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- From: smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 01:31:58 GMT
- Organization: Colorado Springs IT Center
- Lines: 43
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- aberson@enh.nist.gov writes:
- >
- > Then why are you preaching to the choir?
-
- Because so many members of the chior seem determined to let the whole
- thing degenerate into the battle of wills it has become, while the
- real issue gets lost, and people become turned off to the whole deal
- and want no part of it. Kinda like me and punctuation..:-).
-
- The rest of that monster paragraph explains why.
-
- > The amendment passed because
- > a powerful group of religious fundamentalists wants to control the thoughts
- > and actions of the entire nation. As part of their agenda, they used a lot
- > of misinformation to disguise their bigotry and hatred, and a majority
- > of the voters of Colorado were not smart enough to realize what was going
- > on and voted away the civil rights of a large portion of the citizens of
- > your state. It's that simple. We all understand it. It seems that the
- > people you need to preach to are the people of Colorado, not the people of
- > soc.motss.
-
- I also tell this to the people I know here. As for the people here, some of
- them manage to take what I've said and twist it to say that *I* think
- gays want to have quotas. A co-worker here saw one of the articles,
- and just shook his head. People are getting so turned off by the attitudes,
- that they are losing sight of 'doing the right thing'. Which is really too
- bad, 'cause the whole deal is likely to get killed for being unconstitutional.
- Hopefully, anyways. And what will be left is the memory of the boycott
- and all the 'hate' rhetoric (which is patently absurd) that went along
- with it. And all this rhetoric before the thing has even become law yet.
-
- > Nothing you say will get people to buy any product from the State of
- > Colorado they do not wish to buy, or to visit when they do not wish to
- > do so.
-
- And nothing other people say or do is going to change the way people by
- resorting to coercive acts; the best it can do is change surface actions,
- and harden deeper resentments, which will end up finding ugly ways to
- show itself. And who is going to be helped by that, except those who
- *want* to see division?
-
- Walter
-
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