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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Flame: Sargent's theory of homosexuality
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Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 13:19:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 16 13:19:14 1984
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Read the article again.  The passage:

>My thesis is that confirmed homosexuals became convinced very early on -- in early
>childhood, perhaps -- that the other sex was somehow an enemy, and that being
>intimate with an other-sex person would be extremely threatening.  However, the
>mere fact that their belief is very deep-seated, and probably based on very deep
>wounds, does not mean that it can't be changed.  Having God's love and power to
>assist helps a lot.
>       Jeff Sargent

belies your charge that he was only talking about himself.  Sargent has already
made the claim that he isn't a "confirmed homosexual."  If he limited his
comments to his own peccadillos, then I would just chalk it up to good 'ol
Jeff.  The offensive part is that he is fearless in making claims about other
people, and these claims are NOT innocent charges.  The other sex is NOT an
enemy to me, or to any other gay people I know, nor am I, or others, "wounded."
Indeed, the only "wounds" I bear are those made by people like Sargent
who persist in making careless remarks like those above.

Your comments:

>Oh, come ON, Steve!  Gays are no more NOR LESS human than anyone else
>and will have just as many (or as few) neuroses as anyone else!  

are pretty irrelevant to this discussion.  I have never ever made a claim
about the mental health of entire groups of people, in distinction to the
first quoted paragraph above which makes a pretty good case for the
questionable mental health of gay people.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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