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To: epicure who wrote (35511)	3/16/2007 6:23:28 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541370

>>I think that's probably a bit of a move forward, for them. Seeing it as a disability rather than a choice to do "evil" is a huge leap forward for some people. We could always wish they'd leaped a bit farther, but people have to start where they are.<< Iktomi - That's a very interesting point. What I wonder is how such people would reconcile a belief that homosexuality is the equivalent of a birth defect with their belief that it is a sin, which is based on their reading of the Bible. But I doubt that very many of these kinds of Christians would ever accept scientific evidence that homosexuality is genetic. They don't accept scientific evidence that the world is more than 6,000 years old or that dinosaurs and man never coexisted, so why should they accept this? - Allen