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- From: stank@perrault.unet.com (Stan Knight)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices (was Re: Sexuality)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.015806.17561@unet.net.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:58:06 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.
- ^^^^^^
- Well ggeeeeee whiz Brian. Things that are possibly dangerous to the health of
- the general public are banned all over the place. Amazingly enough a majority
- think that this is a good thing! What the heck does that have to do with
- whether or not gays have the right not to be discriminated against?
-
- >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.
-
- Smokers are discriminated against due a demostratable reason. They could
- actually be harming someone else by smoking. Evelyn's post ask for a
- secular reason why we should allow gays to be discriminated against. Is this
- the best answer you can come up with? BTW if you have some proof that gays
- are dangerous to the public's health, simply by the fact that they are gay,
- I'm sure we would all like to know what that proof is.
-
- Stan Knight
- |Still waiting for that secular reason|
-
-