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- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: The phrase "gay rights"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.091814.8627@microsoft.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 09:18:14 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <27286@sybase.sybase.com> <1h06ibINNm5i@plts.uucp> <18486@borg.cs.unc.edu>
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- In article <18486@borg.cs.unc.edu> harris@gallium.cs.unc.edu (Trey Harris) writes:
- >In article <1h06ibINNm5i@plts.uucp> tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
- >>I've done some political work, and I've found that the phrase "gay
- >>rights laws" scares many people. However, when your substitute the
- >>phrase, "anti-discrimination laws for gays" [...]
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- I posted a story about my coming out to a coworker. One of the things
- I said about the coworker was that he's against "equal rights for gays".
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- Later I showed the post to the coworker, and he corrected me - he's NOT
- against "equal rights for gays", he says. So I ask "Do you think gay
- couples should be able to marry? Should gay couples be able to adopt
- children?" He answered, "Those are special rights, not equal rights."
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- -jen
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