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Blind Faith In Colorado

Predictably, the Colorado Council of Churches is opposing the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, Amendment 46, that would bar the state from engaging in preferential treatment based on race, sex, or ethnicity.

The group says Amendment 46 would eliminate things like science and math tutoring for young women and closing the gender gap in pay.

?Progress has been made in overcoming the effects of centuries of discrimination against women and people of color, but we are not there yet. As people of faith, we feel called to stand with them,? said Jim Ryan, the council?s executive director.

And, presumably, Colorado must continue discriminating against some of its citizens based on their race, etc., until we are ?there,? wherever ?there? is.

Initiatives identical to the one in Colorado have passed, by substantial majorities, in California, Washington, and Michigan, and been implemented. It would strengthen the Colorado churchpeople?s argument if they could point to any ?science and math tutoring for young women? that have been eliminated anywhere as a result of these initiatives. It would also be useful if the faithful could give a few examples of the sorts of programs aimed at ?closing the gender gap in pay? the Colorado they think would be put at risk.

Faith is often said to be blind, but in Colorado it?s apparently dumb as well.

According to its Mission Statement, the Colorado Council of Churches is ?more an organism than an organization, more a body than a bureaucracy, more becoming than being.?

I?d say it?s not there yet.

Full post as published by Discriminations on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).