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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:46:33 -0500
- From: Thomas Omar Smith <ts2a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: HEY!!!! COLO AMENDMENT 2 PASSED!! HELLO?
- In-Reply-To: <Nov17.064906.39598@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- References: <1992Nov5.165209.5960@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <BxFKHL.3M5@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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- Excerpts from netnews.alt.sex: 17-Nov-92 Re: HEY!!!! COLO AMENDMENT ..
- Christopher Nachand@CS.C (2685)
-
- > In article <BxFKHL.3M5@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl
- > Denninger) writes:
- > >In article <1992Nov5.165209.5960@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- > wilbanks@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wendell Gee) writes:
- > >>
- > >>Despite the fact that Amendment 2 makes "special rights" illegal, it also
- > >>made any law banning discrimination against homosexuals and bisexuals
- > >>unconstitutional. In effect, it's now legal to discriminate against them.
- > >Well, I WAS going to ski in Aspen this year.
- > >Now I will go to Utah instead. I also will not purchase ANY product or
- > >service from a company which is headquartered in Colorado, nor will I travel
- > >to or through the state.
- > >Colorado deserves to lose business on this one. Let's give it to 'em where
- > >it ought to hurt.
- > >Let those who are outraged by this response (and I hope many people join me
- > >in the boycott) and live in the state make damn sure that this measure is
- > >repealed pronto.
-
- > >Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
-
- > I couldn't agree more, and I live in Colorado, and saddly enough, am also
- > from the city and county that initiated the damn thing (Colo Springs and
- > El Paso, respectively). I have been involved in two rallies so far here
- > at the CSU campus against Amendment #2, and we are committed to making
- > Colorful, Hateful Colorado pay for this injustice. Here's what you can do
- > to help:
-
- > Write the Colorado Tourism Board, 1625 Broadway, Suite 1700,
- > Denver, CO 80202 and tell them you will not vacation in a state
- > that discriminates!
-
- > Boycott Colorado Springs!
-
- > Write to the Adolph Coors Company and tell them you are boycotting
- > Colorado products because of Amendment #2! Coor Corporate Office,
- > East of Golden, Golden, CO 80401 (this WILL get it there!)
-
- > Have friends and family write to the tourism board as well!
-
- > Call the Colorado Governor's complaint line 1-303-866-2471
-
- > MOST IMPORTANTLY: Write to President-Elect Bill Clinton and
- > urge him to get federal legislation that would outlaw discrimination
- > based on sexual preferance.
- > P.O. Box 615, Little Rock, AK 72203
- > 1-800-325-9992, FAX: 1-501-399-3798
-
- > Those of us hard at work with gay rights groups like the campus organization
- > "Straight But Not Narrow" thank you for all your support. Together, and with
- > added help from the rest of you, we can beat this thing and keep it from
- > happening again.
-
- > Feel free to e-mail me with your comments, support, suggestions, etc.
- > --
- > Christopher D. Nachand "A man doesn't automatically get my
- > Computer Science Department respect. He has to get down in the
- > Colorado State University dirt and beg for it."
- > nachand@mozart.cs.colostate.edu - Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts
-
-
- I'm just hoping these efforts are as successful as the NFLs efforts were
- in Arizona. They managed to piss off enough Arizona residents to cause
- a bill making MLK's birthday a state holiday, and then punished the
- state by moving the Superbowl from Arizona to that bastion of diversity
- and ggodwill, Los Angeles.
-
- The single best way to get people to galvanize is to threaten them.
- Give Coloradoans(sp?) a hard time, and a lot of them may back up #2 as a
- protest against outsiders trying to run their state.
-
- Tom the non hacker
- Kemp in 96!
- "If patriotism is the last refuge
- of scoundrels, Then environmentalism
- is the current refuge of totalitarians."
- Bob Jackson
-