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Why Africa’s anti-gay laws will fail

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  • Jane 10 years ago

    Thanks Kofi the world is changing fast and as always the African will be left behind by African and turn round to blame White Europeans.

  • Kwame Aponkye 10 years ago

    I am Kwame Aponkye and I have a beautiful Dog called Popsy. I love it so much. Can we also gain the freedom, recognition and acceptance to marry without any eye brows been raised or objection from society?

    Please dont tel ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    a kleptomaniac has an uncontrollable drive to steal but we dont advocate that theft and corruption be legalized. the west can afford to experiment as their potential is developed for us it would be most devastating to confuse ...
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  • NENE 10 years ago

    FOR A LONG TIME AFRICA NEVER WORRIED ABOUT GAYS. KOJO BASIAS WERE NEVER ATTACKED BY ANYBODY.

    THE HOMO-PHOBIA STARTED WHEN THE WEST STARTED SHOVING HMOSEXUALITY DOWN OUR THROATS.

    THE GLAMORIZATION SCARES THE HELL OUT OF ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    You are right that homosexuals were tolerated or even appreciated in many African cultures, but the homophobia really started when colonial powers imported their anti-gay laws. And then it got worse in the last few years when ...
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  • 79ago-Pen 9 years ago

    NENE, you can call it a disorder or an abnormality, you are not at all far from being correct
    untill the medics can fix it, like how children born with 6 fingers are fixed lets accept it for what it is

  • F Young 10 years ago

    It is true that Africa has urgent problems. It is all the more reason for Africa to concentrate on its real problems rather than fictional problems that are used by its politicians to distract voters from the politicians inab ...
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  • 79ago-Pen 9 years ago

    Hello insite to the bone
    if a kleptomaniac carries out kleptomania, there is a victim hence it is a crime,

    if a pervert carries out a perverse act (thats a matter of opinion), there are or there might be victims

    Whe ...
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  • Moira 10 years ago

    Kwame Aponkye, well said! The world is getting scarier by the minute. What was once perceive as bad is now good. Anything goes.

  • Shabi 10 years ago

    Aponkye, your presumption that these could be signs of the "...end of our civilization as we know it..", Christians refer to it as the end-times, is quite a generous one.

    Your contribution in whole was apt, intelligent and ...
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  • DE NAPOLI 10 years ago

    This Kofi guy is a confused person.There is no logic in your long essay.

  • 79ago-Pen 9 years ago

    Aww bless you Mr Aponkye

    If your dog can give you written consent before reasonable adults, then you may go ahead and get married

    The world becomes more lawful if lawa are made to protect all members of soceity, especia ...
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  • Vik 10 years ago

    No Jane, the west is declining so fast...that's what is changing..China is developing fast and buying gaining all the wealth from the morally decaying west... that's what's changing..Africa is developing and God is blessing u ...
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  • Mahdi Ibrahim 10 years ago

    If the parent fail to give they children good up bringing and they grown up to becme idiot and stupit above all without a fear of God they can even marry animal as we are expecting to see after the gay you are doing your bes ...
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  • Yaw Okodom 10 years ago

    I am surprised how Children who were born in a morally bright society with a defined culture grows and suddenly, in the name of education begin to speak defamatory words.

    You could actually write this? Like seriously? All ...
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  • Kevin F. Boone 10 years ago

    Yaw, I don't agree. I am convinced that over time, most Africans will understand how stupid those laws are. If you don't like homosexuals fine. But don't put folk you don't like in jail. You may not like your in-laws - do you ...
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  • Kevin F. Boone 10 years ago

    Thank you Mr. Amenyo for your cogent commentary. I have read the anti-homosexual laws passed by the Ugandan and Nigerian Parliaments. They are similar in so many ways but the thing that struck me most, other than them being o ...
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  • vincent 10 years ago

    Thanks Kofi for such an intelligent and enlightening article! It's the first and the only one i've read written by an African. i'm sure there are also other intelligent African writers. i hope they will also write about th ...
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  • KOFI NSIA 10 years ago

    When did homosexuality become an issue in Ghana?...when the western world started bashing us with it as if it is the new form of human advancement.When was a homosexual hanged in Ghana for sodomy?Britain USA,France etc did ha ...
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  • Kevin F. Boone 10 years ago

    I agree. And I think over time some African countries will allow it. South Africa does now. This said, please look up articles on African 'two-spirit' peoples. Some ethnic groups have celebrated these peoples - some get "marr ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    I concur.

