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- From: altinbay@netcom.com (John Altinbay)
- Subject: Re: Stripped of Civil Rights?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.035353.7742@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan8.002158.9439@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:53:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.002158.9439@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek) writes:
- >Let's keep this in perspective, folks. Amendment 2 does not strip away
- >the conventional Civil Rights such as voting and due process. It does
- >remove the "right" to be considered a minority.
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- Yes, do let's keep it in perspective. Here's the amendment:
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- -- Neither the State of Colorado, through any of its branches or departments,
- -- nor any of its agencies, political subdivisions, municipalities, or school
- -- districts, shall enact, adopt or enforce any statute, regulation, ordinance
- -- or policy whereby homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, conduct,
- -- practices or relationships shall constitute or otherwise be the basis of,
- -- or entitle any person or class of persons to have or claim any minority
- -- status, quota preferences, protected status or claim of discrimination.
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- So we're saying that certain people cannot claim discrimination!
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- > Thus, this is sort of
- >"second order" discrimination. Other states such as Georgia practice
- >"first order" discrimination against gays and lesbians by making it
- >illegal to be gay or lesbian.
- >
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- We're not as bad as they are, so we're OK?
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- I don't follow.
- --
- John Altinbay - altinbay@netcom.com
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