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Your orientation shouldn’t be up for discussion in the classroom just as a heterosexual’s orientation shouldn’t be up for discussion in the classroom either. Orientation is an issue that has no business in the classroom except from an educational point of view: ie, there are various orientations, here’s what they are. But a teacher’s personal life should remain outside the classroom. With that said, however, there is a growing trend by some of the more fundamentalist Christians to ban gay teachers from elementary schools. This is due to their belief that being gay is a choice and that exposing young children to those who are openly gay may “convert” them to what they consider a sinful “lifestyle”. (I’ve yet to have someone be able to define a gay or heterosexual lifestyle…) There is a
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Rudeness is a form of disrespect. Disrespect is a lack of love/empathy for one’s fellow human beings. Sometimes, people with a lot of money or with a lot of education seem to think they are “better” than others. But “more” does not always make something “better”. However, when one believes they’re better than another, it’s often easy to treat others with disrespect.
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,My parents are Catholic and I’m one of seven kids. But Catholics have a form of birth control called natural birth control (or the rhythm method.) Essentially, it involves the woman figuring out when she is ovulating by taking her temperature, noting any vaginal discharge and the color of it, etc. She keeps track of this information and that allows her to know when she is fertile, which is really only a few days during the course of a month and is right around the time she ovulates. During those days, the couple simply does not have sex and therefore there is very little chance that she’ll get pregnant at other times of the month.
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Let’s assume that 10% of the population is gay. That means that about 5% are gay men and 5% are lesbians. For simple calculations, let’s say that there’s a room of 100 people that you walk into. If they match society’s breakdowns, about 24 of them will be non-white. Of those 24, 12 will be female and 12 will be male. Of the 12 males, 1.2 of them will be gay and non-white. Out of the whole room, 5 men will be gay and 3.8 of them will be white. Since your choices on who to date are so limited to begin with, trying to stay within your own race if it’s non-white limits them even more. Love and Light
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,I do my best to ignore outward appearances and focus on the person within, regardless of weight, faith, race, age, etc. But I have to be good enough friends with someone– regardless of who it is– to invite them to my house. Love and Light, Rev. Shelly
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,And there are no “roles”. We simply do things we’re best at and divvy up the rest. I happen to be better at things like home/auto repair than she is, so that usually falls to me. I hate shopping, especially for Christmas or birthdays– I hate the malls. She loves it so she goes. But the rest of the chores, we divvy up. Love and Light
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,1. It could be tongue in cheek: they may be subtly knocking the stereotype of the Jewish mother so often seen on TV exhorting her son/daughter to find a “nice Jewish girl/boy” to settle down with. 2. Jewish is both an ethnicity and religion. While you don’t often hear “nice Baptist boy”, you will hear “Nice white boy” or “nice black girl” etc. 3. The people using the phrases are falling into the speaking patterns that so many of us have that we’re not even conscious of having.
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,I think we all have certain abilities that, if we don’t make use of them, we lose. I think this extends to things like psychics and artists, etc. Some of us might have to work harder at certain things to “get it right” but I think we can all make use of those abilites if we work on using them. That said, I think that “gaydar” is one of those natural talents that some people find easier to use than others. However, I don’t know if most people know what “gaydar” is. I know I certainly didn’t recognize what it was when I was growing up.
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,An individual who is transgendered is born the “wrong” gender. Let’s say that someone is born in a male body but identifies as female. Let’s say that they are also attracted only to men. Whether or not they ever have gender reassignment surgery to physically become a female, they are heterosexual because they’ve always been female on the inside and have always been attracted to men, which is what a heterosexual is. Conversely, let’s say there’s someone who is born a male but identifies as a female and is attracted only to women. Whether or not that invididual ever has surgery to physically becomes a female, she is a lesbian because she identifies as a female and is attracted only to women.
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,I think it has to do with the fact that many straight males share a couple common fantasies: one is having sex with more than one woman at the same time and the other is watching two women have sex with each other. I tend to think they don’t feel their masuclinity is threatened by lesbians or their orientation questioned by being around/near lesbians. Love and Light
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,She may have claustrophobia and focusing on something allows her to control the fear she has in small, enclosed places. She may also be really shy or self-conscious and unable/unwilling to make eye-contact or get into conversations with others that sometimes get started in elecators. She may not be staring at anyone’s waist but simply staring at nothing in particular, it just may appear she’s staring at the waist. And maybe she picks women to start at because men make her uncomfortable, perhaps because she was a victim of violence or abuse or rape at the hands of a man. My point is that simply because she APPEARS to be staring at women’s waists does NOT mean she’s a lesbian or that she’s psychotic/crazy. There may be a perfectly logical explanation for her behavior if you toss out all the
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,And lesbians don’t have penises. At least not natural ones– unless they happen to be a pre-op M2F transexual. Love and Light
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Not just which country, but which part of that country. In the US, it’s much easier, for the most part, to be gay in NYC or SF than it is to be gay in Topeka or Little Rock. It’s much easier, for the most part, to be gay if you live in a city than if you live in the suburbs or the country. And it’s easier, in general, to be gay anywhere in the US than it was for those who were in the forefront of the “original” fight for gay rights at Stonewall in 1968 are now in their late 50s, 60s or 70s. Polls suggest that society is becoming more accepting of gays in general as time goes on, so hopefully, it will get even easier. The sad part is that it’s an issue at all. Love and Light
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Most people believe that if someone has sex with someone of the same gender, it makes them gay. And since most child molestors are males, when the victims include males, people assume the pedophile is gay. But for pedophiles, gender is secondary. Age is the most important factor in chosing a victim. Love and Light
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,If that were the case, then the population of gays should have skyrocketed after the pill was introduced given the number of women who used the pill. Also, it wouldn’t explain why there were gays before the pill was introduced or explain why there are gays like me who are children of good Catholic parents who didn’t use birth control pills. 😉 Love and Light
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Name : ShellyStrauss Rollison, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : New Age/Metaphysical, Age : 49, City : New Alexandria, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,
