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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices (was Re: Sexuality)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.222040.3421@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
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- References: <1992Dec31.205337.11369@anasazi.com>
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- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 22:20:40 GMT
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- Brian Douglass (briand@anasazi.com) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec31.043531.4304@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil
- Lafornara) writes:
- : >In article <1992Dec30.191743.7958@asl.dl.nec.com> dillhoff@aslws01.asl.dl.ne
- c.com (Doug Dillhoff) writes:
- : >>In article <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.c
- om (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
- : >>>
- : >>>Since homosexuality is found in *every* mammalian species, the
- : >>>statement that it is a lifestyle choice is scientifically questionable,
- : >>>but if it is, so what? Christianity, meat-eating, and monogamous
- : >>>marriage are not dictated by nature--they are all lifestyle choices.
- : >>
- : >>So, will I get special rights if I am a meat eater?
- : >
- : > Let's look at it from a different angle: Should it be illegal
- : >for people to eat vegetables, simply because you are a meat eater?
- : >Should employers be able to fire vegetarians for not eating meat?
- : >Should school children be taught that vegetarians are abnormal?
- :
- : And must we have a law to prevent each and every one of these incidents of
- : descrimination? As I pointed out before, Smokers have been fired for
- : smoking on their own time, at home, in their car, etc. If employers can
- : get away with that (some have, some haven't), can Hormel firing vegetarians
- : be far behind?
-
- As you also pointed out, anti-discrimination suits have been filed. Some of
- the smokers won their suits and others are pending (your statments not mine).
- So, by your own admission, employers are not "get[ting] away with that."
-
- :
- : I repeat, can't we just have one law that forbids discriminating against
- : anything other than appropriate job qualifications? I mean some companies
- : still get away with forbidding employees to have mustaches! Do we also
- : need a law to stop that? Where oh where does it end?
-
- Go for it. Write it up. Submit a petition on this these boards. Get people
- to email their acceptance (or snail mail if signatures are required).
- --
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- mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org |right to be here, and whether you can hear it
- The Truth is still the Truth |or not the Universe is laughing behind your
- Even if you choose to ignore it.|back. -- National Lampoon, Deteriorata
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