From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: GAY & LESBIAN DISCRIMINATION IS FUCKING HILARIOUS
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:32:22 GMT

In article <mw9TiB3w164w@Bogus.COM> punk@Bogus.COM (Jack C. Royce) writes:
>twpierce@amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>
>> There are different views being respected.  I think that what the
>> newsstand is doing REEKS of double standard and should be
>> corrected immediately.  But there's a difference between your
>> saying, "I find that distasteful and I don't want to look at it"
>> and "a newspaper cover showing two naked fags fucking should not
>> be displayed in public."  The first view I can respect.  The
>> second I cannot.
>
>Ok, I am glad that you can respect that some people don't like that kind of
>stuff, and think that it is distasteful.
>
>But, I fail to see where naked fucking faggots should be on the front page
>of the news paper.  Have you ever seen two naked heterosexuals fucking on
>the front page of the news paper?  Nooo..  You have not.

Frankly, I've never seen "naked fucking faggots" -- btw, punk, you
should really submit your material to "Punch" -- on the front page of
any newspaper.  Besides, B.P. Asashi, that paragon of moral authority,
informs us that it doesn't make a difference whether they're kissing
or fucking, so gee, why are we splitting hairs?

>There ARE pornography laws you know.  The newspaper is readily available to
>children.

I don't see why PLAYBOY should be hidden from children if GUNS & AMMO
is not, honestly.

>I personally will not have my children exposed to this against my
>will.

Fine.  Don't take them outside.

>Its our jobs as parents to teach out children that sex isn't something
>you just go do at the drop of the hat.

Sorry, punk.  That's YOUR job as a parent.

>(That is the whole fucking aids crisis
>in a nutshell)

Your insight is remarkable.  Give the NIH a call; I bet they'll be
glad to hear that.

>Its damned hard to do that if you were to have naked faggots
>on the newspapers,

What are you going to tell your kids -- whenever you get around to
having them; you don't seem like much more than a kid yourself, punk.

>and you would probably like to have them on PBS as well,
>maybe guest stars on Mr. Rogers?

It's funny how people are equating PBS these days with Mr. Rogers and
Sesame Street.  When I was a wee little one, watching endless reruns
of Sesame Street at home, I always found Bert and Ernie an "odd
couple": ostensibly two male characters sharing an apartment, living,
eating, even sleeping and almost bathing together, who never had any
romantic attachments to women.  They seemed like lovers to _me_...

>Come on...  What you do in YOUR bedroom is YOUR business, NOT ours.  If you
>choose to make it our business, you have ABSOLUTELY _NO_ RIGHT to complain
>about what we think about it.  None whatsoever!!

I have no right to say that I think your opinion isn't worth shit?
You're astonishing, punk.  In a couple dozen lines, you have
completely rewritten the history of sexuality, epidemiology, and now
Constitutional law.

It's a wonder you're not going more places.  An asylum, for example.

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