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- From: pae@blackcat.stortek.com (Phil Earnhardt)
- Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.042627.13084@stortek.com>
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- References: <1992Nov13.145920.16839@tc.cornell.edu> <Nov15.215505.16307@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Nov15.235608.22978@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:26:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.235608.22978@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
- >jeffrey joel walls writes:
- >#In article <1992Nov13.145920.16839@tc.cornell.edu> shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
-
- >#> Hate is not a family value. Boycott Colorado
- >#This really pisses me off! Right now in Colorado (and you obviously don't
- >#live here, so what do you care?) the governor is trying to find a way to
- >#have the amendment declared unconstitutional.
- >
- >And the sooner the governor (or someone) gets the law declared
- >unconstitional, the sooner any boycott would end.
-
- Are you implying some sort of causal relationshiop between this boycott
- and the speed at which the lawsuit gets handled? Interesting.
-
- Within 10 days after the election, the city governments of Boulder, Aspen, and
- Denver, along with many individuals, filed suit to declare the law
- unconstitutional. In my book, this was pretty darn fast for governments to get
- into gear on this action. I would be mortified if it were actually possible to
- influence our Judicial system with coercive economic means.
-
- By the way, the amendment has not yet been signed in to law. Why has the
- boycott already started? Presumably, the boycotters intend to show that their
- efforts are actually making a difference. Shouldn't they strive to correlate
- the boycott with the time frame when the amendment is *actually* Colorado law?
-
- >#I personally voted NO on Amendment 2, and
- >#I am not gay, I simply feel that discrimination is wrong (and I'm from
- >#Mississippi if that matters to you, which I doubt it will), and that is
- >#why I am so pissed off about this big "Boycott Colorado" campaign.
- >
- >Whether you like it or not, the actions of your neighbors reflect upon
- >you. If your neighbors do dumb things (like pass unconstitutional
- >laws) then you suffer. That's life.
-
- An interesting point of view. Can you give us some history about how you
- adopted it? In other words, have you had to suffer in the past with boycotts
- because neighbors around you did dumb things?
-
- How is it that you know that a boycott will make any difference whatsoever
- here?
-
- >-Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia
-
- You're welcome to do whatever you do, Greg. It's just that there are probably
- a lot more effective things to do than Boycott Colorado.
-
- --phil
- pae@blackcat.stortek.com
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