[From the Values Reporter , Winter Edition]
SAME-SEX "COUPLES" PUSH OUT MARRIEDS AT UW by Sidney Turbyfill
WTV PAC Chairman Bob Larimer barely finished his yeoman's duty as committee Spokesperson for N.O.P.E. on Initiative 677 when the UW Regents illustrated their complete lack of understanding of the mood of the culture in a startling way. They pushed right on to begin admitting same-sex "couples" into married student housing. WTV PAC immediately sent out a news release from Bob with a few choice words for the Regents.
In it, he reprimanded them, saying, The University of Washington's ill-advised arbitrary decision to award special housing privileges to homosexual "couples" is simply one more classic example of extending special rights to a victim-status-claiming grievance group.
Further, Each time special rights are extended on the basis of claimed sexual preferences, citizens in Washington state lose their rights or are discriminated against in favor of well financed politically sophisticated special pleaders.
I think all of us who worked to stop the initiative's frontal assault on our freedoms were relieved of a heavy feeling Tuesday night that citizens might not realize the threat or that we may not be getting the word out adequately. But we obviously did get the word out (it was a heavy voter turnout for an off-year election) and THE PEOPLE spoke. The fact that 60% of the voters were adamantly opposed to trading out their freedom of speech, association and conscience rights for the sake of mitigating the mythical disadvantage that "sexual minorities" claim oppresses them in employment shows just how down to earth and practically minded the voters are. As Bob said, [the vote] demonstrates that the public is emphatically saying "Enough Is Enough!"
Elsewhere in this publication, I told you that a number of us believe that the citizens are with us and we should press the offensive to stop the advance of sexual "minority" politics and reverse the trend. We have high hopes that shedding the light of day . . . upon these policy-driven abuses . . . may force justice back into the workplace -- in this case, the university place.
I've often wondered how I would feel if I had been homosexually abused as a child, married, started a business and was then confronted with the state demand (if 677 had passed) that I defy the emotional struggles over my past by hiring people who remind me, everyday when they clock in, of those former dark times. Today, I wonder if the "enlightened" actions of the UW Board of Regents might not lead to remembrances that cast darkness into the lives of some young marrieds at their institution at a time when they should normally be making memories-of-light?
[Sid is co-founder (along with Bob Larimer) of Washington for Traditional Values Political Action Committee. He lives in Kirkland]
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