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Re: Terms and Conditions Question
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Sun, 23 May 1999 15:27:39 GMT
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John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote:
> > Hmmm... maybe it's neither an illness nor a lifestyle choice.
> 
> It's not an illness, probably genetic, and, in some cases, definitely a
> choice.

I've known people who have "experimented" - for them it was definitely
a choice.  For all of the homosexuals I've personally known,
admittedly not many here in the heart of the South, it most certainly
has not been a choice.

> > > Maybe homosexuals are just people, like the rest of us.
> 
> Well, isn't that the crux of the dilemma, that they are not *just* like us?
> Here's my .02, for what it's worth.  I don't care if someone is homosexual,
> I don't *want* to know.  So why do gays (some) have to *flaunt* it?  PDA,
> rainbows on cars, why can't they just keep it to themselves?  I don't mean
> in the closet, just out of my face (in public).  PDA among hetereos is
> offensive, too.  Is that asking too much?

If you're truly just offended by PDA, then no, I don't think it is too
much.  I don't care to watch PDA either, at least PDA between adult
humans.  I think PDA between parent and child and owner and pet are
fine.

I'll admit that homosexual PDA does disturb me on a different level
than heterosexual PDA, but that's *my* problem.  I would guess
heterosexual PDA disturbs homosexuals in a similar way, but I could be
wrong.

Rainbows on cars?  Never really noticed them.  I think just about any
kind of bumper sticker or other decoration is pretty silly, so I don't
pay much attention to them except when I'm at a traffic light and have
nothing else to do.

I don't know.  Like I said, I don't care to look at PDA myself, but
when I see a man and woman embrace or kiss in a fairly non-excessive
way (something short of the makeout scene in Top Gun, for instance) I
don't want to run over to them and scream at them to get a room.  I
don't have to watch, after all.  I don't have to watch homosexuals
showing PDA either.

Losers driving around with super-duper bass blasting crappy music from
their cars and sharing it with everyone else bothers me a LOT more
than any kind of PDA, heterosexual or homosexual.  I'd like a license
to reach in and yank some wires out of cars driven by people like
that.

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