Re: the next wedge issue

[ravi <gadfly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

joanna bujes wrote:
> Melvin wrote:
>
>>Personally, I abhor homosexuality and feel no compulsion whatsoever to
>>explain why I think a man penis should be place in a women and not another man. I am
>>not required to explain my ideology.
>
> Actually, there is no such thing as "a man's penis," right? I mean
> there's your penis, which you have the right to decide where to place.
> And then there's other men and their penises, and I guess the question
> is, do you feel that they have the same right as you -- to put it where
> it feels best?
>
> <other stuff snipped>
>

joanna, i commend you on your rational and measured response. i am not
sure melvin deserves such consideration.


>
>>The fight for homosexual rights - rights based on same sex between the same
>>sex, has never been a "progressive issue."
>
> Well, historically, it has been insomuch as it is also a right to
> privacy - a right to leave the state out of your bedroom.
>

how does history matter in this sense (i.e., when it is used to justify
the present)? and who gets to define what is a 'progressive issue' w/o
aid of appeal to the bigotry of the left past?

        --ravi