From: laurel.schippers@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Laurel Schippers) 
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: DISCRIMINATING VS. GAYS
Date: 3 Jan 93 20:24:00 GMT
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Reply-To: laurel.schippers@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Laurel Schippers) 

-> From: psg+@pitt.edu (Paul S Galvanek)
-> Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,alt.rush-limbaugh
-> Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The
-> Analogy Betw Message-ID: <1318@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
-> Date: 2 Jan 93 16:16:13 GMT
-> References: <1269@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1270@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
-> <1992Dec31.172225 Followup-To: alt.politics.clinton
-> Organization: University of Pittsburgh
->
-> In article
-> <1992Dec31.172225.2131@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com.mrg.uswest.com> greg_br
-> >
-> >Show me where a value is being attached to the fact that something
-> (such as >homosexuality) exists.  Yes, young people must be taught to
-> "accept" that >they exist, just as we must "accept" that Aryan Nation
-> exists and has a >right to exist, but simply stating the fact does
-> not automatically imply >that one must approve of them.
->
-> Simply by bringing homosexuality, or any specific group, into the
-> class room you make a value statement.  By teaching it you're saying;
-> this is worthy of our time and the special attention it's being
-> given.
-> If tolerance is really the goal, and I don't believe it is for a
-> moment, then why mention homosexuality in any way shape or form?  Why
-> not simply
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Why mention it?  Because, for starters, some of the students listening
may be homosexuals.  Some may have homosexual parents, friends, or
siblings.  They will certainly have to deal with homosexuals in the
real world.

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Where discrimination of gays, to the extent that it even exists, differs
is that it's based on mostly accurate information about known behavior.
Tell a person what it means to be a homosexual and you will get a
reaction.
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Really? And what is this 'mostly accurate information'?  That most
rapes are committed by nongay men against women?  That lesbians have
less sex and fewer partners than gay men or straight men or women?
That being gay means you are emotionally and sexually attracted
to persons of the same sex rather than the opposite sex?

I'm puzzled as to "what it means to be a homosexual" really is.
Obviously, from this and the rest of your response, it is a very
negative view that depicts gays as nasty, role-bending, promiscuous
idiots.

If I were taught from birth that "what it means" to be black is to
be lazy, greedy, stupid, and violent, I'd have a pretty negative
reaction to blacks, and I'd filter any subsequent information so
as to support that prejudice.  Beliefs about gays are no different.
                              
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