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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: Fundaphobia
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Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 18:50:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 27 18:50:56 1984
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I don't know why Paul Dubuc and others feel they have such devastating
reasons to oppose the eliminate of official discirmination against
gay people.  A little bit of logic demolishes their appeals to either
"social science", Christianity, or "morality".

"Social science" provides no support for believing heterosexuals are
OK.  Neither does biology: reproduction and sexual orientation have
virtually nothing in common.  In fact, most of the homosexual popu-
lation is still married and has offspring.  As for Christianity,
there's Boswell's book.

Not even history (the bad "good old days" when people shunned all that
was "unnatural") provides support, but merely a record of bigotry that
is monolithic only when you look at particular periods and places.

As for "morality", that ancient whore who tirelessly services the lusts
of the religious (& nonreligious) zealot, invocations of it by the right
wing have about as much integrity and moral force as a rabble-rouser
haranguing a lynch mob.

					
					Ron Rizzo