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  2. Newsgroups: boulder.general,co.politics
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!boulder!csn!ncar!isis.cgd.ucar.edu!gary
  4. From: gary@isis.cgd.ucar.edu (Gary Strand)
  5. Subject: Re: Amendment 2 (was: What happened to all the refe)
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov8.180631.1250@ncar.ucar.edu>
  7. Followup-To: co.politics
  8. Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu (USENET Maintenance)
  9. Organization: Climate and Global Dynamics Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
  10. References: <1992Nov5.170930.9420@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Nov5.185146.20109@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Nov8.000536.22702@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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  12. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:06:31 GMT
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  15. [followups to co.politics]
  16.  
  17. tc> Timonthy Cuffell
  18. sc> Shawn Copeland
  19.  
  20. sc> This means that it is unconstitutional in the state of colorado to provide
  21.     state-wide or local protection against discrimination. [...]
  22.  
  23. tc> Great.
  24. tc> Are you gay?
  25. tc> Yes.
  26. tc> You're fired.
  27.  
  28.   Or, if companies/others protecting themselves from claims of discrimination
  29.   (usually by statistical means), enact quotas:
  30.  
  31.   Employer:  "Are you gay?"
  32.   Applicant: "Yes."
  33.   Employer:  "You're hired, because we need 3 more."
  34.  
  35. --
  36. Gary Strand                      Opinions stated herein are mine alone and are
  37. strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu            not representative of NCAR, UCAR, or the NSF
  38.