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- From: gerber@boulder.parcplace.com (Andrew Gerber)
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- Subject: Denver Post: "Amendment 2 boycott spurs backlash"
- Message-ID: <C0AH8I.GGq@boulder.parcplace.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 17:43:29 GMT
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- From today's Denver Post; Sunday, January 3, 1992
-
- Amendment 2 boycot spurs backlash:
-
- A new Denver Post/News 4 Poll shows there's a backlash in Colorado to
- the growing national boycott of the state over Amendment 2, the
- citizen intiative that barred laws protecting gays.
-
- People are more angry than ahamed, and they don't think a repeal
- effort would succeed.
-
- [Ok; I'm not going to type in the whole article, just the interesting
- poll numbers]
-
- * If you had the opportunity to change your vote on #2, would you
- change it or keep it the same:
-
- Would change: 4%
- Would keep vote the same: 94%
- Don't Know: 2%
-
- * Does the boycott make you more or less likely to support repeal of
- #2?
-
- More likely : 25%
- Less likely 43%
- No difference: 28%
- Don't know: 4%
-
- * Are people in Colorado more tolerant or less tolerant to gays?
- [than people in other states]
-
- More: 48%
- Less: 15%
- The same: 25%
- Don't know: 12%
-
- * Perceptions of Gays
-
- Agree Neutral Disagree Don't Know
- Strong. Somewhat Somewhat Stongly
-
- Homosexuals should be allowed to serve in the armed forces:
-
- 41 18 5 8 22 6
-
- Homosexualy is morally wrong
-
- 31 9 7 12 36 5
-
- A homoseual is more likely to molest children
-
- 4 2 5 17 61 11
-
- Except for their choice of sexual partners, homosexuals
- are not really different from anyone else
-
- 60 21 1 6 7 5
-
- When homosexuals talk about gay rights, what they really
- saying is that they want special treatment
-
- 32 22 3 12 28 3
-
- Homosexual couples should be allowed to adopt children
-
- 18 17 9 12 37 7
-
- Most homosexuals would rather be straight if they had a choice
-
- 9 10 8 19 32 22
-
- Homosexuals should't be allowed to teach in the public schools
-
- 10 8 5 21 52 4
-
- Homosexual behavior should be against the law, even if it
- occurs between conseting adults
-
- 9 4 5 14 64 4
-
- Most homosexuals could quit being gay if they really tried
-
- 11 8 7 16 44 14
-
- The average person is not nearly so prejudiced against homosexuals as
- many gay rights activists would want people to believe
-
- 40 28 5 13 8 6
-
- If an Amenedment 2 type law were put on the ballot in other states, it
- would pass in most of them
-
- 22 31 5 15 11 16
-
- Source: Talmey-Drake Research and Strategy Inc. Survey based on 606
- random telephone interviews (407 in the 6-county Denver metro area)
- Dec 15-23, 1992. Margin +- 4%.
-
- -----------------------------------
-
- Boycotting Colorado is not likely to change the opinions of
- individuals. A Colorado resident is not likely to be effected by the
- boycott directly; we are in the midst of an economoic upturn which
- might be slowed, but not stopped by a boycott. The people affected
- most directly are the politicians, and many of the politicians in this
- state have been firmly behind No on 2.
-
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