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- From: woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
- Subject: Re: Amendment 2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.211334.2255@claven.ucar.edu>
- Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
- References: <1992Nov16.215706.13236@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov17.162624.19269@claven.ucar.edu> <1992Nov20.182550.25932@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:13:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.182550.25932@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smorine@nyx.cs.du.edu (Suzanne Morine) writes:
- >People should have checked out these claims, simply as a matter of
- >course in deciding how to vote.
-
- You're right, they should have.
-
- >I hope it's reasonable to assume they did.
-
- Unfortunately, I'm not sure it is. There are an awful lot of people who
- thought that voting for #2 meant removing special privileges that gays
- had (which of course they didn't).
-
- >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.
-
- I would not claim that there is absolutely no anti-gay bias. Of course
- there is. The mere existence of groups like CFV is proof enough of that.
- My point is only that I don't think that Amendment 2 was largely passed
- by people who wanted to put gays back in the closet. It was passed by
- people who thought they were voting against special privileges for gays.
-
- --Greg
-