From: margaret@infonode.ingr.com (Margaret Wiginton)
Subject: Re: Homosexual Rights
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:54:15 GMT

Leah.Wesolowski@p0.f2.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Leah Wesolowski) writes:

	>Rights: Rights are given to all citizens who are born 
	>in the USA via the constitution. 
	
Unless you happen to be gay.  Then, things are different.

	>friends who are homosexual. However I do not believe 
	>that people who CHOOSE to act in a certian way are entitled 
	>to any more rights than the rest of us.
	
This is one of the most pervasive myths in our culture,  Leah.  People
do not CHOOSE their sexual orientation.  People do not "become
homosexuals, " "turn gay, " or "go queer." You are what you are, 
period.

And what _additional_ rights are you referring to?  I don't believe
that homosexuals want _additional_ rights,  they just want the same
rights as everyone else.

	>I support the Cracker Barrel not hiring homosexuals. 
	>That is the owner's right. 

That had nothing to do with an employers' right to hire	whomever they
please.  That was a witch hunt.

	>No one has a right to be hired because they engage 
	>in illegal (in this state) activity.
	
Yes,  there is a great deal of antiquated legislation still on the
books.  Seems like just about every sexual act, with the exception
of the missionary position between man and wife, is illegal.  What
say you and me just go round up everybody who's doin' anything
else and make a citizen's arrest?

	>Furthermore you must consider the liability factor. We all 
	>know that the highest group of people with AIDS is the members 
	>of the homosexual community. 
	
Although most of the people who are living with AIDS are homosexual
men, new HIV infections are now occurring at the highest rate among
heterosexual women, blacks, and Hispanics.

	>A restaraunt owner then opens himself up to legal problems 
	>when one of his homosexual employees cuts themselves and the cause 
	>of AIDS is spread to a customer. 
	
I suspect you have a greater chance of getting struck by lightening 
while going out for pizza.  People get AIDS from sexual intercourse
and IV drug use, not from salad bars.

	>Personally I have nothing against homosexuals as individuals or a 
	>a whole. 

Really?	

	>The thing I don't like is this nonsence about "Gay Rights"
	>Just exactly WHAT do they want the RIGHT to do?

They just want the same rights everyone else has -- to feel secure
in a job, to get married and enjoy the same tax/insurance/legal
benefits as other married couples, to raise children, and just
to walk down the street without fear.

	>And by the way, they can get married in CA. and according to the 
	>interstate compact each state has to recognize that marraige.

To what extent does the state have to _recognize that marraige_?
Does the federal government have to recognize it too?  How about 
employers?  The IRS?  The bank?  The church?  The real estate agent?  
The adoption agency?

	>political rights? I mean, have you ever been turned down for a job 
	>because you were too "Liberal"? (Believe it or not, I HAVE! HA!
	>Last month!

You weren't turned down for a job.  You were defeated.

I'm glad you lost.
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Margaret Wiginton
margaret@msw104i.b24b.ingr.com

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