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- From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
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- Subject: Re: New Catholic Catechism
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:05:07 GMT
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- In <1e9t9eINN2jd@alice.cs.purdue.edu> berninge@cs.purdue.edu (James Berninger) writes:
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- >On my way home from Hickville, Indiana (TM), I was quite taken aback
- >by a national news report that the Catholic Church (TM) has issued a
- >new catechism -- the first one in over 400 years. It mentions,
- >among other things, a new stance on gays: "One should avoid all
- >unjust discrimination of them."
- ^^^^^^
- This weasel word sucks all meaning from the statement. Of course
- one should avoid *unjust* discrimination, that is almost tautologous.
- The question is, what sort of discrimination do they consider just?
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