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In article <55t400$sb8@news0.rain.rg.net>,
Lynn Turriff     <lynnt@mail.oregon.com> wrote:
>Chris, does it not occur to you that if enough people feel strongly enough      
>to propose a Constitutional amendment on this issue that perhaps there is      
>some merit in it?   

Actually, that's not true. The people of Colorado did not
propose this amendment; it was shoved down our throats by
Of the People, Inc. a Christian Coalition affiliate in
Virginia.  They PAID petitioners to gather signatures, which
tells me the backers of this amendment didn't even have the
support of enough people who believed in it to get REAL
citizen initiative behind it. 

Its drubbing on Tuesday was well deserved. Citizen initiatives
belong to the people of a given state, not to special
interest groups who want to change our schools to reflect
their religious agenda, which this amendment certainly would
have done.

It also would have been a disaster to anyone who adopts a
child in this state as it would have given the birth
parent an inalienable right to reclaim his/her child anytime
they saw fit. When our former senator (and devoutly
Christian) Bill Armstrong said this amendment was
bad news, people really started looking at what this
amendment would mean.

Marianne Goodland
Denver