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"Marsh_lion" <marsh...@SPAMparadise.net.nz> wrote in message 
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> That is certainly your attitude. Can you "cure" these sorts of people? I 
> certainly believe so. Granted Jail is not the best means to cure them. Let 
> me mention being Gay as an example (I'm not willing to argue weither it is 
> right or wrong, I believe that being Gay is a similar situation to being a 
> sexual offender (except one being legal, and the other not)). A prominant 
> Christian is Sy Rogers who WAS gay, and now is no longer (in fact he 
> preaches from his own experience on why being gay is wrong (in a Christain 
> sense)).

Um . . . .  I doubt the effectiveness of "cured" gays.   I have known 
several men who married and later divorced when they admitted they were gay. 
This is the negative effect of an oppressive religion (in these cases 
Mormonism).

I've often joked that if I divorced my wife that I would turn gay, just to 
ensure I'd be available if she wanted to take me back.  But - the truth is, 
that even though I could claim to be gay and engage in homosexual acts, I 
know I'd still find myself staring at women and their "parts".

> What I ment by that statment is that, while I think most american's have 
> the attitude that they rule the world, I still have to judge each american 
> individually (Luc is an example of this). In the same sense I believe that 
> you still have to judge each offender individually.

I've often speculated that perhaps my beliefs were more in tune with other 
American's than I was led to believe; and that they were just repressed and 
not talking.   But I'm learning that a large number of people actually 
subscribe to this nonsense that I thought I only heard on the television.

People continually make me lose faith in mankind and our country.  It's not 
just sex, it's everything.  (I had some examples, but deleted them because 
they were stupid.)   People will spend 5000$ on a television, but won't 
spend 10$ extra a month to support wind power.

I like to voice my opinions here in AGSC - people at least listen for a 
second.   No one will listen in person.   So I just shutup - and see how it 
could be really easy to succumb to mob mentality.   I did it once - 
pretended I didn't like someone because they were unpopular - back in junior 
high.  (I have subsequently felt bad about that.)  By the time high school 
came around, the unpopular kids were usually that way for reasons I agreed 
with, but I was nice to them so they liked me and clung to me annoyingly. 
It was a social impairment that I found annoying, but I wouldn't have done 
anything to hurt their feelings even if it would have made them go away.

I don't see any love of the fellow man; I don't see tolerance; I don't see 
forgiveness only a bunch of hypocrites preaching it.  All I see is hate, 
anger and finger pointing.

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LTP

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