From: auerbach@doc.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment2 Query
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:21:34 MST

In article <1993Jan28.143020.3499@lclark.edu>, snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass) writes:
> In article <1k79i6INNn2a@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> cscdc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Dan Carpenter) writes:
> 
> 
>>
>>
>>It is said that Homosexuality is an "Alternate Life Style"; Fine, let me
>>be with my "Traditional Life Style".   I'm not trying to *force* my TL
> 
> You aren't?
> 
> 1.  I pay taxes to send your TLS children to school

Still have to do this no matter what. The TLS has no bearing.  Regardless of
whatever lifestyle you choose, you gotta pay those taxes. I'm a married het
with no kids and I have pay school taxes. 

> 2.  I pay taxes to feed 1 out of 5 of the TLS children who go
>     to bed hungry

Ditto. Unless, of course, you  WANT them to go to bed hungry...

> 3.  I pay taxes to house single mothers and their children

Still no change.  And what would happen if homosexuals were 'allowed' to adopt
children and say one parent left? You don't think the same thing would occur?
 
> 4.  I pay higher premiumns on my insurance at work so you can
>     put your wife and family on the insurance plan.

This complaint transcends the life style arguement. Single heterosexual men
complain about the same thing. If homosexual couples were 'permitted' your
rates would go up even further.

> 5.  I pay higher premiums on my health insurance because I
>     have to help you pay for the child you cannot afford to
>     give birth to.

Oh, personal comments. Like they have a real bearing. The same specious
arguement would apply to homosexual couples.  Not to the birth part,of course,
but there's all those doctor bills AFTER the the birth. Child care is expensive
regardless of life style.

> 6.  I have to pay higher taxes to pay police to protect my
>     neighborhood (a losing proposition) because your skin-head
>     and Gang children are shooting up our streets.

Oh yeah. And if homosexual couples had children, they'd never join gangs? Get
real...

> 7.  I am pay more money as a tax payer to help you to pay for 
>     day care, more and more.

Huh? Transcends life style again...

> 8.  I am paying taxes to help pay to the courts where your
>     people continually clog up with your petty divorces.

Again, something that would NEVER happen to homosexual couples, right?

> 9.  I am paying the police to rid my neighborhood of prostitutes

Female AND male prostitutes, bub.  I wonder how many are gay?

> The list could go on and on about what your lifestyle is costing  me!

Don't take it personal, our standard of living is costong us all. The amendment
changes nothing. "Allowing" homosexual marriages would change nothing.  Costs
are costs and are not a function of life style.
 
And no, I am not homophobic, so don't try and pin that label on me.  I just
have a slight problem with the narrow view you present here. And since I'm not
complaining about YOUR posting a response, you shouldn't have any problem with
mine, right?

> He didn't even have balls to sign it.....
> tsk, tsk.

I do!

Karl (last name in the address...) 

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