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Tommy the Terrorist <u58563@uic.edu> writes:

[ Civil-Rights Rant Elided ]

>   Those who are most vociferous about "protecting children" don't want
>educated children --- they want ignorant children.  They want their kids
>to "know" that gays are Bad, but never to have seen any.  They want their
>kids to "know" that Marijuana is Bad, but not to know that it is also
>called "hemp".  

Though most of what Tommy says here is quite sensible, I should point out
to him that gay-rights have been pretty successfully won in Australia - there's
still some lunacy down in Tasmania, and gay marriages are still being fought
for, but for the most part gays are largely accepted as regular folk in Oz.
I'd advise Tommy to seek out a video of "The Sum Of Us" to see what attitudes
to gays are like in this neck of the woods.

As to marijuana, while possession is still illegal in most parts of Australia,
it's been decriminalised in South Australia and the ACT, and both Victoria
and NSW are supposed to be moving to decriminalise it this year.

I guess this must sound peculiar to a yanqui, but Australia is a place where
you can smoke dope and root members of the same sex, but not one where you
can speak freely ... so while most of Tommy's diatribe works okay, he needs to
pick some different "sins" to deconstruct for the yokel audience :-)

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