Nation IN BRIEF : OREGON : Anti-Gay-Rights Measures Approved
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Anti-gay-rights measures won approval from Oregon voters in two cities and four counties. The results encouraged backers who hope to spread their crusade to other states. Voters in Canby and Junction City and in the largely rural Josephine, Douglas, Linn and Klamath counties voted to bar local governments from passing laws to protect homosexuals from discrimination. The measures, endorsed by better than 2-to-1 margins in some places, also bar local governments from spending money to “promote†homosexuality.
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