From: puttk@infonode.ingr.com (Ken Putt)
Subject: Re: Homosexual Rights
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:56:17 GMT

mason@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Jim Mason) writes:

>"Fundamentalist christianity is NOT an acceptable way of life simply

Your choice of worship or even belief in worship has nothing to do with 
behavior which so obviously goes against the very nature of procreation
of mankind. Apples and oranges.

 >The point is that it is silly to complain about gay/lesbian use of
 >PACs....

Silly? I think not. Just an example of how people use PAC's (a powerful
tool for those with enough $$$) to further oftentimes detrimental
causes. Since that statement begs the question, "Detrimental to who?", 
I answer: it depends on your point of view. 

>interest groups form PACs.  If you don't like the PAC system, fight to
>change it.

I'd love to. Off topic though...

>>It is and always will be an unnatural type
>>of behavior that merits our attention...not to accept it but to try to
>>correct it in a civilized and logical way.

>It is the question of the first person plural which is cause for concern.
>When you say homosexuality "merits our attention" because we must "try to
>correct it," who is it that should perform the "correction?"  Who will
>establish what "correct" is?  The government?

"We" obviously refers to our society. Correction should follow the lines
of halting and treating other unnatural behavior. But then there are some, 
as obviously you are aware, who believe that any activity that can be 
imagined is "natural" and should not be disturbed. Sorry, I disagree.

> What kind of correction need be applied?  Shock treatments?  Indoctrination 
> centres?  Prison camps?

I see you forgot the "civilized and logical" portion of my message. There is
excellent help for those with emotional problems. It's application can range
from voluntary for those who recognize they need help to mandatory for those
who break laws, whether your condition compells you to beat your wife and
kids or stand on the street corner and expose yourself.

>>see what abuse of freedom has brought our society to.  Being free
>>requires greater self-discipline.  It does NOT mean that "anything goes". 

>Implicit here, of course, is that you are self-disciplined, while I am not.

Your words, not mine. What is implicit is that we all should be intelligent
enough to realize that some types of behavior is wrong, and will always
be wrong. The remark about self-discipline relates to the rampant disuse
of this important facet of maturity in our country. As for me, I have no
more or less than anyone.

>Are you saying that it took a lot of self-discipline on
>your part to be a heterosexual, while I wasn't disciplined enough and
>gave into impulses to be gay?  And here I thought your heterosexuality
>was natural and innate.....

Ha! Cheap shot. If you can't talk logically, talk louder right? Classic 
homosexual defense...imply such tendancies in anyone who tries to dispute
your activity. 

Ken

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