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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Clarification of "Homo" "Survey"
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 14:04:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 14:04:59 1985
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> If sheer numerical superiority is what Wingate thinks makes something
> right, then why doesn't he have a sex change operation?  I mean, if 51%
> of the population is female, it must be right.  Right?
> 
>                                       Evelyn C. Leeper

It's evident that either I was unclear or that nearly everyone chose to
misinterpret me.  Well, anyway, here's a clarification:

What I object to about this "questionnaire" is that its purpose is to attempt
to make people feel guilty about asking some questions about the practice of
homosexuality, by wrapping inverted versions of the same questions in a cloud
of spurious statistics.  Evidently, homosexuals apparently don't want to see
those questions asked.  The reply, however, is dishonest and manipulative.

I'd say that this exchange has a message for net.singles as a whole (besides
that of putting "/net.motss/h:j" in your kill file).  This group and a number
of others have seen those who would argue on the side of ANY morality which
makes demands upon personal conduct be subjected to violent opposition and
virulent personal attacks.  (Not that there isn't an certain element of the
same sort of behavior from the other side.)  Could we attempt a little 
civility?  Could we resist the urge to try to destroy anyone whom we
disagree with?  I've stayed out of the "living in sin" discussion because, as
many are doubtless aware, I have certain religious convictions on the
subject.  Besides, I've come to the sad conclusion that my somewhat complex
beliefs on the subject would be misunderstood, possibly deliberately, in the
cause of making personal attacks on someone who might suggest that living
together isn't the best idea in the world.

Well, I'm tired of this.  I do not intend to reply further on this subject.

Charley Wingate    umcp-cs!mangoe