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Hostility increases in Springfield
□ Anti-gay rights measure sparks
harassment, goes unchallenged
By Tim Neff and Hope Nealson
fmerald Wnters ____
Joan Marchant knows all about discrimination
In Springfield
As n Springfield nisidonl who happens lo bo
lesbian and who drivos a car speckled with gay
pride stickers, sho has become the largo! for nu
merous derogatory remarks and countless soaring
starts*.
Put Marchant said the unkind atmosphere has
become more hostile since the May passage of
Ballot Measure 20-08, which amended Spring
field's < barter to prevent the city from "promot
ing homosexuality."
"I don't feel entirely safe here or entirely wel
come,” Marchant said. ”1 just go about my busi
ness here, but there are inc reasingly people who
feel comfortable about acting out their
homophobia."
One day shortly after the charter amendment
won voter approval. Marchant came face to face
with Springfield's ugly side Marchant, who was
diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 10 years ago,
was assembling her wheelchair in a supermarket
parking lot when a man decided to vent his ha
tred
"He yelled. 'Fucking queers. We don't want
you in Springfield.' and then he spit on mo,"
Merchant said. “There’s a climate here where
people don't feel real safe."
Other people and organizations who actively
opposed Measure 20-08 have felt repercussions
Marchant said the Church of the Brotheron,
which opposed the measure, has received several
bizarre messages on its answering machine Oth
ers have had windows broken for their stance
against the measure.
But aside from harassment, thore have been few
obvious indications of the measure’s Impact. Le
gal action or challenges based on the charter
amendment have not yet surfaced.
"The issuo hasn't been dealt with because it's
been passed, and we haven't had anything to
challenge it yet." Marchant said.
The measure’s impact has also been muted by
the small number of gays and lesbians who live in
Springfield Merchant said if the charter prevents
gay anti lesbian groups from using city facilities,
they wouldn't know it because they had never
used the facilities in tho first place.
Marchant said the Oregon Citizen's Alliance,
Turn to MEASURE, Page 22D
Coloradans to vote on gay rights
j Colorado head
football coach calls
homosexuality an
abomination
By Pat Maiach
Emerald Editor
Oregon residents won't be
the only voter# deciding the
rights of gay citizens come
November.
Colorado for Kamlly Val
ues, a right-wing religious or
ganization, has succeeded in
putting u measure on the
Nov. 3 ballot that would
amend the state constitution
prohibiting Colorado from
"enact(ing), adopt(ing) or
onfort.(ing) any statute, regu
lation, ordinance or policy
whereby homosexual, lesbian
or bisexual orientation, con
duct, practices, or relation
ships shall constitute ... or
entitle any person or class of
persons to have or claim any
minority status, quota prefer
ences, protected status or
claim of discrimination."
Like Oregon, the controver
sial measure has divided the
state into clear (.amps, with
one side calling the measure
a form of legalized bigotry,
while the other denounces
civil-rights laws for gays as
special rights.
Colorado for Family Val
uiss begun its anti-gay rights
movement last year when it
tried to rescind a Denver or
dinance because It protected
people on the basis of sexual
orientation. That effort failed
by 10 percent, said Bobbi
McCollum of the Equal Pro
tection Campaign, a group
formed to fight this year's
proposed amendment.
However, a similar move
ment against a proposed anti
discrimination law in Colora
do Springs that included pro
tections for homosexuals was
a success.
With that victory under Its
bolt, the group decided the
Turn to COLORADO. Page 20D
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