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- From: kauff@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Brian Kauffman)
- Subject: Re: Amendment 2 Yet Again (was Re: Colorado Ski Report)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.163841.2135@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: NCAR, Boulder CO
- References: <1993Jan6.004158.408@hpcvca.cv.hp.com> <1993Jan6.142814.28485@linus.mitre.org> <1993Jan8.004831.10561@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:38:41 GMT
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- > = zstewart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zhahai Stewart) writes:
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- >#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.
-
- This is obvious once one has
- 1) read the amendment and
- 2) acquired a cursory understanding of the sponsors
-
- None-the-less, it seems extremely rare that a newspaper article on the subject,
- even Denver & Boulder papers, fails to offer the synopsis that A2
- "prevents special privileges to anybody based on sexual orientation".
- Seems CFV has successfully packaged the amendment for the general public.
-
- -Brian
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