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From: brunson@usfbobo.UUCP (David Brunson)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.motss
Subject: re: "Gay Rights"
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 17:20:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 17:20:04 1984
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It occured to me that the following paragraph will be misunderstood.
I will clarify it in advance:

>[Me]:
>You will not persuade the Bible believer to change his mind.  He WILL NOT
>HIRE the homosexual.  That's all there is to it.  Arguments concerning
>the rightness or wrongness of his position are now irrelevant.  The only
>question is this:  who should win the suit?  Who should be vindicated
>and who should be condemned.  There is no *nice-guy* way to
>handle the problem.  There is no "Oh come now, let's be reasonable about
>this" approach left.  The homosexual refuses to change and the Bible-
>believer refuses to change.  All other considerations are now IRRELEVANT.
>DO YOU UNDERSTAND?????!!!???

The fact that it is a Bible believer who is the discriminator is irrelevant.
When I say "Bible believer" most people will assume that I mean a Jerry-Falwell-
Christian-Fundamentalist-Inerrancy-of-the-Scriptures-Prayer-in-Public-Schools-
Let's-Return-This-to-a-Christian-America-and-Beat-up-all-the-Gays-Blacks-and-
Jews-and-Tell-Little-Children-that-they-Will-Die-And-Go-To-Hell-Unless-They-
Accept-Jesus-Into-Their-Hearts-And-Wear-A-Cross-Around-Their-Necks-And-
Picket-Abortion-Clinics-And-Vote-For-Ronald-Reagan kind of guy.
Make him a Jew or Moslem or Atheist or whatever you like.  Also
the statement "Arguments concerning the rightness or wrongness of his position
are now irrelevant" is not correct.  What I meant to say is that the dis-
criminator's motives are irrelevant.  That is, when you ask him the question,
"Oh come now, let's talk about this.  Why do you want to discriminate against
this harmless homosexual?", anything that he says to defend his position
is independent of the moral question before the house, which is, once again,

>For the N+2nd time:  who should win the suit *AND WHY*?

--
David Brunson

Peace Through Strength