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- From: jmacvean@willamette.edu (Jennifer MacVean)
- Newsgroups: or.politics
- Subject: Re: OCA initiative...Reasons to worry?
- Message-ID: <C188Mw.Ey1@willamette.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 23:16:07 GMT
- Article-I.D.: willamet.C188Mw.Ey1
- References: <1jiv91INN25m@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
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- Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
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- In article <1jiv91INN25m@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> eggertc@ucs.orst.edu
- (Christopher Eggert) writes:
- >I've been watching the debate over the new OCA initiatives, and I just have a
- >couple of questions:
- >
- >1) Is there any "scientific" way to tell what sexual orientation a person has,
- > like there are ways to tell a person's race or sex?
-
- I didn't know there was a "scientific" way to tell what a person's race was.
- My, that Norwegian person over there with slanted small eyes looks like
- they have Japanese blood to me, and that Australian Aborigini with flaring
- nostrils looks mighty African to me, when I don't know...
- It's maybe as scientific as who that person is attracted to...when you ask
- them...which is generally rude unless you know them really well.
-
- >2) If not, then what are the conservatives worried about? If anyone could
- > claim homosexuality but there's no way to prove it, there would be a lot
- > of problems getting "special rights" or "minority status" for them.
-
- Good point, except that one could say an employer couldn't fire on the
- basis of suspicion, or harass on the basis of suspicion, or bash on the
- basis of suspicion of homosexuality. The only protection is against
- a perpetrator's "excuse" that the victim was a "fag."
-
- >Just my $0.02 worth, and DO NOT send me any e-mail about this, no matter how
- >irate you might be about my questions.
-
- I didn't, and thanks for you two cents. That's what makes America go round.
-
- >eggertc@ucs.orst.edu
-
- jmacvean@willamette.edu
-
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