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- From: mcbeanb@brandonu.ca
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: franklin defends darcy
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.163355.2023@brandonu.ca>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 22:33:55 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.180637.25888@wam.umd.edu> <Bs5Jtt.Mzs@cs.dal.ca>
- Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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- In article <Bs5Jtt.Mzs@cs.dal.ca>, franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Elvis) writes:
- > In <1992Jul28.180637.25888@wam.umd.edu> judi@wam.umd.edu (Jay T Stein -- Subliminal Psychology Talent Scout) writes:
- >
- >>What: <Bs3wn8.BLz@cs.dal.ca>
- >>Who: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca [Steve Franklin]
- >
- >>You've yet to recover from your rather embarrassing assertion that functional
- >>families never beget homosexual children but that the presence of homosexual
- >>children doesn't necessarily imply a family that isn't functional.
- >>I, and at least one other poster, told you that the two statements are
- >>equivalent.
- >
- > I don't recall saying this exactly, but you almost hit my point. My
- > "embarassing" assertion was that children are a product of their
- > environment first and foremost (my oversight was in making this statement
- > an absolute, rather than a "in most cases" statement).
- > You see, I fully believe that strong, loving heterosexual relationships
- > will (in most cases!) breed in turn loving, heterosexual relationships.
- > However, I subscribe to the theory that homosexual relationships and
- > practices stem from a childhood that was less than "normal". You define
- > normal if you like.
-
- I'm sure that even by your definition of a "normal" environment, homosexuals
- would arise just as much as from anyone else's definition of normal.
-
- > There is a higher incedence of homosexuality in chilren
- > who have been through a divorce. There is also a higher incedence of
- > homosexuality in those who lost a father (OR mother) when young...
-
- Interesting, but you know what they say about correlation and causation
- (no, what do they say (who are "they" anyway?)?)...
-
- Brian McBean - McBeanB@BrandonU.Ca
-