From: mush@craycos.com (Randy Murrish)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Colo Spgs Vote (was Re: L.A. City Council Joins Colorado Ban)
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:59:32 GMT
Organization: Cray Computer Corporation

In article <22928@drutx.ATT.COM> 
kpm@druhi.ATT.COM (Kevin Malloy (DoD #106)) writes:

>   Someone needs to tell Mayor Isaacs that 67% of the voters on El Paso
>   County (i.e. Colorado Springs) voted "YES" on Amendment #2.  The portrait
>   of Colorado Springs being home to a bunch of ogres is an accurate
>   portrail, although one must say that not everyone there is an ogre.
>   Just those in power, including Isaacs, who didn't lift a finger to
>   stop Amendment #2 from passing.

I never thought of myself as an ogre.  ;-)  Maybe I need to get a
picture into the archives to prove that I'm not.

>   Isaacs was given numerous opportunities to come out against Amendment #2.
>   He was asked personally by politicians I know, through the Colorado
>   Municipal League, which did officially come out against the measure.
>   For Isaacs to come out and say that "not everyone in Colorado voted
>   for Amendment #2" is about as disingenuous as a politician can be.

Although I don't know how he voted, Mayor Bob is a fairly conservative
politician that has Libertarian leanings.  If I bet money, I would bet
that Mayor Bob voted against #2.  He is not a hyper-fundie like others
here in the city.

>   Colorado Springs deserves to be boycotted.  The city fathers (and I use
>   that term deliberately, since it's run by a good-old-boy network)
>   deliberately courted right-wing fundy groups such as Focus on the
>   Family, HCJB (a fundy short-wave ministry broadcasting out of Ecuador),
>   and about 50 others to relocate there.  Now they are getting what they
>   deserve.

To be totally accurate, the Colorado Springs Economic Development
Council (the good-old-boy network) courted the religious groups.  Most
of the groups are fairly benign, like the International Bible Society,
whose most recent problems were with distributing bibles to all the
graduates from the Air Force Academy (someone didn't like that and
sued the government for accepting the bibles for the graduates).

The major influence, of course, is Focus on the "Family", which,
although a non-profit organization, has its fingers in almost every
aspect of Springs life two years after moving here, from the City
Council to the School Boards.

When I moved here 12 years ago, the Springs was a beautiful place to
live and work.  The high-tech boom of the mid-80s brought a wide
variety of people to the Springs along with a trend toward moderate
politics.  When the concept of the "Silicon Mountain" failed in the
late 80s along with the defense industry, the Economic Development
Council found that many religious organizations wanted to move out of
California and a new center for the religious right was born here in
the Springs.

>   Colorado Springs is an embarrassment to Colorado.  So much nonsence
>   has emerged from there besides Amendment #2.  A group is starting a
>   recall of Gov. Romer, just because he has the gall to say that he
>   thinks Coloradans made a mistake when they pass Amendments #2 and #1,
>   a controversial tax-limitation measure.  Other crap coming out of
>   "the Springs" includes an "English-Only" constitutional amendment,
>   a constitutional ban on state funding of abortions, and other gems.
>   Must be something in the air that causes such fascism to reign
>   supreme there.

There are wackos everywhere in Colorado, but they seem to be more
vocal here in the Springs.  Please remember that not everyone from
Colorado Springs is an embarrassment.  It is encouraging to find
people from all walks of life and sexual orientations come together
here in the Springs to do our part in the fight against 2.

<low, patriotic music starts in the background>

There is a long way to go, and the fight is only beginning, but we
will prevail in the end.  And people from Colorado Springs, Grand
Junction, La Junta, and Pueblo (all cities which approved 2) will be
there to fight.

>					       Kevin
>   Kevin Malloy  					      kpm@druhi.att.com
>   633 E. 11th Ave.					 1991 BMW K75RT	  
>   Denver, CO  80203	_NOT_ a 2nd Class Coloradoan!	       DoD #106
>   (303) 830-2937	 With liberty and justice for all, NO EXCEPTIONS!

Randy (a visible queer in a city that just doesn't like visible queers)


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