Ron Amundson wrote in part:
> I don't think either biological or social theories of the 'origin' of
> homosexuality are very interesting in the context of comparisons with
> disability issues. We don't ask about the specific cause of a person's
> impairment before we discuss the person's disablement, and we don't decide
> whether or not one's oppression is 'deserved' by how one's impairment was
> caused.
Ummm We don't?????? Society and the Disabled community DON'T create a
hierarchy of disability based upon how one BECAME Disabled? We don't pass
judgment upon the person who became paralyzed while driving drunk AND the
person who became paralyzed while in the military? We don't pass judgment upon
the person who has AIDS and is homosexual and pass judgment upon who has AIDS
and is heterosexual? We, society and the Disabled community, don't ask,
"what's wrong with you?" and, almost in the same breath, how one "got that
way"?
Ron, I realize you live in Hawaii but I didn't realize Hawaii was on another
planet -- I missed that geography lesson.
--
Carolyn
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