age G/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 17, 1984
Police bomb squad called out
to defuse practical joke
United Press International
DALLAS — A police bomb
;quad was called out to defuse a
practical joke that backfired
Monday, officials said.
A device, which “had all the
earmarks of a bomb,” was
mailed from the post office in
the Earl Cabell Federal Build
ing in downtown Dallas, a postal
inspector said. But there was no
explosive material.
“Apparently it was a little
practical joke between a couple
of pretty good friends,” he said,
adding that he had spoken to
the Dallas man who mailed the
package to a friend at an Army
base in Germany.
“It was mailed in the post of
fice in the Earl Cabell federal
building,” a postal inspector
said. “Shortly after it was mailed
at about 10:30 a.m., it began to
emit an unusual sound, similar
to that of a smoke detector. Of
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course, this caused the station
people to become concerned.”
The station manager carried
the brown manila envelope out
side and called postal inspectors
and the Dallas Police Depart
ment’s bomb squad.
Police spokesman Bob Shaw
said when the bomb squad ar
rived at the scene at about 11
a.m., the envelope had been
taken from the building and
placed in a trash can on the
sidewalk.
The bomb squad blocked off
one street and used a water can
non to take the package apart
without incident. Inside the en
velope was a small plastic box
witha note which said, “Do not
open without protective eyeg
lasses and earmuffs,” Shaw said.
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/ am 32 years old. I laugh, I cry. I
express joy and sadness, love and
anger. I am an attorney, I pay my
taxes and bills. I believe there is a
God—and I am at peace with that
understanding. I am also a homose
xual—and I’d not want it any other
way!
poster at gay rally
New Perspective
The claims of satisfaction and
inherent happiness in the gay
lifestyle are common ones—the
term gay itself promotes this
image. With the advent of the
sexual revolution in the past
two decades, society is con
fronted with the question of
sexuality as never before. Peo
ple are now more willing to
accept homosexuality as a legi
timate alternative to heterosex
uality.
Recent studies, such as the Kin
sey report on homosexuality,
have made great strides in con
vincing the public of the re
spectability of such a lifestyle.
But what are the realities for
someone who chooses this way
of life?
Emotional Implications
Although Kinsey’s report
painted a favorable picture of
the homosexual society, News
week magazine (March 27,
1978) noted that “the statistics
hardly add up to a picture of
lives lived in tranquility, and
the text sometimes seems at
cross-purposes with the book’s
conclusions.”
Among the findings:
A quarter of the gays inter
viewed believed that homosex
uality is an emotional disorder.
• The average homosexual
reported sex acts with hun
dreds of men. 28% of white
males had more than l,000sex
partners, most of them one
night stands with virtual stran
gers; 40% had more than 500;
25% as adults, had performed
sex with boys under 16.
• Homosexuals contem
plated or committed suicide
more frequently than heterose
xuals. One out of five gay men
surveyed had attempted
suicide. Of course, successful
suicidals couldn’t be surveyed.
• Gay males and females had
been arrested more often than
heterosexuals (these were not
fenses).
• Homosexual males showed
more signs of emotional dam
age in nine areas of psycholo
gical distress, from depression
to paranoia.
• The happiest and best ad
justed homosexuals were those
in a “close-coupled” relation
ship, the equivalent of a good
heterosexual marriage.
However, these same affairs,
the durations of which were
typically from one to three
years, had an almost 100% di
vorce rate.
A Canadian psychiatrist at the
University of Toronto, Dr.
Daniel Cappon, has treated
several hundred homosexuals.
In his book Toward an Under
standing of Homosexuality, he
states:
“Homosexuality, by definition,
is not healthy or wholesome . . .
the homosexual person, at best,
will be unhappier and more un
fulfilled than the sexually nor
mal person ... at worst, the
homosexual will die younger
and suffer emotional, mental
and physical illness more often
than the normal person. The
natural history of the homosex
ual person seems to be one of
frigidity, impotence, broken
personal relationships, psycho
somatic disorders, alchoholism,
paranoia psychosis, and suicide
The word “gay”, as sociologist
Dr. Tim LaHaye noted in his
book The Unhappy Gays, “is more
of a propaganda word than a de
finition, an illusion to hide the lone
liness their way of life imposes upon
them . i . anyone requiring loyalty,
fidelity, and oneness, is doomed to
disappointment in the homosexual
lifestyle. ”
Atlanta gay activist Frank Schen-
ren, in a Time magazine inter
view (July 4, 1983), admitted
that “the tradition in the gay
community is that you have sex
first, then talk.”
