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- From: margaret@infonode.ingr.com (Margaret Wiginton)
- Subject: Re: Homosexual Rights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.165415.2068@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <6413.2B0426DA@umagic.FIDONET.ORG>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:54:15 GMT
- Lines: 84
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- Leah.Wesolowski@p0.f2.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Leah Wesolowski) writes:
-
- >Rights: Rights are given to all citizens who are born
- >in the USA via the constitution.
-
- Unless you happen to be gay. Then, things are different.
-
- >friends who are homosexual. However I do not believe
- >that people who CHOOSE to act in a certian way are entitled
- >to any more rights than the rest of us.
-
- This is one of the most pervasive myths in our culture, Leah. People
- do not CHOOSE their sexual orientation. People do not "become
- homosexuals, " "turn gay, " or "go queer." You are what you are,
- period.
-
- And what _additional_ rights are you referring to? I don't believe
- that homosexuals want _additional_ rights, they just want the same
- rights as everyone else.
-
- >I support the Cracker Barrel not hiring homosexuals.
- >That is the owner's right.
-
- That had nothing to do with an employers' right to hire whomever they
- please. That was a witch hunt.
-
- >No one has a right to be hired because they engage
- >in illegal (in this state) activity.
-
- Yes, there is a great deal of antiquated legislation still on the
- books. Seems like just about every sexual act, with the exception
- of the missionary position between man and wife, is illegal. What
- say you and me just go round up everybody who's doin' anything
- else and make a citizen's arrest?
-
- >Furthermore you must consider the liability factor. We all
- >know that the highest group of people with AIDS is the members
- >of the homosexual community.
-
- Although most of the people who are living with AIDS are homosexual
- men, new HIV infections are now occurring at the highest rate among
- heterosexual women, blacks, and Hispanics.
-
- >A restaraunt owner then opens himself up to legal problems
- >when one of his homosexual employees cuts themselves and the cause
- >of AIDS is spread to a customer.
-
- I suspect you have a greater chance of getting struck by lightening
- while going out for pizza. People get AIDS from sexual intercourse
- and IV drug use, not from salad bars.
-
- >Personally I have nothing against homosexuals as individuals or a
- >a whole.
-
- Really?
-
- >The thing I don't like is this nonsence about "Gay Rights"
- >Just exactly WHAT do they want the RIGHT to do?
-
- They just want the same rights everyone else has -- to feel secure
- in a job, to get married and enjoy the same tax/insurance/legal
- benefits as other married couples, to raise children, and just
- to walk down the street without fear.
-
- >And by the way, they can get married in CA. and according to the
- >interstate compact each state has to recognize that marraige.
-
- To what extent does the state have to _recognize that marraige_?
- Does the federal government have to recognize it too? How about
- employers? The IRS? The bank? The church? The real estate agent?
- The adoption agency?
-
- >political rights? I mean, have you ever been turned down for a job
- >because you were too "Liberal"? (Believe it or not, I HAVE! HA!
- >Last month!
-
- You weren't turned down for a job. You were defeated.
-
- I'm glad you lost.
- --
- ___________________
- Margaret Wiginton
- margaret@msw104i.b24b.ingr.com
-
-