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	<title>Comments on: 10-year-old refuses to pledge allegiance until there&#8217;s gay equality in the USA</title>
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		<title>By: niall</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/13/boy-10-refuses-to-pledge-allegiance-over-gay-equality/#comment-101938</link>
		<dc:creator>niall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Could EVERYONE please ignore Kevin Gets ?

This was suposed to be about Will Philips and i fear that Mr Gets is stealing his limelight and &quot;WE&quot; wouldn&#039;t want that would we ?

Gtreat you have &quot;YOUR&quot; oppinions BUT and im being polite keep them to yourself 
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<p>This was suposed to be about Will Philips and i fear that Mr Gets is stealing his limelight and &#8220;WE&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t want that would we ?</p>
<p>Gtreat you have &#8220;YOUR&#8221; oppinions BUT and im being polite keep them to yourself<br />
Thank you</p>
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		<title>By: niall</title>
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		<dc:creator>niall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Getting back to the point ...

This young man is amazing 

I wish him all the best for a bright future</description>
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<p>This young man is amazing </p>
<p>I wish him all the best for a bright future</p>
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		<title>By: Alix Lowe</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alix Lowe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kevin, the reason that the people on this site have judged you as a &#039;tw*t&#039; etc purely on your comments is because they are rude. You are insulted by these comments, just as you have insulted those who are LGBT here by saying that they have a birth defect. How would you like it if you were told that something that was important to you, a key aspect of your life and a part of what made you who you are was a birth defect and you were a genetic , failure? That is a prejudice that many LGBTs have tried to have removed for years. 
And as for this &#039;cure&#039; of yours, how would you like it if some one made you gay, without your permission, because they thought it would benefit you, that it was how you were meant to be.

Just because the idea of sex with another man appeals you does mean that you have to think all homosexuality is wrong. My close friend hates the idea of sex with a woman, but that doesn&#039;t mean she thinks it is wrong. 

Futhermore, may i ask why you are commenting on a site called pinknews when you are so obviously opposed to the fundemental purpose of this site?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kevin, the reason that the people on this site have judged you as a &#8216;tw*t&#8217; etc purely on your comments is because they are rude. You are insulted by these comments, just as you have insulted those who are LGBT here by saying that they have a birth defect. How would you like it if you were told that something that was important to you, a key aspect of your life and a part of what made you who you are was a birth defect and you were a genetic , failure? That is a prejudice that many LGBTs have tried to have removed for years.<br />
And as for this &#8216;cure&#8217; of yours, how would you like it if some one made you gay, without your permission, because they thought it would benefit you, that it was how you were meant to be.</p>
<p>Just because the idea of sex with another man appeals you does mean that you have to think all homosexuality is wrong. My close friend hates the idea of sex with a woman, but that doesn&#8217;t mean she thinks it is wrong. </p>
<p>Futhermore, may i ask why you are commenting on a site called pinknews when you are so obviously opposed to the fundemental purpose of this site?</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Gets</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Gets</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kevin Gets</title>
		<link>http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/11/13/boy-10-refuses-to-pledge-allegiance-over-gay-equality/#comment-83361</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Gets</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reply to posts 40,41,42. --- I never said that we should change someone who is homosexual. I am suggesting that homosexuallity is an aberration within the human genome and that it might be considered a kind of defect... like blindness is a kind of defect.

I think it would be wonderful if we as a human race could detect flaws in the genome and correct them before the baby is born. For example, it would be nice to detect diabetes --- correct it --- then when the baby is born it can have a fully functional pancreas. I also do not mean to imply that a homosexual is &quot;flawed&quot;... just that it goes against nature and that detecting homosexuality in the womb --- and correcting it before birth --- might be good. 

