &#039;gay&#039; was invented, long before the marriage equality debates started and long before people decided to be hostile and homophobic. Oh and SOMEHOW the human race has survived all of that and we even have OVER population in many countries... shocking!......]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;.am&#8221;, EXACTLY! Thank you for adding some sense to this ridiculous debate!</p>
<p>Whoever &#8220;No same sex marriage&#8221; obviously doesn&#8217;t seem to understand that gay people have existed LONG before the term &#8216;gay&#8217; was invented, long before the marriage equality debates started and long before people decided to be hostile and homophobic. Oh and SOMEHOW the human race has survived all of that and we even have OVER population in many countries&#8230; shocking!&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: .am</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240961</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[.am]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. God exists.
2. God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good.
3. A perfectly good being would want to prevent all evils.
4.An omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence.
5. An omnipotent being, who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, has the power to prevent that evil from coming into existence.
6. A being who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, who is able to prevent that evil from coming into existence, and who wants to do so, would prevent the existence of that evil.
7. If there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good being, then no evil exists.
8. Evil exists (logical contradiction) —&gt; God does not exist.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. God exists.<br />
2. God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good.<br />
3. A perfectly good being would want to prevent all evils.<br />
4.An omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence.<br />
5. An omnipotent being, who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, has the power to prevent that evil from coming into existence.<br />
6. A being who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, who is able to prevent that evil from coming into existence, and who wants to do so, would prevent the existence of that evil.<br />
7. If there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good being, then no evil exists.<br />
8. Evil exists (logical contradiction) —&gt; God does not exist.</p>
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		<title>By: .am</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;If you don&#039;t like gay marriage blame straight people. They&#039;re the ones who keep having gay babies.&quot; — http://bit.ly/iPRh6c]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t like gay marriage blame straight people. They&#8217;re the ones who keep having gay babies.&#8221; — <a href="http://bit.ly/iPRh6c" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/iPRh6c</a></p>
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		<title>By: .am</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you actually legitimately well and truly retarded?

First and foremost - you did not &#039;say&#039; those things. I quoted what you said in a very desperate attempt to make things as simple as humanly possible for that feeble little mind of yours. Obviously it was not enough - and I can&#039;t say I&#039;m entirely surprised.

I&#039;ll try and simplify it even more so, to better facilitate in your understanding.

#### YOU

&quot;Show me where in the human rights act that there is a section for straight people, or that there is a section for people who have regular sex (between a man and a woman)&quot;

#### ME

The piss poor argument that a lot of people seem to be putting forward is that sex is all about procreation, and homosexuals simply can&#039;t do that - but neither can women who are infertile nor men who are impotent. Their inability to be actively involved in the furthering of the human race renders them, essentially, disabled.

Well - homosexuals can&#039;t procreate either.

Both are against &#039;Natural Law&#039; (and probably Canon Law too) so it only makes sense to say they are &#039;disabled&#039;. Disabilities can&#039;t be discriminated against, so homosexuals shouldn&#039;t be either.

Not a fan of that logic? The alternative is that you admit that sexual orientation is NATURAL. And if it&#039;s natural, then &#039;regular sex&#039; is simply what happens between two people.

But seriously - what exactly is this &#039;regular sex&#039; you speak of? Is this according to the Bible? And which interpretation of it do you suggest we use? 

&quot;An authoritative answer to these questions can come only from our Creator—Jehovah God. And in his Word he tells us to “flee from fornication.” (1 Corinthians 6:18) Just what does that mean? The Greek word translated “fornication” is not restricted to sexual intercourse but includes a variety of lewd acts. So if two unmarried people engage in oral sex or in fondling each others’ reproductive organs, they are guilty of fornication.&quot;

In it&#039;s most extreme and literal sense, you can only engage in any sexual act after you are married. Anything outside of wedlock is deemed fornication and, in turn, not &#039;regular&#039; sex.

I suspect you&#039;re guilty of such things and, in turn, are no &#039;better&#039; than those who engage in acts with members of the same sex.

Sucks for you.

#### YOU

You have Elton John and numerous gay singers.

