brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower) (09/25/84)
>>The specific objection (as I have very *clearly* stated before) >>is to legislation of a "Civil Rights" flavor that would protect >>homosexuals in the same way that racial minorities are protected. >>Even more specifically: hiring/enrollment/membership quotas. >>The concept of "sexual preference" as minority identification is >>completely bogus and should not be afforded the same status as >>*real* minority identification. >> >>A person *is* black. A person *is* hispanic, and so on. A person >>*is not* homosexual. Homosexuality is an emotional/spiritual disease >>which a person can be cured from. As such, *people* should not be >>*forced* to agree that those practicing homosexuality should be accorded >>the same non-discriminatory treatment as members of legitimate *racial* >>minorities. I disagree with you. The largest group of people in this country who deal with medical and mental health disagree with your contention that homosexuality is a disease of any sort. I was born and/or developed into what I am, and am suffering from no dis-ease. I also do not wish to be treated as a member of a minority (racial, sexual, or any other catagory). I DO wish to be treated as a human being and as a citizen of these United States of America, with the same rights that are posessed by other human beings and citizens. >>If you do not agree that homosexuality is a disease then you *must* >>agree that it is possible for a person to practice homosexuality >>and then to renounce it (sort of like smoking cigarettes :-)). This >>is a very different thing from *being* black, hispanic, or whatever. >>Again, homosexuality is *behavior*; NOT a state of being. Employers >>who find this sort of behavior objectionable should be free to treat >>it as objectionable behavior. If I bring my sexuality to the job and attempt to seduce coworkers or cause some sort of disturbance, I should be fired, probabally. If, as is the case, I do my job, don't disturb others here, and am generally clean and presentable; what I do and with whom, in my off hours, is no cause for my employeer to do anything. >>What about other "oppressed groups": >>murderers, thieves, drug addicts, atheists. Your lumping together groups of people who harm others with people who do not harm others is unjustifyable. The inclution of atheists in the above list is ludicrous and is a demonstration of your lack of any intelligence whatsoever. >>Don't you want to be freed from this nightmare? Yes Lord, free me from this nightmare of believing that there are people who are such assholes. Richard Brower Fortune Systems {ihnp4,ucbvax!amd,hpda,sri-unix,harpo}!fortune!brower