Re: A way to do a huge Ada promotion

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Peter Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> wrote:
> On 2014-05-27 09:16, Bill Findlay wrote:
> 
>> On http://portonvictor.org  you offer these links:
>> 
>>> My math blog
>>> My software/programming blog
>>> My religious blog
>> 
>> The third directly leads to a page containing this:
>> 
>> "Homosexuality is certainly a sin or a pathology."
>> 
>> Attitudes like this are a mortal danger to millions around the world,
>> subject to the risks of oppression, lynching and even judicial murder.
>>  
>> By fostering such attitudes you help to increase that risk.
>> 
>> I will not accept your using comp.lang.ada for that purpose.
> 
> I actually don't think the original poster was using comp.lang.ada to
> promote his views about homosexuality. The original post was on topic
> for this group and it only included a link, in the signature of the
> message, to the poster's home page. It is normal for personal home pages
> to include a wide range of information about the page's author. In this
> case the material on Porton's religious and political views was
> separated from the material on software (as far as I could see).
> 
> While I disagree with Porton's attitude about homosexuality I don't
> think it's reasonable to say that he's using comp.lang.ada to push that
> attitude.
> 
> It would be different if the URL in question was an Ada vendor URL or
> was highlighted in the post, or if the material on homosexuality was
> included on his Ada pages or mentioned in the original posting. None of
> that was true, however. He just happens to be a homophobic guy who uses
> Ada. I'm sure he's not the only one.

He is the only one who uses c.l.a for his bigotry.

-- 
Bill Findlay