In the same article, New York
psychiatrist Norman Levy says
that he sees more gay patients
in therapy these days because
“they have become aware that
they had become addicted to
anonymous sex as a way of cop
ing with stress and tension.”
Medical Considerations
While anonymous and casual
sex results in psychological and
emotional disorder, it is also a
major health hazard. One such
hazard that has attracted much
public attention is the acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome
(AIDS). While experts are un
clear about what causes the syn
drome, it is clear that it is found
primarily among homosexuals.
The Center for Disease Con
trol in Atlanta says that AIDS
victims fall into four general
groups:
• 75% homosexual men
• 25% intravenous-drug
abusers
• 6% Haitian immigrants
• .5% hemophilliacs.
Time (September 6, 1982) re
ported that in one Los Angeles
area study, 9 out of 13 AIDS
patients had had sexual contact
with one another. It found that
AIDS had been traced from
one sexual partner to another.
Several months later, Newsweek
(April 18, 1983) reported that
“the nightmare rumors that
swirled the homosexual com
munities of New York, San
Francisco and Los Angeles
almost three years ago have be
come cruel fact...the disease’s
drawn-out incubation period
has thousands of gay men
sweating in terror, seeing every
bruise as a Kaposi’s sacroma
lesion; every cough, the onset
of Pneumocystis carinii pne-
monia.”
A Boston psychiatric social
worker, whose case load is 70%
homosexual, said that “nine out
of ten calls I get are related to
AIDS, and anything will set
these men off--a lingering
cough, a blotch on the skin, you
name it. Talk of suicide is not
unusual at all. The common re
sponse is, Tf I get AIDS, I’ll kill
myself.’”
A 33-year old gay in San Fran
cisco said, “Sure I’m fright
ened. But there isn’t much I can
do about it. That’s the scariest
part; youjust sit around hoping
you won’t be next” (Saturday
Evening Post, October 1982).
In addition, the same article
stated that it is well recognized
that homosexual men have a
much higher incidence of
venereal diseases than the gen
eral public. They also have a
much higher rate of hepatitis,
and recently the incidence of a
number of other viral and pa
rasitic diseases has been on the
upswing. Even the Kinsey re
port on homosexuality admit
ted that two-thirds of the
homosexual men interviewed
had contracted venereal dis
ease at least once. In spite of
these dangers, many homosex
uals are still unwilling to give up
their lifestyles.
“Some gays don’t want to
change and continue playing
Russian roulette,” said Los
Angeles physician Joel Weis-
man (Newsweek, April 18,
1983).
A Gift of God?
Many homosexuals feel that
they are unable to change be
cause they believe it is a genetic
ally inherited condition. The
predominately homosexual
Universal Fellowship of Metro
politan Community Churches
(UFMCC) teaches that homose
xuality is “a gift from God” and
that there is nothing immoral
about gay relationships.
Yet scientific experts deny that
homosexuality is a genetic con
dition. Sociologist Dr. LaHaye
said that “to date there is no
scientific evidence to support
the notion that homosexuality
is inherited.” Other resear
chers agree.
“There is no evidence that
homosexuals have faulty hor
mone levels, or that their sexual
orientation can be changed
with hormone injections,”
states Dr. Evelyn Hooker,
famous for research on
homosexuality.
Homosexual researcher Dr.
Charles Wahl said that “the vast
preponderence of evidence
clearly indicates that homosex
uality is a learned disorder, and
is not genetically inherited.”
It is true that because of va
rious exposures and erroneous
thinking patterns, ones may
have a greater “predisposition”
toward homosexuality. This
simply means they have more
of a tendency toward homosex
ual practice. However, this is
true in all areas of life. Due to
upbring and exposure, one
may have more of a tendency
toward stealing, fighting, and
murder. But this never makes
the action right. It is just as
wrong, regardless of the pre
disposition.
Since these conclusions deny
that one is born a homosexual,
it would be ludicrous to assert
that a learned disorder is a “gift
from God.”
In addition, the Bible clearly
states that one who practices
homosexuality violates God’s
commandments.
“Do not be deceived; neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
HOMOSEXUALS, nor
thieves, nor the covetous nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers, shall inherit the
kingdom of God” (I Corinthians
6:9-10).
