Why celebrities come out

[sp1814]

I would like to take this opportunity to address some rather ill-informed posts on the recent thread on the gay cricketer who came out.

Does it matter? Yes - it does, because gay kids need to have a variety of role models. It makes them feel better about themselves.

Why do gay people feel the need to announce their sexuality? Well, why do straight people do the same? Think about it! Every wedding you've ever been to ha been a declaration of heterosexuality. Every time a bloke picks up a copy of FHM and points out how much he fancies Cheryl Cole - isn't he shouting about his sexuality?

Please continue to raise questions on sexuality, but try to think before writing, because some posts come across as the product of extreme stupidity.

[jackthehat]

There won't be the absence of life which you are imagining, doc.

I have a son.......

[jno]

They'll probably get on as well as the average monastery does. I'd have thought those people always moaning about how overcrowding is destroying Britain would welcome those who don't procreate.

[ummmm]

And so does Elton John :-)

[tiggerblue10]

I don't think there is any fear of securing the future of our species. 6 billion or is it 7 billion now.

[ummmm]

Lol...that makes Jack double bad...xx

[DTCwordfan]

each to his or her own - respect each person's privacy.......start with that and homophobia, religious intolerance and racism start to disappear......I suspect that the fundamentalists here have never explored the other side's true perspectives on their life, societal positioning and all the rest. Shame on you and I will use the term after enjoying a good red wine tonight, ignoramuses.

[jno]

ummmm, yes, that's why the Catholic church is against contraception: because it's thwarting God's (and doc spock's) purpose, which is 'go forth and multiply'.

[DTCwordfan]

And any 'Catholic' position is undermined by (i) the recent history of the church and (ii) the past fornications of the Popes et al (and all the rest when it comes to perversion) - raw hypocrisy in its truest form, I would propose.

[jackthehat]

Your mind may be boggling, doc............but there are, thankfully, more enlightened folks out in the wider world..

[ummmm]

jno - I'm Catholic, I know...

Doc...they didn't 'buy' a baby...they maybe paid someone to carry their baby for them. That happens with hetro couples as well you know....never heard of surrogates?

[ummmm]

And?

[Answerprancer]

"Straight is normal, same sex preference is abnormal. End of"

"End of" because YOU decided ?

No, not "end of".

[DTCwordfan]

perhaps as much as you are in your own little way, doc, starting with your highly pedantic and repulsive position.

[jackthehat]

Are we to be castigated for our faulty genes, then, doc ?

Or perhaps you'd care to insult my parents, who are obviously carriers of duff genetic material ?

[Mick-Talbot]

docspock
Okay, put all the gay same sex animals on a desert island. Return in a thousand years and see how they have got on. Simples.


er ...............if you put heterosexual same sex animals on a island...........wouldn't the result be the same???