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To: The Philosopher who wrote (1000)	9/8/1999 3:19:00 AM
From: DJB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

<<Intellectually and rationally, I can make a strong case for civil rights based on sexual preference. But something doesn't feel right about it to me. It is unnatural.>> There have been studies done that show homosexuality appears in animals other than humans. So if homosexuality is occurring in nature it can't be unnatural. <<It violates a taboo that I feel without knowing its origin (but knowing that its origin is NOT in any religious scripture>> What taboo? Who decides what is taboo and what is the criteria? Erase Hate, Dennis

To: The Philosopher who wrote (1000)	9/8/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

Thanks for this reply. There are 350 posts on this thread today and I have no idea what the topic of discussion is now... hopefully animal rights, my favorite... but anyway I'm pretty sure they have moved on and I don't want to get in the way of traffic. I do have a question though... That was a digression, but not an irrelevant one. What I find interesting is that most societies have had taboos against homosexuality. Not all -- the Greeks were a notable exception. But most. My quite limited knowledge of anthropological sociology leads me to the belief that societies only develop significant taboos against practices which weaken and threaten the society. Why did so many societies develop such strong taboos against homosexuality? I don't know. But I don't dismiss such taboos as simple discrimination. I think those societies may have recognized something we haven't yet recognized. What, I don't yet know. Do you happen to know if any non-christian societies hold this taboo? Example, african tribes... do they frown on homosexuality? I ask because I recently have done some reading on the origins of christianity. The author of these books claims that christianity was once one of many cults... please note I am not making a judgement of christianity itself here, just its origins ... but at its inception there was a need to recruit and "get the word out" so to speak. Some of the recruiting was directed towards women and was very appealing to them because christianity frowned upon adultery, valued family etc. whereas these things were a-ok according to other "religious" doctrines of the time. I am questioning whether this taboo against homosexuality is a part of that, the elevation of women in ancient times, accomplished by christianity.