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- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 18:09 CST
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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- In article <1992Dec30.211645.10640@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, wgb3@pyuxf.uucp (25336-buoni) writes...
- |
- |I was responding to your comment about suicide. I regard suicide as a selfish
- |act perpetrated by an individual who doesn't have the courage to deal with
- |life on life's terms.
-
- Yes. But then since every man's trials in life are different, I
- don't like to regard all suicides as cases of cowards.
-
- Of course, living is also pretty selfish.
-
- One can also kill one's self for the benefit of others. Consider
- people who make the "ultimate" sacrfifice. Didn't Jesus say something
- about this? Of course, if other people truly mean more to a man than his
- own life, then the ultimate sacrifice would be for him to take the life
- of one friend to save the life of another. I mean, there's more value
- involved...
-
- I had a friend whose parents told him not to come home for
- Christmas this year because, while they had begun to accept his
- homosexuality a bit, they had since been counseled by their religious
- leaders, and decided to take a tougher stand. The father even went to
- Oregon to help pass Prop 9.
-
- After two months of intransigence and
- rejection by his parents, and surely due to other troubles as well,
- my friend jumped off a bridge a week before X-mas.
-
- I regret his action, and I do not think anything is worth
- giving up your life, but I do know that my friend was no coward. I
- do hold it against his parents and their Godly advisors, at least in
- part.
-
- If you ever have a Gay child, don't ever reject him or her,
- regardless of what you may feel about his "sin".
-
- Gadson
-