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To: Rambi who wrote (31485)	2/21/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Respond to of 108807

Yeah, and I've got a theory: too much repression leads to expression--it's a compensating mechanism--like a diving board springs higher than it was at rest once it's been repressed. "If you repress, you will espress!" Who am I Johnny Cochran?! I've know a couple of guys who was quite vocal racists. Guess who their daughters started dating? Seems the cosmos has got a thing for poetic justice. Now back to this unrelated Mount Gay thing . . .

To: Rambi who wrote (31485)	2/21/1999 7:29:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Good lord- 118 posts!!! What are you people doing? I can't possibly catch up- I had two birthday parties to get my kids to, today- but I'm going to comment anyway. It will no doubt be repetitious of someone else's post- do I care? Let me think .............................................................................................................................no, I don't. Gayness is probably hard wired into the brain- there were differences you could see in the brains of gay and straight animals- and the same structural differences are probably true in humans. Male and Female brains are different too- different is ok, imo. Of course not all societies tolerate difference well- and I suppose given my relativistic bent I'd have to say that's just the way it is- but given my druthers I'd rather live in a tolerant society. I don't want a society that celebrates the low ends of the bell curve, I want toleration not encouragement- they are very different imo. When I see aberrant harmless people I smile and turn away- I think that's ok- I don't allow my children to laugh, or say mean things- but I'm not having people I consider aberrant over for dinner- only people who are aberrant in the same way III am get to come over to my house.

To: Rambi who wrote (31485)	2/21/1999 7:32:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<My children, gay or elsewise, are beautiful, good, kind,and very bright. Gayness would do nothing to change that and for you to diminish them. to label them less than perfect, is the evil. Every child has different characteristics, some lovely, some not, but no one deserves the blanket condemnation that you are ordaining>> Well, I wouldn't want to do that to your children. But I don't think acknowledging that they are ill is diminishing them. What if it was a visible disease? Would I be issuing a blanket condemnation if I said it's so sad your child is name an illness. As a parent it would be heartfelt, I assure you.