Part Three: ESOTERIC DEBATE & CLOSING REMARKS

VOTERS SUPPORT FAIRNESS IN THE WORKPLACE
The sponsors of I-677 rightly understand that fairness in the workplace is important to Washington voters. But, they claim that several initiatives from the recent past (most notably I-608 and I-166) would have "legalized discrimination" against homosexuals and lesbians.

They insist that Washington voters' failure to sign them in large enough numbers to qualify them for a vote means they (the voters) rejected them. That isn't true. The experience of I-677 supports the fact that it is not so much how widespread the support as how many aggressive signature gatherers you can field. Probably the only reason that I-677 acquired a sufficient number of signatures was because they had adequate resources to pay signature gatherers.

OTHER BEHAVIOR BASED "MINORITIES" EXCLUDED
I-677 does nothing for people who are rejected for being overweight or tobacco users (protected by law in Oregon). But, it would guarantee hiring, promotion and job security for anyone who was willing to claim that they participated in non-traditional sexual practices, thought about them or were paranoid that their employer believed they did. Is that fair?

PUBLIC SUPPORT?
I-677 supporters are quick to point out that they collected roughly 230,000 signatures on their petitions. They say that means it is heartily supported everywhere. Their signature count may be true enough, but that doesn't mean that all who signed the petition will vote for it once they realize that I-677 will give a dangerous legal advantage to a group of people which is not suffering widespread abuse preventing them from economic and political prosperity, like legitimate minorities.

Proponents say that polls of Washington voters "overwhelmingly believe that gays and lesbians should have the same rights in the workplace." But Newsweek published polling results that show that the American people are against workplace provisions for bisexuals, lesbians, transvestites, etc. . . . In the same poll in which 84% of those questioned said that "there should be equal rights for gays in job opportunities," 2/3rds of those asked understand well enough that more laws to benefit sexual minorities means more government intervention into their lives. To the question, "Has the U.S. done enough to protect gay rights?," 40% said "done too much" and 26% said, "done enough." [from TOST, P 3.]

Evidently, one-in-four people in the poll (27%) think we need more laws and more government micromanagement to help us run our lives. They answered, "more effort needed." I have a hard time believing that there are this many people who, it would seem, lack compunction over inviting government in to private affairs in spite of the consistent record of failure over the last 60 years of attempted social engineering in America. To much of the outside world -- former communist and failed socialist nations which are rejecting those dismally failed systems, to put it generously -- the current forays of "man's last best hope" into policies of like folly must appear quite bizarre.

CLOSING REMARKS
Proponents say that sexual orientation is irrelevant in hiring and firing decisions. Of course! That's as it should be. Opponents have a very similar view. We believe sexual orientation is, in fact, totally irrelevant, and should not ever be focused on in the workplace. So long as one's sexual predilections remain a private matter, they do indeed properly reside in the domain of workplace irrelevancy.

What we don't need is the government coercing employers to oppress the freedoms of speech, association and conscience of all other employees within their company who are not as privileged. I personally think that this initiative constitutes "legal blackmail" and would be used to force the agenda of transsexuals and bisexuals into the workplace.

In closing, consider the sad plight of the young woman at Seattle's October 19th, 1997 KOMO TV "Town Meeting" debate between Newt Gingrich's lesbian sister, Candice and National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day's organizer, former homosexual Michael Johnston. Claims and counter-claims of the legal implications of the ENDA of Washington initiative flew but the truth about I-677 shone through when one young woman, a former lesbian, stood to speak. She testified that she had been a lesbian for upwards of 13 years and worked in an environment that was affirming of her lifestyle choice until she decided to make a new choice. When she decided to choose to go straight, she was fired -- not because she was a woman, or because she was no longer homosexual in orientation, nor because she was a heterosexual -- she was fired for what she THOUGHT about the sexual orientation she was abandoning. She believed it was wrong.

There is no more powerful reason to oppose the Employment NonDiscrimination Act of Washington than the pathetic plight of all the people who are harassed on the job, passed over for promotion, fired and sued NOT because they PERCEIVE themselves to be of some sexual orientation "not traditionally associated with their gender" but simply because they PERCEIVE those sexual orientations to be wrong.

