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ore than 400 gathered at Port gested to the large crowd, gamering knowing
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ate their mixed greens and
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this and that, and then reached
for their wallets. Many had already inception
paid $50 in to 1994-
got to send Lon Mabon a clear mes
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this affair wasn’t exactly like most others of its
fessional polling. According to Jaime Balboa,
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BRO’s executive director, the gay and lesbian
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Those in the know had predicted the anti
gay Oregon Citizens Alliance would succeed in
putting its so-called Student Protection Act on
the November ballot, but at the time no one
knew O C A head Lon Mabon would, less than a
week later, tell Oregon Public Broadcasting his
group has nearly enough signatures already and
will continue collecting even more until the
July 7 deadline.
The hundreds who attended the seventh
annual Oregonians Against Discrimination
Luncheon, sponsored by Basic Rights Oregon,
want to reach voters before the O C A does.
Eric Friedenwald-Fishman, who gave closing
remarks at the luncheon, said there are two things
people can do to keep bigotry out of Oregon.
First, people must vote if the O C A measure
is to he defeated, he said.
Pollsters have estimated that nearly 1.4 mil
lion voters will participate in the November
election. Strategists for BRO say they want
approximately 700,000 “no” votes.
But voting alone won’t do the trick, Frieden
wald-Fishman explained, introducing the sec
ond piece of his proposal.
The creative director and president of the
public relations firm Metropolitan Group,
Friedenwald-Fishman stood in front of the well-
dressed crowd at the end of the hour-long lun
cheon. His job: to ask for money.
Using humor helped.
“Make (the donation] on your Visa. You
won’t even notice,” Friedenwald-Fishman sug-
determine what its message should be and to
find out what educational efforts are needed.
BRO officials expect that more than $1.7
million will be needed to defeat the O C A ’s mea
sure. (Nearly $4 million was spent to defeat
OCA-sponsored measures in the early 1990s.)
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n 1992 and 1994, the O C A tried to convince
Oregonians to vote for a constitutional
amendment that essentially sought to legalize
discrimination based on sexual orientation.
In 1992, the O C A ’s Measure 9 failed to win,
snagging only 42 percent of the votes.
A 3 percent to 4 percent victory is consid
ered a landslide in races like these, according to
Balboa.
In 1994 the vote was closer. Measure 13
passed in 25 of 36 Oregon counties, hut the pro
posal was ultimately defeated by a 4 percent
margin.
The Student Protection Act, if passed, would
not make a change to Oregon’s constitution.
The initiative seeks to make a statutory change
in Oregon law. The act would preclude schixils
(including community colleges) from “the in
struction of behaviors relating to homosexuality
and bisexuality,” in a manner that “encourages,
promotes or sanctions such behaviors.”
he O C A , joined by the Oregon chapter of
the Christian Coalition in support of the
Student Protection Act, is beginning to appear
more frequently in the media.
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