You can't stop being gay but you can resist the stereotype. As a Black man, many people have said I act White. At this age, I am still shocked at how closed minded people can be. Our society wants to put you in this box or they can't deal with you. Treat others the way you wish to be treated. Be kind to your neighbor. Both good topics taught in the Bible. For the church goers: practice what you preach. For the gays. you are not Black so this Gay is the new Black business is so wrong. You can hide what you are but you should not have to. The Lord put you on this Earth and no other human being has the right to go against that. You are being discriminated against because of mis understanding and hatred. Fight for your rights and join the ranks of Black and Women who forgot how it was not so long ago.

Listen, same sex relations are naturally wrong. Physically we are not designed to copulate that way. Emotionally it's a ball of confusion. Try to glamourized, justify, simplify all you want. Its breaking all the rules. Equal rights for all does have some boundaries. For blacks who were mistreated because of race is wrong because blacks are NOT animals to be subservient to the white race. We ARE all equally human so that HAD to be rectified because it was wrong. There is nothing right about homosexuality worthy of changing the constitution. You guys always say that you dont need a piece of paper to know how you feel about your partners, and that you want to be able to have right in the event your partner is hospitalized. GET POWER OF ATTORNEY ALREADY. WTH?!!! Live your lives- do what you want, everyone else does not have to accept your wrong, freakish behavior. I dont mean that in a derrogatory way. I say that because many of you say that you are born gay. Well that's just not natural, so I say that for lack of a better word...and for those of you who choose a gay lifestyle it's oft times due to some unhealthy, painful experiences which cause some sort of emotional disturbance which in turn leads to bad choices. I dont think it's right for people to be mistreated for who they are. You should be able to be gay if you want and be safe to move about freely without discrimmination, but I dont see that your being discrimminated against. Just get your legal business in order. just like the rest of us do. Name your beneficiaries,write wills make it clear who is to care for, mangage estates,etc.

let me just say that i am extremely dissatisfied with this, how could my comment be deleted? don't i have freedom of speech? was my comment to truthful for this liberal talk show host? good job tyra, all you did was lose another viewer.

listen am gay and i am glod dat harris re said his staement bout the black community cause not just the blk comunity may have had partake in that voting but i wish gays wouls stop using the pain and wat not we went through yes am g ay 22 blk male and yeah it was hard just to be out hter but it was all about how u carry urself so that pain,name calling did not occur and i do have rem,orse for those the got hurt through family thank god my peeps were not like that so us gays justy need to keep our heads and live our lifes oh and being gay i dnt approve of marraige can sum talk to me about that

This message goes out for those on here who obvisouly do not know a damn thing about the abuse that the gays have been through. Okay so maybe they were not mad into slaves, but to say that they have not been beaten and rapped and hung or abused is an understatement. I am a straight female but I have a lesbian niece whom I love dearly. I have many gay friends as well and they have been through hell trying to get accepted and that is why they now just say the hell with it all and do what ever the hell they please. Because no matter what they do or say to get other peoples approval they never will. Not until you open your eyes and see that they are human as well and that thEY too have red blood pumping through their veins just like you and I. Like I tell my niece "you dont have to like someone nor do you have to talk to the person u do not like, but you do need to show respect for that person because they are human" If you can not do this then just turn away and walk in the other direction or just shut up and do not say anything. This is just my opinion and I am just so sick of straight people out there that have a negative attitude toward the gay people that gives the rest of us straight people a bad image. Also I am tired of the gay people out there with the bad attitude sthat give all gays the bad images taht they recieve. Why can't everyone just mind their own business. As long as the same sex is not coming on to you why do you care. And if

All same sex-sex is not natural and morally wrong.I don't dislike homosexual people.Yet theirs been too much glamourization of homosexuality from Hollywood and the powerful left wing media.

