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From: paulson@hplabsc.UUCP (Anne Paulson)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Homosexual urges?
Message-ID: <1371@hplabsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 14:17:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: hplabsc.1371
Posted: Thu Sep 15 14:17:11 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Sep-83 08:25:54 EDT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
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Jeff Sargent at pur-ee just posted another article on homosexuality.  It 
surprised me that his first article provoked no responses.  Seeing the
same strange ideas posted again, I leap into the fray.

Sargent's thesis, briefly, is this:  Homosexuality is a sin.  Sargent himself
has struggled (so far successfully) against strong feelings of attraction to
other men.  Most (or many) people are just like him;  they are attracted to
the same sex, but they overcome these feelings and have relationships with
MOTOS's.  People who are avowed homosexuals are like him, except that they
are give in to these sinful urges, instead of being strong and resisting 
them.
 
I don't believe this for a minute.  I am a heterosexual.  Why?  Not because 
I successfully resist homosexual urges (if I had them, I wouldn't even try
to resist.  Why should I?) but because I'm not attracted to women and I
am attracted to (some) men.  I don't believe homosexuality is wrong, and
I don't dislike homosexuals, but I'm just not a lesbian.  For me, this is
not a matter of moral belief but a matter of fact.  It wouldn't upset me
if I were gay, but I'm not. It seems to me that, as gays claim, my sexual 
orientation was formed at a very early age.

How about it, netters?  I'd like to hear from other straights.
Do you feel that you *picked* your sexual orientation?  Do you constantly
(or frequently) struggle against homosexual urges? 

                                 Anne Paulson
                                 Hewlett-Packard Labs
                                 hplabs!paulson

P.S.  To those people who claim that saying "I'm not gay, but I
support equal rights for gays" is hypocritical:
You're being stupid and illogical.  Substitute some other word for `gay'
in the above sentence and see if it still sounds hypocritical.  Would you
say that "I'm not left-handed, but I support equal rights for lefties" means
that the speaker wishes to disassociate him/herself from those slimy 
lefthanders?  Sounds to me more like the speaker wants to show that s/he
is a disinterested party.