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- From: puttk@b11.b11.ingr.com (Ken Putt)
- Subject: Re: Homosexual Rights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.200240.23193@b11.b11.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corp. 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> <1992Nov18.195617.18988@infonode.ingr.com> <1992Nov19.171402.14329@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:02:40 GMT
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- mason@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Jim Mason) writes:
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- >even included in the Bill of Rights. People were persecuted for
- >centuries (and still are today) because of their religious beliefs.
- >Just because YOU would not judge on the basis of religious persuasion
-
- Boy, you sure do go off on tangents. The topic of religious freedom is a
- good one, but that's not the issue at hand.
-
- >My point exactly. I'm none too happy with the Moral Majority and their
- >ilk, but I don't go around slamming them BECAUSE they form PACs. I
- >support their ability to advance their agenda in this manner, though I
- >completely disagree with the substance of that agenda.
-
- WOW! We agree on something! (Don't we? :-) ) I think PACs exert too much
- influence because the furtherance of their cause is based on the amount
- of money in the PAC, not on the right or wrongness of the agenda.
-
- >So "we" will determine what is "natural" by way of vote? Lots of
- >things are unnatural. Left-handedness is unnatural. People tried for
- >YEARS to change left-handed people (supposedly influenced by the devil)
- >into right-handed people. Surgery is unnatural (in the middle ages,
- >one could be put to death for the sin of cutting into the temple of
- >the body). Or are you saying that only those things which you find
- >offensive should have the unnatural label applied?
-
- I'm amazed at the unlikely places people look for something (anything)
- to justify aberrant behavior! Left-handedness and surgery unnatural?
- Travel back to the present. Trust me, even people in the dark ages
- could look at the human body and tell that the male parts were intended
- to fit the female parts.
-
- >rights fundamental, or are they a privilege, which can be removed
- >with simple majority vote?
-
- Rights are most certainly a privilege. You have them because you are
- here, not in cold-war East Germany or any one of the other totalitarian
- countries.
-
- >Your implication is, I assume, that being gay or lesbian is an emotional
- >problem. Not everyone agrees. It might be enlightening if you would
- >provide us with your definition of "emotional problem."
-
- Da**it Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a miracle worker! :-) I know many
- disagree with my position on that. I think an emotional problem is any
- psychological problem that compells you to engage in aberrant behavior.
- I guess there are many "flavors" and "degrees" of such conditions too.
- "Aberrant" behaviors would be things like obsessive gambling, wife
- beating, innapropriate violent behavior, child abuse, compulsive
- stealing, self-exposure, peeping, lieing, rape, homosexuality, cruelty
- to animals, ..... In my opinion of course.
-
- >If I assert that some people's obsessive concern with the manifestation
- >of sexual diversity, which often boarders on paranoia, is a psychological
- >problem, shall we submit those individuals to "civilized and logical"
- >treatment?
-
- I'm sure you would LOVE to submit me for some treatment that would make
- me agree with your position that homosexuality is a natural alternate
- lifestyle. Don't confuse taking a stand against a movement that I
- believe will decay our Society in general and the American family
- specifically with "obsessive paranoia". You have the right to choose
- what you do in the privacy of your own home. Step into the public eye
- and try to represent to me and my family that heretofor aberrant
- behavior is an acceptable lifestyle for my children to choose, and I
- will dispute you in spite of your coy inferences. Welcome to America.
-
- Ken
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