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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:41:04 EST
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- From: "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
- Subject: Boycotts, Rights, & Hypocricy
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- From 700 Club, 12/17/92 - Boycotts, rights, hypocrisy, and sodomy.
-
- Pat: Well the mayor of Philadelphia has joined the mayors of Atlanta
- and New York in the boycott of Colorado. The Philadelphia mayor says he
- will not attend next years conference of mayors in Colorado Springs. The
- boycott came about after Colorado voters approved an amendment which said
- "We don't want to extend civil rights protection to another class, IE:
- Homosexuals." And all of this is happening at a time when many states, 22
- or 23, outlaw the practice of homosexuality and actually make it a crime.
- Gayland Teathrow brings us this report on the anomaly.
-
- GT: With President Elect Bill Clinton hoping to make homosexuality
- acceptable in the military, attention is once again being focused on gay
- sex acts, or sodomy, prohibited in many state laws. Legal Paul Morken.
-
- PM: Family Law Scholar: Typically a statute would define sodomy as
- use of the anus or oral copulation.
-
- GT: And until 1961, all 50 states had sodomy laws.
-
- PM: In 1961 was the first time a state legislature appealed, or let
- me put it this way, decriminalized sodomy laws. That was the state of IL.
-
- GT: Today, the District of Columbia, US Military, and 24 states have
- sodomy laws in force, primarily in the south and mountain west. In
- President Elect Clinton's own Arkansas, the penalty for violating that
- state's anti-sodomy law is a fine of up to $1,000 and as much as 1 years
- incarceration. The law in Texas is now before that state's Supreme Court,
- and Kentucky's highest court stuck down it's sodomy law in September. Dr.
- Morken says the state's case was weak.
-
- PM: The state's supreme court noted in its opinion that the
- Commonwealth of Kentucky didn't present ANY witnesses in support of the
- sodomy law, nor did they present ANY expert scientific or social science
- research.
-
- GT: Meanwhile in Georgia, the state's law against sodomy has NOT
- hindered it's boycott of Colorado. (MAKS> Don't do as I do, do as I
- say..) Colorado citizens voted in November to bar any attempts to grant
- homosexuals special rights.
-
- Ironically, Georgia's anti-sodomy law sailed through he US Supreme
- Court in 1986 and was upheld. Then Justice Lewis Powel voted for the law
- in a narrow 5 to 4 decision.
-
- PM: Now the reason why that's also interesting in terms of 5-4 is in
- 1990, Justice Powel was quoted as saying that he thought he probably made
- a mistake in that decision.
-
- GT: However, historically western civilization has not viewed its
- stand against sodomy as mistaken, but as a law with a positive purpose.
-
- PM: So if we all became homosexuals, basically the society, within 1
- generation, would be extinct.
-
- GT: The more specific goals for regulating sodomy across the
- centuries were to uphold marriage, to preserve public morals, and bolster
- health. And health has become a more prominent reason in recent years
- because of rampant venereal diseases especially prevalent among
- homosexuals.
-
- PM: There has to be more direct form of confrontation on AIDS
- inhibition, Political Correctness doesn't solve it. So yes, sodomy laws
- protect the homosexual, from death.
-
- GT: But homosexuals contend that sodomy laws violate their right to
- privacy, that efforts to enforce them amount to nothing less police state
- actions. Morken says though that the general welfare of the nation is at
- risk with rampant homosexuality. He claims states without sodomy laws are
- subject to a lowering of the moral climate, and pro-homosexual education
- in the schools, (MAKS> Oh come on, I supposed like New York? You bet.) as
- well as future problems.
-
- PM: There is a strong movement within the homosexual community to
- remove *ALL* age limitations with regards to sodomy. (MAKS> But just
- because homosexuals want to do this, doesn't mean they wouldn't be good
- teachers. After all look at all the heterosexuals trying to get age
- limitations removed for raping girls. NOT.)
-
- GT: This threat to children, combined with lax enforcement of sodomy
- and sex crime laws, Morken says, could engender further breakdown in
- society. He also contends that much of the reason sodomy laws have been
- dropped or not enforced, comes from the agenda of millions of selfish
- heterosexuals. These promiscuous millions want no laws limiting their
- sexual desires, whether for fornication, adultery or pornography.
-
- PM: The gay rights movement is basically piggy-backing on another
- much broader movement. Homosexuals would never be a strong viable force
- in and of themselves.
-
- GT: Reporting for CBN News, I'm Gayland Tethrow.
-
- Pat: It's amazing that Atlanta, which has a law that makes
- homosexuality a crime, is banning Colorado which says we won't give
- homosexuals a preferred status under law. Isn't that incredible? You talk
- about hypocrisy! I tell you, some of you folks listening in Georgia, you
- ought to write your city council in Atlanta. That is the most
- hypocritical stance that I have ever heard. And the same thing with Bill
- Clinton. He has a sodomy law in Arkansas. They have never repealed, in 12
- years of being governor, he never made an effort to repeal the sodomy law
- in Arkansas, which makes it a $1000 fine or 1 year in prison for
- participating in sodomy. Isn't that incredible?
-
- Ben Kinchlow: It really is. It's almost as people are saying, "Well,
- it really doesn't make any difference what the law says. We want to do
- what we want to do and we don't care about much else. And if you disagree
- with us, you don't have a right to disagree with us."
-
- Pat: You know, the District of Columbia brought an action against
- Georgetown University that said, "We have a law protecting homosexual
- activity and you there fore must give preference to homosexual groups on
- your campus even though you as Catholics don't agree with it." They
- forced them to do that, and YET in DC, it's against the law. So they're
- telling the Catholic Church "You have to bring into your society people
- who are breaking our law because we have another law that says it's a
- preferred group." Now, you tell me that isn't screwy.
-
- And the Supreme Court, 5-4, upheld Georgia's sodomy law. They said
- "We are not about to legalize homosexuality in America." Supreme Court
- said that 3-4 years ago.
-
- Ben: It's like what can we do. I live in Virginia. There's an
- anti-sodomy law here. What can we do?
-
- Pat: ...and the least they can do is say, "Well, we're not going to
- teach our young people to engage in activity which our own law says is
- criminal." And that's what's happening. We're teaching children to engage
- in activities which are criminal. That makes no sense. But a lot of
- things in our society make no sense.
-
- MAKS> Well, that's it.
-
- Maks.
-
- He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous,
- Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord. Prov. 17:15.
-