Re: same *** marriage petition (Canada) .

"Gene Douglas" <genedoug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> ...  A woman can probably manage the mechanical aspects of being raped,
but a man needs a little more motivation to follow through. <

First, just to be clear, we're not discussing rape.  Second, Bishop
Robinson
has two daughters, so clearly some, if not most, gay men can follow
through.
That leaves the question of whether the straight man can follow through. I
submit that the one thing that prevents this is the sense of "wrongness",
and that this sense is taught by the culture. The attraction is innate,
but
the aversion is learned.

>  And if you have problems imagining yourself punking a guy, then
consider
that gays may have as much problem in the other direction. <

But clearly gays do not have the same problem. If they did then Bishop
Robinson would not be a father! The reason they don't is because the
aversion is learned from culture. The culture favors hetero***ual behavior
but suppresses homo***ual behavior. So most old fogeys like you and me
have
an aversion to homo***ual behavior, which we imagine is due to our being
hetero***uals. But it isn't. We've programmed that aversion into ourselves
to fit within society's expectations.

> And yet, some stranger, who doesn't even have dealings with them, would
want to tell them they have to, anyway? <

I'm not aware of anyone in this discussion telling anyone that they have
to
do anything.