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- From: mackd@Sol34.essex.ac.uk (Mack D P)
- Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
- Subject: Re: Lesbian/Gay Rights and the Cognitive Science Meeting
- Message-ID: <7650@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 16:06:53 GMT
- References: <2111@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1993Jan20.141351.12127@cc.gatech.edu> <16B5CA3FB.JHARTLEY@cmsa.gmr.com>
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- In article <16B5CA3FB.JHARTLEY@cmsa.gmr.com> JHARTLEY@cmsa.gmr.com writes:
- >I guess democracy is okay unless it doesn't meet your selfish goals.
- >Just like the people of Arizona who voted not to have another holiday
- >only to find sanctimonious PCers attribute racism to them, the people of
- >Colorado are now getting pummeled by the likes of Michael Cox. Never
- >mind that many people voted this way because they didn't want to see a
- >quota system based on sexual preference
-
- I hate to butt in on a US politics debate, but from my admittedly
- distant viewpoint, it appears that no matter what their reasons for
- voting that way, what the people of Colorado were actually doing is
- voting for a law which denies people the right to claim they were
- being discriminated against solely on grounds of sexual orientation.
- This means the law will effectively support those who choose to
- discriminate unfairly against people who sometimes prefer to have
- same-sex sexual relations. Surely Michael Cox is just trying to point
- this out to them, and persuade them to get the law changed once more
- so it is fairer to all parties.
-
- Daniel
-