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- From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss,alt.politics.homosexuality
- Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatality
- Message-ID: <49@bbx.basis.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:39:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: bbx.49
- 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:
- >>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.
-
- Some of us consider homophobia a psychological disorder (I'm dead serious).
- I am up to my neck in heterosexual aquaintances who have no trouble
- with homosexuality or homosexual people. Homophobia is certainly
- not a *given* among heterosexuals and perhaps not even statistically
- normal. I do not believe in giving homophobes special protection to
- act out their homophobia against others who doing nothing to hurt
- them except merely existing in a manner the homophobes dislike.
-
- >For some people it would not be the same. For some people being Gay is not
- >an inborn thing but a disorder.
-
- The question is not about gay being inborn or a disorder, the question is
- about the pathology of homophobia. It's about the rights of homophobes.
- Homophobes do not care whether homosexuality is chosen, inborn, or
- a non-chosen disorder. To argue the nature of homosexuality is a
- red herring at best.
-
- > ...I used to work as a technician fixing very expensive medical
- >equipment. One important point was that your image should be well accepted
- >by the client because sales were based, in a lot of cases, on references from
- >previous clients.
- >If some of our clients would have had a problem with Gays, the company
- >would certainly have not send a Gay person to do the job at that particular
- >place.
-
- How on earth would the clients know that the technician was gay?
-
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- Scott Amspoker |
- Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | Too bad ignorance isn't really
- | bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
- scott@bbx.basis.com |
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