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- From: mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik)
- Subject: Re: Potential fallout from lifting the US military ban (was Re: Into the streets!)
- Message-ID: <C1Ivx3.A59@panix.com>
- Organization: (getting there)
- References: <RHAYDEN.93Jan25141553@hqsun2.oracle.com> <1993Jan26.181703.19147@spdcc.com> <1993Jan26.221051.7439@reed.edu> <1993Jan27.033014.8348@spdcc.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:15:03 GMT
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- Nelson Minar:
- >>That's just hot air. It won't happen. Seriously, think about it - a
- >>Democratically controlled congress passing a law that is in direct
- >>conflict with the executive order of a Democratic president, about an
- >>issue of civil rights? Even if it did pass, they could never get the
- >>2/3 needed to override a veto.
- Bob Donahue:
- > This is an untried Congress, and Senators have to answer to
- >their constituents.
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- Marty pointed out this morning, with more than a touch of
- bitterness, how peculiar it is that abortion rights, which polls
- reported as hugely favored by the voters, could be taken away by the
- legislature in spite of public opinion. It really depends a whole
- lot on what their constituents tell them really matters. That's us,
- gang. I've seen the phone numbers often enough today that I won't
- post them again.
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- For the record, I'd like to think of the abortion rights issue as
- having been won, but I think I learned better over the last
- 20 years.
-
- (just for future reference)
- >When it starts to be in your back yard or close to reality
- >people pull away. I'll bet a lot of the CO:2 vote was a
- >swing vote from people who faced with virutal homosexuals
- >have no problem, but with "real" homosexuals aren't too sure.
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- Mara [who wonders if "virutal" homosexuals includes her]
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- Mara Chibnik
- mara@panix.com Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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