#### ME

I responded to your claim that straight people don&#039;t go around saying “HEY IM A MAN AND I LOVE WOMEN I HAVE SEX WITH WOMEN&quot; by posting a link to a video that OPENS with the following lyrics:

I just had sex and it felt so good
A woman let me put my penis inside of her
I want to tell the world

If you need me to toss a little more misogyny your way, give the following a listen:

Ying Yang Twinz “The Whisper Song”
Cam’ron “Suck It or Not”
Tupac “I Get Around”
Plies “Becky”
Snoop “Ain’t No Fun” (If The Homies Can’t Have None)
Akinyele “Put It In Your Mouth”
Lil Jon “Get Low”
David Banner “Play”

In short: men, talking about having sex with women, and telling the world.

Gay artists you might know of:

Tonex (Gospel Singer [forgive me for stereotyping])
Clay Aiken
Ricky Martin
Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys)
George Michael
Boy George
The Village People
Michael Stripe (R.E.M)
Freddy Mercury (Queen)

Gay artists that you might know of that have referenced homosexuality/same sex acts in their music:

..

See my point?

#### YOU

&quot;Very different from racial pride! Im black and my ancestors have suffered and to see where we are today as a people and how far we have come to where we are headed instills racial pride and NOT racial discrimination.&quot;

#### ME

You&#039;re black?! Well hot damn. I&#039;d never have guessed. [:kanyeshrug:]

&quot;Gay pride or LGBT pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people to promote their self-affirmation, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance. Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that bolsters most LGBT rights movements throughout the world.&quot;

#### YOU

&quot;There is no facination but once you describe yourself by your sexual preference then that is what your defined as,You say your a homosexual..what is a homosexual…a person who likes sex with the same sex, you havent defined yourself as an engineer, an Dr. a politition,a teacher, a mentor..ect ect… No you choose to call yourself a homosexual. Gay pride????Homosexual pride??? Your proud to have a— sex????? thats not brave thats silly and no laws in Bermuda would change to suit a persons sexual prefrence!&quot;

#### ME

You keep on bringing up &#039;a--- sex&#039; (tip: anal sex a--- sex means anal sex). In all my days (not as many as you on this earth, but I suspect far more in &#039;the real world&#039;) I have NEVER been privy to a conversation with a homosexual where they have brought up anal sex. EVER. I have never stated my occupation and, on asking what they do, been informed that they are gay and they like anal sex with other men. If this really is your only exposure to the gay community YOU SHOULD PROBABLY STOP GOING ONTO GAY DATING WEBSITES.

Fun fact: Malcolm X was bisexual. Think about all that anal sex he was having the next time you enjoy your civil freedoms that he fought so hard for you to have.

#### YOU

&quot;How can homosexuals complain about discrimination when i have yet to HEAR ONE HOMOSEXUAL SAY LETS HAVE HOMOSEXUAL AND HETEROLSEXUAL RIGHTS, Its all about the homosexual rights and they get upset when the heterolsexual speaks out against it that is discrimination against heterolsexuals from homosexuals.&quot;

#### ME

HFS. The discussion is about SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Not &#039;HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS&#039;. Do you know what sexual orientation is? YOU HAVE IT! You like women. Apparently. Or so you claim. BUT IT IS STILL YOUR SEXUAL ORIENTATION. The **ONLY** thing these people are asking for is not to be discriminated because of THEIRS. It is EQUALITY.

#### YOU

&quot;So why are you homosexuals trying to discriminate against heterolsexuals????&quot;

#### ME

YOU homosexuals? Who are these people you speak of? I&#039;m certainly not homosexual or even a smidgen bisexual - and I have a laundry list of names that can back that up.

#### YOU

&quot;hey bi off subject a lil bit does am stand for A— MAN??? just asking&quot;

#### ME

i) If you keep on confusing &#039;bi&#039; with the Bermudian &#039;bye&#039;, people may mistake you for calling them bisexual.
ii) .am is a tld for Armenia. It&#039;s also the tld for my website and - drum roll please - it actually happens to be my initials.

