From: frefow@FREFOW.AUTO-TROL.COM (Fred Fowler)
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Date: 18 Dec 92 15:17:54 GMT
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  There are a number of points that people are not understanding
  about the notion of civil rights laws for homosexuals and lesbians.

  First, there have been some statements about who is likely to be a
  child molester and who is not that are inaccurate, not in the
  statement that most people who molest children are not homosexual,
  but in the impression this gives of how often any given homosexual
  is likely to be have done so.  Something like 30% of all
  child molesters are homosexuals.  This doesn't sound bad until you
  consider that only about 5% of the population is homosexual.  This
  means that any given homosexual is much more likely to be a molester
  than any given hetersosexual.

  There is the further fact that heterosexuals who molest children are not
  usually strangers, and not family members.  They are mostly
  stepfathers and live-in boyfriends, and their presence is the
  result of the breakdown of the family, and the ending of social
  sanctions against men and women who live together without being
  married.

  The great difficulty with civil rights for homosexuals is that such
  a law strikes a blow at the roots of justice.  It gives rights --
  which generally translate into privileges enforced by the state --
  to people that are based on a particular vice which they happen to practice.
  This overthrows the very nature of justice, which is to give each person
  what he deserves.

  The general objection to homosexuals in the schools is not that
  they are committing a particular sin that is worse than other sins,
  but that their presence is part of the whole tendency of modern
  schools to teach what is practically the worship of sex.  The world
  holds chastity in contempt, and glorifies unchastity, even when it
  involves the most obscene and cruel sorts of acts.  The public schools
  are, essentially, controlled by a profoundly anti-Christian and
  antinomian government.  It is not merely a question of homosexuals
  teaching in the schools, but of schools encouraging children to
  believe that in no case is sexual intercourse wrong.  The schools
  here in Colorado are teaching this very thing, treating homosexual
  intercourse as if it is a perfectly innocent activity that has no
  bad effect on the person engaging in it.  Do we want children
  taught such errors?  Do we want them taught that sin is not sin?

  It might be considered that people could remove their children from
  the public schools.  The difficulty with this is that the burden of
  taxation is so high (about 47% of the average person's income goes
  to taxes of one sort or another), and the number of good schools is
  so low, that most people have no choice but to send their children
  to the public schools.  Some couples do teach their children at
  home, but this is not common, and in some states it is quite
  difficult to do because of laws that discourage it.

                                           Fred Fowler
                                           frefow@auto-trol.com
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