Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation [was Re: THEORY: language and the brain]

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> I know several gay, pagan, partnered, HIV+ men, not just in the USA, but in
> Atlanta, Georgia, smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt.  They
> do run into small-minded idiots, but legally they have no problems.
> Several of them even get health benefits from their partners' jobs,
> even though they can't yet legally marry here.
Come come.  Atlanta may be in, but is surely not of, the Bible Belt.
It's a fairly cosmopolitan city, in fact.  Try singing the same tune in
small-town Georgia.

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John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.reutershealth.com  ccil.org/~cowan
Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos          --Lithuanian proverb
Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem             --Latin version thereof
Deity donated dentition;
  deity'll donate doughnuts                     --English version by Muke Tever
God gave gums; God'll give granary              --Version by Mat McVeagh

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