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Part of legislation drafted by Representative Don Young of Alaska, the bill establishes periodic referenda on the island's status until it is settled...
...people like me-am beaten up, denied housing, and discriminated against by employers. In Georgia earlier this summer, the State Attorney General Michael Bowers revoked a job offer when his potential employee revealed her recent lesbian commitment ceremony. Symbolic marriage offers no protection from discrimination. In recent years, numerous referenda have come to ballot to legalize discrimination against lesbians and gay men in such states as Maine, Oregon and Colorado. According to the Anti-Violence Project, anti-lesbian and gay violence-bashing, violent attacks, shootings and other incidents-increased by 6 percent in 1996. We are still on the defensive...
...party's long-held opposition to privatization and promising a less confrontational approach to business. He's also pledged not to raise income taxes for the next five years. Although he?s been sketchy on the details, he has promised a new minimum wage, health care reform, and referenda on the governance of Scotland and Wales. "Today, enough of talking," Blair said in victory celebrations on Friday. "It is time...
Maybe Langsam is not aware of the various referenda that have popped up in several states to deny lesbians and gay men equal protection under the law. Maybe Langsam has not heard of the custody battles in which lesbians can be denied the right to see their children based on their sexual orientation. Maybe she is not aware that gay men can be denied the right to visit their dying partners because they are not legal spouses. Try as I might, I cannot find any comparable legal denials of the rights of Republican people...
...would take a Constitutional amendment to implement limits. The ballot-branding idea is the brainchild of U.S. Term Limits, a citizens group which zealously advocates limiting service to 12 years in the U.S. Senate and 6 in the House; the group finds no other limits to tenure acceptable. Referenda with essentially the same details as the Arkansas measure have passed in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota. It is not immediately clear whether the Court's refusal to overturn the Arkansas case will directly affect those states...