X-Message-Number: 16532 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:52:12 -0700 From: Lee Corbin <> Subject: Sexual Orientation Not as Important as Life wrote >I'd like to state publicly that if anyone ever tries to "cure" >or "correct" my "condition", ie, homosexuality, even with >"affection" for me, in any circumstance, be it while living, >or during revival or reconstruction from suspension, should >that ever occur, I would view that as murder of my person. I don't think that it helps your cause, or any cause, to exaggerate. If someone tried to cure me of my sexual orientation, or behavior, I would consider it an assault, and compare it ---in terms of gravity---to being imprisoned by them for some years. But murder? Cessation of life? This is probably the wrong forum to press such a claim. I sincerely hope that you are not so completely identifying with your sexual orientation that change is regarded as death. Of course, I entirely agree that homophobia is to be severely criticized by people with good taste. >Bigots can tie me to a fence and pistol whip me into a >coma, as they did Matthew Shepard, but they can never >make me other than I am unless they kill me. Brave words. But probably untrue. Who knows? Something might be found even tomorrow morning---a consequence of the Human Genome project---that would permit someone, if only they got control of you for long enough to administer the treatment, to alter almost anything about you. As always, we have a great deal to fear from people who would usurp our liberty and self-determination "with the best of intentions". Lee Corbin Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16532