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- From: chuck@mtechca.maintech.com
- Newsgroups: co.general,rec.skiing,rec.travel
- Subject: Re: Amendment 2 Yet Again (was Re: Colorado Ski Report)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.215803.374@mtechca.maintech.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 21:58:03 PST
- References: <1993Jan5.195532.10202@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1icqmpINN88t@hpfcbig.sde.hp.com> <1993Jan6.001301.2093@tigger.jvnc.net>
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- In article <1993Jan6.001301.2093@tigger.jvnc.net>, Ops Mgr <ENS@tigger.jvnc.net> writes:
- > mjs@fc.hp.com (Marc Sabatella) writes:
- >>>>> "Colorado, Where else would you want to ski?"
- >
- >>>>Someplace that didn't have a constitutional amendment stripping gays,
- >>>>lesbians, and bisexuals of their civil rights?
- >
- >>> Or how about a place where its not acceptable to grant special
- >>>treatment and priviledges to certain groups of individuals.
- >
- >>I'm not aware of any such place. Every single state, county, and municipality
- >>in the US that I know of has laws on the books protecting some groups from
- >>discrimination.
- >
- > (Its just this kind of overly broad, completely unsubstantiable generalization
- > that can make one look really foolish...)
- >
- >>Usually, the laws protect on the basis of race and/or gender;
- >>often, religious beliefs and marital status; occasionally, sexual orientation.
- >>Colorado is the only state in the history of the Union ever to explicitly
- >>single out a group of citizens and constitutionally forbid them from obtaining
- >>any civil rights protections.
- >
- > Well isn't it about time that a state has finally decided that no one
- > group of individuals should be granted more favourable treatment over
- > any other.
- >
- > You seem really screwed up with this, how can any state pass a law that
- > forbids people "from obtaining any civil rights protections"?
- >
- > Completely preposterous.
- >
- >>Amendment 2 Is Legalized Discrimination - Shame On You, Colorado
- >
- > "Hooray for Colorado". Ski elsewhere then... and quit whining.
-
- >>> Amen!....How can any state in today's economy be ignorant enough to
- >>> let the self-focused interest of the increasing multitude of so called
- >>> "minorities" or special interest groups drive it's long term business
- >>> climate into the dirt....much like today's California...due to the
- >>> endless rules imposed to "protect" (in their own small minds), each
- >>> group who typically want something for nothing. Thank you Colorado
- >>> for saying enough is enough and forcing people to compete on the basis
- >>> of qualification and not unrealistic "protectionism". Anyone who can't
- >>> stand on their own two feet without several "special" laws.....stay the
- >>> hell out of Colorado!!!
- -- chuck
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- | Chuck G. |
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