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- From: walsh@optilink.UUCP (Mark Walsh)
- Newsgroups: ca.politics
- Subject: Re: "Monsters Among Us", Frontlines, November 10, 1992, PBS
- Message-ID: <13210@optilink.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:32:38 GMT
- References: <BxoyIp.7Hu@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- From article <BxoyIp.7Hu@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l):
- > stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (x4604 (Hauskins)) writes:
-
- I found this debate to be rather amusing until I saw this little ditty...
-
- > Proscribing homosexual activity does not pass any legal, moral,
- > or other judgement on any person. It merely bans an activity. People are
- > more than the sum of their actions, and no person is so limited that
- > proscribing an activity denies their humanity. I realize that many self-
- > labelled "homosexuals" would attempt to define themselves entirely in
- > terms of their sexuality, but that is merely a sign of their mental
- > instability.
-
- Yikes!!! Are there actually people who believe that banning such
- an activity in really no big deal? Do we allow them to vote? :-)
- What if he had changed one word and said, "Proscribing religious
- activity does not pass any legal, moral, or other judgement on any
- person." Heck, they only spend an hour a week in church, right?
- I would say that if we banned (oh, that's "proscribed" to you) all
- of *your* activities, you would indeed find your humanity affected.
- I appreciate the fact that you have not defined yourself entirely
- in terms of your sexuality because it would make us heterosexuals
- look like neanderthals.
-
- >>Boy I would love to know if you ever
- >>have childern- and one of them turns out to be gay and when they go up and
- >>accept themselves, someone comes along and says 'You are trash, evil, garbage
- >>and don't deserve to live'- then they kill themselves. Would you be happy???
- >>You great society will have done its duty... right?
-
- > The situation you describe would, of course, be reprehensible. However,
- > if society said to my son/daughter "The action you have taken is wrong
- > and detrimental to society" I would have no choice but to agree. I love
- > my children, but that love requires me to point out wrong action.
-
- I see. "My country, right or wrong." Ja wohl, Herr Commandant!
- Shall it be by firing squad or public hanging? And by the way,
- Mr. Lemming, which particular herd of sheep do you follow, anyway?
- I hope you come to your senses before "society" requires ignorant
- fools to report to the rendering plant...
-
- > My point is that the gay person can no more attack the straight person for
- > attempting to outlaw homosexuality than a child molester can attack both
- > for outlawing child molestation.
-
- Do we take this to mean that you believe that homosexuality
- should be illegal, or that child molestation shouldn't be?
- Even the most pathetic homophobes know that homosexuality
- "activity" is victimless. Wake up, get a life, get informed!
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