I am appalled, shocked, and saddened by the recent Colorado amendment which remove

    I  am  appalled,  shocked,  and saddened  by  the  recent  Colorado
amendment which removed current and future civil rights guarantees from
a  select  minority (homosexuals). How do Coloradians  morally  justify
legislating  hate and repression, after the bitter and  hard-won  civil
rights  successes in the past three decades? Will the Jews be  next  on
the  list of non-conformists to be awarded second-class citizen status?
Are  black people next to be alienated from their "unalienable" rights?
Will  my sex life, as a heterosexual, some day be the business  of  all
the citizens of Colorado?

    For  the  past eight years I have spent two weeks in  Colorado,  at
Vail,  skiing.  Now  I can not morally justify my doing  business  with
Colorado  by  vacationing there; this year, and all future years,  I'll
ski  in  Mammoth  in  California. My yearly  camping  trips  to  Bailey
Colorado  will also be rescheduled to another location. I do  not  want
anything to do with an entire State that would strip fundamental rights
from millions of Americans.

    I am ashamed of being a citizen of a Nation that would claim rights
and justice for all, but legislate hate and oppression, based solely on
the  occult hallucinations of a loud out-of-control manic minority such
as  "Focus on the Family" cult, which funded the new hate law. Where is
Colorado's shame?  --- David Rice