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To: Suma who wrote (40860)	9/1/2007 6:28:15 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541582

Suma, I didn't miss that point- but perhaps I didn't make myself clear enough- this : "although I think we can all be upset with him for the hypocrisy of being so opposed to people who were just like himself- but who chose to be honest and live openly gay lives. Even if his animosity to openly living gays sprang from jealousy, rather than political expediency (which somehow I find more repugnant- maybe it isn't, but it seems so to me), the hypocrisy is still problematic, " was supposed to address the issue you raised. I do think that if you grew up in a certain type of household, and were conservative, it would be almost impossible to admit to being gay. I don't think that's any excuse for being homophobic, but I do think people who live such fractured lives must be in a considerable amount of pain. We can, I think, feel compassion for their pain, and still also address the fact that they inflicted pain as well as experienced it. The experiencing of pain does not, in other words, excuse the inflicting of it, but the infliction does not preclude compassion, either. Is that a better restatement of what I said?