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LAST Wednesday, a Kinko's employee refused to make copies of a flier for the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM), saying he resented the organization's position against homosexuality...
...Kinko's incident is more complex, because it is not just an issue of printing an idea, but whether someone must help print an idea he finds objectionable. In photocopying, an organization's right to disseminate its opinions conflicts with an individual employee's right to not participate in that dissemination. The individual's principled refusal to assist, in turn, hinders the organization's expression of its ideas...
...continues, "We encourage Kinko's to continue in its support of its employees' decisions of conscience...
...this context, however, the Kinko's employee should not be considered an individual: He is, for all practical purposes, a robot of the organization...
...were also protesting AALARM's hypocrisy in that the group was protesting what it perceived as Kinko's discrimination against gay, lesbian and bisexual people. We recognize that as a group of mostly white males who identify themselves as straight, AALARM does not have much experience in recognizing institutionalized discrimination. Take it from a group of people who are old hands at being discriminated against--this wasn't it. Thomas B. Watson '91 Chair of an ad hoc committee of Defeat Homophobia