rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) (10/30/84)
The following is a blatant attempt to influence how you vote on November
6th. It's addressed to all voters who think they may vote for Reagan,
but especially to closet Republicans, [Ll]ibertarians, and gay people.
(The views expressed herein are my own, & not those of my employer.)
PART FIVE
[Following is from Matthew Stadler's "National News" page in NYNative,
p. 7, 9/10-23/84]
The homophobia of the Reagan administration issues from more than
just its collective goals, its individual appointees, & the militant
homophobes with whom it's intimately allied politically: it comes
from Reagan himself. A recent example of this is a written state-
ment Reagan gave to the publishers of PRESIDENTIAL BIBLICAL SCORE-
CARD & published there in August.
Reagan's statement read:
"Society has always regarded marital love as a sacred expression of
the bond between a man & a woman. It is the means by which families
are created & society itself is extended into the future. In the
Judaeo-Christian tradition it is the means by which husband & wife
participate with God in the creation of a new human life. It is for
these reasons, among others, that our society has always sought to
protect this unique relationship. In part the erosion of these
values has given way to a celebration of forms of expression most
reject. We will resist the efforts of some to obtain government
endorsement of homosexuality." [from NYNative, 9/10-23/84, quoting
NYTimes, 8/18/84]
The SCOREBOARD followed the text of Reagan's speech "with a 3-page
article detailing their objections to gay rights, among which were
the supposed `facts' that the average gay has had more than 500
sexual partners (usually anonymous), that most gays admit to rimming
before the age of 20, & that 37% of gays engage in sado-masochism.
Attributing its information to Alert Citizens of Texas, SOCREBOARD
claimed that, at bathhouses, gays usually have sex with at least
10 & sometimes up to 30 partners a night--anonymous, of course--
& that, although only 4% of the total population of the US is either
gay or bisexual, gays make up a sizable percentage of venereal dis-
ease cases: 72% of AIDS; 35% for hepatitis; 51% of throat gonor-
rheas; & 53% of intestinal infections. According to the SCOREBOARD,
AIDS in children is caused by close contact with homosexuals." [quoted
from NYNative, 9/10-23/84]
Can gay apologists for Reagan continue to claim that he is not person-
ally bigoted when he voluntarily issues statements like those above to
organizations as virulently bigoted & unscrupulous (the "data" about
homosexuality offered would be hilarious were it not part of a serious
& well-financed propaganda effort to create & direct violent hatred
against gays as a group) as PRESIDENTIAL BIBLICAL SCORECARD [sic.] ??
Reagan has repeatedly associated not only his administration but him-
self with such groups, attending their prayer breakfasts & other events,
inviting their leaders to the White House, involving them in his cam-
paigns, etc.
But this shouldn't really come as a surprise. Paul Laxalt, senator
from Nevada & close & trusted Reagan aide, who (I believe) is chair-
man of Reagan's reelection committee, & who played a prominent role
in Reagan's 1980 campaign, has for some time now advocated the DEATH
PENALTY for homosexuality. (Laxalt is currently under investigation
for alleged multilple connections to organized crime.)
NEXT: REAGAN & AIDS
Cheers,
Ron Rizzo
"Why, dahling! The Left is what's left over, the Right is what's
wrong, & the Middle-Of-The-Road is no place for a lady."
-- Electra Collage, Miss Ballot-box of 1947
Washington, AC/DCjhull@spp2.UUCP (11/07/84)
> > The following is a blatant attempt to influence how you vote on November > 6th. It's addressed to all voters who think they may vote for Reagan, > but especially to closet Republicans, [Ll]ibertarians, and gay people. > (The views expressed herein are my own, & not those of my employer.) > > Can gay apologists for Reagan continue to claim that he is not person- > ally bigoted when he voluntarily issues statements like those above to > organizations as virulently bigoted & unscrupulous (the "data" about > homosexuality offered would be hilarious were it not part of a serious > & well-financed propaganda effort to create & direct violent hatred > against gays as a group) as PRESIDENTIAL BIBLICAL SCORECARD [sic.] ?? > > Cheers, > Ron Rizzo > Is it possible that there are extremists who support Walter Mondale? Naw! I'm sorry I even suggested it. (:-) -- Blecsed Be, jhull@spp2.UUCP Jeff Hull trwspp!spp2!jhull@trwrb.UUCP 13817 Yukon Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250