From: mdeering@agsm.ucla.edu (Michael Deering)
Subject: Re: The NRA has an image problem with gays
Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:20:59 PST

In article <1il3orINN480@flash.pax.tpa.com.au> anon.526@pax.tpa.com.au writes:
>
>It looks as if my advice (to give up) wasn't needed, because it seems
>that people here are so comtemptuously unconcered with whether there is
>homophobia in the NRA leadership that they basically have given up.
>All the sudden it's up to me to prove my position that it's there and
>it might cause the NRA problems.  I won't do it.  I gave it as my
>opinion and there it is.  I will only prove that it's what I think.  I
>hereby declare that it is.

When did Asano move to Australia?
I hereby delcare that all Ozheads, male or female, take their pleasure with
sheep and prefer such over humans of the opposite or even same sex.  All 
the sudden [sic] it's up to me to prove this.  I won't do it.  I give it as my 
opinion and there it is.  I will only prove that it's what I think. 

>
>If the NRA actually cared about showing that it isn't right-wing,
>which it doesn't, then it would be just as concerned about attracting
>gays to it as it is about attracting women and minorities.  I've
>already seen a spate of "I wish I hope I pray there were more women
>in the NRA" in talk.politics.guns.
>
>Most gays, fanatic pseudo-libertarians excepted, have good reason to be
>steamed with the NRA, because the NRA supports William Dannemeyer.
>When a buck goes into Dannemeyer's campaign chest, it isn't earmarked
>for "pro-gun efforts".  Dannemeyer can use that dollar for anything he
>wants pertaining to his re-election, including writing anti-gay slurs
>into the Congressional Record, although that particular act of his was
>free.  And Dannemeyer isn't the only A-grade NRA Congresscritter who
>hates gays enough to shackle them with the law.
>
>So it would be good for the NRA to officially announce that they aren't
>like the Boy Scouts, for example, where gays just aren't welcome.
I defend the right of any club to decide who they want to share membership
with.  If enough people are offended by such descrimination, the club will
evaporate.  As for Dannemeyer and the NRA, the NRA is a single issue
organisation, they support Dannemeyer because he supports the RTKBA,
period.
>But I seriously doubt they can get themselves to do it.  I doubt there
>exists a single sentence of NRA literature that denies discrimination
>on the basis of sexual orientation.  I could be wrong, of course.

You obviously don't know how the US is supposed to work.  Here you are
presumed innocent until proven guilty.  Why should they have to deny something
they don't even have memebrship info on.  Besides to solicit that
kind of info on the memebrship form, note it is a form not an application,
might just inflame the group you seem most concerned with.  Maybe they should
try to prove they aren't anti-semitic by asking on the form if the person
is jewish?  Oy vey!

Again, thanks for the display of courage in your anonymous posting.


Mick
NRA-Life


>If I am I'll gladly eat my words.
>
>On the subject of Jeff Cooper:  I don't want to libel anyone by
>claiming he is an NRA director when he isn't.  I saw in the 
>American Rifleman that a Jeff Cooper had voted on some internal
>NRA resolution or other.  Who knows if it was the same guy.
>
>If he isn't an NRA director, whether or not he hates gays is a red
>herring, I suppose.  In an issue of Guns and Ammo I was flipping
>through he seemed to be dwelling on Barney Frank's deeds and the fact
>that they are illegal in several jurisdictions.  But maybe I was
>reading too much into his sweet prose.
>
>
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