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In article <1992Nov16.221934.6210@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes:

>Perhaps my use of child-abuser was too strong, but I do feel that
>counseling a teenage boy that sex with males might be acceptable,
>is just as wrong as counseling a Jew that marriage outside the religion
>might be acceptable.  And for rec.scouting purposes, all we are
>talking about is what is proper, within BSA guidelines, for the
>boys.

My G*d Stan, that bad???  Do you mean if a Jewish boy falls in love
with a girl, and wants to marry her, but is troubled by the fact that
she isn't Jewish, then telling him not to worry is almost the moral
equivalent of child abuse?

How many other people feel that their particular religion owns its
adherents body and soul, I wonder?  I would say that rescuing a boy
from a religious attitude which could even contemplate such an
equation is a good thing in and of itself.

-- 
     Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University 
               gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de