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Re: News Release: Delwin Vriend Supreme Court Decision

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From: Kelly T. Conlon
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:00
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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*. Adherents to a particular creed are not a "race" in any
sense of the word, yet it is quite natural to think of religious freedom
as a civil right. 

I get tired of having to make this point over and over again, but there
you go.

KTC
-- 
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moto: Honi soit qui mal y pense."  Judge Clayton Horn.
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From: conlonkt@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA (Kelly T. Conlon)
Subject: Re: News Release: Delwin Vriend Supreme Court Decision
Date: 1998/04/03
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