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Article #139470Re: Halifax Pride Festival gets "Hallmark" status
From: James Warren
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:56
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:56
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demibee wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:35:43 -0300, lucretiaborgia wrote: > >> On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:17:27 -0300, Rick A <abbott.rick@gmaildot.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Let me wade in here.... >>> >>> Rather than asking if gays are normal or abnormal, wouldn't it be more >>> appropriate to try to answer this question.... >>> >>> If God created gays or if evolution created gays,,,,, what is their >>> purpose in the scheme of life? Why are there gays? >> God didn't create anything so what does that have to do with anything? > > But if evolution *did* (and it seems it did), why did it?... and why > hasn't it corrected the "defect" over time. It would seem to me that it's > not a defect in the first place -- nothing to correct. > > In natural (tribal) societies, it *must* have a raison d'etre... or I'd > think groups that included gays would have been decimated by those who > didn't. Evolution or God, there must be a reason for it. > > > db There need not be a reason for homosexuality to exist, there need only be no reason to weed it out. It suffices to be neutral or slightly positive to persist. -- jw "Science is a candle in the dark" - Carl Sagan.
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