ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR CAN BE CORRECTED

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 3, 1993                   TAG: 9303030394
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR CAN BE CORRECTED
YOUR EDITORIAL of Feb. 12, "Powell misses echoes from '40s," and Paul Finkelman's Feb. 10 commentary, "Gay-bashing just another chapter in military history book," gave me a serious worry about the future of America.
Whether gays or lesbians are able to fight for freedom is a secondary issue. The most critical and fundamental hidden kernel of allowing gays to enter the military is whether the society, a community of people having standards of living or conduct, admits gays or lesbians as acceptable individuals.
A human being is born (or created) to have an opposite sex and be united as opposed to an animal. Family is the base unit in a society, which is composed of father, mother and child(ren). However, imagine a family of two fathers or a family of two fathers and an adopted child. How can we explain gay to our children? Can we say we do not care?
Admitting legal gays destroys our view of morality. We are to say "you are not normal" and to correct their abnormal sexual behavior through care and therapy. DO H. NAM BLACKSBURG

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB