Well, the OCA got a ballot measure to overturn the Governor's anti-discrimination order passed.
They failed to pass any of the measures they put on the ballot after that. Thank god.
But it was not looking good for a while and was pretty scary.
Eventually it all became moot when the state passed a law adding sexual orientation and gender identity to existing anti discrimination laws.
And several cities/counties had done so before then. Portland & Multnomah county did so at least 10 years before the state did.
The OCA may have been pretty scary for a while, but they managed to rally and unite the LGBT community and their allies.
They also managed to paint themselves in a bad light several times. They and their leader got in trouble for some financial shenanigans with the campaign and organizational donations being misused and improperly reported.
They also got a lot of bad press when they got sued for *literally* throwing lesbian reporter (who'd been *invited*) out of a meeting.
As in the second in command (Scott Lively, a nasty person who has moved on to inciting hate in other countries) physically picked her up tossed her out the door and down some steps.
She sued and won. And part of the financial shenanigans was an effort to hide money so they wouldn't have to pay the (rather large) judgement against them.
But we didn't see the last of them until the 90s.
Oh yeah, on of the more amusing (and somewhat effective) tactics used against them was some people putting statements in "support" of the OCA measures in the voter's pamphlet. Most were paid, but a few may have gotten enough signatures to get them in for free.
Support is in quotes, because they ratcheted up the rhetoric to the point where only the rabid sorts could still agree with it. Or they took the ideas to their logical conclusions which the OCA had carefully been avoiding. :-)
That tactic is *still* being used now against some things.
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They failed to pass any of the measures they put on the ballot after that. Thank god.
But it was not looking good for a while and was pretty scary.
Eventually it all became moot when the state passed a law adding sexual orientation and gender identity to existing anti discrimination laws.
And several cities/counties had done so before then. Portland & Multnomah county did so at least 10 years before the state did.
The OCA may have been pretty scary for a while, but they managed to rally and unite the LGBT community and their allies.
They also managed to paint themselves in a bad light several times. They and their leader got in trouble for some financial shenanigans with the campaign and organizational donations being misused and improperly reported.
They also got a lot of bad press when they got sued for *literally* throwing lesbian reporter (who'd been *invited*) out of a meeting.
As in the second in command (Scott Lively, a nasty person who has moved on to inciting hate in other countries) physically picked her up tossed her out the door and down some steps.
She sued and won. And part of the financial shenanigans was an effort to hide money so they wouldn't have to pay the (rather large) judgement against them.
But we didn't see the last of them until the 90s.
Oh yeah, on of the more amusing (and somewhat effective) tactics used against them was some people putting statements in "support" of the OCA measures in the voter's pamphlet. Most were paid, but a few may have gotten enough signatures to get them in for free.
Support is in quotes, because they ratcheted up the rhetoric to the point where only the rabid sorts could still agree with it. Or they took the ideas to their logical conclusions which the OCA had carefully been avoiding. :-)
That tactic is *still* being used now against some things.