Klarinet Archive - Posting 000573.txt from 2004/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Biologically/Politically Correct
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:50:21 -0500

At 10:17 PM 3/9/2004 -0800, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>...When you wrote: "I just want to see someone have the honesty to
>acknowledge that homosexuality IS a deviation from the norm", you have
>confused two different meanings of "norm".
>
>One meaning is : "A majority of members of the population are
><whatever>".
>
>The other meaning is: "A normally distributed population includes
><number> members who are <whatever>."
>
>By confusing these two meanings, you are asserting that a quality which
>occurs in every "natural" population in nature is unnatural.

OK, how many standard deviations away from the center of the bell curve do
you have to be to be considered to be "outside the norm?" Just as in
politics, where there are way-out, bleeding heart liberals and right-wing
fringe lunatics, neither of whom are the norm (but of course they both
THINK they are!), there are people whose sexual behavior places them well
outside the mainstream, but they do not wish to acknowledge it.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!