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Old 01-16-2008, 07:17 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Segep View Post
Just out of curiosity, would you still call it a complex if it was a deaf or blind heterosexual couple? If it is "you and me against the world" and it brings us together, is complex such a good word to describe it?

I know I'm nitpicky...
Why yes I would dear Segep. And Segep, I do like you. For what that's worth...and I am not AGAINST gay people.

Just thinking that people being people, there is a thing that occurs when folk feel that they are being picked on. They bond from that.

I have seen it many times over in the work I have done, as well as by my having two disabled children, and again, even in religious affiliation. In my work, dealing with the homeless, I have seen them bond over their sense of injustices in the system. In disability, I have noted the protective bond when one is being made vulnerable to ridicule. And in religious affiliation, it's the Baptists vs. the Pentecostals.

Even here Segep...on the thread where people left behind their ideas about abortion or gay marriage, or Democrat or Republican, and all joined together, it was AGAINST David Henry and his hate-idealogy. A common enemy goes a long way in bonding folk.

Nothing says love among the rank and file like being persecuted.

OhDear