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From: schwab@iuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Does it really matter ?
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Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 23:47:00 EDT
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Well, you can see my thoughts on this more fully as a response to
Ken Arndt's goodbye message above. I think it's irrelevant. If
research into the reasons for an individual exhibiting homosexual
behavior have shown anything, it is that there is no single cause or
single significant contributing factor. For any particular gay person,
there have probably been hundreds of complexly interrelated factors,
both biological and experiential, that contributed to being on the
homosexual end of the Kinsey scale. But again, so what. The same can
be said about heterosexuality.

I suppose that it is possible for a person to be experientially
motivated to make a conscious decision to be homosexual. I've never
met someone like that. I knew I was homosexual when I was 13 and the
anguish I suffered because of this realization and an overdose of
traditional Christian morality as a child make me believe there was
no conscious choice. I don't remember one and I am not masochistic
enough to have chosen that anguish. (Ken Arndt - the anguish was not
the result of homosexuality, but a deeply felt belief that it was
abhorrent. I got over it.) How many heterosexuals have made a conscious
choice to be heterosexual. Are we to picture 12-16 year olds sitting
in their bedrooms and thinking, "Well, should I be gay or straight.
I have to decide by next Thursday so I'll know whether to invite
John or Mary to the dance." Absurd.

David Schwab
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