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- From: downsj@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (jason downs)
- Newsgroups: or.politics
- Subject: Re: new initiative
- Message-ID: <1jojerINNfsp@leela.CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:48:59 GMT
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- References: <1j88d1INNaom@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> <C109Ky.G8x@agora.rain.com> <1jdgvoINN19a@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> <1993Jan21.051232.4426@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- In article <1993Jan21.051232.4426@qiclab.scn.rain.com>,
- Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- >Your religion analogy has a problem in that it *assumes* that sexual
- >orientation is a choice.
-
- actually, it doesn't matter if it's a choice, or not. homosexuality is
- a type of _behaviour_, and cannot be treated as the basis for a minority
- class because of that fact.
-
- >[...] Because if you say it *is* a choice, then you have
- >to tell me when *you* "decided" to be heterosexual.
-
- me? whom ever said i was heterosexual?
-
- >[...] A lot of black kids have it harder than white kids
- >because blacks are looked down on. Would you try to claim that it was
- >wrong to teach that blacks are just as good as anybody else?
-
- why, yes it is wrong to teach that black kids, specifically, are just as
- good as anyone else. it should be taught that everyone is equal, without
- using african-americans (or anyone else) as an example.
-
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