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From: keith@seismo.UUCP (Keith Bostic)
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Subject: Sorry, Jeff, sorry Steve...
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Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 21:38:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 21:38:20 1984
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>> The way I see it homosexual practice is largely a moral issue.

> I really do not understand this.  Really not.  In fact it sounds just a bit
> bizarre to me.  Sort of like "eating oysters is largely a moral issue."

Of course homosexuality is a moral issue!  Once you plow through the 
AIDS problems, fight past the "they're ruining our children", and heave
a sigh of relief as the last "unnatural" proselyte is forced to view
a pair of bulls in a field...  that's all that's left, kids.  Because,
like it or not, there are a whole bunch of people out there that are 
perfectly willing to say "That's wrong".  Without justification of any 
kind.  (I use justification in a specific physical value sense here, folks.
Biblical justification is in a different category; admittedly, the Judeo-
Christian text is anti-homosexual.  So are a couple of other religious 
texts, if only that they don't acknowledge its existence.)  And, as soon
as someone rears up on their hind legs and says "That's wrong." even if
it's "Eating oysters is wrong.", it's a moral issue.  (Besides, eating
oysters is cruel, I mean, they're *alive*, being dissolved by your stomach
acids... yeeeech!)  Quite frankly, Steve, I think you're being paid quite
a compliment here.  Your arguments are being acknowledged... the issue
is being placed on moral grounds.  I suspect that you have (at least in
contemporary American society) a much better chance of getting, "well,
whatever they want to do is okay as long as they really want to do it"
once the AIDS myth gets debunked.

		BEAT ME! BITE ME! TAKE ME OUT TO DINNER!!!!
		Keith 
			ARPA: keith@seismo 
			UUCP: seismo!keith

p.s.	Oh, yes.  moral: of or relating to principles of right and wrong 
	in behavior.