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From: brunson@usfbobo.UUCP (David Brunson)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: some questions
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Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 00:39:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  6 00:39:26 1984
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re:

>[Why does queer-bashing exist?]
> 
>I've certainly never been privy to the inner thoughts of
>a queer-basher, but the only motive I've ever been able
>to understand in such attacks is fear. To the queer-basher,
>a gay person is some sort of threat, and must therefore
>be put in his/her place. The motivation is therefore
>not unlike that of the anti-Semite, racist, or rapist.
 
This is not true.  While I do not understand the motivation
of a queer-basher (being a Kingdom kind of a guy), the author's
rhetorical device should be challenged.  The acts of homosexuality
and rape are quite unlike the state of being a Jew or a member
of some unloved race.  Homosexual acts and rape are *sins*.
We understand from reading the Torah that such acts are not pleasing
in the sight of the Almighty God.

>Both the queer-basher and the Nazi need an ideology. The
>Nazi ideology was based on the quite extensive strain of
>racist writing found in nineteenth-century Germany. The
>ideology of the queer-basher is based on the preachings
>of the "Christian" Right, whose incessant vilification of all
>those who disagree with it are about as Christian as the Spanish
>Inquisition.

Again this should be challenged.  "Christian Right" is an imprecise
term but it usually seems to refer to the views of the Reverend
Jerry Falwell.  Can you support your rather outlandish statements
with some quotations?

---
David Brunson

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