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Homosexuals Angry at ConocoPhillips
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| 2/11/03
| Terry Phillips
Posted on 02/12/2003 12:20:21 AM PST by ppaul
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To: ppaul
Why shouldn't homosexuals be free from discrimination?
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posted on
02/14/2003 11:08:25 AM PST
by
c0rbin
To: c0rbin
They are - unless they want to parade their perversion in public.
Then they ought to be discriminated against.
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posted on
02/14/2003 11:16:20 AM PST
by
ppaul
To: ppaul
"parade their perversion in public."
Do you consider marriage or hand-holding "parading"?
43
posted on
02/14/2003 11:29:55 AM PST
by
c0rbin
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To: ppaul
Um, the story is that the news article that started this whole discussion is out of date, since the police change has been amended and the company's non-discrimination policy now does cover sexual orientation.
(note: sexual orientation applies not just to homosexuals and bisexuals, but also to heterosexuals).
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posted on
02/14/2003 4:50:51 PM PST
by
Dimensio
To: c0rbin
Do you consider marriage or hand-holding "parading"? If you mean "marriage" of two men, or two men holding hands and cavorting like a teenage boy and girl in love, yes.
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posted on
02/15/2003 8:21:59 AM PST
by
ppaul
To: ppaul
"If you mean "marriage" of two men, or two men holding hands and cavorting like a teenage boy and girl in love, yes." Other than your tastes, what's wrong with that?
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posted on
02/15/2003 8:26:34 AM PST
by
c0rbin
To: c0rbin
Other than your tastes, what's wrong with that?Everything.
Are one of these fellas you?
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posted on
02/15/2003 11:47:07 AM PST
by
ppaul
To: ppaul
"Everything.
Are one of these fellas you?" Everything includes you, you know. Can you be a little more specific, or do you rage blindly?
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posted on
02/15/2003 2:55:43 PM PST
by
c0rbin
To: Dimensio
(note: sexual orientation applies not just to homosexuals and bisexuals, but also to heterosexuals). That's like saying the seatbelt in your family car could be used for your dog.
To: ppaul
I am waiting. And gosh, there are so many jokes about misguided rage and homosexuality that I could be dropping on you, but I am trying to be intelligent about this.
What exactly is wrong with homosexuality?
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posted on
02/16/2003 6:13:56 AM PST
by
c0rbin
To: Dimensio
The irony is (was) that ConocoPhilips, and Archie in particular, has a reputation in the oil patch of being the most "PC" or "progressive" or "enlightened" of the major oil companies. If environmentalists can have a favorite oil company, it is likely to be ConocoPhilips.
To: Samurai_Jack
so are you saying that people *should* be harassed and discriminated against soley because they may be homosexual?
To: ppaul
...still waiting on reasons why you think homosexuality is wrong...
Can you articulate your own thoughts, or only copy and paste articles?
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posted on
02/17/2003 7:05:02 AM PST
by
c0rbin
To: VOA
For myself, I just oppose this sort of policy because of (at least the appearance) that a certain group gets something approaching "more than equal" rights. This falls under the libertarian approach as enunciated by Larry Elder... if a company wants to be foolish enough to discriminate against a group and lose their business (and talents)...that's the company's (usually foolish) decision... we don't need an army of bureaucrats to make this sort of market force do it's job.
The thing is, if the company is going to have a non-discirminate policy, then it is not "more than equal" rights for anyone to NOT be discriminated by the company - be it for religious believe, race, ethnicity, or gender, and in this case, sexual orientation. The policy just says everybody is equally NOT to be discriminate by the company.
Or take the libertarian approach you described, a company can discriminate against anyone for any reason and let the market sort them out.
But to make a policy that only selectively allow discrimination of say "sexual orientation" is not either.
To: McNoggin
Ah so you've set the story straight. er, "correct". You've set the story correct.
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posted on
02/17/2003 12:22:46 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
To: Old Professer
No, it's more like saying that laws against racial discrimination also protects whites. Though I'd expect more real anti-white bias than I would anti-heterosexual, many people don't consider either angle of anti-discrimination laws (hence the false claim that homosexuals are being given "special rights" as a result of those laws).
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posted on
02/18/2003 11:36:12 PM PST
by
Dimensio
To: Dimensio
No, it's more like saying that laws against racial discrimination also protects whites. Now, I should trade absurdities?
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