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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1994)
local news MEASURE 13!!! Do you feel the passage of mea sure 13 will reduce the gay community’s constitutional rights? YOUR OPINION IS NEEDED! This is it The campaign is “winnable, The Ice Cream Social event of the winter season is coming Dec 1 1th 2 2 8 -5 9 7 6 213 ) 993-3366 Proudly Serving The Greater Portland Metro Area ombard 503/ 286-1330 F L O W E Located in Historic St. Johns 8 3 0 2 N. LOMBARD • PORTLAND, OREGON 9 7 2 0 3 REPORT HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE 796-1 703 ANTI-VIOLENCE REPORTING LINE We don’t gift wrap our free checkins; Butwedoinduaea thoughtful card. voi» «C ■¿•tv iï?> W ashington Mutual’s Classic Checking™ has no minimum balance requirements and no monthly service fees. Plus it includes a Washington Mutual Cash Card that lets you conveniently access your checking account at stores, restaurants and cash machines all over the world. S o stop by and get a good deal on checking and a good deal more. 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I wasn’t aware that she was going to sary it is that they do.” do this [and] we’ll try to ensure it doesn’t happen State officials estimate 75 percent of voters will participate in the Nov. 8 election. Po litical observers say the lower the turn out, the more conser- vative cam paigns will be favored. An estimated 85 percent of Oregon voters turned out for the 1992 Novem ber election. More than 8 0 0 ,0 0 0 v o ted against Ballot Mea sure 9, while nearly 640,000 voters fa vored it. “While I can tell you this campaign is certainly winnable, we still are at some Families stand up against Ballot Measure 13. Pictured (L to R): Brenda risk,” says Davis, LeBlanc, Wendy O ’Leary, Christopher Haase, Kenny Haase. adding those who cannot actively campaign against Ballot Measure again.” Johnson says Immanuel Lutheran Church 13 must make sure to vote against it. has not taken a formal position on Ballot Measure “When you get into the polling booth, make 13. Measure 13 the first thing you vote on,” she says. The letter, which was produced by the Colo In addition to Ballot Measure 13, voters will decide rado-based Focus on the Family, a national conser the fate of at least 16 other initiatives, as well as vative organization, urges Oregonians to vote yes gubernatorial and congressional races. “We don’t on Ballot Measure 13, which the group incorrectly want to run into situations where somebody gets calls the “Stop Special Rights Initiative.” into the polling booth but feels rushed because they In the letter, Focus on the Family president have to pick up the kids at school, so they wind up James Dobson states: “The battle over special skipping the issues further down the ballot. Go first rights for those who participate in aberrant sexual to Measure 13 and work behaviors has come to from th ere,” urges State officials estimate 75 percent of the state of Oregon. As Davis. voters will participate in the Nov. 8 a resident of Colorado Oregon’s bishops election. Political observers say the I speak from experi recently issued a state ence when I say that ment in which they lower the turnout, the more conser it’s a crucial battle, a noted their “lack of sup vative campaigns will be favored. strategic battle, a battle port for Measure 13.” that will most certainly That language is in sharp contrast to the vigorous be hard fought and not easily won.... [Ballot Mea denunciations that came from the bishops two sure 13] is constitutionally sound, pro-family in years ago in relation to Ballot Measure 9. intent, and designed to protect the public from the In their most recent statement, Archbishop serious threat posed by the radical ‘gay rights’ William Levada and Bishop Thomas Connolly movement. As such, it deserves the solid support asked citizens to avoid the “divisiveness and polar of the Christian community.” ization which too often are the residue of political In addition to Ballot Measure 13, Dobson urges battles,” and said that although Ballot Measure 13 Oregonians to support Ballot Measure 19, an ini supporters have “legitimate objectives,” those ob tiative dealing with obscenity and censorship is jectives should not be pursued through a constitu sues, and reject Ballot Measure 16, which would tional amendment. allow for doctor-assisted suicides. They added: “As Catholic bishops we would be Finally, Noon 13’s Davis welcomes the public remiss in the eyes of many were we not to reiterate to a “No on 13 Election Night Victory Party” the constant teaching of the Judeo-Christian tradi beginning at 8 pm at Portland’s Montgomery Park, tion that homosexuality is contrary to God’s law, 2701 NW Vaughn St. The committee is also spon reflected in the love of man and woman in the soring a post-election community summit Nov. 15 union of marriage, which is itself the foundation of at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1624 NE family life, the basic unit of human society. Laws Hancock St., in Portland. Post-election meetings which are based upon and foster the natural human will also be held in Salem, Eugene, Corvallis, Bend institutions of marriage and family are important and Medford. 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