From: hawk@hawk.sps.mot.com (George Hawkins)
Subject: Re: Gay Rights
Organization: Motorola Inc. MMTG Oakhill Austin Texas
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:45:52 GMT

In article <C0B838.F28@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> branwen@sage.cc.purdue.edu ( ) writes:
>      Well, tomorrow night, January 4th, 1993, the city of Lafayette
>votes on the "gay rights bill" to determine whether individuals can be
>legally protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
>      The city council has already approved the amendment to the city
>civil rights ordinance to include sexual orientation in its language.
>If the entire bill is passed tomorrow night, Lafayette becomes the first
>city in the state of Indiana to do so.  I shall keep you posted as to the
>results of the matter.
>      I would like to hear your comments on this, for or against, but
>only if you can phrase your arguments intelligently.  No flames please.
>Respond away!  (Keeping my fingers crossed for passage)
>
>                                           Karen
>
>

From duane@otis Mon Jan  4 18:28:26 1993
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 18:28:20 CST
From: duane@otis (Duane Cripe)
To: hawk@otis
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To: Karen Branwen
From: Duane B. Cripe

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alt.politics.sex #514                                                      [1]
From: branwen@sage.cc.purdue.edu ( )
[1] Gay Rights
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun Jan 03 21:23:32 CST 1993

      Well, tomorrow night, January 4th, 1993, the city of Lafayette
votes on the "gay rights bill" to determine whether individuals can be
legally protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
      The city council has already approved the amendment to the city
civil rights ordinance to include sexual orientation in its language.
If the entire bill is passed tomorrow night, Lafayette becomes the first
city in the state of Indiana to do so.  I shall keep you posted as to the
results of the matter.
      I would like to hear your comments on this, for or against, but
only if you can phrase your arguments intelligently.  No flames please.
Respond away!  (Keeping my fingers crossed for passage)

                                           Karen

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Karen, although you have your right to believe whatever you wish, I hope to
God the amendment FAILS......

I was born and raised in the Lafayette area and moved to Texas after graduating
from Purdue.  Lafayette is NOT as liberal as the town I live in now - at least
not when I was growing up, consequently, if the silent majority wake up I
predict the ordinance will be soundly defeated.

As a Christian, I have been struggling frequently with the notion of rights for
gays/lesbians, however, your letter just helped make my decision easier.  Lady, 
you're talking about my hometown, so assuming you read my entire letter, here's
what my position is (and I hope the majority of the folks still in Lafayette).

The Bible is clear about homosexual behavior.  Yea, gays claim that people
use the Bible just to thump gays/lesbian lifestyles, however, there is no
misinterpretation that the Bible declares that type of lifestyle WRONG!
I'm not in the business of using the Bible to thump gays, but still "fear" God 
and don't want to be judged accordingly. It is still my society that will be 
affected if gays/lesbian lifestyles become open & commonplace.  Did you ever
hear of Sodom & Gomorah??  Also, I don't want my daughter or future children 
getting influenced by someone else's idea of "alternative lifestyles".  If
this type of lifestyle is approved by society, the odds of it affected future
generations will be just that much more.

I don't have a problem with gays/lesbians getting equal opportunity getting 
jobs, etc. however, I am very much against gay couples obtaining the
"rights" to adopt children or gay spouse's getting insurance coverage - similar
to heterosexual.  The way I look at it, if gays want their type of lifestyle,
they shouldn't be granted any of the benefits enjoyed by the heterosexual
community (i.e children).  In case you didn't notice, it still takes a man and 
women to create a child - even if done via envitro.  At least this will 
minimize the impact this "gay rights" generation will have on affecting 
future generations.  Further, I don't believe children raised by gay parents
have an equal and moral chance to be heterosexual due to the examples set by
the parents.  Children are very impressionable....  

I realize the vote will have already been counted by the time you read this,
however, you asked for comments -- and you got it......


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