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- From: cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black)
- Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.193342.41840@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:33:42 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.205736.9819@wam.umd.edu> <BxoBC2.Is5@fc.sde.hp.com> <1992Nov16.154610.652@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.154610.652@wam.umd.edu> aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo Pinkas) writes:
- >In article <BxoBC2.Is5@fc.sde.hp.com> marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com writes:
- >>
- >>This is a (rather lame) argument in favor of discrimination in general, but it
- >>does not give me a clue as to why one should be constitutionally guaranteed the
- >>right to discriminate against gays, but not against say blacks.
- >
- >Just because some people do not think that being Gay is the same
- >thing as being black?
- >I know some people who think that being Gay is a psychological disorder, in
- >some cases. They do not believe that Gay should be given minority status.
-
- Well, I know (or I should say "I have been exposed to") people who
- think gays should be rounded up and shot. Who cares what "some people
- think"?
-
- *This* is an argument??
-
- >>I could
- >>subsitute "black" for "gay" above without changing the point. So we should
- >>have an amendment prohibiting African-Americans from protection against
- >>disrimination, too?
- >
- >For some people it would not be the same. For some people being Gay is not
- >an inborn thing but a disorder.
-
- See above.
-
-
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- Howard Black cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
- Department of Chemistry Eastern Illinois Univ.
-