And so you don't think it's some unique definition...heterosexual:
1 a : of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward the opposite sex b : of, relating to, or involving sexual intercourse between individuals of opposite sex
Merriam-Webster would like a word with you: homosexual:
1: of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex 2: of, relating to, or involving sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex
Edit to last line, "If people think that talking about going to the beach with your wife is talking about your sex life, they have some skewed perceptions on what a beach and a wife are.
Not even in the slightest. Celibacy has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Let me break things down for the slow people. Talking about your sex life is talking about who/what you have sex with, the frequency that you have it, how you do it, where you did it, how many of who/what you do it with, and your current desire to do it. If people think that talking about going to the beach is talking about your wife, they have some skewed perceptions on what a beach and a wife are.
It never says apple in the bible...it says fruit. Genesis 3: 1-6
3 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise? 2 And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.5 For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat.
"Talking about your sex life," to me, implies that you are talking about the specific details of what you do in the bedroom with someone
Great, I'm glad you agree with me. Because telling your sexual orientation to people is telling people WHO you like doing specific things with in the bedroom.
And nobody would have a press conference to say that they were heterosexual because being heterosexual is not punishable by death...
IRRELEVANT, and you are completely missing my point. No one has a press conference for being heterosexual because random people don't give a rat's ass about what you do in your sex life, nor should they ever. If society has deemed the action to be legal, then no one needs to know. If you're touching kids in your bedroom, yeah society would like to know about this. Because it's illegal. If being a homosexual in another country is illegal and you can die, it's probably a better idea to make sure those people stay quiet; otherwise they might DIE. Do you want gay people in those unspecified countries to die?
Who said anything about having sex? Your sex life is anything in your life having to do with sex. The definition of gay in this context is homosexual. Homosexual means a person who is sexually attracted to those of the same sex. The word sex is present in three words there. How you think that isn't talking about your sex life is beyond a mystery. Nothing mentioned in the beach over the weekend example mentions sex. It mentions a location, a time, and a relationship. Saying, "I'm gay" says, I like having sex with people of my gender.
Shouldn't we be working to stop people getting killed period? What about being killed because you're gay is any different than being killed because you were walking in the wrong neighborhood or because you took a parking space?
As much as I love hearing a new way to bash Apple... Apple's logo is not about Adam and Eve. The original logo was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
What, you've never heard of people being bullied for being short or too tall? You've never heard of someone not wanting to date another person because they were too short or tall either? Where the hell have you been?
I see potential harm. They come out and expect a big fanfare. "You're so strong!" "We're proud of you!" When the ideal and actual reaction should be, "meh." I also don't see the merit in reinforcing this notion that in order for us to do something some other person like us needs to be doing it. "I'm gay and like to be a CEO someday, but I don't see any CEOs who are gay....guess I can't do it...oh wait...Tim Cook is gay AND a CEO?!? Well golly gee wiz, I'm gonna be a CEO when I grow up!"
Saying, "I went to the beach with my husband this weekend" in casual conversation is quite different than having a press conference to say, "I'm heterosexual!" And yes, talking about your sexual orientation is talking about your sex life.
"Dark matter is a kind of matter hypothesized in astronomy and cosmology to account for gravitational effects that appear to be the result of invisible mass. Dark matter cannot be seen directly with telescopes; evidently it neither emits nor absorbs light or other electromagnetic radiation at any significant level. It is otherwise hypothesized to simply be matter that is not reactant to light..."
Well something is throwing off our computations, there most be something out there we can't see or detect through instrumentation. Yes, that's clearly scientific...
The point I'm making is the press is an unorganized group with no official determining who is the press (or rather the free press is, which I assume you'd think we have in the US). So how can you pose as the press if there's no one saying who is and isn't the press. The FBI did indeed deliver news to the suspect, whether it was wholly truthful, etc is irrelevant.
Again, look at the time period he was in. When he said in his letters that heliocentrism doesn't contradict the Bible and that said that biblical texts could not always be interpreted literally, he was interpreting the Bible himself. And that was something that the Church was completely against during the Protestant Reformation. It'd politically look bad for them to agree with him because it'd tacitly agree that the lay person could read and interpret the Bible correctly. And that'd be admitting that the Protestants were right.
It is potentially legal to resist arrest. See Bad Elk v. US - holds an individual has the right to use force to resist an unlawful arrest and was entitled to a jury instruction to that effect."
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And so you don't think it's some unique definition...heterosexual:
1 a : of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward the opposite sex
b : of, relating to, or involving sexual intercourse between individuals of opposite sex
Merriam-Webster would like a word with you:
homosexual:
1: of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex
2: of, relating to, or involving sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex
It's already normalized, that's why no one gives a rat's ass.
