[Moo] Same Gender Corsort Proposal from SCA Announcement List

[Marcolo DelMare]

What a pile of crap. We are going to miss the opportunity to correct
discrimination verbage, and instead change the style of the discrimination.
Oh how big of us to say if you want you don't *have* to discriminate but we
prefer it if you do.

Marcolo

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:57 PM, <lady_esperanza at cox.net> wrote:

> For those not on the SCA Announcement list:
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:12:08 -0500 (EST)
> From: ea at sca.org
> Subject: [Announcements] "Same-Gender Consort Proposal"
> To: announcements at lists.sca.org
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> At the Oct 2011 Board meeting, in response to a formal request from An Tir
> and a
> substantial amount of related correspondence from our membership, we
> committed
> to crafting proposed language to allow same-gender consorts at the
> Crown/Coronet
> List level to send out for commentary. This topic is clearly emotionally
> charged
> for many people, whether for or against the change. We do not have clear
> direction from a majority of participants based on either the Census data
> or the
> correspondence received to date.
>
>
>
> The Board therefore solicits commentary on the following potential language
> change to its governing documents in hopes of eliciting commentary and
> direction
> from the membership:
>
> Current language:
> Each competitor in a Royal Lists must be fighting for a consort of the
> opposite
> gender.
>
> Proposed Language:
> Each competitor in a Royal Lists must be fighting for a consort of the
> opposite
> gender.  Crowns may permit entry into the Royal Lists by same-gender
> couples.
>
> Comments on this proposal are due by April 1, 2012.  Please use the title
> "Same-Gender Consort Proposal" in the Subject line.
>
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