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From: crane@fortune.UUCP (John Crane)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: An Innocent (I think) Question
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 23:47:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 20 23:47:22 1984
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I agree with a lot of what you said. However, you did NOT answer my
question. My question was not whether or not gays should have
special rights encoded in the law, but:

	how religious groups can justify ACTIVELY FIGHTING
	Gay rights legislation on the grounds that they
	consider the Gay lifestyle (whatever that is) to
	be MORALLY WRONG.

As for counselors and teachers being gay, the question is not whether we
should allow them (for they already exist in abundance), but the question
is what if one of them decides to "come out" or is "discovered"?  Can they
legally be fired?  Employment right legislation would ensure that they
could not be fired simply because they are gay.

Also, I know of no gay counselor or teacher who is actively or even
passively recruiting anybody into their ranks.  You are either gay or
straight or somewhere in between.  Nobody recruits you either way.  You
just ARE.

I am the father of four children.  I try to teach them right and wrong (as
I see it) in the home.  I then have to trust that they have minds of their
own and will make the right decisions when they are out in the world being
exposed to any number of different ideas and lifestyles.  If they later in
life decide that my teachings are wrong and somebody else's are right, then
so be it.  They are intelligent beings and have the ability and freedom to
have their own opinions.

So much for gay teachers and counselors.

John Crane