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- Subject: Re: ""Gay rights group files complaint""
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- From: mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us (mike batchelor)
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 18:43:16 PDT
- References: <1992Nov8.201524.9789@wam.umd.edu> <BxFEwC.K2t@news.iastate.edu> <BxGuxo.92v@news.orst.edu> <13305@optilink.COM>
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- cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
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- > In article <BxGuxo.92v@news.orst.edu>, hoyerr@ucs.orst.edu (Richard Hoyer) writes:
- > > In article <1992Nov9.125827.15108@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- > > > Irrelavent. In the view of a great number of people, homosexuals
- > > > are doing damage just as severe to children they are exposed
- > > > to by promoting homosexuality. Homosexuals say no, of course,
- > > > but serial killers often don't feel that what they're doing is
- > > > wrong (the same might be said for fanatic xtians as well...).
- > >
- > > What in the world do you mean by "promoting homosexuality?" Homosexuality is
- > > not something you do. It is simply a sexual orientation. You cannot promote
- > > sexual orientation. That just doesn't make any sense!
- >
- > Then why is it that I have no problem finding recent scholarly
- > works on the subject of child sexual abuse that recognize that
- > adult homosexuality is sometimes a response to child sexual
- > abuse?
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- Sometimes it is. Are you implying that there may be a more general
- connection between adult victims of child abuse, and all adult
- homosexuals, or are you just making vague insinuations?
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- I'm sure there are some straight adults who would be gay, were it not
- for abuse suffered while they were a child.
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- > Isn't it amazing that we as a society are concerned about
- > exposure to violence imprinting values and attitudes on children,
- > but somehow, the same thing doesn't happen with sexuality?
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- Child sexual abuse IS violence, not sexuality. Sexuality is not violence.
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- [] Mike Batchelor <> Long Beach, California
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