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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Dyer claims the moral high ground!
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Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 12:38:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  3 12:38:43 1984
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> Homosexuality may not be normative behavior, but that's not
> the same as bad.  Surely you're not suggesting morals by
> majority vote.

I think that's EXACTLY what's being suggested:  morality by
historical consensus.  Apparently such a historical consensus
can only be changed by "morally justifying" something on the
basis of the previous consensus, and then only if it's ratified
by an eleven tenths majority of the population. :-)
-- 
"Come with me now to that secret place where
 the eyes of man have never set foot."		Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr