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To: Charliss who wrote (19927)	4/7/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Yikes!! I just wrote you a very long post, and lost it when I tried to submit it. I'm going to post this and then add something in the edit, so I don't get frustrated again. <Hell is not a place apart from our own consciousness, and he bears this out.> This is very true, Charliss, and phrased in a lovely manner. I feel really sorry for your acquaintance who is a closeted homosexual and has to pretend all the time, and act in ways that hurt other gay people as well. I have always thought that a lot of the really promiscuous anonymous sex that gay males, in particular, engage in, has a strong element of self-hatred and self-destruction mixed up in it. It will be interesting to see if gay people as a group become emotionally more healthy, and kinder to themselves, when being gay is no longer anything special and everyone has full human and civil rights. I personally know of a very prominent gay man who was a Catholic archbishop. The Catholic Church quietly and lovingly ministers to all sorts of homosexual priests with AIDS, who they comfort and support until they die. There seems to be a lot of compassion there, although the last time I read an article about the issue, the Church did not want to discuss it publicly. What is the public Catholic stance on homosexuality, anyway, now? Not being Catholic, I am not sure, but I would be interested to know. Behind the scenes, homosexuality does not seem to be a very big deal in the Church. There was a debate in the early '90's, as homosexuality became a political issue, on whether it was appropriate to "out" famous people. The opinion I agreed with was that it was a violent and damaging thing to destroy someone's privacy like that, and perhaps their entire life as well, except maybe in cases where the homosexual was actively harming gay people in his public life--for example, a Congressman writing bills, making speeches, and voting against gay rights legislation. This issue is very complex, and I am not really sure what to think.