Comments on: Washington Post Ombudsman Sticks It to Homophobes Complaining About Same-Sex Kissing

By: Ron Wood

Ron Wood — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:21:43 +0000

As a gay man, I am of two minds about this. Firstly, I feel sorry for these people who are so full of hate for their fellow man, that pictures of love between to gay poeple are more disturbing, more sickening then photos of war, death and distruction. But secondly, I blame their belief in out dated religious views which continualy expound the “Evils of Homosexuality” and the rationale that it is ok to hate us…in the name of Jesus. Unfortunately, with all their bible beating and their need to focus their hate, they are doing the exact opposite of what I believe Jesus stood for, LOVE!

By: Emily K

Emily K — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:05:38 +0000

Wow, I never had time to watch that much TV as a kid (in the 90′s). I think the most that I would ever watch was 4 hours, though I had no interest in the graphically violent or sexual. A lot of what I watched was PBS or old cartoons. I also went through a Cooking Show phase in Middle School.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:18:10 +0000

“Children, on average, watch at least 9 hours of television a day”.

I don’t think so.

By: Ray Sager

Ray Sager — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:23:20 +0000

I have to agree with Epheli on this one. Children, on average, watch at least 9 hours of television a day and witness about 100 or more acts of violence and sex on TV. Yet, two men kissing on the front page is a total upheaval of their normalcy? For crying out loud people…YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE!

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By: Merlyn

Merlyn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:51:45 +0000

There is such a thing as not buying the newspaper or magazine if they don’t like it. But I have to agree with other posters that there is something wrong with people not batting an eye at horrific violence in print media or TV but who seem tto be on the verge of a nervous breakdown if they see a same-sex couple kissing. That’s what I call badly-skewed priorities.

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:25:01 +0000

You are absolutely correct Ephilei! When society complains about 2 men kissing on the front page of a newspaper, but does not complain about horribly injured people on the front page of a newspaper, I am forced to question how “normal” society really is.

By: Evan Hurst

Evan Hurst — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:21:19 +0000

Haha, of course not, Gary. These people don’t leave their suburbs very often, much less the country.

By: Gary (NJ)

Gary (NJ) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:08:29 +0000

My first thought exactly Ephilei. I’m sure that mother has no problem with her sensitive little children playing violent beyond belief video games or watching a panoply of gore and mayhem on nightly television, but 2 men kissing on the front page of a newspaper might turn them into Rue Paul or Ted Bundy. I wonder if in her cultural wasteland she ever saw 2 French men kissing each other on the cheeks or Arab men holding hands like her hero George Bush and King Whatshisname of Saudi Arabia?

By: Ephilei

Ephilei — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:51:53 +0000

This is insulting. Newspapers are constantly showing horrific images on the front page: war, floods, starvation, and hate. All of that is fine and dandy. But gay men are too much? Two men kissing are worse than a dead soldier? I’m all for disagreement but these complainers aren’t disagreeing, they want to make it so that gay people DO NOT EXIST. I’m not even gay, I’m asexual, but even I am insulted. Advocating for the non-existence of lesbian and gay people, whether thru silence or murder, is evil.