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  1. Newsgroups: co.politics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!ucsu!ucsu.Colorado.EDU!fcrary
  3. From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
  4. Subject: Re: Anti-Gay Ordinance
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.051518.10598@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu
  8. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  9. References: <1992Nov18.190948.21039@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov18.202855.24255@ncar.ucar.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:15:18 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Nov18.202855.24255@ncar.ucar.edu> kauff@karnak.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman) writes:
  14. >Listen up Colorado!!
  15. >From the S.F. Chronicle 11/17/92
  16. >           JUDGE REVERSES CONCORD ANTI-GAY ORDINANCE
  17. >     Measure M is Declared Unconsitutional and Discriminatory
  18.  
  19. >Concord's controversial antihomosexual ordinance was 
  20. >overturned yesterday by a judge who ruled that it was unconstitutional
  21. >and discriminatory. Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Ellen
  22. >James* ruled that Measure M, an initiative narrowly approved by voters
  23. >a year ago, violated both state and federal law by attempting to remove
  24. >protections for homosexuals from Concord's human rights ordinance.
  25.  
  26. Does anyone have any details of the ruling or the ordinance? The rest of
  27. this post deals with the political (as opposed to legal) issues of
  28. the ordinance. It _seems_ Judge James applied "strict scrutiny" to 
  29. the law. It would be interesting to see if this was the case, and/or
  30. how similar the ordinance was to Amendment 2.
  31.  
  32.                                                  Frank Crary
  33.                                                  CU Boulder
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