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- From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Congratulating (het) parents on their new baby
- Message-ID: <7@bbx.basis.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 06:08:40 GMT
- References: <Bzo2DH.DFx@cs.columbia.edu> <2@bbx.basis.com> <1ha9p7INNm7q@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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- In article <1ha9p7INNm7q@fido.asd.sgi.com> pauli@sgi.com (Paul Isaacs) writes:
- >This ties into something I've been wondering about.
- >It seems that in Roman Catholic circles, the big bad sin is to perform a gay
- >sex act; but there's not much in there about it being evil to have a
- >tendency towards your own sex versus opposite sex.
- >
- >So, it's sort of like they realize that it's perfectly natural to desire
- >the same sex. It's just that you have to overcome the desire, beat it down,
- >deny it, just like anything else fun in life.
- >
- >So you can be gay and go to heaven (I personally would rather that the
- >Saint re-open) as long as you never have sex. Yes?
-
- Yep. They expect gay people to live lonely, isolated lives. That is
- the unfortunate burden of the gay person and is why gay people are so
- sad. Frankly, I seriously wonder about anybody that would ask that
- of another human. Those people are in serious need of a reality check.
-
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- Scott Amspoker |
- Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | Too bad ignorance isn't really
- | bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
- scott@bbx.basis.com |
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