Brilliant, I know.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you actually legitimately well and truly retarded?</p>
<p>First and foremost &#8211; you did not &#8216;say&#8217; those things. I quoted what you said in a very desperate attempt to make things as simple as humanly possible for that feeble little mind of yours. Obviously it was not enough &#8211; and I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m entirely surprised.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll try and simplify it even more so, to better facilitate in your understanding.</p>
<p>#### YOU</p>
<p>&#8220;Show me where in the human rights act that there is a section for straight people, or that there is a section for people who have regular sex (between a man and a woman)&#8221;</p>
<p>#### ME</p>
<p>The piss poor argument that a lot of people seem to be putting forward is that sex is all about procreation, and homosexuals simply can&#8217;t do that &#8211; but neither can women who are infertile nor men who are impotent. Their inability to be actively involved in the furthering of the human race renders them, essentially, disabled.</p>
<p>Well &#8211; homosexuals can&#8217;t procreate either.</p>
<p>Both are against &#8216;Natural Law&#8217; (and probably Canon Law too) so it only makes sense to say they are &#8216;disabled&#8217;. Disabilities can&#8217;t be discriminated against, so homosexuals shouldn&#8217;t be either.</p>
<p>Not a fan of that logic? The alternative is that you admit that sexual orientation is NATURAL. And if it&#8217;s natural, then &#8216;regular sex&#8217; is simply what happens between two people.</p>
<p>But seriously &#8211; what exactly is this &#8216;regular sex&#8217; you speak of? Is this according to the Bible? And which interpretation of it do you suggest we use? </p>
<p>&#8220;An authoritative answer to these questions can come only from our Creator—Jehovah God. And in his Word he tells us to “flee from fornication.” (1 Corinthians 6:18) Just what does that mean? The Greek word translated “fornication” is not restricted to sexual intercourse but includes a variety of lewd acts. So if two unmarried people engage in oral sex or in fondling each others’ reproductive organs, they are guilty of fornication.&#8221;</p>
<p>In it&#8217;s most extreme and literal sense, you can only engage in any sexual act after you are married. Anything outside of wedlock is deemed fornication and, in turn, not &#8216;regular&#8217; sex.</p>
<p>I suspect you&#8217;re guilty of such things and, in turn, are no &#8216;better&#8217; than those who engage in acts with members of the same sex.</p>
<p>Sucks for you.</p>
<p>#### YOU</p>
<p>You have Elton John and numerous gay singers.</p>
<p>#### ME</p>
<p>I responded to your claim that straight people don&#8217;t go around saying “HEY IM A MAN AND I LOVE WOMEN I HAVE SEX WITH WOMEN&#8221; by posting a link to a video that OPENS with the following lyrics:</p>
<p>I just had sex and it felt so good<br />
A woman let me put my penis inside of her<br />
I want to tell the world</p>
<p>If you need me to toss a little more misogyny your way, give the following a listen:</p>
<p>Ying Yang Twinz “The Whisper Song”<br />
Cam’ron “Suck It or Not”<br />
Tupac “I Get Around”<br />
Plies “Becky”<br />
Snoop “Ain’t No Fun” (If The Homies Can’t Have None)<br />
Akinyele “Put It In Your Mouth”<br />
Lil Jon “Get Low”<br />
David Banner “Play”</p>
<p>In short: men, talking about having sex with women, and telling the world.</p>
<p>Gay artists you might know of:</p>
<p>Tonex (Gospel Singer [forgive me for stereotyping])<br />
Clay Aiken<br />
Ricky Martin<br />
Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys)<br />
George Michael<br />
Boy George<br />
The Village People<br />
Michael Stripe (R.E.M)<br />
Freddy Mercury (Queen)</p>
