From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
Subject: Hate Your Neighbor For God?
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 05 Nov 92  15:08:16

Who: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
ID: 12983@optilink.uucp
And: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
And: topcat!tom@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com (Tom Albrecht)
And: kachun@astro.as.arizona.edu (Ka Chun Yu)
 
?> "In other words, the law shall treat everyone equally.
?> Denying a homosexual his rights violates the 14th Amendment.
?> Period.  What rights?  Well, if you deny them access to
?> government services, access to jobs, etc, you are failing to
?> give them equal opportunity and they need to be protected by
?> laws that enforce the 14th Amendment."
 
CC> "The 14th Amendment was intended to protect against government
CC> action, and to provide federal protection against criminal
CC> actions that state governments wouldn't prosecute.  But the
CC> homosexual fascist lobby seeks governmental power to force
CC> private companies and individuals to go against their conscience,
CC> and tell homosexuals, 'I'm hapyy you're gay.'"
 
Clayton, you're an asshole. I thought you should know. Heterosexuals
are far, far more likely to molest children, by many orders of
magnatude--- parents are the NUMBER ONE perpetrators of child
molestation! (Number two being Christian Clergy, #3 being mother's
boyfriend.)
 
CC> "If homosexuals really believed that private acts between
CC> consenting adults are none of the government's business,
CC> they would be working to repeal sodomy laws, not demanding
CC> new laws to force private firms and individuals to do business
CC> with homosexuals."
 
See, you're still an asshole. Since when is equal housing a
"private act?" Since when does organized harassment and bigotry
also a "private act?"
 
You have failed utterly in understanding what's going on here.
Homosexuality IS NOT the problem here; the problem is bigots
who deny homosexuals their basic, Constitutional rights.
 
As it now stands, I have every right to fire someone from a
job, no matter how well she or he performs the job, based
completely on my suspecion that person may be homosexual. I
may not do the same for black, white, mexican, gender, etc.
Or put another way, I may not descriminate race, sex, or
creed without facing legal punishment, but I =MAY= discriminate
against homosexuals with impunity.
 
Please read the following three dozen times. Maybe it will
sink in to your hate-befuddled brain:
 
  "...the other myth is the idea that legislation can not really
  solve the problems of racial injustice. ...A half-truth is
  involved here for it may be true that morality can not be
  legislated, but behavior can be regulated.  It may be true that
  the law can not change the heart, but it can change the heartless.
  It may not stop a man from hating me, but it can keep him from
  lynching me and I can appreciate that!" -Martin Luther King,
  Madison, New Jersey, February 5, 1964.
 
CC> Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer
CC> My opinions, all mine! October is National Quality Month.
CC> That's why we wait until the first Tuesday in November for
CC> national elections.
 
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David Rice. Standard disclaimer. Straight & pro-human rights!
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