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This ostensible support of gay rights and concerns was undermined, however, by referenda passed in Colorado and Tampa...
...Colorado's legislation makes it illegal for the state to adopt or enforce any laws that allow a bisexual, gay or lesbian person to claim discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Not only is the state prohibited from introducing gay right legislation, but the existing statutes in Boulder, Denver and Aspen were overturned by Colorado's referendum, known as Amendment...
...essence, the basic civil rights of bisexual, gay and lesbian people in Colorado and Tampa have been denied...
Among other state measures of national significance were antigay initiatives in Colorado and Oregon. Colorado's Amendment 2, which forbids civil rights protections for homosexuals, passed, 55% to 45%. But Oregon's Measure 9, which sought to define homosexuality as "wrong, unnatural and perverse," went down to defeat, 44% to 56%. In Maryland voters approved a proposition guaranteeing the right to abortion. Iowa voters turned down an equal-rights amendment after a bitter fight that drew such national figures as Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Robertson to the state to lobby against...
Ethical or not, these tactics are perfectly legal, so long as families do not lie about assets. John Kuzmich, a high school band director in Golden, Colorado, with a Ph.D. in music, managed to obtain a computer-teaching job with lower pay in the hope that his son will qualify for more aid next year. Some families pump as much money as possible into retirement funds, whole life insurance or tax-deferred annuities, none of which are counted as assets. They lend money temporarily from savings to a family corporation. They invest in a condo near campus, which increases debt...