[Vision2020] Don't you get it? EVERYONE'S rights are in peril!

[Mo Hendrickson]

I am glad that people are upset with California and the passing of prop 8, but how about we set our sights on Idaho.  Idaho passed HJR 2 a couple of years ago that was more destructive than Prop 8. Rights were taken away from GLBT students, faculty and staff at UI and employees of the state of Idaho.  
 
So lets support the folks in California fighting prop 8, but let's also fight the bigotry written into Idaho law.  I would like to move back across the border one of these days, I miss walking to work and downtown Moscow. 
-Mo



Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:42:08 -0800From: sslund_2007 at verizon.netTo: gussie443 at hotmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.comSubject: Re: [Vision2020] Don't you get it? EVERYONE'S rights are in peril!



Thanks, Ellen, for bringing up this topic.  Fortunately, opponents of Prop 8 were well prepared, and a challenge was filed yesterday in CA’s Supreme Court:
http://www.politickerca.com/jeffmitchell/3103/lawyers-explain-state-supreme-court-petition-seeking-invalidate-prop-8
OR
http://tinyurl.com/6fj9a8
Of course, who knows how long it will take for this travesty to be judicially corrected . . . 
 
For those interested in the topic, Glenn Greenwald has a great article out today:  “An answer to Proposition 8:  Repealing DOMA”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/06/doma/
 
 

Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID
 
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
~ Edmund Burke
 
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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Ellen RoskovichSent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:29 AMTo: vision2020 at moscow.comSubject: [Vision2020] Don't you get it? EVERYONE'S rights are in peril!
 
The long awaited for election is finally over.  We breathe a sigh of relief and look forward to the promise of change and hope for the future. However, there's also a dark side to this past election.  It is so disturbing that one of our states would have an initiative on the ballot to change their state constitution, to allow for discrimination against one specific group of citizens.  And then it passed.  Bigotry is now law. We need to keep an eye on our neighbor states, because what affects them today , could affect us tomorrow.  We must be ever vigilant of distant outside forces that would try to manipulate events close to our home.  We must realize that hate was well funded. . . money was poured into California by groups that preach love.  "Love your neighbor". . . . but make sure it's only a certain kind of love that we approve of. Ellen A. Roskovich   
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