>Reflectorites
>
>On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 11:47:15 -0600, Susan Brassfield wrote:
>
>>SJ>The responsibility, he believes, rests squarely on the shoulders
>>>of those doctors, especially Dr. Money, who had developed an
>>>international reputation for the "twins case." Despite the apparent
>>>harm it was doing to the Reimer family, Money appeared bent on
>>>seeing it through to the end. "I thought it was very ignorant for
>>>them to think I was no longer a male because my penis was
>>>burned off," Reimer said. "A woman who loses her breasts to cancer
>>>doesn't (become) any less of a woman." ... [A horrific example of
>>>what happens when scientists are captured by a theory which
>>>they want to believe and ignore the facts.]
>
>SB>I agree. This, of course, is an excellent illustration of the fact that
>>people don't choose their sexual orientation. You are born one way and you
>>are stuck with it! Religious moralizing only causes psychological damage.
>>Suicide rates among homosexual teens is much higher than among "normal"
>>adolescents.
>
>[...]
Stephen Jones:
> Susan is here confusing two things: biological maleness (and femaleness)
>and sexual orientation. The first is in-built *biology* but the second is
>(apart maybe from some very special cases) a learned *preference*.
ROFL!!! So when did you learn your preference?
>Homosexuals are being successfully re-oriented to heterosexuality. But
>sexual reassignment cases like David Reimer aren't being successfully
>reassigned.
the successful reorientation stories are mostly propaganda. I've never
personally talked to any homosexual who would ever consider attempting such
a thing any more than *I* would attempt a conversion to lesbianism.
>*Being* a homosexual is not a sin in the Bible. *Practicing* homosexuality
>is.
yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard this garbage before.
It doesn't begin to explain the consistent campaign of cruelty toward
homosexuals carried on by the religious right.
Susan
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing
of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of
this one.
--Albert Camus
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