Oregon used to have an organization called the Oregon Citizens' Alliance, which ran anti-gay ballot initiatives year after year.
Well, the OCA is still out there, but it's a spent force, hasn't had a measure on the ballot in a good long while.
Now, though, there's a Coalition to Defend Marriage or something like that which has managed to get an anti-gay measure on the ballot.
It won't matter much whether it passes. As with the OCA's measures, it would be thrown out of court at the first challenge.
What causes me serious concern is the grim statistical fact that whenever the OCA was running one of its campaigns, incidence of violent crimes against people perceived to be gay increased dramatically.
You could pretty much count on at least one murder.
How many lives is it worth to "send a message" about the proper place of homosexuals in our society?
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