High school votes on gay issue BRKMKRTON. Wash (AD — Students at Bremerton High School begun voting Monday on an amendment to the si bool's constitution that would allow pupils to kii k their openly gay classmates off the student coun cil The proposal, which supporters sa\ was mere ly intended to prolong debate at the school's annu al constitutional convention, has polarized the stu dent body and attracted national attention since the student congress approved it 4tM7 last week "It started ns a reason to get out of class and turned into an issue that people ( mild debate pas sionately on." said Mike Mercer, a staunch pro ponent of the amendment who spoke to reporters with a Bible open on the table in front of him He said the message of the proposal is simple Homosexuality is wrong "I am a Christian I believe in this book, the Bible, and it says homosexuality is wrong," Mer cer said. Students voted Monday in their homerooms, and votes will be tallied Tuesday II two thirds of the homerooms reject the measure based on majority votes within eni h homeroom an over all majority vote of the full. 1.350 student body will be taken Wednesday, said Principal Marilee Hansen. Meanwhile, mobs of reporters descended on Bremerton High, a school with tall evergreens and the snowcapped Olvmpii Mountains for a bet k drop. Bremerton is 15 miles across Puget Sound from Seattle Cameras dotted the lunchroom and lawn as stu dents lined up to be interviewed alto tit their views on the controversial proposal Walter Brown, 17. said lie found the amendment "very childish and ignorant .“ "I ain't got nothing against guvs, as long as they keep their hands to themselves," he said Each year, the high s< hool takes the unusual step of calling a one-day constitutional congress to make amendments to si bool rules The congress and the student council are one and the same Until last Wednesday, the subjei t of homosexu ality had nev er come up at the annual i (invention. The congress usually votes on ruins governing such things as iltsi iplinarv appeals and the mini mum grade point average for athletes The anti-gay measure would make it possible for students discovered practicing "immoral beh.n - tor" to lie impeai bed from elei ted office h\ their peers on the count il "in order to preserve the integrity and high moral standards that HUS is built upon " Immoral behavior at cording to the amendment, includes sexual harassment, indei ent exposure, sodium and homosexuality It's unlikely the rule would actuallv go into effect. Hansen said She said administrators, who have the power to override proposed constitution al amendments, seem to lie against this one Hansen said the measure was brought hv a polit ically savvy group of right-wing Christian students who dominate the student council One of them, Mercer, said he's been taunted at school sun u he spoke ill favor of the proposed measure before the congressional vote last Wednesday “I've been < ailed Hitler reborn' and v u e presi dent of the I asi ist Club, he said Another supporter. Andrew l.edhetter. I said the measure was not mount as an outright ban of gas people from the council It was meant, rather, to “empower the majority “ to remove sui h people from office "All I want to do is bring these people to heaven with me." l.edhetter said of gavs He wore a I short (tearing the image of former President Ronald Reagan that read. "Rememlier When Ament a Had a Real President'" II Hewitt. 17, the student council’s vice pmsi deal elect, said he was shocked when the emigres-, passed the proposal "In a puhln high si bool, to make a political statement like this, it s pist disastrous he said They’re using a high m bool as a platform for their political platform." Despite their vvllllllgliess to grant inters lews, school counselor Dorothy Chylm said students have expressed frustration at all the attention “I've had quite a few of the students come up to me and sav. Plus is chaos, this is riilu ulous. she said “Most have expressed frustration w ith the public ity Unified House passes stalking bill SAI.IA1 (AP) - Slaters i oukl face prison terms as long as five years under a f >i 11 unanimously passed today by the Oregon I limse The measure. 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