-=> Lee Lofaso wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-   
      
   Hiya Lee...   
      
    TR>> Hypocrisy at it's finest.   
      
    LL>> An agenda.  Everybody has an agenda.  I have an agenda.  They   
    LL>> have an agenda.  Everybody else has an agenda, too.  The difference   
    LL>> between me and others is that my agenda is not a hidden agenda.   
    LL>> The question is, what is it those with hidden agendas are hiding,   
    LL>> or trying to hide?   
      
    BM> I have no agenda.   
      
    LL> Oh, come now.  You don't really believe that, do you?   
    LL> Getting through the day is an agenda in and of itself.   
    LL> How you do it is up to you.  For total invalids, it   
    LL> is up to others.  But it is most definitely an agenda.   
      
   Why do you take my words out of context.  I stated I had no agenda towards   
   Richardson, now you make it a lesson in life.  Play the game with   
   Richardson....    
      
    BM> What Richarson failed to comprehend is I had no issue with him being gay   
    LL> if   
    BM> he was.  I stated it was his choice and his alone.   
      
    LL> What does it matter what the sexual orientation of   
    LL> an individual might or might not be?  How is that relevant   
    LL> to the discussion at hand?   
      
    BM> His agenda is to take other's words, twist them to meet his   
    BM> narrow-mindedness so he feels superior.  I've coined it the "Don Quixote   
    BM> Syndrome". He stated above I am good for that. Good for what?   
      
    LL> Perhaps Don Quixote should have been tilting at millers   
    LL> rather than windmills?  And what about his assistant, Sancho   
    LL> Panza?  Would he have been better off staying behind?   
      
   A question we'll never know the answer to will we?   
      
    BM> In that I believe each person should live their life as they see fit as   
    LL> long   
    BM> as it's not hurting another?   
      
    LL> It is our nature to judge others.  That is not a bad   
    LL> thing, but rather a good thing.  By what standard should   
    LL> we judge others, and wish others to judge us?  That is   
    LL> what we should be asking ourselves, not deluding ourselves   
    LL> with the false concept of pretending to be masters of our   
    LL> own fate.   
      
   I never said it was bad.  As you stated, we all judge but the key at what level   
   do we take that judgement. Richardson has taken it to a level where he's judge,   
   jury and executioner... and personally speaking, not a very good one but he has   
   that right.    
      
   [snip]   
      
    LL>                    -=begin excerpt=-   
      
    LL> "And who succeeds in tilting at windmills," answered Murrel.   
      
    LL>                    -=end excerpt=-   
      
   [end snip}   
      
    LL> [from "The Return of Don Quixote", by G.K. Chesterton]   
      
   Why is it you always go off on a tangent with something you think is important   
   in a discussion? You, as well as Richardson, know exactly why I used that   
   reference.  Try working up a discussion when talking ab out Cervantes' version.   
      
      
    BM> Last I saw that was Constitutionally proected.   
      
    LL> Since when?  Allowing others to do as they please as long   
    LL> as they do not harm others?  People harm others all the time,   
    LL> in various ways.  And it is all legal, fully protected by   
    LL> the law.  We even sanction murder, in our name, calling it   
    LL> "justice", and pay a doctor who has sworn to "do no harm"   
    LL> to inject the victim with a deadly poison ...   
      
   The right to be gay and the right to same sex marriage?  Why should you ask   
   such a  question?    
      
   With regard to your statement, It takes a nominal effort on one's part to   
   understand if it is indeed harmful to another. Laws have been structured to   
   help allieviate this burden on society.   
      
   With regard to your "injection", I agree, there should be no capitol   
   punishment.  Why should anyone be put in that situation where they must live   
   with the fact they MAY have killed another human being.    
      
       
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   Bill   
      
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