At 11:46 AM 9/16/00 -0400, Jodi Hoffman wrote:
>In 1972 (the year before the APA unilaterally decided
>homosexuality was "no longer an illness") the Gay Rights Platform was
>drawn up at the convention of the National Coalition of Gay Organizers.
> It was officially set forth at the Gay Pride March on Washington, D.C.
>on April 25, 1993 and has been reinforced every year since.
>
> By the way, a couple more of the demands:
>
> 1) Demand that contraceptives and abortion services be made
> available to all persons, regardless of age (what the
> hell does that matter to homosexuals???);
>
i'm opposed to all government-funded health care;but, if we ARE stuck with
it, it ought to be for all, and, of course, no PRIVATE company should be
forced to discriminate on the basis of age.
> 2) Full inclusion of lesbians, homosexual men, bisexuals
> and transgenders in education of children and child
> care;
>
Seems reasonable to me. Why not? A heterosexual is as likely to be a child
molestor as anyone else.
> 3) Legalization of all forms of sexual expression,
> including pedophilia, changing age of consent laws to
> allow sex with children;
>
They're already down to 14 in Bible belt states like Arkansas...
> 4) demand that Federal Defense budget funds be diverted to
> cover AIDS patients' medical expenses...
>
> The 1998 Federal Budget included $4.746 *BILLION* for AIDS
>funding. That was a $465 million increase over the 1997 Budget, which
>is more funding than all forms of cancer combined. Current Federal
>Money (your tax dollars and mine) spent per death:
>
> AIDS/HIV: $39,172.00
> Diabetes: $ 5,449.00
> Cancer: $ 3,776.00
> Heart Disease: $ 1,056.00
> Stroke: $ 765.00
>
> What's wrong with this picture? You don't get cancer by engaging
>in promiscuous sex. Funding should not be based on sexual behaviors.
>
Government shouldn't be funding medical care at all. However, deciding what
to fund on the basis of some moral judgement is folly. Cancer, diabetes,
and strokes *ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS*;AIDS is. That makes it far more of a
'public' health threat, and thus, by the logic of 'public health care', the
most likely target.
Besides -- you get strokes from eating hamburgers, cancer from smoking, and
adult-onset diabetes from too much chocalte and not enough exercise. All of
these are sins (Gluttony, laziness, etc) in the Christian morality as well
-- shouldn't we be "punishing" those sinners as well as gay people?