If proponents of the initiative were willing to insert language under Sec. 3. UNFAIR PRACTICES PROHIBITED to the effect that "(3) It is a prohibited unfair practice for an employer, . . . or person to interfere with any person in the exercise of any right protected by current civil rights law and the U.S. Constitution, or to discharge, expel, or otherwise retaliate or discriminate against a person because he or she opposed any practice AUTHORIZED by this act or DISAGREED WITH any one who assisted in an action brought under it. It shall be unlawful for anyone to file a claim of discrimination in any court of law where the sole basis of the claim of discrimination is thought, attitudes or non-threatening speech [universally identified as civil discourse]" and, if they would agree to insulate, by law, from civil suit, "people who hold religious or other conscientious beliefs incompatible with the view of 'sexual minority' advocates that lesbianism, bisexuality, transvestitism, homosexuality, et al. are not chosen but inherent behaviors or 'perceptions,' are never ill advised, never in moral conflict with the principles of others, always healthy, have no significant consequences to the immune system or other biological processes, are overwhelmingly beneficial to the physical well-being of the practitioners, not historically considered abnormal or unnatural by any former cultures, are never pathologically compulsive or emotionally/socially debilitating, always prudent, could never be thought of as foolhardy," then there may be grounds for a mutual agreement of respect and un-coerced association. Otherwise, if I-677 were to pass, the long-hoped-for dream of affirmation will become an eternal illusion.

VICTIMS OF VIEWPOINT DISCRIMINATION *

  VICTIM . . . IDENTIFIER  -  ABUSE . . . . . LOCATION

Alma Kidd &.....Parent/taxpayer - denied access to......Seattle area
                daughter, state supported (SMI)
                lesbian grooming

Hope Robbins....Child - CPS & court complicity..........Seattle area
                - serial rape

Bryan Griggs....Business owner - phony discrimination...Seattle area
                case

Bryce Taylor....Student - homosexual indoctrination,....Grays Harbor
                tax funded, child/parent meddling 

DSHS Clients....Free citizens - forced SO** preferences.State-wide

DSHS Vendors....Free citizens - forced SO preferences...State-wide

DSHS Employees..Free citizens - forced SO preferences...State-wide

State Employees.Free citizens - diversity "training"....State-wide

King County Employees
................Free citizens - forced SO preferences...King

School Kids.....K-12 - SO "tolerance" training with.....State-wide
               "heavy" sex knowledge
                              
Mick Sheldon....Volunteer - humiliation for.............Kitsap
                traditionalism

Other Victims..All people - Sexual "minority" advocacy..State-wide

Grays Harbor Parents
...............Parents/taxpayers - tax dollars spent....Grays Harbor
               undermining familial values efforts

Patrick Murray.Federal worker - forced diversity........Seattle area
               "training"

Philip Irvin...Municipal worker - agency preference for.Seattle area
               "sexual minorities"

TAPPP Trainees.Students - systematic sexual orientation.Grays Harbor
               indoctrination using tax dollars

Legitimate Minorities
...............Familiar with deprivation - sexual.......State-wide
               "minority" hoax

*Contact Washington for Traditional Values Coalition for copies of related documents. **SO~ Sexual Orientation

This is a partial list of cases of wrongful discrimination against those who are categorically excluded, disenfranchised and even tyrannized because their viewpoints are often officially unwelcome in Washington state.

Washington for Traditional Values has attempted to provide succor and advocacy where possible. We've networked with them, strategized, testified in their behalves, written about them and done broadcast interviews to raise awareness. We've located legal assistance, helped prepare presentations and pled their cases to bureaucrats and legislators.

The irony is that none of them poses any threat to society; they have not committed any criminal offense and their views would not be incompatible with most. Yet they have been abused -- their freedoms have been infringed for the sake of affirming, yea preferring, sexual "minorities."

Please take the time to know about their cases. Those that are not available on the WEB site will be posted over the next several weeks or call for a hard copy of applicable notes and briefs. They are real people -- no different from you and I. In fact, the difference between they and ourselves is that they were in harm's way. It could just as easily happen to any of us.

The only way to end this trend to infamy -- systematic and pervasive public policy turpitude -- is for the uninterested party, the disengaged civic responsibility, the rotting public "ethos" to be salted and healed by people of character and good will. Will you do your part?

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