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- From: pack@acd.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman)
- Subject: Local vs Federal laws, was: interesting thought (ammendment 2)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.182821.16331@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Summary: I feel strongly both ways
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- Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research - Atmospheric Chemistry Div
- References: <By112u.7Bo@fc.sde.hp.com> <1992Nov20.200959.23319@col.hp.com> <1992Nov21.182604.12898@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:28:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.182604.12898@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.200959.23319@col.hp.com>
- > kary@col.hp.com (Dan Kary) writes:
- >...
- >>I've always thought that local civil rights ordinances are a bad idea because
- >
- >I'd have to disagree completely.
- >...
- >The residents of Colorado Springs don't want anti-discrimination laws
- >based on sexual preference, and the residents of Boulder do. Local
- >laws seem to me the best solution: Niether is subject to outside laws,
- >that the local people object to.
-
- The idea of local values has been the center of pornography laws for some
- years and, I suppose, makes some sense. What is common activity on
- Hollywood Blvd doesn't seem appropriate in other communities.
-
- At another extreme, just a few short years ago it was not uncommon to
- see blacks lynched in some parts of this country. The outrageous lack
- of basic justice on a local level is what makes federal civil rights
- laws a necessity.
-
- Amendment #2 is somewhere in the middle ground, but
- here we are talking about broad discrimination based upon a state
- of mind (sexual orientation), not even a behaviour. I think there is
- national consensus that such discrimination based on such arbitrary and
- general criteria is unconstitutional. We shall see as the
- legal battle unfolds
-
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