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- From: gandalf@dworkin.ccs.northeastern.edu (Thomas M Farrell)
- Subject: Re: Fundamentalists and the clitoris
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:36:11 GMT
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- I remember going to high school in NEw Jersey. I went to a pretty good high
- school with fairly progressive teachers. While I was there, a lot of the old
- textbooks the school had were replaced.
-
- I remember my history teacher telling me that the new book we got was ok, but
- that there was a much better book which he wasn't allowed to use because it
- treated evolution as fact.
-
- I remember my biology teacher teaching about evolution, but having to couch it
- with all kinds of qualifiers and giving us the option to skip the class and
- basically not really teaching it as fact. He talked about evolution in general,
- but his only comment on the evolution of humanity was that "some people believe
- that this theory should be applied to people." He later told me that he is
- forbidden to discuss it in any more depth than that and that he fears that if
- he did teach it more definitely, religious fundamentalists would try to have
- him fired. Also notably, the reading list skipped the book's section
- on evolution.
-
- I know that right now there's a woman who used to be a close friend of mine,
- who is still a friend but is a lot less close because her fundamentalist
- religion tells her I'm evil incarnate, and I think they've convinced her I'm
- trying to have sex with her son, who is my age. (Actually, if he didn't live
- 2000 miles away... but anyway.)
-
- I remember coming downstairs and finding my grandmother watching some radical
- fundamentalist person preaching on tv about the evils of homosexuality... and
- she told me that she believed that gay people should be put in concentration
- camps. I had almost worked up the courage to come out at that point, but my
- grandmother's comment, thanks to the fundamentalist influence, delayed my
- coming out by three years.
-
- If you want to see evil incarnate, look at America's religious fundamentalists.
- They've caused unimaginably large amounts of damage to this country, and they
- are poised to make it even worse for us.
-