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From: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Children
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 02:23:31 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 02:23:31 1986
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Summary: let's not fall into the typical religion argument again

In article <531@cisden.UUCP>, john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes:
> First, pardon me for posting where (possibly) most of you aren't much
> interested in what I have to say.

It's interesting to note that Fr. Woolley's access to net.religion.christian
was shut off upstream at a backbone site because it no longer wanted to pay
for the transfer of "frivolous" newsgroups, yet, apparently, net.motss
is still being passed.  Someone upstream has a "queer" sense of what's
frivolous and what's not!

Father, I recognize your paragraph about orthodox Christianity and not
hating those whom you disagree with as being the obligatory disclaimer
that every member of the orthodox Christian ministry has to declaim
before facing a crowd of gay people.  It functions as a kind of "hex",
preventing the Religious from defilement-by-association, while trying
to communicate some degree of levelheadedness to those gay people who
haven't tuned out during the first sentence.

I am afraid that even such comments as these might start another really
rather useless discussion here, since at that level there isn't much
more to be said other than to agree to disagree, and you KNOW that that
has never stopped the great majority of USENET posters from entering
the fray.  We have gone through several lengthy waves of this, and I might be
a bit gun-shy, but understand that I'm trying to avoid another anytime soon.

On the other hand, should you care to, I would welcome your comments 
on pastoral issues which directly affect some gay people, such as
the role of groups like Dignity, a Catholic group for lesbians and gay men,
the nether-status that such groups have within dioceses, the role of the
Church in fighting for or against equal opportunity statutes, and the
disarray the Church finds itself when the Archbishop of NYC argues against
such a bill, while the bishops of the dioceses of Brooklyn, Milwaukee,
and many others support it.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
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