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- From: zstewart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zhahai Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Amendment 2 Yet Again (was Re: Colorado Ski Report)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.004831.10561@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 00:48:31 GMT
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- >>that argument.
- >
- >See, this is the rub. Its the final three or four words at the end of 2
- >that have me objecting to it. Which is really too bad, IMHO. Minus
- >the part about not being able to seek recourse for discrimination, I thought
- >it was okay. It just says that Colorado refuses to grant anybody special or
- >privileged status. With it however, is another story....
-
- I understand your point, but as a friendly clarification, Ballot Issue #2
- didn't say that CO refuses to grant "anybody" special or privileged status.
- It singled out "homosexuals, lesbians, and bisexuals" only, for restrictions.
- As you correctly note, it prohibits homosexuals from being protected by even
- non-class-oriented non-discrimination policies, but it did not limit
- heterosexuals from having non-discrimination protection, or indeed even special
- rights and privileges. Which they do, in regard to marriage.
-
- #2 could have said "no special privileges to anybody based on sexual
- orientation". Instead it said "no special privileges nor even-handed
- non-discrimination for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals". This was not an
- oversight; the sponsors were heavily anti-gay, not pro-equal treatment,
- despite their shallow pretenses. This is NOT true of most of the folks who
- voted for it; many genuinely thought it was an equal rights amendment which
- only trimmed off "special rights". That was a deception.
-
-