From: cvafy006@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Newsgroups: alt.politics.sex
Subject: Gay Rights--only if it doesn't change anyone else's rights!
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:35:18 GMT
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvafy006

In article <C0B838.F28@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, branwen@sage.cc.purdue.edu ( ) writes:
>       Well, tomorrow night, January 4th, 1993, the city of Lafayette
> votes on the "gay rights bill" to determine whether individuals can be
> legally protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
>       The city council has already approved the amendment to the city
> civil rights ordinance to include sexual orientation in its language.
> If the entire bill is passed tomorrow night, Lafayette becomes the first
> city in the state of Indiana to do so.  I shall keep you posted as to the
> results of the matter.
>       I would like to hear your comments on this, for or against, but
> only if you can phrase your arguments intelligently.  No flames please.
> Respond away!  (Keeping my fingers crossed for passage)
> 
>                                            Karen
> 
> 

	All I can say is that while no group of citizens of this country
deserves to be disciminated against, I hope that the issue of discrimination
will not be twisted around.  Let's face it, it almost looks like the
heterosexual white male is being heavily discriminated against.

	For one, nepotism is back.  I went to the Jack-In-The-Box in my city. 
The Manager is Mexican.  So is every worker but one.  He is their (token?)
white.  My brother (who is white) tried to work there last summer and did not
get in.  He is quite intelligent--and he even had prior fast food experience at
Taco Bell the summer before!

	Additionally, if a gay person applies for a job and doesn't get it, it
seems that they are beginning to immediately cry discrimination more
frequesntly.

	Now, don't get me wrong.  Although I am a heterosexual male, I am not
100% white.  Additionally, although I don't CONDONE homosexuality (because I am
Catholic and also don't believe in it--and I find some aspects disgusting), I
will not judge a person's CHARACTER by his/her sexual orientation.  If I was a
manager and hired a heterosexual man and a homosexual man, all would be fine.  
But, if there was any trouble with sexual advances, I would treat a sexual
advance by the heterosexual man just as severely as a sexual advance by the
homosexual man.  I believe that regardless of race, color, creed, or sexual
orientation, a person can act decently and work hard if they want to and are
given the fair chance to.

	I haven't seen the bill, but if there is any preferential treatment for
homosexuals or ANY minority group...I will be quite angry.  Although this bill
only concerns one state, it will set a precedent for other states.  If this
bill is genuinely fair, then no problem...but most bills have trick clauses
that make them a problem.  If fair is to be fair, then let all men and women be
created equal and let no one be more supreme over anyone else.  (Otherwise, it's
fair according to the side of advantage and that's NOT what America stands
for!)

					Signed,
					Daniel Rouse, Jr.
					Sophomore, Computer Engineering
Newsgroups: alt.politics.sex