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oapen-20.500.12657-641302023-07-28T03:04:44Z Strangers to the Law Keen, Lisa Goldberg, Suzanne Law Sexuality Studies Political Science - American Politics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting any law or policy that protected a person with a homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation from discrimination. This amendment was immediately challenged in the courts as a denial of equal protection of the laws under the United States Constitution. This litigation ultimately led to a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court invalidating the Colorado ballot initiative. Suzanne Goldberg, an attorney involved in the case from the beginning on behalf of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Lisa Keen, a journalist who covered the initiative campaign and litigation, tell the story of this case, providing an inside view of this complex and important litigation. 2023-07-27T13:57:06Z 2023-07-27T13:57:06Z 1998 book ONIX_20230727_9780472086450_22 9780472086450 9780472904174 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64130 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9780472086450.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14593 10.3998/mpub.14593 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 b5941080-3f20-4864-95c6-753acff7c9f4 9780472086450 9780472904174 Big Ten Open Books Ann Arbor [...] Big Ten Open Books Big Ten Open Books — Gender and Sexuality Studies Collection Big Ten Academic Alliance open access
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In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting any law or policy that protected a person with a homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation from discrimination. This amendment was immediately challenged in the courts as a denial of equal protection of the laws under the United States Constitution. This litigation ultimately led to a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court invalidating the Colorado ballot initiative. Suzanne Goldberg, an attorney involved in the case from the beginning on behalf of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Lisa Keen, a journalist who covered the initiative campaign and litigation, tell the story of this case, providing an inside view of this complex and important litigation.
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