Lest anyone consider this to be
harsh, one needs only to look
back to the Old Testament and
see how God deals with the
issue of homosexuality —
execution was the order of the
day. However, many homosex
uals question the accuracy of
the English translations of the
Bible. They assert that the ori
ginal Hebrew and Greek words
of the Bible do not really deal
with homosexuality—but rather
with hospitality and luxuriant
living. One need not be a Heb
rew scholar to understand the
following passage: “If there is a
man who lies with a male as
those who lie with a woman,
both of them have committed a
detestable act; they shall surely
be put to death” (Leviticus 20:13
In an effort to justify their
practice, homosexuals point to
the fact that there were many
Old Testament laws that are no
longer practiced today. This is
true in some areas. However,
it’s important to see that the
Old Testament contained va
rious types of laws, some social
and some moral. While many
of the social laws are not repe
ated in the New Testament, the
•moral laws clearly are. God’s
standard of morality has never
changed, including his forbid
ding of homosexuality.
Commenting on the UFMCC,
Dr. LaHaye said “that like most
movements based on
erroneous teaching, the
homosexual church has de
veloped a man-centered theol
ogy instead of a God-centered
doctrine.”
Like many, they have used the
Bible to simply justify their per
sonal preference rather than as
a source to discover the mind of
God and then adjust accord
ingly.
The four young men sat in the
semi-darkness of the deserted ward
waiting for their weekend shot oj
interferon at New York's Memorial
Sloan-Kellering Cancer Center.
They tried not to look at the fifth
man, the law professor. His face
was swollen and disfigured by pur
plish Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) le
sions; his frail body, wracked for
months by pneumonia and other re
curring infections, weighed no
more than a child’s. He was beyond
hope, beyond terror. They fought
not to see their fate in his. And
again they fought the old fears and
doubts. Their life-style xuas not sin
ful. AIDS was not a gay plague sent
down upon them. “God doesn’t do
things like this,” said Alan, a quiet
Southerner who works in a bank
and sings in church choirs. “Tm not
being punished for anything. It’s
bad luck or fate or something I have
done that has caused this to
luippen. ”
Newsweek, April 18, 1983
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Eddie (Gary Bristol), Jim (Mark
Rust), Jackson (Henry Gross), Rhetta
(June Gable) and Prudie (Donna Wat-
Photo by BILL HUGHES
ton) sing about Highway 57 in “Pump
Boys and Dinettes” Monday night in
Rudder Theater.
Pump Boys and Dinettes.
A concert with a theme
By KATHY WIESEPAPE
Stall Writer
“Pump Boys and Dinettes”
was more of a concert with a
theme than a musical play.
The musical was a tribute to
roadside America. The audi
ence was given a glimpse into
the lives of the four “pump
boys” at L.M. and Jim’s Gas Sta
tion and Prudie and Rhetta
Cupp, waitresses at the Double
Cupp Diner.
Jim stood Rhetta up to go
fishing with the boys. Prudie la
mented the best man she never
had, L.M., who had always had
a secret crush on Dolly Parton.
Both of them got their men in
the end, though, when they
took a break from work to
cruise to Florida.
And that’s about the extent
of the plot.
The music was the strong
point of the performance, and
the cast made the most of it,
squeezing twenty musical num
bers into less than two hours.
The instrumentals were first-
rate. Henry Gross’jazz solos on
the steel guitar were consis
tently excellent, especially in the
slow, bluesy ballads. William
Swindler boogied on the piano.
Gary Bristol backed them up
with a consistent bass beat, and
Mark Rust played the acoustic
guitar.
The dinettes were the
rhythm section with spoons
drumming on pots and pans —
a down-home touch.
Vocal talent varied among
the cast members. June Gable,
as Rhetta, had a deep throaty
voice that carried one of the
best numbers of the show — a
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Donna Walton, as F
Cupp, and Gable blended
tifully in their duet parts.U
pump boys sang a nice a q
quartet arrangement in‘W
man’s Prayer.”
Transitional dialogue
tween songs was minima!’*!
liam Swindler, with the we:
voice in the cast, provided
best laughs as L.M., the si
owner. With thin hairgreai
back from a shiny balding
pants that cleared the flooi
at least five inches, hon
rimmed glasses and perpet:
squint, he was the typicalmiii
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the highlight of the play.1
Night Dolly Parton Was Aina
Mine” — sung with neonlii
flashing around a pictureoli
star above his desk —wasab
rious look at one man’s faie
Swindler’s best number i
“Farmer Tan” — a tongue
cheek tribute to the red nea
and white chests of the t-ski
clad.
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outstanding dialogue, tnenus
cal was entertaining. "Piie
Boys and Dinettes," while c
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