Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 13:34:38 -0600
From: cooper@biosci.mbp.missouri.edu (Pam Cooper)

[submitted by: cooper@biosci.mbp.missouri.edu (Pam Cooper)]

We have received word that the sponsor of Missouri's anti-gay initiative,
the Amendment Coalition, has failed to get the required number of
signatures to quality the initiative for the Nov 1994 ballot.  I have
received a news release from the AC, and will send it along after I have
entered it.  Paul Summers, director of the AC cites "Procrastination" as
the reason for their failure.  He also vows that they will continue the
fight on another front, because "this moral, social and cultural warfare
for the hearts and lives of our families will go on because of the
homosexual activists' determination to overthrow those ideals that make
this country great in favor of their personal, selfish, sexual pleasures." 
He refuses to name how many signatures they did get.

Five press conferences by Show Me Equality, the campaign opposing the
initiative are scheduled for around the state today.  Our message:  watch
out for the radical rights folks, they want to take political power in our
state...

Pam Cooper,  Media Coordinator for Show Me Equality of Mid-Missouri 

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