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- From: mjs@fc.hp.com (Marc Sabatella)
- Subject: Re: Amendment 2
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:03:30 GMT
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- Suzanne Morine (smorine@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- :
- : 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.
-
- For the record, I personally never saw any pro-2 ad on TV, nor did I ever hear
- any on the radio. In saw only one "Yes On 2" sign in Fort Collins (not that I
- went around looking). On the other hand, I saw and heard plenty of "No" ads.
- The only pro-2 material I ever saw was in the "Letters To The Editor" section
- of the newspaper - mostly people just repeating the contents of the pamphlet
- Van whatshisname has been quoting from of late - the bullsh*t about the
- qualifications for special protection, the church in Minneapolis or wherever,
- and Paul Cameron's bizarre claims that gays are 17 times more likely to die in
- traffic accidents. That, and the brochures Paul passed out while speaking at
- a local church. Meanwhile, "No" literature seemed ubiquitous to me.
-
- Based on this limited data, I'd say most of the pro-2 vote came from people
- who already belonged to the groups the CFV targeted (ie, fundamentalist
- churches) and their main source of "information" was direct from CFV (after
- passing through Cameron's distortion filter).
-
- --
- Marc Sabatella
- marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com
- --
- Amendment 2 Is Legalized Discrimination - Shame On You, Colorado
- --
- "Neither the State of Colorado ... nor any of its municipalities ... shall ...
- enforce any ... ordinance ... whereby homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual
- orientation ... shall ... be the basis of ... any ... claim of discrimination"
- --
- All opinions expressed herein are my personal ones
- and do not necessarily reflect those of HP or anyone else.
-