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- From: smorine@nyx.cs.du.edu (Suzanne Morine)
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- Subject: Re: Amendment 2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.182550.25932@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:25:50 GMT
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- woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov16.215706.13236@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smorine@nyx.cs.du.edu (Suzanne Morine) writes:
- >>The problem is that legalizing it sends a message of approval, especially
- >>since it was legalized by a popular vote. Anti-gay people can feel more
- >>comfortable "dissing" gays now - even out in the open. This isn't just from
- >>a lessened fear of jail/fines; they know the majority has no problem with
- >>what they're doing.
-
- >While I can believe some people might believe that "the majority has no
- >problem", I am not sure this is really true. I don't think homophobes
- >passed Amendment 2. I think it was mostly people who were deluded into
- >thinking that voting NO on 2 would automatically grant special privileges
- >to homosexuals. They thought that by voting YES they were voting against
- >special privileges when in fact they were voting for legalized discrimination.
-
- The thing that convinces me that people have no problem with
- discrimination against gay people is the TV commercials. People saw
- TV commercials (including one with CFV's Kevin Tebedo himself) focus on
- how Amendment 2 would make it legal to dismiss someone from their job
- simply because they're gay. And the anti-2 signs said that 2 is
- discrimination.
-
- People should have checked out these claims, simply as a matter of
- course in deciding how to vote. I hope it's reasonable to assume
- they did. And the amendment was one of the shortest ones to read
- of the ballot initiatives.
-
- I'm sure anti-gay bias kept some people holding their eyes and ears
- tightly shut to anything the "No on 2" people said/did, but even there
- you have it: anti-gay bias.
-
- --
- --Suzanne Morine smorine@nyx.cs.du.edu
- --"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort
- --of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle." Helen Keller
- --
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