Comments on: “Practicing Homosexuals”

By: Tin Man

Tin Man — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:50:07 +0000

Whoops. I’ve fixed it now. Thanks!

By: Jeff T

Jeff T — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:40:37 +0000

By the way, I think you mean surgeon general in your first sentence, not attorney general. (Although given this administration, who'd be surprised?) ;-)

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:00:30 +0000

Dr. Holsinger (full disclosure: I am a distant relative…bonus points if you can find the connection) testified before Congress and said that paper for the Methodist church no longer reflects his views. It was written SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO. The entire country’s understanding of sexuality has shifted RADICALLY since 1990 — just look at any public opinion poll.

And yes, strange editorial. Whenever people use that phrase around me I say, “Oh, I stopped practicing a long time ago, I know how to do it now,” which usually induces convulsions. Try it at your next family reunion.

By: Tin Man

Tin Man — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:42:20 +0000

Hah!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:38:57 +0000

Whenever I hear that phrase I always picture some high school kid running out the front door and shouting to his parents, “I won’t be home for dinner tonight. I have homosexual practice.”

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:20:11 +0000

As a practicing homosexual (After all, practice makes perfect!), I’d like to say that little snide asides like that make me want to be a practicing asshole, too.
Why not just say faggot and mean it, you know? People like to deny things out of context but it’s clear that the context of that phrase really makes it questionable.