I do not see a problem with my logic and I do not see why people call me names and get angry at me when I am trying to explain my position. Someone called me &quot;bitter&quot; and called me a &quot;tw*t&quot;... how can you infer that about me just from my comments? I just think it would be great if we could prevent ALL birth defects so that babies can live good lives. I simply consider homosexuallity a form of birth defect... like blindness, diabetes, and other kinds of aberrations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reply to posts 40,41,42. &#8212; I never said that we should change someone who is homosexual. I am suggesting that homosexuallity is an aberration within the human genome and that it might be considered a kind of defect&#8230; like blindness is a kind of defect.</p>
<p>I think it would be wonderful if we as a human race could detect flaws in the genome and correct them before the baby is born. For example, it would be nice to detect diabetes &#8212; correct it &#8212; then when the baby is born it can have a fully functional pancreas. I also do not mean to imply that a homosexual is &#8220;flawed&#8221;&#8230; just that it goes against nature and that detecting homosexuality in the womb &#8212; and correcting it before birth &#8212; might be good. </p>
<p>I do not see a problem with my logic and I do not see why people call me names and get angry at me when I am trying to explain my position. Someone called me &#8220;bitter&#8221; and called me a &#8220;tw*t&#8221;&#8230; how can you infer that about me just from my comments? I just think it would be great if we could prevent ALL birth defects so that babies can live good lives. I simply consider homosexuallity a form of birth defect&#8230; like blindness, diabetes, and other kinds of aberrations.</p>
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		<title>By: Har Davids</title>
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		<dc:creator>Har Davids</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good for him and his parents, who seem to willing to make this boy a genuine human being, in stead of a bigot.</description>
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		<title>By: Jacob</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jacob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is so coooool!

Great kid for standing up for LGBT rights but not just our rights but equal rights for all!

I hope th young generation would stand up to equal rights for all people including LGBT peeps! Im glad that our generation is more accepting than most of the older generation who are close minded and bigoted. More young people are not afraid to come out now and i am proud to say that i am gay. :o) 

Will Phillips for president lol! :P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is so coooool!</p>
<p>Great kid for standing up for LGBT rights but not just our rights but equal rights for all!</p>
<p>I hope th young generation would stand up to equal rights for all people including LGBT peeps! Im glad that our generation is more accepting than most of the older generation who are close minded and bigoted. More young people are not afraid to come out now and i am proud to say that i am gay. <img src='http://www.pinknews.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> ) </p>
<p>Will Phillips for president lol! <img src='http://www.pinknews.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Larry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Homosexual behavior is less frequent than heterosexual behavior.  That does not make it pathological.  The consensus among psychologists and psychiatrists is that homosexuality is not an illness or symptomatic of mental illness. Attempts to change someones sexual orientationb are seen as harmful and likely to fail.  As far as Christianity is concerned, nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have anything negative to say about it.  He does have negative things to say about hypocracy, though.  Also, homosexual behavior occurs among non human mammals so it is not &quot;unnatural&quot;.  As to blind people, should it be illegal for them to marry?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Homosexual behavior is less frequent than heterosexual behavior.  That does not make it pathological.  The consensus among psychologists and psychiatrists is that homosexuality is not an illness or symptomatic of mental illness. Attempts to change someones sexual orientationb are seen as harmful and likely to fail.  As far as Christianity is concerned, nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have anything negative to say about it.  He does have negative things to say about hypocracy, though.  Also, homosexual behavior occurs among non human mammals so it is not &#8220;unnatural&#8221;.  As to blind people, should it be illegal for them to marry?</p>
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		<title>By: Alan Canon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alan Canon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The analogy made about blind people and drivers&#039; licenses is completely hollow. I believe it&#039;s most probable that sexual orientation is genetically determined, not a choice (which of us would consciously choose to be alienated from our families, and a great chunk of society, even to risk death a la Matthew Shepard.) And I&#039;ll agree that blindness is often genetic in origin. But driving a car and marriage are no analogues. If the poster was being honest, he would say that he would deny marriage licenses to the blind. 

For the record, I&#039;m a (pretty much) straight male from Louisville Kentucky in the American South, and Will Phillips recent bravery makes me weep with joy and hope that with people like Will coming up in the world, someday prejudice against homosexuality (and other forms of prejudice, such as sexism and racism, which Will has also pointed out) will go the way of the dinosaur.

