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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:31:09 -0500
- From: Michael Witbrock <mjw+@cs.cmu.edu>
- Subject: NZ national (conservative) party to sponsor law queer rights law
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- Excerpts from netnews.soc.culture.new-zealand: 16-Nov-92 NZ news to 14
- Nov Alan C. Operations@csc.c (8779)
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- > Bid to outlaw sexual barrier
- > A move to ban discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation
- > will be sponsored by an Associate Minister of Health, Mrs
- > O'Regan, and include a no-escape clause for the police. The
- > move confirms speculation that the Government caucus was not
- > prepared to include these grounds in its pending human rights
- > legislation. Instead, it has sectioned off the controversial
- > issues into a private member's initiative. Mrs O'Regan's move,
- > which will succeed, fail, or be amended on a conscience vote in
- > Parliament, has the support of the Minister of Health, Mr
- > Upton, the Associate Minister of Health, Mr Williamson and the
- > Minister of Women's Affairs, Mrs Shipley. Mrs O'Regan will be
- > basing her argument on health grounds.
- > "The fear of discrimination in employment and housing has
- > stopped some homosexual and bisexual men from seeking medical
- > advice and tests that can determine their health status," she
- > said. "In doing so they put themselves and others at risk."
- > Her proposal, which will not exempt the police or armed
- > forces, which have both opposed allowing homosexuals in their
- > ranks, is likely to be among the most sharply contested in
- > Parliament. The Minister of Police, Mr Banks, has been a
- > vociferous critic of change.
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