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Re: News Release: Delwin Vriend Supreme Court Decision

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From: Norman Gall
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:00
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In article <6g1qg4$jc8$1@news.sas.ab.ca>, commandr@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
() wrote:

> I would like to point this out.  When human rights are used as a defence
> to protect homosexuals from discrimination, I ask myself this question.
> What would people like Elena Bonner, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Natan
> Sharansky, and Wei Jingshen have to say about their human rights being
> deprived compared to the homosexual community in Canada. 

I woudl htink that they would applaud and laud the decision. peraps you'd
better go and read the writings of some of these people

> Secondly, I was taught that I am held responsible for my actions, this
> seems to run counter to the homosexual lifestyle.

I would submit that the same could be said if Christians were objecting
that they were being fired from jobs and not hired on the groudns that
they were Christians.

> Thirdly, when a person makes a judgment, they are using prejudice.

Don't be a fool.

> Finally, when it comes to making decisions, homosexuals are discriminating
> as well.  They reject the avenue that is available to them.  

Because the avenue available is unnecessarily unfair.

> After all,
> homosexuality is a lifestyle, and lifestyles change.  

So is religion.

> Furthermore, when
> all is said and done, the laws that legislators draw up are changed over
> time.  But on the other hand, eternal laws do not change.

Sure they do.  You simply don't know that they do.

Norm Gall

-- 
"A thing is not necessarily true just because a man dies for it." 
 Oscar Wilde
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From: gall@uwinnipeg.ca (Norman Gall)
Subject: Re: News Release: Delwin Vriend Supreme Court Decision
Date: 1998/04/03
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