Oregon Heterosexual Supremacists Fail To Gather Signatures To Repeal Domestic partnerships

Published: October 9, 2007, 11:58 am

Tags: ballot measures, 2008 elections, domestic partnership, gay rights, heterosexual supremacists, conservatives, lgbt, politics, oregon

There is some good news today out of Oregon. As Mad Professah reported earlier this year, the Democratic-controlled Legislature passed both a non-discrimination bill called the Oregon Equality Act (inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity and covering employment, public accomodations, housing and other areas) as well as a domestic partnership bill (the Oregon Family Fairness Act) and both bills were signed into law on May 9, 2007 by Democratic Governor Ted Kulongoski.However, soon afterwards heterosexual supremacists announced they would start collecting signatures to put the civil rights of the minority up to a majority vote, in the hopes that the majority would repeal both LGBT rights laws and prevent them from going into effect on January 1, 2008.Yesterday came word that the evil doers collected 55,063 signatures to put a measure on the November 2008 ballot to place the Oregon Family Fairness Act on hold until then. Happily, they needed 55, 179 signatures so Oregon will

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