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- From: freedman@cs.colostate.edu (keith freedman)
- Subject: Re: Don't boycott all of Colorado
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <Nov23.023035.1362@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:30:35 GMT
- Reply-To: freedman@cs.colostate.edu
- References: <1992Nov22.001635.11596@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- In article 11596@ucsu.Colorado.EDU, fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
- >In article <Nov21.191046.83801@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> freedman@cs.colostate.edu writes:
- >>>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.
- >
- regardless of how difficult it would be to win, they would have been able to at
- least have their case heard. Now, it is illegal to listen!
- ---
- Keith Freedman
- Colorado State University
- Department of Computer Science
- Systems Administration
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