Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Arndt on minorities "paying dues" Message-ID: <1113@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Sep-84 19:45:25 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.1113 Posted: Fri Sep 14 19:45:25 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 01:37:38 EDT References: <3501@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 25 > But then don't try to say to the "straight" world, "Hey, look we're ok and > should be accepted as a minority with protected rights"! > You refuse to do what other minorities have done to be accepted - go through > an extended period of defense and dialog with those who did not accept them. Mr. Arndt seems to think that minorities have to "pay dues" in order to gain rights. That, since blacks, Jews, etc. have gone "through an extended period of defense and dialog with those who did not accept them", homosexuals (and any other "up and coming" minority that might wish to be accepted as human beings) must do so in order to "be accepted as a minority with protected rights"... ... when in fact, the real purpose behind fighting for the rights of any minority is (hopefully) to ensure that NO minority need ever have to FIGHT for rights that they should have simply because they are human beings!!!! > Maybe the term sissy is right after all if > you can't take a little debate that includes some jibes. I'd hesitate to call Ken's writing style "debate". Perhaps it is better described as "a few jibes that include an (albeit feeble) attempt at debate". Maybe the terms I've heard describing Ken are right after all... -- AT THE TONE PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NET ADDRESS. THANK YOU. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr