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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 13:01:55 EST
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- From: K=A*T <MEC038@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Uncl: ActUp/RI joins Colorado Boycott
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:30:47 CDT from <SPRG0002@TULSAJC>
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- From: Robert Moss <SPRG0002@TULSAJC.BITNET>
-
- > 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!
-
- That might be part of it. However, the Colorado law does not
- allow other things either. For example discrimination based on
- someone's religion is against the law, even if that religion
- happens to be Christianity which is hardly a minority religion.
- Colorado law does not allow disallowing discrimination based
- on sexual orientation.
-
- > 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?
-
- What is called a privilege here is things like outlawing
- discrimination based on one's sexual preference -- hardly
- a "privilege."
-
- And the same old cliche again, "if homosexuals, why not murderers
- adulterers, etc." It is amazing (also comforting) that anti-
- homosexual people can never come up with better analogies. They
- always have to put homosexuality (which is an act between
- CONSENTING adults and has no tangible victims) with other acts
- which are know to hurt third parties and often lack consent.
-
- > The bottom line is that homosexuality does not deserve the legitimization of
- > minority status. Colorado has only arrived at the only possible conclusion.
-
- The bottom line is that discrimination based on religion (including
- christianity) is illegal and that has NOTHING to do with being a
- minority.
-
- And Aspen (a city in Colorado) arrived at a diametrically opposed
- conclusion. Are we saying that that conclusion was not "possible?"
-
- > ---Robert
-
- --KAT
-