<HTML>In a message dated 10/4/01 7:07:35 PM Central Daylight Time, jformsma@dixie-net.com (John M. Formsma) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">In our culture, homosexuality is considered by many an "alternate lifestyle." However</BLOCKQUOTE> John, I'm glad that you have learned about my unique method of tuning, have supported it and come to its defense.  I appreciate that very much. But this post of yours did not belong on this List.  What it is, frankly, is bigotry.  It is about as perverted thinking as the purported perversion it condemns.  Quite frankly, there are several statements you make which show obvious ignorance of facts and make sweeping generalizations which are highly offensive to everyone, not just the people you hate. Oddly enough, the hatred found in your writing bears a strong resemblance to the kind of perverse, fanatic and bigoted ideology that presently has the entire world's attention as the most dangerous threat upon world society since World War II's Nazis. You have the right to say what you want, to believe what you want but you don't have the right to be listened to.  It seems at the strangest times I come into complete agreement with one of the people I have argued with the longest and hardest, JIMRPT.  I fully support his call for an immediate end to this thread.  If you want to talk about plastic plumbing as an analogy, please change the title of your post. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin</HTML>