----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: Re: So it begins.... Evangelicals to Bush: Payback Time
On Nov 30, 2004, at 11:27 PM, Bryon Daly wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:36:18 -0500, Matthew and Julie Bos > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 11/30/04 4:34 PM, "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>>> <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/etc/ >>>>> quiz.html> >>>>> >>>> >>>> I did, and got. >>>> >>>> 16 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic." >>> >>> I did too! >>> >>> 10 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic." >> >> I got a 24 which is also "high-grade non-homophobic" > > 5 here. They need more rating variety. I wanna be something like > "�ber 1337 non-homophobic". :-) As long as we're bragging: 2 - high-grade non-homophobic. and that was only because I only ticked "agree" with a couple of items, not "strongly agree." That's pretty good. I have one difference with the questions, as asked, that I'd like to air here. It's about teasing gays. I tease my friends and family about all sorts of things. So, if someone is close and gay, I'll tease them. I try to make my teasing a lot more supportive than destructive and watch for results. I also don't think teasing a black person about being black is off limits either. Let me give two family examples. My Zambian daughter was cooking for us one night, and one dish was quite overdone...as in burnt. I told here "Neli, I can appreciate that black is beautiful, and I can appreciate pride in being African, but let me suggest that 'black is beautiful' doesn't extend to dinner." I was rewarded with being hit and being told that I was a bad bad man. :-) Dawn, my other extra daughter, ended up going to Homecoming with my son Ted. I teased her, telling her she needed to remember that she was there as Ted's friend, not to pick up hot chicks. (Homecoming dresses are often very hot around here.) My wife, Dawn, and I all burst out laughing. We then agreed that, while picking up hot chicks was out of the question, comparing notes with Ted on who were the hot chicks was certainly appropriate. Due to this type of humor, I had to honestly say that I tease gay people. But, I honestly think this type of teasing is not correlated with homophobia. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
