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- From: cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale)
- Subject: Re: Oprah 11/19
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.205142.9481@dsg.cs.tcd.ie>
- Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
- References: <1992Nov19.191528.2610@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> <1992Nov20.040700.26375@col.hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:51:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.040700.26375@col.hp.com>
- smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- >(This is from my wife, using my account...it's her first time using
- >USENET, so cut her some slack...) [...]
- >1) I believe that whether a person is gay or straight depends on genetics.
- >Therefore, when a person is born, it has already been determined...being
- >gay is not "learned behavior that one can change" as the religious fanatics
- >would have us believe. Is this belief correct?
-
- A lot of people think that if it could be proven that people are "born
- gay" then oppression of gayfolk would stop. I don't think so. After all,
- black folk are born black yet that fact doesn't stop a racist bigot from
- hating blacks. Similarly, about 50% of the population are born female
- yet that does not many men from being sexist.
-
- So my answer to your question is "It doesn't matter."
-
-
- Ciaran.
- --
- ---- Ciaran McHale (cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie)
- \bi/ Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
- \/ Telephone: +353-1-7021539 FAX: +353-1-6772204
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