Return-Path: sendmail 8.6.4/UCSD-2.2-sun Wed, 8 Dec 1993 14:10:58 -0800 for socgrad-list Wed, 8 Dec 1993 14:10:55 -0800 for Subject: APPLE NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES UNDER ATTACK (fwd) To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 16:10:47 -0600 (CST) From: "Laura L. Fertwagner" Forwarded message: >From psn@csf.colorado.edu Wed Dec 8 12:05:25 1993 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 11:05:10 -0700 Originator: psn@csf.colorado.edu Sender: psn@csf.colorado.edu From: "Martha E. Gimenez (303) 492-7080" Subject: APPLE NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES UNDER ATTACK X-Comment: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK Dear PSNers, this is a forwarded message. _____________________________________________________________________________ Hey everyone, Just giving you a chance to do your thing in support of a good cause. Please read this all the way through, and if you believe in it enough to spend a minute sending an email message, than definitely do that. Thanks! ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear friends, I am sending you this because I think that it is important. Please read this message and decide whether you think that your contribution can make a difference. Then ACT! Apple Computer is under a well organized phone-fax-mail attack by the Religious Right, demanding that Apple Computer drop its pro-human rights policy of non-discrimination against lesbian and gay employees. Basically, far right groups including religous fundamentalists are pressuring the company to "see the light" and discrimate. Right now there are about 500 callers in opposition to every 1 in support of current policies. Let's change this. Blitz murphy.s@applelink.apple.com and say that you support the company's non-discrimination policy, which includes sexual orientation and benefits for partners of lesbian and gay employees. Thanks, and PLEASE forward this to anyone you know who might support this cause. P.S. If you don't have the time to write something, copy this and send it out, and maybe add something about how you own a mac, or are mac dependant (you know you are!): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I strongly support your current non-discrimination policy, especially with regards to lesbian and gay employees, as well as benefits for partners of those employees. I also would like to recognize Apple's brave role as a pioneer in the search for equal opportunity, and hope that more companies will follow and not be pressure by the far right to discriminate against people based on who they are. With my sincerest thanks and hopes that you will recieve more support for your actions.