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- From: jmacvean@willamette.edu (Jennifer MacVean)
- Newsgroups: or.politics
- Subject: Re: new initiative
- Message-ID: <C1DHJJ.DCt@willamette.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:16:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: willamet.C1DHJJ.DCt
- References: <1jdgvoINN19a@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> <1993Jan21.051232.4426@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1jojerINNfsp@leela.CS.ORST.EDU>
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- In article <1jojerINNfsp@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> downsj@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU
- (jason downs) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.051232.4426@qiclab.scn.rain.com>,
- > Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- >>Your religion analogy has a problem in that it *assumes* that sexual
- >>orientation is a choice.
- >
- >actually, it doesn't matter if it's a choice, or not. homosexuality is
- >a type of _behaviour_, and cannot be treated as the basis for a minority
- >class because of that fact.
-
- I beg to differ. Homosexuality is not "behavior," it is more of a
- personality trait...whether or not it's genetic, environmentally
- caused, from lead poisoning...no one has yet agreed (scientifically)
- how it is caused. In any case, "homosexual sex" is a behavior,
- a "homosexual" is a person (noun), and "homosexuality" reflects
- a personality trait. It happens quite often that a homosexual is
- celibate for a length of time...or a bisexual finds members of the
- same sex attractive but is not able to find someone to date. Have
- they ceased to be homosexual and bisexual, temporarily, even though
- they still find members of the same sex equally attractive, yet
- difficult to meet with the knowledge that attraction will not be
- repulsed or reacted violently to? Please do respond.
-
- On the other hand, I agreed with what you said about teaching against
- racism:
-
- >why, yes it is wrong to teach that black kids, specifically, are just as
- >good as anyone else. it should be taught that everyone is equal, without
- >using african-americans (or anyone else) as an example.
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- > \ - jason downs - /\ - downsj@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU - /
- > / zeppelin/amiga release 2/insane guy \/ led/vasudeva/lord of fear of death \
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- Lynne MacVean.
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