🚀 go-pugleaf

Mike Mills (mills@spot.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
> On 19 Apr 1996, Bob Cormack wrote:
> > My secondary point was that people who think that same-sex marriage should
> > be allowed are a small minority -- insulting everyone else is not going
> > to achieve your goals, regardless of how superior it makes you feel.

  Bob, of course, makes an incorrect induction that
me insulting him is tantamount to me insulting all str8
people. I wasn't aware that he was the Great Str8
Spokesorgan.

> Of course Bob is allowed to feel superior because he is in the majority.  
> He's allowed to compare us to inanimate objects and we're not allowed to 
> lash back.

  That's because we have to ask Bob, and Bob personally
to have our rights pretty please with sugar on top.
Just like the Good Negros did during Jim Crow.

> > In fact, the desire for commitment within the gay community seems like
> > a positive development to me also.  One can hope that the ideals of
> > responsibility and civility spread as well.

> What a patronizing statement!  As if heteros invented commitment, 
> responsibility, and civility and have to spread it to others.

  I think the proper response to that is: 

  "That's mighty White of you, Bob."
-- 
Michael Thomas	(mike@mtcc.com http://www.mtcc.com/~mike/)
  Pass the bottle and damn the expense
  I've heard it said by a man of sense
  That the labouring classes could scarce live a day
  If people like us didn't eat, drink and pay
    -- A. H. Clough