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- From: gtoal@nyx.cs.du.edu (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Oprah 11/19
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.155428.14775@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov21.205142.9481@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
- >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.
-
- It's worse than that. The xtian fundie attitute is 'it's not the sinner
- we despise, but the sin'. If they can prove that 'the sin' had a biological
- basis (inherited genetics or some developmental thing in the womb) then they
- will feel *totall* justified to forcibly 'cure' 'sufferers' by locking them
- up in psychiatric homes against their will just as they do at the moment
- with 'Satanists'. What's more, I'd lay money they'd change their attitude
- to abortion damn quick if they could determine that a child in the womb
- would grow up gay. They're extremely good at finding Biblical justifications
- when it suits them despite being deaf and blind to Biblical quotations
- working the other way.
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- G
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