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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: some questions
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 18:34:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 20 18:34:08 1984
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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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
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