    Most of us don't care about whether or not it exists in Ghana. I can attest I know someone around our village who is known long ago to indulge in homosexuality. No one condemned him, nor was he ever insulted or ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    "Since we don't all know the conditions predisposing to homosexuality, we can't say it's deviant or immoral. But we can't be made to have it imposed on us as some kind of norm good for societal development."

    No one is impo ...
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  • Kevin F. Boone 10 years ago

    It's not imposed by anyone. Homosexuality just is. I agree it can seem that the 'west' is trying to impose this. But the west has been there and done that so to say. Most there understand it's wrong to harm people for what th ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    "Every nation has the right to enact her laws according to the wishes and aspirations of the majority of the populace.The simple answer is to put it to a referendum as Croatia did..."

    So, Kofi Nsia, you would be okay with ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    i looked up the matter of the croatians and it was a referendum to protect the institution of marriage as being a union of only one man and one woman . the gays do have rights there but were stopped short of their values beco ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    "they are a nation that is 95 % catholic so those kind of ideas can never pass as it in their culture"

    Insight to the bone, just because a country is overwhelmingly Catholic does not mean that it opposes same-sex marriage. ...
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  • Bortear 10 years ago

    It is difficult for democracy to cater for a minority until the majority finds it necessary to do so. All because democracy is about numbers and not proportion of various groups.
    However the problem here is about morality an ...
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  • Kevin F. Boone 10 years ago

    Sexuality as practiced between adults, are moral if done with integrity; in other words, without recklessness - absent coercion, promiscuity and adultery, for instance.

    If Ghana's Constitution prohibits gender discrim ...
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  • Kevin F. Boone 10 years ago

    I agree gay marriage should not be pushed on anyone, any nation. With time and education, homosexuals will not be seen as what people, the majority of whom are ignorant about the subject, pontificate about them. say about the ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    Congratulations, Kofi Amenyo, for a courageous, intelligent and generally factual article of homosexuality. Such articles are so rare.

    However, you missed one point. It has been well established by biologists that various ...
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  • jb tamale 10 years ago

    I THINK GAY PRACTICE IS JUST A BABBARIC AND IMORAL ACT FIRE BORN THEM (GAY PRACTICE)

  • me 10 years ago

    Kofi homosexsuality is an abomination. I suppose you are not a Christian so you can say whatever you like. But know that Jesus is coming now!

  • Jones 10 years ago

    If Jesus comes back today he is not likely to support these anti-gay laws. He will quickly see that the world he will meet today is far different from the one he knew. But if he is Jesus, he won't put anybody behind bars for ...
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  • B-WISE 10 years ago

    People keep saying the world is changing,yet they never explain those changes the world is undergoing.Has the 24 hours per day increased to 32 hours?? Has the size of the earth increased??? do we now have 3 suns instead of th ...
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  • Jones 10 years ago

    B-WISE, what are you saying? That when Jesus comes he will put homosexuals in prison and give prizes to all those people who persecuted them and made laws to ban them?

    B-WISE, how can you be so sure of your convictions? Wh ...
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  • B-WISE 10 years ago

    If you read what I asked that you read, (REV.21:8)you will notice that there will be no need for prison. Those who openly choose to live contrary to the desires of The Lord Jesus will not even be with Him in the first place.T ...
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  • Jones 10 years ago

    My question is, WHAT GROUNDS DO YOU HAVE TO ASSERT THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS SO? What grounds do you have to show to me, and everybody else, that Rev 21:8 knows the truth and is telling it?

    I suspect that the only ground ...
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  • B-WISE 10 years ago

    Dont put words in my mouth bro, I said that all our choices come with consequencies, but I will advise that everyone make the right choices. As a rational human being, is it not very wrong for you to make others do that which ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    Jesus said many things, but not once did he condemn homosexuality. On the contrary, he specifically said that Christians are to be known by the love they express. By his own definition, what right do you have to call yourself ...
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  • Vik 10 years ago

    No did He condemn, beastility and pedeophiles and all that. He said He came to fulfill the law not destroy it.

    Christians don't hate gays...we hate homosexuality just as we hate robery and murder. We love theives and murde ...
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  • Vik 10 years ago

    Nor did He condemn, beastility and pedeophiles and all that. He said He came to fulfill the law not destroy it.

    Christians don't hate gays...we hate homosexuality just as we hate robery and murder but love theives and murd ...
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  • Housseni Nacro 10 years ago

    From the point of view of religion,homosexuality is an abomination,a sin,but from the point of view human rights,homos are being discriminated against.Human rights,religion,which one of these is the master?

