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From: cher@ihuxi.UUCP (Mike Musing)
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Subject: Re: so long
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Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 17:17:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 10 17:17:19 1984
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I remember seeing programs about homosexual issues on TV 3-4 times.
Every time I heard a statement "it's in the genes", or 
"that's the way I was born". Looks like there is a prevailent
gay ideology on that. Well, could be the biased coverage, but hardly.

Someone here suggested that it is just a thing to use while we'll 
never know the truth, because the slogan is of a kind that the majority
would suck understandingly. 

I do not think the question of whether homosexual practices are moral
is appropriate (2 adults want to make each other feel good),
but using a highly questionable concept to impress the people who think
it is appropriate, is a demagogical and myopic attitude. 

The upbringing looks like a much more solid candidate then "the genes".
No one here was trying to rebut Arndt's arguments about the weaknesses
of the "born that way" theory per se. Trying to eagerly embrace it is 
self-deception, trying to sell it to others is manipulation.
                        But then again, what isn't?