<p>Gay artists that you might know of that have referenced homosexuality/same sex acts in their music:</p>
<p>..</p>
<p>See my point?</p>
<p>#### YOU</p>
<p>&#8220;Very different from racial pride! Im black and my ancestors have suffered and to see where we are today as a people and how far we have come to where we are headed instills racial pride and NOT racial discrimination.&#8221;</p>
<p>#### ME</p>
<p>You&#8217;re black?! Well hot damn. I&#8217;d never have guessed. [:kanyeshrug:]</p>
<p>&#8220;Gay pride or LGBT pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people to promote their self-affirmation, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance. Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that bolsters most LGBT rights movements throughout the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>#### YOU</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no facination but once you describe yourself by your sexual preference then that is what your defined as,You say your a homosexual..what is a homosexual…a person who likes sex with the same sex, you havent defined yourself as an engineer, an Dr. a politition,a teacher, a mentor..ect ect… No you choose to call yourself a homosexual. Gay pride????Homosexual pride??? Your proud to have a— sex????? thats not brave thats silly and no laws in Bermuda would change to suit a persons sexual prefrence!&#8221;</p>
<p>#### ME</p>
<p>You keep on bringing up &#8216;a&#8212; sex&#8217; (tip: anal sex a&#8212; sex means anal sex). In all my days (not as many as you on this earth, but I suspect far more in &#8216;the real world&#8217;) I have NEVER been privy to a conversation with a homosexual where they have brought up anal sex. EVER. I have never stated my occupation and, on asking what they do, been informed that they are gay and they like anal sex with other men. If this really is your only exposure to the gay community YOU SHOULD PROBABLY STOP GOING ONTO GAY DATING WEBSITES.</p>
<p>Fun fact: Malcolm X was bisexual. Think about all that anal sex he was having the next time you enjoy your civil freedoms that he fought so hard for you to have.</p>
<p>#### YOU</p>
<p>&#8220;How can homosexuals complain about discrimination when i have yet to HEAR ONE HOMOSEXUAL SAY LETS HAVE HOMOSEXUAL AND HETEROLSEXUAL RIGHTS, Its all about the homosexual rights and they get upset when the heterolsexual speaks out against it that is discrimination against heterolsexuals from homosexuals.&#8221;</p>
<p>#### ME</p>
<p>HFS. The discussion is about SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Not &#8216;HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS&#8217;. Do you know what sexual orientation is? YOU HAVE IT! You like women. Apparently. Or so you claim. BUT IT IS STILL YOUR SEXUAL ORIENTATION. The **ONLY** thing these people are asking for is not to be discriminated because of THEIRS. It is EQUALITY.</p>
<p>#### YOU</p>
<p>&#8220;So why are you homosexuals trying to discriminate against heterolsexuals????&#8221;</p>
<p>#### ME</p>
<p>YOU homosexuals? Who are these people you speak of? I&#8217;m certainly not homosexual or even a smidgen bisexual &#8211; and I have a laundry list of names that can back that up.</p>
<p>#### YOU</p>
<p>&#8220;hey bi off subject a lil bit does am stand for A— MAN??? just asking&#8221;</p>
<p>#### ME</p>
<p>i) If you keep on confusing &#8216;bi&#8217; with the Bermudian &#8216;bye&#8217;, people may mistake you for calling them bisexual.<br />
ii) .am is a tld for Armenia. It&#8217;s also the tld for my website and &#8211; drum roll please &#8211; it actually happens to be my initials.</p>
<p>Brilliant, I know.</p>
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		<title>By: .am</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240921</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen_collection

&quot;Semen collection refers to the process of obtaining semen from domestic animals or humans with the use of various methods, for the purposes of artificial insemination, or medical study (usually in fertility clinics). Semen can be collected via masturbation, prostate massage, artificial vagina, penile vibratory stimulation (vibroejaculation) and electroejaculation. Also, sperm cells can be retrieved directly from the testicles by testicular sperm extraction (TESE).&quot;

Amazing what you can find on the Google machine, no?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen_collection" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen_collection</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Semen collection refers to the process of obtaining semen from domestic animals or humans with the use of various methods, for the purposes of artificial insemination, or medical study (usually in fertility clinics). Semen can be collected via masturbation, prostate massage, artificial vagina, penile vibratory stimulation (vibroejaculation) and electroejaculation. Also, sperm cells can be retrieved directly from the testicles by testicular sperm extraction (TESE).&#8221;</p>
<p>Amazing what you can find on the Google machine, no?</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240912</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This ignorance that you spew is far more consequential and detrimental than sodomy (prove me wrong). Surely God is not a fool, so surely you are not going to Heaven.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This ignorance that you spew is far more consequential and detrimental than sodomy (prove me wrong). Surely God is not a fool, so surely you are not going to Heaven.</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240909</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Save your breath, R U Serious and CHEE KUMS BI are really good at this ignorance thing but not so much rationality.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Save your breath, R U Serious and CHEE KUMS BI are really good at this ignorance thing but not so much rationality.</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240907</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate#Male_sexual_response. READ IT. God made you, so God made something &#039;sick&#039; about you. I wonder if God made other sick things... Like homosexuality? Get it together, have you no capacity for reason?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate#Male_sexual_response" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate#Male_sexual_response</a>. READ IT. God made you, so God made something &#8216;sick&#8217; about you. I wonder if God made other sick things&#8230; Like homosexuality? Get it together, have you no capacity for reason?</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240904</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is actually very offending.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is actually very offending.</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240903</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[chris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fair, but they do become self-righteous when they feel they have the right to impose their beliefs on people who do not subscribe to this &#039;Christ&#039; thing.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fair, but they do become self-righteous when they feel they have the right to impose their beliefs on people who do not subscribe to this &#8216;Christ&#8217; thing.</p>
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		<title>By: Walter J.</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240887</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easier perhaps, but misleading. Referencing &quot;intersex&quot; would have been easier (than hermaphrodite, at least), as a &quot;hermaphrodite&quot; (true hermaphrodite or true gonadal intersex) refers to an intersex individual with both ovarian /and/ testicular tissue, while &quot;intersex&quot; covers a multitude of variety of sexual development.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Easier perhaps, but misleading. Referencing &#8220;intersex&#8221; would have been easier (than hermaphrodite, at least), as a &#8220;hermaphrodite&#8221; (true hermaphrodite or true gonadal intersex) refers to an intersex individual with both ovarian /and/ testicular tissue, while &#8220;intersex&#8221; covers a multitude of variety of sexual development.</p>
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		<title>By: Billy Mays</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240840</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So are you saying that heterosexuals don&#039;t engage in any sexual contact other than &quot;traditional&quot; sexual intercourse?  No oral sex?  No a--- sex?  No promiscuity?  Either you&#039;re breathtakingly ignorant or astoundingly sheltered.
Regardless, sexual activity is a most private matter which is the business of those involved.  Period.  This has nothing to do with the &quot;act&quot; so to speak (if it did, the discussion should be banning &quot;non-traditional&quot; sexual contact by any and all... which is of course absurd prima facie).  This has to do with how different human beings are to be treated based on a characteristic over which they have no control, like hair color or race.  Humans choose how they express themselves sexually, but they do not choose to whom they are attracted.

As a heterosexual father, I would be - and am - completely comfortable for myself and my family to be working playing and living alongside good people of all genders, races, sexual orientations, etc.  I was raised to judge a person based on the content of their character, nothing else.  I suggest you, &quot;ru serious&quot; and &quot;chee kums&quot; consider the content of your own characters before judging others.  I&#039;d so much rather live next to a gay couple than the likes of you.

If there is a God who is the creator, that God created us all.  Hetero and homosexual; blonde, brunette or redhead; right-handed or left-handed; and yes, black, brown, red, yellow or white.  Perhaps it would be best to let God be the judge of those wonderful creations.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So are you saying that heterosexuals don&#8217;t engage in any sexual contact other than &#8220;traditional&#8221; sexual intercourse?  No oral sex?  No a&#8212; sex?  No promiscuity?  Either you&#8217;re breathtakingly ignorant or astoundingly sheltered.<br />
Regardless, sexual activity is a most private matter which is the business of those involved.  Period.  This has nothing to do with the &#8220;act&#8221; so to speak (if it did, the discussion should be banning &#8220;non-traditional&#8221; sexual contact by any and all&#8230; which is of course absurd prima facie).  This has to do with how different human beings are to be treated based on a characteristic over which they have no control, like hair color or race.  Humans choose how they express themselves sexually, but they do not choose to whom they are attracted.</p>
<p>As a heterosexual father, I would be &#8211; and am &#8211; completely comfortable for myself and my family to be working playing and living alongside good people of all genders, races, sexual orientations, etc.  I was raised to judge a person based on the content of their character, nothing else.  I suggest you, &#8220;ru serious&#8221; and &#8220;chee kums&#8221; consider the content of your own characters before judging others.  I&#8217;d so much rather live next to a gay couple than the likes of you.</p>
<p>If there is a God who is the creator, that God created us all.  Hetero and homosexual; blonde, brunette or redhead; right-handed or left-handed; and yes, black, brown, red, yellow or white.  Perhaps it would be best to let God be the judge of those wonderful creations.</p>
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		<title>By: CHEE KUMS BI</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240831</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CHEE KUMS BI]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TO THE POSTER CALLED AM 
@.AM SAID:

