From: sbradley@scic.intel.com (Seth Bradley)
Subject: Re: Measure 9 Voter's Pamphlet Argument
Followup-To: or.politics
Organization: Intel SCIC, Beaverton, OR
Distribution: or
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 05:54:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.024506.21962@wiskit.rain.com> herbw@wiskit.rain.com (Herb Weiner) writes:
>I urge anyone who has not yet decided how to vote on measure 9
>to read the ARGUMENT IN FAVOR furnished by M. Dennis Moore
>of the Special Righteousness Committee.  (This is the third
>Argument in the Clackamas County Edition of the Oregon Voter's
>Pamphlet.  I don't know if the order of Arguments varies by
>county.)  Perhaps this argument should even be read by those
>who have already decided how they are going to vote.
>
>PLEASE, no flames until AFTER you have read the argument.

And for those of you lacking a pamphlet, here it is!
[followups to or.politics, where this belongs]
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Measure No. 9
ARGUMENT IN FAVOR

According to the book of Leviticus in the Bible, oyster-eating,
crossbreeding cattle, shaving a beard, wearing clothing made of mixed
fibers, cursing one's parents and adultery are just as immoral as
homosexuality.  If the OCA's "No Special Rights" Committee wants to
take one of the 3,000 year-old laws of ritual holiness from Leviticus
and put it into the Bill of Rights in the state constitution, they
should be sincere enough to put all the rest of Leviticus into the
constitution as well.  It's a simple matter of respect for these
historic laws to treat them consistently.

We at the Special Righteousness Committee are just as offended by
oyster-eating, shaving and mixed fibers as the OCA is offended by
homosexuality, and we have just as much right as the OCA does to change
the state constitution to require government discrimination against
people whose behavior we don't like.

My friends, do you want public schools teaching your children that
shaving is a legitimate and equal alternative style to a normal and
healthy beard?  Would you want to be forced to hire an oyster-eater
to direct your church choir?  Adam and Eve wore fig leaves -- 100% fig
leaves -- and this is divine proof that those disgustingly unnatural
cotton/polyester blends are sinful.  And when the OCA was analyzing the
threat to traditional family values, we don't know how they managed to
overlook adultery!  Why, there's a lot more adultery than homosexuality
going on out there, and extrapolations from OCA statistics show that 90
percent of the people who have engaged in sexual perversions are
heterosexual ("straight").

The state condones adultery by not punishing it with death as required
by Leviticus.  It promotes oyster-eating by licensing seafood
restaurants, and it allows people to take mixed fibers out of the
closet and flaunt them right out in public without being fired or
evicted!  The state is encouraging sin!

If the OCA can have the special right to make their personal moral
agenda into public policy, then anyone else should be able to amend the
state Bill of Rights to eliminate basic human rights for people who
they don't like.

Let's put ALL of Leviticus into the constitution! A "yes" vote is the
first step in facilitating our militant moral agenda.

		    AGREE WITH US OR BURN IN HELL!


Special Righteousness Committee
P.O. Box 1851
Portland, OR 97207

(This information furnished by M. Dennis Moore, Chair, Special
Righteousness Committee.)


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Seth J. Bradley, Senior System Administrator, Intel SCIC
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