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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:12:00 CDT
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- From: "Love does not subtract, it multiplies." <HOLZMAN@FNAL.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Gay Civil Rights
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- < It seems to me that they are demanding we recognize them based on
- <their sexual orientation. Since I don't know of any other group that
- <is recognized based on this, this sounds like a demand for special rights
- <to me. Sorry, my teeth aren't yellow.
-
- Legal marriage is explicitly limited to heterosexuals. In other words, it is
- the heterosexuals who are granted special rights under the present system.
-
- <} 3) Jews also enjoy high income, high educational status, and
- <} high professional status in this country--far higher than the
- <} "average" citizen--so do Asians. Does this mean it is then ok to
- <} discriminate against a Jew or an Asian just because he is a Jew
- <} or Asian??
- < Of course not. I think the person's point (which I haven't really
- <thougth about) was a sort of an empirical "as a class, they obviously
- <aren't discriminated against since they have a high income, etc."
-
- Would you then argue that Jews aren't discriminated against on the grounds that
- they have a high income, etc?
-
- Dan
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