Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mcnc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!bch 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 Article-I.D.: mcnc.2302 Posted: Thu Oct 18 01:19:38 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:23:14 EDT References: <570@pucc-i> <629@ubc-vision.CDN>Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service Lines: 26 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.) -- Byron C. Howes {decvax|akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch