vision2020
Re: free enterprise
Hello Mr. Tom Hansen,
You said:
> I did not (in any fashion) intend to suggest that homophobes are racist.
Well it sure seemed that way to me when you said in the email I responded to..
You said:
> Your phobia of the homosexual community is no different than the fear that
> a large white population in Los Angeles had toward blacks in the sixties.
So that was what triggered my previous response. So, now back to my self-imposed
time-out.
Cheers!
John Harrell
--- thansen@moscow.com wrote:
> 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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