From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Read this if you are straight!
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:43:06 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.

In <1993Jan27.093541.23029@lclark.edu>, Anthony Davis writes:

>you know what?  i really don't care about your laws anyway...

>just STOP HURTING PEOPLE!!!

Is that an order?  By looking at the subject line, I'd say that you're accusing
*all* straight people of being guilty of this.  Talk about stereotyping...

>ok?  just stop telling gay jokes... and dumb blonde jokes...

There's no law against that, nor should there be.  It may not be the most
polite and considerate thing to do, but as long as one neither physically harms
you or engages in repeated verbal attacks in your face, you have no right to
make such a request--unless you want to repeal the First Amendment...

>just stop being scornful and nasty...

All straights are scornful and nasty.  I'll be sure to write that one down.  I
may want to remember that the next time I have to deal with one of the heart-
less bastards.

>just stop looking at me and my lover like we're pariahs when we walk down the
>street...

Again--no right to this.  I have no problem with what you two do.  I have no
problem seeing you walking down the street.  Again, it's a question of *legal
rights* against *moral acceptance*.  You have every right to expect legal
rights.  You have *no* right to force people to accept the lifestyle as a
legitimate one within their own morality.

>just stop spitting on me...

That can be assault.  There's already a law against that, whether you are gay
or whether you are a purple Tahitian carpenter.

>ok?  that's all i've ever asked of anyone...

You might as well ask for a Constitutional Convention.

>stop raping people... stop having sex with them if they don't want to...

Yes, I'd call that rape...Are you implying that gays have never raped anyone?

>it's not a question of laws... it's a question of being kind...

Being kind is good.  But there is no law mandating kindness.  And I'd agree
that we *should* be kind, and that anyone who engages in the behavior you descr
ibe are, in my opinion, complete assholes.  As long as you can understand that
being an asshole isn't illegal (without illegal actions, anyway), then I would
agree with you.

>why do i need to quote the bible to you?
>i'm just so tired of the pain...

>i don't need to be saved by you... or by your bible... or by your god...
>not today...

That's fine.  If you're happy with what you are, and you're willing to risk the
possible consequences if there is a God, then more power to you.

>it is our responsibility to be kind... to be thoughtful...

I agree.  But again, it's not law.

>STOP HURTING PEOPLE!!!

Gay people have *never* hurt anyone??

I know damn well that gay people have often been deprived of many of the rights
that straights have taken for granted.  But that doesn't mean that all straight
people are assholes.  It also doesn't mean that gays have any rights to change
how some people feel about homosexuality.  Actions can be (and are) illegal.
Thoughts aren't--at least not yet.  But it's almost 1984...


Tim Irvin
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