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- From: mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Brooklyn Bishop Lays an Egg
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.143658.20314@panix.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 14:36:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.215501.20669@PacBell.COM>
- Organization: (getting there)
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- rjwill6@pbsdts.sdcrc.pacbell.com (Rod Williams) writes:
-
- >I hope one of our NYC correspondents will have more
- >information about this.
- Really? There's no good in it.
-
- >The Bay Area Reporter ran an item about a local TV
- >show in New York that had a debate on the pros and cons
- >of the "Children of the Rainbow" curriculum that's
- >being implemented in public schools there -- it teaches
- >kids that gays and lesbians are people to be respected
- >just like any others, and is, therefore, highly
- >contoversial. One of the participants, (Roman
- >Catholic) Bishop Edward Daily of Brooklyn, made a
- >remark something like how-can-you-teach-that-they're-
- >normal-just-look-at-them.
-
- What he said-- at least, the part that was quoted in my hearing--
- was that "homosexuality is a recognized disorder." It is so blatant
- a lie that we sat their stunned the first time we heard it, but as
- it was repeated we began to get vocal and did some ranting about it.
-
- >Is it too much to hope that Daily and his egregious boss,
- >Cardinal O'Connor, would ever deign to speak with and learn
- >from their Episcopalian brother across the Hudson, John
- >Spong, Bishop of Newark, who could startle them with some
- >new-fangled, 20th Century notions about human sexuality...
-
- Sigh. You really don't expect me to answer that question, do you?
- It's almost the end of the year, and I'm trying very hard to be an
- optimist about things...
-
- What I really would like to see is some serious outcry from mental
- health professionals pointing out that the "disorder" part was
- debunked many years ago.
-
- Mara [reporting from NY, where she lives with her favorite mental
- health professional]
-
- --
-
- Mara Chibnik
- mara@panix.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.
-