<p>Oh, please. Homosexuality can’t be “promoted.” You either have that inclination or you don’t. Did you become straight because it was well promoted?</p>
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<p>[Harvard</a> Picks First BGLTQ Director | Harvard Crimson | July 3, 2012](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/7/3/vanidy-bailey-bgltq-office/]Harvard”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/7/3/vanidy-bailey-bgltq-office/)</p>
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<p>Why do BGLTQ students need such a “director”? Here is another recent example of promoting deviance:</p>
<p>[College</a> Approves BDSM Group | Harvard Crimson | November 29, 2012](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/11/29/bdsm-new-club-approved/]College”>College Approves BDSM Group | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>At some elite universities, the health insurance plan now covers “sex change” operations for undergraduates (and the cost of the student health plan has been raised accordingly).</p>
<p>Many universities now have a “Sex Week”. Here is an example of what goes on:</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Classmates Say Nathan Harden Gets Yale and Sex All Wrong | The Daily Beast | Aug 24, 2012](<a href=“Yale Classmates Say Nathan Harden Gets Yale and Sex All Wrong”>Yale Classmates Say Nathan Harden Gets Yale and Sex All Wrong)</p>
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<p>If one can be convinced to becoming homosexual due to the presence of such events, I and many other heterosexual classmates at Oberlin would have changed our sexual orientations by the time we graduated.</p>
<p>Last I checked, they and I are still heterosexual…and in some cases…even married in marriages many conservatives would approve of if the couples’ personal politics were taken out of the equation.</p>
<p>Whatever, Bel. This is completely irrelevant to this thread AND a bunch of “who cares? so what?” </p>
<p>Don’t send your kids to the school with <em>gasp</em> gay acceptance if you don’t want to (thought that list is dwindling- thankfully!)</p>
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<p>People are not forced to act on their inclinations, thank goodness. There are many examples of men who married, had children, but later decided to come out as gay. Former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, father of two, is an example. In a society that was less approving of homosexuality, they might decide not to leave their families and forsake their obligations. If your principle is that people must always follow their sexual desires to remain true to themselves, lots of 50-year-old married men ought to dump their 50-year-old wives for younger women. When society is more tolerant of adultery, more do.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that societal disapproval of homosexuality would cause all gay men to live as straights, but it probably would for some.</p>
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<p>That seems to be more due to former disapproval followed by less disapproval now. Had society not been disapproving before, he would have married another guy in the first place. And had disapproval continued, he might have divorced his wife anyway, but not stated the real reason openly.</p>
<p>Or… we can accept them and not force them into straight marriages because it’s what you’re “supposed” to do. </p>
<p>Ugh.</p>
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Harvard has appointed Vanidy “Van” Bailey as the College’s first permanent director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life.
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<p>How else are they supposed to coordinate recruiting all the straights, if there isn’t a director? Someone’s got to manage the database and offer rewards to the person who converts the most straights. At a minimum, they need flexibility with Excel, if not SPSS. Sheesh.</p>
<p>Why on earth do you care if some people are gay, Beliavsky? Who cares what other people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms? You seem to have fallen off your libertarian wagon here.</p>
<p>“I’m not saying that societal disapproval of homosexuality would cause all gay men to live as straights, but it probably would for some.”</p>
<p>But, you see, that’s a bad thing for gay men to live as straights, not a good thing. Glad to clear that up for you.</p>
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<p>Why “shouldn’t” insurance companies cover a sex change? Don’t they cover heart transplants, lung transplants, etc… .</p>
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<p>Amen. I always say, transgender people aren’t born as the gender they’re not- they just have a biological defect that needs to be fixed.</p>
<p>Also, this thread seems to have gone off course.</p>
<p>lol beliavsky don’t you know that encouraging gay people to have children will only spread their gay genes?</p>
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<p>Do you know how infinitesmal this effect would be? </p>
<p>I mean, lol. How can you be soooo intelligent and spout so much bull.</p>
<p>I second what philo said.</p>
<p>How is any of this relevant to the topic that is Suppose to be discussed.</p>
<p>“The world’s IQ has fallen by nearly one point in very-minute-part because gays and lesbians are now being encouraged to lead happy, fulfilling lives by elite colleges and universities.”</p>
<p>Oh, what a travesty. What a travesty!</p>
<p>What percent of the world’s population consists of people going to elite American colleges who would have had smart children if it weren’t for the existence of LGBT centers in probably every single one of these schools? Can someone give me a number?</p>
<p>Thread just derailed</p>
<p>I was hoping for more discussion on the matter of whether or not we’re smarter. Look like it will have to wait another time.</p>
<p>How do you frame the question? The MIT Encyclopedia defines intelligence as the ability to shape, choose and understand environments. Our society as a whole is much better at that than it was a hundred years ago.</p>
<p>I think if you just approach this question from the perspective of “Would the world have gotten a higher average IQ score a hundred years ago”, you’re asking a different question.</p>
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Hopefully, this will spread like the Kony 2012 campaign. </p>
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Would the insurance company also pay for their second operation when they realize they didn’t want to switch in the first place?</p>