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From: Patrick Cracroft-Brennan <>
Subject: Re: Edward II's Sexuality
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 20:03:06 +0100


Sorry to get onto a soap-box here BUT I really felt that it would be
wrong to let this response go unanswered, totally off topic (not to
mention off ng!)as it is.....

In article <61kash$rud$1@news-in.anc.net>, a <> writes
>>: homosexuality, which of course is NOT a character flaw any more than
>>: being left-handed or blue eyed, and indeed needs no more to be
>>: "explained" than, say, his father's heterosexuality. A person is BORN
>>: gay or lesbian not made one by problems of upbringing.
>
>I am amazed that you have figured out what geneticists have not been able to
>prove.
>As firmly as you assert homosexuality is inborn, I can assert as firmly that
it
>is a chosen
>lifestyle.

Hmmm....well, I know of no-one who has consciously chosen it as a life-
style even though they're actually heterosexual....but there again, I'm
only a gay man so what would I know of the subject!!!!

> There is NO evidence either way.

Apart from what gay men themselves know and say!!

> Please keep your unqualified
>statements to
>yourself.

No way!!! I'll always combat any statement that attempts to diminish
the validity of a gay lifestyle.

>
>There is evidence that Edward III was the result of slippery extramarital
>activity of
>Isabella of France (Edward II's wife). This is my allotment of unqualified
>statements.
>

Patrick Cracroft-Brennan
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