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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.motss
Subject: Re: Gay Rights
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Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 18:34:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 22 18:34:27 1984
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> We are talking about homosexuals.  NOT Jews, NOT socialists, and NOT
> people who eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  There are STILL
> sodomy laws on the books in most civilized states (talking about the U.S.).
> What we are talking about is a proposed radical shift in U.S. public
> policy.  It is currently NOT illegal to discriminate against homosexuals.
> Some are proposing to make discrimination against homosexuals illegal.
> Currently homosexuality is illegal and discrimination against homosexuality
> is legal.  HR-427 and other proposed initiatives seek to make homosexuality
> legal and discrimination against homosexuality illegal.

Actaully, it depends somewhat on how the constitution is interpreted as
to waether or not it is legal to discriminate against anyone!  And I'm glad
to say that those few states that still have sodomy laws are having them
struck down by the courts if they won't get their own house in order.
Currently Texas is in court over the issue.

> I don't run my business the same way you do.  Why will you force me
> to conform to something that is abhorrent to me?

Don't run a business if you do want to discriminate.

> My religion IS, in fact, practiced in the workplace.  I believe
> that God will prosper me according to my righteousness.  Your definition
> of righteousness is disgusting to me.  Why can't we just leave things the
> way they are?  Why will you have me thrown in jail, or legally forced out
> of business because I refuse to accept your warped morality?

Your religion should be practiced everywhere, why do you not follow it?
Remember Jesus's "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?  Why do you not practice
the second most important commandment, according to the benchmark of the
man you try to pattern your life after.

> I would like to be more entertaining.  Unfortunately I am faced with the
> mundane and sober task of stemming an increasingly perverted tide of public
> opinion that will redefine me from a law abiding citizen to a criminal.

You are a bigot and a hypocrate.  You should not be allowed to let the effects
of the former ruin other people's lives.  You should think about the latter
and ask if Jesus wants his church run on that basis.

Richard Brower