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- From: smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Private antidiscrimination policies in CO (was Re: Attention...)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 20:27:51 GMT
- Organization: Colorado Springs IT Center
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <1hvl47INNb8c@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- References: <1992Dec31.195431.29600@spdcc.com>
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-
- (Does this mean we're going to give calm discussion another chance,
- and stop flaming each other, or do you still want me to get out
- of your group?)
-
- rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
- > smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- > >(not to bait anyone..) Did these places have laws that allowed this? If
- > >they did, why wasn't there any boycott movement against these states?
- > >What has been done to fix those situations?
- > >
- >
- > We're still trying to get anti-discrimination in those states.
- > While you're right in saying that they aren't bastions of equality,
- > they didn't pass an amendment making it impossible to INTRODUCE
- > anti-discrimination, like CO did.
-
- Yeah, I can see the difference. Even though Colorado doesn't have
- sodomy laws that make homosexual relations illegal like some of those
- other states, they did pass #2. And since there are too many states
- that *do* have sodomy laws, they are too big a target to boycott.
- A single state is a more manageable target. So is anything being
- done to convince straight people in these other states to repeal
- their sodomy laws? Frankly, these sodomy laws seem to be a bigger
- threat; in Col, you can be discriminated against for being gay;
- in the other states, you can be arrested and jailed. Which is
- worse?
-
- Walter
-
-