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- From: wallsj@CS.ColoState.EDU (jeffrey joel walls)
- Subject: Re: Colorado Amendment 2: The First Fatalit
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:21:19 GMT
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- The following article appeared in the FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN newspaper
- 11/16/92 and will be partly reproduced without permission:
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- GAY ACTIVISTS WEIGH COLORADO BOYCOTT
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- by the Los Angeles Times
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- LOS ANGELES -- Gay and Lesbian activists from around the country ended
- a three-day conference here Sunday unsure of whether to call for a
- national boycott of Colorado to protest the state's recent approval
- of an anti-gay referendum.
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- "At this point, we are neither condemming nor condoning a boycott of
- Colorado," said Bruce Pfrommer of Colorado, one of more than 1,100
- activists who attended the fifth annual Creating Change conference
- over the weekend. "We want to be real careful about what we're doing
- here...There's a lot of concern that we don't rush into a call for
- a boycott," Pfrommer said.
-
- Cheif among those concerns is fear that a boycott would hurt businesses
- and communities that opposed Colorado's Amendment 2, a constitutional
- amendment that rescinds gay-rights ordinances in Denver, Boulder, and
- Aspen and prevents state or local governments from passing any such
- protections in the future. ...
-
- "Why do you punish Aspen, which did not vote yes?" wondered Pfrommer.
- "How do you draw the line on this?"
-
- Thought you all would like to read that.
-
- jeff
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