budge wrote:
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> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 at 1:43pm Kelley wrote:
> >
> > surely you have heard that your statement is controversial
> > --and not because i'm espousing the views of those who
> > think that homosex is "unnatural". Rather, it's a
> > controversial statement among those in the GLBT community.
Note: Blacks did not _choose_ to be blacks in the Jim Crow south; they were born that way; they couldn't help it. That did not seem to be an argument against lynching them. "Jews" in Hitler's Germany had not _chosen_ their grandparents (or in some cases great-great-grandparents); they were born "that way." That did not seem to be an effective argument against the Final Solution.
I wasn't born a communist; that does _not_ mean that I have no right to be a communist.
Regardless of the current empirical evidence for or against a "gay gene" (and I want to emphasize the _current_, for this kind of evidence changes constantly), the fight for gay rights has to be based on the premise that a person has a perfect right to _choose_ to be gay.
There has been quibble over the term "community" several times on this list, but as hard (even impossible) as it is to write a satisfactory abstract definition of "black community" or "gblt community," conscious members of those communities go on using the terms very effectively for their purposes, and I think questionins of those terms simply aren't in good faith.
Carrol
Carrol
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> i type "GLBT community" into mapquest.com and it couldn't
> show me the location or give me driving directions.
>
> maybe they haven't gotten their copy of the homosexual agenda?
>
> > http://www.queerbychoice.com/impliquotes.html
>
> bunch of traitors to their class.
>
> --
> no Onan
>
> "superior sound quality"
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