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- From: fogarty@sir-c.jpl.nasa.gov (Tim Fogarty)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices (was Re: Sexuality)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.005642.14893@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1992Dec30.162502.6756@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Dec30.191743.7958@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Dec30.234500.21163@anasazi.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:56:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.234500.21163@anasazi.com>, briand@anasazi.com
- (Brian Douglass) writes:
- |>
- |>>In article <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- |>>ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
- |>>
- |>>>All people are asking is that unless you can come up with some
- |>>>*secular* reason for why their lifestyle choice is bad, you grant
- |>>>them the same rights they are willing to grant you: the right to
- |>>>live their life without persecution.
- |>
- |>Tell that to a smoker. Clearly this is a lifestyle choice, and yet
- |>non-smokers have persecuted them out of most public places. Why? Because
- |>non-smokers find smoking offensive, smelly, and possibly dangerous to their
- |>health. But in this battle the rights of a clear minority, have had little
- |>weight in comparison to the greater good of the public. That is the rights
- |>of the majority have been deemed more important than the rights of a
- |>minority.
- |>
-
- Read the first part again ! "unless you can come up with some *secular*
- reasons". You have come up with some secular reasons why smokers are
- discriminated against. And most people would support this. The question
- for Mr Douglass was and still is "Can you come up with some secular
- (non-religious) reasons to justify discrimination against homosexuals ?"
- How does granting equal protection to homosexuals impact the greater good
- of the public ?
-
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- Tim Fogarty
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