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Zerbie - you have once again proven to be an invaluable resouce for me, helping, as I form new approaches & ideas, to bounce ideas back & help me in clarifying a position. I would be interested in your take on a rewrite, which I have posted in the tridd (East Texas) forums here:
http://tridd.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=101 (scroll down to "Volume 2"). I am happy also to learn more about many issues faced by bisexuals that I hadn't really considered before, and now more clearly understand how my remarks were initially taken as insensitive. I assure you, however, that my intent was pure. The phenomenon, interestingly highlighted by the current Senator Craig debacle, is amazing to me in almost every respect... The fact that you can be arrested in an airport for sliding your foot to near the adjacent stall reeks of a "witch hunt." And his repeated insistence that "I am not gay," only serves to make it's antithesis (I AM gay) some kind of enormous indictment. Sen Craig displays all of the dynamics of the conservative bisexual antigay activist I had originally proposed, from being a vocal spokesman against gay rights right down to the apparent embattlement against his own demons (see the Idaho Statesmen article at: http://www.idahostatesman.com/1264/story/144047.html I'm just wondering if our understanding of vehement opposition as being an expression of angst among conservative bisexuals might help form an approach in dealing with them. How would we approach the "Focus on the Family" group, for example, armed with the foreknowledge that their extreme bigotry had, at its roots, a basis in their leaders' and members' own sexual orientation?
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