Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Louie Crew) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: PCUSA report on human sexuality Message-ID: Date: 19 May 91 02:45:16 GMT Article-I.D.: athos.May.18.22.45.14.1991.14020 Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 53 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >[I make no assumption about levels of promiscuity among homosexuals or >hetersexuals. Indeed all of the homosexuals that I have known >anything about (and it isn't a large number) were living in long-term >monogamous relationships. I only point out that I think there's a lot >of ignorance and stereotyping, and by not describing more specifically >what they mean when they endorse homosexual activity, the authors run >the risk of being understood as referring to a different class of >activity than they actually intended. --clh] I appreciate your sensitivity to the risks of making assumptions, Chuck. About a year ago, I reviewed all 1360 records in my address file at the time, 342 (25%) of which are records of persons I know to be lesbians or gay males. Here's the breakdown, 16 Single & celibate or in hetero marriage; 95 Single with no commitment to celebacy 96 In a committed gay relationship 135 I don't know (mainly professional or organizational associates whom I do not know in a social setting) ===== 342 While I am not clear about the longevity of the relationships of all 96, I estimate 30-40 of those have been together at least 15 years. Over the last two decades I have visited in the home of close to three dozen lesgay couples, and at least of a third of those had been together your magical number of 10 years at the time I visited them; many others passed that number after I visited them. Louie Crew Founder of Integrity, the justice ministry of lesgay Episcopalians Member of the Council, Episcopal Diocese of Newark Editor of the book just out today, _A Book of Revelations: Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians Tell Their Own Stories_, with a foreword by George Hunt, the Bishop of Rhode Island (NYC: Integrity, Inc, 1991, 224 pp.) Louie Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .lcrew@draco.rutgers.edu Academic Foundations Department . . . . . . . CompuServe No. 73517,147 Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey. . . . . . 201-485-4503 h P. O. Box 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201-648-5434 o Newark, NJ 07101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201-648-5700 FAX Only a dead fish floats with the current.