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Homosexuality is not exactly rare.

In Reply to: You are fairly accurate in that assesment of my position. posted by Stuart Gort on July 07, 1999 at 10:15:47:

I doubt more than most. Homosexuality is not exactly rare. I am sure every one here knows many gay people, and may be gay themselves. People I know are quite open and honest about what their experience is like. I work with mostly gay men every day at this time and they are quite happy well balanced people, so maybe these poor souls that you encountered have other issues. Take my uncle for example, sure he was gay, but he was also raised in an abusive alcoholic home, etc. etc. But there are some who would try to lump all the reasoning of his unhappiness on his sexuality, when really there was so much more.

: Having homosexual urges might very well be common to us all to some degree. It is confusing and disorienting if the urge (temptation) is powerful. Acting on those urges typically causes guilt. Guilt forces rationalization or poor self image. Rationalization is manifest in the flaming, in your face acivist using shock tactics and hyper effeminant behavior. Poor self image was manifested in all the non-flaming homosexuals I ever knew. Not a happy person in the bunch. If forced to characterize the common element among them I would say it was true desperation. Sorry if that appears as a judgement but judgement also includes sentencing. I couldn't sentence a gay man or woman to hell. If hell exists that is God's decision. All the same, I'll not abide teaching children that homosexuality is good. My experience says it is certainly not good.

: SG

Hmmmm...who can't you say this about? Any minority any where experiences allienation, fear, embarrassment, shame, low self esteem etc. in varying degrees. Even I did simply for looking different in high school. This did not mean that I was doing anything to be ashamed of. What it meant was that I was surrounded by people who were too scared to be themselves and were ignorant and fearful of the unknown and reacted out of this by treating me as an outcast which left me with the same mess of painful feelings as any one who is treated this way. Many of the minorities in the USA face the exact same issues as gay people. It is a direct result of discrimination. What will you teach your children about people of other color, culture, religion, disabilities? Why do you determine a difference?

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