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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Forwarded anonymous posting
Message-ID: <421@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 11:50:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.421
Posted: Mon Sep 29 11:50:08 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 2-Oct-86 20:30:20 EDT
Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science
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I received a reply to my remarks on Biblical attitudes to homosexuality
which the author requested I post. 

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I was just going to write you a little note thanking you for your posting,
then I decided that I needed/wanted to post it, then I changed my mind
when I realized that there might be people around here who might resent
my posting and/or who might give my friend a hard time.  Do you think that
you could forward the following to the net, without using my name or
organization?  I would appreciate it very much.

There's another option which many gay/lesbian fundamentalists choose,
which is to believe everything that Swaggert, Falwell, et al., tell them
about themselves.  I've had a close brush recently with getting involved
with a gay fundamentalist who believes that he is (and by implication I,
too, am) essentially an evil person.  This has hurt me to see, and has
left me very much more angry at the fundamentalist preachers than I was
before.  This boy (he seems so young, though he isn't that much younger
than I) desperately needs someone to care about him, to tell him that he
really isn't a creature of the devil.  I've tried, but I'm so newly out
and so insecure myself that I really don't feel I have the strength to
take on this battle.  There's no question, though, in my mind, where the
real evil lies.