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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: appropriateness of "gay..." topic
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Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 14:00:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 22 14:00:46 1984
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From Steve Dyer:

> ...this discussion...was engendered by Jeff Sargent's public ruminations
> about the nature of his own sexuality, and his thoughtless, though probably
> unintentional, public derogation of gay people as a group....
> All I want now is some response from Jeff, who has been mysteriously
> silent following his raking over the coals (all in the spirit of
> charity and fellowship, of course!)

Put it this way:  I suppose I had mixed motives.  On the one hand, I think
we'll end up agreeing to disagree about the sources of homosexuality; coming
from a Christian viewpoint, I believe that God planned for union between a man
and a woman, and that anything else is outside His plans and hence suboptimal;
I still think there's something in a gay that makes homosexuality falsely SEEM
optimal; I'll leave it to my gay readers to figure out for themselves what
that may be in their cases, but I was hoping to at least provoke some self-
examination to help some gay toward the refreshing niftiness and healthiness
of heterosexuality; I really hoped I could be of some help.  On the other
hand, I am, alas, not free of either pride or envy: pride, that I have not
become a practicing homosexual (and thus a somewhat patronizing attitude
toward those who have); envy, that these people have at least found an SO of
some sort.  Neither the good motives nor the bad held total sway.
(Higgins:  "Doolittle, you're either an honest man or a rogue."
 Doolittle:  "A little of both, Guv'nor.  Like the rest of us, a little
	      of both."

-- from "Pygmalion", by George Bernard Shaw)

Speaking of theatre, my "mysterious silence" occurred because I took the
11th through the 14th off work in order to get the lights set for a local
theatrical production  (This is the first time I've done lighting design, so
I didn't exactly design; I just tried things to see if they worked, and it
took a long time.  Sort of like the way I program [1/2 :-)].)  Since then
I've been trying to catch up on both real work and net articles, and it does
take a while.

-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
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"...got to find my corner of the sky."