From: WAND_M@gold.colorado.edu
Subject: Injunction's influence on boycott uncertain
Followup-To: amend2-discuss@cs.colorado.edu
Originator: doherty@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:39:46 GMT

The Denver Post
January 17, 1993

By Judith Brimberg, Staff Writer

Whether the blockage of Amendment 2 slows the Boycott Colorado movement 
remained a $64 question yesterday.

In Washington, Colorado Springs Mayor Bob Isaac said he drew a noncommittal 
response when he told six fellow mayors the ballot measure wasn't being 
implemented pending further court action.

"Their position was, 'We don't want to get into this,'" Isaac said.

Last month, the U.S. Conference of Mayors executive committee voted to move the 
group's 1993 convention from Colorado Springs because of the passage of 
Amendment 2.  The executive committee is expected to pick a new site from a 
list of 16 applicants on Tuesday morning.

"I didn't come out here to beg anyone to do anything," said Isaac, who is 
attending the conference's winter meeting in the nation's capital.  "I just 
don't like the characterization of Colorado as a 'hate state' and its people 
mean-spirited.  I explained to them that this question of setting up social and 
political criteria as to where you go will be a probem in the future."

Three cities that have joined the boycott movement--Baltimore, New York and 
Philadelphia--are bidding for the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting.

Elsewhere, representataives of two major religious organizations are 
recommending support of the boycott, the Washington Post said.

The newspaper quoted Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the Union of 
American Hebrew Congregations, as saying he will recommend his organizationo 
hold no more meetings in Colorado unless the state "speedily" reverses the law.

Schindler said if the state doesn't repeal Amendment 2, he and the chairman of 
the Hebrew union's trustees will recommend a boycott of Colorado at a meeting 
of the union's officers in May.

In addition, the Washington Post said, members of several groups within the 
8.0-million member United Methodist Church have urged the denomination to find 
a new location for its general conference, now scheduled to be held in Denver 
in april 1996.

Denomination officials in Western and Midwestern states and the Methodist 
Federation for Social Action--a lobbying group within the church--have sent 
letters requesting a boycott to the church committee planning the 1996 
conference.

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