Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!daemon From: daemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Gay Rights Message-ID: <3723@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 10:08:16 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3723 Posted: Mon Sep 24 10:08:16 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 07:44:34 EDT Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 49 Re: Gay Rights_________________________________________________________________ It's sad to see unsupported dogma: > A person *is* black. A person *is* hispanic, and so on. A person *is not* > homosexual. Homosexuality is an emotional/spiritual disease which a person > can be cured from. Any evidence to support this last sentence? What are your qualifica- tions in these areas? The profession that defines emotional disease, psychol- ogy, does not agree that homosexuality is an emotional disease. A spiritual disease? Again, what have you got to support this? By the way, a person *is not* a Christian... > If you do not agree that homosexuality is a disease then you *must* agree > that it is possible for a person to practice homosexuality and then to re- > nounce it (sort of like smoking cigarettes :-)). Or sort of like joining a religion? Your argument is irrelevant, since *none* of us is strictly heterosex- ual or homosexual. Our sexual orientation is a point on an "ambisexual contin- uum;" a point that moves around throughout our lives. This is *normal*. You might argue that since most people are on the heterosexual end of the contin- uum, that's what's normal; but the same argument could be used against people with red hair. Did you *choose* to be heterosexual? If not, what makes you think that all homosexuals choose their sexual orientation? Again, your arguments are not supported by evidence. > Your characterization of homosexuals...as an oppressed group is laughable. > What about other "oppressed groups": murderers, thieves, drug addicts, > atheists[?] It's revealing that you choose to include atheists in this list; any discrimination against atheists is, after all, religious discrimination. are you advocating that? As for murderers, thieves, and drug addicts, one could clearly demon- strate that their behavior is wrong. I challenge Mr. Brunson (or anyone!) to demonstrate anything that's wrong with homosexuality. <_Jym_> :::::::::::::::: Jym Dyer ::::' :: `:::: Dracut, Massachusetts ::' :: `:: :: :: :: DYER%VAXUUM.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA :: .::::. :: {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-vaxuum!dyer ::..:' :: `:..:: ::::. :: .:::: Statements made in this article are my own; they might not :::::::::::::::: reflect the views of |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation.