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- From: greg_bradt@msmgate.mrg.uswest.com (Greg Bradt)
- Subject: Re: antihomosexualism a phobia *NOT*! *NOT*!
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- References: <Jym.18Dec1992.1224@naughtypeahen>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:08:23 GMT
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- In article <casivils.724976979@node_508ba> craig sivils,
- casivils@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- >In <Jym.18Dec1992.1224@naughtypeahen> Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- writes:
- >>=\= But homophobia also includes "just feeling that it's wrong,"
- >>if such is irrational. And what could be rational about an
- >>aversion to something that's none of your business and doesn't
- >>involve you?
- >
- >LOGIC FLAW!!!!!!
- >Is this the new scale for morality? If it doesn't effect you then you
- >have no right do decide if it is right or wrong? Then any successful murder
- >can't be wrong because the killer did it and the victim is gone. (Yes, the
- >example is extreme but the fundamental logic is the same, this is my life
- and
- >you should accept anything that I decide to do for myself).
-
- The point was incompletely stated. If it doesn't effect =anybody= who does
- not choose to be involved, then, indeed, you have no ethical right to decide
- if it is "right" or "wrong". Some relatively extreme religions maintain
- that they have a "moral" right to do so, but those religions are, by this
- evaluation, unethical.
-
- >I may be so irrational as to take the bible at face value and when it says
- >that homosexuality is wrong, thats enough for me.
-
- This is a form of irrationality that you are perfectly entitled to.
- However, to impose this irrationality on anybody who does not chose it is
- unethical and unacceptable.
-
- >Now, please tell me what
- >phobia it is, to group me into a general group and make condescending and
- border
- >line rude remarks about my group just on the basis of my religion.
-
- Homophobia is not based in religion, but some religions do tend to foster
- it. For example, to suggest that homosexuality is "the work of the devil"
- or some form of "demonic posession", or any of a variety of other mystical
- characterizations, does encourage an irrational aversion to the homosexual.
-
- Greg Bradt aka ()The Lensman()
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