Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 05:09:28 -1000
From: lambda@aloha.net (Martin Rice)
Subject: Free Congress Amicus Brief in Hawaii

Aloha kakahiaka kakou.

The following "head's up" comes to us from Jerry Sloan (projtocsin@aol.com)
concerning the Baehr v. Miike "Same-sex marriage" case.




** AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF OF PETITIONERS

     Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., Concerned Women for America,
American Family Association Law Center, Specialty Research Associates,
Alaskans Opposed to Pro-homosexual Policies, Christian Family Network,
Citizens for Community Values, Colorado for Family Values, Equal Rights Not
Special Rights, Family First, Kerusso Ministries, National Campaign to
Protect Marriage, Stop Promoting Homosexuality America, Traditional Values
Coalition, Wallbuilders, Free Congress Research & Education Foundation and
Coalitions for America.  **

One of the more prominent amicus curiae filers is the Free Congress
Foundation whose board chair is Jeffery Coors of Coors Beer fame and
President is Paul Weyrich.

According to a series of recent articles by Bruce Mirkin in the Bay Area
Times the last 990 report available was1995 which reported the FCF received $
450,000 from the Castle Rock Foundation whose board is composed of  Adolph
Coors Co.Chair William K. Coors, Vice Chair Peter Coors who is also CEO of
the Coors Brewing Co. Jeffery Coors, president of ACX Technologies which
supplies hundreds of millions of dollars of supplies to Coors Brewing, his
mother, Holly Coors (Joseph's ex-wife) and a Rev. Robt. Windsor.

Even though the Coors Co. and Family have woven a web of lies concerning the
activiteis of the Company and Family, here on the mainland gay folk are
falling over over themselve to declare the Coors Co. and the Family righteous
and gay friendly because they instituted an anti-discrimination policy and
domestic partners in the company and these same gay fold absolutely turn a
deaf ear to the the fact that through the foundations the Coors continue to
fund such organizations as FCF which are working against those very policies.

Also, according to Russ Bellant's book "The Coors Connection" the Coalitions
for America which is also headed by Paul Weyrich had (still has?) as an
employee a convicted Czechoslovokian Nazi collaborator who somehow managed to
emigrate to the U.S. after WW ll. 

The CFA was also designated in a secret Pennsylvania Christian Coalition
handbook as the organization to send checks to pay for closed monthly
satellite meetings of the the Religious Right network around the country. Out
of these meeting the National Empowerment Television (NET) cable channel
sponsored by the FCF was developed.

It is the support by the Coors family and their foundations of these
homohating organizations which makes your fight in Hawaii so much harder.

Buy Coors - Fund the Anti-Gay Right

Jerry Sloan
Project Tocsin
Sacramento


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  "You can't put a cost . . . on something that is
  tantamount to civil rights."
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                   Fred and Martin
                      24 years,
                yet strangers before
                       the law
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