Beyond Belief RTE 1

youngblood

Anyone watching this?

"majority of my friends have no interest in marriage and are free to live the gay lifestyle"

from the gay guy debating whether marriage equality is a civil right

mr.anonymous

Just watching it online now. It would be a powerful image if the people on the right had the lights over them turned off.

I'm very confident that there will come a time when this debate is considered bad taste. Eventually, there will be nothing controversial about this. When was the last time you had a conversation with someone on whether black and white people are peers? You didn't!

Can you actually be born a hypocrite?!

door

youngblood wrote: »

Anyone watching this?

"majority of my friends have no interest in marriage and are free to live the gay lifestyle"

from the gay guy debating whether marriage equality is a civil right

If I recall correctly that guy claimed to be celibate so he is therefore a-sexual and not homosexual. He has no right claiming he's gay imo. Yes he might have homosexual thoughts but for somebody who has no interest in having an intimate relationship with anybody I fail to see what right he has having any part in a discussion about marriage.

OneArt

door wrote: »

If I recall correctly that guy claimed to be celibate so he is therefore a-sexual and not homosexual. He has no right claiming he's gay imo. Yes he might have homosexual thoughts but for somebody who has no interest in having an intimate relationship with anybody I fail to see what right he has having any part in a discussion about marriage.

Asexual is an orientation or lack thereof in itself, celibacy and asexuality are NOT the same thing.

Chick_chick

Does anyone know if that celibate guy is from any group? Who was he speaking on behalf of? I'd be interested to know the background or where the researchers found him. It was a very strange hour of television. Yer man from Mary I and the other lad had some neck telling a girl with a gay parent that the way she was raised wasn't proper. Or "the gold standard" as one of them kept saying.

ongarboy

Chick_chick wrote: »

Does anyone know if that celibate guy is from any group? Who was he speaking on behalf of? I'd be interested to know the background or where the researchers found him. It was a very strange hour of television. Yer man from Mary I and the other lad had some neck telling a girl with a gay parent that the way she was raised wasn't proper. Or "the gold standard" as one of them kept saying.

The "celibate and gay businessman" as he was introduced as was an extremely odd choice alright and he was very poor in articulating any of his points. I couldn't figure out what cause he was actually trying to represent or further. I couldn't believe he, as a gay man, used the term "gay lifestyle" to describe gay peoples lives as if it was some sort of aspirational yet optional mode of living that we choose to participate in!

I thought Colm O'Gorman was generally excellent in most of the points he made.