At 10:25 13/01/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Matt Pearson wrote:
>>
>> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>>
>> >What I wanted to say is an odd thing I saw since I began unhiding that I
>> >was gay: my friends all accepted my homosexuality without a problem,=
with
>> >only some surprise, but when I say I'm a conlanger, they look at me as
if I
>> >was mad! (even my gay friends do that). I find this situation quite=
weird.
>> >After the Gay Pride, shall we have a Conlanger Pride?
>>
>> Perhaps! I've encountered this situation as well, and while I'm=
completely
>> out as a gay man, I'm still fairly closeted about my conlanging. Even
>> after having been on the conlang list for years and having shared my work
>> with countless people, I still often feel a knee-jerk sense of=
embarassment
>> and discomfort when revealing my conlanging inclinations to the
uninitiated.
>> The Maligned Art, as Sally Caves puts it.
>>
>> Matt.
>>
>
>
>Perhaps that's why we (I'm also gay) get into conlanging? As a kind of
>lightening conductor to convert homophobic flak into conlangophobia!
>
>As for sodomy, I agree with Christophe that sodomy (in English, as in
>French) refers to anal sex, regardless of whether it's male-male or
>male-female.
>
>Steg was right to give the origins, in the Biblical story of Sodom. But
>it should be noted that homosexuality / homosexual abuse was not, I
>believe, originally seen as the main or only sin of the Sodomites. As I
>recall, their main fault was total regard for others, so that someone
>could die on the street without being helped (Steg can maybe help in
>terms of whether this is Biblical or Talmudic in origin - I don't have
>time to check). In that sense, how ironic that many of those loudest to
>condemn sodomy (especially among the American Right) are the same who
>promote just such a society, on the pretext of encouraging enterprise or
>protecting the basic human right to own a gun and kill people with it.
>
I'm not surprised. Such contradictions are common among such people. And
when we enlighten them in front of those people, they always deny it!
Hypocrisy, the disease all civilisations died of...
>
> Shaul
>
>
Christophe Grandsire
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