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- From: vanm@col.hp.com (Van Martin)
- Subject: Re: Amendment 2
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.195441.13297@col.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:54:41 GMT
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- woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
- > While I can believe some people might believe that "the majority has no
- > problem", I am not sure this is really true. I don't think homophobes
- > passed Amendment 2. I think it was mostly people who were deluded into
- > thinking that voting NO on 2 would automatically grant special privileges
- > to homosexuals. They thought that by voting YES they were voting against
- > special privileges when in fact they were voting for legalized discrimination.
-
- You are entitled to your opinion. IMO the population-at-large voted
- for/against Amendment 2 based on their opinion of homosexuality as a
- legitimate minority requiring singled-out protection by State law.
- We in the net-world are amazingly poor judges of others' cognitive
- abilities. Perhaps we think that the pig-farmer out in Wellington
- cannot be nearly as well-informed as I, an intelligent engineer/
- scientist/journalist/et al since they don't have access to all the
- latest hype, drivel and trivia like I do.
-
- Perhaps people are much better informed than the media had hoped. I
- say that given the obvious slant to all the media coverage observed
- over the last year. In spite of the media, Amendment 2 was passed
- in 76% of the counties in Colorado by 53% of the population (the
- margin was > 100,000).
-
- You chose the PC word homophobe to describe anyone who, with full
- knowledge of the whole Amendment, voted yes. Again, that is a
- patently arrogant statement from a man who has never met me. I do
- not fear the homosexual; I don't even fear their homosexual
- behavior.
-
- What does concern me is the foisting of someone's bedroom habits on
- my church (a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota was fined $15,000 and
- assessed $20,000 in damages, payable to homosexuals who complained
- that, under a "gay rights" ordinance, that the church denied their
- club the "right" to meet in church facilities), my son in school as
- in California (paranoia, you say? Check out the "Force 10" movement
- for homosexual counselling in schools for yourself) and other
- intolerant handling of MY beliefs.
-
- Amendment 2 did not create a law that said "Thou Shalt Discriminate
- Against Homosexuals," it only said "Thou Shalt Not Single Out The
- Homosexuals for Special Dispensation Under Our Illustrious Legal
- System." As a white male under 40 no handicaps (except a lack of
- unthinking tolerance) I see no laws that will allow me to demand
- that the government spend its time and taxpayer dollars on my claim
- of discrimination. I am one of the masses that has less civil
- rights, the the homosexual community.
-
- Leave what goes on in the bedroom, in the bedroom and out of the
- courtroom.
-
- This wasn't very cogent. Sorry.
-
- Van Martin
- vanm@col.hp.com
-
- All ideas expressed here are my own,
- though you ought to consider that you could be right as I am :-)
-
- "All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
- But the LORD weighs the spirit"
- Prov. 16:2
-