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- From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
- Subject: Re: Don't boycott all of Colorado
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.001635.11596@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1992Nov20.201707.24047@col.hp.com> <Nov21.191046.83801@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:16:35 GMT
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- In article <Nov21.191046.83801@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> freedman@cs.colostate.edu writes:
- >>Colorado Springs, El Paso County and the State of Colorado have no laws
- >>or ordinances specifically protecting homosexuals. No law that affects
- >>Perkins Chrysler Plymouth in Colorado Springs was affected by amendment 2.
-
- >If there were no laws specifically protection homosexuals in the State of
- >Colorado, why did you want to pass a law that in your words "removes special
- >protection." Apparently, according to you, there wasn't any to begin with.
-
- There were no such laws in Colorado Springs. There were such laws in
- Boulder, Denver and Aspen.
-
- >>If it was illegal for Will Perkins to fire an employee for being homosexual
- >>before amendment 2 passed why is it now legal? I just don't see anything
- >>in the amendment that changes what Perkins (or any employer or landlord, etc.)
- >>can do.
-
- >prior to the ammendment, if he were to fire an employee based upon sexual
- >orientation, the employee would have had a valid legal claim of descrimination.
-
- And, without any specific laws to support the claim, an almost impossible
- job of willing such a suit.
-
- Frank Crary
- CU Boulder
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