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From: crane@fortune.UUCP (John Crane)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Sodom and Gomorrah
Message-ID: <1643@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 14:50:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 24 14:50:21 1983
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Anybody who can read knows what your god said about that subject
thousands of years ago. Why don't you stop hiding behind your Bible and
tell us what he has said *LATELY*?

No, wait! Before you stop thumping the Good Book, tell us how Jesus
treated the woman at Jacob's well or the woman caught in adultery?
True, he threw the money changers out of the Temple, but He didn't deny
their right to exist and communicate, and he for darned sure didn't get
his authority to chastise "sinners" from some written document.

I happen to be a Bible believer myself and it galls and angers me to
see it twisted from its true use as a document to relate history and
inspire faith and educate in the ways of godliness into an instrument
to suppress communications and deny freedoms.

The Bible teaches that God loves us all, saints and "sinners" alike.
Remember He spared Sodom and Gomorrah as long as possible hoping they
might repent.

There are some who consider homosexuality a "sin" and others who merely
call it an alternate lifestyle, but whatever a person considers it to
be, that person has no right to suppress the freedoms of gay people,
straight people, black people, albinos, Eskimos, or what have you, just
because they don't agree with them.

I came across this letter in net.motss, and am replying in the same
group, so many would construe this letter as a defense of gay-ness. I
consider it a defense of freedom.  The individual who wrote this "Sodom
and Gomorrah" letter has every right to express himself as well, just
as I have a right to respond with my objections.