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To: craig crawford who wrote (11218)	4/28/2002 4:40:28 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 21057

Oopsie. You've just made a teensy weensy mistake in calling Steve ignorant. I'm going to don my spatter guard now and watch from the peanut gallery.

To: craig crawford who wrote (11218)	4/28/2002 6:42:36 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21057

humans are not qualified to exercise judgement with regards to homosexuality? but we somehow are qualified to exercise judgement in all other walks of life? The issue is not whether we are qualified to exercise judgment, but whether we are qualified to judge what is "right" and "wrong" in cases where our rights are not affected. You can judge all you want for your own part. That doesn't mean that you are qualified to impose your judgments on others who judge differently. If you judge that homosexuality is "wrong" for you, you are certainly qualified to do so. You are not qualified to make that judgement for anybody else. We do not have an objective, mutually agreed standard for what is "right" and what is "wrong", making such judgments an exercise in pissing into the wind. We do have a list of rights that we have agreed shall not be infringed upon, by Government or by others, and we base our laws on that standard, not on anybody's ideas of "rightness" or "wrongness". We don't ban murder because it's "wrong". We ban it because it infringes upon the right to life, which is protected by law. If you can demonstrate that homosexual behaviour infringes upon your rights, you have cause for complaint. If not, it's none of your business. Personally I think it's kind of gross, and it's not something I'd want to try myself, but private sexual behaviour between consenting adults is nobody's business but that of the adults concerned.