From: rlc1028@zeus.tamu.edu
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Subject: Re: Homophobes in the Military..what nobody is talking about:
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:34 CST
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In article <1992Dec11.110518.11891@walter.cray.com>, paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr) writes...
| 
|    Who is to judge what PARENTS teach their children is right OR wrong.
| When we start to make these little "exceptions" to the rights and 
| responsibilities of ANY group of people we open up a very terrible can
| of worms.  The "if we can tell the children this or that is wrong then
| we CAN tell the parents HOW to raise their children" is only one example
| of what can go wrong.  Society DOES impose a set of "rules" on EVERYBODY.
| But those rules should be interpreted within the frame work of the values
| taught by the family unit.  Society is NOT more important than the  
| family.  FAMILIES make up society NOT the other way around.

	Remember that the family is not the fundamental unit of society.
The individual is the fundamental unit of the family and of society.

	Many people /do/ think that society (a collexion of families
and individuals) has a responsibility to the individual if the family is
doing what is thought to be damage to a member within that family.  I'm
not saying that's good or bad.  But even traditional religious systems
put the authority of the society above that of a family structure.  The
society has always claimed the right to control the actions of family
members with regards to kin.  Consider the Judaic prohibitions against
intrafamilial sex practises.  There is a tradition.



|    All in all the majority is going to win out.  Period.  MANY more
| people are hetrosexual than homosexual and the VAST majority agrees with
| the hetrosexual life style.  (70%+ I think..??)

	According to a newsweek poll:

	78% think Gays should have equal rights in job opportunities.

	41% believe homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle, 53% don't.

	51% believe Gay rights issues are not a threat to the American 
		family or its values.

	43% have a friend or acquaintance who is Gay.
	20% work with someone they know is Gay.
	9% have a Gay person in their families.

	59% say Gays should be allowed in the military.

(Newsweek Poll, Aug. 27, 1992).



|    If you start makeing laws that favor gays then why not make a law
| that favors people into beastiality, s+m, hetrosexuality or any of the
| other sexual life styles?  After all, fair is fair.

	Whatever involves two consenting adults is okay by me from a
legal perspective.  This is not to say that I don't advise against some
practises this may entail.

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