Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Controlling one's ([homo]sexual) urges and Halakha Message-ID: <995@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-May-85 10:19:04 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.995 Posted: Thu May 23 10:19:04 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 24-May-85 04:46:54 EDT References: <411@oakhill.UUCP> <564@sfmag.UUCP> <1672@cornell.UUCP> <1594@aecom.UUCP> <572@sfmag.UUCP> Organization: The Chartered Accountants Who Want to Be Lion Tamers Association Lines: 27 > Homosexuality is quite different. It represents not only a major > perversion of Jewish life, but a major violation of what non-Jews > have until recently accepted as a normal lifestyle. The attempts > by the media and liberal groups to portray this abomination as a > viable/normal option for living is a serious attack which > threatens to corrupt all of society, Jews included. The > appropriate response to this attack is to make clear to everyone > who cares that this is definitely out of bounds from the Torah's > viewpoint. We should wage war against this serious social > disease and against the fools and reshoim who attempt to soften > the social sanctions which were always in place, among decent > Jews and non-Jews. [YITZCHOK SAMET] Replace all references to homosexuality and homosexuals with "Judaism" and "Jews", and replace "Jews" with "Christians" or "Americans" or some such word, and the paragraph above sounds awful hateful, doesn't it? If the religious right were to make your sorts of statements about those who practice the "abomination of Judaism", you would be rightfully upset, no? Is there a reason why you can't have the same level of tolerance for others and their ways that you would expect others to have for you and your ways? It's your opinion that sexual practices other than your own are abominable. Fine. There are those who have the same feelings about the way you practice your religion. In what way are you any different from them? -- Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts. Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr