When was the last time it heard about one in an entirely new area? It's not every meeting, especially not these days, that it hears about a landmark Supreme Court decision upholding civil rights.
In doing that, the Court ruled for the first time that the United States Constitution does not allow the government to justify discrimination against lesbians and gay men with dislike or disapproval. The decision overturned a ballot initiative that would have eradicated all of the state's local gay rights laws and prevented even the state itself from passing any in the future. Supreme Court's decision in the Amendment 2 case, which the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project had handled with Lambda Legal Defense, the Colorado ACLU and another local group. In the fall of 1996, Steve Shapiro, the Legal Director of the ACLU, asked me to talk to the ACLU's National Board of Directors about the U.S. Looking Back: Lesbian and Gay Rights, AIDS, and the ACLU
