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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Leeper's amazing misperceptions
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 13:48:45 EST
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Yes, I certainly would object to an ad such as Steve proposed asking for
Christians (or members of any other religion) exclusively to share a
dwelling.  In fact, I would make sure the state attorney general knew about
the advertisement, since it is illegal to discriminate on religious grounds
in housing.

If statutes against sex-preference discrimination become the norm, as I
think most gays would like, ads asking for gays exclusively would become as
illegal as ads asking for heterosexuals exclusively.  And that is as it
should be.  Being a persecuted minority does NOT confer the right to
discriminate, no matter how much more convenient it makes your life.

"Liberation" is not all a bed of roses.  You have to live by the same
standards you make the oppressors live by.  You may not like it in some
cases, but it is the price that has to be paid to end discrimination.
Otherwise you just have a new double standard.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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