In response to the post I put up last night concerning Alec Baldwin's implication that his younger brother is a "hater" of homosexuals, I noted that I felt this was a stretch at minimum, a misquote, something out of context etc...

Two responses caught me a bit unawares. When the Lovely Bride read the story, her immediate reaction was, "I think you're giving Alec too much of a pass. PinkNews quoted him directly, and unless they made it up he said what he said."

Ok, so I agreed to disagree.

But then came Allen's response here on the blog:

Anyone who takes favorable company with the likes of you, Kevin, is a hater.

As I said in my response to your latest anti-gay column - I find it ironic that you are adamantly opposed to assisted suicide, as you have assisted in a number of gay teen suicides in your career as a meanspirited homophobe.

This is irrefutable fact. You have helped cause gay teenagers to kill themselves.

That is the definition of a hater.

Of course, since you aren't really a "man", you won't have the courage to respond and my comment will probably be removed - but the next time you look at your children, please think about the parent's of a gay teen you helped drive to suicide with your hatred - and pass that message on to "Billy" the next time he joins Alec for one of his Neices dance recitals.

I stopped caring a long time ago about the emotion of someone's response to what I write or say... but the substance I care about very much. It's obvious that Allen is angry, hostile to anyone who dare to think differently than him.

It's also ironic that every time an angry homosexual attempts to insult me they do so on the basis that I must be a closeted gay, or in some other way "less" than a real man. It IS a tell-tale sign of how they view manhood, and homosexuality themselves. I mean if you feel so great about the stuff you're engaging in - then how could it be an insult to call someone else that? Ironic... don't you think?

The point however is - while I do raise the issue of marriage, and its need for legal protection in America today - I have a big heart for those who are trapped in homosexuality. Sexual malfunction, or "sin" (if you're a person of the scriptures) is highly addictive and extremely dangerous - adultery destroys families, pornography destroys marriages, and homosexuality often times destroys the person - mentally, emotionally, and physically.

So in an attempt to continue the dialogue I took my best shot.

Allen - so much hate...

Who are you so angry at?

You know its not even logical to argue that telling someone who really, really, really - deep down in their heart (they might even think they were born that way) - wants to play with fire, to not do so - is in some way the fault of the person doing the warning, if they then set fire to their house and burn it down.

Allen why do non-religious, very scientific studies demonstrate that more than 80% of homosexual males admit to having been molested, touched inappropriately, or indoctrinated into homosexual behavior BEFORE choosing on their own to go act on it?

I've contacts presently with at least a dozen men who have been at one time or are now active homosexuals - and its all twelve that assert molestation began the activity in their own life.

Biologically speaking the body argues against male intercourse, isn't it possible that the brain does too, and the emotions?

Isn't it possible that young men (who you claim are committing suicide by words of others) are actually dealing with the torment of their own thinking knowing that something doesn't add up?

Wouldn't it be a good thing for Psychologists to again begin to treat symptoms of abuse, molestation, and other types of emotional pain that cause people to be in such a state where they do exchange the natural for the unnatural?

I do agree with you Allen, homosexual youth - males particularly - are committing suicide at a rate far higher than other youth their age. But it has nothing to do with people who are saying, "that's dangerous, let's talk about why you feel those things, and let's see if there is a moral plan for your life, who you are, and why you're here."

Do we let young toddlers grab hot pans off the stove? Do we let children play in the street? Do we let teens stay out all night with no accountability? Yeah - there are parents who do all those things, but it doesn't mean that the parents who don't - are bad parents.

In fact the opposite is in fact THE truth.