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To: Jamey who wrote (13505)	4/7/1998 5:01:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 39621

James, although in the United States the primary transmission of AIDS was homosexual, that has been reduced to about 50%, and it is increasingly becoming a disease of poverty, particularly through IV drug transmission. In the entire world, is is resoundingly a heterosexual disease. Homosexuals don't die because they practice that lifestyle--they die because AIDS is a nasty disease that we have not found a cure for yet. Most sexually transmitted diseases are primarily transmitted heterosexually, and have been through the ages. Is this a reason not to have heterosexual sex? I've been married for almost seventeen years, so I wouldn't date anyone, really. I like really masculine men, and most of those probably wouldn't have had any homosexual contact after puberty, when it is pretty normal for all young boys to experiment a couple of times. But I would not reject someone who is bisexual based on that fact if I found them attractive. If I were suddenly and unexpectedly thrown into the dating game, I would insist that I and anyone I dated know each other for awhile, and be tested for HIV, before we had sex. Loving family relationships do ensure continuation of the human race, and back when the population of earth was very small, creating a belief system that only heterosexual sex was acceptable might have had a lot to do with trying to build the population. But now we are overpopulated, and certainly do not need everyone to procreate. As far as the real smutty, dirty world of the gay person, that is mostly in your imagination, I think. Young homosexuals are sometimes promiscuous, just like young heterosexuals are. But they settle down mostly when they fall in love, and grow old together just like all couples do, in committed relationships. Most of what homosexuals do with each other falls into the category of companionship and normal family activities. They don't really have sex any more often than anyone else. You might have noticed the post I wrote earlier today citing all the examples of homosexual and bisexual animals and birds in nature. So it seems to me that a variety of sexual interest and expression is exactly what God planned, or why would he have created life that way? Homosexuals in American do tend to have very public parades. Certainly most parents wouldn't bring their children to one, and neither would I. But I think the reason some homosexuals act that way is because they have had to hide essential parts of themselves because of repression against them. Imagine never being able to speak of your mate at your work, or kiss her or hold her hand in public, or act open and normal. This is just part of what we have put homosexuals through in our society, criminalizing their basic natures. My own belief is that in-your-face public behavior will diminish when all homosexuals can live openly, and can express the same amount of affection in public that is considered all right for heterosexuals to express. You are certainly entitled to your own belief system, James. I hope you don't use it to hurt anyone, or discriminate against them, however!!

To: Jamey who wrote (13505)	4/7/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: O'Hara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

><>...Among the gods there is none like unto thee...><> Ps 86:1-8 1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. 7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.