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- From: emg@Metaphor.COM (Mike Greenawalt)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: Gays you miss the point.
- Message-ID: <2659@cronos.metaphor.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:52:45 GMT
- References: <1992Oct30.200054.7518@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1992Oct31.161009.21489@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <8p0pp+p@lynx.unm.edu>,<1992Nov3.170807.3262@usl.edu> <1992Nov3.195530.5506@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <2648@cronos.metaphor.com> <1el5kcINNg14@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1el5kcINNg14@gap.caltech.edu>, keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
- |> >At what age does the typical gay male know that he is gay? I would think that
- |> >at ages 11-12-13 or so, boys are just beginning to find out who/what they are.
- |> >I doubt they can make a lifetime decision at that age.
- |>
- |> You are speaking as if boys actually *decide* to become gay or not. You
- |> seem to be saying that homosexuality is some sort of lifestyle choice.
- |> This has not been substantiated by research. Instead, it seems that humans
- |> (the population on the whole) caontain a wide spectrum of all sexualtieis.
- |> Some people are purely gay wihle others are purely straight. Most people,
- |> though, are somewhere in between.
- |>
- |> And, I also don't see how you think of this "decision" as a "lifetime
- |> decision." Are you saying that once a person has sex with someone of
- |> the same gender, that they cannot still have a family and a "normal" (by
- |> your definition) life?
- |>
- |> keith
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- Obviously I did not say what I meant to say. I have gotten several replies to
- my posting above in the same vein at this one. I would like to clarify ...
-
- NO, I do not believe that gays *decide* to become gay. I decidedly believe the
- opposite.
-
- My posting was in response to a suggestion made that the controversy over
- gays and scouting be remedied by establishing a gay troop. I think that is
- a terrible idea because most boys of 11-13 are emotionally/sexually immature
- and are still discovering who/what they are and should not be separated on
- sexual orientation lines.
-
- The *decision* I meant was simply the one to join or not join the gay troop.
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