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- From: snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss,pnw.motss
- Subject: Re: 1991 anti-gay measure ruled unconstitutional
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.170835.20292@lclark.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:08:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Nov17.170835.20292
- References: <1992Nov17.134659.12749@lclark.edu> <1992Nov17.155754.29639@osf.org>
- Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
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- In article <1992Nov17.155754.29639@osf.org> coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.134659.12749@lclark.edu>, snodgras@lclark.edu
- >(Bil Snodgrass) quotes an article about the Concord, CA
- >anti-gay-rights ordinance being overturned, with mention of the
- >similar overturning of a 1988 Oregon law.
- >
- >Both of these are mentioned as encouraging indicators for the case
- >against Colorado's Amendment 2.
- >
- >This is very nice, and I'm very glad these two laws were overturned.
- >But I'm not sure I'd get too excited about the connection with
- >Colorado. I haven't seen enough details to be sure, but I would
- >suspect that these two cases found the laws in question to be in
- >conflict with their respective state constitutions. The Colorado
- >amendment is *part* of the state constitution. To overturn it, I
- >believe, would require finding it in conflict with the *Federal*
- >constitution, so it's not clear that we have any useful precedents
- >yet.
-
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- Yeah, from what I have heard about the Colorado amendment it does
- take a U.S. Supreme Court decision....
-
- I don't think the reporter knew much about Co. 2.
-
- You are also right about the two overturned cases being based on
- each states own constitution....
-
-
- Bil
-