The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Oct. 26, 1998 |
| After reading the letter to the editor from Deborah Hall "Too many rights may be dangerous" [Oct. 21], I had to scratch my head, clean my classes and read it a second time before I was convinced it really was in print. Next, I checked the calendar and yep, it is 1998. AIDS and HIV infection are not transmitted by casual contact. If gays who serve food were transmitting the virus, there would have been an epidemic of new infections of "innocent" restaurant patrons over the last 15 years.
We know a lot about this disease and how it is spread (if you don’t, you haven’t been reading the newspaper for the past decade and a half). And "gay" does not equal HIV or AIDS. Ms. Hall writes "One law that should be enforced immediately is one that would bar all gays from the food industry." Maybe next she’d like to bar gays from |
eating in restaurants. We could even isolate gays on a plot of ground with barbed wire around it and call it a concentration camp?
It’s a slippery slope, folks. With attitudes out there like Ms. Hall’s, it amazes me that many Cincinnatians still don’t understand that gays need protection (not special rights) which Issue 3 denies them.
Dan Benz, Oakley
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