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From: "Betty Owen" <>
Subject: Fw: Edited GRO Records In The Future
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:47:51 -0600


----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty Owen" <>
To: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: Edited GRO Records In The Future


> Mr. Hines,
> It should not be the subject matter of this board to share your sexual
> preferences... brave soul that you are
> Betty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Edited GRO Records In The Future
>
>
> > Homosexuals often, not always, seem to have a strong attraction to
> Genealogy.
> >
> > I suspect one major causal factor is that they often, not always,
> understand
> > that they will have no descendants and are the end of the line.
> >
> > Ergo, their ANCESTORS become VERY important to them ---- and they search
> them
> > out with vigour, tenacity ---- and often, not always, with superior
> > scholarship.
> >
> > More [Genealogical] Power To Them ---- If They Know Their Stuff....
> >
> > Deus Vult.
> >
> > "For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of
> all
> > people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in
this
> work
> > we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw His present help from
us,
> we
> > shall be made a story and a byword through the world."
> >
> > John Winthrop [1588-1649] A Model of Christian Charity [1630], A Sermon
> > Delivered aboard Arbella, enroute to the New World; First Governor of
> > Massachusetts Bay Colony.
> >
> > Ubique Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt --- Motto of the Royal Artillery
> >
> > All replies to the newsgroup please. Thank you kindly. All original
> material
> > contained herein is copyright and property of the author. It may be
> quoted
> > only in discussions on this forum and with an attribution to the author,
> > unless permission is otherwise expressly given, in writing.
> > ------------------
> >
> > D. Spencer Hines
> >
> > Lux et Veritas et Libertas
> >
> > Vires et Honor.
> >
> > "Liz" <> wrote in message
> > news:...
> >
> > | Roy Stockdill wrote:
> > |
> > | > In the words of Queen Victoria (I am not sure to what she was
> > | > referring, but you will get my drift): "I don't care what they do,
so
> > | > long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
> > |
> > | It was Mrs Patrick Campbell, the actress, actually. Hardly something
> > | Victoria would have said.
> > |
> > | <snip completely off-topic rant not worth the arguing>
> > |
> > | > End of statement, end of argument, because I am not interested in
> > | > debating it further.
> > |
> > | Double standard. We have to hear your opinion but should not counter
it
> > | with our own. V. cowardly.
> > |
> > | However this post does raise a point which is marginally on-topic,
since
> > | it is about newsgroups.
> > |
> > | Now I understand that a journalist is normally fully informed not only
> > | of the house-style of any publication he works for but also of the
> > | perceived attitudes and prejudices of the readership. What the Daily
> > | Mail will lap up will not sit well in the Guardian. Or vice versa.
> > |
> > | But on a newsgroup it is exceedingly arrogant to assume that people
> > | drawn together by an interest in genealogy will also be of like mind
on
> > | social and political issues. Which is why, of course, such matters are
> > | off-topic...
> > |
> > | I am sure there are others here who happily nodded in agreement with
> > | what you said in this post. I accept that. But I am pretty sure there
> > | are others who found it as ignorant and offensive as I did.
> > |
> > | My point? Keep this kind of thing out of this newsgroup. Your posts
> > | about the word 'gay' followed by the one about a 'gay lobby' sound
> > | suspiciously to me as if you were setting out to provoke, in a very
> > | trollish manner. The connections to genealogy were very tenuous.
> > |
> > | And for God's sake remember how little you know about most of the
> > | subscribers here. Did it really not occur to you how hurtful you were
> > | being to any gay people who may well be among us ..... or their
> > | relatives or *real* friends?
> > |
> > |
> > | Liz (Greenwich UK)
> >
> >
>

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