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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis)
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Subject: Re: Children
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 16:49:48 EST
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Summary: 

Bob Peterson points out that many gay/lesbian people are involved in living
arrangements which include children. It's worth mentioning that even more
gays and lesbians are involved in child-related professions, including
teaching, social work, and medicine, not to mention day care. In addition,
many gays and lesbians would adopt children if given the chance.

There is no opposition between ``the gay lifestyle'' and caring for
children (though there is obviously a basic incompatibility between
promiscuous sexual entanglements and having children in one's home; but this
is true for people of all sexual orientations). Of course, many yuppies (and
guppies) do not wish to be around children; but most gays/lesbians are
hardly guppies (salmon, maybe, but not guppies).

By the way, it's worth noting that the Roman Catholic Church frowns on all
non-procreative relationships. I recall a case a year or so ago in which a
sterile couple (heterosexual) was denied the rite of religious marriage, on
the grounds that a marriage in which children are impossible cannot be a
marriage at all.