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In article <tjvedvk@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
>|the gay rights movement, 
>... a movement I'm proud to support

I'm more into supporting HUMAN rights, I can't see setting aside a certain group
to have their own private rights.

>|NOW, 
>...an organization I'm proud to support

Thank God, someone still supports them.  The group that's there now seems to
be losing support.

>NOW is a fringe group?  Oh my.  Faludi is right.  

If they aren't a fringe group, why were they hiding behind Slick and keeping
their mouths shut?  Probably because the majority of Americans don't support
them.  Probably because the largest women's rights group (by a 10-1 margin)
is the Concerned Women of America.

>But you're quite correct that we'd rather talk about Republican 
>loonies.  I mean, gay rights is boring next to the idea of building 
>a wall between Mexico & the US.  Or next to Randall Terry's great 
>insight that Christians shouldn't use birth control, and this will 
>somehow prevent all those abortions he's so upset about.  Yep, gotta
>admit it-- it's much more fun to snicker at Republicans proposing
>to put AIDS victims in concentration camps than it is to nod in
>agreement with Democrats proposing to give gay people equal
>rights to employment & housing.

All right, I realize folks in Berkeley aren't too swift at reading anything
except pap the party puts out, but number one - has ANYONE is a higher
position actually considered putting up a wall?  It was dismissed by 
just about everyone, including Buchanan later on.  Randall Terry isn't in
any real position of authority either.  Any who, pray tell, has proposed
putting AIDS victims in concentration camps, other than one of your sides
heros - Fidel?  And the real argument isn't with giving gays equal rights
in housing or employment, it's with setting them up as a recognized
minority group - with all the perks, like employment quotas, etc.

And as far as the fringe being in control of the Democratic Party - they
are beginning to exert their rights - Donna Shalala, the mother of PC,
Ozone Man's former aid to EPA, etc.