Path: casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!hood.cc.rochester.edu!ub!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!inkblot.med.cornell.edu!mac101868.med.cornell.edu!user From: bkstoja@med.cornell.edu (Borislav Stojanov) Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria,soc.motss Subject: Re: Bulgarians/Homophobia Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:14:35 -0400 Organization: CUMC Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <4ipk43$dae@netnews.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac101868.med.cornell.edu Xref: u.gp.cs.cmu.edu soc.culture.bulgaria:29054 soc.motss:367496 In article <4ipk43$dae@netnews.upenn.edu>, izvorski@babel.ling.upenn.edu (Roumyana Izvorski) wrote: +In article <4io15h$3e1o@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, 20 Mar 1996, Ivan Marinov +wrote: + +> Homosexualism is just a sickness, like cancer or aids. ... + +How did you reach this conclusion? + +> Homosexuals must be discriminated, + +Even if it were a sickness (which is certainly not the opinion shared by +many), how on earth does it follow that homosexuals have to be +discriminated against? Surely, you would not advocate discrimination +against people with cancer or AIDS. + +>beacuse some of this people are trying to impose their their own sickness +>over the entire world. (It's just like a person with aids virus who wants +>to contaminate other persons.) Society must be able to defend itself. + +In what way are homosexuals trying to impose anything on the rest of +society? In the way you are using the name of our Nation for designating something that if not hated is at least not advocated by the great majority of that nation. Your attidude proves you deserve to be discriminated against. Homosexuality can't be imposed on anybody. Just as it can't +be "cured" (to use your term), it can't be "transmitted". No one can be +made gay or lesbian, unless he or she already is. + +And a final point, what if you also decide that Gypsies, Blacks, Jewish +people, etc. are also sick? Then what, would it also be necessary to +discriminate against them? As I said earlier, homophobia is just another +form of hatred of the different. Stop comparing oranges and apples. If you are realy concerned about minorities, you should leave our name alone. -- Borislav Stojanov