Fairfax, VA, USA. So Chaz Bono, he of the quiet, subtle, public transition, is going to be a contestant on Dancing With The Stars. The only child of Cherilyn Sarkisian and Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono.

Life in the public eye is part of his gene set. Chaz comes by it honestly. So why not Dancing With The Stars? Assuming he can dance, of course.


But when did lack of dance skills ever keep anyone off DWTS? So dance, child, dance. Show us your licks. Teach us to be true. And don’t let the bastards wear you down. There’s a lot of them out there, you know.

These shows are more and more like freak shows and everyone wants to see the freak at the zoo, so it fits. This child of Cher's is nothing more than a bad science project and they are going to put the freak on display because the GLBA, or whatever their name is, wants it on display! This is their freak. [N1]

Your very existence upsets a lot of mother friggin’ crazies. True god-fearin’ ‘mericans all of them. But you know that already, I hope. Crazy mad they are.

I can remember the day when homosexuality, abortion, drunkenness, fornication, etc. were unacceptable by the vast majority of Americans. Now our society hardly blinks an eye at these things. I can see the day coming when folks will be called bigoted and intolerant if they have a belief that pedophilia is wrong and immoral. In fact, there are already some segments of our society who already accept this practice as natural and normal.

You’d think they had caught you were screwing a duck in front of their mother. [N2] Dancing always seem to stir the religious soul to flights of righteous rhetoric.

Now you are killing nighttime with putting Chaz Bono on Dancing With The Stars. My kids are now boycotting because they won't allow their children to watch a transgender dance.

I haven’t the slightest idea how one tells that the person dancing is transgendered. Is there a special step? Is it something in the way they bow? The only major difference I can identify is that Chaz will have to do the lifts now.

I am DISGUSTED that you would have Chaz Bono on there. You have sunk to new levels. ABC - family viewing is no more. If the GLBT dollar is more desirable to you, that is your choice. To not have it shoved down my throat is mine. I resent having the media force those decisions on the average public as acceptable and commonplace- when they are NOT!

It’s ballroom dancing for crying out loud. But they sure are sure of their opinions.

This is against nature and just like anything that is not natural we should seek help. What DWTS is doing is trying to take the unnatural and make it appear to be normal as are some of you. There is no debate that this is unnatural so don't even try to make it. Natural law is absolute.

Then there are those who are god struck. Cocksure of their scripture and the perfect world of their belief. I will light a candle for them.

Some of them are quite straightforward in their belief.

Isn't it amusing that when those of us speak out against homosexuality and other perversions, we get called a bigot and other nasty comments? The fact is that homosexuality is a sin. Period.

So, ”let it be written, so it shall be done”. [N3] The Peoples of the Book are firm in the word.

You cannot change what God designed. Chaz is deceived. She needs therapy and deliverance from her demons.

So say we all. Picking and choosing the passages we like best, discarding the rest as if we were shucking corn at the corner grocery. Quick are we to pronounce our judgment.

Some of the religious arguments beg the question, committing the logical fallacy of a circular argument, assuming what it is attempting to prove.

Evil needs to be called evil. Allowing one to wallow in one's sin is evil.

All these can be ignored. If it makes them all happy to spew their chosen doctrine, so be it. They do not the Constitution make. Talk is, as they say, cheap.

The young men with guns and explosives who think they are God’s Avenging Angels, however, need to be watched. Life is precious and should be safeguarded against male anger against the world masquerading as religious fanaticism.

I would pray for the salvation of their souls but I have my doubts that anyone is listening although I will light a candle. Sometimes the magic seems to work.

Amidst all the pious anger and irate crazies on the internet, islands of rationality exist.

If God makes no mistakes then what about children born with cleft lip, or born conjoined twins, or born with sirenomelia "mermaid syndrome", or with autism, or born deaf, or born with ectrodactyly "lobster claw syndrome", or born with ectopia cordis "heart outside of chest", or born intersex, and I can go on and on and on. Do these people deserve to live the way they are? No God gave us doctors, and one day I will be one, to correct the mistakes "nature" has given them.

And sometimes those objecting to Chaz appearing on DWTS offer honest explanations for their positions which should not be rejected out of hand.

DWTS is a family-oriented show...as such, families with younger children will be watching. The whole gender assignment/transgender issue is not something most families feel compelled to discuss with young children. It's not a matter of discrimination or hate; simply parents trying to protect & preserve their children's innocence as long as possible, & not exposing them to adult issues & situations. While it might never be specifically mentioned, the 'buzz' will still be there, & shouldn't be part of what's considered to be a family hour show.

There may be something in what is being said. I’m not sure that under some other circumstance I might not agree. I would be uncomfortable if I took my young children to a Pride Parade and they saw hairy, half-naked leather men dancing on the float.

But Dancing With The Stars is a dance contest, not a Pride Festival. You can turn your television off. On the other hand, if you are uncomfortable at a Pride Festival, you can always leave. Or have another beer.

So strike up the band and let the dancing begin!

And, by all means, may the better man win.

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