Hasty Clarifying Amendment to sociocultural rant

[Tabouli]

Oo dear, just reread my last post and thought I'd better clarify my second last paragraph, lest I get misinterpreted...

I said:
>To get personal here, this is the context into which I'd put John's "touchiness" about Wicca and homosexuality.  Both of these violate some rules in the standard WASP rulebook, namely those gleaned from the Bible which warn against "man lying with man" and "witchcraft".<

After this, let me add the following: "John knows this, and he's fighting to have his faith and sexuality recognised and validated in spite of these rules.  When people uphold these rules, he gets "touchy" about it because it's an illustration of the pervasiveness of the very rulebook by which he feel condemned".

(er, John, I hope I'm not putting pschobabbly words you'd never countenance in your mouth, here...)


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