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- From: krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.homosexuality
- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.215902.18440@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 21:59:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.165724.15293@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1gnoriINN4bl@hp-col.col.hp.com> <16DEC199223251060@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- In article <16DEC199223251060@zeus.tamu.edu> rlc1028@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
- >In article <1gnoriINN4bl@hp-col.col.hp.com>, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes...
- >
- >|So should families where one parent is a crossdresser be shown?
- >|Or both are? Does a distinction need to be made between 2-male families
- >|and households where there is a father and a male (non-gay relation)
- >|sharing the house (to share expenses) where they sleep in *different*
- >|rooms? Do we need to show families where daddy and the family dog are
- >|very close? Do we need to show families where mommy and daddy are
- >|swingers, and occasionally have someone else's mommy/daddy sleep over
- >|instead of the usual mommy/daddy? How about when daddy and daddy are
- >|swingers, and swap daddies now and then? I realize I'm going to an
- >|absurd length here, but do you see the point?
- >
- > Why do you feel it necessary to portray families as based on
- >the specific sexual practises? Isn't it sufficient simply to show families
- >as based on gender differences (or similarities) alone? In other words,
- >showing a family with two male parents doesn't even bring into question
- >the activities in the bedroom. And I think that's where alternative
- >family education in schools should end.
-
- It does exactly bring into question the activities in the bedroom, because
- sexual preference is a direct correlation with same-sex parents. Please,
- show me 3 same-sex couples who are heterosexual.
-
- Can you say "touche?"
-
- Ted
- --
- So the Maples formed a union, and demanded equal rights, "The Oaks are just
- too greedy. We will make them give us light!" Now there's no more Oak
- oppression, for they passed a noble law. And the trees are all kept equal,
- by hatchet, axe and saw. - Rush, The Trees
-