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From: aegroup@tekigm.UUCP (Dennis Ward)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Should book ads disclose sexual slan
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 13:08:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 13:08:25 1986
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> 
> In my opinion, all of your questions have a "No" answer.
> I haven't read the book, so take this with a grain of salt, if you like.
> 
> The book description is fine as it stands.  It could be more specific,
> sure, but I don't think you should have trouble identifying with the
> gay character(s) of the book.
> 
   ..... [much deleted] ...
> 
> -- Rich Wagner
> 
> P.S.  Some people think that being able to talk about common
>       problems/joys is an important characteristic of friends.
>       If you think book descriptions should be more explicit
>       about the type of sex they describe, then it seems like
>       you could also conclude that people should wear "Straight"
>       or "Gay" buttons so one can better choose friends...

Let's see, we could have all of the Jews wear yellow stars of David,
the homosexuals could wear lavender triangles, etc.  For those of you
youngsters (i.e. born after 1945) this was tried in the 1930's in
Germany by the Nazi's.  The final end result was over 6 million Jews
killed, x million Gypsies, slavs, homosexuals, etc. and the biggest
war to date, along with the development of the atomic bomb to stop the
war.  (:.|) (sour smiley face)

Seriously, it is things like this that lead to what happened during
WWII.  It starts with censorship, bookburning, etc.  Each group is
lead to hate and distrust the next.  Jews, Catholics, Masons, Gypsies,
Homosexuals, etc. were all made to wear identifying tags.  All were
lead to believe that one group by one group "they" were the ones
causing all of the problems.  What really bothers me is that some of
the same things are now happening in America.  We are having
censorship of magazines now.  What next?  I used to be able to see
magazines such as High Society, Stag, etc. on the newstands, they have
disappeared.  The magazines that do appear for sale are totally
censored now by the publishers for fear of persecution by the law/or
various hate groups.  I see that schools are removing books as being
offensive (i.e. Tom Sawyer, various classics, etc.) due to language or
what is even worse unpopular views expressed in the books.  I thought
that this type of thing only happened in the deep South U.S. but it is
happening in Washington state and in other areas in the Pacific NW.
Personally I find homosexuality to be offensive, but I think that
everyone has the right to their own lifestyle, no matter how I feel
about it.

Sorry about the soapbox, but the continuing series of articles about
truth in book selling (a la gay sex in books) has gotten to me.


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