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Article #27883Re: News Release: Delwin Vriend Supreme Court Decision
From: Kelly T. Conlon
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:00
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 -- "In considering material claimed to be obscene it is well to remember the moto: Honi soit qui mal y pense." Judge Clayton Horn.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb626,bcf571f59d59f073 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb626,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,bcf571f59d59f073 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 112f74,bcf571f59d59f073 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public X-Google-Thread: fb374,bcf571f59d59f073 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb374,public From: conlonkt@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA (Kelly T. Conlon) Subject: Re: News Release: Delwin Vriend Supreme Court Decision Date: 1998/04/03 Message-ID: <6g3eak$to@mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA> X-Deja-AN: 340667202 References: <Pine.A41.3.95.980402125511.30972D-100000@fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> <3524553B.1C972D88@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> <gall-0204982158000001@usrts1m7.uwinnipeg.ca> <35246644.BC092E5C@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Newsgroups: ab.general,can.legal,ab.politics,can.politics