Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxi!cher From: cher@ihuxi.UUCP (Mike Musing) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: so long Message-ID: <1018@ihuxi.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 17:17:19 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxi.1018 Posted: Fri Aug 10 17:17:19 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 01:07:24 EDT References: <3107@decwrl.UUCP>, <8700008@iuvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 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?