&quot;That would obviously be because they already have those rights, and so choose to march up and down and piss and moan about other things instead, from the things that don’t matter (anything BIU) to those that do (racial and gender equality, etc.)&quot;

I SAID:
Show me where in the human rights act that there is a section for straight people, or that there is a section for people who have regular sex (between a man and a woman)

@.AM SAID:

&quot;And basically every hip-hop/rap/r&amp;b song. Ever.&quot;

I SAID:

You have Elton John and numerous gay singers


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@.AM SAID:

&quot;Homosexuals don’t ‘boast’ that they’re gay – they’re simply proud that they have the cojones to stand up for who and what they are. No different from being ‘black and proud’, is it?&quot;

I SAID:

Very different from racial pride! Im black and my ancestors have suffered and to see where we are today as a people and how far we have come to where we are headed instills racial pride and NOT racial discrimination.  Being PROUD that you are a man and that you have a--- sex and oral sex  with other men does not compare in any way to being proud to be black. Now if you wish to be proud to be a sodimite like the people back in biblical days then ok go right ahead but being poud that you have a--- sex is nothing big at all. And your right they have the cojones(the testicles cojones means testicles) The only problem is that they want laws to change simply because they like to do sexual things with cojones

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@.AM SAID:
&quot;You can – you just probably won’t get the job. You do seem to have this fascination with a— sex, though. Every turn ..you’re bringing it up – like homosexuals don’t actually do anything else but bugger each other all day long, and in turn it’s the only conversation they’re able to have with the rest of society. Do straight men interrupt their interviewers with their sexual tendencies and preferences? Do they talk about ‘running tr&amp;^%’ on some poor girl? Being a baby daddy to six kids from five different mothers? Do they touch on their infidelity? Venereal diseases? Fetishes?&quot;

I SAID:

There is no facination but once you describe yourself by your sexual preference then that is what your defined as,You say your a homosexual..what is a homosexual...a person who likes sex with the same sex, you havent defined yourself as an engineer, an Dr. a politition,a teacher, a mentor..ect ect... No you choose to call yourself a homosexual. Gay pride????Homosexual pride??? Your proud to have a--- sex????? thats not brave thats silly and no laws in Bermuda would change to suit a persons sexual prefrence!

@.AM SAID:

&quot;Sex is sex is sex is sex. And I assure you – there are far more taboo things happening in straight households than I imagine you’d ever find within the average gay couples.&quot;

I SAID:

Im not getting into what happens in a persons house straight or not what goes on behind close doors is your business and i have no right to pry into your private life, but if you bring your strange behaviour from the privicy of your own home and into the society then expect people like me to speak against it. How can homosexuals complain about discrimination when i have yet to HEAR ONE HOMOSEXUAL SAY LETS HAVE HOMOSEXUAL AND HETEROLSEXUAL RIGHTS, Its all about the homosexual rights and they get upset when the heterolsexual speaks out against it that is discrimination against heterolsexuals from homosexuals.

If you want rights then we as heterolsexuals should have rights as well, we make up the majority,if you go to court the majority of the jury decide your fate, well the majority of heterolsexuals should have their rights as well.
And that is the right not see laws changed for a persons sexual preference...this includes heterolsexuals and homosexuals
But wait the human rights act does this already!!!!!! So why are you homosexuals trying to discriminate against heterolsexuals????
CHEE KUMS BI smh !!!!! 

