Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.sex
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:46:33 -0500 
From: Thomas Omar Smith <ts2a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: HEY!!!! COLO AMENDMENT 2 PASSED!! HELLO?
	<Nov17.064906.39598@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>

Excerpts from netnews.alt.sex: 17-Nov-92 Re: HEY!!!! COLO AMENDMENT ..
Christopher Nachand@CS.C (2685)

> In article <BxFKHL.3M5@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl
> Denninger) writes:
> >In article <1992Nov5.165209.5960@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
> wilbanks@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wendell Gee) writes:
> >>
> >>Despite the fact that Amendment 2 makes "special rights" illegal, it also 
> >>made any law banning discrimination against homosexuals and bisexuals 
> >>unconstitutional. In effect, it's now legal to discriminate against them.
> >Well, I WAS going to ski in Aspen this year.
> >Now I will go to Utah instead.  I also will not purchase ANY product or
> >service from a company which is headquartered in Colorado, nor will I travel
> >to or through the state.
> >Colorado deserves to lose business on this one.  Let's give it to 'em where
> >it ought to hurt.
> >Let those who are outraged by this response (and I hope many people join me
> >in the boycott) and live in the state make damn sure that this measure is
> >repealed pronto.

> >Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)

> I couldn't agree more, and I live in Colorado, and saddly enough, am also
> from the city and county that initiated the damn thing (Colo Springs and
> El Paso, respectively).  I have been involved in two rallies so far here
> at the CSU campus against Amendment #2, and we are committed to making
> Colorful, Hateful Colorado pay for this injustice.  Here's what you can do
> to help:

> 	Write the Colorado Tourism Board, 1625 Broadway, Suite 1700,
> 	Denver, CO  80202  and tell them you will not vacation in a state
> 	that discriminates!

> 	Boycott Colorado Springs!

> 	Write to the Adolph Coors Company and tell them you are boycotting
> 	Colorado products because of Amendment #2!  Coor Corporate Office,
> 	East of Golden, Golden, CO  80401  (this WILL get it there!)

> 	Have friends and family write to the tourism board as well!

> 	Call the Colorado Governor's complaint line  1-303-866-2471

> 	MOST IMPORTANTLY:  Write to President-Elect Bill Clinton and
> 	urge him to get federal legislation that would outlaw discrimination
> 	based on sexual preferance.
> 	P.O. Box 615, Little Rock, AK 72203
> 	1-800-325-9992,  FAX: 1-501-399-3798

> Those of us hard at work with gay rights groups like the campus organization
> "Straight But Not Narrow" thank you for all your support.  Together, and with
> added help from the rest of you, we can beat this thing and keep it from
> happening again.

> Feel free to e-mail me with your comments, support, suggestions, etc.
> -- 
> Christopher D. Nachand                "A man doesn't automatically get my 
> Computer Science Department            respect.  He has to get down in the  
> Colorado State University              dirt and beg for it."
> nachand@mozart.cs.colostate.edu        - Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts


I'm just hoping these efforts are as successful as the NFLs efforts were
in Arizona.  They managed to piss off enough Arizona residents to cause
a bill making MLK's birthday a state holiday, and then punished the
state by moving the Superbowl from Arizona to that bastion of diversity
and ggodwill, Los Angeles.

The single best way to get people to galvanize is to threaten them. 
Give Coloradoans(sp?) a hard time, and a lot of them may back up #2 as a
protest against outsiders trying to run their state.

					Tom the non hacker
					Kemp in 96!
					"If patriotism is the last refuge
					of scoundrels,  Then environmentalism
					is the current refuge of totalitarians."
					Bob Jackson