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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Divers Topics in NT Texts
Message-ID: <4968@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 17:33:45 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.4968
Posted: Tue Feb  5 17:33:45 1985
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Summary: 

In article <2909@umcp-cs.UUCP> mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes:
>Could we please leave "homophobia" in net.motss?
>Besides, the word has consistently been used to refer to
>those who find homosexuality immoral in a pejorative fashion.  I find this
>unreasonable one two grounds: (1) it interferes with intellegent argument,
>and (2) it incorrectly implies that the moral repugnance arises from other
>psychological causes.
>
>Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe

No.  The term homophobia needs to be applied where it is found, and one
finds more homophobia here in Net.religion.Christian than one finds
anyplace else.  Also, the term homophobia makes no judgement as to why
you are homophobic, just that you are!  You claim that you are homophobic
because you read it in a book (although there are people who read the same
book and didn't catch it), I claim that it makes no difference why you
are a homophobe just that you should get over it (or at least not allow
it to to have any effects on your actions).
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Richard A. Brower		Fortune Systems
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