From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
Subject: Re: I'm in a gay mood!
Organization: insert anything here
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:45:19 GMT

murph@buscard.fidonet.org (Brian Murphy) writes:
>rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:

>> murph@buscard.fidonet.org (Brian Murphy) writes:

>> >So, in your view, anything goes for everyone anytime, right?  Is there no li
>> >to be drawn anywhere?  Is there nothing that sickens your mind so much that
>> >you would justify discrimination in those cases?

>> 	No, what I meant was I would love to have you experience the
>> same "rights" that I do: the right to get discriminated against,
>> the right to be gay-bashed and have the police pretty much ignore your
>> complaint, the right to have complete strangers yell things at you
>> from other cars (a woman in Oregon recently posted that someone tried
>> to run her off of the road several times for having a gay-positive 
>> bumper sticker on her car).  Those sorts of things.  It would be
>> interesting to see you experience "equality" from the other side of the coin.

>What you're trying to do is change people's views and it isn't going to work.
>You can no more force someone to like chocolate when their favorite is vanilla
>than you can force someone to like homos.

	I don't give a flying frog's ass what your views are.  I don't 
want them determining whatrights I'm "allowed to have".  Brian, 
feel free to be the biggest and baddest bigot on your block, just
keep it int he privacy of your own home.  Sheesh - like I don't
mind what bigots do or say, but do they have to do it in public?

>More than flavor or preference, though, homosexuality is unnatural.  It is
>more than a matter of the color of someone's skin, it is going against
>nature's grain.  

	Heh... Prove this.  I don't see anything 'unnatural' I
have to do to be gay, all my parts are the same ones I came with
originally.  All the feelings I have originate within myself
spontaneously.  It's been firmly established that just about
every other mammal besides homosapiens has a percentage of members
that are same-sex attracted.  So, all you're doing here is lying
through your teeth (if you except us to believe there are any
';facts' behind your statement), or just saying whatever pops into
your head in the hopes that some of it will stick.

>It is not something to be encouraged or accepted any more
>than someone having cancer is.

	How many cancer patients do you know get murdered yearly
because of their cancer?  How many places harass people if they
have cancer?  How many people get evicted or fired because 
they have cancer?

>This is not to say that some are justified in beating or deriding homos but it
>is to say that the homosexual lifestyle is an anomaly in life and should not
>enjoy equal standing in society.

	Left handedness is an anomaly in life.  Shall we kill
them all too?  People with handicaps are anomalies in life,
shall we treat them as second class citizens too?

	Ally ou're doing is making arguments that show you really
don't understand what is going on.

>Like a chronic nose-picker or someone else with an annoying habit, they can
>say they were born that way, can't help it, should have all the rights that
>everyone else has, etc., but, when it comes right down to it, annoying is
>annoying and is going to be shunned.

	Oh, is THAT your excuse?

	Hell, if I had known from the beginning that you WANTED to
be shunned, we could have set it up a long time ago.  I know, I know,
communication skills aren't your forte'.

	Fortunately, things are changing for the better. 
Murph will probbbly be miserable for a while, but I'm sure he'll
get over himself in time...  Or at least maybe some nice lesbian
therapist will make enough $$$ off of him to send her kids
to a nice college...

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