I send my greetings to British readers, fellow countrymen/women of the late Alan M. Turing, mathematician, homosexual, founder of modern computer science, and WWII codebreaker on the side of the Allies. I&#039;ve stood before Turing&#039;s WWII workplace at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes (hope I&#039;ve spelt it right.) It is one of the most moving historical sites in England.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The analogy made about blind people and drivers&#8217; licenses is completely hollow. I believe it&#8217;s most probable that sexual orientation is genetically determined, not a choice (which of us would consciously choose to be alienated from our families, and a great chunk of society, even to risk death a la Matthew Shepard.) And I&#8217;ll agree that blindness is often genetic in origin. But driving a car and marriage are no analogues. If the poster was being honest, he would say that he would deny marriage licenses to the blind. </p>
<p>For the record, I&#8217;m a (pretty much) straight male from Louisville Kentucky in the American South, and Will Phillips recent bravery makes me weep with joy and hope that with people like Will coming up in the world, someday prejudice against homosexuality (and other forms of prejudice, such as sexism and racism, which Will has also pointed out) will go the way of the dinosaur.</p>
<p>I send my greetings to British readers, fellow countrymen/women of the late Alan M. Turing, mathematician, homosexual, founder of modern computer science, and WWII codebreaker on the side of the Allies. I&#8217;ve stood before Turing&#8217;s WWII workplace at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes (hope I&#8217;ve spelt it right.) It is one of the most moving historical sites in England.</p>
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		<title>By: Tigra 07</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tigra 07</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;yet there was a defect in a gene or chromosome or some other chemical imbalance that caused them to go blind. Same may also hold true for homosexuals&quot;
Kevin Gets i suspect you actually dont get much of anything

Being gay is natural and present in many species, and perhaps you could also explain why same sex marriage would &quot;damage the fabric of society&quot; since we have had partnerships in the UK for a while now and enjoy much less hate crime than America

&quot;Statistically, the plot of the normal distribution clearly shows that nature slants greatly toward heterosexual practices. I hope this is somewhat clariying.&quot;
Yes, it means there aren&#039;t as many of us
There are also more white people in the USA than black, that doesn&#039;t mean the white people should own the black people or treat them as inferior though
And the thing which damages society is ignorant tw*ts like you who would have been the first to own a slave if it was legal again
You are a bitter excuse for a human</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;yet there was a defect in a gene or chromosome or some other chemical imbalance that caused them to go blind. Same may also hold true for homosexuals&#8221;<br />
Kevin Gets i suspect you actually dont get much of anything</p>
<p>Being gay is natural and present in many species, and perhaps you could also explain why same sex marriage would &#8220;damage the fabric of society&#8221; since we have had partnerships in the UK for a while now and enjoy much less hate crime than America</p>
<p>&#8220;Statistically, the plot of the normal distribution clearly shows that nature slants greatly toward heterosexual practices. I hope this is somewhat clariying.&#8221;<br />
Yes, it means there aren&#8217;t as many of us<br />
There are also more white people in the USA than black, that doesn&#8217;t mean the white people should own the black people or treat them as inferior though<br />
And the thing which damages society is ignorant tw*ts like you who would have been the first to own a slave if it was legal again<br />
You are a bitter excuse for a human</p>
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		<title>By: Ben</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MediaCurves.com conducted a study among 328 viewers of a new clip discussing a student who refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in support of gay marriage. The majority of viewers (66%) reported that the student should not be forced to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. While the majority of respondents supported the student after watching the video, prior to viewing the video, the majority of viewers (65%) indicated that students “should be” forced to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. More in depth results can be seen at: 
http://www.mediacurves.com/Politics/J7639-PledgeofAllegiance/Index.cfm
Thanks,
Ben</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MediaCurves.com conducted a study among 328 viewers of a new clip discussing a student who refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in support of gay marriage. The majority of viewers (66%) reported that the student should not be forced to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. While the majority of respondents supported the student after watching the video, prior to viewing the video, the majority of viewers (65%) indicated that students “should be” forced to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. More in depth results can be seen at:<br />
<a href="http://www.mediacurves.com/Politics/J7639-PledgeofAllegiance/Index.cfm" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediacurves.com/Politics/J7639-PledgeofAllegiance/Index.cfm</a><br />
Thanks,<br />
Ben</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Gets</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Gets</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On post #36 I made an error in my communication to you, I said &quot;normal distribution&quot;, when I really meant to say &quot; binomial distribution&quot;. Sorry about that... I&#039;ve been busy working on a project that was normally distributed and so I ran down the wrong path. Again... I meant to say in post #36 &quot;binomial distribution&quot;. 

