----- Original Message -----
From: Monique Boea
To: CF-Community
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 4:28 AM
Subject: RE: Conversation Topic - Abortion
Larry, you guys are all of a sudden bringing up the race issue because you
now know that i am black.
The gay issue is not the same.
I can't hide my race. I was born black and frankly didn't ask to come here
to help build a country that my people still don't have equal access to.
We weren't even considered human beings in this country.
(Let's not go there, please)
A gay white man, steps out of his front door and no one may know he is gay
(unless he flaunts it of course).
He can go to an interview and no one will know he is gay. He can apply for
housing and no one will know he is gay.
I cannot hide the fact that I am black...this is not the same issue.
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 5:36 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Conversation Topic - Abortion
>I should have said anti same-sex marriage
>
Again it really depends on how you word the questions. If the pollster has
an agenda, then the poll invariably reflects their agenda (either pro or
anti). However when a neutral party does the poll and uses a neutrally
worded question, the percentages are about 65% in favour of gay marriage of
some sort.
Monique, are you in favour of restricting the civil rights of a group based
on a biological difference, be it colour or a genetic difference?
This is not a loaded question, this issue has been debated quite a few times
before on the list.
Do a search on what I've found about the physiological basis of
homosexuality. Briefly put when I did a PubMed search on the physiological
basis of homosexuality I found over 600 articles from peer reviewed
scientific journals that examined the issue. The vast majority (over 85% of
the articles) found very credible support to the hypothesis that
homosexuality has a physiological basis.
In other words a person cannot help being gay than you can help being a
woman or black.
Are you willing to deny equal protection under the law (which is guarenteed
by the Constitution) due to a physiological difference?
Think about it. Think about the implications of denying these individuals
their civil rights on the basis of this difference.
larry
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