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- From: kpm@druhi.ATT.COM (Kevin Malloy (DoD #106))
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Private antidiscrimination policies in CO (was Re: Attention...)
- Message-ID: <23071@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 22:21:28 GMT
- References: <1hvbjeINN7rv@hp-col.col.hp.com>
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- in article <1hvbjeINN7rv@hp-col.col.hp.com>, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) says:
- > NNTP-Posting-Host: fajita19.cs.itc.hp.com
- >
- > mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser) writes:
- >> Let us not forget the employees in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky,
- >> Virginia, North Carolina, and elsewhere fired simply because they were
- >> Gay or Lesbian.
- >
- > (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?
-
- There is a tremendous difference between a state having no law
- protecting against discrimination based on sexual orientation and a
- state having a law that denies "claim of discrimination" for lesbian
- and gay people.
-
- This shouldn't be a subtle difference. Jurisdictions with human rights
- laws protect rights. Jurisdictions without human rights laws don't
- protect rights but they don't deny rights either. Colorado's Amendment
- #2 denies lesbians, bisexuals, and gays their basic civil rights.
- Colorado makes a much larger and more bigoted statement than the 42
- other states that simply don't protect rights by denying recourse when
- my rights are infringed. [Hmmm -- I'd better quit saying this or I
- might just start supporting a Colorado boycott ;-]
-
- Kevin
-
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