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In article <1992Nov11.192039.8208@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> oaa@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (owen.a.alexander) writes:
>Anyway, let me stop here, before I start to get angry.  Am I
>anti-homosexual? Yes!  Would I disciminate against or harrass them? No.
>I still stand firm that I don't think that specific laws addressing a
>single group is necessary in this case, but general laws should be
>sufficient.

   A general law works, until. Until a legislature (typically local) passes
a specific law to the contrary or until a court creates a specific exclusion.
Then its necessary to establish a specific law at a higher level to achieve
the same thing the general law was trying to do.

  Or to put it another way, states need to pass "gay protection" laws in order
to counteract anti-gay laws at local and county levels where the religious
right has a stronger hold.


>As a side issue; some people complain how Christians are trying to push
>their morality on others.  I think the gay agenda is a clear case of
>homosexuals trying to push their (im-)morality on others.
>The hypocracy of it is amazing to me.

   Two notes on this:
1) Most people don't complain about "Christians" pushing their morality on
others... They complain about "The Religious Right" (i.e. deeply religious
far-right wing conservatives) trying to push their morality on others.
People like Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan.

2) There's a significant difference between the "gay agenda" and the
"religious right agenda". The RR's imposition says, "Gay is not right,
therefore YOU will not do it and YOU will not think it is right." The gays
imposition says, "Gay is none of your busniness therefore whether you
personally like it or not, you will not stop me from doing it nor hinder me
because I do it." The RR is telling the gays that they have no right to be
gay, while the gays are telling the RR that only the individual gay has the
authority to decide that.

  Am I being clear on my second point? If not, I'll be happy to elaborate.


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