Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!dyer From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: A reminder Message-ID: <19669@wivax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 00:00:30 EDT Article-I.D.: wivax.19669 Posted: Sun Jun 24 00:00:30 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Jun-84 08:16:11 EDT References: <159@bbncca.ARPA>, <2348@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma. 01879 Lines: 30 Prentiss, it's good to remind people that net.motss wasn't made to perpetuate the argument originated in September 1983 in 'net.singles' about the goodness/ badness/naturalness/unnaturalness of homosexuality. I would say one thing, though. I made that comment explicit in the first posting to 'net.motss' so that the articles which would come in wouldn't be limited to just this topic, which ultimately is pretty boring and self-limiting, much like the abortion issue, and there are so many more interesting issues to discuss. On the other hand, it is occasionally useful to serve as an educational vehicle. For example, I am eager to respond to Mark Terribile's questions posed as a straight man struggling to understand just what a gay person's experience is like (if one could ever speak for more than oneself.) And, I wouldn't mind going just a few rounds with Paul Dubuc on issues of morality, since I am as unconvinced of the moral arguments against homosexuality as he seems to be convinced. So, just speaking for myself, I don't want to rule out any subject in particular, but it may be necessary to declare a discussion dead if all the issues have been aired and people start repeating themselves, with no additional light, but lots of flames. Thankfully, a discussion usually peters out under its own dead weight before anyone has to do this. I am glad to see the presence of straight people with questions. As I said before, I don't want this group to become a ghetto. -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA