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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (71653)	8/5/2003 1:58:55 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Your comment missed the point completely. As usual, you are attempting to plant something that doesn't belong there into my view point so that you can give the appearance of debate." That is crap. What point did I miss? You said this: "BTW you are correct. Tolerance, in this case, must be taught. Hetero-sexual people typically do find the practice (at least the sodomy version) repugnant. People who are dismissive or who call that "homo-phobia" don't have the facts." I simply pointed out that your statement implying that repugnance was a natural condition was incorrect. It is INtolerance which is taught. You do not have a genetic "repugnance" any more than the Greeks did. You have a cultural "repugnance" which stems from the inculcation of certain religious beliefs across several centuries. Having a repugnance is not synonymous with "preference". Those of us without a great deal of religious baggage have no "repugnance" for it at all. They are just another variety of persons. So it is correct to call the repugnance homophobic even though it was culturally taught. Racism is culturally taught as well but we do not excuse it on that account.