  • Housseni Nacro 10 years ago

    Nobody wants to be discriminated against,but people like to discriminate, when you are victim is when you realise what it feels like to be discriminated against.Democracy with religion/without,which is better?

  • JustWantToBE 10 years ago

    Gays eat faeces, they lick the anus and they will marry and give birth through the anus and the human will only be sustain through gay marriage! When you enter the public toilet, becareful of gay predators. Next bestiality wi ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    Congratulations, JustWantToBE, every single point you made in your entire post is untrue or irrelevant or both. In case anybody believes your nonsense, let me just interject that homosexuals no more eat feces or molest childr ...
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  • Cantankerous 10 years ago

    The gay lifestyle will never be accepted by the vast majority of the world's population as normal.Only about 14 countries out of a total of 150 recognize the gay lifestyle. You can continue to insert articles,take adverts, ar ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    "rest assured, that you will never get s foothold in Africa."

    Well, Cantakarous, the last time I checked, South Africa was still in Africa and it recognizes same-sex marriages and its laws and constitution protect against ...
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  • Note 10 years ago

    Your opinion is that the Bible got it wrong on homosexuality, while my opinion is that the Bible, being the Word of God, got it right. God is always right.

  • Readi 2 dye 10 years ago

    Why according to the history of the jews...a book yall call the bible, was a whole city of gays burnt down..when white people educate people like amenyo, they adopt gay tendencies...permissiveness...u cant permit everything.. ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    Readi 2 dye, please refer to the Bible's own explanation of why Sodom was destroyed: Ezekiel 16:49-50

    "Now this was the sin of Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor ...
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  • Barrister77 10 years ago

    As well-written as this article is, the author misses the point when he assumes one thing, and that assumption pretty much derails all his otherwise very cogent logic: he assumes that Evolution is a proved fact whereas it is ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    Barrister77, you seem not to know the scientific definition of theory. In scientific terms, a theory is not a mere hypothesis. On the contrary, a theory is a comprehensive explanation that meets the highest level of scientifi ...
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  • Ghanaman 10 years ago

    one cannot even describe this abomination as animalistic because that will be a complete injustice. like Robert Mugabe said "when you put female and male pigs in one pen, males only go to thefemals and females to the males." ...
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  • B-WISE 10 years ago

    I bet to differ, and to inform you that dont ever think all the African youth buys your endless reasons to become homosexuals. At least decent parents must ensure that their future generetions also remain decent and not marri ...
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  • Aboagye Forever 10 years ago

    Homosexuality is a taboo in all Africa. Which King maker in any tribal sector in Ghana would allow a Chief to practise homosexuality? Answer this question and stop being bookish.It is a taboo in Africa and so in Ghana period ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    "The laws will be strengthened to protect the decent African child."

    On the contrary, laws that criminalize homosexuality and human rights for homosexuals lead to suicide, homelessness and unemployment for innocent homosex ...
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  • B-WISE 10 years ago

    I really dont feel comfortable with your classification at all. Are those you call homosexuals not human beings? Are they a different kind of humans???A person may be born with a greater susceptibility to homosexuality, just ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    "If a person is born with a greater susceptibility to anger/rage, does that make it right for him to give into those desires? Of course not! The same is true with homosexuality."

    No, it isn't true, because homosexuality is ...
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  • Bernard Kumi 10 years ago

    The homosexual movement is one created by hedonists to explore it's boundaries. It was meant to completely annilate morality that they considered completely boring and unimaginative. It's genetic basis remains a figment of t ...
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  • oyinasky 10 years ago

    This is a brilliant piece. This is the kind of writing I expect of a Forum like Ghanaweb. You have covered all the salient points of this debate. I get amused when I hear Christian and Moslem leaders in Africa say that homos ...
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  • Atta Owusu 10 years ago

    You are right Kofi. Homosexuality cannot be killed by laws. The only thing the law should do is to prevent them from adopting children

  • F Young 10 years ago

    "The only thing the law should do is to prevent them from adopting children"

    No, laws have a much broader impact. Already, countless numbers of African children die through suicide and violence because of the criminalizati ...
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  • 79ago-Pen 9 years ago

    it is very difficult for homosexuals to adopt children in most parts of the world, however nothing stops gays and lesbians from having their own children by surrogacy

    almost all of such children turn out to be very alright ...
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  • Mighty man 10 years ago

    For most of these homosexual groups, they have strong support from the very rich and homos abroad

  • Lisa 10 years ago

    As a American I would plead with Ghanaians and all of Africa to please stay strong against homosexuality. The west is in rapid decline and Africa does not need to follow it. Africa is the birth of civilization and you know ho ...
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  • Cantankerous 10 years ago

    Don't worry.The pro-gay group are a very tiny minority but what they lack in numbers they make up for this by being extremely aggressive and very very vocal in advertising their alternative lifestyle.They constantly strive to ...
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  • Vik 10 years ago

    It seems no one is noticing the rapid decline of the west. Their debts are up in the roof and yet they call others poor. China is getting far richer as christianity spreads rapidly in China.

