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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Homosexual teachers- a serious question
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 14:29:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 20 14:29:21 1984
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From one teacher you are going to make a generalization about all gay
teachers?  I know several gay teachers, and none of them would have
anything to do with their students sexually.  Besides which, I am
totally certain that hetrosexual teachers approach their students
(of the opposite sex) for sexual favours much more often than gay
teachers approach their students (of the same sex).  (If nothing else,
the numbers should work out that way.  After all, only 6-10% of the
population is gay, one may assume that the teaching profession has
no greater incidence of homosexualallity than the basic population,
and the vast majority of gay people are not into children... just like
the straight community.)  Anyway, I will agree that that one teacher
may not have been up to the standards of the teaching profession,
and should have been removed as a teacher; not because he/she was gay,
but because he/she was seducing his/her students from a power position.

Also, what gives you the idea that the young men that your single
teacher could make his students gay?  It is far more likely that
those he was successful in approaching were, in fact, gay already,
since it is claimed that sexuality (affectational prefferance) is
fixed by the time a child is 2 or 3 years old.  It is likely that
such young gentlemen (or women) were suffering from the effects
of the suppression of their of their sexuality, due to the fact of
the intense oppression gay people have suffered and are suffering
still.  After all when "everyone" tells you that being gay is
wrong/sinfull/evil, and you still feel these things, it tends to
mess up ones mind.

Finally, what life of anguish?  Most of the gay persons that I
know (and there are a great number of them), are normal people
with normal lives.  My life (which is the only one that I should
really comment on, although many of my friends would, I am sure,
agree with me) is very much normal.  I work, play, and sleep,
just as you do.  I have my joys and sorrows, just as you do.
Basically, my life is as happy as that of most anybody you ever
met or ever will.  My only major concern is that everyone be
able to live their own lives, do work which they like and are
comfortable with, and be able to live where they they will (and
can afford).