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- Title: Holding Me Together: Essays and Poems
- Author : Duane Simolke
- Release Date : January 10, 2010
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 205 KB
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Part One: Reactions to Homophobia, An Essay
Reactions to Homophobia: Introduction. âUnlike gay people, I don't tell people what my wife and I do in bed.â âThey can be gay, as long as they hide it.â âIf a normal guy or a white guy gets beat up, hate crimes laws can't help him. That isn't fair.â âIâm not queer, so why I should care about those people?â âWe shouldn't have to see gays when we watch TV or movies.â âI would accept gays, but I believe in family values.â âFamily members spending time with their gay relatives would suggest that they endorse that lifestyle.â âThey live that gay lifestyle.â âIt's an insult to African Americans to compare being gay to being black.â âThe parts don't fit.â âIf we weren't so tolerant of gays, there wouldn't be any.â âI wouldn't mind gays if it weren't for them checking me out.â âHaving gay parents makes children gay.â âGay people should try to be cured.â âHomosexuality is a mental illness.â âIf everyone were gay, we'd stop having children, and die out.â âYou deserve what happens to you, because you choose to be gay.â âAccepting homosexuality destroyed empires like Greece and Rome, and even led to the Holocaust.â âThey recruit.â âThey just haven't met the right person of the opposite sex yet.â âGays can't adopt, because their children will get teased, and that isn't fair.â âGod sent AIDS to the homosexuals because He loves His children and wants to turn them back to Him.â âGod didn't create Adam and Steve.â âThe Bible says it's wrong.â âThe Bible says God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of gays.â âI love the sinner, hate the sin.â âAnyone who condones homosexuality canât be religious or moral.â âWe can't allow gay marriages, because tradition protected heterosexual marriage and reproduction for thousands of years.â âPublic schools need to quit hiring gays and quit promoting homosexuality.â âGays can't serve in the military, because that would disrupt efficiency.â âSurveys prove gays are a much smaller number than they claim, that their average lifespan is 44 years, and that they have 5000-15,000 partners per year.â âHomosexuals are just a bunch of men dressing up like women.â Reactions to Homophobia: Conclusion. Resources for Reactions to Homophobia.
Part Two: Poems and Short Essays Home. Chasing Seagulls. Rainbow. How âChildren in the Streetsâ Wrote Itself. Children in the Streets. Children in the Streets (Song Version). Friday Afternoon Spectrum. Reception. Album. Can God Cure You? Digging Up âThe Gardener.â The Gardener. second year. Separated. Angels and Razors. Question. Faces, Parts I-VII. Process. Songs In Sign Language. Forgotten. Sock Poem. Higher Education. Haiku. TV Senyru. Not Worth Dying Over. Siblings, Ten Voices. Homeless, I: Cities Don't Build People. Homeless, II: Also. Family. Ex-Gay? Part I: Cocoon. Ex-Gay? Part II: The Ex-Me Movement. Ex-Gay? Part III: Who Does God Hate? Spiral Staircase. Violence. Storm. The Escape Artist. Daughter. The Same Lips. Pharisee. The Loss. Adding to the Hurt. Bareback (Gay Men/HIV/Unsafe Sex). Success. Spelunker. Out Of the Closet. The John Doe Family. Family Reunion. A Great American Voice. Anne Bradstreet. Cycle. Cross. Hero. Two Rapes. If: A Satire. The Bible and Gays. Tonightâs Wind. Denial. Undetected. Elephant on an Opera Stage. Detour. Editing.