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What does OCA stand for?

Oregon Citizens Alliance (political group)


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In 1990, Republican Dave Frohnmayer alienated conservatives by opposing state measures to limit property taxes and restrict abortion rights, and by refusing to accede to the demands of an anti-gay-rights group, the Oregon Citizens Alliance.
Antigay Oregon activist Lon Mabon is arrested for contempt of court after failing to attend two court hearings related to a 10-year-old case involving a gay activist who was attacked by a former employee of Mabon's Oregon Citizens Alliance.
Multnomah County Circuit Judge Ronald Cinniger said he was willing to consider releasing Mabon, but the Oregon Citizens Alliance founder instead instructed his lawyer to request the judge disqualify himself.
By having facts and figures that were enticing to the media, we were able to build our public image," says Bocci, who adds that the Oregon Citizens Alliance was a formidable foe because it ran a well-organized campaign that played on the emotions of citizens uncomfortable with the gay community.
The Oregon Citizens Alliance promoted Measure 9 with this kind of argument: "Homosexuals already have the same basic rights as everyone else.
During the mid-1990s when the Oregon Citizens Alliance forced its homophobic initiatives on Oregon's rural communities denying discrimination protection to gays and lesbians the battle cry was, "no special rights.
The unlikely friendship has been a factor in Smith's U-turn from darling of the antigay Oregon Citizens Alliance, which endorsed hun in the special election (which he narrowly lost) early in 1996, to the leading gay rights champion among Senate Republicans.
Sponsored by the Oregon Citizens Alliance, the initiative would prohibit public schools - from kindergartens through doctoral programs - from encouraging or sanctioning homosexuality.

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