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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (9282)4/16/2002 6:10:36 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
So often we hear as parents how children respond to the way they are treated. I think that's true of all of us, children and adults. For years we treated gays as sick perverts, as objects of derision and rejection, as inferior beings without morals, of people who chose to sin. I can only imagine the hell it must be to realize you are different, and just how negatively that difference was going to be received.

I think it bears considering that some of what those early studies show may possibly be reflecting the consequences of societal treatment, not of being gay.

I just saw a victim of priest abuse on CNBC. It was a female, and I wondered how many of them have come forward. It makes more sense to me that males would be the victims, not because of gayness, but because of availability. Isn't it a fact that in prison, there is a high incidence of male on male rape even though most of the men are heterosexual?
The sex drive is an intense one, and the environment of the Catholic Church was a repressive one.

I think what I'm getting at by my own tortured cognitive process is that this specific situation with its abnormal lifestyle and expectations is a very poor one from which to draw any kind of generalizations regarding a far larger population.
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