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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (73697)	8/30/2003 8:06:23 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I agree that the arguments for a looser interpretation of the Bible were weak. There was another related point made during the broadcast that I found interesting--but not sufficiently interesting to research. One of the featured individuals was a Republican operative from California, a former chief of staff for Bob Dornan before he came out, and a Catholic. It was his estrangement from Dornan, a father figure to him, that was the focus of his segment. Anyway, a key moment for him as he came out was a TV program with Andrew Sullivan and Pat Robertson where Sullivan argued, successfully, according to this individual, that the Catholic Church originally had no problem with homosexuality and only came out against in in the last some centuries, I think they said 6. That would be important, if true. One of the really sad things about the show for me was how the homosexuals portrayed, who were all quite religious, longed for acceptance by their churches. One of them was Mormon, the son of a Mormon bishop, I think they called him. This last fellow seemed to me to be the most broken of the bunch by his estrangement from his family and church. The others seemed to have made an adequate adjustment.