Kevin Gets</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On post #36 I made an error in my communication to you, I said &#8220;normal distribution&#8221;, when I really meant to say &#8221; binomial distribution&#8221;. Sorry about that&#8230; I&#8217;ve been busy working on a project that was normally distributed and so I ran down the wrong path. Again&#8230; I meant to say in post #36 &#8220;binomial distribution&#8221;. </p>
<p>Kevin Gets</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Gets</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Gets</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Regarding the term &quot;homophobic&quot;, which I think is mis-used. I don&#039;t like women who smoke, does this mean I am &quot;smoke-aphobic&quot;? No, I find smoking repulsive! I don&#039;t find over weight women attractive, does this make me &quot;over-weight-aphobic&quot;.? No, I find over weight women repulsive. Just because I disagree with homosexuallity does not make me fear you, I simply find your lifestyle... repulsive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regarding the term &#8220;homophobic&#8221;, which I think is mis-used. I don&#8217;t like women who smoke, does this mean I am &#8220;smoke-aphobic&#8221;? No, I find smoking repulsive! I don&#8217;t find over weight women attractive, does this make me &#8220;over-weight-aphobic&#8221;.? No, I find over weight women repulsive. Just because I disagree with homosexuallity does not make me fear you, I simply find your lifestyle&#8230; repulsive.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Gets</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Gets</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It took 35 posts before someone like me had to speak up.

Just so you know... 
I’m not hiding behind religion. I am stating a fact… under the attitudes of the day when the Constitution was written, the relgious ethic of that time period surely did not imply same sex marriage to be inclusive. I view homosexuals not from a religious point, but rather like I do people born blind. People that are born blind have two eyes, yet there was a defect in a gene or chromosome or some other chemical imbalance that caused them to go blind. Same may also hold true for homosexuals… there may be a gene or chromosome or some chemical imbalance that has made their behaviour opposite of their gender. In my view, I would not give a blind person a drivers lisence for obvious reasons. I would not also condone same sex marriage because it is damaging to the human social fabric. I could go on about this but… this is not the venue for explaining the effects of homosexuallity within a social structure. Hate me if you wish… but I do not hate you. I believe that nature is &quot;specific&quot; in its own self preservation, and therefore I believe that homosexuality is an aberration in the human condition that tries to destroy the intent of human preservation and bondness. I can&#039;t hate a homosexual, just like I cannot hate a blind person. I would like to see a genome study done to see if there may be an indicator. But... we all know that sexuallity is no really physical, it is more psychological than physical. So... is there some hormonal imbalance that my be effected by turning on or off a gene. My whole issue here is that homosexuallity is not the &quot;norm&#039;, just as blindeness is not the &quot;norm&quot;. Statistically, the plot of the normal distribution clearly shows that nature slants greatly toward heterosexual practices. I hope this is somewhat clariying.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It took 35 posts before someone like me had to speak up.</p>
<p>Just so you know&#8230;<br />
I’m not hiding behind religion. I am stating a fact… under the attitudes of the day when the Constitution was written, the relgious ethic of that time period surely did not imply same sex marriage to be inclusive. I view homosexuals not from a religious point, but rather like I do people born blind. People that are born blind have two eyes, yet there was a defect in a gene or chromosome or some other chemical imbalance that caused them to go blind. Same may also hold true for homosexuals… there may be a gene or chromosome or some chemical imbalance that has made their behaviour opposite of their gender. In my view, I would not give a blind person a drivers lisence for obvious reasons. I would not also condone same sex marriage because it is damaging to the human social fabric. I could go on about this but… this is not the venue for explaining the effects of homosexuallity within a social structure. Hate me if you wish… but I do not hate you. I believe that nature is &#8220;specific&#8221; in its own self preservation, and therefore I believe that homosexuality is an aberration in the human condition that tries to destroy the intent of human preservation and bondness. I can&#8217;t hate a homosexual, just like I cannot hate a blind person. I would like to see a genome study done to see if there may be an indicator. But&#8230; we all know that sexuallity is no really physical, it is more psychological than physical. So&#8230; is there some hormonal imbalance that my be effected by turning on or off a gene. My whole issue here is that homosexuallity is not the &#8220;norm&#8217;, just as blindeness is not the &#8220;norm&#8221;. Statistically, the plot of the normal distribution clearly shows that nature slants greatly toward heterosexual practices. I hope this is somewhat clariying.</p>
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		<title>By: Mihangel apYrs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mihangel apYrs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and so so the counter-attack begins...

