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- From: pdb059@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov (Paul Bartholomew)
- Newsgroups: ca.politics
- Subject: Re: Clayton's bogus numbers
- Message-ID: <197412@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:08:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.103515.8607@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov12.230416.16881@netcom.com> <1992Nov15.203834.10109@udel.edu> <1992Nov16.174731.16439@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov16.174731.16439@netcom.com>, phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov15.203834.10109@udel.edu> carroll@balin.cis.udel.edu (Mark C. Carroll) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov12.230416.16881@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
- > >>Correct. The German State tried to protray the Jews as doing
- > >>such things as murdering children for religious rituals.
- > >>
- > >>That would be horrible and disgusting if true. But it of
- > >>course was not true.
- > >>
- > >>Homosexuals have sex with people of the same sex. Many people
- > >>find that disgusting and revolting. But, what homosexuals do
- > >>IS TRUE.
- > >>
- > >>Big difference.
-
- No, I don't think so, actually. You haven't posted any statistics that
- support your position that people dislike homosexuals *solely* because
- they have sex with other men. In my conversations with people and in
- the research I've done, I've found that people dislike homosexuals for
- reasons that have little to do with the basic homosexual act itself.
-
- For example, people may dislike homosexuals because they have been told
- that:
-
- 1. Homosexuals are more likely to molest children.
- 2. Homosexuals are mentally ill.
- 3. Homosexuals lead disfunctional lifestyles.
- 4. Homosexuals want to recruit their children to homosexuality.
- 5. Homosexuals (male) want to be women.
- 6. Homosexuals are effeminate wimps who wear women's clothing.
- 7. Homosexuals practice aberrant sado-masochistic behavior.
-
- Now, when people realize that none of this is actually true, their dislike
- of homosexuality almost invariably turns to complete neutrality. Whether
- these myths have been propagated maliciously or innocently doesn't change
- the fact that many people, perhaps even most, dislike homosexuals for
- invalid reasons that have nothing to do with homosexuality.
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- Paul Bartholomew | "The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of
- | many things..." Lewis Carroll
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