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- From: StarOwl@uiuc.edu (Michael D. Adams)
- Subject: Re: Read this if you are straight!
- References: <1993Jan24.212022.10517@netcom.com> <1993Jan25.002341.4612@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Actuarial Science Program at UIUC
- X-Header-1: Bigotry is not a family value -- boycott Colorado, think twice
- X-Header-2: about Oregon, watch out for Ohio, Idaho, Michigan, Maine, and
- X-Header-3: Florida.
- X-Header-5: Beware lunatic actuaries in the night!
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:12:10 GMT
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- sals@deirdre.uchicago.edu (red-head fancier) writes:
- >rich@netcom.com (Richard Poppen) writes:
- >> Never mind that you just don't get the point of laws prohibiting
- >> discrimination. Never mind the fact that the only "special" right being
- >> sought is the right not to be denied or lose a job or housing by reason
- >> of being non-straight.
- >Give me an example of a straight person successfully sueing for
- >discrimination!!!!
-
- There was a case tried just recently where a het woman, formerly a
- nurse at Howard University, essentially did that. She won a lawsuit
- in which she claimed that her lesbian co-workers created an environment
- of undue discomfort at work.
-
- --
- Michael D. Adams | Since when do you have to agree with people to defend
- University of Illinois | them from injustice? -- Lillian Hellman
- StarOwl@uiuc.edu | Religion has done love a great service by making it a
- Standard Disclaimers | sin. -- Anatole France
-