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- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!puttk
- From: puttk@infonode.ingr.com (Ken Putt)
- Subject: Re: Homosexual Rights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.195617.18988@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <6422.2B0603BE@umagic.FIDONET.ORG> <9V1auB2w161w@cdthq.UUCP> <1992Nov17.140522.28537@b11.b11.ingr.com> <1992Nov17.163716.7745@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:56:17 GMT
- Lines: 79
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- mason@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Jim Mason) writes:
-
- >"Fundamentalist christianity is NOT an acceptable way of life simply
-
- Your choice of worship or even belief in worship has nothing to do with
- behavior which so obviously goes against the very nature of procreation
- of mankind. Apples and oranges.
-
- >The point is that it is silly to complain about gay/lesbian use of
- >PACs....
-
- Silly? I think not. Just an example of how people use PAC's (a powerful
- tool for those with enough $$$) to further oftentimes detrimental
- causes. Since that statement begs the question, "Detrimental to who?",
- I answer: it depends on your point of view.
-
- >interest groups form PACs. If you don't like the PAC system, fight to
- >change it.
-
- I'd love to. Off topic though...
-
- >>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?
-
- "We" obviously refers to our society. Correction should follow the lines
- of halting and treating other unnatural behavior. But then there are some,
- as obviously you are aware, who believe that any activity that can be
- imagined is "natural" and should not be disturbed. Sorry, I disagree.
-
- > What kind of correction need be applied? Shock treatments? Indoctrination
- > centres? Prison camps?
-
- I see you forgot the "civilized and logical" portion of my message. There is
- excellent help for those with emotional problems. It's application can range
- from voluntary for those who recognize they need help to mandatory for those
- who break laws, whether your condition compells you to beat your wife and
- kids or stand on the street corner and expose yourself.
-
- >>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.
-
- Your words, not mine. What is implicit is that we all should be intelligent
- enough to realize that some types of behavior is wrong, and will always
- be wrong. The remark about self-discipline relates to the rampant disuse
- of this important facet of maturity in our country. As for me, I have no
- more or less than anyone.
-
- >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.....
-
- Ha! Cheap shot. If you can't talk logically, talk louder right? Classic
- homosexual defense...imply such tendancies in anyone who tries to dispute
- your activity.
-
- Ken
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