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- From: mjs@fc.hp.com (Marc Sabatella)
- Subject: Re: Amendment 2
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:42:23 GMT
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- Van Martin (vanm@col.hp.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- No, it appears to me you are both equally misinformed and misguided.
-
- : 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
-
- Given that the "church facilities" were in fact state owned university
- buildings, this seems entirely reasonable to me.
-
- : 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.
-
- Nonsense. You are Christian, so you are protected there (not just the First
- Amendment, which protects you from government interference; you are also
- protected under some laws against discrimination in housing and employment).
- If you are single (or married), you are protected against discrimination based
- on your marital status in most places. If you are left-handed, you have the
- right to try to pass laws that outlaw discrimination on that basis. Only
- homosexuals have now had the right to pass anti-discrimination laws removed
- from them.
-
- : This wasn't very cogent.
-
- That's not surprising.
-
- --
- Marc Sabatella
- marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com
- --
- Amendment 2 Is Legalized Discrimination - Shame On You, Colorado
- --
- "Neither the State of Colorado ... nor any of its municipalities ... shall ...
- enforce any ... ordinance ... whereby homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual
- orientation ... shall ... be the basis of ... any ... claim of discrimination"
- --
- All opinions expressed herein are my personal ones
- and do not necessarily reflect those of HP or anyone else.
-