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EVEN BEFORE IT BECAME PART OF STATE LAW, COLOrado's Amendment 2 was stirring up a national boycott. But now it is no longer clear when, or even if, Amendment 2 will ever become law. Approved by voters in November, the amendment -- which would prohibit the state or its localities from passing laws that specifically guarantee homosexuals protection against discrimination -- was scheduled to take effect last Friday. But that afternoon, Colorado Judge Jeffrey Bayless granted an injunction pending the outcome of a lawsuit that argues the amendment is unconstitutional...
Leaders of the Colorado boycott are already being counterproductive by wanting to penalize a state which is actually relatively supportive of gay rights anyway. Many urban areas had already legislated various right for gays before the hysteria surrounding the Clinton presidential campaign diverted attention from the amendment, allowing its supporters to barely push it through in a 53-47 percent vote...
Chances are that many of those who may be affected by the boycott actually voted against the amendment. By protesting against the entire state, gay rights activists are targeting their supporters as well as their enemies. There is simply no way around this fact...
...whether Harvard should engage in this dubious boycott, there can be no question that to do so would only hurt the University. By not accepting the gift, Harvard will not be able to turn back the clock to November 3 and change the vote...
...loan and in any case, conditions had never been placed on loan guarantees given to a long list of other countries (including Iraq in the late 1980s). However, the Machiavellian Baker threatened to withhold the guarantees while demanding no major concessions from Arab countries regarding human rights, the Arab boycott of companies that do business with Israel or even recognition of the Jewish state's right to exist...