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To: ArGee
Since mankind has recognized that homoerotic behavior is damaging to both individuals and society for at least 6,000 years

I would dare say you are not correct. Not all societies through all of time has considered homosexuality aberrant or harmful. And 6,000 years ago, people thought the earth was flat. Why should we change the status quo?

136 posted on 06/02/2003 9:23:28 AM PDT by tdadams
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To: tdadams
I would dare say you are not correct. Not all societies through all of time has considered homosexuality aberrant or harmful.

That's true, but those that thought otherwise did not last, and the people who came after them returned to an exclusively heterosexual society. They saw the results and applied them such that we still recognize homoerotic behavior as aberrant and harmful. Been there, done that, know it's stupid.

And 6,000 years ago, people thought the earth was flat. Why should we change the status quo?

Because we've been to the moon and know it is not.

Can you see the distinction. WRT homoerotic behavior all the evidence is against it, where as with a spherical earth all the evidence is in favor of it.

A far better example for you to have used would have been slavery. And there were many who probably argued against abolition as being a change to the status quo. But once it was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that blacks were not sub-human, slavery had to go. Evidence that slavery was wrong, coupled with the fact that our society is stronger for abolishing it, are sufficient to justify never reestablishing the age-old institution of slavery.

Why should we normalize homoerotic behavior? Give me one good reason.

Shalom.

137 posted on 06/02/2003 9:35:50 AM PDT by ArGee (I did not come through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man... - Gandalf)
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