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- From: rosinski@isis.cgd.ucar.edu (Jim Rosinski)
- Subject: Re: Colorado Ski Report, etc., etc., etc.
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- Organization: Climate and Global Dynamics Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:31:22 GMT
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- I wrote:
-
- >>I see no reason why you should feel threatened by homosexuals. On the other
- >>hand, always fear laws ostensibly designed to protect "rights", which in fact
- >>act to deny freedom of association. Do you *really* want the government
- >>telling businesses who they must hire or otherwise associate with?
-
- Brian Kauffman responds:
-
- >Do you mean, like, Jews, Japanese, Blacks & females?
-
- As examples, yes. Also whites, males, people with long hair, or people
- posessing any other physical characteristics you care to name.
-
- >In a general setting, why should religion/race/skin-color/sex be an
- >unacceptable criteria for hiring/firing while sexual orientation is
- >an acceptable criteria?
-
- The question is not which criteria are "acceptable" in the sense that we
- approve of them, but rather which criteria should be *legal*. This country
- tolerates *speech* which a vast majority of its citizens find repugnant, and
- there are good reasons for this. Why should hiring/firing practices be any
- different?
-
-
- Jim Rosinski
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