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To: Solon who wrote (10459)	4/24/2002 10:01:36 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I think it is common for people who happen to be homosexual and who have the misfortune to be raised in religions which denigrate the homosexual, to be self hating- and in effect they are homophobic even though they are homosexual and their homophobia has a component of self loathing. It is common, afterall, in the clinical literature to find descriptions of men who feel some latent attraction to other men but who are repressing it because homosexuality is so "horrible", and these men tend to be the most physically aggressive toward gays. It is sad. We can make society any way we want it by our attitudes- I will never see why we need to direct antipathy and disgust toward people who appear to be born to experience love and passion in a different way. Their presence in the human race seems constant over recorded time, and I have nothing but good will for them as part of the human family. I think I will save my disgust and revulsion for people who kill other people, or maim or torture, or abuse children, not for people who love other adults in a different way. But that is probably because no religion every managed to train me in the "right" way.