Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!fortune!brower From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: some questions Message-ID: <4029@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 18:34:08 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.4029 Posted: Mon Aug 20 18:34:08 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:50:02 EDT Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 19 Recently, a man was killed by a gang of four teenage youth who were involved in the game of "queer bashing". Why? Where did they learn that it is OK to beat up "queers" and kill them? Who taught them that "fags" are not people? Was it their mothers, who taught them this? One of the punks' mother says, refering to her son, "I thought he was such a good human being." Was it their fathers, who taught them to hate people who are different? Did the idea that gay people are less than human come from the preacher or from the police? Many of those people are involved in the continued opression of gays, did their hatred flow into these boys? Will you teach your children that gays are bad, and may freely be killed? Will you do it overtly, or will it just be an accident? Is there a difference? Richard Brower Fortune Systems {ihnp4,ucbvax!amd,hpda,sri-unix,harpo}!fortune!brower