David doesn't manage the comments section of this page. But if you'd like to see some negative comments, check those on the video's original Youtube viewing page!

That will go real far. Save it Heaven-because that's the only place it will work. But nice try.

Susan,
Gaybashing is OK according to Patch if this type of comment is allowed to stand.
Joe Homeowner

9:50 am on Monday, March 4, 2013

Donny Van Oss & James Thomas trolling again from Ellsworth Rd. A pair of patheticness with their name game. Look for them to be holding hands at the next school board meeting. Don't worry about who I am...that's the least of your problems. #2losers

Kathleen you are 100% correct ---once ANYONE has to separate themselves from the rest of society and declare themselves different, it is they who are bring the attention to them ,and not because of their claim that they are different but because they are being annoying about it

Kathleen must not have a television or go out in public places often.
You would think that heterosexual men don't objectify women to market products all day long. Or that straight men don't sexually harass women on the street to let everyone know they are straight men. Or that straight men are applauded when they brag about their probably-nonconsensual sexual conquests.
No, it is the gays who throw their sexuality in everyone's face when they...wait...when do they do that?

Kathleen: "Heterosexuals do not discuss their sexual proclivity and on the whole do not go above and beyond in their public displays of affection." You must be joking. As the saying goes, fish don't know they're underwater. As you seem blissfully unaware of the tremendous, suicide-inducing pressure that gay teens are under to remain closeted lest they be demeaned by people like you (or assaulted by people who think like you), and as you also seem blissfully accustomed to the way that straight sexuality is assumed and celebrated in the media and our culture-- given the way straight couples just kiss each other publicly without a second thought, in a way one might say is "above and beyond"-- I don't think you're quite qualified to criticize gays for having the nerve to defend their existence and to guide each other on how to deal with dismissive people like you.

Funny that you say you do not understand gay as people are people, then in the next sentence you immediately classify certain people as heterosexual. So, all people are not just people, right? Your argument is confusing at best. Not all homosexuals discuss their sexual proclivity, nor do we all go above and beyond in our public displays of affection.

Yes, all have a right to live in this world, but when others tell us we can't, or put laws in place preventing that, then our rights are no longer equal.

Sounds too Luke warm to me, but I do agree with God. Something about Obomination .

@David Sherburne: You know God? Please tell us more.

You are...what they say...not a smart person, are you? Also...read your articles about deer signs. Those signs are so motorists know to look out for deer in the area that are crossing the road. You are so stupid.

EFitzy you run around telling everyone else they need to treat others with respect, but yet you go and call out others as "stupid"

...and if by "sin", one is referencing The Bible... in many of those verses, "homosexuality" as an "abomination" is classified right alongside "[heterosexual] fornication", [heterosexual] adultery, idolatry("obsessive love of money or material wealth")

Yet, the "sin": or "abomination" that so-called Christians dwell on (as well as their pastors) is "homosexuality" while the 10% tithing contributor that is smoking, drinking to excess, fornicating or engaged in adultery is welcome in the pews ('love the sinner; hate the sin"

It is AMAZING how the human mind can fool itself into accepting both sides of an argument with a little manipulation by the pastor/reverend.

At one University's "Intro to Psychology" class--on their first day in clas--- the Fall Semester students are told that couples who spend extended lengths of time away from each other TEND TO fall out of love faster than the general population

That makes sense: "out of sight; out of mind"

On the first day of class, the Spring semester class is told that couples who spend extended lengths of time away from each other TEND TO fall MORE DEEPLY in love with each other.

That makes sense: "absence makes the heart grow fonder"

What the human mind does is to attempt to configure what it experiences with something that it is already familiar with (vocabulary: "pigeonholing").

When the HUMAN MIND experiences something that it can't immediately associate with something else- it becomes uncomfortable

Ah, yes - I remember it well: Sexual Orientation Choosing Day in my middle school health class. The gym teachers split the boys and the girls, and we boys went downstairs to the cafeteria. Coach Williams gave us his little prepared speach: "until today your mind has been like a blank piece of paper. But today you must write on that paper either "I like girls" or "I like boys" and this will determine who you are for the rest of your lives. Any questions? Good. I'll be back in 5 minutes for your answers."

