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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: History and homosexuality
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Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 21:37:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 11 21:37:06 1984
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How about a Nice Simple Rule:

	All practices divergent from the "norm" will be assumed OK until
	*PROVEN* otherwise.

Absent any evidence that homosexuality rots the mind, curves the spine, or
loses the war for the Allies (Norman Podhoretz' theories nonwithstanding),
how about if everybody who thinks homosexuality may be a Bad Thing kept that
opinion to themselves?  Statements about civilizations which accepted
homosexuality "falling" don't serve any useful purpose until it is shown
that accepting homosexuality contributed to the downfall of that civilization;
they merely serve to annoy people and to stigmatize people who've done nothing
to deserve that stigma.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy