From: StarOwl@uiuc.edu (StarOwl)
Subject: Re: Fear of Success (was Re: Oregon poll)
Organization: Actuarial Science Program at UIUC
Reply-To: StarOwl@uiuc.edu
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:01:21 GMT
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cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

: How does Measure 9, by prohibiting the state from promoting 
: homosexuality, sanction violent attacks on homosexuals?

The answer to this question is left as an exercise to the reader.

[The following two texts were taken off of or.politics]

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                PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Be It Enacted by the People of the State Of Oregon:
    Paragraph 1. The constitution of the State of Oregon is amended
by creating a new section to be added to and made a part of
Article 1 and to read:
    Section 41 (1) This state shall not recognize any
categorical provision such as "sexual orientation,""sexual
preference," and similiar phrases that includes homosexuality,
pedophilia, sadism or masochism.  Quotas, minority status,
affirmative action, or any similar concepts, shall not apply
to these forms of conduct, nor shall government promote these
behaviors.
    (2) State, regional and local government and their
properties and monies shall not be used to promote, encourage,
or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or macochism.
    (3) State, regional and local governments and their
departments, agencies and other entities, including
specifically the State Department of Higher Education and the
public schools, shall assist in setting a standard for
Oregon's youth that recognizes homosexuality, pedophilia,
sadism and masochism as abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and
perverse and that these behaviors are to be discouraged and
avoided.
    (4) It shall be considered that it is the intent of the
people in enacting this section that if any part thereof is
held unconstitutional, the remaining parts shall be held in
force.

SUMMARY: Amends Oregon Constitution. All governments in Oregon
may not use their monies or properties to promote, encourage
or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism.
All levels of government, including public education systems,
must assist in setting a standard for Oregon's youth which
recognizes that these "behaviors" are "abnormal, wrong,
unnatural and perverse" and that they are to be discouraged
and avoided. State may not recognize this conduct under
"sexual orientation" or "sexual preference" labels, or through
"quotas, minority status, affirmative action, or similar
concepts."

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Measure No. 9
ARGUMENT IN FAVOR

According to the book of Leviticus in the Bible, oyster-eating,
crossbreeding cattle, shaving a beard, wearing clothing made of mixed
fibers, cursing one's parents and adultery are just as immoral as
homosexuality.  If the OCA's "No Special Rights" Committee wants to
take one of the 3,000 year-old laws of ritual holiness from Leviticus
and put it into the Bill of Rights in the state constitution, they
should be sincere enough to put all the rest of Leviticus into the
constitution as well.  It's a simple matter of respect for these
historic laws to treat them consistently.

We at the Special Righteousness Committee are just as offended by
oyster-eating, shaving and mixed fibers as the OCA is offended by
homosexuality, and we have just as much right as the OCA does to change
the state constitution to require government discrimination against
people whose behavior we don't like.

My friends, do you want public schools teaching your children that
shaving is a legitimate and equal alternative style to a normal and
healthy beard?  Would you want to be forced to hire an oyster-eater
to direct your church choir?  Adam and Eve wore fig leaves -- 100% fig
leaves -- and this is divine proof that those disgustingly unnatural
cotton/polyester blends are sinful.  And when the OCA was analyzing the
threat to traditional family values, we don't know how they managed to
overlook adultery!  Why, there's a lot more adultery than homosexuality
going on out there, and extrapolations from OCA statistics show that 90
percent of the people who have engaged in sexual perversions are
heterosexual ("straight").

The state condones adultery by not punishing it with death as required
by Leviticus.  It promotes oyster-eating by licensing seafood
restaurants, and it allows people to take mixed fibers out of the
closet and flaunt them right out in public without being fired or
evicted!  The state is encouraging sin!

If the OCA can have the special right to make their personal moral
agenda into public policy, then anyone else should be able to amend the
state Bill of Rights to eliminate basic human rights for people who
they don't like.

Let's put ALL of Leviticus into the constitution! A "yes" vote is the
first step in facilitating our militant moral agenda.

		    AGREE WITH US OR BURN IN HELL!


Special Righteousness Committee
P.O. Box 1851
Portland, OR 97207

(This information furnished by M. Dennis Moore, Chair, Special
Righteousness Committee.)

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