Re: rumor control

["Doug Jones" <credenda@moscow.com>]

Oh geez Tom,

I'm the other Doug,  but I have to say that your reply really didn't
grasp Wilson's argument at all. It's like talking to certain Muslims.
Everything has to fit in your tight little grid or you don't get it.
Read, man, before you type. 

Doug Jones




> -----Original Message-----
> From: thansen@moscow.com [mailto:thansen@moscow.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:42 PM
> To: Douglas; vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: rumor control
> 
> Visionaires -
> 
> Doug Wilson stated:
> 
> > But what are we to
> > do about topless women wandering in off public property of Main
Street
> > into privately owned establishments?
> 
> This argument does not hold water.  How many topless women have you
seen on
> Main Street prior to enactment of 2002-13?
> 
> > So if I owned a restaurant and a homosexual couple came in, I would
not
> > ask them if they were homosexual. But if they began behaving in such
a
> > way as to demand my explicit or implicit approval of their
lifestyle,
> > which my silence would provide them, would I ask them to leave? You
bet I
> > would.
> 
> And here we have Mr. Wilson forcing his moral standards on all those
around him
> feeling personally threatened as a gay couple enter his establishment
holding
> hands.
> 
> FYI, Mr. Wilson, civil courts are flooded with litigation concerning
prejudice
> based on race, gender, sexual orientation, age, etc. etc.
> 
> You're right, Mr. Wilson.  We can clean up the entire court system by
saying
> that a business that sells a good or service publicly can deny an
individual on
> any grounds he wants.  I say "he" because in the world you define,
women
> probably don't own businesses.
> 
> Time to dust off those old 1950's southern signs of "Whites Only" and
"Colored
> Only".  While we are at it, let's get the hammer and plywood out and
make a new
> sign:  "Homosexuals Only".
> 
> Until then . . .
> 
> Take care of yourselves and each other,
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow,
> Idaho
> 
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