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- From: mason@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Jim Mason)
- Subject: Re: Homosexual Rights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.163716.7745@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: NASA/MSFC
- References: <6422.2B0603BE@umagic.FIDONET.ORG> <9V1auB2w161w@cdthq.UUCP> <1992Nov17.140522.28537@b11.b11.ingr.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:37:16 GMT
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- puttk@b11.b11.ingr.com (Ken Putt) writes:
- >compassion and concern, just as we should display toward anyone with any
- >other emotional problem. Yes, IMHO, homosexuality is NOT an acceptable
- >way of life simply because groups of them band together and form PAC's
- >to gain political clout and drive the media to tout their lifestyle as
- >an acceptable "alternate".
-
- "Fundamentalist christianity is NOT an acceptable way of life simply
- because groups of them band together and form PAC's to gain political
- clout and drive the media to tout their lifestyle as the one "true"
- social order."
-
- The point is that it is silly to complain about gay/lesbian use of
- PACS when this is how our government policy is influenced. Gays and
- lesbians form PACs. Fundamentalists form PACs. Industry and foreign
- interest groups form PACs. If you don't like the PAC system, fight to
- change it.
-
- >It is and always will be an unnatural type
- >of behavior that merits our attention...not to accept it but to try to
- >correct it in a civilized and logical way.
-
- It is the question of the first person plural which is cause for concern.
- When you say homosexuality "merits our attention" because we must "try to
- correct it," who is it that should perform the "correction?" Who will
- establish what "correct" is? The government? What kind of correction
- need be applied? Shock treatments? Indoctrination centres? Prison camps?
-
- >Homosexuality goes against
- >the very future of mankind, and I for one will never support it or allow
- >it to be represented to my children as an acceptable way of life. We
- >live in a wonderful country with many freedoms, but look around you and
- >see what abuse of freedom has brought our society to. Being free
- >requires greater self-discipline. It does NOT mean that "anything
- >goes".
-
- Implicit here, of course, is that you are self-disciplined, while I am
- not. Proof? Are you saying that it took a lot of self-discipline on
- your part to be a heterosexual, while I wasn't disciplined enough and
- gave into impulses to be gay? And here I thought your heterosexuality
- was natural and innate.....
-
- -Jim
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