Sinister: re Jarkko's letter: who doesn't feel sick?

[Moobury]

This lpost may seem rather old now, but I've only just got around to 
reading the Sinister messages from the 10th onwards....  I'm quite 
shaken up by Jarkko's letter regarding WBC.  I meant, I know that 
highly predudices regigious sects exist all over the world, but to 
publish what amounts to a modern day Klu Klux Clan site in a 
public domain makes you really think hard about how much you 
value free speach.  

I find the hole history of free speach quite remarkable; in the past, 
it has always been the fight of talented writers with insight and 
courage battling against predudiced religious authorities to get their 
works published and their ideas known, from Galilleo to Henry 
Miller.  But now that an acceptable amount of free speach is the 
norm for most people in most western countries (although far to 
many people are denied even this basic right), it seems to be 
abused by a minority of individuals and organisations, most of 
whom are religious.  The whole national identity/national front thing 
in England, encouraged by Enoch Powell, was (and still is) a way 
of hiding gross racism behind a mask of religion.

I'm really sorry about this, but I feel utterly sick, and as much as I 
love yr twee posts almost as much as much as I love ice cream, 
today will be dominated by the kind of self loathing that always 
settles in when I realise that I'm far too privledged in life.

I have very little understanding of what makes a person straight or 
gay.  I think its something to do with the way the brain develops in 
early pregnancy.  In the first month or so of  a human foetus, a 
single layer of cells develops and divides.  Trought differentiation 
and migration, the brain develops.  At this stage, many personality 
traites are formed, such as the predominate handedness, things 
like dyslexia, and yr inclinations over guys or girls.  The things 
affecting this development include the balence of chemicals such 
as eostrogen in the mother at the time, amoungst other thngs.  As 
far as I can make out, this process is just as 'natural' for straight or 
gay people.  If someone wants to insist that God gives life, then 
they also have to admit that God makes people Gay, contrary to 
one of his commands... mind you, he also creates people who, due 
to real lack of sensitivity to certain emotional stimuli, we term 
psychopaths... he creates people with a tendency to kill, then 
judges them with hellfire or whatever?   Seems bullshit to me, even 
assuming God exists.

Sorry to go on, once again... but I'm curious, can any of this 
bullshit reasonably be reasoned?  I don't know much about biology 
or neurology - I'm a philosophy student - but I do have an interest 
inb whether ideas which seem ridiculous can be argued for.  I can't 
imagine any possible way in which such blatent biggotry could be 
defended, and I'd really love to meat someone who thinks 
otherwise... preferably down a dark alleyway, armed with a 
baseball bat and a healthy set of emotions....

Has anyone read to here?  hahaha, thought not.

Love to you all,

Mark xxxxxx
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