November 1992
| Revision History | ||
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| Revision 1 | November 1992 | |
| The Alternative Orange. November 1992 Vol. 2 No. 2 (Syracuse University) | ||
| Revision 2 | September 10, 2000 | |
| DocBook XML (DocBk XML V3.1.3) from original. | ||
Colorado’s amendment 2, which lamentably passed by about 54% to 46%, after showing a 14% lag in the polls the day before, basically says the following: The state government, and all of its branches, subsidiaries, lil’ parts, etc, cannot protect homosexuals from discrimination. This is true even in cases of obvious/grievous cases. City and county governments count as parts of the state government, and therefore cannot extend protection on their own, even by popular vote of the people in that city/county. Naturally, all such laws that did exist, as in Boulder County (where the measure went down by an overwhelming 66% against to 33% for), Aspen, and Vail, are voided.
On the bright side, at least they voted for Clinton…Special thanks to NOW for carrying on the fight, even before EPOC could get its act together. I appreciate the thought. Sigh.
Achtung! Welcome to KKKolorful KKKolorado! Papers Please?
Oh yea, as an amendment to the constitution of the state of KKKolorado, amendment 2 cannot be declared unconstitutional. Only the Supreme Court of the US. can do that, and that is considered very unlikely.
Bri
Boulder, Colorado
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To the editor:
Colorado’s Amendment 2, which makes it illegal to pass any legislation in the state protecting gays & lesbians from harassment (or protecting their right not to be fired because of their identity), failed. Iowa’s ERA failed. Tampa repealed an ordinance protecting lesbians & gays from harassment.
This is a sad day. To all you Cretin straights out there who are going to reply about how lesbians & gays don’t need protection, think about this: every day, in every city, gays & lesbians are yelled at, beaten up and fired from their jobs - not because they’ve done anything to their attackers, but merely because they exist. They must hide their identities merely in the hopes of keeping their jobs - the only route to self-support & self-esteem in our capitalist society.
Since the campaigning for Oregon’s Prop. 9 - which would have given gays & lesbians the civil rights of, say, convicted child molesters - gay-bashing has risen by 30 percent. Last month a retarded gay man was attacked by skin heads on several occasions. A black lesbian moved in with him to protect him: Both were killed in a fire-bombing later the same week! If the proposition had passed, their murder would not be classified as a hate crime. Kinda like, the Nazi’s didn’t kill people because they were Jewish (or Gypsies, or Gay/Lesbian, or Socialist).
Happy that we’re finally out from under the Republican yoke; happy that Carol Mosely Braun won; happy that Prop. 9 didn’t pass (though only by a 10% margin).
Sad that Americans have sent a clear message that they don’t believe one should have the right love whomever one desires. (and not suffer injury, economic retribution or even death for that choice)
Mike
Atlanta, Georgia