tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post114686806745675665..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1146894773145936092006-05-06T00:52:00.000-05:002006-05-06T00:52:00.000-05:00Lesbians have the lowest incidence of STDs of any sexually active population, including married heterosexuals. By Mr. Mangan's "logic", lesbians ought to be eligible for higher rights status than Mr. Mangan (presuming that he is hetersexual and male).<BR/><BR/>Of course, this ignores that rights are rights and not privileges and that civil rights protections are not the rights themselves but a way of assuring that those who have been denied them in the past and may well still be in peril of that have the means necessary to secure them -- in other words, get a leg back up to the playing field off from which they've been knocked and a reasonable assurance that it will remain a level one.<BR/><BR/>The special rights argument at its core frames being subject to discrimination as a privileged, desirable state, a very strange notion, indeed.Marla R. Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17302849430351280361noreply@blogger.com