Houston becomes the largest city to elect openly gay mayor?
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I read about this, good for you.
Good for them. Iceland was the first country to have a gay Prime Minister, tho. 
Who cares if the mayor is straight, gay, bi-sexual, or wears underwear of the opposite gender? Would you have expressed the same "joy" had the Mayor-elect been a one-armed man, a wheel-chair bound woman, or perhaps a minority female under-25?
I don't care about any of the above when it comes to my elected officials. All I care about is if the person is competent enough to carry out his/her official duties.
From what I've read that kind of is the point of this election, that this woman wasn't elected or not elected because of her sexual orientation but based on how competent she is.
TheLonelySquire
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To be honest, I wouldn't vote for a homosexual. The way I see it, they don't align with what I believe. Now, if I had no knowledge of their homosexuality and I agreed with their opinions on the issues I probably would vote for them. I don't see anything wrong with this.
Would you vote for a woman?
You mean they don't align with what you believe about homosexuality.
No reason to think they all think alike on all the other issues you are no doubt concerned with.
I bet you'd throw your vote to Mike Hick-a-Bible because he's a Baptist, rather than the more qualified Mitt Romney, who is a Mormon. Am I right? The reason I ask is because Hick-a-Bible pushed for a convicted rapist to be paroled, who went on to murder.
TheLonelySquire
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Correct. It might be unpopular but I vote for a person for many reasons. Or not. Everyone does so.
What specifically about their sexuality would cause you not to vote for them?
TheLonelySquire
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It's simply a question of morality and to me that's more important than any political issue.
Surely you don't think that a person's sexuality contains the whole of their morality, do you?
Would you vote for Lieberman?
Since you always want to start a Holy War trolling threads with your religious BS, I'll come out and state how I laugh at people like you who toss the morality card. I laugh because of the types of people voters like you support -- You know, Rudi Guiliani, Newt Gingrich, Daniel Inouye, and in my own state, Representative Mary Fallon, who is putting in her bid for Governor.
Morality
Yay for Houston. I liked living there, and if I didn't love Austin so much I'd probably go back there.
Yes, even with the opressive humidity, it's still a cool place to live. You can get anywhere and find anything you need within 25 minutes.
Yes, even with the opressive humidity, it's still a cool place to live. You can get anywhere and find anything you need within 25 minutes.
To allay any confusion, the people I listed were either divorced at one point or involved in a sex scandal.
Must be nice living in your fantasy fairy tale world. Yes all of those things are important cause it shows that we are growing as a country. Pretending that we are all the same is just as insulting as saying one group is better than another. We are different and those differences should be embraced.
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