We all sat there quietly for a minute. I smiled when I remembered my buddy Jimmy was out all week with Chicken Pox. Boy, won't he be jealous when I tell him he missed sexual orientation choosing day! We'll be all "We know who we'll loo-ve! We know who we'll loo-ve" and he will be all "Shut up! you guys! The school nurse said I'd have to wait until all my spots went away before I choose." Ah, good times.

I assume that's how the "lifestyle choice" went down for you too, right LR? That your heterosexuality was chosen during health class? Or maybe you were home schooled and your mom just had you fill out all the paperwork (how embarrassing!)

Either way, by describing this as a choice and not a trait that people are born with, it sure does make it easier to indulge in demonizing those who "chose" differently than you and calling them "sinners." Much easier than if it were a God-given trait, right?

So we should stand together in solidarity. We should support each other because we know High School, and life beyond it, is rough and we have the brains and the empathy to make it easier for ourselves and one another when we stick together, defending one another from bigotry and those who would make excuses for it.

Bravo, David.
Continue to speak up for yourself and reach out to people. Despite the antagonizing reactions people have to those who deviate from unrealistic norms, there are dozens more people out in the world who need to hear what you have to say and know, for their own piece of mind, that they aren't alone and, you know, "It Gets Better".

Oh, come on, Kim L.

Don't associate universal "teen angst" or cliquishness" or even "bullying" with the overly-cruel, over-the-top bullying treatment meted out to the homossexual.

It is a matter of degree - like everything else in life

Oh Kim, boo hoo hoo...just how many times were you beaten up in high school for just being you?

So get to work. I'm going to play a round of golf.

..and the "it gets better" movement is doing just that.

The "tombstone" mentality with the rash of "suicides" just advanced and illuminated a topic which had been buried within the "arena of public policy formation"

Sad that it had to take something like that to occur-- but the "it gets better" movement now has a much broader "receptive audience" amongst "parents" and high-school guidance counselors as well as the front line of "classroom educators" & "teacher's aides"

"it's getting better" is what we need to be able to say

"David Sherburne

11 minutes ago

So get to work. I'm going to play a round of golf."

So the guy who advanced the argument about "god" and "abomination" now makes the flip comment about getting ready to play a round of golf"

Wow... really clever...except for his seeming inability to use a "spell check" software package..

...so not that clever after all... he just BLISSFULLY THINKS he is more clever than the balance of this thread's readership.

Important enough to state that the Creator of heaven and earth views it as an abomination YET IN THE NEXT BREATH David says "get to work then; I'm playing a round of golf"

You know, David is one of the easily-maipulated ones; in the holocaust of Nazi Germany, it wouldn't have surprised me one bit that David would have been talking about the abomination of the Semite and gleefully turning the skins of murdered Jews into lampshades.

This David boy just ain't too bright; you could get him to do anything by just sitting him down for a chat NOT UNLIKE what happens each day when David sits down to have his head filled with the musings of the "fair & balanced" Sean Hannity & Bill O'Reilly

@David Sherburne...so far, your comments have had less value than zero...you have added nothing to the discussion...

Tin Idol you post about " the holocaust of Nazi Germany" and then act yourself as a "spelling nazi" for ones "inability to use a spell check" ???? you cant have it both ways !!! or can you

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spelling%20nazi

Tin Idol ? the term spelling nazi has been around for at least 10 years, and it means someone who feels the need to correct others spelling, just so that they can feel better about themselves!

well soup nazi is in the same place
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soup%20nazi

it does not surprise me that your posts are now subject to approval by a Patch editor, I see you are from Oaklawn Illinois , have you burned all your bridges with the editors of all the patch's from there to here already

"Kim L
3 hours ago
it does not surprise me that your posts are now subject to approval by a Patch editor, I see you are from Oaklawn Illinois , have you burned all your bridges with the editors of all the patch's from there to here already

Actually, they are not "pending approval" anymore; they are posted directly.
One of the tricks of Christian Evangelicals: can't beat the individual on his arguments? then attempt to get his posting privileges removed.

