From: walsh@optilink.UUCP (Mark Walsh)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,ca.politics,ba.politics,soc.motss,ba.motss
Subject: Re: The Harrassing Phone Calls Can Stop NOW!
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:36:16 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

From article <v=vn+#m.rich@netcom.com>, by rich@netcom.com (Richard Poppen):
> In article <12211@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

>>The homosexual fascist lobby is creating a situation where the choice
>>is "the devil and the deep blue sea."  If you were told that you could
>>preserve your right to free speech by giving up your right to not be
>>searched at random by the police, and that these were your ONLY
>>choices, what would you do?  You would have to decide which right was
>>more important, and hold your nose.  I would prefer to not make that
>>choice -- but the homosexual fascist lobby seems intent on using the
>>government's power to force people to hire and rent to homosexuals
>>against their will -- and the only realistic way to stop it is by
>>assisting another group that I don't like.

> You're absolutely right, this is a grave danger.  Why, look what
> happened in the sixties.  The negro fascist lobby used the government's
> power to force people to hire and rent to negroes against their will,
> and look where it's taken us.  People treat them as though they were
> human!  Boy, Clayton, I wish you had been around then.  You could have
> helped us prevent special rights for negroes.

Oops!  You mean the seventies.  The sixities had great men who
fought for (and achieved to some degree) civil rights for many
fomerly oppressed minorities.  Today, most of us believe that
the governmental discrimination of yesteryear was wrong.  It is
too bad that it has been replaced by other forms of discrimination.

Don't get me wrong, I am a liberal who believes that Affirmative
Action had its place.  It was an attempt to right some wrongs.
Unfortunately, it has been carried too far.  Mr. straight white
male government worker often perceives other (blacks, women, etc.)
government workers in low esteem because they did not have to meet
the same criteria for employment that he did.  Resentment is
created, despite the fact that these minorities may be exemplary
employees.

I find it sad that some gays are now trying to get their fingers
into this pie.  I don't believe that gays are mentally disadvantaged,
and as such do not need bailout programs.  I can see it now:

Joe Worker A:  So you passed the big test, eh?
Joe Worker B:  No, I'm gay, so I got an exemption.

With enough of this, the mass heterosexual subconscious will
begin to think that gays are helpless incompetents, and far
from the 'human' described above.  White people who treat
blacks as human do so because black people are indeed human,
and not because some law says so.  And as such, blacks and
gays don't need 'special rights,' they merely need to be
treated like everyone else.

The person with the private business who will not give
service to blacks and gays will lose the business of blacks,
gays, you, me, and most good people.  I call this economic
darwinism.  As a landlord, I will rent to any gay or black
person who seems to be a fit tenant.  If some turkeys down
the street won't rent to blacks and gays, that is their
loss and my gain.

A few years back, I went into a very gay restaurant in
San Francisco.  They would not serve me, because I was
'not their type.'  I went down the street to Cafe Trieste
which did serve me.  I reflected upon this, and I thought
that it was great that the workers of the first restaurant
had actually exercised their right to do business with who
they please.

I implore you to resist legislation granting special
governmental priviledges to gays.  While the government
should never discrimate against anybody (as they now do
in the military), to grant special priviledges would only
serve to drive a wedge between those who have said
priviledges, and those who have not.  Let those of us who
desire to treat each other as equals, do so without
governmental intervention.
-- 
Mark Walsh (walsh@optilink) -- UUCP: uunet!optilink!walsh
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"What, me worry?" - William M. Gaines, 1922-1992
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