Don__ we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be_ doing that has nothing to do with enabling them or accepting what they do as okay by us. It has nothing to do with encouraging them in their practice of what you or I might feel or believe is wrong vs right.It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.
Okay, let__ pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner._ __hat doesn__ work in the South. A male friend cannot have dinner with a female friend if the male friend has a wife. It just doesn__ work down here._ __hy not?_ __ecause men don__ have female friends. No way. I don__ know of a single man in the entire South who is married and has a female friend. I think it goes back to the Civil War._ __ think it goes back to the Dark Ages. Why are Southern women so jealous?_ __ecause that__ the way we__e trained them. They learned from us. If my wife met a male friend for lunch or dinner, I__ tear his head off and file for divorce. She learned it from me._ __hat makes absolutely no sense._ __f course it doesn__._ __our wife has no male friends?_ __one that I know of. If you learn of any, let me know._ __nd you have no female friends?_ __hy would I want female friends? They can__ talk about football, or duck hunting, or politics, or lawsuits, or anything that I want to talk about. They talk about kids, clothes, recipes, coupons, furniture, stuff I know nothing about. No, I don__ have any female friends. Don__ want any._ __hat__ what I love about the South. The people are so tolerant._ __hank you.
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Okay, let__ pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner._ __hat doesn__ work in the South. A male friend cannot have dinner with a female friend if the male friend has a wife. It just doesn__ work down here._ __hy not?_ __ecause men don__ have female friends. No way. I don__ know of a single man in the entire South who is married and has a female friend. I think it goes back to the Civil War._ __ think it goes back to the Dark Ages. Why are Southern women so jealous?_ __ecause that__ the way we__e trained them. They learned from us. If my wife met a male friend for lunch or dinner, I__ tear his head off and file for divorce. She learned it from me._ __hat makes absolutely no sense._ __f course it doesn__._ __our wife has no male friends?_ __one that I know of. If you learn of any, let me know._ __nd you have no female friends?_ __hy would I want female friends? They can__ talk about football, or duck hunting, or politics, or lawsuits, or anything that I want to talk about. They talk about kids, clothes, recipes, coupons, furniture, stuff I know nothing about. No, I don__ have any female friends. Don__ want any._ __hat__ what I love about the South. The people are so tolerant._ __hank you.
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