Newsgroups: alt.politics.homosexuality
Subject: extremism
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 13:20:12 -0600

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Subj: extremism                      Conf: (35) Alt.Politi
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ESR>  As long as you leave me to live my life the way I want to, I'll do likewi
ESR>  for you.

Right!  No one is asking for anything more than that, Eric!

ESR>  The gay rights extremists don't seem to want to stop there, though.  Firs
ESR>  they seem to want to secure legal privileges for gays that I don't have -
ESR>  like the "right" to be employed by people who dislike my sexual preferenc

Why should *you* be fired because someone dislikes your sexual
preference? (Assuming you are a good employee, and all.)  Do you really
want a world in which that could happen? Really?

A new law would protect you as much as anybody.  The law wouldn't say a
person couldn't be fired for being hetero or for being homosexual --
just that they couldn't be fired because of their sexual orientation.
Simple!  Protects you and me both, Eric!

It *does* happen to some people, and, regardless of which "preference"
is on which side -- it's wrong, isn't it?  But it happens, doesn't it?
So, if *some* people are stupid enough to this bad stuff to others (and
some *are* that stupid, and some *do* do that stuff) shouldn't we go to
the lengths of making a law so they'll have to *stop* that stuff?

ESR>  Second, they want to force me to subsidize gay behavior by paying the med
ESR>  expenses of AIDS victims through taxes extorted from me.

AIDS could just as well have been introduced into this country by a
heterosexual person, and have run rampant through the swinging singles
community. Really.  Assuming you're hetero, would you want your friends
to be dying of AIDS, and have people complaining about it and saying
they didn't think those poor wretches deserved any public help, thru tax
dollars?  Really?

ESR>  That isn't right.  You can live the way you want, but pay your own
freight

Ah, well. It always makes a person feel better to say this kind of
thing, whether or not it has anything to do with the facts of the
specific discussion at hand...

ESR>  Thus, gay *people* are fine by me and I count many of them as friends.  B
ESR>  increasingly, I have to  consider gay *activism* a threat to my freedom.

You're not making sense, Eric.

If "many of them are your friends", why would you want to continue a
situation where they are denied ordinary rights???  Why not be *for*
making a law which would guarantee them those rights???

It would help your friends.  How could that hurt you, Eric???

ESR>  (You watch.  Someone will call me a homophobe for saying that.)

No, just confused.  This is something you had better *really* think
about some more, and really examine your heart.  Imagine your best
friend having some of the troubles of discrimination (being bashed, or
losing their job, etc.) and then think what's wrong with that.  (Or,
even yourself having those problems.)  It wouldn't be "fair", would it?
You would think it was "wrong", wouldn't you?

Well....

Rocky.

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