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- From: vanm@col.hp.com (Van Martin)
- Subject: Re: interesting thought (ammendment 2)
- Sender: news@col.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.201953.15295@col.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:19:53 GMT
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- mjs@fc.hp.com (Marc Sabatella) writes:
- > To pick your brain one more time, I'm a little curious about this wording
- > myself. The word "leaning" is not used, but "orientation" is. Is it possible
- > to interpret this in the negative sense? That is, the intent was clearly to
- > remove the right to claim discrimination from people oriented "toward"
- > homosexuality; could this also be applied to strike down laws that protect
- > those oriented "away from" homosexuality? If so, then the argument that this
- > amendment gives heterosexuals more rights than homosexuals falls apart
-
- This is exactly true. Heterosexuals have no special protection, nor
- have they sought such. Homosexuals will not be allowed special
- protection, but have sought such.
-
- > I still suspect it could be struck down on the basis that it explicitly denies
- > protection to a group that has the potential to deserve it ...
-
- Criteria originally instituted for special protection under
- Civil Rights Act of 1964:
- 1) Economic disadvantage,
- 2) Educational/
- 3) Cultural deprivation
- 4) Political Powerlessness.
- Wall Street Journal, 18-Jul-91, from a Gay Marketing Research
- firm claimed:
- 1) Homosexual households average more than twice the national
- average income and more than four times the income of the truly
- dis-advantaged Afro-American household.
- 2) The homosexual population boasts 3 times the number of college
- grads the average American population and more than 12 times the
- number of college grads of the dis-advantaged Afro-Americans.
- 3) The homosexual population claims to have 4 times as many people
- who got to take overseas vacations than the average population
- and more than *60* times the number of the dis-advantaged Afro-
- Americans
- 4) Is there any question that the homosexual community is
- politically powerless?
-
- Oppressed? You decide.
-
- > - homosexuals seem no less powerless than Christians, for example,
- > but the latter group gets protection.
-
- Christianity has protection from particular discrimination based on
- freedom-of-religion under the Constitution.
-
- Homosexuals have attempted to squeeze protected minority status
- based on behavioral identity into the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- Being turned away at the Federal Level by the Supreme Court, (Bowers
- v. Hardwick 1986 - Georgia sodomy laws challenged as prohibiting
- due process/equal protection to the homosexual community, laws
- upheld) the search for special protection continued at state and
- local levels with mixed success.
-
- Van Martin
- vanm@col.hp.com
-
- All ideas expressed here are my own,
- though you ought to consider that I am right
-
- "All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
- But the LORD weighs the spirit"
- Prov. 16:2
-