From: kane@buast7.bu.edu (Hot Young Star)
Newsgroups: ca.politics,talk.politics.misc,ba.politics
Subject: Re: Picking and Choosing our References
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:30:18 GMT
Followup-To: ca.politics
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <12167@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

>Free speech was originally intended in a considerably more limited
>form than at present -- as primarily a protection against prior
>restraint.

So why isn't freedom of association view likewise?

>You are perfectly able to be a homosexual in private.  You don't
>have to announce everywhere you go, and thus make it an issue to
>employers or landlords.

This belies the fact the most sexual orientation discrimination is
NOT provoked by the person who eventually gets harrassed or fired.
Most of the time it is a matter of PERCEIVED sexual orientation,
rumor, gossip. Either that or the employer's insistance upon
using a question like "are you gay" to screen out applicants.

>[Shelter and work] are not monopolies.  There is an
>enormous amount of competition in both shelter and work, and
>increasing state power should always be viewed with extreme
>prejudice.

Therefore, the Federal Government had no business interfering in the
Hurricane Andrew relief effort! There was enough competition in the
private sector to assure a peaceful transition back to normal operations!

Right!

The fact is that abnormal situtations such as this have to potential to
occur. What if a cabal of heterosexist pigs controls the major companies
(including the banks, which might be used to obtain small business loans)
in a small town. The town is small enough for everyone to know something
about everyone else's sexual orientations. The big cheeses decide to
prohibit hiring gays, or giving them loans, for that matter.

It would be nice to have a government which would stand up for individual
rights over group rights for a change.

>I should ignore you when you say that the homosexual
>community is divided about sex with children?

For the tenth time, I said that many gay men were divided as to how
to approach the age of consent. Whether it should be an absolute,
arbitrary age (say, 18), or whether there should be other factors
to weigh, like parental consent, relative age of the adolescents in
question, etc.

My original comments may not have made this clear, but I certainly have
made myself clear nine times over.

And, by the way, no, I don't think any prepubescent child has any
capability of informed consent to sex with a postpubescent individual.
Let them instead "play doctor" amongst themselves!

Brian
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cramer@optilink.uucp (Clayton Cramer): Message-ID: <12133@optilink.UUCP>
I realize it's difficult for a person as depraved as [Brian Kane].
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kane@{buast7,astro}.bu.edu (Hot Young Star) Astronomy Dept, Boston University,
Boston, MA 02215. True personal salvation is achieved by absolute faith in
ones true self.
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