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Re: free enterprise

Visionaires -

Just for your own edification, my analogy of homophobes to racists was only to 
suggest that their (homophobes and racists) hates/fears are similar in that 
they are focused toward a particular segment of society without getting to know 
that particular segment.  I did not (in any fashion) intend to suggest that 
homophobes are racist.

With that said, I shall take my time out.

Take care,

Tom Hansen
Moscow

> <html>
> Dear visionaries,<br><br>
> Carl Westburg is quite right. I forgot to sign my post. I was bad. Can I
> still come to your restaurant?<br><br>
> In response to Ted Moffett, I fully understand that the current legal
> situation makes a distinction between speech and restaurant management. I
> want to know why. How come? By what standard? What is so magical about
> speech? Why is the First Amendment misunderstood and then absolutized?
> Why is the Tenth Amendment ignored? Give me an argument, not a court
> decision. I know about the court decisions, because the court decisions
> are causing the problem I am resisting. If behavioral patterns have the
> same protections on someone else's private property as does race, then
> where do we stop? Remember the basic question, which is <i>by what
> standard? </i>Do I have to serve neo-Nazis? homosexuals? heterosexuals?
> Congressmen? quilters? kleptomaniacs? smokers? Masons? barefoot
> teenagers? topless women? men with Tourette's syndrome?
> tree-huggers?<br><br>
> Melynda Huskey asks for us to remember to be as civil as we can be in our
> exchanges -- which I am certainly happy to do. Remember, my use of
> "jerk" was applied to the hypothetical racist, the one that
> some folks on this list like to assume resides a millimeter beneath my
> argument. So please remember that civility includes refusing to rush to
> the facile equation (for progressives) of theological conservatism with
> hate speech, racism, and so on.<br><br>
> Cordially,<br><br>
> Douglas Wilson<br>
> </html>
> 


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