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Joe Lieberman as his running mate is not whole. As long as gay people are barred is being met with mixed reactions. from serving openly and with dignity in the “Sen. Liebermans record is one that bears studying and watching,” said Elizabeth Toledo, armed forces of the United States, our family Ls National Gay and Lesbian Task Force execu not just. As long as gay, lesbian, bisexual and tive director. “He has a generally good record transgender youth are at risk for suicide, until on issues important to the gay, lesbian, bisexu there is a cure for A ID S...th e American family al and transgender community. At the we celebrate tonight is not yet healed.” same time, Lieberman, like Clinton and like Gore, has not always proven to be a friend of the progressive com ick and Lynne Cheney might be munity when we needed him.” 1 supportive parents, but they still In the last session of this C on seem to be in denial about their gress, the Connecticut Democrat daughter’s sexual orientation and the rated a perfect 100 on the Human impact it will have during the coming Rights Campaigns scorecard of gay months. In fact, Mommie Dearest went related issues. In the Congress so far as to shove her daughter back before that, he scored an impressive into the closet during an interview Joe Lieberman 83 percent. with Cokie Roberts on This W eek. However, going back a few years, Lieber “Mary has never declared such a thing,” man— a pro-choice moderate hut a cultural Lynne Cheney insisted. “I would like to say that conservative— had some significant anti-gay I’m appalled at the media interest in one of my votes. He favored the Defense of Marriage daughters. I have two wonderful daughters. 1 Act, which allowed states to refuse recogni love them very much. They are bright; they are tion of same-sex marriages performed in other hard-working; they are decent. And I simply states, and opposed allowing people with am not going to talk about their personal lives. AIDS to immigrate into the United States. And I’m surprised, Cokie, that even you would Lieberman also voted in 1993 to kill the want to bring it up on this program." District of Columbia’s Domestic Partners Act Meanwhile, former Defense Secretary and in 1989 to prevent schools from using Cheney, the G O P vice presidential nominee, educational materials that “promote homo was mum about his daughters in an interview sexuality” or portray homosexuality as “nor with Tony Snow. “I’m running for public mal, natural or healthy.” He also is a staunch office; they’re entitled to their privacy.” supporter of taxpayer-funded vouchers for pri vate and religious schools, which some say ❖ threatens both teachers and students who rely esperate times call for desperate on public schools for nondiscrimination and measures. anti-harassment policies. Pat Buchanan is resorting to gay bashing as \ NOT FOR PROFIT M ed ical T ran scrip tio n Work at Home about the openly gay Massachusetts Democrat, reports an Aug. 5 Washington Post story. After the Republican National Convention session Aug. 2, humor columnist Dave Barry approached Armey and asked, “Are you really Dick Armey?” He replied: “Yes, I am Dick Armey. And if there is a dick army, Barney Frank would want to join up.” Spokeswoman Michelle Davis justified the remark by saying Armey was trying to cut off journalists who were making fun of his name. “He reacted the way most people react when they are tired of hearing the same old jokes.” Armey should apologize to Frank and the entire S I lizabeth Birch, Human Rights Campaign executive director, made history Aug. 15 as the first leader of a gay organization to speak at a national political convention. Her prime-time appearance during the Democratic National Convention in Los Ange les highlighted presidential nominee A1 Gore’s commitment to diversity. Birch challenged the country to embrace equality for all people. “Not a single gay American seeks special rights or favored treatment,” she said. “We seek simple equality— the equal right to work, raise a family, serve our country in every way and be free from the shackles of brutality and hate. “As long as a young man can he left on a fence to die, our American family is fractured. As long as gay parents live in fear that their chil dren might he taken from them, our family is £ a "wedge issue” to distinguish himself from the Bush-Cheney ticket, political insider Hastings Wyman reports in his latest “Capital Letters” column. A t a recent news conference, the Reform Party candidate denounced “rampant homosexuality" in the United States, which he said was “a sign of cultural decadence and moral decline." Buchanan might target the absence of anti gay rhetoric during the Republican National Convention, gay Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe’s speech and lesbian Mary Cheney’s presence in the party’s Second Family to lure homophobes from Bush. He recently selected Ezola Foster, a California schoolteacher with a history of anti gay activism, as his running mate. ■ Com piled by C opy Editor JlM R a d OSTA, who can he reached at jim @ justout.com .
