Organization: Virginia Department of Health
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Date:         Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:18:38 EST
From:         "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
Subject:      Colorado Vote-2

    Colorado Vote, Part 2
    Preferential treatment of homosexuals, visit Colorado--------------->

    RH: And there is evidence that Colorado voters don't believe that
they were hoodwinked. Look at this unscientific opinion poll taken by
Denver TV station KUSA, just 3 weeks after the election. When asked if
Amendment 2 should be repealed, 4,919 said "Yes", while 10,640 said "No".

    Even though Colorado voters have made it clear they don't want
special privileges for homosexuals, there are those that are challenging
the public vote. A quickly created coalition has filed suit in State
Court determined to stop January's scheduled implementation of Amendment
2. James Joy, Executive Director of the State ACLU (MAKS> Who Else?) is
Co-Council on the case.

    JJ: The charge said it was a violation of people's first amendment
rights and that gay and lesbian and bi-sexual people were not able to
pursue their rights in the courts and in the legislature.

    RH: And yet another famous name has become involved in the debate,
Martina Navratilova joins the ACLU, the City of Denver, and others in the
law suit. The acknowledged lesbian tennis superstar who has reportedly
pledged 2 MILLION DOLLARS of her money to assist with legal costs,
recently wrote a commentary in USA Today stating her case. ("Gay-rights
ban damages pride" couldn't see the date.) She said "Our complaint is,
the amendment relegates gay men, lesbians, and bi-sexuals to second-class
citizenship.") Martina Navratilova then vowed to move out of Colorado
unless the amendment is overturned.

    The legal challenge to the amendment was however fully anticipated.
CBN News has been told by a reliable source who was in on the original
drafting of the amendment, that the measure was critiqued by a gauntlet
of top rated constitutional scholars, and was actually designed to
survive scrutiny by the US Supreme Court.

    Some Colorado media have rebuked voters over the amendment's passage.
Joanne Ostrow, TV-Radio columnist for the Denver Post calls the vote,
"Colorado's Embarrassment" and saluted a local TV anchorman who stated on
the air election night, that amendment 2 would ".. legalize discrimination
against homosexuals."

    Denver Post, political cartoonist, Mike Keiphe scolded those who
voted for 2. One cartoon depicts a person regretting the boycott but
bragging about new groups coming to Colorado, Like "Televangelists on
Parole", "The Rush Limbaugh Fan Club", "Association of Retired Grand
Wizards", "Guys named Benito" as in Musselini.

    Those on both sides of the homosexual rights issue are keenly aware
that Colorado has become a key battle ground. If amendment 2 is allowed
to stand, similar referenda could appear on Ballots in other states. If
legally derailed, homosexual rights measures could prosper relatively
unhindered through out the country.

    Richard Hunt, CBN News, Denver.

    Pat: I don't think America wants to give special status to any group
on account of how they perform sex acts. It's just that simple, and I
don't think Americans are ready to legitimize or embrace. Do you know we
have a president just elected? (Ben: Yes, as a matter of fact.) Do you
know what state he comes from? (Ben: Arkansas.) Guess what law's on the
books in Arkansas? (Ben: Sodomy.)

    You better believe it. It's a felony in Arkansas, and he's never made
a move to take that off the books. It is a felony in Arkansas. It is a
felony in Virginia. It is a felony in Georgia. It is a felony in
approximately 23 states in the union. And to make all this hoo rah about
Colorado because they refuse to pass a law giving it special status is
just nonsense.

    And the people of America, not that they hate gays, or anything like
that, it's just that they don't want to have that particular lifestyle
crammed down their throats as it's happening in New York. They don't want
their children to be taught homosexuality. They don't want homosexual
teachers. And they don't want pedophiles  driving school buses. It's just
that simple.

    Terry Meeuwsen: Well, and these rights that we're talking about in
Colorado being given, are the things that initiate what's happening in
New York. Right down the line.

    Pat: Absolutely. If they have a preferred status, then the next thing
you know a church that disagrees with it would have to hire homosexuals
on their staff, etc, etc, etc. And people are not willing to do that.
This is a sexual practice that is condemned by every major religion. Why
don't these people say that? EVERY MAJOR RELIGION, you name it, and
they're opposed to sodomy.

    Ben: But the NEW AGE movement says that's acceptable, and that's what
all these people are part of.

    Pat: It may be but it's certainly is not Christian, Jewish, Muslim,
etc. (Ben: Islam) Yes, no way.

    Terry: Well, I'd like to say too that when I send my children to
school, I send them for reading, writing, and arithmetic. I don't not
send them (Pat: For functional acclimation to homosexual behavior.) No..

    Pat: Well I think most people feel that way. And so the citizens of
Colorado. I don't understand this business. We're supposed to be in a
free country where people are able to vote their conscience and yet if
any state votes its conscience on any particular matter, whether it's a
budget constraint, or what ever, then people all over the country start
boycotting them. What kind of freedom is this? That's conformity, that's
politically correct, if you don't follow the PC line, then they're going
to slap you and put an economic boycott on you. That's Naziism.

    MAKS> Good place to break. This is long enough.

    In His Love,
    Maks
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