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Re: GAY RIGHTS...

From: Artemis420
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 11:26:29 PST

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    In a message dated 2/14/00 5:50:56 AM, acarolan.us writes:

    << The gay society I have witnessed,
    seen, when I lived in San Francisco was extremely promiscuous. Two of my
    friends died from aids before it was even a diagnosed. Families were
    destroyed, children suffered. So although, I can support fairness in
    treatment, I can't deny the negative effects I've seen due to the acceptance
    of this lifestyle. What brought Rome down? >>

     ALL societies have had and continue to have their promiscuous elements. Up
    to late in this century until the discovery of penicillin; syphilis and other
    STD's wrought havoc in a similar way with so called straight families;
    children were born with disabilities, innocent wives were rendered sterile,
    males went insane... and so on.

    Rome fell from within, and mostly from a lack of will to change...not from
    sex.
    [All ancient societies viewed sex as a religious act. The desire for sex was
    attributed to the presence of the goddess Venus.] Rome fell because it tried
    to rule a multicultural world while keeping to a set of provincial martial
    ideals that had become irrelevent. They tried to impose their cultural mores
    on peoples who had no understanding of them. Then, when Romans no longer saw
    the point of endless wars of conquest, they recruited soldiers from those
    different peoples, and those soldiers had little or no interest in the Rome
    of the early republic or the Rome of Augustine, they wanted pay. Those
    soldiers turned against Rome when they could get more from other sources.
    They had different gods and different ideals. In other words Rome became
    complacent and rigid and could not change with the changing times. The wonder
    is not that Rome fell, it is that it survied for so long.
     We forget when we speak of Rome that when it fell to the barbarians, most of
    the best of Rome had moved to Byzantium where Constantine adopted
    Christianity as the state religion, yet continued many of the other Roman
    traditions for 11 more centuries.

      This American society is in grave danger of committing the same mistake as
    Rome did. We must understand that we are no longer the Puritans with thier
    notion of loads of sin to be redeemed by a so-called pure life. We are no
    longer the wild west where one did ones thinking with a gun. We are an urban
    society, and we are part of a world community that has different notions of
    the way a society works.
    History exists to keep us from making the same mistakes over and over.
    Social research exists to help us understand the reality of the grounds of
    our everyday lives.
    Artie 

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