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manently from donating blood.
The proposal would have changed
the rule to ban only men who had sex
with another man within the past five
years. Advisers voted 7-6 that not
enough evidence was available to
determine how the move might affect
the AID S risk to the nation’s blood
supply.
The blood industry is divided over
the controversy, with half of the
nation’s blood banks supporting easing
the policy even more— to one year
instead of five— while the American
Red Cross opposes any change. Thou­
sands of potentially healthy men are
turned away every year despite new
genetic tests that largely eliminate the
risk of HIV-infected units slipping
through the system.
x-gay poster boy John Paulk
u was spotted Sept. 19 at a gay
bar in Washington, D.C. Patrons
who recognized him quickly
snapped photographs to document
the sighting, the Denver Post
reports.
Paulk later confirmed it was him,
but what remains unclear is what he
was doing there. A Focus on the
Family spokesperson told The Asso­
ciated Press that he entered Mr. P’s
to use the restroom and had no idea
it was a gay bar.
After it was revealed that Paulk
spent almost an hour at Mr. P’s, he
quickly changed his story. “I had not
been in (a gay bar) in 15 years, and I
was curious because I speak fre­
quently about the gay bar experi­
A R IZ O N A
ence. 1 stayed a while. That was my
John Paulk flees
U.S. Army panel ruled Sept. 17
mistake.”
Mr. P’s after
that openly gay Arizona state
Wayne Besen, a Human Rights coming out Gf
Rep. Steve May should he removed
Campaign associate director, says he ^ water doset
from
service based on remarks he made
took Paulk to task outside the bar for
causing “untold harm, damage and pain to peo­ regarding his sexual orientation during a policy
ple." He and his wife, Anne, appeared on the debate.
Lawyers argued that he should not he dis­
cover of Newsweek magazine in 1998, pro­
charged because his statements made on the
claiming
they
had
Legislature floor are protected by the speech and
"recovered” from their
homosexuality.
debate clause of the U.S. Constitution. Addi­
tionally, his attorneys asked that the Army
“ Because
of
his
it
retain him because it is in the best interest of the
rhetoric, there’s no
services to retain the most qualified personnel.
doubt in my mind that
many young men and
Soldiers testified at the administrative dis­
women have contem ­ charge hearing that May’s removal would hurt
plated suicide,” Besen
his unit’s cohesion and morale. In his most
said. “Many people I
recent officer evalua­
know don’t speak to
tion, his superiors
their parents because
said he had “unlimit­
their parents have become convinced they
ed potential” in the
can simply change, and they know they
Reserve, even af­
can’t.”
ter the dis­
Exodus International North America
closure of his
voted Oct. 3 to remove Paulk as chairman—
sexual ori-
hut to retain him as a board of directors mem­
v i V J r n
/ C V ■ I entation.
ber on probationary status— after confirming
“Steve
the media reports. The nonprofit organization
May is ex­
promotes the message of “freedom from
actly the
1
homosexuality through the power of Jesus
kind
of
Christ.”
2 ) s o l d i e r
“John told the board that he had ‘no sinful
the Army
intentions’ in entering that bar,” said Bob
should want
Davies, Exodus International North America
to fight for our country,” said C. Dixon Osbum,
director. “However, he did engage in behavior co-executive director of Servicemembers Legal
which has negatively impacted the credibility of Defense Network. “It is ironic that the citizens
Exodus. He was guilty of a serious lapse in judg­ of Arizona have voted him into office as an
ment, and we feel that his behavior warrants openly gay man and the Army is punishing him
some type of disciplinary action.”
for it. The American people are far ahead of the
Besen said Paulk’s actions expose the ex-gay
Pentagon on this basic issue of integrity.”
movement for “the fraud it is.” He has received
The Army recalled Lt. May to the Reserve
calls and e-mails from all across the country
last year despite his status as an openly gay
since the sighting was reported.
Republican state representative. He will ask that
Paulk is “a pawn of Focus on the Family” and
the appointing authority, Maj. Gen. John Scott,
“a victim of the same rhetoric he’s hurting other review the proceedings fairly and not accept the
people with,” Besen added. “He’s like an actor hoard’s recommendation of discharge.
playing a role, hut sooner or later the final cur­
tain always falls.”
FLO R ID A
ew information reveals Florida’s law
prohibiting gays and lesbians from
’aced with national blood short­
adopting not only harms children hut
ages, the Food and Drug
also will cost the state millions of
Administration considered lift­
dollars in federal funds, accord­
ing its ban on gay male
ing to the American Civil Lib­
donors, hut government sci­
erties Union, which has a fed­
entists narrowly rejected the
eral lawsuit under way to
proposal Sept. 14, The Asso­
overturn the ban.
ciated Press reports.
The U .S. Department of
All men who seek to
Health and Human Serv­
donate bkxxJ are asked if they
ices last year gave Florida a
have had sex, even once, with
$2.6 million bonus grant for
another man since 1977. Those
increasing the number of chil­
who say they have are banned per­
dren moved from foster care into
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