I think whoever came up with the "is gay the new black? " is wrong. Gay people should not be even be compared to the african american comunity and what black people had to go threw back in the days. I understand that the gay community want to be excepted but they aren't being beat,rapped,hung, or being anyones slave because of there sexuality. It was very small of whoever made that quote up. The gays aren't even almost close to what black people had to encounter and what they still have to go threw today in 2009. Are they being followed around in stores cause there gay? NO. Are they being harrassed by the police cause there gay? NO. But blacks are. So how dare they even try to put gay up there with what blacks had to go threw. You can't even tell who's gay in the world unless they say they are. And no matter what's your sexuality PDA shouldn't be done. I have nothing against the gay community but I do have an issue with them trying to say its the same thing black people went threw and are still going threw. It is NOT and will never be the same thing. And Mr.Sam Harris shouldn't try to blame the black community about the prop 8. If they didn't agree with it then they just didn't. I believe nobody has the right to judge people on there sexuality or skin color. It should have never even been voted on. Nobody is GOD and in the end that's who people have to answer to. Im not saying gay marriage is right or wrong. But I think its wrong to judge and everybody has to answer to god in the end. If you don't believe my ending on answering

"God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." No, God made Adam, Eve, Steve, and Maria. (Maria being Eves lesbian lover and Adams mistress) Haha, but in all seriousness, people using God against gay rights is wrong to me because not everyone in America believes in one religion. If we bend our laws to one single religion, America might as well do it to every single thing the church opposes and is for. We'll become a wonderful little army of clones just like Hitler wanted in Germany.

who gives anybody the right to tell somebody who they can or cannot date..if a man loves a man or a woman loves a woman let them do them its not your life and you have no put in whats so ever.

im having a hard time understanding why this is such a big issue... if a man loves a man, or a woman loves a woman...why does it concern anyone else? who gave certain people the right to tell everyone whats wrong, whats exeptable and what isnt? live and let live. its absolutly rediculous. its not like gay people are hurting anyone or causing any harm...burning down buildings, causin havoc in the streets...there just living there lives an wanting to be happy like everyone else. so what if a guy wants to be with a guy or a girl with a girl. u are who u are. i could understand if it was a serial killer for people to tell them what your doing is wrong. but regular people just trying to live there lives in peace and be happy? it honestly makes me and im sure alooottttt of other people sick. no one has the right to tell anyone that there wrong to love or be with who they want. an for any gay people reading this KEEP ON DOIN WHAT UR DOIN!!!! cuz theres NOTHING wrong with it :)

Tyra, Tyra, Tyra. I just don't know where to start. First of all, why couldn't you get a better straight panel. Sam Harris should be ashamed of himself putting himself in the same boat as black people who have had to indure slavery, beating, rape, and mistreatment. We do not see on the headline news everyday "Gay man hung today". What black people went through was way more intense and critical. As my sister Quennie stated, if God purposed a man to be with a man and a woman to be with a woman, the human race will become instinct. God gave a woman a womb for a reason, to bare children and keep reproduction alive!! And Tyra you should have said something when the gay panel kept interrupting the straight panel. And was it me or did it seem like your audience was only applauding for the gay panel. Your show was extremely one-sided and I feel if your going to do something do it right. But I still like your show just make some improvements with that episode. YOUR BETTER THAN THAT!

Gay is definitely not the new black. What blacks went through is much more intense than what gays claim to be so bad. God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. Its definitely a choice. How can we multiply with two men fumbling around and two women doing the same. It would be the end of our species. What is the purpose of God placing a womb in a woman and not placing one in a man. It just won't work. You can change your outside appearance but you can never become a woman without a womb.

Question: How would a straight person know that being GBLT is a choice? If it has never happened to you how could you possibly know? Another thing: Please keep the Bible in context. The verses thought to be about homosexuality actually speak on gang rape, pedastry, idol worship and prostitution. These verses don't say a single word about loving and committed relationships. Isn't it time to stop sticking our heads in the sands when it suits our purposes?

A couple of points about the bible For the "blonde lady" This is in the bible. The Hebrew word typically translated as "vanity" is "awen," which had a variety of meanings, among them boastfulness, nothingness, falseness, sin, distress and difficulty. Were you worried about any of these things when you bleached your hair and put on all that make up? And to the black women. For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags. And Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. So it seems you both have chosen to Sin and then pass judgement on others and what does the bible sae about that? Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

(this is continued, because it was cut off) be allowed is to discriminate someone for who they are, and the way they live. I know what it's like to be discriminated against, and it's not fun. So I understand that much. And I believe that everyone is equal and should be treated equal in society whether they are Christian, Gay, or Christian & Gay. If there is a Christian who is telling you that they hate you because you are Gay, and that God hates you, then I don't believe that that is a Christian at all because being a Christian means you love everyone despite who they are and how they live, and nobody, nobody should hate you because of it.