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Subject: Queer bashing....
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 13:42:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 31 13:42:20 1984
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	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.
 
I disagree.  The motivation to "purge" the race of foreign
ideologies and racial and ethnic impurities, is not necessarily
fear.  I imagine in most cases the queer-basher is responding
to his own inner sense of what is right and wrong.  This needn't
involve fear.

	Just as Nazi ideology called the Jews "germs", a queer-basher
	must have lost sight of the fact that both he and his victim
	are God's creation.

This, I believe is true.