From: StarOwl@uiuc.edu (Michael D. Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.sex
Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment2 Query
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:44:38 GMT
Reply-To: StarOwl@uiuc.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Actuarial Science Program at UIUC
X-Header-1:    Bigotry is not a family value -- boycott Colorado, think twice
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X-Header-3:    Florida.
X-Header-5:    Beware lunatic actuaries in the night!

dkeller@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Don Keller) writes:

>Amend 2 IS totally an equal rights issue.  It's just everyone has it 
>backwards.  It's about keeping everyone equal.  I can get fired just as 
>easy if my hair was to long, or even if I had facial hair.  
>Well, I have a "SEXUAL PREFERENCE" with PVC Pipe.  How many other people
>do you know like that.  Not too many I would guess.  SO, it seems that
>I am now a minority and deserve special treatment.

No.  You deserve equal treatment.

If you have a "sexual preference" for PVC pipe, and you refrain
from humping the objects of your desire on the job, etc. there's
really no reason why you should be treated any different, right?

Let's say that there are several other people in Colorado (say, 100 or
200 thousand people) who also are of the "pipe preference."  Many of
the other Good Citizens of Colorado [tm] find this idea contemptable,
and start persecuting people who would be otherwise "normal" 
except for their inherent attraction to PVC pipe.

Three cities in Colorado see all this going on and say, "Hey!  You
can't persecute someone *just* because of who or what they like sleeping
with!"  These cities (for the sake of argument, we'll call them Denver,
Aspen, and Boulder) pass laws saying that discriminating against someone
*solely* because of their sexual preference (be it "normal" or "pipeish")
is a no-no.

Shortly after this, the Good Citizens of Colorado [tm] decide that they
don't agree with these laws, and say that no government body or agency
in Colorado may claim that its wrong to say that persecuting a "pipeish"
person is wrong.

...but it's still OK in Colorado to say that persecuting a "normal" person 
just because he/she has a "normal" private life is a no-no.

Is Amendment 2 really about equal rights?

I don't think so.....

>If someone is born into a black, hispanic, or other racial family,
>I have no problem seeing them as a minority.  They were born the way 
>they are and had no say in the matter.  Homosexuality is a personal
>preference, and until someone can show me otherwise, I will continue to
>think of it as such.  

Mind if I ask a question?

When did _you_ decide to be heterosexual?

I'll bet a thousand zlotys that if you ask a person when he/she became
{hetero|bi|homo}sexual, that if that person is being honest with hirself, 
he/she will reply to the effect that he/she has always been {hetero|bi|homo}-
sexual.

After all, in the current environment in the U.S., who would *choose* to
be bisexual or homosexual?

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