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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:24:17 EDT
From:         MKLINE%VDH.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Gay Characteristics
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Subject: Gay Characteristics

MAKS> This was the article I was looking for... This was sort of a
      different comparison from any others I have seen...

    Misc quotes from AIDS: Facts without Fiction. These deal with the
mind set and various characteristics of the homosexual culture as a whole.
Most of this is taken from the Bible and allows for a comparison to groups
like NAMBLA, etc. THIS IS NOT TO CHARACTERIZE ALL HOMOSEXUALS! Okay?

    I post this in response to those that have talked about homosexuals
holding responsible positions while in the midst of things that might cause
them a temptation. Perhaps, MANY are not tempted, but how do you tell them
from those that are. Even heterosexual people have been known, as in some
of the Day Care scandals, to molest children on a grand scale. Anyhow, the
article says it better than I can.


    On to the article:

    "AGGRESSION AND AGGRESSIVENESS"

    It seems to be rather certain today that some lifestyles cause
aggressiveness. The eruptions of violence and aggressiveness everywhere are
giving many politicians headaches. Movies and TV show more and more
violence -- for violence is entertainment indeed! In the spring of 1988, a
13 year old girl went on trial for an alleged knife murder of another
adolescent. In America some teachers have asked to be allowed to carry
weapons during school hours.

    In line with this trend, 200,000 homosexuals violently demonstrated in
Washington in 1987. They threatened to terrorize blood banks by infecting
them with the HIV virus. They would encourage other homosexuals to donate
blood if more money was not made available for AIDS research. If this
threat became reality it would constitute the pitiless murder of patients
who received the infected blood during surgery or for other reasons. This
kind of murder is pure terrorism, just as is the case with hijacking. Only
the actual technique would be more subtle.

    The Bible gives indirectly the first authentic story about some of the
consequences of homosexuality (sodomy). The city of Sodom was known for the
practice of homosexuality and of violence in the ancient world.
Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14), a mighty king in this area, attacked the town of
Sodom and took Abrahams's nephew, Lot, his whole family, and the kings of
Sodom, Gomorrah and Zoar hostage and brought them to Damascus. When Abraham
and his people heard about this, they surprised Chedorlamoer north of
Damascus and brought Lot and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrha back without
loss. Abraham did not request any reward for this courageous action -- only
the provisions that he and his people had used.

    Why cite this example? To show that Sodom and Gomorrha should have had
every reason to be grateful to Abraham and Lot, but they were not. When God
(the God of Abraham) decided to send his envoys to Sodom to get further
first-hand information about matters in Sodom, the envoys spent the night
at Lot's house. But when the men of Sodom found that out, they besieged
Lot's house and threatened to break in the doors. They demanded the envoys
as prisoners so that they could rape the men homosexually. Lot instead
offered them his own two daughters for the night! Apparently, the Lot
family had absorbed a little bit too much of the sodomic culture! The men of
Sodom rejected the offer and again set about breaking in the doors of Lot's
house. The divine envoys then struck them with blindness so that they
searched for the doors in vain. But the Sodomites were certainly violently
and unjustifiably aggressive when they ought to have been grateful to Lot.

    We conclude that the homosexual Sodomites did not feel in the least
obligated towards Abraham and his family, including Lot, although without
them they all would have been the slaves of King Chedorlaomer. Secondly,
they were in no way thankful. On the contrary, they were violent to a
degree. Their homosexuality was indeed a strong passion resulting in
aggressiveness of the most shameless sort -- they insisted on raping Divine
envoys and in preference to the opposite human sex!

    During the course of lecturing at various European universities, I have
had the opportunity of observing situations in some feeble ways similar to
the ones reported on in this biblical story. In some lectures, I have
spoken about the medical aspects of AIDS. Groups of homosexuals and
feminists have often attended. When some medical facts are not as they
would like them, these people often start cacophonies with whistles, flutes
and other instruments. This noise often makes continuation of the lecture
impossible. One of my colleagues once tried for 1 1/2 hours to speak about
abortion in a Northern German university. In vain. Every time it was
mentioned that in the west AIDS was transmitted mainly by homosexuality,
there was deafening cacophony in the lecture hall -- whistles, trumpet
blowing, etc. What an expression of blind aggressiveness!

    The good Book links the homosexual practice of Sodom with the above
type of violent behavior. One reads: "Because that, when they knew God,
they glorified Him not as God, neither wee thankful(grateful): but became
vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.... Wherefore God also
gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts, to
dishonor their own bodies between themselves:... For this cause God gave
them up into vile affections: for even their women did change the natural
use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving
the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men
with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving  in themselves that
recompense of their error which was meet... God gave them over to a
reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled
with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents without understanding, covenant-breakers,
without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:" (Romans 1:21-31).
Surely little comment is needed.

    It seems that homosexuality and its practice causes a behavioral
stimulus which does not only interfere with the normal relationship between
the sexes but which also gets into conflict with normal relationships in
society in general. Harmonious human life becomes impossible. For these
reasons alone I think it to be important to state that homosexuality does
not only have medical consequences (AIDS where HIV infected partners are
concerned), but also spiritual, psychological and mental consequences. The
use of condoms certainly can reduce the risk of the bodily illnesses
resulting from promiscuity. The psychological, spiritual and sociological
consequences, however, of promiscuity, even when practised with condoms
will not be excluded. Homosexuality and promiscuity involve the whole human
being body, soul and spirit.

    For these reasons, it seems no wonder that the fathers of the United
States constitution and of other countries too, formulated their
anti-sodomy and anti-promiscuity laws so forcefully. As long as the
majority of a population kept to a monogamous way of life, the existence of
some HIV or other virus posed relatively little threat. Whenever, however
the virus was introduced into a promiscuous, heterosexual or homosexual
society, then an ideal opportunity for the spread of viruses of this kind
was offered. This is why sex emancipation is still providing the ideal
"agar culture medium": for the spread of the AIDS epidemic.

    From pages 171-174, "Epilogue".

    This lends some support to what the previous article said: "Biblical
laws would, then, not really be a straight jacket, but rather a hidden
protection -- a blessing in disguise."

In His Love,

  Michael A. Kline, Sr. SSE
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