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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Private antidiscrimination policies in CO (was Re: Attention...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.003046.10856@spdcc.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:30:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.195431.29600@spdcc.com> <1hvl47INNb8c@hp-col.col.hp.com>
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- smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- >(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?)
-
- >in Col, you can be discriminated against for being gay;
- >in the other states, you can be arrested and jailed. Which is
- >worse?
-
- Is it necessary to qualify it?
-
- Isn't either, bad and wrong? Don't both deserve to be
- fixed? We fix one set of problems one way, and the other the
- other way. The people that wrote the sodomy laws are mostly dead,
- as far as I can tell (though some people in Congress, might be
- over 150 - I'm not sure...). It's safe to say that MOST of the
- people who voted in CO:2 are still around ...
-
- There is a LOT of pressure in states with active sodomy
- laws to change them --- certainly that's true for Georgia
- which has had and still has quite a bit of GBLO*-active boycotting
- going on... other states like Mass. still have a sodomy law on the books
- ut it is not enforceable given other laws that supercede it.
- For the most part the chances of being arrested for sodomy here
- is lower than a gay person in CO being affected by CO:2.
-
- That doesn't mean we don't fix both, but it doesn't mean
- we ignore one for the other. If you're going to insist on qualifying
- one of them as "worse", I'm not going to waste my time with you.
-