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he American Civil Liberties Union plans
to fight the Desert Pacific Council Boy
Scouts of Americas leases on public land,
reports an Aug. 3 San Diego Union-Tnbune story.
The troop is seeking an early renewal of its
50-year lease on almost 16 acres in Balboa Park.
The lease, which expires in 2007, costs the
Scouts only $ l a year.
The troop has another lease with the city on
a half-acre at Fiesta Island, ACLU spokesman
Dale Kelly Bankhead said. “They should termi
nate these leases with the Boy Scouts unless
they change their discriminatory practices.”
President Dan McAllister says his trixip has
just as much right to the park as any other group.
“A national policy is not something we’re in a
position to change, and therefore we have to
deal with the situation as it is, and our goal is to
get that lease renewed and to move forward.”
The ACLU says the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay
stance violates the California and U .S Consti
tutions, the city’s Human Dignity Ordinance
and the lease terms, which bar discrimination.
In addition, policies promoting belief in God
and excluding atheists and agnostics are uncon
stitutional and cause for revoking the leases,
Bankhead said.
“Boy Scouts may he free to discriminate,” he
said. “Government is not.”
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“has no assistant town clerk whom she can
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t a time when several sports franchises are
switching mascots in an effort to promote
sensitivity, the University of Hawaii did just the
opposite last month, The Associated Press
reports.
Claiming the symbol has become too closely
associated with gay and lesbian pride, the school
changed its football team’s nickname from the
Rainbows to the Warriors. Activists swiftly
attacked the decision.
The athletics pro
gram needs sensitivity
training, said Ken
Miller of the Gay and
Lesbian Community
Center. “The issue
is...the fact they would
use the gay community
as a scapegoat.”
The old logo— a rain
bow of blue, green, red and yellow—
was replaced with Polynesian designs signifying
strength and unity. University officials cited
confusion with the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Nation
al Rainhow/PUSH Coalition as one of the rea
sons behind the decision.
“Our intent was to illustrate that the rain
bow and rainbow logos are associated with a
wide array of entities and causes,” athletic direc
tor Hugh Yoshida said. “Our new identity is
intended to he unique to Hawaii and to Univer
sity of Hawaii athletics.”
The new Warriors nickname also might
upset Native Americans, who have been
putting increased pressure on college and profes
sional teams to change their Indian-related mas
cots. Tire Marquette Warriors now are known as
the Golden Eagles, and the St. John’s Redmen
recently became the Red Storm.
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town clerk in Corinth who can’t deal with
the state’s landmark civil unions law has
hired an assistant who can, reports a July 27
Associated Press story.
Susan Fortunati, who didn’t return phone
calls, maintains that issuing licenses to gay cou
ples would violate her moral and religious con
victions. She says she has considered resigning
because of the dispute.
Former town clerk Jack Learmonth now will
he in charge of helping homosexual couples
qualify for almost all of the approximately 300
rights, benefits and responsibilities the state
offers to married couples. The law took effect
July l.
Fortunati and 18 others— including mem
bers of the Vermont Legislature— are continu
ing to press their lawsuit filed in May to over
turn the statute that grants marriage benefits to
same-sex couples. Although the statute allowed
her to appoint an assistant willing to perform a
duty she found repugnant, it still forces her to
violate her moral convictions, attorney
Matthew Staver said.
Clerks in other towns are complaining, too.
Darlene Wyman of Athens recently joined the
list of plaintiffs in Staver’s lawsuit because she
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ew details have revealed Arthur “J.R ”
Warren’s murder was even more horrific
than previously thought. The African Ameri
can gay man vyas beaten, kicked and repeatedly
run over by a car July 4 in Grant Town.
Circuit Court Judge Rodney Merrifield’s
“findings of fact” released Aug. 3 determined
Warren was, in tact, alive even after he was
beaten severely and kicked by his alleged attack
ers— both of whom were wearing steel-toed
hoots. David Parker and Jared Wilson, both 17,
will he tried as adults.
"During the drive to the power plant [where
police found the bodyl, Mr. Warren climbed
from the hatchback area into the hack seat and
requested to he taken home,” Merrifield wrote.
“No one responded to Mr. Warren’s request to
go home.”
At a deserted point on the road, Warren was
taken out of the car, beaten and kicked again,
then “[Parker] re-entered the Camaro and drove
over Mr. Warren’s body twice—once going for
ward and once in reverse. After stopping for
[another suspect] to get in, [Parker] drove over
Mr. Warren’s body twice more before leaving
the scene.”
The judge’s order said that earlier in the
evening, Parker and Warren had “engaged in an
argument over a rumor that had circulated con
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