hey bi off subject a lil bit does am stand for A--- MAN??? just asking]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TO THE POSTER CALLED AM<br />
@.AM SAID:</p>
<p>&#8220;That would obviously be because they already have those rights, and so choose to march up and down and piss and moan about other things instead, from the things that don’t matter (anything BIU) to those that do (racial and gender equality, etc.)&#8221;</p>
<p>I SAID:<br />
Show me where in the human rights act that there is a section for straight people, or that there is a section for people who have regular sex (between a man and a woman)</p>
<p>@.AM SAID:</p>
<p>&#8220;And basically every hip-hop/rap/r&amp;b song. Ever.&#8221;</p>
<p>I SAID:</p>
<p>You have Elton John and numerous gay singers</p>
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<p>@.AM SAID:</p>
<p>&#8220;Homosexuals don’t ‘boast’ that they’re gay – they’re simply proud that they have the cojones to stand up for who and what they are. No different from being ‘black and proud’, is it?&#8221;</p>
<p>I SAID:</p>
<p>Very different from racial pride! Im black and my ancestors have suffered and to see where we are today as a people and how far we have come to where we are headed instills racial pride and NOT racial discrimination.  Being PROUD that you are a man and that you have a&#8212; sex and oral sex  with other men does not compare in any way to being proud to be black. Now if you wish to be proud to be a sodimite like the people back in biblical days then ok go right ahead but being poud that you have a&#8212; sex is nothing big at all. And your right they have the cojones(the testicles cojones means testicles) The only problem is that they want laws to change simply because they like to do sexual things with cojones</p>
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<p>@.AM SAID:<br />
&#8220;You can – you just probably won’t get the job. You do seem to have this fascination with a— sex, though. Every turn ..you’re bringing it up – like homosexuals don’t actually do anything else but bugger each other all day long, and in turn it’s the only conversation they’re able to have with the rest of society. Do straight men interrupt their interviewers with their sexual tendencies and preferences? Do they talk about ‘running tr&amp;^%’ on some poor girl? Being a baby daddy to six kids from five different mothers? Do they touch on their infidelity? Venereal diseases? Fetishes?&#8221;</p>
<p>I SAID:</p>
<p>There is no facination but once you describe yourself by your sexual preference then that is what your defined as,You say your a homosexual..what is a homosexual&#8230;a person who likes sex with the same sex, you havent defined yourself as an engineer, an Dr. a politition,a teacher, a mentor..ect ect&#8230; No you choose to call yourself a homosexual. Gay pride????Homosexual pride??? Your proud to have a&#8212; sex????? thats not brave thats silly and no laws in Bermuda would change to suit a persons sexual prefrence!</p>
<p>@.AM SAID:</p>
<p>&#8220;Sex is sex is sex is sex. And I assure you – there are far more taboo things happening in straight households than I imagine you’d ever find within the average gay couples.&#8221;</p>
<p>I SAID:</p>
<p>Im not getting into what happens in a persons house straight or not what goes on behind close doors is your business and i have no right to pry into your private life, but if you bring your strange behaviour from the privicy of your own home and into the society then expect people like me to speak against it. How can homosexuals complain about discrimination when i have yet to HEAR ONE HOMOSEXUAL SAY LETS HAVE HOMOSEXUAL AND HETEROLSEXUAL RIGHTS, Its all about the homosexual rights and they get upset when the heterolsexual speaks out against it that is discrimination against heterolsexuals from homosexuals.</p>
<p>If you want rights then we as heterolsexuals should have rights as well, we make up the majority,if you go to court the majority of the jury decide your fate, well the majority of heterolsexuals should have their rights as well.<br />
And that is the right not see laws changed for a persons sexual preference&#8230;this includes heterolsexuals and homosexuals<br />
But wait the human rights act does this already!!!!!! So why are you homosexuals trying to discriminate against heterolsexuals????<br />
CHEE KUMS BI smh !!!!! </p>
<p>hey bi off subject a lil bit does am stand for A&#8212; MAN??? just asking</p>
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		<title>By: R U Serious</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2012/07/sexual-orientationage-discrimination-debate/#comment-240785</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[R U Serious]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@.AM

The prostate is a source of stimulation.....R U serious??? Don&#039;t feel that way when I get that prostate exam.....R U talking from experience??? Please tell me no more.....Sounds SICK!!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@.AM</p>
<p>The prostate is a source of stimulation&#8230;..R U serious??? Don&#8217;t feel that way when I get that prostate exam&#8230;..R U talking from experience??? Please tell me no more&#8230;..Sounds SICK!!!</p>
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