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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.kids
Subject: Re: Homosexual teachers- a serious question
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Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 19:21:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  3 19:21:03 1984
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> I do recall walking into a college library, while a high school
> student, and picking up a research report, published by the government,
> that happened to be sitting on top of the desk I chose.  It stated
> simply and clearly that homosexuals were social deviates, and outlined
> a series of stages in the development of their deviate behavior, citing
> copious quantities of research results, beginning with early childhood
> development, socialization as children, influence of family structure,
> and characteristics of homosexual prison subpopulations.

Anyone who believes government research reports (esp. on sociological
topics)...

> Well, I don't think homosexuality is anything different now than it was
> then, and I'm inclined not to believe the intended message of that
> report.  Which leads me to conclude that 1) it was wrong, 2) I'm just
> wrong, 3) deviance isn't all it's cranked up to be, 4) we know a whole
> lot less than we sometimes make out (or the world is just more
> complicated than we acknowledge). I favor 4).

I do, too, but I also favor (3) as well.

> 	1a)Net readers who think parents don't have the right to
> 	   brainwash their kids don't have kids;

What worries me is that the antithesis of (1a) seems to be more true than
(1a) itself.  [PLEASE FOLLOWUP ONLY TO NET.KIDS]
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						Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr