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Re: Gays you miss the point.

#1576
From: Mike Greenawalt
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:57
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In article <1992Nov3.195530.5506@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, smackinnon@mta.ca writes:
|> In article <1992Nov3.170807.3262@usl.edu>, mxc1059@usl.edu (Carroll Matthew) writes:
|> >What about starting a gay boyscout troop?  Would that work?
|> >:
|> >
|> 
|> 	I do not think that  that would work. I have two reason why I think so.
|> 	First by putting people in two groups, you are not helping the 
|> situation. You are shrouding the "other side" and no one learns for the
|> other group about how they behave,  and hence you do not become toleratent of
|> the issuse, but you ignore it, hoping it does not bother you.
|> 	Secondly How do you start a gay Boyscout troop, if you are in an
|> area that does not tolerate homosexuals. It could cause aliot of problems
|> if you ask a younge boys to make a choice, that He(assuming boy scouts,but the
|> same would be true for girls) is gay, and that he wants to join this new troop.
|> Coming out is a big step, and is a step that you can't go back on. You just
|> can't force someone to make that kind of choice just because you don't want
|> that kind of person in your troop. 
|> Qshawn mackinnon
|> Time lord(appentice), Chief scout, 
|> CG
|> Terra, Sol.
|> Ba weep granna weep ninni ba

At what age does the typical gay male know that he is gay?  I would think that
at ages 11-12-13 or so, boys are just beginning to find out who/what they are.
I doubt they can make a lifetime decision at that age.
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| Mike Greenawalt           | emg@metaphor.com                           |
| 			    | These opinions are mine, not my employer's |
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