No, Kevin.  I suggest you look up the words &quot;informed consent&quot; firstly in a dictionary, then in a legal lexicon.  Paedophilia has the same relationship to homosexuality as an ax-murderer has to a surgeon.

The unquestioning behaviour of many Americans towards the flag, the Pledge, etc smacks less of patriotism than of a nationalism that is unquestioning (and we know where that leads!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and so so the counter-attack begins&#8230;</p>
<p>No, Kevin.  I suggest you look up the words &#8220;informed consent&#8221; firstly in a dictionary, then in a legal lexicon.  Paedophilia has the same relationship to homosexuality as an ax-murderer has to a surgeon.</p>
<p>The unquestioning behaviour of many Americans towards the flag, the Pledge, etc smacks less of patriotism than of a nationalism that is unquestioning (and we know where that leads!)</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Gets</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Gets</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I suppose this boy would be okay with Pedophiles having equal rights too? I mean, shouldn’t Pedophiles have the right to be with whom they wish. The boy is applying “his logic” way out of context. And of course the parents are gonig to back him up, they share the same DNA pool. A family of ignorants.

- Kevin Gets</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suppose this boy would be okay with Pedophiles having equal rights too? I mean, shouldn’t Pedophiles have the right to be with whom they wish. The boy is applying “his logic” way out of context. And of course the parents are gonig to back him up, they share the same DNA pool. A family of ignorants.</p>
<p>- Kevin Gets</p>
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		<title>By: Solesister</title>
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		<dc:creator>Solesister</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fantastic ! way to go Will - he will be an excellent lawyer one day - it takes a child to teach adults how to do it !  RESPECT !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fantastic ! way to go Will &#8211; he will be an excellent lawyer one day &#8211; it takes a child to teach adults how to do it !  RESPECT !</p>
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		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wouldn&#039;t it be marvellous if he started a movement? If children all over America started sitting down until equality was achieved. That would be a wonderful thing- I hope he inspires many others and that this snowballs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be marvellous if he started a movement? If children all over America started sitting down until equality was achieved. That would be a wonderful thing- I hope he inspires many others and that this snowballs.</p>
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		<title>By: Bent Sauer(Denmark)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bent Sauer(Denmark)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>that&#039;s my boy</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>that&#8217;s my boy</p>
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		<title>By: Tom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description>I admire the lad.  He is far older than his years would indicate.  I think probably I shall do the same as he, the next time the occasion for the pledge comes around.  Hooray for Will!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I admire the lad.  He is far older than his years would indicate.  I think probably I shall do the same as he, the next time the occasion for the pledge comes around.  Hooray for Will!</p>
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