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Article #27835Re: News Release: Delwin Vriend Supreme Court Decision
From: Gordon
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 00:00
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Kelly T. Conlon wrote: > > Lars P Ormberg <commodore-lars@geocities.com> wrote: > >Norman Gall wrote: > >> commodore-lars@geocities.com wrote: > >> > Gays already have individual rights. Try again. > > >> So do women, Muslims, and blacks. They need their rights pointed out > >> *explicitly* because of freaks like you. > > >This act doesn't explicity point out rights. It holds behavioural > >characteristics such as homosexuality or walking backwards in the same > >stature as unalterable characteristics such as colour or gender. > > Which is precisely the point made by Norman Gall; you cannot fire someone > in this country because of their religious beliefs, but religious beliefs > are *behaviours*. What someone thinks, is now a behaviour? - religious beliefs are *behaviours* I agree with the 'walking backwards part', being a behaviour, but not the 'thoughts' part. Gordon.
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