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- From: rstorey@teal.csn.org (Ronnie Storey-Ewaldt)
- Subject: ALA & COLORADO
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:00:05 GMT
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- While I'm delighted to hear the support for some future defeat of
- Amendment #2 in Colorado, it's very interesting being 1) a Colorado
- resident who 2) worked hard for months to raise money, phone voters, etc.
- to defeat #2 in the first place, and now 3) hears blanket criticism of
- Colorado.
-
- Please keep in mind, if you come to Colorado for ALA or other business or
- for pleasure:
-
- ***Aspen, Boulder and Denver have/had gay rights protection in place--
- the majority of the residents of those towns are pretty horrified right
- now that laws they passed will be overturned. The restaurant or hotel
- whose employees or owners you smugly taunt may BE gay, may well have been
- among the majority who voted those protections into law in the first place,
- may well be people who voted AGAINST amendment #2 this month. Please
- keep in mind that not every Coloradan is supportive of #2.
-
- ***Many top officials worked to defeat #2, appeared publicly on election
- night to commiserate, and currently are doing a lot of work to have it
- overturned--these people include, but are not limited to--Gov. Roy Romer,
- Mayor Wellington Webb (Denver), mayors of Boulder and Aspen, Rep. Pat
- Schroeder (who faxed Clinton on election night re: 14th Amendment and
- appending gay rights protection to federal civil rights act), and several
- clergy people.
-
- ***the bastion of conservatism is Colorado Springs--and before you have at
- it freely, I live here, as do many other politically-minded and politically-
- active men and women, gay and straight, who dared to put stickers and
- posters on our cars and lawns.
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- Guess I'm just saying that it's always been easy for me, from the outside,
- to criticize "Arizona" or "Utah" but now I'm walking in some different shoes
- and I hope you all will take a moment to realize that a lot of us are
- recovering from the shock of election night, mobilizing statewide, and
- hoping that you from outside Colorado will look at people as individuals,
- not as an undifferentiated group who supported such an atrocious amendment.
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- We'd like to keep all the support we've got and add more, not alienate people.
-
- Ronnie Storey
- rstorey@csn.org
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