From: as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tree of Schnopia)
Subject: Re: New Study Out On Gay Percentage
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In <Apr.20.10.27.01.1993.9195@romulus.rutgers.edu> kaldis@romulus.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) writes:

>In article <15436@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:

>> [Some chump at Brandeis:]

>>> I mean, how many people actually CARE how many people are gay (as long
>>> as you know how to find/avoid them if you want to)?  I don't.

>> If you don't care, why was so much effort put into promoting the
>> 10% lie?  Because it was important to scare politicians into
>> obedience.

>I wouldn't worry too much about it, though.  We are starting to find
>out how politically impotent homosexuals really are.  The Colorado
>boycott has fizzled, Slick Willie was effectively prevented from
>implementing his military policy wrt homosexuals by members of his
>_OWN_ party, this new study casts a large shadow of doubt on their
>claims of large numbers, and coming this Saturday they are going to
>wind up with _TREMENDOUS_ egg on their face when, I submit, no more
>than perhaps 35,000 queers will show up in Washington while they are
>promising crowds in the millions.  And most of the ones who will be
>there will look like ACT-UP and Queer Nation, not the guy working in
>the next cubicle.  As if that's really going to play in middle
>America.

Sigh.  You're absolutely right.  We have no political power whatsoever. 
Therefore, we should be oppressed and ignored and denigrated, right?  I
certainly hope you don't have an SO, sir, because if she heard how
disparaging you are towards political minorities, and if she had any shred
of self-respect, she'd be out the door.


>Pretty soon they will find themselves retreating back into the closet
>where they belong.

Don't count on it, sweetheart.

>-- 
>  The views expressed herein are   |  Theodore A. Kaldis
>  my own only.  Do you seriously   |  kaldis@remus.rutgers.edu
>  believe that a major university  |  {...}!rutgers!remus.rutgers.edu!kaldis
>  as this would hold such views??? |
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Certainly not.  Most major universities wouldn't touch views that display
the brainpower and the perspective of a mayfly with a ten-foot pole.

Drewcifer

P.S.  Incidentally, I think even mayflies could come up with more
enlightenment than the above bullshit.  Evolve a bit, will you?
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