NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/hsv/general/3674

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From: [e-mail] (T.J. Higgins)
Subject: Re: Homosexual Rights
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:35:34 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Ken Putt) writes:
|> [e-mail] (Gary Heston) writes:
|> >Somebody else wrote:
|> >> How do you feel on gays in the military?
|>
|> >Who cares?
|>
|> You should.  Just as you should care that Clinton intends to place
|> homosexual(s) in high appointed positions as a sort of "affirmative
|> action" plan to lock in all those gay votes.

It is well known that there is an openly homosexual person in Dick
Cheney's Department of Defense.  Knowing the castigation this person
would take at the hands of the bigots, religious and otherwise, the
national media have not identified him/her.  (I have been told by a
friend that it is Pete Wilson, the DOD spokesman during the Persion
Gulf War, but that is just hearsay.)  So even though there is a rule
against gays in the armed forces, a rule which Chaney, Bush, Quayle,
et.al. support, there is a gay in a high place in the DOD.  This
would appear to invalidate the rule.  It also shows that it is not
just Clinton that appoints gays to high positions.

Homosexuals are a fact of life.  They have been around for thousands
of years.  They aren't going away.  Ever.  Get used to it.

There is growing scientific evidence that homosexuality has a
biological basis; i.e. they really are born that way.  There was a
cover story about this in Newsweek several months ago.

|> 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".  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.  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.

If indeed homosexuality is a biological condition, then it is not an
"unnatural type of behavior."  To try and "correct it in a civilized
and logical way" would itself be unnatural.

And even though homosexuals have been around for thousands of years,
mankind appears to be thriving.  This would appear to counter your
argument that "homosexuality goes against the very future of mankind."

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T.J. Higgins | [e-mail] | Intergraph Mapping | Huntsville, AL
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