I am always grateful for the updates from Just Out Blog. Today they bring us a Repeal Watch update. We are now at 50 days remaining for the anti-gay groups to gather enough signatures to put our equality laws to a vote (the Oregon Family Fairness Act and the Oregon Equality Act). The hitch for the anti-gay groups is that the initiatives 144 and 145 are held up in the appeals process–which is what is anticipated for IP 146 also–so they have not yet begun circulating petitions.
From Blog Out:
“…Concerned Oregonians leadership continues to rally its troops in anticipation of their circulation of anti-equality ballot initiative petitions across the State.
But while two of those initiatives (IP 144 and IP 145) are held up in an appeals process to the Oregon Supreme Court and a third (IP 146) has been issued a final ballot title and is awaiting possible appeal action from the American Civil Liberties Union and Basic Rights Oregon, Concerned Oregonians’ organizing and fundraising momentum continues to build behind-the-scenes steam, according to sources close to the organization.
Though it is likely that the organization may only have the time to circulate IP 145 – an initiative to repeal the Oregon Equality Act, a new anti-discrimination law providing protections for sexual orientation and gender identify – the amount of time to circulate that petition may be as brief as a few weeks, pending a decision from the Oregon Supreme Court on that ballot initiative.” [...]
Blog Out also included an email from one of the anti-gay “hub leaders” in which she updates readers on the status of their initiatives, and urges followers forward stating that they are in a “in a battle for the moral high ground in Oregon.”
It caught my eye that this hub leader characterized the Oregon Equality act as “minority status for sexual orientation.” I don’t believe that is what individuals are looking for. I know I am just hoping to not be denied housing or lose a job solely based upon sexual orientation.
The battle indeed presses on in Oregon, but I am not sure it is for “moral high ground” as much as for equality and protection for all law-abiding Oregon citizens.
domestic partnership
Marriage & Relationship Recognition
GLBT
I’ll go around and break their pens
You know I’m on your side.
HUGS!!!!
It’s the same false argument they have always used, and has been so effective in the past. As the right-wing factions continue to show themselves as lacking low or high moral ground, that argument gets less and less effective.
Laurie: That is perfect! And a funny visual also…
thanks for your support! {HUGS}!
Oregonian37: Exactly!! Reminds me of back when the “moral majority” was strutting it’s uber-righteousness– I saw a bumper sticker that said: “the moral majority is NEITHER!”
Oh please, they would’t know moral high ground if it bit them in the butt.
Exactly Lewis! That is why that old bumper sticker was so perfect back in the “Falwell heyday”!