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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
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Subject: Re: Flame: Sargent's theory of homosexuality
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 05:11:03 EST
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From Steve Dyer, in response to my article giving my thoughts on homosexuality:

> STOP SUPERIMPOSING YOUR OWN NEUROSES ON GAY PEOPLE, OK?

Sorry, but I still claim that homosexuality is a form of neurosis, and
neurosis is a result of sin -- holding to false beliefs about oneself and
one's environment.  There are many cases of homosexuals being delivered
from homosexuality by the power of God.  (I'll probably expand on this idea
when I respond to Richard Brower's article.)

> It is bad enough that we have to suffer through his ruminations on
> childhood, divorce and his own sexual orientation, given that he dismisses
> serious counseling as a valid option.  But it is outrageous that he should
> take these peculiar, private explanations for his neuroses and paint gay
> people with the same color.

Actually the last half of the first sentence is no longer true....  I am
seeing regularly a man who is now officially a minister, but whose previous
work was full-time marriage & family counseling; he is thus very helpful in
helping me sort out my relationship problems.  I used net.singles as a support
group because it's easier to trust people at a distance than people I see
regularly -- the distant ones can't do much to me, especially since by the
time I see their responses, my hurting emotional state has passed.

> DON'T TRY TO MAKE STATEMENTS ABOUT WHAT "GAY PEOPLE" ARE LIKE, GIVEN YOUR
> ADMITTED LACK OF EXPERTISE IN THE AREA.

Perhaps in one way I am being a bit presumptive, since I've never actually
fallen into homosexuality full-fledgedly.  But I have had more struggles with
homosexual feelings than most people I've talked to; so I'm not 100% ignorant.

I do wonder why my statements provoke a flame.  It has been my experience that
heated denials often are a cover for a truth that the denier does not want
to accept or admit.  Might I suggest that you examine yourself and see if
perhaps, at bottom, you really do have some -- shall we say, reservations --
about homosexuality.


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-- Jeff Sargent
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"I'm not asking for anyone's bleeding charity."
"Then do.  At once.  Ask for the Bleeding Charity."