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Article: The Christian right's anti-gay agenda.
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
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This year's slate of "no special rights" ballot initiatives is the most visible part of the Christian right's "family values" agenda. In Arizona, Idaho, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Texas, the movement hopes to place on ballots a fairly uniform set of statutes and constitutional amendments that would reverse and pre-empt any laws extending anti-discrimination protections and domestic partners' benefits to gays and lesbians. Such ballot measures have already met with mixed success. Colorado's narrowly passed Amendment 2 was overruled as unconstitutional; however, the Oregon Citizens' Alliance has won passage of anti-gay ordinances in numerous small ...