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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: inappropriate debating tactics
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 00:24:31 EDT
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>>Samet preaches hatred for homosexuals.  [EXHIBITS IN EVIDENCE]
>>Samet feels there is no double standard or hypocrisy in saying
>>	"It's NOT O.K. to hate Jews, but it IS O.K. to hate
>>		homosexuals."  [EXHIBITS IN EVIDENCE]    ----[ROSEN]

> Wait a second, lets not escalate things here.  As far as I ever heard on
> this net or elsewhere there is no justification for hating homosexuals in
> the hallacha and no one has claimed there is.  To put words in Yitzchak (sp?)
> Samet's mouth, I believe he said that homosexual acts are not legal acts
> according to the Talmud.  These acts carry a certain punishment and from that
> we can judge how bad an act it is.

I would think that punishing a person because you had some arbitrary law that
called his/her act abominable even though that act caused you and yours no
personal harm is very much a symptom of hatred.
-- 
"Do I just cut 'em up like regular chickens?"    Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr