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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.motss
Subject: Re: Gay Rights
Message-ID: <2302@mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 01:19:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 01:19:38 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:23:14 EDT
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Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
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Summary: 

In article  brunson@usfbobo.UUCP (David Brunson) writes:
 
>We are talking about homosexuals.  NOT Jews, NOT socialists, and NOT
>people who eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  There are STILL
>sodomy laws on the books in most civilized states (talking about the U.S.).
>What we are talking about is a proposed radical shift in U.S. public
>policy.  It is currently NOT illegal to discriminate against homosexuals.
 
Whoa!  Homosexuality does not constitute prima facie evidence for sodomy
nor is sodomy a practice restricted to gays.  Granted that specific forms
of sexual behavior may be against the law and that you have the right to
discriminate against those who break the law, it is incumbent upon *you*
to prove the violation.  Innocence without proof of guilt is a right that
everyone enjoys, fortunately, though it appears you would like to change
that.

(You would be amazed at the sexual practices that are against the law in
North Carolina -- as a monogamous happily married person I regularly violate
state statutes.  Fortunately only Jesse Helms is interested in prosecuting
these sorts of things.)
 

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						Byron C. Howes
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