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"Gay rights is the issue of the 90's, just as civil rights was in the 60's and women's rights was in the 70's."

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"Gay rights is the issue of the 90's, just as civil rights was in the 60's and women's rights was in the 70's."

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- Burke Stinson, Public Relations manager at AT&T

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- People are starting to fight for LGBT rights, especially in the workplace
- Many companies are starting to acknowledge and support the gay community
- A larger number of companies are barely acknowledging their gay staff because they do not see a need to give them special Treatment

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 "How productive are employees who worry about using the wrong pronouns to describe the people they love, who can't take their partners of 12 years to a company function, who fear that their boss hates gays?"

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 "How productive are employees who worry about using the wrong pronouns to describe the people they love, who can't take their partners of 12 years to a company function, who fear that their boss hates gays?"

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- Ronald Smebye, Gay activist

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- Many Colorado municipalities are prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in all aspects of society (housing, education, employment, public facilities, etc.)
- The majority of the population in Colorado was not happy about these ordinances and voted in a referendum to the Colorado state constitution

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- Amendment 2 to the Colorado State Constitution prohibits the law from protecting the LGBT community against discrimination

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- Roy Romer was denied a lease on an apartment by Richard Evans solely because of his sexual orientation
- Romer sued Evans but Evans argued that he had the right to deny Romer the lease under Amendment 2
- Evans along with others argued that the amendment simply denied special treatment to the gay community

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"The stated purpose of the amendment was to prevent the deterioration of the sexual morality favored by most Coloradans."

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"The stated purpose of the amendment was to prevent the deterioration of the sexual morality favored by most Coloradans."

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- Case briefs

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- The court ruled that amendment 2 of the Colorado State Constitution was unconstitutional
- The law violated the equal protection clause under amendment 14 of the United Stares Constitution

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"If the constitutional conception of 'equal protection of the laws' means anything, it must at the very least mean that a bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group cannot constitute a legitimate governmental interest."

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"If the constitutional conception of 'equal protection of the laws' means anything, it must at the very least mean that a bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group cannot constitute a legitimate governmental interest."

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- Justice Anthony Kennedy

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- At the time this was the most positive ruling about LGBT rights
- The ruling showed that gay and lesbian men and women had the same right to governmental protection as straight people
- Showed a new level of respect for the LGBT community by acknowledging the fact that it is not right to discriminate based on moral or religious objections to a person's sexual orientation