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Special Class Protections for Self-Alleged Gays: A
Question of "Orientation" and Consequences
A public policy analysis
by Tony Marco
Copyright Tony Marco, 1991-1994, all rights
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"Denying Special Status to Gays Threatens the Rights of
All"
Cursory analysis makes clear the absurdity of this "old chestnut," long
a favorite of political liberals and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Denying a murderer the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness in no way threatens the rights of law-abiding persons -- even
a condemned murderer's closest relatives, so long as they're innocent.
Plainly, if society jails murderers, it won't also imprison people for
not murdering. If we hold that every person's rights
are threatened every time a wrongdoer is punished, we'll have to give up
prosecuting crime and vice altogether! And again, gay special interests
are not really seeking "rights" but special status and
advantages for which they do not, as we have seen, qualify.
Institutionalizing civil rights fraud protects no one's civil rights.
And surely, no one's civil rights are threatened when a civil rights
fraud is prevented; rather, true special civil rights are
protected by ensuring that "civil rights" atrocities
like "gay rights" do not gain force of law. As John N. Franklin, past
Chairman of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, has said, "... I do
not believe that either current special class protections given
disadvantaged minorities or basic Civil Rights protections enjoyed by
all Americans will be threatened if gays are not granted special
protected class status in the foreseeable future."
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