RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] State's rights vs Federal responsibility

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I had postponed this one accidentally:


On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Jerry Gamblin wrote:

> "Most people believed that?  How do you know?  You claim to be an expert 
> on so many things, yet you are wrong again and again.  It seems that you 
> are incorrect in this instance.  Here is a press release from the 
> Journal of the American Medical Association:
>
> http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/rmnews/1999/msg00006.html";
>
> You want to do some fact checking Mike?

OK.  Sure, go ahead...


> A) That survey was from 1991, 8 years before the incident we are talking 
> about.

OK.  And your point is?  You have no data, but you seem to be arguing that 
the definition of sex changed during the 8 years between 1991 and 1999. 
We have data on 1991 and it contradicts your guess work.


> B) That survey only took into consideration a very small population 
> group. Probably the most liberal of all population groups when it comes 
> to sex and margin of yes to no votes was 6 to 4.

Are you saying that more conservative people would define sex more 
broadly?  Do you have some data on that?


> Also this quote is a big one:
>
> The authors write: "The virtually universal endorsement of 
> penile-vaginal intercourse as having 'had sex' in contrast with the 
> diverse opinions for other behaviors highlights the primacy of 
> penile-vaginal intercourse in American definitions of having 'had sex.'"

And what does it tell us?

Mike
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