# For the first time ever, I feel offended

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-first-time-ever-i-feel-offended/267740>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 5, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-first-time-ever-i-feel-offended/267740 "2004-10-05T22:03:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-first-time-ever-i-feel-offended/267740/81 "2004-10-07T07:38:19Z")

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> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> Well, if this fails then you can always forward it to The Onion; it’s ripe for parody.

Nah, that’s been done, about 4 years ago when they had a similar billboard campaign.

[See here](http://www.landoverbaptist.org/exnegro/ex-NegroAdFINAL.pdf) for a pdf file “We’re standing for the truth that Negroes can change.”

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**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-first-time-ever-i-feel-offended/267740/82 "2004-10-08T03:51:42Z")

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> [@SHAKES](#):
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> OK thanks for the responses folks.
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> I’ll agree that gay is innate. Just like being left handed is innate. I just see no logical reason why a left handed person couldn’t learn to be right handed.
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> I only ask because I have heard gay people claim they wish they could be straight is all. Granted most of them wish they could be straight due to all the bigotry towards gays; but, hey, none the less, they still claim they wish they could be straight.

Yo, SHAKES, buddy-ol’-pal, they used to try to do that too. It didn’t work, you fucking retard. Jesus, haven’t you ever heard anything about history? Up through around fifty years ago they tried to teach kids to be right-handed (once your kind finally gave up declaring them to be witches) and it didn’t friggin’ work.

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**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-first-time-ever-i-feel-offended/267740/83 "2004-10-08T11:34:06Z")

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> [@whiterabbit](#):
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> And I’ll believe the ex-gay people once somebody finds a way to turn me, totally hetero, into a lesbian. I’d LOVE to see a billboard advertising that…brilliant idea, that one.

I’ve been asking various groups to help me change my sexuality from het to bi since high school. No one ever answers my e-mails. ☹

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