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Article: The conservative source: Colorado Springs. (American Survey)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 5, 1994
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TO THE west of Colorado Springs rises Pikes Peak, 14,110 feet high, cloaked in snow. To the east lie flat prairies, covered with yucca plants and buffalo grass. In the middle sits a city famous not so much for its tree-lined boulevards or the mansions of its nicer districts as for the fact that it is a source of some of the most deeply conservative thinking in the United States.
It was a group called Colorado for Family Values (CFV), based in Colorado Springs, which sponsored Amendment Two to the Colorado constitution. The amendment denies homosexuals the right to legislation that would protect them from discrimination in housing and employment. (The right is ...