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- From: mgmam@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Morrell)
- Subject: Re: Fundamentalist Nightmare
- Message-ID: <BxJDyB.7I3@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Organization: Educational Computing Network
- References: <Bwv9tx.Aut@unix.amherst.edu> <Bx9nst.Jux@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <1992Nov6.095943.1@fnala.fnal.gov>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:30:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.095943.1@fnala.fnal.gov> rhatcher@fnala.fnal.gov writes:
- >In article <Bx9nst.Jux@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, mgmam@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Morrell) writes:
- >> In article <Bwv9tx.Aut@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >>>Interestingly, you still feel that homosexuals shouldn't
- >>>teach in the schools.
- >>
- >> It's easy to take that meaning from what I said, but that isn't the
- >> meaning that I intended. If the mannerisms are not there, then there is
- >> no problem with homosexual teachers. The children are not going to be
- >> able to learn those behaviours from them.
- >
- >> Mark A. Morrell Disclaimer: _I_ probably don't even believe it.
- >
- >The "problem" lies in the fact that there are a number of people who say
- >the same things you originally did, but don't believe in this clarified
- >version. The truely do believe that it is okay to discriminate against
- >people based not on their performance in a job (mannerisms IN the classroom
- >could be argued to affect performance), but on what they do OUTSIDE that
- >setting (homosexual behaviour) NO MATTER how they came to determine it.
- >The classic senario: Wonderful teacher liked by students and collegues
- >alike; seen entering a gay bar (or whatever); fired for being gay.
- >This IS what people here have been railing against. Performance on the
- >job is the key. If you had just said that in the beginning this discussion
- >probably wouldn't have gone on so long.
- >
- >-robert (hatcher@msupa.pa.msu.edu)
- >
- >
-
- Sorry for the confusion.
-
- By the way. It is legal to discriminate against anyone who isn't
- specifically spelled out that you can't discriminate against. I don't
- support this..
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- Mark A. Morrell Disclaimer: _I_ probably don't even believe it.
- Literary Reference: The introduction to Cervantes' Don Quixote.
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