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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1991)
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For further information call (503)752-8157, or write Human Rights Coalition, 101 Northwest 23rd, Corvallis, Ore., 97330. The ultraconservative Oregon Citizens Alli ance is suing the city of Portland over its new ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual OCA orientation. The suit, filed a few weeks ago in Multnomah County Circuit Court, maintains the ordinance runs counter to state law. OnOcL 3, the counterclaim The OCA filed acounterclaimNov.22 against City Council unanimously approved the civil rights Just photographer Catherine Stauffer, saying measure which bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and source of income in em she trespassed while attending an OCA-spon- ployment, housing and public accommodations. sored event. Stauffer previously filed a lawsuit in Last session, Oregon state lawmakers failed to Multnomah County Circuit Court She is seeking approve similar legislation, a factor the suit cites at least $350,000 in damages stemming from the as evidence of the state’s position on the matter. OcL 8 incident in which she was allegedly as City officials, meanwhile, say they’re confi saulted by OCA spokesman Scott Lively while dent the ordinance will hold up in court, saying attending the group’s premiere screening of its such details were examined prior to the City new anti-gay video. The suit charges Lively Council’s action. The suit was filed on behalf of grabbed Stauffer in a “rough and violent manner” Casey’s Plumbing Inc., which is owned by Bill as he removed her from the screening at Portland’s Casey, OCA Multnomah County director. The Foursquare Church. Stauffer, who was attending group has also filed a local ballot initiative that as a private citizen, had received a formal invitation would amend the city charter to prohibit, in part, to the event Stauffer’s case is gamering widespread at “government promotion, encouragement or fa tention. Both the nationally-distributed newspa cilitation of homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism and masochism.’’ That initiative was filed on per USA Today and the CBS news program “48 behalf of the OCA’s No Special Rights Committee, Hours,” caught wind of the suit that charges the which must gather 17,542 signatures by Jan. 20, OCA and Lively with assault and battery. USA 1992, to get the proposal on the May 19 primary Today ran a few lines about the case after it was filed, and CBS news contacted Stauffer and her ballot. attorney Bradley Woodworth for further infor mation. Woodworth says a producer and crew Action in from CBS’s “48 Hours” program are considering a trip to Oregon next month. “I think they want to Conrallis do a story about reactionary groups that fear Striving to follow in Portland’s footsteps, the social change,” he says. “It would appear the Corvallis City Council hopes to pass an ordinance OCA may fit the bill.” Stauffer, who spoke with later this month prohibiting and punishing dis producer Tim Clifford, says he found her story crimination and hate crimes against lesbians and “emotionally compelling.” gays. OCA officials are trying to block the One other note-Stauffer says since the inci measure and have filed a local ballot initiative dent, she’s received a certified letter from the banning the city from including sexual orienta OCA saying it was “an official notice that your tion in its proposed civil rights legislation. City presence is not welcome at any future OCA meet- Councilor Prudence Miles says the OCA’s at mgs... tempts to deny basic human rights to lesbians and gays have given the council “an even stronger resolve to pass the ordinance.’’ She admits, Video mania however, the OCA is making its presence felt. Nearly a month after Just Out detailed the “They have a well-organized letter writing cam contents of the OCA’s new anti-gay video, the paign to the editor and they're keeping a close group presented the tape to the media-at-large watch on everyone,” she explains. “For example, during a screening at the Portland Hilton. In a church here was recently exploring forming a November, we described for you the video’s gay and lesbian support group, and an OCA contents, which essentially portrays gays as freaks member made sure to be there to protest. We also eager to sexually abuse children. It has been held a public hearing regarding the ordinance, and described as “flat-out propaganda” and a “total the OCA stacked the place. They had about 30 misrepresentation of the lesbian and gay com members there, and there was only one proponent munity.” on hand...It just shows how important it is for During the Hilton press screening, the OCA’s people to come forth and speak out, write letters Scott Lively attempted to remove Just Out col and get involved.” umnist Linda Shirley, who