Re: the next wedge issue

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In a message dated 11/19/03 11:34:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
jbujes@xxxxxxxxx writes:
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?

Here is the crux of the issue. I of course believe it is presented poorly as
a question of feelings, when we are talking about power and domination.

Homosexuality in America is not debated as an abstract question of consenting
adults freely choosing to enter into the sexual relations of their choice.
Nor, is this how the question or rather, issue arose in history. We are talking
about domination and subjugation.

The American peoples understand this clearly.

Why does nayone think this is a "wedge issue?"

I abhor homosexuality - not as an abstract issue of feeling good, but because
of the question of power and domination, which arose on the basis of the
Women Question.

The fight of course is within the working class. One must acquire a sense of
what people are talking about as a representative to understand the essence of
social and political questions.

The so-called Gay Liberation Movement - which was not a social movement, was
always reactionary and today is indisputable reactionary. This is not because
of consenting adults entering into sexual relations of their choice. Produce
the current literatiure of the Gay Liberation Movement and examine its content.

Different strokes for different folks.

My example on benefit rights was meant to inform one of the political
dynamics of politics.

All the rights I have as proletariat are those won in class combat with
bourgeois property. The issue was never consenting sex between adults and to
present it as such is sinning against reality.

Here is a simple question. Why were homosexual partners granted benefits
rights in major union and non union companies not granted to heterosexual couples?
Why?

The issue is politics and the reason this is called the "wedge issue."

No one can put their penis where it feels good. This is a horrible
formulation.

Melvin P.