    As a christian I love the pers ...
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  • John 10 years ago

    I think this fellow(Kofi)needs to do a serios study on the subject of creation and the nature of man. He will then understand that those who think gay or homosexuality should be practiced are influenced by the devil to rob th ...
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  • salman 10 years ago

    Mr Kofi u finish all e matters may God bless u

  • LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

    Kofi, your article is brave and interesting. I do agree on the point that the recent Anti-Gay Laws enacted by countries such as Nigeria and Uganda among others, cannot root out homosexuality in Africa. This is because to leg ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    "However, it should be pointed out that the recent rise in homophobia and aggression against the promotion of LGBT rights in Africa is in response to pressure exerted by the West on African leaders."

    Yes, anti-gay American ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

    This is an illustrious and courageous attempt to put a sexual orientation in its proper cultural and intellectual perspective. Bigoted goons and religious conscripts will find it difficult to reconcile the writers comparative ...
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  • Cantankerous 10 years ago

    There are only about 14 countries out of more than 150 who recognize gay marriage.Pure wishful thinking.

  • James 10 years ago

    Kofi Amenyo,your write-up and your idiotic defence of HOMOSEXUALTY suggests to me you are GAY.

  • F Young 10 years ago

    Accusing your opponent of being gay, is that your normal tactic when you can't defend your position rationally? Seems like childish name-calling to me.

    Are you saying that all heterosexuals are incapable of writing ration ...
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  • Politicus 10 years ago

    But kofi the animal, why don't you feed through your anus, and you feed through your mouth since the world is changing. The anus is a sewage outlet for the human body pure and simple.

  • Kevin F. Boone 10 years ago

    In all my born days, I've never heard, or read, a more diabolical response to someone bringing rationality to a difficult topic. Ever. Wow. I have to go take a shower. I feel dirty for having read it. Shame. Drop to your knee ...
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  • Kevin F. Boone 10 years ago

    Africans should resist gay-marriage until a majority approves. With education I think it will come. Two African countries have policies allowing this. The west can not impose this. But human beings everywhere can insist that ...
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  • Vik 10 years ago

    Maybe you should start eating through your, drinking through you ears and unrinate through your
    mouth....That'll be a human nature. The system of the world may change but not the natural design of the human body.

    Africa ...
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  • Politicus 10 years ago

    I have always try to come to terms with Gays, but i haven't been able to. For me all gays masturbate and not sex in its purposeful meaning.

  • Kevin F. Boone 10 years ago

    POLITICUS you are a 'piece-of-work.' The majority of men and women and children masturbate. You have to know this. Regardless, it does not follow that any one who masturbates can not have children. Straight people, gay people ...
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  • MPA 10 years ago

    They will not work because NOBODY can make laws against human sexuality. The sex drive in humans is too strong to be regulated by parliamentary edicts. There are strict laws against paedophilia – a patently evil act. Yet pa ...
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  • Jones 10 years ago

    Yet you don't make laws banning heterosexuality. If a homosexual commits the crime of of paedophilia, he must be punished for his that, not for his homosexuality just as a heterosexual paedophile is punished for the crime of ...
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  • 79ago-Pen 9 years ago

    If a paedophile carries out a paedophilic act, there is a victim.
    consenting homosexuals indulging in what ever your holy mind might correctly be imagining, creates no victim.

    Actually, most paedophelic acts have been ca ...
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  • F Young 10 years ago

    Here is a very rare article for readers interested in factual background on homosexuality and diverse sexual practices in pre-colonial Africa:

    ht tp://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art/37440/Diverse+sexuality+isnt+alien+to+Afr ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    In the last 3 years, Ugandans, Nigerians, Ghanaians and other Africans have committed so much of their time and efforts to “solving” the gay and lesbian “problem”. No matter where people discussed this issue, the mess ...
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  • Emmacita 10 years ago

    It's so refreshing to see a well thought out argument about this topic, rather than religious bigotry. At the end of the day, it's nobody's business who consenting adults sleep with.Good well-thought comments. I salute you, s ...
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