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From: lmeck@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Loren Meck)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Boy, am I catching it.....
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Date: Thu, 28-Jul-83 19:43:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 28 19:43:51 1983
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Reply-To: lmeck@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Loren Meck)
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From Michael Turner:

	"Anyone who distains(sic) 'Faggot Pride Week' is, to my mind, a
	 queer-basher until proven innocent."

Well, I disdain "Faggot Pride Week", and I'm not a queer-basher.  I have
had, and still have, friends who are bisexual or homosexual.  I believe
that all of them would agree with my disdain for celebrations of
homosexuality as portrayed by "Gay Pride Week".

Many, if not most, homosexuals have relationships similar to those
enjoyed by heterosexuals.  However, the "Gay Pride Week" parades, etc.
portray and promote a homosexual "life-style" in which promiscuity and
public sex are commonplace and acceptable.  In this "life-style", the
maxim "do your own thing and don't discriminate" substitutes for
reason; in particular, public health is secondary to the presumed right
of homosexuals to enjoy any desired form of sexual expression.
Promiscuous anal and oral sex do a very good job of spreading diseases
that society has a right to be free of.  This is sufficient reason
for public condemnation, not of homosexuality, but of the homosexual
"life-style" as portrayed and promoted by such events as "Gay Pride
Week".

As if the "traditional" diseases (syphilis, gonorrhea, hepatitis,
amoebic dysentery, etc.) weren't bad enough, now we have AIDS to contend
with.  Having created a public health nightmare, homosexual (and other)
activists now want the rest of us to spend our money to seek a medical
cure when all that is required is curtailment of promiscuity.  This is
another legitimate reason for societal condemnation of the "life-style"
promoted by "Gay Pride Week".

Finally, the correct word for those who are attracted to members of the
same sex is "homosexual".  I will promise not to substitute the word
"faggot" when others promise not to substitute the word "gay".  Those of
us who are gay, but who are not homosexual, object strenuously to the
attempt to promote the homosexual "life-style" by using the emotionally
positive word "gay", just as you object to the denigration of homosexuals
with the emotionally negative word "faggot".

I'm all for a "more tolerant world" too, but the tolerance must be based
on reason, not on worship of sacred cows.  All of us have the right and
obligation to examine societal changes rationally and critically, and to
condemn those changes we perceive as harmful.

Loren Meck