riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (10/29/84)
>> From medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) Wed Oct 31 00:35:55 1984 >> >> Good Grief. Cant you people ever realize that some of us have >> religious feeling about homosexuality that is a valid reason >> to fight against the 'normalization' of homosexuality? There are people whose religious beliefs dictate that widows should be burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands.* There are people whose religious beliefs dictate that blacks are inherently inferior and that racial discrimination is justified. There are people whose religious beliefs support terrorism and holy war. There are also people whose religious beliefs dictate that all men are brothers, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves and that if we try hard enough we can live in peace. Religion can take many forms and can be an integral part of the best and the worst in humanity. When it works for the good, I believe in giving religious belief the utmost respect. But when it works for fear, hatred and oppression, religious belief deserves only one thing: toleration. I am willing to let you believe in your homophobic religion as you see fit, but I'll be damned if I'll respect your homophobia merely because it is based on "religious belief." --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle -------------------------- * No offense is intended to Indians on or off the net; I know that the practice of burning widows is essentially a thing of the past. I include it only as an extreme example.
lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) (11/03/84)
> >> From medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) Wed Oct 31 00:35:55 1984 > >> > >> Good Grief. Cant you people ever realize that some of us have > >> religious feeling about homosexuality that is a valid reason > >> to fight against the 'normalization' of homosexuality? > > Prentiss Riddle: > There are people whose > religious beliefs dictate that blacks are inherently inferior and that racial > discrimination is justified. Ah yes. Describes exactly the "bulldog of Darwin" Thomas Henry Huxley. -- The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford {amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.