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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:30:47 CDT
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- Comments: Resending note of Fri,
- 1 Jan 1993 22:49:00 EST from Song Weaver
- <JULIE@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
- From: Robert Moss <SPRG0002@TULSAJC.BITNET>
- Subject: Uncl: ActUp/RI joins Colorado Boycott
- Comments: To: politics@ohstvma.bitnet
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- *** Resending note of 01/01/93 21:54
-
- >Monday, January 4th, is the expected date for the passing into law of
- >Colorado's Amendment#2. To mark this day as a day of hate and rage
-
- ...extraneous BS deleted...
- >Julie
-
- By all means, protest if you feel so led. However, please do not try to
- pass any of this inflammatory rhetoric off as anything more. Granted, it
- is your *opinion*, obviously constructed from the bitterness of a twisted
- perception of life that is in direct conflict with the majority view.
-
- Just because you have adopted a *minority opinion* it does not qualify you,
- or anyone else, as A MINORITY in the legal sense. You may also believe the
- Earth is flat, but should society be required to reward your mistaken
- finding by declaring you a minority worthy of some special protection?
- I think not.
-
- Let's cut past the nonsense and admit straight out that Colorado did in fact
- not pass anything resembling hate of homosexuals. The Amendment proclaims
- that homosexuals will not be recognized as a minority. BRAVO for Colorado!
-
- If homosexuals are allowed this privilege, then why not drug addicts and
- alcoholics? Whether you like it or not, your actions are the direct result
- of a choice. If you choose to be homosexual fine. If I choose not to be,
- that also is just fine. Our choices are equal but in opposite directions.
- If my choice to be hetero does not qualify me as a minority then why should
- your choice not achieve the same result?
-
- The bottom line is that homosexuality does not deserve the legitimization of
- minority status. Colorado has only arrived at the only possible conclusion.
-
- ---Robert
-