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From: cme@cloud9.UUCP (Carl Ellison)
Newsgroups: alt.sex,news.admin
Subject: Re: Is alt.sex about to be legislated away?
Summary: ahh, but which bill passed?
Message-ID: <1951@cloud9.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 88 15:35:56 GMT
References: <9644@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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In article <9644@cup.portal.com>, Ringworld-Engineer@cup.portal.com writes:
>> Sponsored by Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., the proposal, which passed 97-0,
>>was grafted to an unrelated bill requiring large companies to offer at least 
>>10 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to employees with medical
>>emergencies or new babies.
> 
> Other than the fact that certain parts of this seem to be in violation of the
> first ammendment, I'm very worried that it passed 97-0, which implies it is 
> not a partisan issue.
> 

Which passed 97-0? ...the amendment or the medical leave bill?

I don't know which is more worrying to me:  this kind of attitude in the
Senate, Reagan's Supreme Court or Bush's repeated attacks on the ACLU plus
the Duke's backing away from the ACLU in response.

A friend of mine who lived through the 60's commented, back in 1980,
that the conservative backlash had a good side.  It would get so bad that
there would be another uprising of the young -- another Hippie movement --
more fun times, battering the Establishment.

Well ... have we had enough yet?


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