From: ciaran@county.lmt.mn.org (Ciaran Benson)
Subject: Re: Women, men, scum, and wicca . . .
Reply-To: ciaran@county.lmt.mn.org (Ciaran Benson)
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 15:31:40 GMT

Jeff Heimberger wonders what the reaction would be if there was a;


> "... Hetero Rights Organization that espoused the same
things for heteros as Gay Rights Organizations do for gays?"

Dear Jeff;

  Please excuse me for taking this single sentance out of the entire post, but
there's so much in your various posts along this thread that I'd like to respond
to that I'm afraid my point would be completely lost.  Instead, I'd like to focus
on just this single thought and maybe work from there.

  It seems that most Gay (hmm -- there's another "do I capitalize it?" word) rights
organizations are working for equal representation under the law, basic civil
rights, and legal protection from gay-bashing.

  I think I'm safe in saying that heteros don't get fired because of their sexual
orientation, denied housing because of their sexual orientation, or get beset
by roving bands of ruffians because of their sexual orientation.

  I've never heard a judge say that someone wouldn't have gotten killed if they
weren't heterosexual, so they're partially to blame for their own murder.  I'm sure
that many people here remember the publicized Texas trial not to many years
ago when this very thing was said about two gay men (to my embarassment,
I've forgotten the names of the victims, the judge, and the murderer) -- and I'm
sure many know of local cases where this has occured without publicity.

  Our country's paradigm appears to hold that some people don't deserve
equal representation, aren't worth police protection, can't be trusted with civil
rights.

  When I hear of a "Whites and Straight 'R' Us" organization, I'm immediately
suspicious that the purpose of the organization is to "prevent the erosion of our
family values", by which I infer that they want to keep "us" in our places.

  Please allow me to step out of character and into another for a moment ...

  Right now our country is going broke -- is actually trillions of dollars past broke,
and we can't afford to equally take care of everyone who lives here.  So slowly, but 
not so slowly that it's imperceptable, our government's been setting us up for
our own little "desert storm" right here at home.  Some people in our Fine Country
don't Belong under God's Flag, and Don't Deserve to be getting the Benefits that
the American Family has Earned.  This Country was founded under Strict Bible
Principles, and Only through the Elimination of the Liberal Spectrum can we Ever
hope to see America Great Again.  The Drug Pushers, the Drug Users, the Welfare
State and all of the Great Society Hangons, the Unemployed, the Wanton Single
Mothers and their Crack Babies have Earned their Fate -- God's Hand will soon 
Reach Down and Wipe this Plague From Us.  AIDS is Just The Start of the
Cleansing!

  Whew!  Now I need a bath.  Most of that's been drawn from stuff that Bush,
Quayl, or other's within the patriarchy have said.  Bush himself actually said during
an election speach that athiests don't deserve to live in America.  The Senate actually
unanimously passed a bill (in '88?) that would have completely denied any Pagan
religion in America any legal status, including tax exemption and the right of
clergy (the bill died in a House committee -- because of filing procedures, not because
it was blatently UNCONSTITUTIONAL).

  The first step in any war is to identify the enemy for the home team, and then
clearly, without mercy, mark that enemy as unworthy of life, as unhuman scum, as
hedonistic, baby-eating, uncaring, deamonic scum who deserve nothing less than
total elimination.

  Iraq went from our last bastion against Iran, our allies in the balance of power
in the middle east, to unspeakably evil villians who deserve nothing less than
an endless rain of death from the skies.  And so we did.

  Now Bush wants to fight desert storm at home.

  Very scary.

  Every person who is fighting for their civil liberties is fighting for my liberties as
well, because the lost of one right for anyone of us is a loss for us all.

  I don't interpret any of the rights or "special privilages" that any of these minority
groups have asked for as denying me any of my rights in any way.  They're just
asking for legal assurance of the rights that a minority of us enjoy and can deny
them at will.

  Blessed be,  Ciaran.


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