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To: The Ox who wrote (22208)	11/5/2004 1:53:46 AM
From: bull_derrick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

Michael, I wrote that it was a sin according to the Bible and wasn't writing about it in terms of it being a crime. In the case of the 17 states who had these laws overturned, I do not know what the penalties were in each state but that's a legal perspective and I was trying to share a moral perspective. Since you asked, public drunks are usually not given jail except maybe in Mayberry. Most are given treatment programs, and counseling. The American Psychiatric Association did a great disservice to homosexuals in the 1960s when they delisted homosexuality as a problem worthy of treatment. If one looks at mortality rates, health issues, suicide rates and forgot the political correctness of the issue, any other syndrome would be met with treatment programs. It is my opinion that the medical program has done these people a great disservice by saying "they can't help it, they were born that way". There is plenty of evidence of hereditary predispositions to alcoholism yet the medical profession doesn't deny treatment because it's politically incorrect or offensive to say that it's a public health problem. Ministries such as: exodusglobalalliance.org debunk the myth that homosexuals cannot be helped. When they dragged the woman caught in the act of adultery in front of Jesus, he did not condemn her but he did command her to sin no more. A loving response is to help people struggling with sin, whatever the sin, into a state of victory over that sin. In my opinion, politically correct statements that people cannot be helped is the most unloving response of all.