Source: EricAllenBell.org

I was sent this ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY POWERFUL VIDEO this morning. Please share:
Originally Uploaded by CoreyOgilvie on Oct 10, 2011

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please share with everyone, including your leaders. This video is meant to be a warning to our leaders

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Read more: http://www.ericallenbell.org/video/i-am-no...

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Please spread this video far and wide. Send it to you loved ones. Send it your friends. Send it your coworkers.

Send it.....

to those who are responsible.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/gay-couple-...

I come from being a 40 year old gay man myself, so I hope that counts as experience. Ha! Ha!

I thank you for your question to which I would love to reply. First I am not a scientist so I can not explain the genetic reason for it other than the chromosome/gene facts that have been published. Just Google gay genes.

I would first point out that there have been many examples that just because gay people are gay, do not assume that all gay people do not desire to pass along their "genetic information". I point out the following article: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_gay_peopl...

My husband and I have been together for over 12 years now. We have actually often thought about adopting. However we believe that it is more responsible to take care of a child that is orphaned somewhere, rather than just passing along our genetic information. We don't speak for all LGBT people by any stretch of the means, this is just how we feel. We have 7 gay couples, as close friends and they all have adopted babies, and it is amazing to see those children that once had no hope, are growing up in loving happy families.

Regarding when did evolution deviate, I pulled the following from Google.

"The first recorded evidence of homosexuality is found in Mesopotamia, circa 3000 B.C. where artifacts have been discovered depicting same sex couples. Alexander the Great is also recorded as having had a same sex relationship. Both predate the Romans and even later Greek culture -- in the case of Mesopotamia -- by a great deal. I'm not sure about earlier recorded evidence.

There are other types of recorded evidence roughly the same age however, for example, in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara in Egypt there is a very old tomb for a male/male couple who oversaw the Pharaoh's manicurists. That tomb is from the old kingdom and dates to between 2600 and 3000 BC also.

Anything older would be in the East (China, India and the Indrus valley) and archaeological work of the type that would turn up such evidence is much rarer there. The oldest known writing on the topic from the Chinese Empire is from "Master Yen's Spring and Autumn Annals" and refers to a ruler in 547. There certainly were older records, but whether any survive is a different question, and whether, if they do, they will be recovered and available as sources in the West during our lifetime, even more so." http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...

Message me if you would like to talk further.

On a totally unrelated side note, I have to close with the following. LGBT high school bullying has hit a high this week with 6 LGBT people taking their own lives because of in school anti-gay bullying, hate speech, and invasion of privacy. Please support and repost: http://www.thetrevorproject.org/float-nav....

This is just too funny not to share!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfGoXqEjSuY...

OK - I lied! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

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Source: news.com.au

VICTORIAN state primary school students will soon be able to take religious education classes which teach there is no evidence God exists.
The Humanist Society of Victoria has developed a curriculum for primary pupils that the state government accreditation body says it intends to approve, The Sunday Age newspaper reported.

Accredited volunteers will be able to teach their philosophy in the class time allotted for religious instruction, the newspaper said.

As with lessons delivered by faith groups, parents will be able to request that their children do not participate.

"Atheistical parents will be pleased to hear that humanistic courses of ethics will soon be available in some state schools," Victorian Humanist Society president Stephen Stuart said.

The society does not consider itself to be a religious organisation and believes ethics have "no necessary connection with religion".

Humanists believe people are responsible for their own destiny and reject the notion of a supernatural force or God.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24797...

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It is about time! Hurrah for them!!

http://www.cityofdenton.com/pages/dpdorgch...

Lots of pictures!


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Whether my country chooses to ever recognize the 10 years that I have been together with my husband and life partner, I doubt we will live to see in our lifetime. However, we will continue the fight, and continue to share the love, and in our own cherished vows, free of country (who says we are not good enough), free of church (who says we are not all loved in the eyes of our maker), and free of the bigots (who say that only their definition is good enough). To those that support us, I say thank you as we continue this struggle of our civil, yes I said the "C" word, our civil rights to marry. To those that don't support the GLBT movement, I ask you, did you vote for change, or for the status quo? And if you voted for the status quo, I say that I pity you, as you will never know the true love that can really exist between two people of the same sex.

And in its place I help with my local Red Cross Disaster Recovery servicing North Texas.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2...

Staff Sgt. James Brower is a Marine who never complains about the direst dangers or the most trying discomforts, but he sure was complaining early Friday morning, loud and strenuously over the phone from Iraq.

"I'm supposed to be fighting for democracy and I can't even vote!" he told his mother, Elaine Brower.

He had been grumbling for two weeks about not receiving his absentee ballot and it had still not arrived. He told his mother that the other Marines in his unit also were still waiting and she could well imagine their frustration, with the historic election just four days away.

"The hype surrounding this election is so intense and those guys feel it," Elaine Brower said later on Friday. "They watch CNN. They have Internet access."

Even so, the mother was surprised that her warrior son was so passionate about a ballot.

"He's not into politics," she said. "But this time, he is hellbent on voting."

And as I have been saying regarding any GOP official - let em burn! I hope every single one of them goes down in rhetorical flames. And King George if you have your minions combing these threads, I do NOT mean to advocate the "burning/setting on fire/or otherwise physically harming" any GOP candidate. However, much like my feelings for you, I hope that you get what is coming to you! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!