From: WAND_M@gold.colorado.edu
Subject: Here's a soft answer
Followup-To: amend2-discuss@cs.colorado.edu
Originator: doherty@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:54:58 GMT

By Tom Gavin, The Denver Post
December 9, 1992

It's clear, all right, that aggressive activism and here and there a little 
moronic vandalism get the job done.

Effective is what the noisy activists are.

The clamorous, petty, vengeful homosexual extremists, for example, have turned 
me around.

I am now teetering on the edge of regret over having voted against Amendment 
No. 2 and should not be taken for granted if the subject comes up again.

I have watched with unbroken interest as homosexuals and their freidns around 
the nation have reviled Colorado and Coloradans.

Have labeled our home "the hate state."

Have urged a nationwide boycott of Colorado.

And then defiled or defaced two of Colorado's most striking and revered 
structures--the State Capitol and Denver's Cathedral of the Immaculate 
Conception.

Way to go, homosexuals.

You've certainly gotten my attention, homosexuals.

What a really loveable bunch you are.

How To Win Friends and Influence People By Spitting In Their Faces.

While we're on the subject, I wish our mayor would get off the plane and stay 
off the plane.  If our mayor wishes to carve out a new career as apologist to 
all the homosexuals in North America, let him resign as mayor and go on about 
his kissy-kissy business on his own.

I don't want him doing it in my behalf.

It's humiliating.

It's degrading.

I am, yes, older than glacial ice and I recognize generational factors here.  
One of them is that I was raised to shove back when shoved, hit back when hit.  
"Turn the other cheek" was in my catechisms, but not my schoolyards.  "He who 
turns the other cheek gets hit with the other fist," we are taught by the 
sainted sage and prophet, Nipsy Russell.

I was not, to repeat, among the 53 percent of Coloradans who voted for No. 2, 
the ban on laws extending racial and religious civil rights protections to 
homosexuals.  I thought the prohibition wrong.  I was sorry to see it approved.

But it *was* approved.  A majority of Coloradans voted for it and it will now 
repose in the state constitution until another vote or legal action removes it.

I, apparently unlike homosexuals of the state and nation, was raised to respect 
things like majority rule.  Like the free vote.  Like democracy.

Me "lose" elections?  You bet.  I've been outvoted so often I now feel faintly 
uneasy when "my" side of a public issue prevails.  What is wrong here? I 
wonder.  Did I misunderstand the question? I wonder.

But never--no, never!--did I get out of bed after yet another vexing election 
defeat and stamp my little foot.

And throw a little fit.

And agitate for a boycott.

What is there about homosexuals that makes them so petty?  So vindictive?  So, 
yes, intolerant?

And why are politians so quick to cave in, to kowtow, to genuflect, to bow and 
scrape to homosexuals?

There is only one self-respecting reaction to all of the homosexual pushing, 
all of the homosexual shoving, all of the homosexual efforts to browbeat and 
intimidate.

If the mayor wishes to speak for me, he should to go Los Angeles and New York 
and Atlanta and Seattle and any other place which pretends to have already 
attained complete perfection in human relationships and the equality of man, 
and, enunciating carefully, say to all those sublimely perfect and 
holier-than-thou places and people:

Go off in a corner and commit a highly improbable act upon yourself!

If pressed for time, use the shorter version.

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