From: TURTLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Association    
Date & Time: 08/12/90 03:53:18
Message Number  7578

I would not make the claim that /all/ sexual acts to a person below
a specific arbitrary age are acts of violence, I was simply trying to
make the case that sexual abuse of children is just that--abuse. If
yer gonna call those who sexually abuse children "sick," yer also gonna
have to say that people who abuse them are "sick" by exactly the same
logic. Abuse is abuse. In any event, the thrust of that reasoning was
that there is a qualitative difference between sexual abuse of children
and homosexuality, and that labelling them both as "sick" and lumping
them together just don't cut it. *Yawn*...I oughtta be in bed now, but
no.