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What's up with George F. Will's column (see today in the Oregonian)
calling the Supreme Court's recent ruling on gay participation in
government as "Preposterous?"

When will people like George F. Will get it that laws which discriminate
on inherent STATUS are not the American way! (Albeit, the American way
is to take its sweet time to reach that conclusion.)

George F. Will, "Justice" Antonin Scalia, "Justice" William H.
Rehnquist, and "Justice" Clarence (wanna sip of me Coke?) Thomas all
want the American public to believe that if a group of people are being
harshly harassed and violated by militants and kids out for a laugh,
then it is not the American way to allow that minority to seek
protection. Futhermore with laws such as Colorado's Amendment-2, they
want us to believe that it is the American way to support and defend the
rights of thugs, harassers, and murders to keep the status quo that gays
and lesbians are free for target practice and bashing.

George F. Will tries to defend his position as "Justice" Antonin Scalia
attemtped to with an example of behavior, not status. If Colorado is so
turned off by gays and lesbians, then let them bring back the sodomy
laws that they abolished when the APA realized back in the early 70s
that homosexuality was a normal human existance. What George F. Will and
others obviously want to do is make a clean sweep of all homosexuals...
those who don't committ suicide as young teens can be forever driven
into the closet (only to be seen later in life with their spouse on the
Oprah show or arrested doing inappropriate things in inappropriate
places).

And, then there is the idiotic legislation in Maine... not only are they
creating special rights for a few choosen minorities (guess which ones
aren't invited), but they are slamming the door shut to all others who
are in need of such protections now or in the future. This not only
shuts out gays and lesbians, but vast classifications of people who
potentially need protection. How gross; how uncaring; how unamerican!

For shame... for shame!

Tom
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Tom Barrett
http://www.aracnet.com/~tdbear/   [Updated: 4/14/96]