Me and Orangecakes have an announcement to make: we’re now officially boyfriend and girlfriend! I never thought I’d have a girlfriend again after the last 2 ditched me, but Rose is very tenacious (her word) and won’t let go of me, < g > . I think she’s attractive and she likes me for some unknown reason, so we’ve decided to meet each other in person in April. I’m scared stiff (heh) about this meeting, as I’m a social moron, but if it goes well, who knows where this relationship could lead? Chalk another romance up to the Straight Dope!
Congratulations?
Thank you?
Well, hey, best of luck to the both of ya! Let us know how things turn out.
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Will do, SanibelMan. 
I dunno, Bill. Do you really think that we will believe that you’d ever move to Cleveland? And OC was looking for a warmer climate: SLC may be drier, but I doubt its warmer. I suppose you could split the difference and both move to St. Louis (or New Orleans).
Well, congratulations and good luck!
(Yeah. I know I’m jumping the gun, here, but you are ripe for harrassment after disappearing for several weeks, only to reappear with this thread.)
Tom~
Tom, no, I probably wouldn’t move to Cleveland, but at this point in our relationship, we’ll settle for email and occasional get-togethers. It hasn’t progressed beyond the basics yet–there’s no commitment or anything.
I’ve been over on the LBMB, and am glad to be back over here, where there are people who are rational. One woman tried to prove that the LDS church was false because it teaches that the Garden of Eden was located in Missouri. The same woman informed me exactly what I believed, and I was surprised to find that she could actually read my mind that well. Anyway, I’m glad to be back in the land of the ignorance-fighters.
Good luck to the both of you.
(Lifting champagne glass to toast oc and snark)
Good luck, Snark and OC! I hope your first IRL meeting is wonderful and magical!
Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant.
Oh wow Bill – WAY cool! This is really fantastic news!!
Good luck to you both, and God bless!
-Melin
Hey, two warmer people I couldn’t think of. I wish you both the best!
Sue from El Paso
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How ironic! I was about to switch gay and try and get with you!
Oh well… I guess I’ll have to tell Drain Bead to stifle her attraction to orangecakes now…
Anyway, good luck, and here’s some advice: SOme things are best left behind closed threads, capice?
Yer pal,
Satan
I dunno you, Snark, but best of luck on your relationship. Jophiel and I started out just knowing each other through a computer screen too, and we just celebrated a year anniversary. Good luck! 
When are you going to realize being normal isn’t necessarily a good thing?
I guess I’m the only person that’s saddened by this thread. No offense meant towards your relationship, but I was waiting for the day that Snark posted that he had come to terms with both his sexuality and his religion… I was hoping a balance was somewhere to be found for him. I would like to think that this could work on some level, but I can’t help but feel that this situation is just going to set him up for more pain.
Also, I thought that the two of you had EXTREMELY different religious beliefs. Do you have any plans to reconcile them? Clearly a born-again Christian and a Mormon have more than a few issues to discuss before embarking on ANY kind of serious relationship. Is one of you going to convert? Is either of you WILLING to give up your religious beliefs?
I believe that orangecakes posted somewhere that her ex-husband is gay. I’m going to go WAY out on a limb here and guess that that particular relationship didn’t work out - you know, with the divorce and all… I do wonder about why any woman with a child would want to continue participating in such unhealthy patterns, though. It seems to me that there’s a lot of potential for instability here.
Since you two chose to post this announcement on a public message board, I’ll assume you wanted honest feedback. If you did NOT want honesty and only wanted well-wishers, I apologize. Feel free to disregard all of this - it’s only my opinion. I just tend to feel concern when I see anyone disregarding his/her true self out of what I see as desperation. If I’m completely off in my assessment, good for you. I won’t feel bad if you can honestly tell me I’m wrong in anything I’ve asked about.
Aw, crackers. Now I’m going to have to stop flirting with both of you.
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Yes, I was sleeping all night, and made it to my library right now.
Gee thanks Val. BTW, I am Not divoreced; my husband died of AIDS 6 years ago.
And I still make typos!
Satan: LOL! Very funny; but I thought Drain was mad at me? Maybe a foursome? ;)(kidding)
Snark, you should know better than to date a straight woman. Before anyone jumps down my throat, Snark is gay. We (posted somewhere in the great debates where I talked about an excommunicated Mormon friend) talked about this before. You should know by now that sexuality is something that is not “switchable”. Almost every ex-gay person eventually gives up that position and starts dating men again.
orangecakes, you should also know better than to date a gay man (from your past marriage). He may never act on his impulses but you already know what happens if he does. Also, even if he never acts on his impulses, it is not fair to you (especially you) nor him to pursue a physical relationship.
If you two are just meeting as friends then, the best to you. I don’t want this to sound harsh eventhough I know it does. I just have to say that if it is true that you are pursuing a physical relationship with eachother than shame on you both. You both should know much better as a straight woman formerly married to a gay man and a gay man who has acknowledged his gayness even though you have said that you will never act on it for religious reasons. I like both of you and don’t want to see either of you hurt (in OC’s case, hurt again).
HUGS!
Sqrl
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Give me more money, you bastards.
May the seed of your loins prove fruitful in the belly of your woman.
neil
Well, this is good news for me. If Snark can “turn straight,” then my hopes of becoming a lesbian are not in vain!
I have had very little luck with men—OK, very little long-term luck, anyhow. But, darn it, I have never been attracted to women (except maybe Ute Lemper), and I just think guys are the cat’s meow.
So now I have some hope after all! I know some very nice, pretty, intelligent lesbians, and I think I shall make a date with them as soon as the snow starts to melt!
[that last was not a metaphor, we really did get another 2" of snow last night . . .]
Mr. Squirrell, In case you didn’t know, both Snark and myself believe sex before marriage is wrong, and we’re not getting married here.Your welcome.
Hang on… not to piss anybody off here, but…
Snark is gay. Check. Fine with me.
AND
Snark thinks sex before marriage is wrong.
Of course I know very little about the legal status of things in the US, but wouldn’t that exclude sex altogether for him?
Anyway: I want to wish you guys the best of luck in whatever type of relationship you will be persuing. I do, however, agree with Sqrl to a certain extend: your sexuality is a given, just as the colour of your skin is.
Coldfire
"You know how complex women are"
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)