keith@seismo.UUCP (Keith Bostic) (06/26/84)
>> The way I see it homosexual practice is largely a moral issue. > I really do not understand this. Really not. In fact it sounds just a bit > bizarre to me. Sort of like "eating oysters is largely a moral issue." Of course homosexuality is a moral issue! Once you plow through the AIDS problems, fight past the "they're ruining our children", and heave a sigh of relief as the last "unnatural" proselyte is forced to view a pair of bulls in a field... that's all that's left, kids. Because, like it or not, there are a whole bunch of people out there that are perfectly willing to say "That's wrong". Without justification of any kind. (I use justification in a specific physical value sense here, folks. Biblical justification is in a different category; admittedly, the Judeo- Christian text is anti-homosexual. So are a couple of other religious texts, if only that they don't acknowledge its existence.) And, as soon as someone rears up on their hind legs and says "That's wrong." even if it's "Eating oysters is wrong.", it's a moral issue. (Besides, eating oysters is cruel, I mean, they're *alive*, being dissolved by your stomach acids... yeeeech!) Quite frankly, Steve, I think you're being paid quite a compliment here. Your arguments are being acknowledged... the issue is being placed on moral grounds. I suspect that you have (at least in contemporary American society) a much better chance of getting, "well, whatever they want to do is okay as long as they really want to do it" once the AIDS myth gets debunked. BEAT ME! BITE ME! TAKE ME OUT TO DINNER!!!! Keith ARPA: keith@seismo UUCP: seismo!keith p.s. Oh, yes. moral: of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior.
saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) (06/28/84)
Just as an aside: oysters are not alive when you eat them. Opening them kills
them. If you've ever opened oysters, you would have noticed that they fight
for quite a while and when you manage to insert the knife through a hole and
swish it around all of a sudden they give: that's right after you've killed
them.
Yes I eat oysters, and am quite good at opening them, but last time I did,
I stabbed myself really hard on my hand and had to go to a hospital - not
a fun way to spend Xmas eve. I've always wondered if my subconscious was
not secretely punishing me for being so cruel.....
Sophie Quigley
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