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not been the word "sex" used there and he said "sex",
of course, was eliminated because the paragraph began
"No person".
Now, did you have the same reason for elininat-
ing that word, or did you have a different reason?
THE CHAIRMEN: Delegate Mitchell.
DELEGATE MITCHELL: Well, Delegate Beachley,
as you remember in our committee deliberations, there wore
several proposals to include sex and as far as I am
concerned, I am opposed to all kinds of discrimination and
some of the new state constitutions do include the word
sex, but there were only three women in our committee and
then the women were not all agreed on it, and we C.ifl not
find enough agreement among the men to get a minority
and I would suggest that I believe discrimination against
women is a problem; although we are the majority in this
state, I think if you will look around us, you will sec
that we. are a minority here.
However, I would suggest that for anyone who is
in-fcores-ted in hvir.g tha-fc pro-toction as T holicvc -t'ic
minority report shows that Hawaii has that protection,