From: farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Bri Farenell)
Subject: Re: BofA and UW can now support discrimination against blacks and Jews
Organization: Clarkson University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:20:13 GMT

dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:

>In article <Bu9KrG.510@ddsw1.mcs.com> arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling) writes:
>>I do not consider it just another alternate 
>>lifestyle but I do not propose discriminating against those who do but 
>>neither do I support special status for them.

I'm glad that you don't want to discriminate against homosexuals simply
because you don't like what they do. I don't believe that homosexuals deserve
a special status either, simply the same rights and protections guaranteed
everyone else by the Constitution (especially the 14th Amendment).

>>There are two areas where I support a limited form of "discrimination" to 
>>protect the rights of others.  For one, I have serious reservations about
>>homosexual couples adopting children, who I suspect by most amazing
>>coincidence will become homosexual.

First off, someone in the scientific community recently showed that homosexuals'
(men's) brains were somewhat smaller than those of heterosexuals. I think this
is strong evidence that homosexuality is inborn. Therefore, I don't believe
that someone BECOMES homosexual. Secondly, I don't see why homosexuals are 
necesarily less qualified to be parents. There are certain qualities that good
parents should have: patience, understanding, firmness, etc. I have no reason
to believe that homosexuals are necesarily less likely to have these qualities
than anyone else. 

>>Secondly, as the group that brought us AIDS and the group that still has
>>the highest proportion of AIDS "victims", I feel most comfortable at arm's
>>length until or unless the individual's status is known.
>>Unfortunately, I would keep any know AIDS victim at arms length and I suppoes
>>that is a form of discrimination too but that is because our government
>>refuses to protect up from AIDS and I have to take what measure seem
>>appropriate to me.

MAYBE (I won't say this as a fact) homosexuals "brought us" AIDS, as you say.
Whether they did or didn't doesn't change the fact that a significant number
of new AIDS cases are in heterosexuals. By proposing to keep someone at arm's
length (a gay someone) while not caring about heterosexuals who might have
AIDS won't necesarily prevent you from any harm. Anyways, it is not like 
casual contact (like a handshake or sharing the same air) is going to
transmit AIDS anyways. If that were the case than many of us would have AIDS
from people we don't even know.
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