I don't know what specific subsidies Spain provided for the LGBT population, but like any other special interest group the so-called activist leaders are likely to have lobbied as successfully as they have here in the USA.

I'm gay but I disagree with most of the political positions of the various lbgt activist groups. My sexual orientation only affects who I want to have a relationship with, not my views toward government favoritism for any group. And frankly I detest when people are lumped into groups of any kind. Those groupings are based on one, single attribute of its members and it's an attribute with no meaning since it's always something over which they have no control.

Being black or latino or a woman or a man or gay or straight or any other of the ridiculous attributes that we're constantly supposed to *celebrate* is just an accidental fact of a person's identity. You cannot take credit for being black, it simply happened to you and therefore is inappropriate for "celebration." Do we celebrate being blond or having brown eyes?

Ugh, this rant has gotten a bit off course but it's a real hot-button issue of mine.

Other than protecting the legitimate rights of everyone the government shouldn't even acknowledge the existence of any special interest group. Doing so can only lead to discrimination and trampling the rights of people who do not belong to that (artificial) group.

First of all, I'd like to see a translation of what she actually said. But if it is as reported, it is on the face of it nonsense. I don't know much about politics in Spain, but she'd have to know that she'd be stirring up a giant can of worms. Not to defend such an inane comment, but saying anything negative, even if it's true, about homosexuals has become a touchstone for recrimination and negative labeling. So much has become taboo due to political correctness that more and more the truth becomes unimportant so long as what is said is PC.

What a bunch of bull.

"practice" is kinda interesting. You mean living? You don't approve of living?

Stop moaning and groaning about it and do something. I was here in Michigan when Engler cut a lot of the welfare payments out. Not an endorsement for him, but he and a few others did it. Now would that not be a novel idea.

timelord my closest and dearest friend for 52 years was gay. I am not but our relationship was far better than each of my 2 marriages. henry and I were FRIENDS, and that was all that mattered. what I learned from him was that some men just prefer the company of other men and I never understood why that was a problem for other people. homosexual people have attitudes just like anyone else, but it has nothing to do with their sexual preference.

The orientation, nothing more.

What, exactly, is "homosexual attitude?"

[attitude: In psychology, a mental position with regard to a fact or state. Attitudes reflect a tendency to classify objects and events and to react to them with some consistency. Attitudes are not directly observable but rather are inferred from the objective, evaluative responses a person makes.]

I can't wait for you to describe how I think and act based solely on my sexual orientation. The only reasonably consistent "attitude" across the homosexual population would be how we classify and react to ignorant straight people.

hey we can blame our national debt on them as well as the ghetto crowd and finally our government which is the same situation in spain and every other country in the world that is in debt.

see my comment below. I don't know what happened to the second half of the article.

see my reply below. the last half of the article vanished.

yes, it's as though the second half of the article went away. Two were mentioned. Universal healthcare was picking up the tab for artificial insemination procedures and transgender operations. Of course the first is not exclusive to any one group. I don't think anything else was mentioned. Once you are an entitlement society, it gets hard to define who's entitled to what. Everyone is a group. and they in fight over their "right"-fuls" (I made up that word, johnrobert).

Me, too. I'm wondering whether I'm eligible. :)

Homosexual (and heterosexual and bisexual and transexual and asexual) banksters.

It's funny she is from Ceuta, the gateway for the mass of African Muslim immigrants into Spain. Spain has subsidized their healthcare and other benefits for years. I lived there right before the economic bust. There was a huge housing and construction boom.. then I heard that most were taking out 50 year(!) mortgages on properties that were wildly over priced. Spain's economic problems are caused by the same things that cause US economic problems.

Gotta love it. Blame anybody but those writing the checks.

Want to get rid of your deficit? STOP SPENDING MONEY YOU DON'T HAVE.

And this goes DOUBLE for the idiots in the US.

I suppose Jews are not as convenient for scapegoats in Spain. Here, I recall seeing Jew-bashing signs waved by the Occupy BS. I thought of a couple of famous Hollywood liberal Jews and that kinda blew my mind.

Impossible. And worse than absurd.

I don't approve of homosexual attitude or practice. But since, as the Alan Guttmacher Institute observes, they make up not more than three percent of the population, they could not *possibly* have any significant part in racking up the world's debt.

I don't know, but I'm not sure I see how to have fun with this one. Maybe with the politician that imagines making points with that accusation.

What did the government subsidize for LGBT individuals or groups?

Is it just me or did this article end abruptly... like in the middle of a word. I wanted to find out what the gay subsidies were. ?