Jon Rowe

Jon Rowe

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13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - “The (Gay) A-Listâ€... · 0 replies · +2 points

Atlas: Would you rather have non-disguisting homosexuality in the news. Sometime tells me you prefer your homosexuality disguisting.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Which Minority Most Re... · 1 reply · +1 points

Well the Civil Rights act of '64 applied not just to "race" and "gender" but also "color," "ethnic origin" (like being Irish, Italian) and "RELIGION." Subsequent federal legislation added in "pregnancy," "age" and "disability."

Re the 14th Am. if you want to go by "original intent," arguably the framers and ratifiers did not INTEND to outlaw segregation in public schools or bans on interracial marriages. But I'll wait for you to respond, "those things (what was struck down in Brown and Loving) like sodomy laws, are very stupid and should be repealed by legislatures, but they are not unconstitutional."

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Which Minority Most Re... · 0 replies · +1 points

LOL.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Which Minority Most Re... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think the author would note, for instance, "age" is a bona fide antidiscrimination category and is as different from "race" as is "sexual orientation." It's not immutable (it's the only one of the antidiscrimination categories that is in a constant state of change!). And older folks tend to be wealthier. Interestingly, it's also the one category where the supposedly "non-marginalized" majority doesn't get equally protected in principle. If you are white and a male you get, or at least the plain text of the statutes read as though you get protected under "race" and "gender." Yet, the text of the ADEA only protects folks 40 or older.

Yet who is making a stink about the ADEA and how older people aren't "blacks" and therefore shouldn't receive "civil rights" protection?

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Which Minority Most Re... · 3 replies · +1 points

The idea of "civil rights" is complex. We don't live in a world civil rights = protection against racial discrimination only. And it was not designed that way from the start (if by the start, we mean the Civil Rights Act of 64). At the Federal level, it also includes such things as gender, age, disability. Most ordinary things like handedness or hair color are not on the antidiscrimination list because there hasn't been much of a history of singling out left handed folks or red heads.

And at the state level, many more. In fact "sexual orientation" receives antidiscrimination protection in about half of the states.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Which Minority Most Re... · 3 replies · +1 points

NJ Patriot,

"The only possible civil right that homosexuals don’t share is the right to marriage. They already have all other civil rights just like everyone else.

"If you’re not ready to argue that marriage is a civil right, then there’s nothing to argue about in that context."

Not true at all. Marriage is but one issue of many in the sexual orientation, the law, & society controversy. There is also antidiscrimination, hate crimes, the military, sodomy laws. Personally I'm happy that the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas. But some social conservatives are not. But then again, I'm a libertarian, not a conservative and I suspect "Seneca" is too.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Christian Radical Jose... · 2 replies · +2 points

The overwhelming majority of homosexuals don't have AIDS and for the one's who do, live saving meds have turned it into a chronic, not a fatal disease.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Christian Radical Jose... · 5 replies · +2 points

"Telling homosexuals their conduct is unacceptable may seem like hate to you, but to a Christian it is hateful to allow them to perish and enter hell."

You can continue to tell homosexuals that their "lifestyle" will send them to Hell; however we can't build American politics around this notion. Mormons and Trinity deniers (like David Kupelian) likewise go to Hell because of their "choices." On this premise Christendom used to burn them (I know Mormons weren't around then) for freely speaking their mind and practicing their faith.

"It is also hateful to let them continue a lifestyle that shortens their life."

There are no credible statistics that show homosexuality shortens your life.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Christian Radical Jose... · 0 replies · +3 points

The US also had a pagan and an Enlightenment Founding. The Founders, for instance, idolized a man as a hero -- Cato the Younger -- who did the very UNCHRISTIAN thing of committing suicide as a matter of principle.

The Founding is far more complex than those of you wish.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Christian Radical Jose... · 1 reply · +2 points

"The American God must be real. Otherwise we have lost our inaleinable right to life... and our basis for constraining government."

Maybe the problem is America itself. "Nature's God' arguable is not the God of the Bible, but rather the God of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Ben Franklin, the men who wrote the DOI.