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- From: patrick@blanco.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: An argument for better sex ed
- In-Reply-To: lefty@apple.com's message of 12 Jan 93 20:03:46 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:32:05 GMT
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- On 12 Jan 93 20:03:46 GMT, lefty@apple.com (Lefty) said:
- >Followup-To: talk.abortion
-
- >In article <1993Jan7.224312.5846@noao.edu>, forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne
- >Forgach), a self-proclaimed "compassionate Christian" treats us to a
- >display of a species of compassion with which I'm not at all familiar by
- >writing the following to Patrick Humphrey:
- >>
- >> We all know you're blind as a bat. Just look at what you married.
-
- >and
-
- >> [Dale Ann's daughter] ain't yours. She's another man's, a man who's been
- >> with your wife. I hope it drives you crazy.
-
- >Gee, Suzanne, is this actually how Christianity is supposed to work, loving
- >your neighbor, not judging lest you be judged, that sort of thing? I guess
- >I don't understand this religion nearly as well as I thought I did.
-
- Welcome to the club. :-) Of course, by that standard, I've only come across
- one person who *does* understand it that way, and she's living in Tucson.
-
- >Of course, I suppose the possibility exists that _you_ might be the one who
- >doesn't understand it.
-
- You know that. I know that. Everyone in any newsgroup she's ever appeared
- in knows that -- but try convincing Suzanne of that. That's the tricky
- part.
-
- >By the bye, Suzanne, since you apparently feel that having a step-child
- >should "drive [the step-parent] crazy", how do you feel about adopted
- >children?
-
- You mean she hasn't told you? That's someone else's problem, not hers.
-
- Meanwhile, I'm still not being driven crazy, much as Suzanne hopes I am --
- as a matter of fact, Dale and I have been giggling over that at times.
- About the only visible change five years of being a stepfather to Sonja the
- Incredibly Cute have made in me is the increase of gray hairs in my beard,
- and the appearance of the long-dreaded bald spot on my head. :-)
-
- --PLH, pass the Geritol, dammit.
-
- --
- Patrick L. Humphrey (patrick@is.rice.edu) Rice Networking & Computing Systems
- +1 713 528-3626 at Rice. 776-1541 at home. 667-6554 at Palace Lanes.
- I love my country.
- I *don't* trust my government.
-