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From: barry@aurora.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Virus / piracy?  Huh? (offensive to gays) rot13
Summary: Who asked you?
Message-ID: <1566@aurora.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 00:10:34 GMT
References: <2301@crash.cts.com> <3051@okstate.UUCP>
Reply-To: barry@aurora.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Organization: QQQCLC
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In article <3051@okstate.UUCP> richard@a.cs.okstate.edu (Richard Brown) writes:
>> Xref: okstate comp.sys.amiga:12407 alt.flame:458
>+ in article <2301@crash.cts.com>, haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) says:
>+ langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) writes:
>+         Get it clear.  A "Homosexual" has done nothing WRONG to get infected.
>+                                                                   NO AIDS
>+           VICTIMS ARE "GUILTY".
>+                                                                 Wade.
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>  I disagree.  The fact that *I* am offended by homosexuals is of
>no importance.  The Bible prescribes the death penalty for homosexuals.
>Period.

	It still looks like preaching to me. You've chosen to believe
this Biblical injunction, and to pass it on to the net's readers. More
to the point, what is the relevance to AIDS? The article Wade was
replying to implied that AIDS was a just punishment for homosexuality.
Well, I may not be Christian, but I know *that's* not Biblical. AIDS
isn't mentioned in the Bible, and the Christian doctrine is that God
settles up the score after we're dead, anyway, not that He comes down to
nail us here. If you're implying that AIDS *is* God's justice for gays,
then you have to take responsibility for that opinion personally - God
never talked about it.

>  Don't blame ME! I DIDN'T SAY IT.  GOD SAID IT.  Talk to Him about it
>if you disagree.  Flames to /dev/null; I am aware that many have a different
>opinion, we are bombarded with it till we are sick of it.  So here is a
>voice of dissent.

	But what's the point? It's a given that 99% of your readers know
that the Bible says harsh things about (male) homosexuality, so you're
not just passing on information. What *are* you saying? Jesus said some
harsh things about divorce, too, but do you point that out every time
someone posts something about divorce? *Do* you think that AIDS is a
just fate for gays, or do you think that God had a hand in visiting this
epidemic on gays and IV drug users more than on others?
	I can't see your article as anything less than offering *your*
opinion that gays are guilty of something. Why dump it on God? Maybe
you're right, and God feels the same, but it's *you* who've chosen to
believe that, and *you* who've chosen to make the point publically. Why?
What's your point? Is it mere coincidence that you, personally, are
offended by homosexuality, and chose to post this note?

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
-        QQQCLC          -                      NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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