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- From: spencer@der.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.080139.14157@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 08:01:39 GMT
- References: <Bxu0su.Lz@news.iastate.edu> <gVwLuB5w165w@lily.arts.com>
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- Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
- Organization: Live Organ Transplants
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- In article <gVwLuB5w165w@lily.arts.com>, palepink@lily.arts.com (Suzii Abe) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Nov16.154610.652@wam.umd.edu> aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo
- > >Not really. I used to work as a technician fixing very expensive medical
- > >equipment. One important point was that your image should be well accepted
- > >by the client because sales were based, in a lot of cases, on references fro
- > >previous clients.
- > >If some of our clients would have had a problem with Gays, the company
- > >would certainly have not send a Gay person to do the job at that particular
- > >place.
- >
- >This is where Miss Manners' dicta regarding the separation of social and
- >business life come in.
- >
- >A technician who visits a client to fix expensive medical equipment
- >has no need to discuss anything except medical equipment with that
- >customer.
- >
- >A business which has equipment in need of repair has no time to
- >distract a visiting technician with discussions of social life, and
- >no legal right to discuss sexual life with anybody paid to be there.
-
- This is sort of what I've been trying to say in that other thread on
- "relevance." There are examples of situations where one's sexuality is
- a best a peripheral detail, IMO.
-
- Please do not interpret this as suggesting that people should stay in
- the closet. See the other thread if you like.
-
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- necessary to shoot the engineers and start production."
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