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- From: cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black)
- Subject: Re: Sexuality
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.142508.5901@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:25:08 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec31.000514.21542@anasazi.com> <1992Dec31.014201.16735@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> <1992Dec31.201649.10590@anasazi.com>
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- In article <1992Dec31.201649.10590@anasazi.com> briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass) writes:
- >
- >Please indicate items of legislated bigotry. If you were to mean Prop 2 in
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- Marriage, along with the many benefits assoc. with it. Adoption.
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- >Colorado, my reading of the amendment is that it prohibits legislated
- >protection for gays as an expressed minority. It does not attack, merely
- >prevents protection. Sort of like forcing the settlers outside the fort.
-
- Cute analogy. However, gays need protection, just as african-americans
- needed it awhile back.
-
- >Personally, I am as opposed to laws that single out groups to prevent
- >protection as I am to laws that single out groups for protection. In
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- Does this mean that you are against the civil rights laws that were
- enacted for the protection of blacks, and the Americans with
- Disabilities Act? If so, please say so, since it will make understanding
- your positions much easier.
-
- >either case they have the same effect of labeling, stereotyping, and
- >seperating a group of people into a separate but supposedly equal class.
- >And any such seperation is the fertilizer of prejudice.
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- You have the cause and effect reversed. It is the prejudice that
- necessitates the protection.
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- Howard Black cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
- Department of Chemistry Eastern Illinois Univ.
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