Don't know how Oaklawn. Illinois got into the mix; I'm from Cleveland.

So Kim...now that you've evaded the seminal point of discussion--- what percentage of these GOOD CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS who are on this thread would have BEEN EASILY MANIPULATED BY THEIR PASTORS into particpating in the murder of Jews...

, the segregation of the races both in the Yankee North and Confederate South, ..
..owning slaves, ...

...the massacre of tens of millions of Native Americans in Canada, US, Mexico, Central and Southern America ...

...the current murder of millions of muslims...

I don't think Christ... if he came back... would be Christian enough for you Christian Evangelicals

So the ASSAULTS & PHYSICAL VIOLENCE against the homosexual is just a continuation of centuries of good, christian behavior...

...doesn't EVEN REMOTELY resemble anything in the New Testament but that was never any seemingly big concern to the Christian Evangelical

very mature just spam the site

"Kim L
3 hours ago
very mature just spam the site"

Actually, the ISSUES had to be addressed in this fashion because WHAT FIRST OCCURRED IN THIS THREAD was the GOOD CHRISTIANS bringing the Bible into the mix.

So... I went to The Bible... "homosexuality" is an "abomination" and it is listed right alongside the other "abominations" of "fornication", "adultery" and "idolatry(excessive love of money and material things)"

The GOOD CHRISTIANS don't seem to talk too much about that in these threads PRECISELY BECAUSE the people who fill their heads with this propaganda don't talk about it in Church and on FOX NEWS.

I configure this current ambivalence toward the HOMOSEXUAL alongside CENTURIES of other Christian predjudice and I'm spamming the site?

It is amazing how many GOOD CHRISTIANS don't even know their Bible and I'm certain a whole bunch of you were surprised when you actually went to The Bible to see if "adultery" and "fornication" were actually the "abominations" listed alongside "homosexuality".

So if these GOOD CHRISTIANS can be manipulated like that towards the "homosexual", were they ALSO manipulated like that towards CLEANSING of the Native American population... as well as the segregation of schools, etc.

Not one of you GOOD CHRISTIANS has yet to say... "no..i wouldn't have been as easily manipulated as the other Christian Evangelicals in this thread"

Some commenters (mainly the homophobes) seems to be under the impression that the video is meant to be literally an instruction manual for all high-schoolers on how to become gay, as opposed to a guide for already gay teens on how to survive in high school. I think those commenters are still under the impression that teens can "catch the gay" from other teens, but I'm afraid there's nothing we can do change that.

dont they make a spray for that

"Kim L
30 minutes ago
dont they make a spray for that"

So, in one breath, Kim L talks about "maturity" and in the next breath she makes a mature "funny"

Kim L.,

I can JUST TELL that you're a clever one... what Christian Evangelical posters in this thread do you think could have been as easily manipulated by their pastors into the necessity of keeping the races separate and segregated AS WELL AS ensuring that the lily-white Aryan Nazi Germany needed Good Christians to deal with the scourge of the Jew?

You've avoided talking about this topic at all, Kim... you just sit on the sideline and shoot what you feel are..cough...clever zingers at those raising the seminal issues.

Get in the game, Kim L.

...but if you'll notice by reading the thread messages above IT IS THE Good Christians who are "now taking a cowardly dive" and "folding faster than a cheap piece of lawn furniture" and not dealing with the topic of violence against the homosexual WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND the unchristian liberals are having absolutely NO PROBLEM staying "on point" with the topic at hand.

Do you think your Pastors would perform any better in their postings than any of you have so far?

Right about that.

Hear hear.

Ian just think what a wonderful place this would be if everyone was gay
there would be no wars,no famine ,no pollution,but then again there would be no people