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- From: smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss,alt.politics.homosexuality
- Subject: Re: Call/Fax/Write Fernandez
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 21:26:34 GMT
- Organization: Colorado Springs IT Center
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- rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden) writes:
- > I know my family. When I contacted them recently, my siblings tell me
- > that my mother was more excited than she had ever been -- she wanted
- > me home for christmas. Then she got a letter from me, making it clear
- > that sexuality is a part of my life, and is not going away.
-
- I've read this part over a few times, and don't know if I really
- understand the meaning. (sexuality is a part of my life).
-
- > The problem is that you tend to project how we should act/react to
- > people based on who you are. It's another case where you have to step
- > back and look at the rest of the world.
-
- You may have a point there.
-
- > It seems like some people want to have it both ways -- they want to
- > judge, yet not have the consequences that come with judging. In my
- > opinion, people who "think homosexuality is wrong but treat
- > homosexuals just the same" are avoiding something. They aren't
- > dealing with internal issues (about religion, about life). They just
- > want to whistle past the sexuality issue and have everything else
- > remain the same.
-
- Here's the S word again, and again I'm not sure I'm grasping all
- of its meaning here. What is the sexuality issue?
-
- > Parents who don't completely reject their
- > child sometimes come to this point, realizing that there is nothing
- > wrong with the child, they have to look at the rest of their beliefs.
- > And if they do so honestly, that often leads to changes in themselves.
- > Sometimes they leave their church (if the church is telling them
- > things about their child that they know are untrue),
-
- Which leads to the question, if tolerence isn't enough; if acceptance
- is what is desired, how is this to be accomplished with the bulk of
- western churches teaching that it is unacceptable? How can people
- who believe in their religion be convinced that it is OK, if their
- religion teaches it is not? ie; how will the desired goal of acceptance
- coexist with the churches, and the people in them? Will the churches
- have to change their teaching on homosexuality?
-
- > I often recommend this book, and I'll do it again. It's called Beyond
- > Acceptance, and it's written by parents from P-FLAG (Parents and
- > Friends of Lesbians and Gays). It mostly consists of pieces of
- > interviews with parents as they go through the process of dealing with
- > their child's sexuality.
-
- Think a public library would have this one?
-
- Walter Smith
- smithw@cs.itc.hp.com
-
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