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- Subject: Colorado Boycott
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- Press Release - Boycott Colorado
-
-
- Contacts: For Immediate Release
- Robert Briggs-Daniels 8:00 a.m.
- 399-6015
- Terry Schleder November 19, 1992
- 377-0160
-
- PRESS RELEASE
-
- BOYCOTT COLORADO has been created as a direct response to the passage of
- Amendment 2 to the Colorado State Constitution.
-
- The passage of Amendment 2 to the Constitution of the State of Colorado
- has made second class citizens of the gay, lesbian and bisexual persons
- in this state. This class of citizens is deprived of equal protection
- under the law and of the judicial and legislative means to correct the
- injustice and address the discrimination made legal in the state.
-
- Persons who are made powerless before the law are justified to utilize
- whatever peaceful means are available to them to respond to the
- injustice adn to express their outrage and resolution to see the
- injustice corrected.
-
- In calling for a boycott of the State of Colorado, we are using the
- power of our dollars to express our outrage and concern and to deny the
- State of Colorado tax dollars to enforce this Amendment and to forestall
- the perpetration of this evil on other citizens of this nation in the
- name of presumptuous and misguided "morality".
-
- We are calling upon all the citizens of the United States and of the
- world to boycott Colorado as a destination for business or recreational
- purposes and to boycott all products originating in the State of
- Colorado.
-
- We call for the citizens of Colorado to selectively boycott businesses
- and organizations which practice discrimination and are not hate-free in
- their hiring and promotional policies.
-
- We realize fully that this call for a boycott will have an impact not
- only on those who support bigotry, prejudice and discrimination, but
- also on those who oppose it. We hope that our friends will understand
- that we are in a major civil rights crisis which jeopardizes not only
- the rights of gay, lesbian and bisexual citizens, but the civil rights
- of all the citizens of this nation. We join with them in the spirit of
- shared sacrifice in the hope that this crisis can be soon resolved and
- we can move forward to reconciliation and the creation of a beloved
- community.
-
- Using the courage and resolve of Rose Parks and the brave citizens of
- Montgomery, Alabama as our models, we resolve that, so long as the
- lesbian, gay and bisexual citizens of Colorado are relegated to the back
- of the bus and are denied equal protection in this state, we refuse to
- ride the bus!
-
- BOYCOTT COLORADO
- P. O. Box 300158
- Denver, Colorado 80203-0158
-