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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (Damballah Wedo)
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Subject: Re: Supreme Court Ruling on Sodomy (AIDS comment)
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Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 08:38:54 EDT
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> Nick Flor:
>                          It doesn't matter who started [AIDS].  The fact of
> the matter is -- The homosexuals are spreading it....

This is false. The gay community (in the New York area, at least) has been
most active in promoting and adopting safe sex guidelines that slow down the
spread of the disease. Indeed, health statistics over the last six months
or so indicate that the greatest percentage of new cases are transmitted
by infected intraveinous drug users sharing dirty needles or from heterosexual
sexual relations with prostitutes (who have a large intersection with the
drug user population.) In fact, health professionals in this area are emphatic:
AIDS is no longer exclusively, nor even primarily a "gay disease;"

As for the recent Supreme Court ruling, by Justice White's argument that
there exists a strong tradition in the law and in the culture for anti-sodomy
laws, racism, slavery and segregation would still be the law of the land.
Remember the "but biblical figures had slaves" areguments? Is Justice
WHite intent on repealing the Fourteenth Amendment? Why are gays not
entitled to the same rights as everyone else (since the decision specifically
does not address heterosexual sodomy)?

All in all, I cannot help but agree with Justice Blackmun's dissent that
"only the most willfull blindness" denies that consensual sexual activity
is covered by the basic right to privacy.
-- 
Marcel-Franck Simon		ihnp4!{mhuxr, hl3b5b}!mfs

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