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From: beth@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Homosexuality
Message-ID: <7498@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 12:21:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 14 12:21:59 1984
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Keep the discussion in net.singles.  As Sophie noted, net.motss isn't for
flames against gays.  I am amazed that both sides keep yelling at one another.
How about treating people like people?  Should people who have been sterilized
not have sex?  Just because they have been sterilized and still have sex are
they not fit to teach, be parents, and hold positions which require security
clearances?  Not being able to procreate directly within a relationship does
not automatically make those people unfit for anything other than procreation.
Why should it matter what they do in the privacy of their own homes? 

Gay people generally are not seducing children, raping women, or killing
people.  Neither are blacks, Jews, women, Englishmen, rich folks, or any
other subdivision of society other than rapists, child molesters, and
murderers.  Yes, there are some people in all of those categories who will
commit some crimes.  But most of those people are lawabiding citizens.  How
about getting after the rapists and the child molesters?  Concentrate on the
area of sexual abuse of children.  Most of that abuse is more heterosexual
rather than homosexual.  Lobby to allow the children to give testimony.
Volunteer to help out with counseling kids.  Help out however you can.

Leave alone those people who do whatever they want in the privacy of their
own homes with other consenting adult partners.  It's none of your business.

					Beth Katz
People are people too.			{seismo,rlgvax}!umcp-cs|beth