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Post number 1660

faisal — Fri, 12 May 2000 16:30:45 -0800

A concerned Vermont parent wrote an interesting letter to the editor regarding the gay rights conflict.

By: baylink

baylink — Fri, 12 May 2000 17:30:02 -0800

Damned nice catch. As I noted on my 'log, I disagree with her on only one point: > You use religion to abdicate your responsibility to be thinking human beings. No, they use religion to cover up their inability to be thinking human beings.

By: holgate

holgate — Fri, 12 May 2000 20:16:05 -0800

It ties in with the current debate in Britain on the repeal of Section 28 (the clause preventing schools from "promoting" homosexuality in sex education lessons) which has brought out some of the nastiest bigotry in the press. Boy George was on a TV discussion programme with a Scottish millionaire who's campaigning to keep the clause: his comments are well worth a look.

On Wednesday Boy George told MPs and ministers at the House of Commons about the prejudices he had encountered as a child. He told them: "I had five brothers and I was brought up drinking the same water and being fed the same doctrine as my brothers, but somehow I turned out to be a fabulous homosexual."

By: baylink

baylink — Sat, 13 May 2000 09:00:41 -0800

"A Fabulous Homosexual"? My, what an interesting way of putting that. Is that a queer thing, or a *British* queer thing? :-)

By: anhedonia

anhedonia — Sat, 13 May 2000 09:26:59 -0800

We already know that you don't understand the difference between "self-incrimination" and "privacy"; so when you use the terms "queer" and "British queer", I worry. For whatever that's worth.

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Sun, 14 May 2000 10:24:03 -0800

Excellent letter. It's about time we took back the "moral high ground" from the small-minded pricks who've claimed it as theirs since the public debate began.