was attending in her Efforts are underway to combat the OCA’s capacity as a KBOO radio reporter. According to attack on Corvallis’ gay and lesbian community. Shirley, Lively told her she had to leave because A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of representa the screening was for “invited press only.” Just tives of After 8, a gay and lesbian action group, the Out and KBOO did not receive OCA invitations. American Civil Liberties Union and the Corvallis “At that point I told him he couldn’t manipulate chapter of the National Organization for Women. the press that way,” explains Shirley, adding After 8 spokesperson Nan Dudek says the suit Lively then turned off the v ideo and stood directly challenges the initiative' s ballot title and summ ary, in front of her. “I said 'Are you going to do to me and could conceivably stall the OCA’s efforts to what you did to Catherine Stauffer?’ That’s when collect enough petition signatures by the Jan. 20, the television cameras turned to us and started 1992, deadline. She also says a local political rolling ” Shirley says it was then that OCA leader action committee has been formed. “Assuming Lon Mabon told Lively to let her stay. the initiative gets on the ballot, we’re going to The OCA hopes to distribute 10,000 copes of need money to develop a campaign as well as its inaccurate and inflammatory video in its effort people to ring doorbells,” she says. The local to amend the state constitution to declare homo PAC, called the Human Rights Coalition, is seek- sexuality “perverse and abnormal." * The Coffee Merchants ♦ The finest imported coffee beans, teas, chocolates, and beverage brewing accessories ♦ TH I BROADWAY COFFEE MERCHANT 16T7 N E Broadway • 28< 02 c» ♦ THE HAW THORNE COFTTF MFRC H A N T J5t>2 S E Hawihome • 2X*-1222 ♦ THF HILLSDALE COFTEE MERCHANT H illstijle Shopping Center • 244 4822 if Set the record straight Angered that the OCA’s video links homo sexuality with pedophilia, Portland resident Ellen O’Malley contacted Just Out to tell us her former husband, a man “strongly against gays,” and a “faithful follower of the Foursquare Church” was serving prison-time for sodomizing her daughter. Portland’s Foursquare Church was the sight of the OCA’s OcL 8 premiere screening of its video that implies gays are the primary perpetrators of pedophilia. The church has also been named as a defendant in Just Out photographer Catherine Stauffer’s lawsuit against the OCA. “When I heard the video was being played at the Foursquare Church I could not believe it,” says O’Malley. “The hypocrisy is incredible. Here the video was saying gays did this kind of thing to children, and my ex-husband, a faithful follower of the Foursquare Church, was in jail for abusing my daughter.” O’Malley says her former husband, Kevin James O’Malley, was actively involved in the Gresham-based Foursquare Church and “had friends at the church in Portland.” She adds, “It just didn’t seem right that gays were having this pinned on them.” According to Valerie RighL chief deputy dis trict attorney for Lincoln County, KevinO’Malley pleaded guilty last year the three counts of sod omy against O’Malley’s daughter and is serving three consecutive prison sentences for the crimes. Ellen O’Malley says she and her ex-husband had moved for a short time to Lincoln County. She has since moved back to Portland. The East Hill Foursquare Church in Gresham says it has no records of Kevin O’Malley being a member. Church Treasurer Mark Gale also says “no one in the office” recalls knowing a Kevin O’Malley who was active in the church’s activi ties. Three peas in a pod OCA co-founder Joe Lutz joined Vice Presi dent Dan Quayle and North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., at a gathering to celebrate the Rev. Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition. Robertson is host of the conservative religious program “The 700 Club” on his Christian Broadcasting Network, and was a presidential contender in 1988. His Christian Coalition, which handles a host of political activities, invited Lutz and 15 other congressional candidates to a re ception with prospective donors during the recent Virginia Beach celebration. Lutz is campaigning to unseat Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., and has been making the rounds across the country to raise funds. The coalition is reportedly seeking to sponsor independent campaigns on behalf of se lected candidates next year, but has yet to make a commitment to Lutz. Lutz, who ran a surprisingly tight race against Packwood in 1986, is striving to raise $1 million in his latest challenge against the longtime incumbent OCA tidbits Queer Nation/Eugene is collecting informa tion about the OCA and is encouraging people throughout the state to send mailings, news clippings, photographs, sightings, phone num bers, and personal experiences. Write to: OCA Information, PO Box 984, Eugene, Ore. 97401.