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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
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Subject: Re: Dammit Dyer
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 17:06:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 17:06:36 1984
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Yoe are right about the Christian movement placing a bad rap on the
morals of the gay community.  And it has indeed been true that the
Christian Church has had a strong hand in the formation of the
'so-called morals' of the "western world".  Also, I will admit that
the evangelical movement of the "Christian right" seems to be making
some headway in the direction of reversing the advances made in the
last decade in the area of human rights.

That, unfortunately, does not make the "church" any more right for
denying us (and women, handicapped, blacks, children, Catholics,
Hindis) our rights to be human, sheltered, fed, employed, etc.

The real answer is that the habit some people have of attempting to
enforce their "moral" beliefs on other people must be stopped.  This
is not to say that murder, theft, etc. can suddenly be allowed, but
instead to say that depriving any person of the right to decide what
may be done to themselves and their property is wrong... whether
that deprevation occurs by murdering them or by depriving them of
the right to work or live under shelter or take the first empty seat
in the bus.

It is not is not the morals of gays that should be questioned, it is
the morals of those who oppose our right to work, to live where we
wish, to love whom we wish, and who call for different treatment of
people based on their gender or sex or colour that must be called
into question.

Richard Brower		Fortune Systems
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