Good for you Cathy --- for minor quibble, however. I have never bought into
the concept of a gay or lesbian lifestyle.. I don't even know what that
means. What is a heterosexual lifestyle? To me a lifestyle would be
vegetarianism ( I am one)... but orientation is orientation...Just my 2
cents.
Allan
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Bishop Kearney High School Library
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy" <cdeaubl@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: Please Vote
> This might have raised eyebrows a few years ago but now? Not so much. My
> grown son is gay and although I have always been accepting of that
> lifestyle, his coming out brought some of the finer points of the struggle
> for gay rights into sharper focus for me. Despite what we all believe,
> there are such a wide variety of alternate lifestyles that I'm not sure
> anything can be called "normal" any more. I work in the library
> acquisitions department of an Arizona school district and I processed a
book
> the other day that quite took me by surprise. It was called "Visiting
Day"
> and was a picture book centering on an African American family from a
little
> girl's viewpoint as they made plans to visit the girl's father in prison.
> It was nicely handled but I had a few moments where I questioned its
subject
> matter. Then I realized that although this wasn't a reality for my
> particular situation, it was for many others in this area. Part of
> tolerance will always be considering and being accepting of simply the
> existence of lifestyles and situations that are widely different.
>
> Cathy Deaubl
> Library Techical Services
> TUSD
>
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