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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
Message-ID: <5530@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 18:26:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 18:26:29 1985
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Summary: 

In article <390@scgvaxd.UUCP> dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
> It teaches little children
> how to think about suicide. It teaches them that some people's lives are
> worth less than others.
I've never heard of a humanist of any stripe teaching either of these
alternatives.  Would you please provide some documentation?

> It teaches them that homosexuality and premarital
> sex are choices for them to consider.
I don't wish to get into the issue of premarital sex except to mention
that there it is not currently a method for some people to engage in
marriage under this American legal system, same sex couples for example.
HOWEVER, homosexuality is not a choice to consider, because it is a given.
That is to say that there are homosexuals, and those of us who are such
did not necessarily "choose" to be so.  It is true that some of us chose to
happily engage in homosexual activities rather than remaining in unhappy
little closets called acting hetro or remaining celibate.  And all schools
should teach that for homosexual children, there definately is that option.

> If anybody is interested in finding out, Phyllis Schlafly wrote a book
> that tells all the gory details.

Oh no, not Phyllis...

Richard A. Brower		Fortune Systems
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