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Anti-rights measures
could lose in courts
I’OKTl.AND (AP) — Voters in six more Oregon cities and one more
i ountv have approved anti-gay rights measures that may end up heing
tossed out by state courts
The Oregon Citizens Alliance sponsored the measures in Jackson
Countv and in the cities of {'.reswell. Kstacada. Lebanon, Medford.
Molnlla and Sweet Home
All were approved Inst week, most by wide margins, according to
final but unofficial results.
However, a state law that took effec t Aug. 3 will block enforcement
of any of the measures, at least until a court challenge by the alliance
is settled
The allintx e's chairman. Lon Mahon, said the results showed that
Oregonians rejis t gay rights and do not want the Legislature to inter
fere.
"I think the citizens arc just saying 'no,' " Mahon said from his Head
quarters in Wilsonville
"They want to vote on this issue," he said. "We've hod 14 straight
elections that have all overwhelmingly passed a total initiative. That's
got to have some bearing on the elected officials, whether they're
judges or legislators."
Voters in eight cities and counties already have passed measures
that bar pro tec ting gays and lesbians from discrimination.
The measures are a reworded version of an anti-homosexual ini
tiative. Ballot Measure 9, that was rejec ted last year by 57 percent
of voters statewide That initiative would have declared homosexu
nlilv abnormal and perverse, and required state and local governments
to discourage it.
The Oregon Citizens Alliance is gathering signatures to put a toned
down version on the November 1994 ballot statewide.
But the leader of Support Our Communities, a statewide group of
gay rights supporters, predicted the new version will go down to
defeat.
"I'm not that disheartened," said Julie Davis, the group's executive
director.
"I really don't believe we have a flood of voters who rejected Mea
sure 9 and are falling for the softer language," she said. "He hasn’t
gained anv voters. He’s gone into areas where he’s already won hand
ily
Davis predicted an eventual I sick lash against the alliance and Mahon.
"He relies on the basic fears of people to move his own religious
agenda.” she said "The sentiment is growing that Lon Mahon is impos
ing his agenda on the state, not gays und lesbians. 1 really feel that the
veil is being pulled off Lon Mahon."
Officials of two counties and two cities have decided not to enforce
anti-gay ordinanc es already passed by voters, partly as a result of law
suits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union to nullify the
laws.
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