<i>"For a youngster who has never lived in the gay community I find it interesting that you are attempting to change the perceptions of a man who lived that lifestyle for over 30 years. I know what motivates gay men much better than you do, and I know the tactics used by gay activists since I was one long before it was PC to be an activist. You can assume I am making assumptions all you want, this will not change my mind or what I know to be true.
You are making assumptions based on what you have heard from gay activists who like to deny the truth."</i>
Look man, I don't think you know anything about my age enough to make snide remarks, or anything about my sexuality for that matter. I still insist, however, that regardless of what you have expirienced, it does not give you grounds to conclude that gay people, in general, are the way that you describe them. You know what motivates <i>you</i>, and perhaps what motivates the gay people you know, but you cannot apply this to everyone. I can just as soon argue that I know what motivates the people I know. If anything it goes to show that people have fundumentally different personalities, and that you cannot coin a single lifestile based simply on sexual orientation.
<i>"You brought society and family into this discussion so why try to deny it by pointing to the subject of the thread? If you don't want to address rebuttals to your remarks then think before you post. "</i>
I brought society and family in to this to try and explain my ideas about promiscuity in the gay community, not about gay couples having trouble with relationships any more or less than straight people do. When I said that this thread isn't about hardships in relationships, it's because I thought you had made a point that was not related to this issue.
<i>"The sexual revolution is different only in that society did not fight it as openly as they are gay unions, which btw is the only aspect of gay rights the majority of Americans disagree with. Since I lived through that period of our history I don't think you can educate me on what society thought or even did. I saw it, lived it, and to an extent encouraged it so we in the gay community would be left alone."</i>
Look, I appreciate the fact that you lived through it, but appealing to age isn't going to change long standing ideas behind the sexual revolution and how it is different from homosexuality, or to be more specific in the scope of this conversation, promiscuity in the gay population.