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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (26675)	12/8/1998 1:11:00 AM
From: Craig Richards	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Bob, I don't know where you get your "facts" about homosexuals, but they sure don't mesh with my experiences. I don't think there is that much difference with E's experience, as those children were probably just stating "facts" told them by their parents. If you really believe that what you stated about homosexuals was a fact and not your opinion, then you are behaving like those children who taunted E and her Jewish friend based on their mistaken understanding of the "facts". Craig

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (26675)	12/8/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<< those children weredeliberately mean. I was just trying to explain my view on the subject since somebody asked. >> Bob, the children were extensions of their parents, who permitted those they saw as ungodly, maybe even as satanic, (although since it started before first grade, how satanic could we have appeared,) to be taunted for their badness-- that is to say, taunted for having parents who decline to send them to church, or for being Jewish. If there is anything I have learned about good and evil in my life, it is that human beings have a remarkable ability to do evil while feeling indignant, outraged, offended, virtuous and righteous --"good"-- about it. If they have a drive to do a thing,-- let's say, it's to bash homosexuals or atheists-- they want very very much to do it! something in them just viscerally dislikes, or is repelled by that person... but of course a nice person, a non-sociopath, would be very uncomfortable seeing himself or herself being a hateful shthead. So...voila, through The Magic of the Human Mind, we get a whole lotta mental management going on. Rationalizations galore! We don't have hate, we just have views on the subject. We aren't being deliberately mean, we just have views on the subject. We don't think all human beings deserve to be treated with consideration for their feelings, because we have views on the subject. We don't think all human beings need physical love, and, like us, have a right to find it where their erotic passion carries them; we have views on the subject. We don't think the children of Christians can pray nicely and adequately in the public* school without subjecting the children of atheists to their rites; we have views on the subject (but I'll bet we don't think atheist teachers should be allowed to present their views about deism to the children of Christians during homeroom!-- No way! (because we have views about the subject.) Speaking of explaining your views on the subject because somebody asked, I am still waiting for your response to my proposal that I be able to give atheist sermons, I'll call them "God Lecturettes," for which I have supplied here some pithy epigraphs, to your children in the public school. Like, the homeroom period, alternating in some fair way with the religious rites you have (favorable) views about.