Edit to last line, "If people think that talking about going to the beach with your wife is talking about your sex life, they have some skewed perceptions on what a beach and a wife are.
Not even in the slightest. Celibacy has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Let me break things down for the slow people. Talking about your sex life is talking about who/what you have sex with, the frequency that you have it, how you do it, where you did it, how many of who/what you do it with, and your current desire to do it. If people think that talking about going to the beach is talking about your wife, they have some skewed perceptions on what a beach and a wife are.
It never says apple in the bible...it says fruit.
Genesis 3: 1-6
3 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise? 2 And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.5 For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat.
As for the logo design, here's wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Oh there's a point to requiring a different charger. More money from you.
"Talking about your sex life," to me, implies that you are talking about the specific details of what you do in the bedroom with someone
Great, I'm glad you agree with me. Because telling your sexual orientation to people is telling people WHO you like doing specific things with in the bedroom.
And nobody would have a press conference to say that they were heterosexual because being heterosexual is not punishable by death...
IRRELEVANT, and you are completely missing my point. No one has a press conference for being heterosexual because random people don't give a rat's ass about what you do in your sex life, nor should they ever. If society has deemed the action to be legal, then no one needs to know. If you're touching kids in your bedroom, yeah society would like to know about this. Because it's illegal. If being a homosexual in another country is illegal and you can die, it's probably a better idea to make sure those people stay quiet; otherwise they might DIE. Do you want gay people in those unspecified countries to die?
Who said anything about having sex? Your sex life is anything in your life having to do with sex. The definition of gay in this context is homosexual. Homosexual means a person who is sexually attracted to those of the same sex. The word sex is present in three words there. How you think that isn't talking about your sex life is beyond a mystery. Nothing mentioned in the beach over the weekend example mentions sex. It mentions a location, a time, and a relationship. Saying, "I'm gay" says, I like having sex with people of my gender.
Left handed people would like a word with you.
Have you ever heard someone made fun of because they were short?
Shouldn't we be working to stop people getting killed period? What about being killed because you're gay is any different than being killed because you were walking in the wrong neighborhood or because you took a parking space?
As much as I love hearing a new way to bash Apple... Apple's logo is not about Adam and Eve. The original logo was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
That's Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.
What, you've never heard of people being bullied for being short or too tall? You've never heard of someone not wanting to date another person because they were too short or tall either? Where the hell have you been?
I see potential harm. They come out and expect a big fanfare. "You're so strong!" "We're proud of you!" When the ideal and actual reaction should be, "meh." I also don't see the merit in reinforcing this notion that in order for us to do something some other person like us needs to be doing it. "I'm gay and like to be a CEO someday, but I don't see any CEOs who are gay....guess I can't do it...oh wait...Tim Cook is gay AND a CEO?!? Well golly gee wiz, I'm gonna be a CEO when I grow up!"
Please take your militant attitudes elsewhere. No one wants your bigotry.
Saying, "I went to the beach with my husband this weekend" in casual conversation is quite different than having a press conference to say, "I'm heterosexual!" And yes, talking about your sexual orientation is talking about your sex life.
"Dark matter is a kind of matter hypothesized in astronomy and cosmology to account for gravitational effects that appear to be the result of invisible mass. Dark matter cannot be seen directly with telescopes; evidently it neither emits nor absorbs light or other electromagnetic radiation at any significant level. It is otherwise hypothesized to simply be matter that is not reactant to light..."
Well something is throwing off our computations, there most be something out there we can't see or detect through instrumentation. Yes, that's clearly scientific...
The point I'm making is the press is an unorganized group with no official determining who is the press (or rather the free press is, which I assume you'd think we have in the US). So how can you pose as the press if there's no one saying who is and isn't the press. The FBI did indeed deliver news to the suspect, whether it was wholly truthful, etc is irrelevant.
Again, look at the time period he was in. When he said in his letters that heliocentrism doesn't contradict the Bible and that said that biblical texts could not always be interpreted literally, he was interpreting the Bible himself. And that was something that the Church was completely against during the Protestant Reformation. It'd politically look bad for them to agree with him because it'd tacitly agree that the lay person could read and interpret the Bible correctly. And that'd be admitting that the Protestants were right.
It is potentially legal to resist arrest. See Bad Elk v. US - holds an individual has the right to use force to resist an unlawful arrest and was entitled to a jury instruction to that effect."
First, still not entrapment. Second, define "the press" please.
They'll look the other way when everyone else who isn't in public housing suddenly can't afford broadband access.
You're conflating a specific unspecified job with a job in general.
To a certain extend true, but ultimately irrelevant to the people that think disproving something in the Bible invalidates Christianity.