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- From: gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Violation of Netiqutte (was: Stan - Hatred is unbecoming)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145252.6277@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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- Organization: IWR, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:52:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.221934.6210@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes:
-
- >Perhaps my use of child-abuser was too strong, but I do feel that
- >counseling a teenage boy that sex with males might be acceptable,
- >is just as wrong as counseling a Jew that marriage outside the religion
- >might be acceptable. And for rec.scouting purposes, all we are
- >talking about is what is proper, within BSA guidelines, for the
- >boys.
-
- My G*d Stan, that bad??? Do you mean if a Jewish boy falls in love
- with a girl, and wants to marry her, but is troubled by the fact that
- she isn't Jewish, then telling him not to worry is almost the moral
- equivalent of child abuse?
-
- How many other people feel that their particular religion owns its
- adherents body and soul, I wonder? I would say that rescuing a boy
- from a religious attitude which could even contemplate such an
- equation is a good thing in and of itself.
-
- --
- Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
- gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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