Opinions wanted (Portland, Eugene, Salem: lawyers, employment, neighborhoods)

[brikag]

What do you think of the discrimination law going through the house? My parnter and I wanted to see if there were any opinions from the Oregonians before we move there. Please all opinions welcome!

[PNW-type-gal]

Originally Posted by brikag

What do you think of the discrimination law going through the house? My parnter and I wanted to see if there were any opinions from the Oregonians before we move there. Please all opinions welcome!

You'll get opinions on all sides, taking to most Oregonians - the trick is that there are larger "pockets" of similar opinions, and you want to live where the sentiment matches your own. If you are FOR the fast-track anti-discrimination bills, you want to live in the city of Portland, and some of the more fun neighborhoods. If you are against it, you want to live in the much more conservative suburbs, or outside the bigger cities.

Me, personally? For it. What you do and what you believe in your personal life is no one else's business, and shouldn't come into play in employment or housing.

[Marko3]

I agree with PNW. In the larger cities, such as Portland, Salem, and Eugene is where you'll most likely find broader opinions and more mixed culture. The smaller towns aren't as exposed to as many "differences" and tend not to be as open minded.

[freedom]

We are opened minded in the smaller towns, we just don't happen to all agree with changing society in a perverse manner of accepting what ever someone throws at us.
Open minded should not mean accept everything as a good social design. Some things should not be changed and I am very open to that.

[ElphinKnight]

"What am I? I'm a bigot. There ain't but two of us left.. and I don't like him neither."
-- (from Bill Cosby on Prejudice, 1971, in which he dressed in white-face and slandered everyone from blacks, to Italians, to women, to children).

[freedom]

Elphinknight;

I thought the civil rights movement fixed racial bigotry- Even Don Imus knows that, the anti discrimination bill in Oregon is regarding special rights for people that have sex with the same gender. Not race.
The whole thing is about being able to sue people if you feeeel like you have been dissed. Out of work lawyers love that kind of stuff.
People will still be able to have sex with whomever they want, the laws never stopped that even when there were laws against it.
Personally I don't care what people do with their consentual bodies, just don't stuff it down my throat! Its disgusting.

How's that for an opinion Brikag?
Oregon is a tolerant place, as long as you don't want to make everyone else accept everything that people do on their own time. Freedom is the key, You are free to live wherever you would like, and Oregon will accept you just the way you are. Just don't expect a parade, we have busy lives, and I wouldn't let a law decide for me where to live either. We would all have to find another planet, and they are not cheap to move to.

[bustedbus]

As stated above, Oregon has many pockets of people with similar opinions. You can go from far right, to so far left that the PC bull is enough to make this tree hugging dirt worshiper sick. I wouldn't let a single law, or the opinion of the small number of people you will get here decide a thing for me. Left or Right, Oregon has a place for you.

[bobmulk]

You will find people of all stripes pretty much anywhere unless you move to a strictly ultra-conservative or ultra-liberal area. For Oregon as a whole, my observation is that people are more libertarian--they are sick of government and special interest groups making decisions for the broader population. Most people have a laissez-faire attitude. They'll let you live your life and accept you based on who you are, not on what you do with your genitals. However, most people I know here are opposed to you or anyone from Christians to homosexuals telling them what they must accept and how they must live.