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- From: sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy)
- Subject: One hell of a wake-up call.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.153709.25733@watson.ibm.com>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:37:09 GMT
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- This saturday morning, I received a phone call from my father, a member of
- Downtown United Presbteryan (sp?) Church in Rochester, NY. (Home of
- Janie Spahr, the lesbian pastor who is being barred from her congregation.)
- For more information about Janie reply via e-mail.
-
- He feels very strongly about the stubbornness and "un-christian" behavior
- of the people who oppose the congregation's choice for pastor. He explained
- that he "wanted to become gay" (his words) to make himself a target for the
- injustices that are committed against homosexuals.
-
- So, his plan is to take a partner, while still remaining faithful to his wife. He would
- become part of the gay community and thus would place his support amongst
- the people who are being wronged. He knows this will cause alot of problems
- with his friends and business associates who are not as open-minded as others.
- And he doesn't have any idea how he is going to do this, but he desperately
- wants to do something.
-
- I have several problems with this.
- 1: He is not homosexual. (I don't believe he is in denial) He vows that he would
- not be unfaithful to his wife and not take a lover, but "would have a partner."
- Whomever his partner is could get seriously hurt. (mentally and emotionally) and
- by "becoming gay" he is saying that he believes homosexuality is a person's
- choice not something that can only be a certain way. (I don't know how else to
- say this, but I believe that a homosexual person is homosexual at birth, and
- there is nothing that can be done to make that person "be" heterosexual.)
-
- 2: He seems to wish to be a martyr, but I think his method will hurt and insult
- more than help and aid. The community that he wishes to help may view him
- as an outsider or worse an enemy. And therefore he coul cast off some of his
- friends to only have his new friends shun him. (Not a very tenable situation)
-
- 3: There must be better ways for a heterosexual person to fight the injustices
- against homosexuals than to artifically become one.
-
- Am I off base?
-
- I would not have as many concerns if my father had said "Son, I'm gay", but
- this seriously distrubs me.
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- Scott C. Kennedy (sck@watson.ibm.com) | This post does not reflect the intent
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