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- From: kary@col.hp.com (Dan Kary)
- Subject: Re: interesting thought (ammendment 2)
- Sender: news@col.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.200959.23319@col.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:09:59 GMT
- References: <By112u.7Bo@fc.sde.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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- > The
- > limits in the first amendment say, essentially, "the government cannot harass
- > you". The limits in 2 say, "the government cannot prevent others from
- > harassing you". There is a world of difference.
- >
- > Marc Sabatella
-
- Thanks, that's an important difference I hadn't thought of myself. One
- question I still wonder about has not been addressed anywhere I have seen.
- I live in Colorado Springs and you (aparently) live in or around Fort Collins.
- Neither of these communities, nor the county or State they are in have ever
- ever had any kind of gay rights ordinance or law. Has it always been legal
- to discriminate against homosexuals in these communities? If not, why is
- it now legal to discriminate?
-
- I think it would have been illegal to discriminate against homosexuals before
- amendment 2, based on the US Constitution, Amendments and case law. I think
- that is still the case. Amendment 2 just removes city, county and state govt.
- from legislating/enforcing these issues.
-
- I've always thought that local civil rights ordinances are a bad idea because
- I feel that local government and what they have that passes for a "judiciary"
- is not competent to judge anything more important than traffic violations.
- I don't want a local civil rights commission or panel or a municipal judge
- making civil rights decisions. Those matters are simply too important to
- be placed in the hands of amateurs. I very strongly prefer that civil rights
- issues be the domain of federal laws and courts. I see no need for local
- interpretation of civil rights, civil rights need to be the same everywhere
- and there is no need for local variances.
-
- Dan Kary
- kary@col.hp.com
-
- --
- "And that, my leige, is how we know the earth to be banana shaped."
-